Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of best selling female musicians

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The result of the debate was Delete. Woohookitty 9 July 2005 06:11 (UTC)

List of best selling female musicians
The current article is awful, not listing any sources whatever and just presenting a list as a fait accompli. That in itself is not sufficient reason to delete. However, the impossibility of creating an accurate list (let alone keeping it up to date) precludes this from ever becoming a useful article. Please refer to the Biggest-selling female musician article, and you will find that it is not even clear who should be number one on any such list, with at least five possible contenders! Compiling an accurate list of the top 10 bestsellers while it is so contentious as to who should occupy the number one slot (and this is not a dispute that is easy to resolve, depending greatly on both the definitions and sources being used) is simply impossible. If anything, the article ought to be replaced with a redirect to Biggest-selling female musician. I do not see that an accurate and verifiable list can ever be produced. --TheGrappler 30 June 2005 23:11 (UTC)


 * Delete. There are no references to back up these number. Record sales numbers are notoriously unreliable, as they mostly come from the record labels' marketing departments. Additionally, there are no links to this page. Pburka 30 June 2005 23:22 (UTC)


 * DELETE NOW. This is just a lame attempt by the fans of particular artists to make their artist seem as the best selling. No sources have been provided and the record numbers are grossly exaggerated. 69.196.65.35


 * Keep, expand and remove numbers, except 1,10,20 etc.. - Vorash 4 July 2005 19:19 (UTC)
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