Talk:Tom Odell

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Picture of Seaford College

I recently did a lot of work on the page and added an image of Odell's secondary school to his article. It brightens up the article. Also, for readers outside of the UK, it gives them some idea of the prestige associated with Seaford College. The image is approved for use in wikipedia articles.

However, users (I actually suspect it is just one person) have repeatedly removed the picture because "the school does not want it there and neither does the artist". This seems bizarre. Firstly, where is the evidence of this? Secondly, why should this make any difference anyway? Odell did attend the school and the school do not own the image concerned.Popeye191 (talk) 16:15, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's quite disturbing reading through those edits from May 2013. As far as I can tell, it's just one very detemined person, with the user accounts "Ruta1991" (now unbanned), "Donnybojo" (banned) and "Peterpennyvale" (banned).

There is no good reason given for deleting the picture -
"Correction from School , Odell never boarded at Seaford College , Removal of Image at Request , Please do not instate you do not know this person." (Odell attended the school but didn't board there)
"stop being a pain Popeye or you will be reported, agreed when reviewing do not need an image of Seaford College with The Tom Odell article"
"please keep out un wanted please stop re instating"
"Removed Seaford College Image Un relevent and Not wanted by The students" ("Un relevent" would suggest someone needs to go back to school.)

The image was last deleted on June 26 by anonymous. I've put it back now. If this person starts deleting it again, please tell moderator User:RHaworth, who's familiar with the situation already. Responsible? (talk) 06:34, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Career: new song "Alex" about ex girlfriend

Who put that into Wikipedia? First of all, "Alex" isn't the only new song since the release of Long Way Down. Odell played some other new songs at his gigs too. And since it isn't the only new song, why is there so much information about it? Is it important to know that he has no longer a name for it? It's just one of many songs so I don't think it makes sense to write this much unimportant information. Plus, his relationship to Alexandra McDermott isn't clear. There is no source that tells that they are no longer together and there isn't even a source that exactly says that they even where together. They might have been spotted together and made indirects, but there is no proof. This paragraph definitely needs to be edited or deleted. 91.60.207.215 (talk) 21:26, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Could someone add a small tidbit?

His song "Heal" is also heard in the TV series "Giri/Haji" (episode 8, if it matters). I'd do the edit but my editing is really rusty and I don't have the time and energy to do it now. Thanks? Hanamizu (talk) 08:08, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]