User talk:RobinCarmody
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[edit] Vandalism
A user named TuomasTumour appears to have vandalised your User Page so I have deleted his "contributions". If I have accidentally erased anything you put there, please accept my apologies (you can retrieve the information from the History page). 23skidoo 19:35, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Morning Star
Don't know when/if you'll get this, if the date of your latest contributions is to go by. But still....
I've just noticed your edit to Middle-market. I've been wondering about this for a while.
My guess that whoever wrote it really did mean the Morning Star. But indeed, the information on Wikipedia seems inconsistent. Middle-market used to list the Morning Star as an example, List of newspapers in the United Kingdom lists it among the downmarket tabloids, and The Morning Star itself states "it is entirely free of the celebrity gossip and other trivia that feature in all the other national dailies", suggesting that it should fall into the category of serious papers.
Do you read the paper? Indeed, have you seen it recently, and if so, where? What is your own judgement of its market level (if that's the right term), as opposed to political stance? -- Smjg 11:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your claim
""Homey" has made sneering anti-socialist, the-free-market-is-the-answer-to-everything remarks"
What in the world are you talking about?Homey 15:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Can't be bothered to try and find it - I think it was in one of the talk pages for the various articles on groups to the right of the Tory party which you are so curiously interested in. Apologies if it was CJCurrie and I've got confused. RobinCarmody
I can assure you I've never made any such comment and I'd be surprised if CJCurrie ever did. I'd appreciate it if you removed that personal attack from the AFD (personal attacks on the nominator don't help your case anyway and are also a violation of wikipedia policy). In future, don't smear someone based on what you "think" you remember from somewhere, particularly if you "can't be bothered to try to find it". Homey 22:07, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
I'd be quite surprised if I made that remark as well, here or elsewhere. CJCurrie 23:50, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] GLF
Not born in Australia and that should therefore be removed. Yes, he lived on a family Station after university for four and a half years (he has never denied that) but he was born at home, in Lanarkshire. His brother, though, and his mother, were both born abroad. The family were constantly on the move and seem to be buried on four separate continents from what I have read. Both sides of his families had interests in Australia and California, and South Africa. I recall him saying that his grandparents met at a colliery owners ball. 81.131.96.167 16:40, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reopened Stuart Millson AfD
In the light of an apparent serious externally-directed abuse of process regarding the original Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stuart Millson discussion, I have reopened the AfD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stuart Millson 2 with the proviso that anon IPs/new accounts will be excluded as probable sock- or meatpuppets. You voted last time around, so you may wish to take a look at the new vote. -- ChrisO 23:39, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hen Fap
It is something that you need to have: confirm/deny?
[edit] JW
Hello Robin. You're very kind to check my Wikipedia entry. Thank you.
May I let you know that, although you, with good intent, extended my contribution to "Ads Infinitum" to the year 2000, it was actually my friend and colleage Jacob Yapp who helped to continue the series, for I was involved in family issues in Australia at the time? I was only involved directly with the 1997 series. However, it's nice to be thought about!
yours truly, J --John Warburton 22:55, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Many thanks, John. Good to speak again after all this time (I remember when you were still John Hayward-Warburton, when I first joined MHP-chat). I've revised your entry accordingly. Robin Carmody 23:36, 9 August 2006 (BST)
[edit] Smith
Murdoch orders The Sunday Times to attack Victor Lewis-Smith? You are kidding, aren't you?! (See you are a comedy writer - you're not another intimate of Smith hassled into tarting up his image on this page, by any chance?) If you read the original (very long and well-argued) article in the Sunday Times, you will see that the writer defends the BBC against Smith's (among other things) illegality. So your defence fails (your argument depends on the Murdoch press attacking the BBC, not some comic, which the article doesn't do). So we've cleaned this up.
And if you *are* Smith-compliant, do tip us a couple of stories for the book: VLSmithBook@yahoo.co.uk —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.114.111.10 (talk) 14:59, 5 December 2006 (UTC).
I don't know who you are and I don't think you know who I am either. I am not a comedy writer and I have never had any contact or connection whatsoever with VLS. In fact, I think he utterly undermines his condemnations of the importance of social class in this country with his attacks on those who transgress such unwritten rules. However, I consider him to be a talented and intelligent man, but even I dislike him I would disapprove of attempts such as yours to use a Wikipedia article as a platform for a personal vendetta. That is against all Wikipedia rules and is wholly unencyclopaedic.
As one who had to suffer Paul Donovan's writings for far too long, I can say from bitter experience that he is a sad reactionary nostalgic who, if put in charge of the BBC, would render it so laughably outmoded and fossilised that it would soon become irrelevant and lose most of its audience. Beyond that, he writes for a newspaper crossowned with the media organisation which has effectively forced the BBC's hand on these issues, so his comments are riddled with hypocrisy and humbug in a way they would not be if he wrote for the Sunday Telegraph or the Mail on Sunday. Do you, for example, agree with his attacks on Tim Westwood in 1999 and 2000, which were basically saying "kill, kill, kill the nigger-lover" in more polite language? Do you agree with his neo-McCarthyite paranoia about nests of "Guardianistas" under the bed at the BBC? Do you think it's a mortal sin for a Jamaican-born DJ to host a Radio 1 show whose title spells "Night" as "Nite", as he apparently does?
I can only assume that the "book" you are planning will be a character assassination built on lies and false rumours. I think I'll give this sort of tawdry exploitation a miss. I mean, don't you have any golden retrievers to kick? RobinCarmody, 5 December 2006, 18:03 GMT
Robin:
1) We owe you an apology. You are not a comedy writer: for how we stupidly arrived at this false conclusion see the web page www.offthetelly.co.uk/authorindex.htm (which we looked at far too swiftly).
2) However you also owe us an apology: we know our business and our biography of Mr Smith is certainly not as you describe. Apart from anything else "a character assassination built on lies and false rumours" will not pass the (serious) libel lawyers of the (serious) publishers we are involved with (Ian Hislop knows the name of the firm but we're trying to keep all hush hush for the mo). It is a fun book and if he was not so paranoid, we are sure Smith would enjoy the humour. We have other jobs so can't yet concentrate on this full-time but the material coming in is a gas.
3) As to Paul Donovan of the Sunday Times, you may have a point in general. But as to the specific article cited on the page, so far you seem to be the only person with the view you have added to this site. We'll try and rework things to mutual satisfaction. User:VLSmithBook
Interesting that VLS apparently went to a boarding school. Confirms my view that the journalists with the most intense hatred of such institutions are, indeed, those who actually went there (c.f. a great many NME / Melody Maker writers). RobinCarmody, 27 December 2006, 22:52 GMT
[edit] Jacques Arnold
I see you've contributed to the article above. This was (semi)-vandalized recently by User:Jacques Arnold. I've reverted back to your version, but have merged in some of the new information that the above user entered. It does however need some wikifying MNewnham 22:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Right, done that. Also reinstated my comment about the Springbok Club which I'm sure was there before. RobinCarmody 19:00, 6 December 2006 (GMT)
[edit] An imposter?
Just a warning that an anonymous user made a post with your signature at [1]. Do you know anything about this? -SpuriousQ 02:14, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
No idea. I do seem to make enemies fairly easily, but I suspect it's just some troll. RobinCarmody 03:05, 22 December 2006 (GMT)
Trolling bullshit deleted. RobinCarmody 23:40, 30 December 2006 (GMT)
Seems you are popular with some Obie Trice and Justin Timberlake fans. I've reverted some vandalism to your user page here: [2]. -SpuriousQ 05:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Check the history of your user page: you're getting a bunch of vandalism. You might want to request protection. -SpuriousQ 22:34, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
My values and my ideals seem to have got up a lot of people's noses, and I have made a few reasonable guesses as to who the vandal/s might be, based particularly on the replacement of my livejournal link with a link to the Poptimists community (of which I have been a harsh critic, inspired by ideals which my critics consider "elitist" and "reactionary").
How do I request protection? (Sorry for not knowing that.) RobinCarmody 00:44, 15 January 2007 (GMT)
Come now, don't be coy. Why do you criticise the Poptimists?
I really shouldn't be answering anonymous posters like this, and I'll probably regret it later, but I criticise them because they are enemies of the European cause in Britain and because they think it's 1999 forever. RobinCarmody 01:57, 16 January 2007 (GMT)
- Try Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. I could request it for you, if you want. -SpuriousQ 00:56, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Please do. I think some people would take it more seriously if it comes from someone other than the user himself. RobinCarmody 01:49, 15 January 2007 (GMT)
- Done. Your user page is s-protected so that only established users can edit it. --BigDT 02:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Jacques Arnold
Hello again. I noticed that User:Jacques Arnold removed you comment about lecturing to the springbok club. obviously its something he might not want to appear in the article, can it be externally verified? MNewnham 14:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ronnie Hilton
Care to re-visit your recent edit to Hilton's page ? It does not appear to make sense now ! Regards,
Derek R Bullamore 10:24, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Right, it makes sense now. The song was never a US number one, that's why I changed it. RobinCarmody 23:23, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] John Drummond
I have reinserted a cut from one of your edits to the John Drummond article, which removed the edition of the Carpenter book I had used. By all means cite the page reference from the hardback edition of The Envy of the World as well, if you have access to it, but I would argue that anyone checking the source is more likely to use the Phoenix paperback.
Incidentally, I recently removed from the article on the Third Programme a comparison to BBC4, which seemed unsustainable. By all means change my decision if you consider it invalid. Cheers! Philip Cross 19:26, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
That's fine. And I agree that the Third Programme and BBC Four are not directly comparable. BBC Four is a stimulating channel, but it is a product of the age of cultural relativism. It does not confine itself to high culture and it does not hold the absolute confidence in the superiority of what it does that the Third Programme held. RobinCarmody 20:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to ITV Play Westcountry. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Tiptoety 03:57, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] [edit] ITV Play Westcountry
Okay, next time instead of blanking the page i might Recommend that you either put the article up for speedy deletion, go through a AfD, or redirect the page. Thank you for letting me know your intentions. Tiptoety 04:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
I'll try and remember to do that next time I see such an entry. To be honest, it's never come up before because I've never previously seen an entry that was so blatantly fictional. RobinCarmody 05:05, 21 August 2007 (BST)
[edit] AfD nomination of The Scene That Celebrates Itself
An article that you have been involved in editing, The Scene That Celebrates Itself, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Scene That Celebrates Itself. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 14:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding your recent edits.
Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thank you. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 02:52, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] AfD nomination of Swinton circle
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[edit] Attlee
On this edit of yours: Clearly something is very wrong here, what with Clem Attlee rising from the grave to write a blurb. I'm not sure that Bryant ever wrote a book titled The Elizabethan Experience but he did write one titled The Elizabethan Deliverance, which indeed doesn't seem to have been published while this Attlee was alive. Feel free to chime in at Talk:Arthur_Bryant#Attlee. -- Hoary (talk) 11:05, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Apologies. I've changed the book title and changed the link to the then Earl Attlee (the second of three so far). RobinCarmody (talk) 16:33, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Radio Times
Robin, I am being taken to task for an edit I made to the article a few years ago. Do you have any citations to substantiate my recollection? Chheers and thanks. Philip Cross (talk) 19:43, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
