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The result of the debate was merge/redirect (someone has done this already; I see no reason why that shouldn't stand -- moving to properly-capitalized title). Mindspillage (spill yours?) 16:08, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Best selling Female artist[edit]

Merge to Mariah Carey if there's anything worthwhile. POV too. Ricky81682 (talk) 23:04, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as information is already effectively covered in Best selling music artists and the redirect seems extremely narrow due to the capitalization. Mr Bound 23:05, May 22, 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. The same editor has apparently created Biggest Selling Female Artist with similar content. Thoughts? --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 02:56, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete both. Vegaswikian 05:39, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and Cleanup, possibly has some potential but the Mariah Carey POV has to go. I would be willing to do this myself over the next few days if editors wish for this article to stay. Turn Biggest Selling Female Artist into a redirect to this article. Megan1967 06:26, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, I personally think the redir to Mariah is silly but I wouldn't oppose it. Radiant_* 11:24, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and allow Megan to cleanup the POV. Kappa 21:50, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, it is inaccurate (according to Best selling music artists) with both Nana_Mouskouri and Madonna ahead of Mariah Carey on the all-time worldwide best selling list. This is clearly POV and inaccurate. Internodeuser 14:06, 24 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Which is a reason to cleanup not delete. Leanne 05:43, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and Cleanup this is really BIZAr article....but i will vote for keeping it ,because its really funny. :))Vorash 20:39, 24 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and cleanup. Leanne 05:43, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete this, which was never finished. But Keep Biggest-selling female musician, which was started by the same person but now presents arguments for all three possible answers. The value of that article is that it isolates this perpetual debate in one place, rather than having it mess up the main articles for the three artists. Why people care so much about this "title" is beyond me, but it's resulted in endless edit battles in the Mariah Carey article and elsewhere. Wasted Time R 10:35, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • The problem with that title is that Wikipedia in many of its articles differentiates between a singer - someone who just sings, and a musician - someone who plays a musical instrument. Since Mariah Carey, Céline Dion, Madonna aren't know for their musicianship and more for their singing, the title is not strictly conforming with other Wikipedia articles. Megan1967 07:14, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • The best title would be the one that's (modulo hyphen) used inside the article, "World's Biggest-Selling Female Recording Artist", since it's records that's being measured, not concert attendance, TV audiences, etc. If Nadja Solerno-Sonnenberg sold 200 million classical violin recordings, she would go on the list too. Wasted Time R 18:45, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and Cleanup, could be made into a useful topic. Iam 06:05, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

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