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re: Funk Brothers articles

Wikipedia articles are generally supposed to be made up more of prose than lists. It's next-to-impossible to create a fully accurate (and complete) discography for any of the Funk Brothers, and it's not really a good idea to place "not a complete list" on what will never be a complete list. Therefore, the best solution (something that was done when some of those stubs were first written) is to take a handful of Motown songs -- say three or four -- that prominently feature the contributions of that particular funk brother, and mention them in the text.

I left Melvin "Wah-Wah Watson" Ragin alone for now, because that article needs extensive research and reworking. It lists songs and performers without mentioning how, when, or why Ragin is on those songs. At least i nthe cases of the (other) Funk Brothers, the reader understands they were employees of Motown. --FuriousFreddy 23:44, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

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Using talk pages as forums

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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:34, 6 November 2016 (UTC)