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November 2009
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I am the author of all Marksmen Quartet content everywhere. I am their media relations person for over 25 years including those cited in the Gilmer Mirror. I wrote that as well. I wrote something specific for their page that was different from their usual press release to newspapers.

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Hillbilly-ism moved to draftspace
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Hillbilly-ism (February 19)
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Your draft article, Draft:Hillbilly-ism


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The Ebony Hillbillies moved to draftspace
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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Ebony Hillbillies (February 9)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Ebony Hillbillies has been accepted
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 * Dianna,
 * Thank you for your recent edits to the Randall Franks page. I have been in the process of reorganizing the content of the page.
 * In the effort which is attributed to removing copyrighted material you have removed several paragraphs which are a vital part of the artist history which have been present since the creation of the page but may have been shifted in the reorganization of new presentation of older materials I was making.
 * 1) You removed early experiences which focused on his first group The Peachtree Pickers leaving certain paragraph elements without their foundation.
 * 2) You've eliminated the entire section on Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys including his bringing him to the Grand Ole Opry and his work with The Blue Grass Boys and his awards and recognitions which set Randall apart in the industry as a result. Monroe was the most vital artist and influence in his life next to Jim and Jesse McReynolds.
 * 3) You combined two sections which had relation but were different - The Hollywood Hillbilly Jamboree is a stage show which Franks operates since the 1990s and the paragraph focused on what he has done with the show and all the artists who appeared with him including one of the largest audiences any country artist could have 30,000. You combined it with the "Doc" Tommy Scott section which highlighted their work together which was not related with the Hollywood Hillbilly Jamboree but rather Scott's Last Real Old Time Medicine Show. The only relationship Scott originally had with the Hillbilly Jamboree was he founded the show in 1945 and supported Franks continuation of it.
 * 4) You eliminated credit to his work which expanded the bluegrass music industry through SEBA and IBMA.
 * 5) You eliminated his list of state and national press awards.
 * There are more questions, but these were key areas which I believe need to be returned to the page in order to tell his story appropriately.
 * Many of the basics in these sections were not copywritten elsewhere because I authored them for this Wikipedia page back in 2009 when I joined, except for additions through the years and slight changes in my recent reorganization. Mainly, I have been adding sources to the sections and a couple of updated sections on the groups he worked with and a discography. When there is a reference leading to RandallFranks.com, as a content creator, I am also the author of those materials, and his website was created after this Wikipedia page was created, so if the page materials reflect similar content or sentence structure, I wrote both, but Wikipedia page pre-dated the website.
 * I appreciate your assistance and would appreciate any help you can provide to return these key areas to the history. ￼
 * Appfid Appfid (talk) 01:33, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Dianna, Please disregard the above message. I have taken the time to totally re-write all the entries mentioned. I will be going back and re-establishing source footnotes in the coming days. Since I wrote the original on both sources to start with, it was easily redone. ￼
 * Thank you.
 * Appfid Appfid (talk) 03:03, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

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