Talk:List of events at Madison Square Garden

Removal of unimportant "Significant events"

It seems that many, if not the majority, of lisings on this page are simply mentions hat certain bands played there on their tours (eg:
"* On November 14 and 15, 2009, Metallica will perform as part of the second leg of their World Magnetic Tour.

• On June 21, 2009, Beyonce is coming back to the Garden during her I Am... Tour")
  
  

LOTS of bands play MSG all the time but that doesn't make them significant events. Some of them are, such as if the band just reunited or something but most of them should be removed because they are simply insignificant. Sk8punk3d288 (talk) 02:32, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I know this is an old conversation, but I agree with the above. I'd suggest deleting everything from the article that does not meet the following criteria:

• a first-ever or last-ever performance by an artist/team/etc.
• a record-setting or award-winning performance (i.e. sports championship, record-setting length of performance)
• controversial
• charitable
• newsworthy for reasons unrelated to the event itself
• non-conventional use of the venue (i.e. political)

Before thinning out the list, are there any other points that should be made? Me Three (talk to me) 02:41, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Aerosmith headlined for the first time in 1976 (May I believe) not 1986 as is listed on the page.. this is a huge error and should be corrected. Sukie310 (talk) 00:32, 5 April 2011 (UTC) Sukie310

It seems recent major changes to this article have totally disregarded this talk section. The article has quickly become needlessly detailed. For instance, it's of little consequence to the vast majority of users that land on this page that Pavarotti played MSG on November 16, 1984. The majority of entries listed in the "Entertainment" section are similar examples. It makes the article needlessly dense and cluttered. I'm writing this to reiterate the above statements in this section and suggest recent changes be reverted to create a core list of significant events. Ivancurtisivancurtis (talk) 08:30, 12 September 2016 (UTC) Let's try our best to avoid any double-standardness in the first place. This is clearly an article dedicated to events held at the Madison Square Garden, which is the main article. If the strict consensus of a good article is being imposed for all the Wikipedia articles, then there should be NO articles related to music venues that should list out any such entertainment events in the first place. Just like I said, its either we include ALL the events or we do not include any of it at all. The definition of "notable" is subjective, as different editors will have different personal experiences to the events that they see. What may be notable for one may not be notable for another. Kindly refer to other Wikipedia articles such as the AsiaWorld-Arena, Mall of Asia Arena, 3Arena & Forum Copenhagen to get the rationale of why we should try to avoid any double-standardness in making an agreeable consensus. Xinyang Aliciabritney (talk) 09:22, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Minor edit for Paul McCartney

As written, Paul McCartney was said to have performed at MSG for the first time in 1989. This is incorrect, a Wings performed two concerts at MSG, on May 24 & 25, 1976. I added this brief info to the existing entry. Elsquared (talk) 04:02, 26 October 2011 (UTC)