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Contents 1 Local thoughts 2 Brixton in song 3 gang 4 Terrorist Mosque in Brixton 5 Gangs

[edit] Local thoughts

I've lived in Brixton 23 years so have added a few comments about the place. Fairly uncontroversial I would have thought. SmokeyTheCat 11:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brixton in song

While the topic seems a bit silly, I can at least add that in the song "Me and Mr. Jones (Fuckery) by Amy Winehouse, on the new album "Back to Black" contains the lyric, "Rulers one thing come Brixton/Nobody stands in between me and my man". lepetiterobot 19:09, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] gang

Someone keeps putting in gang nonsence, common now he cant prove it he might as well say theres a gang called the "wikipedians running Croydon" and it will stay on the page, please lock the page

[edit] Terrorist Mosque in Brixton

Page 39 of Walter Laqueur's "The Last Days of Europe" reports that there is a mosque in Brixton that has a reputation for a large amount of terrorist recruitment. Can someone more familiar with this integrate it into the article? - MSTCrow 01:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gangs

That long list of gangs under the gun crime section SHOULD be removed, until they can be verified. Two and a half reasons why: They are a borderline WP:BLP violation, they are unlikely unverifiable, and an egregious vanity magnet to boot. I removed them as such, then noticed an edit war involving an IP address (87.194.87.242) trying to remove them for apparently the same reasons, and having his edits reverted as "vandalism" and being requested not to delete "sourced material" (even though the material was clearly not sourced). I'd welcome some comments on this matter as I totally agree with 87.194.87.242 here. - Zeibura ^(Talk) 05:03, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

I quite agree. Anything in this article which remains unsourced can be removed by any user. --John 05:53, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

I've just taken an awful lot of unreferenced cruft out. Anything that is returned should be properly referenced. --John 06:04, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Nice work. I've just realised there was a reliable source in that paragraph at one point but it got lost somewhere in the edit war; here. However this contradicts what was written, which was basically "PDC is London's largest street gang" under a section about gun crime, which is very BLP questionable as the reference clearly states they've been rehabilitating themselves for three years. If anyone wants to add information on PDC back into the article from this reference or others, please do so carefully making sure it's neutral, fully referenced and complies with the living persons policy. - Zeibura ^(Talk) 06:24, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree fully that all that stuff about the gangs should be deleted. Not only is it unsourced but probably crap too. I've lived in Brixton 20 years + and never seen any youth wearing bandanas of any colour.  SmokeyTheCat  •TALK• 15:29, 18 September 2007 (UTC) In fact I've removed most of it.  SmokeyTheCat  •TALK• 15:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)