Talk:Mike Reid (actor)

message: I'm sure this was written by an avid fan, but it falls short of encyclopedia requirements. riana 18:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Inappropriate tone tag

message: "Angela (who in 2008 the press claimed to be a British National Party activist), however the rumour appeared unfounded."
Footnotes for either points would help, first that she was/is a BNP activist (which I think is true) second that this is not true (which I think is false).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.41.62.46 (talk) 23:53, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: BNP

message: Mike Reid has died today, according to BBC News 24. --Mwongozi 18:39, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Died today 

message: "a fatal heart attack in the heart area of his chest area of his body" - for God's sake, if you're going to update this article then write comprehensible English - where else is someone going going to suffer a heart attack than in their heart??? If you can't write something sensible, then don't write anything. -- Arwel (talk) 19:09, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Some unmitigated rubbish

message: 86.151.43.15 21:35, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Nationality

message: I was just reading the BBC's report on his death and noticed some similarities with this article.  Most obvious to me was the phrase "remembered for its incomprehensible rules and the incongruity of him as presenter", which has been used in some form in this article since December 2005.  Either way, one of the articles isn't citing the other.  Odd, huh?  --Gid 00:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All creds to us, eh? And a sharp reminder that the vandalism watch is really needed right now. Cos as Frank Butcher he reached out to a wider audience and demands our respect in this sad time for his family, SqueakBox 00:11, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless of course someone from PA writes in wikipedia... and has an excellent memory of his contributions, okay maybe not... SGGH speak! 16:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: On a related note, surely this is an un-encyclopaedic phrase anyway, and should be revised? It is pure supposition on the part of the author that the rules were incomprehensible (it was a fairly straightforward game: contestants were allowed to choose a multiple-choice answer, then given the chance to change their minds once they saw how everyone else was voting - not incomprehensible at all), or that this should be the reason it is remembered. Neither is the incongruity really a reason: most of the people who do remember the show were probably too young to think anything of the choice of compere.Jock123 (talk) 13:41, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  BBC News article 

message: This article was automatically  assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 23:58, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Reference 1: a link to Deaths and Births England and Wales 1984-2006  
is both inadequate and unnecessary.--User:Brenont (talk) 01:57, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death of granddaughter 

message: Per WP:AT Naturalness ..."actually called": 
* "actor Mike Reid" 262,000, "the actor Mike Reid" 41,000
* "comedian Mike Reid" 139,000, "the comedian Mike Reid" 5,540
* "entertainer Mike Reid" 1,390, "the entertainer Mike Reid" zero
Possible that Mike Reid is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC here: In ictu oculi (talk) 10:18, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Page views

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I know absolutely nothing about this actor, but it says here:
Reid was thus bestowed with the title of Baron of Troup, a genuine and hereditary barony, though one conveying no privilege aside from the use of the title itself.
If this is a barony shouldn't the lede and infobox include this amongst his titles as 13th Baron ?  Even if but a laird-ship and maybe equivalent to Lord of the Manor, it is nonetheless a thing   ---  and having read recently on Wiki many people involved in the War of the Roses and 4 centuries later the Grand Whiggery of the 18th century, I don't see that personal worthiness of the owner or the rank of a title were in any way germane to acknowledging it.
https://aboutaberdeen.com/The-Baron-of-Troup-Gardenstown-ITV-Reality-Television-Programme
Claverhouse (talk) 11:19, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The title of "Baron of Troup" was confered as a prize in a competition on a reality TV show, has no value, and mentioning it in the article's lede and infobox would be WP:UNDUE. Since the year 2000, Scottish baronies can be bought and sold and have no land or privileges. See Barons in Scotland#Abolition of feudal tenure. Scottish barons are NOT aristocrats. The 12th holder (Ian George Cruickshank, 12th of Troup  by heritable lineage) SOLD the barony to the reality TV show. "This actual title was bought especially by ITV for the reality TV programme."  "Fiona Allen's commentary also tells us that Gardenstown is in crisis after the last Baron relinquished his title. She doesn't tell us that it's a figurehead role without any actual power, or that he relinquished it because the production company made him a generous financial offer for it. Scottish baronies are the only British honours that can be legally traded, but one of the first acts of the new Scottish Parliament was to abolish what remained of the old Scottish feudal system, with the upshot that the title doesn't actually confer any land or special rights." See also False titles of nobility.  Platonk (talk) 17:30, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  An Aristocrat