Talk:Missing Persons (band)

Large removal of text

Mike, you removed a lot of information from the article -- can we discuss that first? — Catherine\^talk 02:32, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Sure. I'm fairly new to the site, so I don't presume that what I'm doing is right. Thanks for the heads up. Did you write the original piece?

I saw the note about the article needing a cleanup, so I gave it a shot. Most of the information in the previous version was correct, but it seemed biased to me. I also don't know whether the material about the reunions is correct. The material in the version I posted is all correct by my reading.

I was also going to go back and add material about Cuccurullo, O'Hearn and the Bozzios being backup musicians to Frank Zappa when I had the time to research it.

Anyway, some merged version of the original and what I did might be a good idea. It turns out there's a lot of answers here: http://www.answers.com/topic/warren-cuccurullo

By the way, I came to this page when I updated "anagram" to include the Spring Session M reference.

--Mike Selinker

Thanks for the answer! The anagram definitely belongs in there, just not at the expense of everything else...! I wrote some of this article, so I had it on my watchlist, and saw when you made your major edit; it's been added to since, introducing some problems with fannishness, and I've been meaning to clean it up. However, I do know that much of what you removed was fact, including the Zappa material. The best source of info on Missing Persons is http://cglass.vinu.edu/mp.html -- an acquaintance of mine has been running the site for years, knows the band members personally, and is currently a webmistress and semi-personal assistant to Warren. (Use the site as a resource for facts, but as with all websites, be sure not to copy anything verbatim as she owns copyright to all the text, and is very protective of it.)

If you scroll down to the bottom, you'll see that the Answers.com page is a copy of our own Wikipedia page on Warren Cuccurullo, which I wrote almost in its entirety.  :)    I'm a fan of Warren's latter-day work, so I can assure you that the info on the reunions and such is correct, to the best of my knowledge. (By the way, Answers.com is one of our biggest and friendliest mirror sites, legally reusing our content under the GNU Free documentation license -- they're not stealing from us.)

I'll have a go at cleaning up the article, keeping your improvements. Let's work together to polish this up, okay? — Catherine\^talk 01:36, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

I've done what I can, please take a turn and see if there's anything you can improve or add. If you have time, you might have a look at Patrick O'Hearn as well -- it looks suspiciously like it might be copy-and-pasted from somewhere else. Run a sentence or two through Google and see if it matches his official site or anything else; if not, it still needs to be NPOV'd, wikified, and formatted according to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. If you can't get to it, I'll see if I can't work on it in the next few days. Thanks! — Catherine\^talk 02:47, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Seems a lot better. One thing: I don't see any evidence that "Simon Oh Simon" charted in the top 40 (R&B, perhaps?). I can't say I know anything about post-MP Patrick O'Hearn, who's the member of Missing Persons I can never remember.

Mike

--- Search under "Simon Simon"; also, it did not chart in the top 40, but on Billboard dance charts in 1988. (Cucfan, 9/10/05)

Corrected title and clarified information about "Simon Simon"-- Dale's 1988 top 40 dance hit. --CucFan (4/27/06).

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Major editing & updating -- CucFan (9-23-06).

More edits today

Added the rest of the albums to the discography & made note of SSM's chart position. Added section about "Missing Persons Featuring Dale Bozzio."

Find an older photo

No one wants to see a photo of grandma when searching for info on a band with a sexy lead singer. Yeah it is harsh but you know damn well it is true. Look harder. 70.36.142.145 (talk) 11:49, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Have been searching for years. So far, all old photos found have not been releasable under a suitable free use with attribution license acceptable to both Wikimedia and the owners of the images. The search has been an ongoing process, and continues. Doc2234 (talk) 22:23, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

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