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Music Genres on wikipedia makes no sense
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 10:14 am
by thebruh
Wikipedians should know that music genres are categorized by the style of music and not by their audience (including pop music)
Re: Music Genres on wikipedia makes no sense
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:58 pm
by ericbarbour
Examples?
Re: Music Genres on wikipedia makes no sense
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:16 am
by thebruh
I may be late now but take Bjork for example, could you specify a genre for an artist?
Re: Music Genres on wikipedia makes no sense
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:05 pm
by ericbarbour
thebruh wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:16 am
I may be late now but take Bjork for example, could you specify a genre for an artist?
Bjork is a "special case". She's a nerd hero with a rabid following, so she has her own
idiotic and useless Wikiproject. (I rarely see Wikiprojects with totally blank assessment tables; this means Wikiproject Bjork was a failed "project" thing and they realized it.)
Madonna is a bigger star with a longer career and a LOT more record sales.
She also has a Wikiproject. The assessment lists 354 article-items, which is actually less than I remember from ten years ago. But it's still a useless monument to fanboy love.
Categorization is an accident on Wikipedia. Priority #1 is always fancruft and nerd obsessions.
Re: Music Genres on wikipedia makes no sense
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:56 pm
by thebruh
Agreed 100%. Classifying artists is a pointless thing to do