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The list was promoted by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 22:09:07 8 December 2019 (UTC) [1].

List of Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums number ones of 1946 edit

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Nominator(s): Lirim | Talk 15:52, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Third Billboard album nomination, after 1945 and 2001 have been promoted. Thanks. Lirim | Talk 15:52, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:35, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
*Second and third sentences of the lead should be the other way - that way "at the time" will actually make sense
  • "In 1946, twelve albums by nine artists topped the chart." - looks like 11 artists to me??
  • "The first album atop the chart" => "The first album atop the chart in 1946" to be totally clear
  • "a Christmas compilation album of Bing Crosby" => "a Christmas compilation album by Bing Crosby"
  • "for six consecutive weeks" => "for a total of six consecutive weeks at number one"
  • No need for a hyphen in "late November"
  • "Furthermore, Crosby placed" - I think the word "furthermore" is superfluous and can be removed
  • "placed a second album atop with" => "placed a second album atop the chart with"
  • "his total weeks spent atop to ten" => "his total weeks spent at number one to ten" (avoids repetition of the word "atop" in the same sentence)
  • "in March of 1946" => "in March 1946"
  • "The second longest-reigning album of the previous year Glenn Miller," - needs an extra comma after "year"
  • "for additional five weeks" => "for an additional five weeks"
  • "The Ink Spots epynomous album" => "The Ink Spots' epynomous album"
  • Again, no need for hyphen in "late September"
  • If you are going to wikilink one of Bing's albums in his photo caption, you should probably wikilink the other one too
  • Benny Goodman Sextet (in the artist column) is unlinked once
  • Album titles starting with "The" should sort under the next word of the title
  • As for that matter should artist names starting with "The"
  • Think that's it from me..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:00, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@ChrisTheDude: All corrected, thank you very much.—Lirim
Resolved comments from Aoba47 (talk) 20:40, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
*I have a comment about this sentence (The American Billboard magazine publishes a weekly chart that ranks the best-selling albums in the country.). Since Billboard is primarily known as an American magazine (with the other iterations for other countries being lesser known), I am wondering if "The American" descriptive phrase is really necessary. Instead, I think it may be better to remove that bit and replace "in the country" with "in the United States".
  • For this part (At the time the chart was titled), I believe there should be a comma between "time" and "the".
  • I have a comment about this part (At the time the chart was titled "Best-Selling Popular Record Albums"). To the best of my knowledge, chart names are not put in quotation marks so why is it being done here?
  • I do not think the wikilink for eponymous is necessary.

I hope my comments are helpful. Once everything has been addressed, I will be more than happy to support this for promotion. Have a great rest of your day! Aoba47 (talk) 19:26, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Aoba47: All done, with the exception of eponymous. This is not really a word everybody knows, so I would keep it linked. --Lirim
  • Thank you for addressing my points. I still disagree with the eponymous wikilink, but it is not a major issue. I support this for promotion. Aoba47 (talk) 20:40, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • For future reference, I would not edit other reviewers' comments (in this instance, collapsing them with a header). I do not have an issue with it, but I have seen instances in which some reviewers in FACs or FLCs dislike it so it is probably best to avoid it altogether. Just wanted to let you know. Aoba47 (talk) 20:50, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Ianblair23 (talk) 11:38, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Aoba47, lead and table are all good. My only comments are the references. Could you please link directly to the page by adding #page=[insert page number in pdf]. So for ref 6 the link would be https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/40s/1946/BB-1946-01-05.pdf#page=24. I would remove "The world's foremost amusement weekly" from the title and add via=americanradiohistory.com to the refs as well. Cheers – User:Ianblair23 (talk) 10:20, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ianblair23: Done. Thank you very much.--Lirim | Talk 13:25, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Lirim.Z, thanks for making these changes. Could you please also do the same for Ref 4 and correct the link for Ref 13 [2]. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 23:26, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Ianblair23: Done, Thank you.--Lirim | Talk 23:32, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am not the nominator so it would be to direct the comments toward Lirim.Z. Aoba47 (talk) 17:40, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Only issue I have is repeated links of artists like that of Bing Crosby or Benny Goodman or King Cole, in the box. Link once, its enough. Otherwise its a really well wriiten piece. Dey subrata (talk) 15:23, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Dey subrata: they are always linked in the table so you can always use them. If you sort the table differently, you might not be able to access that other page directly.--Lirim | Talk 17:17, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I know they are linked so that one can open directly, but thats excessive to link a single name several times in a table which is short one and the article is very short article too. For example, Bing Crosby is linked in first row and again linked in the 4th row which is in the same frame of reader, if anyone need to open the article its not at all hard to click his name from first row and its most obvious if anyone want to read the artist's article they will surely click the first time they notice the name, same with Benny Goldman and Glenn Miller which are linked just one after another. It does not make any sense. So its better to remove the link and linking once is enough. You did the same with "Album Column" too. Dey subrata (talk) 10:23, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It is standard practice in a sortable table to link a name every time it appears -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:37, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Source review – The reliability and formatting of the references both look fine, and the link-checker tool shows no issues. Everything passes muster on the sourcing front. Giants2008 (Talk) 22:13, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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