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May 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Trina, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. The claims you make must be actually backed up by the source you cite; the sales figures for the albums you listed were not in that article. Additionally, please re-check your figures: If Da Baddest Bitch had sold 1.9 trillion copies ("1,900,000 million"), it would be documented extensively. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 04:07, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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The sources you cite also need to say what you claim they say. If you use an EMI press release to claim that Da Baddest Bitch sold 1 million copies and went platinum, the press release needs to say that. Citing a press release that mentions only the label's total sales figures and not the artist's (much less the specific album's) and that says "With one Platinum and two Gold selling albums behind her" is not sufficient—especially when a search of the RIAA database shows that she's earned only a single gold album. —C.Fred (talk) 13:19, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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There are multiple problems with your edits: you're removing maintenance and protection notification templates, you're violating formatting guidelines by excessively using bold type, and—most critically—you keep adding certifications and sales figures that are not borne out by reliable sources.
I strongly suggest you explain, on the talk pages of the respective articles, why the content should stay. Otherwise, you'll likely wind up getting blocked for continuing to violate the verifiability guideline. —C.Fred (talk) 18:18, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Trina. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively.
Thank you for providing a source that supports the 77,000 copy sales figure for Glamorest Life, as you did in this recent edit to Trina. That's exactly what the sourcing guidelines require: a reliable source (which Billboard is) that supports the assertion made in the article text (copies sold). With the figure thus supported, I agree with the addition of the text to the article. Again, thank you, and good job tracking down that source! —C.Fred (talk) 04:54, 18 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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I remind you again: if you add information to an article, such as sales figures or RIAA certifications, you must back it up with a reliable source. If the added material does not cite a source, or if the cited source does not back up the claim made, it is subject to removal. Given your history, I strongly suggest that you take the contested additions to the talk page (in this case, Talk:Trina discography), as continuing to edit war, even if you don't violate the three-revert rule, will lead to your account being blocked. —C.Fred (talk) 06:44, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mirroring here my reply to you at my talk page:
Her label claims a platinum and two gold records without stating which albums got which; it's going down the slippery slope of original research to say which album got which. Of course, this is compounded by the RIAA database not having been updated for the award, which is reason to challenge the claim. Both sources are somewhat self-published; however, since her label has something to gain by claiming the awards, most editors will take the label's claim with a grain of salt and put more stock in what RIAA has reported that it's awarded.
That's all the more reason why you should discuss the situation on the relevant articles' talk pages, rather than continue to add the un-/weakly sourced material. —C.Fred (talk) 14:40, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
