User talk:EggsInMyPockets



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You wrote:

I enjoyed reading the stuff on your profile page. Thanks for having it that way. EggsInMyPockets (talk) 23:49, 8 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Well, the least we can do is to have a little fun while disseminating the world's knowledge! Thanks for the compliment. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 14:58, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Userpage
Hello. I've moved everything back to where it was. It happens sometimes :/ -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:23, 11 October 2015 (UTC)


 * thanks man. i didnt understand what happened lol. appreciate the help EggsInMyPockets (talk) 21:17, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Evoland 2 (2) (October 29)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Callmemirela was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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Callmemirela 🍁  &#123;Talk&#125;   &#9809;  03:07, 29 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Why was this article not accepted? I have been on Teahouse and was advised by many people that it would be notable if outside sources were found.  Many have been found and references are given.  Why do you think it is not notable?  Look at an article like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibb_and_Obb


 * My article is just as good, if not better than many other video game articles. So why do you not approve of mine?

Your submission at Articles for creation: Evoland 2 (2) (December 20)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Callmemirela was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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Callmemirela 🍁  &#123;Talk&#125;   &#9809;  20:38, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Evoland 2 (2) has been accepted
 Evoland 2 (2), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! SwisterTwister  talk  05:45, 23 December 2015 (UTC) Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America, Written in Boston, State of Massachusetts, September 28, 1829 a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
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Akkadian dice image
Hi,

can you please add information (e.g. to the file page on Commons) in which museum you took this image? Also, am I correct in assuming that the image also shows a knucklebone (presumable used for gaming, too) and that the flat, circular objects are assumed to be gaming pieces, too? --Jonas kork (talk) 13:43, 7 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi Jonas kork, I don't know how to add more information to the file page on Commons. I took this image at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum. I am unsure what the other items in the picture are, but I can find out for you when I go back to the museum. EggsInMyPockets (talk) 19:54, 7 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the info; I've edited the page at commons (commons:File:Dice from Khafajah Akkadian period.JPG). It works just like editing other wiki pages. --Jonas kork (talk) 10:54, 8 March 2017 (UTC)==

Thank you!
Dear EggsInMyPocket Thank so much for your kind words, which are much appreciated after an especially hellish day at work. You really made my day-it feels so good to hear something kind after so much unpleasantness. I'll have to agree with you-the thought has occurred that Hollywood has really missed the boat on Mr. Harlan's story, as it was made for a great epic adventure film (though Afghanistan is sadly too dangerous to film on location-Morocco usually "plays" Afghanistan in films, and I'm afraid it would to be shot there). I discovered Harlan's story last September. I have a habit of just looking over at random books in the library. One of my on-going projects around here is the First Anglo-Afghan war, which brought me to the Afghan history section in the library to see if I could find any books on the subject. There are lots of books about Afghan history, but most of them are about Afghanistan in the post 9/11 period. While I was looking over the section, I happened to see Mr. McIntyre's book The Man Who Would Be King (which is the American title for book published in the UK as Josiah the Great). I just picked up, and initially it didn't seem interesting, but I got drawn in. It captured my mood at the time, when I was suffering from some intense pain of the heart-at least in that respect, me and Harlan have something in common. Moreover, I have a bit of weakness for 19th/20th century adventure stories-the Harlan article is a "sequel" to the article on Charles "Chinese" Gordon, which I did a lot of work on last year. I have series that I work on. The Hearts of the World series deals with history from 1914-1945, the Dangerous Curves series deals with the Cold War, and the Seeing the World series is about adventurers in the 19th and 20th centuries. Besides for which, the Harlan had a major omission-it didn't explain he and Ranjit Singh had fallen out in 1836. So first he was working for Ranjit Singh, and then he's off in Afghanistan working for Singh's archenemy Dost Mohammad Khan with no explanation. Writing relaxes me, and after having a lousy day at work, it feels good to create something beautiful, to write an article that will hopefully inform as well as entertain. And since on the topic, thank you for your improvements to the article and for correcting my mistake.:)

At the risk of sounding pompous, I like to capture the fire of the past rather than its embers, and to put flesh on the bones on history. I like to portray as people as there were: with strengths and weaknesses, flaws, needs, dreams, foibles, and so on. I think it makes for more entertaining and more accurate articles. If the reader knows that this person who lived long ago was a real human being and not just a dry cardboard collection of facts, then I think the reader gets a better sense of who this person was and why they acted the way they did. Anyhow, a bit of color and humor improves an article. Was it really necessary to mention that when Harlan explained the U.S constitution to Dost Mohammad that the latter thought the American system of government was more or less the same as the Afghan system? Probably not, but I thought it was a more engaging way of explaining how the feudal Afghan system worked. The focus should be on Harlan, but I thought the article might make more sense if the reader knew the Emir was not an absolute monarch, but rather he had to negotiate, charm, bribe and bully the tribal chiefs. Much the same applies to Afghanistan today, but only now it is a president rather an emir who deals with the tribal chiefs.

Again for the kind words about writing. I happened to cursed with learning disabilities, which makes things so much more harder for me as it is my cruel fate to be trapped inside this brain that doesn't quite work right. This is why I am stuck in a dead-end job despite all my education as everybody I apply to a good job, all everybody sees is my weaknesses. This also makes my sadistic mother who loves to torment me by telling me that I am worthless and useless so happy. When I was young, I was a terrible student who failed grade 1 and was sent me to kindergarten. I didn't learn how to read and write until I was 10, but I really worked at it. My father really believed in me, saying I was really smart, and I could make him proud for once if I really worked at it. Father was a racist, misogynistic, cross-dressing bully with a really, really bad temper who was almost a Nazi in his politics, but at least he was loyal and loved his children. My teachers all wrote me off as hopeless. My mother was a teacher, so almost all my teachers who were friends were under her baleful influence-only one, Mr. Teitelbaum, ever tried to really help me, and he was not a friend of my mother, perhaps because he was the only teacher in the entire school district who didn't use cocaine. Trust me, teachers are the biggest cokeheads in the world or least the ones in my school district were, and my mother and her friends were all going to cocaine parties at Mrs. Walker's house. Mrs. Walker was the vice-principle at my school and my next-door neighbor, so I saw quite bit of these cocaine parties when I was growing up. Mr. Teitelbaum was the only one teacher who I never saw at Mrs. Walker's parties. So I was more or less self-educated, especially after Mr. Teitelbaum decided to go back to New York (he was a draft dodger from the Vietnam war). Once I finally learned how to write, I started writing stories as a way of escape (my parents really hated each other), and even I had a couple of them published when I was teenager. I suppose my writing style was something that I developed via trial and error from about grade 8 on to high school graduation (which my mother said I would never able to do because I was too stupid). I make so many mistakes around here, which I am always correcting, and thank you for fixing my errors, which is much appreciated. I've never claimed to be a great writer because I am not, but I know that I can write reasonably well when I put my mind to it. Thank so much for the kindness. There are not enough contributors here like you. I really glad that you liked the Harlan article-there is not enough kindness around here, so I really made my day! Thank you much! Cheers! --A.S. Brown (talk) 02:53, 5 September 2017 (UTC)