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Beyoncé Knowles discography

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I don't see 3 million in the reference. Am I missing something? Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 07:09, 31 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you for your contribution to this list, but unfortunately it doesn't conform with the list's source. While your edits may reflect more up-to-date figures, as the article says, "This is the list of the top 100 best-selling music artists in the United States only...based on certifications of albums by the RIAA." Figures in the article must conform to that source ([1]).

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  Refrain from moving Beyonce upwards at the List of best-selling music artists as you have repeatedly done in a period of three hours. Let me inform you that all artists at the List of best-selling music artists are required to have certain amount of certified sales. That information you can find in the second box from the top at Talk:List of best-selling music artists. That said, Beyonce has begun charting in 2003, therefore, her claimed figures must be supported by 64.8% certified sales, which means that her current available certified sales of 55.7 million can only support claimed figures as high as 85.9 million (that is singles, albums, videos combined). Also, I'm not sure where you got the 168 million claimed figure in this edit of yours as none of your provided sources (1, 2) claims any such figure. I must warn you that by doing that, you have violated WP:Disruptive editing.--Harout72 (talk) 02:59, 13 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

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  Please do not add or change content, as you did to Drunk in Love, without verifying it by citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. STATic message me! 01:22, 20 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

unsourced and inflated award counts

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If you inflate the award count in List of awards and nominations received by Beyoncé again, you will be immediately blocked from editing. If you believe that figure to be even remotely true, be prepared to provide individual citations for each of 533 wins and 721 nominations.—Kww(talk) 01:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

The number of awards won by the artist was more than 174 before the addition of Destiny's Child awards were added months ago. Secondly, many of the awards by the individual artist listed includes awards won by Destiny's Child. The number of awards is no where near inflated and both of us are just as capable of providing sources to each award. You're welcome to change it back to 533 if you'd like, if not, I will.

There are, at this moment, 174 cited wins for Beyonce and precisely zero properly cited wins for Destiny's Child. Feel free to add properly cited wins to the awards article and adjust the count accordingly. If you change the count to mismatch with the citations, you will be blocked.—Kww(talk) 01:43, 16 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

If this is the way you're using to edit the page, there are numerous other "awards won by" pages with no cited sources to accumulate for every award. Ironically, the Wikipedia page "List of awards and nominations received by Destiny's Child" has been all of a sudden removed.

It contained not a single citation to support any of its claims. The information it had is available in the history: if you want to find citations to support any of the information, the parts supported by the citations can be restored.—Kww(talk) 02:02, 16 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
More generally: do not add any unsourced claims to the article. Not one. It's covered by WP:BLP and unsourced claims are not allowed.—Kww(talk) 02:06, 16 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

It is very difficult to edit a page when each edit is being reverted as I complete them, including one's with cited sources.

I reverted myself after you added the citation. Don't add material in the wrong order: citations need to be added before or with the material, not after.—Kww(talk) 03:06, 16 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

Will other pages similar to the one in discussion be edited too?

I've only recently become aware of what cesspits these articles have become. I haven't gotten to all of them yet, but if you look at my contribution history you will see that Beyonce is not being singled out.—Kww(talk) 03:31, 16 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Please use full citations on articles. Beyoncé is a good article and so its requirements for properly cited material are high. Placing a URL, however correct, between two ref tags is not an appropriate method of citing articles. The drop-down Templates box (below the bold and italic buttons) provide the best method of citing websites, news articles, books and journals. If you fill in the fields on that template it produces a full citation which can be used in the article. If you have any further problems with this, I'd be happy to help--drop me ma message. Best of luck, —JennKR | 23:26, 30 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

You used bare URLs in your edits on Lana Del Rey discography‎ and Born to Die (Lana Del Rey album)‎. Please read WP:CITE to learn how to properly cite sources. Littlecarmen (talk) 12:58, 29 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

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The content was definitely sourced.

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Of greater concern than your adding information without sourcing is your adding content that looks like it sourced but is not - you edited the sentence "Throughout a career spanning 17 years, she has won 17 Grammy Awards and sold over 75 million records as a solo artist" to read "Throughout a career spanning 17 years, she has won 17 Grammy Awards and sold over 118 million records as a solo artist" and cited it to https://music.yahoo.com/blogs/music-news/chart-watch-oh-lorde-she-hot-211631968.html, which says this and only this about record sales as a solo artist: "Beyonce this week tops the 15 million mark in album sales as a solo artist." Can you explain this change? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:38, 21 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

I used this source because it was used one other time on this page for the same information. 75 million is definitely discrediting majority of Beyonce's career sales, as she was certified for having sold over 130 million records in 2007, which does not include record sales from her third studio album (2008), fourth studio album (2011), and fifth studio album (2013). This is not my first time editing this part of her information as I am positive it is inaccurate.

It doesn't matter if you are positive it is inaccurate; what matters is that you cite a reliable sources that verifies the figure you place. Citing sources misleadingly is vandalism on Wikipedia and likely to get your account disabled permanently. You've been warned about this before. If it happens again, you may be indefinitely blocked without further warning.
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Yes, I understand that and I appreciate your help, however this is not my first time having to edit the amount of records Beyonce has sold throughout her career, and these edits have always been reverted, even with a creditable, accurate source. I'm aware there is a specific person who covers artists' record sales, however the particular user has discredited Beyonce for years on her Wikipedia page about the amount of records she's sold, as well as on the "Best-selling artists of all time" Wikipedia page. He/she has continuously listed her as having only sold 75 million records, and there are multiple sources, many of which I've provided in the past, that have been reverted and ignored. Is there anything I can do?

Yes, dispute resolution sets out several approaches you can take. It requires demonstrating to the wider community that the source you have is reliable and that the content is therefore appropriate to include. I see that you have tried reaching out to the editor, but that he removed your question without response, apparently because he didn't like where you put it. That's unfortunate. It would have been more civil and useful for him to answer you, or at least explain where to get an answer. There is a discussion at Talk:List_of_best-selling_music_artists#Beyonce_with_180m-records.3F.3F.3F. You can join it, with your source, to explain why you think the revised figure is correct. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:10, 27 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Please stop using Wikipedia to promote a saying you've coined. Acroterion (talk) 04:17, 28 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

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January 2016

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  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to introduce inappropriate pages to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. If you need guidance on how to create appropriate pages, try using the Article Wizard. Acroterion (talk) 04:19, 28 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Don't make things up and try to promote them here. Acroterion (talk) 04:20, 28 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Made up? This is information taken from Harvard and Billboard. Do a little more research before deleting a page. A simple Google search of "pulling a beyonce" will help you immensely.

http://www.studlife.com/cadenza/music/2015/09/14/why-more-artists-are-pulling-a-beyonce-and-what-this-means-for-the-music-industry/ http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/the-power-of-the-secret-album-323#axzz3yVavsyxw http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6188436/weird-al-yankovic-beyonce-mandatory-fun http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6289287/taylor-swift-would-never-pull-a-beyonce http://music.cbc.ca/#!/blogs/2015/3/Pulling-a-Beyonce-how-surprise-albums-are-making-release-dates-obsolete

Writing an article that appropriately summarizes sources rather than quotefarming would help yours. The Billboard article isn't so bad, but you've got a long way to go before this becomes a usable article. Please use your sandbox to write an encyclopedic article, rather than a collection of glowing quotes. I realize you're a fan, but please take a step back and write dispassionately. Then an article might be appropriate. Acroterion (talk) 04:30, 28 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
It was equally deletable for excess reliance on copyrighted content and for promotion. Encyclopedia articles shouldn't read like a Yelp review. See if you can write and article in your sandbox that summarizes the concept from a couple of good sources and relates it to other artists, rather than making it a paean to Beyonce. As I stated before, it looks to me like it might merit brief mention in the article on the album (which album?). I don't see that it can sustain its own article, probably just a redirect to the album article. Not all phrases are notable, but I'm willing to be convinced by a well-written article. Acroterion (talk) 04:44, 28 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
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No Billboard chart positions have been added before official sources are available.

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If I'm being blocked due to the simple fact I know how to count then that is a problem with Wikipedia and not the user itself. Ridiculous. Gaknowitall (talk) 19:14, 19 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

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That's not how it works. An Eminem song is "Beyoncé's thirteenth top ten song in Australia as a solo artist"? Who says it's Beyoncé's song at all, you? Who says providing some vocals for another artist's song is the work of a "solo artist", you? Given your probelms with sourcing going back years, you've been dealt with extremely leniently. Personally I'd have blocked you indefinitely. Huon (talk) 19:33, 19 November 2017 (UTC)Reply


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  Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at Perfect (Ed Sheeran song).

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  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Beyoncé discography. You might have a source for the UK chart crediting Beyoncé, but these do not exist for the Australian, German and Irish charts. The only webpages that exist for these charts are those published by the chart companies saying "after Beyoncé's version was released, the song topped the chart", not that her version topped the chart. If you continue to revert and restore this, you will be reported for breaking WP:3RR. Ss112 08:34, 10 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

  Your editing on Perfect (Ed Sheeran song) has become disruptive. Take any content disputes to the talk page. This should be regarded as a Final Warning. -Ad Orientem (talk) 21:12, 11 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

 
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  Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at Beyoncé discography.

If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Ss112 08:33, 20 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

"A quick look at literally any collaboration certification on this page", you say? Well, I did just that. It appears you're the one who didn't take a quick look:
Just to name a few. Ss112 08:51, 20 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
Per your edit to the UK Christmas number-ones page, try to avoid using tabloid sources (The Sun). You also found a BBC reference, which if you read further than its edited headline, actually says "chart rules mean Beyonce is denied a credit on the Christmas number one, with Sheeran's original counted as the lead track." Publications can't really invent a credit that the Official Charts Company does not use does not use in its article (all this notes is that sales of both versions counted towards the total) or on the official chart listing. I have now added a note which states that sales of versions featuring Beyonce and Andrea Bocelli counted towards the total, which is what we should specify. This article uses what the OCC lists first and foremost. Please do not edit war if you disagree, as you have been blocked for this before and an admin has warned you about; take it to the talk page. Thank you. Ss112 10:31, 24 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

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  You have a long track record of adding unsourced material to articles despite multiple warnings and blocks. If this continues you will be on the receiving end of a long term block. If I had seen this edit yesterday, you would already be blocked. No further warnings on this subject will be forthcoming. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:19, 15 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

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This has gone on long enough. If you persist in this behavior after your current block expires, your next one is going to be indefinite. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:56, 19 September 2018 (UTC)Reply
 
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You're right, this has gone on long enough. Your threats of blocking will simply not change the fact that I have been correct, with sources, all along. In the most recent example, a swift look at literally any other featured songs listed with a RIAA certification will clearly suggest that no featured artist on any song, including those on this very Wikipedia page, are listed on RIAA certifications

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yet have been allowed. This is because the label that pays for certification rights in the US are from the label the song was released by only, not the featured artists'. It is beyond ridiculous that instead of simply fact checking, you have blocked me from editing when the two reports come from long biased, anti-Beyoncé users, and that the issue remains with the same two particular songs in which Beyoncé is credited on in the US. If I am indefinitely blocked for this same invalid reason, I have no issue using other accounts with a different IP address. See you on October 19! Gaknowitall (talk) 04:18, 19 September 2018 (UTC)}}Reply

"I'm right and they are wrong" is not an acceptable excuse for disruptive editing. And posting a direct threat to engage in sockpuppetry and IP block evasion is absolutely unacceptable. I require that you retract that threat unreservedly or I will block you indefinitely. We have no use here for editors who show that kind of contempt for the community and its rules. And for the record it takes only three clicks for me to protect pages from socking and IP block evasion. I advise you to take a deep breath and think carefully before you post your reply. You are sailing dangerously close to a lee shore. -Ad Orientem (talk) 20:21, 19 September 2018 (UTC)Reply
I have not seen any reply to my last message so as much as I dislike ultimatums I am giving one now. You have 24 hrs to retract your threat to evade any block and promise w/o reservation that you will not do so and that when your current block expires you will refrain from further disrupting editing of the sort that has lead to the current situation. Failing which, your block will be made indefinite until those conditions are met. -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:54, 20 September 2018 (UTC)Reply
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