Mrdubbing

The Dave Clark Five

I notice that there has been an ongoing editing war on this article, surrounding Dave Clark's birth year. I can find numerous on-line sources, such as here - [1], [2], [3], [4], to point to him being born in 1942.

Conversely very few sources support 1939; such as here - [5], and [6]. I also suspect that at least one of the warring parties is really John Briggs, the Dave Clark 5 fan club secretary, who stated (in an e-mail to me back in December 2009) that he has a copy of Clark’s birth certificate confirming 1939. Whatever the merits, this unverifiable source is not admissible on Wikipedia.

Can I therefore make several points:- 1. The ongoing editing tit for tat is ridiculous, and is damaging to Wikipedia’s reputation. 2. All parties are hiding behind a smoke screen, and are not quoting sources for their edits in contravention of Wikipedia:Verifiability. 3. All parties are violating the Wikipedia:Edit warring guidelines, and are in severe danger of having their editing rights removed by an administrator. 4. I am getting increasingly bored of watching this ongoing dispute, and have informed a Wikipedia administrator to explore the previous editing history. You should be aware that further disruptive edits will almost certainly result in individual bans, or the article itself being blocked from being edited.

My considered solution is to quote the overriding evidence supporting 1942, and have edited in reliable, third party references from two distinct reference books to this effect.

Please do not ignore this message, continue as before, or try to convince ME that 1939 is correct (certainly not without producing various hard, tangible, reliable evidence). If this message seems unduly draconian, then please read Wikipedia:What it is not. The simple message is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and ultimately does not tolerate ongoing bickering, edit warfare, and unsourced edits.

One final point. Why does Dave Clark (musician) quote 1942 virtually unchallenged since September last year, when the band article is continually subjected to a lengthy ping-pong of counter claims ?

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 16:08, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Changing dates

Mrdubbing-

Hi, thanks for your edits to Wikipedia. However, I'm going to have to ask that you use the discussion page as is outlined at {{editwar}}. Because as we can see it, you've continued to change back the date without any explanation, while everyone else is trying to discuss why it's an issue. As stated above, please discuss further before reverting or you may find yourself blocked for disruptive editing. Magog the Ogre (talk) 14:04, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Friends of Harry for deletion

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