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February 2014

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The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Talk That Talk was changed by AlisaJay (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.891722 on 2014-02-11T16:14:49+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 16:14, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Again, welcome! Yngvadottir (talk) 17:05, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi AlisaJay: First of all, I'm sorry no one has yet welcomed you to Wikipedia, given you links to policies, guidelines, and where to ask for help, and thanked you for your edits; sorry about that!

In response to your post at ClueBot Commons, I've had a little look, and what appears to be triggering ClueBot NG is your adding dire warnings as concealed comments in article infoboxes. It might be best to stop doing that. Genres do tend to be contentious, but threatening people with blocking is likely to get their dander up and is excessive, since we have to see a pattern of continuing damaging editing after multiple warnings before we block, and I don't see a high level of monkeying around on those articles anyway. I suggest you (continue to) watchlist them and consider posting to the article talk page when there are recurring problems, so that you can point to the relevant section in an edit summary when it happens again. (WP:BRD - bold, revert, start a discussion on talk.) Also, please start using edit summaries so other editors can see what you are doing and why. I would not be surprised if that is also a factor in ClueBot's reverts and warnings - it's an AI trained on human responses to sample edits, and an unexplained edit often is hudged more harshly by a fellow human, too. Other than that, consider reporting them as false positives as suggested in the template. Hope this advice is of some use, thanks again for helping us build the encyclopedia. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:05, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Genre changes

The source you cited at Talk That Talk, an MTV review of the album, says that Rihanna experiments with several genres such as "dirty pop, dance, R&B and drum n' bass" (the latter of which you omitted). At Unapologetic, the Chicago Tribune reviewer says the album is "ostensibly" a pop album, and the fact that the Rolling Stone reviewer says there is "stark R&B" on the album does not mean the same thing as Unapologetic being an R&B album. According to The A.V. Club reviewer (which is cited in "Critical reception"), it is a "pop record", which the critic states explicitly and with no significant qualifying information (WP:Cherry-picking). I don't appreciate you calling my edit possible vandalism when I offered an adequate edit summary before. This issue has been reverted over and discussed numerous times (including at Talk:Unapologetic#Genres), so it would be appropriate to discuss your changes beforehand. Also, it's not a simple matter of slapping a genre to the infobox with a citation--the information for which the infobox is based on should be in the article already (Wikipedia:IBX#References_in_infoboxes). Dan56 (talk) 18:12, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]