Category talk:Session Artists

Been thinking for a while it might be good to rejig the format of the Session Artist A-Z pages, to improve accuracy and bring them into line with other pages on the site.

Current Session Artist A-Z pages were copied over from Wikipedia, where they were based on the BBC Peel pages. While this was OK to get some kind of artist list pages going, there are many mistakes (stemming from the original info on the BBC site), including sessions missed, sessions included that were for other DJs, and some artists missed out altogether. Also, all the current dates are of recordings, in the style we usually use for programme dates (ie, broadcast dates), leading to possible confusion.

What I suggest is to bring the format of the listings into line with other pages on the site by doing the following: 1. Knock out all the uses of "The" at the start of artist names. 2. Simplify the current dates to the year-only style used on pages for session artists from individual cities, etc, including number of sessions: Eg, Fall, (24 sessions, 1978-2004) 3. Include artists not on current pages who are in Ken Garner's Peel Sessions book listing of sessions.

Think this should be relatively straightforward to do, using Ken Garner's Peel Sessions listing as basic reference, as elsewhere on the site, as the current listings can be used as a starting point, cutting down the extra work.

Does this seem like a reasonable idea? If so, does anyone want to split the work with me, starting at different ends of the alphabet or something?

Cheers,

Steve W (talk) 08:48, September 2, 2018 (UTC)