User talk:Frickative/Archive 1

Abra Kadabra

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AiselneDrossel 22:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Lord Byrne

Do you have a source that he is actually Lord Charles? The Holby City website does not refer to him as this and Joseph himself does not have prefixs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.38.248 (talk • contribs)

WikiProject Holby

Hiya Frickative! I've noticed your edits to various Casualty/Holby City/Blue articles, and wondered whether you'd like to set up with me a WikiProject to direct everyone's efforts - what say you? DBD 20:26, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Holby Edits

Awesome Edits, especially to the Minor Characters in Holby City! I would like to second the proposal of DBD: would you be interested to start a WikiProject?

Riatsila 20:32, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Even more awesome edits! Love them!

Riatsila 16:59, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: WikiProject Holby

Well, to tell you the truth, me neither, but I will have a look at WikiProjects and how they work.

Riatsila 21:05, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Lord Byrne

Really, calling him Lord Charles Byrne is the sort of thing an American would do! He would only be styled thus if he were a younger son of a Marquess or a Duke (see, for instance, Lord Nicholas Hervey or Lord Nicholas Windsor. This is to be compared with holding a substantive title; in which case one is only ever known as Lord X, see, for instance, Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley, in this case the substantive title isn't even the surname. Hope this clarifies your misunderstanding. --Counter-revolutionary 20:19, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Removal of content

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for test edits. 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 05:53, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Edit was a perfectly valid merging of a stub article into a character list, should not have been reverted and has been restored. Frickative 06:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

New Holby character articles

I say, sir, well done indeed! I'll be more hands on come October, when I'm back at uni (busy at work atm). Again, well done! DBD 23:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks, and looking forward to having you back! Frickative 03:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

The One with the Rumor

Thanks for your uber-speedy review of The One with the Rumor. Regarding the lack of images; I don't tend to add fair-use screencaps and such to articles unless they are absolutely necessary to further the understanding of the subject, and there is nothing in that particular episode that needs to be visually described in the article (though perhaps a free image of a hermaphrodite...?). Brad 01:55, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

I've added a free image of Brad Pitt anyway, just to add a splash of colour to the page! Brad 02:04, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

McFly (band)

Hi! I was wondering, if you have time, would you be able to look through the article and tell us what sorts of things seem to be referenced? Matt and I seem contradict each other. --Stacey _talk 22:24, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Wistert

Did you quickfail for the stub tag or based on review of the articles? I ask because I am contemplating renominating both Al Wistert and Whitey Wistert.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 22:38, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

O.K. maybe just Al now that I rethink.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 22:40, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

The quickfails were based solely on the stub tags - I didn't undertake a full review of any of the three articles simply because the GA criteria are quite explicit in stating that a stub article cannot qualify for GA status. However, if you think any of the articles have evolved beyond stubs, then by all means, do renominate! Frickative (talk) 22:44, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I am renominating Al Wistert.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 18:40, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Trinny Woodall

Thank you very much for your time to give an in depth review of the Trinny Woodall article, it is much appreciated. I think that I've dealt with the issues raised, hopefully enough for the prose section of the GA to be passed. If it is not enough or there are a few more issues outstanding, then hopefully you can alert me and I'll improve them a.s.a.p. Many thanks again. Eagle Owl (talk) 20:31, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I know it takes a lot of time to review and edit an article in such a way, so your work is much appreciated. Happy editing. Eagle Owl 15:29, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Jospeh Byrne GAN: On Hold

 GA on hold — Notes left on talk page. Nehrams2020 (talk) 21:17, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Jack Branning

Just wanted to say thanks for your work on Jack Branning, it's nice to see someone else getting involved, instead of the usual people from WP:EE :) ^anemone│_projectors 00:03, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! I must confess to not really watching EastEnders as much as I used to, but it was nice to have a wealth of sources to work with for once, which there doesn't tend to be with the Holby City and Casualty articles I'm more used to editing :) Frickative (talk) 00:07, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Snezana Lalovic

I see you reverted this article which I created yesterday. It may come as a surprise to you if I tell you that I don't actually watch Casuality, in fact I can't even stand it (not just that, but Holby City, The Bill, Echo Beach, Rock Rivals, and all other TV dramas). I took an interest along the grounds that the actor and her character are from my part of the world (the former Yugoslavia/Balkans). Even so, I play a fair game on Wikipedia. Now it is my knowledge that paramedics are purely extras, peripheral to the whining, back-stabbing, and winging of the staff on the wards. But correct me if I am wrong, does the character once played by Will Thorpe (paramedic) not have an article on Wikipedia? I thought that as long as the information can be sourced, then it can be included here. On English Wikipedia, we have two-lined articles based on regions or objects heavily remove from the English speaking world, yet they stand. Note: I knew Thorpe from having attended the same secondary school as him, and his appearances on Casualty were told to me by someone else, I didn't actually "tune in". Evlekis (talk) 13:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

The paramedic character Woody did indeed used to have an article, however it too was redirected to the character list, on the basis that the character had received no notable coverage in secondary sources - a key stipulation of WP:FICT. The character of Snezana is even less notable, given that at present, she has appeared in a single episode of the show - far from enough to attain significant, or in fact any coverage at all, aside from perhaps a handful of TV guides briefly noting the arrival of yet another new character. This lack of coverage in secondary sources means there are very few articles about Casualty characters than can stand alone on their own merit, even those that have been in the show for three to five years, let alone a single episode. One possible solution might be to create a fully fleshed out article detailing all of the current Casualty cast - an expansion from the simple list that exists at present, but stopping short of creating two dozen individual articles for each character. Obviously in this instance, there would be a stronger basis for including fuller information about the character of Snezana, as well as the high number of current cast members who also do not merit their own individual articles. It's certainly something I'll put some thought into. Frickative (talk) 13:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I see what you mean, a section on the Casualty article itself perhaps can give insights into each member of the current cast, with a main article for the more central characters. Sounds fair. You'd then be better to keep Lalovic redirected than to delete the page, so that you can recall the information which I submitted yesterday. But I'll leave that to you. In all honesty, I didn't realise that she has only appeared in one episode so far. Two Saturday episodes would have aired from February 16, so it is early days. But you're probably right, paramedics are at best, glorified extras, so do not require a dedicated article. Evlekis (talk) 15:10, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Maddy Young

You removed my information, I notice you kind of own those articles because you made them all.

I thought you would include that, well you know. We should include what happened last night, it was pretty much focused on Maddy again wasn't it. About her and Dan?

Great articles though, you've done well on them all. Raintheone (talk) 08:12, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

If you check the diffs in the article history between your edit and mine, you'll notice all the information you included is still there. I didn't remove it, just reworded it. The Manual of Style on fiction articles says plot summary should be written in present, not past tense, hence the change. We're all working towards the same end here - the improvement of articles on Wikipedia - so there's no need to throw around unfounded accusations of WP:OWN. Frickative (talk) 10:17, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

You got it wrong. :( I think you have done a great job on them all! I was complimenting you seriously, sorry if I sound like I'm out of order or anything. It's a good article. Raintheone (talk) 21:18, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Sincere apologies for coming across as touchy and thank you very much for the compliment. I think I definitely took your message the wrong way, and that's entirely my own fault for trying to use the internet on zero sleep! Happy editing :) Frickative (talk) 21:29, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Max Branning

Okay, fair revert I'd misunderstood the relevance of that part of the guideline. However I feel it now creates a problem. The article isn't very good in its current condition and ideally needs to be more like the Pauline Fowler article (which is actually used as a good example by the guideline) by adding real world perspective to the storylines. If the article is developed in this way, the tense will need to be changed back to make sense. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 21:07, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Sounds fine to me. I'm disappointed that this is turning to an edit war though. The article really needs rewriting from the ground up to get it to the standard of the afore mentioned article about Pauline. Therefore it's just not worth falling out over. ~~ Peteb16 (talk) 22:06, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Luke French

Hello

I really appreciate you not putting it up for deletion or anything like that, I just can stand it when people try to do that I would never support page deletion (except obvious vandalism or the like) because there is always room for improvement, are you tuning into tonights Holby Blue then? I know I am lol Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 17:33, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Hey,

I think in some cases deletion can be necessary, because there are some characters that are just so minor they'll never satisfy Wikipedia's notability criteria, but with Luke being a major character in a much publicized BBC drama, I totally agree there's room for improvement there. Irritatingly, I completely missed it earlier, but the BBC Press Office releases are so detailed for HolbyBlue, I always feel I know exactly what's going to happen anyway - oh, but Robert died tonight, didn't he? Hm, I might have to watch it on BBC iPlayer. Was it a good episode? Frickative (talk) 00:40, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah it was well good, poor Robert got shot jumping in the way of it to save Lucy and all before he was going to see his son and Ann - Marie, I knew he was going outta it but I thought thats because they were gonna get back together. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 07:58, 4 April 2008 (UTC).

Thank you

For your rewrite of the Toshiko Sato episode. It's really fantatic, we can work towards a Good Article standard for it now.~Zythe^{Talk to me!} 11:12, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much for saying so! :) Frickative (talk) 12:12, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Apology

Hi. Sorry for putting that template on your page. I've looked back through the edit history of Holby and obviously I made a mistake and put the notice on the wrong user's page. I did look at the edit history originally but just clicked on the wrong 'talk' link when going to post the template. No hard feelings? ChimpanzeeUK - User | Talk | Contribs 09:44, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		To show appreciation for your excellent writing and condensing skills on fictional character pages :) Gungadin 18:27, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

My pleasure, you more than earned it. I'm loving your Holby articles as well as the EE ones, btw :) Gungadin 23:59, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Heather Peterson

Hi, I notice you edit Heather's page and I just wanted to thank you for the wonderful work you do editing it!

However, I was wondering if you by any chance had any pics of her and Minty on their wedding day. I am afraid I don't have any and I just feel that a pic of her would add some colour to the page.

Thanks for helping out Gossipking (talk) 16:18, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Gossipking, and thanks! I almost certainly can add a wedding day pic to the article, although it'll be a couple of hours till I'm back at my own computer. I'll definitely try and get one up by the morning, though :) Frickative (talk) 16:31, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi and thanks again! The pic is wonderful and I really appreciate it! :) Gossipking (talk) 14:40, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Ben Mitchell

Why do you keep putting the image back on? --Useless Grant (talk) 16:29, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

'I don't like it' is not a valid reason to repeatedly remove an image from an article whilst vandalising it constantly. Please stop. Frickative (talk) 16:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

But 9/10 people don't like his horrible face. --Useless Grant (talk) 16:54, 7 May 2008 (UTC)