User talk:Clarityfiend/2006

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TheRingess 08:37, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

The Day the Earth Stood Still
A big improvement, IMHO. Slowmover 14:45, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

The 2007-10-29 "Differences from the short story" copy edit is quite nice. Thank you! – Conrad T. Pino 01:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

In German
Hi, I think your edits on Sealion were great, but can you put the "in German" stuff back? I hate using it to as I think its clumsy and unneeded but there is some nonce on here me who says it has to be in there, and he has the ear of some admins on irish wikipedia. Thanks Fluffy999 05:49, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Fluffy999 07:22, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Alliance-Union unverse
Hi, Clarityfiend. Thank you for your very productive edits to the Alliance-Union universe page back on May 14. Given that you clearly have value to add, I would like to invite you to contribute any additional expertise you may have to any of the pages in Category:C. J. Cherryh. There are a few of us who regularly edit Cherryh-related pages and it would be great to have someone like you keeping an eye on them as well. Thanks again! Fairsing 02:00, 26 May 2006 (UTC) (Talk)

2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
Revision history


 * 15:07, 10 June 2006 69.221.116.25 (Å®Filmed but unused scenes)
 * 15:07, 10 June 2006 69.221.116.25 (Å®Filmed but unused scenes)
 * 18:36, 9 June 2006 Clarityfiend (removed 2 words)
 * 18:35, 9 June 2006 Clarityfiend (minor improvements)
 * 18:16, 9 June 2006 Clarityfiend (added plot details)

Thank you and good luck. I seem to have been effectively banned from further editing of this article.

Jason Palpatine 20:46, 10 June 2006 (UTC) speak your mind

Merchanter's Luck
Great news! Looks like a good start, too. Depending on how long you think your summaries of the individual books will be, you might want to keep your summaries on the main The Merchanter novels page. If you think your article on each book will be fairly substantial, leave as-is and keep going with the separate page. If the article on the individual book is only going to be a few paragraphs, however, you might consider keeping these as sections of the main article rather than breaking them out. See Alternate Realities (Cherryh) for an example of that. Either way, it's up to you. Keep up the good work! Fairsing 15:29, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

The Black Company
By all means, write away! I actually don't own all the novels of the Black Company, so I was hoping someone else would pitch in - most of my efforts so far have been in Glen Cook's Garrett P.I. series. Good luck, I'll definitely check by later to see how things are going. - Runch 23:08, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Battle of Stalingrad
While editing text in that article, you erased all the interwikis plus other text so it had to be reverted. --Ppntori 08:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Note: this was due to a Firefox bug. Clarityfiend 18:37, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Barnacle Bill
Hello Clarityfiend. Excellent work on "Barnacle Bill", a fondly remembered film from my childhood (spent in Ealing not three hundred yards from the studios). But please, it's an Ealing Film, made in England. Unless you can show that it was released in the USA before the home market - which I doubt - it should be listed as "Barnacle Bill", released in the USA as "All at Sea" and not the other way around. Shouldn't it? Peter Maggs 12:08, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Good work. Thanks for making the change. Peter Maggs 07:05, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Boys' Night Out
Clarityfiend, in the case of "Boys' Night Out," it was proper to say the film "stars James Garner" and "was directed by Michael Gordon" rather than "starred" and "was directed." While Gordon directed the movie in the past, Garner continues to star in it whenever someone pops in a DVD. I'm going to go back and collapse the sentences and eliminate the "It," though, anyway.

Not A Matter of Life and Death yet...
Before we get into an edit war, can we discuss the ending? Both SteveCrook and I prefer the other version. IMO, the quotation is rather clumsy and not particularly memorable.

By the way, have you seen what somebody's done to the synopsis for 2001? It looks like I'm going to have to take my scalpel and do a little pruning. Clarityfiend 02:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Disagree. The message in the film was straight-forward.  And I always considered the declaration by Dr. Reeves the most potent line of dialouge in the entire film.  It was the message and whole point of his case and the film's conclusion. I consider the other line ending the summary is (as you put it) "rather clumsy and not particularly memorable." I belive the other line using the remark from the film has more drive to it. -- Jason Palpatine 20:33, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Five Graves to Cairo
Hi,

With due respect, I think you are wrong about Mouche having fallen in love with Bramble. Quite the contrary, she was going to denounce him but ‘patriotism’ got the better of her when she discovered that Schwegler had deceived her. Have another look at the ending, you'll see what I mean – and enjoy the film again! (BTW, did you really get the impression that Bramble was ‘devastated’ by Mouche’s death? I didn’t.) :)

I leave it to you to make whatever corrections you think are in order.

Best, Bardwell 20:43, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Bombastic Blimp
Bombastic? Conolel Blimp? Surely not :) The animal heads on the wall are much discussed, whenever anyone mentions the film they seem to be discussed. But that's often because people nowadays are shocked by the idea of shooting animals and then putting their heads on the wall. I think it's that more than the way it's used as a device to show the passing of time that is why so many people mention it. At least the "much discussed" version and your current version are both better than saying the flash forward was "much heralded". All the best -- SteveCrook 17:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Demon with a Glass Hand
Nice work on the expanded plot synopsis. It looks really good. Alan Smithee 00:10, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Miscellany
Hi, I've made an assortment of changes to C. - mostly referencing, plus some beefing up of the reception and criticism sections. A franc for your thoughts if you have time to cast an eye over them. :) Seems to me we might even fit Sam's piano into the reception section, as an indication of enduring popularity (whether enduring popularity is strictly 'reception' is another question, but it's hard to split into two sections). HenryFlower 18:37, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Casablanca quotes
Thanks for your input. In fact that's exactly what I intend to do - adding parodies, spoofs, derivations etc. Haonhien 04:19, 17 September 2006 (UTC)


 * See, e.g., Love means never having to say you're sorry Haonhien 04:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Bridge on the River Kwai
From the wording in the sentence, I assumed someone had mistakenly used reparations to mean repairs. Sorry if I jumped the gun, I have no knowledge that the repairs weren't paid for by war reparations, or repaired by the Japanese as part of war reparations. —Michael Z. 2006-09-29 21:20 Z 

Vacation?
More or less - I've just moved house, and Internet access is not ideal. I'll keep an eye on it as and when I'm able to, though. HenryFlower 09:28, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

A Big Hand for the Little Lady
There's actually very little wrong with it. The addition of the tag may have been a tad over zealous. If you could see your way to replacing the word "bilked" (coloquial slang, I think) I'll take care of my other (very minor) issues and remove the tag. TheMadBaron 06:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * That was quick.... TheMadBaron 06:09, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I've edited and removed the tag. One thing though.... are we to infer that the other players follow Mary to the bank? This is the only way it makes sense to me, but should be overtly stated, IMO. TheMadBaron 06:35, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, and I'm only guessing that Laredo refers to Laredo, Texas, per the redirect from Laredo. It seems like a reasonable guess, but guessing isn't terribly good practise around here.... TheMadBaron 06:39, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Ivanhoe (1952 film)
What was wrong with the description of Ivanhoe as the first in a trilogy followed by the names of the second and the third? Orbicle 22:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Animal House
Just wanted to say thank you for your recent edits to Animal House, it is looking much better. L0b0t 19:02, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Casablanca (film)
Hi Clarityfriend, whatever your name may be,

you made a major edit removing a section on irony things regarding the Casablanca movie. I think you were right. This irony stuff wasn't really relaevant for the movie. However, you seem to have forgotten to sign your large contribution on the discussion page of the Casablanca movie. I believe it was just only a mistake. I added the link to your user page. I hope that was all right for you! ;)

Best regards

Max --Maxl 23:59, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

The Citizen of the Galaxy infobox
I reinstated the infobox; those links are on all twelve of the Scribner's juveniles. See comments on Talk:Robert A. Heinlein. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs)  20:46, 30 October 2006 (UTC)


 * To be honest, I could take either side of the argument (include them or exclude them). On balance, I think they're useful in showing the relationship between the Scribner's juveniles, which are often discussed as a group.  And they do no harm -- the twelve individual articles don't imply that the books form a traditional series.  In any event, I announced the change on Talk:Robert A. Heinlein, and the only comment was favorable, so it didn't seem to be a controversial change.  Feel free to comment there if you really feel strongly that those links are a problem. -- Jim Douglas (talk)  (contribs)  21:11, 30 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Can you put your objections on Talk:Robert A. Heinlein (or just start a new topic at the bottom of the page)? While I could take either side of the argument, I think on balance they're useful. -- Jim Douglas (talk)  (contribs)  21:59, 30 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I went ahead and moved the new discussion to the bottom of the page as Talk:Robert A. Heinlein; it looked like it was going to get lost in the middle of that long "Clifford Geary" section. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs)  16:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Macbeth
Your edits today were mostly spiffy, but you botched one in the para beginning "In England, Malcolm and Macduff plan an invasion...." I'd fix it myself, but I can't fathom what your intention was. El Ingles 00:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

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The Book of Dreams
Eh, my prose style sure sucks, doesn't it? One point of fact though - Treesong said zip about being Emperor of the Gaean Reach. The book's right here next to my computer. The Gaean Reach is another kettle of fish, not a Demon Princes construct. Captain Pedant 10:36, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I saw your note about the Gaean Reach. Doesn't alter the fact that Treesong never said he would have been the first Emperor of the Gaean Reach - he said "worlds". Captain Pedant 11:49, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Hitchcock Cameos
Hi, Not intending to be argumentative but Hitchcock said that he was in all of his films. He was in crowd scenes in the first several. These were not really cameos. At the time it was a cheap "and effective way to fill the screen when extra bodies were needed. Anyone available on the set might be used as an extra.  It became an actual "gimmick later on. Philbertgray 10:30, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two
Much cleaner now -- thanks! Cheers -- Pete Tillman 00:54, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the films
Thanks for all the films you brought in the Films by year series. I see you've done lots of work on films!! Hoverfish Talk 00:08, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
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 * Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays ! | A ndonic O Talk 01:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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Sand Pebbles
Really nice work on the 12/25 rewrite! Merry Christmas! --Kevin Murray 03:41, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Can I steal your joke ?
Can I steal your line about giving theoratical answers ?


 * "Theoretically, FTL is possible. See Tachyon (which in not a Star Trek invention). What you can't do (as mere matter) is reach the speed of light, by either accelerating, or in the case of tachyons, decelerating. (On the other hand, theoratically, StuRat is not possible.)"

Regarding "tachyon", isn't that a tacky fabric similar to rayon ? :-) StuRat 21:29, 29 December 2006 (UTC)