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A Request

Please make a legacy section in the article of Bruce Dickinson as soon as possible. It would be a good step for you to learn how to create articles. Many newbie artist have got their legacy but this legendary artist hasn't. Which is a disrespectful thing to hear. Sort out the matter bro and tell me if I can help you. 47.9.81.186 (talk) 08:59, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

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Over 40 Countries No 1 Album: The Book of Souls

Hi! I'd like to share some link and inform you, that all press releases, band's official bio and press articles around the world state, that last Maiden album reached the top positions (Nr ONE) in over 40 countries around the globe in over 40 different countries. Here is one of the source: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/19/iron-maiden-confirm-download-2016-as-only-uk-date See the press releases including in tour dates announcement, you'll find all the countries and detailed infos. I think we should improve the datas connected to the "The Book of Souls" chart history. Nowadays the statement that phisical copies or digital are minor or more valid is completely out of reason. In many countries around last Maiden album was released onli in digital format! Look at the band's statement - all around Top 1 CD or Digital File (official of course).

PLEASE - check it out!

Good Luck and UP THE IRONS!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by RALFFPL (talk • contribs) 19:01, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

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04:37, 16 December 2016 (UTC)Signyred (talk)== "Not Noteworthy" depends rather on your perspective ==

Hi there, Now I've read your interests I can see why you are the main editor of the Iron Maiden Wiki pages and just thought I'd contact you to let you know my reasons for adding a section just before Christmas on the "Iron Maiden Wood" that you removed shortly afterwards. I rediscovered the image of a Certificate entitled "Iron Maiden Future Forests" recently on my computer and it reminded me how difficult it was back in 2011 to find out the whereabouts of the "Iron Maiden Wood". My son Ian Edwards was a great fan of Maiden, Man-o-war, Majesty (& loads of other less well known Black & Power metal bands). See Facebook pages Ian Edwards: Celebration of a Legend & Ian Edwards Cancer Break Trust if you want to know more When he died of cancer at the end of 2010 (aged 29) he requested in his will that some of his ashes be buried in "The Iron Maiden Wood" that he had heard of through the CD but neither he nor I had any idea of where it was. Neither had the Iron Maiden fan club when we tried these. We would never have had the chance to meet this last request because, as you say, " Google search found no further sources" but one of his old flat mates managed to track things down after a lot of time on the internet via a music chat room.

Hence my idea to add a section to the Iron Maiden Wiki entry - Nobody seems to know anything about something Irom Maiden obviously felt strongly about at the time - and maybe it would help other fans of theirs or their next of kin find a suitable last resting place.

I thought it was quite "noteworthy", especially as I had a couple of references to back up the assertion that something called Brown's Wood in Leicestershire is actually the (or one of the) Iron Maiden woods. We visit it every February to check the memorial plaque to Ian is still in good nick and there is another memorial nearby in the wood (not to an Iron Maiden fan) However, if you still think it not worth 2 or 3 lines in Wiki then so be it! Best wishes John Edwards Ian's father jaejed@hotmail.com 92.238.65.40 (talk) 20:51, 27 December 2015 (UTC)signyred

Many thanks for your message and please accept my apologies if you found my reversion in any way offensive, as I can understand how personally you must feel about this particular topic. I realise how the reasons I gave in my edit summary may have been inadequate given how few characters we can use, so I will attempt to explain more thoroughly why I removed the content.

As an editor of the page (not the main editor I would hasten to add), I assess content on the grounds of notability and verifiability and I only removed your content because it did not appear to match these criteria. In the sources which you provided, the band's name only appeared in two: a Facebook post, which cannot be used under Wikipedia's verifiability guidelines, and one from treehugger.com, which only mentions the band's name in connection to tree planting programmes and doesn't confirm the existence of an actual wood named after them. The band's absence from the two other sources bearing information about the location were also a problem; if the wood was notable then it follows that it would be featured on a map of the full area.

After checking these references, I also undertook a search for further sources and, as you found a few years ago, uncovered no further results. As a band of 40 years, a single page on Wikipedia provides a very small amount of space in which one can accurately summarise all of Iron Maiden's achievements. This means we must be rather selective about what is added to the page and, as a musical group, their most significant accomplishments have been well documented both in specialist publications and in mainstream media. On this basis, when virtually no search results can be found to back up the information submitted for inclusion, the content's apparent notability is severely undermined.

Hopefully I have made my case clearer, but I am of course still contactable on this page if you still have concerns. As I wrote previously, I am not the main editor of any page and I act only by my own judgement using Wikipedia guidelines. If you still think that I have made a mistake, feel free to start a topic on the article's talk page where the issue can be discussed with other editors and a consensus can be reached.

Sincerely, Nerdtrap (talk) 18:21, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Dear Nerdtrap, Thank you for responding to my query and my apologies for the fact that I only discovered it almost a year later (I don't write for Wiki very often!) I appreciate that Facebook is not a reliable source but alas the Ian Edwards Cancer Break Trust's website went down in 2012 when a server crashed and it has never been set up again as Facebook is good enough to keep contact with Ian's friends. There is no need longer a need for a website either, as the Trust will be closing next year having raised over £55,000 to help cancer patients take morale-boosting breaks. Somewhere I have a photo of one of the "Iron Maiden" certificates that people could get in connection with the "Dance of Death" album but although it mentions the location of the wood (confirming that Brown's Wood is it) it also has someone (who I don't know)'s name on it and so this could not be used to give veracity to the location. My wife & I visited "Browns Wood" yesterday, the 6th anniversary of Ian's death, and his is still one of only 2 memorials in the woodland which is growing well. There probably will not be any others if neither the Iron Maiden fan club nor Wiki are able to let fans know of it's existence but maybe it's better that way for us. Best wishes Signyred

Iron Maiden & a plethora of others...

Hello,

I'll be cleaning up the 'Maiden articles for page format continuity and various errors (which I will tackle when I have source material ready to use), as its a large body of work, and been done by various people quite obviously, which I've been doing with various pieces of bands albums articles, as a musician myself who has the time now to do so. I'm newly back to the 'pedia since my injury and find myself in need of something to occupy my mind. I'm open to debates and discussions with polite reasonable people but I've already ended up in various 'battlegrounds' with 'editors' just trashing my work without consulting me first. Oshwah is my mentor and I have worked through said issues in the main with him and Drmies, so I'm here to learn and to help. Nuro msg me 00:43, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Please feel free to go ahead with this; I don't own the pages of course, I just edit when I can. I have less time available for editing at the moment and I'm aware that many pages need clearing up (particularly some singles articles) so I'll be pleased if someone is willing to tackle these issues. I never revert maliciously and am happy to chat about editing issues on talk pages (I find the character limit in the edit summary can sometimes be an issue in explaining reverts fully) so please feel free to contact me at any time.

I notice you have been converting singles track listings into the track listing template. While there are (rather unhelpfully) no guidelines on the WP:SONGS page, the MOS guide for Albums (Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Album article style guide#Track listing) suggests upgrading to the template for complicated situations. Is there a particular reason for the change?

Many thanks, Nerdtrap (talk) 08:39, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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Consider yourself berated. :-p 60.248.2.163 (talk) 01:03, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Venue links

Here's why I removed the piping.

The names of venues tend to change because of sponsorship deals with naming rights. A redirect provides a simple way to ensure that all links to an old name will go to the article under the current name. Piping an old name to the current name is pointless because if the name changes again, as it surely will when the current sponsorship deal comes to an end, the piped name will itself become a redirect and the already trivial benefit of a direct link will be lost. (The additional runtime cost of processing a click on a redirect is trivial, and even then is rarely incurred as most links are accessed only rather infrequently.)

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Thanks for the explanation. Apologies for the reverts, I was under the impression that we should pipe links but obviously I was mistaken.--Nerdtrap (talk) 15:20, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

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Iron Maiden Sales - new links

British established SKY news and NME state Iron Maiden sold over 100 mln copies of their albums. LINKS:

http://www.nme.com/photos/the-biggest-selling-uk-acts-of-all-time-1437412#/photo/7 http://news.sky.com/story/iron-maiden-star-gets-airline-boardroom-gig-10491904

I'd like to encourage you to check this out and make the data on Iron Maiden Wikisite updated! THX — Preceding unsigned comment added by RALFFPL (talk • contribs) 20:42, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

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Iron Maiden's manager official album sales statement for 2017.

I'd like to inform that R. Smallwood - manager of Iron Maiden group in the special interview for prestigious "Music Week" UK magazine, stated Maiden has sold "100 mln copies of albums" to date (first day of May'17). To read "Big Interview" must log in for free trail. Statement of the impresario we can find at the end of article.

http://www.musicweek.com/interviews/read/the-big-interview-phantom-management-s-rod-smallwood-and-dave-shack/068326

Read this one please and make a change on official band'a Wiki bio.

Cheers! Up The Irons! — Preceding unsigned comment added by RALFFPL (talk • contribs) 15:49, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Pollstar

legacy OF THE BEAST TOUR 2019: 

NOW 2020 is open as well, so I hope you make your work a bit more carefully, there are many new reported shows, SA with Chile, Argentina, Brasil etc ! take a look man, https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/8533259/aerosmith-las-vegas-residency-totals-tickets

here the boxscores SA/Mexico:

Iron Maiden Palacio De Los Deportes Mexico City, Mexico 64,057 / 64,200 (99%) 400 - 3500 $3,171,162 OCESA/CIE

Iron Maiden Estadio Nacional Santiago, Oct. 15, 2019 $2,587,320 61896/61896 1/1 $124.89, $23.57 Move Concerts

Iron Maiden, The Raven Age Cícero Pompeu de Toledo Stadium Sao Paulo, Oct. 06, 2019 $3,968,920 56247/56247 1/1 $147.80, $24.63 Move Concerts

Iron Maiden, The Raven Age Arena do Gremio Porto Alegre, Oct. 09, 2019 $2,526,060 35809/35809 1/1 $102.45, $26.83 Move Concerts

here argentina:

Also appears Buenos Aires: $1,358,110 37319/37319 1/1 $69.15, $25.93 Move Concerts

Movistar Arena Santiago, Chile $986,670 14,071 (100%)

North America 2019:

Iron Maiden Banc of California Stadium Los Angeles, Calif. Sep. 14, 2019 $2,353,200 23,351/23,351 1/1 $124.50, $44.50 Live Nation

Iron Maiden Tacoma Dome Tacoma, Wash. Sep. 05, 2019 $1,181,743 14,659 / 14,659 1/1 $121, $45.50 Live Nation

Iron Maiden Moda Center Portland, Ore. Sep. 06, 2019 $1,152,494 12,787 / 12,787 1/1 $122, $46.50 Live Nation

Iron Maiden AT&T Center San Antonio, Texas Sep. 25, 2019 $1,053,861 11,685 / 11,685 1/1 $123, $47.50 Live Nation

Iron Maiden Talking Stick Resort Arena Phoenix, Ariz. Sep. 17, 2019 $969,949 10,673/12,189 1/0 $120.25, $44.75 Live Nation

Iron Maiden Dos Equis Pavilion Dallas, Texas Sep. 21, 2019 $813,197 13,176/15,000 1/0 $114, $28.50 Live Nation

Iron Maiden Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion The Woodlands, Texas Sep. 22, 2019 $755,022 11,333 / 14,000 1/0 $125, $39.50 Live Nation

Iron Maiden Isleta Amphitheater Albuquerque, N.M. Sep. 19, 2019 $602,913 12,165/14,916 1/0 $116, $19.25 Live Nation

USA/CANADA 2019 Number of markets: 33 Total attendance. 445,312 Average attandane: 13,494 Total gross: 33,810,625 Average gross: 1,024,564

Latin America 2019 : 269,399 attendance ; Gross $14.6m

so already many many reported figures !

PLS ADD THE OTHER REPORTED SHOWS OF LEGACY OF THE BEAST TOUR: also again new boxscores In from Mexico, LA, Tacoma, etc. CHECK EM OUT !!

https://www.billboard.com/charts/current-boxscore — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndreJeanHen (talk • contribs) 19:46, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

There is missing Freiburg (30.000) tickets sold, it was reported as "Hanover" on the https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/iron-maidens-summer-2018-legacy-of-the-beast-tour-generates-millions/ page, as Hannover Messe: everythings right, the just wrote the wrong city. also there are some new scores of NA 2019, pls check it more carefully with the current boxscores, I think you are not doing it properly, therefore Id suggest to take over, but if you don't want this pls be more precise with the boxscore lists !! New boxscores:

Budweiser Stage, Toronto: 26,448 / 26,448 (100%) - $1,553,524 (2 shows) Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul: 12,189 / 12,864 (94%) - $1,178,631 Rogers Arena, Vancouver: 12,349 / 12,349 (100%) - $934,972 Rogers Place, Edmonton: 11,642 / 12,367 (94%) - $905,413 Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary: 11,600 / 11,600 - $898,333 KeyBank Center, Buffalo: 11,371 / 11,371 (100%) - $885,907 Golden 1 Center, Sacramento: 9,723 / 10,290 (94%) - $877,123 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Tinley Park: 14,662 / 16,000 (91%) - $866,858 Bridgestone Arena, Nashville: 8,064 / 10,200 (79%) - $785,618 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati: 14,954 / 16,000 - $742,372 Bell MTS Place, Winnipeg: 9,362 / 10,487 (89%) - $689,783 Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center, Noblesville: 12,708 / 13,000 (98%) - $590,730

--> the link: https://www.ukmix.org/showthread.php?105292-Iron-Maiden-Legacy-Of-The-Beast-Tour-2018-2019/page2

+ Oakland, newest report: https://www.billboard.com/charts/current-boxscore

Las Vegas: https://www.billboard.com/charts/current-boxscore

Legacy of the beast tour: 2018/2019

hello ! there are not concluded all the reported shows from the LGOTB Tour, so far it grossed way more than 15mio $.

https://loudwire.com/how-much-money-iron-maiden-generate-from-ticket-sales/

a reported 27mio gross from 2018, at least, can you add the reported numbers ? there are many shows reported, Madrid, Paris, Freiburg, Krakow, Italy etc — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndreJeanHen (talk • contribs) 10:40, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

 — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndreJeanHen (talk • contribs) 10:07, 26 September 2019 (UTC) 

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Hello! I see you reverted my edit about the city of the concert of April 5, 2011 on the page of The Final Frontier World Tour. This concert happened at Expotrade Arena (Expotrade Convention Center), which is not located in Curitiba, but in Pinhais, that is a city of the metropolitan area of Curitiba. You can confirm that by checking the address at the bottom of the venue's official page (http://www.expo-trade.com.br/), and also by searching it on Google Maps. The reason why the concert was promoted as being held in Curitiba is because it is the capital and largest city of the brazilian state Paraná, while Pinhais is the smallest city of Paraná in extension and also one of the newest (it has only 26 years, while Curitiba completes 325 years this week). Thank you for your attention, ChangingRivers (talk) 13:15, 25 March 2018 (UTC).

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