Talk:Bobby Brown

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Contents 1 Request expansion 2 Okay... 3 Websites 4 Jail Time 5 Copyvio 6 Spam 7 1978?

[edit] Request expansion

With all his media attention these days, there should be more information available about Brown, particularly his early life, his New Edition days and coverage of the impact of Being Bobby Brown. Add, please! Iamvered 13:56, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Added! TamYum 03:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Okay...

What happened to the page?! Keekee 06:20, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Websites

Should the French website be removed and added as a link on the French Wikipedia translation? 71.205.112.43 20:20, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jail Time

The article seems to avoid the topic of Brown's jail time. He simply states that he was in jail for 65 days, but does not give reason why. Is there a reason for this?

[edit] Copyvio

I found the biography section to be mostly a copyvio from All Music Guide. I have removed the entire section and restored the section to the last version without the copyvio (13 July 2006). The last version with the copyvio is this one. A lot of information needs to be readded (without being copied from somewhere), while you're adding information please include citations. - kollision 06:37, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

The new version sounds more like a fan page... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Keekee5 (talk • contribs) 12:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spam

Someone using the IP address 71.105.104.206 has been spamming pages on black musicians, adding promotional material on "George Smith" (no idea who that is) and his son, an alleged "singer/dancer/producer" called "2 Krayze." This kid is a Disney Channel artist and a relative non-entity. A quick Google search for "2 krayze" reveals that someone has been copying 2 Krayze's profile from the Disney Channel website and pasting it into the comments sections on black-culture articles and blogs. It looks like this kid and his family (who are listed as his managers/agents/whatever) are orchestrating a deliberate spam campaign to manufacture fake publicity for 2 Krayze. Other articles that this spammer has attacked include Perri "Pebbles" Reid‎, Loose Ends (band)‎ and The Gap Band‎. I'm not sure whether "George Smith" did in fact manage all these artists, but all the edits that 71.105.104.206 has made look a lot like spam. I'm going to revert all the edits that this person has made and put the above pages on my watchlist. If anybody has more information about this spammer, please leave a message on my talk page. Huntthetroll (talk) 17:56, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

The spammer, using the IP address 67.182.72.212, added the self-promotional information back to Bobby Brown, Perri "Pebbles" Reid, Loose Ends (band)‎ and Bobby Brown. I have reverted all those edits, and will leave warnings on the talk page for that user. Does anyone know how to report spam to administrators? Huntthetroll (talk) 21:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 1978?

According to the bio on the right, Bobby's career has been active since 1978, making him 9 when he started - yet theres nothing to back this up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tommyhaych (talk • contribs) 19:18, 4 May 2008 (UTC) How about his performances with the group New Edition? He couldn't have been any older than 9 when he began performing, for all we know he could have joined New Edition at the age of 12 after performing professionally yet unsuccessfully three years earlier. 68.219.26.177 (talk) 01:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)