User talk:MelanieB2

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Welcome to Wikipedia, MelanieB2! Thank you for your contributions. I am Marek69 and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Marek. 69  talk  19:57, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
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Edit war warning
Your recent editing history at The Beatles shows that you are in danger of breaking the three-revert rule, or that you may have already broken it. An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Breaking the three-revert rule often leads to a block.

If you wish to avoid being blocked, instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to discuss the changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. You may still be blocked for edit warring even if you do not exceed the technical limit of the three-revert rule if your behavior indicates that you intend to continue to revert repeatedly. DocKino (talk) 20:45, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Talk:The Beatles
Hi, Melanie. I just wanted to chime in and see if I could make a friendly attempt to resolve some confusion here. It looks to me that the original revert was not claiming that the statement was OR, but that the way it was phrased was a little OR-y in tone. "It was perhaps for this reason" wouldn't be considered a neutral or encyclopedic tone for writing on this site. I think it's for this reason, combined with the lack of a formal citation (you can learn more about those at WP:CITE) that made Mr Pyles suspect OR.

In other words, I don't think it was OR, but I can understand why some suspected OR.

As to why editors are so quick to revert edits, I think it probably has something to do with the number of edits music-related articles see in regard to stuff like this. "Top" whatever lists are probably second only to Genre categorisation in the amount of edit wars that have been caused over stuff like this. Your contributions are more than welcome here, though, and I think if you were to maybe suggest placing the mention of the Top 1000 list in a spot more conducive to expanded content (the end of a paragraph, for example), you might get a more open response from other editors.

Before you add it back, though, you should wait for further input on the talk page, as any further attempts to restore the content could be seen as edit-warring. If other editors come to the consensus that the article is better off without your addition, you shouldn't be disappointed, and you certainly shouldn't take it personal. Things like this get added and reverted to articles everywhere all the time, and people who watch out for edits help to make Wikipedia a lot more stable and presentable than it could be otherwise.

Thanks for editing! :) Evanh2008, Super Genius Who am I?  You can talk to me... 03:25, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Promoting Colin Larkin and his website in every edit you make
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Sockpuppetry case
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Article restructuring at the Beatles
There is a straw poll taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc (talk) 02:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Current/Past Members of the Beatles
There is a straw poll taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc (talk) 00:52, 20 April 2012 (UTC)