Talk:Balls of Steel (TV series)

message: *I put quite a bit of work into this to get it to a better standard. It's getting there,and this will be cleaned up very soon. To count I think 3 people are working on this. Let's hope this gets cleaned up soon as I think this is a very good show. (JS)
*JS again. Looked through it and noticed that very little has to be done. WE have to clean up the criticisms column and perhaps go into a bit more detail and definitely add links. Oh and if possible,make a table of each week's winner's?
:I've effectively rewritten the entire 'Guest Presenters' section (and renamed it as "Acts" since they're not guest presenters at all) to correct the grammar and give more general descriptions of the acts. Still needs work though. Foolish Mortal 22:29, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvements

message: There's an attempt going on at a page move, it's a little confusing, however I think the aim is to move this page to Balls of Steel (TV). Just thought I'd leave a note here. Driller thriller 17:46, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page move

message: This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it.  Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed.  I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy.  In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed or you would like to help spread this message contact us on this page. Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 03:31, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  YouTube links 

message: Right, let's just take off all records of any results in any TV show, then. I have been adding the past winners of the Balls Of Steel weekly trophy, because it is RELEVANT TO THE SHOW. Yet some idiot has decided that he knows what people should and shouldn't know about the show, and repeatedly removes the information without explanation. I can't exaggerate just how stupid this is. Stop doing it, it is pathetic.
:Really, Wikipedia isn't the place to start creating arguments and making arguments. Discuss this civilly before creating edit wars or starting conflicts. In My opinion, as the show is more about the comedy and less about the winners (Channel 4 lists it always as Comedy and not Competition on 4od), I really doubt that an average reader coming to Wikipedia for the first time and clicking this article would want to know about the winners of each show. And at the end of the day, first-time readers are primarily Wikipedia's main audience and so the guidelines for a good article on Wikipedia are made for them. Of course if you owuld like to respond civilly to this, I would be happy to reply and may be persauded if there really is reason enough. J.J.Sagnella 13:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Winners 

message: Just added that the sex isn't real - you can quite clearly see that they are wearing flesh coloured pants in the vital areas! Having real sex, I think, would be illegal in the contexts they do it in. I think they tow a fine line just being semi-clothed. Xzamuel 19:02, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably.  But then again, I'd be just as surprised if half of Neg's sports are legal. -- Smjg 23:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Query:  Right now the Tony Parsons link leads to a disambiguation page.  Should it lead instead to the british jounalist, or is the one here a fourth Tony Parsons, who ought not to be wikilinked at all.  I've never seen the show, so I don't know.  Would someone who knows either disambiguate the link or delete the brackets entirely, as appropriate? David in DC (talk) 18:43, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A note on 'The Fuckers' 

message: This edit, reverted 18 minutes later, gave his name as Ross Noble.
If there's no evidence of what his name is, what evidence is there of what his name isn't? -- Smjg 23:55, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identity of World's Worst 

message: i seen something in this article earlier about series 3 but now it is removed:S:S is there going to one if so add it again and cite it. in my opiniun thier will be lots more series's, the show is brilliant.Andrew22k 19:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: series 3

message: The section has been rewritten as a single table.  I'm not sure what I think of it at the moment.  Though I'd thought of doing something similar for when series three comes along, but still with separate "Current acts" and "Retired acts" sections.
Admittedly, the extra columns (along with the fact that the whole section is now subject to narrowing by the infobox) do make the table appear rather narrow.... -- Smjg 20:37, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New-look acts section 

message: I have got images of each acts titlecard should they go on the article ? Bencey 23:11, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: I just removed a pile of vandel edits. I don't think I removed anything important but if I have please feel free to put it back. Leaderofearth 12:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: What is the racial implication of 'hoe'?  OK, it's the slightly better way to say 'whore', but that has very little relevance to black people. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.180.98.76 (talk • contribs) 08:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is probably OT for a Wikipedia talk page, but still.  What Toju is saying is lost on me too.  But if it is something to do with "whore", the implication would be that the customer is being accused of having a nonsensical stereotype of people of a certain colour, similarly to the "Please keep off the grass" instance. -- Smjg 23:48, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Actually, what I think he is implying there is 'Just because I'm black, you think I'm a pimp?' -- Asiant X13 22:28, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Yeah, he posed as a worker in a hardware shop which had signs everywhere saying 'Free hoe with every purchase'. On being questioned about the free hoe, he kicks off at the two men who asked the question by accusing them of thinking he's a pimp.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.108.215.60 (talk) 16:29, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Free hoe

message: Knowing the owner of the website "ballsofsteel.tv" personally (he's in the same class as me; I know it sounds a little too good to be true, but 'tis true), I've had to take down that external link, as he has been given a Cease and Desist letter from Objective Productions (the people who produce Balls of Steel) regarding the videos being shown there.~~NaN 12:46, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But ballsofsteel.tv didn't host the videos - it just linked to videos on YouTube.  Is such linking actually illegal?  Indeed, how many of the videos did he put up on YT? -- Smjg (talk) 16:46, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Balls of Steel.tv" link 

message: Somebody has taken the "liberty" to add information on new Series 3 acts and even a "Series 3 winners" section.  I have felt obliged to remove this because:
* Series 3 hasn't started yet, so contrary to how they were listed, they are not "current" acts.
* The information on these new acts is unreferenced.  Add to that the facts that they were added one by one and that the edit summary was not filled in each time; FAIK they could be pure figments of the editors' imaginations.
* Wiki is not paper, so setting aside space in which to add information before there's any information to add is nothing but clutter.
Of course, if anybody can find and cite a credible source telling us about the new acts from Series 3, then we could create an "Upcoming acts" section and put them there.  Failing this, we should wait until the series has started to air. -- Smjg (talk) 21:32, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Series 3 stuff recently added to article 

message: On last night's programme, I noted down the acts listed in the opening sequence, and those that I caught agree with what the article currently says.  However, I seem to have noticed that there was one I missed between Scummy Mummy and Neg, as they were coming too fast for me to write them down.  Or was I imagining it?
I can't believe that three of Series 2's four new acts have already retired.  And was I imagining it, or did PFT only ever perform once?  I'm also amazed that none of the Series 1 acts have newly retired. -- Smjg (talk) 11:03, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I had begun to wonder about the Escapologist as well.  So what are the "disastrous failures" mentioned in the act description at the moment?  It appears that somebody has confused the programme with some other programme he performed on or his website. -- Smjg (talk) 16:36, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Series 3 acts, now that it's begun 

message: How about adding a "Number of appearances" column to the acts table?  Does anybody out there have the data to add? -- Smjg (talk) 10:58, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of appearances? 

message: Once, it said Andrew Clover.  Then, it said Robin Huxtable.  Now the performer is down as Andrew Clover, and the segment name as "Robin Huxtable - Naked Man".
What's this meant to mean?  That Andrew Clover is his real name, and he has two character names - "Robin Huxtable" and "Naked Man"?  This begs the questions:
* Why the two character names?
* What is the source for Andrew Clover being his real name?
* If the segment name is "Robin Huxtable - Naked Man", why did the segment's title screen say only "The Naked Man"?
Answer:
I found a blog-post written by Andrew Clover himself. He's credited under that name in the post. So, we know that is his real name. As for where "Robin Huxtable" comes from, I'm not sure. Maybe an alias, or something like that? But, this is just speculation on my part. He didn't sound super enthusiastic about the experience of portraying The Naked Man on the show in the blog-post.
-- anonymous 17:27, 28 November 2018  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A06:4001:6038:0:3DBD:1AA1:FEB3:909B (talk)  
-- Smjg (talk) 13:48, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andrew Clover or Robin Huxtable?