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Re: Dashes on Samuel Beckett
Hello. I'm leaving a message regarding your changes to the dashes on the Samuel Beckett article.

While I appreciate your "proofreader's eye" (I am an editor myself) and your effort in that regard, please note that conventions (as per Wikipedia's guidelines) are not monolithic; the em-dash without surrounding spaces is an accepted convention, and is the one that I chose to use in the article (as I do in all of my work). —Saposcat 06:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Dashes on Samuel Beckett
While I am a great fan of the Chicago Manual of Style and its acceptance of em-dashes as closed up to the text on either side, my personal belief is that they're a lot easier to read on webpages when surrounded by spaces.

However, I didn't mean to tread on your toes, and apologize for arbitrarily changing your preference. I am satisfied with your reversion of the page to the way it was before my clumsy feet intruded. So sorry! I shall be careful to avoid changing your em-dash style on any articles I see that you have contributed. Cheers! Signinstranger 07:55, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

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Sonnets
Hi. I noticed you are adding Shakespeare sonnets, and was wonder if there was a reason you weren't putting a space between the quatrains. Personally, I find it makes them easier to read. Conrad Leviston 15:58, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. I don't see spacing the quatrains as much of a convention in either online or printed versions of the sonnets. The prime source I've been using for the text is www.shakespeare-online.com, but my copy of the Signet Shakespeare leaves the sonnets without spacing, only indenting the final couplet. If I add a space between the quatrains in the sonnets I've already posted, I'll probably end up going through the entire corpus of already posted sonnets to do this. Your thoughts? Signinstranger 16:12, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Certainly consistancy is more important than doing it one way or the other. I suppose it comes down to the fact that if I am the one who feels strongly about this, I should be the one who does the boring job of standardising, so you may as well leave things as they are for the moment. Cheers. Conrad Leviston 16:38, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * If you feel deeply about it, then I don't mind going ahead. As picky as I am, I'll probably be looking through all the sonnet pages anyway, and it's a fairly easy edit. It may take me a while, though. Signinstranger 17:54, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * On second thought, I'm going to leave them as is. If you want to change them, go for it, but to my eye the sonnets look better unbroken. It's only 14 lines, after all. Signinstranger 17:59, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Horrible sentence in "American classical music"
I honestly have no memory of having written that, but the history shows I did. Looks like I am perfectly capable of writing crap. Oh well. Maybe I was drunk. I removed a lot of it. :-)  Antandrus  (talk) 00:45, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Science Fiction Magazine
My assumption is that by referring to Sci-Fiction as the "premiere" e-zine, you meant the leading e-zine, so I changed "premiere" to "premier". If you meant "premiere" in the sense of "first." why not just use "first"? Cheers! Signinstranger 20:18, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that was excellent editorial action on your part. My only comments regarding the action are 1) I didn't choose the word "premiere" for this article; someone else did; and 2) I had the same thoughts about the word (whether the writer meant "premiere" or "premier"), but left the "e" on because in the writer's version of the article, a misspelled version of "premiere" was used, so I decided the writer might have meant that particular word ("premiere"). Yet, privately, I believed "premier" to be a better choice. Check the history of the article to see where I corrected the misspelled word. Thanks for the note. All the best! -- Paul 09:03, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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The Star Beast
The missing pages are two pages of the hardcover in the middle of the ancestor's travel diary, where the origin of Lummox becomes clear&mdash;if your edition has the complete diary pages. I confess I don't have proof that every edition other than the first has the missing pages; I can only vouch that every edition I've seen, including more than one paperback and the SFBC edition, has the error.

P.S. I like em dashes without space, even on the Web. They seem perfectly legible, and that's my POV! Zaslav 03:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks much for fixing this. Good work! How did you obtain the original edition (and magazine)? Zaslav 06:29, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

A response 13 years later. Knowing of the missing pages,I bought the hardcover off a book dealer. As for the magazine, I have a near-complete run. Signinstranger (talk) 21:35, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

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hello. responding to your questions on the copeland article, your link was removed because inline and commercial links in the body of an article are regarded as spam. the columns, however, was inadvertent. my intent was not remove the columns, but only to change the coding. however, i just realised internet explorer does not interpret this column template, so i'll change it back. cheers! --emerson7 17:08, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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Arthur Byron Cover
Over at tfwiki.net we were adding a page about Mr. Cover and were unsure of his birthdate. You added the date 14 January 1950 to his article here, but I did not find a reference. Do you remember where you found the date? --Khajidha (talk) 13:46, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Check his Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Arthur-Byron-Cover/112161388800559. I don't know if I found the date there, but that does verify the date of January 14, 1950. HTH. Signinstranger (talk) 20:55, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
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