Talk:Greenbelt Festival

message: Some things to consider for this page:
* Do we need a list of headliners for each year? If so, it needs to be comprehensive - just the odd year here and there isn't really enough.
* External links - the ones that were there before have previously gained approval from other editors, please don't delete them again without discussing them here first.
* Photos - anyone got one they could release under Creative Commons?
* Some more about the history of Greenbelt would be good.
* A section on current management and organisation would probably be worth including, too.
MarkSG 12:17, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: I have some I can sort out at somepoint and would be happy to release for use here. They would be from the Deene Park period when I had a photography pass. At the moment our house is a building site so you may need to remind me of this in a couple of months time. Chenab 14:07, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: Is it worth mentioning the Pooh Readings? I think i can find out one of the two readers names and I am sure we can find the years they were read over out SkippyUK 07:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: What discussion? you just keep removing long standing information. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 09:44, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Something odd just happened - I went to the article, noticed that the table was missing, reverted it, and then ClueBot reverted my revert and the table was there when I went back to the article! Checking the history, I see that you reverted the table deletion earlier, so I have no idea why I didn't see it when I went to the page. Sorry about that - my comment in the edit history is misleading as it implies that you were responsible for removing the table, which isn't the case according to the article history. MarkSG (talk) 23:10, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table removal !!

message: While the article is quite informative, it portrays the festival in a way that is more complementary than purely factual. Perhaps someone with more knowledge about the festival than me could rewrite it in order to get rid of the sunshine-and-bunny-rabbits tone? For instance, this:
Greenbelt festival is a festival of arts, faith and justice held annually in England since 1974. Greenbelt has grown from a music event with an audience of 1,500 to its current more broad festival attended by around 21,000.
Could be rewritten like so:
Greenbelt festival is an annual Christian arts festival, centred around the themes of faith and justice, held in England since 1974. Greenbelt has expanded from a small music event with an audience of 1,500 to its current more broad festival attended by around 21,000.
In particular, "a festival of arts, faith and justice" is particularly nonsensical; by itself it is rather meaningless and leaves out the fact that it is a Christian festival. I'm sure the organisers don't want it to be known as such for fear of discouraging agnostics and non-Christians from coming, but compared to other summer festivals it is overwhelmingly Christian in nature. Randomwellwisher (talk) 13:01, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article reads like a press release! 

message: As of April 2016, there are 2,700 words and 1 (count it - one) reference.  There were three, but two of them claimed to be to the Greenbelt blog, but are in fact now 404s so I removed them.  
This article falls well short of the standards needed for a Wikipedia article. Refimporve tag added - I suggest drastic pruning if citations for verification do not turn up.
Jinlye (talk) 14:13, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: made some improvements in this regard - does badly need some help though. The information is good - but it needs to be more than that. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 15:04, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
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