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Removal of 'smacked out of his head' comment

I'm not sure of the exact wiki policy to quote but this just looks wrong in an encyclopaedia.

I've also added a {{Fact}} to the claim that his Gable House is named after Clark Gable and not so called just because it's a gable house. Andy 13:24, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject class rating

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 17:10, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Photo

Can we get a photo of the man himself here please?

Thanks 172.201.84.154 16:22, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced material

The following is unsourced information:

His wife's maiden name was Owen. For his stage name, he took Owen and added the B from the first letter of his middle name (Bowen).
Jim was the original choice to present the quiz show SUDO-Q but turned it down due to commitments with his You Can't Beat a Bit of Bully show.

While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (talk) 10:53, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation

Large parts of this article appear to have been lifted directly from the biography given at http://www.jimbowen.tv/biography.php - I have blanked these sections. This article needs totally rewritten. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 18:21, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Don't use The Birmingham Mail as a source

This article lifts most of the text word-for-word from this version of the article. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 13:33, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have cited some facts from this Daily Express source. Now, normally, I'd say the Express is for people even more right-wing hard-core Brexiteers than the Daily Mail (and the sidebar on the article is basically porn, more or less); however in this case it doesn't have anything to do with politics or bias, and can be used straight for facts. What do others think? Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 13:54, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That is obviously a well-researched source - I think it's fine.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 15:52, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Additional - watch out for sources like this one that say one of his catchphrases was "super, smashing, great" - that's an urban myth. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 13:59, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please add the following details to the main page

Bowen was born in Heswall, Wirral, Cheshire, and was adopted at nine months from an orphanage in Wirral,^[1] by Joe Whitaker, a World War I veteran^[1] and his wife, Annie Whittaker; both from Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire^[2] He later changed his name to James Whittaker.^[3] He was educated at Accrington Grammar School in Lancashire and Chester Diocesan Training College. At fifteen years old, he worked as a dustman in Burnley, and then trained as a PE teacher at schools in Lancashire, before becoming a deputy headmaster of Caton Primary School near Lancaster.^[4]^[5]

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^ ^a ^b Cooke, Diane (32 August 2015). "Jim Bowen: 'Why my life is so smashing'". Lancashire Telegraph. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ Bowen, Jim (2000). Right Place, Right Time. Carnegie Publishing. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-845-79142-1.
^ "Jim Bowen dead: Former Bullseye game show host dies aged 80". London Evening Standard. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
^ Cite error: The named reference chortle1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ People (2 August 2008). "Jim Bowen – Lovely smashing superstar!". mirror.

[LT-1] Cooke, Diane (32 August 2015). "Jim Bowen: 'Why my life is so smashing'". Lancashire Telegraph. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[2] Bowen, Jim (2000). Right Place, Right Time. Carnegie Publishing. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-845-79142-1.

[3] "Jim Bowen dead: Former Bullseye game show host dies aged 80". London Evening Standard. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2018.

[chortle1-4] Cite error: The named reference chortle1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[5] People (2 August 2008). "Jim Bowen – Lovely smashing superstar!". mirror.

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