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Posted: 09 Jan 2007, 23:23
by Garion
I agree that this is a nice forum. There are some nice people here.
I would love to do a Zone 1 Challenge this year but my mum wont let me come to London on my own
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 08:33
by Going Underground
garion24wales wrote:I agree that this is a nice forum. There are some nice people here.
I would love to do a Zone 1 Challenge this year but my mum wont let me come to London on my own
I don't want to pry on your private life but the above contradicts The Doctors first post on this topic....
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 09:53
by tubeguru
Anyway, getting back to the topic of this thread ...
I certainly do not give permission for any material from the main Tube Challenge website to be used on a Wikipedia page without being asked first. Simply lifting the text from here is hardly original is it?
I mean, how often do you use the word "ostensibly" in your day-to-day conversations? Not much I bet.
The overall layout of the page is also very bland. A few pieces of the text need links or citations, and the spelling and grammar needs seeing to.
It would have been a better idea if, instead of simply knocking up this half-arsed attempt, you'd suggested it on here first, so we could all have chipped in to make it a good page. Wikipedia rarely works when one person tries to do everything themselves (see wave-form).
The idea of turning the main content of this site into a Wiki was suggested to me before by a member of this forum but it didn't go anywhere at the time.
I would suggest you delete the whole thing and have a rethink, ideally involving all of us so we can come up with something more professional-looking.
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 10:00
by tubeguru
I would also point out that Wikipedia articles are supposed to be written from a neutral point of view.
Copying in a piece of text which says that Robert Robinson "will go down in history as a Tube Challenge legend" is hardly unbiased.
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 10:24
by Garion
Message to The DOCTOR: MY MUM IS NOT DEAD! She's just in hospital following a minor car crash. And I dont need you spreading rumours and false news about my orivate life!
I have a maths exam in four hours and I dont want to have to put up with you aswell! I dont know what it is with you. You just cause trouble for me.
Edit from Tubeguru: please keep this sort of thing out of the forum - it's childish. Use PMs. Thanks.
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 10:53
by Going Underground
garion24wales wrote:I agree that this is a nice forum. There are some nice people here.
I would love to do a Zone 1 Challenge this year but my mum wont let me come to London on my own
Just tell her that you are meeting 30 strangers that you know through the internet
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 10:56
by tubeguru
And that they're all men ...
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 11:05
by Garion
If I tell her that, she'll immediately assume I am going to meet 30 pervs. She thinks the worst of everything. Because I have Asperger's Syndrome, she wont let me do much on my own.
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 11:27
by zeibura
i didn't realise it was a symptom of asperger syndrome to want to go and meet pervs! tell her you're going to meet another bunch of people with asperger syndrome. it'd be a half truth seeing as there's at least one other on this forum...
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 15:31
by Starkey7
Getting back on topic, I feel that it would nevertheless be quite a nice idea to have something about Tube challenging on Wikipedia. I imagine that there might be a few people who search for that sort of thing on there.
But yes, we'd need to be quite careful in constructing the page. It would be nice to make it a joint effort between us.
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 15:36
by tubeguru
Starkey7 wrote:But yes, we'd need to be quite careful in constructing the page. It would be nice to make it a joint effort between us.
Which is the whole point of Wikipedia
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 16:46
by Garion
I wouldnt mind contributing. I was going to suggest it to you all but since starting college it's taken more of a back seat. And with the exams atm, I'm stressed enough as it is!
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 16:57
by jonny
garion24wales wrote:I have a maths exam in four hours
Would that be the Edexcel C1 exam? If so, I've just come home from that!
Good luck with your result,
Jonny
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 18:42
by tubeguru
I did my GCSE maths exam in May 1989.
That was the first year of GCSEs exams.
Posted: 10 Jan 2007, 19:01
by Garion
Ummm I dont know. It is C1 but not by Edexcel. The exam body is the Welsh Joint Education commitee. And i needed luck. The paper was hard! My maths teacher joked that A-Level means Ard-Level (Hard Level) and AS means Ard Stuff!
I think I probably failed LOL along with half the class!
Anyway there's still June...
I got my physics exam on Friday. I'm confident with that! I love physics! It's easy! (For physics, my maths teacher should rename A-Level to E-Level (Easy-Level
))