User talk:Stocolatecharfish
December 2023
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Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Good Times (Finger Eleven song), disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. See WP:STYLEVAR. Don't go around "fixing" stuff that isn't broken. Binksternet (talk) 22:03, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for correcting my error, and I apologize for the inconvenience. I do have one question; are both formats correct everywhere, or does it depend on the format used in related articles? Stocolatecharfish (talk) 22:34, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did at Back into Your System, you may be blocked from editing. Binksternet (talk) 04:52, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you change genres in pages without discussion or sources, as you did at Cinco Diablo. Binksternet (talk) 04:53, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Genre warring
[edit]Per WP:EXPLICITGENRE, all genres on Wikipedia must be named explicitly in the sources. Song genres come from reviews of songs. Album genres come from reviews of albums, not from your impression of the various songs, nor from the various reviews of the songs. Artist genres come from artist reviews. And none of it comes from you listening to the music and deciding. Binksternet (talk) 05:05, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- To that I must ask, why are there albums and songs on this website that don't follow this rule. The "This Means War" (Nickelback song) article doesn't cite the genres that it lists (on that topic, I didn't add any sources to that page, I just corrected the format because genre tags are only supposed to be capitalized for the first label, with all further tags being in lowercase unless the name includes a proper noun ["Southern rock"]). Also, those Saliva albums that I edited included the genre labels in the reviews (minus Back Into Your System, I take full responsibility for that error), so why didn't you keep all of the tags that were mentioned in the genre section. I have seen many songs on here with genre classifications and no reviews or even sources given for said claims. I'm not trying to be malicious, I just don't understand why this genre rule is only enforced in certain scenarios but not others. Stocolatecharfish (talk) 05:16, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Because of too many people going around changing things without following the guidelines and policies. And not enough people cleaning up after them. Binksternet (talk) 06:57, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- It also seems to depend on who looks over the pages.
- I removed the unsourced genres on all of Live's songs and Shinedown's songs; those changes remain in place as of right now.
- Conversely, I did the same thing to all of Three Days Grace's songs and had my edits reverted due to "genrewarring"; they also said that genres can be listed if they are agreed upon, even without any sources.
- I just wish that these rules were applied more consistently. 73.113.92.135 (talk) 07:27, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Because of too many people going around changing things without following the guidelines and policies. And not enough people cleaning up after them. Binksternet (talk) 06:57, 30 December 2023 (UTC)