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Number of studio albums

Blackstar is considered by some to be Bowie's '25th studio album'. The Buddha of Suburbia should be considered a 'studio' album, as the music on the album bears virtually no relationship to the soundtrack used for the TV mini-series of the same name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.201.13.83 (talk) 10:31, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Guardian says 25 [1] and we follow the reliable sources. If you have other reliable sources which count differently, then please provide them and we can figure out how to best represent major differing opinions. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:55, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Surely Bowie's own count [2] should be taken into account, right? Music press can be pretty petty at times, arbitrarily missing details (such as hailing albums as debuts in spite of them being only the artist's major studio debut or classifying albums as brand new despite the fact that they're merely represses of formerly independent releases), so their word should be taken with an editorial pinch of salt. 200.59.26.102 (talk) 20:56, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As this kind of numbering is highly subjective it should be avoided here. Citing allegedly reliable sources is even more nonsense in this regard. Just take your fingers and count.Tel33 (talk) 08:12, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Facebook?

Is Facebook REALLY a good source for anything? I mean I know the tracklisting is official since it's Bowie's official page that posted it, but it just seems against Wikipedia's policy to use a social media site as a reliable source... Mrmoustache14 (talk) 21:23, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think in this case it's fine, as it's Bowie's own FB page (compare with his own website, for example). It would be different if we were citing someone else's FB page! WP:FACEBOOK states - "As a reliable source? Sometimes (OK)." With it going on to say "The official page of a subject may be used as a self-published, primary source, but only if it can be authenticated as belonging to the subject." Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 10:37, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay that sounds good then, but may I suggest that we only temporarily use it? Like once the album actually comes out we should replace it with something more reliable. Mrmoustache14 (talk) 20:35, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lazarus

Maybe there should be a mention of the emotionally interpreted track Lazarus? For example on NME ^[1]83.251.212.170 (talk) 06:01, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

^ http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/how-david-bowie-told-us-he-was-dying-in-the-lazarus-video

[1] ttp://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/how-david-bowie-told-us-he-was-dying-in-the-lazarus-video

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