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Article begins with "The Police are...". Shouldn't this be "The Police is..."? We aren't talking about an actual police force here, but a single band. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tech Lovr ( talk • contribs) 01:05, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
It's a little silly to say Copeland is "known for excessive force" so I modified that. He's known to most drummers as one of the finest rock drummers. His style is known for it's combination of clean simplicity in the groove along with tremendous creative energy to his coloring on top of the groove. It is true that he is known for a very forceful backbeat on the snare and very tight snare head, but the original statement would tend to mislead people about his approach to the kit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.172.93.234 ( talk) 20:14, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I think this article looks a bit dated. There's no section listing or a picture. More external links would be nice. There's lots of information in it but... with a little more effort it would look a lot better. -thealexfish 6/3/05
the last sentence of the first paragraph has a grammatical error... a "." after 2007 where it shouldnt be. wont let me edit it :-P
It is inaccurate to say they broke up in 1983 because there never was an official breakup, just a hiatus that has gone on and on... user:Daniel C. Boyer It was allegedly reported in the 1983/84 time range that the "break up" began on the eve of the last North American Syncronicity tour show in Atlanta Georgia. I recall a report that Sting indicated to the other members that "this" was the end of the Police. The EBYT Singles sessions also may have fueled the break up - apparently Stewart and Andy expected Sting to bring new material for a new album, only to learn that he had no new material, and the sessions where DSSCTM'86 and De Do Do Do'86 were recorded were acromonious at best. Soar2hi 02:42, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Recent reunion: who knows more about this? -- Daniel C. Boyer
Should also be mentioned. -- 65.174.35.65 20:00, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
In 1992, Sting wed Trudie Styler. Summers and Copeland were invited to the ceremony and reception. Aware that all band members were present, the wedding guests pressured the trio into playing, ultimately performing "Roxanne" and "Message In A Bottle". Copeland said later that "after about three minutes, it became 'the thing' again."
the band reunited for a number of the shows. Soar2hi 02:57, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
What about Strontium90 (see Mike Howlett)? Andy Mabbett 00:23, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
This article describes reggae as an "African-American" music form, which isn't really correct, it's an Afro-Caribbean music form. But I can't think of a better phrasing at the moment for the section comparing The Police to Cream. Maybe someone else can improve this bit...? JW 12:17, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
Why is Cream mentioned multiple times in this article? I don't think there is any strong link between the two groups. They are completely different stylistically. And how is 'Message in a Bottle' like 'Sunshine of Your Love'?
I think that Stewart Copeland was born in Egypt, not America —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.146.33 ( talk)
Sting's debut was not Brimstone and Treacle as stated, Quadrophenia came before it.
I believe they were signed to A&M Records, Ltd., the UK division of A&M Records.
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da, Is all I want to say to you. -- 69.67.231.77 03:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand why this column is in the table of the singles -- the chart was not established at all until 1988, long after the Police broke up according to the article, Modern Rock Tracks. Thoughts on removing the column? Spebudmak 20:47, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't see any information about that, and it's something I've always wondered about. If anyone knows . . . Rostov 03:25, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Stewart picked the name because it was so common it was automatic publicity anytime anyone read a newspaper. I don't have a reference for that info, though, just something I read in an interview a million years ago. 172.166.118.134 03:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC) funniegrrl
There is way too much information regarding Australia in this article for an encyclopedic entry.
Shut the fuck up, Australia is #1
^You're biased.^
According to the Daily Mail :
"Sting is in talks to re-form The Police and tour with the group - 30 years after they were formed."
The article can be found here : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=425595&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
The description is very odd: "The Police are a three-piece Anglo-American rock band" The term "Anglo" is not commonly used in the U.S. and the term "Ango-American" sounds totally made up. What is wrong with saying "The Police are a three-piece rock band" or "The Police are a three member rock band"? 68.161.140.229 16:32, 17 February 2007 (UTC)AR
(edit : oops ! haven't seen it was already in the wikipedia article ...)
Neitsa 12:33, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Modified date of first release of "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" from "1997" to "1977". 70.181.150.156 03:20, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
The charts lists Wrapped Around Your Finger as the second Synchronicity single. I'm fairly certain it was King of Pain. Kevdo 18:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
the police reunion is attracting many people this days, as i .searching for cheap tickets foud web name doctorticket.com now i can say that i will finnaly see the police live....
Some (anonymous) people keep editing this article, changing "The Police were founded" to "The Police was founded". Well, apart from the fact that they only edit that sentence and do not consistently change sentences like "The Police are a three-piece..." to "The Police is a three-piece...", it also isn't proper English...
Let me quote something:
“ | Aggregate nouns are similar to collective nouns in that they refer to single collections that are made up of similar individual parts. For example, email and radio are both individual components of communications. However, unlike collective nouns, aggregate nouns usually use plural verb forms and have no singular forms. They cannot be used with a or an. Example: With the development of the Internet, communications are being revolutionized at a dizzying speed. |
” |
I hope that makes things clear. Maartenvdbent 22:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
So then...."The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra" is plural?? Or should I say "are" plural??? Please explain. That's the name of a big band, just like The Police is the name of a band. A band is one unit, just like an orchestra is one unit. And one unit of anything is singular, regardless of the language.
In America, the pluralization of proper nouns only happens if the actual word is a plural word. For instance, we say, "Led Zeppelin is..." but also "The Beatles are..." In the UK we would pluralize The Beatles because they are a group, but in America, we pluralize it due to the fact that "Beatles" is a plural word to begin with.
Also, The Police was founded by Stewart Copeland, who was an an American. Therefore, we will use the American grammar rules. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.58.29.180 ( talk) 22:13, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
a compliation of songs made by the police that were rerecorded by modern bands is "!policia!: a tribute to the police". Somebody might want to add something about that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.219.11.114 ( talk) 21:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC).
Anyone know if a new album is posible? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.79.36.91 ( talk) 10:08, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
Foxnews.com just had a story about this yesterday (04-10-07) that said there were absolutely no plans for any new material and that they would also only be playing Police songs on the tour (i.e no Sting solo stuff). Of course, Sting also said he was never interested in The Police reuniting either...
I see no reason why there should be any objection to having www.policetour.com as the official website in the infobox. [www.sting.com The sting official site] states "For complete tour & ticket information, fan club memberships and more visit: http://www.thepolicetour.com/. " www.policefile.com may have been the official site for a number of years, however, now that the band is back touring together, surely it makes more sense to put what is the now official site up. ...adam... ( talk • contributions) 14:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
The only reason why this site was placed back again is because it was removed on a number of occasions by other members, even from the external links page... why are we not allowed to be listed on the external links page and why does the ip address not get blocked for that reason? does anybody care about that and could this not have been the reason for this silly up and down changes all the time?, lets be reasonable and not be like children. The police file has been around for many years and has more then 10.000 members, let anybody compete with that even an official site, whoever claims it to be, it still has the right to be listed in the external links —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.241.219.56 ( talk • contribs).
its marked as spam because you people say its spam while its not... how clearer can this be ?.. if our site gets removed all the time by other members because of some unknown reason (maybe because we attract to much members etc?) ofcourse we are going to list it again and again every time its removed so maybe thats why you considered this a spam ? we are not very familiar with wikipedia so if we have done any breaches we will be more carefull next time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.241.219.56 ( talk • contribs).
sounds pretty complicated to list a simple url on wikipedia, but never mind, we dont need it i guess, this is to much talk and no action. We shall inform our members about it and see if they can all vote regarding this on wiki —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.241.219.56 ( talk • contribs).
there is no need to explain everything here again while all the information is on the website, why would we do that, to fill up with more content this area ? Never mind about it, but we still have the right to do what we want including mailing all our members that our site was removed from wikipidia. shadow1 was the first to mention we should mention this in the discussion page regarding to place us back, but since we receive only critics from one person, this will lead to nowhere as far as we can see. the only thing we wanted is our link back in the extra links area. You want us to sit back and read some policy guidelines what is that going to help you disagree anyway right? Lets forget it, i guess wikipidea will be long working on donations this way, yikes. and ps: this is not personal towards you. We are happy we can atleast communicate with somebody so we do appreciate and respect your response. Its just that it leads nowhere really to be honest. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.241.219.56 ( talk • contribs).
hi adam, i noticed on the site that the page was editable again. I also noticed that one of my collegues in the office tried to edit it again as we have a fix ip address here. Would it be possible to place our link back in the extras page. Basically, our site provides information to the police group, links to videos, albums and individual songs. We also offer tickets to via third party companies and have a mailing list of up to 10000 members and growing. anyways, please let me know if you need more details. best regards. the police file web site.
Still some anonymous editors REPLACE the official thepolice.com link (which is hyperlinked as "Official website", which it is) with thepolicefile.com, which is definately not the official website. These anonymous editors seem to be the people behind thepolicefile.com. I do not have a problem, and I think nobody here on wikipedia has, with the website being in the external links section (a problem might be that it is in conflict with WP:COI). The very problem is that you replace the official link with thepolicefile.com, which is definately WP:SPAM. Please stop that, otherwise the website will be blacklisted again. Maarten 16:49, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Please bear in mind the tight restrictions we have on non-free content. All the members are living public figures so their pictures are replaceable. Unfree music samples should be used for a specific encyclopaedic purpose (critical commentary), not just in a gallery of samples. Album covers are not required to provide a discography, this can be done freely and adequately with text. ed g2s • talk 11:32, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
On the heels of their opening show in Vancouver, The Police have agreed to perform an MTV “Unplugged” set this summer.
Sources tell me that the date for the show is July 13 and it will take place at a still-to-be-named location in Miami.
“It’s an all-acoustic set,” says a source. It’s also the first time The Police as a group have appeared on “Unplugged,” since the group disbanded in 1983 and the MTV show didn’t start until 1989. Sting appeared on “Unplugged” in 1991 as a solo act.
The "Unplugged" show will come at a great moment in The Police tour.
source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276379,00.html
Also mentions in The Police Tour Program, ourchased on May 28th 2007 at GM Place.
The following was added to the begining of the article. "July 7, 2007, The Police performed at Giants Stadium as part of the Live Earth series of concerts." Dreammaker182 04:06, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22052991-2,00.html?from=public_rss
Was it vandalism, or???-- Jimbo Wales 20:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
I dislike the word huge but could someone out there help with replacing this with the exact number of tour dates. I appreciate that they may add nights and dates as the tour progresses (as most of these tours do). But I think the adjectie huge is lazy and applies to items other than tours.
If I do not get any feedback in the coming days I might just 'be bold' and delete huge. -- BustOut 08:56, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
There are references to two of their songs that I know of, in songs that aren't remakes.
#1: Come On Petunia by The Blow EX: Everything little thing she does is magic Everything she do just turns me on And even though my life before was tragic Now I know my love for her goes on
#2: Arctic Monkeys: When the Sun Goes Down EX: And he told Roxanne to put on her red light
I don't really know how to fit that in to the article, so i'll leave it to you guys.
Is it really necessary a table with the lineups of the band? No-Bullet ( Talk • Contribs) 02:30, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
All the links point to a page for Steve Borden, a wrestler. Not sure how that happened. Is there a Sting page out there or does one need to be created? Either way the links need to be changed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting
Gordon Sumner redirects to the above page as well.
modtang ( talk) 04:07, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
the police have never been associated with oysterhead, its just another band stuart copeland was in, is it correct for this is be here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.37.54 ( talk) 00:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton ( talk) 09:20, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
the police are gay in so many ways —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.170.202.210 ( talk) 16:57, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
As an editor at
Crawdaddy! and to comply with COI guidelines, I am not posting this link. However, I would like to recommend it, and hope that an editor has a chance to take a listen to some of the interview and consider it as a source or external link. Thanks for your time
interview 1986
Asst. Editor, Crawdaddy!
FenderRhodesScholar |
Talk
18:25, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
If Sting is wondering where his never-worn Versace leather jacket is, it was stolen by my almost-brother-in-law (long story) Jimmy when he was restoring some plasterwork at Sting's London home. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.74.68.184 ( talk) 05:09, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a reason the members aren't listed in infobox here? Seems like a pretty straightforward artist to have it... TheHYPO ( talk) 04:36, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't have the time or inclination to fix it up, but the section The_Police#Recording_contract has just a fraction of a sentence about the Police's recording contract (basically that they got one from A&M) and most of the section is about the contents and touring support of their first three albums. Although it isn't mentioned in the article what is the actually interesting part about their recording contract (according to sources like http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gifyxqr5ldhe~T1 ) is that the royalty rate they negotiated was higher than the standard rate in exchange for a smaller advance (perhaps due to the fact that they already had an album and didn't need the advance to produce it.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.252.96.65 ( talk) 04:38, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
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Article begins with "The Police are...". Shouldn't this be "The Police is..."? We aren't talking about an actual police force here, but a single band. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tech Lovr ( talk • contribs) 01:05, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
It's a little silly to say Copeland is "known for excessive force" so I modified that. He's known to most drummers as one of the finest rock drummers. His style is known for it's combination of clean simplicity in the groove along with tremendous creative energy to his coloring on top of the groove. It is true that he is known for a very forceful backbeat on the snare and very tight snare head, but the original statement would tend to mislead people about his approach to the kit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.172.93.234 ( talk) 20:14, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I think this article looks a bit dated. There's no section listing or a picture. More external links would be nice. There's lots of information in it but... with a little more effort it would look a lot better. -thealexfish 6/3/05
the last sentence of the first paragraph has a grammatical error... a "." after 2007 where it shouldnt be. wont let me edit it :-P
It is inaccurate to say they broke up in 1983 because there never was an official breakup, just a hiatus that has gone on and on... user:Daniel C. Boyer It was allegedly reported in the 1983/84 time range that the "break up" began on the eve of the last North American Syncronicity tour show in Atlanta Georgia. I recall a report that Sting indicated to the other members that "this" was the end of the Police. The EBYT Singles sessions also may have fueled the break up - apparently Stewart and Andy expected Sting to bring new material for a new album, only to learn that he had no new material, and the sessions where DSSCTM'86 and De Do Do Do'86 were recorded were acromonious at best. Soar2hi 02:42, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Recent reunion: who knows more about this? -- Daniel C. Boyer
Should also be mentioned. -- 65.174.35.65 20:00, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
In 1992, Sting wed Trudie Styler. Summers and Copeland were invited to the ceremony and reception. Aware that all band members were present, the wedding guests pressured the trio into playing, ultimately performing "Roxanne" and "Message In A Bottle". Copeland said later that "after about three minutes, it became 'the thing' again."
the band reunited for a number of the shows. Soar2hi 02:57, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
What about Strontium90 (see Mike Howlett)? Andy Mabbett 00:23, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
This article describes reggae as an "African-American" music form, which isn't really correct, it's an Afro-Caribbean music form. But I can't think of a better phrasing at the moment for the section comparing The Police to Cream. Maybe someone else can improve this bit...? JW 12:17, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
Why is Cream mentioned multiple times in this article? I don't think there is any strong link between the two groups. They are completely different stylistically. And how is 'Message in a Bottle' like 'Sunshine of Your Love'?
I think that Stewart Copeland was born in Egypt, not America —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.146.33 ( talk)
Sting's debut was not Brimstone and Treacle as stated, Quadrophenia came before it.
I believe they were signed to A&M Records, Ltd., the UK division of A&M Records.
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da, Is all I want to say to you. -- 69.67.231.77 03:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand why this column is in the table of the singles -- the chart was not established at all until 1988, long after the Police broke up according to the article, Modern Rock Tracks. Thoughts on removing the column? Spebudmak 20:47, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't see any information about that, and it's something I've always wondered about. If anyone knows . . . Rostov 03:25, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Stewart picked the name because it was so common it was automatic publicity anytime anyone read a newspaper. I don't have a reference for that info, though, just something I read in an interview a million years ago. 172.166.118.134 03:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC) funniegrrl
There is way too much information regarding Australia in this article for an encyclopedic entry.
Shut the fuck up, Australia is #1
^You're biased.^
According to the Daily Mail :
"Sting is in talks to re-form The Police and tour with the group - 30 years after they were formed."
The article can be found here : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=425595&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
The description is very odd: "The Police are a three-piece Anglo-American rock band" The term "Anglo" is not commonly used in the U.S. and the term "Ango-American" sounds totally made up. What is wrong with saying "The Police are a three-piece rock band" or "The Police are a three member rock band"? 68.161.140.229 16:32, 17 February 2007 (UTC)AR
(edit : oops ! haven't seen it was already in the wikipedia article ...)
Neitsa 12:33, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Modified date of first release of "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" from "1997" to "1977". 70.181.150.156 03:20, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
The charts lists Wrapped Around Your Finger as the second Synchronicity single. I'm fairly certain it was King of Pain. Kevdo 18:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
the police reunion is attracting many people this days, as i .searching for cheap tickets foud web name doctorticket.com now i can say that i will finnaly see the police live....
Some (anonymous) people keep editing this article, changing "The Police were founded" to "The Police was founded". Well, apart from the fact that they only edit that sentence and do not consistently change sentences like "The Police are a three-piece..." to "The Police is a three-piece...", it also isn't proper English...
Let me quote something:
“ | Aggregate nouns are similar to collective nouns in that they refer to single collections that are made up of similar individual parts. For example, email and radio are both individual components of communications. However, unlike collective nouns, aggregate nouns usually use plural verb forms and have no singular forms. They cannot be used with a or an. Example: With the development of the Internet, communications are being revolutionized at a dizzying speed. |
” |
I hope that makes things clear. Maartenvdbent 22:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
So then...."The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra" is plural?? Or should I say "are" plural??? Please explain. That's the name of a big band, just like The Police is the name of a band. A band is one unit, just like an orchestra is one unit. And one unit of anything is singular, regardless of the language.
In America, the pluralization of proper nouns only happens if the actual word is a plural word. For instance, we say, "Led Zeppelin is..." but also "The Beatles are..." In the UK we would pluralize The Beatles because they are a group, but in America, we pluralize it due to the fact that "Beatles" is a plural word to begin with.
Also, The Police was founded by Stewart Copeland, who was an an American. Therefore, we will use the American grammar rules. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.58.29.180 ( talk) 22:13, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
a compliation of songs made by the police that were rerecorded by modern bands is "!policia!: a tribute to the police". Somebody might want to add something about that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.219.11.114 ( talk) 21:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC).
Anyone know if a new album is posible? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.79.36.91 ( talk) 10:08, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
Foxnews.com just had a story about this yesterday (04-10-07) that said there were absolutely no plans for any new material and that they would also only be playing Police songs on the tour (i.e no Sting solo stuff). Of course, Sting also said he was never interested in The Police reuniting either...
I see no reason why there should be any objection to having www.policetour.com as the official website in the infobox. [www.sting.com The sting official site] states "For complete tour & ticket information, fan club memberships and more visit: http://www.thepolicetour.com/. " www.policefile.com may have been the official site for a number of years, however, now that the band is back touring together, surely it makes more sense to put what is the now official site up. ...adam... ( talk • contributions) 14:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
The only reason why this site was placed back again is because it was removed on a number of occasions by other members, even from the external links page... why are we not allowed to be listed on the external links page and why does the ip address not get blocked for that reason? does anybody care about that and could this not have been the reason for this silly up and down changes all the time?, lets be reasonable and not be like children. The police file has been around for many years and has more then 10.000 members, let anybody compete with that even an official site, whoever claims it to be, it still has the right to be listed in the external links —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.241.219.56 ( talk • contribs).
its marked as spam because you people say its spam while its not... how clearer can this be ?.. if our site gets removed all the time by other members because of some unknown reason (maybe because we attract to much members etc?) ofcourse we are going to list it again and again every time its removed so maybe thats why you considered this a spam ? we are not very familiar with wikipedia so if we have done any breaches we will be more carefull next time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.241.219.56 ( talk • contribs).
sounds pretty complicated to list a simple url on wikipedia, but never mind, we dont need it i guess, this is to much talk and no action. We shall inform our members about it and see if they can all vote regarding this on wiki —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.241.219.56 ( talk • contribs).
there is no need to explain everything here again while all the information is on the website, why would we do that, to fill up with more content this area ? Never mind about it, but we still have the right to do what we want including mailing all our members that our site was removed from wikipidia. shadow1 was the first to mention we should mention this in the discussion page regarding to place us back, but since we receive only critics from one person, this will lead to nowhere as far as we can see. the only thing we wanted is our link back in the extra links area. You want us to sit back and read some policy guidelines what is that going to help you disagree anyway right? Lets forget it, i guess wikipidea will be long working on donations this way, yikes. and ps: this is not personal towards you. We are happy we can atleast communicate with somebody so we do appreciate and respect your response. Its just that it leads nowhere really to be honest. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.241.219.56 ( talk • contribs).
hi adam, i noticed on the site that the page was editable again. I also noticed that one of my collegues in the office tried to edit it again as we have a fix ip address here. Would it be possible to place our link back in the extras page. Basically, our site provides information to the police group, links to videos, albums and individual songs. We also offer tickets to via third party companies and have a mailing list of up to 10000 members and growing. anyways, please let me know if you need more details. best regards. the police file web site.
Still some anonymous editors REPLACE the official thepolice.com link (which is hyperlinked as "Official website", which it is) with thepolicefile.com, which is definately not the official website. These anonymous editors seem to be the people behind thepolicefile.com. I do not have a problem, and I think nobody here on wikipedia has, with the website being in the external links section (a problem might be that it is in conflict with WP:COI). The very problem is that you replace the official link with thepolicefile.com, which is definately WP:SPAM. Please stop that, otherwise the website will be blacklisted again. Maarten 16:49, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Please bear in mind the tight restrictions we have on non-free content. All the members are living public figures so their pictures are replaceable. Unfree music samples should be used for a specific encyclopaedic purpose (critical commentary), not just in a gallery of samples. Album covers are not required to provide a discography, this can be done freely and adequately with text. ed g2s • talk 11:32, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
On the heels of their opening show in Vancouver, The Police have agreed to perform an MTV “Unplugged” set this summer.
Sources tell me that the date for the show is July 13 and it will take place at a still-to-be-named location in Miami.
“It’s an all-acoustic set,” says a source. It’s also the first time The Police as a group have appeared on “Unplugged,” since the group disbanded in 1983 and the MTV show didn’t start until 1989. Sting appeared on “Unplugged” in 1991 as a solo act.
The "Unplugged" show will come at a great moment in The Police tour.
source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276379,00.html
Also mentions in The Police Tour Program, ourchased on May 28th 2007 at GM Place.
The following was added to the begining of the article. "July 7, 2007, The Police performed at Giants Stadium as part of the Live Earth series of concerts." Dreammaker182 04:06, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22052991-2,00.html?from=public_rss
Was it vandalism, or???-- Jimbo Wales 20:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
I dislike the word huge but could someone out there help with replacing this with the exact number of tour dates. I appreciate that they may add nights and dates as the tour progresses (as most of these tours do). But I think the adjectie huge is lazy and applies to items other than tours.
If I do not get any feedback in the coming days I might just 'be bold' and delete huge. -- BustOut 08:56, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
There are references to two of their songs that I know of, in songs that aren't remakes.
#1: Come On Petunia by The Blow EX: Everything little thing she does is magic Everything she do just turns me on And even though my life before was tragic Now I know my love for her goes on
#2: Arctic Monkeys: When the Sun Goes Down EX: And he told Roxanne to put on her red light
I don't really know how to fit that in to the article, so i'll leave it to you guys.
Is it really necessary a table with the lineups of the band? No-Bullet ( Talk • Contribs) 02:30, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
All the links point to a page for Steve Borden, a wrestler. Not sure how that happened. Is there a Sting page out there or does one need to be created? Either way the links need to be changed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting
Gordon Sumner redirects to the above page as well.
modtang ( talk) 04:07, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
the police have never been associated with oysterhead, its just another band stuart copeland was in, is it correct for this is be here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.37.54 ( talk) 00:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton ( talk) 09:20, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
the police are gay in so many ways —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.170.202.210 ( talk) 16:57, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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Crawdaddy! and to comply with COI guidelines, I am not posting this link. However, I would like to recommend it, and hope that an editor has a chance to take a listen to some of the interview and consider it as a source or external link. Thanks for your time
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If Sting is wondering where his never-worn Versace leather jacket is, it was stolen by my almost-brother-in-law (long story) Jimmy when he was restoring some plasterwork at Sting's London home. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.74.68.184 ( talk) 05:09, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there a reason the members aren't listed in infobox here? Seems like a pretty straightforward artist to have it... TheHYPO ( talk) 04:36, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't have the time or inclination to fix it up, but the section The_Police#Recording_contract has just a fraction of a sentence about the Police's recording contract (basically that they got one from A&M) and most of the section is about the contents and touring support of their first three albums. Although it isn't mentioned in the article what is the actually interesting part about their recording contract (according to sources like http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gifyxqr5ldhe~T1 ) is that the royalty rate they negotiated was higher than the standard rate in exchange for a smaller advance (perhaps due to the fact that they already had an album and didn't need the advance to produce it.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.252.96.65 ( talk) 04:38, 29 March 2009 (UTC)