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A tag has been placed on Space Zombies requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a musical recording which does not indicate why its subject is important or significant, and where the artist's article has never existed, has been deleted or is eligible for deletion itself. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for music.

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September 2017

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Emo, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 07:58, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Easycore

Why isn't Easycore allowed to be created, there are plenty of resources on the internet and the sound is specific enough to warrant it's own page. Dekai Averett (talk) 02:22, 26 September 2017 (UTC) Copied from Talk:Easycore – wbm1058 (talk) 11:58, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Because per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Easycore (3rd nomination) and two earlier discussions, and Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 February 2#Easycore, the consensus was to delete the page. It strikes me that there is no consensus on what "easycore" is, as different people have different ideas on what the term means. We need to find sufficient coverage in WP:reliable sources to form a definition for the word.

There are articles on the topic in French Wikipedia and Spanish Wikipedia. If you can translate those (see Google Translate) perhaps they have more sources that could establish the topic's notability.

You might try defining the word in Wikimedia's sister dictionary wiki, Wiktionary, by creating the page wikt:easycore. If you can get that to stick, then you may ask me to put a link to that on Wikipedia, using {{Wiktionary redirect}}. That would be a start. However, the Urban dictionary definition hints that this is slang, and I can't find any mainstream online dictionary that defines the word. Not Dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster, Cambridge or Oxford Dictionaries, Collins English Dictionary or The Free Dictionary. None of them define the word. – wbm1058 (talk) 11:58, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

September 2017

Please refrain from changing genres, as you did to Pierce the Veil, without providing a source or establishing a consensus on the article's talk page first. Genre changes to suit your own point of view are considered disruptive. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 23:22, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

October 2017

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to change genres without discussion or sources, as you did at Pop punk, you may be blocked from editing. Binksternet (talk) 03:43, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Undo applied to unregistered user

After I reverted an edit at Punk rock made by an unregistered user, I noticed that the edit history message said that I reverted your Emo edit. I don't know why the system made that mistake—the words I typed in come right after that added message. The reversion was made to the unregistered editor, not you. I agree with your edit. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks. Garagepunk66 (talk) 02:10, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

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January 2018

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 Oasis (band). Robvanvee 13:03, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Math metal

Hello and thank you for producing the disambiguation page Math metal. Please can you help out by fixing the articles which link to that page and should link to one of the three articles instead? The main priority is Template:Experimental music genres, which appears on 49 pages, but there are plenty of other articles: list here. I expect most of them should go to Mathcore but I don't know the subject well enough to be sure. Thanks, Certes (talk) 00:08, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Pinging Robvanvee in view of the previous message, which I just noticed. Can these genres be fixed without causing disruption? Certes (talk) 00:13, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Indie emo listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Indie emo. Since you had some involvement with the Indie emo redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. PamD 14:40, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

March 2018

Please refrain from changing genres, as you did to Boarding House Reach, without providing a source or establishing a consensus on the article's talk page first. Genre changes to suit your own point of view are considered disruptive. Thank you. Ss112 22:58, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Ss112 They were all sourced in the source I gave for progressive rock. Did you read it?

April 2018

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to change genres without discussion or sources, as you did at Total Xanarchy, you may be blocked from editing. Ss112 00:24, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

User:Ss112 the album was literally hip hop, he is a rapper, that isn't disruptive editing, that's common sense, if you want a source it would literally take no time to find one. I think there are bigger fish to fry then this.

It's not my responsibility to source material other editors, including you, add; make yourself aware of WP:BURDEN. You're also acting like rappers always make hip hop albums, like they can't do anything else. It might be "common sense" to you, but it's not a given—rappers can make albums in other genres. It's not obvious. I reverted you then warned you in maybe about 30 seconds; that's not spending a lot of time on your addition of unsourced content or not having "bigger fish to fry". If you don't understand that content you add to Wikipedia needs to be sourced regardless of how "common sense" you think it is, then just so you know, you will most likely continue to receive warnings and may be blocked. Ss112 03:36, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Naked City (band). Robvanvee 05:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Apologies Robvanvee, I sincerely thought that the edit was constructive and it was made in good faith. I will try to refrain from doing so from this point onward.

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Your usage of "You Don't Need Maps" as a reliable source

I recently noted that you added references to the blog "You Don't Need Maps" here and here. The source is self-published and just like every other source on Wikipedia needs to meet certain guidelines such as having "a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy" and other details noted at WP:V, but in particular self-published sources "are largely not acceptable as sources" unless there reliability can be thoroughly established. From the description given on the homepage for the blog it appears that the blog is run by a single person who is a fan of punk rock music, not any one particularly recognizable or notable on the the subject of music genres, not to say that their opinions are incorrect, only that they cannot be easily taken as reliable. I would encourage to find better sources such as this one which contain similar or the same information but are more reliable. —T.E.A. (Talk•Edits) 02:32, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Okay I understand, thank you. Dekai Averett (talk), 24 Febuary 2019 (UTC)

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Re: Kanye West edit and other genre-warring in the past

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