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I have been deleted???[edit]

Hi My name is Eric Paul an American (Record Producer). I made the mistake of trying to correct something that was incorrect on my page. Someone had edited my page to promote a project that I produced. I violated the rules and tried to correct it. Someone on your team Deleted my entire Bio!! It was very correct and many people in the music industry had visited it. Please correct and re enter it. I am a very credited Record Producer and think its not good that its been deleted?????? Thank You . My current e mail is Thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.49.70.101 (talk) 04:08, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The page Eric Paul (record producer) was deleted on the 7th of July 2020 by @Explicit: as it was a biography of a living person that contained no sources of any form. DuncanHill (talk) 04:24, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That's correct. At no point from its creation in January 2009 up until its deletion in July 2020 did this article contain any references or external links. It's quite surprising to see that it lasted that long. ✗plicit 06:51, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the OP previously worked under the user ID Clearmix2 (talk · contribs) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:27, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What's so bad about New Jersey?[edit]

There seems to be a fairly common joke or trope in American media that New Jersey is a horrible place. What, if anything, is this actually referring to? Iapetus (talk) 14:58, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

New York City residents make fun of New Jersey cities, just like Chicago residents make fun of Gary, Indiana, and San Francisco residents make fun of Oakland. And so on. Much of NJ is nice. Just not so much the parts near NYC and Philly. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:31, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A large contingent of American media are based in Manhattan; the parts of New Jersey with which they are familiar are the New Jersey Turnpike, a nightmarish highway clogged with semi trucks, Newark International Airport, located in a very un-picturesque area and a place where taxi drivers don't want to take you, and the Meadowlands Sports Complex, another area that's far from appealing. You can also read the novels of Philip Roth about the decline of Newark, New Jersey starting in the 1960s, which is also the part of the state closest to New York City. Add in references to the Jersey Mob and it's easy to generalize from these that the whole state is some sort of hellscape of large highways, concrete monstrosities and crime-ridden urban blight. Xuxl (talk) 15:54, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

When Johnny Carson was based in NYC, he used to make fun of various New Jersey cities, especially those with funny-sounding names, like Nutley and Weehawken. He used to claim his tailor was a guy named Raul of Bayonne. When he moved to LA, he switched it to making fun of Burbank and other suburbs - much as Jack Benny did with Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga. There was a Twilight Zone episode about a fictitious baseball team called the Hoboken Zephyrs. And as you say, the Jersey Turnpike came in for its share of ridicule too. Then there's the old joke: What rhymes with orange? East Orange. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:28, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]