User talk:Kai Laddiman

Welcome to Kai Laddiman's talk page Welcome to the talk page for the user Kai Laddiman. Please feel free to leave him your comments, criticisms, suggestions and marriage proposals below. I'm a larry I really wish I had more Countdowners to talk to. Countdown is absolutely definitely positively the greatest thing ever. Please drop me a line and say hi. Hi, from Geneva. (You would see my name if i´d been able to log in, but i´ve forgotten my password, so you´ll just have to guess who)  :) And if you feel like it, you can keep the Series 60 page updated while i´m away. MSN Hi Kai, I don't mind if you add me to MSN although I don't promise to be great company or anything. I will reveal my MSN in private if you want to know it. I'm not quite stupid enough to put it on a wiki user talk page. Mglovesfun 01:22, 15 February 2009 (UTC). Oh and the above messages aren't from me. Geneva is in Switzerland, and I'm not! Mglovesfun 01:22, 15 February 2009 (UTC) Recaps Well done with recap tidy for 4491. All looks very good. I think the only way you've gone against the stile guide recommendations is to put DC offerings before Other offerings, rather than sort in alphabetical order. But most people do that anyway, and alphabetical sorting is only a recommendation after all, not mandatory. So great.  :) Look forward to more now. You'll find a considerable variety in what tidying is needed for the various recaps (usually depending on who wrote the yahoo group recap). drawoh 10:01, 5 March 2009 (UTC) Steve or Steven It had been deliberate, calling him Steven in series fifty something and Steve in COC13, because that's what he was actually known as on the two occasions. I'm not really worried either way, but changing all references to Steven will involve a lot more that just his pages. :) drawoh 18:33, 21 June 2009 (BST) Yeh, OK, I think it's probably better like it was. :-) Countdown Kid 18:35, 21 June 2009 (BST) My signature I normally do! I'd tried to make it look cooler as per my signature on Wikipedia, but didn't realise that the substitution template which I use to do that on Wikipedia doesn't exist on The Countdown Wiki. So I ended up looking like a tit. Yours with four tildes, Chris 'Crispy' Philpot 21:57, 27 June 2009 (BST) XD Four-tildedly, Countdown Kid 09:46, 28 June 2009 (BST) Three quick replies to three quick things (recent updates) No probs at all. I think that the S61 and associated pages are all up-to-date now, but after today I'm not around at all until the prog takes its summer break. With AH on now, it would certainly be useful if possible to keep his leaderboard total up-to-date regularly, particularly if he continues with high scores. (featured article) Stewart Holden sounds a good subject. I'd go along with that. (reappearers cat) Great idea. Would certainly be an interesting category. May take a bit of work hunting them all down. BTW, of the four possible reappearers in the last few days, AH is one of course, and Kate has confirmed that Mike is too. She's not sure about Chris or Anne though. I would suggest that it's confined to people who appear in two or more genuine series, and doesn't include those who are just invited back for specials. drawoh 19:33, 10 July 2009 (BST) William G. Stewart Hi Kai, Your support of William G. Stewart today compelled me to look him up on the Wiki, but I have found that it is impossible to get to his page on here, even though the search shows that it exists. I think this is a problem with people who use initials, as I sent a similar error to Howard the other day. Anyway, keep up the good work! Vande 20:09, 22 July 2009 (BST) He clickable now. drawoh 18:17, 7 October 2009 (BST) Recap tweaks Hi, if you haven't noticed already, I replied to your question on my talk page so that others who may have been about to ask will see it. BTW, I just noticed that you just removed Category:Partial recaps from Episode 3342 and Episode 2162. These are both partial – look at the numbers rounds and you'll see. -- Smjg 17:16, 25 July 2009 (BST) Yeh, I noticed your reply, and I think it would be easier for your program to do it than for me to do it. And about those, oops, I didn't notice. Actually, aren't there loads of recaps without numbers solutions (just a question mark)? Kai Laddiman 17:20, 25 July 2009 (BST) Oops Oops, I forgot to say that I'd gone on holiday. I'm back now. That's why I haven't done any wikiwork. Kai Laddiman 16:11, 22 August 2009 (BST) Duplcate names Good to see that you'd change the recaps for Chris to link directly to the Series 61 version. I'd noticed the error earlier in the week, and planned to change them sometime later, but you beat me to it. Well done. :) drawoh 09:41, 5 September 2009 (BST) A general address - reappearers What does anyone else think about having a category for people who have appeared in more than one series? (Excluding Series 33.) Thoughts welcome. Kai Laddiman 11:51, 27 September 2009 (BST) I'll add my name to this idea, as I think it would be interesting Vande 19:43, 27 September 2009 (BST) Good idea drawoh 18:11, 7 October 2009 (BST) Clive has just compiled a list of these on the forum, so it will save you all the work now! :-) Vande 09:15, 23 November 2009 (UTC) Imitation is the highest form of flattery... ...but you're still a thieving shit. Good work - a nice parody! Cheers, Chris 'Crispy' Philpot 22:08, 29 September 2009 (BST) CoLei 2009 Kai, thank you for sorting out this article. I was expecting to have to get all the results off of one of you and fill them in myself . . . leaving the gate open for Chris to wikify them further. Sounds like you had a great day, so will be interesting to read more about it :-) Vande 10:17, 12 October 2009 (BST) Disam Not 6 hours. Only 2. Took a three hour break for food and TV. And then a one hour break for apterous. Even two hours might sound long , but at least it got me out of cooking and washing up.  :)drawoh 10:45, 17 October 2009 (BST) DATE templates I'm sure the DATE templates used to be greyed out for me. Have I been Sysop'd? If so, awesome. Kai Laddiman 10:13, 24 October 2009 (BST) If so, great. :) Good luck with them. H (not logged in, away from home and forgot p/w) Yesterday's contestant Sorry I got the name wrong. I was concentrating too much on getting his surname correct. Well spotted, and thanks for changing it. drawoh 12:39, 27 October 2009 (UTC) Date Templates Well done with the date templates. As to not putting very recent games in cos they're spoilers, I don't see any problem in adding results for any game which has been played, provided you don't do it until at least the following day. After all, the templates are only displayed on the front page on the applicable day. To be really safe, and I'm thinking of people in places like Seattle for example, it would be best if a result isn't added until the whole world has moved into the following day. So, after 12 noon (UK time), it's ok to add the previous day's result. So no problem with 26th October. Drawoh 15:44, 27 October 2009 (UTC) Cool, thanks for that. I can't edit the page on the day anyway because of a lack of Sysopage, but I'll wait till 12 the next day. I'll hopefully start November's tomorrow. Kai Laddiman 17:25, 27 October 2009 (UTC) Contestant Guidelines Nice idea putting this page up. There are a couple of things I've noticed, but it might be inappropriate to change the page as it's stated that this is what contestants are told. There are a number of references to the NODE. According to this page, the NODE was in use until Series 50. Since then it's the ODE2r which is used. PINK is an unfortunate example of a colour mass noun for which the plural is permitted. PINK has many definitions, including count nouns and verbs, for which adding an S would be permitted anyway. Drawoh 10:12, 1 December 2009 (UTC) My laziness Sorry that I haven't done any wikiwork recently. I will try and get back on track soon. Thanks and well done to all who struggle on (especially Vande, drawoh and JRTerrier24). : ) Kai Laddiman 20:46, 4 January 2010 (UTC) You're welcome, Kai. I've been a bit quiet lately too, as I haven't had so many ideas, or sources of information and/or pictures. I'll definitely keep going though as things come along. And don't you worry - I'm sure life sometimes gets in the way too ;-) --Vande 21:19, 4 January 2010 (UTC)