Talk:Ross (1983 album)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 13:59, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Needs major cleanup
There are so many non-neutral, unsourced POV statements here, needs a major fix. I'll try and get to it later today. Gusworld (talk) 21:58, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I've had a first pass at it, removing all the speculative and non-sourced stuff and adding a few chart positions. Gusworld (talk) 05:00, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Unsourced speculation
An IP editor restored this paragraph from an earlier version: "Marred by a poor selection of first singles with the exotic, "Pieces of Ice", the album remains one of the most controversial in her body of work. It has been rumored that it was once a double album. That is hard to envision considering that the album clocks in just a little over 30 minutes. A better selection would have been "Let's Go Up" coupled with a great performance of the song during her Central Park concert and then on Tonight Show a few days later."

None of this is encyclopedic content, hence its removal. A reliably sourced reference to the notion that this was conceived as a double album would certainly be interesting, but I'm not aware of that fact showing up in any properly-researched Ross or Motown reference work. The opinion on single selection is just that -- an opinion -- and not notable unless it can be sourced to a reliable critic. Gusworld (talk) 05:53, 5 January 2011 (UTC)