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Hi Richard,

I'm not a regular Wikipedia contributor, but am a massive fan of your input to the UK chart sections of songs. I have been researching year-end singles charts and have found myself frustrated at the lack of available information for the 1990s: can I ask how many Music Week editions you have with 90s year-end charts, and if you could share the top 100 data for these years?

Kind regards,

Ben :) 83.244.233.102 (talk) 04:03, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ben, thank you for the compliment – it's not a proper source, but scans from Record Mirror and Music Week are available at http://scans.chartarchive.org/UK/ ... pick the year and then the PDF file at the top of the list that says "UK charts 199x – Singles and albums". Please note, however, that the OCC have retrospectively changed some of these charts in the latter half of the decade, so they may not match what is on the OCC's website. Richard3120 (talk) 23:37, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is brilliant, thank you! I feel like for my purposes I'll just go off the lists as they were at the time :)

Hi. I saw that you edited Briana Buckmaster's talk page. However, that deletion request was from 2016, whereas the page was made in 2021 and I believe has more information including her theater work as well as an album she released. Can you delete that request since it's an old request or if you believe it should be deleted make a new discussion? Thanks.- J (talk) 16:24, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jacyf02: well, all I did was to add relevant WikiProject tags. You shouldn't remove any previous comments or deletion processes from any talk page, because they provide a history of the article. The fact that it was nominated and deleted in 2016 doesn't have any bearing on its recreation in 2021 and current state of the article, so I don't see why it's a problem to keep the old history. Richard3120 (talk) 16:29, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, so does this mean that the current article is re-nominated? It just feels weird that an old deletion nomination on a current article. If it was a new deletion request, that would make sense, but this makes it seem that the current article is nominated for deletion. - J (talk) 16:32, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Jacyf02: no it's not being nominated – it says quite clearly that the nomination and deletion was from September 2016. But it's necessary to keep the notice, because if an article gets nominated for deletion again, the nominator needs to know if it's been nominated before. Richard3120 (talk) 16:45, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to talk to you in regards to having my page redirected after 14 years. My work has been mainly from the band Human Drama for 35 years. We have fans in over 80 countries. I have also recorded with Gene Loves Jezabel that was also included on one of the episodes on the series Everwood. Please reconsider. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:290:60e0:d534:1623:76fc:50ee (talk • contribs) 20:07, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing by the fact you say "my page" that you are Mark Balderas. Firstly, the page for Human Drama is still there, it hasn't been deleted, and I have no intention of deleting it as the band clearly passes WP:BAND, in my opnion. Secondly, if you mean the separate article for Mark Balderas, please note that WP:BANDMEMBER states "Members of notable bands are redirected to the band's article, not given individual articles, unless they have demonstrated individual notability.". And "individual notability" means that someone has discussed said notability outside of the band at length. Simply having a credit on a record sleeve isn't enough (thousands of musicians have that), or having the song played on a TV program... it's not particularly rare for an artist, even a completely unknown artist, to have their music played in the background of a TV episode. The sources in the original article were simply links to online record stores, blogs (which fail WP:RS), or talked about Human Drama. If you can find me any reliable independent sources which discuss your work outside of Human Drama in depth I will happily reconsider. Richard3120 (talk) 21:26, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I saw you've replied to an earlier thread on Template talk:Album chart. Would you consider offering your perspective, whatever it may be, at Template talk:Album chart#RfC on this template's format. Thanks. Ss112 12:31, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey i wish there was more sources to the Mikey D albums so I could add on reliable sources but this is all I could find. Record reviews? No where to be found. But I don't want these articles to disappear. Ceedub88 (talk) 00:41, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Ceedub88: And that's the problem, there are no reliable sources, so these albums fail WP:V and WP:NALBUM. And we don't keep articles on Wikipedia just because an editor wants them, otherwise anybody could add anything they wanted, and that's not what an encyclopedia is about. Richard3120 (talk) 15:56, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there Richard! Since you tag WikiProjects, I just wanted to give you an update on the Latin music project. Per this discussion, the Latin music project now covers all Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking recordings from around the world regardless of release. Previously, only those released in Ibero-America or the US was eligible. So whether it was only released in Greece, Angola, or whatever, if the album/song is in Spanish or Portuguese, it falls under the project scope. Thanks again as always for banner tags. Erick (talk) 21:09, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Magiciandude: thanks for the heads up, I'll try and remember that in future (it doesn't automatically come to mind when you see a Japan-only release...). Richard3120 (talk) 21:15, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I forgot to mention that indigenous and other dialects from Ibero-American countries falls under the scope as well so that would include the languages from the native people of Colombia. For instrumental music, Ibero-America (which includes Spain and Portugal) is still main focus of the project and it's somewhat complicated, so I'll do my best to explain. An Albanian instrumental group that performs vallenato would be included just as an instrumental Colombian rock group would be as that genre is popular in Colombia. But a Colombian instrumental group performing Arabic music wouldn't be included. I use the same criteria for Latin instrumental music the Latin Grammy does on their website (the description is under Best Instrumental Album). I hope that helped at least somewhat on how instrumental music articles are tagged on the Latin music project. Erick (talk) 21:46, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Magiciandude: yep, got it, thanks. Now you've got me thinking what an Albanian group performing vallenato would sound like... Richard3120 (talk) 21:58, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Richard. Well. As I mentioned before, it seems that the official title is The Cruel Angel's Thesis. You can read it in the title of the 2018 re-release and the official YT video by King Records. I'm gonna request to move the article accordingly. I forgot to do this before since I'm kinda busy in RL. Or you want to do this on your own?--TeenAngels1234 (talk) 12:28, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@TeenAngels1234: no, go ahead when you have the time... I'm also busy! Richard3120 (talk) 23:55, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Richard. I saw you moved the "Est-ce que tu viens pour les vacances?" page, with the comment: "there shouldn't be a space before the question mark". I'm not familiar with WP rules on this issue, but it's a song in French-language, and Question mark#Stylistic variants says: "French usage should include a narrow non-breaking space before the question mark. (For example, "Que voulez-vous boire ?")" (see also fr:Wikipédia:Conventions typographiques#Signes de ponctuation on the French WP). Regards, Europe22 (talk) 20:17, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Europe22: I had no idea about that, thank you for bringing it to my attention. I'll revert it right away, and let other editors argue over whether it should have a space or not. Richard3120 (talk) 20:35, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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