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AndyJones (talk) 13:28, 9 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you Daniel Case. I will check that out! AndyJones (talk) 13:20, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Howdy
Andy! As I live and breathe...Great to see you're still around (in general), and great to see you around (here) again. The place is still a dump, but it tends to get magically better whenever you spend time here. :)For my own part I spend most of my time over on Wikisource these days, transcribing old public domain books (well, and helping with the nerdy bits), but I sometimes pop back over. Pure dumb luck it should be the same day you did.In any case… Good to see you! Xover (talk) 19:55, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello!!! Yes, I'm probably only dropping in. Back in the late noughties I found being a Wikipedian was interfering with my career a bit, so I tried to roll it back. A couple of years ago I read all the subsequent drama regarding the authorship question (no really, all of it, it took months) and I was pleased to see that yours was always a voice of calm and common sense amidst a sea of anger! It does seem to me that although there is much less aggravation than there was a decade ago, there's also less by way of progress: WP:BARD seems to be dormant and there's not much drive to improve things. I see that in other areas too: I arrived here a few weeks ago to check-out an article on a legal topic which I had set a question on and had been sent a pile of papers to mark. I wanted to know to what extent Wikipedia would have helped the students and the answer was "not-at-all". The article was a mix of things that were wrong and things that were out of date - not because of bad editing, but because of a complete lack of editing. The last human being to have commented on its talk page had done so in 2013. Anyway, no individual can fix all of Wikipedia's issues. But I can take a look at Othello, to see what I can fix, shortly. AndyJones (talk) 13:29, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Short descriptions
For the long version, see WP:Short description and WP:HOWTOSD. For the reason that they are restricted to just 40 characters, see Wikipedia talk:Short description/Archive 9

As well as giving a capsule response to a search, they are also used by annotated link in wp:see also lists, as way to suggest to readers why they might want to explore further. As you know, some article names are terse and thus only meaningful to readers who already know about a topic. So in the case you raised, this is the effect: The abbreviated form anli is more convenient. Welcome back to the time sink. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:25, 4 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Works for me! Thanks a lot for your help. AndyJones (talk) 16:28, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Hamlet
Perhaps you already know this, but the actual Hamlet quote is "The apparel oft proclaims the man". One of those "Who wrote that? Eh, probably Shakespeare." things. Upstart Crow had fun with that. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:56, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, yes. Polonius, if I recall correctly. AndyJones (talk) 13:00, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Kate. Why then, Mr Shakespeare, call the watch, appeal to the Privy Council, cry foul and naughty tricks, for I fear you have been plagiarized.
 * Shakespeare. Plagiarized? By whom? Who’s stealing my biggies? Name this thieving barnstaple.
 * Kate. The apostle Matthew!
 * Shakespeare. The swine – and him a man of God!
 * Kate. Mr. Shakespeare, ‘He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword’ is in the Bible.
 * Shakespeare. Really? You’re sure?
 * Kate. Yes. Matthew, chapter 26 verse 52, although interestingly, he didn’t come up with it either. A form of the phrase first appears in the ancient Greek play Agamemnon by the immortal dramatist Aeschylus.
 * Shakespeare. Well, if the apostle Matthew can pinch it, then so can I. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:15, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * LOL! AndyJones (talk) 09:46, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I scrolled up a bit and saw you mentioned reading old SAQ discussions. You may enjoy this fairly recent one: Talk:List_of_Shakespeare_authorship_candidates. I have a spotty and shallow Shakespeare interest, but this is WP, so I can still create articles like Shakespeare coat of arms and Shakespeare and Star Trek. And Shakespeare's signet ring. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:55, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Yes, I've read all of that talk page conversation now too. (Although not feeling much wiser.) AndyJones (talk) 12:45, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Some passion there, though. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:17, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Boulton and Park
Hey Andy, I noticed after posting my own ANI complaint that you had taken an interest in the issue, and thought you might appreciate a bit more context. — Personman (talk) 09:09, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

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