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Justify. After two peer reviews, I have come to the conclusion that a to do list would be preferable since I am approaching the finish line for editing this article. The to do list will hopefully complete the task of making this article a FA.
Move sales minutiae to individual song and album articles. Replace the info in the main article with general sales info (like "the album was the top seller in Britain that year") and back up every piece of sales information with sourcesadavidw 17:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Build a "References" section with a list of every source used in the article as per WP:CITE. adavidw 22:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Now that the references are there, clean up "References" section to make every entry a proper citation as per WP:CITE. adavidw 23:59, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Archive this talk page! It's massive!
Add inline citations to "Future" subsection.
Convert "Career records and achievements" from listy format to fluent, cohesive prose (listy formats fail criterion 1. a. of "What is a featured article?") which ties the section together. Also, the section needs a summarising introduction.
Add magazine articles from Emma/Melanie C regaurding reunion
Part II: Shouldn't Michelle Stephenson be listed under Former Members?[edit]
I asked this before but it got archived with no responses.
Indeed, the other five are well-known as the Spice Girls. But the fact that Stephenson advanced out of the auditions, was a member of Touch, performed live, and recorded/lived with the group for under a year means that she was, technically, a former member. Touch and Spice Girls are different names, but they both fall under the same umbrella.
Other examples on Wiki, of members that are listed as former yet the band name was different: Faith No More (Mike Morris/Wade Worthington in Faith No Man), Our Lady Peace (Paul Martin/Jim Newell in As If), Sevendust (Lee Banks in Rumblefish), Cypress Hill (Mellow Man Ace in DVX), The Offspring (Jim Benton/Marcus Parrish/Doug Thompson in Manic Subsidal), Insane Clown Posse (Kid Villain/D-Lyrical in Inner City Posse), Godsmack (Lee Richards in The Scam), All Saints (Simone Rainford in All Saints 1.9.7.5), New Kids on the Block (Mark Wahlberg/Jamie Kelly in Nynuk), Beastie Boys (Jeremy Shatan in The Young Aborigines). Xanarki (talk) 02:04, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Most commercially successful British pop act since the Beatles? Not exactly.[edit]
The most commercially successful British pop act since the Beatles? That seems like a large claim when their album sales are dwarfed by the Rolling Stones who have sold over 250 million albums so far in their career (vs the Spice Girls' ~100m), hold the all-time most top-10 albums (38) in the US, and currently hold two of the top 10 best-selling tours of all time (in 2007 they held 4).
I will give it to the Spice Girls that they are perhaps among the top successful British artists but they are definitely not at the top unless the category is drawn in such a way so as to exclude the Stones yet still include British artists, but that argument would sort of fall a bit flat as it is a comparison to the Beatles and the Stones are probably the closest comparison to the Beatles out there historically...and they're both British. There is a reason that the Stones are considered the highest-grossing live music act (as of 2022) by both Billboard and Pollstar.
As per the above, I am going to go ahead and modify that phrasing to list them as among but not the. TheSandDoctorTalk 03:39, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think that you are missing the point on chronology. The Rolling Stones were founded in 1962. They were contemporaries and competitors to The Beatles (1960-1970), not successors or members of a new generation of musicians. Dimadick (talk) 08:26, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
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