Talk:Los del Río

message: The article says the duo 'broke up' in 2007, but they are singing together in the info box in a photo taken in 2009! ¿Algo no cabe? Richard Avery (talk) 18:33, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know if that's true, but iTunes says at  that they had been recording "for decades" before "Macarena". Ardric47 (talk) 16:42, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

text: http://losdelrio.es has additional info in support of preceding comment. Translation:   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.77.244.225 (talk) 04:22, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consistency is everything 

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message: As I just posted a few minutes ago on the talk page on the song, the original version did chart in 1993 already, not only in Spain but also in the Netherlands. IMHO the articles about both the various performing artists as well as about the song's history are quite a mess. 62.140.132.17 (talk) 01:06, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Replying to an old comment, but part of the reason the article is still a half-baked mess is because it's built on such rotten foundations in the first place (i.e. see my comment below). Ubcule (talk) 15:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Macarena (the original version)

message: Cut a long story short, while looking into some dubious claims (*), I found they'd originated when some random anonymous editor had taken it upon themselves to rewrite this article almost completely and replace it with a load of half-baked, inaccurate drivel.
Problem is that this happened in 2011 and was never spotted or reverted. 
It's not like the old article was perfect- fairly short, far from complete and only partially-cited with at least one inaccuracy (e.g. infobox "Years Active 1993 - present"). But it was certainly a better starting point.
Why am I making a fuss about something that happened twelve years ago? Because it's a good example of why you want to catch this sort of thing- all later versions (unintentionally) wasted time trying to polish a make a silk purse out of a sow's ear that would better have been reverted, and there's still inaccurate nonsense from it there to this day. (*)
(*) The one that got my attention (because it's still there at the time of writing!) was that, supposedly, "the group released six albums". Maybe those are all the writer knew... except the previous version had listed more, complete with citations, all of which were discarded with the rewrite!
The original did also state (admittedly without citation) that the duo had been working together since the 1960s, so you wonder why the new article claimed- equally uncited- that they were "formed in 1992".
Ubcule (talk) 14:48, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Time wasted polishing low-quality, never-reverted rewrite from 2011?