Talk:Mike Leigh

message: There is a link to OBE next to his name and it goes to a disambiguation page. I don't know what it is supposed to mean, so I was hoping someone else would clear it up.--Andland 23:52, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  OBE 

message: I tried to start editing this article but stopped after my 15th change. I realized that this needs a complete re-write. The text is both fawning and unreferenced. It does not even attempt an encyclopedic-style treatment of the subject. Can someone with more knowledge than me on the subject please consider a complete re-write? Thanks, Hu Gadarn 20:50, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, not only is it fawning and non-encyclopedic, much of it looks like a copyright violation "cut-and-paste" from a newspaper or magazine article. Anyway, this is one of the bizarre aspects of Wikipedia; there are huge 50 page articles on the most obscure Animé series or fantasy role playing game characters, and lengthy articles about very non-notable garage bands whose big claim to fame is an article in the local university paper...and then you have a major British playright, theatre and film director, and his Wikipedia article is a short, shambling mess!!! I'm being a bit ironic...of course the articles that Wikipedia editors work on reflects their interests, and there is more interest in popular culture articles on celebrity singers, comic books, etc....Nazamo (talk) 15:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: This article needs serious work

message: Does anyone else find these distracting and unhelpful? Aside from the fact that we have a guideline against such links, is there any reason they add value to the article? I can't see it myself. --John (talk) 18:14, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:EGG|Easter egg links]] 

message: This article is rated LOW importance? that is very dumb. Sayerslle (talk) 23:03, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikiproject actors and film makers

message: Is there a way of making this table smaller? I have to scroll the page on my computer to read it all. Also, if there's and X in a box in the bottom part of the table, the reader has to scroll up to see the name of the film the X refers to.  Thanks, EChastain (talk) 14:11, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I found something that had 90% in the table and so I reduced it to 65% and it fits better now for my PC anyhow. don't know if that helps. 40% made it difficult to read the names. Sayerslle (talk) 22:37, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table "Recurring collaborators"  huge and hard to read 

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message: The Guardian says "Back in London, Leigh began teaching at various drama schools, particularly Webber Douglas and East 15 where he worked on a piece called Individual Fruit Pies, in which the actors based their characters for the first time on real people of their acquaintance. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:57, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: "I want to congratulate you all on your degrees and thank the University for my honorary degree. Of course I would also very much like to congratulate the new graduands of East 15 Acting School, with which I do have a connection, because although as we thespian-type people know, it is an extraordinary anomaly to wear a ridiculous costume and to receive a degree for acting, nevertheless it is a wonderful thing, too. And I absolutely congratulate you and the University on having facilitated this phenomenon.  Thank you very much." - Mike Leigh himself in 2002, accepting his honorary degree from the University of Essex. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 23:09, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Alison Steadman also says that the two met at East 15, with a source from page 90 of Michael Coveney's 1996 book The World According to Mike Leigh. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:41, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: He directed plays there and met Alison Steadman there - that does not mean he studied there? Therefore the accolade should not be on his page Jm1226333 (talk) 11:37, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: To have directed at East 15 is not really an accolade. But I removed :Category:Alumni of East 15 Acting School. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:57, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

text: But then I re-added it, as he received an honorary degree in 2012, via the University of Essex (see above). Whether this counts as "Alma mater" is moot. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

text: And then I changed that to :Category:Alumni of the University of Essex who awarded the degree. That is an accolade, so I've added it to "Accolades and honours". Martinevans123 (talk) 12:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: That’s more specific. Appreciated.  Jm1226333 (talk) 12:08, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: If you find something that you disagree with, it's usually better to add a tag next to the relevant text and/or to ask a question at the Talk page, rather than just rip out an entire section. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[East 15 Acting School|East 15]]