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Move logs: Beyoncé Knowles
Beyoncé

Discussions:

Beyoncé Knowles → Beyoncé, No consensus, 21 September 2007, discussion
Beyoncé Knowles → Beyoncé, No consensus, 20 March 2010, discussion
Beyoncé Knowles → Beyoncé, No consensus, 11 July 2010, discussion
Beyoncé Knowles → Beyoncé, No consensus, 7 August 2011, discussion
Beyoncé Knowles → Beyoncé, Not moved, 23 February 2012, discussion
Beyoncé Knowles → Beyoncé, Not moved, 3 February 2013, discussion
Beyoncé Knowles → Beyoncé, Not moved (speedily closed), 20 March 2013, discussion
Beyoncé Knowles → Beyoncé, Moved, 16 January 2014, discussion

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Cowboy Carter

The following bit of the lede needs amending/adding to/rejigging:

"Beyoncé achieved critical acclaim for the experimental visual albums Beyoncé (2013) and Lemonade (2016), which explored themes such as feminism and womanism. With her Black queer-inspired dance album Renaissance (2022), she became the first female artist to have their first seven studio albums debut at number one on Billboard 200."

I think we now need to somehow incorporate Cowboy Carter, how it's broken certain records and how she's the only female solo artist to debut at number 1 with all her studio albums. Koppite1 (talk) 12:55, 8 April 2024 (UTC) ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————[reply]

This reversal

Hi, not sure why my recent edit has been completely reverted. I intended to revert an unconstructive edit. Well, I admit that I'm not familiar with Beyoncé, nor have I conducted "thorough research". Thedarkknightli (talk) 18:02, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

beyonce's fame

she started singing in 2025, with her daughter crazy kennar, their 1st song being mali safi chito. Anny wambui (talk) 09:48, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Genres

Maybe change House to Dance music so it also fits her discography more holistically and not just Renaissance Ravenfate (talk) 15:42, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Or remove Genres from the infobox entirely since it isn't really that helpful and tends to invite edit warring. 216.126.35.174 (talk) 23:22, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The genres should be those widely used by high quality music industry sources, and should be referenced to such sources. Cullen328 (talk) 00:02, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with @Cullen328:. As previously did by @FMSky: I suggest to remove Afrobeat, house & county as they widely violate WP: EXPLICITGENRE parameters DollysOnMyMind (talk) 14:09, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AG202: and @Newpicarchive: who reverted edits that removed the disputed genres can no doubt speak for themselves, but from my perspective, i'm just keen to make sure that whatever consensus is reached, the correct protocols have been followed. You are asking for the immediate removal of certain genres. @GabberFlasted: (on Admin noticeboard) pointed to Dispute Resolution. If you study that, it actually advises against removal, but rather enhancement of the disputed material. So, if the crux of the matter is inadequate sources, then various editors should be given opportinity to correct this and provide references that are more acceptable.Koppite1 (talk) 09:49, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bascially no one other than user Koppite1 wants to keep these nonsensical genres (afrobeats, house, country) in the infobox --FMSky (talk) 17:13, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see those as nonsensical genres. However, I do see listing *any* genres in the info box as nonsensical since all it does is create nonsensical edit wars. 216.126.35.174 (talk) 10:49, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remove good article

As stated by @MuZemike: this article should not be a good article, as it fails criteria #5 (Stable). The page's edit history says it all DollysOnMyMind (talk) 14:13, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure seems like it would be prudent to allow the above Genre conversation to run its course before de-listing this article. Wouldn’t that mostly resolve the stability issue? 173.22.12.194 (talk) 14:22, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so, the article wasn't stable even before the last issue DollysOnMyMind (talk) 14:43, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not now See Good Article Reassessment. Not only is it much preferable to simply improve an existing GA up to standards than delisting, but also explicitly Requesting reassessment during a content dispute or edit war is usually inappropriate. There are good reasons for this. GabberFlasted (talk) 14:44, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]