Talk:Colin Irwin (journalist)

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I removed the following sentence from this article: "There is another Colin Irwin who writes for the Belfast Telegaph on political subjects, but he is no relation. There is another Colin Irwin, a footballer with Liverpool, 1979 - 1981." Should this go on a diambiguation page? Or are all of these men too obscure to warrant that?Dina 20:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For the pedants among you who want a precise quote for the Melody Maker embarrassments, here they are. I am quoting from "In Search of Albion" page 67 : "Dave Swarbrick, the man who originally revived interest in all this with Babbacombe Lee album, famously went on to have his own phantom death when, in 1999, some idiot prematurely wrote his obituary in the Daily Telegraph. Well, when I say some idiot .... The Telegraph had called me on a Friday night, told me Dave was seriously ill in hospital with a lung problem, wasn't expected to survive the weekend, and could I please prepare an obituary?"

This time I quote from page 103: "And I even get the occasional wise guy recalling when I predicted Rod Stewart's "Sailing" would be a big fat MISS in the charts. It was No 1 two weeks later and I was sacked from the singles reviews".

Honestly, this "verifiable statements" business is getting a bit out of hand. It's not as if I was claiming that Irwin had become the new head of MI6. Ogg 10:18, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. Feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 04:32, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]