Pugetbill ( talk) 20:16, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
I noticed that there were some increasing differences in albums / categorizations listed in this template compared to those listed in the Ray Charles discography article. I made a few changes today to try to better align the information in this template with the discography.
NOTE: These three albums, Blue, Spotlight on Ray and I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, are compilations of some pre-Atlantic singles recorded for Down Beat and Swing Time records in 1949 - 1952. Dozens and dozens and dozens of such re-issue / compilation albums have been released in the last 50+ years and more keep turning up yearly. I don't think it is useful to try to list them all in this template or even in the Ray Charles discography article. (just my opinion). If anyone disagrees, you might consider creating a "Re-issues of Down Beat / Swing Time tracks" section in the discography/template but I would suggest putting it at the bottom of the article because it will likely dwarf all other sections and will continue to grow as the same ~40 tracks are endlessly recycled in release after release.
There is a similar danger in listing compilation albums of which there are probably hundreds already. This is why the compilation section is labeled "notable compilations" - to prevent every Ray Charles compilation album ever released from being included. Of course getting agreement on the definition of "notable" may be a problem but at least I think this "compilation" list should not try to be comprehensive as there would be no end to it.
Pugetbill (
talk) 20:11, 12 March 2009 (UTC).
An editor added a link to List of awards and nominations received by Ray to this template but I have removed it. I presume this is not controversial. Since this is a template for Ray Charles, I believe readers would expect an "awards" link to refer to awards won by the man, Ray Charles (Grammy's etc.), not awards won by the film Ray. There is already a link to the film Ray in the template and readers will there find the above mentioned link in its more relevant context. Pugetbill ( talk) 19:28, 7 September 2009 (UTC)