Talk:Gwen Stefani discography

message: The certifications are as follows
What you aiting for-Platinum
Rich Girl-2x Platinum
Hollaback Girl-5x platinum
Cool-gold
luxurious-gold
wind it up-gold
the sweet escape feat. akon-platinum
for reerence,please visit each songs article page.please do not keep on deleting the above inforrmation from the dicography page.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.18.140.127 (talk) 15:33, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a reference.  To add information to any article, you need to provide a reference.  Please read Wikipedia:Citing sources.  ShadowHalo 15:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

text: No, the red triangle indicates that it has two million points.  It has nothing to do with certification.  ShadowHalo 15:43, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Why?  The world music market article lists Germany as the fourth largest singles market and the Netherlands as number seven.  Neither New Zealand nor Canada are even in the top fifteen.  ShadowHalo 00:58, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

text: The Canadian positions are included, but unsourced, for the albums.  For the singles, Canada doesn't make up a large share of the market, so there's no need to include it.  ShadowHalo 17:51, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Certifications

message: i just saw that this article is going to be deleted because in the discussion,people are saying that Gwen has only one album so the article should be Delted.I think Gwen has two solo albums.Why are they going to delete it.Please see in to this matter ShadowHalo.  User:luxurious.gaurav
:That's an archived discussion, and the article was deleted a long time ago.  It was recreated after Stefani released a second album.  ShadowHalo 19:57, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion

message: I've been searching, but I still can't find any static, reliable reference for The Sweet Escape's sales.  The United World Chart is the closest thing available, but it's useless once the album leaves the chart.  One way to still use it would be through the Wayback Machine, but it hasn't archived the page since March 12, when it hadn't sold 2 million yet.  I would recommend keeping an eye on the page so that it can be used as a reference if it archives the page before The Sweet Escape leaves the chart.  ShadowHalo 23:05, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoops, I mentioned it at the FLC but not here.  I found an archive of the United World Chart, so there's now a permanent link to the first week that it had a triangle for selling 2 million.  ShadowHalo 16:37, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential reference 

message: If you look at MediaTraffic and add up all the points for The Album The Sweet Escpape, it is clearly over 2,950,000 she did not sell 2 million, she sold about 3,000,000
but we can't expect people to add. If u can please provide a proper reliable source which proves your point, then it will be added to the article. Thank You. User:Luxurious.gaurav
This Album has sold 3,7 million, can someone change it, please  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.7.161.51 (talk) 22:13, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Album Sales 

message: According to clickitaliansoftware, The Sweet Escape sold at least 2.9 million. I don't know how reliable this source is, but I noticed an editor has been adding this source in several hip hop discographies. Spellcast 16:03, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I think it's been added to this article at least once, and I've seen the sourced added to other articles as well.  Unfortunately though, clickitaliansoftware is a webhosting service, and the sites on it are self-published.  17Drew 16:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder how the people who run that site come across those numbers. Do they actually claim to receive first hand data or do they just estimate? Spellcast 16:18, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seriously, and it is not just one site. There are tons of such sites and in many pages they are used as sources. And they are used so often, that most of the editors don't doubt their genuineness and feel that these sources are right. Well, i will try my level best to keep the pages on which i work on, free from such sources. Luxurious.gaurav 16:30, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: When it comes to fandom, there's some viral spread for "official" stuff that's otherwise difficult to find, so that the exact same material may be widely reported, but without a single original source to be found that could be cited. Circeus 17:12, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh yes, and there are so many pages where excited fans have put some so called exact "UWC Points" of singles. And when asked for the source of the sales number, they say "Mediatraffic!". I mean, how can we expect people who visit Wikipedia to sit and add every week's points. And it's everywhere. I don't know, but i hate that so much. When i want to pass time, i will make a full list of pages which suffer from this "UWC Points disease". Luxurious.gaurav 17:25, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

text: They probably are.  But worldwidealbums is published through clickitaliansoftware, which allows anyone to create a site.  Self-published sources are not reliable.  17Drew 00:37, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sweet Escape sales

message: It says The Sweet Escape is Platinum, yet there are no results in the RIAA searchable database. Is it possible for an album to be certified without the RIAA listing it in their website? Spellcast 12:56, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh yes, Hollaback Girl never went 5 x Platinum, it is only platinum. Type "Gwen Stefani" in the link provided by Spellcast. i.e searchable database this would lead to revision of all the articles. Luxurious.gaurav 03:14, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, it did go 5x platinum in this RIAA article. But it's not even shown in the searchable database and neither is The Sweet Escape. Spellcast 06:16, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that link. The searchable database is very misleading. Luxurious.gaurav 12:38, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly, but I don't think the article should say the The Sweet Escape is Platinum if it's not recognised by the RIAA. I know it has obviously shipped at least 2 million units because it has sold over 2 million copies. But albums do not automatically get certified. It's up to the record company to officially apply for the plaque. I know this source says it is platinum, but I think the author meant that as another way of saying it sold at least 1 million copies. Spellcast 01:23, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no reason to suspect that the RIAA doesn't recognize the certification, considering it's the only one in the U.S. that issues them.  We've seen that the database isn't comprehensive, so there's no reason to disbelieve a publication stating that the album was certified.  17Drew 01:42, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's an RIAA article that shows the certifications for both albums. I guess that searchable database really is misleading. Spellcast 06:59, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: RIAA certification

message: why don't use this page? Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad, Hilary's Dignity, Fergie' The Dutchess and Madonna's I'm Going to Tell You a Secret use this page....but The sweet escape no? 
if you won't believe me watch this
http://www.worldwidealbums.net/2006.htm
please...justice for Gwen!
Pacheco1722 00:43, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: None of those articles should be using it either.  It's clearly doesn't meet the criteria for a reliable source.  17Drew 01:58, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's run by the same people behind worldwidealbums.tk, which is now blacklisted. I filed a new report and that link should be blacklisted soon. Spellcast 09:22, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worldwide Albums Page 

message: As an example of Wikipedia's best work, all information here should of course come from reliable sources and be easily verifiable. As such, I'd like to ask you to follow the examples of Nine Inch Nails discography and 50 Cent discography and use inline citations for the chart data rather than just a reference at the end. Also, why is there no chart data for the albums? (I'm not saying I consider chart data essential to a discography, not at all, but it's curious that you would provide the data for only singles). --kingboyk (talk) 13:14, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That citation issue was brought up at the FL nomination. It was said that inline citations would look distracting, especially in a table full of numbers. I prefer inline refs too but it's not required. The chart refs used to be in a separate "Notes" section, which is allowed per Wikipedia:REF#Maintaining_a_.22References.22_section_in_addition_to_.22Notes.22. But it was merged in this diff. Spellcast (talk) 17:31, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: The Sweet Escape sol over 3,7 millions, look at > www.worldwidealbums.net <  klick to 2007 and look then for Gwen Stefani..
I change it now.. ;)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cason 14 (talk • contribs) 20:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please note. This has been discussed many times that worldwidealbum is a self published source. Please see  above for discussion. Please provide a reliable source for the sales. Thank you! Indianescence (talk) 05:00, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Album Sales 

message: The image caption is has "performing" misspelled as "preforming".
Can't edit it myself; hopefully someone else can. I just now created an account and am new 'round these parts, so pardon me if this post went into the wrong intertube.
Monocultured (talk) 16:36, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo 

message: Should we add the "Gwen Stefani" article to the "Gwen Stefani albums" featured topic? It makes sense to do so, since she's the author of those albums and therefore related to the topic. Leptictidium (mt) 07:11, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The topic is just for albums. Yes, she's related to the topic but so are the singles. It's just albums. -- EA Swyer Talk Contributions 19:14, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured topic 

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message: The record sales numbers are old, and the sources old. They are undervalued with respect to certifications, for example the album "Love. Angel. Music. Baby" says that they sold 4,000,000 copies when the RIAA certified it with 5 platinum albums, meaning that it already sold 5,000,000 to achieve said certification (Source: ) , on the "More Details" tab it clearly says that on March 8, 2021 I achieved 5 Million receiving 5x Platinum certification.
The same thing happens with the album "The Sweet Escape", the old source says that it sold 1,733,000, when the RIAA certified it July 28, 2023 2x Platinum with 2,000,000 copies sold. (Source: )
I request that you review and change any outdated information. Greetings. Argentum 1976 (talk) 03:41, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Old sales data and sources