Forum:Article links

When I first came to this wiki i found the article placement extremely hard to understand. I began thinking that if a relatively compentent wiki user like myself couldn't understand it, then how would a new use go on, they would probably just click that back button.

So, i think there needs to be a big rethink of how its done.

--Anarchyuk (talk)(Contribs)(To-do) 18:49, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Current Situation
(According to Music:Policies)
 * The format for article titles is as follow, but when in doubt, look at the template file when it applies:
 * Artist: Artist
 * Album/EP/Single: Album-name, Artist-name
 * Song: Song-name, Artist-name
 * If a song and an album have the same title, then the album should be Title, Artist-name, and the song should be Title (song), Artist-name.

Dyaimz's Suggestion
I noted some suggestions here:

Talk:A Quick Way To Generate Tracklistings For Mixes And Compilations, Using Microsoft Excel And Word:Essay

I'll bring the discussion here instead: There are 4 ways of writing titles that allow the band & the album to be differentiated by the wiki software so that pipe-trick can be used. Unfortunately, none of these match the current article-title-style. The colon style is band-name:album-name rather than album-name:band-name but there is also the problem that the colon is not preferred because it is used to denote different name-spaces. It also shares a disadvantage with band-name/album-name that in the Category lists it is easier to scan down the list if the album or song is first rather than the band. So that leaves us the comma or the parentheses options. No rationale was ever given for the present article-title-style but it is quite neat looking, so in that spirit I would recommend the comma format over the parentheses as being the closest visually to what is presently being done as well as bringing the advantages in editing of using pipe-tricks and losing the problems of clashing name-spaces.
 * band-name/album-name
 * band-name:album-name
 * album-name, band-name
 * album-name (band-name)

My 2 Cent's
The album-name, band-name format seems to be the best idea as allowing the pipe trick will save some time. Another possibilty is;
 * for an album then - album-name
 * for a song - song-name
 * if there is an album and song or self-titled album by a group then - album-name (album) and - song-name (song). Then a disambigution page could be put it

Discussion
 This is open to discussion because there needs to be a wide consenus on what is the best thing to do