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== About ==
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I mostly edit articles having to do with either music album/single sales and chart performance.

Specifically, I'm among the top contributors at sales lists such as the [[List of best-selling singles]], the [[List of best-selling albums]], the [[List of best-selling albums in South Korea]], and the [[List of best-selling singles in the United States]].
I used to be a very prolific editor – in 2012 I made [http://toolserver.org/~tparis/pcount/index.php?name=Mauri96&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia over 3200 edits] including 510 in March alone. Nowadays I make a few dozen edits per month, if any, and less than 500 per year.
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== Why I'm A User ==

To quote [[User:Cprice1000|Cprice1000]] --"I often see incorrect/out of date material and really want to do something about instead of poke and yell at other Wikipedians to do it for me. So I made an account and became a Wikipedian who is --mostly-- open to be poked and yelled at."

Literally speaking, I actually created my Wikipedia account to [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_best-selling_music_artists&diff=prev&oldid=330801424 ask] that [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] be added to the aforementioned best-selling artists list.

As an editor for over 10 years, I am well aware of [[WP:POV]], [[WP:OR]], [[WP:VER]] (and corollary [[WP:RS]]).<div>However, when it comes to incomplete information regarding music sales (especially from smaller markets), I am a strong proponent of [[Wikipedia:Truth, not verifiability]] and [[WP:CALC]] because I have found that worldwide album sales and certifications are [[Talk:List of best-selling albums/Archive 11#Bad's sales|often]] [[Talk:List of best-selling albums/Archive 10#Impartiality|inflated]] by press releases or conversely not updated at all. <small>(the [[Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture|''Grease'' soundtrack]], Bob Marley's ''[[Legend (Bob Marley and the Wailers album)|Legend]]'', ''[[Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits]]'', and every [[Flashdance (soundtrack)|major]] [[Footloose (1984 soundtrack)|1980's]] [[Top Gun (soundtrack)|soundtrack]]  that isn't ''[[Dirty Dancing (soundtrack)|Dirty Dancing]]'')</small>

== Some of My Favorite Musicians & Authors ==
<center>{{userbox|#D9004A|#D9004A|[[Image:Nuvola_devices_cdaudio_unmount.png|40px]]|This user's current top artist is '''[[Coco Morier]]'''.}}{{User:Life in General/Userboxes/CurrentlyReading|''[[Emily Oster#Books|Cribsheet]]''}}</br></br></center>


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* [[A-mei]]
* [[Akina Nakamori]]
* [[Arcade Fire]]
* [[The Beatles]]
* [[The Beach Boys]]
* [[:es:Los Belking's|Los Belking's]]
* [[Brown Eyed Girls]]
* [[Charly García]]
* [[David Bowie]]
* [[Duran Duran]]
* [[Elvis Presley]]
* [[Girls' Generation]]
* [[Grimes (musician)|Grimes]]
* [[Janelle Monáe]]
* [[Jean Pierre Magnet#Serenata de los Andes|Jean Pierre Magnet y Serenata de los Andes]]
* [[Jolin Tsai]]
* [[Kate Bush]]
* [[Little Simz]]
* [[Loona|LOOΠΔ]]
* [[Lorde]]
* [[Lucha Reyes]]
* [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]
* [[Marina and the Diamonds]]
* [[Momoe Yamaguchi]]
* [[Michael Jackson]]
* [[Mø (singer)|MØ]]
* [[Pink Floyd]]
* [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]
* [[Los Prisioneros]]
* [[Queen (band)|Queen]]
* [[Rubén Blades]]
* [[Serú Girán]]
* [[Shakira]]
* [[St. Vincent (musician)|St. Vincent]]
* [[The Strokes]]
* [[Hikaru Utada|Hikaru Utada]]
* [https://timpana.bandcamp.com/ Timpana]
* [[TVXQ]]
* [[Vava (rapper)|Vava]]
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* [[Antonio Vivaldi]]
* [[Franz Schubert]]
* [[Frédéric Chopin]]
* [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]
* [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]
* [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]
* [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]
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* [[Issac Asimov]]
* [[Jorge Luis Borges]]*
* [[Ted Chiang]]
* [[Eoin Colfer]]
* [[Julio Cortázar]]*
* [[Roald Dahl]]
* [[Cornelia Funke]]
* [[Neil Gaiman]]
* [[Gabriel García Márquez]]*
* [[Jean Craighead George]]
* [[Frank Herbert]]
* [[Franz Kafka]]*
* [[Lois Lowry]]**
* [[Alan Moore]]
* [[George Orwell]]**
* [[Christopher Paolini]]
* [[Phillip Pullman]]
* [[Quino]]
* [[:es:Colegio Sagrados Corazones Belén#Belenistas destacadas|Valeria Román Marroquín]]**
* [[William Shakespeare]]
* [[Lemony Snicket]]
* [[Jonathan Stroud]]
* [[H.G. Wells]]
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== Where I Edit and How I Edit==
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* ''[[Night Time, My Time]]''
* [[List of best-selling albums in China]]
* ''[[Re vive|RE_vive]]'' <small>(I made the initial draft)</small>
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{{Cot|Articles in which I've made significant contributions.}}
*[[AC/DC discography]] (also as [[Special:Contributions/190.222.36.150|190.222.36.150]])
*[[Brothers in Arms (Dire Straits album)|Brothers in Arms]]
*[[Elton John discography]] (as [[Special:Contributions/190.222.36.160|190.222.36.160]] and [[Special:Contributions/209.45.28.1|209.45.28.1]])
*[[List of best-selling albums]]
*[[List of best-selling albums in Brazil]]
*[[List of best-selling albums in Canada]]
*[[List of best-selling albums in South Korea]] (also as [[Special:Contributions/190.81.202.250|190.81.202.250]] twice)
*[[List of best-selling girl groups]]
*[[List of best-selling singles]]
*[[List of best-selling albums in the United States]] 
*[[List of best-selling singles in the United States]] (also as [[Special:Contributions/190.222.36.150|190.222.36.150]] and [[Special:Contributions/209.45.28.1|209.45.28.1]])
*[[Lorde]]
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{{Cot|Articles in which I've made regular contributions.}}
*[[Flashdance... What a Feeling]]
*[[List of best-charting music artists in the U.S.]]
*[[List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones]]
*[[List of highest-grossing concert tours]]
*[[List of most expensive music videos]]
*''[[Gipsy Kings (album)|Gipsy Kings]]'' (also as [[Special:Contributions/190.222.36.12|190.222.36.12]])
*[[Elvis Presley albums discography]]
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{{Cot|Talk pages in which I often participate in discussions.}}
*[[Talk:List of best-selling albums]]
*[[Talk:List of best-selling singles]]
*[[Talk:List of best-selling music artists]]
*[[Talk:List of best-selling singles in the United States]]
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{{Cot|Diffs to remember.}}
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ABiographies_of_living_persons%2FNoticeboard&action=historysubmit&diff=424574957&oldid=424574226 Collect's Law: The person who posts the greatest amount of repeated verbiage to a discussion, is least likely to be correct.]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Esperanza_Spalding&diff=next&oldid=414439770 When Esperanza Spalding's middle name was revealed to be "Quesadilla".]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AList_of_common_misconceptions&action=historysubmit&diff=376299670&oldid=376049858 Kingturtle's advice on biting new comers.]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJimbo_Wales&action=historysubmit&diff=423968866&oldid=423913120 Johnuniq commenting on the nature of Wikipedia.]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Finger&diff=prev&oldid=227768959 Editor asking for cite that people have 5 fingers on each hand.]
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''Base code and last two sections copied from [[User:A Quest For Knowledge|A Quest For Knowledge]]''

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*[[User:Mauri96/sandbox|Sandbox I]]
*[[User:Mauri96/sandbox 2|Sandbox II]]
*[[User:Mauri96/sandbox 3|Sandbox III]]
*[[User:Mauri96/Subpage 1|Excess of Userboxes/Other Interests]]
*[[User:Mauri96/Barnstars|My barnstars]]

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