Talk:Adam Hills

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Arts and Entertainment

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the arts and entertainment work group (assessed as Low-importance).
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

Australia: New South Wales / Sydney / Television Mid‑importance

	Australia portal Adam Hills is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.AustraliaWikipedia:WikiProject AustraliaTemplate:WikiProject AustraliaAustralia articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject New South Wales (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by WikiProject Sydney (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by WikiProject Australian television (assessed as Mid-importance).
	Need help improving this article? Ask a Librarian^{What's this?} at the National Library of Australia, or the State Library of New South Wales.
	The Wikimedia Australia chapter can be contacted via email to helpwikimedia.org.au for non-editorial assistance.

Comedy Mid‑importance

	Comedy portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Comedy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of comedy on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ComedyWikipedia:WikiProject ComedyTemplate:WikiProject ComedyComedy articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Television Mid‑importance

	Television portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Television, a collaborative effort to develop and improve Wikipedia articles about television programs. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join the discussion. To improve this article, please refer to the style guidelines for the type of work.TelevisionWikipedia:WikiProject TelevisionTemplate:WikiProject Televisiontelevision articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article is written in Australian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, program, labour (but Labor Party)) and some terms that are used in it (including television people) may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

KFC

Adam was also in a KFC advert once, i think that should be put in! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.96.255.19 (talk) 12:51, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation

I would have thought Adam Hills (comedian) would be the primary topic in this case? Plenty of incoming links, and the UK politician article doesn't even exist yet! -- Chuq 12:45, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No replies, and the UK politician article STILL doesn't exist - so I have moved the article back. -- Chuq 05:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fine as it is. Alexsanderson83 (talk) 22:05, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Words

The article uses the words "proform", "Promormed" and "praody". Should those be "perform", "Performed" and "parody"?

I haven't done a full proof-read, there may be other errors. The ones above just jumped out at me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emmenjay (talk • contribs) 00:04, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Artificial leg

I've removed the statement "He has an artificial right leg that he has had since birth." because...
1. I believe it's more a foot than a leg.
2. I imagine that it's somewhat of an exaggeration to say that he has had it since birth.
3. I presume that he must have replaced it with an adult sized version at some stage.
Far Canal (talk) 02:33, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think that's fair. It's addressed earlier in the section anyhow, so the statement wasn't necessary. :) My understanding is that he was either born without a right foot or had an amputation at birth. -Shoemoney2night (talk) 03:35, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just watched his show on TV and he did make reference to having the foot missing since birth. 150.101.78.49 (talk) 04:30, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah he was born without it. We used to have a reference. It goes from his knee down so I think that's leg. Million_Moments (talk) 08:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The prosthesis goes from the knee down, but he's only missing his foot. -Shoemoney2night (talk) 09:17, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth he does have a right foot but it's not shaped like his left one. Everything from the top of the shin down is smaller sized and different shaped than it is on the other side, and the prosthesis if it's similar to the ones he had at school fits over the top of the existing shin and foot. It has allowed him to play and coach tennis (which is not mentioned anywhere in this article) and not walk with a limp, among other things. MaxwellTJ (talk) 04:18, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If we're trying to be as accurate as possible rather than erring towards the phraseology which ensures most people would understand the intent of the sentence then, yes, Adam Hills does, indeed, have an artificial lower-limb-as-severed-above-the-patella, and his unfortunate appendicular incident did, indeed, occur, as he has mentioned on the programme, as a result of an extra-vaginal injury. However, he does state several times during the aforementioned programmes that he has an, and I quote, 'artificial leg'. So, should we assume that the possessor of the specific discombobulated limb in question is, as one would most rightly assume, the legitimate source for the correct terminology as to which the particular synthetic extremity in question should be referred, or, as seems evident amongst one's interlocutors, should this most-esteemed repository of all human knowledge persist in is insistence of using the terms which its least-representative members' prejudices enforce upon the individuals in question? --Syniq (talk) 05:20, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comedy influences

How accurate are the influences listed, and where are they sourced from? While I recognise that Chris Addison and Ross Noble are very talented comedians, both are younger than Hills, and began their careers after him. Even if he has altered his style, I see very little of Ross Noble's quite surreal style of comedy in Hills's work. I would not question having a noted or older comedian in there, but surely stating Addison and Noble should require some citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ph 1980 (talk • contribs) 02:51, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's in the source provided. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 05:19, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies I read that last night, but must have completely skipped that vital part. -- Phil Hodgson (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:14, 6 October 2010 (UTC).[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Adam Hills. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080726130000/http://www.reachout.com.au/default.asp?ti=1631 to http://www.reachout.com.au/default.asp?ti=1631

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 18:46, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

comedy interest

I've removed the line that said he became interested in comedy after hearing an inflight comedy channel on a flight. In Adams Biography "best foot forward" he states that his family listened to comedy when driving. The comedy flight story was just a funny story in his book, but he definitly doesn;'t say it sparked his interst in comedy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.20.68.114 (talk) 10:05, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

reduce the number of tables?

obviously this isn't of prime importance, but the charting singles table especially feels... unnecessary. not too familiar with wikipedia conventions (which is why i'm proposing it here), but surely it'd be easier and less visually... odd-looking... if that "discography" section was removed. if necessary the charting position could be added to the sentence about his working class anthem single in the beginning of the article. having an entire section and table for one song (and hills isn't even a musician) feels odd.

and on that note, i suggest possibly combining the ARIA music awards table with the TV awards table, into just a general "awards and nominations" table. at the very least, i don't think an explanation of the ARIAs is relevant to have on this page, and i suggest removing that. Hillsyism (talk) 03:53, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

increase the number of tables: actually, still stuck on this. i'm thinking about doing a revamp where we get rid of the aria music awards table, and add either a table or a list of hills's TV appearances. he's got so many that i think reducing what's in his "television" written section is important, because a lot of those things are very niche and not worth the description, but could be nice to have in a long list. thoughts? Hillsyism (talk) 03:48, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]