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"Genre trolling" has been around since Wikipedia first began accepting music orientated articles.
Users come to Wikipedia to view music related articles. They look at the infobox, see the genres, decide it's wrong and then change the genre. They move onto a different article and repeat the process. This may start as an isolated change but then snowball into dozens of articles within minutes. Many music fans may subjectively see a band to be a different genre than a source suggests and rely firmly on their own knowledge thinking it to be of equal, if not greater, worth than anyone else's. This is perfectly fine and natural; there are a lot of self-professed "music moguls" out in the world. But the problem is that everyone believes they know more than the next person; which, undoubtedly, causes great conflict.
As I wrote above, one of their main arguments would be something subjective like this; that type of reasoning can be effortlessly undermined by finding a reliable source and then providing it to the user. Of course, persistent refusal to adhere to evidence would result in Steps 2 and 3 being executed above.
![]() | This is an
essay. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of
Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been
thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. |
"Genre trolling" has been around since Wikipedia first began accepting music orientated articles.
Users come to Wikipedia to view music related articles. They look at the infobox, see the genres, decide it's wrong and then change the genre. They move onto a different article and repeat the process. This may start as an isolated change but then snowball into dozens of articles within minutes. Many music fans may subjectively see a band to be a different genre than a source suggests and rely firmly on their own knowledge thinking it to be of equal, if not greater, worth than anyone else's. This is perfectly fine and natural; there are a lot of self-professed "music moguls" out in the world. But the problem is that everyone believes they know more than the next person; which, undoubtedly, causes great conflict.
As I wrote above, one of their main arguments would be something subjective like this; that type of reasoning can be effortlessly undermined by finding a reliable source and then providing it to the user. Of course, persistent refusal to adhere to evidence would result in Steps 2 and 3 being executed above.