Talk:The Lords of the New Church

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Not So Hot[edit]

Wow. Considering that The Lords were reasonably successful, and that their live performances were legendary, this article is distinctly underwhelming. Stiv gave his all in every show, often narrowly avoiding disaster, and the stage diving at a Lords show was generally awe inspiring. Don't really get that from this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.115.31 (talk) 02:02, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled[edit]

This article is plagiarized from the All Music Guide biography of the band. While it has undergone wiki-like editing over the years, the paragraph structure and many exact phrases remain (what tipped me off was the phrase, "A devotee of Iggy Pop"). Don't want to delete the entry, but something should be done, maybe by someone knowledgeable about the band. hmcnally 17:42, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can't we just revert to the the edit prior to this one made on 20 December 2006 by 67.167.207.247, where the copyvio text was introduced? Lancevortex (talk) 19:38, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done and done. --Kurt Shaped Box 20:29, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed[edit]

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Verifiability of the content[edit]

After cleaning up the copyright issues above, I undertook a thorough review and rewrite to make sure that material in the article was at least minimally sourced. The only content in the article that is not comfortably sourced right now is the affirmation that the band reformed. The problem with this is that I can only find anything close to reliable in the website of the lead singer who asserts that he was hired for this reformation. Self-published sources of that sort are allowed in articles about the subjects, but in this case we do not yet have proof that this person is related to the subject. I have accordingly removed him from the current members list (and put everybody else back with the older list, pending some proof there is a current line-up of the band), and I think we should consider removing the content altogether until and unless a suitable source is presented. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:36, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Three years on and no progress, so section deleted. The first quoted source is from the band's own page, and the second is vague and contains little to corroborate the WP page. In addition, the whole section is poorly-written, with the tone of a teenage fanzine ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 17:50, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]