User talk:Kevinalewis/2006archiveQ1

Welcome - to my January 2006 – March 2006 talk archive

re: merry christmas from the morse family
Hi Kevin, thanks for the pointer, I voted "Keep". Cheers, Snader 11:27, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Incompatibilty?
Not if you've seen how badly some of the pages I've been monitoring have been vanadalized.

Besides, I look at it as my version of Private Joker's paradoxical helmet decorations in Full Metal Jacket ("Born to Kill" written on it, but there was a peace sign button next to it). --CJ Marsicano 17:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Dealing with vandalism
Thanks for fixing the Guitar article. Don't let the vandals get you down. When you do come across vandalism and fix it, please put a warning on the user's talk page – set of templates detailed at Vandalism makes it simple to do. In many cases a simple notice that users' actions are being monitored by others is enough to stop a simple troublemaker. But in cases where they continue to vandalize, they can be more quickly blocked by administrators if there is already a warning or two on their talk page. Thanks for your help! &mdash; Kbh3rd talk 16:28, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Silly Comment?
I am new to Wikipedia, so please, could you tell me what change did you insert, and/or what was your silly comment?

David P. Stern ````

Bachler
No problem. It happens from time to time. This 85.165.*.* guy isn't too reliable, either, he'll make mostly good edits but sometimes become very possessive about information which he's got into his head is right but isn't (I think there were some football editors who had problems with him). Best way is checking everything with sources (which is why Verifiability is so important.)Sam Vimes 18:36, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels
Yes, it's active, but right now I'm probably the only member doing anything under the project, so I'd love to get your help. I'll post some ideas on the project's talk page, but for right now, putting the NovelsWikiProject template on the talk pages of specific novels would help, and of course anything you can do to flesh out articles on major novels, especially (sourced) analysis of the works. Let me know if you have any questions! | Klaw ¡digame! 14:44, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Fork a Template?
Can you explain (on my talk page) what you mean by "forking a template"? Thanks. |Pacific Coast Highway |Leave a message ($.25)

Keith Green edits
It is not vandalism just because the information is not popular. Many statements in the original article were no more than opinion (all that refered to divine intervention without qualifying it as opinion). The contributors of these pieces have not been accused of vandalism.

18 Races
2006 season down to 18 rounds

(GMM) The 2006 Belgian grand prix, at highly-popular Spa Francorchamps, is off.

That's the unhappy revelation of Belgian radio station 'Bel-RTL' and local (Wallonian) politician Serge Kubla, who told the parliament on Friday that he was informed officially by Bernie Ecclestone's company.

With the race's promoter broke, Ecclestone, 75, had been tipped to take over the organisation of Spa's historic event. But while the 2007 grand prix should be ok, Bernie is reportedly refusing to sanction the September race because work on a new pit and paddock complex will not be finished.

WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate
I made some changes. Let me know what you think. Some of them (like removing the See Also section) were aimed at bringing it more in line with WP:MOS and other Wikipedia standards. | Klaw ¡digame! 15:19, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. I think it's also key to make the template resemble some of the better articles on novels already on Wikipedia, because editors are used to thinking in that way - for example, Plot summary, Analysis, Film adaptation, External links - and they'll be more likely to co-opt our template. | Klaw ¡digame! 15:56, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * See Also sections are nearly always deprecated in favor of including the links in the article. If the topic wasn't important enough to mention in the body, it probably doesn't merit a link. Many editors, myself included, will delete or rearrange See Also sections whenever we find them. It's much better to encourage editors to put the content in the body. | Klaw ¡digame! 16:19, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Progressive rock albums
My reply to your question is on my talk page. I hope I understood you correctly. ×Meegs 17:50, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
 * And more ×Meegs 18:22, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation
The undefined template is for ordinary articles, not for disambiguation pages (whose whole purpose is disambiguation). --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 18:59, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Novels project
Hi, sorry for not replying for so long -- real life occasionally interferes with my activities here at Wikipedia. Generally, I agree with what other contributors have said about the topic. Lots of articles on individual novels are still missing (well, on plays as well of course), and I do what I can to add one from time to time, hoping that other people will follow suit. As I see it, at least one novel per author should have its own article (a real one, not just a stub).

Personally, I'm not so much concerned with templates or other attempts at creating uniformity among articles, but it's good to see that other people are taking care of this. I'll certainly add your templates to my user page and the individual novel articles.

What you usually get when you google the title of a not-too-famous novel is links to where you can buy it and maybe a review or two, which is never NPOV. This is where Wikipedia might be able to close a gap, if only for a rather small number of users. On the other hand, this project has reached a stage where minorities can be catered for, and I'm positive that in the long run plenty of articles will be added.

Thanks for your messages, and all the best, &lt;KF&gt; 18:25, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

incorrect reverts
Yesterday around 10:30 UTC you apparently did a bunch of reversions relating to edits by 194.83.191.3. I just wanted to make sure you were now aware that at least some of these reverts were wrong in that they were to quite old article versions, and hence reverted many legitimate edits as well as the one you probably were targetting. I see that User:Mushroom has cleaned up most or all of this damage, so I doubt there is anything to do now. My guess is that you just went to edits by 194.83.191.3 and reverted to the previous version. The problem is that this only works if the edit to be reverted yielded the current version. (I know about that scenario because I've fallen into that trap before.) -R. S. Shaw 09:28, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Doctor Fischer of Geneva
See Slaughterhouse-Five for how Wikipedia typically handles books with two titles. | Klaw ¡digame! 20:20, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


 * in which case it should be as Doctor Fischer of Geneva, or The Bomb Party (1980), - trust that fits. Changed on novel :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  14:11, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * That's fine. Just don't separate the titles as you did the first time. If the middle word is or isn't bolded it won't make much of a difference to readers. | Klaw ¡digame! 15:45, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Novel Project
To tell you the truth, I didn't add my name to the novel project; I won't take it off, and I'll check it out. But, it was originally linked to a user named Notalama, and then changed by Tanzburg, and then instead of deleting me, Notalama added himself again. I really don't understand why any of this happened, or why someone added me. But, meh, I'll take a look around.

JonCatalan 01:42, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Tanzburg welcome
Hi Kevin, thanks for the message. My primary area is Central and Eastern European literature in English Transalation with occasional forays into French Literature. In addition I read a lot of 20th (and 21st!) century English literature. Looking forward to contributing to your project and, as I am new to this environment, hope I can receive some guidance!

--Tanzburg 02:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Wiki Novels
I am more than glad to help, just give me an idea of where the help is needed. This will be my first major project that I will work on. (other than my own, Category talk:Rock album stubs) that I am working on by my self.
 * Please show me how I can influance this one, and show me the way(what to do and how, ect)
 * on the rock albums I am going through over 4000 articles to find album stubs that are mislabled. When I am done with that I am glad to help here.Eagle (talk) (desk) 01:51, 30 January 2006 (UTC) Please respond on my page, Thanks

Will you review my suggestion Wikipedia talk:WikiProject NovelsEagle (talk) (desk) 16:24, 4 February 2006 (UTC), the 9th suggestion
 * Thanks, I will get to it as soon as I am done sorting US-musician-stubs from US-bio-stubs, It is bad, I have found over 350 that fit!Eagle (talk) (desk) 16:59, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Classic Rock
Hello. I was wondering if you would like to participate in my classic rock survey. I'm trying to find the most like classic rock song. There is more information on my user page. Hope you participate! RENTA FOR LET?  02:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Your draft of the Mauritius Command article
Your draft of The Mauritius Command article Looks fine. I can think of two missing aspects, but nothing that should preclude you replacing the redirect with your article.

Those two missing aspects? A link to the articles deovted to the real officers, like Josiah Rowley, in the real campaign, (preferred) or a discussion of the real campaign. O'Brian used literary liscence to change the date of the campaign.

The other missing aspect, where O'Brian used literary liscense was in making Jack a Commodore when he wasn't very senior. CS Forester had similarly made Hornblower a Commodore, when he was quite a junior Captain. During the time in question a Captain was spending twenty years or more on the Captain's list before his promotion to Admiral. A Commodore's appointment was a considerable plum, and only very senior Captains received them. On a remote station, when an admiral would have to draw on the Captains on station, it would be a different matter. But both Jack and HH were appointed directly by the Admiralty to a post that, traditionally, would have come to an officer more than a dozen years more senior. I tried to find some wikipedia articles devoted to real RN officers of similar seniority to HH when I talked about seniority in the article devoted to Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies. Promotion was slower in Peacetime. There is no way that HH could have been an Admiral in 1818 when he was only promoted to Captain in 1805.

But your draft doesn't have to cover everything. Go ahead and put it up. -- Geo Swan 14:36, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Early Christianity
I wonder if I might interest you in an accuracy dispute at Talk:Early_Christianity. Thank you for your time and consideration. 209.78.16.243 23:33, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Just because you mentioned you were interested, I've just updated the page concerning the earliest known Christian hymn: Phos Hilaron - Amatire 18:18, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:RonaldWelchBowmanOfCrecy1.jpg
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Lillehammer
I have put a reference, will try to find a better one if I can. I think this is NPOV. It would be POV if I was writing "The Lillehammer OG were the best..." but I think it is an interesting NPOV factoid that 12 years later a lot of people, historians, and winter sport specialists always cite the Lillehammer Games as the best Games ever. Hektor 16:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi thanks for the response - I personally don't disagree but I have seen similar comments made elsewhere just removed as unsubstantiated. Also I think others have said the same here and had it removed. May even have been you - haven't been through the history. So it was just a prompt to do it the wiki way and get your point referenced. all the best :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  16:27, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the clarification
I was imprecise when I said the "discussion" at Talk:aladin (magician) had only been going on for two hours (I meant the "have we got consensus", not the entire page move discussion which was tied directly into the verifiability of his name); I appreciate your clarification. -- nae'blis (talk) 18:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:SpocksBeard_TheLight.jpg
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Ski jumping at the 1984 Winter Olympics
I'm afraid we'll just have to live with it and revert - IP addresses are pretty annoying that way. I've had experience with him before - I think it's the same bloke who made a lot of edits to European Championship football squads that have been reverted (because they have been doubtful), and people over at the Football wikiproject tried to talk to him - to no avail. I think his English is pretty poor - I just hope it's a kid who eventually will get to learn English.

Maybe it'll help if the articles get expanded with some more content - I've got a few books in the local library that should help to get results and how the events unfolded. Trouble is, there's a lot to do. Sam Vimes 16:43, 3 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Yep. I don't really know how to "help" him - the only thing I can see that might help is to try and speak to him in Norwegian (which I can do), but I think the Football wikiproject tried that, too, to no avail. The trouble is that he makes a lot of useful edits, too (he started the ski jumping pages, for example...). Sam Vimes 16:59, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

There is no hope of communicating witht he IP vandal. I have tried for about 6 months with no results. He persists and I now just revert on sight. He must have a mental issue since i do think he is trying to contribute but he does no know how to communicate or follow consensus. Also the fact he keeps coming back for more would suggest that he is not all there. A vandal would be much more savey. You may have noticed too that he often leaves the job half done and in disarray. That is just one more of his annoying traits.

Out of interest do you know the format that is prefered for the Olympic athletics pages? I have been trying to get them more like the world championship pages. David D. (Talk) 10:24, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

By the way blocking this user will have no effect as he is not using a static IP. You'll notice that the IP changes quite frequently. David D. (Talk) 10:28, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiPedia Project:Novels
Kevinalewis:

Thanks for your kind thoughts on my writing about two novels (and later on, a third) that I found very enjoyable.

About all I can contribute right now are these suggestions for your template:

1. Add an "Allusions/references to actual history and current science" section.

2. Give more guidelines to the "Literary Significance and Criticism" section.

3. Add a permanent subsection called "Awards and nominations."

You'll notice what use I have made of such additions in my two articles, The Fifth Man (novel) and Ice (novel). The latter was originally a stub of my own creation; I used your template to expand it properly.

Temlakos

Infoboxincomplete
This list should be made into a category linked to the {.{novelinfoboxincomp}}. Than we will not, In the future have to go through and find articles that had the tag removed, but were not removed from the list. These tags have lists/categorys that once the tag is removed the article is removed as well.
 * Example: {copyedit}, {context}, ect. (the majority of the clean up tags.
 * PLEASE if we want this to be successful we need to make it as user friendly as possible. 1 step is better than 2 steps!
 * Sorry about that, but that is how I feel.Eagle (talk) (desk) 18:01, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

---In addition consider the same thing for ((infoboxneeded))

Thanks I will do it, if someone will show me where to go to learn how. I know how to program in C++, this can't be that hard... Just give me direction to an instruction page. Thanks!!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 18:29, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Talk where??
Where is the best place in wikibook project to toss out new idea's. As you said the project is growing, more people are going to want to know what is going on. We need a page specifically for new idea's and compliants. :-) Eagle (talk) (desk) 21:03, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Also Thanks for the heads up and offer to join!!!

That sounds great. One problem we need to watch out for is too many or too confusing talk pages. Lets just make sure that this is as simple and intuitive as possible! Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

More Idea's from Eagle
We need to be sure that each novel has the genre explecitly stated in the info box. This will help with catorization and stub sorting. Trust me when you are sorting stubs the last thing you want to do is read through half the article, just to find that the novel is a horror, romance, sci fi, classic, ect novel. Eagle (talk) (desk) 21:37, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * P.S. just look at my edit history and you will see that my last 1000 edits have been catorization and stub sorting, I know what I am talking about. What I mentioned above is one MAJOR fault of the music wikiproject. 50% of the articles in there do not inform the reader (sorter), what genre an article is in. Please for the sake of this project add this to the mandatory part of the info-box template!!
 * Sorry about that, but I have about had it with article that don't say what genre or category they are in.Eagle (talk) (desk) 21:37, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

WILL DO!!!! I will make a comment on the wiki book project. (Will drop you a link to it when I get it on their page.)Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:31, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * A link to the posted conversation Wikipedia talk:WikiProject BooksEagle (talk) (desk) 21:25, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Slight Bug found in Wiki Project Novel
Thanks for putting in the category reference. A (hopefully) simple change that can be done, is to have the links go directly to the article. As it is now the talk page is referenced, not the actual article. Hence when you click on the like you go to the talk page, not the article itself.--Eagle (talk) (desk) 21:46, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I understand what you are saying, I was thinking of something irrelevent to the project when I mentioned that. Sorry, thanks for the rebuff!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:25, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Active
I found the inactive list, not the active list. We were not on the inactive list, hence by deductive reasoning I concluded that the project MUST be active. I will hunt around and double check if you would like. (I'll do it any way)Eagle (talk) (desk) 18:23, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

thanks for your welcome
Hi, and thanks for your welcome! I look forward to contributing to this WikiProject. --Tachikoma 18:28, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels: more templates needed!
Kevinalewis:

Have you thought about what other templates the Novels project might need? You have one for articles on novels, and it's a very good one--easy to use, and tells the contributor what you expect. But surely that's not the only kind of article a novel might require?

I have seen articles on famous fictional characters--articles that are mere stubs, and usually have no sections beyond a description of the plot from their particular POV. Surely there's much more to a character than that! Motivation, goals, conflicts, disasters that the character suffers (or causes)--any good novelist knows that he must think these things through.

Occasionally a real person will show up as a character in a novel. (I found that out when reading Ice.) I always scrupulously link back to that real person and place a short description in the "In Fiction" section of his article, describing his role and his most memorable scene or scenes.

Other than that--an article on a totally fictional character ought to follow a standard template, just as new novel articles do.

So:

1. Would you like to see such a template created?

2. How do I go about creating and submitting an article template?

--Temlakos 19:22, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok I saw this, and I know this is not my talk page, but one comment to make here is that we do not need to many or confusing templates. Lets remember the main goal of this project. I'm all for this if it makes articles easier to find(for improvement) or easier to categorize. Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:34, 5 February 2006 (UTC) (please don't get mad at me for this comment, I just don't know the right place)Eagle (talk) (desk) 20:34, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Relevent article??
Where is the relevent article in this case?? Speaking of that, perhaps we need to try to focus the majority of conversations about this project on said relevent talk page? Me, I'm just confused now! We really need a clear place to put up our conversations(as this is a collaboration). Thanks, and where should this be?Eagle (talk) (desk) 16:01, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

All right, I'm going by the seat of my pants here...How about near where the link is( in the info box or elsewhere), put a message, "For new ideas and suggestions on this project " That alone will increase the visablility of the discussion forum. A second Idea is to put the disscussion forums near the top of the page, not near the bottom of the project box in small letters(as it is now). Thanks for putting up with me!!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 16:33, 6 February 2006 (UTC)


 * responded to the spirit of some of this. letter size is much the same throughout the template. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  17:33, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

still haven't chosen my next book
Hello there, just a note to say that if I do choose to read (and stick with) War & Peace, I will certainly try to bring the article closer to the Novels template.

Sticking with it is a big thing--if I'm not sufficiently interested in a book after reading 50-100 pages, I'll drop it with no hesitation. I have to be in the right mood to read a particular book...that's why I didn't want to commit myself to the Book Club project.

BTW, where do you get the pictures for the books? Are you just taking them off Amazon or something? --Tachikoma 01:24, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Transatlantic
> the name truely is TransAtlantic - check the text on the Official site

Howdy. I looked at the official Transatlantic site. I don't see ANY "TransAtlantic"s there. I see a lot of "Transatlantic"s and also "TRANSATLANTIC" in all caps, but even then the 'T' is a larger capital. Chiok 09:42, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I, too, would like to see a link to the specific page. If TransAtlantic is indeed their real name, I fail to see why they'd use Transatlantic more often. --Snaxe920 01:37, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


 * For some reason the rest of this conversation went to my talk page. Chiok 01:57, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Novels project
Hi,

Can you tell me more about the commitment involved in the NovelsProject?

Luceo 15:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Silly me
Moving the article would have been the right thing, but that button hardly springs to my mind since it seldom used. :) Idleguy 17:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:WatchmanNee.jpg
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response to your message.
beleive it or not I have never read any of those books so I can't really add any meaningful info to those pages. And I'm probably going to start a wikiproject dealing with articles having to do with writing.--Acebrock 17:41, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
 * By the way 1985 I meant to link to the book.embarresing mistake

Cut and Paste moves
please do not cut and paste move. Rather, ask an admin to do it if you need to delete a page or tag it for speedy deletion and give the reason. Thank you! Sasquatch t|c 02:01, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Book card

 * Not exactly. Actually, what happened was that I hadn't noticed any infoboxes on any of the pages that I have seen which dicusedd particular books. This is probably dues to the fact that I havenìt been editing in Wikpedia all that long. I hadn't come across anything similar, so I was definiteley not trying to muddle existing projects and so on. I just came up wth this one and thought it might be useful. Only this morning did I even notice the exitence of the infobox on the Book project. Wikipedia is very large and often confusingly organized, so I thought I woud just go ahead and create something I hadnìt seen. Perhaps there are some ideas whic can be incorpoarted in the other. If not, just delete it. Somebody should advertise the exitence of these things better, though. Billions of temlates and userboxes must be out there, and it is difficult to know what is useful or actually needed. --Lacatosias 10:25, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Here's the response I posted on Talk:Book card or whatever the heck the name is. --Lacatosias 10:25, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Page names case sensitive?
Hi Kevin, thanks for your feedback on the 'Wives of Bath'.. I have a question..are page titles case sensitive? Luceo 10:55, 20 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes & No - but you knew that would be the answer didn't you. Actually the Wiki system is based on Unix technology as far as I am aware - which is very case sensitive. However there are one or two exceptions that mean that the first character of articles tend to be capitalised. (why I don't know)

This means that User talk:Kevinalewis and user talk:kevinalewis are synonymous. As you can see from that example the the technical "Namespace" title and the individual article (or userpage in this case) are affected independantly. One other thing it is a stylistic convention to use lowercase thoughout page names - except where a proper name is envolved. Does that help? :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  11:02, 20 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, thank you..Luceo 11:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for look at Dissolution, and a question...
Hey Kevin. Thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia and to the Wikiproject on novels. I'm looking forward to joining the WPoN team. (o.O). I also had a question - if you look at my article, ''Dissolution, you'll see the infobox is lacking of a picture. I tried to put one in, but the picture doubled itself - one inside the box and one outside. Could you tell me how to fix that, or if not, could you edit and put the picture in? Thanks for your time. Arkhiver 10:03, 21 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi thanks for the question, what is the image called. something like Image:BookTitle.jpg. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  10:08, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

It's called 00137.gif Arkhiver 10:12, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

The Wife of Bath, and the headings issue
Hi Kevin,

Sorry, but another question...why is it the Wiki standard not to have capitals on the heading for pages? I'd prefer to keep them with, think it looks better. But if it's really offending anyone, obviously not bothered ;) Luceo 10:53, 24 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Simply put, I don't know. There are a number of things in the Wiki world I don't understand, or infact don't agree with. And actually this is one of them. However if we are working in a community, then we should aim to work by it's rules / guidelines, and this is one of them. I really don't think it is a matter of offence, but people do get upset but the strangest of things. My own approach (which I would recommend here) is to try to tread the middle ground and get the content we are writing out to as many as possible. This will often avoid silly revert wars in the long term. Hope that all makes sense. By the way although I have never read the book, I like what you have done with the article overall, thanks for contributing. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  11:00, 24 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Absolutely, I agree. Like I said, it's no big drama, I'm all for the principle of providing info/writing out to as many as possible. Was curious is all. Thanks for the compliment :) Luceo 11:06, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Starship Troopers
thanks for amending our Worklist and amending it to A-Class, I was beginning to think much the same myself. Anymore you can do to improve it the better. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  17:14, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * No, thank YOU. I was looking for a group like this for ages.  I don't know much about literary criticism by nature (I'm a military historian) so hopefully some of you guys will help me fine-tune this piece. Palm_Dogg 17:17, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Had you thought of joining the project. Notice you preempted me on the announcements template - only just wrote it up today and was going to let it settle in before placing it on the Main Page, oh what the ehack I'll leave it there. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  17:50, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * If you want to learn how to bake, you find a chef. I've written several Featured Articles (This will be #3) and the only reason they were good is that I could find other Wikipedians with a background in the subject to review them.  With ST, I've had to make it up as I go along, and consequently the quality leaves much to be desired.  Sorry about the template, but I'm really desperate to get this article done so I can get back to work on Ran (film). Palm_Dogg 17:55, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok I don't have much time to spend on it myself - probably until next week. However if you look at our WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate it should give you some idea of the overall structure to work with. I can appreciate that this particular Novel has one or two other aspects to it. However can I suggest you try to amend it to make uses of this pattern as far as you can making the other material, (ie. mainly the Military element) sit within this, and also have particular military "extra" and "sub" headings. How does that sound. I started the process, but just didn't have enough time today to do it justice. Especially without compromising the good work already done, which naturally I didn't want to do. As a nice article example have a look at The Mauritius Command. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  18:05, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
...for the message. If there are any articles that need some TLC, LMK. I've read a lot and like good suggestions for new stuff. I've been around a while, but haven't edited much before now, so I'll look through my library at what I've read and see where I might be able to contribute. We should have a literature article improvement drive for each week like some other areas; I think that would be fun. (Forgive my ignorance if something like this already exists! I'm still looking around). Kind regards.


 * Have a look at our Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Worklist article for some that are underway but need attention, or try our Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticlesNeeded list for those still unwritten. If now there are known to you be you think notable, either add to the needed list or start writing and let us know about them, we will lend a hand. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  21:15, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

BTW, do you think the first sentence at FTFF is vandalism? --SpencerTC 17:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't know about vandalism - but I do think it in poor taste and likely to be offensive. We should in my view avoid bad language if we can. There is little need for this. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  21:15, 25 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I removed it. Thanks. --SpencerTC 22:11, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Wow, what a well-organized-looking project. I also just discovered the Portal:Literature. I'm going to try to burrow into a niche here and help out. The list of needed articles is rather short. If I find any books with no articles I'll just dive in and add it. Rather enthusiastic about it, thanks. I'll start with The Castle since I'm reading it now. --SpencerTC 00:43, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Loved headings for Xanth books
I loved your headings for the Xanth books so much that I placed them in all of the articles. Thanks for giving the articles some more focus! Lady Aleena 17:27, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for adding Wikipedia talk:Templates with red links/2006jan25-olympics to the Wikipedia Olympics project! BD2412 T 14:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Tribulation Force
Actually, I havn't read any of the books in the series, I just got the info; so im not really qualified to make any alterations on the actual text descriptions. Anything I can do to help though just tell me. -Gizzakk 17:56, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

What if I can put an ISBN number of the book
The sources of materials on the original Watchman Nee site is no more authentic than what I posted.

The research materials, currently in Chinese, is already posted. It is the English version I wanted to update.
 * The point relates to being about to asses the quality of this research and not just that it took place. The way you write it is though that case is closed. Please debate the issue and how this subject came to light, who else believes this opinion, what the guys authority is. Agree some more needs to be done with base article, but when you are bringing such accusations surely you can see the need for being scrupulous. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  14:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

My first comment
I have been programming a bot that can potentially be used for this project. It's name is Gnome (Bot)
 * The code is versitile...Oh let me get to the point. What uses do you think this project can have for a bot. Anything will do, as it will not be hard to make the program do it!!! I wanted to do something different that could help this project.

ThanksEagle (talk) (desk) 02:43, 4 March 2006 (UTC) Please respond on my page.

P.S. The bot is nearly done!!! (beta) as it is untestedEagle (talk) (desk) 02:43, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Response to you

 * Sounds great, the only problem is that the bot still has to go though testing, and debugging. Is there a way to hold off the stub people for about 2 weeks?? By than I think I can get the bot fully functional and accepted here on wikipedia. The problem will be to get the bot to recognize what category is which... perhaps you can help me think of keywords to look for. The regex is going to take more than 2 weeks to set up...as the testing will require me to watch it's edits. Please talk with me...I really want to help. Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)


 * P.S I will go ahead and state that the perpose of my bot is for this project, Thanks for giving me somewhere to work!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)


 * P.S2 Also if we go any further with this, can you do me a favor and mention the bot somewhere in the project disscussion pages, It will help me in proving that my bot is usefull according to WP:BOT. Thanks agian!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Bug
As of right now my coding has hit a small runtime bug, Untill I find it, (hopefully before I get out the hammer) the bot can't do much...The problem is in the get category function. Aboslutly needed if the bot is to be used for adding categorys, I will let you know when it is fixed!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I found the bug, Is working as expected!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 16:13, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Categories proposed for removal
Which stub categories are being proposed for removal???Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC) I looked at the up for deletion and found 3 novel stubs. 2 I could defend as I could reasonalby write code to find these. Unfortonatly the 3rd Spec-fict-novel-stub I can't defend, as I cannot see how to find specific keywords, or regex formulas for this.Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:45, 4 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Pretty much given up on that one myself. I think we will just see that one go, nevermind. We need to get back to the articles soon anyway. The other two are the only ones at the moment. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  19:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Request for some help
Sorry for the mishmash above, (Ill just add to it) Seeing that you are a programmer, perhaps you can help me come up with regex formulas, (I just realized that you knew how to program). They need to be something that are very specific as to minimize false hits ect.Eagle (talk) (desk) 15:50, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Successful Trial Run
The bot made perfect user assisted edits to wikipedia. Not to worry they were done in a sandbox. If you want to see go to User:Eagle 101/Sandbox.

Pushing it
Give me an idea of what category to start with, this will be what I use to go for a bot flag. The code is done, besides making sure that it make no mistakes on wikipedia!!!

Basically its on your word, and GO!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 04:08, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Try "philosophical novel" or "philosophical novels" :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  07:33, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

May I ask for which stub category these will go in, I am regexing now.(just so I know what to title the list)Eagle (talk) (desk) 02:39, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


 * There are only 4 of these and I'm in the H's Eagle (talk) (desk) 02:52, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * in all there are only 6. I'll list them here, you can do the edits if you wish.Eagle (talk) (desk) 03:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

List of Philosophical
Eagle (talk) (desk) 03:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) As She Climbed Across the Table
 * 2) Dangling Man
 * 3) Diary (novel)
 * 4) Henderson the Rain King
 * 5) The Brave Cowboy
 * 6) The Thief's Journal


 * Done only some were - true novel and some philos as such. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  11:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Stubs --- that are for deletion
I have spoken with User:Alai---one of the people who have been recommending the stubs for deletion. His main problem is that we (WP:NOVEL) did not go through WP:WSS/P when comeing up with the category shemes. He also noted that it is not to late to do so. Perhaps for the good of the project we should go and put up our argument there, It will give me (and others) more time to get the stubs pouplulated. Eagle (talk) (desk) 17:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


 * if you could put something together I would be most grateful. this whole exercise has rather deflated my enthusiasm for it. I'll join in, of course, but this has all rather dented me from heading it up. Also I set to work on this after putting up a WP:WSS/Proposal (which was really a small request for help) got no response whatsoever. So I set off to try and sort out an untidy situation of my own back. Probably due to inexperience, and green-ness, I was not aware how these people feel they "own" stubs. I was also unaware of the minimum article limit, which I find some sympathy with on the fringe subjests, but have difficulty understanding when it comes to developing a set of "tool" stub notices for a clearly defined area like novel genres. Oh, well. If you could carry this for a bit, please. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  08:50, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I have never done stubs or stub proposals, I don't even know how to make one!!! Sorry but I will need vast helpEagle (talk) (desk) 21:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Neither have I - I would have a look at a few others, come up with similar reasoning and apply it the same principles to Novel subjects. Knock something up on your user space and I'll have a look. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  06:53, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Some seem to get passed based on how many exist, I will make lists of our possible canidates to go in undersized categories.

Bot Regex
To avoid automated edits untill I get a bot flag, I am running a regex on ((Book-stubs)) looking for articles with the word novel or Novel in them. There is a note as of such on WP:NOVELS general disscussion. Eagle (talk) (desk)
 * As of the R's there are 153 that fit the criteria. I will put a link on my page so that some one with autowikibrowser can do the actual edits.(changing book stubs to novel stubs)Eagle (talk) (desk)
 * There will be some articles that really do belong in book stubs, but probably over 90%(very educated guess, I am watching the regex as it is happening) of these belong in novel stubsEagle (talk) (desk) 00:56, 6 March 2006 (UTC).
 * Here is the link to the page, perhaps you can put this on WP:NOVEL somewhere, as a subproject, or task ect.
 * User:Eagle 101/Book stubs that probably should be novel stubs


 * Do - but perhaps you could move the page to WikiProject Novels/Book to novel autolist and I will change the WP:NOVELS link. Thanks for all you work on this great stuff I'll set to on some of these straight away. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  09:05, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I just looked at the regex feed agian, It is over 260 articles now!!! Eagle (talk) (desk) 01:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I just looked agian, this could possibly go over 400 articles!!! Its at 333 now with 500 to go!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 01:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

This is not real!!!(it is) the count is now up to 410 articles!!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 01:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Now up to 515Eagle (talk) (desk) 01:35, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

There are 587 total, I suggest that you put something up on WP:NOVEL, and tell me how or where to do it, as I will have more lists forthcomming!!Eagle (talk) (desk) 02:32, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Ok thanks, I just wanted to see how accurate my regex was. Any thing else you want me to search just call out!!!Eagle (talk) (desk)
 * Perhaps you can make the link to the stubs be more apparent.(so others will find it) As it appears that you are the only one doing the list.(I'm programming a bot for wilipedia stub category counting)Eagle (talk) (desk) 18:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Infobox
See these two images. The one using CSS hacks (hiddenStructure) spits out a lot of garbage at text browsers and some screen reading software (used by the disabled) and are unacceptable. The meta-template version doesn't suffer from these problems. The reason I fully ditched wiki-markup for the tables is because it's a bit jarring/confusing I suspect to go from wiki-markup to HTML and back. Unfortunately, to avoid deeply nested use of meta-templates, HTML markup is used inside the qif calls (wiki-markup isn't handled correctly inside of qif). If you have some specific questions or concerns, let me know and I'll be happy to try and help. —Locke Cole • t • c 07:32, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Illuminatus
the The Illuminatus! Trilogy article is now up for "featured article" status. please go to Featured article candidates/The Illuminatus! Trilogy to vote Support or Oppose with your comments. cheers. Zzzzz 17:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Ishmael (Small God)
You previously tagged this article for speedy deletion, with the reason "improbability drive overdrive". However, "improbability drive overdrive" is not currently a criterion for speedy deletion on Wikipedia. Please read over those criteria before tagging pages for speedy deletion.

Additionally, if you want an article to be speedily deleted, please place the tag on the article, not on its talk page. Thanks! Stifle 17:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


 * That was my humour getting the better of me, the main page got tagged before I got to it. Someone else is awake here. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  17:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Translations
Kevin,

Since you appear to be the senior person for WikiProject Novels, I thought you would be the best to ask about noting translations. I have been sucked into some Kafka, The Trial and The Castle, and find that the entries are lacking a lot. Notably there are significant differences in the early translations based on Brod's interpretation of what Kafka wanted versus the "scholarly" approach used for the more recent editions (post-1980). I wanted to note this and have thought of a number of ways to show this. My idea was to add a section in the Franz Kafka entry to reference the types of translations. Then take the entry for a book, such as The Castle, and remove the "infobox" to a specific translation edition, basically leaving the plot. Then add a section for the translations and create separate articles (i.e. The Castle, Definitive Edition, Muir Translation and The Castle, Critical Edition, Harman Translation) to note the translations and any distinguishing features of those translations.

So,

1) Is there a format for this already?

2) If not, is there a group I can float this idea in front of prior to making the changes?

3) Should I just do it and suffer the outcome?

-Todd 01:48, 10 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Todd


 * If I understand you correctly, you want to make articles such as The Castle a "general" article about the novel and then add specific articles for major translations, this that right. OK, Assuming that such articles would all be a decent length and content I would support such a move. However I would tend to suggest changing the main article so that it talks mainly about the "original" french novel (with infobox that covers the original language version - and cover if possible), and then have each article focus on the first edition of each major translation with infobox and image to suit. I can tell before you start that the standard article pattern used by the project would not quite suit, but would suggest that you used it as much as you can.


 * What you should do now is mention these changes on the article talk page Talk:The Castle and see if others object in any way or would even like to contribute. I know little about this particular novel but would lend a hand as necessary. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  07:47, 10 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you and I agree with your suggestion on making the page the "original" German text. But I feel that I can make entries for the two editions I have read but I am surely unqualified to make comments on the original version.  I could make a good first past on the history of the manuscripts, some of the editions (Brod's) and some of the translations -- at least enough to let people understand there significance of their existence.


 * Being new to adding wikipedia content,


 * 1) is it appropriate to stub out an initial article like that? (possible solution: Get German help)


 * 2) Is there a "long lasting" sandbox where I can prototype the idea so people are clear on my intent?


 * In the meantime I will write up something for Talk:The Castle to explain the idea, incorporating your thoughts.

Todd 15:08, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

On second thought, since more than one info box can be placed in an article, maybe it would be best to make a major heading for each edition (ordered by pub date), the follow-on editions/translations would simply mention the changes to that edition. The advantage of this is that there are fewer articles to maintain, the con is that discussion on any given edition would be hard to relate to the edition. I am still waiting for feedback on the proposal, meanwhile I am watching the confusion on edits grow for this entry. Are Infoboxes used by something else assuming there will be only one per page? -Todd 16:17, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * This will somwhat depend on how much you think will go in each article. As a rule of thumb I would say if the translation article are likely to fill a page/screen then seperate articles is the way to go, otherwise maybe a single one. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  16:30, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Are Infoboxes used by something else - not sure quite what you mean. the template exists once and is quoted (included) in any number of articles. If you include mroe than one dividing up the article correctly my be a little tricky. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  16:30, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

You ask how it is coming... the problem is that it could go on forever. I did post in my sandbox the real rough draft of the proposed page (please let me know what you think). I posted this to make sure that my links were correct. I still have a lot to do -- a lot of incomplete references and stubbed sentences -- and am verifying some sources as we 'speak'. Family health issues (not quite death) and taxes are getting in my way. The Muir Translation and Harman Translation articles (not sandboxed) are equally complete and a Malcolm Pasley artcle is outlined. I was going to put a stub for the little known Underwood translation, until I can find it in a used bookstore.

I have had little input on my concept, so I am going to post it and see what happens. I am targetting this for early next week.

-Todd 16:45, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Check out my sandbox. This article is not ready to post, but I posted the subarticles The Castle, Definitive Edition, Muir Translation; The Castle, Critical Edition, Harman Translation; The Castle, Critical Edition, Underwood Translation and Malcolm Pasley. -Todd 05:00, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

The article in my sandbox is truely "Work in Progress". Since it is the "center point" of all these articles I have not "replaced" the main article. I will do more edits today. I also forget an edit to the Harman article that I will add today. I will then post another note on the Castle Talk page to make people aware (pointing to my sandbox), and finally post it. I may be being over cautious, but I think that is the "proper" way to do this. -Todd 16:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC) You can probably archive this now... -Todd 04:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Winter Olympics boxes
Hi Kevin, Sorry I didn't get round to replying to your first message - the best thing would be to create new templates for the winter games/sports. It wouldn't make sense to put them in the same table, as the sports are different. Of course, feel free to copy the layout I have used if you like it! -- Chuq 04:12, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Alternate hist stubs

 * From AboveSome(stubs) seem to get passed(accepted) based on how many exist, I will make lists of our possible canidates to go in undersized categories

Umm...sorry to say but I have found no alternate hist stubs. If this goes up for deletion I cannot in good faith ask for a keep. (perhaps lets be upfront and honest and just recommend it for deletion ourselves.) Eagle (talk) (desk) 00:53, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry to tell you this, but this is the same program that found the novel stubs in book stubs with over 98% accuracy. Based on this my program MAY have missed up to 7-8 articles, not enough to fill the category.Eagle (talk) (desk) 00:53, 11 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed, when I started work on this I was unaware of the number restrictions and was concentrating on having a logic structure to the stub set. Oh well me main concern will be the Categories once we deal with the stubs. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  08:25, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Archæology
I'm wondering if you can't see the ligature in archæology when I write it out, since you keep insisting that "archology" means something different, but I've never mentioned it. What I am debating is that Archæology (spelling where the a and the e connect together) means the same time as archaeology. The word is Old English and it came before our present day spelling, however like I've said before the OED recognises it as correct. Refer to the List of words that may be spelled with a ligature, it is constantly being double checked. Also I've found a trustworthy website that claims everything I've said up to now. Glossary of Archaeology --Speakslowly 19:09, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Books
I will basiclly only be adding to books that I read, that we have nothing on/about.
 * starts The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart* (in a few days >_>)

Tanzburg Response
My main areas of interest are 20th Century English literature and Central European authors in English translation.-- Tanzburg 02:51, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello!
Thank you for the warm (and prompt!) welcome. I was wondering where the best place to note recently created articles that need work was. I just created individual articles for the books in the Coldfire Trilogy, and they could use some help as they only have detailed plot summaries that used to be on the Trilogy page. Those summaries themselves need some cleanup which I'm planning on working on. Right now my brain needs a break though. Thanks again, I look forward to helping out. F A  E  10:33, 17 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, Firstly the place to put a new article would be WikiProject Novels/NewArticles and then if you think others can helpfully contribute to them add them to WikiProject Novels/Worklist in the correct section with an assesment of what stage of development you think the article is at, and comments on what needs doing. Also don't forget to put ' tag on the top of the talk page for the article, and if relevance either the ' or . Hope that helps. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  12:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the information. My only other question would be where to list items in the worklist if they are in more than one genre. For instance, the Coldfire Trilogy books are rather equally scifi and fantasy. I'm not sure which genre to list them in or if it would inappropriate to put list them in both in case people were to not check one genre or the other. Thank you! F  A  E  20:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Given the size of our list - I would pick one and put them there - it would look odd seeing them twice so close together. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  22:30, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Book stub sorting
Would that be "WikiProject Novels/Book stubs that probably should be novel stubs"? I just stumbled across it yesterday after I had been merrily sorting for about a week. I'll check it. If this isn't the list you mean, which is? Thanks - Her Pegship 15:19, 21 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, that's right as you were doing such a comprehensive job - I had aassumed you had been working to that list already. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  15:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Making new list of Book -> Novel
Done I just put the new list in place of the old.

Basically what the title says...Any other lists need to be made, the process is really easy, just tell me where to look and what for.:-)


 * Do we need help finding particular articles that will fit in a category (nobody is wants to go through and find the 50 or 60 articles out of who knows how many.)
 * The bot will simply generate a second list that would have just those articles that fit the criteria.(Agian this is reeally easy to do)
 * i.e. Look in Category Novels for Romance novels. (then make a list of the 50 or so that fit.)Eagle (talk) (desk)

P.S. I am not allowing the bot to do any automated edits yet...(it has the capability) due to a couple bugs. The idea is to help the encyclopedia, not hurt it)Eagle (talk) (desk) 19:27, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Stone Age
You recently made an edit in this article to change a word in American English to one in British English with the edit summary this is more correct. Please don't - this only starts national dialect edit wars. As for the word in question American and British English differences gives:
 * "Verb past tenses with -ed: Americans tend to use dreamed, leaped, learned, spelled; Commonwealth more commonly uses dreamt, leapt, learnt, spelt, particularly if the speaker uses Received Pronunciation. As with the "tre" words, the t endings are often found in older American texts. The forms with -ed are also common in Commonwealth usage, and preferred by many careful writers of English since they are regular verbs. (Note that the two-syllable form learnèd /'lɜːnɪd/, usually written simply as learned, is still used as an adjective to mean "educated", or to refer to academic institutions, in both British English and American English.)" Rmhermen 17:44, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

More novel stubs?
I notice there is no stub category for horror novels, political novels, or comedy novels. Would these be useful? As you are the apparent novel stub guru, I thought I'd ask you first... Cheers, Her Pegship 23:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Useful yes, fulfill the size criteria for stubs not sure, we need to have an idea that 50 or more articles would fit in that now category and submit a proposal to the SS people. Do you know how many there are likely to be. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  06:53, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

List of arch periods
Nice one. I will have a look this evening. I hope one day we can link the right hand column list to individual articles on periods in specific regions. adamsan 10:13, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels
Hello Kevin, thanks for the message, and I feel really nice meeting you. Your name reminded me of Lewis Carroll. While tagging the pages, I found that a number of pages require a variety of treatment including copyediting, “infusion” of fresh contents. Yes, I would surely like to be actively involved in the WikiProject Novels. You are right as regards establishing standards for Novel based articles and writing articles that meet our own and others high standards. From time to time, I would surely try to contribute to the Project. I thank you once again for welcomning me to the Project. --Bhadani 14:02, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for updating the welcome. --Bhadani 17:00, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Wiki Break
I am taking a break from wikipedia... this is due to misunderstanding between me and some admins(who will remian unamamed). Adimins when I return I hope that you look at the WP:FAITH, especially in regards to my mistake on some of the criteria with User:Gnome (Bot). The bot was blocked 30 minutes after it stoped operating...(that was ok), and than agian a full 24 hours after the first block(while the bot was still blocked) for continuing to run the bot...The problem is that my bot could NOT have done any more edits as it was already blocked. But yet on the admin's notice board NONE of the admins choose to look at the situation. (or the links to pages contianing discussions supporting Gnome bot. IN ESSENCE I FEEL LIKE I HAVE BEEN TREATED LIKE A VANDAL. I have never knowingly wandalized a page in my life!!!, and as soon as I realized there was a problem with the bot I stopped it and reprogrammed it...When I return, I may try and run it agian...or I may not...depends on how much I feel like putting up with admins

Please parden me for my rant above...These feelings I have toward ADMINS are not helping the encyclopedia...Thus rather than going crazy and denouncing admins in general or going around and making WP:POINTs, I am going to take a vacation. My leaving is the only way I can see that I can aid Wikipedia. It is the only Good Faith course of action left to me.

I refuse to go down to the level of WP:ATTACK or WP:SOCK... and I hope you respect me for that.

I will return in 1-2 months and see if things go any better.

If you want to reach me...feel free to email me.|}Eagle (talk) (desk) 19:14, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Novels Project
Hi Kevin -- thanks for the welcome on my talk page. I signed up for the Novels Project because I do love books and reading; I guess I'm just not exactly sure what to do and what "counts" as a Project job. For instance, I have been dedicating lots of time to, and have just posted, a complete book list of Nora Roberts' works. Does that count? I'd like to flesh out her bio, too, but that will come as I find spare time. Thanks again for the welcome. Estreya 17:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)