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Contents 1 Welcome 2 Changing your user name 3 Top Gear 4 Changing 'Trivia' word 5 hey! 6 Mal Evans 7 Citation on Ringo 8 WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter, Issue 11, March 2007 9 Help! 10 No offence taken 11 Wow 12 News Time 13 Public Eye 14 WikiProject The Beatles 15 Beatles Newsletter

[edit] Welcome

Welcome Liamshaw. Maybe you could have a look Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Beatles? We need more people like you. You can also get a free newsletter every month. (Whoopee!) We're a funny lot on The Fabs pages, and you will be very welcome. (Your sense of humour will be greatly appreciated, BTW). andreasegde 17:02, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changing your user name

No, changing user names is quite acceptable. Have a look at this page Wikipedia:Changing username for instructions. Regards LittleOldMe 17:06, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. Liamshaw 22:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Top Gear

I just saw your comment about The Stig. I was looking at your edit history to see if the "powers that be" would suggest that you create a new account instead of allowing the name change. It appears that you have sufficient edit history to make this suggestion unlikely.

Anyway, back to Top Gear. I thoroughly enjoyed last night's show, I was almost rolling on the floor with laughter! We have an American friend staying with us for a few weeks. Despite her protestations about Yank bashing, she still thought it was hilarious. I try never to miss an episode. I hope you enjoyed it as much! Cheers LittleOldMe 17:16, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it was excellent, although sometimes even I, the perennial sceptic, am left in bemusement at the hilarious coincidences which ALWAYS crop up on Top Gear week in, week out. The Yank bashing was good yough! Liamshaw 22:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

You, Sir, are from Northern England. Your humour is excellent, your writing style is very intelligent, and your use of the phrase "Okey-dokey" gives the game away. Nice to have you with us on THE Beatles pages, BTW. :) The bloke with the girl's name, courtesy of Crestville. 22:26, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

And you, Sir, are too kind. Many thanks for your welcoming, humourous, and helpful nature, even if you did just create an edit conflict with me, which you inevitably won. Gnashing of teeth on my part. No worries mate! embarrassed northerner(or not?) 22:37, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changing 'Trivia' word

Brilliant idea, me old mucker. "What? You mean people actually work on articles? I'm shocked to me very foundations..."  :)) andreasegde 15:44, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hey!

You are good! Stick with t/The Beatles Project, and the subbing of stupid names in your talkpage sigs; you may never be made an Admin, but you will have great fun not getting there (not true, as one of the fun pranksters is an Admin (not one you've met, as far as I know).) Oh, and welcome! LessHeard vanU 00:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mal Evans

Because everything in the Lead should also be from the article. The Lead is a short summary (in three paragraphs) that gives a reflection of the whole thing. Anything that is in the Lead that is not in the article is frowned upon by 'The powers that be'. You are right though, the Lead should be paraphrased so as to make it more interesting, but I'm just filling in the gaps before polishing. If you want to change it, then please, please do. It would save me doing it, and it would mean that two editors are working on it, which would be most welcome... :) ThE bEaTLeS aka andreasegde 20:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Do whatever you think is right. ThE bEaTLeS aka andreasegde 17:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation on Ringo

Thanks for putting Zak's daughter's name in the Ringo Starr article, and especially for doing so with a citation. other than a few dedicated people working on the most important Beatle-related articles, it sometimes seems I'm all alone out here trying to add citations. Glad to see someone else in the boat. John Cardinal 02:27, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter, Issue 11, March 2007

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter Issue 011 – March 2007
Beatles News On February 5, 2007, the Beatles' Apple Corps and Apple, Inc. (Apple Computer) announced a settlement of their latest trademark dispute involving use of the Apple trademark on the iTunes Music Store. In May of 2006, the High Court ruled in favor of Apple, but Neil Aspinall, manager of Apple Corps, vowed to appeal. Evidently, in the intervening months, the two companies negotiated a settlement. The settlement is discussed in this AP story. For background on the case, see Apple Corps v. Apple Computer. For fans, this may mean that Beatle music will be available someday on iTunes. Despite rumors of a February 2007 release, the material is still unavailalble. The divorce case between Paul McCartney and his estranged wife Heather Mills McCartney has begun with a preliminary hearing in the London High Court on March 1, 2007. See the McCartneys Have Their First Court Date. Chronicle Books has reissued I, Me, Mine, the 1980 George Harrison autobiography. See details in the editors page Project News The articles Freddie Lennon, Julia Lennon, Mimi Smith, Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans have all been promoted to Good Article status. The identity of the individual largely responsible for this outcome remains a mystery, but anyone correctly identifying said person will be treated to dinner with Sir Sean de Garde (cost of meal, air tickets, hotel and trips to houses of ill-repute will be borne by the Mighty Crestville). There were no Project article adoptions for the month of February. One new article has been listed in the Project Log since 1 February; namely The New World Tour, relating to the 1993 World Tour by Paul McCartney, created by the Project's Macca/Wings tours resident expert Danthemankhan. The hottest Project pages this month have been.... Julia Lennon, Freddie Lennon, Neil Aspinall, and Mal Evans, which are now all GA, and Mimi Smith, which has been peer reviewed to see if it could be FA. Project Policy has now been altered to reflect that the use of lowercase for the letter "t" of the word "the" in the Beatles is now considered the correct rendition. Member News New members to the project since the last issue include (although the first is a long time contributor who apparently has only just found the Participants section); Tvoz Freshacconci Liamshaw John Cardinal Mezlo ErleGrey Captain Waters Hey jude, don't let me down Apepper has been awarded a Barnstar for his considerable contributions to The Beatles' influence on music recording. LessHeard vanU has also acquired two Barnstars, and a WikiFish(!), mostly due to undue influence.	Issue of the Month See below. There is genuine concern that the Newsletter is getting stale in terms of content and variety, and that the same individuals are featured each month. Furthermore, lack of "news" is hindering the timely distribution as the editors wait for something to report. All Project editors are encouraged to give their news, suggestions and thoughts to keep the 'Letter vital and interesting. If making direct contributions do not appeal, please give a mention on the Newsletter talkpage and it will be incorporated! From the Editors Help is needed for the job of putting future Newsletters together. The present incumbent is finding it difficult to reflect the breadth of the Project, focusing on much the same individuals and articles each month, and has decided to beg for contributions from other individuals. Interested persons need only start working on next months issue to qualify. It really is that simple! If you've just joined, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 012 – April 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Contributors to this Issue lEaD ediTor (Lead Editor) John Cardinal (Editor) LessHeard vanU (Editor) Lar (Editor, Distributor) Alexcalamaro (Editor)
Complete To Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Open tasks for WikiProject The Beatles. Edit or discuss these tasks. As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the project infrastructure, classifying articles, and listing/assessing red links. Your assistance is welcome. If you would prefer to just edit - and why wouldn't you? - we have a choice selection of red links to turn blue and articles to clean! Now let's get busy. To Expand: Apple Records See also: Adopt an article To Clean up: Apple Records discography (wikify). The Beatles' 1965 USA Tour. To Merge: To Create: Phil McDonald (engineer). Lennon/McCartney songs: I'll Keep You Satisfied (produced by George Martin), From A Window. George Martin produced Billy J. Kramer song: Magic Carpet (song). Songs covered by The Beatles: Hippy Hippy Shake. The Big Three. Bag o'Nails, where Paul met Linda. Macca single: My Brave Face. Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles tours). Full list & instructions. Lists to complete: Wanted Pics/Graphics: Mal Evans, Flying (song), Astrid Kirchherr, Jimmy Nicol, Cynthia Powell, Alistair Taylor, Ivan Vaughan, Tittenhurst Park, Tony Barrow. We need a better open-licenced photo for the project, to replace the Abbey Road crossing. If you provide a photo, please remove the ReqPhoto tag from the article's talk page and remove the article from this list. Project Discussions: The Beatles history, Individual songs vs longer album articles, Beatle wives, Merge/split proposals Project: Add {{WPBeatles}} to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members, and coordinate tasks. Enter articles classed as stubs into this list (under To Expand) and also list articles needing cleaning and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

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[edit] Help!

I have heard on the grapevine that The Beatles Quiz that you've participated in is going to be dismantled soon. I need all the correct answerers help to save this new quiz. She hasn't really started too much to be cemented, and she's almost really going to be dead! Please assist in saving it. 01kkk 21:35, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No offence taken

I can assure that your post caused me NO offence whatsoever, I used it as as means to make a point to others that constantly "Eye Wig" Andrea's page,(and mine!). I can assure you it was not directed at you in the least, and I'm sorry that you felt the need to apologise.

The film about Zimbo was No Direction Home. Have you seen tha t HORRIBLE little book that comes with the CD sound track _ DREADFUL! We had a very nice time thank you, and now I must go to bed as I'm heavily uner the affluence of incohol! Cheers La! Vera, Chuck & Dave 03:27, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wow

Shrub, thanks for the barnstar. I know it's good to get one, but I must confess I don't completely get it! Doh! I did find myself getting a little snippy towards the middle of the week, so I cut back on WP for a couple days. I've got more than enough things to keep me busy. I'll wade back in tomorrow and Sunday (US eastern). Thanks a million. — John Cardinal 04:38, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] News Time

WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter Issue 012 – April 2007
Beatles News On Friday 30th March, a deranged fan was held after attempting to force his way into Paul McCartney's mansion. See here for more details. Apple Corps continues to make news, after the recent settlement with Apple Computer over the use of the Apple trademark. On April 10th, the company announced that long-time chief executive Neil Aspinall had stepped down and had been replaced by American Jeff Jones. It was also announced that another long term dispute, this time with EMI over royalties, had been amicably settled prior to Aspinall's departure.[1][2] Project News The article "Jeff Jones (music industry executive)" suddenly becomes of top importance in the Apple sphere of Beatledom. User:Kingboyk has created a stub on the man, but the article needs urgent beefing up (including basic biographical data such as date and place of birth) and, if possible, a photograph of the new Apple chief executive. Mimi Smith promises to have the last word over John yet again; her article is currently a Featured Article Candidate. Brian Epstein is a current GA candidate. See the Status board for more article news. 2 new articles have been listed in the Project Log since 1 March: Tony Barrow and Jeff Jones (music industry executive). With the debate over "the Beatles" vs "The Beatles" continuing to cause ill feeling and a number of resignations from the project from advocates on both sides, Kingboyk attempted to diffuse the situation by blanking the Project Policy page and tagging it as {{historical}}. Although this unilateral action hasn't been reverted as of the time of writing, the reaction was mixed, with two members rejoining the project and others stating their disagreement. With the issue still not resolved, the page was sent to Miscellany for Deletion, for the wider community (and WikiProject The Beatles members) to consider the issue. Member News The membership list has been trimmed, with inactive members listed seperately to help gauge the status of the project. If you've been incorrectly listed as inactive, please don't be offended - just move yourself back to the main list.	The Rutles: The legendary group who inspired lesser imitators like "The Beatles". WikiWorld, March 2007 From the Editors This has been a tumultuous month for the project yet again. We need your input on how the project should work and what it's role should be. And we need to start getting Featured Articles, folks! :) Next issue This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 013 – May 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Contributors to this Issue Kingboyk (Lead Editor) Andresguacamayo (Editor)
Complete To Do List Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Open tasks for WikiProject The Beatles. Edit or discuss these tasks. As the project is currently just starting, our more experienced editors are working on the project infrastructure, classifying articles, and listing/assessing red links. Your assistance is welcome. If you would prefer to just edit - and why wouldn't you? - we have a choice selection of red links to turn blue and articles to clean! Now let's get busy. To Expand: Apple Records See also: Adopt an article To Clean up: Apple Records discography (wikify). The Beatles' 1965 USA Tour. To Merge: To Create: Phil McDonald (engineer). Lennon/McCartney songs: I'll Keep You Satisfied (produced by George Martin), From A Window. George Martin produced Billy J. Kramer song: Magic Carpet (song). Songs covered by The Beatles: Hippy Hippy Shake. The Big Three. Bag o'Nails, where Paul met Linda. Macca single: My Brave Face. Articles on each Beatle tour (Category:The Beatles tours). Full list & instructions. Lists to complete: Wanted Pics/Graphics: Mal Evans, Flying (song), Astrid Kirchherr, Jimmy Nicol, Cynthia Powell, Alistair Taylor, Ivan Vaughan, Tittenhurst Park, Tony Barrow. We need a better open-licenced photo for the project, to replace the Abbey Road crossing. If you provide a photo, please remove the ReqPhoto tag from the article's talk page and remove the article from this list. Project Discussions: The Beatles history, Individual songs vs longer album articles, Beatle wives, Merge/split proposals Project: Add {{WPBeatles}} to the talk pages of all Beatles-related articles. Send a newsletter to members, canvas for new members, and coordinate tasks. Enter articles classed as stubs into this list (under To Expand) and also list articles needing cleaning and other work here. If you complete one of these tasks, please remove it from the list and add your achievement to the project log.

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BetacommandBot 23:57, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Public Eye

As I live in the United States in a rural area, I have never actually seen Public Eye. I'm sure I would find it amusing. Most holders of copyright would not bother to enforce their rights. Nevertheless, it is best not to copy extensive texts. It is enough to know that it is their opinion that we have "removed the facts". Fred Bauder 14:54, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

We have not, just removed controversial material which is not adequately referenced. Fred Bauder 14:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject The Beatles

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[edit] Beatles Newsletter

I'm a member of the Beatles WikiProject. How do I get the newsletter? Basketball110 21:06, 18 January 2008 (UTC)