(This post was first published on the U2MoL Golb at 21st of April, 2006)
Every item collects dust over time, websites as well as physical objects, and considering that U2MoL has been alive for more then a decade (11.5 years at the time of this writing!) a fair number of the entries leaves something to wish for when it comes to the quality. Since I strive for keeping a high quality site, an ambition usually thwarted by the quality of many of the contributions I receive (before you feel offended or saddened by that, consider the following; I reject about 40-70% of all material that is sent to me based on level of research and I have never published any of the many flames I’ve received, sometimes related to a rejection and sometimes straight out of the blue). I try to do a bit of cleaning every now and then, but I have almost never, i.e. only once before, done a real overhaul. It was now well overdue and it is with some pride I now announce that the spring-cleaning has been commenced and finished! A number of entries has been removed and quite a few has been combined into others. The main reason for doing either is either false information and/or duplicated information. I didn’t keep track of how many I deleted but around fifty contributions is an good estimate!
In case you had an entry here before and it is now nowhere to be seen, it has fallen for the axe. I’ve used two criteria for removal: First, in many cases new information has been revealed and made the entry irrelevant and the second reason is that someone else wrote a better description (better in the sense terser, covered more topics and/or was better written in regard to spelling and grammar). I have tried to be fair and base judgement on fact and there is no point in flaming me and demand that I put your interpretation back, if you think that you have a better grasp of the meaning of the song, write a new contribution according to the rules and make sure you include good references and proofs that backs up your interpretation. As usual, I’m not interested in finding what you think of the song, but what Bono was inspired by when he wrote the song.