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Change the name of the article. It's called "What a Time To Be Alive" with all words capitalized except for "a".

Detail is not the producer of Change Locations. His name is Noel Cadastre and he's credited under Noel. Source is Drake's IG post. https://instagram.com/p/73qludjQDf/?taken-by=champagnepapi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.200.212.169 (talk) 03:45, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of these production credits are false... — Preceding unsigned comment added by OG Nick Marsh (talk • contribs) 06:31, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Use city details of the artists, don't just say "Canadian rapper" or "American rapper". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Helmuday (talk • contribs) 17:47, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 23 September 2015

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{to be added to the Critical Reception section. Sorry if the formatting is not correct; I’m on my phone.}

Some critics were not impressed with the album and even less so with Drake's performance on it. The Verge writes, “It’s immediately clear that Future owns this tape...he has its best verses and its funniest lines...Drake’s verses are isolated and perfunctory, and almost all feel out of place.” The article concludes “It’s ultimately a misstep, a rare one” when discussing the album in the context of Drake's career.^[1] Noisey was also critical of Drake's contribution to the album, “it often just sounds like Drake’s just been tossed a feature on a new Future song,” and the album in general, “Essentially, WATTBA is cubic zirconia when we were promised real diamonds.” ^[2]

Spareleverage (talk) 00:15, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This article is no longer Semi-Protected, so you can now edit the article yourself, but please ensure that any additions are properly sourced, to reliable sources and you maintain a neutral point of view - Arjayay (talk) 07:44, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Maybe including a wider range of critics reviews of the album, it wouldn't be too hard to find references for that. Also including more information regarding the commercial performance of the album would help in expanding the usefulness of the article. Everything else seems to be linked to an appropriate and reliable reference. Jondevito3 (talk) 04:06, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Superchunk album?

I came here looking for the 2018 Superchunk album. Would it be possible to add a link to that here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:483:4D80:2F0:35A3:DC6A:11CB:7D90 (talk) 19:52, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 9 March 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No consensus. (non-admin closure) Iffy★Chat -- 10:00, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What a Time to Be Alive → What a Time to Be Alive (mixtape) – Although Drake and Future's mixtape may seem to be the most popular subject, there are now two albums with the same name that have been released in the last two years by Superchunk and Tom Walker. Walker's album was the number one album on the UK Albums Chart yesterday, and Drake and Future's collaboration is not an album, it is a mixtape. As Tom Walker is a rising artist, there needs to be a dab page to signify all three works. JE98 (talk) 19:58, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. ~~There should definitely be a dab page~~, just not at the base name. This article, the presumptive WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, should have an “other uses” hatnote link to said dab page, or direct links to the two other uses. The page view stats suggest the Walker album may displace the mixtape as primary, but for now we don’t know. The current spike could be due to just WP:RECENTISM. I advise checking again in 6 months. —В²C ☎ 23:29, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- The hatnote link to the two other uses is already in place. I see no point in creating a dab page in this simple 3–dab situation already handled marvelously by this hatnote link. —В²C ☎ 23:36, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Best to disambiguate and create a dab page; no clear primarytopic. Dicklyon (talk) 05:31, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for now. The Tom Walker album was released less than two weeks ago so this seems like a bit of a knee-jerk reaction, and there's no significant interest in the Superchunk album. The current situation is not broken so there's no need to rush into making a change. PC78 (talk) 11:36, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per PC78 and B2C. Calidum 03:31, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Walker's album was number 1 on UK albums chart yesterday. see views, move What a Time to Be Alive (disambiguation) to baseline - cf What a Time to Be Alive (Superchunk album), What a Time to Be Alive (Tom Walker album) In ictu oculi (talk) 14:27, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- And you don't think "yesterday" is too recent to be relevant? PC78 (talk) 17:40, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Given that What a Time to Be Alive (Drake and Future album) only charted at 6, no, not in this case. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It charted at 6 in the UK, but neither Drake nor Future are British. It charted at no 1 in both the US and Canada. PC78 (talk) 00:34, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Drake and Future did it first and have the most popular work. Simple as that. Trillfendi (talk) 00:14, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Due to primary notability. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikki Lee 1999 (talk • contribs) 02:54, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] ttp://www.theverge.com/2015/9/21/9365265/drake-mixtape-hip-hop-pop-star

[2] ttp://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/the-meme-philosophy-of-drake-and-futures-new-mixtape

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