Ballymorey

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July 2016

Top of the morning, Ballymorey. It's good to see new users with a keen interest with Jonathan King.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 05:26, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

A concern

Ballymorey, the King article was plagued for years by single-purpose accounts and IPs who were promoting the subject's interests, removing sourced materal, adding unsourced, and reverting a lot. They were banned as a result of two sockpuppet investigations: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/jk1944/Archive and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LudoVicar/Archive.

I recently made the first edit I'd made to the article since 2011, and immediately you appeared, a new account except for two edits elsewhere. You're adding unsourced and removing sourced text, and you seem knowledgeable about the details. When I asked if you'd edited the article before with another account, you didn't give a straightforward answer. [1]

I have no problem with you making suggestions on the talk page (in fact, I welcome it if you're familiar with the topic), but I think you should avoid editing the article directly. SarahSV ^(talk) 16:22, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

It's amazing how much of Jonathan King has been edited by new user accounts with red user pages. King must have an extraordinary fan club somewhere. Personally I don't care who is editing the article as long as they stick to the rules, but eyebrows will be raised when this happens.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 16:43, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Apologies I've become obsessed by the subject and have now read both his biographies and watched his movies. I was not aware that corrections should only be made by established editors. Ballymorey (talk) 09:44, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

August 2016

I can probably remember even less about what I did in 1980 than in 2000. I don't keep a diary although I do have photographs. As we know, it can be very difficult to prove (or disprove) things from this far back. It can also lead to situations like this. I am very wary of committing myself to the truth of a statement from this far back as it is so easy to get things wrong. There are exceptions, though. Thanks to all of this, I watched TOTP2 with Peter Powell (DJ) from 1982, and the memories came flooding back. In the summer of 1982, I was staying at the Crest Hotel in Portsmouth and so was the crew of the Radio 1 Roadshow. I walked past Powell in a corridor and of course he didn't have a clue who I was. However, if you asked me to write down a comprehensive list of things that I did in 1982, it wouldn't be very long. The human memory is not a tape recorder or hard drive.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 10:11, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

I've also spent the last few days trying to find out what became of the Crest Hotel in Portsmouth. The Crest Hotels chain went out of business long ago, and apparently it became the Hotel Forte Posthouse. Today it seems to be the Holiday Inn Portsmouth in Pembroke Road.[2]--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 18:01, 9 August 2016 (UTC)