User talk:Lagopodous

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January 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Clayton Counts has been reverted.
Your edit here to Clayton Counts was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.facebook.com/bullofheavenofficial/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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RE: Bull of Heaven

Most of the genres presented in the infobox are unsourced and the creator of the article merely states that these are sourced through user-operated websites such as Last.fm and Rate My Music (which have zero validity as a source per Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Sources, whatsoever.) Even if all of the genres were sourced, Template:Infobox musical artist states that only a limited amount of genres (the major ones) should be included in the infobox. That's why I removed the massive amount of genres. The article should contain properly sourced prose referring to genres (note that the musical style section is completely unsourced.) Myxomatosis57 (talk) 09:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

RE2: Bull of Heaven

• Actually, genres need sources, just like every information on Wikipedia. Template:Infobox musical artist also states that genres should be sourced in the article prose. It also states the preferred number for genres are 2-4. Obviously, the number may vary from case to case but I still believe that 65 genres are too much. As stated by Ged UK, it gets unreadable and unuseful as the list goes on." On the Frank Zappa issue, genres are sourced in the article body.

• Thank you for pointing out the Dutch Vice article, can be used for progressive rock, noise, free jazz, dub, classic and reggae. (I don't speak Dutch, by the way. I used Google translate.) Nevertheless, still a massive amount of genres (IDM, hip hop, stoner rock, post-punk...) are left unsourced. Correct me if I'm wrong.

• At first, I only left experimental and avant-garde in the infobox because these were the only genres included in the introduction paragraph. After I saw a source for drone, I've added that also. Why were you so quick to label me as a zealot?

• You're right that I should have started a discussion first (which I am going to do now) By the way, I'm not sure why you're bringing out the fact that a major contributor is the creator of the article in your each message. "Reverting edits made by the page's author is in poor taste." part especially. Wouldn't it be poor taste in any case (except obvious vandals)? Do the edits of a particular user have priority over others' edits?

I hope that we will be able to improve the article. Myxomatosis57 (talk) 11:10, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Bull of Heaven#Genres

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Bull of Heaven#Genres. Thanks. Myxomatosis57 (talk) 11:40, 4 February 2015 (UTC) Thank you. Myxomatosis57 (talk) 11:40, 4 February 2015 (UTC)