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Assessment

I rated this as 'high' importance (the U2 project minimum for U2 studio albums) - but maybe that is too high. Merbabu 04:04, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I added two more project stub thingys and rated them high also as it is U2 and an interesting side-project. ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ(^Ταλκ) 17:15, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cover

The cover of the album "Original soundtrack" is work of Czech graphic designer Teodor Rotrekl (cs:Teodor Rotrekl). See http://www.galeriebrno.cz/rotrekl_knizni_ilustrace.pdf page 9 (for the picture) an 12 (for the text in english). --Thomazzo (talk) 17:21, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merger

I'm requesting Your Blue Room and Slug (Passengers song) be merged into this article. Neither one meets the notability requirements of WP:NSONG to merit their own article because neither were charted, won awards or honors, and Brian Eno and U2 were long time collaborators over multiple albums, not separate artists (e.g. We are the World). Kirk (talk) 20:08, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~Support~~ Neutral to merge of "Your Blue Room" at this time, but oppose merging of "Slug". The article does meet the guidelines of NSONG; my reasoning, and the arguments put forth by other editors, can be found at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Slug (Passengers song)/archive1. In short, NSONG states that separate articles can exist if "there is enough verifiable material to warrant a reasonably detailed article; articles unlikely ever to grow beyond stubs should be merged to articles about an artist or album." In my view the article is reasonably detailed, containing a great deal of information regarding the theme, inspiration, and the lyrics, and it would be detrimental to merge as a result. The article is well beyond being considering a stub. Also worth noting that Eno was a joint producer (half of a team that also included Daniel Lanois) of several U2 albums, not an active collaborator in actually writing the material. Only on two occassions, Original Soundtracks 1 and No Line on the Horizon (the latter released in 2009) did he take an active role in writing music with the band to the degree where he could be considered a collaborator. The two are very much separate artists. Melicans (talk, contributions) 20:28, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Now neutral on "Your Blue Room"; the additions made by D&L show that it can easily be expanded and kept as a separate article; I would do it myself if I weren't so busy at this time. Melicans (talk, contributions) 15:50, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My thoughts. Charting and awards are not everything. Being anything greater than "stub class" is defacto meeting of WP:NSONG, especially "Good Article class". Brian Eno producing or playing a backing track on a song here and there is not the same as being a full partner in composing and performing. Original Soundtracks 1 is not The Joshua Tree.

Re "Slug" Is this a joke? It is GA class! It is so far beyond a stub that merging can't be serious.

Re "Your Blue Room" i too Oppose per "articles unlikely ever to grow beyond stubs should be merged to articles about an artist or album." If "Slug" shows anything it is that "Your Blue Room" has the potential to grow beyond "Slug" given that it is more well known and has seen live concert performance. If i had all of the books that Melicans and those who are the principal management of the project have at their disposal i would expand "Your Blue Room" to GA class myself and create "Always Forever Now". The only book i have is U2 By U2. I expanded the article a little based on what i had available to me. It should be at least "start class" now. delirious & lost ☯ ^~hugs~ 10:52, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose merging "Slug"; no comment on "Your Blue Room". The merge would not work per WP:DETAIL: "The parent article should have general summary information and the more detailed summaries of each subtopic should be in daughter articles and in articles on specific subjects." If we merge "Slug" to the album article, we would overwhelm that article with information about one song. It's an unhelpful imbalance of subject matter. Erik (talk | contribs) 14:57, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Right let me get this straight, you want to merge a larger article into a smaller article; where is the sense in that?! Kitchen Roll (Exchange words) 17:32, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I think it's fairly clear at this point, after near 2 weeks of comments (13 days by my count), is that the overall feeling regarding "Slug" is that it should not be merged. I have removed the merge tags on this from the "Slug" and OS1 articles as a result of this. I have, however, left the tags in place for "Your Blue Room" as there is no clear resolution for that article at this point in time. Melicans (talk, contributions) 18:45, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Slug clip

I think the Slug clip is fine as long as it has a well-written rational, which it does. I meant that it wouldn't qualify per WP:NFC without a well-written rationale for this article, especially no rational at all. –Dream out loud (talk) 20:15, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It was something that I just forgot to add to the file page when I put it in there originally. My mind has been somewhat distracted as of late... Melicans (talk, contributions) 20:17, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What Documentary?

There's a line in this article that says:

"Bono objected to Mullen's statement in the same documentary..."

But as far as I can tell there is no prior reference to any documentary. Will the author of this passage please clear this up???!!!???

Ergonaut2001 (talk) 01:20, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]