User:MinorProphet

This is (unsurprisingly) my user page.

Translation
I can't remember quite how, but today I came across the German word Sprachmittler, where 'mittel' is a means or medium. And suddenly the idea of 'rendering' or even (gods forbid) 'translating' something seems happily distant, and now I know myself to be a 'language mediator' :> MinorProphet (talk) 01:21, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Ongoing unfinished articles

 * Draft subpages - this one...

Current obsession:

 * Draft:Knights for the body
 * On my vague idea of creating a complete list of all Knights for the Body ever, the words of William A. Shaw in the preface to his The Knights of England pp. ix–x about collating the records of Knights Bachelor will serve as a warning:
 * "No words of mine can convey an adequate idea of the welter, chaos, confusion and contradictions of these manuscripts. The names of Knights are given with every possible variation, the lists disagree perpetually amongst themselves in the order of the names, and the dates assigned to the battles or other occasions on which knighthoods occur, are in the majority of cases totally incorrect. In the attempt to collate these manuscripts and to verify them from extraneous sources, I have spent four painful years, and I regard the outcome as the most distressingly unsatisfactory piece of historical work I have ever set my hand to."

List of things I REALLY REALLY should have completed aeons ago...

 * MV Delius... So old,can't you finish it?
 * Charles Gayno Baylor - the founder of Baylor University was his uncle, i fink
 * Archimedes' cattle problem, from bibliography for Number Theory: (Needs German maths expert familiar with Fraktur)

Related to The Miracle but lost interest

 * Joseph Menchen - theatre lighting man and film producer
 * George C. Crager - his somewhat dodgy business partner
 * Elite Sales Agency - UK distributors of the fake Das Mirakel (1912 film)
 * NY Film Co. - US importers of the fake Mirakel
 * Battle of the Miracles - the whole episode could have been a deliberate con, designed to draw attention to the real thing.
 * Reinhardt's ‘Miracle’ at Olympia: a Record and a Reconstruction - Book about the massive stage production

Other

 * The joy of sfn - attempt at to explain technical aspects of referencing - now very outdated. See Talk re reffing.
 * Why are there no good chemistry jokes, only puns?
 * Karl Schafhaütl, Karl Emil von Schafhäutl who invented Schafhaütl's powder, which removed phosphorus from steel


 * —Peruvian steel, an early type of stainless steel.— Pretty much ready for mainspace.

I randomly came across this and just couldn't resist...
H. E. Porter was Harold Everett Porter (19 September 1887 — 21 June 1936). He was an author of plays, verse, novels and short stories, who often wrote under the pen name of 'Holworthy Hall', the name of a dormitory for 1st-year students at Harvard University. The following words fit fairly well to the tune of Mattinata (YouTube) by Leoncavallo.

Useful links

 * Xtools - Complete info on my Wikicareer, or any other WP editor - subsitute a user name into the last part of the url.
 * Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
 * , archives live links in articles, and automatically adds archive params to the article refs.
 * My user page for iabot
 * Citation templates
 * Help:Pipe trick
 * Help:Interwikimedia links
 * DABs etc.
 * &#123;&#123;Histmerge | title of original page to be migrated from &#125;&#125;.
 * Adobe Reader command-line params
 * Online copies of The Navy List 1814 - 1884, plus Navy List to end of December 1819
 * Pirsig, Robert M. (1974) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Or maybe Easy Rider: but which came first? But if you had read, marked and fully inwardly digested Fear and Loathing then the question would be moot.
 * Blow it up and start over - sometimes you come across an article that reads like someone got dressed by putting their overcoat and galoshes on first, and then attempted to put everything else on in an entirely random order. Every sentence is somehow wrongly phrased; every ref is malformed in some way; there is no flow, no over-arching consistency. It's like the townie who asks a local leaning on a gate, "Excuse me, my man, how do I get to such-and-such a place?" — "Well, moy dear, Oi wouldn't be a-staartin' from 'yere."
 * Etiquette, to be read every week. ✅ • ✅ (oops, missed a couple of weeks) • ✅ • (wiki-break) NB Remember the Golem Rule: Clay is cool. • ✅ • ✅ • ✅ (It is possible to be too bold). Well, I used the words 'assholes' and 'wankers' to define the editors whose combined efforts resulted in the almost fact-free entry on List of dates for Easter. Fail, I imagine. "Treat your fellow productive, well-meaning members of Wikipedia with respect and good will." But suppose they are being counter-productive? And how to prove it? ✅ • ✅ (inc. various w/breaks, sheer laziness etc.,) but WP:Disinfoboxes made me chuckle. What about WP:Disarticles? • ✅ at 02:02 am approx. Please do not bite the regulars, which I recently managed not to do. WP:Forgive and forget? Just give up, more like.
 * Etiquette revisited: Maybe just to be read every so often, my timekeeping is atrocious.✅
 * Etiquette revisited: Maybe just to be read every so often, my timekeeping is atrocious.✅

Zen and the art of multiple choice™
A:
 * a) Yes
 * b) No
 * c) Black
 * d) White

Q:
 * Is a panda?

Fave quotes from talk pages

 * "Well, according to the evidence, you're an asshole and a troll, Barry." quote by User talk:Giraffedata
 * "Please do not have the gall to tell me to be reliable, when this website is a gargantuan void of misinformation." Talk:Panzer IV


 * "There are malicious people who would insert clearly false claims without legitimate basis, and claim that they in fact knew that Saddam Hussein was the fourth member of Busted." User talk:Redrose64
 * "Sorry, discussing should have been in quotes. In the way that a neighbor would discuss upkeep of a fence by writing in smeared fecal matter on your garage door." User talk:MB/Archive 7
 * "I'd forgotten quite why I resolved years ago, like so many, to avoid getting drawn into any talk page you were engaged in. Now you remind me." WP Talk:Manual of Style/Images
 * "The photo in user page is very ugly and against Wikipedia policy" User:Serial Number 54129
 * "PLEASE listen to me, you MUST NOT delete my edits, they are perfectly acceptable and valid, you are extremely stupid." User talk:Stepho-wrs
 * "I give up. You were right all along, and I've just been taking the piss."
 * "I do speak English and my English perfectly very good. Maybe you guys misunderstood for what I commented." Shamelessly pinched from User:BrownHairedGirl, alas
 * "This is one of many WP articles which apparently thinks it is wrong to give a simple example of what is meant." Talk:Monophyly
 * "There is no need to damn good research because it was done by a lamentable human being." The Bugle, March 2013 by Prioryman


 * Nevertheless, I'm more and more tempted to start awarding the WikiPile™ to those whose esteemed efforts in this remote corner of accumulated nonsense appear to be laudable, but who—under examination—turn out to be mere WP:WikiWankers or even WP:WikiShits. You know who you are. Or were, Francis Schonken.
 * Etiquette revisited: Maybe just to be read every so often, my timekeeping is atrocious.✅

Other fave quotes

 * Artur Nikisch to Albert Coates aged around 25, at the Leipzig Opera c.1904: "The conductor’s stick seems insufficient for your feelings, Coates. You’d better take a whip!"
 * On a certain writer: "Useful information is not his core business." This dates from 1895:
 * "The little coterie with whose labours I am about to deal has forced itself into public notice. Appealing at first to but a small section of the cognoscenti, Charles Ricketts, Charles Hazelwood Shannon, Lucien Pissarro, Reginald Savage, Sturge Moore, and others, have slowly but surely advanced. True is that the man in the street knows them not, nor does the Philistine aspire to understand them; but that is because they have not courted the glare of publicity, and have been content to discover and emend their own imperfections, to work out their own artistic salvation, unknown, save to a few. [My italics] One of these 'few' was 'Theocritus', a pseudonym for an unknown writer whose elaborate style demonstrates that "useful information is not his core business." Source: Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon by Paul van Capelleveen. Shannon made a lithograph portrait of Savage reproduced in "The Vale Artists. IV.-Reginald Savage". The Sketch, vol. IX, 24 April 1895, p.683 (Hathi Trust). See also, ,  , p. 112 De Herleving Der boekkunst in Engeland re Vale artists, mentions Savage on p. 131 (in Dutch/Flemish)

List of articles wot I did do
Articles I created, and those(*) to which I made substantial positive contributions, i fink

Film & related
—
 * The Society of the Spectacle (film)* (welcome, by the way, you are part of it)
 * The late Freddy Buache, who impressed me most in...
 * King Lear (1987 film)*
 * There's No Business... (1994 film) - "No-one knows about this film, and that's a fucking shame." Candidate for AfD, proposed by an editor whose own multiple deleted articles suffer from severe AfD syndrome. Bitter, toi? Mais non: self-immolated thanks to WP:SD. I'm surprised the article lasted as long as it did. Watch it and larf yer tits orf. The world was different, back then.
 * Tri-Ergon*, one of the first commercial sound film systems, used by...
 * Universum-Film AG* (Ufa), who bought the...
 * Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz, Berlin's first purpose-built, free-standing cinema, co-built by the man who bought the US rights to...
 * The Miracle (1912 film), the world's first full-colour narrative feature film, made by...
 * Joseph Menchen, who had offices at...
 * 20 Frith Street, and showed The Miracle at the ROH, hence...
 * Owners, lessees and managers of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and also at the refurbished...
 * Academy 1-2-3 (cinema) at 185 Oxford St., and battled with the distributors of...
 * Das Mirakel (1912 film), which was shown in a lecture at the  Brooklyn Museum by...
 * Franklin Hooper*, founder of the museum; the film was made by...
 * Mime Misu in a central Berlin studio previously owned by...
 * Jules Greenbaum*, who sold it to
 * Continental-Kunstfilm, who built one of the
 * Weissensee Studios* at 9-12 Franz Josef-Straße where Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari was later filmed; their...
 * List of films made by Continental-Kunstfilm includes some which starred
 * Otto Rippert.

Theatre/Opera related

 * John B. Schoeffel
 * Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau
 * Abbey's Park Theatre
 * Edmund O'Flaherty* (William Stuart) ‎

Music & related
———
 * British Symphony Orchestra*
 * British Symphony Orchestra discography
 * Owners, lessees and managers of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
 * Köchel catalogue* (history section)
 * Beethoven's Three Equals for four trombones, WoO 30, which were played at...
 * Beethoven's funeral (soon, somehow), at which...
 * Ludwig Titze sang in the choir, who was once reading some Shakespeare when Schubert passed by, hence...
 * Ständchen, D 889 (Schubert) (Hark, hark, the lark), and...
 * Ständchen, D 920/921 (Schubert).
 * Revue et gazette musicale de Paris*, in whose pages the death of
 * Johann Baptist Krall was reported, who knew...
 * Franz Xaver Gebauer, who started the 'Concerts spirituels' in Vienna, whose conductor was
 * Eduard Lannoy, whose father was exiled from Brussels like...
 * Jean Vesque de Puttelange, librarian in the...
 * Lubomirski Palace (Opole Lubelskie), where his son...
 * Johann Vesque von Püttlingen* was born, and who wrote an opera based on...
 * Turandot (Gozzi)*, which was also adapted as the libretto for...
 * Turandot (Busoni)*, which began life as the...
 * Turandot Suite (with User:Robert.Allen), which was his next work after the...
 * Piano Concerto (Busoni)* (with help and encouragement from User:Robert.Allen)
 * Arnaldo Conti, opera conductor
 * Auguste Vianesi, twice chief conductor at the 'old' Metropolitan Opera House, NY
 * Harold Everett Porter (see above)
 * List of opera houses in Chicago
 * List of compositions by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
 * List of compositions by Alexander Borodin*
 * List of compositions by César Franck(*) Made from two previously existing lists by Op. number and genre
 * List of compositions by Percy Pitt, a contemporary of
 * Ernest Austin*, whose brother's works are the subject of
 * List of compositions by Frederic Austin, whose last stage appearance was in
 * Derby Day (light opera)*, in which
 * Pamela Stanley* made her stage debut, whose great-uncle was......
 * William Evans-Gordon*, whose book The Alien Immigrant was dedicated to
 * Edward Steinkopff, the proprietor of the
 * St James's Gazette*

Other biogs & related
——
 * Louis Wolfson (writer)
 * John Hendry Anderson, mayor of Tooting, whose son was...
 * Maxwell Hendry Maxwell-Anderson who was..
 * Chief Justice of Fiji*, and also
 * Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific*, which indirectly began...
 * Template:Chief Justices of British overseas territories and ...
 * Willoughbyland (uploaded from my draft by U|Plucas58): other CJs of Fiji include...
 * James Beveridge Thomson, a namesake of...
 * James F. Thomson (philosopher): and...
 * Alfred Karney Young, QC, whose brother was...
 * William Douglas Young; their father was...
 * W. A. G. Young - page content uploaded from my draft by user:Davidcannon.
 * Nicholas Greaves, Dean of Dromore Cathedral, Ireland, the brother of...
 * John Greaves*, astronomer, traveller and Egyptologist who was a coin collector like...
 * Alexander del Mar*, economist and historian of money systems.
 * Sir Richard Ingoldsby (knighted 1617)
 * Francisco Galcerán de Lloris y de Borja, a cardinal of the Borgia family
 * Hieronymus Landus - a papal legate - still needs improving

Science and Engineering
——
 * A.M. (automobile)*, whose 'Abeille' engines were fitted in a Renard Road Train
 * Édouard Surcouf, an early dirigible pilot who knew...
 * Frédéric Airault, another aérostier, and director of Renard Road Trains which were licensed to Daimler, where...
 * Frederick Lanchester* developed the 105 hp Daimler sleeve-valve engine
 * Ducol, which uniquely came into being through someone else's suggestion
 * Elektron (alloy)*
 * Gulbenkian Science Prize
 * List of WWII Maybach engines
 * No. 1340 Flight RAF
 * Seidlitz five-stroke engine (deleted), reportedly fuelled by Seidlitz powders*
 * Vickers Medium Dragon and its companion,
 * Vickers Light Dragon
 * Voith Schneider Propeller*

Bology

 * Thekla lark* (etymology only)
 * Johngarthia planata (Clipperton crab), see Clipperton

Pomes

 * A New Heaven
 * Miners (poem)

Misc.

 * Alem (finial)
 * Daily American Times
 * 847 Antioch earthquake
 * 1951 Kurșunlu earthquake
 * 1967 Mudurnu earthquake* (from stub)
 * Units of paper quantity*
 * Compiled bibliography with sfn references for Number theory*

Dabs, etc.

 * Clipperton
 * Isserlis
 * Journet (disambiguation)
 * Poncha (disambiguation)
 * Stämpfli
 * Transcendental Étude (disambiguation)
 * UJM (disambiguation)
 * Wharncliffe (disambiguation)