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Response on reassessing A Cool Million
Response available at WikiProject_Novels/Assessment. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page) / (Desk)  09:06, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Joyce, Beckett and Userboxes
Fair enough, if you want to change Joyce's "preceded and succeeded by" tags, it makes no odds to me. I can see where Wikipedia's guidelines make sense for describing Star Wars or Harry Potter, but I'd have thought it more useful and more interesting for Joyce's work to see how it progresses through his life. Do people really pick up Ulysses to find out what happened next to Stephen Dedalus? Are they really disappointed when he doesn't show up in Exiles? (Of course, he's disguised as Richard Rowan in that play, so that would fool them.)

Good work on Dream of Fair to Middling Women, by the way - I'll maybe give you a hand with that when I've got a spare minute. --Quywompka 08:22, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Yaakov Shabtai title in translation
I'm presently doing some Wikipedia editing between the English and Hebrew editions on the topic of Israeli theatre, and have read some of your edits on the English-language page on the playwright Yaakov Shabtai. My question: What's the provenance of the title "The Spotted Tiger" for "Namer havarburot"? Was this Shabtai's choice? No English translation is listed in the US Library of Congress online catalogue, so I thought to ask you before seeking elsewhere. -- Thanks, Deborahjay 23:11, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Kafka categories
Thanks, on the "non-fiction books by" issue I am not adverse to that myself however there is a whole consistency issue to go through here. "Loads" of categories are called "Books by" and have all sort of books in them currently. They need a lot of heavy work and then we might be able to go for a mass name change once clarity has been establihed. There are the letters (of kafka) to do though and I was unsure where to place those. n.b. the self title categories such as "Kafka" are being discouraged. :: Kevinalewis  : (Talk Page) /(Desk)  07:22, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Yellowface and Racebending
Thanks for the help with the yellowface article. When I found it via, the Avatar Last Airbender discussions, it was quite bare in comparison to blackface and since it appeared quite prominently via google, I decided to improve upon it.

Racebending came about starting from a comment from one of the White cast members, regarding getting a tan and shaving his hair. It was first deemed yellowface or brownface (Inuit character), but when the film was being made, it was found that he did not get tanned. Both whitewashing and racebending were the terms used.

Since learning more about the controversy, I am now familiar with the term whitewashing. Racebending seems to be getting more popular in regards to other films that have had races changed, but not strictly yellowface or brownface. That's the reason I thought to use it as the title for the 21st Century filmography.

At what point can we use racebending, instead of or alongside, whitewashing?

Have to also point out that we have already discussed the controversy regarding the casting in Last Airbender and those sections would be too big for The Last Airbender article. I added the dates since there are pro-casters, as they are termed, disputing the timeline of events. Would it be better if I added a table, like the filmography?

It seems to be the case that the article needs to be split, but not sure if that would be advisable since both yellowface and whitewashing seems to go hand in hand, either the white actor dons yellowface or they eliminate the Asian and cast the white caucasian actor.

Have carbon copied this in the Yellowface discussion.

Regards, Obi Nemogbr 00:14, 8 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nemogbr (talk • contribs)

Isaac Jin Solstein
This article may have started with the gentleman directly above, but I do not see how it is infected by any "airbender related shenanigans" though I fully understand your concern. For my part, I have attempted to clean it up into a concise, objective, well documented article. However, I must point out two significant errors of fact in your comments on the deletion page. The Forestburgh Playhouse is not community theater. It is an Actors Equity playhouse, it employs union talent in all except juvenile roles. And three of the four roles cited for Forestburgh are in fact, major roles: Tam, Gavroche & Prince Chululongkorn are three of the most important juvenile roles in the entire legitimate theater. Let me add, Isaac's most recent role is with the American Repertory Theater (ART), one of America's leading theater companies, Diane Paulus being one of the theaters most celebrated new directors. I hope some of this is helpful. Eric Solstein (talk) 01:00, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

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request to remove Criticism section
First, I want to apologize for recently deleting the criticism section on my page. I did not fully understand the protocol by which this site is edited. I have since researched Wikipedia's policies, and I have learned that the proper way to handle these issues is to engage the poster directly.

So I would like to ask you to please remove the criticism section on my biography page. I find that much of it is incorrect, and I feel that the material unfairly casts me in a negative light. For example, I do not imply in my book or anywhere else that West was drunk when he died in an auto accident. My assertion that Buster Keaton was functionally illiterate is factually correct. Laura Miller's Salon review of my book is generally positive. I'm not entirely sure that a customer review on Amazon.com deserves the weight it is given in this section. Garner's New York Times Review is in fact negative, but the fact is that reviews of my work are generally positive.

I hope that you understand the discomfort seeing this material on my Wikipedia page causes me. I've reviewed several other writer's pages, and I don't see a similar section posted on them. If a section like this is to remain, it should present a range of viewpoints - positive and negative review attention - and it should be factually accurate. As it stands, most of the material is not accurate, and all of it is negative. I hope that you will remove it, or at minimum edit it for accuracy.

I see that you have done a lot of work on Nathanael West's books and bibliography on Wikipedia. Perhaps we can work together on future West projects? I have a wealth of research that we could put to good use on Wikipedia.

I look forward to hearing from you. Mmeade7 (talk) 16:11, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

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Merge tax revolt into history of tax resistance
Just to let you know I have proposed a merger. See Talk:History of tax resistance. Nirvana2013 (talk) 15:33, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

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Avalon Hill
My friends used to play a lot of SPI games in the 1970s, as well as some AH titles, like Richthofen's War. I don't remember who was responsible for Squad Leader.

So, would I be tempted to relive my youth by reading a novel centred on an AH game? Sure. (If I had nothing else to do.)

But how would I become aware of such a novel if it were uncategorized?

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Ways to improve Pardes Publishing
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Boleyn (talk) 05:49, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Added some links for reference, mentioned some authors they publish; not sure what to do to "prove" notability for a publisher, list a bunch of their books that have sold well / been reviewed extensively?

AshcroftIleum (talk) 08:58, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, thanks for getting on to that so quickly. Essentially it needs to be clear it meets WP:ORG or WP:GNG - at the moment there isn't any evidence of either, but you may be able to find some. Thanks for your hard work, Boleyn (talk) 16:07, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

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