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UK Official singles charts

I see that you've been editing 'dead links' to UK Singles charts, for example at True Faith (song) and People Are People, and replaced them with direct links to unofficial chart archives. I already changed the UK singles chart link to singlechart template at "People Are People". The template requires artist, song, and date for the peak position. The template creates a direct link to the weekly UK chart at the official OCC archives. To clarify, chartstats.com and chartarchive.org are unofficial websites. Officialcharts.com is the official one. Chartstats.com/chartarchive.org has been used here on[REDACTED] as good faith source before. The problem now is the recent OCC demand to remove the content. No worries. Just use the singlechart link next time you edit UK singles chart data. --Sk4170 (talk) 15:20, 23 June 2013 (UTC) OK, so the next time I would change a UK "dead link", I will use an Officialcharts.com link Synthwave.94 (talk) 15:25, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

I was talking about using the singlechart template to create links to valid chart data. I meant that you first go to the individual artist page to retrieve the peak date, and then use the info with the singlechart template to create a direct link to the official OCC weekly chart. Read from Template:Singlechart about the restrictions, and learn to use it where applicable. Currently, the OCC weekly chart page shows only positions 1-40, so for positions 41-75 a link to the artist chart history page is applied instead. --Sk4170 (talk) 12:09, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

What's the difference ? It's much more simple to search for peak position on the individual artist page rather than looking after weekly chart, and the peak position is still the same, after all. Synthwave.94 (talk) 12:23, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Huh? Are you saying that it is easier for the editor, or the reader? Are you saying this because you are lazy? What is more important, the singlechart template was created to ease up the maintenance of changing chart links. Let's say, for example, that OCC website decides to rearrange and change location for all content. Simultaneously, all links on[REDACTED] pointing to the OCC website become dead. By using templates, the need for massive maintenance requiring a lot of work from several editors is minimized. Only direct links have to be fixed manually. Obviously, the less the better. There's one good reason for you why templates are recommended. --Sk4170 (talk) 12:50, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Well, it's easier for me when I want to change UK peak position, because I don't only change UK peak position when editing pages, I also changed old unreliable references I added by the past for example (and I can tell you it's quite long). Moreover no user talked about this UK singlechart template to me before. I always went directly on the individual artist page and I received no edit talking about this template. I'm not saying I don't want to use the template, but how can these weekly peak positions can be found on OCC website ? I seriously don't understand nothing about this "weekly chart template". It's impossible to navigate from a day from another and you only have the top 10 ! I'm sorry to say it, but I don't want to waste time with these kind of details. If you have time ahead of you, you can change the UK peak positions I added/changed but it would take you a lot of time to modify every UK peak position for each article I edited so far. Synthwave.94 (talk) 10:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

How am I supposed to do for re-release versions of one song (eg. Ghostbusters, which charted 7 or 8 times around Halloween) ? It's much more simple (and much more readable) to use the individual artists pages. I can use the same url 7 or 8 times whereas for the "template" I have to use 7 or 8 different urls. It's not interesting and not readable at all. Synthwave.94 (talk) 20:24, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Ghostbusters is an exception, but as you said, it had several re-releases. Using Singlechart template definitely requires more work than adding a link to the artist chart history. Some of the charts require parameters such as week numbers, dates, and chartIDs that are not always easy to find. For instance, Ray Parker Jr's hit peaked in the UK on the third week of September 1984. It took quite a bit of browsing to get to that weekly chart. What comes to the several re-release peak dates, they all entered the chart for only one week, when in 1984 the song spent total of 31 weeks in the UK Singles chart. When I edit wikipedia, I have my mind set on the best result, not how much work I need to do to get there. I don't mind that because I enjoy doing research. For me, "the best result" is not just the perfect and most accurate data, but it also includes that my edits follow the current wiki rules and practices, to the best of my knowledge. To conclude, I repeat myself, but again, using a singlechart template is a recommendation, to be used where applicable. Not a policy. You have made your choice, and it's alright. --Sk4170 (talk) 11:13, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

I can tell you the same thing. I'm not searching peak positions like if I was doing homework, but I'm learning things about songs that I didn't know. I knew Relax was a huge smash hit throughout Europe, but I didn't know it also charted in countries such as Israel, Thailand or even Hong Kong. Two users thanked me for what I did (on Hey Little Girl and on Love Will Tear Us Apart) and for me these "thanks" mean : "Thank you very much for your edit. What you did was helpful and constructive". Moreover I can tell you I'm not lazy when searching reliable references to change unreliable references I added by the past, when creating a full singlechart (on Radio Ga Ga for example) or when changing bare URLs into more complete/full citations (on Man in the Mirror). But thank you for your links, now I see how to find those weekly chart on OCC website and what is a "singlechart template".Synthwave.94 (talk) 11:50, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome, glad to be of help! I think you've been doing a great job with the charts. Are you familiar with WikiProject Songs? There you can see, if you want, loosely what's going on in the wiki song article maintenance. Some useful bits of information here and there. --Sk4170 (talk) 15:26, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

It's quite interesting, in particular the track listings resources and the tools. It reminds me I improved a song article a week ago. A song called "Din Daa Daa". There are some good, reliable references talking about the song, but I think that after what I found on the Internet, there is nothing else to say about this song. In fact, the only things missing are some details about the song (recording and format to be more precise), track listings and other songs which sample "Din daa daa" but I'm not sure it's useful to add them all : here's the link where I found every song which samples "Din Daa Daa". Synthwave.94 (talk) 18:13, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

I think the guideline was that the listings on the original single releases on all formats should be included, if available. For instance, for "Din Daa Daa" there are both 7" and 12" from 1983. Also the image seems to be missing. Couple of examples on different ways how sample info is included in the articles: Personal_Jesus#Jamelia_sample, Stan (song). Every_Breath_You_Take#Samples_and_cover_versions, I'll_Be_Missing_You. In many cases, there isn't a lot to tell about a song, that's true. Sometimes so little that it doesn't warrant an article. If the song meets the notability criteria, there usually is enough material. --Sk4170 (talk) 20:33, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Hi Synthwave.94. Thanks for the correction. It is not true that everything was in the same URL: I had put the wrong URL, while you have entered the correct one. Thanks again and happy editing. --Mauro Lanari (talk) 18:14, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm glad to learn from you my edits are helpful. Synthwave.94 (talk) 18:30, 25 June 2013 (UTC)