Talk:British scientists (meme)

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Page title should not contain quotation marks[edit]

Hi. I don't think this page title should be in quotation marks. Phrases and memes are commonly documented here without using quotation marks in the page title. Any objection to a move to British scientists? --MZMcBride (talk) 04:33, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? "Heroes" (David Bowie album). Of course, there is an objection. Do you really think this article is about British scientists? But wait, there is no Science and technology in Great Britain!... but there is Science and technology in Uganda... Oh, no... These Ruskies must be right... Staszek Lem (talk) 16:59, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that album title is comparable, tho it's certainly an interesting example. :-) I think this is closer to Read my lips: no new taxes or Florida Man. If there's a real concern about the title British scientists, we could disambiguate at British scientists (joke) or similar. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:35, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Florida MAn is capitalized, i.e, undersood as title. Read.. is a phrase, no confusion either. British scientists (meme) looks OK. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:52, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the page move!! I thought I suggested British scientists (meme) or British scientists (joke) in my initial post, but I guess I forgot to actually write that. I also enjoyed that British scientists is now a redirect. --MZMcBride (talk) 08:33, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@MZMcBride and Lembit Staan: Isn't List of British scientists is a more obvious redirect target for British scientists? --Florian Blaschke (talk) 15:08, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hungary also has this cultural meme[edit]

Surprised to see there's a wiki page about this phenomenon :D One of the largest news portals even has a separate section for "British scientists" style news: https://index.hu/tudomany/brittudosok/ -- kazerniel (talk) 10:44, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Igen! [1]: Magyar ember nagyot legyint, ha egy hír így kezdődik: „brit tudósok szerint…”. A hiteltelenség szinonimája, értelmetlen, felesleges, idő és pénzpocséklásnak tűnő kutatások.

@Kazerniel: Can you expand the article? Lembit Staan (talk) 17:00, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We would need to reword and restructure the whole article to make it less Russia-focused, and I don't really have the capacity for that in the near future :( (Also some parts of it could use some rephrasing to better fit the encyclopaedic style.) -- kazerniel (talk) 20:53, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

At the moment just add at the bottom, something like, "The same meme exists in Hungary..." and you may return later, or maybe someone else will do some job. Maybe the same exist in other countries. For example, in Poland there are jokes of this kind:

British scientists have proved that the best means to achieve longevity is to celebrate your birthday. The collected statistics clearly demonstrated that the people who celebrated the most such days lived the longest.

But unfortunately there are no reliable sources about this kind of humor in Poland. Lembit Staan (talk) 21:31, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

While there not might be an actual meme of this sort in Finland, there was a running gag in the popular Finnish TV show Uutisvuoto (based on the British show Have I Got News for You) where they would discuss some outlandish "scientific discovery" of the week and then almost always reveal that it was made in the University of Leeds! References to the University of Leeds were made frequently in the later seasons if some quirky scientific theory or experiment was brought up by the host, even if it wasn't actually related to that university. JJohannes (talk) 23:16, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ewan Birney image[edit]

I deleted the image with caption "Ewan Birney, who was mocked" First, it is a violation of WP:BLP, second, the statement is not supported - Altenmann >talk 03:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]