User talk:Bodnotbod/Feb09

Belated answer
"...it is thought that it came from the French tiré (drawn, from tiroir, to draw or pull), in reference to the drawn loops of thread that make terry cloth so soft and absorbent." Steve T • C 15:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Haven't seen you around in ages
Steve's reply above showed up in my watchlist and I thought I'd just drop by and say hello. Are you still living in London? If so there is a wikimeet coming up. Theresa Knott | The otter sank 16:30, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Meetup/London 11. Don't worry about last time! Who cares? We've all done silly things after having a little too much to drink. Anyone who says they haven't is either a liar or a complete goody two shoes bore. Angela won't be there as she lives in Australia now. Theresa Knott | The otter sank 06:22, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Borivali
I noticed that you have placed a notability tag on this article. It is a suburban town near to Bombay with a population close to 700,000. You think it is not notable? I agree that the article is not written in an encyclopedic way.Docku (talk) 16:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

WTF?
I'm not allowed to remove a warning I mistakenly left in order to replace it with a block notice? – ırıde  scent  16:59, 4 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Little did I know that a user would both place a warning on his own talk page and then remove it. Silly me. Resolved it with Iridiscent with an apology for interfering with his own gubbins. --bodnotbod (talk) 23:59, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Arts criticism
What on earth do you take issue with as 'original research' on that page? There's absolutely nothing controversial there at all. --bodnotbod (talk) 20:01, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Why are there no references then? Stifle (talk) 21:24, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Arts criticism
An article that you have been involved in editing, Arts criticism, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Arts criticism. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Stifle (talk) 21:25, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Bonekickers
Regarding this edit summary: this seems to verge on accusing me of deliberately misrepresenting the reviews. I can assure you this is not the case. If I've made errors, then I apologise for my ineptness. --Salvador Barley (talk) 20:21, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Lab Rats
"please place a link on my talk page if you know better" - it would appear that unfortunatly I do know better. Had to happen sometime, I suppose. See WP:MOSQUOTE, and the Lab Rats talk page for my entire reply. Talk Islander 23:58, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Temazepam
I deleted "frontline pure lethal" because it is journalism, can absolutely not be verified in any way, is not peer reviewed, nobody explains their method of study, it can not be reproduced from any raw data, it does not relate to any verified facts. This is too little. Instead acceptable would be reviewed statistics of the national health bodies, reviews of emergency dept records, coroner statistics after review by scientists, not by journalists. etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.137.181.232 (talk) 07:53, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Kill Bill
Yes, I think you'll find that it's the encyclopedia that's influenced my writing style, not the other way around, much as I'd like to take credit for these things. :) Steve  T • C 06:50, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Irony
Whilst providing public relations services for clients, we are not comfortable with your suggestion that we post information on the internet hiding behind pseudonyms. The source of information, if factual, should not taint or skew that information, or prevent its publication.

Being newbies, we will inevitably fall foul of Wikapedia guidelines, for which we apologies. The information we are trying to publish is factual and having now researched the guidelines regarding 'Notable Acheavements', meets these conditions. We simply failed to provide all the facts. We would not have willingly bothered to attempt to publish biographical information about anyone / artist / band that was of little or no significance client or not.

I feel that the Wikapedia Guidelines on User Talk provides an appropriate response to your comments:

QUOTE "Be positive: Article talk pages should be used to discuss ways to improve an article; not to criticize, pick apart, or vent about the current status of an article or its subject. This is especially true on the talk pages of biographies of living people. However, if you feel something is wrong, but are not sure how to fix it, then by all means feel free to draw attention to this and ask for suggestions from others."

I sincerely hope that we can 'do better' and waste less of your time.

Dave Holmes Covert PR —Preceding unsigned comment added by CovertPR (talk • contribs) 12:17, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Ta
Cheers for the Barnstar. Noticed your contributions and could just imagine Paul Merton doing jokes on animals with mental disorders :) (btw his name is on a plaque in a little garden he inaugurated at the Maudsley). EverSince (talk) 20:07, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

David Healy wiki page controversy section
I am new to wiki but not to 'cover ups' being from Belfast and all that. I created the controversy section and filled it with info that can be verified so I don't know why my contribs are being 'huggled' (is that a verb) by you. Could you please explain? If there are any untruths on that section I would glady remove them personally. thanks (I know, it sounds like a letter but hey....) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Antomac1001 (talk • contribs) 14:05, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Huggle feedback
Hi there. The issue you participated in here has been archived. The features requested were added to the most recent version of huggle released today. If you would like to query me about this please ask me on my talk page As I will not be watching this page. Thanks.  ·Add§hore·  T alk /C ont 15:09, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London


Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008

Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map

More information: Meetup/London 12

Hello,

I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.

If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Wikipedia enthusiasts in which we chat about Wikipedia and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.

The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!

Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice
Hi,

As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid.

We are also in the process of forming a new UK Wikimedia chapter to replace the soon to be folded old one. If you are interested in helping shape our plans, showing your support or becoming a future member or board member, please head over to the Wikimedia UK v2.0 page and let us know. We plan on holding an election in the next month to find the initial board, who will oversee the process of founding the company and accepting membership applications. They will then call an AGM to formally elect a new board who after obtaining charitable status will start the fund raising, promotion and active support for the UK Wikimedian community for which the chapter is being founded.

You may also wish to attend the next London meet-up at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch Meetup, for updates on future meets.

We look forward to hearing from you soon, and we send our apologies for this automated intrusion onto your talk page!

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2008 Turner Prize
Great work on the research. I've added a cleanup tag, as it doesn't meet wikipedia standards for an article in layout and ref formatting. Some of it could be turned into prose fairly easily. I wonder if you have any ideas for this.  Ty  09:57, 15 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The main content is quotations, and that's not suitable for wikipedia, but would be right for wikiquote. How about putting the material there. The current form will get changed sooner or later. If I get time, I'll have a closer look, but I wanted to get your thoughts first.  Ty  00:10, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Check out REFB.  Ty  04:50, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Dandruff
I saw your comment on dandruff. Dandruff isn't contagious. Everyone has it, because its skin of your head. Marshall T. Williams (talk) 23:21, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I didn't say dandruff was contagious, in fact I explicitly indicated good reasons why it almost certainly is not. --bodnotbod (talk) 17:14, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

GrooveyHenrik
I believe you threatened to perm block him for more vandalsim on his talk page on October 27. I stumbled across two more vandalism cases by him since on The Office and Madrid Conference of 1991. Check it out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/GrooveyHenrik Bali ultimate (talk) 04:04, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

User_talk:168.169.116.13
Meh! Thanks for the laugh. I also spent too much time on this hoax. -- Rodhull andemu  17:46, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Spanking
Thanks for your message however I think you may have warned the wrong person. I would advise that you review the situation as I assure you I expressed none of my own views on Spanking. I may, however, have reverted some vandalism on the situation. Thanks for the lovely warning anyway. Tomayres (talk) 17:45, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Haha no worries. Tomayres (talk) 17:48, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Wasting time
"He is currently wasting the time and energy of people who edit and look after Wikipedia." Funny (and accurate!) statement about the Zain Karmali article :-) Nyttend (talk) 18:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

welcome to wiki 70.108.91.250 (
Thx 4 the welcome bodnotbod. Pls tell User: DiverseMentality to stop harrassing me. Thx. 70.108.91.250 (talk) 22:07, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome !
Have spent a Sunday constructively ! Over 10 edits and an uploaded picture! thanks for the welcome, see ya around... Akshaygn (talk) 08:19, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

no thank u for message
no thank u —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikejacksonlol (talk • contribs) 21:44, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Thx for the Barnstar
Man, if I still can count - ehm - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - within one day! *lol* --Say Headcheese!-- hexa Chord 2  22:55, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Alexander Pope
My edit was not incorrect Alexander Pope was born in 1688 & died in 1744 making him 56 years old & not 66, please check the poets page if this message isn't satisfactory, regards - lloydwt@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.86.21.211 (talk) 14:51, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

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