User talk:81.151.176.25

Recent edit to Adelaide Hall
Hello, and thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia. I noticed that you recently added commentary to the Adelaide Hall article. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them, and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 10:27, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

81.151.176.25 (talk) 10:31, 26 February 2020 (UTC) Thank you. If you would just pass on the thought... Much appreciated. 81.151.176.25 (talk) 10:31, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

March 2020
Please do not add or change content, as you did at D'yer Mak'er, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Otherwise, re-additions will continue to be reverted. —Ojorojo (talk) 16:11, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

// Sorry, I don't understand all this formatting stuff, in this I admit to being an ignoramus. //

Hello. Thank you for your input. In view of my comment about a date on the Adelaide Hall photo, which of course applies across the whole of Wikipedia - (I had also previously criticised the record label shown on the Beatles' "Hey Jude" page, for which the caption was incorrect) - this suggestion that I should verify everything with an encyclopaedic reference is complete nonsense.

I have been criticised for adding "trivia", i.e. my remark about Alan Freeman playing "D'yer Maker" on Radio One in 1973. How on earth can I prove that without a contemporary tape recording or some documentary evidence? I heard it with my own ears, to use a schoolboy expression. And who says this is "trivia"? (The whole song under discussion and much else of Wikipedia is trivia - where does one draw the line?) I regarded my Alan Freeman comment as quite interesting - that a Led Zeppelin single (against all logic!) was said to exist, pre-release, which I and a number of people liked and would have bought at the time had it been available. Were it not for Alan Freeman playing the disc on Radio One I would never have known of its existence. (I have since bought the record as it, and practically everything else, has become available via Ebay, but without my memory of Alan Freeman in 1973 I could not have searched it out.)

My comment about the Rolling Stones title "Stones" was also taken out, put back in, taken out again and put back in again, though not exactly as I wrote it; this is factual knowledge for which I even specified a catalogue number for the foreign record in question since a citation was called for. That catalogue number, I note, and that of the Barron Knights' 45 "Call Up The Groups (Medley)", has been removed.

Look, I really don't care! It's no skin off of me if such factual information - for the sake of a stupid citation-citation-citation! - is dropped off. Who in the world would even notice? But why do you keep doing this? I only wanted to pass on a bit of knowledge even if it really does count as trivia. Likewise some specific knowledge about the 1910 and subsequent re-recordings of "Widdicombe Fair" by Charles Tree which I considered to be a serious omission, in view of the fact that these were its earliest recordings. Probably.

Incidentally, I must add : You have NO idea what a drag it is to be distracted from every word one reads in Wikipedia by repetition of the words "citation needed" at every possible opportunity. Can't we just sometimes take a person's word for it? We don't all have a desire to write invented nonsense in order to falsify every subject. Indeed I do not (does anyone?) check every citation where one is given (not to mention three or four hundred) to see that it does in fact state what is stated. It would be paranoia beyond the ridiculous.

I have no wish to continue supporting this website financially if this is going to be the way forward. Riddance and sorry I bothered. The world can carry on as it will.

p.s. I see the "Hey Jude" label has since been corrected. Thank you for that!