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August 2024

Your edit to Makossa has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Binksternet (talk) 18:22, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MUsicIaN! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of an article several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.

All editors are expected to discuss content disputes on article talk pages to try to reach consensus. If you are unable to agree, please use one of the dispute resolution options to seek input from others. Using this approach instead of reverting can help you avoid getting drawn into an edit war. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 22:20, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

December 2024

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Makossa. WP:SYNTH again. Binksternet (talk) 06:27, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

February 2025

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at Makossa. Far too many of your sources don't mention makossa at all, for instance https://www.jstor.org/stable/1215021?seq=2

You have been violating WP:SYNTH by combining various sources to support your own unique conclusion. Binksternet (talk) 18:51, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You cited Rough Guides about Cameroonian music many years before makossa was created, but the Rough Guides source is just saying that those other types of music existed in Cameroon. It is not saying that those types of music influenced the later invention of makossa. And the Rough Guides says that Ekambi Brillant "more or less" invented makossa in the 1960s, but you chose to ignore that very relevant part. You misrepresented the Rough Guides source.

You also cited ""Popular Bands of Sierra Leone: 1920 to the Present" which does not include any discussion of makossa, which means it's a violation of WP:SYNTH.

Jean Maurice Noah's book about makossa says that Nelle Eyoum is considered the father of makossa, but that the history is obscured, with conflicting accounts. We should tell the reader that Eyoum began creating makossa in the mid-1950s, then recordings by Brillant made it into a more popular local music form in the 1960s, then Dibangi's "Soul Makossa" single brought the music to the world stage in 1973. Binksternet (talk) 02:08, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To the best of my knowledge, I don't remember citing Rough Guides. But for the "Popular Bands of Sierra Leone: 1920 to the Present", I can say that although it does not include makossa in its content, it does show the relationship of parent genres of makossa, which are highlighted in some other sources both on Wikipedia and on the web, which I also cited. MUsicIaN (talk) 23:18, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In other words, assiko, as mentioned in the World Music: Africa, Middle East, and Europe book, is a variant of palm wine music made locally in Cameroon. Furthermore, other sources state that palm wine music in turn is influenced by ragtime (BBC4's The African Rock 'n' Roll Years). This only adds to the proof because on the Popular Bands of Sierra Leone PDF, ragtime is stated as being popular in the early 20th century. MUsicIaN (talk) 23:23, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rough Guides published the book by Simon Broughton: World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

The BBC show "The High Life Zone" says that palm-wine music of Sierra Leone influenced several other genres including makossa. That much is supported. But not anything about ragtime influencing makossa, not anything about assiko influencing makossa, not anything about Baptist hymns, not anything about French, German or European influence. I removed your gigantic violations of WP:SYNTH including all your conjecture about origins. Binksternet (talk) 00:15, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I never specifically said ragtime influenced makossa, but that ragtime influenced palm wine. Also, why was there a need to delete the information near the end of the article about gospel, Congolese rumba, highlife, merengue and the funky-disco movement? That's from Jean-Maurice Noah's book. MUsicIaN (talk) 00:31, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Baptist hymns as an influence were mentioned in Jean-Maurice Noah's book. The French influence was mentioned in the World Music book. The German influence was mentioned in two sources on the Internet, one of which has been archived relatively recently, and both of which were cited in my edit. MUsicIaN (talk) 00:43, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You cannot talk about ragtime influencing palm wine if the source does not mention makossa. And it doesn't.

After seeing all these problems, I don't trust you to accurately represent a book source. The Noah book is excellent, of course, but you already misrepresented it by portraying the topic as having a clear definition. Noah wrote, "Le terme Makossa est une lexème dont le contenu est particulièrement ambigu. En effet, il n'existe pas un sens rigide permettant de le définir rigoureusement. Tout le monde en parle, et personne pour l'expliquer." ("The term Makossa is a lexeme [root word] whose content is particularly ambiguous. Indeed, there is no rigid meaning allowing it to be rigorously defined. Everyone talks about it, yet no one can explain it.") Also, Noah lists Ekambi Brillant as one of the big names in makossa, but you decided to hide this, and not relay it to the reader.

If you want to talk about colonial influences on makossa, you must take your information from sources talking about exactly that aspect. Noah does this to a limited extent, which means this Wikipedia article can talk about colonial influences to the same limited extent. But you cannot go further and construct your own version of the colonial influences, violating WP:SYNTH as you combine various thoughts from far afield, as far as 1762 when Gluck first presented Orfeo ed Euridice. Stop combining all these distant thoughts to create your own version of what happened. Binksternet (talk) 04:48, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

First off, I would like to say that not all the sources list makossa. But I am not trying to search for sources that list makossa only because I want people to understand its roots. I think this should make sense. Makossa has roots in assiko, which is a variant of palm wine music. I was trying to relay this. That is all. As people with common sense, which I am sure many people do have, I would say when the average person reads something like this, it is not rocket science to say, "Assiko is a variant of palm wine music? Oh, that must mean the music that assiko influenced is also influenced indirectly by palm wine music?" That was always my understanding.

Also, in case you are not aware, part of today's Cameroon was a part of the German colonial empire. Again, I don't think every source from everywhere is going to say, "The German soldiers influenced the native Africans through their playing of the accordion." Otherwise, I don't think we would need a bunch of sources repeating the same thing.

As far as Ekambi Brillant, I was planning on adding that to a later section of the article. I just didn't feel like mixing it with the section on the ethnogenesis and the exogenesis. But again, the topic on Christopher Gluck was to showcase how the musicians moved the natives through their music, which was connect to the growth of music that was influenced by German colonial roots, Cameroon's music being one of those types of music.

Also, again, I still don't understand why you had to delete the ethnogenesis and exogenesis sections as well as pretty much all the section which I contributed to in this article. MUsicIaN (talk) 19:17, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you want people to understand more about how the German colonial presence in Cameroon influenced the Africans with their music, then you should be writing your own book. Wikipedia is not the place to connect these ideas. See WP:No original research, which is a hard policy, not negotiable. The notional connection between makossa and German colonialism must be made explicitly in the WP:SECONDARY sources. Makossa must be mentioned. Binksternet (talk) 22:31, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. But there are surely sources that mention makossa that I used in the article that you deleted. Can you re-edit the article to include them? Thank you. I don't want to mistakenly re-include the wrong information. Thanks again! MUsicIaN (talk) 14:14, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Noah book has some good stuff about early influences.

The way to build the article is not decide what it should say and then hunt for sources supporting that narrative. Instead, the article should be built by reading the sources and summarizing them. If the sources say contradictory things, we tell the reader about both sides, giving attribution to the sources saying each version. Binksternet (talk) 16:32, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I will see what I can do. MUsicIaN (talk) 17:37, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

March 2025

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Makossa. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Stop removing Ekambi Brillant from the page. His contributions to the genre are critically important. Binksternet (talk) 22:39, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I never removed him, I don't know what you are talking about. MUsicIaN (talk) 23:47, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disregard the previous comments. My apologies. MUsicIaN (talk) 23:59, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

August 2025

Your edit to Makossa has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. The4lines |||| (talk) 18:15, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

April 2026

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at Makossa. Still more violations of WP:SYNTH. Binksternet (talk) 02:01, 6 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

May 2026

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you edit Wikipedia using a large language model, which is prohibited, as you did at Makossa. Binksternet (talk) 19:59, 25 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I did not use a large language model. I will re-edit the page as I have before, and it was not with a large language model. MUsicIaN (talk) 20:14, 25 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You are re-adding garbage English and most certainly using robotic assistance. The summary section is horribly written. Stop it.

You are also re-adding off-topic sections that don't have a strong connection to the topic. Stop it. Binksternet (talk) 00:01, 26 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This clearly is understandable. It is not garbage English, as the software does not underline it in red. Also, it is very much so in-topic. Please take time to read and connect the dots. There is a clear connection, plain and simple. I will resume with the previous thing of re-editing the page. MUsicIaN (talk) 00:28, 26 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The text as you have written it is inappropriate for the tone expected in an encyclopedia. "Makossa developed, expanded and evolved into one of the most popular and ubiquitous modern music genres in Cameroon. Its influence shaped and altered the musical discourse in the country for more than half a century, so much so that its reach expanded far beyond the nation's borders to other parts of West and Central Africa. It is the rhizomic evolutionary offshoot of the musical confluence arising from the colonial era and its revolutionary relationship between the West and sub-Saharan Africa in the 18th century." This is making a lot of assumptions and uses language that would not be accepted in a text trying to explain the subject from a neutral point of view. This same tone continues throughout the article following your changes. I also found several instances where it seems like you are trying to add citations or footnotes but nothing is there, such as when {7} or ² appears. These errors in referencing are a huge issue, as is the repeated use of a large text without giving page numbers or even chapters. I have restored the article to the previous revision - please discuss this further at the Talk:Makossa page so discussion does not become fragmented. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 17:44, 26 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Binksternet (talk) 14:43, 26 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for edit warring and violating the three-revert rule. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

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