Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of richest recording artists

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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 15:08, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

List of richest recording artists

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Nominating this for exactly the same reason List of richest actors was just deleted. It's a single-source list with material taken entirely from Wealth-X (a subset of their database of high net worth individuals sorted this time by a particular profession) -- the reliability of which hinges on it being picked up as a listicle by mainstream sources (like the other citation, a Billboard post). I don't know if we ever determined if it's a WP:COPYVIO too, since it lifts the list directly from another site. What we'd need in order to keep this and not move it to "Wealth-X's list of richest recording artist" is some other sources who have compiled such a list, in which case this page would have to be WP:TNTed (or something close to that). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 04:32, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 04:58, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 04:58, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 04:59, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Interesting trivia, perhaps, but this topic runs into inevitable sourcing problems. Richest according to whom? Carrite (talk) 12:11, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as trivia and possible copyvio. Keeping track of people's bank account balances is outside the scope of an encyclopedia. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:45, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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