Hello, I'm a Wikipedia contributor from Lithuania interested in music history and biography articles. I like listening to Easy Listening music and also reading/writing.
I edit on Wikipedia mainly because I want to preserve music history and show more information to people interested in these topics.
I really dislike articles which are just an infobox and like 3 sentences, (most of the time just stubs). So since July of 2025 I've been trying to make them at least have an "Overview" section, and a "Background" section too, and sometimes a separate chart table if needed. Here are some examples you can see,
The main bold goal I have is to note that an album charted. Either on the discography page, album article, or the singer's article. Now that includes all charting album from 1945-1972, that charted on the Billboard Top LPs. This information will be from Whitburn's chart book. Also, sometimes I will add Cashbox chart data.(references for later[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]).
This, of course, will take a long time, but I want for people to see if an album charted or didn't, because a lot of the charting information isn't shown, so people just think that the album didn't chart/wasn't a success, which can be very false.
As of October 7th I completed 32/160 pages, (about 20%). Also a note, I will not add charting album info for bands/singers who don't have a Wikipedia page, (since where would I add the info?) unless there is another way too add them, for example, a singer who was in a band, but the band doesn't have an article, so I'll add it to his page. A couple more things of how I'm doing this:
1. If the charting album has an article. I'll add the chart info, reference, and table chart to its page.
2. If the charting album does NOT have an article, the chart info and reference goes to the discography article/singer's main article
3. If a chart table exists but lacks a reference, I will add a proper citation. The same applies to discography pages.
There was another music magazine if you, the reader didn't know, named Cash Box, Billboard overshadowed it, and to this day does, for good reason. So an article may show that a thing charted the Billboard, but not on Cashbox, where it could’ve charted even better. The same applies to Record World, but the book with the information for that actually costs money, and isn't widely sold so that's for later, almost no articles show Record World charts, with the main exception being Connie Francis ones, where I try to include Record World charts, from her discography page. But I can find post '64 chart info from Record World via the magazines, which are saved on WorldRadioHistory.com, same for Cash Box and Billboard, (for those two post '44).
I also assess discography articles, and make some better. Out of 1,200+ unassessed discography articles, I've assessed all of them, (September 24th). I will be assessing other articles from now on.
Done
In progress