Talk:Backwash

Is it necessary for this (and other Lobby music bands) to have its own page?

Currently, there's been three pages out of twelve made for these bands that are credited with making Splatoon 3's Lobby music, and they're all extremely short since there's hardly any information about these bands whatsoever. They all only have one song each, all share the same album art, and there's absolutely no "lore" or any other external information existing about them as far as I can tell. (Admittedly, that last one may somehow change with the release of Splatune 3, but it seems a bit unlikely to me.)

In my opinion having each band all have their own individual pages seems a bit superfluous, so I wanted to suggest the idea of perhaps moving them all to a single page, like "Minor Bands" or something along those lines, or maybe even just keeping them as unlinked information in the infoboxes on the song pages considering the lack of information on them to write a page about.

Of course, I can already see a potential argument against this idea, since it would involve having to pick somewhere to draw the line with when a band stops counting as "minor", which might seem arbitrary considering most bands in the series only have 2 songs each to begin with, and some even also only have a single song. But in my eyes the determining factor is more in the fact that these bands have no individual "identity" to them -- again, they all have the same album art, and there's no suggestion of them having specific characters acting as band members unlike other bands in the series. Any information that exists about a single Lobby music band is basically exactly the same as every other Lobby music band, it's just "This band has a single song that plays in the Lobby sometimes".
I'm not sure what other people might think about this suggestion but to me I think it would be a bit neater than just having a bunch of nearly empty (and practically impossible to expand) pages for the sake of having nearly empty pages. Pringlesfan2002 (talk) 06:47, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Exactly what i'm thinking as well. They're extremely short and lack any important content. All the pages should be merged, some of the lobby music artists literally share the same album picture. We should do the same thing we did for the Anarchy Poisons. -Random 12:52, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

People keep making these pages and they're still all equally content-free...I was going to try to make an example on my sandbox of what a merged page for each of them could look like, but honestly these Lobby bands in particular are so lacking in any detail I'd hesitate to say that they even need their own page collectively, since even as a group there's extremely little to say about them...They could all honestly work as information that's just unlinked in the song pages, maybe having the band names redirect to the respective songs, since they all only have one each.
Maybe going that far could be extreme, but these are all just going to be a bunch of impossible-to-expand stubs forever if they're left the way they are. I really doubt we'll ever suddenly get enough distinct information about twelve different filler bands that don't even have distinct album art from each other to warrant them each having their own page...
If not my previous idea of a "Minor bands" page that could cause issues with deciding what exactly counts as a "minor" band, maybe just call it something like "Splatoon 3 Lobby bands", to avoid that part of the issue? (And if we were to do something like that, then one could also theoretically argue for making a similar page for the Alterna site music bands that also all only have one song each...though at least those ones all have their own album art, so they're actually clearly distinct from each other in some way and personally I'm not as bothered...) Pringlesfan2002 (talk) 16:37, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

I've made an example on what I believe a merged page should be like on my sandbox, here: User:Randomnamehere/List of Minor Bands for the Splatoon Series. I based the page off of the list for Splatoons' guitarists. These new music pages with no content are bound to be annoying for anyone trying to lower the amount of stub pages on the Inkipedia. -Random 18:50, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

That looks pretty good! Though I still feel that most of the individual sections (at least for the lobby ones) feel a little barebones, it does definitely seem better to have them all together rather than a bunch of separate pages...Maybe it would be possible to add the infobox used on more substantial band pages, though...then there's still nothing to say about most of them, so perhaps that wouldn't really work... (Maybe if the real life musicians get revealed with Splatune 3 or something)
It could be nice to at least have the album art more immediately visible though (...even if all the non-Alterna ones are exactly the same...it would at least be nice for the Alterna bands, I guess) Pringlesfan2002 (talk) 20:05, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Maybe we could make the Lobby bands on one page and the Alterna bands on another. I think that would be the best way to do it. Rat L. Boy (talk) 18:33, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

I think it would be good for just simply all small bands be on one page. Maybe if we get more content about them once the S3 artbook releases in English; they could transform from small bands to bands deserving of their own page. -Random 13:13, 10 April 2023 (UTC)