User talk:Jcsherwood1950

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Happy editing! Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 17:33, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi John!
Glad to see you here. (I assume you are the John Sherwood I've known for years from the ACCIFC. If not, forgive the intrusion....)  I'm adding a welcome template someone gave me that I have found helpful.

Cheers, Bill Wheaton AKA Wwheaton (talk) 21:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Bill!
Yes, it's me. I had some time to kill and wandered to this page after watching the episode I described. Hope you're well and busy!

(Jcsherwood1950 (talk) 00:33, 17 October 2009 (UTC))

Problems on Childhood's End
John, editor Steve Quinn has really mangled the plot summary to CE, in edits on April 27. I simply cannot understand where he is coming from. I have been inattentive for a few weeks, and failed to catch it. Now it cannot be reverted (due to conflicts with later edits) and must be rewritten. Can you please verify my read on this, and join in the fray if we get into a conflict over it (as seems inevitable, based on his edit summaries). He seems to be an experienced editor. Tell me if I have gone crazy myself.... I suppose I have to go back and study the text again. Thanks. Bill Wwheaton (talk) 22:16, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I just left a note on Quinn's talk page, hoping for a peaceful solution. I'm thinking he may only have read the revised, post 1989, introduction, but I don't know. Wwheaton (talk) 23:41, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

And now I have a nice note back from Quinn, and it seems clear that we were working from different editions of CE, with the new and old (pre & post 1989) introductions. He is younger, and probably overlooked the possibility entirely. I should have known better, but somehow I only looked at his edit summaries and talk page comments from 4/27, without doing a cf on his text. So we are friends, and I am not quite crazy. I think we have to put in two subsections at the beginning of the plot summary, outlining the two variations. You might want to keep an eye on this process, but I think things are no longer in crisis. I'll try to take a stab at patching it up over the weekend, though I have to get part of a proposal out in the next day or two. Thanks! Bill Wwheaton (talk) 03:52, 8 May 2010 (UTC)