Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of albums considered the best
There is nothing in the nomination that cannot be easily fixed. These do not appear to me to be "random surveys" or "arbitrary aggregates". (I would really appreciate it if people stick to policy-based terminology and avoid subjective language like this when nominating articles for deletion.) The "Median rank" has to go - that's OR. (Median is a simple calculation, but using it as a basis for rank is OR, and unlikely to be meaningful for any purpose without statistical weighting for any other factors, which we can't do.) But the surveys used are IMO an admirable selection from RS, notable in themselves, though I wish non-English charts were more readily available and better represented here. From , "Compiling related facts and information from independent sources is part of writing an encyclopedia." Where in WP policy or guidelines is it suggested that putting well sourced data in a table is OR? It's done all over WP, and it is not ''per se'' OR. Is there something special about the word "aggregate" that makes this article problematic? "Aggregate means put together. In this case, the data is put together into a table, not combined numerically or in some way that synthesizes new content (except for the mean). I think genre should either be eliminated or disabled as a sortable variable. (No one agrees on what genres even mean, and most of these have several.) Rewrite all of the prose. Don't just say what's wrong with the methodology. There is no methodology to excuse if we use data, as-is, from RS. The methodology is theirs, not ours. Criticize their methodology if appropriate. Use List of films considered the best as a template and fix this article if necessary, but I like it as a sortable table. As a reader, I want this kind of information available in an encyclopedia. Limiting an article to albums that made the top ten of the Billboard 200 is exactly that - limiting. And basing an article on sales does not get to the artistic value of these albums, as determined by very widespread expert opinion, gathered by the various sources. Remember what a hit Macarena and Achy Breaky Heart were? They sold well, but expert polling might not rank them quite so high based on artistic merit. It's a whole different kind of information from sales (and airplay, downloads, streaming, etc.) I do have a lingering concern about copyright though. Are the rankings copyrighted
— User:Dcs002, 10:32, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:OR (Wikipedia:No original research)