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if someone reverts my edits without just cause, he/she should expect to see a comment on his/her talk page.
Justforasecond 21:16, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Is this the way to contact you, Brian. I removed some red links from the Beaird article because I thought I was supposed to do so. Can you tell me how in simple language to attach a photo to a biography? The instructions are complicated. Als what key gives one the top-bottom slash. I don't know which key this is -- so I have to copy and past that little symbol when I need it, which is all the time. Thanks, Billy Hathorn (It is not clear how to reply.)
After spending half day yesterday expanding and completing the Goldmoon article, reaching a somewhat satisfactory (for me) shape [1], while doing some cleaning patrol I noticed your tips about the Darth Vader article [2]. Thus, after reading the fictional article guidelines and your own essay, Writing about fiction, I rewrote the article to fit both criterias.
Since I consider you have quite a good knowledge about the guidelines, if you have an extra minute I would like hearing your opinion about the the War of Souls section, which I finished earlier today. You will realize I wrote the section in the past tense, while it is expected to be in the present tense. Should I change it? Do you have any other thought about it? I know it is hard to understand beginning from the end (hopefully you have already read or not planning on reading the trilogy).
I have also finished the Dragons of a New Age series and the Controversy section, all the others are still focusing on the character as if she were alive, so if you wish to read some more, consider those two other sections only. I am also worried about the references: since I fill all the fields and add a relevant quote from the book, their section becomes just too large. Do you have an advice for this? Thanks in advance! -- ReyBrujo 20:54, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
As you have asked me to stop reverting the Igbo people page, I will ask you the same. Please stop reverting the page. How can my edits be removing the source, when I was the one who sourced the edit? While I am fully aware and fully accept that Nat Okafor-Ogbaji's viewpoint, at present, is in the minority in terms of mainstream thought, this does not make him a "controversial" historian. You may be partial and in doubt towards said historians theory, however, this is not evidence enough to qualify Okafor-Ogbaji as "controversial". The whole point of my source, is that viewers can use the link, read the text in its entirety and decide for themselves whether he is credibe/"controversial". Also, whether the fact that the Igbos are descendants of the ancient Hebrews is true or indeed a fallacy, this does not change the fact that Eri, Arodi, and Areli ARE the sons of Gad. So while I accept that it would be slightly biased or partial to refer to them as "great explorers", they are brothers and sons of Gad never the less. This is not just the case, "according to Nat Okafor-Ogbaji", one only needs to open up a King James version Bible to verify this empirical fact (Gen 46:16). Ike.Q 13:15, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Didn't appreciate that. But since James Melville's article doesn't mention his descedent, Moby, I'm letting it go. Parsssseltongue 21:25, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Great work on the Samba article. As a Historian, I find it a remarkably good short biography. So B.S., my compliments -- V. Joe 01:43, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Brian, prompted by Wikipedia:Articles about fictional concepts, I took the liberty of moving your proposed guidelines to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction) and announcing it on the community portal and the village pump.-- ragesoss 23:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
I see you have reverted. I'd like to explain why all operas are listed in cat 'operas'. That is the way we have always done it on the Opera Project as it helps us to keep track of what is a very large umber of articles. (Comic Opera is actually not a real genre and is not really viable as a category anyway.) Hope that clarifies things. - Kleinzach 21:13, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Brian
Because a few nominators of FACs have appeared to need/desire a formal explanation of how they can improve their prose, I had the idea of writing an article dedicated to this purpose. It would be a complement to Taxman's and Jengod's articles, and "Great writing" and "The perfect article". I wonder whether you'd mind having a look at it and letting me know what yout think, in terms of the overall concept and the effectiveness and appropriateness of the training aspect. I've completed only the introduction and the first area, "Redundancy", for which there are about 30 exercises. The remainder is just a messy paste-in of notes.
I don't want to continue until I have other people's opinions on the approach.
Thanks Tony 05:13, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks very much, Brian. I'll implement the changes that you suggested. Tony 13:19, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Is it just me or is there an attitude problem (by editor 2005 and possibly others) on this article and its talk page? I am thinking particularly of his involvement with me and the earlier comments about archiving. Maybe I an just too new to know what is going on. You understand I am not so much comcerned about my particular edit but more about the attitude. Abtract 18:00, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. As you will have seen I am pretty new at this. I think perhaps I went into the Gambling edit almost expecting trouble because I had previously read the archived comments by Trail Guide. I know nothing about that particular dispute except that during the time I have been involved with Gambling (only a week or so, maybe 2) I have witnessed even more comments by Trail Guide being archived off the Talk:Gambling page - presumably to conceal the comments from casual passers by. When I read the initial dispute (just for interest, I noticed that it all stemmed from a desire to insert a link (pehaps for commercial gain I don't know but it seemed maybe not) so I decided to see what would happen if I inserted a link. I chose an obviously non-commercial one GamCare but this was reverted out of hand thus mirroring the experience of Trail Guide. I have no particular interest in that site being on or not but it did seem odd that one user could revert, out of hand, a completely harmless but potentially useful link. Then, to demonstrate my serious intent in the article, I carred out some detailed and I believe very helpful edits mostly on the variables involved in gambling - these have been left undisturbed. In the meantime I had read another dispute (can't trace it now) about the contents being on the right. I was amazed because until that point I had assumed it was there only for me because I was using a laptop and it was that which caused the contents to be squeezed out of position. So I decided to put my voice behind the "contents on the left" side by first making my comment about it "looking a mess" and then 2 days later whan no-one had commented, by making an edit. The rest you will have read no doubt. Enough ... I will watch the sarcasm; you are right but it was very tempting when their only justification seems to be "useless whitespace". I won't persue the dispute but maybe you could watch that page occasionally? Incidentally didn't you think his response to your comment was somewhat dismissive? Thanks again I appreciate it; I owe you one. Abtract 07:28, 1 June 2006 (UTC).
OK thanks again. Gambling looks better and I have learned a lot; what more could a guy want? Abtract 19:38, 1 June 2006 (UTC).
I draw your attention to Gambling again (and the edits/discussion on perceived). I am about to go on holiday for a few weeks but it seems to me that yet again the "owner" of this article is deciding out of hand which edits to accept and which to reject - in a very definite way. Abtract 06:43, 23 June 2006 (UTC).
I don't know if you took the talk page off your watchlist, so here's my answer again: If you have a good DYK for the Germany portal, you can always just be bold and add it to Portal:Germany/Did you know. The DYKs there are done in a very informal way. Kusma (討論) 21:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Do you have a source for the table (I think you added) on the Cameroon Provinces page? Specifically the demographic data, been looking all over to find the original data from the 1987 census. Thanks for your help. kbananas 12:56, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the source info!! That's a really useful link for my research -
kbananas 11:43, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Noted your remark. Just writing to say: Thank you. -- Jason Palpatine 21:34, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome, but I've been here for years. I reverted an administrator's sockpuppet's vandalism and was blocked for it. In the future I can be reached at User:KI. Tchadienne 16:15, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
You made a comment back in March about how a different picture should be used if History of New Jersey were to be put on the front page. Is this any better? -- ZeWrestler Talk 18:55, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey - in the midst of my changes and your reverts, I consulted the official Cameroon government page ( http://www.spm.gov.cm/showdoc.php?id_docs=21&lang=en&tpl=1) and found the 'official' breakdown (my source must be from the 'old' makeup). While the UN views them as "departments" (hence the French nomenclature), I appreciate the input... and will follow suit with a breakdown series of maps of the 'divisions'. :) Rarelibra 17:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
{{ fiction}} is not only for situations where the character is fictional, but also for where the content currently on the page is largely from fictional material not backed up by actual historical material. i am therefore reverting all of your removals of {{ fiction}}. If you have particular disputes with regard to some of these characters, please discuss on the appropriate talk pages. -- Nlu ( talk) 18:02, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi, as you've put a lot of work into writing guidelines for fiction based articles, I was wondering if you'ld mind checking a couple of articles that the Stargate wikiproject plan to submit to FAC in the near future: Stargate (device) and DNA Resequencer. If you've got the time to give us a brief review, it would be a great help. Thanks! -- Tango 22:25, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
-- Cactus.man ✍ 11:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Done. -- Szvest 14:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC) Wiki me up™
Hi, I was hoping you would pipe in at Talk:Tennin or Talk:Apsara explaining how you know that these are two different things. My books on Japanese art history say they are the same, and I was hoping someone would come forth with sources that agreed or disagreed. Do you have such sources? Thanks, — Amcaja
I saw and liked your comments on User talk:Tango. Very insightful and constructive. Would you, in principle, be willing to help with some of the book articles I've done or am (supposedly) doing? I may have bitten off more than I can chew. Good work in any case. (PS I see you're another Africa hand!) -- Guinnog 17:11, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Moved a few pictures to the left. Any other criticisms or comments? Thanks. Tombseye 23:39, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Do we have a policy about interwiki "red"links? My thought is that when the Disney-translation cruft gets inserted in articles, it be made into interwiki links. The only problem is, that will probably end up pointing to some articles that don't exist. Mango juice talk 21:27, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the help and support on Azeris! Well, if you feel strongly about rewording the history section and the origin section coming first, bring it up on the discussion page. As the guy who wrote and nominated the article, once it's a Featured Article, my work is done. Some people might be okay with what you want, while others may resist, but hey I'm just glad it's over and hopefully the article will make it to FA status soon, given the universal support now. Ciao. Tombseye 02:11, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Brian-- just wanted to mention that I hope to get those sources for 'Old Folks at Home' over the weekend (it's a matter of finding two books and one journal among unordered hundreds in my parents' basement). If no success I'll put that paragraph on ice myself. JDG 02:28, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I didn't notice your comment on my talk until now (someone else posted after you; I'm not used to more than one at a time :-)). I do go after print sources; I have a very good library collection at my disposal, which is what gave me the idea in the first place. Of the three reviews I've done so far, only one has been print heavy; I've actually been surprised how much some FA noms rely on web sources; I guess the ones I usually comment on tend to be on subjects that tend more towards print sourcing. If I keep this project up over the long term, it may be interesting to see whether there's a correlation between number of errors and type of sources used, or something of that sort. -- Robth Talk 04:59, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I've (finally) addressed the majority of your concerns about the Jabba the Hutt article from the peer review. I'm still not too sure about some of the prose, though. What do you think should be done with this article now? Dmoon1 05:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Didn't want to give you the wrong impression. I'm being stalked by sockpuppeteer right now, and one of the many harassing things he's done is mindlessly place citation needed tags on my edits, which made me in no particular hurry to come back and add a cite. Admins are on the case, and I'm hoping he'll eventually get bored of it and remember he's a grownup. Oh, and just FYI, if you haven't read Low Life yet, I highly recommend it. IronDuke 21:37, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
BTW, thanks for beefing up the examples! Can I be a pain and ask for one more example? Is there a good one to look at for a specific TV episode? Are the specific DR Who episodes good to go by? Thanks! plange 18:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi Brian,
As I mentioned in passing on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (writing about fiction), I've been working on Donut (Red vs Blue), which is a shorter (16 KB or so, including references) article on a fictional character. As character article go, it's sort of a pilot for us at WikiProject Machinima. If you have the time and interest, I'd appreciate any feedback that you might have on it. I'll admit upfront that it's a little light on the critical reception side, but I don't think that there's much more that I can do about that, given the relative lack of information there; instead, I tried to focus on how the creators attempted to develop the character and how the voice acting was done. Thanks. — TKD:: Talk 05:29, 7 July 2006 (UTC)