User talk:PowerSane
Your edits to List of best-selling music artists
1. You claim that all three members of Van Halen are of Dutch decent, and I have not objection there. However, artists represent, normally, the country wherein they begin their career, in some cases they do represent two countries. That's when they start somewhere and later move into another country, but that's not the case here. In the same vein, one should refer to the Australian AC/DC. I will leave this discussion for some other time, my main concern, at the moment is to keep List of best-selling music artists with reliable source stating logical sales-figures.
2. You claim in my talk page "There is no need for 3rd party sources; that is a ridiculous rule that should be removed", well, then I guess you need to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Reliable sources. What's ridiculous, in fact, is the source for The Rolling Stones that you claim is reliable [1] as a page like that could be created by anybody. However, I kept this source, and I only kept one for the Bee Gees [2].
3. If you are going to add Oasis please don't switch sources as you have done here. The source you have located for Oasis is not reliable, so they won't stand a chance with that source. We need another one. The source for Elvis Presley, by the way, is reliable. Regards.--Harout72 (talk) 18:15, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Your edits to List of best-selling music artists
Before you insist on reverting my edits please study where the band Van Halen was originated: California, USA. And regardless of whether they are of Dutch descent they only represent USA [3].
In the same vein, AC/DC regardless of where they were born they represent Australia [4].
Please do not revert edits without any further discussions, the sources I'm providing above should be enough for you to get convinced that Birthplace does not play a role in representing the countries the bands/artists are founded in. Regards.--Harout72 (talk) 16:39, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
- Please stop vandalizing the page of List of best-selling music artists. Billboard is a very reliable source. Your calling it irreverent on my talk page proves your persistence in vandalism regardless of how reliable the given sources are. I will repeat just one more time before I take you to WP:ANI that it does not matter that Van Halen's members are of Dutch descent they represent U.S. not Netherlands.
- As for AC/DC, well, it looks like you have quite a history even in vandalizing the page of AC/DC[5] --Harout72 (talk) 00:53, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
Your recent edits
Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button 
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November 2008
I don't understand how you can still be unclear on this, but: you don't get to constantly revert to your version, ignoring what others say on the article's talk page. That you would resume doing so, immediately after being blocked for the same thing, is puzzling. I can't decide whether to block you for a week to make sure you understand this isn't negotiable, or to give you one more warning first. So, I'm opting for the latter. If you revert any musician's nationality without getting consensus on the talk page first, I will block this account again. And now that you've been warned rather than blocked again, the next block will likely be indefinite instead of 1 week. If you can't edit in a collaborative environment, then Wikipedia is not for you. --barneca (talk) 22:10, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
- Also, in case you missed it in the talk page discussions, if you can't come to an agreement on the talk page, there are several dispute resolution methods you can follow to break the deadlock. But edit warring is not one of them, and is disruptive. --barneca (talk) 22:15, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
- To answer your question on my talk page: from looking at Talk:Gene Simmons, there seem to be multiple people who disagree with you. Since the entire point of collaborative editing is consensus and discussion, there comes a time when you have to say "OK, I lost that argument. I still think they're wrong, but I'm going to move on." I would say the solution at that particular page is to try to get a compromise wording agreed to by multiple people on the talk page before adding it to the article. If you drop the "I'm right you're all wrong" attitude, you'll probably find some people there willing to make a compromise of some kind. If not, then no one is going to budge. If you can't come to an agreement, then like I said, you can look into various options at WP:DR. If those look too time-consuming, then you have to drop it and move on. --barneca (talk) 23:04, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
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