Talk:Alexei Sayle

message: Re - Thoss' question. The play was "Night Voice", a wonderful piece of work shown in 1990, but never repeated.  I wonder if the BBC still have it?  Does anyone know anything about "The Alexei Sayle Pirate Video" released in 1982?  I was not aware of it.  Any info would be much appreciated!
Scrabble1968 (talk) 21:41, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Screen plays and videos

message: I can't resist replying ... Well, there was an image on this article, till the copyright police took it down ... there, I feel better now. 23skidoo 00:07, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Response to the "image request" tag

message: The article says, "In the aftermath of May 1968, he joined the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)." The implication is that something happened in May, 1968 that prompted his joining the party, but whatever it is is not explained. Can someone update this? -- Hux 08:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing info?

message: "has one son who is now in his early twenties.[citation needed]" I'd say this citation is needed pretty urgently, or this shoudl be removed. I'm sure I've read in several interviews with Sayle that he has never had children. If anyone has any evidence to the contrary they should put it up, or it should be removed. On a different note, this entry needs more about Sayle's career as an author, which has been his main direction for over seven years now.
-JG 19/10/07  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.176.105.40 (talk) 15:59, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Family info query

message: Although the photo of a rabbit is quite amusing, I dont think that it is Alexei Sayle :) Someone revert?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.152.235.13 (talk) 11:42, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: I have somewhat vague recollections of sayle "appearing" on radio four's fourth column in the mid nineties, anyone else?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.24.241.9 (talk) 00:49, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Radio Four's Fourth Column? 

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message: Today I reverted a good faith edit by an unregistered user. The user had removed this content from the Early Life section:
Sayle's mother was of Lithuanian Jewish descent and some members of his mother's family were very devout Jews, as he mentioned when he nominated Palestinian rights advocate Edward Said on the BBC Radio 4 programme Great Lives.
A link to the 2010 Bookseller article "'Ullo Alexei! Gotta new memoir?" was also removed (the link was broken so I've fixed it: http://www.thebookseller.com/profile/ullo-alexei-gotta-new-memoir )
The user replaced the above with the following statement:
Sayle is mostly of Albanian descent.
A reference from the Daily Mail was included with the title "Albania, the minnows who worship Norman Wisdom, are the unlikeliest of Euro 2016 qualifiers after securing spot in France": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3270457/Albania-minnows-worship-Norman-Wisdom-unlikeliest-Euro-2016-qualifiers-securing-spot-France
The reference does indeed include the claim that "The family of stand-up comedian Alexi Sayle, born in Liverpool, come from Albania".
I'm not sure if this is true; I hadn't heard it before. The content from the Bookseller piece is quite well known. So I've restored the original, and hope someone can help to confirm or deny the Albanian connection. Polly Tunnel (talk) 18:38, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Sayle is mostly of Albanian descent?

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I have removed some political claims due to the source that was used to claim them being a dead link, so they could not be verified. In regards to biographies of living persons, all claims should be cited with a reliable source which is verifiable. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced should be removed immediately and without discussion. Please see WP:BLPSOURCE and Wikipedia:Verifiability for more information. This is also very clearly outlined under the verifiablity link, where it expliticlty states -
'All material in Wikipedia mainspace, including everything in articles, lists and captions, must be verifiable. All quotations, and any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, must include an inline citation that directly supports the material. Any material that needs a source but does not have one may be removed. Please immediately remove contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced'. Helper201 (talk) 19:50, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Helper201 I disagree. Please reinstate. A reliable source was provided i.e.  Verifiable does not mean that you can read it online e.g. offline books are cited. According to Wikipedia:Link rot, "In general, do not delete cited information solely because the URL to the source does not work any longer." There are a range of methods for seeking to check the source. For example, Here is the full text from Wayback machine Web Archive. Their Past Your FutureImperial War Museum
Date of birth: 1952
Place: Liverpool, Britain
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Growing up with parents who were strongly committed to communist ideology meant that Alexei had an unusual upbringing. His parents would often have discussions about morality and ideology. They expected Alexei to have an ideological standpoint, even as a child.
‘It was a bit like having Radio Moscow on all the time...if you bought a Superman comic they would say...it's capitalist propaganda...’ 
Alexei’s family holidays were also unusual. His father worked for the railways, so they had free travel up to the borders of the Soviet Union. They visited several countries behind the Iron Curtain including Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria.
Alexei found that everything was very different from the West.
‘...there was no advertising and what packaging there was, was often done in this just very extraordinary alien style and of course there was only one of everything. So there would be toothpaste, pen, shoe...that was very striking...’
Because his parents were members of the Communist Party, they were often well received and made some close friends.
‘We went to Prague...we got to know various high-ups in the government...’
Alexei gained a unique perspective of communism in Eastern Europe because not many Westerners, even members of left-wing organisations, could visit countries behind the Iron Curtain. But to him, it was the more conventional holidays which sounded exotic.
‘Two weeks in Blackpool, wow man! That’s weird! Because I had no experience of that...’
Around the age of fifteen, Alexei decided to join the Young Communist League even though his parents had become disillusioned with communism. But he only went to a few meetings because he wanted to be involved with more extreme left wing organisations.
In 1968 Alexei joined a Maoist organisation which believed that China’s approach to communism was better than the Soviet Union.
‘The Soviet Union was going soft and…China with the Cultural Revolution was really the way to go...’
After the Soviet Union and China began to diverge in their interpretation of communist ideology, many left-wing groups in Britain mirrored the split. Alexei believes that left-wing politics had some similarities to religion.
‘The other aspect in which left-wing politics resembles religion is that the groups are endlessly fissiparous...they are constantly splitting off from each other...’
By the mid-1970s Alexei was no longer active in left-wing politics but he still believes in the principles of communism.
‘I still would adhere to those philosophical and economic ideas of Marxism that I got when I was sixteen...it’s seemed to me as true now as it did then....’ Please reinstate text in article. Jontel (talk) 20:08, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: If you know of an archived version of the page all you have to do is insert an archived url link within the citation. You can find help with that here - Help:Using the Wayback Machine. I was not aware this was archived. In future please add an archived url if you know a link is dead but can be verified. I don't see any problem adding it back with this. However, it is unclear when this was published and if his views are still the same to this day. Helper201 (talk) 20:31, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I've done that and added the year (2009) from the bottom of the archived page. Jontel (talk) 20:52, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It has not worked, the url is not showing, probably needs some formatting fixing. I'll have a look as well but I don't often use archived citations so I'm not experienced with their citing method. Helper201 (talk) 20:58, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of some political claims

message: ‘with riffs based on often absurd and surreal premises’
Yeah, could you like explain like what riffs are and stuff because this stuff reads like some cool person’s blog or fanzine and stuff and not like an encyclopaedic article and stuff so yeahhhhhh. And stuff. 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:29FC:C829:99D8:F82E (talk) 05:43, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Riffs ‘n’ stuff 

message: Reference 18's link is dead.  I don't know how to fix it, editing just says "reflist". 2.31.162.123 (talk) 10:18, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead/broken link 

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:But where does it say he is Jewish? Are there any sources?
Martinevans123 (talk) 18:35, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish?