Talk:John Hiatt discography

• List is missing his 1989 greatest hits album, "Y'all Caught? The Ones That Got Away 1979–1985" I'm too nervous to try to add it, honestly. The coding, etc., is beyond me. Sir Rhosis (talk) 20:29, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Adding a section "Artist's Who Covered John Hiatt"

This is my first time adding content to Wikipedia- please feel free to help. I added songs from one cover album. Next I will clean formatting- put in table of content, make it #4. (Haven't figured out how yet.) Then add other cover albums and go from there. Clarence the Creator (talk) 06:05, 4 December 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clarence the Creator (talk • contribs) 06:19, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Sir Rhosis- thanks for suggestion, and I do intend to add that album. The other album was just my first step. Please feel free to alter mine! If something gets messed up, we or I can always fix it. This is kind of fun- the creation/editing. Clarence the Creator (talk) 06:05, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks, Clarence the Creator, but content should be properly verified--that's first. Second, you put that section in the beginning of the article, but all discographies start with albums. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 06:08, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Drmies- Thanks for feedback. I've got to do some more study to understand what your comments mean practically. 1. I'm not sure what Wikipedia's def'n of "properly verified" is. I thought since I pulled if off the back of an album that anybody can check, that would be sufficient, but apparently there's more to it. 2. I don't know the rules of discographies, but regardless, I didn't want to put it at the top, I think the bottom would be best place, and to get it listed in table of contents- this is what I was referring to above. So that's my next task, I'm working to teach myself how to do that- it's not obvious. Any more feedback is appreciated, and please let me know if I'm "stepping on anybody", that's not my goal. Perhaps that is what sandbox is, to get it cleaned up before posting the first time. Sincerely, Clarence the Creator (talk) 06:19, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

• Clarence the Creator, the thing with verification is for two reasons. a. That we have faith it's correct; b. that we can see it's relevant. Not every single cover version is worth mentioning. For those two reasons, we should go with reliable, secondary sourcing--see WP:V and WP:RS. Discogs, for instance, or other such sites, aren't really helpful here since they (by design) have a tendency to list everything. If someone covers a Hiatt song and that person is notable, and the album on which they release it is notable, that's a pretty good indication that it has encyclopedic relevance--but even then a secondary source is preferable.

  The other thing I would say is that doing this in a table isn't very helpful or necessary. Tables are difficult to manipulate and edit, esp. for non-seasoned editors. I'm sure you found this to be true as well. A bulleted list, for such relatively simple things as "artist, song, album" (which is all you need) is much easier to handle. Thanks, thanks for your contribution, and good luck. Let me know if I can help. Drmies (talk) 17:02, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

• Oh, if all those songs were on one cover album, there is an easier way to do this. I see now that cover albums are already listed in the article, at the bottom--wouldn't it be more fruitful to just write up Rollin' into Memphis: Songs of John Hiatt as a separate article? That's what happened with Love Gets Strange: The Songs of John Hiatt--though that article needs a lot of attention. Drmies (talk) 17:05, 4 December 2019 (UTC)