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Swiss certification levels

I implemented a change in Swiss single certification levels per source. This was pointed out by Newpicarchive in an edit summary here. In the future, please request changes here. The purpose of |salesamount= is to list pure sales from a reliable source, not to overload the sales amount by the certification.
Note that singles released in 2023 now require |relmonth= to show the correct sales amount and will show zero sales otherwise. Such singles will show up in Category:Pages using Certification Table Entry-Sales with missing information (0). Muhandes (talk) 17:17, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Coldplay's "Paradise"

Moved from User talk:Muhandes § Coldplay's "Paradise"
 – Muhandes (talk) 08:04, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The song was certified Platinum in Germany after they changed the thresholds, meaning its certification is for 300,000 units, not 600,000. How do we reflect this on the template without using the "Salesamount" parameter? GustavoCza (talk • contribs) 17:28, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@GustavoCza: Germany certification level go by the release year (|relyear=). The single shows the correct certification amount for a single released in 2011. Muhandes (talk) 17:32, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
How come the template for "Yellow" show 600,000 units instead of 500,000 then? GustavoCza (talk • contribs) 18:21, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@GustavoCza: This is because in 2024 Germany changed the certification rules and started following the certification date. Muhandes (talk) 18:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Both the English and German pages for Bundesverband Musikindustrie state the certification rules were changed in July 2023, while Paradise got certified in December 2023. I know we shouldn't use Wikipedia as a source for discussion, but I don't know where else to find this type of information in precise manner. GustavoCza (talk • contribs) 18:42, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@GustavoCza: The change was implemented in this edit from June 2024, following this discussion and information provided by Lk95 from a correspondence by a German Wikipedia editor with a BVMI employee. I don't speak German so I take their word for it. Muhandes (talk) 19:51, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I gave a quick look at the discussion and thanks to Google I've been able to find the certification for "Paradise" on the "musikindustrie.de" domain. The song moved 600,000 units according to the file I found. GustavoCza (talk • contribs) 20:09, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@GustavoCza: Since this document is from December 2023, maybe they made the change on December 2023 rather than January 2024. I don't know, and as you probably already realized, I don't make these decisions; I follow the consensus. Would you mind if I move this discussion to Template talk:Certification Table Entry so other editors can take part in the discussion? Muhandes (talk) 20:44, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not at all! The more accurate the certifications template gets, the better. GustavoCza (talk • contribs) 21:04, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@GustavoCza: Discussion moved.Looking at the source again, some singles (like "Paradise") use 300,000 units for gold, aligning with the certification date theory, while others (like "Shut Up") use 150,000, which corresponds to the release date theory. There might be a simple explanation for this discrepancy, but I haven’t found one. Perhaps using |salesamount= and |salesref= against their intended purpose in this specific case could be an acceptable compromise. While I still have concerns about setting a precedent for using these parameters for certifications, if there is consensus to allow this deviation, it could work for the very limited number of affected articles. Muhandes (talk) 08:23, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alignment of notes in the bottom

Moved from Template talk:Certification Table Entry/Archive 11 § Alignment of notes in the bottom
 – Muhandes (talk) 11:53, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

{{Certification Table Bottom}} collects the footnote-refs for the table entries in a table-cell that is the full width of the table. It centers each of the lines within the cell. That makes it hard to track visually, since the primary way to read it is to find the line that starts with a certain symbol. This is also out-of-sync with ref-lists in other contexts, that are all left-aligned. It's a long-term problem that WP doesn't have a site-wide template or other standard formatting style for table footnotes. Given it's hard-coded here, can we change the formatting here to improve usability and get in sync with others? DMacks (talk) 22:30, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@DMacks: It should be quite easy to edit {{Certification Table Bottom}} to this effect. I've added the task to my TDL but I am not expecting to be free for the next two weeks. Muhandes (talk) 16:31, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@DMacks:I revived this subject from the archive since it was on my to-do list, but I hadn’t been able to address it earlier due to health reasons (which are ongoing, but I’m able to edit now). If this is still of interest, could you provide an example of a left-aligned reference list in a different context—other than the reference and notes sections at the bottom of articles? Does anyone else find this idea appealing? Muhandes (talk) 11:59, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NVPI certs

Lately, the link for NVPI certifications has been changed again (see here), and from now on, you need to select the year to search for requested certifications (there is no longer the option "alle jaargangen" - all the years).

About discography articles featuring Dutch certs, I would like to know if could have some way to search these ones without insert a year, due to be hard-working to guess this one when an album or song were certified. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 16:33, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@LuanCampSouza93: I changed the URL for Netherlands as a first step. The guide text displayed is currently wrong.
I don't see any way to select "all years", so the only thing we can do now is to make |certyear= mandatory. I'll wait for some more input before making it so.
For the future, such discussions belong at Template talk:Cite certification, although it doesn't hurt to leave a note here as well since I think most editors frequent this page more often. Muhandes (talk) 12:14, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Have you ever tried this one? --Milkypine (talk) 17:13, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Milkypine: I didn't know of it's existence, thanks for pointing it out. It seems to be official and other than the latest certifications, identical to the other database. LuanCampSouza93 ? Muhandes (talk) 17:19, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Milkypine: I also didn't know of it's existence. I think it can be useful, more than the previous link. Thank you very much. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 14:07, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It seems to be official and it also checks out to have the same certifications, so I agree.  Done Muhandes (talk) 14:28, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@LuanCampSouza93 and Milkypine: With more experimentation I found out this also works: https://www.goudplatina.nl/database?year=2022&type=Album&search=Future+Nostaliga so I can implement a direct link without a search. I'll try to find time for this next week. --Muhandes (talk) 14:36, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Certification_Table_Summary