Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of best-selling music artists/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was not promoted by Giants2008 18:19, 23 June 2011 [1].

List of best-selling music artists edit

Nominator(s): TGilmour (talk) 20:59, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because I'm sure it meets the criteria. It is fraught with reliable sources, etc. TGilmour (talk) 20:59, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Quick comments
- needs consistency in capitalisation, e.g. "Heavy Metal" or "heavy metal" or "Heavy metal"?

Fixed. TGilmour (talk) 13:38, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- Clumsy sentences like "online certification-publishing covers certifications issued since 1997, however there is evidence of earlier certifications" – should be avoided.
- What does "Country of origin" means? Boney M. for example are Jamaicans/Aruban, but their records were recorded in Germany by German producers.

It means the place where the band was formed. TGilmour (talk) 13:38, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- In the references, I see a lot of overlinking (IFPI for example) and written in italicface, which is false (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry — Switzerland for example); also since when has Hung Medien anything to do with IFPI? I see no language, format parameters (62 for example); how reliable is about.com; spaced m-dashes are false, see also WP:MDASH and WP:NDASH, choose between spaced n-dash or unspaced m-dash; some genres should be wikilinked, e.g. "Mariachi"--♫Greatorangepumpkin♫_{Share–a–Power}^{[citation needed]} 10:08, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Mainly because none of this is your work. My friend Harout is the editor who basically watched over and crafted this page, so I don't understand why an editor who is basically unaffiliated with the page is nominating his work? Also, this page is not stable, as it is still going through extensive changes. Since you nominated, 20,000 bits of information was added (in only 2 days), leading me to believe its not a stable article, possibly due to te fact that the main contributor is not aware of this nomination.--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 07:13, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment TGilmour, your eight edits to this list barely register you in the top 250 contributors. Have you notified at least the top six contributors (of whom Harout has made well over one thousand edits to this list) of this nomination? I'll be withdrawing it unless I see some assurance that the major contributors are in agreement with this nom. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:42, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi RM. I actually had a conversation with Harout regarding this. In short, this nomination was started without consent or prior knowledge from any of the article's top contributors. This editor seems to either not understand the blatant disrespect of trying to pass someone elses own work as your own, or doesn't care. I second the withdrawal.--CallMeNathan • Talk2Me 21:41, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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