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Music

I think some word about Fabrizio De André are due, the most prominent cantautore of his era... 93.148.52.88 (talk) 06:55, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree 100%. JacktheBrown (talk) 04:32, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Length

At over 23k words of readable prose, this article is too long to read comfortably. It would be beneficial to condense and/or migrate content to subarticles to make this one more readable. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:35, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion the article is not too long. The topic is really very complex and multifaceted, and a detailed article is needed to have a complete treatment. --LukeWiller (talk) 17:20, 28 June 2023 (UTC).[reply]

I appreciate that that might be your opinion, but that doesn't outweigh WP:TOOBIG. Complex and multifaceted topics are meant to be – and in many cases are – covered by summary style articles with more detailed child articles expanding on subtopics. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:24, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if it would be helpful if we establish a word count goal for getting this page under control.

At present it is, IMHO, too long by half and also reads more like a compendium than an actual synthesis. If we want a strong, synthetic "Culture of Italy" article, it must do something the child articles don’t. Trimming the word count only gets us part of the way there.

In any event, the Very long template should not be removed without discussion here.

Vineviz (talk) 15:35, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. The current length of >17,000 words is still excessive given that most sections should be concisely summarizing their "main article" content. Vineviz (talk) 01:24, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Vineviz: I propose splitting the final part of the Music sub-section, and the Media section. JacktheBrown (talk) 19:59, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

BE and AE (important)

This article is a mess of British and American English, let's find consistency. JacktheBrown (talk) 11:22, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]