Talk:Alec Empire

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replies: text: Okay, can anyone help to make this a good article? The biggest problem seems to be with images: can anybody provide one for the infobox which falls under free use? Can anyone suggest any other ways in which the article could be improved? Dāv 15:43, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: P4k, you are officially awesome! Dāv 18:16, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks!  The flickr user who released it under a cc license is the real hero obviously.--P4k 22:28, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
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message: Okay, as stated above by Linca, the following quote has been removed from the article (although it remains within as hidden):
"[Empire]'s maternal grandfather was the inventor of the first domestic knitting machine and a self-made millionaire whose company went bankrupt after his death,"
This was sourced from the Catherine Yates/Kerrang interview article. I have attempted to contact Empire himself in an effort to qualify this statement with a name, but thus far have been unsuccessful. 
Now, after doing a bit of research, and learning slightly more about the history of knitting appliances than I ever really cared to, I found this in an article about socks on "Knitting Together" (The Heritage of the East Midlands Knitting Industry):
"The first exclusively domestic knitting machine was patented in America in 1859 by Jonas B Aiken. Aiken's machine won prizes at public fairs and exhibitions across America. Newspaper editors in southern states saw that with it 'a Negro girl or boy could do all the fine and course knitting necessary for the house and plantation'."
So it would seem on the surface that Jonas Aiken is the name we've been looking for. The only thing is the time frame (and slightly less so the locale) makes it seem unlikely. It could be that Yates is mistaken, but even so she must have had some basis for this statement.
Can anybody provide any insight into this subject? Its inclusion in the article would help to flesh out his backstory. Dāv 20:07, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hope this is OK to put here - Here is a link to an interview which clears up some things about Alec's family. I've never edited anything on wikipedia before, so I thought i'd let one of the people who have looked after this article change/add things as they wish. Keep up the good work. R1061 (talk) 16:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks R1061 for the link, and thanks to Faceculture for the interview, it was most revealing. Dāv (talk) 23:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: alecempirefansite.com is used in this article for multiple references but that site is now a spam blog and contains no useful information. The article should be edited to remove these references and new references should be found.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.110.23.239 (talk) 04:36, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
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message: The Cook article is just a bit of unreferenced, non-notable trivia. It barely has enough context to stand on its own. Pburka (talk) 14:15, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
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