Jinglyjangle

Melody Maker archives

Probably really irrelevant to wiki stuff, but I noticed on the Duran Duran talk page you mentioned some ‘80s NME/Melody Maker archives. What do you mean by this? The issues archived at WorldRadio History (as far as I know one of the only places where you can view these for free) seem to mostly end after 1970. Are there some at newspapers.com/Rock’s Backpages or have I just been really blind in my old music mag trawls? blueskiesdry… (cloudy contribs…) 16:55, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

To be honest I didn’t really have anything specific in mind; I was just sort of thinking that old music mags shouldn’t be too difficult to recover as far as historical artifacts go, if someone were really invested. Maybe the British Library would be worth checking? According to this page they have all MM and NME issues available for viewing. I’m in London at the moment so I can certainly give it a go. Jinglyjangle (talk) 01:46, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Marquee Moon

Please stop edit warring at this article. If you'd read the article, you'd see that multiple sources refer to this album as post-punk, compared to only one for new wave. Your edit summary is insufficient in justifying your edits. You need to cite sources adequately and appropriately, to the standard that the article is written. Perhaps you should read the actual article first, before deciding to edit the lead and the info box, which are based on the rest of the article. Continuing to restore your challenged changes is wrong and will lead to warnings, in general, if not from me, but from others... That is not how you do things here. See: WP:BURDEN, WP:GWAR, WP:EDITWAR, WP:CITINGSOURCES, WP:OR... before you consider editing articles again. Welcome to Wikipedia.

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Hello, I'm Serge, an Admin here on Wikipedia. FYI, I have applied the partial block of synth-pop to this account that was active on your self-admitted prior account, as blocks apply to people behind the accounts, not just the accounts themselves.

While I'm here, I'll note that your prior account seemed to have a lot of WP:GENREWARRIOR and WP:EDITWAR tendencies. And your recent comments seem to suggest you're treading towards disruptive genre editing on this account too.

I'll say this only once - you need to WP:STICKTOSOURCE when it comes to making edits related to music genre on Wikipedia. Your personal interpretations, theories and opinions on music genre may not trump what reliable sources state. That sort of approach violates Wikipedia's concept of original research. If you understand this, great, we're done here. But if you go against these core policies, you'll find your account blocked from editing. Sergecross73 msg me 21:06, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Another note - blatantly stating that you're reaching out specifically to people who you believe will support your argument is a violation of WP:CANVASS. Please don't do that. Sergecross73 msg me 14:20, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

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