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Can you help me with Oasis worldwide sales please ?.
I think the band should be added to the list of artists selling £75 million copies. I know they have passed the mark or they are very very very close to it' can you help me out with this please ? I would really appreciate it.

Kind Regards 80.233.28.228 (talk) 14:36, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Spamming in Malayalam Wikipedia
Hello. I found that you are an admin in Malayalam Wikipedia. I would like to bring something to your attention. Can you take a look at. This is not a notable person and they have been spamming in English wikipedia for a long time. More details found out at Sockpuppet investigations/SuhailShaji786. When they found that they cannot create a promotional article in English wikipedia, they have entered the Malayalam wikipedia. Please take the necessary action. Thank you 111.92.118.26 (talk) 14:14, 27 July 2023 (UTC)


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D.S. (song)
Looking for a bit of help on this revision. Your edit was reverted, with a rather silly claim of "eyeing legal action". Would you take a look at the page and the reversion of your action?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=D.S._(song)&action=history CMacMillan (talk) 15:46, 23 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I have reverted your edits. I think you are confused between a civil case and a criminal case. You cannot settle a criminal case out of court. Why are you editing the page without being logged in, and commenting here when you are logged in? TheWikiholic (talk) 18:09, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Album certifications
Hi, I have a question and would love your opinion. I’ve noticed you’ve done this before. But I’m in a dispute with an editor regarding album/single certifications, if an album has a ref with its sales but the cert was updated after the article was published what is supposed to be in the box? this user reverted it by bringing up a discussion I opened over 3 years ago regarding this type of issue. Majority of the time I’ve seen most users remove the sales after an updated cert is released due to it being "outdated". I opened a discussion here but they’re insinuating that I’m wrong. I would like to get an opinion from you if you’re able to please. Pillowdelight (talk) 23:41, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

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Oasis have passed the 75 million record sales to be added to the greatest list of selling artists page ?.
Hi can you add Oasis to this list please ? Thanks 178.167.197.27 (talk) 00:30, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Can you add Sam Smith is the best selling artist list
Sam Smith is suggesting over 280M records sold, their past 100M in WW units

USA🇺🇸:65,500,000 UK🇬🇧:26,300,000 Australia🇦🇺:6,405,000 Canada 🇨🇦: 2,040,000 New Zealand 🇳🇿:472,500 Denmark 🇩🇰:2,095,000 Mexico 🇲🇽:1,140,000 Italy 🇮🇹:1,125,000 France 🇫🇷:1,500,000 Norway 🇳🇴: 1,930,000 Germany 🇩🇪: 4,250,000 Sweden 🇸🇪: 1,175,000

Total: 113,932,500 HengeBoy (talk) 17:35, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

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 * hi, sorry to bother you but klete keller has been vandalized once again, the short description. no consensus at all. numerous discussions have proven convicted felon is a contentious label and should never be used in a blp description. also there is active edit warring with a long time established user SamX. thanks.
 * hi, sorry to bother you but klete keller has been vandalized once again, the short description. no consensus at all. numerous discussions have proven convicted felon is a contentious label and should never be used in a blp description. also there is active edit warring with a long time established user SamX. thanks.

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Mamidala Yashaswini Reddy
It's not clear what you thought you were achieving by dicking around with Mamidala Yashaswini Reddy and Yashaswini Reddy Mamidala. I see zero support for your actions on Merging. The main result appears to be a degradation of the article, insofar as the article title now disgrees with the infobox title. All told, deeply unhelpful. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:28, 4 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Can you please explain this edit of yours? You should have at least referred to the edit history of both pages to know which one was created first. We usually merge or redirect newly created pages to the existing page. TheWikiholic (talk) 05:23, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * You have created the article with the title Yashaswini Reddy Mamidala and I have started the article with the title Mamidala Yashaswini Reddy. I have started the article since I was not aware that a article was already started earlier but pointing the fact that my article was supported with more references than yours. Since the correct title was to be Mamidala Yashaswini Reddy (that is created by me) after the merge was performed by Tagishsimon, I made a redirect on your article since your title was not in the right format.
 * You have now made the entire merger process complicated by moving my original Mamidala Yashaswini Reddy to a draft with a wrong title that you initially created and remerging into the article created by you with moving the wrong title of yours to the correct title again which was not needed since the redirect was already properly performed to the correct title bearing article and references. 456legend  (talk) 07:46, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Assuming good faith, I take your argument that you are not aware of the existing page when you create a new page of the same subject.
 * But once you became aware of the existing page, instead of redirecting the newly created page of yours and changing the title according to the most reliable sources, you redirected the existing page to the newly created page of yours. TheWikiholic (talk) 14:39, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Modi
Whatever Modi's past role may have been, it does not justify him being placed in the IPL parent category. You are evidently looking at this through the wrong end of the telescope. The real purpose of categories in any system, not just this site, is to provide users with a means of navigation. Site editors must therefore decide what goes into a category on the basis of that category's purpose, not on the basis of connectivity (although, obviously, that must also exist). If the latter applied, there would be tens of thousands of articles in the IPL category and how would that help the readers? Modi, like all the teams, their owners, their players, their venues, etc. belongs in a suitable sub-category. I'll leave it alone for now, though, and let you think about it. Batagur baska (talk) 15:03, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

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bestselling artists
Can you give a reason for reverting my edit on the page List of bestselling artists? Phạm Huy Thông (talk) 15:59, 5 January 2024 (UTC)


 * The recent certification of Whitney is mostly streaming generated and cant be consider as sales TheWikiholic (talk) 16:45, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Lady gaga certifications
Why the certifications in Spain for Lady gaga are never added to the list of best-sellin music artist, while the other artists are always added?LilTrilly (talk) 14:03, 29 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Can you please share her missing certifications (including their previous certification levels) one by one with their certified units and sources? TheWikiholic (talk) 14:58, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The list is in the talk page of the list of best selling music artists. I'll work later on the certification when I am back home, and write on the same page. LilTrilly (talk) 15:50, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Sources are all in the talk page of the list of best-selling music artists. LilTrilly (talk) 18:22, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Oasis worldwide sales
Hello how are you doing ?. Looking at Oasis worldwide sales I am sure that they have passed the 75 million records sales mark. Can you look at this for me please ?. Regards 31.200.185.178 (talk) 20:37, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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Fearless (Taylor Swift album)
"The first week of sales for each album is important" is this a guide written anywhere or is it something you came up with? Not to mention this fact's awkward placement disrupts the flow of the topic sentence (originally: ""). Ippantekina (talk) 04:49, 2 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I would like to add that I was the one who brought this article to GA, FA, and GT if that should make a difference. Ippantekina (talk) 04:49, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * See the page is a standalone article of an album, and the commercial performance of that album is important in its own right. USA is the world's biggest market in the world and debuting it atop of bb200 chart by selling "xyz" numbers of copies is very significant. That her recent albums sold more have no role in the performance of this specific album. TheWikiholic (talk) 13:21, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Michael Jackson certifications
Jackson was just certified for 2.4 million units in single certifications in the UK with I Want You Back and Bad, his total should be 291 million

https://x.com/Pierpinto/status/1791513663699841336

UK Certifications Dated: May 17 2024 Never17 (talk) 19:11, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia best selling artists
We have more recent sources that can be used for Michael Jackson and the Beatles

Michael Jackson

Yahoo 2024 (May) - 500 Million records worldwide

Yahoo 2024 (February) - over 500 Million records worldwide

The latter was before his page was officially changed to 500 million, meaning it couldn't have been piggybacked.

Sony Music also came out and revealed his real sales figures, and put them at 500 million records rather than the 750 million or 1 billion that's been claimed in the past as evident by this physical plaque citing "Highest selling recording artist of all time, for sales of over 500 million"

An Epic in-house presentation award presented to Michael Jackson as the highest selling recording artist of all time for selling more than 500 million

The Beatles

NME 2024 - over 500 Million records worldwide

IheartRadio 2024 - over 500 Million records worldwide

For the Beatles the sources came at a time when we still had them listed at 600 million, so this couldn't have been piggybacked from us either

Never17 (talk) 22:46, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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List of music artists by net worth
Hi, could you please verify Jackson's networth data? If there was a higher estimated before, or after, by Forbes? You might also suggest overall improvements to the list. Thanks, --Apoxyomenus (talk) 16:54, 3 June 2024 (UTC)


 * In 2018, Forbes reported that Michael Jackson's total career pretax earnings, both in life and posthumously, amounted to $4.2 billion. However, aside from this report, I have not seen any estimates of Jackson's net worth exceeding $350 million during his lifetime, even though he claimed it was over a billion dollars in the television special "Living with Michael Jackson" with Martin Bashir.
 * I believe the figures provided by Yahoo regarding Jackson's net worth are significantly underestimated and not well-researched. They seem to confuse the value of Jackson's name and likeness with the subject of the case between the Jackson estate and the IRS. According to Billboard, People magazine, and Rolling Stone, the estate is worth over $2 billion. The estate has earned more than $2.7 billion as of 2023, and according to multiple sources, his Mijac catalog is valued between $1.2 billion and $2 billion.1, 2 Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that his estate is worth over $2 billion. TheWikiholic (talk) 01:09, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

bestselling artists
Hello TheWikiholic...

I have noticed some missing Irish certs for Beyonce.

1)B'Day x3plat 2006

The Irish Charts - All there is to know

2)I Am.. Sasha Fierce x2plat 2008

The Irish Charts - All there is to know

3)4  1xplat 2011

The Irish Charts - All there is to know

4)Beyonce  gold 2013

The Irish Charts - All there is to know

Also

Danish Certs:

Cowboy Cater gold

COWBOY CARTER | IFPI

Canada certs

II MOST WANTED  gold

Gold/Platinum - Music Canada

Sorry to bother/burden you with this. I would try to do it myself but don't want to mess things up.

Many thanks

Koppite1 (talk) 19:25, 18 July 2024 (UTC)