Talk:Stuart Humphryes

Daily Mail

Just curious - is there a blanket ban on mentioning the words "Daily Mail" on Wikipedia now? I see a mini editing war going on in the page's history were a user has mentioned that one of Babelcolour's Tweets prompted an article in the Daily Mail and linked to that article. Another user came along and deleted that link and any subsequent mention of the Daily Mail. Now, I understand Wikipedia recommends not linking the the Mail because it is an unreliable source and, even though in this instance, it wasn't being used as a citation to source a fact but was rather the very fact itself, I can nevertheless understand why the link was removed, but not the mention of the newspaper. The next day another user came along (or maybe the same original poster, because they weren't logged in) and re-added the information about the Daily Mail article but sensibly didn't include a link to it. And then the editor who had excised it returned to the page and deleted mention of the newspaper again. This seems wrong to me. It is not a controversial fact the paper ran the story. It is a fact and a verifiable one. Stating "this lead to the Daily Mail newspaper (or Mail Online) running a story" is a fact and I don't think facts should be censored on Wikipedia. The editor in question hasn't explained their reasoning, can anyone else? Thecurryman2004 (talk) 00:59, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

- Hello. I was the one who added it. Sorry if it wasn't allowed. I don't know the rules regarding that paper. I put it back in because it is in the 'In Print' section, and if we can't mention where it is in print it seems the wrong section to have it. So feel free to move it to a better section is it is something we're not allowed to say JacksonHeights (talk) 22:33, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

info box

Reverted infobox template from 'Artist' to 'Person'. This is no reflection on the subject but to resolve practical limitations of the template. 'Artist' substitutes "alma mater" for the 'Person' template's "other names", but surely in this particular case the subject's school is far less pertinent than the fact he is best known by another name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chaotic Galaxy (talk • contribs) 18:10, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Factual Error

Hello. I'm the subject of this article and I've spotted an error. In the 'Colourisation process' section it states "It consequently took Humphryes 18 months to recolourise key frames for 'The Mind of Evil' episode one", which is quite misleading. The time between commencement and the delivery date was, indeed, 18 months, but in reality I downed tools for 5 months between December 2011 and May 2012 because it was believed a colour copy of the episode had been found. This turned out to be a false alarm and so I resumed work, but it does mean that it actually only took me 13 months work to colourise the episode. Since I don't think that particular fact is reported anywhere on-line I can't provide a citation, so I'm just adding it to the talk page, for reference. Thank you. Stuart. BabelColour (talk) 22:30, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Babelcolour Pseudonym

The opening paragraph says "He is more widely known by his alias "Babelcolour". I was going to change that to a less dogmatic "He is widely known by his alias Babelcolour" because whether it is more, or equal or less is up for discussion. It does alter the sentence in a fundamental way though, so I thought I'd ask here if it would be a contentious change?Thecurryman2004 (talk) 21:32, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

- can't say whether he is or isn't, but "more widely" does sound clumsy. FSchoenfelder (talk) 14:08, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Why is this person notable?

Is colourising Dr Who really a reason to add someone to an encyclopaedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tiny beets (talk • contribs) 00:59, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia's notability guidelines do explain "Determining notability does not necessarily depend on things such as fame, importance, or popularity". And that's the crux. Within a niche interest group the name Babelcolour is very well known, his colourisation work has been influential, and the results regularly lauded. There are numerous interviews and reviews and recommendations for his work in genre magazines, websites, podcasts, from the BBC, Radio Times, Guardian, SFX Magazine, Starburst Magazine, the Doctor Who Magazine... well, it's all in the subject's article. Many people may never get to hear of him, but those who know his work consider him extremely notable in his field. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.150.93.254 (talk) 11:45, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

   I don't really understand why a notability template has been added to the page? The article was up for merger or deletion last March and a talk page determined it should stay with a consensus to keep on March 12th. Since then the article has been enlarged and improved, elevated from stub class to start class and has over 50 sources cited. How can it now be back up for merger or deletion again so soon? And by an unregistered visitor? Someone should make the bold edit to remove the template as it is unnecessary unless we are expected to go through the whole talk page process yet again for no reason. Thecurryman2004 (talk) 16:10, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Although I do agree with curryman2004, I don't want to arbitrarily remove the original editor's notability template out of courtesy, without first inviting him/her to make their case. Unfortunately they were not logged in, so there's no user-name to invite to the talk page, but we should give 73.61.19.196 the chance to explain why they've added the template.Pupsbunch (talk) 21:11, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

How long do you propose to wait? Chaotic Galaxy (talk) 21:34, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Done.Pupsbunch (talk) 18:26, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

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