Talk:List of African musicians

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Older comments

Created cause my friend and colleague Josh left on the plane tonight and forgot a paper with all this useful information. Instead of sending (or scanning and sending) the paper I thought it would be nice to have the list perpetualized (and extended) on Wikipedia. :) Guaka 00:59, 1 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How to set Links

Pls check this page to learn about placing links correctly. Amsaim (talk) 12:56, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

organization of list within a country

the names of individuals and names of groups are currently commingled which makes for difficult alphabetizing within a country. would probably be easier to maintain (and to read) if broken out.

example

[Country heading]

Individuals

name 1
name 2
etc.

Groups

group 1
group 2
etc.

--98.113.187.11 (talk) 13:50, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of this article

This list is nearly 5 years old, and has had a monthly average of 2000 visitors. There is no Wikipedia rule that doesn't allow this list to exist. Red links in lists actually "help Wikipedia to grow".^[1] The proposed prod is the personal opinion of the editor who placed the tag. Looking at his recent contributions, it appears as if the editor has randomly placed the same prod-tag with the same prod-text on 15 other "List of...musicians" articles, while leaving numerous other "List of ... musicians" articles untagged. This type of of prod-tagging is unconstructive to the project and the tag has thus been removed. If your concern is the lack of sources on the red links, then please take time to read Wikipedia's rule concerning red links and lists. It would be more constructive to individually check up each red link rather than delete the entire article. Amsaim (talk) 00:44, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is no time limit on nominating an article for PROD. I nominated it because there are no sources, it can never be complete, and it is more suitable as a category. Maybe you should read up on wikipedia's article on references. All information unless common knowledge needs to be sourced. Your thoughts about red links, etc are true, but irrelevant to my nomination. I didn't nominated the other articles because I only got to "E" countries before I had to go. Also, I did not notice that article previously went through an AfD, which would make it ineligible for PROD. My mistake there. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 02:52, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think lists like this are likely to be deleted. Categories and lists are complementary, and there is no reason not to have both. Lists have the particular advantage of providing some information about the material in which they appear, thus facilitating identification and browsing. Browsing is a key function of an encyclopedia. As a general rule, for topics like this, if there is a category, there should be a list. As for the inclusion of individual, it does need to be limited to those who either have a Wikipedia article or would clearly be qualified for one. If there is such an article, there need be no sources here; if one has not yet been written ,there needs to besome source indicated probably notability . DGG ( talk )

References

^ Diomidis Spinellis and Panagiotis Louridas (2008). The collaborative organization of knowledge. In Communications of the ACM, August 2008, Vol 51, No 8, Pages 68 - 73. doi:10.1145/1378704.1378720. "Most new articles are created shortly after a corresponding reference to them is entered into the system." See also inflationary hypothesis of Wikipedia growth

Cleanup

The article has been cleaned up, and all non-notable and unsourced entries without an article have been removed. Any further addition into this article should be from notable musicians with a corresponding Wikipedia article. Additions without an article should be properly sourced to prove notability (see WP:SAL, WP:NLIST & WP:SOURCELIST). Let's keep this article tidy & cleaned up. Thank you. Amsaim (talk) 10:21, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are many articles listed here again without an article, including the most recent addition, added by the musician. I will start to remove the unsourced musicians without articles. Greenman (talk) 16:00, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a note about this at the top of the article - it may slightly slow the rate of unsourced and unlinked additions :) Greenman (talk) 18:59, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[spinellis-1] Diomidis Spinellis and Panagiotis Louridas (2008). The collaborative organization of knowledge. In Communications of the ACM, August 2008, Vol 51, No 8, Pages 68 - 73. doi:10.1145/1378704.1378720. "Most new articles are created shortly after a corresponding reference to them is entered into the system." See also inflationary hypothesis of Wikipedia growth

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