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Originally Posted by WalkAThinLine.

I'm rather active on Wikipedia and noticed these changes and the resulting disciplinary actions that followed. Generally, it's a worthwhile practice to assume that editors are operating in good faith; the warnings that you received are harsher than what I would have given. Occasionally, we see adjustments to articles that go unsourced (particularly the additions of genres) and users (including myself) are often quick to revert them. I would encourage you to send a message to the user's talk page and explain the reasoning behind the edits to the personnel.

My understanding is that names are listed in the personnel either by alphabetical order or by when each member joined the band (starting with Fleetwood and ending with Nicks in the latter instance for songs and albums with the Rumours lineup). In other cases, the liner notes are referred to. However, this formatting is not uniformly observed on all pages as some edits occasionally slip through the cracks.

I hope this dispute doesn't discourage you from continuing to make edits on Wikipedia. For those who can provide sourced material to Wikipedia, I encourage you do so.

Thanks for the kind words.

In all cases, the listing of personnel on these pages, before I edited them, placed Lindsey first, then Stevie second, then Christine, then John, then Mick. But this established order wasn’t based on any liner notes or any source material. It appears to have been a personal choice by the creators. It makes no sense and only serves the Stevie-Lindsey saved Fleetwood Mac narrative.

My decision to arrange the names alphabetically served the idea of the band as a collective. However, the true order should be seniority, in which Mick and John are listed first, then Christine, then Lindsey and Stevie. To place Stevie so prominently on the list has to do with fandom. That’s all. Considering that she doesn’t play an instrument and has the least amount of songs per-album, listing her this way is conspicuous, especially when she gets top billing in Lindsey’s absence.