Wikipedia:TenPoundHammer's Law: Difference between revisions

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{{nutshell|If you don't even know the name of an upcoming album, you probably don't know enough about it to write an article.}}

 

Pages of this sort usually take the naming convention "[name of artist]'s [nth] studio album". There are occasional exceptions to this law, as sometimes a future album ''will'' contain enough verifiable information for a decent article even if the title is not known.<ref>For example, ''[[In Rainbows]]'' had a fully fledged article before its name was announced, because the page already contained sufficient sourced information for an article. Similarly, ''[[Chinese Democracy]]'' had sufficient content to warrant an article years before a track listing was finalized.</ref> But if all you can do is [[WP:CRYSTAL|look into a crystal ball]] or base your information off rumors posted to message boards, blogs, or Facebook, then it's best ''not'' to create a page on the album until you've got something more to say. Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:There is no deadline|isn't going anywhere]]; it's not going to hurt you to wait.<ref>Also consider the fact that arguments like "''everybody'' knows it will be put out soon" or "this is going to be [name of artist]'s biggest album", or worst of all, "you just hate [name of artist], don't you?" don't hold water.</ref> And if that wasn't enough, exacerbating the issue even more is that if the article is [[WP:AfD|nominated for deletion]], performing [[WP:BEFORE|the relevant pre-checks for sources online]] is made extremely difficult by the fact that, ''by definition'', no genuine search term exists.

 

 

==Other applications==

==See also==

*[[WP:CRYSTAL|Wikipedia is not a crystal ball]]

 

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