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Relevance?
As much as I love this album, does it belong here? It's not the soundtrack to The Star Wars Holiday Special; it's an original concept album recorded 2 years later. I think we should decide which albums would be relevant to the wiki. -- Ken (talk) 03:11, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- That's why the category is named albums, not soundtracks. Christmas in the Stars is a concept album that tells a story from beginning to end. It's essentially an audio album. —Scott (talk) 03:15, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- Okay, but I'm still confused as to what does and doesn't belong here. Since it's called Christmas Specials Wiki, my gut feeling would be that any records that are included here should be the soundtracks to those specials. Otherwise, we're going to get into some gray areas. Like, the Chipmunks or Sesame Street Christmas albums. Some tell a story and some don't. When I was thinking of albums, I was thinking of things like the score to A Charlie Brown Christmas, and the albums of dialogue from Frosty and Twas the Night Before Christmas, and the CD of music and dialogue from It's a Wonderful Life. I don't mean to be beating a dead horse, but I would like some input on what should be here, kind of like you were talking about this morning regarding movies, TV shows, direct to video, and radio shows. -- Ken (talk) 03:49, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, go ahead and add soundtracks. Soundtracks are albums. But just as It's a Wonderful Life isn't a Christmas special, it's still here because it's part of the same family tree of Christmas entertainment. Christmas in the Stars is just another branch on that tree. —Scott (talk) 04:04, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- Ken has a point, though. I mean, does this mean I could add pages for albums of Mahalia Jackson singing Christmas songs, Capitol Records of kids choirs, or the London Orchestra doing Little Drummer Boy? Or is it exclusively for Christmas albums which branch off of existing characters/franchises in much the same way that the Flintstones or Muppet specials tend to? Myself, my gut feeling is to go for the latter only, or else albums could easily overwhelm everything else. But ultimately, it depends on how broad a scope you want the Wiki to have (and admittedly, apart from Ken and us, not too many folks would necessarily come here to add album info, so it probably wouldn't be an issue). -- Andrew Leal (talk) 04:10, 28 November 2007 (UTC)