User talk:Nirvana77

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[edit] March 2007

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[edit] Fallujah II

Why are you reverting to the odd and unsourced figure? --HanzoHattori 18:37, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pearl Jam

Please go to the discussion section regarding your changes to the article.-5- (talk) 18:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'd just rather have this discussed so that a consensus can be reached and a decision can be made regarding how this should be stated in the article. This isn't the first time this has come up actually.-5- (talk) 18:35, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

If you can, try to get the attention of the users WesleyDodds and CloudNine. They have done a lot of work on the Pearl Jam article.-5- (talk) 18:39, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I try to stay away from the big arguments. I just try to maintain the article. I would really suggest getting the attention of someone like WesleyDodds, who was heavily involved in getting the article to featured article status.-5- (talk) 22:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

By the way, here's the link to the peer review for the article: [1]-5- (talk) 22:37, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edits

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[edit] Bosnian War

Hi, we obviously cannot agree on the Bosnian War article. I take your recent entry on my talk page as a positive reply to my suggestion to take it to arbitration. I will set this in motion. On a second note, I see that you are rather new (?) to Wikipedia. However, I would seriously suggest that you change your tone of voice if we are going to have a constructive dialogue.Osli73 (talk) 09:24, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pearl Jam/Metallica album sales

Hi. For this info, I've used the RIAA website, which is the only reliable source. The only way to really research it (and it's not foolproof) is to search for any RIAA sales awards given to each band between Jan 1990 and Dec 1999. For Pearl Jam this is fine because they started in 1990, but this is more difficult for Metallica as they already had a few albums out by 1990. What I've done for these albums (eg. Ride the lightning) is look at any awards given during the 90's, and subtracted previous awards. This gives us a fairly close estimate of the sales of those albums just during the 90's. Here's the results, figures are in millions (platinum awards):

Metallica: Black album - 9 Load - 3 Master of Puppets - 2 Ride the Lightning - 2 Kill em All - 1 And Justice for All - 3

Total = about 20


Pearl Jam: Ten - 11 Vs - 6 Vitalogy - 5 No Code - 1 Yield - 1 Lo2L - 0.5

Total = 24.5


No one is debating that Metallica have sold more albums in total (57 million to 30 million - RIAA), and that the Black album has sold more than Ten (14 million to 12 million - RIAA), but during the 1990's, Pearl Jam sold at least 4 million more albums than Metallica in the US. I hope this settles the debate. Kristmace (talk) 16:32, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. I take your point about original research. I've not collected the data myself, only retrieved it from an online database, which is here: [2]. Also, I don't think it's that unreasonable that the Black album has sold 5 million in the last 8 years and Ten sold 1 since in the early 90's Pearl Jam (and Ten included) were far more popular than they are today, whereas Metallica's fanbase has probably grown. I do have reservations about the statement in the article anyway. Maybe it should point out that it's a leading music journalist making the statement. I don't think it's as cut and dried as album sales or anything like that - it's just very subjective. The "most popular" statement refers to the US really which goes against WP:worldwide view. Anyway, we'll see how this pans out. Also, I'm not saying this should be cited as a source. The statement is a quote, so is already referenced - it's just a subjective quote. Kristmace (talk) 17:06, 23 May 2008 (UTC)