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Edit request on 4 April 2012

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In 2012, "Sharpships" was the 12th most-played song on both Myspace and Yahoo! Music and was the 21st most downloaded ringtone.

Sharpships is not the same of the song. PLease change it to "Starships".

124.176.228.107 (talk) 01:31, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Tgeairn (talk) 04:42, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Song is 2xP in Australia, please change that! http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display_singles.asp?chart=1U50 --79.199.52.3 (talk) 16:35, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thanks for improving Wikipedia! mabdul 18:48, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Plus, it's Gold in Sweden, please add that, too! http://www.sverigetopplistan.se/ --79.199.48.66 (talk) 22:39, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: This page is no longer protected. Subject to consensus, you should be able to edit it yourself. elektrik SHOOS (talk) 04:56, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Music video section needs a picture

It gets complicated when we have to describe everything that she does and what she's wearing in different scenes. Bleubeatle (talk) 23:32, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The music video section is excessively detailed and completely unsourced. It was sourced, originally, but it appears the text was altered and the sources removed. That aside, I'm not sure exactly which frame of the video would be best for the article. I considered the "glow in the dark"y part, since it was compared to Super Bass in the media. --Thevampireashlee (talk) 23:33, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Release history

According to the Portuguese Wikipedia it's 13,not 14!--Nikinikolananov (talk) 18:33, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. Jafeluv (talk) 15:03, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Starships (song) → Starships – Looking at the disambiguation page, this article is the only one that spells "Starships" in that styling. The novel "Star ships", while similarly titled to "Starship", is different enough to be titled without parenthetical clarification. With that reasoning, I would suggest that "Starships" be moved to the plain title and include a hatnote referring to the disambiguation page. WikiRedactor (talk) 23:11, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Starship will be the likely target of most "starships" plural searches. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:06, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. It is too easy for someone to accidentally link to the starships when they meant to get to starship. Apteva (talk) 00:32, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - irrespective of plurals, the primary topic is starship - Green Giant (talk) 02:20, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Agree with the others. When someone is entering "starships" into the search box, they are more than likely looking for something on either the starship article or the disambig page, not necessarily the song. Zzyzx11 (talk) 03:30, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose it is the plural of starship that is the primary topic of starships. -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 04:36, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the differences are enough, but Starship is also the primary topic for this title. Maybe there should be a redirect hatnote directly linking to Starships (song), or a separate disambiguation page if necessary, as there isn't much of an overlap with Starship (disambiguation). Peter James (talk) 11:32, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Starships should redirect to Starship as it already does. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:03, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit 580538772 explained

As the “edit summary” field is too small, I will post my explanation for edit 580538772 here. I removed Eurodance from the list of genres in the infobox for the following reasons:

According to the article on Eurodance, most Eurodance tracks are written in minor keys, unlike pop songs, which typically are written in major keys (like Starships). 125 bpm is also a bit lower than the typical Eurodance track (140 according to its article).
The typical synth sound is heard in the first part of the chorus (and for a few seconds somewhere between the last two choruses). However, during the intro, the verses and the second part of the chorus the “Eurodance synth” is hardly there at all. The verses could well fit into a Europop song, so I am not removing that.
The second part of the chorus uses an Electro sound that is not found in Eurodance tracks.
The single source used for calling this a Eurodance track does not explicitly say that Starships is a Eurodance track.
It is not categorized as Eurodance or Euro House on Discogs.
It is not categorized as Dance in iTunes Store.
Both Discogs and iTunes Store categorize it as Hip Hop. Discogs also calls it Europop and Pop rap (which redirects to Hip hop on WP).

I also rewrote the first sentence in the Composition section, which read

"Starships" is a multi-genre song, which heavily utilizes Eurodance, Europop, and Euro house, while also incorporating other genres such as trance-rap, pop, dance, reggae, pop rock, hip hop, and electropop

because the given sources did not confirm that. None of the sources call it a Euro* song incorporating pop and/or Electropop. Most of them actually call it pop influenced by Electropop, Euro*, Hip hop etc.

While I removed “Eurodance” from the infobox, I added Hip hop/Rap and Electropop instead. Electropop because the given sources explicitly say so, Hip hop/Rap because the given sources, as well as Discogs and iTunes say so. 80.212.225.231 (talk) 01:50, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Most weeks in the top ten for a female rapper

Yall Better not edit cause its correct! Kay gee 2019 (talk) 19:10, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You will need to cite a reliable source for the claim. - SummerPhD^v2.0 19:52, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]