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April 2021
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Knifepoint Horror
Hello, the WP:PODCASTING WikiProject has nominated Knifepoint Horror as the Collaboration of the Month and has noted that you've already started a draft for the podcast at your sandbox. Would you mind if I merged the content on your sandbox into draftspace so that we can work on getting it published? TipsyElephant (talk) 17:16, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Sure, that's fine! Spiceislandseabird (talk) 18:07, 1 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Change The Genres For Beginnings From Chicago RIGHT NOW! 2601:1C1:4202:2130:4AB:EFF4:D1E0:C370 (talk) 23:41, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

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AfC notification: Draft:Ports of Pleasure has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Ports of Pleasure. Thanks! Rusalkii (talk) 05:41, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean because IMDb isn't cited anywhere on this page? Spiceislandseabird (talk) 17:00, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Midnight on the Cliffs (December 29)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Ports of Pleasure (January 9)
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March 2022
Hello, I'm Ss112. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Church of Scars, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.  Ss  112   07:14, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet (March 24)
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Concern regarding Draft:Midnight on the Cliffs
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Proper way to add genres
This is not a biggie, but you may want to read the template documentation about the proper way to add lists of genres. Have fun editing! --Muhandes (talk) 17:46, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Ports of Pleasure


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Musical genres
Please watch your conflation of descriptive words such as "minimal" with specific musical genres such as Minimal music. The media can describe a piece of music as "rocking" without it being rock music, and they can describe a song as "experimental" without it being the musical genre experimental music. They might say some music is "hard" without meaning it is hard rock. The English words are too flexible for you to connect them straight from a description to a musical genre. You have to know what the genre is about before you list it in the infobox. Binksternet (talk) 04:25, 4 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Just came here to basically say the same thing. Referring to Smells Like Teen Spirit as "pop-punk" because someone, somewhere used both of the words pop and punk to describe the song was particularly egregious.  In general, I think it is safe to say that adding genres to a music article that has been on Wikipedia for many years is almost always going to make WP worse.  If a genre is valid, someone has almost certainly already added it.  If you are adding an additional genre because you found some recent description of a 40-year old song as maybe, possibly being in a not-yet-listed genre, it's almost certainly an outlier description and contrary to a long-established critical consensus. CAVincent (talk) 06:38, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

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June 2023
Please stop. If you continue to change genres without discussion or sources, as you did at Hello, Dolly! (song), you may be blocked from editing. Make certain that the source is talking about the song genre, not the artist genre. Binksternet (talk) 07:45, 11 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for the message. I am getting quite loose with my interpretation of the genre of a song. I am grateful you issued a warning and didn't block me from editing outright. Editing Wikipedia is just fun to me, for some reason. I know we have had some run-ins in the past few months with my editing but I promise to step up my game and only add a genre (from a reliable source!) if the article explicitly defines it as such. Spiceislandseabird (talk) 13:41, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

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The Rocker (song)
Hi, can you provide a quote from the book you referenced for this song being power pop? It seems odd that a general music book would mention such an obscure song, let alone with an inappropriate genre. Thanks, Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:37, 22 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I have added the quote. Spiceislandseabird (talk) 13:10, 22 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Seems bizarre. This is the problem when genres with one source get added. If you found another one for power pop, I'd be stunned. You could probably find several single-reference genres for that song (heavy metal, certainly), which highlights the problems with adding genres. Bretonbanquet (talk) 14:20, 22 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I wasn't really suggesting you take it off - you certainly hadn't done anything wrong. I was questioning the opinion of the author really. You can restore it if you'd like. Bretonbanquet (talk) 14:53, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

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