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SG review[edit]

  • Coon 1976, p. unknown. Why is page unknown? There are ways to fix the citation, using loc= ... depending on what the issue is. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:53, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Messed up ? Not sure what it is? Reid, Jamie (June 2004). "The Art of Punk". Archived from the original on 6 December 2008. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:58, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Done, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:50, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bare URL in citation (maybe intending to change to something else) ? https://www.discogs.com/release/2095848-Sex-Pistols-The-Very-Best-Of-Sex-Pistols-And-We-Dont-Care SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:55, 18 October 2023 (UTC)  Done SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:27, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove ???
    • Southall, Brian (2007). The Sex Pistols: 90 Days at EMI. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-84609-779-9. Harv warning: There is no link pointing to this citation. The anchor is named CITEREFSouthall2007.
    • Eglinton, Mark (30 July 2009). "Bringing Out the Dead: The New York Dolls on Their Highs and Lows". The Quietus. Retrieved 3 August 2010. Harv warning: There is no link pointing to this citation. The anchor is named CITEREFEglinton2009.
    • Klein, H. (1978). "Sex Pistols: Tour Notes". New York Rocker (February). Harv warning: There is no link pointing to this citation. The anchor is named CITEREFKlein1978. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:56, 18 October 2023 (UTC)  Done SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:55, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Lead
  • making it the most censored records in British history. ... does this want to be singular, or "one of the" (plural)? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:17, 18 October 2023 (UTC)  Done SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:55, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Formation
  • occasionally worked at 'Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die', ... why is it in single quotes here, but not in the para above? Remove quotes?  Done SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:55, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Lydon joins
  • Lydon later said that early-seventies Britain was "a very depressing place ... the close quote is missing ... not sure where to put it.  Done
  • An advertisement in Melody Maker for a "Whizz Kid Guitarist ... not older than 20 ... not worse looking than Johnny Thunders." ... not a complete sentence  Done, fixed both, [1] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:33, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Early following[edit]

  • with his green hair, hunched stance and ragged looked ... like a cross between ... it seems like there is a missing word before looked ?
    Now it's ragged looked ... looked ??? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:39, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm missing the point of why this sentence is where it is ? How it relates to rest of para ... On their off-night on the 5th, the Pistols attended a Ramones gig at Dingwalls, like virtually everyone else at the center of the early London punk scene.

Other[edit]

Done, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:56, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • their own Pistols-style group, Buzzcocks. As Devoto later put it, "My life changed the moment that I saw the Sex Pistols."[62] They soon played other important venues, ... "They" meaning the Sex Pistols or Buzzcocks?  Done SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:41, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    • Is a para break needed there somewhere to make it clear where the influence on the Buzzcocks ends and other gigs start  Done
  • OK to reintroduce here what year we are in ??? released their debut album on 23 April.  Done
Sid Vicious replaces Matlock
  • John Robb claims it was at the first Sex Pistols residency gig on 11 May 1976; Matlock is convinced it happened in September. .. it ??? the date when Vicious replaced Matlock? How could they be that far apart ?  Done
  • Who is Cookie? According to Jones, "to Cookie and me,  Done
  • Incomplete sentence: For a view that Vicious was a more competent bass player than his reputation would have it.[134]  Done
A&M, Virgin, and Jubilee week
  • A straggler to be fixed? In Oslo, Lydon was photographed making the Nazi salute while wearing a sweater with a swastika.[unreliable source?]  Done
  • pseudonymly -- > pseudonymously ??? Seems off .. it's an acronym??  Done
Break-up
  • Not sure if it's a BrEng thing, but here it's usually called the Northeast .. several dates in the north-east.  Done
Post-Lydon
  • Wayward to be fixed ... Now[when?] a resident of Los Angeles,  Done
  • Something is wonky here ... Having played with the band Chiefs of Relief in the late 1980s and with Edwyn Collins in the 1990s,[215] Since the Rich Kids' break-up in 1979, Matlock has played with various bands, including recording and touring with Iggy Pop.  Done
Influence
  • A concert with 40 attendants ?? Confused ... not attendees, what is meant by attendants? Many among the audience of the around forty attendants
    Fixed, I hope: [2] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:38, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:58, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ceoil is this ready for me to have a new look yet ? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:06, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please set up separate sections for each nomination.

FASA nomination Ceoil[edit]

I nominate User:Ceoil for a Featured Article Save Award for their efforts during its FAR to retain the featured status of Sex Pistols. Hog Farm Talk 02:30, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion Ceoil[edit]

  1. Support as proposer. Hog Farm Talk 02:30, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support! Well deserved. Aza24 (talk) 04:05, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support agreed Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 05:20, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support page is much improved after months of effort and hundreds of edits. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:04, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]