User talk:Corsair1944

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I think your articles about those books need more information to be wikipedia material. Love the effort though! The Llama! (talk) 22:46, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I was just going to say something similar - there's nothing wrong with creating stubs, but if you're doing it just to get rid of the nasty red links on the author page it'd probably be best to leave the red links and work up the book articles one by one. pablo hablo. 23:16, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll get there -- working my way though reviews and writing my own -- love Bruce Marshall!

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Novels articles
I notice a number of additions by you for novels by the author of Girl in May. I can see you are keen on him, however you might like to consider writing article that have more to them. They would then have more chance of remaining on wikipedia as the short pieces you are writing add little in themselves. Don't let this discourage you, try checking out WP:NV for more information on writing such articles. :: Kevinalewis  : (Talk Page) /(Desk)  11:34, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Bruce Marshall
Hello. I have created Category:Novels by Bruce Marshall so that you can add that category to all the articles you're creating. However, I must point out that articles consisting of one-line descriptions of the novels are not necessarily a good idea. I think this was already pointed out to you and I have to agree that it would make more sense to merge all of these into a single article, say List of novels by Bruce Marshall. It still makes sense to have stand-alone articles for his most important work and note that you can always put the redirects into the above category. (If you're unsure of what that last sentence means, let me know and I'll explain!) Pascal.Tesson (talk) 19:43, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The somewhat longer articles you have now been writing are not adequate either. Please see my comments for A Thread of Scarlet. You must find published book reviews for reliable sources and make references to them, you must at least talk about the publication of the book & the place in the author's work. You can describe the plot on the basis of the book itself, but you can not maker evaluative remarks on that basis--you have to quote them. And you cannot copy from some previously published source. I'd advise you to fix this very quickly, before it gets nominated for   deletion.DGG (talk) 01:31, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

March 2009
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Capitan, New Mexico
Just curious: why Infobox Writer for a community article? Nyttend (talk) 21:13, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I see. It's not difficult; see what I've done to it.  Nyttend (talk) 03:50, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Kern Plateau section edit
At the very top of all articles is a tab labeled "History"-click on that tab and a list of all edits made will display. Then compare my edit with the one just below it by clicking in the green circles next to both, then click on the gray buttton that says "compare selected versions" and both edits will display with changes/edits in red text. Then have your sense of humor engaged....I'm really tired of you and User:Fordpinto77 attempts at vandalism to this article, and am just about ready to report it. Humor always helps in an irritating situation.


 * If you can write about some history on the guard station-is it within the wilderness boundaries? Is it abandoned or maintained? Since there are no vehicles allowed in a wilderness, how is the structure used today? etc I'd be happy with that, but tell your buddy to keep his girlfriend's pic out of the article. Marcia Wright (talk) 14:34, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Golden Trout Wilderness
Dear Corsair1944, My apologies for acting like the Troll Under The Bridge with this article. I have re-added your photo, did some easy research and wrote a little bit on the trail,etc. I would be interested in your opinion of what I added, and maybe we can both work together to add more information-for example, in the book where I got this info, there is a reference to the Tunnel Meadow Guard Station as a Registered National Historic Place. More details on that would be relevant, a new section titled "Historical Sites" could even be done. Do you have the time to work on this article? Marcia Wright (talk) 14:40, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Dear Marcia, Thank you much for your kind words. I think that your edits are quite good. I would be happy to work on this article with you. As to Tunnel Meadow GS, it was destroyed in a fire (structure fire, not a forest fire) sometime around 2000. It was quite a nice structure in a very scenic spot. I might be able to get some pictures of it from friends. There were also a number of Guard Stations on the western part of the GTW (I am only familiar with the eastern part). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Corsair1944 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, I'm almost as finished as I can get on my currant project-creating an article on the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains-so as far as Golden Trout Wilderness, what do you think needs the most work? The photo you mentioned above sounds interesting, although I was unable to find any listing in the National Register. In fact the hiking guidebook may have been referring to Jordan Hot Springd and trail, not the guard station. I have some stuff downloaded about the state fish-that section needs expansion definitely. So let me know -here on your page, I am watching it-what we can do to improve this article. Cheers, User:Marcia Wright(not logged in) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.81.51.15 (talk) 01:05, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

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curious to hear, thanks for taking the time if you do! BespokeFM (talk) 00:05, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

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