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Keith Floyd was intelligent, articulate, humane, fascinating and remains a demigod in the world of cuisine. His presentations were accessible to all, were a delight for all to watch, were magical to behold, and his enjoyment or passion was so readily understood and well conveyed that nobody could resist it.
However, in bleak contrast, your introductory paragraph reads "On television, Floyd was noted for his haphazard presenting style which included frequent consumption of wine, beer and local alcoholic beverages."
Yes it was noted by many that his enjoyment of life embraced all kinds of pleasures, including the consumption of local wines while cooking to local styles, but your presentation of this fact does less than justice to it. Indeed, it is almost insulting. Keith Floyd was for me, and many, a rare and royal figure, and his passing has left me, and many others, with a feeling of genuine loss and grief. This insulting introductory paragraph belittles the figure and betrays the truth, and, ultimately, diminishes this public encyclopaedia.
I suggest sincerely that this unfortunate paragraph be somehow corrected. 83.208.165.249 (talk) 21:49, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Interestingly, many of the things he cooked as a TV chef are things he refused to cook when he was working as a real chef.
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I don't think the Daily Mirror is a reliable source when it comes to allegations of celebrity scandal. Newspapers such as the Mirror and the Sun have a history of concocting stories of this sort out of next to nothing. The business about £36,000 on drinks sounds phony to me. Just because he's an alcoholic doesn't mean that every bit of booze-related gossip is true. The Mirror article repeatedly talks about "friends" without naming anybody. Even if that rag really did speak to some "friends" of the Floyds, what kind of friends are they? 154.20.80.235 (talk) 12:48, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, forgot to log in. I'm Ireneshusband (talk) 12:51, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
It's not tremendously scandalous if he went bankrupt because he couldn't pay the suppliers to his pub, is it? I don't think it's suggested that he drank £36,000 of booze himself. It's unfortunately fairly common for pubs to be in financial difficulties. Nick (talk) 16:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
This section includes info about his personal life which is not about his career. Should a Personal life section be created, and the relevant info moved there? WP improver (talk) 12:32, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I removed the Channel 4 reference since my opinion was it failed WP:V, as it will not be available for very long (I think). User:Daytona2 does not like this, and left an edit summary of "please refer to the relevant noticeboard", which I assume means this talk page, but find nothing here. Since I have been augmenting references all day since the news broke just before 9am, I don't think I can be accused of bad faith here; in fact I added a reference from The Guardian to the C4 programme, and made the first link on this page to Channel 4 today.
I did not, for example, remove what many would see as an obscenity from the article, nor removed the text; I simply removed the reference to a source I think is WP:V and replaced it with ((cn))
. I suggest someone finds a better source for the actual statements made, not simply links to the entire programme, and not even a Web link at that, simply "[[Channel 4]] When Keith meets Kieth" (sic) where that information was already in the article and so added nothing.
I won't "clean up my mess" since I have not made any; and I think both User:Daytona and I could fall easily foul of WP:3RR though I am sure both acting in good faith. Repeat: I did not remove the statements, simply removed what I felt was not WP:V.
Daytona2, you are right to take this to discussion. I was going to propose that myself, but ran out of space on the edit summary.
Best wishes SimonTrew (talk) 18:45, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Is 'His death was nothing to do with liver failure', in the Career section, necessary? Articles don't usually say what a person did not died of, unless there are persistent false reports / claims to that effect. I don't believe many people claim that his death was caused by liver disease. What would be relevant is whether his death had anything to do with his bowel cancer. Article improving (talk) 16:21, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
If we're going to have the quote in the article, then the c-word needs to appear in full - see Wikipedia:Profanity. Please don't change it to include asterisks or other characters. If someone wants to re-write that sentence to not use the quote (or even remove it completely), then feel free. —David Johnson [T|C] 11:22, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Would it be ok to add this BBC food channel which contains many videos of Keith Floyd programming into the links section? http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FE5C97A2CDBA9FA Poonerpoob (talk) 07:16, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
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"With the help of loans from friends, he opened another restaurant in Chandos Road" - no town/city mentioned; where is this? Bristol? Little grape (talk) 09:36, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
It is mentioned several times that he was holding a glass of wine while cooking for television, up to a point where it becomes boring. I think this should be edited in a way that it is mentioned in the introduction only once, and in the remainder of the text also only once. Every other mention of it would be superfluous, I guess. Wikiklaas 22:50, 27 October 2022 (UTC)