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[edit] Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc

Hi, thanks very much for your addition. I noticed on the Serial Experiments Lain talk page you doubted whether the listing is appropriate. Another editor added the title and I haven't seen the series. If you don't think the character in this series is patterned after Joan of Arc, please delete the entry from the list. I appreciate your help! Best wishes, Durova 04:59, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lain

First step would be to read through the article and identify anything that appears to be original research or needs a citation. I don't see any citations for anything in the article after a brief glance. Themes, Publications and other media, and Allusions all should have citations. After that is done, go found citations to back up the claims or remove the claims if a citation can't be found (see WP:CITE and WP:FOOT).

Looking at the article, I don't see a section on critical or public reception. There is also no information about Lain's influences other works or culturally. Commentary from the producer, director, creator, and/or the VAs would also be good, with proper citations. --TheFarix (Talk) 23:24, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunatly, I can't really help you with the sources unless it is from one of the backissues of Newtype USA that I have. --TheFarix (Talk) 20:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't really have an opinion on where the link to the list of episodes should be. It's unlikely that we'll be able to find the full text of Susan J Napier's paper on Evangelion and Lain, as the journal's official site removed the full text at the author's request. - Malkinann 07:31, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

There's no scifi wikiproject that you could ask, but maybe someone at WP:ANIME might have it, or know of english-language journals that routinely publish articles on anime and manga? Your best bet would probably be to get your hands on a copy of Napier's book. I don't know anyone who's really good at copyediting, but you could try using Tony's exercises for more help. I think you really need to split off the playstation game, because it will give the rest of the article more room to breathe. The game article may not get very much bigger, but it may later. - Malkinann 23:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:LainMiBs.jpg

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[edit] Re: $yD! & Serial Experiments Lain

My appologies for bringing up the "New Messages" bar. I was patrolling the recent changes using Lupin's anti-vandal bot. A lot of serious vandalism was going on, when I goofed up with the buttons. Thus, the warning ended up on your page instead of the vandal's. Sorry for the operator error. Keep up with the great work you've been doing lately. Cheers and happy editing!--thunderboltz(Deepu) 16:31, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] redundancy page

Hi, thanks for your comments. I've incorporated your suggestion into the hint in Exercise 4e. It's exactly the processing that we want to encourage in writers (identifying opportunities for shrinking sentences), but I'm concerned that your suggestion makes the statement stronger than the original ("challenged the government" versus "has been a challenge for", which implies intermittent/among other things, rather than all-encompassing challenge). Thanks. Tony 01:42, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

I do hope that we see more of you in the FAC and FAR/C rooms. We need more language critiqueing there to raise the standards of writing on WP. Tony 15:58, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sat-Tan

Hi, $yD!, thanks for the link on Sat-Tan. Unfortunately, it doesn't give any clear idea of the source of the information without which I can't tell whether it is just one person's view. Any ideas?

--Mike 14:23, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Text

Hey, can I use the photo (is it licensed?) for Wikipedia, which we doing an article on Kunio Okawara, if it is licensed, then can you give me the link to the contact who posted up that photo of Kunio??

Thanks for translating it for me Rakuten06 13:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clarification

I am not sure what you meant by your comment on my talk page - could you clarify it?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  19:43, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I certainly don't mind any mediation, in fact, I welcome help and comments from other editors - which is why I started a discussion at ANI seeking input - and there Ghirlandajo mentioned the discussion on my talk page you commented at and called your edit (presumably, see below) a 'reprimand of my behaviour'. Thus I wanted to clarify if you indeed support him and reprimand me, or did he misintepret your post; you may want to clarify that at ANI (to be more specific, Ghirla wrote: Within last hour or so, your behaviour was reprimanded by several wikipedians on your talk page. Several equals to him, M.K. and presumably you... :/ -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  22:24, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Lain Split Personnalities.JPG

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[edit] Serial Experiments Lain

Hi $yD!! (I dunno how to pronounce that.) I sincerely appreciate you asking, but I am working on one project right now, and I don't think I'll have the time before the FAC likely ends to help. Additionally, I'm not comfortable with the subject matter, so I may not be your best bet here. Have you tried asking some other people who are in the copy review business?: Deckiller, Spangineer, Rlevse. (I'm partially copying from a list I saw user SandyGeorgia leave.) Good luck, – Outriggr § 00:15, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi there SidiLemine! I think it was you who put in the request for me to copy edit Serial Experiments Lain (the note was signed by an IP, but I assumed it was you). Unfortunately, I'm kind of busy these days working on a personal project of mine (overhauling and improving Peter Jennings), and have had little time to proofread/copyedit FACs. Hopefully some other good copy editors who aren't so busy can help improve the article. Good luck with the FAC! Gzkn 03:16, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm...perhaps ALoan? That's the only user I can think of off the top of my head that Outriggr didn't mention...there are probably more out there though. Thanks for wikilinking nepotism! :) Gzkn 12:18, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Susan Napier

Hi Gwern! Thanks a lot for the offer about the article. As I say on the Lain talk page, it's issue 88 of Science Fiction Studies, that is, part 3 of volume 29. It's from November 2002. I don't have the page number, but the article name is When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain, by Susan J. Napier. I appreciate the effort. Having this one would make Wikipedia the most comprehensive source about Lain on earth. If that's not what WP's about, I don't know what is. :)--SidiLemine 16:42, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I went to my library today; alas, there were no electronic copies to be had, of any sort, because they carried Science Fiction Studies.... so I just scanned in all 17 pages or whatever. I can't put them on Wikipedia or Commons, for obvious reasons. Do you want me to email you the PNGs? If so, email me with the desired address; and remember, each PNG is about 3 megabytes, so make sure your email service can handle that. --Gwern (contribs) 03:21 7 December 2006 (GMT)
Don't know how to reduce the size and still keep it readable, I'm afraid. They should be wafting their way through the ether to you now. --Gwern (contribs) 14:38 7 December 2006 (GMT)
Did you give me the right address? I sent'em to lecomptoirdutabac@yahoo.com but all I got back was a Yahoo daemon telling me that address doesn't exist. --Gwern (contribs) 19:15 7 December 2006 (GMT)
After a lot of work, I discovered file upload services and got one to work; your magical link is to FileHO. Hope this works. --Gwern (contribs) 19:06 8 December 2006 (GMT)

I have the Napier Lain/Eva article too :-) User:GunnarRene/Sources#Science fiction. --GunnarRene 14:19, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lain FAC

Sidi, I'd be happy to assist, but this month might not be good in terms of free time. I'll see what I can do. Grm_wnr helped me a lot with Excel Saga's FAC, so perhaps drop him a line? If it doesn't make it through the first time, it seems like you've got a good basis to resubmit the nomination in a few weeks' time. I find appearances to be important in FACs, though maybe that's just me, so some thoughts you might want to consider are:

  • Reorganizing "List of SEL episodes" into an article titled "List of SEL media" and move most of the "Publications and other media" there. That would reduce the amount of text in the main article not covered by citation and also make the episode-list article a little more important in its own right.
  • Perhaps combining "Characters" and "Plot." If you go that route, I would mention only the most important voice actors in the main article, and create a table of all roles/voice-actors in "List of SEL episodes" or whatever.
  • This will vary from computer to computer based on screen-size and user-settings, but the arrangement of the large number of images in "Characters" is distracting. An alternative might be to use the image gallery function to present all of them at one go.
  • Newtype-USA did a DVD review of Lain in January 2005, so see if you can find a friend or editor who has that copy to cite in the article. I think Nihonjoe has all of the Newtypes-USA, so poke around his userpage.

I know these are significant changes, and my suggestions have proven controversial in past FACs, so you might want to discuss these with other editors involved in the nomination. Nevertheless, doing the first two helped me get Excel Saga featured. I hope these help! If I have time, I'll have a try at copy-editing.--Monocrat 17:17, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Will be happy to help. I'll give the writing a going-over some time this evening. Soo

[edit] Serial Experiment Lain FAC

Hi Sidi, nice of you to ask. The article certainly needs a lot of FAC level copyediting. I won't have time in the near future, but will try to add some comments and make some changes on the weekend. I recommend that you close the FAC and resubmit it though once changes have been made. There seems to be an awful lot of areas where you could improve this article. That's my 2 cents.--P-Chan 13:54, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Conference article

Hiya. I in no way assumed you were an islamist-negationist nazi (great phrase, btw!). As to your thoughts about the article being POV, I respectfully disagree. The article accurately describes the conference and its attendees. The student protests, for example: I saw an article that saiod "thousands". The fact that even one went on record as saying that they were in part caused by this conference justifies placing that in the article (IMO). Iran is not a place where people can speak freely, so that alone makes it noteworthy. This is a fun article to edit, I must say. The POV I see in the article is the mirroring of the conference itself. It is organized and attended by hate-mongering neo-Nazi anti-Semitic bigots. We don't have do do anything to shift POV--they did it for us! Jeffpw 13:35, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I'm sure I could find supporters of the conference, but it wouldn't change the thrust. I mean, anyone supporting this debacle would most probably be identified as anti-Semitic by several sources already, and that would be put next to their names. I shall try to find some supporters, though. Jeffpw 14:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Good luck in finding some! I found one kook supporter who was willing to say this was a good idea. Maybe you'll get lucky and someone of the caliber of Mother Theresa or Princess Diana will speak up for this conference's merits, but I doubt it. That said, I am sure, if we're patient, that George W. Bush will make a statement of support when he thinks the microphones are turned off. :-s Jeffpw 15:36, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
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