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There Is No Such Thing as Notability: according to this policy, any work (songs, novels, single-medium franchises...) may have a page created, assuming it has a reasonable description and at least three tropes. There is no requirement that the works must avert No Plot? No Problem! by having a plot. Albums tend to be a collection of songs, but rarely including a Framing Device. In other words, albums can have work pages.
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Oh. Well, Tropers/crazysamaritan, I see your point.
Albums don't have to tell a story to have a separate page from the artist. TV Tropes has plenty of other pages for albums that aren't Concept Albums. The Beatles and David Bowie come to mind as other artists with pages for albums that aren't concept albums.
Edited by GastonRabbit Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Making pages for albums only makes sense as a way of avoiding putting all an artist's tropes on one page.
Sure, although as I implied, not all albums are for a single artist's work.
Edited by crazysamaritan Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
While there is no literal rule against creating discrete articles for albums (or even songs), bear in mind that there should be enough unique content to make a quality article. By "unique", I mean tropes found specifically on that album and not broadly across the artist's body of work. "Concept" albums often feature narrative content and are ideal for their own work articles, but regular albums are rarely distinct enough for this to make sense, and individual songs even less so.
Unless the primary article for the artist is so large that it would merit a hard-split, I see no reason to make separate album articles except for the cases noted above, any more than you'd make individual work articles for chapters of a book.
The other reason not to go crazy with individual articles is title collision. Unlike with books and films and such, there is generally no proscription in the music world about reusing titles, and this could make things rather nuts on the wiki in terms of disambiguation. If our "2.0" concept ever gets any development traction, we might be able to revisit this idea.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
The main Weird Al page is pretty extensive, and the trope lists on each album page are quite long as well. As long as the tropes can be found and someone wants to list them, I don't think the medium of the work really matters.
Well, in literally every Weird Al album that has a polka medley, there is a list of songs within said polka medley. Should I move 'em to Weird Al's main page.
^If there's a page for an album the tropes on that album should stay there.
The question was about tropes for multiple albums, which should be on Al's own page as a creator trope in general.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
There appears to be albums that "Weird Al" Yankovic made. Now, I am pretty sure that pages for albums are only allowed if they tell a story. And Weird Al's albums don't tell a story. So, should we delete this or not?