Talk:Richard Ayoade

message: According to the article his mother's maiden name is "Baassuik", which does not look Norwegian at all. It is possible that the "u" is supposed to be a "v". Baassvik, or better yet Båssvik, is an actual Norwegian name ("aa" is often substituted for "å"). Sadly I don't have any sources, apart from my own skills of deduction. Anonymous 12:23, 25 Octrober 2014  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.215.33.20 (talk)  
I've removed all detail about his parents' names, as per WP:BLP: two of the supporting links are dead, leaving only the Irish Times article which doesn't name them. The link to the pdf document mentions people with the same surname as Richard, but since it doesn't say what relations they are, this would constitute original research ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 15:45, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mother's name 

message: Here's a (bad) picture, licensed under Creative Commons, of him.
http://flickr.com/photos/eyedropper/321708524/sizes/s/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wmli (talk • contribs) 15:56, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I uploaded the picture mentioned by Wmli above. If anyone else has a better picture, feel free to replace the current one. -Gr0ff (talk) 20:01, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

text: It's exactly wikipedia quality, there are standards above which it will not go. A decent image will have the Copyright Nazis kicking in the door post-haste.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.211.163 (talk) 02:09, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I wonder if anything in this interview could be useful for the article:
Guardian interview 2008
Ka Faraq Gatri (talk) 20:19, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There's also this from the National Post.  Ka Faraq Gatri (talk) 20:37, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential Source? 

message: The two pronunciation guides give different pronunciations for his name.  I don't know which (if either) are correct.  --deflective (talk) 08:57, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  SInce he is Nigerian (definitely Yoruba), that pronunciation EYE-oh-AH-dee is totally wrong. SuperSwift (talk) 15:15, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

text: I have ears like a bat’s for deciphering speech sounds, thanks to my grad school coursework.  And every time I’ve heard him pronounce his own last name (e.g., at the beginning of every episode of Gadget Man), it’s been /ˌaɪuˈɑːdi/ “EYE-oo-AH-dee”.  But I can't be 100% sure, so I'm not changing it. LemonPokeCake (talk) 18:15, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ayoade Pronunciation 

message: Im a horrible Wiki editor, but today he's holding a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) will post relative info here that he answers.https://twitter.com/MagnoliaPics/status/463795884258390016  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.160.118.126 (talk) 21:34, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reddit AMA 

message: He has just won a BAFTA for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme for the IT Crowd.  Where should this information go?  Should there be a new section for the award or perhaps just under the IT Crowd? Igniparous (talk) 17:23, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  BAFTA award 

message: According to his latest tweets, his birthday listed on Wikipedia is incorrect.
https://twitter.com/richardayoade/status/477013679251394560
https://twitter.com/richardayoade/status/477013962383699968  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel samuels (talk • contribs) 09:15, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, on Duck Quacks Don't Echo, he specifies he has a 'Wikipedia birthday' , but his real one is 25th Dec (no year mentioned).  John Decker NZ (talk) 11:12, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Christmas Day? The second tweet above has him saying he was born "mid-march, 49 years ago" (at a time when he was 37), so I'm guessing Richard finds it amusing and/or useful to joke about fake birthdays. This article is currently saying May 23rd with no source, so I've removed it. --31.48.187.186 (talk) 14:34, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthday 

message: "Ayoade is also the brother-in-law of the singer and actress Billie Piper, who married Laurence Fox in 2007, but this statement is a misunderstanding of the relations by marriage concept. Ayoade's wife is the sister-in-law of Piper and Ayoade is therefore merely the husband of Piper's sister-in-law."
Ummm... okay? This sentence would get the writer laughed out of an editor's office. It has been changed. 73.173.114.38 (talk) 23:59, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unnecessary Complication 

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message: The 'Early life and education' section states 'he says that his parents would not approve of studies considered to be of the "Regency era"', which makes it sound like Ayoade's parents didn't want him to study the Regency era. The actual quote from the Guardian article makes it clearer that they considered the whole concept of a non-vocational degree as something archaic, or straight out of the Regency era. As the quote is easy to misunderstand and hard to explain, and the rest of the sentence already explains that 'a non-vocational degree seemed such an outlandish indulgence' to them, I'm going going to delete the part about the Regency era. Sadiemonster (talk) 08:35, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Regency era" quote 

message: Hello,
This article has been “issued a yellow card” (apologies for not knowing the official term) for an overly-detailed lead section. Editors are supposed to have a discussion before correcting it, hence the new topic.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section is a helpful resource.  This is my first time taking on a Wikipedia edit of this magnitude, though my career requires me to write hundreds of pages of expository prose a year.
I’m not sure if it’s been worked on already, but it still strikes me as too dense so I’m guessing it hasn’t.  Is anyone else interested in collaborating?  If so, great!  If not, I’m not afraid to go it alone but I’ll wait a while before getting started & I’ll post proposed changes here. LemonPokeCake (talk) 00:38, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead Section