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Lil Nas X Article Edit Request

Can anybody here please change Lil Nas X's occupation list (not the one in the infobox) to "American rapper, singer, songwriter, and media personality", and his music genres in the infobox to "Hip hop · country rap · pop · trap"?

== new Lil Nas X songs == montero,sun goes down,industry baby

Around 4 or 5 months--Ziya love (talk) 15:26, 18 September 2021 (UTC)Bold text ago I looked at the 'singles' section of this wikipedia page, and I saw two singles before Old Town Road: 'Thanos (Blow It)', and 'Donald Trump'. Then, for whatever reason, they got removed. I also realized that this page does not have ANY songs from Lil Nas X's mixtape, 'Nasarati'. So can someone edit this page to include those songs, and possibly make an entire new page titled 'Nasarati (Lil Nas X mixtape)? Pls? 2603:6000:8A00:7638:FDDE:C5B7:A6E7:2EEF (talk) 12:59, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The singles were probably removed due to the fact that they are not actual singles, but that is just my guess. The discography section only lists singles, promotional singles, and other charted songs. From my knowledge, none of the Nasarati songs charted, so they shouldn't be included. As well, the mixtape doesn't seem to meet the guideline for determining notability of albums, so I don't think a page is warranted. Thanks! Doggy54321 ^{(let's chat!)} 18:21, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GogoLion edited the page in mid-April [1], saying that multiple sources had listed "Old Town Road" as Nas' debut single. As well, I did some looking, and I saw that the sources backing up the single status for both songs were Spotify links that had the songs listed as singles, which isn't a valid indication of single status. At most, the songs would be promotional singles, since they had independent releases. Thanks! Dodoggy54321 ^{(let's chat!)} 18:30, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well can't we at least list them in 'other songs'? 2603:6000:8A00:7638:FDDE:C5B7:A6E7:2EEF (talk) 12:59, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Only if they have charted, due to the fact that the section title is #Other charted songs. Ddoggy54321 ^{(let's chat!)} 14:32, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request for an RIAA music certification on Old Town Road

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Request Change "RIAA: 14x Platinum^[174]" to "RIAA: 14x Diamond^[174] for the RIAA music certification on the Old Town Road single. This change is based on information from the already linked reference webpage: ^[1] On there the certification medal appears as "Diamond 14x" and when you click share it reads: "LIL NAS X earned RIAA 14x Diamond Award for OLD TOWN ROAD (FEAT. BILLY RAY CYRUS)." Also, the referenced webpage claims Old town Road to have 14 million certified units meeting the RIAA 10 million unit requirement for a diamond certification.^[2] This makes the previous Wikipedia article incorrect. Rafbru (talk) 21:09, 13 August 2021 (UTC) Rafbru (talk) 21:17, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Lil Nas X. If possible, please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. If you cannot edit the article's talk page, you can instead make your request at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection#Current requests for edits to a protected page. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 21:39, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Partly done: Changed "RIAA: 14x Platinum" to "RIAA: 14x Diamond" per source. ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 21:40, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

... Diamond is 10 million. 14× diamond would mean 140 million, nothing such high certified single exists. When you click on more info: the data you see is the timeline of certifications and it lists 14 platinum certified units not 14 diamond. RIAA just has weird display of that award on the side, it's misleading. Dhoffryn (talk) 00:17, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for catching that, @Dhoffryn, it was misleading. So the article should rad "RIAA: 1X Diamond", correct? ––𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗗𝘂𝗱𝗲 talk 22:43, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would sooner put 14× Platinum. That level surpasses Diamond one (10× platinum). I have noticed this issue before, it did bug me, because it gives a wrong picture if you don't know the details. Dhoffryn (talk) 09:54, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Grew up listening to Lil Uzi Vert

How'd Lil Nas X (born 1999) "grow up listening to … Lil Uzi Vert" who wasn't widely known until 2015-2016? It's fair to call him an influence, but...98.220.8.158 (talk) 22:22, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In 2016, Nas was age 15 and turned 16, and in 2016 he was age 16 and turned 17. So was he not growing up? ––FormalDude talk 09:45, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pregnancy?

I keep seeing him on TikTok about him being pregnant. Is he a trans man? Or this pregnancy thing fake?CycoMa (talk) 19:21, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It was a photoshoot promoting the Sept 17 release of his album (i.e., his "baby").[2] Maybe worth a brief mention in Lil Nas X#2020–present:_Montero. Politanvm ^talk 19:53, 14 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well I’m sorry I don’t know anything about this guy.CycoMa (talk) 18:43, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No need to apologize, @CycoMa! Some additional context: Lil Nas X is parodying Drake's recent album cover (Certified Lover Boy) which features pregnant women emojis. Lil Nas X made his own version with pregnant man emojis and then took it as far as getting a fake pregnant stomach. Though I'm not sure if it is makeup or Photoshop. Considering there's been some videos I'm guessing it's all makeup, which is really impressive for how realistic it looks. ––FormalDude talk 18:50, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Checking in to collaborate on improvements

Hi all! I just had a long talk with Troy.æ about Lil Nas X and we would love to help improve the quality of this article from C class to sommething better.

Who is here that also wants to see this article get more readable? HemingwayApp is saying that the opening paragraphs have a readability level of post-graduate, so we want to at least fix those.

FormalDude, what do you think most needs work to make this article worthy of a higher review? DrMel (talk) 09:00, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How did you have a long talk with Troy.æ when that account has only made two edits? – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 20:12, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We know each other IRL and I've been working on wiki projects for a long long time. I invited Troy.æ to pick an article we could help improve, and we started discussing who we respect most in the world. I hadn't heard of Lil Nas X before yesterday, but am super impressed, and the article clearly has room for improvement. So... step 1... who else is here that wants to see the article improved, and in what ways? seems a lot more fun working together than getting into disagreements about what can or cant be changed. ;-) DrMel (talk) 01:50, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Unnecessary Capitalization?

In the introduction, it labels Lil Nas X as the first Black rapper to win a CMA, who also came out openly as LGBT. Should "Black" not be "black", in lowercase?

[1] ttps://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Lil+Nas+X&ti=&format=&type=#search_section

[2] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_recording_certifications

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 :How did you have a long talk with Troy.æ when that account has only made two edits? – [[User:Wallyfromdilbert|wallyfromdilbert]] ([[User talk:Wallyfromdilbert|talk]]) 20:12, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 ::We know each other IRL and I've been working on wiki projects for a long long time. I invited Troy.æ to pick an article we could help improve, and we started discussing who we respect most in the world. I hadn't heard of Lil Nas X before yesterday, but am super impressed, and the article clearly has room for improvement. So...  step 1...  who else is here that wants to see the article improved, and in what ways? seems a lot more fun working together than getting into disagreements about what can or cant be changed.  ;-)  [[User:DrMel|DrMel]] ([[User talk:DrMel|talk]]) 01:50, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
+== Unnecessary Capitalization? ==
+In the introduction, it labels Lil Nas X as the first Black rapper to win a CMA, who also came out openly as LGBT. Should "Black" not be "black", in lowercase?