User talk:MissingParsons

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Johnny Cash
Please stop adding that book title to this article until you indicate how it is relevant. Thank you. ---  RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive' 15:20, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello RepublicanJacobite. Thanks for your feedback and sorry if I've contravened any Wikipedia house rules - I'm new to this as you may have gathered! 'Misadventures in Rock & Roll America' is a music travelogue about two music broadcasters (Chris Price is director of music at MTV, Joe Harland an exec producer at BBC Radio 1) on a journey to discover the roots of rock and roll america. It includes a chapter on Johnny Cash, centering on a visit to the Cabin Studio at the Cash estate, and an interview with John Carter Cash. Do you think it is relevant? MissingParsons (talk) 08:28, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, with that added information, it does seem to be relevant. Judging only by the title, it seemed to be about musicians who had died young, which is not the case with Cash.  At any rate, feel free to readd it.  You should use an edit summary, though, just a brief message saying why you are adding it.  And, you might want to leave a message on the article talk page saying pretty much exactly what you said above, so that other editors will know why you added the title.  Let me know if I can be of any assistance.  Cheers! ---  RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive'  00:18, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * A book written by a band called Missing Parsons, by what appears to be a single purpose account named MissingParsons, inserting a further reading citation into articles? Looks like a conflict of interest and bookspam to me.  dissolve  talk  00:35, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi both. Thanks for your feedback. There seems to be some disagreement, so just to clear things up: Yes, this is my first edit and yes, the book is co-written by me (hence the use of MissingParsons user name for transparency). Missing Parsons is the collective name of the co-writers Chris Price & Joe Harland. There is a band of the same name but it is a separate entity. The book is about several American songwriters including Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash and Jeff Buckley among others. In the sense that it is a book by respected music professionals which adds to the scholarship on those artists and others, I feel I was acting in good faith by adding it, but perhaps it is best to revisit this one when the book is published in May so that the various Cash authorities can read it and decide for themselves whether it is relevant to this page. Thanks again for your help.91.106.132.209 (talk) 10:31, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

January 2010
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