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Proper attribution: Indigo Beach should attribute the changes made to my IP address
editTo be intellectually honest, at the end of the article, the removal of the critic's ad hominem and bigoted comments should be attributed to my IP address.
I made these arguments several weeks prior and a Wikipedia editor kept reverting them. Even though a possibly critic, the comments I indicated should be deleted did not address Drake's music, and were little more than a cheap shot regarding Drake's depression and disability. 2601:6C5:300:B230:B4C2:F17D:A842:B895 (talk) 01:34, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
- You were removing the entire review, not just the part that you considered a "cheap shot". ... discospinster talk 01:55, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Born in Burma
editin the article it claims he was english, yet born in burma. surely people born in burma are Burmese?
cheers 79.79.111.189 (talk) 08:21, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- Burma was a British colony at the time, his parents were English and he was ethnically English, moving back to the UK shortly after. Unless he openly claimed Burmese allegiance, there is no reason to call him anything other than English or British. freshacconci (✉) 15:57, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- Exactly as freshacconci says. He was English, and dare I say it - quintessentially so. Cheers 51.230.103.62 (talk) 10:19, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Confusing words
editThe statement "His older sister, Gabrielle Drake, became a successful screen actress" is hard to figure. The previous text is talking about Drake's father, so whose sister is she? I recommend changing "His" to 'Drake's'. 184.96.239.35 (talk) 02:18, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- I think the paragraph break is sufficient to disambiguate. Martinevans123 (talk) 07:03, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
Photo of Fitzwilliam College
editCan a better photo of Fitzwilliam College be used in this article? The building on the left, the Grove, was not in use by the college at the time Drake was there, and the building on the right hadn't been built. A shot of the Denys Lasdun buildings would be better, which Drake knew (and lived in). Drake was in room A2, by the then back-entrance leading onto Storey's Way. As the college buildings have been added to since the mid-1980s, the staircases have all been renamed. Trevor Dann's 2006 biography states that at the time of writing, A2 had been renamed P2. I don't know if it has changed again since. Stronach (talk) 15:04, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- This is more representative of the college buildings that Drake would have known, showing one of the Denys Lasdun-designed blocks
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Fitzwilliam_College,_Cambridge#/media/File:Cambridge_Fitzwilliam.jpg Stronach (talk) 15:09, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- A very good idea. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:11, 19 September 2024 (UTC)