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Killed dead Rolling Stone reference and statement. Citation non-working. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.27.121.20 (talk) 03:55, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

LP6

Sorry, but it's bosh to list LP6 in the discography! There is no release date, no name, no guarantee... 92.231.49.246 (talk) 08:47, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. If we're going to be that speculative we could add LP7 (2012?) and LP8 (2014?) while we're at it.--Michig (talk) 08:55, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The source cited states "After they wrap up their U.S. dates, Massive Attack will head back into the studio to record their next LP and Del Naja says the band has already sketched out plenty of ideas", i.e. they haven't started recording a new album yet. The album does not exist and may never exist. Including it in a discography when it hasn't been recorded or even confirmed that it's going to exist is ridiculous.--Michig (talk) 21:01, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Article issues

The article has been tagged with unspecified clean up since October 2010. The organisation of the article was poor, with two separate histories, a misplaced music style section, and an inadequate lead. I moved the history summary into the lead, where it seemed to more appropriately belong, and moved the Music style section to the end, where such sections are normally found. I then started to improve the lead so the first paragraph gives us some basic information, such as who are in the band, and what are their major recordings. I then noticed that the history summary contains slightly different information to the main history, so the information needs merging and sorting out. There is also a lot of unsupported statements that come across as editorial opinion or observation, so I have removed the unspecified clean up tag and replaced it with an OR tag. This article contains an assortment of information, some useful, some doubtful. It is difficult to know which statements have been gathered from reliable sources and which have been written from editorial observation. For such a high profile article on an important and popular band, we need more secure referencing, and tighter organisation of the article. SilkTork *^{Tea time} 15:20, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

External Link to Fansite

Can I go ahead and add a link to my fansite to Massive Attack - http://massiveattack.ie/ or does that fall under the "Links normally to be avoided" section of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links

While on the subject, there are a few other fansites and official social media/networking accounts for Massive Attack that could be added to the External Links section. I don't see much use in linking to a few random interviews that are on there at the moment. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.249.249.44 (talk) 11:52, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Under WP:ELNO, we wouldn't link to fansites or social networking sites. --John (talk) 11:59, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OK then. Well thats what I expected. Thanks for the quick reply. Is there any reason why those links to a few random interviews should be there though?