"Biggles Flies Undone... "

• Me and all my friends, We're all misunderstood
• editing styles at Wikipedia: a guide to the four basic types
• ... and my typical Wikipedia editing style...

Userboxes This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 2 months and 20 days. This user loves the music of Jaroslav Jakubovic This user is a recipient of the Editor of the Week award. This user loves the music of César Franck This user loves the music of Brian Blade This user loves the music of Leoš Janáček. This user loves the music of Lightnin' Slim 296 This user is ranked 296 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits. "King's Highway": Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band and uploaded with Brian's kind permission by chicagomusicexchange on YouTube

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Ah-ha... so this is what good Administrators do!

Great to see British Dance Band so close to Islamic recitation and Vintage gospel: (... [1])

• Not sure Sigmund ever managed to sort out this one

• Still rocking in 2012 and still sounding wonderful.... Bill Nelson & The Gentlemen Rocketeers, with Maid In Heaven.

• "You want me to tell you the truth, You want me to reason and wait my turn, I haven't the nerve to say no, I guess I deserve the wiki burn you gave me" 1975 - Eric Burdon, just wonderful

• " Oh dahlin' can ya put some music on? It's like a morgue in'ere innit." ... RIP Karl Lager-top "No le gusta caminar No puede montar a caballo"

• ... sometimes, just like Clive Efford, you've got to blame it on the Goose?

• ... so tight it's welded on c/o Vulfpeck!!

• Key to the Highway by Don Covay and the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band album The House of Blue Lights (1969)

• Oooooh, GROOVE ATTACK... Young Disciples with Carleen Anderson (1991)

• 2016 ... directed by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia, video effects by, a Ukraine-based GloriaFX ... "a poignant, surrealist montage which alludes to contemporary issues"

• My own Michel Legrand somewhat reserved tribute

• 20 years on, still hits the spot, (Carlos and Rob)

• What I got to give will sho' nuff do ya good ....written by Stevie Wonder (1974)

• Fellow Wikipedians... don't you ever get tired of looking for High Fives?? ... a modern-day classic from Sigrid

• "Knew how to paint a cowboy town, long before I missed her"... ya just can't beat a really cheesey video

• Saye Mogo Bana by Issa Bagayogo

• slow down itinerant child, the boys in blue are waiting... - from Mr. Love Pants (1998) .... Davey Payne, what a genius.... some of his best ever sax on the end here..

• "I believe an open gob does nothing for your face."

• Can I be electric too? 23 years on... a very entertaining, if slightly random, retro-styled video offering ... yes, it's the Manky Fab Two all over again....

• My Seann and Katya tribute edit

• [2]: Robert Wyatt - "Gharbzadegi" from Old Rottenhat (Rough Trade), 1985 (Note: the video of the live version from BBC Four's Free Will and Testament (2003), with Larry Stabbins on sax, is not copyright free alas, although still utterly brilliant)

• Earl Hines and His Orchestra (1940) BlueBird B-10674-A: "Boogie Woogie on the St. Louis Blues" - Licensed to YouTube by SME, KM Records (on behalf of The Jazz Story); AdShare (Publishing), UMPG Publishing, and 1 music rights societies

- a number which became an essential part of his live repertoire, and which just got better and better as the years went by.... my personal favourite is almost certainly the live version, recorded at Dinkler's Motor Inn, Syracuse, NY, 27, 28 October 1972 and released in 1977 on "An Evening With Earl Hines" (with Tiny Grimes, Hank Young, Bert Dahlander and Marva Josie) as Disques Vogue VDJ-534.

• Richie Havens - "Going Back to My Roots" - never heard before, just wonderful (1980 single produced by Charles Calello) .... highly recommend "One Shot Not 2011 Remix" from French TV (easily found) with Stephanie Winters (cello), Walter Parks (guitar) and Manu Katché (drums):[3]

• The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr - (Sudan, 1980)

• Recommended music: (4CjpKfpkVns) Bach - Cantate BWV 134a - Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht - Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir - Ton Koopman (harpsichord), with Michael Chance (alto) and Paul Agnew (counter-tenor)

• So like, listen up Weird EEng Gageovic..... Here's my proposal to replace the entire Wikipedia Manual of Style, with something more useful.....

• After school is over you're playing in the park....

• You got soul, you got class, you got style, you're bad ass (allegedly)

• All mystery investigating teenagers, and dogs, of working age should pay a weekly national insurance contribution, and in return all the jungle canyon rope bridges will be fully maintained in a safe condition." - William Beveridge ... (aka (Carpet Remnant World 2012)

• my own personal official promo tribute to the legendary Walter Theodore, for undoubtedly one of the finest ever sax solos in the history of rock music....

• John Marshall (English trumpeter) playing "Five Will Get You Ten", live at Smalls, 1 January 2016: John Marshall - trumpet, Grant Stewart - tenor sax, Jeb Patton - piano, David Wong - bass, Phil Stewart - drums

• De Staat, featurung Torre Florim: "Firestarter" - [4].... a bit Pink Floydy in places?

• RIP Aretha... a demo tape, recorded Oct or Nov 1966, Detroit, sent by Ted White to Jerry Wexler: Aretha Franklin (then aged 24 - piano, vocal), Unknown (drums, bass), oh my word, how incredible.....<*tears*> ... <*deep shivers*> ... <*awe*>

• Delgres...named after this guy

• Washboard Chaz and Roberto Luti combine their talents to create this New Orlean's version of Mystery Train"

• my Elon Musk tribute edit: "Noise to Go" = Nick Lowe, Paul Carrack and pals Martin Belmont (guitar), James Eller (bass) and Bobby Irwin (drums)

• Abertridwr's finest (2012)

• she rings my bell

• "Argos Farfish" (Sudan 1960) - no article yet for Sharhabeel Ahmed, alas, it seems

• ...nothing (much) to do with that fine single malt from Ardbeg (?) ... Jukka Harju - French horn or even try a little [Bach BWV1008?

• most vocally inventive song, made 14th place - Bones by Equinox

• Happy 50th Birthday, Trojan Records!!

• "I'm the sausage man, The shadow licker..." (Arbcom case outstanding)

• Happy Birthday for last Monday, Bill Payne ... Feats Don't Fail Me Now (there with special guest Ron Holloway)

• A boom-boom-boom and a bang-bang-bang ... trumpet solo: Ruud Breuls

• "Nice pair of marigolds, Siedah"....farewell Dennis ....and of all the many parody videos, this must be one of the best

• RIP Bra Hugh ....what a pure genius

• RIP the Italian waiter on acid

• Picchio dal Pozzo were something wonderful in 1976

• my Nile Rodgers greatest dancer tribute... (get down!)

• ah, dear old Andy and Lance.... never better.

• from The London Rock and Roll Show (1972): Bo Diddley - Road Runner

• Sea cruise in a diving bell

• My raunchy Ricky 2000 tribute edit.

• Jessie Ware (2017), deceptively simple, amazing production

• "By George, I think he's got it!!": [5].

• "I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real." - ahh, Puddles, my Wikipedia experience in ten words

• and don't forget to give my love to Rose

• don't make me nervous... (Dimes Dupont on alto saxophone and Warren Hebrew on tenor saxophone?)

• yee-haw!!

• I think I just discovered the future of Eurovision

• another typically amazing delivery (don't let that crown put you off, folks)

• "Oooh it's a killing machine, It's got everything..."

.... ya know folks, just like in the wonderful big list, if you edit long enough, you'll stand like a statue, become part of the machine and those golden Jimmy Wales digit counters will just ... fall!

....... edit count

"Users of Wikipedia do get to recognise which parts are shaky, but the unwise may suddenly stumble into benighted stretches, like some crinkum-crankum byway in old London, where footpads lurked and communicable diseases were offered at low prices."
-- Thank you, Christopher Howse in The Daily Telegraph, how very accurate (emphasis added).

........ "what's that you say, Soo? .... you have to sweep the streets you used to own. Awww.... never mind!!": "Just a puppet on a lonely string, Oh who would ever want to be king?"

Question 1

• Wikipedia is:
• (a) a social networking site for people who like to look quite clever
• (b) a specialist website that allows sufferers of OCD to search for missing commas and fullstops
• (c) an encyclopedia committee that expends 90% of its energy in pointless arguments over trivia
• (d) a paranoid fascist organisation more concerned with enforcing rules than quality of content?
• (e) a new religion
• (f) a prolonged endurance test for those internet addictees, with failing eyesight and few remaining letters on their first generation laptops, who are still searching for the wiki-spellchecker
• (g) "a poorly-run bureaucracy with the group dynamics of a cult" [6]
• (h) an incessant pansy-throwing bickering match for know-it-all, more-knowledgeable-than-thou, big-headed show-offs
• (i) a playground for internet bullies

Please tick all that apply from the list above and explain why, with reliable references

(N.B. it doesn't have to be a true answer)

Please then gain consensus for your answer, from amongst a random sample of 934 strangely pseudonymic volunteer participants, before proceeding to Question 2

Note: This question is worth a maximum of 0 marks

Marks will be deducted for obvious expressions of exasperation or humour

Please show a full record of your working on the Talk Page Jotter provided

Sleep is optional

Please begin again yesterday

Question 57

(note: Questions 2-56 have been speedily deleted for copyright infringement)

• Wikipedia can be kept pure and safe by:
• (a) requiring editors to provide a monthly sample of DNA
• (b) asking for more donations
• (c) allowing editors multiple accounts, provided they remember to use them on alternate days.
• (d) allowing editors to award themselves, on a bi-monthly basis, the Barnstar of Sock Beating
• (e) setting up Sockipedia
• (f) dangling an appetising carrot and seeing who bites
• (g) resigning from Wikipedia and joining The Ramblers' Association where you can "knit-your-own-leg-warmers"

Please answer using the following cultural conventions:

Modern contributors may respond thus: "Now just a moment, dude, let's take a rain-check on the underlying synergies here, we need to explore a few more dynamic possibilities for rationally ostensible underpinnings.... ".

Traditional contributors may respond thus: "F*ck off you useless piece of US college sh*t, go "troll yourself"!! (.. ye olde "Lancan-cester-shire greeting")

Note: This question is worth a maximum of 100 marks

Up to 99 marks will be deducted for not re-stating at least six arguments that have been archived in the last two years.

Please turn over your paper when you hear the bell.

A shared pencil will be provided (although it is a bit blunt, sorry - please invent your own sharpener)

Question 58 (EU passport required to fully answer this question)

• Aber beklecker nicht das Sofa, Sofa!

• Pick me, I'm clean, I am also programmed for conversational English.
• May I have this dance?

• I've got a better idea . . .

• "What's a girl like you doing in a place like this? Do you come here often? Wait a minute. . . I've got it . . . You're an Italian . . . What? You're Jewish? Love your nails . . . You must be a Libra . . . Your place or mine?"

Question 58a

Here in Good-Old-God-Save-America

the home of the brave and the free

We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards

Of some duality

Of restless multiplicity

(Oh say can you see)

not even a mention?

Question 101

What is the probability of choosing the right answer to question 58a?

• 25%
• 50%
• 100%
• 25%

Multimedia Observation Test (Hints and tips #59)

Please view the multimedia presentation selected from the "Vietnam Cultural Archive of Rock Sorcery"', via the prohibited website below (N.B. extensive use of the archaic "glitter clog") and then vote against the statement:

"This is how the Wikipedia concept of "gathering consensus" sometimes appears to ignorant and lazy editors."

(editors with a sensitive or nervous disposition may wish to "avert their gays")

original YouTube caption says it so much more eloquently than I could:

"{insert name of editor of your choice}, a man with a mental problem. Please suppose {editor of choice} he need treatmeant not be be jail."

N.B. this is not a vote.

And now, while all those zillions of wiki-votes PCC spoilt ballots are being carefully counted, here's a little more (black and white) entertainment from the BBC archive.... "Goodness Gracious", apparently:

well, for a while, anyway...

(note cunningly concealled "Glitter Watch"

All you really need to know is here: Wikipedia:WikiSpeak

and of course here: "I loves it bro... Safe!" [7]

"With a brand new nose, who knows where it goes." [8]

Please note that this User page is no longer accepting the following items:

• intrusive comments pertaining to earthworms
• false angels
• exotic poisons hidden in custard
• lowly smuggled fat options
• “Jelly fellarlies”
• all types of rubber kitten (probably best if I don't link here to that "Reflective Desire" video, even if it was copyright free)
• illicit hibiscus products
• Liza Minnelli
• pyramid schemes offering discount poetry

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