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[edit] Hello Jim. Hello Jeeeeem!

Needle nardle noo. --JB82 22:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I award thee a paper OBE...

• "Sir, these men are flooding London with paper OBEs and the word 'Dinner' written on paper"
• "Is Stalin behind this revolution?"
• "No"
• "Is Lenin?"
• "No, Len's out"
• "I don't wish to know that!"

I hereby award you the Goon Show Barnstar, for sorting out all those bloody annoying references.

--AlbertW 11:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you good sir, I'll wrap it in brown paper and send it to my mother. --AGoon 11:46, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Goonerisms

Watching the Goons page, and saw your diff: [1]. To allow readers in the know a little bit of extra mirth, I will overlook 'deaded'. Neeho! ;) —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 16:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes it's almost a cliche to use deaded when talking about Sellers, but it always brings a smile to face :-) When first reading that book, I wondered why there was no chapter from Sellers - was there some tiff? - then I twigged that he was long gone when the book was published in 1997! --AGoon 09:08, 5 August 2006

I just let it pass because I knew that those 'in on the joke' would find it funny. Well done, Little Jim, what would we do without you? ;) —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 11:37, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Goonery

You mean the small ball of fat bit? That was just random Goon-type madness. It is a talk page after all - can't we have fun? But I agree. It was just randomness on my part, ignited by his comment of 'What has eight wheels and flies?' 'Two corporation dustcarts.' 'I don't wish to know that!'. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 10:20, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Milligan

Great edit. I might be tempted to put one or two back in, but I agree it was hideously over-linked. --Guinnog 06:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes (really, I was trying to restrain myself), I expect some could go back in. But then again perhaps I should go further: I'm also temped to remove links to countries as well - but I keep telling myself that a lot of people are geographically challenged these days and may have no idea about countries outside their own ;-). Go to it :-) --AGoon 08:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry...

If this [2] was you, I could not tell. - Kukini 05:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the extremely rapid intervention to revert anonymous changes to my user page, but yes my login had timed out without me noticing :-) --AGoon 06:02, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Just trying to "keep the peace." Kukini 06:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Steam locomotive edits

And here are the answers:

• I was under the understanding that we were using Brit English in the article (not that I would choose to myself, but), which is how we got "labour" rather than "labor".

• I see what you mean about the cab and firebox. I've split this into two sentences for clarity.

• The bearings for the driving axles slide up and down in the frame. They are generally connected to the springs by a pushrod (called the pedestal or saddle as seen in the steam locomotive nomenclature diagram).

• I'm not sure how to deal with the injector issue. It might be better to move the thermic shock point up to the first mention of injectors.

• I've always seen "apply" used in the sense of using a particular type of valve gear. "Added" is definitely the wrong word because one has to have some valve gear; it's not something that is added. I suppose we could use "use" or "place" if "apply" is too obscure.

Thank you for taking the time to consult with me on these changes. Mangoe 03:46, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleaned up templates and cat Wikipedians_in_New_Zealand

'Ello little Jim (leeeeetle jeheeeem) - From the NZ notice board: I've been tidying up Category:Wikipedians_in_New_Zealand and the templates listed there as many of them, contrary to the description on that page, didn't automatically include people in the category.

Erm...you did realise that several of those templates deliberately didn't lead into that category, didn't you? The category is for Wikipedians in NZ, but some of the templates are for kiwis living overseas, etc. {{User NZ res}} is the only one which states that the user is normally in New Zealand. Grutness...wha? 00:12, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please substitute warning templates

When using certain template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. _JD^talk 12:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re EB article - National centre vs right

Not really a biggy but to be balanced National should be described as right-wing if Labour is described as left-wing. Arguably Labour is centre-left and National although traditionally centre-right has been right-wing under Brash. Clearly since dropping Brash and promoting Key they have tried to re-position themselves as centre-right, equally clearly they were percieved as right-wing during the last election (the period this EB material relates to) and gained support at the expense of ACT and NZ First. For the purposes of the EB article for an international audience, left and right 'orientated' might be more useful, as elsewhere left and right 'wing' describe rather more extreme positions than most NZ political parties hold. --AGoon 01:26, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I mostly agree with you here:

• Firstly though, my main reason for reverting your change was because I'm very wary of changes that are appear hyperbolic. Your summary had the word "arguably" in it too, which set off alarm bells for me. I was more concerned with POV creep than anything (there's been a lot of it in both directions in the EB article). I probably should have put a comment to that effect on the talk page at the time...
• As for the direction of National under Brash, in 2003 Brash "promised centre-right policies".[3] I realise that politician says ≠ politician does ;), but it's the strongest indication I can find anywhere about National's direction at the time.
• I agree: NZ Labour is definately not "left-wing". Both sides of NZ politics are extremely moderate both by international standards, and when compared with NZ's past. I'm a big fan of that one changing.
• I really like your suggestion regarding "left and right 'orientated'". Can I leave you to make the changes?

Cheers, Chovain 01:43, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Note: I've summarised our discussion on the EB talk page. Chovain 01:56, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hi AGoon,

Thanks for notifying me about my messed up welcome template, incase you didn't notice i'm not the best at Wikitext, but i'm learning! Sorry it took so long for the reply, but I havn't been active on Wikipedia recently/

Regards

Crazy Sussex Lad 15:26, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] House Sparrow

<sigh> I don't know how else to put this to you but the painting you put in the infobox is extremely poor. Low res, unsharp and underexposed. The image I proposed isn't any of these - and that's not just my opinion either as demonstrated by it's FP status. Aside from this, as I see it a picture of a real example is always going to be superior to an illustration.

On a side note can't you see the hypocrisy of your position? "(Add pictures)" is your edit summary when replacing the main image - no reason and not even the basic etiquette of reincorporating the removed image in the article! And you lecture me on etiquette! Even though your image was technically very poor I retained it in the article - whilst you didn't even bother to do this on one of Wikipedia's finest images. Don't give me the "personal gallery" argument - it's completely off the topic and ridiculous. If you still have issues with this by all means bring it up on the talk page, but unless you can come up with something pretty convincing I'll probably revert sometime tomorrow. --Fir0002 09:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes you do wonderful photos, and yes 'add pictures' isn't very detailed - but then I didn't expect the simple changes were very note-worthy :-). Of course I didn't move your picture to the body of the article, there is already a quite adequate one there of a female (coincidentally by your good self), equally I wouldn't bother putting the drawing in the body because there is already another quite adequate one there of a male (coincidentally ... ;-). I have no particular need to have exactly that painting (it's not even something I digitised! :-) but it does show the details quite well, but yes the thumbnail version is not as clear as I thought and the lower back even looks quite blurred in thumbnail. I just had another look at commons, and the only other good illustrative image of a male is of poor quality. How about a compromise, if it doesn't offend your artist judgement - a closely cropped version of your excellent male bird, so that all the detail can be seen in thumbnail? :-) --AGoon 10:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I think we have a deal! :-) Current setup looks pretty good, but I did a bit of an edit and think III is probably best! --Fir0002 07:07, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

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