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A news item involving Robin Gibb was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 21 May 2012.

Wikipedia

New album

The New Robin Gibb Album is real good, I would sugest to any one to buy it, they won't be sorry.

Al Broderick

Robin's Brain

I can find no evidence of a bootleg album entitled Robin's Brain. I suspect this is a hoax and I have therefore removed the information. Jud 13:33, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Deaf?

What's the deal with Robin holding his right ear when he sings? The photo shows a hearing aid. KriZe 22:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What you can see in the photo is an in-ear monitor, not a hearing aid Jud 23:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dwina

Just for the record - as noted in my edits, I have some concerns about the sentence calling Dwina a "bisexual Druid". I think it could raise BLP questions, but User: 62.64.221.168 said in an edit summary that "she was quite open and positive about it. -reported in many news outlets". I'd suggest throwing in a citation to that effect, in case others have the same concern as I do. And you might consider asking someone from the WP:BLP project to take a look at this, but that's just a thought. Tvoz |talk 23:56, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion, there is a considerable difference between reporting that someone has been called a "bisexual druid" by a tabloid newspaper, which is allowable under Wikipedia rules and actually calling someone a "bisexual druid", which is not.Jud 20:52, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy

This is SUCH a clean-cut article, with no mention at all of "open marriages" or "illegitamate children." Wow...has any other celebrity bio been so sanitized? lol 65.248.164.99 (talk) 20:46, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:A Lover's Prayer.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Magnet.jpg

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Isle of Man

I thought Robin was born thereTomcat96 (talk) 14:27, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And it says so too, both in the text (first paragraph) and the infobox (under Born) Ferdinandhudson (talk) 16:51, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Recommend article lock

With the media on death watch and by the looks of things some reverting already required due to false/premature reports, I suggest the article be locked down for the time being. I'm surprised it's still open for non-registered editing. (Yeah I know, what am I? In my case I'm an admin editing as an IP as part of a protest unrelated to this article, if anyone cares.) 70.72.223.215 (talk) 21:50, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There's not actually that much in the way of IP/non-autoconfirmed edits that aren't constructive. In the last 250 edits to the page (going back to July 2011), there have been 7 edit summaries with reverts and 14 with "undid" edits (not taking into account any vandalism reverts that didn't have such an edit summary). This really isn't a problem that semi-protection would solve – and we shouldn't use protection to stop constructive edits. Yes, if this story develops then we may be inundated with anonymous disruptive edits, but we shouldn't pre-empt this. As it is, the level of disruptive edits is so low (I haven't seen any, personally, and had to check the history to find one) it's nothing that Twinkle or Huggle can't deal with. matt (talk) 22:10, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Now may be a good time to have this article locked. Already spotted some vandalism (someone beat me to the removal) Ericloewe (talk) 12:43, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Referred to as "Gibb"

To be consistant should Robin be referred to as Robin instaed of Gibb? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.112.70 (talk) 01:59, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The subject of the article should be referred to by his surname; others with the same surname should be referred to by their first names. Jim Michael (talk) 23:05, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Liver cancer or colon cancer mets to the liver?

This article said he was diagnosed both with colon cancer and liver cancer. However, later on it says he suffered from advanced colorectal cancer. The Daily Mirror article linked to that indicates "liver cancer" does not give any details or links... I strongly suspect his colon cancer had metastasized to the liver - which was incorrectly reported as liver cancer, instead of [colon cancer] mets to the liver. The chances of being diagnosed with two different kinds of cancer briefly after each other surely are low and would warrant much more news coverage with more details.

Could the part on liver cancer be reworded to "cancer in the liver"? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.248.13.148 (talk) 18:39, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done It was colorectal cancer metastasised to the liver; the article has been corrected accordingly. Jim Michael (talk) 01:26, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Janno Gibb

Who is Janno Gibb? In the last section it says that he is survived by his brother Janno Gibb, yet it mentions nowhere in his early life that there was a Janno Gibb nor does it say anything on Janno Gibbs wikipedia page that he was related--Mjs1991 (talk) 02:00, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That was vandalism, look at the revision history - the surviving brother is Barry. Jim Michael (talk) 07:22, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree this is a case of vandalism. FYI, Janno Gibb is a famous celebrity in the Philippines. Is it possible that this article be semi-protected so that vandalism will be minimized?

Death and cause in lead

Does not belong in the lead paragraphs, really. This will probably happen eventually, in any case, but it might as well happen as soon as possible. Anarchangel (talk) 19:53, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]