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Creating a template about a "mob" that's been around, in one form or another, for more than 50 years meant making some tough choices. Here are a few notes to explain my decisions:
Discography — I tried to make the discography complete, which is why there are so many red links.
The discography is chronological, with the bands listed according to the release date of their first album. I didn't research it month-by-month, so I may have made some mistakes (if A Blow for Me, A Toot for You was released earlier in 1977 than Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs, for example).
I grouped together albums by George Clinton, the P-Funk All-Stars, and Parliament-Funkadelic because many of the post-1980 releases have used those names indiscriminately. For example, Dope Dogs has been released in at least two configurations, one under "George Clinton and da P-Funk All-Stars" and one under "Parliament, Funkadelic, and the P-Funk All-Stars". Mothership Connection Newberg Session was released under "George Clinton presents Parliament-Funkadelic", T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. is credited to "George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars", and How Late Do U Have 2BB4UR Absent? is credited to "George Clinton presents the P-Funk All-Stars".
Bernie and Bootsy are the only people for whom I included post-P albums. It was a judgment call.
Related bands — I limited this section to bands that could reasonably be considered "P-Funk projects". That means that I didn't include
Praxis,
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, or other post-P projects.
Related articles — I limited this section to articles about people or things that directly affected P-Funk or were directly affected by them. Obviously articles about P-Funk people are there (
Pedro Bell,
Overton Loyd).
James Brown and
Sly Stone were also no-brainers.
Bill Laswell has worked with Bernie, Bootsy, Eddie Hazel, and Billy Bass, so I included him, but I didn't include any of the other people who have worked with band members after they left P-Funk (
Buckethead, for example).
I'm the first to admit that most of these were judgment calls, they were arbitrary, and they reflect my personal preferences. I welcome comments and improvements from other editors. —
Malik Shabazz (
Talk |
contribs) 06:39, 21 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Funkadelic template
There's now a redundant and incomplete Funkadelic template as well
[1]. Shouldn't it be redirected here?
FunkMonk (
talk) 22:39, 22 October 2012 (UTC)reply
No redirect. The two templates appear together on many pages, so a redirect would result in duplicating this template on those pages.
I'll notify
User:Jax 0677, the editor who created {{
Funkadelic}}, about this discussion. There may be a reason why she/he created the template. —
Malik ShabazzTalk/Stalk 05:07, 23 October 2012 (UTC)reply
Comment - No more redundancy. The singles section and a link to "DeWayne McKnight" have been added (which already had the potential to be added along with the artists themselves).--
Jax 0677 (
talk) 07:23, 23 October 2012 (UTC)reply