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All right, that's good. Just seemed a bit odd having them right up top (above even the "main four"), especially with no articles. Looking forward to those.

Sandom and Dawson articles are forthcoming. They are at least as important in the band's history as Jones or Palladino or Starkey!

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[edit] Sandom/Dawson/Phillips/Carin

Well, I just added John "Rabbit" Bundrick to the template (right after writing the article about him). I'm also going to move Sandom and Dawson a bit down on the list, as the template implies that they're more important to the band than Daltrey/Entwistle/Moon/Townshend. Feel free to move them back up if there's some fascinating reason to have them on the top. Also, is it cool to put up Simon Phillips and Jon Carin?

Phillips and Carin were really just two of a couple-dozen-odd extra musicians that were used for The Who's "big band" tours (in '89 & '96). They really don't merit special mention above everybody else in the extended "big band" that they used. Monkeynutbar (talk) 03:56, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Making Entwistle and Moon more important

I hope no one minds that I put Entwistle and Moon in a new category. They just didn't seem right being small and under the living ones. I felt they needed to look more important. And, they were next to Kenney Jones, and they're certainly more important to the history of the Who than he was, fine drummer as he is. This did make me decide to move him down. If anyone takes issue with that, move him back up. I just feel the originals should be marked as such. Trogdor077 04:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tommy (musical)

There is an article for the 92 Bway production of Tommy. I'll let someone else figure out where it should be on the template. —  MusicMaker5376 16:33, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sandom, Dawson, Connolly

It think that they should be move to related articles because they were never a part of "The Who" and never appear on any album. Otherwise, I think this template is great.

[edit] New Sections

I added a new section: soundtracks. I should probably make a seperate article for the 1975 Tommy Original Soundtrack, as it is currently smushed in with the general Tommy article. All of the albums I added are either from TheWho.com (the discography section) or from TheWhoStore.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DaltreyEntwistleMoonTownshend (talk • contribs) 21:03, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discography

Do we really need the band's entire discography listed at the bottom of every page this template's on? It's huge. Monkeynutbar (talk) 04:10, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Names

The order of names keeps changing on this template. I myself think they should be in order of how long they were (have been) in the band. i.e. :-

  • Pete (46 years), Roger (46 years), John (40 years) then Keith (14 years) all on the top row because that is the band (on all but 3 albums).
  • Then Kenney first (because he was an official member), with Rabbit (33 years total), Zak (12 years), Simon (7 years total) and Pino (6 years).

No offence meant towards Roger, but Pete should be first because he wrote most of the songs.

Possibly put Kenney after Zak because he was only in for 9 years, but he was "official" and on two albums.
I don't think he should be top row, though, because that should make the main 4 names stand out.

I reckon that should be how it's set out because, to me, their relativity to the band is more important than alphabetical order.

Discuss. Monkeynutbar (talk) 22:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)