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I have now twice removed the same sources from this article. Prabook is not an acceptable source, as has been discussed at WP:RSN, and self-published websites are reliable only for the barest facts about themselves. You could use his site to verify his date of birth (although some people even fudge that, such as some well-known actors); you can't use it to support claims about what he did etc. - Sitush ( talk) 18:24, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
@ Usernameunique: you have been editing Wikipedia for over a year now but you are still not citing properly. We need footnotes and we need reliable sources. The burden is upon you. Please read WP:SPS, WP:PRIMARY, WP:RS and WP:Citing sources, otherwise you may find your work is stripped back yet again. - Sitush ( talk) 19:54, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
This article has been substantially expanded but has numerous additional problems now. It is mainly reliant on Oddy's own writings, it contains far too much detail of a tangential type, it includes silly "chat" stuff (I've removed a couple of seemingly jokey asides), it is almost certainly being edited by someone with a major conflict of interest, and I don't think the citations even support a lot of what is said. - Sitush ( talk) 12:36, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
What we seem to have is a lot of detail about what he did, even after my pruning, that is sourced directly to the man himself. Yet we do not have sources for the most basic biographical stuff. It is a very odd situation and makes it read more like a self-penned tribute than a biography. - Sitush ( talk) 15:19, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
I'm not going to waste my time cleaning up any more citations until we have some sort of consensus regarding just how much self-sourced info should be in this article. I understand why so much is used but that doesn't make it right. It sits very uncomfortably with me. - Sitush ( talk) 15:57, 21 August 2017 (UTC)