Property “occupation (P106)” declared by target items of “composer (P86)”: If [item A] has this property with value [item B], [item B] is required to have property “occupation (P106)”. (Help)
Latest comment: 11 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Any objections to adding an alias for "songwriter" and making the property encompass popular music more obviously? In other words, what would be the value in separating the property "songwriter" (which would otherwise definitely exist)? It's the value of the property that matters, the concept involved is very similar. Better yet, "Composer or songwriter" as the main label of this property would read better when a page is viewed. Espeso (talk) 04:45, 24 February 2013 (UTC)Reply
"Composer" includes songwriters, see en:Category:Composers by genre. We could put "songwriter" in the AKA field. (Translate "composer and/or songwriter" in 286 languages and discuss 286 times, why songwriters are more important than other composers ... not so good.) --Kolja21 (talk) 00:11, 8 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Why is this restricted to single value? Modern day music can be composed by more than one person. And usually the difference between the composer(s) and the lyricist(s) is unclear and everyone is mentioned as the composer. Mbch331 (talk) 10:21, 15 July 2015 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
This seems to conflate composers of particular works of music with composers of songs within films and other forms of media composition. The constrictions seem to indicate it applies to instances of video game composer, music executive, record producer, singer, and so on. I came across this when I noticed a short film called "All the Boys Are Called Patrick" was listed as composed by Beethoven. Wouldn't it be better to change this to apply strictly to musical compositions? songs within movies, plays, shows, etc. could be "part of" the former and have the composer listed as a qualifier of the song (albeit not necessary as it is attached to the song). AHIOH (talk) 04:25, 6 August 2024 (UTC)Reply