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Clean-up

According to its title, this list aims to include all known projects with contributions from P-Funk members, released and unreleased, before, during, and after a musician's tenure with P-Funk.

The likelihood of completing such a list is very small, because its scope is so broad. I imagine that we could fill an entire encyclopedia if we tried to list every record that included George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, or Bootsy Collins, not to mention Sly Stone, Maceo Parker, and Fred Wesley (to name just a few of the 100 or more P-Funk members).

Since Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, I would like to propose that we limit the list in scope to "P-Funk records", defined somewhat broadly:

I wouldn't consider records by Sly & the Family Stone, James Brown, and Talking Heads (to pick a few) P-Funk records.
Obviously records by Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band, and The Brides of Funkenstein are P-Funk records.
My personal preference would be to include solo records by musicians whose careers are defined by their association with P-Funk (Eddie Hazel, Garry Shider, and Michael Hampton for example), but to exclude records by musicians whose P-Funk association was brief or non-notable relative to their careers (such as Maceo Parker or Sly Stone).
With respect to pre- and post-P-Funk records, let's exercise some good judgment. If a band was primarily made up of P-Funk members, an editor might choose to include them. Otherwise, it probably shouldn't be included. As an example, The House Guests and The Complete Strangers were basically early versions of Bootsy's Rubber Band, so an editor might include them. The J.B.'s, on the other hand, included just a few future P-Funk members at any given time and didn't "evolve" into any P-Funk band.

Anyway, those are my suggestions. I'd like to hear other editors' thoughts about this. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 08:24, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha´s other records are p-funk too!

The other albums by Gotcha! are p-funk too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotcha%21_%28funk_band%29

Lots of P-LOVE

Robin —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.145.19.243 (talk) 23:52, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]