User talk:Yukka tukka indians

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Yukka tukka indians! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. --Drat (Talk) 04:28, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Many Edits[edit]

Hi Yukka tukka indians - great job on the The Goon Show article. However, can I ask you to try to compact your edits a bit? Over a period of less than three days you made 48 separate edits to the same article. Every time you click the Save page button, the Wikipedia software saves an entire new copy of the page with all its code, text and formatting, to the servers - not just the bits you changed. So over those three days, that one article was duplicated 48 times, with only minor changes each time. If you want to make several changes, you can do them all in the same edit - you don't have to do them separately at all - in fact for space reasons we actively encourage taking a long time over one edit to get everything right, rather than making lots of small ones. Just use the edit button at the top of the page rather than editing sections individually (with the [ edit ] links next to the section header). This isn't a warning, or me getting angry or anything like that - in fact, it's only a request, you can keep making multiple edits if you really have to. It's just better organisationally if you combine everything into one. Thanks. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 11:32, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

October 2008[edit]

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to The Goon Show. Thank you. Since you're new here, can you slow down a little please? You're making massive changes to this article and it looks like you haven't read through the tutorial, Manual of Style etc. properly. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 08:38, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fellow devotee of Milligan, I salute you (mai kapitan!). I look forward to your contributions to Spike-related articles. By the way, the link to The Goon Show on your userpage doesn't work because you accidentally included the full stop inside the linking brackets - should be The Goon Show rather than The Goon Show. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 10:45, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just to note, this addition of the {{tone}} template at the top of the article is specifically in reference to some of the bits you wrote - you might want to take a look at Wikipedia:Writing better articles, especially the tone section. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 16:25, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and thanks for the compliment! Yes, I've been listening to the Goons since I was 13 or 14, along with all the other radio comedy I list on my userpage. It's played on BBC 7 over here, so I get it on my digital radio, but you can also listen over the internet. Is there anything specific you don't understand about the upload process? I can explain bits if you want, I've done it loads of times. In fact, I've used Wikipedia almost as long as I've been listening to the Goons! Needle nardle noo. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 16:31, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Goon Show userbox[edit]

I myself live only about 20 or so minutes from the above-ground cemetery, and used to commute past the cycle bridge named in honour of the great Milligoon each day. I thought you might be interested in this userbox. Just add the bit enclosed by brackets to your userpage. {{User:UBX/user GoonShow}}

Needle
Nardle
Noo

This user listens to The Goon Show on the modern-type, steam-driven cardboard wireless.

Transclusions

--Drat (Talk) 09:39, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To advertise the listening-spon of the All Leather Goon Show! Hup! *dweeeee-tish* Alternately: it's mmmmodern wireless, Henry! Don't forget to include those naughty-type curly brackets when pasting. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 14:49, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yes, should have written that better. "Sapristi monikers! Aaagh. What? I couldn’t have written that!" - Moriarty, The Great Regents Park Swim.

--Drat (Talk) 15:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ahaha, listened to that a month ago. "CURSE, ve haff invented Eccles!" Also, my text-type interpretation of the Bloodnok intro music: BAA-dadalada-dalada daaa (bum bum) DAAA (bum bum) da-dadala-dadala DADADA. It must be hell in there! Yes Jim. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 18:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image tagging for Image:Goons.jpeg[edit]

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Exacerbated[edit]

I've reverted your edit to The Goon Show. "Exacerbate" means "to make worse; to increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate". It was his mental instability that increased in severity, not his mental stability, of which he had very little by then. "Manic depressive psychosis" is exactly right; Milligan was diagnosed as such, and had both depressive and psychotic breakdowns. -- The Anome (talk) 10:09, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see you reverted my revert. Please look "exacerbate" up in a dictionary before proceeding further. -- The Anome (talk) 10:11, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See this reference, from which I quote:

Writing the third season of The Goon Show in 1952, he suffered a relapse. "I went into a psychiatric home and even while I was there I kept on writing these bloody shows. I had a wife and two kids to support, you see. That was the bottom line." Inside, he had a full manic episode, including a hallucination that a lion was sitting on the wardrobe (he should have told CS Lewis). Nevertheless, he wrote 26 Goon Shows a year from 1951 to 1960 for BBC radio, a feat that makes today's six-episode runs of comedies look amateur. Harry Secombe has admitted that he and the third Goon, Peter Sellers, "rode on the thermal currents of his imagination". -- The Anome (talk) 10:17, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Look, it's not a "nuisance edit", and it's directly supported by a cite from a reliable source that quotes Milligan himself saying exactly that. The fact that some of the third series was written from within a psychiatric hospital is crucial to understanding Milligan's creative process. See the quote above, which very specifically backs up the edit with regards to his psychotic episode during the third series. It took about two minutes to find it, by Googling "manic depression goon show third series". This version of the edit also uses the word "exacerbate" correctly, which is a bonus. -- The Anome (talk) 10:23, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File:MadelineLee program.pdf[edit]

I'm curious. These MadelineLee images you've uploaded? Did you simpy scan them, or did you make the actual content of the pictures themselves?

Also, try to avoid uploading .pdf files if possible. They're ginormous and can carry malicious content. Thanks. :) Kylu (talk) 03:46, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestion. I am new to this so any advice is gratefully received. No, the pictures (in the gallery) were taken for me by the opera's publicist, and the files sent directly to me. They are my property. The ones I've posted so far are all jpeg. However, later I tried to upload a pdf file of the program but deleted it as it didn't seem to upload correctly. I will certainly take your advice and not upload pdfs. Yukka tukka indians (talk) 03:53, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The reason I asked, I noted you've been using a template that says "I, the copyright holder", which would be incorrect (Not that there's an immediate problem with this, but it does need to be fixed before someone decides to assert policy on the images).

If you could, ask the the publicist to email permissions@wikimedia.org with a statement saying that the materials are released into the public domain, that way we can upload them to Wikimedia Commons for use on other projects as well. Kylu (talk) 23:33, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Current Opera Project discussions[edit]

Hello from the Opera Project. I'm writing to all members on the active list to let them know that we could use your input on several issues currently under discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera:

The use of italics in article titles
Possible changes to the article guidelines concerning "Selected Recordings"
Suggestions for the July Composer of the Month and Opera of the Month

Please drop by if you have the time. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:28, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Message to all members of WikiProject Opera[edit]

Please see our project's talk page for a discussion of the possible changes to Wikipedia's policy on the biographies of living persons and the implications this will have for many articles under the project's banner. This is especially important if you are looking after or have created unreferenced or minimally referenced opera-related biographies of living people. Voceditenore (talk) 16:31, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree File:Madeline Lee program.JPG[edit]

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Madeline Lee program.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Acather96 (talk) 18:37, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]