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Speedy deletion nomination of Allen Coates[edit]

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Your speedied article[edit]

I am sorry to be slow responding to your email, but I don't look at mine very often - a message on my talk page will get seen much sooner.

As regards your speedied article: the downside of "anyone can edit" is that Wikipedia gets new articles at a rate of rather more than one a minute. A high proportion are unsuitable, many are people trying to insert themselves or their friends, and very often those consist of a name as the title and a single line that says "is AWESOME!!!" or "Hi Ted!" Even those get two sets of (volunteer) eyes - a New Page Patroller flags the ones that meet the quite narrow speedy deletion criteria, and an administrator looks and agrees before pressing the button. Against that background, your article, which consisted of the title "Allen Coates" and the single word "Alan", did not have a snowflake's chance of being recognised as a request to correct something elsewhere in the encyclopedia.

But the up side of "anyone can edit" is that you can just go and make the correction yourself, you don't need to float change requests as cryptic new articles. If you have expertise about the Hollies, by all means edit their article. (Note after drafting this - I see you are. Good.) Only cautions:

Wikipedia needs verifiability - "I know this from my special knowledge" isn't enough, you need to be able to cite a reliable source; while it's best if the source is available on-line, that's not essential - look at other band articles to see how they manage references, and WP:CITE for how to add them,
if other editors disagree, you need to discuss changes on the article talk page to try to reach consensus, and go to WP:Dispute resolution if necessary - read WP:OWN and don't try to "own" the article.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:48, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Hollies[edit]

Grella, I saw your comment about one of The Hollies speaking about the accuracy of the article. Please have him contact me and I will attempt to assist. Thank you. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling (talk) 12:56, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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July 2013[edit]

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Talkback[edit]

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Musdan77 (talk) 20:36, 24 July 2013 (UTC) the above edited out the factual additions & corrections I had made to the page on The Fugitive, however my amended version I have retained as it is more accurate than the edited current version. (the above also edited out a comment on his talkpage i made where i said i could understand another contributors annoyance at his edits plus his attitude re making a point over how that contributor 'not being American' precluded them from making a contribution about an American TV show, which I agreed was absurd - I have added this here as it should not be 'edited out' when it was a comment made by me in response to an absurd remark made at another contributor by the above and has only I can assume been susequently 'edited out' because it did not make the editor look very good ![reply]

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the few British groups of its era (1963–1967) to have most of their albums issued in [[stereo]]. (Most of the big UK bands like The Dave Clark Five, Gerry & the Pacemakers, and Freddie & the

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Sourcing your additions[edit]

Hello Grella, Seems you've been around long enough to know your claims need references and original research is not allowed. Mlpearc (open channel) 18:20, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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