User talk:Alan Burridge

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Hello Alan Burridge, welcome to Wikipedia!

I noticed nobody had said hi yet... Hi!

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You're the Alan Burridge of Motörheadbangers and writing fame? If so, it's great that you're editing here.-- Alf ^melmac 11:46, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Further

I've removed the standard message from above, please take a look at Alan Burridge (writer). But please also note that a lot of editors here feel strongly about individuals editing their own article (see Wikipedia:Autobiography), I'm frequently around so if it need anything, let me know so I can take a look for you. Top notch --Alf ^melmac 12:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to echo Mr Alf's offers of assistance (although he is much better than me!) and welcome! Bubba hotep 22:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Re location of article, as Alan Burridge already exists and it not being possible to house two different items at the same location, I have noted the top of that with a link to Alan Burridge (writer) also adding it to the Category:Motörhead - both should make it easier to find for those people wanting the "Motörographist" instead of the "cricketer", if consensus finds that both should be treated equally then the cricketer's page may be moved and a disambiguation page put in it's place to direct to either article, but effectively that's not really much different for readers from the current situation. --Alf ^melmac 10:16, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I've added the article to two categories: "Music writers" (I did check to make sure it was "people who write about music" rather than songwriters - but having said that, have you written any good songs lately, Alan?) - and "Natives of Dorset". Both categories show Alan Burridge entries making it easier to pick the article up aswell. Bubba hotep 10:41, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Headbangers

Bubba relayed your comments about the motorheadbangers section to me, thank you, I also hope that some mhb get their scrap books out and add in some of the missing bits. Portsmouth local paper from around 1980 for the first "Loudest Band On Earth" newspaper headline for them you say? We need to nail that one down - I have a snapshot from the Inferno(?) DVD interview with one (photography by Barbara Bellingham), is that the one? I would appreciate it greatly if you were to comment about any 'milestones' that the article appears to be missing or under represented. Best regards--Alf ^melmac 23:45, 5 March 2007 (UTC) I think the Loudest Band accolade was in Southampton, but in the early 1980's, it has probably been superceeded by now.Alan Burridge (talk) 08:34, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Project

Just to let you know, there is now a Wikipedia:WikiProject Motörhead.--Alf ^melmac 06:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

On the November 1st, Bubba nominated the Motörhead article for Featured Article status. On the 5th, it was promoted to being a featured article (FA). I've suggested to Bubba that the next article to be edited towards FA should (obviously?) be Lemmy, which looks great with User:MarkMarek's pictures (sadly he's stopped editing) but is needy of some serious work, so maybe this time next year we could be looking at having Lemmy's article on the front page on the 24th December :) (I will be suggesting that the Motörhead article is front page for 20 July 2008).--Alf ^melmac 12:15, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

No Remorse artwork

Hi Alan. Recently the picture we have of the Leather sleeve edition of No Remorse was tagged for deletion, during which a couple of us argued for it's preservation for comparison with the cardboard sleeve - the artwork is much more detailed and obviously an entirely new piece of work. Do you know if Joe Petagno was responsible for that or was it someone else? --Alf ^melmac 21:18, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, Joe Petagno did all the War-Pig designs, but with his falling out with the band there is no contact with him from me or the band now. It annoys me when people keep calling the War-Pig 'Snaggletooth.' Lemmy wrote the Snaggletooth song in 1984 about his them new capped teeth, and even he has always referred to the head as a War-Pig from Day One.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Alan Burridge (talk • contribs) 14:39, 27 February 2009

Thanks. I'll go add that into the No Remorse article. I've changed the wording on the Motorhead and Joe Petagno articles to using War-Pig instead of Snaggletooth.

Two by the ways - one is the Motorhead article was featured as 'article of the day' on the Main Page on April 9th. The second is there is now an extended discography at Motörhead extended discography.--Alf ^melmac 08:29, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

All great things for Motorhead, thank you for your interest and help.Alan Burridge (talk) 08:34, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

April 2010

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you have been adding your signature to some of your article contributions, such as the edit you made to Alan Burridge (writer). This is a simple mistake to make and is easy to correct. For future reference, the need to associate edits with users is taken care of by an article's edit history. Therefore, you should use your signature only when contributing to talk pages, the Village Pump, or other such discussion pages. For a better understanding of what distinguishes articles from these type of pages, please see What is an article?. Again, thank you for contributing, and enjoy your Wikipedia experience! Thank you. tedder (talk) 02:49, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Please stop continuing to add your signature to that page. The amount of times you have done so is bordering on disruptive--Jac16888^Talk 12:57, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

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