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List of best-selling music artists

Your edits have been reverted once again as the source you provided for artist Pink! contains no total sales figure. Bear in mind that all sources at List of best-selling music artists must be highly reliable sources and must contain sales figures to correspond with the listed estimated sales figures. Also, be informed that certain percentile of certified sales are required for artists begun in different time periods. Those requirements can be found at the top of the discussion page of List of best-selling music artists. That said, it is highly recommended that newer editors try and discuss before editing the article.--Harout72 (talk) 00:47, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Please refrain from listing Pink! with an exaggerated sales figures as it is claimed in this source which you provided and happens to be only weakly reliable. Also, you have already been informed above that all artists on the List of best-selling music artists are required to have certain percentage of certified sales. Pink!, whose available certified sales are only 28.1 million, can be listed on the list with a maximum of some 56 million in claimed figure as she has first charted in 2000. All artists begun charting in 2000 are required to have their claimed figures supported by 50% certified sales. Again, those requirements can be found at the top of the discussion page of List of best-selling music artists.--Harout72 (talk) 04:28, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing, as you did at List of best-selling music artists. Your edits have been reverted once again. Do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively may result in you being blocked from editing.--Harout72 (talk) 15:06, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you disrupt the List of best-selling music artists without trying to engage in a discussion, you will be reported and you may be blocked from editing.--Harout72 (talk) 15:25, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Re: P!nk Sales Figures

Thanks for discussing. Let me first start by saying that at the List of best-selling music artists sources by Record Labels are not accepted. Record Labels quite often tend to inflate sales figures of their artists for promotional/marketing purposes, and that is what those figures are (40 million albums and 65 million singles), promotional figures tossed about to promote possibly P!nk's next material. Besides that we always look for highly reliable sources, all artists at the List of best-selling music artists are required to have certain amount/percentage of certified sales. I tried to explain to you that initially on your talk-page above, but you failed to acknowledge it. See the larger yellow box at the top of Talk:List of best-selling music artists, within you can find the required percentages. P!nk falls into the last category which states Artists begun in 2000 onwards are expected to have their lowest available claimed figures supported by 50-75% certified sales. When editing that article, please consider two things: 1) that your sources are highly reliable, 2) that the sales figures are supported by enough certified sales. Sources would preferably come from news services such as CNN, Fox News, USA today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times etc., or MTV, VH1. I hope my explanation was helpful.--Harout72 (talk) 01:58, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

I strongly suggest you to stop your edit-warring as well as disruptive editing. If you ignore the policy of the article which you have been explained above, you will be taken to ANI the next time you insert P!nk into the list.--Harout72 (talk) 04:09, 9 July 2011 (UTC)