User:Mjpresson/Archive6

Archive 6

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Hallucinations of a deranged mind.jpg)
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Userboxes
Hey Mike:

Sorry it's taken me so long to respond &mdash; been busy. Thanks for your kind offer to create userboxes. As you know, I love to festoon my userpage with visual clutter. But the userboxes reduce clutter, so g'head and feng my shui.

Some userbox suggestions:


 * This user is a rock music maven [Maybe use a guitar for the graphic? You're pretty creative, so freak me out. Too bad you can't use a still of The Carrie Nations rockin' out to "Find It"!]


 * This user digs New Wave music [A real headscratcher when it comes to graphics. All I can think of is a riff on the geometric shapes of Split Enz's True Colours album. BTW, before shitty A&M Records released the Enz's albums in North America, they originally appeared on Mushroom Records, whose label depicted a wicked-looking Amanita muscaria mushroom. Trivia only a New Wave devotee and tripper could appreciate!]


 * This user will mercilessly edit your precious vanity article on dolls and make you cry. [Graphic: Still of raised hand with butcher knife from Psycho.]

OK, just joking on the last one. Any suggestions from you are most welcome. I kinda like "this user likes offbeat cult films and hates Hollywood product" &mdash; but that describes you too, I think.

When ya get around to it. Thanks. Kinkyturnip (talk) 07:01, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

RE:
Congratulations for your excelent work with Zé do Caixão movies. Neither pt:Wiki have so good job. Caiaffa (talk) 22:32, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:Image:Strange world of coffin joe.jpg
I've added a rationale for you. Sorry, it was just lazy of me not to do it in the first place. J Milburn (talk) 16:03, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Female Trouble film.jpg)
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The Thrill Of It All
Thanks for the Roxy userbox &mdash; it hit the spot. Kinkyturnip (talk) 06:28, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Films June 2008 Newsletter
The June 2008 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 23:59, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:Mink Stole actress.jpg
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Helpfulness!
I feel like I keep seeing you around the New contributors' help page, and not just as a question-asker any more. Way to be helpful! -- Nataly a 12:25, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Care to copyedit this entry?
On a recent road trip, I passed by the town of Penryn, California. You may know it because it's near Loomis, where the notorious Babs Johnson was last seen. I looked up Penryn on Wiki, and it's a mess&mdash;inappropriate tone, written like an essay, with second person and cornpone prose like "you might say the town's name was set in stone!" (To add insult to injury, an exclamation point. Ugh.)

Because you are a known criminal associate of Babs Johnson and live nearby, would you care to copyedit the Penryn entry? Thought you might know all the local angles.

By the way, your userboxes are great. Especially like the cha-cha heels one. Keep up the good work and creativity. Kinkyturnip (talk) 16:51, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

your comments to Pilobola
Let's see if I am doing this right. I'm responding to your message to me about continuing to fix the Carroll Watson Rankin page I initiated. I'm surprised at what I was able to make happen in my first 6 hours of exposure to Wikipedia, and with help from nice folks like you. But I am also about to bail from Wikipedia; there is just too much arcana to absorb, awash as my poor brain already is in the Internal Revenue Code and the systematics of the kingdom fungi. Nonetheless, I don't want to neglect the little Rankin page. Is there anything I must (italicized must) do to it to assure its survival? Or will it fend for itself at this point? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pilobola (talk • contribs) 00:13, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Films July 2008 Newsletter
The July 2008 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 02:27, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Hal Sparks Article
Hi there, Mjpresson. Just wanted to touch base and ask about the article on Hal Sparks. Saw that you removed the article I posted, citing that the link is for a paid news article database. Just for my Wiki education, can you tell me if that is a Wiki requirement or guideline? Just so that I know for future articles. My thinking was that it is okay, because it is a legitimate article. I didn't recall seeing any guidelines regarding article databases that require a fee. Many admins have access to subscription database specifically for news articles that bypass these paid online cites. They can use the citation to go and look it up and verify such articles. I think that this article was a CNN interview. Thank you for any insights you can share so that I can be educated as a better contributor in the future. MotivationalMagic (talk) 18:36, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Mjpresson. Ahhhh, I see. Yes, all of that makes sense. I really appreciate you taking a few minutes to share information on these various questions.

May I ask another quick question about newspaper articles? I'm a little bit confused about citations for articles. On most of the Wiki articles I have read, it appears that they are listing news articles in the "reference" section. But, from what I think you are saying, the "reference" section is only for footnotes to text in the article.

Then, the other confusion is that "external links" don't appear to be the location to put newspaper articles. From what I have been seeing, it looks like "external links" are for the person's home page or things of that sort.

You mentioned the article being five years old. Is it a Wiki guildeline, then, that newspaper articles be less than five years old?

Again, thanks in advance for any help or insights that you might share. Just seeking to be a good Wiki contributor and am still learning the policies and guidelines. Appreciate your time and your help. MotivationalMagic (talk) 19:12, 2 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello, my friend Mjpresson! You really have outdone yourself this time with all of this great help!!! Yes, I'm new as a contributor to Wiki, so your guidance is very valuable. I imagine that you are a busy person, so please know that I am extremely grateful for you taking the time to help out a newby and show me the correct and proper way of doing things. You have helped me to accelerate my learning curve and shave off a few months of learning things the hard way by trial and error. Mjpresson, you are truly an ACE!  Thanks again! MotivationalMagic (talk) 06:18, 3 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello, Mjpresson! No problem! Thanks again! MotivationalMagic (talk) 16:19, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

That's princess perfect to you
Thanks for the youtube link. I'm gonna have to rethink hip hop &mdash; the music from the clip makes me want to yodel...in the canyon. Kinkyturnip (talk) 23:55, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Monday morning confusion
Actually, I don't remember the song "Saturday Morning Confusion". But then my musical tastes run toward the twee and obscure or cheesy and chewy (bubblegum music). You're right, tho', I shouldn't rethink it too hard &mdash; after all these years, I still don't have a stable of bitches and hos and my peeps don't throw me no props (except you, but you're too kind). Kinkyturnip (talk) 16:13, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Whoa is me! There goes the TV
You couldn't have sent those lyrics at a better time. Yesterday a wrecking crew showed up &mdash; unannnounced &mdash; to renovate the apartment above me. They're ripping out walls and putting in skylights and a new roof. Gee, thanks for the heads-up, evil wicked greedy landlord. Which two of these three words &mdash; Chinese restaurant landlord &mdash; make most people recoil in horror? Yep.

Anyway, looks like I'm spending August in Mokelumne Hill. Friend just bought a house there. It's pretty cool. Greek Revival built in 1853. Paint cans and plaster dust everywhere. My friend wanted to name the house something. I suggested Belle Reeve or another name from a movie. But after seeing where he was living before &mdash; a dreary basement in his mom's house filled with antiques, paintings, and two cats shitting everywhere &mdash; I started laughing hysterically and spit out, "Grey Gardens!" He laughed and said, "That's not funny. My mom's getting older and battier. If I don't clear out of the basement soon, we're gonna end up like Big Edie and Little Edie." I reassured him that like Little Edie, his days at Grey Gardens were numbered.

Anyway, didn't mean to write a book. I won't have phone or Internet access at Moke Hill (yet), so it looks like I won't be Wiki-ing for awhile. Ending my tenure on a good note &mdash; just finished editing the plot summary for Carrie. (They're all gonna laugh at you!)

Don't worry, like Aah-nold, I'll be back. See ya, kemosabe. Kinkyturnip (talk) 17:48, 5 August 2008 (UTC)