User talk:Pegship/2006e

♥ Her Pegship♥ Talk archive August & September 2006

401K: End Game

Thanks for the heads up. I've prod'd it. --Fang Aili ^talk 01:10, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Splitting

Battle Royale is now up for splitting and as you expressed an interest I thought I'd give you a nudge. Also if you are interested I have proposed a similar split for Neverwhere - such mashing together of entries just results in a mess in the end. (Emperor 02:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC))[reply]

lit-mag-stub...

... as I'd likely have called it. I suggest we not go ahead with this, as the likely population is less than I'd realized, and will further deplete the mind-bogglingly broad art-mag-stub. Unless you have independent counts of possible population that make it seem more viable... Alai 17:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can do so, if you, as the creator, are agreeable. Maybe keep it as an upmerged template, for clarity. It's maybe a bit misleading to have those on a "to do" list as such, as approved to be created doesn't necessarily means it has to be, especially in cases like this, where the proposer has had a "cold light of day" moment...

prowrestling-stub

Since you've created some icons for stubs that look fairly good, I thought T'd trouble you for one for {{prowrestling-stub}} which current is using the generic Wiki w. I had a idea for a championship belt using the Wiki w as the centerpiece, but my art skills leave much to be desired. Caerwine Caerwhine 17:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Even it weren't a fair use image (which it isn't fair to use in stub templates) when reduced down to stub icon size, [[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg<|40px]], you can't make out what it's supposed to be. However, the icon you did make is great! Thanks. Caerwine Caerwhine 21:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Thomas

Hi. Thanks for your work on the WP:Thomas catagories. May I suggest you add yourself to the project and keep an eye out for any information that you want to deal with or be kept informed of, in particular the Character-page rationalisation which may mean pages get moved around or re-linked/condensed or whatever, which may influence your catagory sorting. Mdcollins1984 07:10, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sidebar redesign

Since you are a very active and knowledgeable Wikipedian, I thought you might like to take a look at what we are working on at Wikipedia talk:Village pump (proposals)/Sidebar redesign. --Nexus Seven 12:06, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reference unfound

FrankB has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing! (Now that we're both back from our vacations!)

Hope you're having a great summer! Still not enabling email, dang it. Want an invitation to a gmail account? Many here seem to use one for wikipedia purposes, including (recently now) my humble self. You can read it with just a web page access without messing with your normal email facilities, or have it forward, etc. I'm using mine for following various wiki-related email lists... those were definitely a burden on my normal comcast account!

I've been trying to track down a great historical reference book that someone borrowed this past decade and never returned. Grrr!
My recollection is the author was 'A Thomas Mann' (Causing big time search collisions on the web with Thomas Mann!), and the title: "A History of the World" (sub-titles unknown, but his work was slanted to the impact of technology and dissemination of technology ideas (Even things like the lowly fork and chimney!), vice big-man pov, battles, and such focii... so a valuable tool indeed!), but it should certainly be in the 700+ pages range, mine was softcover, pub date circa the late 70's or early eighties (best guess). At least I'm pretty sure I acquired it in the very early to mid-eighties from one book club or another.

So would you bend your researching resources to finding this one, preferably with ISBN's for the HC and softcover versions so I can spend a fortune in used book stores (Alas! I doubt it's in print--Amazon lists it not).
I'd dearly love to locate it again. Among other things, I'm trying to refer some others to it, and wasn't happy at all to wade through 28 pages of google hits on the "A Thomas Mann" search sans success. But you crafty librarians must have more targeted tools than google, so I thought I'd ask!

Cheers! // FrankB 15:28, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re: Could it be World history : the story of Mankind from prehistory to the present by Hugh Thomas? The first edition was published in 1979 and titled History of the World; it was also published in 1979 under the title An unfinished history of the world,...
Me thimks I'd give you a kiss if in reach... though the twin-title's in '79 are fairly confusing.

How I got to [A. Thomas Mann] from Hugh Thomas is one for the neuroscientist's to take note of...
Hmmm, maybe you transposed something to '79 or I just misunderstood?
A History of the World (1979)
Armed Truce (1986)
Ever Closer Union (1991)
Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico (1994)
World History, The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the Present (1996)
I loved that book, the 'the story of Mankind from prehistory to the present' subtitle is a very strong indicator you got it targeted dead on right. You just made my frustrating night (I've been stuck over in Wiktionary with misbehaving templates)!
I don't know if you've ever read Connections or Works of Man, but this is sort of a combination history of society as impacted by the desemination of ideas (and hence technology), as well as a lot of side discussions of things like public health impacts (plauge can ruin your whole tech base!), attitudes, and of course, politcal developments.
it totally by-passes the typical history means of connecting by events, and focuses more often at a ground-eye-view on life by the common man. Things like when the fork was adopted by the nobles, then the lower classes, the horsecollar and agriculture (enabled the renesaince!), the evidence of when chimney's finally came about (Lost tech in the fall of Rome!) and loads of other facinating tidbits. SO THANKYOU VERY MUCH, Maam!

I'll track that down post haste! Even if I have to pay through the nose. (I really can't recall who I loaned it to, which means I've had to hold a 'good mad' very in for a long while! GrrrrEAT NEWS! // FrankB 05:00, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmmmm, for some reason your Amazon link didn't work for me. (Perhaps it auto-logs you in and so may be missing a cookie--and yourself! B&N had an excerpt from the Library Journal too], and probably the same one. Note towards the bottom paragraph and the public thinking him a bloody hero-genius! (The LJ writer was married to a historian with a hard on! Well, it's possible, even if I did just make it up! <g>)
I wasn't as taken in by the modern era coverage, but there were a lot of competing sources for that education! Sounds like he nailed one possibility though! Thanks again! Looks like I can even find a HC! // FrankB 05:17, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks fer lettin' me steal this! Hey the floors need mopped and swept since you're tidying up--Oh, wrong left coast! Drat!. Jes checking to see if you'd found my 'Mann' or the title in that era. I'm being interwikied to death! <g>
ttfn // FrankB 17:01, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Belated answer here. // FrankB 18:55, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

StubSensor

I'm afraid I'm in the dark on that. I know that there's a WikiProject Stub removal, doing something in that vein with offline (I assume) generated lists, and that User:Bluebot's been doing something similar. Alai 22:51, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, here we go: it seems to be active [[1]]. There doesn't seem to be much associated discussion or documentation, so I assume the general idea is to run the lists through AWB with a search-and-replace pattern to delete stub tags, or simply to do that by hand. Alai 18:12, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

california? librarians?

I hear a rumor that you're a librarian in California as well. Well, a note on Rlitwin's page, actually. At any rate, hi there! What end of the state are you in? phoebe 06:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stub Proposal

Hi please could you start a new stub category: euro-film-stub this is very useful for articles on european films such as Norwegian and Danish films as indeed Romanian. Please let me know when it is created. A euro-actor-stub already exists Ernst Stavro Blofeld 10:12, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great work on all the archives! The summary you made for July was great - I used it to update WP:STUBS. Hopefully we can continue to be on top of the archiving instead of letting things sit around. Are you currently working on the August archive? Also, have a barnstar! ~ Amalas rawr ^{=^_^=} 19:45, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. librarians from other countries

Hi. Do you know for a fact that Michael Gorman is a U.S. citizen? I know that he is from England and still has strong ties. In the case of Eric Moon, who emigrated from England to the U.S. and became a U.S. citizen, I gave him cats of "American librarians" and "British librarians." I gave him both cats because I wasn't sure what to do. Is there any guidance about nations and immigration and cats? Rlitwin 16:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue IV (September 2006)

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Split tag?

I was wondering why you thought the article on "Les jeux sont faits" needed a split tag? Thanks! --Schwael 00:58, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pauline Kael

Hey, thanks for the nifty thingamob: {{Pauline Kael}}. I was wondering...if I wanted to add dates after the names of the books later on, how would I go about doing that? And what does that (UTC) mean after the date? Thanks~!! Woody 10:26, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New footnote system

In case you haven't heard of it yet, there's a new (hopefully better) way to do footnotes: you put the footnote inline, within <ref>tags like this</ref> and put a </references> tag where you want them all to show up (i.e. at the end of the article. This lets you work in sections more easily, among other benefits. More information is at meta:Cite/Cite.php. If you like this method, you may wish to update your FUM page to reflect it. (I came across you when you added the sort key to Template:OCLC, which I made.) Enjoy your work on Wikipedia! JesseW, the juggling janitor 09:33, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Talk: List of Bollywood films

Hullo, when you removed the redirect you removed all the discussion. Do you think that you could copy that over from the Hindi list to the Bollywood list? The mess of redirects is partly my fault -- a new editor did a number of moves without consulting anyone else, I tried to reverse all the moves, and I goofed up on the talk page. Zora 04:49, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I've seen his work. :~\ I'll reinstate the talk page redir so it can at least be found. Cheers, ♥ Her Pegship♥ 04:51, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Red River Valley prod

Hi, I've removed the prod tag from this article, and added my reasoning to the talk page. I'm certain that the film does exist (check the links I provided), and at first glance it does appear to be at least somewhat notable. ScottW 00:55, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Entertainers who performed for troops during the Vietnam War has been proposed for deletion

Hello. Category:Entertainers who performed for troops during the Vietnam War has been proposed for deletion. You have made recent edits to this page. If possible, please comment at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 October 1. Thanks.—Xanderer 21:16, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Enchanted Forest Chronicles

As the creator of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles page, I have undone several of your changes to the page--namely, putting back the synopsis of each book. I kept the list of main characters, however--thank you for putting that in. Al e thiophile^{Evil Kitten wants you to TALK TO ME} 20:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]