Talk:Barbara Mandrell discography

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[edit] Created

The initial article "Barbara Mandrell discography" listing Barbara Mandrell recordings was created on 12 December 2007 by User:Dottiewest1fan, with charting of all singles or albums of Barbara Mandrell from 1969 to 2006. -Wikid77 (talk) 01:29, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Defines multiple albums/songs

The article "Barbara Mandrell discography" represents a sophisticated approach to describing musical works, in a centralized area, without flooding Wikipedia with hundreds of smaller articles. (The infamous Pokemon-per-article approach in 2007 had generated over 453 articles, one for each Pokemon character, before getting combined into groups.) Instead, by having a main discography article, famous song/album titles can be handled by redirecting them to the discography, and then adding a bottom paragraph when special details should be added. Articles containing lists were formerly discouraged until the volume of real-world information was considered, and a Table-of-Contents was understood to be a list in each article. Regardless, the uber-famous ("notable") songs can still have separate articles, but the discography is a courteous method to document most recordings in a modest manner, without spamming Wikipedia with hundreds of Mandrell articles, even though the international fame of Barbara Mandrell might actually warrant such numerous articles. Overall, it is an elegant, yet modest and sensible, approach to creating an encyclopedic view of Barbara Mandrell's recordings. -Wikid77 (talk) 01:29, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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