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Calvin Harris#Musical style

Hi User:Life of Tau, would you be able to add a sentence to this section please, explaining how Calvin Harris changed to funk music in 2017 after not liking his song "My Way" and electronic dance music anymore, but makes EDM again in 2018 because of Virtual Self's EP and song "Ghost Voices." All sourced from here, those are the main points but I wanted to make it a bit more detailed, the reason I'm asking is because I can't phrase it together right myself. Hope you can help, cheers. --Theo (contribs) 21:58, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Theo Mandela: Hi, Theo. The section seems to already mentions his shift to funk with Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, but the Billboard article could certainly be used to expand it. As for "Ghost Voices", I don't think a single song is enough to say that Harris is returning to electronic dance; I would wait for him to release an EP or studio album that gets called EDM (or one or more of its many genres) by a reliable source before making a statement like that. Given that, my idea for the section's first paragraph is to separate the last sentence into the following two:

On his third studio album 18 Months and its followup Motion, his music largely shed itself of these influences, moving closer to EDM and electro house. Following his professed disinterest in his single "My Way", Harris transitioned to funk on his fifth studio album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1.

What do you think? Life of Tau 02:33, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's great, thanks. Do you want to add this or should I? And should "while also reintroducing some musical elements of his earlier work" be kept afterwards? Thanks. --Theo (contribs) 21:48, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Theo Mandela: Whichever you would like – it's up to you. The part you mentioned doesn't have to be removed, though it would be best if it were sourced (I didn't see anything supporting it in the Billboard or Paste articles). Life of Tau 06:06, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I assumed the Paste article supported it, but I'll leave it up to you if you want to remove it. I'll add what you wrote to the section, thanks again. --Theo (contribs) 10:13, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Lost in Japan" genres

Hi Life of Tau, at the bottom of this article in the POP FIVE section, the writer calls the song funk, but I'm not sure if he's also calling it pop when he says "It’s an exercise in simple, tasteful, mature adult contemporary pop Justin Timberlake wishes Man Of The Woods had more of."? --Theo (contribs) 11:43, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Theo Mandela: I would say he is. Adult contemporary isn't a distinct genre as much as it is a style of sound or radio format, so in this instance it functions as a descriptor like "smooth" or "rhythmic" would. The article definitely supports "Lost in Japan" being a funk and pop song. Life of Tau 04:41, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clearing that up, I've added funk and pop as genres. --Theo (contribs) 09:30, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

God's Plan (song)

Hi Life of Tau, I want to add this source as a ref for pop-rap, but I'm not sure if it's explicit calling the song pop (genre) and hip hop also. --Theo (contribs) 18:09, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Theo Mandela: The article can be used as a source for "God's Plan" being a pop-rap and pop song. The author clearly states that it is a "pop-rap smash"; while it is possible that he intends to say the song is merely a combination of pop and hip hop, we cannot read his mind – we can only go off what is written. As such, we must WP:STICKTOTHESOURCE and assume that the hyphenated pop-rap is referring to the pop-rap genre, not a "hyphenated genre" or the like. As for pop, the writer also describes the song as an "escapist pop smash" no fewer than three times. Life of Tau 21:48, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Life of Tau, I've added it to the article. --Theo (contribs) 18:01, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Emo rap

Thanks for pointing out why you reverted my edit. I didn't know about why my edit was being reverted. I didn't learn yet about how mid- to late 2010s is supposed to be spelled. Statik N (talk) 01:20, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Statik N: You're welcome. I'm sorry if there was any confusion. Life of Tau 06:27, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lo-fi rap

Hi Life of Tau, in this Vanity Fair article, the writer calls "Black Beatles" and "Trap Queen" lo-fi rap, and calls Lil Uzi Vert a lo-fi rapper. Do you know what genre(s) lo-fi rap should link to on Wikipedia? --Theo (contribs) 22:16, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Theo Mandela: Lo-fi hip hop does not have its own article, and from what articles I can find it is not a distinct genre except as a jazzy, ambient-influenced instrumental style often used for studying and related to chill-out music, which is what it redirects to (neither song nor Lil Uzi Vert falls into this category, obviously). Given this, I would say to treat "lo-fi" as just a descriptor, like "smooth" or "poppy", specifying that the hip hop in question has been made to sound lesser in terms of audio quality. The two songs and Lil Uzi Vert each already have hip hop listed in their respective infoboxes, so I see no reason to change those. In the prose for the songs, it can be written that each is a "lo-fi hip hop" song with each part linked as such, since lo-fi is an audial aesthetic and can be used as a descriptor without implying that it is a genre in its own right. For "Trap Queen", given that the source for it being hip hop never states that it is, a citation of the Vanity Fair article would be welcomed as a reference. For Lil Uzi Vert, take care not to relabel all of his hip hop as "lo-fi" based on a single source; at most, you could add a sentence along the lines of:

Vanity Fair described him as a "lo-fi rapper."

in the "Musical style" section after the sentence mentioning emo rap. Life of Tau 05:07, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done for all three. You might want to check my changes to Lil Uzi Vert and "Black Beatles" pages are phrased properly and in the right places, this is not usually a strong point for me. Thanks for explaining lo-fi also. --Theo (contribs) 18:09, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of CanalCanalha for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article CanalCanalha is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CanalCanalha until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 19:58, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify for anyone reading, I created the page as a redirect a year ago, and it is another user who has made it into an article within the past day. I have had no involvement with it other than placing a tag at the top. All of this is evident in the the revision history. Life of Tau 20:47, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the List of most-viewed Asian music videos on YouTube

Well, I created this article with the mindset that every eager mind who wants to clarify the position of various countries of Asia on the platform of YouTube can have an access to the article created by me. It is true that there is not any official release of any article on the web stating this kind of list but it can be noted that there are several articles depicting the tops of individual countries like that of Korea (K-pop), Japan (J-pop), Vietnam (V-pop), Middle East (Arabic songs), India (Bollywood songs and others) and infact almost every region of Asia possess this kind of list. So, what do you say, are they all narrow minded? It is totally obivious that now the world is globalised. So, the music production by any country may seem the participation of other but that doesn't play with the very identity of the song (resembling the culture). Regarding the negligence of middle east, I tried my best to include each and every part of Asia in it, but I could not make it happen because not every part of Asia could make it to the list (means lowering the bar below 350 million would make the article a mess because there are a lot of many videos above 300 million views). For example, V-pop's best has around 336 million views, J-pop's best have 185 million, Arabic best is more than 600 million views, but it was from a Moroccan singer (and exclusively produced by a Moroccan company). So I could not include them in the list. Well, I am not saying that they will never make it to the list or I have the full editing rights on the article. Anyone can edit it and include others in the future and exactly that's how Wikipedia works. Regarding the breach of the very rights of Wikipedia, I have not made this article for using any propaganda or with wrong mindset or intention. If anybody feels so, then he has the full rights regarding molding the article in the way it suits an encyclopediac content and making it fruitful for others.

Thank you for your kind intention. Rishu Shukla (talk) 23:52, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have responded to this comment on the talk page where it was originally posted. Life of Tau 07:39, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Summertime Sadness remix

Hi Life of Tau, I've found an article from Stereogum that explicitly calls the remix Eurodance ([1]), but I wondered if the Idolator article sourced already is calling it house when it says of the music video, "the euphoric house production contrasts with the melancholy aesthetic in that way that feels quintessentially Lana and, well, if nothing else, the track is straight fire." If they're saying the "production" of the whole song is house, does that make it a house song? Cheers. --Theo Mandela (talk) 19:59, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Theo Mandela: Good question. I think in most cases, songs described as having "house production" by reliable sources are themselves house. However, it could be that the author has merely identified characteristics of the song's production—such as a 4/4 beat, prominent bass drum, or repetitive hi-hats—that house music is closely associated with. It is possible for an EDM song to have some or all of such traits without technically being house. In general, a song being described as having "[genre x] production" is likely, but not necessarily an indicator of that song being of [genre x]. That said, the genre has been sourced in the "Summertime Sadness" article using the Idolator page for over four years; as with the hyphenated genre incident last year, an undiscussed removal will likely be reverted by another user as being against consensus. The presence of house in the remix's infobox is not some grave error and, as noted earlier, is most likely accurate, but if this is something you wish to challenge, I would highly suggest starting a discussion on the talk page to gain consensus (you are free to cite what I have written). If other editors are in disagreement, the best option would be to simply move on; it is at best a quite minor issue that is in no way worth getting into a heated argument or edit war over. Life of Tau 23:59, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Good point, I'd only want to remove it if Idolator definitely isn't calling it house. I reckon I'll leave it be this time, thanks. --Theo Mandela (talk) 02:51, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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"One Dance", "Heatstroke" and "Slide"

Hi Life of Tau, I want to fix the genres on "One Dance", the infobox had dancehall and Afrobeat as genres (with refs, but I can't access the NY Times one for Afrobeat, and I'm not sure the two for dancehall are being explicit). Whereas, the "Composition and recording" section calls it "a R&B song heavily infused with Nigerian afrobeat and Jamaican dancehall". I recently added a ref to the infobox ([2]) I thought was calling the song UK funky, I've since wondered if that was explicit, then an IP editor changed it to R&B. What would you say should be kept and removed please?

Also: When news.com.au says "Like Frank Ocean’s Slide, the grower of the year, Heatstroke – with Pharrell, Young Thug and Ariana Grande – should have been the song of the summer, a sun-kissed disco funk delight", it doesn't hyphenate disco and funk and misses an "and" in-between them, how should the genres be styled in the infobox, and is it also calling "Slide" disco funk? Thanks. --Theo Mandela (talk) 16:55, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Theo Mandela: Hello and apologies for the belatedness of this reply; this has been quite a busy summer for me. Looking through the sources, I find no issue in the way that "One Dance" is described as a dancehall song. However, the New York Times page, which I was able to find a working URL for, states merely that the song "incorporates contemporary Afrobeat", which is insufficient. In the main body, the R&B statement appears to be completely unsourced. Regarding the Guardian article, the way "One Dance" is described as UK funky is indeed explicit. Looking at the page history, what occurred with your genre addition appears to be the result of an unfortunate understanding, as one IP editor changed the genre to contemporary R&B (presumably based on either their personal opinion or a desire for the genre list to match what is stated in the composition section), and another IP editor removed it because it is not supported by the source (which is in fact true, though ignorant of your original intent). You have every right to restore UK funky if you wish.

As for your news.com.au article, the description "disco funk", although not strictly a hyphenated genre, it shares many of their traits and is nevertheless uncomfortably vague. While it is entirely possible that the author is intending to state that "Heatstroke" is both a disco and funk song, it is also possible that the author means it to indicate that they have recognized characteristics of both genres in the recording. The description is ultimately too ambiguous to reliably ascertain the author's intended meaning, and an edit that does so may constitute original research (I further elaborate on this in a recent comment regarding a similar instance). However, what would be acceptable is adding a sentence such as News.com.au described the song as a "sun-kissed disco funk delight." to the composition section, as this presents the author's words as-is, without any interpretation on the part of the user.

Hope this helps. Life of Tau 06:43, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I've added UK funky, as well as pop from another source, to "One Dance" and the sentence to "Heatstroke".

On a separate note, I was wondering about captioned images for the XXXTentacion article, since it's now quite large, I think this would help readers navigate the article easier. Most sections of the article are big enough to include side images, but I'm not sure which images to add or how to phrase the captions. I thought of Kurt Cobain for the "Musical style" section (whose article is a good example of well-placed captions), as he "attributed him as his biggest influence." and one of the memorial images perhaps for the "Legacy" section. What are your thoughts on the idea? Since you've edited a number of hip hop-related articles, The National article might also be useful for the SoundCloud rap page, mostly where it says "Where grunge was a reaction to the slickly produced spandex rock of the 1980s, SoundCloud Rap is the response to the bombastic and hyper-celebratory sounds of modern hip-hop extolled by the likes of Rick Ross and DJ Khaled. Where they celebrated partying, XXXTentacion discussed the flip side such as the timely topic depression, which was rarely heard in hip-hop at the time."

Thanks again. Theo Mandela (talk) 11:54, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Despacito is now a Good Article

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		Hi! The Despacito article passed a GA review and I wanted to thank you for your text-related contributions (rewording, restructuring sentences). Your edits have really improved the article. Brankestein (talk) 00:13, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Brankestein: Thank you very much. It is appreciated. Life of Tau 06:43, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of most-subscribed YouTube channels

I saw the recent change regarding the network section of the list. While I'm all for it, there are some things that need to be improved on:

1. The sources are outdated.

2. The channel-network association are outdated as well

Tying these two together, just because SocialBlade once had the network name on every YouTube account page, doesn't mean that the page referenced is up to date. (Examples: Marshmello switched from Monstercat to Spinnin' Records, Maker Studios has since rebranded as Disney Digital Network, etc.) Not only are the sources outdated, it makes the whole list outdated as well.

3. Unnecessary footnotes

This is just a personal nitpick, but I don't think a footnote is needed for every non-network channel just to tell people when they no longer where affiliated by network. Also, the sources on the network sections could be better suited positioned next to the channel name. This could be aesthetically pleasing to the viewer while also provide a better editing experience for you, me, and all the other editors who edit this list.

Other than that, the change is fine. I hope you take my points into consideration. I would do most of this myself, but I'm heading back to school soon, so I won't be editing as at all. Plus, I wanted to talk to you about it anyways because you are much more experienced than me and you were the one who made the change anyways. Thank you for understanding. Have a great day. Dannyyankee12_{let's talk} 04:34, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have responded to this comment on the relevant article talk page. Life of Tau 07:44, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Luccas Neto

Hi, I'm Usernamekiran. Life of Tau, thanks for creating Luccas Neto!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Kindly add relevant wikiproject banners to the talkpage of article. It is suggested to take a look at similar article.

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—usernamekiran(talk) 20:16, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Usernamekiran: There seems to have been a misunderstanding—I did create the page as a redirect last month, but it is an unregistered user (14.177.218.218) who has been attempting to make it an article. I have had no involvement with the page since creating it. I recommend that you leave your message on the other user's talk page instead. Thank you. Life of Tau 05:20, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thunderclouds (song), Audio (song), Genius (LSD song)

Can you keep an eye for three pages? Make sure whoever adding genres are based on sources that explicitly says what genre it is. Soft pop (talk) 08:26, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Soft pop: Will do, thanks. Life of Tau 07:32, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me!?

What I have added was NOT original sources, if you wanted proof, ya could have just looked them up yourself! I feel like these reverts were wrong and I have video citation links to provide even further proof — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justdancingsam (talk • contribs) 19:07, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Justdancingsam: If you have reliable sources supporting your additions, then add references citing them, simple as that. Otherwise, your edits will continue to be reverted. Life of Tau 19:17, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

FAC: Forca Bruta

Hello. My featured-article nomination of Forca Bruta has stagnated. You appear to have an experienced grasp on music articles, so I would like to ask. Can you please leave comments or review? Dan56 (talk) 04:38, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Dan56: Hello and apologies for the relatedness of this reply. I am sorry to see that the FAC for Fôrça Bruta is close to being archived. Although I have never participated in an FAC nomination before, I am open to the experience and would be happy for your article to be my first foray into the process. Unfortunately, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to conduct a thorough review and submit a vote in a timely manner (most likely, I would have this completed by end of the year)—given that the FAC remaining live appears to be hinging on a support anticipated to be submitted shortly, I doubt the extent to which my input would be of help. I too would likely support the nomination, so do let me know if that would be beneficial, bearing in mind that it could take up to a month. It is clear that you have invested a significant amount of time and effort into improving the article, and for this you should be proud. Best of luck with your future editing. Life of Tau 23:51, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Your signature

Hi, would you be able to fix the formatting of your signature so that it only covers one line? Here's how it currently looks:

'''[[User:Life of Tau|<span style="background-color: #0B0080; color:orange;">Life</span>]][[User talk:Life of Tau|<span style="background-color: #0B0080; color:gold;">of</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Life of Tau|Tau]]'''

Cheers, Anarchyte (talk | work) 06:57, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Anarchyte: Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have modified my signature so that this will no longer be an issue. Life of Tau 23:56, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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	Just a small token of appreciation for your tireless works at Wikipedia, especially at List of most-subscribed YouTube channels. Thank you. Pratyush (talk) 18:53, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@PratyushSinha101: Thank you very much; this is greatly appreciated. Rest assured that I still have plans to further improve the article. Life of Tau 23:59, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What are you trying to do?

I added 6 songs that were released with its source? What is wrong with that? I seriously can not understand you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saint Ranermer (talk • contribs) 23:34, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

My edit summaries sufficiently explain my reasons for reverting. I have not forgotten your flagrant vandalism, your egregious personal attack on Binksternet's talk page, your similarly hostile comment (since revdeleted) on this very page, or your blatant abuse of multiple accounts, among other offenses. Given this behavior, you should not be surprised that any user familiar with your history has very little tolerance for your continued disruptive actions. Edits that remove items from a featured list without any explanation are disruptive, regardless of the user responsible. Life of Tau 03:02, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Filter-disco

Hi Life of Tau, this Pitchfork article refers to "I Feel It Coming" as "lilting filter-disco", but do you know what genre article(s) this should link to? The disambig page for filter house has it as synonymous with French house. Theo Mandela (talk) 08:28, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Theo Mandela: Filter house appears to be either a subcategory or synonym of French house, making "filter-disco" a hyphenated genre. I personally would not add it (especially when the article already contains disco as a sourced genre), but if you wish to do so, I would recommend linking it as follows:[[French house|filter]]-[[disco]]. Hope this helps. Life of Tau 21:20, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I was actually planning on replacing disco in the infobox with filter-disco because The Independent only describes the beat of the song as disco. Thanks a lot for explaining. Theo Mandela (talk) 23:19, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Theo Mandela: I have added an additional reference for disco. I find the filter-disco entry to be unnecessary given the genre that precedes it, but we can disagree on this point. Life of Tau 23:42, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the contribution, looking at it now I don't necessarily disagree about filter-disco being in the infobox. Going on what's said here (aim for generability with infobox genres; try and keep to two-four genres in the infobox), I'd keep disco and pop in the infobox and expand on filter-disco in the 'composition' section. Theo Mandela (talk) 00:15, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Sicko Mode" and Starboy

Hi Life of Tau, just unsure about which genre(s) exactly Billboard is calling "Sicko Mode" when they say it broke "the mold of what a rap-turned-pop record should sound like" (out of pop-rap, hip hop or/and pop).
And can Rolling Stone saying The Weeknd "stuffs Starboy with dreary alt-R&B boilerplates and arch New Wave near misses" mean alternative R&B and new wave can be sourced in the genre box? Thanks, Theo Mandela (talk) 20:52, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Theo Mandela: I would say that Billboard article can be used to support "Sicko Mode" being hip hop and the Rolling Stone article can be used to support Starboy being alternative R&B and new wave. As far as I can tell, the "x turned y" construction indicates that the work or artist being described is fundamentally x but heavily influenced by y. "Arch" is a relatively unusual qualifier, but it does not appear to invalidate or diminish the "new wave" descriptor being applied to a significant portion of the album. Hope this helps. Life of Tau 23:43, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The edit's already been made to "Sicko Mode", will add alt-R&B/new wave to Starboy. Appreciate the breakdown given, thanks. Theo Mandela (talk) 00:28, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done Theo Mandela (talk) 02:17, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Music genre colours

Text-to-background colour combinations on Wikipedia are required to have a contrast ratio of 7 at the very least. #BB0022 doesn't quite work[3] and crimson (#DC143C) is really far off. [4] Other colours such as olive (#808000)[5] and #A0522D[6] are also far off. My edits helped empty Category:Articles using Template:Infobox music genre with invalid colour combination, by reverting them you effectively re-added 271 pages. Grapesoda22 (✉) 18:19, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Can you point to where you got the ratio of 7? The instructions at Template:Color_contrast_ratio set a limit of 4.5 for regular text, and even less contrast for large text. MOS:COLOR doesn't mention anything about 7:1 ratio, nor does Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility#Color or Wikipedia:Colour contrast. Perhaps the mechanism is faulty or outdated for populating the categories with invalid colour combinations. I cannot see where the category gets its ratio, so I cannot judge. It's automatically populated. A possible fix is to adjust the mechanism to allow ratios as low as 4.5 to 1. Binksternet (talk) 20:56, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Swingin' With My Eyes Closed

Hi Life of Tau, can The Musical Hype saying "There's some country, some reggae, and some pop." and Metro saying "and including country-reggae in the case of uninviting opener Swingin’ With My Eyes Closed." mean country and reggae can be sourced in the genre box? Can you help me out? 2402:1980:246:69B6:4794:66A3:F30F:1410 (talk) 19:15, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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	Thanks for helping out with handling the repetitive edit requests at Talk:List of most-subscribed YouTube channels. Your efforts are appreciated. Regards, ~Swarm~ {talk} 09:59, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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		Helping sort out issues in general BMO4744 (talk) 16:05, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Whats your problem?

You know Tseries surpassed pewdiepie for more than 24hrs on 27th March,2019 I even have a screenshot of the Wikipedia page from 28thMarch stating that, its 2days now and Tseries is still ahead..why did you edit the historical progression of most subscribed Channel page...Why are you doing this..Why the hell are you so intolerant??STOP SPREADING FAKE INFORMATION. Tseries has won..and u stop being a butthurt! LisaAlKhalid (talk) 22:25, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tseries

Tseries is ahead of pewdiepie in Subscribers from like 3 days continuosly,which is 27th,28th&29th March which is 72 hours then why is T Series not in the historical progression of the most subscribed channel table...its written N/A there pls edit it..for good.Dont be baised ,ECP users should not do that.pls okay. LisaAlKhalid (talk) 18:46, 29 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Touch (Shift K3Y song)

Hi Tau, I've added Hi-NRG as a genre, based on this Pitchfork review, but am not sure if it's explicitly being called dance-pop also. Does the "as with" mean 'similar to a lot of crossover UK dance-pop' or 'as with a lot of other UK dance-pop'? It's one of those were if it was spoken I could immediately tell by the inflection how it was meant but because it's written I can't be sure. Theo Mandela (talk) 20:10, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment by Tupacfanboy214

I want to request a edit of a Wikipedia page Tupacfanboy214 (talk) 01:54, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I want to edit the Wikipedia Page of the most subscribed YouTube channels because under historical progressions PewDiePie had the reign from December 22, 2013 - March 27, 2019 that is 1921 days and T - Series was Most Subscribed from March 27 2019 - April 1st 2019 that is 4 days still don’t know why you have it as N/A Can you please fix it or unblock the protection Tupacfanboy214 (talk) 19:38, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Music genres and WCAG-compliance

Hi Tau, I don't mean to belabor the point, but in going to implement some of your music genre color contrast suggestions, I found that the music genre infobox tags pages as noncompliant if they are below WCAG AAA standards, not AA. I've started a new section on the talk page about it. You might like to weigh in. Mooeena ● 💌 ● ✒️ ● ❓ 06:37, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dark Horse (Katy Perry song)

Hi Life of Tau. I found Mic.com says "Katy Perry's pop-rap crossover "Dark Horse," " Can you replace as "pop" is now redundant? 2402:1980:254:D2E5:ADAE:3691:4515:14FA (talk) 10:22, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I mean, "pop-rap" is more accurate than "pop". 2402:1980:824A:61A2:976D:4116:82F:76D3 (talk) 05:03, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you won't take so long after I requested. 2402:1980:24D:A8EA:1D27:8252:13BA:6ECC (talk) 17:20, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello? 2402:1980:240:4245:F411:1F0A:6E71:8016 (talk) 02:40, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved 2402:1980:241:26A7:B97F:6AA9:A6B1:F3EB (talk) 15:20, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hip Hop

WHY DO YOU KEEP DELETING THE ADDITION TO LATINO AMERICANS IN HIP HOP HISTORY?! I keep adding and you keep deleting it?! Hip hop was not only created by African Americans! It was created in the Bronx by both African American and Latino American youth! What’s your issue? Heribertovelazqueziii (talk) 06:15, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of Heribertovelazqueziii (talk) 06:16, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It is recorded in history and is a fact. Most of the BBoys were Latino and some of the pioneer DJs were Latino as well. Heribertovelazqueziii (talk) 06:17, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And rapping was not created because of African spoken words 😂 that’s ridiculous! The youth in the Bronx didn’t have access to those traditions in Africa. That is a ridiculous statement and has been debunked. Heribertovelazqueziii (talk) 06:18, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Adding links as Sources on the Hip Hop Music wiki page

[[7]] [[8]] [[9]] [[10]] [[11]] [[12]] [[13]]

May you please add these as sources to the hip hop wiki page. I still have not learned how to do it. Thankyou Heribertovelazqueziii (talk) 07:54, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

House Music

Sorry - operating a new computer with my grandson - my mistake! I think I've got it right now.

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More about House Music

Thank you for your further correction. I will get the hang of this! You're very kind.

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June 2019

Hello, I'm No1lakersfan. I noticed that you recently removed content from Klezmer without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Edits) 21:00, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. The blanking was an unintended action caused by attempting to save an edit after the session data had been lost. Life of Tau 21:26, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tropical pop

Can you create redirect "Tropical pop" to Dancehall? "Tropical pop" is listed as "Fusion genres" in "Dancehall" article's infobox. Or maybe listed as "subgenres" in reggae fusion infobox. It's up to you. 2402:1980:8254:8C9D:AC13:5C38:4104:6614 (talk) 05:51, 1 July 2019 (UTC) (updated by 2402:1980:824F:2D19:E688:3EC4:30DB:63AD (talk) 03:59, 2 July 2019 (UTC))[reply]

Why no reply? 2402:1980:24C:68FA:601B:3DDF:C8AB:5A6 (talk) 17:16, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Are you busy? 2402:1980:240:ADB1:F206:16F6:1D6B:6E28 (talk) 15:44, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm waiting... 2402:1980:245:68CF:E5E3:A849:4019:2351 (talk) 01:38, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Old Town Road

Hi. Please understand:

• G# minor and B major have the same key signature; as I stated earlier, see the pages on key signatures and relative major/minor keys if you do not grasp this

• The cited page for the key is a piece of sheet music that in no place says B major

• I have a Ph.D. in music theory; trust me; the tonic of the song is unambiguously and solely G#. Whoever wrote B major was misreading the sheet music. Even keeping the sheet music as a reliable source supports a reading/hearing of G#.

• correct information matters more than dogmatic process

Thanks.

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East Asia / Eurobeat revert.

I have rv your edits (assuming good faith, of course) in the Eurobeat article, specifically your changes regarding Japan → East Asia. Here's why:

The burden of proof is on you. The article as it is now, severely lacking in sources notwithstanding, overwhelmingly points towards being 1. British, 2. Italian, 3. Japanese music/phenomenon/whatever. I would, but I won't because after all I am assuming good faith, say that this was a one-sided attempt at generalizing a topic that in fact has a ton of evidence that it is specifically a Japanese, rather than a general East Asian phenomenon; you failed to establish that connection. Eurobeat is also popular in Mexico so you left that one out as well. ItsAlwaysLupus (talk) 22:15, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Addendum

+ Here, for convenience, I left your East Asia edit here: Eurobeat#Renaissance:_"From_Italy_to_Japan"

	Despite its European origins, the Eurobeat style's main market has always been in Japan and other parts of East Asia,[citation needed]

— ItsAlwaysLupus (talk) 22:23, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ItsAlwaysLupus: It seems that you have messaged the wrong user. The edits you refer to were performed by unregistered user 2001:8003:401e:ef00:88f7:c57c:71e1:3799; you may wish to leave a message on their talk page instead. Life of Tau 07:48, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I Don't Care (Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber song)

Hi @Life of Tau: ~~Pitchfork review says "a vector of the dancehall-lite rhythms" that explicit a genre?~~ And here's two sources that calling the song "tropical pop" [14][15], but I don't which is which (dancehall or reggae fusion). See Tropical pop above. 2402:1980:244:761:58F9:188C:C8A8:5F51 (talk) 04:11, 12 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I replaced with another reliable source for the same genre. What do you think? 2402:1980:8247:91F5:60AD:A906:1D34:29A5 (talk) 03:12, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Splitting columns

Hello, Life of Tau. I've just created Legacy of Eminem and am looking for a method to split the lists on that page into two or three columns. If you know of a way, please help me out. I noticed how you bundled a set of references on Clean Bandit and I followed your method on Kendall Jenner. Thank you. MushroomDiamond (talk) 12:37, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Found it (Help:List). MushroomDiamond (talk) 17:16, 26 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Justin Bieber Content Category Isn't Right.

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west coast hip hop plagriasm

can you please fix the article a anonymous guys keeps putting fake history in it I tried but I'm not a very good editor Unbroken22 (talk) 14:53, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of most-subscribed YouTube channels

What do you mean my edits are undiscussed? First of all, Universal Music Group was never known as UniversalMC so you should keep that because everybody knows that. Second of all, "this article shows..." is not a good way to start an article. These edits were fine like that for almost 3 weeks also. That is stuff everybody knows so discussing it is not needed. If you have logic on why that stuff should have been discussed before the edit being made, then please tell it. TheDiaperPinez37 (talk) 03:10, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@TheDiaperPinez37: I will address each of your changes individually.

Replacing "UniversalMC" with "Universal Music Group": The names of multi-channel networks may not exactly match the entities that they are associated with. "UniversalMC" is the correct name of EminemMusic's network as listed on the cited [Social Blade page].

Reordering the images: Please explain how switching the order of the images improves the article. Would it not be more appropriate for the image corresponding to the most-subscribed channel to be located at the top of the page?

Piping links in order to bypass redirects: As explained in WP:NOTBROKEN, doing this is unnecessary.

Rewording and rearranging the text in the note: The specific changes made do not, in my view, improve the text. The sentence is grammatically correct in its current form, and by replacing selecting with clicking, input methods such as touchpads and touchscreens are not acknowledged.

Resturcuting the lede: This is the one change that, to my eyes, has merit. I have restored it, and I apologize for initially reverting it. Life of Tau 23:59, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, let's go through them: 1. Well okay then. 2. T-Series is ILLEGALLY getting subscribers by making their videos be played on illegal but very-popular-in-India websites, while PewDiePie is actually getting subscribers legit. 3. Fine then. 4. I didn't even care about doing that. 5. Thank you for keeping it, and thank you for the apology. You are forgiven. TheDiaperPinez37 (talk) 17:24, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@TheDiaperPinez37: It is not our job as editors to determine whether a channel's subscribers are legitimate. We can only report the official figures that YouTube provides. Life of Tau 07:51, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There was someone who thought that the PewDiePie picture on the page should be completely removed as the article is about most subscribed channels and not individuals. Would you agree, or do you think placing it below T-Series is enough? TheDiaperPinez37 (talk) 00:37, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@TheDiaperPinez37: Apologies for the delayed reply. The PewDiePie image is not a necessary addition to the article, but because he remains the platform's most-subscribed individual, a reasonable argument can be made that its inclusion is appropriate. A stronger rationale, in my view, would be that Kjellberg's channel holds the record for most overall days spent as the most-subscribed on YouTube. However, I have yet to see a (non-paywalled) reliable source acknowledge this fact. If the image is included, it should not be placed above the one that corresponds to the current most-subscribed channel. Life of Tau 11:40, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Folk-rap/Rap-folk

Hi. The term "Folk rap" or "Rap folk" does not have a wikilink to redirect. However, in Alternative hip hop, says "Alternative rap refers to hip hop groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta, bass, hardcore, pop, and party rap. Instead, they blur genres drawing equally from funk and pop/rock, as well as jazz, soul, reggae, and even folk." 2402:1980:2A3:CE83:C913:64C8:FE25:700C (talk) 16:05, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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