Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/U2 record sales


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete. Jayjg (talk) 00:19, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

U2 record sales

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This article is essentially a list of information that is also found and made available through U2 discography; it serves no real purpose. MelicansMatkin (talk, contributions) 22:04, 20 October 2009 (UTC) I disagree. There are many U2 fans out there that want to see sales information for their country, or for a specific record, or for things other than albums. This is not well represented in U2 discography, and the by-country list is not there at all. I created this article because the information was not available in U2 discography. I refer you to similar articles: The Beatles' record sales,Records and achievements of Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley hit albums, Elvis Presley hit singles. Granted, some of these other articles have citation issues, but the desire to get accurate sales and certification information for a mega-selling artist, by album, by country, and in total, is valid. LaurenceDunne (talk) 22:47, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is beyond unnecessary. This type of information should be summarized in the discography article, not broken out like an essay of original research. And just because this article is useful doesn't mean it justifies its existence (e.g. WP:Useful). Y2kcrazyjoker4 (talk) 03:44, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete this, merge some of it to U2 discography where feasible. I think this is a good faith effort and I don't see any essay or original research in it.  However, it's too much detail and doesn't merit an article separate from the regular discography.  The Beatles and Michael Jackson examples are different cases, as they are listing chart and sales records; U2 isn't big enough selling to have any of those kinds of records.  The Elvis articles are also different in that he's got a really long and complex discography that's difficult to present easily, especially in the 1950s when there were many different kinds and makers of charts and he was on all of them.  Wasted Time R (talk) 03:54, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - I see that the article has many good intentions. I started to fix the internal links until i realised just how many there are needing to be fixed. The organisation could be better, say by country alphabetically and then within each country to list releases chronologically. The cited examples by the article creator of like articles are not of a similar nature to this article. By its design this article has the potential to grow, not only with future releases by U2, but by adding in sales for every country. The article size is already 44kb. I can see this growing so large as to need to break it down into smaller articles, by say continents, and that seems excessive. Most people read the album or single article. Merging the data into those articles would be a more user friendly presentation of the data in the U2 record sales article. The claim in the lead paragraph that herein are reliable stats implies that other stated sales stats, including those in Wikipedia's other articles, are unreliable.  delirious  &amp;  lost  ☯ TALK  04:47, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.