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@MonMothma, I have no problem with the recent changes you made, as I agree that they were unnecessary to the article, and I appreciate you cleaning it up. I would say that if someone cites the Rhino Handmade edition (or something similar) without any other specifics, then that segment is not technically "unsourced" and, if that is the only thing wrong with it, should not be removed on those grounds. I think a better approach in that case is to mark it as needing a better citation. (Again, your changes were based on other reasons, which is fine, but you also mentioned them being unsourced.)
It is difficult with some of this, because a lot of information that we have comes from more reliable but less citation-friendly sources, such as booklets and liner notes from CD and box set releases or other promotional material, as well as podcasts, blogs and social media posts. Meanwhile, some of the professionally published books contain questionable and even factually inaccurate information (Glenn A. Baker's work is particularly notorious for this). If a book claims one thing and Micky sets the record straight in an interview that doesn't have an easy way to reference it, then we have something of a problem. Sm5574 (talk) 19:44, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
This has not been fully discussed before, so I'm bringing it up now as reference for when the next person inevitably makes this change.
I do not believe that it is accurate to describe the Monkees as an American-British band (or however you want to word it). The only tie they had to England at all was Davy Jones, and Jones demonstrably contributed the least of all four members in terms of songwriting. Yes, he sang on several of their songs, but that was as a musician under contract (which all the Monkees were) until the reunions. Peter is on record as saying that Davy didn't feel that he contributed much to Headquarters, and Davy himself seemed to imply that he felt Mike left him out of the process on Justus.
I don't want to get bogged down in particulars. The point is, Davy was a hired musician for the first 9 albums (and everyone actually in charge was American), and even including the '80s and '90s, with the exception of a couple of songs almost all of Davy's contributions were vocals only, with some production thrown in. Thus, I think it is too much of a stretch to say that the Monkees were, to any significant degree, a British band...any more than covering Daddy's Song made them a swing band. Sm5574 (talk) 00:26, 7 May 2024 (UTC)