Talk:The Paul Green School of Rock Music/Archives/ 1


Removing tagged issues

new citations have been added from credible sources - The New York Times and NPR.

how do the tags get removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phoenixrocks (talkcontribs) 17:04, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

One removes them when it is appropriate. In this case, I've changed the "unreferenced" tag to a "refimprove" tag, because there are still a great many unsupported claims made in the article. ⌘macwhiz (talk) 15:15, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
I think the weasel words prod can be removed. It seems fairly balanced and descriptive now. K8 fan (talk) 07:11, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Changed re-direct for The School of Rock

The Paul Green School of Rock Music was founded in 1996, and has had the domain schoolofrock.com since 2002. The 2003 movie was reportedly "inspired" by Paul Green's school. Since then, Paul Green left the school and it has become a very successful franchise operation with 72 schools in 26 states in the US and Mexico doing business as "The School of Rock". I believe the article School of Rock should be renamed to School of Rock (film) and the business should be The School of Rock and the page School of Rock should point to a disambiguation page that points to the articles for the movie and school. K8 fan (talk) 04:59, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:15, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

– The Paul Green School of Rock Music was founded in 1998, and has had the domain schoolofrock.com since 2002, as seen in the Internet Archive. The 2003 movie was reportedly "inspired" by Paul Green's school. Since then, Paul Green left the school and it has become a very successful franchise operation with 72 schools in 26 states in the US and Mexico doing business as "The School of Rock" serving over 7000 students. I believe the article School of Rock should be renamed to School of Rock (film) and the business should be The School of Rock and the page School of Rock should point to a disambiguation page that points to the articles for the movie and school. K8 fan (talk) 05:08, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

  • Support.
All of that may be true, but I'm not clear on what any of it has to do with our article titling guidelines. Powers T 23:14, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Because the entity formerly called the "Paul Green School of Rock Music" is know known as the "School of Rock". The article is mis-named. Also, they are only going to get bigger. I just added a link to a press release where they intend to have 300 franchise operations in the US and Mexico. There is the distinct possibility that this School of Rock may eventually have greater revenue than the Paramount film. And, again, it has primacy - Paul Green owned the domain schoolofrock.com and the school was referred to in national media as the "School of Rock" long before the film was made. I may be mistaken, but isn't it general WP practice that a common phrase used as a film or album title should have (film) or (album) appended to it as the article title to avoid confusion? I'm sure more people are familiar with Sara Lee, the maker of desserts, than Sara Lee, the bass player of Gang of Four. But neither gets "Sara Lee" which goes to a disambiguation page. K8 fan (talk) 23:39, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
We don't have any hard-and-fast rules, everything has to be evaluated on its own merits. Regardless of how much revenue the school takes in, if most readers searching for the phrase "School of Rock" are looking for the film, then we should probably keep the film at that title. Powers T 23:53, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
I should point out that on the IMDB page for the film it is listed as The School of Rock. Why is the article School of Rock instead of The School of Rock? It should be changed for that reason alone.K8 fan (talk) 00:41, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not IMDb. Check out these images of the movie poster and the soundtrack jacket for actual usage without the article. —  AjaxSmack  03:33, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Support.I've been videotaping various School of Rock shows and I came here to get some info. I didn't want info about the movie, I wanted info about the School of Rock. That got me to reading all this. I don't understand what the problem is here. I see that the issue is to change "School of Rock" (referring to the Jack Black movie) to "School of Rock (film)" which seems reasonable. Also "The Paul Green School of Rock Music" should be changed to "The School of Rock" since that is what it's called, since Paul Green hasn't been a part of it for quite a while. It seems that in several, if not most cases when a film has the same title as something else, (film) is added to the end. I just checked, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo goes to the book's page, while the movies are "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film)" and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)" so again, what's the problem with adding "(film)" to the end of the movie title? Xenussister (talk) 04:34, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Oppose. The film got 67,859 pageviews last month compared to 699 for the school, and that proportion is consistent over time. The film is the overwhelming primary topic. Station1 (talk) 18:58, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
But this article really needs to be re-named. There is no Paul Green School of Rock Music anymore, and there hasn't been since 2010. The possibility exists that some people looking for information on the program have been visiting the page for the movie. Until this week it lacked any reference to the original school. Again, we have two things with the same name, and one of them existed before the other. The film will not be harmed by having (film) appended to it's name, while the article on the School really needs to have the name School of Rock, for search results at the very least. K8 fan (talk) 19:32, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
In that case the school's article could be renamed to School of Rock (school) or School of Rock (academic program) or School of Rock (education company) or anything similar. Station1 (talk) 19:43, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Any examples of redundantly named articles? School of Rock (film) matches WP convention. K8 fan (talk) 20:04, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
It would only match convention if it were not the primary topic. Convention is that primary topics get the plain title and other topics need to be disambiguated somehow. Station1 (talk) 20:50, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.