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Today is Monday, 29 July 2024,  (UTC/GMT). There are articles on the English Wikipedia.

'''"Welcome to Wikipedia." Let's be frank, it can be strangely addictive''':

"On why Wikipedia is never finished..." "Great eds have little eds upon their backs to bite 'em, And little eds have lesser eds, and so ad infinitum. And the great eds themselves, in turn, have Admin eds to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on. --- Augustus De Wales --"


 * "Send No Money Now... to the Extremely Poor Society."
 * "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia designed by a committee" ..... Discuss.
 * "Banana Republic ...anyone?"
 * ... editing styles at Wikipedia: a guide to the four basic Jungian types
 * ...typical Wikipedia editing style

Please, beware: Proverbs 18:2


 * vital link for fool-proof anonymity
 * Ah-ha... so this is what good Administrators do!


 * Great to see British Dance Band so close to Islamic recitation and Vintage gospel: (... )


 * Burt Bacharach and Hal David (1965) ... Tom Jones
 * "Breakthrough" (1974) - from "Furthermore", Shawn Phillips
 * But....if the bus is comin' an' I ain't only got one fare.... Billy Preston
 * "Dig up the dough, And you can go... All I had was a buffalo" ... The Clovers
 * 1977 throwaway bubble-gum pop, but still wonderful c/o Stevland Hardaway Morris
 * ... got me that green light, baby..... J. J. and Eric (with Rocky Frisco on piano)
 * Oh, baby, you can walk, you can talk just like me from More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978)
 * My Sara and Aljaž tribute. Great song. Animated and fun video!
 * "Perdido" from An Evening with Earl Hines (Chiaroscuro, 1977):
 * "Roundalay" - OP with CT (Aug. 17, 1964)
 * "gators got yo granny chomp, chomp... etc.
 * scrubs up nice without the dungarees and Dr. Martens, don't she?
 * Lightnin' Slim: all swamped up in 1974, but still sounds great (Clayton Ivy: piano)
 * ... up there with Link Wray, in my book...
 * talking of which.... wonderful (Fresh Fish Special, 1978)
 * "... this could be Rotterdam or anywhere... 'Cause Rotterdam is anywhere, Anywhere alone, Anywhere alone ..."
 * "... Well my head was beating like a song by The Clash, It was writing cheques that my body couldn't cash ... "
 * .... "And though it breaks my heart for us to part, Still I know Frank loves you too": "Go Home Girl", by Arthur Alexander, from Bop Till You Drop (1979)
 * This is Tomorrow (1977) guitar solo Chris Spedding, great brass section...
 * "Pardon me buddy... King 45-5579 (November 1961), Johnny "Guitar" Watson
 * "Hoochie Coochie Man" with Billy Preston (1990) ... just wonderful
 * "Police took me down to jail and they tied me to the wall...." the magnificent Lightnin' Slim (March 13, 1913 – July 27, 1974)
 * Possibly even better than the original, the wonderful Linda Lewis from 1977: just so beautiful. (Peter Hope Evans: harmonica)
 * Jus' a lil ol' bitta Country 'n' Western for y'all...
 * "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" by Marianne Faithfull (1979). Smash Hits said: "The Debbie Harry of the sixties returns to vinyl with an honestly outstanding offering, a version of an old Doctor Hook number related over a swimming synthesiser. If you can handle this, it sounds like Dolly Parton produced by Brian Eno. Only better."  (synthesizer – Steve Winwood. Also, perhaps even better Live In Hollywood DVD with Barry Reynolds - guitar.
 * Their best single (August 1979). Also, a brilliantly choreographed video, quite clever.
 * Schubert: Des Fischers Liebesglück, D.933 with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
 * ... yes, that demo for Jerry Wexler, recorded Oct/Nov 1966, is amazing. But Rick Hall surely deserved that 2009 Grammy Hall of Fame entry for his immaculate production on one of the finest soul records ever recorded. I can keep it together as far as the bridge and then those guitar licks (Jimmy Johnson?)... just blow me away every time. Incredible production. Recorded Jan 24, released Feb 10, 1967.
 * "Gethsemane", live on Ducknapped! (2003)

YouTube Videos available

 * Флер - Формалин: Flëur, from the French edition of Волшебство.


 * "The Gallant Poacher": The Albion Band from Battle of the Field (1976)


 * "The Styrofoam ice bucket's full of ice...." Loudon Wainwright III from 1979 (it's on Album II, 1971)


 * "I am down on my knees... at those wire less knobs... Telefunken ... " Georgie Fame on keyboards.... (1990)


 * "Get down, Shep!!": Old Slow hands (1977)


 * Ah, yes.... "Summertime and the living is easy.... Fish are jumpin' and the summer is high..." .... guess we'll all have to just get riding around in our Jeeps or our Benzos


 * To know how to find water in, The unlikeliest of places, And enlist the momentum of the wind, To help you move forward..... Tinariwen from Elwan (2017), with Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni on lead guitar


 * Me and all my friends, We're all misunderstood.... John Mayer "Waiting on the World to Change" (2006)


 * You just can't take Rhys anywhere, can you: Tom Jones with them ruddy phonics


 * Geraint and friends rip it up with Lucille (Martin Winning sax solo): Geraint Watkins


 * Dedicated to all those WP:OWN editors: "If you ever step on My Patch...": Jim Noir


 * "Comu aceddu finici" by Olivia Sellerio


 * unusual style, guitar Rudy Stevenson: Nina Simone (1966)


 * Great version of "Paper Plane"!!: Persephone's Bees


 * "This Time" from the September 2019 album Changes on Karma Chief (Colemine subsidiary) by Neal Francis


 * Nice one, "Prodigal Son": Ry Cooder


 * "Just a roll, just a roll on your drum ..." for David Cyril Eric Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016): Fairport Convention


 * "I love what you do but, you know..." Britney Spears


 * ... reassuringly amateurish video, and only 35 years old (....Paul Carrack on Farfisa): Nick Lowe


 * surprising there is no article for her yet - : Rhonda Washington on Stax Records


 * ... what a really fine band they were.... the 60 ft Transporters, 1996 Indolent Records: 60 Ft. Dolls


 * Farewell Mac Rebennack (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019): Dr. John


 * ... a bit like Captain Beefheart meets Slim Gaillard ?: Leon Redbone


 * The finest Poet Laureate Scotland ever had?: Ivor Cutler


 * See how I'm walkin', see how I'm talkin', Mama: Graham Central Station


 * "I never saw no whisky but the blues made me sloppy drunk": Sleepy John Estes (first appeared on Broken Hearted, 1975)


 * .... cue that sexy robot voice... : Bobby Bare


 * "Rică din Obor" ... no Wiki article yet for ZMEI3


 * Happy 80th Mr Sedaka..... not sure you'd get away with a video like this these days....even on a Scopitone: Neil Sedaka


 * RIP Keith: : Torre Florim


 * Not sure Sigmund ever managed to sort out this question: Bill Nelson & The Gentlemen Rocketeers


 * "You want me to tell you the truth, You want me to reason and wait my turn, I haven't the nerve to say no, I guess I deserve the wiki burn you gave me" 1975: The Eric Burdon Band


 * " Oh dahlin' can ya put some music on? It's like a morgue in 'ere innit." ... RIP Karl Lager-top "No le gusta caminar No puede montar a caballo": Kirsty MacColl


 * ... sometimes, just like Clive Efford, you've got to blame it on the Goose: Lizzo


 * ... so tight it's welded on c/o Vulfpeck


 * "Key to the Highway": Don Covay and the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band, album The House of Blue Lights (1969)


 * Oooooh, GROOVE ATTACK: Young Disciples with Carleen Anderson (1991)


 * 2016 ... directed by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia, video effects by, a Ukraine-based GloriaFX ... "a poignant, surrealist montage which alludes to contemporary issues"


 * My Michel Legrand, somewhat reserved, tribute: Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band


 * 20 years on, still a great track: Carlos and Rob Thomas


 * "What I got to give will sho' nuff do ya good" ....written by Stevie Wonder (1974): Rufus with Chaka Khan


 * Fellow Wikipedians... don't you ever get tired of looking for High Fives? ... classic pop from Sigrid


 * "Knew how to paint a cowboy town, long before I missed her"... ya just can't beat a really cheesey video: Little Feat


 * "Saye Mogo Bana" by Issa Bagayogo


 * slow down itinerant child, the boys in blue are waiting... - from Mr. Love Pants (1998) .... Davey Payne, what a genius.... some of his best ever sax .. : Ian Dury & The Blockheads


 * "I believe an open gob does nothing for your face.": more Ian and Blockheads


 * Can I be electric too? 23 years on... a very entertaining retro-styled video offering: She's Electric ... the Manky Fab Two all over again....


 * My Seann and Katya tribute edit: Jake Bugg


 * The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr - (Sudan, 1980)


 * So like, listen up Weird EEng Gageovic..... Here's my proposal to replace the entire Wikipedia Manual of Style, with something more useful.....: "Weird Al" Yankovic


 * You got soul, you got class, you got style, you're bad ass (allegedly): Christina Aguilera


 * my own personal official promo tribute to the legendary Walter Theodore, for undoubtedly one of the finest ever sax solos in the history of rock music....: The Rolling Stones


 * John Marshall (English trumpeter) playing "Five Will Get You Ten", live at Smalls, 1 January 2016: John Marshall - trumpet, Grant Stewart - tenor sax, Jeb Patton - piano, David Wong - bass, Phil Stewart - drums


 * Aretha... a demo tape, recorded Oct or Nov 1966, Detroit, sent by Ted White to Jerry Wexler: Aretha Franklin (then aged 24 - piano, vocal), Unknown (drums, bass), how incredible....."I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)"


 * Delgres ... named after this guy


 * Washboard Chaz and Roberto Luti with a New Orlean's version of the rock 'n' roll standard ''Mystery Train"


 * one of Abertridwr's finest (2012): more Geraint Watkins


 * she rings my bell: Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain


 * "Argos Farfish" (Sudan 1960) ... no article yet for Sharhabeel Ahmed yet


 * ...nothing (much) to do with that fine single malt from Ardbeg (?) ... Jukka Harju - French horn or even try a little [Bach BWV1008: Jukka Harju?


 * most vocally inventive song? made 14th place in 2018 - "Bones" by Equinox


 * Happy 50th Birthday, Trojan Records!!: The Harry J All Stars


 * "I'm the sausage man, The shadow licker..." (Arbcom case outstanding): Baxter Dury


 * A boom-boom-boom and a bang-bang-bang ... trumpet solo: Ruud Breuls: Basement Jaxx with Metropole Orkest led by Jules Buckley


 * "Nice pair of marigolds, Siedah"....farewell Dennis .... ... nice parody here


 * my Nile Rodgers almost greatest dancer tribute... (get down!): Will Smith


 * ah, dear old Andy and Lance.... never better: The Unthanks


 * Sea cruise in a diving bell: Richard Thompson


 * A somewhat raunchy "Holy Mountain" from 2000 tribute edit: Ricky Martin


 * ... deceptively simple, amazing production: Jessie Ware (2017)


 * "By George, I think he's got it!!": : George Michael


 * "I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real." - ahh, Puddles, some of my Wikipedia experience in ten words: Mike Geier


 * yee-haw!!: Iron Horse


 * I think I just discovered the future of Eurovision: Anda Union (accompanied by horses)


 * another typically amazing delivery (don't let that crown put you off, folks): more Mike Geier


 * "Oooh it's a killing machine, It's got everything..." :accordionrock.com playing Deep Purple


 * .... just like in the wonderful big list, if you edit long enough, you'll stand like a statue, become part of the machine and those golden Jimmy Wales digit counters will just ... fall?: more Mike Geier


 * : Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band

Other favourites

 * Bach - Cantate BWV 134a - Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht - Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Ton Koopman (harpsichord), with Michael Chance (alto) and Paul Agnew (counter-tenor)


 * Robert Wyatt - "Gharbzadegi" from Old Rottenhat (Rough Trade), 1985 (Note: the video of the live version from BBC Four's Free Will and Testament (2003), with Larry Stabbins on sax, is not copyright free alas)


 * Earl Hines and His Orchestra (1940) [BlueBird B-10674-A]: "Boogie Woogie on the St. Louis Blues"


 * - a number which became an essential part of his live repertoire, and which just got better and better as the years went by.... my personal favourite is almost certainly the live version, recorded at Dinkler's Motor Inn, Syracuse, NY, 27, 28 October 1972 and released in 1977 on "An Evening With Earl Hines]" (with Tiny Grimes, Hank Young, Bert Dahlander and Marva Josie) as Disques Vogue VDJ-534.


 * Bo Diddley - "Road Runner" from The London Rock and Roll Show (1972)


 * RIP Bra Hugh ....what a pure genius
 * RIP the Italian waiter on acid: on the video for "Ride My See-Saw" (1968 Stereo)


 * Richie Havens - "Going Back to My Roots" - never heard before, just wonderful (1980 single produced by Charles Calello) .... highly recommend "One Shot Not 2011 Remix" from French TV (easily found) with Stephanie Winters (cello), Walter Parks (guitar) and Manu Katché (drums)


 * Bill Payne ... in Feats Don't Fail Me Now (birthday tribute at littlefeat.net, with special guest Ron Holloway)


 * All mystery investigating teenagers, and dogs[ DOG??...] of working age should pay a weekly national insurance contribution, and in return all the jungle canyon rope bridges will be fully maintained in a safe condition." - William Beveridge ... (aka Carpet Remnant World Routine 2011/2012)

"Users of Wikipedia do get to recognise which parts are shaky, but the unwise may suddenly stumble into benighted stretches, like some crinkum-crankum byway in old London, where footpads lurked and communicable diseases were offered at low prices." -- Christopher Howse in The Daily Telegraph, how very accurate.


 * give us a hand, mate - up-loaded by Coldplay Official ..."Now, when you work out where to draw the line, Your guess is as good as mine."
 * "So Strange" by Kevin Coyne
 * Vladimir Horowitz playing the Frédéric Chopin Etude op.10 no.8 [was reminded by] John Ireland's "Greenways: Palm and May"
 * "If you wanna be here better have you some bling..." Ula Hedwig with Jaroslav Jakubovič and uploaded by his son David Jakubovic
 * "Paper Plane" by Status Quo and uploaded by Status Quo
 * "Upon The My O My" by Captain Beefheart (1974 on The Old Grey Whistle Test
 * "Birth" by The Peddlers: "A distant land, A fearsome fight, Soldiers praying, Praying for peace ... and this great big World was cryin'"
 * "The House of Blue Lights - Part 1 & 2" by Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band
 * "It's a pity he's so fat" - "Yeah, but he doesn't sound it, though, when you hear him." - uploaded by Aphrodite's Child
 * "Black Friday" by Steely Dan (and with a guitar solo like that, it's no wonder Donald starts rocking)
 * "I Need It" by Johnny "Guitar" Watson
 * "Voodoo Voodoo" by LaVern Baker (with the mighty King Curtis on sax)
 * "I Predict a Riot" by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - ("Put that pencil down... you'll have someone's eye out!")
 * "Dobry"!! by Jaroslav Jakubovič and uploaded by his son David Jakubovic
 * "Amelia" by Joni Mitchell
 * Sinfonietta by Leoš Janáček
 * "Toad-O Line" by Frank Zappa (finest rock guitar solo ever?)
 * The Cunning Little Vixen (Orchestral Suite from the Opera) by Leoš Janáček
 * "Wet T-Shirt Nite" by Frank Zappa
 * "Oh Baby" by Lightnin' Slim
 * Cantaloupe Island by Herbie Hancock
 * "Grandma's Hands" by Gregory Porter
 * "It's Better to Have (and Don't Need)" by Don Covay
 * "Oh Baby" by Lightnin' Slim
 * Cantaloupe Island by Herbie Hancock

........ "what's that you say, Soo? .... you have to sweep the streets you used to own. Awww.... never mind!!"

Question 1


 * Wikipedia is:
 * (a) a social networking site for people who like to look quite clever
 * (b) a specialist website that allows sufferers of OCD to search for missing commas and fullstops
 * (c) an encyclopedia committee that expends 90% of its energy in pointless arguments over trivia
 * (d) a paranoid fascist organisation more concerned with enforcing rules than quality of content?
 * (e) a new religion
 * (f) a prolonged endurance test for those internet addictees, with failing eyesight and few remaining letters on their first generation laptops, who are still searching for the wiki-spellchecker
 * (g) "a poorly-run bureaucracy with the group dynamics of a cult"
 * (h) an incessant pansy-throwing bickering match for know-it-all, more-knowledgeable-than-thou, big-headed show-offs
 * (i) a playground for internet bullies

Please tick all that apply from the list above and explain why, with reliable references

(N.B. it doesn't have to be a true answer)

Please then gain consensus for your answer, from amongst a random sample of 934 strangely pseudonymic volunteer participants, before proceeding to Question 2

Note: This question is worth a maximum of 0 marks

Marks will be deducted for obvious expressions of exasperation or humour

Please show a full record of your working on the Talk Page Jotter provided

Sleep is optional

Please begin again yesterday

Question 57

(note: Questions 2-56 have been speedily deleted for copyright infringement)


 * Wikipedia can be kept pure and safe by:
 * (a) requiring editors to provide a monthly sample of DNA
 * (b) asking for more donations
 * (c) allowing editors multiple accounts, provided they remember to use them on alternate days.
 * (d) allowing editors to award themselves, on a bi-monthly basis, the Barnstar of Sock Beating
 * (e) setting up Sockipedia
 * (f) dangling an appetising carrot and seeing who bites
 * (g) resigning from Wikipedia and joining The Ramblers' Association where you can "knit-your-own-leg-warmers"

Please answer using the following cultural conventions:

Modern contributors may respond thus: "Now just a moment, dude, let's take a rain-check on the underlying synergies here, we need to explore a few more dynamic possibilities for rationally ostensible underpinnings.... ".

Traditional contributors may respond thus: "Go "troll yourself". (.... ye olde "Lancan-cester-shire greeting")

Note: This question is worth a maximum of 100 marks

Up to 99 marks will be deducted for not re-stating at least six arguments that have been archived in the last two years.

Please turn over your paper when you hear the bell.

A shared pencil will be provided (although it is a bit blunt, sorry - please invent your own sharpener)

Question 58 (New non-EU passport required to fully answer this question)
 * Aber beklecker nicht das Sofa, Sofa!


 * Pick me, I'm clean, I am also programmed for conversational English.
 * May I have this dance?


 * I've got a better idea . ..


 * "What's a girl like you doing in a place like this? Do you come here often? Wait a minute. . . I've got it . . . You're an Italian . . . What? You're Jewish? Love your nails . . . You must be a Libra . . . Your place or mine?"

Question 58a
 * Here in Good-Old-God-Save-America
 * the home of the brave and the free
 * We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards
 * Of some duality
 * Of restless multiplicity
 * (Oh say can you see)

not even a mention?

Question 101

What is the probability of choosing the right answer to question 58a?
 * 25%
 * 50%
 * 100%
 * 25%

Wikispeak/ (Hints and tips #59)


 * N.B. this is not a vote.

All you really need to know is here: WikiSpeak

and of course here: "I loves it bro... Safe!"


 * Erratum: Anal Cruises - we apologise for last week's mis-print which should have read Canal Cruises, but please do not send any money as we're now fully booked.