User talk:Blythwood/2017/August

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Thanks for the review! Bob Cummings (talk) 00:19, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Patrol of Badminton Railway Line article
Dear Blythwood,

The following is intended to be friendly and non-adversarial.

You patrolled my new article Badminton railway line, and added some links. Your attention is most welcome, but I spent a lot of time getting the article right (so far as I could see), so I wonder if I might respond?

One of the links you added was to Badminton railway station. If you would take a moment to have another look at that article, could I ask whether you consider it to be encyclopaedic, or notable? If we remove the headings and repeated matter in the tables, we have five sentences.

''Badminton railway station is a closed railway station in Gloucestershire, England. It served the villages of Badminton and Acton Turville.''

''Opened by the Great Western Railway in 1903. It became part of British Railways on 1 January 1948, the station was closed in 1968'' (Some eccentric punctuation, incidentally.)

The station buildings and sections of platforms still stand derelict with trains passing through the site on the South Wales Main Line.

If you have another look at my own article, there is far more than this about Badminton station, so linking to this article seemed to me to be inappropriate. (Naturally your alternative view is valid and I respect it.)

Incidentally all railway stations in Great Britain that were open on 1 January 1948 "became part of British Railways".

The editor hasn't dated the assertion that the station buildings still stand. As they are derelict it is obvious that the owner might demolish them at any time, and may well have done so since that statement was made. (I don't know.) I think it is always better to write something like "In 2015 the buildings were still standing ... " or something of that kind.

Finally there are no citations whatsoever on that article. In my opinion the article is worthless, and that is why I didn't link to it.

I notice you have also added a huge banner on the talk page stating that the "article is within the scope of WikiProject Trains". I looked in vain on that project's explanatory pages for statements of what they have done in the last few years, but I couldn't find anything worthwhile.

Finally I would be interested in your views on these points, and I repeat that I do not intend to be hostile or aggressive in making my point of view known to you. Afterbrunel (talk) 07:57, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

"Zero Time Exercise" page
Hi, Blythwood,

"Zero Time Exercise" page was recently deleted, but I think it is worth to keep.... As it is a new exercise concept advocated by The University of Hong Kong (a renowned university in Hong Kong) (http://www.hku.hk/press/press-releases/detail/12752.html), and the exercise has been widely covered by the media in Hong Kong, some Hong Kong TV programmes even devoted a session to introduce this exercise concept: e.g. South China Morning Post: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1796433/sedentary-hongkongers-must-get-active-healths-sake Radio Television Hong Kong: http://app4.rthk.hk/elearning/healthpedia/article.php?tag=&cid=0&id=165 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj7CXIedfsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt0BBOF2P9o (30:24-) Bao Bao Leung 0218 (talk) 05:48, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

dril
Thank you very much for the review and the kind words! I couldn't be happier that the person who happened to have written Weird Twitter on Wikipedia saw this. My original goal was just to write enough for dril to prevent the article from getting deleted, but there were many more useable sources than I had anticipated. I completely agree about your follow-up point, by the way; it was difficult to encompass all of the essential elements of his tweets when constrained only to reliable sources (and not the things I know about dril that are true in my heart), but is a worthy goal to keep picking away at this and it's something I will keep my eyes peeled for. The only ways I was able to address some of those things were the "large adult sons" section (which just hints at this idea) and a little bit in quotes for the "Character or persona" and "Satirical content" sections. I've seen that same tumblr post and I agree that it is dead-on: "so when dril posts about fighting asimo, it’s not 'WOOOOO, DRIL’S THE COOLEST, FUCK ASIMO', it’s 'lmao jesus god some shithead probably WOULD pick a fight with asimo'" That instantly self-defeating quality of dril's is amazing, and its satiric target is absolutely "the American male" writ strange. —BLZ · talk 23:08, 25 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Incidentally, I've nominated dril for DYK and GA. If you have the time/desire to review it for either, that would be swell! DYK is more pressing and it would be good to get feedback there from someone who knows about dril. —BLZ · talk 20:59, 26 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm absolutely enjoying it. It's been fun to watch the slow drip of people noticing that the article exists, even the performative grousing, even the outright hostility. I think what you said on the talk page—about how difficult it is to make an accessible, comprehensive introduction to esoteric, colloquial subject matter, especially in the dry Wikipedia house style—explains a lot of the groaning at my shit. —BLZ · talk 18:13, 30 August 2017 (UTC)