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Edits

I have made some WP:BOLD edits to condense this article. It included entirely too much detail. Some of the detail is just minutiae, some of it consists of excessive quotations, some of it consists of excessively lengthy quotations, and some of it is repetitive. All of these made the article dense and unreadable, in addition to having WP:UNDUE problems. I have attempted to fix it. SunCrow (talk) 12:12, 7 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I take it that you focused on this article after I mentioned it here. Anyway, yes, bloat in the article was brought up before: Talk:Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy/Archive 1#Expansions to this article.

As for your edits, WP:CITELEAD is clear that having citations in the lead is a case-by-case matter. I think that leads of controversial topics like this are better served with citations in the lead, but I can live without citations in this article's lead. This is not a small article, and it's important that the lead adequately summarizes it; so, with this edit, I restored a bit of material to the lead while tweaking it. As for this and this, no strong feeling about that Blender magazine content, but I think part of the reason the commentary was included is because Blender, unlike most other sources in the artcle, is a music magazine and gives reviews on music matters. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 16:36, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Image deletion proposals

There are discussion currently underway at Files for Discussion to purge notable award ceremony images from the project. Specifically:

Comments encouraged. Feoffer (talk) 21:38, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with a quote

I found two problems with this quote:

"[The furor] is hypocritical, with everything you see on TV. There are more important thing to focus on than a woman's body part, which is a beautiful thing. There's war, famine, homelessness, AIDS. [...] They needed something to focus on instead of the war, and I was the perfect vehicle for that. [...] People are going to think what they want. It was an accident. It was not a stunt."

– Jackson questioning media's focus on the event.^[1]

^ Steve Jones (March 29, 2004). "Jackson steps out as 'Damita Jo'". USA Today. Retrieved April 1, 2014.

I thought "Hey, shouldn't it be more important things?", so I checked the source and could not find the quote in the source. -abbedabb^talk 21:38, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I did find the quote here, though: https://www.gawker.com/nipplegate-at-10-how-justin-won-superbowl-xxxviii-and-1511051968, but not sure if they got it from somewhere else. -abbedabb^talk 21:41, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[usatoday.com-1] Steve Jones (March 29, 2004). "Jackson steps out as 'Damita Jo'". USA Today. Retrieved April 1, 2014.

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