Hullo fellow Wikipedian, greetings from London, England, UK, EU,
Wikipedia is a very interesting place or phenomenon however you choose to look at it. As an encyclopedia of everything, it must be hard to beat. Who is going to go out and spend substantial amounts of money on a printed encyclopedia when current events will make it redundant in a few weeks on topical issues? Just consider the entries on Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Putin or George W.Bush. I think it's definitely here to stay and quite democratic too. There are a few exceptions: the entry on Reagan is heavily biased in the subject's favour due to a small clique of Reaganites preventing a single word from being changed; the accusations of anti-semitism in the article on The Guardian are completely unfounded as any neutral would agree but a small group of Zionists keeps them in the article as they object to any (fair) criticism of the state of Israel; the accusations of the subjects personal wealth in the article on Fidel Castro are also unfounded but biased links exist supporting these libels. The worst examples of bias are on the various pages related to Global Warming; this is a highly contentious area but a small group of Warmists keep the fashionable view very much dominant with highly selective and biased links. The same few Warmist editors crop up again and again on these pages. Indeed so one-sided is the presentation that this place could be known as Warmistpedia.
I don't know what kind of Wiki editor I am. Some people seem to like deleting stuff here. I have made a few contributions to articles which have been deleted even they were made in good faith albeit unsourced. Where was AGF? Personally I have never felt the need the delete any contribution made by another editor except in obvious cases of vandalism or bias. I can't see the point in deleting articles and I don't know why anyone becomes a New Pages Patroller. Even if some completely unknown band, the Creeping Nobodies from Minneapolis say, has a Wiki page how does this make the whole website less valid? Either the Creeping Nobodies will achieve some kind of renown or they won't. If the former then they are notable; if not then no-one will ever look at their page anyway. Either way it's no skin off my nose. Having a Wiki page is not advertising as far as I can see. The more pages the better as far as I'm concerned. That said I have got two defunct and unavailable Fats Waller albums deleted. They have both been unavailable for decades and there was no point in retaining them.
SmokeyTheCat is a phenomonon in that he is a much better mathematician than Diana Ross, a considerably better singer than Sly Stallone, a far more accomplished cook than Lenin, a vastly better boxer than Kate Moss and a lot better at the high jump than Danny De Vito. Despite all of this he is not rich nor famous for some obscure reason.
"I've had a good evening but this wasn't it." Groucho Marx
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie." Dorothy Parker
"Los Angeles is what happens when 72 suburbs get together in search of a city." Also Dorothy. (I've never been to LA but this seems like a cool thing to write about it.)
I've written a virtual novel for adults :- www.Addicted2Brixton.com It's sex and love and much better than Emmanuelle and some readers have compared it to Henry Miller. I am hopeful that it is less sexist but more sexy.
New pages I have created are:-
How the Other Half Dies
- An Expensive Place to Die and Spy Story (novel) novels by Len Deighton
- Saint Ana
- Fex urbis lex orbis
- Lesliana Pereira an Angolan beauty queen
- Nakano-Ku
- My Man's Gone Now A song from Porgy and Bess.
- Ghosts of Empire
- Sea Of Afar
- Re-Ron A song by Gil Scott Heron
- The Happy End (deleted but now {April 2009} recreated I am pleased to see.)
- John Drane
- Elektra Lives Again
- All Wi Doin' Is Defendin
- Lambeth Country Show
- Varoomshka
- Money-free economy
- Wacky Dust a song by Ella Fitzgerald
- Soviet Chess School
- Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II a history by Len Deighton
- The Tin Men, A Landing on the Sun, The Trick of It and Sweet Dreams (novel) novels by Michael Frayn
- Benefactors (play) A play also by Michael Frayn
- Sarah Jane Morris (disambiguation)
- Bodhisattva (song), The Boston Rag, Your Gold Teeth, Pearl of the Quarter and Razor Boy songs by Steely Dan from the album Countdown to Ecstasy. Although these have all been redirected back to the original article to my dismay.
- Christianity and Astrology This needs some work
- Lady G A Jamaican woman singer
- Roman Warm Period
- Emmanuelle (novel)
- My Life and Hard Times the autobiography of James Thurber
- Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated also by James Thurber
- Emily Reuben
- Lee MinJin a female Korean Go player
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland, The Temple of My Familiar
- Meridian (novel) and
- Possessing the Secret of Joy novels by Alice Walker
- Warrior Marks a non-fiction book by Alice Walker
- Sarah Vaughan Sings Great Songs From Hit Shows, After Hours, Ronnie Scott's Presents Sarah Vaughan Live and Sarah + 2 albums by Sarah Vaughan
- The Second Trio and Autumn Leaves albums by Bill Evans
- J.C. Lodge, Deborah Glasgow and Maxine Harvey Jamaican women singers
- Breakheart Pass and Puppet on a Chain novels by Alistair MacLean
- Panic in Babylon and Reggae Greats: Lee "Scratch" Perry albums by Lee Perry
- Carl Shroeder <<< This was a perfectly valid and notable page until a wanker admin deleted it with no discussion.
- Me—I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf a TV play by Alan Bennett
- Vida (novel) and Going Down Fast novels by Marge Piercy
I have also rescued The Last Resort (song) from being a mere redirect.
I have made contributions to, amongst others, :-
[edit] To Do List
Get all the Sarah Vaughan albums currently listed in red changed to blue. This will take some time as I will have to buy all the albums but will still be a pleasure.
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The WikiProject Films Award |
I, HairyWombat (talk), hereby award SmokeyTheCat the WikiProject Films Award for his/her valued contibutions to WikiProject Films. For creating the article Steelyard Blues.
- Awarded 06:42, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
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