Talk:Taking Over (Overkill album)

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Sales figures[edit]

Since this is getting no responses at the WP:NOR noticeboard, I will re-post the issue here and then take it to whichever is the appropriate WP dispute resolution section. And so we begin:

User:Paranoid90 keeps adding a source which he insists is adequate proof of this album having sold a certain amount of copies. Currently, his addition to the article reads:

"As of 2011, Taking Over had sold over 100,000 copies in the U.S."

However, a simple browser search reveals no mention whatsoever of Taking Over within the source provided. A very fleeting mention of album sales is made at some point by the interviewee, who is a bandmember:

"How I could have sold over 100,000 units on Atlantic records and not received one penny!"

... but in context, these 100,000 units do not explicitly correspond to Taking Over. How could it, when the album itself is not even mentioned in any shape or form? Therefore I maintain that the source is NOT reliable in confirming such a definitive statement regarding album sales figures, and that I am correct in removing it. Nonetheless, User:Paranoid90 chooses to edit war over it rather than find a more reliable source. At my talk page he has put forth some half-assed rationale about record labels and timeframes, which he somehow expects other users to "know" in advance and even to disregard the content of the source. In his words, "The readers almost never care about the source, they just read it". Surely his grasp of WP:RS is lacking, and that he is violating both WP:OR and WP:SYNTH? Mac Dreamstate (talk) 04:37, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]