Andycarleton

Speedy deletion of Starfish Television Network

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Recent additions to U2 article

Hi Andy, thanks for your addition to the U2 Live at Red Rocks article. Unfortunately, I had to revert your edits since you didn't provide a citation. I know you said you worked on the film yourself, but that information is original research unless you can provide a reference otherwise. If you have any documented information that can be added to the article, please let me know. Thanks. –Dream out loud (talk) 20:44, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi D-O-L, That is unfortunate. Video West ceased to exist as a company in 2002, so there's little that I could do to substantiate what I wrote. There are at least two other former Video West employees who were with me there at the time who could substantiate it, but I guess unless I can point to a URL, or book, I'm done. That's sad, as a video engineer I find it interesting to know what equipment was used. Thanks. Andycarleton (talk) 21:28, 6 June 2013 (UTC) P.S. if someone would like to interview me about the behind the scenes stuff, I can give you more info about what Bono was doing while it rained before the concert. Then maybe I'd have an article to point to. :)

You could try contacting a U2 fansite like atu2.com and if they do an interview with you and publish it, then we could use that information to cite the article. Otherwise, any information you add would just be original research, which isn't allowed here. –Dream out loud (talk) 03:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

It's just not worth the effort to me at this point.

Having been interviewed a couple of times before I know that reporters change things to "improve" the story. And reporters don't always have a good grasp of what might be important about their subject. I showed the article to two other gentlemen who were there with me. One still has the "U2 at Red Rocks Associates" crew t-shirt that was given out that day, and the other has a bottle of gin that Gavin gave him, to thank us for what Video West had done that day... sorry, "original research" ;). They agree that there are other minor inaccuracies in the story, but since an eyewitness isn't allowed to correct them... oh well!

I've now learned to take Wikipedia articles with the same grain of salt I take newspaper reports. (I get that these are Wikipedia's rules and not yours.) Have a nice life! :) (Pet Peeve: When you videotape something shot with video cameras it's not called "filming", it's called "taping".) Andycarleton (talk) 13:31, 7 June 2013 (UTC)