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Contents 1 The plurality of miscarriages 2 The Race 3 Lack of success in America 4 Update the picture? 5 Simple Question (lyrics) 6 Radio One ban? 7 Copyvio? 8 Birth date

[edit] The plurality of miscarriages

While I haven't edited it, I only recall through interviews that Gary and Gemma only had to deal with one miscarriage, not a "series" of them, or IVF attempts. Is there any way to prove there was ever more than one miscarriage? -- Numanoid 04:23 EST, December 14th, 2006

[edit] The Race

I updated regarding his part in the UK reality show The Race. I'm from the US, so I unfortunately never got to see the show, and therefore was only able to get little bits and pieces from what information I've conjured up. If anyone wants to clean it up with some extended information, that'd be great. -- Numanoid 05:03 EST, December 2nd, 2006

G'day, mate. While it's worth putting in a bit of info about that, I think there's more detail than fits the siginificance of the event. Also question whether it's approp. under 'Career' or might not be better under 'Personal life'. Granted he was presumably in it because he's a celeb, i.e. because of his career, but he's also a longtime car enthusiast, so it might work better under a 'Cars' subsection in 'Personal life' (there should be a 'Flying' subsection in there as well). I'll get round to this sometime in the next few weeks if no-one else does. Cheers, Ian Rose 00:40, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lack of success in America

Why is it that he only had 2 hits in the United States but so many in the United Kingdom?

He only had the one hit, Cars. Hence his status as a "one-hit wonder". - Numanoid

He did have one US dance hit. 67.188.172.165 21:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Update the picture?

Would it be plausible to update his picture to better reflect his image today? Numanoid 16:47, 21 October, 2006

[edit] Simple Question (lyrics)

My favourite song is "Are friends electric?". I have a question concerning the lyrics:

So now I'm alone

Now I can think for myself

About little deals

And S.U's

And things that I just don't understand

What sort of "SU" is meant? -- Simplicius 10:53, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Not that this is really the appropriate forum for such a discussion but if you check out the "Are 'Friends' Electric?" page, you'll find the answer to your question... Cheers, Ian Rose 11:29, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I did not realize that songs have their own articles.

I found the answer. Thank you very much indeed! -- Simplicius 13:52, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Radio One ban?

I'm not convinced by the line "he was officially banned from the UK's BBC Radio One". I don't think any such list of officially banned artists existed. Is there a citation for this? currybet 11:52, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

You are correct. Radio 1 never actually "bans" anything. Records are just removed from its playlist. Article amended to reflect this. Jezzerk 23:18, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio?

I can't place my finger on it, but the phrasing in the article is very similar to that of a previous biography of Numan: "the tail end of the 1970s"; "the cinematic Down in the Park"; "He wore costumes and make-up and openly proclaimed his influences" and "punky demos" (the last of which I earlier edited out) all sound like they were lifted from somewhere else, possibly a magazine article.

I haven't put a copyvio tago on the article for the reason that I can't find the source from which this seems to have originated. However, the article should probably be drastically rephrased to address this.  ProhibitOnions  ^(T) 11:00, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

As a long-time Numan aficionado I've read a lot of articles and those phrases (all of which, incidentally, have been in this page for as long as I've been on Wikipedia, i.e. a year) don't leap out as having been directly borrowed, or I would've changed them myself. However I may have simply missed the relevant article...! The page needs more citations anyway, which I was hoping to get round to before EOY so I might modify some of that phrasing at the same time, just in case... Cheers, Ian Rose 13:18, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Birth date

Hey, the page says Numan is born both 1968 and 1958. Please correct this. I could not find out how to do it myself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.236.244.216 (talk • contribs) 18:36, 14 December 2006 (UTC).

Ah, that was fixed a few days ago... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose 00:23, 15 December 2006 (UTC)