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Gwen Stefani

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The result was: not scheduled by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:37, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

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Gwen Stefani (born 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and actress. She is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band No Doubt. During the band's hiatus, Stefani embarked on her solo career, releasing her debut album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004. Inspired by music of the 1980s, the album was a success with sales of over seven million copies. It spawned three major hit singles: "What You Waiting For?," "Rich Girl," and "Hollaback Girl," the latter becoming the first US digital download to sell one million copies. Stefani's second studio album The Sweet Escape was released in 2006. The album produced two successful singles: "Wind It Up" and the album's title track "The Sweet Escape." Including her work with No Doubt, Stefani has sold more than thirty million albums worldwide. As a solo artist, Stefani has won several music awards, including one Grammy Award, one World Music Award, one American Music Award, and one Brit Award. In 2003, she debuted her clothing line L.A.M.B. and expanded her collection with the 2005 Harajuku Lovers line, drawing inspiration from Japanese culture and fashion. Stefani performs and makes public appearances with four back-up dancers known as the Harajuku Girls. She married British musician Gavin Rossdale in 2002 and they have three sons. Billboard magazine ranked Stefani the fifty-fourth most successful artist and thirty-seventh most successful Hot 100 artist of the 2000s. VH1 ranked her thirteenth on their "100 Greatest Women in Music" list in 2012.
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 * Main editors:
 * Promoted: 10 June 2007
 * Reasons for nomination: 46th birthday
 * Support as nominator.  Frankie talk 22:14, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment Has a big red cross on Dweller's list. I can see quite a few bare urls still in the references as well as a deadlink. &#8209; iridescent 07:55, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support: a talented artist that produced many fine songs, along with her band of course. I'm not sure that lead image does her justice though. Praemonitus (talk) 20:18, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Promoted in 2007, and it shows. Problems include: unnecessary linking in lead; uncited statements in texts including several at paragraph ends; overlong citation strings; mixing "Gwen" and "Stefani" in the text; lots of examples of clumsy prose, e.g. "Stefani possesses a mezzo-soprano", "Stefani stated that she was heavily invested in the relationship...", "Rossdale remains Daisy's godfather and has a somewhat friendly relationship with her" (what the hell does that mean?). I could go on.... In short, the "big red cross" looks well founded, and this shouldn't be TFA without a great deal of prior work. Brianboulton (talk) 13:37, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Withdraw: Whoa! I didn't really look at the article just found that bronze star on the top of this article so I thought to give it a go. After the above comments, I looked at the article, which is in uh .. poor shape. I don't know if there is withdrawal process in TFA, but I think it needs to be closed and be substituted with a better candidate. --  Frankie talk 18:42, 30 August 2015 (UTC)