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Genre changes in music articles - December 2020
Hello. Some of your recent genre changes have conflicted with our neutral point of view and/or verifiability policies. While we invite all users to contribute constructively to Wikipedia, we urge all editors to provide reliable sources for edits made. When others disagree, we recommend you seek consensus for certain edits by discussing the matter on the article's talk page. I noticed that you changed the genre of several music articles without first discussion the proposed changes on the article Talk Page, nor seeking consensus or adding a reliable source. When changing genres, it's important that you follow that protocol. It would not be a bad idea for you to please change them back, so that other editors do not have to do that clean up work. I'll send a personal welcome in another message below. Netherzone (talk) 03:37, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
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Happy editing! Netherzone (talk) 03:43, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

My response copied here from my Talk Page re: genre changes
Want to make sure you see this, as I don't think Reply Link tool "pings" IP editors.

Hi, I hope you receive this, but I'm not sure you will receive a ping because you don't have an account. I also answered on my talk page. Firstly, thank you for your thoughtful message on my Talk Page, I appreciate it. I saw your genre changes after you added Def Leppard as being influenced by T.Rex (which was not an issue at all. I got curious since I too am a rock music fan so I looked at your edit history and saw the genre changes.) Changing genres is sort of big deal to some editors, which is why the Twinkle tool has a template for this (more on Twinkle another time). I trust that you know what you are talking about, however, the way things work on Wikipedia, whenever you make a change that could potentially be controvertial (meaning someone may get bent out of shape about it, or it might go against policy or guidelines) it's recommended you discuss it first on the article's talk page (there's a tab near the top of the article window for Talk.) That way you can reach out to any page watchers who might want to discuss the matter. It could be as simple as posting, "Hey does anyone mind if I change the genre from Garage Punk to Skate Punk?" This is how consensus works on Wikipedia. Other editors may agree with you or challenge you (or ignore you) so if there's no communication for a couple weeks, it's usually fine to make a potentially controversial change. See WP:Consensus for more information. If you have trouble using an article talk page, let me know and I'll try to help, or you can always reach out to the Help Desk WP:Help desk or at the TeaHouse WP:Teahouse. Because we are all volunteers, it can sometimes take a day or two to get a question answered, so it's a good idea to bookmark the page (or if you register a user account, you can add it to your "watch list." Secondly, if you want to register but can figure out how, go to the teahouse or help. There are a lot of advantages to having an account in addition to the watchlist feature. There are several tools that are useful, and communications in general run more smoothly. I've also found that I "met" a lot of really interesting people here that I've learned a lot from. Well, that's all for now. If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask. Netherzone (talk) 21:10, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Oh, one last thing, you can boldly make "controversial" edits without first posting on talk for consensus, but you have to add a citation (reference) to a reliable source (newspaper, magazine, book) to back up the claim. If someone disagrees, they can revert your edit, then it gets discussed on talk. This is called the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle - see WP:BRD for more information. Netherzone (talk) 21:15, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

I've answered you on my Talk Page
I've responded to you on my talk page. I don't know if you will receive a ping from there so I'm giving you a heads up here to check my Talk. Cheers, Netherzone (talk) 19:56, 31 December 2020 (UTC)