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A fact from Not Guilty (song) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 July 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that The Beatles logged 99 takes of "Not Guilty" but then left it off the White Album?

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I question the inclusion of the links to "Song-by-Song" listings in quite a few entries. As this is a commercial service, and very few or none of the songs whose pages have links actually appear on the page you see when you click the link, and you would have to pay to see the song's listing, isn't this just a form of passive spam?

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Ritchie333, bit confused by this edit. Why not go completely with the Billboard interview text? It says everything, whereas the addition of a phrase from Musician 1987 just sort of staggers the message. I think that Billboard quote's dynamite, personally – not only that, but there should be no mistaking the point: it's Lennon and McCartney he's "pissed off" with/at. (Not that we've handled the issue in this article yet, but it's all to do with how George gets back from India, a while after Lennon even, and is appalled at what's going down at Apple.) JG66 (talk) 17:38, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@JG66: I think that was trying to salvage a gaffe - I put the quote in thinking "aha, an extra quote about the song", then realised it was a subset of the second, so I trimmed the latter down a bit to avoid repetition, and also as it was looking a little bit too long, which tends to invite accusations of too much paraphrasing. I've put Lennon and McCartney in brackets later to emphasise the point, and also mention he went off to Greece not long after recording this, being utterly hacked off with them. Anyway, the DYK is there, I've exhausted the Beatles sources pretty much, so I think we're almost there for a GA if you want to do the nom. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 17:55, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say, can the '87 quote completely and go for:

In an interview with Billboard editor Timothy White in 1999, Harrison explained the message behind the song: "It was me getting pissed off at Lennon and McCartney for the grief I was catching ... I said I wasn't guilty of getting in the way of their career. I said I wasn't guilty of leading them astray in our going to Rishikesh to see the Maharishi. I was sticking up for myself …"

So, cutting down the Huntley quote a touch more (and I'd already cut down what appears in his book).

GA? A long way, in my opinion. Have to say, I'm not sure it's good enough for a B right now … Where's Yeepsi? JG66 (talk) 18:17, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I've got to nip out, so if you want to make the changes, go for it! I think it's good for B - everything is well sourced and the prose is readable. Would be interested to know if anyone's covered the song live. Wonder where it would have gone on the White Album? Side three perhaps, between "Mother Nature's Son" and "Me and my Monkey". Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 18:46, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]