Talk:Too $hort discography

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[edit] Gold/Platinum certification

According to http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/default.asp some of the gold/platinum certifications listed here are incorrect... should be as follows

• Born to Mack - Gold
• Life Is... Too Short - Multi-Platinum
• Short Dog's in the House - Platinum
• Shorty the Pimp - Platinum
• Get In Where You Fit In - Platinum
• Cocktails - Platinum
• Gettin' It - Platinum
• Can't Stay Away - Gold
• You Nasty - Gold

I'm hesitant to update the list for two reasons

1. The table provided by RIAA.com simply lists the certification, not the sales numbers. So, for example, if I were to change Short Dog's In The House from Gold to Platinum, it would look weird because the sales number would still be under 1 million.
2. As far as I can tell, there is no direct link to the list of Too $hort's album certifications on RIAA.com. The link I provided above gets you to a page where you can type in his name and get the results... but that doesn't really lend itself to good reference citing.

Thoughts?

• ENDelt260 19:43, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, let's see.

1. The certifications are awarded after the amount of copies SHIPPED not the actual number of copies SOLD. So if Too $hort delivered one million to Wallmart, but only sold 90.000 it is not his problem but Wallmart's. So feel free to correct the platinum/gold statuses whenever you want.
2. Every time I try to search the database of RIAA it says There was a problem with your submission, please try again and it's been for a half an year that it keeps dropping that error message for me. But if you swear your life that it works for you just link the /default URL, it have to be enough for the others to verify the certifications. It was me who couldn't reach their data so I calculated the retail shipments according to sales but it's not appropriate. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me} 09:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

That's weird about the error. I know you have to search for "Too Short" as opposed to "Too $hort" to get the results... but, even if I use the dollar sign I just get zero results, no error.

FWIW, here's a link to a screen cap of the results I get. Guess I'll go ahead and update the certifications.

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/3012/tooshortcertdh9.png

ENDelt260 17:26, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok. I tried both with Mozilla and IE but still doesn't work. Maybe we should link the imagheshack page for the others with similar problems. Do they store the picture for a longer period? Does it get deleted after a while? Lajbi ^{Holla @ me} 19:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Not sure how long imageshack stores the image. I can add it to the references. Just didn't know if a screencap of a website counted as a 'source' as far as wikipedia was concerned. ENDelt260 21:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Heh... apparently there's a bot that runs around deleting imageshack links... so, I don't guess that'll last as a reference. ENDelt260 21:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for trying. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me} 21:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)