User talk:EvanProdromou/July2003
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Great job on Palo Duro Canyon. It was one of the 5 featured new articles today. --Menchi 01:01 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Do you still oppose the removal of the text about Benjamin Franklin? -- 212.127.141.173 03:55 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Let's just say I'm very suspicious of anyone stripping out debunkage of anti-semitic propaganda. -- ESP 04:57 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Are you slandering me by innuendo? You sound just like RK. Perhaps I should demand an apology now. Anyway, I'm not the only person now who agrees that that portion should be removed. See for yourself.
- Simmer down, potroast! I was just saying that my kneejerk response was to revert when I saw that 1) all that had been taken out was the anti-anti-semitic stuff 2) you didn't justify your actions in the summary line and 3) it had been reverted once before. Anyways, sounds fine to take it out. -- ESP 05:14 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment. I write because I like to share what I know with other persons, but these comments encourage me to continue. The Warlock 05:05 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hi there, and a belated welcome from me! If you are into 19th century US history, you may want to look at Battle of Vicksburg, recently written by User:Dino. It's an impressive article, but I think it could use some copy-editing. Unfortunately I know nothing about the subject, so maybe you want to have a go at it.. Congratulations for being featured (even if only for a day ;-), I have replaced the link on your suggestion. --Eloquence 05:51 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Actually, I had Palo Duro Canyon up yesterday (preen preen). I'm not really all that into 19th century history, but I'll take a look at the B of V. -- ESP 05:58 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Oof, it's huge! -- ESP 05:59 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Great work on the Pike and Pike expedition articles! --mav
- Thanks! I'm having a lot of fun. -- ESP 04:51 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Well, yes, they're nice, but for me your finest moment is still Simmer down, potroast. -- Someone else 05:15 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Lollapalooza is a great addition to Wikipedia! I'm a bit embarrassed that the article didn't exist before... --mav
- Hey, you know, that's what we're doing here, right? Making the stuff that doesn't yet exist. Anyways, thanks! --ESP 04:53 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Don't be too embarrassed. I doubt that any of our competitors have an article about it .. --Eloquence
- I think you have a very good point there. --mav
I hate to say this, but this edit is full of errors:
- Only proper nouns should be capitalized in the intro. "Bathing machine" is not a proper noun.
- "Etiquette" is correct.
- "Voyeurism" is correct.
- Newspaper titles should be italicized.
- HTML comments asking for references within the article source text are generally considered acceptable.
- "Equipped" is much more common than "equipt".
- Section titles should not be capitalized.
- " .. with an illustration of a row of bathing machines employing dipper" makes no sense. It should either be "a dipper" or "dippers" (as it was originally).
--Eloquence 05:07 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- I know! It's terrible! I'm completely flummoxed as to how that happened! I swear I didn't do all that. I was reading the article, saw some spelling errors ("seperate") edited them, and saved. I fixed "equipt" to "equipped", and "etiquitte" (or whatever it was) to "etiquette". But look at that mess! I don't have any explanation for how it happened -- could I have accidently reverted? could it be a browser problem? -- but I'm 99.9% sure those aren't my edits. Of course, there's the possibility that I'm psychotic. -- ESP 05:16 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- OK, mea maxima culpa. It looks like I opened this edit for some reason -- I'm guessing a misclick when trying to open Infrogmation -- started reading it, then edited it for the terrible spelling, and saved it, doing a weird revert+edit. I'll try to be much more careful in the future. -- ESP 05:22 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- I guessed as much (I had already written an explanation, but you were quicker ;-). No biggie. --Eloquence 05:27 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for your addition of Lollapalooza (or however you spell that) to the Perry Farrell page I created. Nahum 05:52 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Ha ha! You nailed it. Well, I just finished the first draft of Lollapalooza today, so I'm crazy for Perry Farrell. Hey, do you know anything about the ENIT festival? I can't find anything about it. -- ESP 07:14 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
If you liked "Crushing by Elephant", look at Hanno and History of elephants in Europe, and even Abul-Abbas. List of historical elephants used to be more fun before List of fictional elephants got split off :( -- Someone else 07:01 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)~~
- Hooray for elephants! You know, there's a chapel in Lisbon with statues of elephants given to the popes by Portuguese rulers. Very interesting stuff! -- ESP 07:16 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
defence vs defense is actually a Eur/US spelling difference, rather than a "duh" :) Martin
- You're right! And I probably shouldn't put in "duh" on my summaries, anyways, even if it's me who make the mistake. -- ESP 00:46 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)
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