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Contents 1 Age of Quatermass 1.1 RMF 2 David Farmbrough 3 Chris Langham 4 Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sydney J Bush.. UK Optometrist/inventor/researcher 5 Cooking 6 Michael Medwin 7 Lost episodes 8 Snape Maltings 9 Page Redesign 10 Sylvia Browne 11 Bishop Stopford's School at Enfield 12 Buster Edwards 13 AfD nom 14 Image Tagging Image:Tutte lemkow.jpg 15 May Day 16 Doctor Who composers 17 Image copyright problem with Image:Osterleyh.jpg 18 Image copyright problem with Image:Bishops.jpg 19 Tom and Colin 20 Doctor Who composers 21 Spastic "fits" 22 Re:Please stop blocking AOL IPs! 23 Dad's Army - the Yeatmans 24 William Hartnell and the Sylvia Young Theatre School 25 BBC2 Staff 26 Hank Marvin: EFTP 27 Trent Players 28 communication from David Fambrough moved from article 29 Image tagging for Image:LauraTennessen.jpg

[edit] Age of Quatermass

While I entirely concede that Flemyng is indeed only three years younger than Keir, it seems to me that his characterisation was a lot younger than Keir's or anybody else's. Keir seemed to be playing older than he was, and all of the other actors were certainly of or playing the 'greying middle-aged' school. Flemyng just seemed rather younger and a little more dynamic to me, but perhaps that's just my interpretation. Angmering 14:50, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This is arguable. I felt that despite Flemyng playing a young man in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, his Quatermass seemed very mature, lined, and world weary. This is one reason he succeeded IMO. Perhaps it is because we are older the Quatermasses are looking younger?David Farmbrough 16:09, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm twenty-one... But I take your point. I suppose he did seem world-weary, but still noticably younger. To be honest I wasn't really all that enamoured of his portrayal - he lacked the charisma of the likes of Morell and Keir, who I think were the two greatest successes in the part. But let's leave the article the way you've phrased it for now, as it covers it I suppose. Angmering 15:20, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Of course the biggest contrast is Sir John Mills(IMO the best Quatermass) and Flemyng. David Farmbrough 17:16, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RMF

I just created Peter Glaze, the famous third sensorite. Rich Farmbrough 11:49, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You might like to see if you can improve the Clangers :-) Rich Farmbrough 11:06, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] David Farmbrough

Not sure that the second link to [[Winchmore Hill] is needed as it's linked in an earlier instance. User:DavidFarmbrough 11 Apr 2005 17:22 (BST)

I guess you're right. Rich Farmbrough 16:37, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

And if you use <nowiki></nowiki> you can express wiki construct unwikily.Rich Farmbrough

[edit] Chris Langham

I have taken the liberty of moving your addition to the talk page for discussion and/or substantiation. I look forward to this one, I'm a big fan :-) --Phil | Talk 15:27, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sydney J Bush.. UK Optometrist/inventor/researcher

Please revisit the discussion. Uncle G 11:35:38, 2005-08-24 (UTC)

[edit] Cooking

We just boiled a thimbleful of H₂O using a mini solar furnace made from a bathroom mirror. Big furnace this weekend. Rich Farmbrough 15:43, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Medwin

Thanks, that must be the first time I've had a message that wasn't a complaint! JW 21:44, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lost episodes

I just created Category:Lost_BBC_episodes. Rich Farmbrough 10:05, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Snape Maltings

Is it subjective that the most important part of the redevelopment of the Maltings is the concert hall? I'd have thought that it's the only reason that the place is known outside Suffolk (not to mention internationally); aside from the concert hall, and especially the festival, it's just another commercial tourist redevelopment like countless others. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:18, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes. It might argued be that the environmental contribution is more important. DavidFarmbrough 11:09, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Fair enough, though I thought that the sentence was about the buildings. Could you add something about the environmental contribution? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:40, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

No, because that too would be subjective!DavidFarmbrough 10:21, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Page Redesign

I, Mollsmolyneux, have redesigned the List of incomplete Doctor Who serials page. To view it please Click Here. Please leave any comments you have about the page on My Talk Page and tell me if you think I should put the page on. -- Mollsmolyneux 12:51, 12 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Hurrah! DavidFarmbrough 14:56, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sylvia Browne

Hello David,

I noticed you made a couple of changed to the Sylvia Browne article, and most of them were quite good. You managed to rephrase a couple of my edits in a way I think greatly improves the NPOV of the article, which is something I am really striving for, which, to be honest, is hard since I am a very skeptical person. However, I'd just like to clear something up. With regards to the section on her criminal conviction for fraud, you added the following (in bold):

Critics argue that this incident highlights Brownes unscrupulous nature and begs the question, why did Browne fail to forsee her own conviction? In response to this, Browne explains that her psychic abilities do not work on herself. This is also consistent with her stated view that "The only power that I answer to is God and the Christ Consciousness".

I have read this over and over but I still fail to see the correlation between the existing text and the quote you added. Where is this consistency of statements coming from? Have I missed something obvious?

This isn't a personal attack on your contribution (which is much appreciated - like I said, we need NPOV), but a serious question.

I have also posted this message to the Sylvia Browne Talk Page.

-- Qarnos 11:12, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

David, you might be interested in checking out WikiProject Rational Skepticism. I realise you might not consider yourself a "skeptic" but, in this article at least, you have attempted to provide a NPOV, to the extent that I can't even work out what your view on Browne is, and that is commendable. We are currently discussing guidelines for our work, and trying to work out how to work NPOV into all this, so perhaps you might have something to add to that discussion. You also play/played cricket, which counts as a plus in my book.

Qarnos 10:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

I willingly accept that I am a useless cricketer. That part of my user biog is lifted and adapted from the article on Alec Douglas Home I try to be NPOV because I am undecided. Like most mediums, Browne gives a great deal of comfort to bereaved people and to people frightened of death or the death of others. It is possible that she might believe in her abilities, I say this because I think the cold reading technique can be employed subconsciously by empathic people. I consider myself to be a sceptic, rather than a skeptic. DavidFarmbrough 12:25, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bishop Stopford's School at Enfield

Not sure why you changed Bishop Stopford's School at Enfield from a comprehensive to a public school (you did a category change). Did you do it manually or use a bot? DavidFarmbrough 13:26, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Subcategories were created for London comprehensive schools, grammar schools and public schools, and I was recategorising each school accordingly. The system of simultaneous "comprehensive school in England" and "schools in London" is pointless and so was replaced. Unfortunately, occasional errors occur when recategorising pages in large numbers. Deano (Talk) 18:38, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Buster Edwards

(From helpdesk-l) I received an email on helpdesk-l regarding this edit you made on August 9.

To: helpdesk-l@wikimedia.org
Subject: [HelpDesk-l] Re: Article on Buster Edwards
I am writing to you regarding your article on Buster Edwards. I was
distressed and very upset when I read that when he was released from prison
he was allegedly a police informer. How dare you print false allegations
against Buster Edwards. I am very keen to find out how you have actually
obtained this information, and just what the law is with regards printing
false allegations.  I would be grateful if you could withdraw this from your
encyclopedia.

On a company that provides encyclopedias I would expect all the information
that you provide to be accurate and truthful. Obviously this is not the case
and you are therefore selling people a product with false information.

I therefore wish for you to provide me with the address of the company who
supplied this false information to you.

I state yet again you have caused a lot of distress and upset to my family
over this article, and I would like it rectified immediately.

I await your response.

The email is from someone who appears to be a relative of Buster Edwards. Do you remember where your source was for the information that he was allegedly a police informer? silsor 18:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

My alteration to the text was to add his real name of Ronald and Edwards became a flower seller outside Waterloo Station on his release from prison, and also allegedly a police informer. He apparently committed suicide in 1994.

The alleged informer bit was in the news at the time, I believe Radio 4 news, but I do not have a transcript. Please will note that I put 'allegedly', which merely means that it was said that he was a police informer, not that it was fact. I can also direct you to this website where it is clearly alleged that he was an informer "LISA who described BUSTER as a "fu**cking grass.". As far as I can see, this is sufficient to support a statement that he was an 'alleged' police informer. DavidFarmbrough 08:27, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nom

Hi. I corrected your AfD nomination, you should put it into a new template, following the Add a new entry link at the AfD page. Regards. --Tone 17:51, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] May Day

of course you are right; as a non-native speaker, I simply wasn't aware of the difference between "ironic" and "ironical". In german language, there's only one word for both meanings, and although it is formally correct, it is often considered bad style to call things "ironisch" that do not contain at least a small humorous element. Greetings, 790 23:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Doctor Who composers

I am working on a chronological list of Doctor Who composers. I have decided to keep it here:

Ron Grainer Delia Derbyshire Norman Kay Tristram Cary Dudley Simpson Stanley Myers Carey Blyton Richard Rodney Bennett Francis Chagrin Raymond Jones Humphrey Searle BBC Radiophonic Workshop Don Harper Malcolm Clarke Geoffrey Burgon Peter Howell Paddy Kingsland Roger Limb Jonathan Gibbs Elizabeth Parker Dominic Glynn Richard Hartley Keff McCulloch Mark Ayres John Debney Murray Gold

I have just been through and added "Category:Doctor Who composers" to any which didn't have that category before. DavidFarmbrough 11:27, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Tom and Colin

Hey, David. I noticed that you put the word "directly" into the sentence about Tom Baker not being related to Colin Baker. My understanding is that the two weren't related in any way — what does "directly" add? Are they indirectly related? I didn't want to revert without talking to you, as I figured you probably had a good reason for putting it in. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:32, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

It's correct to say 'not directly related to' rather than 'not related to', as there is likely to be be an indirect relationship of which we (and perhaps the Bakers) are unaware. Thus, we can't say for certain that they are not related, only that they are not directly related. DavidFarmbrough 09:37, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

How likely is it, though? "Baker" is a surname which arose independently in multiple communities. It's not linked to a single place of origin, nor to a common ancestor real or mythical (as for example, most O'Neills are probably descended from Niall of Ulster [1], [2]). My understanding is that names like "Baker", "Smith", "Taylor" (tailor) and so forth were derived from people who held those occupations in different towns across Britain. To my knowledge there's no evidence that any two people with the surname Baker are more likely to be related than, say, a Baker and a Miller. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 15:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I doubt that the sharing of such a common occupational surname has any impact on the likelihood of a relationship, nor that it has any significant impact on the proximity of such relationship. However, I would be astonished if the family trees of Baker T., and Baker C. did not show some common ancestors. DavidFarmbrough 10:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Doctor Who composers

Since you're working on these, might want to take a look at Beware the daleks! (talk • contribs)'s contributions. They need cleaning up, among others. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 22:54, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Carey Blyton has now been cleaned up. DavidFarmbrough 08:15, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spastic "fits"

FYI: [3]

""I would think that anybody in the disability community would see it as offensive," says Babs Johnson of National ADAPT. "It would be looked upon as someone having a fit or seizure or something like that. Body movements that you're not able to control.""

Just wanted to let you know. --JohnO 03:44, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I think that puts even more distance between spastic movements and fits. DavidFarmbrough 07:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Please stop blocking AOL IPs!

Without you quoting a specific example I can't comment on the particular IP you were thinking about. However in general I do very much see blocking AOL IPs as a last resort, but sometimes it has to be done. If I remember rightly I only blocked one AOL IP last night, and it had received three last warnings in a row, was engaging in persistent vandalism (ongoing at time of block) and personal attacks against editors. For a long time now there has been a Wikipedia:Blocking policy proposal to allow registered users to continue editing when their IP is blocked, you may want to add your support to it (although I think the main thing now is waiting for the developers to implement it).

If you were affected by the block you could ask an admin (via email and/or {{unblock}}) to unblock the offending IP. Hope that helps, feel free to ask me any further questions. Petros471 13:33, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dad's Army - the Yeatmans

Last year on Talk:Dad's Army you noted:

I suspect this [Frazer's trade changing] is just a case of the writers not thinking that their weekly television show would be analysed in such detail (in this respect, Perry and Croft are remarkably consistent with only a few contibuity errors, such as the Yeatmans' Christian names).

On the Maurice Yeatman page the question of both his and his wife's first names has come up a few times - can you help elaborate on what seems to be a mess here? Timrollpickering 22:41, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes. There is an episode in which the Yeatmans are involved in a coach trip for the old folk of Walmington (and (IIRC) in some bizarre car chase with Jones's van and Yearman's motor-cycle with Mrs Fox in the side car). In the location scene, They each use each other's christian names. I think that on this occasion they call each other different names from those established elsewhere in the series. I know Maurice and Anthea have been established, but also Tracey and - I forget the alternative name for him. DavidFarmbrough 09:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] William Hartnell and the Sylvia Young Theatre School

Hey, David. At Talk:William Hartnell, an anon editor points out a contradiction: the Sylvia Young Theatre School opened in 1981 [4], but the William Hartnell article says he studied there. Since you added the SYTS to the Hartnell article and vice-versa, I wonder if you remember where you found that info, or how it can be explained? Thanks — I didn't want to try to answer for you. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 03:38, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, It was in Who's There?. DavidFarmbrough 12:50, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

So is the Sylvia Young Theatre School's own page wrong about the date of its founding[5]? Was there perhaps another theatre school by that name before the current one? I'm confused. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 16:18, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

It could be that she founded two different schools. But it seems unlikely that someone around to teach a young Billy Hartnell would still be the principal of the school now. I shall re-check Who's There. DavidFarmbrough 16:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I checked and it was Italia Conti - my apologies for the mistake. DavidFarmbrough 21:41, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BBC2 Staff

Rowan Ayers seems legit, I have given him a new article. Sam Leach is now protected. Bye for now. Rich Farmbrough, 12:09 21 September 2006 (GMT).

[edit] Hank Marvin: EFTP

Hello David,

You are looking for a source for the EFTP (the Echoes from the past) that are used even by "the man himself", too? Well, just have a look on the homepage of Charlie Hall (Director of EFTP) and You'll see, that I'm right. I had been invited to go backstage at the concert in Esbjerg in April 2005 and Brian Benett showed me the equipment Hank and Bruce were using at the tour. Imagine, Hank used two extra-programmed ALESIS-Q20 EFTP's to create his absolute unique sound !!!!!

Yours sincerly

Bruce Marvin

Hmm... a link or two - and a real name would have been helpful. The homepage of the person selling the equipment may not be as unimpeachable a source as DavidFarmbrough 15:59, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

- DEAR ADMINS, PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR EV'RY SHADOWS-FAN ! -

Hello David, hello my very dear Shadows-Fans,

if You are looking for the EFTP, just type in www.eftp.co.uk, use the hyperlink "EFTP" and that's it, my friends ! You need an ALESIS Q2 or Q20, send it to the company an they will program it ! If You don't have an ALESIS, no problem, they also sell an already pimped "ZOOM RFX 2200" with 46 different Shadows-Echoes. The Zoom RFX 200 (already pimped) is inclusive shipping to continental Europe at about 460 Euros. And I think, this is absolutely affordable. If You need Backing-Tracks - no problem !- You can purchase them there, too. By the way, I compared it with the ALESIS, and I must say, that the ZOOM is much better, more comfortable and has an extreme clear echo-sound. I used a VOX AC30-Amplifier, the EFTP and my BURNS Prototype Guitar (with REZO-MATIC). Great sound, absolutely no difference to the original sound of Hank Marvin. The EFTP contents several echoes: MEAZZI ECHOMATIC, BINSON Echorec and BABY BINSON, KLEMT Echolette, ROLAND 301, SWISS Echo and (my favourite) VOX Echo "LONG TOM". I even could compare the EFTP with an original MEAZZI ECHOMATIC (for the Apache-Sound) and - believe me or not - (JESUS CHRIST !!!!!) you can emulate the real Apache sound with it. Great Deal. For more information or contact, just write me an eMail to: odrdhs@web.de. I would be very pleased to hear from You !!! (All listed brands are registered trademarks !!!)

Yours sincerly

Bruce Marvin

[edit] Trent Players

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Trent Players, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. This page is still a stub after two years. If only one or two sentences have been written in all this time, how notable can it be? 172.129.151.22 21:03, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Admittedly, I added the article primarily because I was in the group myself, but would not have done so if I had not considered it notable. I think the membership of Johne Neville and Arthur Newall make it notable, and also its longevity as a society. DavidFarmbrough 10:26, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] communication from David Fambrough moved from article

Dear David, I hope I'm doing this right.My name is David Fambrough, distant bloodline, dna, genes, etc. I'm the sculptor in Reno, Nevada. Still the wild west with cowboys etc. I myself would rather be sailing on Lake Tahoe. This is where I keep my yacht 41' SIDDARTHA. If you are ever in this area, I would love to take you and family sailing, an adventure for sure.................... best reguards David Fambrough 775.233.5391

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