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2007-08-05T20:34:11Z

Pipkin: Outages?

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A small thing...the article "River Trent" is unable to be edited because of a "spam filter". Um...what gives? [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 02:24, 31 July 2007 (EDT)

I fixed it. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 02:27, 31 July 2007 (EDT)

== Page Creation ==

Hello,

A few days ago a small group of us tried to create a page on a local conservative activist named J.R. Hedrick to have the page deleted. We read the guidelines and adjusted our page and were hoping we could ask the conservapedia staff to reconsider. We currently have the page wewantjr.homeip.net if you could take a few minutes check out the website see our reasoning and message and reconsider it would be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions or would like a shortened verstion of our reasoning feel free to email us at wewantjr@yahoo.com .

== Can't email other users ==

I try to email other users, I am logged in and I do have a valid email address in my preferences but it won't let me do it. What's up?

:Wismike, maybe the users you've tried to email haven't supplied an email address. When I went to your user page and clicked "Email this user", I got the following notice:
:*This user has not specified a valid e-mail address, or has chosen not to receive e-mail from other users.
:You can send me a test e-mail if you want. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 17:08, 3 August 2007 (EDT)

*Users need to supply their email on the preference page in order to send emails to other users. Even if the other user has it enabled, you need to have done it as well. --[[User:TK|şŷŝôρ-₮K]][[User_Talk:TK|Ṣρёаќǃ]] 17:20, 3 August 2007 (EDT)

== What's wrong with Ishi Press? ==

I can't put ishi press dot com as a ref for Woody Allen marrying his stepdaughter. Spam filter blocks it. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] [[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]] 17:42, 3 August 2007 (EDT)

== Outages? ==

There seem to be times when the entire site is protected. What's going on? -[[User:Pipkin|Pipkin]] 16:34, 5 August 2007 (EDT)

Madness

2007-07-20T17:14:13Z

Pipkin: Cursory history added

'''Madness''' were a British [[ska]] band of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

They had a string of hits that combined their love for [[Jamaica|Jamaican]] music with the pop sensibility and self-conscious Englishness of earlier groups such as [[The Kinks]].

Releasing their debut single "The Prince" on the [[2 Tone]] label in 1979, the group initially attracted a large following among young supporters of the [[British National Front]] (Madness being the only all-white band on the 2 Tone roster), which drifted away as the group began to express their initially ambiguous anti-racist stance more clearly, and the group began to appeal to a more mainstream audience.

Arguably the most successful of the British second-wave ska bands (their main competition being [[The Specials]]), Madness went on to achieve 23 top 40 hits between 1979 and 1986, including fifteen in the top ten. Their exuberant videos led to Madness being heavily played on [[MTV]], leading to them having a 1982 US hit with "Our House".

The departure of co-founder Mike Barson in 1984 signalled a decline in fortunes for the group, which disbanded in 1986. Four of the original seven members then formed a spin-off group, The Madness, with members of the Specials and the Attractions, which issued one poorly-recieved LP.

Prompted by the use of their single "It Must Be Love" in an advertisement for a British bank, Madness reformed for two gigs, dubbed "Madstock" in 1992, and continued to headline intermittent concerts throughout the 1990s, before reforming properly for 1999's comeback album ''Wonderful''. The band went on to issue an album of cover versions, ''The Dangermen Sessions Volume 1'' in 2005, and a new album is scheduled for 2007.

Frontman Graham McPherson (usually known as Suggs) has also enjoyed a solo career and has also become an occasional TV and radio presenter.

[[category:bands]]

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