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envisage the use of his blog to support that. Further, the situation today could be mentioned and supported with the references given. But using terms like "provoked controversy" is a broad generalisation and unsupported, he never 'released the track' that reads as if it was a single but it was only ever an album track. "eponymous "Black Cloud" ? "Criticism... from some political quarters" - What political quarters? - again, unsourced and unreferenced. I'd prefer it if you were less sensationalist, improved the text and supported it with correctly sourced and valid references - then I wont need to edit it."
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remove the song from certain sites to prevent it being abused, anyway more than enough reasons have been given already. Self published blogs are permitted as references and sources but only under certain circumstances and I don't believe the way in which the text is written now justifies its use. This has nothing to do with censorship, it's more about following the rules.
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until the 13th, also other dates are available by tweaking the url but the June 12 piece isn't accessible at NYT. By the way the piece is a daily feature straight from
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If the entry didn't sound so sensationalist, was written according to the references given, located on the correct page I might no be so opposed to it. I would suggest that the impact of the song on SOME of Harper's fans - at the time - be the angle from which the subject matter is tackled and I can
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OK. I appreciate the need to reference things, it's just the first link you provided didn't even mention Harper, so it was hard to see the point. The ABC link does - though I suspect they've mined the data from here - I'll dump the All Music link and exchange. Hopefully that works out for all of us.
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Further. "I'll do whatever I think is necessary and according to the rules. I'm fine with others looking into this too. As for the
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I have deleted the section for reasons given previously, and on your talk page. Namely: BLP / lack of references justifying a "controversy", undue weight given to one song on a Bio page, a singular YouTube video clip given as reference and not supporting of the statement in the text, overly leaning
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No thank you for pointing out my mistake. I am now fixing a whole series of edits I made that day. It seems really weird to me the link now points to the June 13 "Today in history" as my edit history clearly shows I made the edits on June 12 before 0200. The June 13 piece isn't cleared for release
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In response to the criticism he received from some political quarters, in 2006 Roy Harper wrote, "I let my guard slip. I knew that I’d let it slip. I wanted it to slip. I was absolutely sick of being politically correct. I am not politically correct, I never have been..". His stated reason for
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I have moved the section almost verbatim to the album page where I think it's best suited. What remains is, I hope, a reasonable synopsis of the track, what provoked Harper to write it, and the effect it had upon a section of his fan-base... which I wouldn't describe as "predictable" or a
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on a self published blog for reference Etc... As has been pointed out before, this section may be best placed on the album page - when it (the controversy) can be referenced properly. Or you may choose to re-write the text according to the references you have provided. HTH
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I have carefully created the following section. It is a matter of contraversy but I think it is useful for people to know and of interest in an encyclopedic entry about Roy Harper. However it keeps being deleted without proper explanation being given.
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So why leave this here? The matter has been dealt with and all this is just repetition... no?
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