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Thank you for those links; I'd read some and will make sure I read the others, too. JennyRad 13:51, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'm interested in Sister Fidelman - I like "classic" detective stories of this kind (Christie, Sayers, Heyer, etc.) and find the depth Peter Tremayne puts in his novels to be absolutely fascinating. He's an excellent writer. JennyRad 13:51, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and welcome ... A small point: You added a couple of comments to an ongoing discussion about Agatha Christie, but you interspersed them among the existing comment in such a way that it now looks as if the entire comment is from you. The best way around that is to indent your comments by putting a colon (:) before the start of each paragraph. You can put two colons, or three, or four, etc., to do more and more indentations if you're joining an ongoing discussion. - DavidWBrooks 15:04, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Duly noted; many thanks! --JennyRad 16:22, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There you are again, Jenny! Charles Matthews 07:30, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Charles! Yes, here I am again - procrastinating about the absolute gibberish I'm meant to be turning into a Journal ...! --JennyRad 12:11, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Will writing for the BGJ, then? I'm usefully employed, adding Edinburgh rock to Rock (confectionery). Charles Matthews 14:13, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, it's worse than Will - it's an Ian-Davis-ism! With terse commentary from Dave Ward, incomprehensible commentary from Liu Yajie, and the net result that I don't actually know what the point of a commented game in the Journal is ... --JennyRad 14:06, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I saw Ian on Thursday: he dropped into the Cambridge club on his way to Finland (!). I could have asked him ... Charles Matthews 14:14, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You find that asking Ian gets coherent answers? I have asked him about it ... he gibbered a bit more. The Championship games are a lot easier to edit ... Of course, Dave Ward seems to have fallen off the world (he was fine at Three Peaks this time last week!) which makes asking him a bit tricky, too.

Yes, it's me, the one and only. I really need to find something else to fill my time at work. MrTrev 23:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, it's a good use of the taxpayers' money, editing Wikipedia. Ahem. Anyway, you're stalking me; I posted on the page first, you followed up. Hah. --JennyRad 13:23, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eh? Who's stalking who? KingStrato 21:50, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know-- sometimes I just can't tell real in depth editing from creative nonsense. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 14:56, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I know that feeling! :) Ta, --JennyRad 14:59, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure between the two of us we can take care of it. I looked up some of the red-linked names in Google, and removed the ones that don't have anything (except for mirror sites). ... discospinster 13:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I have requested semi-protection for Durham. ... discospinster 13:30, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for you offer to work on this one - should be very useful. Don't under estimate the amount of wrok envolved though. I would say don't forget that a large number of novels don't actually get any further categorization. For instance, "Western novels" are fairly clearly defined, as are "Crime novels", however there are a whole raft of modern novels that only appear to get refered to as "Novel", little more. Just a be the way are you interested in joining the WikiProject on Novels, either as a member or just signing our guestbook. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 11:28, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for setting to, and getting to work on this, we all need to do many different things and each helps. Personally my focus is adding, infoboxes to Novel articles and restructuring articles to the standard pattern, if possible of course. Any how thanks. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 09:27, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I'm not sure if aeration is relavent to chemical processes - it's a physical process after all - maybe a different category would be better?HappyVR 17:12, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's probably fair. It's my understanding that only Oxford actually specifies or requires sub fusc; when people at other universities wear it it's just in reference to the Oxford requirements.

The Academic dress of the University of Cambridge page says otherwise, though - odd. It could just redirect to Academic dress, alternatively. TSP 17:21, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stub-categories are always listed first and alphabetically, then the rest of the categories again alphabetically.
I don't really feal like adding the data pages to any of the categories yet. I think we should wait till the things settle down a bit - this "data-page" thing that i've created isn't very popular yet. -- Boris 00:09, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"The priority" just doesn't make sence. It will only if the article is put into two categories that are on the same category branch. Say, Arginine was in both Category:Basic amino acids and Category:Amino acids and the first one is a subcategory of the second one (right now Arginine is in the second one but it should be in the first one) but then that deosn't make sence either, and i have edited many articles that were categorized exactly that way. I'll try to find that discussion to check it out. -- Boris 10:37, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, You appear to contribute even more than some who have signed up as members, so thank for your efforts. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 08:38, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for comments. As far as I am aware, one reports spamming to the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (or WP:AN/I for short). Vandalsim as such is reported at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (WP:AIAV), but such reporting generally after having worked through templates (test1, test2, test3, spam1, spam2 etc).

Separately you mention archiving my talk page - yes now needed, but is this just a question of setting up a subpage and copying stuff over or is there a special method to this ? :-) Yours David Ruben ^Talk 19:37, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I did actually post a report on WP:AN/I and see, having had my dinner, that the spam-only account has been perminantly banned (see blocked log). I shall now have a go at my talk-page archiving - thank you :-) David Ruben ^Talk 22:08, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JennyRad, I have created that new project to sort Expert requests - Wikipedia:WikiProject Expert Request Sorting--Konstable 00:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I ask this purely out of curiosity. You suggested that my how-to-make-spoiler-warnings-invisible instructions might be "crass and offensive and a straw man". I can see why they might be considered offensive — for one thing, I was writing for inexperienced computer users, whereas Ryu and Randall are clearly quite expert with computers. Also, my heading was overly flippant (I've apologised for it), and I should have written "Those who cannot tolerate seeing spoiler warnings ...". However, I don't see what was crass ("of persons: so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility") about them, nor do I see any straw man. Please enlighten me. (Feel free to reply here; I'll watch this page for a few days.) Cheers, CWC(talk) 21:57, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First off: thanks for suggesting I reply here; I find the Wikipedia-way of replying to messages on a different page to where the message was put immensely confusing!

Secondly: sorry if I was uncivil: I must say your post made me somewhat cross, which is an explanation but profoundly inadequate as an excuse. Sorry about that.

Thirdly (reordering slightly because it makes more sense this way): Straw man. Because your "solution" didn't actually remotely relate to the problem people were complaining about; you pretended the problem was to do with seeing Spoilers, and responded accordingly.

Fourthly: it was crass because use of a straw man is crass in my opinion; lacking discrimination, particularly.

Once again my apologies for my incivility. --JennyRad 22:07, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that explanation. Your "incivility" was trivial; forget it. My stuff-ups were worse: first I got the mistaken impression that at least some people objected seeing spoilers. Then I got too excited about finding a technical solution ...

Easy mistake to make! It's certainly a waaaaaay more complicated subject than I'd first thought when I was contemplatively wondering about exactly how much plot-detail should go into a Plot section on an article about a brain-candy Regency Romance! --JennyRad 22:30, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On a more important note: The old approach of leaving messages on each other's talk pages just doesn't scale to the current size of Wikipedia. This comment-then-watch approach seems to be catching on. The only downside is having to prune your watchlist regularly.

Cheers, CWC(talk) 22:24, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's a far more sensible approach, I think - and not just because it follows the familiar ways of USENET and email and so on. (Oh, the time it's taken to teach certain silver surfer friends/family to interleave their emails ...). Plus I've found a few user talk pages I've kept on watching because interesting conversations happen. Anyway, thanks. --JennyRad 22:30, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re:Creating Pages, or Not Supposing one has a pet favourite author who was moderately successful in her day but has largely been forgotten (in my case, D. E. Stevenson) ... the page about her is currently entirely stubbish. I have recently been using Ebay to great purpose and acquiring stacks of her books...

Hi! I had a similar experience with a current author, and have ended up throwing together 15-20 articles or sub-articles on the author's one series... which is why I've been advised to and am resurecting the project noted above (a sub-project of WPP:Novels). Looking over the bibliography and brief biography, the place I'd start is the author infobox (it's discussed on the WPP:Novels page as is it's depreciated alternative 'book card'. If some of her works fall into a series, then I'd stub in a series article so as to give some coverage to as many works as possible as quick as I could manage. Then tackle the more notable to less notable stand-alone books (or favorite to less favorite <g>). Having something together for all her stuff, I'd work back through from my least favorite to most (save for dessert, so to speak, a bit of reward for working hard), all other considerations being equal. If some things inter-connect, and one can help lessen the burden on the other(s), then those pieces of the puzzle should take precedence. If I can help further, don't hesitate to ask. I field a fair number of inquiries from newcomers as a member of WP:WC. In the meantime, just put some pieces in place and give it X time on some regular basis and it will start to shape itself in your mind as you work through it all. Oh, my email is posted on my pages. Add in the '@', and we're connected. Best wishes, // FrankB 04:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jenny,

Thaks for support on Eco Theology article, I have just started but hope to find a lot of stuff that could be interesting to put here. Hope that some more people could come with thire information and knowledge in this topic. I found it very interesting and promesing if there could be more developed Religius engegement in the enviromental questing, quit a force for change...

I was in Durham acould of years ago and I liked it a lot...

Cool life! --Swedenborg 12:47, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not much of a break from the BGJ, perhaps, but I recently got Wikipedia: WikiProject Go started. Charles Matthews 15:42, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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