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The
Latin Grammy Awards are presented by the
Latin Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the Latin music industry. The Album of the Year is one of the four accolades included in the General Field.
Oppose the topic would need to include all the albums that won this award. 10\24 is cherry-picking at its finest.
igordebraga≠ 15:57, 21 April 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm Breathless is an album released on May 22, 1990, by
Sire Records to accompany the film Dick Tracy. The album contains three songs written by
Stephen Sondheim, which were used in the film, in addition to several songs co-written by Madonna that were inspired by but not included in the film. Madonna starred as
Breathless Mahoney alongside her then-boyfriend
Warren Beatty who played the title role,
Dick Tracy. After filming was complete, Madonna began work on the album, with Sondheim, producer
Patrick Leonard and engineer
Bill Bottrell. In support of both I'm Breathless and her previous album, Like a Prayer, Madonna embarked on the
Blond Ambition World Tour where a section was dedicated to the songs from the album.
Another work from
WP:MADONNA, the soundtrack to Dick Tracy with all related articles - the movie, the Oscar-winning song out of it, two singles not related to the film, the album's accompanying world tour and the two movies that it inspired (a concert video and a documentary).
igordebraga≠ 19:09, 21 April 2024 (UTC) --
igordebraga≠ 19:09, 21 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Midnights is the tenth studio album by the American singer-songwriter
Taylor Swift. With an understated
synth-pop and
electropop sound, Midnights is a
concept album about nocturnal ruminations. Released on October 21, 2022, the album was Swift's fifth to sell over one million US first-week copies, and its songs made her the first artist to monopolize the entire top ten of the US
Billboard Hot 100.
Damita Jo is the eighth studio album by American singer
Janet Jackson.
EMI Music Japan released it first in Japan on March 22, 2004. Damita Jo debuted at number two on the US
Billboard 200 and was considered a disappointment by the media compared to Jackson's previous efforts. To promote it, three singles were released: "
Just a Little While", "
I Want You" and "
All Nite (Don't Stop)", while "
R&B Junkie" was issued as a promotional single. Jackson's performance at the
Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show prior to the album's release, which ended in Jackson's breast being
accidentally exposed by surprise guest
Justin Timberlake, had a major effect on the album's commercial performance.
The Avengers is the biggest franchise within the MCU, so it felt like after four films, and two more announced, it was past time to make a GT of some sort. Due to there not being an article dedicated only to the Avengers franchise, making
Avengers the lead article was the next best option. As a result, the accolades are included as they encompass the films and the actors/individual characters. -- ZooBlazer 00:12, 29 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment –
Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe) should be a topic because it is a notable franchise. However, I think the collection of articles is incomplete; for example, there are articles covering the soundtracks and box office records which aren't included and are fundamental to the completeness of the films mentioned. Instead, I'd like to suggest that this topic include only the four current Avengers films, and that each film have a respective subtopic. For example, the Avengers: Infinity War subtopic would include its
accolades,
box office records,
soundtrack and
production. These subtopics can also be noted on the phase topics as well. This way, every article concerning the topic is covered and we still get an Avengers topic. Let me know if this doesn't make sense.
Idiosincrático (
talk) 05:17, 29 March 2024 (UTC)reply
The soundtracks wouldn't make sense here as the scope is more about the team (which is what the lead article is) since it can't be entirely about the films without a dedicated article. The soundtracks have nothing to do with the team/characters. Subtopics could maybe work, but just an FYI, from what I've heard, the box office records lists are frowned upon at FLC, so they could likely ruin some topics since they probably will never get promoted. -- ZooBlazer 05:26, 29 March 2024 (UTC)reply
If the
Avengers (MCU) article is about the fictional superheroes and protagonists (like the lead says), should this topic not instead list the roster of characters within the team; ie.
Tony Stark,
Thor etc? I get that "the Avengers is the biggest franchise within the MCU", but there is no article about the 'Avengers film franchise';
Avengers (film series) redirects to
List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films. Topics like
Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase One films, in my opinion, are more than enough coverage for the film series alone. Instead, sub-topics for each individual film is more appropriate. These said sub-topics should include both the soundtracks and any respective box office list/article; a topic constitutes a complete grouping of every article/list related to the lead article (so long as the article/list exists). The reason why the box office records lists are unpopular is because they're not encyclopaedic and content-forking, this was discussed
here with no consensus to delete in 2018. This was done at the time of film release, a nomination to delete or merge now would be probably be more successful.
Idiosincrático (
talk) 06:50, 29 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I think I will narrow this down to just the films as you suggested above. -- ZooBlazer 07:28, 29 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I think Idiosincrático is right that the Avengers character article should probably by part of a character topic with the individual character articles. I don't think it makes sense to treat it like an Avengers film franchise topic. These films all fit well in the Phase topics that we are already planning. -
adamstom97 (
talk) 12:26, 29 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Support nice effort. And given that somehow there are a lot of separate articles for the MCU incarnations of the characters, the top article can even be used if there's ever an "MCU Avengers members" topic.
igordebraga≠ 18:46, 29 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Support on the narrowed down GT of including the Avengers films only.
Pseud 14 (
talk) 15:15, 30 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Support I see the above suggestions have been implemented and it meets all the necessary criteria for inclusion. -
Dcdiehardfan (
talk) 02:24, 9 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Trauma Center is a simulation video game series developed and published by
Atlus between 2005 and 2010. Beginning with Trauma Center: Under the Knife for the
Nintendo DS, the series continued for four more entries; a Wii remake Second Opinion, and three original titles for DS and Wii. While now a dormant series, each entry saw positive reception and sales, with many gaming journalists praising each entry's controls for utilising hardware-specific elements.
I'm nominating this GT because I ended up doing a GA clean sweep of the series. I believe all of them cover each game in as much detail as is suitable for their quality level. While there would normally be a series article, there has been little to no commentary on the series as a whole despite its popularity during its period of release. Due to this, the series article has been redirected, and for this topic the lead article is the debut entry. The series is unlikely to see any additions in the near future, so the topic should remain stable. --
ProtoDrake (
talk) 10:31, 25 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Support: Although the matter of a series article can't be helped in this scenario, the articles are all clearly related and linked together by a designated template, and since all the articles within are GA-class, the topic qualifies for promotion.
Cat's Tuxedo (
talk) 18:15, 25 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Support Meets all of the criteria.
QuicoleJR (
talk) 21:02, 25 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Support My second opinion is that this topic is in full health.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 23:11, 26 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Hold Scratch that, I think there's some latent GUILT in the patient that needs to be treated. Er... I mean potential for another article. Specifically, the series article is quite viable and probably shouldn't have been redirected just to fast track a Good Topic.
Hardcore Gaming 101 goes over the series as a whole as a decent chunk of their review of the original Trauma Center, besides this
retrospective that was already mentioned in the article. Combined with this overview of the series in
Nintendo Power, I think it's absolutely salvageable and GNG passing.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 23:21, 26 February 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm afraid I have to disagree. Again the commentary there seems too localized to specific titles over talking about the series as a whole. The main problem with the series article was it was parroting stuff from the articles. There was little to no overarching commentary, and the sources you've provided don't really solve that issue. --
ProtoDrake (
talk) 23:49, 26 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Based on these three sources, I must agree with ProtoDrake. Hardcore Gamer's two articles are specific-game reviews, as is the Nintendo Power article. They describe the series in order to give context to the item they are reviewing. Only the USGamer (VG247) article is about the series as a whole. These three sources suggest the potential for a series article, but they would not be enough. ~
Maplestrip/Mable (
chat) 08:20, 27 February 2024 (UTC)reply
WP:SIGCOV states that "Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material." Being specifically about the series as a whole has nothing to do with it really. So unless you are saying these are all trivial, that shouldn't apply.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 13:08, 27 February 2024 (UTC)reply
I am just suggesting that all of the information in these sources are summarily covered in the respective game articles. Only one of them features reception for the franchise as a whole. We could put together a somewhat functional article to encompass the franchise, but there's not really any reason to do it with these sources. The Gameplay and Legacy sections on Under the Knife have it covered. This might change if more retrospectives on the franchise as a whole are found or written, though. ~
Maplestrip/Mable (
chat) 13:37, 27 February 2024 (UTC)reply
The reason would be ease of navigation and to give people a proper landing page for learning about the Trauma Center series. At
MOS:VG it is stated that as long as a series page "describe[s] the series as a whole in broader terms, such as what the games have in common. This could include general gameplay, and recurring elements such as characters and locations", and there are at least 3 entries, its existence is merited. The question should be why it shouldn't exist, and there appears to be no special reason in this case to inconvenience readers.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 20:09, 27 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Are you joking? It also says "Avoid creating a series article that only repeats what sources say about the individual games, and instead base the article on what reliable sources say about the series as a whole.". Except that there aren't reliable sources that talk about the series as a whole, and you've been unable to produce them. --PresN 13:24, 1 March 2024 (UTC)reply
To straight-up copy-paste my reply above, because it seems like it got ignored,
Hardcore Gaming 101 goes over the series as a whole as a decent chunk of their review of the original Trauma Center, besides this
retrospective that was already mentioned in the article. Combined with this overview of the series in
Nintendo Power. These are the sources I have produced that prove a series page is possible and passes GNG.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 19:11, 2 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Speaking bluntly, yes it's possible, but it'll also look like a giant echo chamber and that in my opinion is one of the worst kinds of Wikipedia articles. Speaking personally, and I may have to go back over some of my own contributions in light of these opinions, I dislike whole articles that just reproduce word for word, or with arbitrary variations. That's why I did the redirect. There was barely anything original, and even with those small bits you've found, they'll still be barely anything original. --
ProtoDrake (
talk) 14:47, 6 March 2024 (UTC)reply
To be honest, if what you are saying is true, I am doubtful any franchise article would exist - it would be required to only have navboxes connecting them, because any blurb describing the game, film or other media would be classified as an "echo chamber" and "repetitive content". Sometimes repetition is required to describe something in another article in which it appears. I am a bit flummoxed as to how that is a bad thing as long as it's not just a straight copypaste of the entire article. Sometimes people want a quick summary, other times a long examination of the subject.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 09:08, 16 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Support – After quickly looking through each of the articles, I can say this looks like a lovely Good Topic. Excellent work, ProtoDrake! ~
Maplestrip/Mable (
chat) 09:38, 1 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Support - Solid topic, and I agree that a series article is not viable at this time. --PresN 13:24, 1 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Support. I am convinced that a series article to serve as the main topic is not viable, at least not based on what's been presented. -
Cukie Gherkin (
talk) 14:02, 1 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Support - I'm gonna chime in a say that for the time being, it's best having all the series info in the article for the first game. Look at Knightmare on MSX for example. I condensed everything related to the trilogy into the legacy section, including the follow-ups, cameos, the unreleased stand-alone sequel, etc. I do feel that Trauma Center has potential to have its own series page more than Knightmare, not gonna lie, but i do agree with Drake's approach here.
Roberth Martinez (
talk) 17:13, 1 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Support. It makes sense to have the first game here.
TWOrantulaTM (
enter the web) 17:44, 9 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Hold until a series article is made per Zxcvbnm.
Spy-cicle💥 Talk? 15:11, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment I do not know why the series article was "merged" with the first game of the series. I was planning to work that into a good article. It is not impossible to expand on it.
KingSkyLord (
talk |
contribs) 02:01, 22 April 2024 (UTC)reply
The UEFA Europa Conference League is a relatively new competition and did not exist at the time of the 2008 FT nomination. Additionally, the Intercontinental Cup list did not exist at the time of the nomination either, it should be included as it was jointly administered by both UEFA and CONMEBOL, and the competition is included in the lead article tallies. Without these lists reaching recognised status, this topic fails criteria 1d and 1e, thus it should be delisted. The
UEFA Women's Champions League list is not included as the lead article only outlines men's competitions.
Idiosincrático (
talk) 01:13, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm going to try and get both of these lists up to featured standard in the coming weeks. Had forgot the Conference League list needed adding to the topic, likewise the Intercontinental Cup.
NapHit (
talk) 23:25, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Hold – The UEFA Conference League list has since been nominated as an FL candidate.
Idiosincrático (
talk) 06:32, 10 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Wait UEFA Europa Conference League is at FLC and there is desire to do the same thing for the Intercontinental Cup.
Spy-cicle💥 Talk? 15:18, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply