User talk:Atorabtab

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Happy editing! Tarheel95 (Talk) 20:12, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Afro-Beat / Afro-Rock
I’m not understanding why you are continually deleting the Afro-Rock status of Osibisa. Osibisa were band that literally defined the genre and the 1970’s albums show this distinctly in early press reports, books and sleeve notes regarding many of the early albums. Afrobeat was not even an active term when the band started.

Granted they have certainly contributed to the Afrobeat genre from the late eighties onwards but they were hardly the leaders of it when you consider what Fela Kuti and others put forward in the early years.

I would appreciate if you can revert to the previous changes and then leave the term Afro-Rock alone as the band really where the inventors of the genre. McMalcolm (talk) 19:55, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

November 2022
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Osibisa. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

 You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. OhNo itsJamie Talk 22:03, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Highlife. Liliana UwU (talk / contribs) 07:28, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Osibisa in the Guardian
You must stop breaking the citations! Don't insert completely different URLs into pre-existing citations. That's not how citations are supposed to be added. You keep shoving the URL https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/29/osibisa-british-black-rock-band-fela-kuti-stevie-wonder into various incorrect spots.
 * Your new source says that Osibisa influenced Fela Kuti, who is usually credited with creating Afrobeat, such that Osibisa should also be credited. But the source is alone in that assertion; most other sources discuss Fela Kuti and not Osibisa. Wikipedia exists to summarize the writings about a topic, and Fela Kuti is the common element in all the origin stories. We can tell the reader what the source says about Osibisa but we cannot make Osibisa the co-creator of Afrobeat because that would not be an accurate summary of everything published. Binksternet (talk) 22:09, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
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