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Wikipedia: The Crack Cocaine of Copy Editing
As a contributor I specialise in British Comedy. I also hope to raise the profile of writers throughout the entertainment pages so that scriptwriters get their due.
In horrific tribute to comedy writers everywhere, I wrote this and got threatened with legal action for it (which was much more fun than hitting the keyboard was).
On a happier note, David Quantick wrote to me and now uses our Wikipedia article, substantially written by me, as his official IMDB bio.
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An Award | |
| For all your hard work and efforts on Wikipedia, but particularly your impressive contributions to comedians and British television comedy writers. Awarded by Angmering |
WankyStats™
As of June 10, 2004 I had made 1,000 edits
As of August 8, 2004 I was #664 in the list of main namespace editors and #482 on less discriminating editing terms [1]
As of August 18, 2004 I had made 2,000 edits
As of August 29, 2004 I was #627 (up 45) in the list of main namespace editors and #453 on less discriminating terms [2]
As of August 2005 I had made 3,000 edits which means it's taken me one year to do what had previously taken me 4 months.
As of July 25, 2005 I was #1291 in the list of main namespace editors and #973 overall (there's 350,000 registered editors).
As of October 25, 2005 I'd made 4,000 edits. I think I feel more disgusted with myself than proud.
As of October 15, 2005 I was #1216 in the list of main namespace editors and #992 overall. I imagine I'm destined to remain mid-table, like some tawdry uncelebrated association football team.
Check how Wanky I am right NOW!
Useful info: UTC = -1hr my time.
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[edit] Useful Links
My other pages: Answers - Sandbox
Timeline Toolbox: Syntax - Colo(u)r names
Find New Projects: Sketch comedy - Britain's Best Sitcom - British comedy - List of stand-up comedians - List of comedies
Comedy Resources: Guardian's 50 Funniest - BBC Comedy Guide - RadioHaHa - Progs - RadioHaHa - People
Art: Artcyclopedia — Artnet search — Find Articles.com
Other Resources: HTML spesh.char. , Wikipedia:Footnotes
Searches: Debunker - UK gov - Comedy - Consumer
Cats: category:London's West End - category:Alcoholics
Current: evid. cont. smoking gun
Guardian journos: Suzie Mackenzie
Commands:{{film-screenshot}} ~ [[Image:Westminstpalace.jpg|thumb|100px|left|The Palace of Westminster]] ~
[edit] Articles I've initiated
- Attachment theory - ooooh! Psychology.
- Children of the Stones - a scary children's drama from the 1970s
- The Coach and Horses, Greek Street, Soho, London - Jeffrey Bernard's haunt.
- comic novel - most surprised it wasn't there.
- Chambers, Diane - character from Cheers
- Cool, Phil - terrifying impressionist
- Doolittle, Eliza - I knew so little but it seemed wrong not to have one
- Gerhardt, Sue - wrote a book on babies' brain development
- Grimms - Band featuring Neil Innes and Paul McCartney's Brother
- Harries, Lauren - who I used to call the antiques mutant at school.
- Heckler
- Holiday camp
- Impressionist (entertainment)
- Kremen, Gary - the man who registered the domain sex.com only to see a fraudster get all the cash - written after seeing a documentary on Ch5.
- Light entertainment - largely bollocks, but it's a start
- Lyons (company)
- Media monitoring service
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra - an OK, medium sized beginning
- Plop! - a 1970s DC Comic
- Quantick, David - a whopping great article, and no mistake
- Spangles - God help me, what have I become?
- Suffolk killings
- Television comedy used to redirect to sitcom. Didn't like that. So started an article.
- Thomas, Gareth - of Children of the Stones and Blake's 7
- Trades Description Act
[edit] Categories I've initiated
Alpha order: category:alcoholics + category:British television comedy + category:British political scandals + category:four letter words (see category:profanity) + category:gay icons + category:Hanna-Barbera cartoons and characters + category:insects + category:London's West End + category:Members of Saddam Hussein's family + category:most-wanted Iraqi playing cards + category:plumbing + category:priests + category:Satirical television programmes + category:transsexuals + category:Social realism
Bodnotbod created categories considered harmful, it seems... I'll probably avoid creating any for a while.
[edit] Articles I've revised worth mentioning
- Amusement Park - added a British section, wrote about fairgrounds (now an article of its own) and brief mention of Brit theme parks.
- Ivor Cutler - added discography, note on his style of delivery and content of work, external links.
- Angus Deayton - added Merton's "I stabbed him in the front" amongst other bits.
- Paul Merton - Added para about his performance style.
- sitcom - Major revisions to dilute the US-centric tone. Put out a call for more countries to contribute.
- Vivian Stanshall - Early life, brief Bonzos para, rehab, valium, the rubber ears anecdote.
- Webcast - added details of NetAid webcast.
- comedy - Massive organisational revision of links so I can try and make sense of Wikis comedy pages. 'ray!
- Johnny Vegas - added a fair bit, even if the upshot was that the article is now a horrible chunky listy affair rather than graceful reading... will try and sort that out.
- Rachel Whiteread - though half of it's just stuck on the Talk:Rachel Whiteread page. I'm thoroughly sick of her and her casts now.
[edit] Little edits I'm pleased with
UK-US Keyboards + Discography + Gymnastics scoring: beam, floor, asymmetric bars, vault + Shoe japes of The United Kingdom at Shoe flinging
[edit] Giving writers recognition
Only Fools and Horses - added info about Sullivan (as script and theme song writer)
John Sullivan - added stub for Sullivan
Arthur Mathews - put up a pretty damn good article on that half of the Linehan & Mathews axis (Father Ted etc). Graham Linehan - completes the pair
Bruce Robinson - writer + relevant additions to Withnail and I and The Killing Fields
[edit] To do:
| WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
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| Project page - The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia. Sign in! |
| Weekly focus : Hotlist of topics/I Only 286 remain! |
| Hotlist of topics - 79% done |
| 1911 verification - 1.9% |
| General topics - 67.8% done |
| Other Wikipedias: de es fr |
| Biographies - 96.7% done |
| Science topics - 43% done |
| Catholic topics - 43.2% done |
| Easton's Bible Dictionary - 77.9% done |
| Gutenberg authors - 41.4% done |
| Literary Encyclopedia - 68% done |
| Find-A-Grave - 14.7% done |
| Miscellaneous |
| Many other lists of politicians, albums, films, TV shows and others. |
| Overall progress - 50.5% |
| Spread the word! {{Project missing articles}} |
To self: Be sure to do comedy film <--(Oh dear - if only I knew something about them, erm...) & review clinical depression
Where it's a red link, go to page of red link first and then click on it.
Dermatitis - Protopic® (= pinecrolimus, rapamycin derivative) -- get in touch with the eczema society ~ Mr Do - (computer game) ~ Josie Lawrence at Whose Line Is It Anyway? ~ Shelley at Britain's Best Sitcom ~ Les Dawson ~ Cynthia Payne (category, prostitution, British political scandals) ~ Kerry Packer ~ The People - newspaper ~ Independent on Sunday ~ User:Bodnotbod/press barons ~ James Henry Pullen [3], [4], [5] Idonea Fane (another hidden royal) [6] ~ Graham Fellows needs merging with Graham Fellowes but which is correct? ~ clarify compliance this use of the David Quantick article. Richard Pryor currently tells us nothing about his life - improve this image of a petard -
[edit] Useful messages
'''''Please note:''''' ''Sections of this article have been edited by a user in [[Wikipedia:arbitration]]. The relevance of those sections is controversial but they may remain whilst the arbitration is in process to avoid further [[Wikipedia:Edit_war|edit wars]].''
[edit] Notes
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - Stanley Kramer - 1963 [7]
- The Great Race - Blake Edwards - 1965 [8]
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines - Ken Annakin - 1965 [9]
- Monte Carlo or Bust - Ken Annakin - 1969 [10]
- Wacky Races - 1968-1970
- Death Race 2000 - 1975
- Gumball Rally - Charles Bail - 1976 [11]
- Cannonball (movie) - Paul Bartel - 1976 [12]
- The Cannonball Run - Hal Needham - 1981 [13]
- Cannonball Run II - Hal Needham - 1984 [14]
- Rat Race - Jerry Zucker - 2001
[edit] Real races
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| Criticism of Dixons | Dixons Response |
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| Cost of PCs In November 1998 Dixons came under fire because of the prices it was charging for personal computers. Peter Mandelson said he was worried that consumers were getting a "raw deal" because of the store's dominant position in the market [15]. Intel's chief executive at that time, Craig Barrett, said that Dixons charges "ridiculous margins" [16]. The Intel Architecture Business Group said "Dixons has classic channel presence and can determine what gets sold at what price." Dixons responded that it could not make sense of the comments. The Consumers' Association said "Dixons controls over half of the high street distribution of PCs and they seem to be using this enormous market power to keep prices to consumers high" and has a "monopoly position in the high street". [17] |
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