User talk:Captain OTR
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[edit]Hello, Captain OTR, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Cassette tape did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.
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Hi BilCat!
Thank you for your kind message, and your tactful guidance. I *want* to help where I can, but am not too familiar with the technical side.
Could I ask: What was not able to be verified? I ask this because I recall having added 2 pieces of info on the Cassette Tape page, and both are from my own history - yes, sadly, I *am* that old.
Firstly, with the AGFA +6 cassette range, a quick Google search will show that they were produced in both C60/C90 and Ferro/Chrome variants.
Second, as to cassettes supplied for demo purposes, not only do I own three such tapes (2xSanyo, 1xSharp), and with the Sanyo, in 1980 I was bought a radio cassette recorder for my birthday. We demoed the deck in the Comet Store in Doncaster (two songs on Side One - terrible, truly awful keyboard versions of Mozart's 40th, and the nasty folk song "My Bonnie" - oh the horror) and I used the second side to record short wave interval signals.
So, ultimately, what more verification would Wikipedia need if it actually happened (March 1980) for the demo tape, and an image search shows AGFA +6 cassette tapes?
Please believe me that I'm not being belligerent or horrible, I genuinely want to help and any advice you can provide is extremely welcome. Again, I thank you for getting back to me so quickly and being so kind and understanding.
Could you let me know if what I've said above helps or hinders? Of course, if it doesn't help, then do please remove whatever is wrong and I'll make sure to follow your advice more closely.
Thanks again,