Talk:List of 2019 albums

Requesting input at Wikipedia talk:Article size about size limits for lists such as this one

There has been talk over at Talk:List of 2017 albums#Redux about splitting the List of 2017 albums, and maybe eventually the List of 2016 albums because of their size. I am opposed, and others who are not involved in the albums list but are involved in article size reduction efforts are for it.

I have taken the discussion over to Wikipedia talk:Article size#Does this project page regulate size of lists / maximum size non-prose Wikipedia articles? for a broader community discussion, and I would like to invite editors who have opinions about list size and natural break points for lists such as the album lists to join in on the discussion. Thank you. Mburrell (talk) 05:55, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Do we need a citation per album?

There is a discussion going on on Talk:List of 2017 albums#Request for comment about splitting the article. One user, User:Randy Kryn, suggested that on List of 2017 albums most of the references could be removed. Since there is in general a reference per album, that would indicate that at least one user does not see the need for a reference per album. My question is if the citations in the albums list are excessive? If there is already a Wikipedia article for the album, and if the citations on that article show notability, do we need to include them on this list?

I have a preference for citations, to the point where I am filling them in for previous years lists, but that also means that I am biased, believing that once citations fell away, non-notable albums would again be entered onto this list. But is that a problem either? Albums as a format are going away, and there are less albums this year than last, and much less that 2017. I like a strict criteria, but I am asking or polling for what other users would like to see. What direction do we want to go with citations for this list and earlier album lists? Mburrell (talk) 03:56, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

• References are important, of course, but there are at least two ways to relieve long-coded list pages of the need for visible references. Using the 2017 list as an example, a long article (and the next-on-the-split list for some editors), the references take up much of the code. One way to relieve this is saying that on a date certain that all listings had references, that the page at that moment is totally referenced, and the references can now be removed but are still available in page history. That would come with the criteria that new entries must have valid references to qualify for the page. The other is the logical "if the listed album already has a Wikipedia page" then those references can be removed, as its a given that the existing article is the place for adequate proof of album existence. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:44, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

I don't think it's tenable to remove references from the article and not replace with them with anything. Ideally there would be references which can be used to verify more than one album. More importantly we should be looking at which albums even make the list here, particularly those without their own articles. Onetwothreeip (talk) 05:19, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Personally, I think references for albums which have an existing Wikipedia page should be removed, whilst albums which don't have a Wikipedia page (but the album artist does) shouldn't have their references removed (as they are often necessary for proving existence of the album). Sean Stephens (talk) 10:14, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

The future of the album lists

The future format of the album lists is being debated over on Talk:List of 2017 albums#Request for comment. The latest comment, by User:WhatamIdoing mentions that the lists could be made more useful, more encyclopedia worthy. Some changes would be that there would be a link to a new album page that lists all albums released, without concern for notability, but would also be trimmed down on additional information such as genre, label, or producer. Another suggestion would be to include summaries of the events that happened in 2017, or 2018, or 2019, similar to what we already have in 2019 in music, but emphasis on the albums, such as "Among the albums released in the second quarter were the multi-award winning Example, the first-ever platinum album by Sally Singer, and the last album by Fred Famous, who died shortly after the release." Another option not mentioned by WhatamIdoing is that we could include that additional information in the 2019 in music article, as that seems to be the catch-all for that type of information, but we could re-arrange the list of albums page to emphasize the link better.

I encourage anyone who has visions of how to modify or improve the "List of 20xx albums" and the ".... in music" articles to head over to the Talk:List of 2017 albums#Request for comment page and join in on the discussion. What changes roll out of that discussion will most likely be applied to all of the "List of 20xx albums" lists, so now is the time for thoughts on how to change up the list articles. Mburrell (talk) 05:08, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

I'm all for getting rid of the genre column. Unnecessary detail, and sometimes unsourced. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:56, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

I removed the genre column and the producer column, as others have supported doing. Onetwothreeip (talk) 02:31, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Anyone against removing the producers column? Onetwothreeip (talk) 05:19, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Poll on what columns are needed on the list of albums, and why

There has been discussion recently about the size of the album lists, and what may or may not be needed. The producers and genre column was deleted, then reverted per WP:BRD. The producers column has been deleted again. The list of 2019 albums broadly collects most albums with a filtering process to remove non-relevant albums. There are similar lists for albums for each year, shown in the upper right corner in a box that lists by location, by genre and by topic. Each of these lists operate independent of each other and show similar information, each with their own limiting criteria.

There are seven columns providing information for the list of albums. I don't think there is any challenge on date, album title, and artist, so that leaves four other columns, genre, record label, producer, and references. I would like to open up a poll and discussion for why we want or don't want each of those four columns, or how they can be modified. Another column that can be added would be location. The reason to open up discussion on modifying this series of lists because there are some Wikipedians that are looking to change the list, using some strong arguments, and determining a consensus within the community of users of this list seems the best way to determine the shape we want to see the list be presented. I would like to keep this poll open until February 20 to gather input from you all. Mburrell (talk) 22:22, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Genre

Genre classifies an album to a certain type, in broad strokes rock or country or hip hop, and in fine strokes emo or screamo or other fine divisions.Mburrell (talk) 22:22, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

• Keep I am for keeping genre, as it helps classify albums, defining the artist and album into a group. Genre is important enough that there are lists dealing with the genres, e.g. 2019 in rock music. In an earlier section on this talk page, Another Believer stated them to be unnecessary detail and sometimes unsourced. I fully agree that unsourced genres should be removed, but if we link to an album article, then the unsourced genres should be removed from the album article first, as the list follows the album articles information.Mburrell (talk) 22:22, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
• Remove. Genres are subjective, sometimes unsourced/assumed, and the details belong on their respective album/EP articles. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:42, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
• Remove - hard to describe, better suited for their own albums. Onetwothreeip (talk) 22:51, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Label

Label covers which company is in charge of production and distribution of the album.

• Don't keep I have no use for this column, as I don't see looking at a list of albums to determine which albums in a year are released by Atlantic Records or Napalm Records or Nuclear Blast. I am in favor of deleting this column, but reserve the right to change my mind if other users list reasons why this column makes this list or Wikipedia better. Mburrell (talk) 22:22, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Producer

Producers are the individuals and/or groups that help the artist create the sound that they want.

• Don't keep I always thought that the producers column was a bloat column that was added in to make the list look fuller. It is possible that some people use the list to search for a producer and see which albums they are credited with working on in a year, but I think that information is best captured on each producers page. If you look at Pop & Oak, that page lists all the works that group is responsible for in a year. The producers are generally taken from the infobox of the album article, so going to the album page will generally show the producers for album a person in interested. This list does include albums that do not have article pages (can be discussed as a separate discussion), so sometimes this list is the only place where the producer is captured. For example, Tedeschi Trucks Band's album Signs showed a producer of Derek Trucks and Jim Scott, sourced from the reference, which is not listed on the artist page, and so this list is currently the only source on Wikipedia. I don't think it is important. I just want the producer column gone. Mburrell (talk) 22:22, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
• Remove - I already removed this because it was common to see on the talk pages the suggestion of removing it. I've only done it for the 2019 list to see if it would be accepted before I did so on the rest of the lists. Onetwothreeip (talk) 22:51, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Country

Country would list the location where the album was created, not where the band or singer originated from.

• Weak add I am not opposed to listing the country of origin for the album. There are lists that divide the albums into location, such as 2019 in American music, and I think there is interest in if an album is from Korea or Japan or UK or US or any other country. I would not add such a column unless others express interest. Mburrell (talk) 22:22, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
• Definitely not. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:28, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

References

References are used to show that the albums have some regional or national attention, keeping the list from being used to list vanity projects or less notable bands.

• Keep but reduce I like references, and have been working to keep all references to be news sources, to show the importance of the album, rather than a commercial source such as Amazon or iTunes, which merely shows the album exists. However, there is no requirement in Wikipedia that I can find for a citation for every album. I would like to propose that since we include albums that do not have articles, we use the reference column to source those albums and the associated information for the other columns. If I go to the Nina Nesbitt album The Sun Will Come Up, the Seasons Will Change, I can see that all the information included in the list is in the infobox, and that there are several news sources that show that the album is notable. Therefore, I can delete the reference from the album list for that album. If each album article is created properly, they should each be notable subjects, and so a reference on the list is not needed to prove it further. Therefore, because we do include albums without Wikipedia articles, the reference column can be used to support those albums, plus the albums that have articles that are improperly supported. We can probably purge 2/3rds of the references from older pages that don't have a TBA table, and 1/2 of the references from the current growing page. Mburrell (talk) 22:22, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

This seems like making it more complicated than it needs to be. Should we really include albums that don't have their own articles though? Onetwothreeip (talk) 22:34, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Adding albums that don't already have articles should be a discussion in another section, but I will state that a large portion of the current list is the TBA table, where people are anticipating albums, which Wikipedia rules are such that creating an album article is too soon because of lack of evidence of notability, but this list just requires one news article, so considers the future album as proven, but not guaranteeing notability. If we discuss this in a new section, I am absolutely in favor of listing albums that don't have articles. Mburrell (talk) 23:24, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

I mean where that's not the case, for all the album lists. Albums that have already been released and still don't have their own article, yet are included on this list. Onetwothreeip (talk) 23:28, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Forthcoming albums in 2019 lacking sufficient sources

Just wanted to ask if everyone else who regularly contributes to this page could keep an eye out for articles about forthcoming albums from DJ Snake, Guy Sebastian, John Legend, John Mayer, Kygo, The Weeknd, and Zedd (and any others I've missed). Sebastian and Legend in particular recently did (separate) interviews with the "Stellar" liftout in Australian newspaper the Herald Sun, with both confirming that new albums were coming out later this year. Unfortunately, I can't find any way of accessing this information digitally, thus I cannot use it as a source, preventing me from adding these albums to the Unscheduled and TBA list (Edit: I can now access this information, but its' use is limited as the site makes you sign up to view it after a while).

None of these albums have been given an official name or release date as yet, but they have confirmed in interviews and on social media etc. that albums are on the way soon (which doesn't necessarily mean 2019). I'm waiting to find sufficient and accurate evidence before adding them anywhere, but if you were all to keep an eye out for relevant information, I'd appreciate it very much. Sean Stephens (talk) 08:15, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

I am against using that source, since it is only viewable to paying subscribers, so is generally not available. I, for one, cannot read the source. Mburrell (talk) 01:43, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Okay, thanks Mburrell. I will wait a little longer until I find a more accurate source which justifies adding Guy Sebastian to the list. Sean Stephens (talk) 02:03, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Stylisation

A little curious, do albums such as Let's Rock (stylised like so: 'Let's Rock'), which is stylised with quotation marks around it, keep such stylisational features when being entered onto this page? I was in the belief that these features weren't to be added, but there's a high chance I'm wrong. Anyone know? Sean Stephens (talk) 02:21, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

I generally remove stylization, following my cue from others. Capitalization is easy, because Wikipedia has rules against that. Then there is the non-standard letters, which won't show up on some mobile devices. Now there is additional quote marks, which is inoffensive, but extraneous. Typically, I go to the album article. If the article states that it is written another way but the Wikipedia article name is modified because of technical limitations, that is not stylization but a limit. In the case of Let's Rock, when you visit the album article, they don't use the stylization in the infobox, and in the lead paragraph that the quotes are stylization. So it is extraneous characters, and I don't include them in the list. Mburrell (talk) 02:52, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer Mburrell! I needed clarification before I changed anything, as I didn't want to change it only to find out what I'd done was wrong. Now I have a definitive guide as to what guidelines to follow when stylising albums on the list (I am aware I've gotten it wrong in the past, and I'm sorry for that). Thanks for fixing the "Let's Rock" wikilink above too, I didn't realise what I'd done wrong :) Sean Stephens (talk) 03:14, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

"Velvet" - new Adam Lambert album

Through various sources, including Billboard, have been announcements on Adam Lambert releasing Velvet on 2 parts, the first of which is set to be released in September CJJuarez17 (talk) 03:46, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Try listing a reference here first CJJuarez17, rather than making others do it themselves, and you will find it more likely that someone will add it for you. Sean Stephens (talk) 05:36, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Updating older references

It was mentioned in an edit summary for the article that some of the references were in need of updates, and I wanted to open a discussion on the need for reference updates.

In general, I am against updating references due to the age of the update. Somewhere in the past, an editor found a citation that stated information about an album, that showed notability, mentioned the band and the album, and probably mentioned a release date in 2019. If the album already had a Wikipedia article that mentioned a 2019 release date, the only requirement for the List citation was to show that the album was notable (receiving news coverage). Sometime later, new information may become available, like a more detailed release date or the album title. When the information is changed, I would like to see the reference citation changed to cover the new information, but again, if the album has a Wikipedia article that covers the updated information, the only requirement is that the reference shows the album notability. If the change in information includes an album title, I would still like to see a new reference, because a reference saying band X or singer Y is releasing a new album in 2019 is a bit vague, and could be referring to anything from a greatest hits, a mixtape, or an album. A news citation with the album name specifically shows that the album on the list is notable. If later the album is cancelled or delayed, it can be removed or moved, but sometimes the editors are unaware of the changes and rely on editors who champion that particular album. Sometimes it is missed. Frequently, by the end of the year, many of the albums in the TBA table get purged. There was a citation that stated that an album would be released in 2019, or 2018, or 2017, etc, but nothing was released, and no news article was issued that stated that the artist was reneging on a stated or implied promise. We rely on news organizations to keep us informed, as we are enjoined to avoid original research.

I am more concerned about albums being added to the list with year old citations. Three albums were added to the list in July that had 2018 news sources, Max's House of Divine, Garbage's unnamed album, and Blood Red Shoes's Get Tragic. The last one exists, it was just missed, but the other two are claiming old sources for new albums. I would have thought that if Max and Garbage were putting out albums in 2019, that there would have been more recent news updates. However, I have to admit that there are valid citations, even if a year old, and a web search found no new news articles contradicting the old articles, which is why I did not create a fuss. If I had found a more recent news article, I would have updated the entry, but the age of the news citation is not an impediment to listing an album, within reason. If the news citation is well over a year old, two or three years old or older, that really comes into the form of speculation, but that is just an opinion on my part and could be argued by another editor.

Do other editors have thoughts on updating references or limits on the age of references? Mburrell (talk) 04:20, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Hane (album)

The debut studio album by the upcoming gospel artist to be released on the 18th of July 2020 will feature the likes of artists such as Chris vocalking okorie, Mercy Chinwo and some unanno unced artist lead single will be "By my side" which will be released on 25 November 2019. Hane lockwood (talk) 16:04, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

@Hane lockwood: List of 2019 albums is not locked. This is an edit you can do. Follow these steps:

• Search the internet for a news source citation that mentions the album and the release date or release year. If you can't find a news article, stop here, as non-notable albums will be removed.
• On the album page, locate the day you want to place the album you are adding, or if there is no date, locate an adjacent date, or an alphabetically adjacent artist on the TBA table.
• On the album list, and at the top of the page are six tabs, 'article', 'talk', 'edit this page', 'history', 'move', and 'watch' (or 'unwatch'). Select 'edit this page'.
• Once in edit mode, go to the location you have located to insert your album. I use the combined keystrokes of the Ctrl button and F, which brings up a search bar. I would then enter a band or album that is adjacent to the album I want to enter.
• If the release date already exists, at the start of that date will be the words 'rowspan="#" '. Increment the number by one, so that if it read 3, change it to 4. If there is not the words ' rowspan="#" ' because there is only one album in that slot, add the phrase 'rowspan="2" ' before the word 'style'.
• If no date exists for the release date, find the last artist for the previous date, and enter a new line after '|-'. Then enter the line '| style="text-align:center;" | Month
  Day'
• Next locate where you will enter your artist. If you just created the day, immediately below it, add 5 new lines, each starting with '|'. Otherwise, go alphabetically down the list of artists until you find that the previous artists comes alphabetically before your artist, and the next artist comes alphabetically after your artist. Add 5 new lines after the '|-' of the alphabetically prior artist, with each new line starting with '|'
• Each of these lines is assigned some information, some you can leave blank, some you must fill in. The first line is the artist. If the band doesn't have a Wikipedia article, in most cases stop here, as either the band or the album must have a Wikipedia article to be listed on the album lists. The second line is for the album. Add a pair of single quote marks on either side of the album title to italicize the album title. If the album title is not known, use the template TBA, with double parenthesis brackets on either side of the acronym TBA (To be announced). The third line is for genre, but if the album has not been released, most likely that will be left blank. The fourth line is for the album label, so if you know which publisher is releasing the album, list that on the fourth line. The fifth line is for linking to the news source reference you found before you started adding the album. Observe how other references are added in the list, copy one over, then change the information for the URL, title, name of the publication, date of the news article, the date you added it to this list, and the author of the article.

Congratulations, if you followed all these steps, you have successfully added a new album to the list, and have the skillset to do it again.

Unfortunately, as I was describing the steps, I was looking up information about the addition you requested. First, you stated that the album would be released in 2020, so you have called it out on the wrong album list talk page. Second, you did not provide a citation, and a web search did not find a news article about the album. Next, the gospel artist does not have a Wikipedia page, and as the album does not have a title, the album does not have a Wikipedia page. Therefore, the album is non-notable and if added would just be removed until news sources cover the album. In the meantime, I suggest you create an article about the artist, so that when the album becomes notable, the artist has an article that can be referenced. Mburrell (talk) 22:18, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Proposal: Remove genre(s)

I'd like to revisit part of Talk:List_of_2019_albums#Poll_on_what_columns_are_needed_on_the_list_of_albums,_and_why again.

If the genres listed are not sourced, I propose removing the column altogether. Genres are subjective, and since sources are required for genres to be mentioned in infoboxes (and per this discussion re: genre categories), this seems like an appropriate way to trim the list back a bit. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:50, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

I admit to being a person that likes genres listed as one of the columns in the list. However, being aware of your dislike of genres, I have been very restrictive on genre listing in the list. If the album article does not list the genre, I do not list it. If the genre's are not source in the album article I do not list them. If the album has not been released yet, I tend to remove the unsourced genres and add a remarks comment about waiting for the album to be released. I do not want to lose the genre column, so I try to keep it accurate and honest. I am not a fan of the genres that are sourced using AllMusic or that are not in the body of a news article but used as a tag at the top or bottom of the page. However, there are many news articles out there that do describe the genre of the album they are reviewing, so I want to keep genres. I like to know when possible if an album is jazz or country, rock or mathcore, even if I don't really know what mathcore is. I vote to keep the genre column, but with strict policing. Mburrell (talk) 02:51, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Can article protection be voted on and asked to be removed?

@Ad Orientem locked up the List of 2019 albums with a protection until April 1, 2020 for the reasoning of disruptive editing. I did not see any discussion requesting such protection, nor was it mentioned in Administrator's noticeboard for incidents.

As a long time editor who tries to edit daily, I have to say that I have not seen much in the way of disruptive editing recently, or at least none that rises to the need of adding a protection. I find protections limiting because now we will have un-signed-in editors and very low-edit editors requesting or demanding that we add certain albums, or telling us that we missed an album, as if it was our job to know all albums out there and add them as soon as they have any listing anywhere. Basically, I am more resentful of the talk page demands (not the polite helpful requests) than I am of any small scale editing that was poorly done in the unprotected list. I would like to get the protection removed, but 1) I don't know how other's feel about removing the protection and 2) I don't know how one requests an override of an administrator's apparently arbitrary choice.

How do other editors feel about the article protection? Mburrell (talk) 03:23, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi Mburrell. Please see this discussion on my talk page. And no, we don't typically vote on admin actions. However I am perfectly happy to discuss this with you. -Ad Orientem (talk) 03:28, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Edit requested to add Airbourne new album Boneshaker

I request to edit this page because my lack of permissions. Please add Airbourne new album, is announced to 25 October. Published in their official page http://airbournerock.com/

 Not done: The page's protection level has changed since this request was placed. You should now be able to edit the page yourself. If you still seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. Melmann 16:29, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Missing Album in 'List of 2019 albums'

Hi good Wikipedia-people I visited the 'List of 2019 albums' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2019_albums - and noticed an album missing.

Simply Red - 'Blue Eyed Soul' - released on 8 November 2019 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Eyed_Soul_(album)

I didn't have the proper editing skills (in my own opinion) to add/edit the entry. But it would please me, if someone added the album.

Kind regards,

Kenneth Ley Milling Journalist username: Kmilling — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmilling (talk • contribs) 18:24, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Kmilling, I added the Simply Red album, but I suggest that you learn the proper editing skills to be able to add entries to Wikipedia. In this case, I happen to like Simply Red, so I agreed with you that the album should be on the list. However, there are no list administrators, all editors are just fans of music who have have learned editing skills. Just observe how the entries are laid out in edit mode, and try to make an entry. No one will kick you out of Wikipedia if you try and make a mess of things. Your edit might be corrected or deleted, depending on the follow on editor. Or, you just might get it right, and then you will have a new skill to use. If you don't get it right the first time, I bet you will get it right by your twentieth new addition. Practice and observation will take you a long way to gaining new skills. Mburrell (talk) 05:44, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Mburrell :) I promise to improve my Wiki-skills, so I can do it myself next time. It was a total coincidence that I noticed the missing Simply Red album. Thank you for adding it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmilling (talk • contribs) 09:53, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Citations not required for albums with notable album articles

Citations are no longer required for album listings if the albums have articles with notable album articles. All albums are still required to be shown to be notable, either with a citation in the reference cell of the album listing, or with a link to an album article that is properly supported with citations from secondary independent reliable sources. Once it is determined that the album article is sufficient, the existing citation on this page for that album can be removed, or new album listings will not require the addition of a citation. There was a discussion on the talk page for List of 2020 albums where this was determined to apply for all of the List of albums pages, Talk:List of 2020 albums#Poll - Should references be removed for album listings that have appropriate album articles? Mburrell (talk) 03:45, 15 March 2021 (UTC)