Talk:Oceania (The Smashing Pumpkins album)

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Merge With Teargarden by Kaleidyscope

At least until this is solid enough to warrant its own article. The Farewell Party (talk) 00:38, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's currently an open discussion on this subject at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oceania (Smashing Pumpkins album) where you're encouraged to express your opinions on the matter with supporting reasons. Fezmar9 (talk) 03:04, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oceania/BC Interview

Here's another reliable source that can be used for the article. An interview BC did recently that discusses the album. I intend to use it in the article soon, but if someone else wants to before I get the chance, that's fine too.

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/interview-billy-corgan-talks-smashing-pumpkins-reissues-new-studio-album-433362

Sergecross73 msg me 03:22, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Track by track source

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/interview-billy-corgan-talks-the-smashing-pumpkins-oceania-track-by-track-548578/1#!1

Great source for some in-depth information on the album. I'm not willing to use it now, as articles like this tend to go through all sorts of instablility when it's A) right around the release date and B) concerning a relatively vocal/divided fanbase, but feel free to use it should you chose. Sergecross73 msg me 16:45, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

To be clear, I added this with the intention that it could be used to develop a "Background" or "Writing and recording" type section, not to make individual articles with, as it seems someone has started to do... Sergecross73 msg me 20:05, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]