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The problem is that your recommendations will eventually run afoul of Weblinks Are Not Examples bullets #2 through #4. Do you seriously find nothing noteworthy in the music recommendations that can explain to the reader why it's awesome without forcing them to click on the link?
"I figured they're automatically self-explanatory with no need for context." - should never be an excuse for anything, especially if, once again, the reader does not want to be forced into clicking the weblink.
Edited by AnoBakaDesu "They played us like a DAMN FIDDLE!" — Kazuhira Miller, Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain
If it was a regular trope page with tropes, then yes, that would be an issue. But this is an Awesome Music page, and I see no such rules of Zero Context Examples to those. For music recommendations, it's pretty much free reign for anyone regardless of context or not. Are the rules changing?
Edited by DivineFlame100
Awesome Music does require an explanation of why you like the song. A lot of people ignore this rule and there are lots of zero context examples, but that doesn't mean you can do it too, just that we haven't gotten around to fixing those yet.
Context rules apply to everything on our wiki. If you can't be bothered to at least write a sentence about why you like the music, it's not worth adding as an example.
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Nothing to add that hasn't already been said; the point of AwesomeMusic/ is to convey why the music is awesome. There is no such thing as a self-explanatory example. A title or, worse, a quote from the lyrics without a title is not a proper example, and linking to a video from the title isn't context either since YouTube takes down videos and entire accounts all the time. And as Zuxtron says, just because other pages do this doesn't mean it's acceptable, it simply means that we haven't got around to addressing the context problems on those pages. You don't have to write an essay, but you do have to write more than just "[Track X] is awesome". Again, why is it awesome?
^^Indexes don't require context.
Keet cleanup
Ah fine... I'll find a way to add context to those albums later if I can.
^^ While true, indexes aren't (usually) tropes by any stretch of the imagination, so it's not really the same thing.
Edited by WarJay77 Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
A short while ago, I added some Alstroemeria Records recommendations to AwesomeMusic.Touhou Other Works, only for them to get commented out by mlsmithca for being Zero Context Examples with a notification from AnoBakaDesu shortly after. I was left baffled. I can understand giving context to tropes because that's the standard rule, but for music? I figured they're automatically self-explanatory with no need for context. The albums I posted are also very lengthy compilations of dance remixes so there was no way I can describe them all properly.
Courtesy link here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=AwesomeMusic.TouhouOtherWorks
Edited by DivineFlame100