Talk:The Bugle/Archive 1

Ped
WP:RWN and WP:Eventualism compel me not to revert this edit, which is roughly 60% valuable and 40% unencyclopedic nonsense... Will contact the original poster to see if they would like to clean it up a bit. &mdash;Bill Price (nyb) 15:16, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Chris and His Manipulation of Time

 * After Tom left, he was replaced by Chris, about whom little has been said on the air. When Chris first began producing the podcast, he restructured the standard musical cues quite a bit to jarring effect (e.g., he once played the podcast's closing music during the middle of an episode), but over time, his production became more similar to Tom's. Chris occasionally participates in banter with Oliver and Zaltzman, albeit not to the extent that Tom did. Chris has been the subject of semi-ironic hate mail (and fan mail) from listeners, apparently for no reason other than that he is not Tom, and this became a running joke of the show. Chris is the star of fuckyouchris.com, a site devoted to chronicling fan's ironic hatred of Chris. Despite this, fans now appear to only be sending hate mail as a good-natured joke (including the fuckyouchris website), accepting his role on the show's staff. Being much younger and enthusiastic than Tom, Chris has a speaking role on the show much more often; his guest spots also tend to last much longer, acting as a "third host", as in Bugle 140 when he has an extended conversation with John and Andy about the state of Australia.

Which of the above bolded/italicized text is true?

Kevin Lyda (talk) 15:39, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * First one, then the other. (Those bits of prose were written months apart, I believe.) &mdash;Bill Price (nyb) 16:59, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

It could be improved by adding "at first" to the first bit and changing verb tenses appropriately. (Edit - never mind! problem solved before I even commented. crazy.) --75.71.237.144 (talk) 22:02, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Times Website
Does anyone have access to thetimes.co.uk to verify that the Bugle still has its own page? It was mentioned the other week that it no longer exists and I don't have a login to get past the paywall. Soupy sautoy (talk) 09:09, 3 September 2010 (UTC)


 * There seems to be a very basic page for The Bugle now at The Times website. I'll update the link. --Melinoe (talk) 13:41, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Encyclopaedic?
What, if anything, makes this article a suitable entry on Wikipedia? It reads more like an in-joke, or like a nest of material that all should have been reverted for NPOV violation. Snezzy (talk) 17:40, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

9/12 article confirmation
There was a special edition on 9/11 that verified some of the previously unsupported claims in teh article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.175.86.191 (talk) 03:10, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Problematic contributions
One of the long-running issues of this article is that more-or-less well-meaning fans will add prose which is about 70% valid and 30% unencyclopedic, either in tone or in content. It's hard to sift through it, and I'm not fond of deleting people's entire contributions, so it's a tough issue. The page is already tagged with the appropriate problem templates... it's just sad that the page is getting worse over time, not better. &mdash;Bill Price (nyb) 14:03, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * If it's unsourced original research, there need be no qualms cutting it. WP:Fancruft doesn't belong. 99.155.206.229 (talk) 19:13, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Episodes
Went through the article and found it gives undue weight to the 'Episodes' section (which also links to topics not related to the episodes) and a bit promotional on the first two lines. I also suspect violation of WP:NOTDIR. Although notable events/programs may have a place in the article, I don't think the episodes section serves any purpose. Do I have consensus to remove the topic? Regards-- JAaron95 Talk  14:48, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Bringing this up to date: I split the list out to List of The Bugle episodes in September 2021, and that page was deleted in January 2023 at Articles for deletion/List of The Bugle episodes with the conclusion that "podcast episode lists [...] are generally not preferred unless the podcast has some kind of narrative or plot", which I assume goes for including the list anywhere. Belbury (talk) 15:21, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

RadioTopia
Can someone update the logo, as the bugle is now apart of RadioTopia? I do not know how to edit images. Please and Thanks. 61.200.33.99 (talk) 10:37, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

The Last Post
Hi, with The Last Post now running into a 2nd year, and with over 6 million downloads a year as a podcast in it's own right (and increasingly divergent editorial) I feel it should have it's own page rather than in the 'offshoots' section of The Bugle page. I am happy to start populating this, but thought I'd post here as a conversation started 1st... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kriskina (talk • contribs) 13:19, 31 January 2021 (UTC)