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Tom's Wikipedia Page!!!!

Spyder Todd 2008

19:41 / 14.04.06

So, this is Tom's Wikipedia page.

I mean, that's cool and all, but I think Barbelith can make it better. So, who has a wikipedia account? And what types of suggestions do people have to make Tom's entry sexier than Barry White's voice?

matthew.

20:01 / 14.04.06

sexier than Barry White's voice

Well... no offense to Tom, but that's not the most flattering picture of him. I'm sure there's more handsome pics of the man.

As well, there's not enough references to Barbelith on that page. We need some sort of pithy and wry reference to either pirates, ninjas, badgers, or being "politically correct fascists!!!!111!!!"

Bed Head

20:13 / 14.04.06

Ganesh

20:23 / 14.04.06

And what types of suggestions do people have to make Tom's entry sexier than Barry White's voice?

Plenty of lubricant.

Aertho

20:33 / 14.04.06

rimshot?

Tryphena Absent

20:49 / 14.04.06

I suggest that we all leave the poor wikipedia entry alone and go and watch the Manchester Passion on BBC2.

Char Aina

20:54 / 14.04.06

anglocentricist!

Spaniel

21:01 / 14.04.06

Tom, don't take this the wrong way, but that photo has reminded me how much older we've all become.

Christ, I was twenty two or twenty three the first time I looked at the Nexus. Now I'm 30.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:06 / 14.04.06

Just don't go there, Boboss. I joined Barbelith at 29... I'll be 35 by Christmas. It's all wrong, I tell you.

(Sorry... just come from playing WoW where everyone's a godzillion years younger than me and all got really censurious when I said I had to go buy cigarettes- "how old r u? Smoking for 17 years? That can't b gd fr u!")

Tryphena Absent

21:09 / 14.04.06

On second thought don't watch it. So far it sucks.

Regrettable Juvenilia

21:10 / 14.04.06

Having just watched a little of the Manchester Passion, it occurs to me that perhaps it would have been bearable viewing had they chosen someone more charismatic and likeable than Keith Allen to do the 'links' - for example, a chimpanzee who was also a convicted pederast.

Sorry, back to Tom.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:13 / 14.04.06

Hang on- Keith Allen's in it?

Why on earth did anyone think it would be worth watching in the first place?

Ganesh

21:19 / 14.04.06

Thread on it here.

Jack Denfeld

22:40 / 14.04.06

Y'know, I'm not actually sure that we do need that. Looking at the page history, I see that some guy - I wonder who, eh viewers? - recently attempted to slip in a mention of Jack Denfeld being the king of barbelith. And got it edited back out again almost straightaway. What with it being a page about Tom Coates and all.
I swear to God and on Mark Gruenwald's soul that wasn't me. I'm pretty sure I know who it was because they sent me a link to it, and when reading it I immediately thought "Oh no, they're all gonna think I did that". I promise that wasn't me, but I ain't no snitch, so I won't be giving up the guilty party.

It was me.

No, I'm Spartacus!

No, it really was me. I'm not kidding.

I love Qalyn.

We've noticed.

I would like to change this line
He also runs the online subcultural community Barbelith - initially inspired by the work of author Grant Morrison.
To this
He also runs some online subcultural community Barbelith - initially inspired by the work of comic book writer Grant Morrison.
That way we seem less serious.

Bed Head

23:23 / 14.04.06

I'm not really interested in who did it, that probably sounded more snarky and accusatory than I ever meant it to. I think I just wanted something to use as an excuse to call everyone 'viewers,' and this thing was closest to hand. Or something. It's all entirely the fault of Mordant's Smash Hits thread, anyway.

Qalyn, I don't believe you. Only the other week you were telling people off for using out-of-date Denfeld jokes.

8===>Q: alyn

00:46 / 15.04.06

I was telling everyone off for using the same moronic joke, over and over again, till I was sicking of looking at it. Putting Jack Denfeld = King grafitti up on Tom's wikipedia page was something entirely unrelated, something I felt I had to do. You'll notice I didn't go back and do it again.

This Steve Block, I don't know who he is, but he's going on the List. He also deleted my separate Jack Denfeld page, the vile fellow.

Jack Denfeld

01:04 / 15.04.06

Sounds like a Blockhead to me.

pangloss

01:52 / 15.04.06

At the risk of stating the obvious, you don't need a wikipedia account to fiddle with Tom's page. Just hit the edit button and do yer stuff.

Spyder Todd 2008

15:27 / 17.04.06

Hmm. Yes, well... that's what I get for never tried to change it, I suppose.

grant

15:01 / 17.10.06

I just closed the parentheses around his birthday.

I *contributed*.

Tom Coates

19:49 / 17.10.06

Oh dear God. I've just noticed this thread. What's up with you people!

Flattered as I am, I keep thinking someone will get around to deleting that page, and probably with good reason. What would be a better way for people on the board to contribute to Wikipedia would be to fix some of the articles around theoretical and Head Shoppy areas - particularly those of you with particularly focused knowledge in one area or another. I'd love it if Barbelith took on some Wikipediarish projects, whether that mean adding in information around Grant and Seven Soldiers, or BSG or Chaos Magick or Deconstruction or Judith Butler.

grant

20:53 / 17.10.06

Actually, if any Latin or Greek translators want to clarify some stuff on the Apocrypha page, I'd be happy, too.

I, uh, spent a *lot* of time with parentheses on that page.

8===>Q: alyn

23:04 / 17.10.06

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