Die Antwoord

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Hi, Griffin. Please stop adding unreferenced, copy/pasted material to the article. Material on Wikipedia isn't meant to be copy/pasted due to copyright issues, and is supposed to be referenced. I'll add a note below this explaining what I mean by referenced, as well as some other useful info for you. Happy editing! Kaini (talk) 09:47, 11 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

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The info I am adding comes straight from Yo-Landi. She requested me to to modify the Wiki page with the correct info.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Griffin watkykjy (talkcontribs)

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It is not subjective information. These are facts that they have asked me to add to Wiki.

griffin, you would need to provide references for a lot of it, for example info regarding an upcoming album. and some of the info is already there, such as the stuff regarding the harmony korine short. and to be honest, it reads in an excessively promotional manner. i may have been wrong about the copy/paste from dieantwoordzeflings, and if so, i apologise for that. but there are many problems with both the style and the content of the information you've added. it isn't encyclopaedic. Kaini (talk) 10:04, 11 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

OK, the new information is now on http://www.watkykjy.co.za/die-antwoord/ if a Wiki user wishes whishes to add info from there. The intent was not to make it sound promotional. As far as references go, I can only say what I know and was told by Die Antwoord themselves, I cant reference something that someone said, so perhaps that info can be added later, once the album is released in Ocotber. The idea was just to add more information. A lot of the facts in this Wiki document is also wrong, for instance Ninja's real name, which is plain Waddy Jones and not Watkin Tudor Jones.

i'd be more than happy to help out later today. watkykjy is more or less official and sanctioned by the band, so i can use some of that as reference material. and we don't have 'plugs up our butts' as you put it over there, it's just wiki policy. it's there for a reason. anyway, i'll have a look at it later. Kaini (talk) 10:25, 11 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. If I knew more on adding / editing pages the proper way on Wiki and had the time I would have done it myself. Appreciated.

PS: I have added a lot of links on the http://www.watkykjy.co.za/die-antwoord/ link which can be used as references.