Talk:List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart

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For the list to be meaningful, it needs to have song/album names, and dates. At the moment, it's just a sprawling crappy list Ohconfucius (talk) 09:17, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Queen: 100 #1 singles?[edit]

Someone added Queen to this list, saying they had 100 #1 singles on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Chart. This just can't be true, but I can't find the right number of #1 hits they had on this chart. 83.134.64.57 (talk) 11:58, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Artists[edit]

Some of the artists are in alphabetical order according to their surname, i propose this is changed so that it goes off their first name. As their names are their artists title i.e. Ziggy Stardust (i don't know if hes on the list) should be under z, as opposed to S, same thing applies to Pat Benetar and Billy idol. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidJ1082 (talk • contribs) 13:44, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal for Deletion[edit]

This article has some serious problems.

The article is very susceptible to vandalism. Users seem to get a kick out of adding their favourite bands and inflating counts, and it's impossible to identify reliable sources for whether or not any of these bands ever made it to #1, let alone collect a count. The website billboard.com has a very limited archive online and the industry version, billboard.biz, requires a subscription. The only reference at List of number-one mainstream rock hits (United States) was published in 2008. This article is at best a redundant version of List of number-one mainstream rock hits (United States) with some unverifiable arithmetic added.

Because these issues can't be corrected, I'm proposing that this article is deleted. Cory Donnelly (talk) 13:22, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If it is deleted we'll have to change the template I think. Not that that's too hard, but are any of the others in the Lists of artists who reached number one section similarly problematic? Should we just get rid of that entire element of the template and the lists mentioned therein?--T. Anthony (talk) 05:27, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a proponent of removing the section from the template and deleting all of the corresponding articles -- they all suffer from the same issue. Cory Donnelly (talk) 22:44, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment If you want to double check the artist just go to the billboard page for said artist and click charts. It'll show you the chart history of that artist. e.g. http://www.billboard.com/artist/1481815/adam-gontier for Adam Gontier.-- Everyone Dies In the End (talk) 05:00, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]