Talk:James Murray Wells

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I've totally re-written this article as part of a series of articles I'm writing on Uk Internet Businesses. A lot of stuff here should have been on the page for his company, and more amusingly looked like a contest between two sets of PR people, pro and anti! I also removed a lot of the "grudge match" verbiage. See GlassesDirect. Hopefully it now meets minimum wiki standards. I agree with what Munchness says. Umptious 13:36, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

However, Murray Wells appears to meet Wikipedia's inclusion guidelines for biographies, in particular, "The person has been the subject of published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject". --Muchness 19:20, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I've noticed that some articles refer to him as Jamie Murray Wells instead of James Murray Wells, so I'm adding a re-direct (my first!). If this isn't the correct way of handling such things, could someone tell me via a note on my user page, please? 17:42, 12 March 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Umptious (talk • contribs)

Reluctantly, I've decided to remove "The product of a rumbustuous one night stand between author HG Wells and the tennis player Jamie Murray". However if the contributor can come up with a ***source***, this fascinating tidbit can go back in. (Btw - it would have been funnier if rumbustious had been spelled correctly, and if parent's names had been wiki linked.) At least this seems to be random humour rather than a return to The War Of The Opticians.... Umptious (talk) 15:38, 31 March 2008 (UTC)