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No-one is lacking respect to Dennis Brown. How does covering up the truth respect him and bringing it into the open not do so? SqueakBox 01:24, 2 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia, which you are more than welcome to do. , SqueakBox 14:27, 2 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. , SqueakBox 18:25, 2 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Respect to Dennis Brown.

Please follow your own advice and respect this great singer by not covering up the truth about this terrible plague. Your tacky censorship only serves yourself, it serves neither the truth or the memory of a great artist, SqueakBox 21:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

I understand that it may be difficult to deal with the struggles of a great man, especially after his death. But if you have an opinion about the crown price of reggae, please post it on the talk tage. Do not delete what others have posted, it helps no one.Reggaedelgado 22:28, 2 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. , SqueakBox 12:42, 3 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

So stop now, okay? You have been reported, SqueakBox 12:46, 3 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism, and if you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the hard work of others. Thanks.

You have been warned numerous times and are on a watchlist for people that have recently vandalized. Consider this your final warning. --ZsinjTalk 17:42, 6 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

You have been temporarily blocked from editing for vandalism of Wikipedia. Please note that page blanking, addition of random text or spam, deliberate misinformation, privacy violations, and repeated and blatant violation of WP:NPOV are considered vandalism. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may come back after the block expires. -Will Beback 00:18, 9 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Dennis Brown

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Why are you continuing to make these removals? I thought we finally settled this issue 6 months ago. Gamaliel (Angry Mastodon! Run!) 23:27, 21 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

I don't think these issues will be settled until the references to John the Goat and his awful song are removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RIP DEB (talkcontribs)
Unless you can provide a valid editorial reason for the removal of this material, which you have not done in a year and a half of edit warring on this issue, then the material will remain in the article. Gamaliel (Angry Mastodon! Run!) 23:55, 21 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

I realise that my resistance is completely futile. As I've said countless times before I find John the Goat's song extremely insulting to the memory of Dennis Brown. However, I don't expect any of the countless moderators of this page to understand why. It's to do with respecting the memory of a great artist who made a massively positive contribution through his sadly short life rather than promoting John the Goat's tedious album.

RIP_DEB 20:18, 26 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia is not about honoring the memories of great men, it is about documenting history and culture in an accurate and neutral way. I'm sorry you feel the song is insulting, it may very well be, but that is simply not a valid reason to remove all mention of it and whitewash it out of the article. Instead of this pointless quest to whitewash the article, you would better serve Brown's memory by helping improve the article to make it one that better documents his accomplishments. Gamaliel (Angry Mastodon! Run!) 21:18, 26 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

I think I understand your position. So if someone was to find some disrepectful songs about JFK and reference them on his Wikipedia page would that be "documenting history and culture in an accurate and neutral way" or would it just be offensive? RIP_DEB 07:46, 28 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

It wouldn't matter who the subject of the article was. Gamaliel (Angry Mastodon! Run!) 05:38, 3 December 2007 (UTC)Reply