User talk:BPK2

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, BPK2, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Bulmer

[edit] Many thanks - Kenneth Bulmer

Many thanks for your work on the Kenneth Bulmer page. I only knew of Bulmer as "Adam Hardy", having read several of his "Fox" series as a kid. I never knew he wrote SF, which is weird because I was (and still am) an SF nut and you'd think if I liked SF and also liked the Fox series (set in the British Navy at war in 1795-1805) then I'd have gone mad for Bulmer's SF. But growing up in rural South Australia we were lucky to see more than one book in any series, let alone books across several series and across several psedonyms.

The breadth and volume of Bulmer's output is simply staggering. I'm just sad that I only figured out who "Adam Hardy" was merely two years after Bulmer's death :-( --Ossipewsk 00:16, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. I first encountered Bulmer as "Alan Burt Akers," author of the Dray Prescot books. I'm not sure I've actually read a non-pseudonymous Bulmer novel even yet! It was kind of sad to learn that he passed away soon after I created the article. BPK 06:09, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Burroughs

[edit] Jane

I recently reverted your piping of links at the Jane disambiguation page - the Manual of Style for disambig pages says to never pipe those links except where necessary, so that it's more transparent to the reader. Happy editing, -- stillnotelf is invisible 13:42, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dejah Thoris

Hi, BPK2! As a fan of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series from my college days (25+ years ago), having recently decided to "renew my acquaintance" with these books, it was fun to come across your relatively new Dejah Thoris article here on Wikipedia while just doing some casual searching (think of a topic that is of interest to me and see if there's an article on it :) I've added a little to the article in terms of categorization.

It looks like you've done a lot on the Burroughs series'. Keep up the good work. Cheers, Lini 05:50, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tarzan Films

Hi, glad to see another fan of the movies has been creating articles. I've done quite a few myself recently, including all three of Mike Henry's. Hey, I was planning to do articles on Buster Crabbe's "Tarzan the Fearless" and Glenn Morris' "Tarzan's Revenge" in the next couple days. I wanted to get with you and make sure I didn't step on your toes in case you were planning to do them. Let me know. Thanks. Sir Rhosis (talk) 07:36, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

I went ahead and created the articles. Again, hope you weren't planning to. Sir Rhosis (talk) 12:06, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Nope, no problem. Will be interested in reading the articles. Thanks for checking. BPK (talk) 18:09, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, me again. I'm getting ready to do the article for Tarzan and the Huntress, so by the time you're up and read this, hopefully that link won't be red. Wanted to run a couple things by you. One: I'm considering writing an article for the cheapie 1999 Sony Wonder animated film called "Tarzan of the Apes." Yes, it was cheesy and has no voice credits and would be a skimpy article, BUT it was made with ERB Inc.'s permission and is an "official" release, just like the other animated Tarzan films. Would you consider putting it in your Tarzan film box if I do the article? Two, have you ever considered doing a film box (I'm talking about that big blue box you made and attached to all the Tarzan film articles, in case my inaccurate language may confuse you) for the various Tarzan TV shows. There'd be the Ely series, the "Lord of the Jungle" Saturday morning series, the Joe Lara Tarzan in Manhattan telefilm, the Tarzan the ecologist series with the tick mark over the second "a", the Joe Lara 1996 "Epic Adventures" series and finally the early 2000s animated series based on the Disney film. Just thought it might be something you would like to do. I could give it a go if you don't want to, but I'm fairly slow at these things -- whenever I create a film article, I just copy and paste an old one into the new article's blank box and go through and change the names, dates, casts, plot, etc., by hand. Anyway, I enjoy your articles. Your plots synopses are so much better than mine -- I just put enough in there to get by with, meaning to expand them someday. Best to you. Sir Rhosis (talk) 09:48, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Sir R. To answer your questions in turn:
1. Yes, it does sound like the Sony Wonder film ought to be in the film box. If you notify me when the article is done, I will see to it.
2. I think I will leave the box on the TV shows to someone more knowledgable on them; if you want to do one, it's fine with me.
Thanks for the kind comments. When I've done Tarzan film articles I've usually looked for information on the films on the net, starting with the IMDb, gone through all the plot descriptions, and written a new one based on all the relevent material. I may go back and give similar treatment to some of the articles others have created where the plot descriptions are skimpy.
BPK (talk) 13:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

As promised here is my review of the Sony Wonder animated film: Tarzan of the Apes. Sir Rhosis (talk) 17:24, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I've added it to the film box, and also corrected the preceded by/followed by links in Tarzan and the Lost City and Tarzan to take it into account. BPK (talk) 18:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cabell

[edit] The Biography of Manuel

Not sure why you removed the redirect dab. Since Jurgen still redirect to this article, and the other target still exists, the note is still needed. IPSOS (talk) 20:12, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I removed it because Jurgen should have redirected to Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. And now it does. BPK 22:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, that's a most reasonable answer. Thanks! IPSOS (talk) 22:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] de Camp

[edit] DYK

On 16 June 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Viagens Interplanetarias, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 16:28, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Keillor

Thank you for brining a voice of reason to that dispute. Oniononion (talk) 16:42, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I try. The sound of grinding axes was getting a bit loud—speaking as a person not wholly innocent from grinding axes myself. My feeling is that when all you have is one account of events in opposition to another without proof of which is correct (if indeed either is completely correct), it's better to present both accounts than to annoint one as the gospel. It's also helpful to remember that different witnesses can interpret the same events in quite different ways. When there's room for disagreement we ought not to do too much interpeting... BPK (talk) 21:45, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lovecraft

[edit] Lovecraft: A Look...

Thanks for putting in the image and adding the categories...it looks spiffy. Nareek 21:27, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Glad to oblige. BPK 06:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lupoff

[edit] Space War Blues

Hi Brian,

I want to include an excerpt from the book (maybe one paragraph) to illustrate the writing style; this would fall under the fair use laws vis. book reviews, I think, but I don't know how Wikipedia feels about that. Any thoughts? swain 00:33, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, someone quoted Edgar Rice Burrough's initial description of Dejah Thoris for the Barsoom article (two short paragraphs), which no one ever seemed to object to. It's no longer there only because I moved it to the Dejah Thoris article, where it still is. I doubt there would be any objection to a short quote, and if anyone does find it a problem they can always delete it. BPK 06:01, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Right; I just wanted to avoid typing it all in and having that effort thrown out :o) Thanks! swain 15:33, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tolkien

[edit] Numenor & Atlantis

"per Tolkien himself, Númenór was definitely his version of Atlantis"

I wouldn't be so bold as to say you were wrong, but I was under the impression that Tolkien was stringently opposed to people drawing parallels between his fiction and the 'real' world and as such, assumed this extended to other tales and fables. Though many commentators compare his work to European mythology, I was unaware that he himself did this. Do you perhaps have a link to an online source of information regarding this - I find the idea very interesting. - Hayter 10:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

He wasn't quite as stringent as many people think. While opposing any attempt to make a one-to-one correlation between places in Middle Earth and places in the modern world, he did both explicitly and implicitly state that the areas covered by the trilogy's action and maps was the northwest area of the Old World -- that is, Europe -- and the Shire was of course a spiritual stand-in for England, even if not necessarily identical physically.

Tolkien's Middle Earth setting as a whole was always admitted to be a fictional pre-history of the real world, as noted in the prefatory matter to The Lord of the Rings. As such, Númenór was not merely a parallel to Atlantis, but his version thereof -- or rather, our Atlantis myth was at least implicitly presented as an imperfect memory of Númenór, the "real" Atlantis in his scheme of things.

While the existence of Atlantis in the real world's prehistory is dubious to say the least, its legendary role in that prehistory is well established -- and Númenór plays exactly that same role in Tolkien's fictional version of prehistory. (The role being, of course, that of a high maritime civilization that conquered much of Middle Earth = Europe that afterwards sank beneath the sea, but from which much of later civilization derived).

If Middle Earth is admitted to be an ancient version of our own world, the conclusion that Númenór is intended to be Atlantis is inescapable. Tolkien made this plain both in its corresponding role and in his alternative names for Númenór in the appendices to The Return of the King. I know of no online source for the identification, but if memory serves I believe the issue is addressed more directly in the published volume of his letters and Christopher Tolkien's History of Middle Earth set.

--BPK.

Okay, I've done a quick web search, and now I can provide you some references.

http://greenbooks.theonering.net/quickbeam/files/081503.html

makes much the same argument I have above.

http://fin.go.wifl.at.org/tables/html/numenor.htm

is a good presentation of Tolkien's various versions of the Númenór story.

http://www.merp.com/essays/MichaelMartinez/mmartineznumenortour

cites the smoking gun; Tolkien's actual equation of Númenór with Atlantis.

--BPK, 12/14/05.

Very interesting, thanks for taking the time to look it up for me. I note that TORn calls this alignment with 'reality' unusual for Tolkien so perhaps my supposition was not completely false, but the similarities are obvious (and obviously intended) - Atalantë certainly makes a point.

I should really get my own copy of The Silmarillion and investigate C Tolkien's publications. Thanks again. -Hayter 12:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tolkien stuff

Hi there. You removed a category I added to Gandalf Award. You were quite right to do so - I apologise for going overboard with that. I still want to keep track of things like that (I periodically survey "what links here" from Tolkien-related articles to keep track of how people are linking to the articles), so I have added that article at User:Carcharoth/Tolkien_categories#Other_4 (though I'll make sure not to put it in a category). If you spot any other cases where I've overcategorised, I'd appreciate it if you could add them there. Hope that's OK. Carcharoth 02:14, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, wow. I just found Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings" - I saw a copy of that recently - I'll have to dig around and see if I actually bought it or not. Congratulations on a nice article! I hope you don't mind that I recategorised it to Category:Tolkien studies, as that is where similar book articles have gone. I also put a {{ME-project}} tag on it, and assessed it as part of the ongoing assessment of Tolkien-related articles. If you have any other books like that, would you be thinking of working on them in the near future? Carcharoth 02:26, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't mind. Good call on that one. I do have copies of various other Tolkien studies I've read over the years, but have no immediate plans to add articles on them – they're pretty much all in storage. Nor do I keep close tabs on the various Tolkien articles, just (mostly) articles I've created or worked on. But if I run across anything of your I think needs work I'll be happy to note it under this discussion. BPK 03:41, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zelazny

[edit] Roger Zelazny

Nice work! Nareek 16:14, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, hope I wasn't stepping on any toes by just going ahead and doing it. BPK 17:17, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

No way--that's the Wikipedia method in action. If anyone doesn't like it, they can always change it back. Be bold! Nareek 19:17, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dilvish

Hello there! When you moved Dilvish the Damned to Dilvish, the Damned, you copied the contents from one page to another. Unfortunately, copying the contents of the page does not copy the history--something required for the GFDL license. MediaWiki, however, provides a move function. An admin deleted Dilvish, the Damned, and I've moved Dilvish the Damned to that location. :-) Jude (talk,contribs,email) 07:55, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction. BPK 07:57, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Science fiction

[edit] WikiProject Science Fiction

Hi, I have seen that you have started / contributed to quite a few articles on science fiction and fantasy related subjects, so I thought you'd be interested in joining this wikiproject. But I see that you are not a new user at all and if you already know about the wikiproject, sorry for this annoyance. :) - TwoOars 23:02, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fellow wikipedians

[edit] Chronology

Thanks for the help! Nareek 03:09, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem, just fixing some links. BPK 05:26, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, BPK2! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 14:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jack-in-the-Box

On your tk page, you probably want : *[[Jack-in-the-Box]] (8/3/05)

*Jack-in-the-Box (8/3/05)

to become : *[[Jack-in-the-Box (comics)|]] (8/3/05)