LittleDan wrote: I trust that you mean DW. IIRC, Julie doesn't think that Triton is DW but does think that he's some other usernames that she's met before. (Not that Julie automatically knows all user identities, but she's in a position that makes her more likely to be suspicious.) Now that I've posted this, Julie will no doubt clarify if I messed up. In any case, until we're sure that Triton is DW, then we shouldn't treat him is if he is, so I think that Dante is right to get his opinion. (IMO, Viking is certainly not DW *or* Triton.) -- Toby

Peter Bartlett wrote: I never heard of Mornington Crescent, so that allusion is obscure to me. It would seem hard to define NPOV in an absurdist context where empirical sense does not have a significant role to start with. It may be sufficient to offer a warning to those readers inclined to take the subject seriously that what follows is parody, and that if they are seriously looking for medical help they should consult a psychiatrist. The copyright issue may not matter because of the anti-copyright stand. If the pataphysicians (or pataphyphysicists?) have left the impression that they are releasing their own writings into the public domain, so be it. What they really are doing should be carefully checked. Tony Hancock WAS a real person!!! His radio comedy ranks right up there with "The Goon Show" and "Monty Python". Whether the "The Rebel" or the retrospective are accurate representations of Hancock, or parodies is quite another question. When absurdists think outside the box they also abandon the safety of keeping the box in view. [[Votes for Deletion]] may simply be the wrong place for the discussion. There is absolutely nothing on the talk page for [[Pataphysics]].

Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote: Tony Hancock WAS a real person!!! His radio comedy ranks right up there with "The Goon Show" and "Monty Python". Whether the "The Rebel" or the retrospective are accurate representations of Hancock, or parodies is quite another question. When absurdists think outside the box they also abandon the safety of keeping the box in view. No, Pete said Anthony Hancock wasn't real and Tony Hancock was the actor who portrayed him. �LittleDan --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).

As far as I can tell Harry Potter is using Wikipedia to engage in some form of absurdist conceptualist art by adding subtle inaccuracies in articles, turning then into nonsense, but doing it in such a way that it is hard to pick out the absurdist nonsense from what may be a genuine contribution. Whether this equates to pataphysics or not I have no idea. But it is essentially corrupting Wikipedia. In my opinion he is every bit as much of a vandal as Michael and should be treated similarly with blanket reversions. Just to clarify the Tony Hancock thing for anyone not familiar with the film "The Rebel". -- The British comedian Tony Hancock used his own name for the character he protrayed in his Radio and TV broadcasts and also in this particular film. In the film he portrayed an office worker who aspired to being a great artist. However he could neither paint nor sculpt with any degree of artistic skill (at least that is the impression his artwork is intended to give to the filmgoer). Despite his lack of artistic ability he manages to become recognized as a great artist by the establishment in Paris. The film is to some extent a satire on modern art. The purported "London Institute of Pataphysics" claims to have put on an exhibition entitled "Anthony Hancock: Paintings and Sculpture: A Retrospective" http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/theLIP/dora-hancock.html Since it wasn't the REAL Tony Hancock but the CHARACTER Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock who was an artist, such an exhibition is pure fantasy. Yet Harry Potter has added articles on this and other subjects as if they were real. Mintguy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Bartlett" <pcb21(a)btconnect.com> To: <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:56 AM Subject: [WikiEN-l] User:Harry Potter