Talk:Observatory, Cape Town

A tour guide
This page reads a bit like a tour guide entry rather than an Encyclopedia article :) Greenman 08:21, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Not a tour guide any more
I've added some meat to the entry to give more of a flavour of Obs. It could obviously do with more and, at some stage, it would be good to have a separate section on the history of the suburb. A map would be nice too. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 41.240.126.51 (talk) 08:54, 13 May 2007 (UTC).

The meat stinks. I grew up in Observatory in the 1950's and this is one of the most awful articles I have ever encountered in Wikipedia. It is so bad that I don't even have the strength to begin dealing with it..... Captainbeefart 15:22, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, I'm impressed! There must be thousands, if not millions, or even milliards of entries to wikipaedia that are pretty dreadful. I shan't quote one, just to be nice. To have achieved the level of being 'so bad that I don't...' seems pretty good, really. Pretty Obs, if you thing about it. So, thank, you, Captain (I trust we'll find your commission referenced somewhere - a man like you'd never pretend to a title he'd not entitled to, I'll be bound) Bee fart.

To be frank, though, or Capt. F. R. Ank, if I were Egyptian, and a Captain and... well, let's be friends and put pretention away.

I like Obs. I don't think that my entry has the correct style. I've also mentioned some commercial establishments (none, sadly, who'll give me any benefit from posting here), but, in writing this prize winningly dreadful article, my intent was actually simple. Not to pretend to being almighty, not to pretend to anything, actually. It was simply to write the article that I'd have liked to find in wikepaedia before I moved to Obs.

I don't give a shit about the geomorphology or geopolitical, even historical background to this little suburb. Others might, and I'll look forward, with eager anticipation to improvements.

Capt. Bee Fart, nice man as you undoubtedly are, you appear to have missed something of the point. If you're so entranced by improving an encylopaedia that you forget your readers, haven't you failed?

I've failed, I know. I put in an entry about a very obscure part of Cape Town. I also changed some other sites - the choice of these might have invited envy from Cpt. BF. I'm not sure, I hope not.

You're an old fart Cpt. BF. You should have aquired some wisdom by now. This ought to have helped you make things better. If I've fucked up (and I do happily agree with you that I have), then give some indication to me of the problem. I've already, in my original comment, indicated that the entry is badly structured. Why shouldn't I wait for the likes of you to fix it? I invited, in my comment, changes. Wasn't I acting in the spirit of this place?

No matter. If you think I'm fucked up and unacceptable, then, maybe, I ought not to try to help...

(OK that's emotional blackmail, but you can respond to it anyway).

Cape Observatory
It would be good if someone could expand the historical information about the Royal Cape Observatory. 76.66.194.32 (talk) 07:42, 25 March 2010 (UTC)


 * There is some such historical information in the South African Astronomical Observatory article. - htonl (talk) 07:48, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Museum
Cape Town Science Centre? Axxter99 (talk) 09:39, 6 August 2014 (UTC)