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Hello from Stafford
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Hi Andy, I've mentioned you at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject UK Railways#Two stations along side each other? (not in a bad way!). You may be able to comment on the discussion. Thanks. Optimist on the run (talk) 07:34, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hello from WW
Hello, very interesting day. --Nigellacey (talk) 14:25, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello Mr Pigsonthewing
You have won the lottery.
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Hello from Rosemary Close
Greetings Andy, what a fantastic training session!
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Hello from West Wycombe
Hello Andy, I am so totally inspired by using Open Street Map and Misplaced Pages I am going to start writing lots of articles tonight.--LouiseBrown1981 (talk) 14:25, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hello Andy. --Ian Denny (talk) 11:45, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello
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Re:WikiProject Staffordshire
Hi Andy. Yes, I am still interested in this, although I may not get the chance to do much for a while. I've a few things going through GA just now and a WikiProject Birmingham to develop, but I'll do what I can. Paul MacDermott (talk) 20:19, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Harlequin Puppet Theatre
Hi Andy. I just sent you an e:mail because I couldn't remember how to start a new message on your talk page. Then, of course, about 10 seconds later I found this link and remembered. So the message is in your e:mail. I'll hopefully do it correctly next time! --Ian Denny (talk) 22:58, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
- I haven't received your email. Please try again, or copy the message here. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:43, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
During our training session, we looked at the Harlequin Puppet Theatre page. When I got home and logged in, I had another look at that page and another user, not you or I or the original author had completely re-written the article at 5pm that same evening. I was wondering if you did something to trigger that re-write as it seemed a remarkable coincidence. --Ian Denny (talk) 01:00, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
- It is just a coincidence; please don't let that put you off from making further improvements. I'll make a few tweaks, now. Note discussion on the article's talk page, also. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:15, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Is your account compromised?
Hi Andy; knowing of your fondness for metadata (COinS or otherwise), this edit surprised me. The |start= parameter of {{Infobox UK station}} is pushed through {{start date}}, so if anything else is present (including a second instance of {{start date}}), you get a right mess both in the visible appearance (have a look at the rows below the "History" heading) and in the emitted metadata:
<tr class=""> <td colspan="2" class="note" style="text-align:center;">Opened <div class="plainlist" style="margin-left: 0em;"> <ul> <li>July 1837<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1837-07</span>)</span></li> <li>Rebuilt 1844</li> <li>Rebuilt 1862</li> <li>Current building opened 1962</li> </ul> </div> <span style="display:none"> (</span> <div class="plainlist" style="margin-left: 0em;"> <ul> <li><span style="display:none">July 1837<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1837-07</span>)</span></span></li> <li>Rebuilt 1844</li> <li>Rebuilt 1862</li> <li>Current building opened 1962</li> </ul> </div> )</td> </tr>
This isn't like you. So, my question is: did you accidentally disclose your password when training recently? --Redrose64 (talk) 20:31, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
- No. I've fallen for that before. It's really annoying that some infoboxes behave differently to the rest. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:35, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
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re: John Moschitta Jr. page
Andy...hi we have communicated by email and you directed me to check out the situation on line. It appears the bulk of my page was deleted by someone named Yworo claiming lack of reliable sources. Since I do not have a copy of the page I have no idea what they are referring to or what they feel needs further citation. I have requested more information from Yworo but have not received anything from them as of yet. Here is a history of my correspndance with them :
My name is John Moschitta Jr and someone recently deleted the bulk of the article on the John Moschitta, Jr page. Was that you? And if it was please restore it. The information was accurate and should not have been deleted. Thank you John JMthe2nd (talk) 23:44, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- Your claim that it is accurate is insufficient. Everything presented in the article of a living person must be cited to reliable sources. In this case, entire large sections of the article had no reliable sourcing and has been removed. If you can provide independent reliable sources not affiliated with the subject, then information based on those sources can be restored or added. Please note that IMDb is not considered a reliable source. We will need books, journal articles, newspaper articles, etc. Best regards, Yworo (talk) 23:48, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Since the bulk of the page has been deleted I can no longer view it to see what did and did not have citations. Most of the page was written by other contributors. It is my recollection that many of the deleted items did in fact have citations or links associated with them. Please be specific in what you feel needs to have further citations and send me the contents of what you have deleted for my review. Thank you. I look forward to getting the requested information from you. My best...John JMthe2nd (talk) 23:57, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Is it a usual occurance for another user to simply delete the bulk of a page? The timing of this action seems a bit suspect.It's interesting that today of all days when I am already having a problem Yworo decides to arbitrarily sign on to my page and delete it. The original version has been up for years and no one seemed to have a problem with it.
Please advise what I need to do to correct this situation. As I mentioned I am a "computer idiot" and find all the explanation pages extremely confusing to understand. I think so far I have been doing what I am supposed to but can't really be sure.
Thanks again for all your help....John JMthe2nd (talk) 00:22, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Now someone else is messing with the John Moschitta, Jr page Singularity42. They have re-inserted the Steve Woodmore info with references that prove absolutely nothing. Call me paranoid, but it would seem there is a bit of a conspiracy going on with this page today and it's absolutely driving me crazy! What can I do to stop it?!?!?!
JohnJMthe2nd (talk) 00:48, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
What on this page is wrong?
Andy ... I have looked at several Wiki pages of actors and found that the previous John Moschitta, Jr page (which the bulk of was deleted by Yworo for lack of citations) are lacking exactly the same citations especially when it comes to listing credits. I have pasted the old page below. Please let me know what is so incorrrect that Yworo has felt it necessary to delete it. (BTW...Yworo has re-edited my page a number of times and has finally posted a correct listing for Steve Woodmore and Sean Shannon. To her credit and at my request he/she has also corrected Steve Woodmore's page to reflect Sean Shannon's record)
John Moschitta, Jr. (born August 6, 1954, in New York City), is a spokesperson and performer best known for his rapid speech delivery. He appeared in over 100 commercials as "The Micro Machines Man" as well as a 1981 ad for FedEx.
Moschitta had been credited in The Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Fastest Talker, with the ability to articulate 586 words per minute. (His record was later broken by the current record-holder, Steve Woodmore, who speaks 637 wpm.) Raised with five sisters, Moschitta often remarked that he needed to talk fast "just to get a word in edgewise".
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1 Early work 2 FedEx commercial 3 Other commercials 4 Television work 5 Other appearances 6 See also 7 References 8 External links
Early work
At an early age, he acted in local community theater and school productions. In the 1970s, Moschitta attended Nassau Community College, where he studied theater and appeared in over 14 shows in two years, including a production of Room Service alongside Nassau alum Billy Crystal. Moschitta was also a contestant on the game show The $25,000 Pyramid, in which he was paired with comedian Joan Rivers and won $10,500. He returned to the show on a number of occasions as a celebrity guest.
After several years working in television production in New York City, he was hired by Warner Communications as a producer and performer for QUBE, the world's first 2-way interactive cable system. QUBE premiered on December 1, 1977 in Columbus, Ohio, with eleven hours of live programming per day. Besides his local duties, Moschitta also hosted Nickel Flicks for the brand new Nickelodeon Network. The show aired nationwide three times per day, every day. In 1979, he moved to Los Angeles.
FedEx commercial
In 1981, after appearances on several television shows, Moschitta appeared on the ABC TV series That's Incredible! Patrick Kelly and Michael Tesch, employees of the Ally & Gargano ad agency, hired Moschitta after seeing him on the show. In the ad, "Fast Paced World" for Federal Express, directed by Joe Sedelmaier, Moschitta played a fast-talking executive named Jim Spleen. Considered to be the most award-winning commercial in the history of advertising, it garnered six Clio awards, including Best Performance–Male award for Moschitta. Turn-of-the-century polls named it the Most Effective Campaign in the History of Advertising and named Moschitta the Most Effective Spokesperson. The 40th-anniversary issue of New York Magazine (10/06/2008) crowned it "The Most Memorable Advertisement Ever" Advertising Age ranked the ad number 11 among the top-100 advertising campaigns of the 20th century.
Other commercials
In addition to his commercials for Federal Express, he completed over 750 television and radio commercials, including national campaigns for Minute Rice, Quality Inn, Northwest Airlines, Olympus Camera, Mattel, Post Cereals, Tiger Games, Continental Airlines, Burger King, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, HBO, and Jet Blue. The "Great Cable Comparison" spot for HBO, in which he played a dozen characters, earned him his second CLIO recognition and a Silver Medal from the International Film and Television Festival of New York (1985). He played "The Micro Machines Man" in over 100 commercials that ran worldwide. Each one ended with the memorable tagline "Remember, if it doesn't say Micro Machines, it's not the real thing." Moschitta and various spots featuring his performances have won dozens of prestigious advertising awards. In 1996, Moschitta was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the Emmy organization) for his contribution to outstanding commercials.
Along with partners Jim Becker and Andy Mayer, John "Mighty Mouth" Moschitta recorded a pugnacious take on ten classic novels in which he summarizes each book's entire story in approximately one minute. Included in this collection, entitled Ten Classics in Ten Minutes, are Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby; Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind; and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Soon after, the team produced a second recording, Professor John Moschitta's Ten Minute University. It promised a traditional four-year college education in just ten minutes, and came with a mini-diploma. It featured rapidly-delivered, humorous, 60-second lectures on various subjects, such as comparative literature, physics, economics, psychology, and football. Both were originally released on audio cassette in the 1980s; they were released on CD in 2004, with accompanying books.
Television work
In 1990, Moschitta created the board game "Motor Mouth" with partners David Fuhrer and Mark Setteducati for Tiger Games. The game featured tongue twisters, a pair of plastic red lips that were passed around like a hot potato and an ever-ticking timer; the fast-paced game can also be found in other countries as "Tongue Tangle". An on-air radio version of the game was launched on the Game Show Network's GSN Radio station in December 2008. The advertising depicted him slowing down after introducing himself, then losing the game to family members due to a buzzer.
Moschitta has had regular, recurring or starring roles in many television shows, including Saved by the Bell; General Hospital; Madame's Place; Matt Houston; Trapper John, M.D.; Zorro and Son; The Half-Hour Comedy Hour; The Smothers Brothers Show; Sesame Street; and Callahan. In addition, he has made many guest-star appearances on shows such as Ally McBeal, Chicago Hope, The Big Easy, Caroline in the City, All That, Cousin Skeeter, The A-Team, Sisters, Spencer, 3-2-1 Contact, and Square One TV. He can be seen in the films Farce of the Penguins, Queerspiricy, Blankman, Dick Tracy, Going Under, Dirty Laundry, Starchaser: The Legend of Orin, Ratboy, and The Transformers: The Movie.
He read the rules on the 55th Annual Academy Awards, sang and danced on the Emmy Awards with other commercial icons (Dick Wilson—Mr. Whipple, Jane Whithers—Josephine the Plumber, Jesse White (actor)—the Maytag Repair Man, Virginia Christine—Mrs. Olson, Patsy Garrett—the Chow Chow Chow woman, and others) and appeared on television specials and news shows such as Motown 25, Bloopers, Disneyland 30th Anniversary, 60 Minutes, 20/20, Most X-treme, Real People, and co-hosted TV Land's Greatest Commercial with David Leisure (Joe Izusu). He was featured on VH1's 101 Favorite Stars and on I Love the 80s 3-D, for which he very quickly summarized each year's events. Celebrity game show appearances (as either the show's announcer or a panelist) include The $100,000 Pyramid, Family Feud, Win, Lose or Draw, Family Challenge, Balderdash, Identity and Hollywood Squares. He has been a Jeopardy! answer and a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire question.
Moschitta has made appearances on over 1,000 television and radio talk shows including The Tonight Show (with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno); Oprah; and Good Morning America. In the corporate world, Moschitta has filmed videos or made personal appearances for over 350 of the Fortune 500 companies as well as many other companies. Moschitta has met and performed for eight US Presidents.
Other appearances
Moschitta appeared in the 1980s animated series The Transformers as the Autobot Blurr, a role which he reprised more than 20 years later for the Cartoon Network series Transformers Animated. He has also provided voices for characters on Family Guy, Garfield and Friends, Pinky and the Brain, Bobby's World and several episodes of Robot Chicken. As an announcer, he was the voice of TLC's Your Place or Mine?, PAX Network's Balderdash, Game Show Network's Scrabble and the final season of Hollywood Squares in syndication.
Moschitta's first love is theater and his favorite shows and roles include The Pirates of Penzance (Major General), Never Gonna Dance (Pangborn), Sweeney Todd (Pirelli), The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Barney), Rock and Roll Heaven: The Musical Comedy (Satan), The Music Man (Harold Hill), and Arsenic and Old Lace (Dr. Einstein)
For many years, he has been involved in several charities and not-for-profit organizations. Besides working hands-on with many groups, he often volunteers his time to conduct live auctions at their gala events. The Los Angeles Times states that, as far as celebrity auctioneers go, "no one can suck money out of a room like John Moschitta Jr." To date he has raised over 20 million dollars for charity using his fast-talking talents.
Moschitta also voices a one-time character named "Key-per" from Adventure Time in the episode "The Enchiridion".
Thank you for your help...
JohnJMthe2nd (talk) 02:21, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
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