User talk:Count Chocula: Difference between revisions

• /Archive 1: February 2006 – April 2006

The King

Sorry, but I've about had it with Elvis Presley. It seems an example of what's wrong with WP: a pile of people with the attention-span of fruit flies plus a few people obsessed with "chart performance" and at least one apparently tireless "contributor" who seems to want to turn WP into Hollywood Babylon have turned the article into a congeries of sleaze and trivia. I'm confident that it's not quite as awful now as it was three days or so ago but I'm also confident (?) that the good work I and at least one other person has put into it during that time will come to nothing.

Unfortunately I find it hard to imagine that anyone, or even any group of people, will muster enough energy to lick it into shape -- unless perhaps they're diehard fans, whereupon it could turn into a bland hagiography.

This is a great pity. I make no secret of the fact that I have little love for Presley's music, but I do think that some of his stuff was good, that he had major significance, and that neither his music nor his wider significance had anything whatever to do with such questions as whether or how he porked some starlet or the reason why this or that record was ineligible to enter the British pop charts and how high it would have reached if it had been eligible (really!).

What this article needs, and won't get, is a group of three people who can lock it for three days or so while they radically revise it. (Just imagine: such an article might even find space to mention "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Blue Suede Shoes"!) Oh yes, and thereafter hang around to beat or laugh off subsequent attempts to reintroduce "information" that's actually just blather.

If you can muster up such a group, let me know and I'll consider joining you. -- Hoary 10:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Personal attacks

Thanks for the heads up on Ken Y's page -- I really appreciate it. --Mhking 23:01, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

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Please tag the above image with an appropriate image tag (for example {{GFDL-self}} if you have created it yourself), or it will be deleted in 7 days. - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 16:04, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Done.--Count Chocula 14:02, 12 May 2006 (UTC)