User talk:Mark Boyle

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Hello Mark Boyle, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] World Party information

Hello. I notice that you added a lot of information to the article on World Party. Do you have a reference for any of it? I'm especially interested in a citation for the Mike Scott / Karl Wallinger disagreement. Thanks. Jkelly 00:51, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

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Well, if you look through back issues of the NME, Melody Maker or Sounds from the relevent periods, you'll get what you are looking for - to be honest the story is so well known I'm surprised you asked. You could always go to either the World Party or Waterboys forum boards & try asking some questions there - but don't say you weren't warned what might be the result!

Let's just say it is a VERY sensitive topic - part of the problem is that circa "Fisherman's Blues" there was also a fall out within the Waterboys own fanbase over their more folky style.

Matters were not helped (& still are not) by the fact there is an element within their fanbase with a rather disturbing "worship" of everything Mike Scott does, & who see Karl Wallinger as some sort of "blasphemour" for daring to suggest anything critical over old Scotty's way of doing things. Compare that with - say - XTC, whose fans may adore Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding, but gave them pelters over their treatment of fired band member Dave Gregory.

Mark_Boyle 00:14, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SDP

Welcome to Wikipedia. There has been quite a bit of controversy about this article, so it would be best to discuss any changes that you intend to make on the talk page before making them. Information about the post-David Owen SDP has been transferred to a new article (Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990), which is linked from this article. Since the David Owen SDP was dissolved, the new SDP is not the legal continuation. It is, at least for now, a very minor party. Having a lot of information about it in this article made this article disproportionately weighted toward the new, minor party. The original SDP and the David Owen SDP were relatively important in the British political scene of the 1980s. The post-David Owen SDP is, for now, not. As an non-Briton, I can assure you that I have no interest in promoting any party, only an interest in having a good, neutral encyclopedia article. 22:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)Ground Zero | t

[edit] Bermondsey byelection

Peter Tatchell was never a member of Militant and did not secure the votes of the few Militant delegates to Bermondsey GMC in the selection. Nor was he associated with the SWP. No reputable source has alleged that moderate members of the Labour Party were under physical threat. David | Talk 13:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

So the former MP Bob Mellish is not a "reputable source" then?

I'm afraid that your continued scrubbing of anything off this page remotely negative about Tatchell begs the question as to whether it is a Wikipedia entry or your own personal "idol" page to Tatchell. Mark_Boyle 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] coroner's remarks about Ian Stuart Donaldson

Hi Mark, it is vitally important that we have a source for the statements you added recently regarding his death. Without sources, it just looks like more possible misinformation, and we get enough of that on his article already. Thanks for all you do. -- nae'blis (talk) 03:06, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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