Talk:Phil Collen/Archive 1

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Birthplace[edit]

This fanpage lists a different birthplace, doesn't it? [1]

Thief12 05:00, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]


More Personal Information[edit]

The page states "He also has a son, Rory James Collen, from his past marriage to Jackie. He also has a daughter named Samantha with Michele".

And as other websites have stated and pictures, he has a caucasian daughter with Michele, who is african-american, named Samantha, but he still remains married to Anita Thomas a.k.a Anita Collen. So it doesn't really go into detail about his relationship or past relationship with Michele or Anita...in Website Rumors only some accused he had an affair with Michele, but still that was only stated as a rumor and nothing more....So i'm wondering if it was his actual daughter or maybe they could have adopted her or he concieved her some other way and they just raised her as their own...no websites give details, but a picture of Michele, Samantha, and Phil together is posted on Def Leppard's UK website...It doesn't make since, obviously he and his wife may have had an open relationship, or they separated for a time and got back together Sometime after Samantha was born. That is confusing and I don't get that relationship entirely..But he is married to Anita still, no websites have denied that news so far..


There is no previous mention of Jackie or Michele on this page, as the aforementioned sentence would indicate. Suggest either giving more background information on them or deleting their mention altogether. This is a minor detail, but it's not very good English.

Rap[edit]

PHIL COLLEN DOES NOT PLAY RAP. RAP IS SOMETHING LIKE FIFTY CENT OR SNOOP DOGG. 66.225.14.190 00:30, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Def Girl?[edit]

I've read that when Phil Collen was still in Girl, and not yet in Def Leppard, he, his then Girl bandmate Phil Lewis, and the then members of Def Leppard, including Pete Willis, did a concert under the name "Def Girl". Anyone on here know anything about this? Gringo300 (talk) 15:01, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright concerns: seems like reverse infringement[edit]

As of October 2009, this article bears considerable similarity to the official website, [2]. Evaluation suggests that the infringement is reversed. First, though this not definitive, there is no archive of that page. Evidence within the article suggests a natural evolution. Take, for example, the lead paragraph of the external site:

Collen was born in Hackney, East London, England. Because of this region, he speaks with a Cockney accent. At the age of 16, Phil got his first guitar (a red Gibson SG), taught himself how to play, and left school to pursue a career in music. He then joined a line-up of early bands including Lucy, Tush, Dumb Blondes, and Girl. Some sources claim that Lucy's lead vocalist was Paul Meuse and that the band's bassist was Pete Webb. The band reportedly had four members.

You can see the evolution of this material in the article's history, piece by piece:

  • [3]: April, 2005, anon editor begins: "Philip Kenneth Collen was born in Hackney, East London, England. And because of this region, he speaks with a Cockney accent."
  • [4]: February 2006 a registered contributor inserts/amends: "At the age of 16, Phil got his first guitar (a red Gibson SG) and taught himself how to play, and left school to pursue a career in music. He then joined a line-up of early bands included Dumb Blondes, Lucy, Tush and Girl."
  • [5]: September 2008, a different registered contributor adds: "Some sources claim that Lucy's lead vocalist was Paul Meuse and that the band's bassist was Pete Webb. The band reportedly had four members."

This would suggest that at some point after September 2008, the webmaster of that website copied the Wikipedia article--or portions of it--for their use without providing proper attribution. This is further supported (though, again, this is not in itself definitive) by the fact that the website is tagged "Website & Contents ©2008 Phil Collen."

While the contributors to this article may wish to contact that website to request proper attribution in accordance with our license, I believe that we are comfortable in our use of this text, as we seem to have had it first. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:05, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copied from website[edit]

Oh, dear. We have a problem. Look at this link, and then read the article. Notice a similarity? Seems to me like most of this article is exactly the same as the website, probably copied and pasted. I'm going to try to reword most of this article, so that it's not a direct copyright violation. After that I'll start trying to find other references, so the entire article isn't based off one webpage. If anyone wants to help me that'd be greatly appreciated. C628 (talk) 22:58, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please read the section immediately above. :) You're welcome to edit the article and certainly it could use more references, but it does not seem Wikipedia has copied the text. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:01, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I noticed that, but didn't read it through. It seemed to me that given the Wikipedia article had no references, it was more likely that someone here had taken the text, rather than vice versa, but now I don't know... Either way, I'll still try to get more sources, and that'd probably lead to rewriting it at least in part. C628 (talk) 23:23, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the article could certainly stand to be improved. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 23:45, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This edit summary is rather surprising, given the evidence. You indicate that this passage was copied directly from the website:

Collen had already known Joe Elliott and Steve Clark since 1981 from the London music scene and had been asked to consider joining then. However, there was no need to replace Pete Willis at the time.

The seeds of that material were placed in the article in this edit. User:Thief12 in February 2006 added to the article "He'd known Joe Elliott and Steve Clark since 1981 from the London music scene and had been asked to consider joining then. However, there was no need to replace Pete Willis at the time." Over a year and a half later, an unregistered contributor changed that passage to read, "Collen had already known Joe Elliott and Steve Clark since 1981 from the London music scene and had been asked to consider joining then. However, there was no need to replace Pete Willis at the time."
It seems extremely unlikely that over a year and a half after a contributor pasted text from the website that was almost identical, somebody else came along and changed it so it was. The article doesn't need to have been a copyright infringement for improvement to be a good thing, but I'm uncomfortable suggesting that Wikipedia's contributors have violated copyright policy when evidence suggests they haven't. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:49, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Call me paranoid, but I'm a lot more comfortable having an article that doesn't have most of it's text identical to that of the reference. And I'm no expert on copyrights, but given that I added that reference, it seemed like Wikipedia could be put into the category of copyright infringement, since I anchored the information to a specific source when I added that reference. I'd much rather play it safe and not have an article that seems nearly identical to the reference. Finally, I'm not suggesting that any Wikipedia editor has at any point violated copyright policy; only that for the reasons above I felt it made more sense to change the passage. C628 (talk) 00:33, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If you are suggesting that a Wikipedia editor has copied the external source (your edit summary says "rewrote section that had text directly copied from a website to article"), then actually you do seem to be suggesting that a Wikipedia editor has violated copyright. Wikipedia cannot be in danger of copyright infringement if the text originated here. All indications are that this content predates the usage on the website, and your linking to the website will not change that. Again, the article doesn't need to have been a copyright infringement for improvement to be a good thing, but I think the evidence is strong that User:Thief12, who placed most of this content here, did not copy the external website. It seems like adding insult to injury if (as it seems) his copyright has been infringed to imply that he is the one doing the infringing. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:51, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If your argument is based off the wording in my edit summary, than my summary was badly worded. When I wrote that, I intended it to mean that the text in the two articles was identical, not that one website had copied the text from another. If it was possible, based on this discussion, I would now reword it to read "Rewrote section that had identical text to reference," without placing the blame on either Wikipedia or the website. Since it isn't, I would ask you to accept my apologies if you took that as an insult to yourself or another editor. C628 (talk) 02:39, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for clarifying. :) Again, improvement to the article is a good thing. I've done copyright work on Wikipedia for over a year and a half now, and reverse infringement does occasionally happen (see Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks, for some), even from some surprising sources. While I've never been in the situation, I can only imagine how wretched it would be to have somebody take my content without acknowledging it and then to have others think that I had done it to them. We try to keep an eye out for that when articles are listed at WP:CP for evaluation. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:50, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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