User talk:Bodnotbod/2Nov06

Broken sig?
Your sig seems, today, to be screwing up pages, such as Reference desk at Reference desk. Seems from looking at it that you have a final pair of font tags (size = 3 and color = black) which have only one /font. Result: the rest of the page looks screwy. Why this should look screwy today and not yesterday, I cannot fathom. I'd be interested to know whether you see the same issue as me on that page (Shows up, in slightly different ways, with firefox and IE on WinXP). Grateful if you'd fix your sig, presupposing that it is indeed what is causing the problem. Even more grateful, if this is the case, if you would not do it again, you know. --Tagishsimon (talk)


 * Hello. Today, as you observe, your sig is doing odd brackety things ... but it's not breaking the reference desk, as it was yesterday. So I guess we can say there was some weird interaction between your sig and the wiki, which has, as trhese things do, gone away. Good luck in fixing it once & for all. --Tagishsimon (talk)

New language
Anal question, sorry dude. But what did u mean when u said of wp:rd that i appear to b makin up a language already? probly my style of writing, which was one whereby i just tapped n tapped and then clicked on save page when i had nothing left to tap. in fact, im doin that now, so if theres a grammar glitch then im sorry...hmm what wasthe qn again? ah yeah, i remember, but its not a great one.nevermind--Thewayforward 18:53, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Category:Media moguls and barons;
Hi. I've put Category:Media moguls and barons up for renaming at WP:CfD as I felt the name carries negative connotations about people that may not be NPOV. Please take a look. JuntungWu 03:41, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ketchup
I'm dubious about your change to the ketchup page. I lived in London for two years in the early 90s and it said "Heinz Ketchup" on the bottles, whereas here in Australia the labels still say "Heinz Tomato Sauce", and any other sauce made out of tomatoes is called "pasta sauce" etc. From a few quick searches on Google I can't distinguish between British and American (generic) usage of "tomato sauce", whereas the name has a very specific meaning in Australia.Grant65 (Talk) 16:08, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * OK. As you allude, it ain't something that's worth shedding tomato sauce over ;-) Grant65 (Talk) 11:59, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

Hunter S. Thompson metaphysical image discussion
Please see Hunter S. Thompson metaphysical image discussion

--Stbalbach 04:42, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * OK, I have replied there. --bodnotbod 05:21, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

Syd Barrett quotes
Greetings. Fear not, my humor-laden friend. The quotes regarding Syd still exist; they are simply on the Roger Waters and David Gilmour pages. If you feel they should be on the Syd Barrett page as well (and I'm surprised I removed them from there - I'm not sure what I was thinking), then feel free to copy them over. Best regards, – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 13:06, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

Unusual articles
Your addition of Napoleon in popular culture was in fact accepted when you edited the first time. Your second edit caused text of the page to be duplicated. Please check whether your edit stuck before submitting something twice. :) I'll fix it now. Mgm|(talk) 10:15, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Thora indeed
Mornin' boss. How's tricks? I'm guessing your not really related to Thora Hird. But why do you hate her so much? Yeah, she were old but she had a sense of humor about it. You might be old some day. So might I, unless I get the old time machine up and runnin. And look on the brightest of bright sides. She was not, and can never be accused of having been, Robbie "twat-twat-twat-cunt-arsed-twat-"let-me-entertain-you"-go-on-then-you-shitty-arsed-oasis-wannabe-twat" Williams. Although you never see them in the same room. Worth considering. Anyway, I've long since forgotten me point, so keep writng about british comedy and stay away from me sister.--Crestville 23:37, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

a vote you might be interested in
Talk:Links_between_Iraq_and_Al-Qaeda Kevin Baastalk 22:27, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Conspiracy_theory Kevin Baastalk: new 21:51, 2005 May 6 (UTC)

Cough
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Unlimited#Talkboard


 * Don't worry about the NPOVness of the "frankly disturbing" age gap - 'twas untrue anyway :) MyNameIsClare   talk  19:06, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Reference desk
Hi there! I thought you might want to check out Reference desk/all (shortcuts are WP:RD/A or WP:RD/ALL) - From this page, you can still browse through all the questions. You can also get to this page by clicking on the "browse all questions..." link at the bottom of WP:RD. Check it out, and please let me know if you have any more ideas for improvements! --HappyCamper 13:33, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Itz Hard (?)
Cheers for tidying up the Eddie Izzard page a bit.

does this mean yer back for good or is it more of a fleeting thing.

Yer still never told me why you don't like Thora Hird.--Crestville 00:23, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedians with articles
Please stop removing names from this listing. It is not intended as a "brag list". Just the opposite. It is, partly, a warning list to other editors so they can be aware when editing the biography. It serves a valuable service, even when the editors in question have not made valuable contributions. (And hey, Ebert did contribute a photo.) More broadly, the bar is very low indeed. Everybody who contributes is a Wikipedian. Cheers, -Willmcw 09:11, September 3, 2005 (UTC)


 * To be thrashed out over at the article talk page --bodnotbod 09:44, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

Please contribute to the collaboration!
Girl is the collaboration of the week! Please come grow this article... Mamawrites 03:24, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

accidental talk on user page
Heya, could it be you meant to put this on Dpbsmith's talk page? --fvw *  21:35, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Something for your user page...
Hello. You don't know me, but I enjoy your work on Wikipedia, particularly on British television comedy and comedians and so forth. I do a lot of work on British television-related articles myself – mainly related to drama in my case – so it's always nice to see someone else working so brilliantly in similar areas. After I noticed the shocking ommission of you not already having a Barnstar on your user page (and your subtle hint about such!), I decided I'd have a go at awarding my first ever Barnstar. Well done! Angmering 23:53, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Television lists
I saw your note in your edit summary...what Ezhiki has done is sort the shows by year, and alphabetize them by that given year...so it's really a chronological list. I think it's more orderly that way and gives perspective about what was on in that year. Mike H (Talking is hot) 23:13, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Bonzos
Hi! It wasn't my intention to 'break' the lists. I just thought they were a tad scruffy. Have posted some opinions on the Bonzos talk page... NoNameR

A peer review request
Hello. I was wondering if you'd mind having a look at an article for me – Our Friends in the North, which is mostly written by me. I've put it up on peer review here, but it doesn't seem to be attracting much attention so far, so I was wondering, if you possibly had the time, whether you could have a look and offer any feedback, suggestions for changes, improvements, etc. I know it's a bit cheeky to ask, but you're a user whose work on the site I have always liked and respected, and I thought that perhaps the subject might also be of interest to you. If you don't have the time or don't fancy it then of course no worries, but I just thought it could do with some more pairs of eyes on it as it's almost entirely a one-person effort from me. I'm hoping to eventually put it up as a FAC candidate, if all goes well. Angmering 18:32, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Flickr Template
This is in existence at Template:Flickr. It uses the variable to substitute the name of the article automatically.

Adding it here: will display your username and look for tags with "" on Flickr (4 results found).

If I added to the London article, adding this template would look for photos tagged with "London".


 * -=# Amos E Wolfe talk #=- 13:26, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Update
I have now changed the template to have a parameter which is manually added rather than a pagename variable.

Usage:

(where name is the article title), e.g..

Multi-word titles have no spaces, e.g. London Bridge would be or - not case sensitive.

so * would show as:




 * -=# Amos E Wolfe talk #=- 21:12, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks for the barnstar! Rhobite 17:15, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Heat is work and work is heat
Before I reply to your comments at Talk:Dixons to continue the discussion, I wanted to take a step back and speak to you here. Reading through the discussion we have been having, I can't help but feel I have discovered a heated argument, which surprises me because all I want to do is produce a good quality article and I honestly believe this is what you would like to do to. The reason I began the conversation on the talk page is because I would rather we collaborate than work against each other and that is still what I would like to do. I hope you will respond to this message before we continue work on the article. --Throup (talk) 19:03, 18 October 2005 (UTC)


 * The heat you detect isn't personal, it's just good old fashioned Dialectic. Ultimately I have a position on The Dixons article. You have another. We're discussing it. If I sound sharp it is perhaps because I am against the removal of the material to the talk page. However, I hope you'll grant that the most combative thing I could have done was to put it all back in straight away. (It would certainly have been easier than arguing the case for it). We do both want to see a good article. However, I fear we will always have different notions of what that means. Of course, something we should both remember is that, in time, the article will be the work of tens of hands and will gradually not resemble anything either of us currently conceives of.


 * In the meantime, though, I'm afraid I'm likely to throw as much weight behind my arguments as possible. That doesn't, of course, mean being ungracious. But I might occasionally slip into sarcasm if I feel one of your arguments is fallacious. Sorry about that. Regards, --bodnotbod 02:29, 19 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm ready now if you are :-). I've posted a reply at Talk:Dixons and I'm hoping we can get this article moving between us. --Throup (talk) 14:17, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Civilisation (television series)
As much as I admire and respect David Attenborough, I fear that he may be talking bollocks, or at least suffering from a bit of a memory slip, when he says that colour television had been "abandoned" for the time being in the USA by the time Civilisation aired, as you recently added to the article. Certainly, our article on Television says of the US networks that "All three broadcast networks were airing full color prime time schedules by the 1966–67 broadcast season." I didn't want to edit out the reference myself as you have the DVD and I don't, but I thought I'd raise the point and see what you thought. Angmering 11:38, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

COTW pruning
Hiya, you said you might not check back to the talk page, so I am leaving you a message to let you know I've replied. Talrias (t | e | c) 15:00, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Peer review
I truly appreciate your feedback for Raney nickel as it made me feel more comfortable about eventually nominating it for FA. However, it just came to my attention that you left an unsigned comment on Peer review/Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni. As I've been trying to help out this user on making the article way better from what it was when he put it up for peer review,User:Maltesedog left me a message on my talk page when he saw your comment. I have decided to intercede on his behalf since he seemed pretty distressed about it.

I do not think your comment was entirely appropriate. Now, don't take me wrong, I understand the spirit of your comment (yes, the article IS far from becoming featured) but you also have to realise that User:Maltesedog is still pretty much a newbie and doesn't quite know what it takes to get an article featured. There are more polite ways to point out deficiencies in articles. By discouraging editors the way you did they may decide to leave Wikipedia altogether and then articles will take longer to improve. Also, I'm sure you're aware that it is bad form not to sign comments and in this situation it makes you look bad. I will not go as far as to ask you to apologise (I leave that up to your conscience) but just wanted to remind you to not bite the newbies. -- Rune Welsh | &tau;&alpha;&lambda;&kappa; | Esperanza  19:14, 23 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Hey, thank you! I know the article will have some trouble to become Featured but the editor seems truly willing to improve it. I already gave him some suggestions of where he could find more information about the site, but it will require him to do a lot more research. Anyway, we'll see how that goes eventually. -- Rune Welsh | &tau;&alpha;&lambda;&kappa; | Esperanza  10:12, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Liverpool colours on John Peel's article
Okay, admittedly "red Liverpool colours" is a tautology to most. But in America people might not know, let alone those in Mongolia or Paraguay ! ;) Your solution is perfect. Parentheses. Thanks for the fix. -- Wikiklrsc 00:14, 25 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Occasionally I do something right. Thanks for, er, the thanks. --bodnotbod 00:17, 25 October 2005 (UTC)


 * :) -- Wikiklrsc 03:25, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Boxes and the like.
Yeah, cheers, I'll have a look, though I still like to work on a nice eclectic range of stuff. Like toast, radiators, soup amd Rwanda.--Crestville 14:14, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Bzzzzzzz
I am pleased that the phrase "inter-bee combat" amuses you. Bear in mind, however, that to the bees themselves, it is grim, brutal, and a deadly serious matter.

...

have a good day! DS 20:44, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Reminder
Prod -- Francs2000 02:36, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Extraterritorial law
This isn't really quite such a bizarre idea. British law incorporates such application of a few of its laws "extraterritorially" like this. This is generally limited to war-crimes laws (there were several Poles who were sent to British prisons for having murdered other Poles in Poland during the war) and human-rights law (remember the Afghan recently convicted in the UK - the one who kept an insane dog-man). The Netherlands (and I think a few other countries) extends this to sex tourism, so a Dutchman who goes to Thailand and indulges in some kiddiefiddling is breaking the Dutch child-sex laws, just as if he was in Amsterdam. Despite our extraterritoriality article barely mentioning this meaning of the term, it's not really that outlandish (sic). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 01:25, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Terrorism laws
Of course the link should go as a cited reference at the end of our future Terrorism law article. Good luck!--Pharos 19:16, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Featured article for December 25th
I noticed you have listed yourself in Category:Atheist Wikipedians. That said, you will probably be interested in my suggested featured article for December 25th: Omnipotence paradox. The other suggestion being supported by others for that date is Christmas, although Raul654 has historically been against featuring articles on the same day as their anniversary/holiday. &mdash; BRIAN 0918 &bull; 2005-11-28 08:01

Disambig link in Template:Timeline of classical music of the United Kingdom
Hi. Template:Timeline of classical music of the United Kingdom has a link in need of disambiguation repair - "Reform Act" should actually point to Reform Act 1832. However, I can't seem to fix the link without breaking the template - can you fix this one? Cheers! BD2412 T 14:28, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Jaffa Cakes
I've changed the picture at Jaffa cake to one I took myself (please have one yourself - I've been handing these out today). Does that one look less "like poo" than the previous version? CLW 18:42, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas
I'm not expecting to be online as much over the next few days so...

-- Francs2000 09:29, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Not left us, I hope?
Hi Bod, just wanted to say hi. I noticed you haven't contributed for nearly a month &mdash; not left Wikipedia for good, I hope? You'd be much missed! Hope all's well, anyway. Angmering 14:20, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Another request for a favour
Hi Bod &mdash; hope things are better for you at the moment. Nice to see you're able to do some editing, anyhow. :-) I have another favour to ask, if by chance you have the time available. Over the past few weeks I've been working on the article Sydney Newman &mdash; I re-built it from the ground up back in November and have been tweaking it since then. I'm quite proud of it, and put it up on peer review (here) on Monday, but no bugger seems interested in offering any feedback. Which could be good, in that it could mean it's brilliant and perfect in every way, or could be bad, in that it's too dull to interest anybody. Anyhow, I was wondering if there was any chance you could cast your eye over it for me and point out anything you think needs attention? I understand you might not have the time, but if you can spare a few minutes I'd be really grateful. I'm hoping to nominate it for FAC soon, if all goes well. Angmering 20:16, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Cheers for helping with this, it's much appreciated! :-) Angmering 17:41, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Muhammad
I think we understand that point perfectly well. Do you not think that if someone goes to an article entitled Muhammad cartoons and then is shocked and upset to find, well, cartoons, that that person has already "chosen to be upset"? Babajobu 00:10, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Wrong place, wrong time, blah blah blah (self righteous nonsense ad infinitum)
Well, two things. One, your decision to divert my meaningless diatribe about Islam vs (or for) violence with the cartoon thing was 100% correct. Two, while I was doing that, I was looking up Bod, that's Bod, not Bod, and then I saw your moniker. Isn't life weird (or wanky)? Budgiekiller 22:06, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, it was seeing you (?) with two European beers in your sticky hands that lead me to it. No, it was one of those strange life moments when you really need to know if Bod actually existed, and then got disappointed when you find out that there were only ever 13 episodes, not 3000 like you remembered.  And then to find out that the frog and the shakes were added later.... my goodness, if the Daily Express ever published some satirical cartoons with an androgenous child and a milk-slurping frog, well, I'll be in touch with my MP, you mark my words.... Budgiekiller 22:25, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

newbie
newbie=newborn, oh no...maybe it's neutral beige (in case you can't tell, this is sarcasm)

Shuman Ghosemajumder
You contributed to a deltion debate on this article in May 2004. It has since been nominated again, and you may wish to comment regarding that debate (it happened over 18 months before I arrived). Thryduulf 14:27, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Long talk page
Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 23:31, 16 June 2006 (UTC)