Talk:Spratleys Japs

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Contesting speedy delete[edit]

This article is currently a stub relating to a spin-off project from the notable band Cardiacs. It has been set up in order to relieve pressures on the main Cardiacs Wiki article, which already attracts vigorous debates and often suffers from information crowding and overloading. (Several other articles on spin-off projects are also planned).

More information relating to the topic will be added over the coming month, as will references and citations. Please hold off on deletion at present. - Dann Chinn (talk) 12:52, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

More information added[edit]

I have added some more information, plus references, links and categories. More to follow. - Dann Chinn (talk) 13:13, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name change; Spratleys Rats or Spratleys Japs[edit]

The current series of reverts appears kinda like an edit war, which Wikipedia has specific guidelines against (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring). I only first saw that page today, to be honest. Regardless, we need to stop unproductively going back and forth with reversions and try to reach an agreement here.

The name Tim Smith's Spratleys Rats is displayed on the band's Facebook page^[1], which is the band's only active official page. The name Spratleys Japs appears on other official pages, but these other pages have not seen updates in years. So, the most up-to-date official source confirms the name as Tim Smith's Spratleys Rats.

Now, IP user 188.31.164.74, you say that Jo has been "bullied and harassed" into changing the name. This is not what I have seen. What I saw was that Jo got uncomfortable with the name herself upon discovering its other meaning. The whole situation was closer to awkward than heated. But even if I can't change your perspective on why the name has changed, that doesn't matter. It is entirely irrelevant why the name has changed. Wikipedia articles are not the place for subjective judgment. All that matters is whether or not the name has changed, which, according to the only active and official source, it has.

Please do leave a comment on the talk page here. Please don't revert anything until we come to an agreement. Thanks. Kcianrgd (talk) 21:59, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Official Spratleys Facebook page". Facebook.

[1] "Official Spratleys Facebook page". Facebook.

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