Talk:Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

message: In the edit at 12:44, 12 June 2006, RupertMillard removed:
:"as well as a propensity for mispronouncing words."
from the description of paxman's presentation of university challenge.
It was previously removed on 21:40, 21 February 2006 by Martin S Taylor and replaced a day later by Flapdragon, who originally addded it at 20:20, 26 January 2005.
Paxman DOES mispronounce word which are critical to the understanding of the question on a fairly regular basis.  (eg: this week he pronounced Adonis as "ah-dough-nis").  This was pointed out to me by a friend and it has bugged me ever since.TomViza 11:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought it was pronounced "ah-dough-nis" (or perhaps "uh-doe-nis") (let's say, "Adōnis"). What is it? "Uh-don-is"? This is as in Lord Adonis? I think he is called "Adōnis". Unless I am mistaken the Greek is Αδωνις, which does indeed have a long "ō" sound. So I think Paxman is correct. Other opinions are welcome.--Oxonian2006 11:07, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mispronouncing Words: discussion copied from [[Jeremy Paxman]] discussion page

message: Just in case anyone doesn't get the joke, "Tony Zoffis" is a Greek-sounding homophone for "Tony's office". David | Talk 15:25, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Tony Zoffis

message: I have a hard time believing "the without exception negative public reactions about his appointment to the Lords" is true. I suspect an editor has confused "overwhelmingly" with "unanimously"; they are not the same thing! 86.132.139.49 03:34, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Without exception? 

message: I was just surfing Wikipedia news and found this article in PC Pro, which quotes the Department for Children, Schools and Families in saying that "Lord Adonis corrected a page about himself on Wikipedia which was factually incorrect."  I don't know if these edits have been identified or found to be POV. Joshdboz (talk) 17:36, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edited by Adonis himself 

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message: The user in question: 79.67.104.127
The contribution in question is found in the 'Subsequent Career' section:
Responding to Adonis' description of Brexit as a "populist and nationalist spasm", Iain Duncan Smith said the departure of Lord Adonis was "long overdue"; he added: "It's a bit rich for him to pontificate on what he calls populism, but what most would refer to as democracy, when he himself has never been elected by a public vote. [sic] He has instead relied on preferment from others."[29]
I want to talk about 2 things: 1.The User's behaviour 2.The nature of the contribution and whether it should be there.
1. The user has been obsessively protective of their contribution to the article. It's been deleted a number of times but this user reverts it every time with bogus claims of harassment. This person attacks other IPs who change the contribution because they don't have a past history of contribution, despite themselves not having a past history of contributions before this one. To me this makes the user look very motivated in one political aspect and thus does not uphold the values of contributing to wikipedia fairly in a bipartisan and neutral fashion. 
The reverts in their own words:
17:23, 30 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+572)‎ . . Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis ‎ (Undid revision 817794972 by Saltpot99 (talk) reverting vandalism by a user who has never posted before.)
20:53, 29 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+505)‎ . . Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis ‎ (Undid revision 817665178 by 86.22.235.63 (talk) Another unregistered IP address that has never posted before tries to whitewash Adonis's entry.))
20:21, 29 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+298)‎ . . Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis ‎ (Restoring FACTual elements of my entry accused of being "abuse". See how unregistered IP addresses that have never posted before immediately whitewash Adonis's entry.)
2. The contribution looks and feels very tacked on. The section is about 'Subsequent Career' and not about criticism, if you can call this criticism. The user claims it's 'factual'. Well, it may factually come from Iain Duncan Smith but the quote is a political attack on Adonis and nothing more. It's political spin talk and deserves to be kept in the realm of tabloids, not on a wikipedia page.
A possible solution is to create a 'Criticism of Andrew Adonis' section but then this contribution and the section itself would still be out of place, for reasons I stated above. It should be deleted.
Phosfer (talk) 11:58, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible non biased agenda from contributor on article 

message: I been told to come to you 😊 Leilah 70 (talk) 03:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hello 👋 I am deaf woman here and I can't hear your voice. 

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section:
* Cite templates will be used where possible.
* Tables may be used to organise short stories, poems and/or book reviews. 
* I prefer capitalization and punctuation to follow the standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, rather than "title case".
* Links (either direct or indirect) to potentially unreliable or incomplete digitised copies and to booksellers may be removed. 
This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 10:58, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography