User talk:Oldwolfcub

James Brown Please Please Please reference for claim of #5 standing on R&B Billboard

http://the60sofficialsite.com/James_Brown.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown http://www.google.ca/search?q=james+brown+please+please+please+history&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=X&tbo=p&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbs=tl:1,tll:1956,tlh:1956&ei=muTZS8ilE4GQsgP9w-B0&oi=toolbelt_timeline_result&resnum=3&ct=timeline-date&ved=0CEUQzQEwAg http://www.classicbands.com/brown.htm

there are more pages that list it as #5 and many that only list it as in the top 10. as a newbie here, I was wondering if this would be better to resolve here then make changes later?

Please, Please, Please
Oldwolfcub,

Thanks for contacting me. The online sources you have cited for the #5 R&B chart ranking for "Please, Please, Please" are pages from commercial fan sites. Their reliability is very questionable as they include no information about their authors and cite no sources for their claims. My source for the #6 R&B chart position is the official discography included in Brown's Star Time box set, which is about as authoritative a source as you can find in the realm of popular culture. It was compiled by Cliff White, a recognized authority on Brown, who won a Grammy award for it. The discography directly cites Billboard magazine and Joel Whitburn's Record Research, Inc. publications as its sources for the chart numbers it contains.

I am changing the number back to #6 in the "Please, Please, Please" article (as well as in the James Brown article). I am also adding inline citations for the chart number. If you find a reliable, authoritative source, preferably one published after 1991, to back up the #5 claim, then you might have grounds for a challenge, but not with the sources you named.

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InnocuousPseudonym (talk) 04:14, 30 April 2010 (UTC)