Talk:DeVante Swing

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Many portions of this article appear to be correspond exactly to text in a copyrighted blog post at http://triplerdeezeemadd.blogspot.com/search/label/jodeci. This appears to be a copyright violation. I was not able to find any reference to this issue being addressed previously in talk pages or history. Maralia 04:12, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually this article seems to be a collage of statements taken from multiple blogs - most of them linked to by now. I've replaced the copyvio tag with a cleanup tag - this is no way to write a Wikipedia article. --Alvestrand 18:25, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
This article has been edited some 20 times since I tagged it for copyvio, so it no longer appears to be lifted directly from the site I mentioned previously. I agree with the new tags; this needs a complete rewrite for npov and grammar reasons, and also needs citations from creditable sources. An artist that has been producing music for over 10 years as part of a platinum selling group must have been profiled by music industry sources such as MTV and magazines as well as mainstream newspapers; resorting to fansites and bulletin boards certainly violates Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Sources. Maralia 19:16, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
I deleted everything in the article that seemed to me to need verification in order to be included. After staring at it for a while, that was the whole article except for the lead-in paragraph. The material presented, if untrue, would be more than enough for a libel suit for defamation; WP:BLP says, more or less, "delete that". --Alvestrand 05:15, 5 November 2007 (UTC)