User:Bodnotbod
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Hello Visitor. You may want to consider me NOT IN for now. I share my IP range with a persistent vandal which often means I am blocked from editing. I also have, with much surprise, secured a project which I'm busy with. I have less time now. Best wishes, etc...
- POST a new thread on my talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Bodnotbod&action=edit§ion=new)
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Wikipedia: The Crack Cocaine of Copy Editing
As a contributor I specialise in British Comedy. I also hope to raise the profile of writers throughout the entertainment pages so that scriptwriters get their due.
In horrific tribute to comedy writers everywhere, I wrote this (http://www.brass.cream.org/thora.html) and got threatened with legal action for it (which was much more fun than hitting the keyboard was)
On a happier note, David Quantick has written to me about the biography I drew up for him there, asking if it could be used at the IMDB. I'm waiting to find out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29#My_biography_has_been_half-inched_by_the_biographee__.3Bo.29)
WankyStats™
As of June 10 2004 I had made 1,000 edits<p>
As of August 8 2004 I was #664 in the list of main namespace editors and #482 on less discriminating editing terms [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits)<p>
As of August 18 2004 I had made 2,000 edits<p>
As of August 29 2004 I was #627 (up 45) in the list of main namespace editors and #453 on less discriminating terms [2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits)
Useful info: UTC = -1hr my time.
My other pages: Answers - Sandbox
Find New Projects: Sketch comedy - Britain's Best Sitcom - British comedy - List of stand-up comedians - List of comedies
Comedy Resources: Guardian's 50 Funniest (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1101525,00.html) - BBC Comedy Guide (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/) - RadioHaHa - Progs (http://www.angelfire.com/pq/radiohaha/qwerty.html) - RadioHaHa - People (http://www.angelfire.com/pq/radiohaha/zxcvb.html)
Other Resources: HTML spesh.char. (http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/)
Searches: Debunker (http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&q=site%3Awww%2Eguardian%2Eco%2Euk+OR+site%3Awww%2Entk%2Enet+OR+site%3Anews%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk+OR+site%3Awww%2Etimesonline%2Eco%2Euk+OR+site%3Awww%2Etelegraph%2Eco%2Euk+) - UK gov (http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&q=site%3A%2Egov%2Euk) - Comedy (http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk+OR+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ephill%2Eco%2Euk+OR+site%3Awww%2Echortle%2Eco%2Euk+OR+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebritish%2Dsitcom%2Eco%2Euk+OR+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk)
Cats: category:London's West End - category:Alcoholics
Current: evid. cont. (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Mr-Natural-Health) smoking gun
Contents |
Articles I've Initiated
- Attachment theory - ooooh! Psychology.
- Children of the Stones - a scary children's drama from the 1970s
- comic novel - most surprised it wasn't there.
- Chambers, Diane - character from Cheers
- Cool, Phil - terrifying impressionist
- Doolittle, Eliza - I knew so little but it seemed wrong not to have one
- Gerhardt, Sue - wrote a book on babies' brain development
- Grimms - Band featuring Neil Innes and Paul McCartney's Brother
- Harries, Lauren - who I used to call the antiques mutant at school.
- Heckler
- Holiday camp
- Impressionist (entertainment)
- Kremen, Gary - the man who registered the domain sex.com only to see a fraudster get all the cash - written after seeing a documentary on Ch5.
- Light entertainment - largely bollocks, but it's a start
- Lyons (company)
- Media monitoring service
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra - an OK, medium sized beginning
- Plop! - a 1970s DC Comic
- Quantick, David - a whopping great article, and no mistake
- Spangles - God help me, what have I become?
- Television comedy used to redirect to sitcom. Didn't like that. So started an article.
- Thomas, Gareth - of Children of the Stones and Blake's 7
- Trades Description Act
Categories I've Initiated
Alpha order: category:alcoholics + category:British television comedy + category:British political scandals + category:four letter words (see category:profanity) + category:gay icons + category:Hanna-Barbera cartoons and characters + category:insects + category:London's West End + category:Members of Saddam Hussein's family + category:most-wanted Iraqi playing cards + category:plumbing + category:priests + category:Satirical television programmes + category:transsexuals
Bodnotbod created categories considered harmful, it seems... I'll probably avoid creating any for a while.
Articles I've Revised Worth Mentioning
- Amusement Park - added a British section, wrote about fairgrounds and brief mention of Brit theme parks.
- Ivor Cutler - added discography, note on his style of delivery and content of work, external links.
- Angus Deayton - added Merton's "I stabbed him in the front" amongst other bits.
- Paul Merton - Added para about his performance style.
- sitcom - Major revisions to dilute the US-centric tone. Put out a call for more countries to contribute.
- Vivian Stanshall - Early life, brief Bonzos para, rehab, valium, the rubber ears anecdote.
- Webcast - added details of NetAid webcast.
- comedy - Massive organisational revision of links so I can try and make sense of Wikis comedy pages. 'ray!
Little Edits I'm Pleased With
UK-US Keyboards (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Keyboard_layout&diff=4173890&oldid=4016645) + Discography (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Discography&diff=4982025&oldid=4787882) + Gymnastics scoring: beam (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Balance_beam_%28gymnastics%29&diff=0&oldid=5268792), floor (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Floor_%28gymnastics%29&diff=0&oldid=5269639), asymmetric bars (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Uneven_bars_%28gymnastics%29&diff=5270286&oldid=5270239), vault (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Vault_%28gymnastics%29&diff=0&oldid=5269322) + Shoe japes of The United Kingdom at Shoe flinging
Giving Writers Recognition
Only Fools and Horses - added info about Sullivan (as script and theme song writer)
John Sullivan - added stub for Sullivan
Arthur Mathews - put up a pretty damn good article on that half of the Linehan & Mathews axis (Father Ted etc). Graham Linehan - completes the pair
Bruce Robinson - writer + relevant additions to Withnail and I and The Killing Fields
To Do:
To self: Be sure to do comedy film <--(Oh dear - if only I knew something about them, erm...) & review clinical depression
Where it's a red link, go to page of red link first and then click on it.
Dermatitis - Protopic® (= pinecrolimus, rapamycin derivative) -- get in touch with the eczema society ~ Mr Do - (computer game) ~ Josie Lawrence at Whose Line Is It Anyway? ~ Shelley at Britain's Best Sitcom ~ Les Dawson ~ Cynthia Payne (category, prostitution, British political scandals) ~ Kerry Packer ~ The People - newspaper ~ Independent on Sunday ~ User:Bodnotbod/press barons ~ James Henry Pullen [3] (http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/pullen.cfm), [4] (http://www.nina.gemineans.co.uk/visitors/museums/earlswood.html), [5] (http://www.nina.gemineans.co.uk/history/pullen.html) Idonea Fane (another hidden royal) [6] (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:ZBZa55SLjo0J:static.highbeam.com/t/thesundaytelegraph/april142002/queenmothersniecebymarriagehaspaupersfuneral/+%22Royal+Earlswood%22+hospital&hl=en) ~ Graham Fellows needs merging with Graham Fellowes but which is correct? ~ clarify compliance this use (http://david-quantick.wikiverse.org/) of the David Quantick article. Richard Pryor currently tells us nothing about his life -
Users to watch:
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Useful Messages
'''''Please note:''''' ''Sections of this article have been edited by a user in [[Wikipedia:arbitration]]. The relevance of those sections is controversial but they may remain whilst the arbitration is in process to avoid further [[Wikipedia:Edit_war|edit wars]].''
Notes
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - Stanley Kramer - 1963 [7] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/)
- The Great Race - Blake Edwards - 1965 [8] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059243/)
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines - Ken Annakin - 1965 [9] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059797/)
- Monte Carlo or Bust - Ken Annakin - 1969 [10] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064688/)
- Wacky Races - 1968-1970
- Death Race 2000 - 1975
- Gumball Rally - Charles Bail - 1976 [11] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074597/)
- Cannonball (movie) - Paul Bartel - 1976 [12] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074279/)
- The Cannonball Run - Hal Needham - 1981 [13] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082136/)
- Cannonball Run II - Hal Needham - 1984 [14] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087032/)
- Rat Race - Jerry Zucker - 2001
Real races
more info
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/links/Speed-Runs.htm