Talk:Forever (Mariah Carey song)

Latest comment: 2 days ago by Barbiekool in topic Table heading
Good articleForever (Mariah Carey song) has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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@Barbiekool: per MOS:NOFORCELINK, "do not force a reader to use that link to understand the sentence. The text needs to make sense to readers who cannot follow links." This is done by including "Publisher" in the table heading so that readers understand what the information in the parentheses means. The year is already given in the caption. Heartfox (talk) 18:03, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

including "publisher" in the heading is reduntant as most articles put the year there. this, to me, seems very confusing; i personally didn't initially notice that it could mean so. if this has been a more common practice i wouldn't have reverted it, but this is a very sudden change that most articles don't use Barbiekool (talk) 18:12, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Ok but how does it align with MOS:NOFORCELINK? How is someone supposed to know what ARIA and RIANZ mean? If they are in parentheses, "(ARIA)", and the table heading is in parentheses "(Year)", that is telling readers that ARIA is a year? —it makes no sense. Heartfox (talk) 18:34, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
well, if one is gonna look at the section of "charts", they should likely be familiar with terms such as ARIA; if the person does not, other companies, such as "dutch charts" and "radio and records" could easily lead to knowing that it is a publisher for record charts.
the parentheses for the year and publisher are most likely seperate, as to why any other music article has the year inside. it seems a lot more confusing for someone to put "publisher" in the heading as it's a very sudden move. Barbiekool (talk) 18:44, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I've added this to Wikipedia:Third opinion#Active disagreements. Heartfox (talk) 18:59, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
thank you! Barbiekool (talk) 19:01, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply