Talk:Discography of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

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There! how is it? I hope I didn't break any rules, did I? Keiji Dragon (talk) 09:53, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Did you break any rules? Quite the opposite. You were BOLD! Good job. Taric25 (talk) 15:18, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Underconstruction

Now who's bold? LOL. J/k. By the way, we need and infobox and tracklist for the arranged tracks. Taric25 (talk) 19:05, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Musical pieces

The source simply shows that players of music video games play along to Super Mario RPG's music. In other words, simply to show it exists, not that it asserts its popularity. Consider the following from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#Mods in list articles by User:Anomie.

“

Do cows exist?

It doesn't make any sense at all to try to say that a link to the work itself is not reliable enough to prove that the work exists. As the image to the right implies, there is no need for a secondary source for something that is blindingly obvious from the primary source. ”

Taric25 (talk) 07:15, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

For the recent edit (11:26, January 7, 2008): I last time I checked, this is/was an encyclopedia for researching and finding information about stuff, not a place where you can advertise a remix. :P That's what I think anyway. There's already enough stuff about how popular and common remixes are. Would it hurt you all if I only significant sentences? I mean I find it very redundant for reception to have only a couple sentences while "Musical pieces" contains info on how popular and well received a song has received. And I find it unacceptable that "Soundtracks" appears before "Musical pieces". Shouldn't it be the other way around? How about if I combine both "Musical pieces" and "reception"? Keiji Dragon (talk) 03:20, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I just copied and pasted the layout from Music of Kingdom Hearts, which is a good article. I figured I'd follow an establisted consensus rather than inventing something on my own. Besides, I was going to write about other musical pieces besides "Beware the Forest's Mushrooms", such as Mario series tracks "Long Long Ago..." ("Overworld theme") & "From Inside The Earthen Pipe" ("Underworld theme") and Final Fantasy series tracks "Fight Against Culex" ("Fight 2" from Final Fantasy IV), "Victory Over Culex" ("Fanfare" from the original Final Fantasy through Final Fantasy VI), "Conversation With Culex" ("Prelude" from every Final Fantasy game), and even "Hello, Happy Kingdom" in the Mushroom Kingdom that is home of the Mushroom Castle (“Royal Palace” (王家の宮殿, Ōke no Kyūden) that plays while in Walse Castle in Final Fantasy V). I was thinking that if we're going to get this article up to at least good article, we should follow the example. What do you think? Thank you. Taric25 (talk) 10:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I just realized that we're almost adding the same problems to this article as the main article. On of them is the references. Theres too much to add, and they would sometimes take up more then a third of the article, which is unnecessary. As for the article, I only left in the Super Mario RPG song because it is the most significant source of the soundtracks' popularity. Its a symbol of it. Keiji Dragon (talk) 04:43, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

There's nothing wrong with having the references take up a lot of the article. In fact, that's a good thing. It shows we're citing our sources rather than just making stuff up, whether the stuff we make up is true or not. Take what you just added to the article into consideration.

The soundtrack's popularity was said to have taken off when in 2004, gaming enthusiast Martin Hagwall remixed it as “The Super Mario RPG Song” under the pen name Märta with lyrics, becoming the topic of many forums and subsequently an Internet phenomenon.

First, you provided no citation. Yes, there'a a link to Hagwall's site, but you haven't sourced it in the form of a citation, like we're required to do, per Wikipedia:Citing sources.

Second, you've used weasel words "soundtrack's popularity was said to have taken off". Really? Its popularity was said to have taken off? Exactly who said this? Of course it is popular. No one disputes that, because it's true, however, wikipedia is about Wikipedia:Verifiability. If you claim that its was said to have taken off, then you have to show who said it and exactly what they said. By the way, per Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms, we should show the reader why it's popular, not simply tell the reader that its popularity was said to have taken off, especially if we don't name who said it. That's why I gave information about the awards the song's Newgrounds video won and the subsequent transition the video made into music video games. If someone wants to dispute that whatever some random uploader speculates about something that doesn't exist, or people dispupte exists, on YouTube is not a relaible source, fine. That's just like someone speculating on their fansite, which is never a relaible source. If someone wants to dispute that a video that simply shows that something does exist, whether it's on YouTube or not, is unrelaiable, then that's something totally different. Any person can take a picture or video of something simply to show it exists. I don't subsequently need a press release to write about how I posted it online and that its researchers confirmed it's authenticity, unless Wikipedians dispute the video's authenticity, which nobody is. The YouTube videos simply show that music video game players play the flash video along with the stepfiles, doing exactly what we intended to do: show the readers it exists. Unless you really, seriously believe that the videos are fake, which no one has proposed, then we do not need relaible sources to back up the authenticty of the videos. The YouTube videos simply show that the song and flash video play along with music video games. Does that make sense? Thanks. Taric25 (talk) 10:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Notable

Unless someone explains to me how this is notable, I'll nominate it for AFD. -Karaku (talk) 01:16, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

The actual topic is far from notable, but how do we usually handle soundtracks? Are they just one of the things that we split just because, or do we either cover them in the main article or not at all? TTN (talk) 01:28, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Usually Video Game soundtracks are in the game's article. -Karaku (talk) 19:38, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

AFD

I nominated this for AfD due to lack of notability. -Karaku (talk) 19:38, 1 February 2008 (UTC)