User contributions for Davidnicholsknowsbest
A user with 3,338 edits. Account created on 22 November 2018.
25 May 2024
- 06:1606:16, 25 May 2024 diff hist +145 Have You Heard the Word Added a sentence on 'Futting', not because I know anything about it but because it seems weird to ignore it. Hopefully someone else has more information. current
- 06:1406:14, 25 May 2024 diff hist −158 The Fut The information on a recording called 'Super Duck' was extraneous and apparently false, probably a misunderstanding of information found at https://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/69.html current
- 06:0806:08, 25 May 2024 diff hist −13 m The Fut 'This was the first time since the formation of the Bee Gees that Gibb, who was still in the group, had performed with another group without them.' The 'without them' is superfluous.
- 06:0506:05, 25 May 2024 diff hist +67 Have You Heard the Word →Recording and aftermath: minor explanation of Billy Lawrie in absence of his own wikipedia entry
- 06:0006:00, 25 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Have You Heard the Word →Recording and aftermath: space
- 05:5505:55, 25 May 2024 diff hist −2 Have You Heard the Word Rewritten so as not to be extremely badly written. Billy Lawrie was mentioned as 'Lawrie' with no further explanation. Other elements were also poorly expressed, eg that Maurice Gibb 'gave his vocals... to tape', etc.
24 May 2024
- 07:5807:58, 24 May 2024 diff hist +2 m Stephanie McIntosh →Personal life: 'breaking up in late 2009' was written in a peculiar manner
5 May 2024
- 08:1108:11, 5 May 2024 diff hist +1 m Nadia Tass →Film current
- 08:1108:11, 5 May 2024 diff hist −22 Nadia Tass Fixed poor writing ('Known for directing Australian classic films...')
2 May 2024
- 01:4501:45, 2 May 2024 diff hist +16 Phil Morris (actor) →Early life: Once again, the amazing wikipedia parthenogenesis (Morris' father named but no mother listed). Fixed. current
- 00:5000:50, 2 May 2024 diff hist +16 m Laughing Clowns →Early years: 1979–1981: The song 'The Laughing Clowns' didn't 'provide' the band's debut record. It was on it though. current
29 April 2024
- 09:4909:49, 29 April 2024 diff hist −2 m Forenzics →History: digitised not digitalised current
- 09:4809:48, 29 April 2024 diff hist +35 m Tim Finn →2020–present: Forenzics: 'former members from the album' - that doesn't make sense. current
- 09:4609:46, 29 April 2024 diff hist −62 m Tim Finn →1981–present: Solo work: If Tim Finn and Phil Manzanera made an album together under any name other than ''Tim Finn & Phil Manzanera'', it'd be worthy of note, but as that is what they called themselves, well, that is who they are.
- 09:4409:44, 29 April 2024 diff hist −19 Tim Finn →1981–present: Solo work: if the album's eponymous, we don't need to be told what it's called.
- 09:4109:41, 29 April 2024 diff hist −4 m Nadia Tass →Film: the link to 'Amy' was not to the film, but to the name Amy.
- 09:4009:40, 29 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Phil Judd →FIlm and television soundtracks current
- 09:4009:40, 29 April 2024 diff hist −409 Phil Judd →Mr Phudd: The description of Judd's solo work was fragmented and limited, singling out two releases from seven; created separate section for visual art.
- 09:3309:33, 29 April 2024 diff hist +21 Phil Judd →Schnell Fenster: The information about Schnell Fenster and movie soundtracks was all mixed up. Separated them out.
- 09:2809:28, 29 April 2024 diff hist −20 m Phil Judd →After Split Enz: 'wrote lyrics and composed music' - that would be.... writing songs?!
- 09:2709:27, 29 April 2024 diff hist +4 m Phil Judd →Split Enz
- 09:2609:26, 29 April 2024 diff hist +2 Phil Judd →Split Enz: 'The Enz' is an irritating colloquialism we could do without
28 April 2024
- 07:0307:03, 28 April 2024 diff hist +417 Bob Oliver Rogers →Radio: Added information on Listen to the Banned current
- 06:5606:56, 28 April 2024 diff hist −42 m Bob Oliver Rogers →Radio: The link to Funny You Should Ask was to a late 1960s US game show, not the program devised by Rogers. Removed link.
27 April 2024
- 05:2505:25, 27 April 2024 diff hist −31 Duolingo 'less commonly studied languages such as Welsh, Irish, and Swahili.' - It's farcical to put these three together; 72 million people speak Swahili, 16 million as their first language. More people speak Swahili than speak Italian. It's not a 'less commonly studied language', is my point. Welsh and Irish have a tiny number of speakers by comparison. Rewritten.
26 April 2024
- 08:0408:04, 26 April 2024 diff hist −73 m Fay Kelton →Biography: Removed dead links to Danse Macabre and Forests of the Night. current
- 08:0308:03, 26 April 2024 diff hist +2 m Fay Kelton →Biography: The Patrick Pearce Motel should be in italics, like all other titles
- 08:0008:00, 26 April 2024 diff hist +2 m Fay Kelton →Biography: A Nice Day at the Office, not Nice Day at the Office
- 07:5907:59, 26 April 2024 diff hist −7 m Fay Kelton →Biography: to call ''A Nice Day at the Office'' a 'comedy spinoff' from ''The Comedy Game'' implies that ''The Comedy Game'' was not a comedy.
- 07:5507:55, 26 April 2024 diff hist −3 Fay Kelton →Biography: 'a number of guest appearances' - there were eight.
- 07:5307:53, 26 April 2024 diff hist 0 Fay Kelton →Biography: 'This was followed by a number of roles including the television film...' a film is not a role.
22 April 2024
- 21:4921:49, 22 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Hey Dad..! →2010 sexual abuse claims: apostrophe added current
19 April 2024
- 10:3110:31, 19 April 2024 diff hist +167 m Alexander Rud Mills →Later life: Added detail on Evelyn's beliefs Tag: content sourced to vanity press
- 10:2410:24, 19 April 2024 diff hist +135 m Alexander Rud Mills →Later life: added cause of Mills' death
16 April 2024
- 12:2812:28, 16 April 2024 diff hist +10 m Alexander Rud Mills Undid revision 1213928219 by MongogramForCandy (talk) It was in Brighton. Or Brighton East, if you want to be really technical. Should we change it to Brighton East? Tag: Undo
15 April 2024
- 23:0323:03, 15 April 2024 diff hist −3 m The Magnet →Illustrators: 'illustrated some very fine drawings' oddly enough you can draw illustrations but you can't illustrate drawings (unless you're drawing a picture of a drawing, of course) current
- 22:2422:24, 15 April 2024 diff hist +8 m The Magnet →Blue and Orange era – 1922–1937: 'ambitious travel series to faraway places such as India, China, South Seas, Egypt, and East Africa, which its readers would never see'. The magazine was available throughout the Empire/Commonwealth, and perhaps beyond, so obviously it had many readers in India, for instance.
13 April 2024
- 10:5210:52, 13 April 2024 diff hist −4 m Peter Rogers →Life and career: The link for 'Carry on London' was not to the film but to an early 70s stage show. Even if they are essentially the same story (this seems unlikely) the entry linked to did not feature any information on the proposed film. current
9 April 2024
- 09:1709:17, 9 April 2024 diff hist −1 m Softs (album) →Overview
- 09:1709:17, 9 April 2024 diff hist +540 Softs (album) →Overview: added quote from Etheridge
- 09:1409:14, 9 April 2024 diff hist −3 m Off the Wall →Impact: no inverted commas on indented quote current
- 09:0209:02, 9 April 2024 diff hist −1 m John Marshall (drummer) →Biography: 'the names Soft Machine again' - just one name current
6 April 2024
- 20:0720:07, 6 April 2024 diff hist −20 Daryl Somers →Bandstand (1976): I had written that Bandstand '76 was a response to Countdown and Flashez, but I realised Bandstand preceded Flashez by a few months
- 20:0420:04, 6 April 2024 diff hist +24 m Daryl Somers →Cartoon Corner and Hey Hey It's Saturday era (1971–77, 1979–1999): clarification of where they went when they left channel 9
- 20:0120:01, 6 April 2024 diff hist +1 m Daryl Somers →Cartoon Corner and Hey Hey It's Saturday era (1971–77, 1979–1999): repetition of word 'began'
4 April 2024
- 23:5023:50, 4 April 2024 diff hist −4 White Rock (film) →Production and release: A block quote should not be in italics current
3 April 2024
- 20:1620:16, 3 April 2024 diff hist +1 Tsk Tsk Tsk →Asphixiation: What is This Thing Called 'Disco'?: 'An executive from Missing Link records' is a ridiculous idea. Missing Link was not a tinpot operation but it was an independent label, it didn't have 'executives'!
2 April 2024
- 06:4106:41, 2 April 2024 diff hist −41 Fun Boy Three →History: Is David Byrne best-known as a singer? I would say not, or at least, he's known for many things. To call him a 'Scottish-American singer' is to my mind reductive and to call him merely 'Scottish-American' seems, well, irrelevant. Rewritten. current
- 06:3706:37, 2 April 2024 diff hist −6 Dick Cuthell →The Specials: 'When the Specials split up, Cuthell went on to record with the spin-off group Fun Boy Three.' - the timeline on this is messed up, as the previous paragraph regards the Special AKA as the continuation of the Specials, however, the Fun Boy Three co-existed with the Special AKA.
- 06:3206:32, 2 April 2024 diff hist +118 Drums and Wires →Packaging and leftover tracks: Once again Mumford was not mentioned by name and is instead referred to as 'a girl'. Rewrote some other poorly phrased elements (a 7" bonus EP? No, it's a bonus 7" EP. Etc). current
