User talk:McMalcolm

The Boyhood Sessions moved to draftspace
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This is an official release. All you have to do is google it and you can see that As are the other items we’ve tried to add for album entries Not sure what else you need. However if it’s too difficult we won’t bother to update or help McMalcolm (talk) 16:59, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Live at Cropredy moved to draftspace
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Ok, not understanding why your moving or deleting as trying to create this listing and others for Osibisa albums in the discography ? McMalcolm (talk) 15:46, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

African Dawn, African Flight
Hello, I received your email about this article. I have made your article redirect to the band's article, as you did not demonstrate the significance of the album as separate from the notability of the band. You need to add reliable sources which establish that the album is a notable music album. I created Draft:African Dawn, African Flight for you - there, you can add sources and improve the article, and then submit it for review. In the alternative, you can add information on the album as the Osibisa page. If you have questions, please respond to me here, or otherwise ask the wider community at somewhere such as the Teahouse. Best ‡ El cid, el campeador  talk  19:44, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Wendell Richardson


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November 2021
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Osibisa, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article.   RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:46, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, McMalcolm. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Osibisa, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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I don’t have an external relationship but I do edit and update from a technical and historical point of view. I certainly know what’s being deleted isn’t right, hence hi-lighting it. McMalcolm (talk) 19:00, 22 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for clarifying. I was a bit misled by "Knowing the band history, members, producers (who have all commented asking wtf is going on with the deletions on additions they themselves have supplied)", but that may have been referring to public comments by the members and producers. Firefangledfeathers 19:04, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank-you. After seeing how many recent rollbacks of accurate additions and accuracy changes have been (possibly maliciously) performed by Random Canadian in recent times on items I and others have added to (all fully verifiable on/in issued record and CD albums and various music, distribution and band websites) I think someone needs to look closely at whether there is a questionable motive from/by that specific editor. Every single one of the original edits we contributed to was accurate to our knowledge and fully verifiable. Frankly if there is someone out there running riot with a random delete pen then I’d rather not try to help at present even though I and others want to improve on the accuracy of the information and clearly know the subject matter better than the Random Canadian. There are already queries by others to Random Canadian as to why some of the rollbacks are being applied when things are easily verifiable on artist websites. In my opinion I view their recent actions as petty and malicious, in fact it is hard not to reach this conclusion. I leave it to others to deal with this properly and hopefully address the situation so that the addition of musical knowledge and facts can increase as it all should. In the meantime I won’t bother to add anything else in the fear our time and effort is wasted by the current actions of Random Canadian. If you can direct me where else this information should be placed to help solve this it would be most appreciated. McMalcolm (talk) 23:33, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 18:34, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.. I have moved the above report to the new venue given your persistent inability to understand the issue here and your deflection and uncivil comments towards me. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 00:22, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:The Boyhood Sessions


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Your draft article, Draft:Live at Cropredy


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Album additions and relevant information.
Hi Liz, these are valid album entries that should each have their own separate section so relevant album info can be updated. Each of the ones we put in are CD’s that were released and had or have current distribution worldwide. However after there were a spate of deletions with the Osibisa section (for example the same user deleted all of the ‘singles’ information and then kept deleting nearly all new additions (all valid and verifiable I might add). We gave up as afterall, what is the point of adding or updating the pages with correct, valuable, verifiable information such as singles, albums, contributor info such as producers and the like keeps being deleted. We did put forward a formal complaint but the user seems to sneakily (and cleverly I might add) gotten this turned over or ignored. Frankly we gave up even though we know absolutely what they were (and possibly still are) doing is completely wrong. Hence we know that much good information has been deleted or changed (where it is clearly wrong) because of a random updater’s completely unnecessary hissy fit. I’d love to see these pages updated correctly and diligently like I’m sure anyone else who’s interested in this band (and many others) would like as well. However it works need removal of toxic editors before good intentioned people like myself would bother to do this again. More than happy to help where we can if you would like to take this task on. McMalcolm (talk) 19:08, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Osibisa new album entries
As per previous note regarding another valid Osibisa album.

Hi Liz, these are valid album entries that should each have their own separate section so relevant album info can be updated. Each of the ones we put in are album CD’s that were released and had or have current distribution worldwide. However after there were a spate of deletions within the Osibisa section (for example the same user deleted all of the ‘singles’ information and then kept deleting nearly all new additions (all valid and verifiable I might add). We gave up as afterall, what is the point of adding or updating the pages with correct, valuable, verifiable information such as singles, albums, contributor info such as producers and the like keeps being deleted by some random, uninformed, clearly vindictive ‘editor’ I use that term loosely of course. We did put forward a formal complaint but the user seems to sneakily (and cleverly I might add) gotten this turned over or completely ignored. Frankly we gave up even though we know absolutely what they were (and possibly still are) doing is completely wrong. It was the sort of idiotic deleting/ editing that actually gives Wiki the bad name for total inaccuracy it gets from time to time. Hence we know that much good information has been deleted or changed (where it is clearly wrong) because of a random updater’s completely unnecessary hissy fit. I’d love to see these pages updated correctly and diligently like I’m sure anyone else who’s interested in this band (and many others) would like as well. However it would need removal of toxic editors like the one alluded to previously before good intentioned people like myself would bother to do this again. More than happy to help where we can if you would like to take this task on. McMalcolm (talk) 19:14, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

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Best of Osibisa moved to draftspace
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Your draft article, Draft:Best of Osibisa


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