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May 20, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
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July 28, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
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October 13, 2011	Peer review	Reviewed
January 12, 2015	Featured article review	Demoted
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On 12 May 2018, it was proposed that this article be moved from Selena to Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Selena’s birthplace

Quintanilla Family has stated in numerous interviews that Freeport is her birthplace, not Lake Jackson. Stop changing it. Tejanorules (talk) 22:25, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sales

I know 60-65 million figures are widely known both in Spanish and English sources in her case, but seems inflated and probably are primary sources (by her record label or thanks to the vandalism in Wikipedia; e.g, from es.wiki). She has basically just a gap of 10 million to be consider one of the best-selling music artists and i'm not sure if her certifications are even close (I know she is huge both in USA and MEX, but i didn't see anything outside about certifications).

According to Chicago Tribune, her father said she sold 26 million before passed away and her record label started reporting 60 million at least since 2012. According to other sources, she sold 30 million (Notimex) or 40 million. I'm aware, we have now "better sources" reporting her sales around 60-65 million but context matters (Don't forget that according to one source, 60 million was reported initially by her record label).

I could easily change that figure, but we don't need a possible misunderstandings, an edit war etc specially because this is a GA and I found more than one figure: 30 million, 40 million and even 26 million. My 2 cents, is change 60-65 million reports to 30/40 or even, I don't have problem with the 26 million if we base the certifications criteria.

cc @88marcus: since he's one of the active editors on Latin artists/music articles. --Apoxyomenus (talk) 15:34, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There's no real indication that Selena sold that amount of records (above 30 million copies), she has only 5 studio albums, and only the last one sold around 5 million copies worldwide. She has no record certifications in European or Asian countries, she didn't even appear in charts from those continents too. The certification criteria should be used in this case, and like the other cases use the most close to it.--88marcus (talk) 19:01, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect. Let's wait at least 1 week in case if we have additional comments. Otherwise, I'll put 30 million, for me that range sounds good. Apoxyomenus (talk) 04:05, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Has been passed almost 1 month and nobody else commented (despite there are some users with activity around these days from WikiProjects like Latin Music). So, there is nothing that could be consider disruptive with this change. Thanks, --Apoxyomenus (talk) 18:26, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Let’s your call Mauricio Duque 07:32, 8 December 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mauricio Duque (talk • contribs)

Should I add or not?

May I add English pronunciation of Selena Quintanilla Perez? I will also do it in the Selena Gomez page. /səliːnə kiːntəniːjə pɛərrɛs/ sə-LEE-nə KEEN-tə-NEE-yə PAIR-res Marc Raphael Felix (talk) 09:59, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

With a source, because "Perez" is not pronounced with a double R. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 22:07, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes Mauricio Duque 07:02, 4 December 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mauricio Duque (talk • contribs)

Netflix show

I remember that Netflix had a documentary about her but I forgot the name of it and not sure if it's still on Netflix — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lunyaah (talk • contribs) 14:40, 9 December 2020 (UTC) It was around 2018 or 2017 and not related to the one Netflix released in 2020[reply]