Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Best Selling Female Recording Artist Ever


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 14:46, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

The Best Selling Female Recording Artist Ever


An article on the same topic was deleted in February (see Articles for deletion/Best-selling female singer), but this page isn't a "substantially identical copy" of that one, so I'm listing it here. No vote. Extraordinary Machine 19:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete I don't really see the purpose here and I'm not sure the ref is exactly a WP:RS. Beyond that this is a misnomer.  "The Best Selling Female Recording Artist Ever" isn't a list of 15 performers; by definition it would just be Madonna (if you take the source as WP:RS, though looking at the history the list has changed without the sourcing changing) which could just be served with a redirect if kept.  All in all, it's not well sourced, it's redundant, and even if moved to a namespace that reflected the article content, still doesn't serve much of a purpose.--Isotope23 20:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak delete "Artist" is singular, so why are there a number of artists listed? Edison 21:40, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Following on Edison, "best" and "ever" also imply that this should be a list of one. If it's even encyclopedic enough to do so, at most a line can be added to the Madonna article to the effect that worldmusicawards.com called her the best selling female artist ever (or "OF ALL TIME", if you believe the article or have a crystal ball). Agent 86 00:49, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete echoing all the above. Eusebeus 00:57, 22 November 2006 (UTC)


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