We Need to Talk

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Yesterday, I made some edits to the Funk template, but you reverted them all. One genre that you removed was Punk funk. All that tells me is that you never read the page for the genre; otherwise, you would know that punk funk is a fusion genre of punk rock and funk. 2600:6C5A:417F:528F:692B:4946:7A90:A055 (talk) 16:15, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, yeah, you can leave it there for now, considering we already have funk rock and funk metal there as well (both of which, in my opinion, emulate funky bassline but are not funk as such, and the same with punk funk). But that would require revising the articles themselves to reflect that. Other excluded genres are definitely not funk, don't always have a funky bassline, and are not called funk anywhere by any reliable sources. Solidest (talk) 16:30, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Rap Rock problems

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This year, a sockpuppet removed some genres from the Rap rock template. I've tried, many times, to add them back, but for some reason, a user called Binksternet believes the sockpuppet and keeps removing the genres. They've clearly never read the pages for the genres; otherwise, they'd know that those genres are fusion genres of rap and the various genres of rock. 2600:6C5A:417F:528F:59F7:72BA:1F04:EC0B (talk) 15:34, 1 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not very much. This IP person from Atlanta has consistently refused to cite sources while changing genres in music articles. They also change music genre navigation templates in ways that are not supported by the literature. I have asked them many times to read a book or two about the genres that they are interested in, but this has not happened. The person was blocked in 2021 as Special:Contributions/2601:C7:C201:C640:0:0:0:0/64. Blocked again in 2022 as Special:Contributions/47.36.25.163. In 2023, they were blocked as Special:Contributions/2600:6C5A:417F:794E:0:0:0:0/64. Earlier this year, Special:Contributions/2600:6C5A:417F:528F:0:0:0:0/64 was blocked twice. They were probably coming here because of this revert you performed. Binksternet (talk) 16:58, 1 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Adding WP:G8 tags to pages that haven't been deleted just yet?

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Hi Solidest,

While your contributions, especially in the work of tagging userspace sandboxing that will most always end up as speedy deletion, perhaps it might be preferable to wait until they have actually been deleted and/or the users blocked?

Examples:

I guess the tagging may well be eminently and commendably prescient work on your part - that said, it would appear to me little bit WP:BITE-y if you don't let those new userspace sandboxing will most always end up as speedy deletion users know what they are doing wrong.

On reflection: in *your* defence, tell me why all those WP:G8 tags were right. I can see a good case for them.

10:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC) Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:15, 18 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi. I've been primarily clearing the music genre project of pages that have nothing to do with its scope. Where it made sense, I deleted the project template. But all I nominated were discussion pages to empty sandboxes. Some of them have been like this since mid 2022. I think in these cases it makes more sense to completely remove the discussion pages along with the links to the projects, than to just remove the project templates and leave an empty sandbox and an empty discussion page like this. I doubt that under current conditions anyone would need to discuss <emptiness>, let alone link it to projects. And if suddenly content appears in sandboxes again, most likely it will be other projects and they can be refilled once again. P.S. User from link #4 is blocked since February 2023. Solidest (talk) 10:28, 18 December 2024 (UTC)Reply