Talk:Freddy Moore

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This article is a bit of a mess. It also appears that much of it has been written by the subject. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 09:11, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hilarious!

Wow, what a shrine to colossally misguided self-importance! And dig the numerous ego-driven articles about the many short-lived failed bands of Freddie's! All of them should be blasted into oblivion, of course. But they certainly do reveal a lot about Freddie Moore -- sadly, probably far more than he realizes. 172.130.216.172 (talk) 04:34, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

The bands in question (Skogie, The Nu Kats, The Kat Club et al) each have their own site, which is ridiculous, seeing as they all have virtually identical memberships. Each of these pages has been proposed for a merger with Skogie, although an argument could be made to merge them here. 172.131.12.141 (talk) 23:15, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Possible Conflict of Interest

A major contributor to this article, Fgmoore (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log), may have a conflict of interest. His username may suggest that he is infact (or has a close affiliation with) Freddy Moore, in which case he would have a conflict of interest.

This article seems to be written from a point of view that would suggest a close affiliation to Moore, with information that a normal person would not know and information that and no information has been cited. The image is also from what seems to be a non-free Photo archive, but has been released into the Public Domain, which further gives the impression that he is in fact Freddy Moore.

Just thought I'd put that out there. I've never run into a case of a COI, so I've not got much clue what to do. Save-Me-Oprah(talk) 06:12, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Responding to your COI/N report: Well, technically I would guess you're right; it appears to be a case of COI (and possibly even sock puppetry if the two accounts – Fgmoore (talk · contribs) and Eroomgf (talk · contribs) – are used alternatingly). However, going through the user's edits, these consist mainly of adding the images, responding to a not-so-subtle remark, adding the infobox, restructuring, listing some related webpages, referencing some statements, and other minor corrections ([1], [2], [3]). None of these edits have introduced a significant POV or autobiographical bias, and the quality of the article appears to have improved, rather than declined, as a result of the user's contributions. Thus, unless I have missed some evidence, my opinion would be that no action needs to be taken at this point. Ayla (talk) 04:22, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Actually reading through the article (instead of just edit diffs), I now see your point re the COI tone. The culprit appears to be a single edit made by 64.169.213.73 (talk · contribs) almost two years ago. But yes, the article definitely could use a rewrite. Ayla (talk) 04:37, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] References are indeed present.

Roughly 90% of this article is taken from the referenced press articles.

simply google the cited press references and you'll find the referenced articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fgmoore (talk • contribs) 16:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah, Freddy, Freddy, Freddy. Don't you know that SineBot now automatically signs these entries for you if you ...*ahem*... forget to do so yourself? 172.136.165.91 (talk) 02:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)