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openProgressive Country Music
I have a question. The Progressive Rock article lists Progressive Soul artists on the list. Would Progressive Country artists be listed there as well, since Progressive Country has similar attributes to Progressive Soul (e.g. if Progressive Soul is Prog Rock but Soul/Funk, Progressive Country is Prog Rock but Country), or no? I'm not sure there are many major Prog Country artists with articles on this site.
openReal-life troping problem on K-Pop group pages Music
After getting a little savvy with TV Tropes, one thing I've noticed is how the majority of pages for Korean pop artists violate the Real Life Troping policy. The K-pop scene is a scene where many fans (get the impression of) knowing their favorite singers really well, and the fandom can sometimes be quite similar to ones of fictional properties, so I understand why this happens... but it's not allowed on TV Tropes. (For the record, most K-pop stars don't play any fictional persona; all the "fictionalization" could be chalked up to image management or editing out the bad parts, but most aren't playing characters.)
As an experiment, I thought of a random K-pop group - in this case, U-KISS - and guess what? Almost none of it was about the music, but about the people in the group! (It's also filled with misuse, both in the real life troping and the few examples related to their music, but that's besides the point.) I thought this could be the fault of being a page that probably hadn't been touched since 2012, but I checked the page of NMIXX and it has a whole section on tropes applying to the members.
I was thinking of making a short-term about this, but I heard I should discuss over here instead of unilaterally making a thread at the Short Term Projects forum. I'm sure this could also be a problem with pages for other non-Korean idol singers, since those too market their image and personality over anything else. And when it comes to controversies, which K-pop fans always handle with the utmost tact, it can get real messy. (A while back I deleted a massive wall of text on the SS501 page about the leader Hyunjoong's controversy... that occurred years after SS501 went on "indefinite hiatus.") Anyways, what should we do?
(Sorry if I didn't convey my message well; it's just something that's been bugging me for a while.)
Edited by neruneruparkaopenArtists & Bands Music
Do we not have any general pages covering Tribute Acts and/or Cover Bands? Honestly feel like pages relating to music in general could be better organized.
openThere's a character sheet dedicated to "Eminem Beefs"... Music
Eminem — Beefs is a sub-page to Eminem's character page, and the "characters" it documents are real other artists that Eminem (the artist) got into beefs with and targeted in diss tracks.
Is this page actually allowed? I can kinda understand doing a character page for Eminem's music given he raps as alternate personas (ex. "Slim Shady" is not the same as Marshall Mathers), but this sub-page just seems like it's a really weird way to document real-life drama, in addition to troping real people (granted, usually based on the context of the raps and music, but it still skirts a little too close for comfort).
openQuestion about a page cut Music
So I saw Tim Wilson had a Trivia page but it was cut and I see some Trivia tropes that should be in that tab but it said "Ask to make sure it's safe to recreate" what does that mean? Why would I need to "ask the tropers"?
open Uncertain page type Music
While doing other cleanup I came across Korean Pop Music, a page that is categorized as an index and, among other things, has an example list. All of the examples are general to the genre, but I'm not sure if this is kosher?
Additionally, I'm not sure its categorized properly either. The page reads more like a Useful Note. It does list a bunch of artists in the industry, which I suppose is what its indexing, but it's more just a list as many of the artists do not have pages on this cite.
I'm not sure what to do with this page, or if there's a thread this should be taken to.
openConsensus for an entry re-write in Awesome Music.Nirvana Music
When I first grouped the Incesticide songs into one entry with sub-bullets on Awesome Music.Nirvana, I added the description below, part of which (from "manages to" onwards) was then removed by mlsmithca for not making sense in terms of grammar according to them.
- The band's B-sides compilation album, Incesticide, manages to retain some good mentions of songs:
Because I wanted the Incesticide entry to follow the pattern of the other album entries on the page, I came up with this new description.
- Despite being a compilation album of B-sides, Incesticide still has some tracks that deserve a mention.
I set up this query after being advised on the Get Help With English forum thread to take one of the measures listed in the Edit War page (this query being one of the possible ways) to gain a consensus and avoid my addition of the new description look like an edit war. Here's the links to my post and the advice in case anyone wants to see them.
So, do you think the new description would fit grammatically?
openHow to add Heartwarming and Funny to Musicians Music
I have been done a lot of editing to the Sheena Easton page on here and I was going to add the Heartwarming and Funny tabs or whatever you call them, but when I click on the "Create New" function, they are not listed and I know some examples that would fit in both of those categories for her, in particular her work with Prince.
openAre Musicians/Bands allowed to be Workshopped in TLP Music
So I'm planning on creating a page for John Mayer, as he currently doesn't have one yet. But this is actually my first time doing a music related main page so I'll need some help. I know shows and movies can be workshopped in the TLP, but are musicians allowed?
Edited by AudioSpeaks2openRecreating Ricardo Silva's page Music
Would it be safe to recreate Ricardo Silva's page? The Doblaje Wiki has a long list of his works that could easily be added into it.
open Safe to recreate Kaskade Music
Is it Safe to recreate The music page for Kaskade because he is an American DJ
openWrong custom title use? Music
I only recently noticed that Michael Jackson's Xscape album was given the custom title Xscape to distinguish it from the recently-created page for Xscape (Group). While I understand why it was done, the URL for the album's page lacks the disambig like the band's page does, so is this actually okay to do? I'm genuinely unsure.
Edited by AfroThunderopenLinks to "Music" Music
Given that links to the disambig page Music have been showing up as green for a month now, I assume there's already been discussions on the forums about whether and where to redirect links to that page. If so, could someone please point me there?
I just stumbled across the Pumpkin Person trope, and it reminded me of a song/poem I heard when I was in grade school back in Australia in the tail end of the 90s. But all I can remember are a few lyric fragments; "When the jack-o-lanterns go, marching softly to and fro", and "Oh-oh-oh-oh here we creep! When the world is fast asleep!" "Marching off (out?) - to frighten you!" Obviously, it's a bit of a long shot, but I thought I'd throw this query out and see if anybody else could remember it.
I think it was part of a book that included a poem/song called Jingle-Jangle-Jent, which I remember mentioned a "druid fond of fluid" and a "Roman fond of roaming", but I don't really remember anything more than that...