Category talk:Songs

This new organization seems somewhat cumbersome. What if we were to make each of the letters its own sub-category of the Category:Songs ? Does anybody else besides me have an issue with navigating to songs at the far end of the alphabet? -BigJohn

Check out the new nav that i added (yes, it is ugly. I will add it to the interwiki links later, so that it removes the "external link" graphic.) Does that help things?? --Duke33 14:07, 11 Nov 2005 (EST)

That's pretty much exactly what I was envisioning, Duke of Perl! -BigJohn

Hmm. Now the Songs (Solo Projects) page (I can't figure out how to show its link here) isn't navigable from this page like it used to be. It's a separate category, but you can only get to it by looking at the master Category list or looking at songs you find through search. Any suggestions? -BigJohn

I'm not sure why, but that happened when we upgrade to 1.4.7 (i believe). You have to go to the "S" page, to get the solo projects sub-cat to show up. I don't know if it's a bug or a feature, so when we upgrade to 1.5, we'll see what happens. Also, if you want to link to a category, put a colon in front of the word category, like this: :Category:Solo Projects --Duke33 17:10, 13 Jan 2006 (EST)

That's how mediawiki handles subcategories. To get it to show them on the front page, you need [[Category talk:Songs| ]] instead of [[Category talk:Songs]] on the category pages - but then it won't show up under S. It might make sense to have Songs (Solo Projects) as [[Category talk:Songs|Solo Projects]], which will still be under S, but it'll be there for the right reason :-) Percy Snoodle 12:42, 15 Jan 2006 (EST)

That's interesting...thanks for the workaround.--Duke33 14:47, 17 Jan 2006 (EST)

What's with the alphabetization? Songs starting with any random letter are in different Letter groups. And what's the "%" category? -BigJohn

Template:Song is still in "S" though.

Yeah, i've seen that mentioned on mediawiki message boards by other people having that same problem with templates on their site, and i don't think there is a thing you can do about it, which sucks. --Duke33 16:04, 17 Jan 2006 (EST)

Title, The

Is there a rhyme or reason why song titles beginning with "the" are filled under "T?" Normal standards for alphabetization call for the article to be added to the end of the song title after a comma. I.e. "Edison Museum, The" should be filled under "E." TheCerealPoet

The thing to ask is who is filling in the song titles in this way. The answer-- the wiki's internal alphabetical-title-organizing-- explains why. And explains why nothing can be done about it except to go into every "The __" song and edit the way it's named in the categories. Back a few years ago for the convenience of the alphabetical listing, we had the actual pages called, for instance, "Bells Are Ringing, The." I think consensus was that this was ugly and unnecessary. In our own wikian-edited lists (see any Song Theme page) though, we alphabetize titles according to the "normal standards." ~ magbatz 01:00, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Song rankings?

New to the site...noticed that songs are ranked based on visitors votes (totally interesting), but there doesn't seem to be a listing of song rankings! I was interested in knowing what's #1...

Check out the Site Map...It's listed under Song Ratings.