Talk:Super Fly (soundtrack)

Spelling of title

The film is at Super Fly (film). I noticed the spelling here was different, and moved it accordingly, but I suspect they should be the same. I would have written it as one word, despite the layout on the promo. Anyway, I think we should be consistent. - Jmabel | Talk 17:57, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I think the two-word layout on the poster is just a style thing. The spine of the soundtrack CD as well as every mention of the title in the track listing and the liner notes are all single-word. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.118.211 (talk) 03:10, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

2004 rolling stone review

Good job Dan56 for cleaning up this article. I've always wanted to tackle it but..I got lazy. :) I removed the 2004 rolling stone review for this article. Only because it was a bit mis-leading. We'd need a page number for that cite to make it anything useful and it made it not clear which review (the original one, or the 2004 one) actually gave the five star rating. To make it more clear later, perhaps in the reception section something about that 5 star review should be added to that section. What does anyone else think? Andrzejbanas (talk) 17:06, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for incorporating the album review into the article, but that was only half the point. With that extra review, that makes 11 reviews in the infobox. That's a bit too many. Also, with that five stars it wasn't clear which review (the 2000's one or the 1970s one) is the 5 star review. The average reader of the article wouldn't know which is which. To make it clear, I've removed the 2004 link from the infobox. I hope there aren't any objections here! Andrzejbanas (talk) 19:25, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

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Y All the start class criteria Y A completed infobox, including cover art and most technical details Y A track listing containing track lengths and authors for all songs Y Categorisation at least by artist and year Y A casual reader should learn something about the album. Cavie78 (talk) 15:05, 6 August 2008 (UTC) Article requirements: Y Start: reasonably complete infobox; lead section with overview of album; track listing; reference to at least primary personnel by name; Categorization by at least artist and year. C: all of start and (1) cover art in infobox; (2) at least one additional section of prose; (3) track lengths & song authors in tracklist; (4) a personnel section including all musicians. B: all of C and (1) most technical details in infobox; (2) technical personnel in personnel section; (3) no obvious issues with sourcing; (4) no obvious issues with readability, though it may not conform completely to style guidelines; (5) no glaring omissions of information (see some suggestions at WP:ALBUM) or extraneous information, like trivia. Higher Classes are not assigned by WikiProject Album. Please review "the perfect article" and, if already B class, consider seeking additional feedback from Wikipedia:Good articles or Wikipedia:Featured articles. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums/Assessment for additional information on article class. To request a reassessment from the Album project, when concerns are addressed, please see "requesting an assessment".

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The result of the move request was: consensus to move the page, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 20:54, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

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Superfly (soundtrack) → Super Fly (soundtrack) – There does seem to be some ambiguity over the title; but this is the name used in a large majority of our sources; and is the name we use for the film this is the soundtrack to. It seems obvious that it should also be the name of this article - I don't think it's supportable to have the film at one name and its soundtrack at the other; unless the sources were overwhelming, which they aren't. TSP (talk) 16:44, 23 January 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. — Zawl 12:47, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Pinging @Walor who made the move to this location and may have views.— Preceding unsigned comment added by TSP (talk • contribs) 16:46, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

• Support does seem to make sense to show some WP:CONSISTENCY, especially given album artwork. In ictu oculi (talk) 13:19, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
• Support move as obviously noncontroversial. ONR (talk) 17:27, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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Drifting towards GAN

I'd like to put this article through GAN once a few more things are cleaned up, but since I'm a relatively new editor, I'd prefer if someone more experienced with eyes on this article could do some proofreading/editing of their own first. The current outstanding issues I am already aware of/addressing are

• Sourcing the chart performance from Billboard archives or similar (WIP, via Wayback Machine or the print archives).

• Most likely needs some more info on the composition. Since it is currently mentioned in the lead that the album was informed both by Mayfield's life experiences and a desire to contrast the sensationalism of the Superfly film, I thought it might be useful to find sources comparing the songs lyrically with how they are used in the film (something I have seen sources doing, but I had not thought to catalog and convert into a section of the article).

RaisedArizona (talk) 12:58, 31 May 2026 (UTC)