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[edit] Use of small-caps ("A Blighted Life" on wikisource)

Did you know you could use something else instead of all the "small" tags within your code to create the small-caps spellings? All that is required is <font style="font-variant:small-caps;">.

instead of: "THE BLIGHTED LIFE," and Lady LYTTON
use: "The Blighted Life," and Lady Lytton

This produces better code which is easier to read (and proper xML markup):

:''instead of:'' "T<small>HE</small> B<small>LIGHTED</small> L<small>IFE</small>,"
 ''and'' [[wikipedia:Rosina Bulwer Lytton|Lady L<small>YTTON</small>]]

:''use:'' <font style="font-variant:small-caps;">"The Blighted Life,"</font>
 ''and'' [[en:Rosina Bulwer Lytton|Lady <font style="font-variant:small-caps;">Lytton</font>]]

One added benefit is that copy-and-paste from the web page into a text editor does not produce odd capitalization. In other words, copy-and-paste each of those two lines and the resulting text looks like this:

instead of: "THE BLIGHTED LIFE," and Lady LYTTON
use: "The Blighted Life," and Lady Lytton

Notice the second line has normal capitalization. —Mike 07:13, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Emily Dickinson

As I'm sure you can tell I've been fairly hard at work setting up a section for Emily Dickinson. She's one of my favorite poets. I have a question... you've changed the titles (in this case first lines) of some of the works to titles that are incorrect. I'm wondering what your source is? Here is one example...

1.) You changed ("Sic transit gloria mundi,") to (Sic gloria transit mundi)

If you check Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson ISBN: 0517362422 or The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson ISBN: 0316184136 you will see that the first title is the excepted standard. I just wanted to bring this to your attention because I believe that the link should be correct and the information should be correct. However I did not want to move it without speaking to you or edit over what you had done. Will you mind my correcting these? --Khaldei 21:31, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image tags

Thanks for uploading Image:Ladder paradox contraction.png, Image:Ladder paradox garage irf1.png, Image:Ladder paradox garage irf2.png, Image:Ladder paradox ladder irf1.png and Image:Ladder paradox ladder irf2.png. I notice they currently don't have image copyright tags. Could you add one to let us know their copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got (or made) the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, grendel|khan 05:07, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)

[edit] Doctor Who Restoration Team

Are you doing anything with this? Right now it's just a link and it's been tagged for speedy deletion. If you are, put up the {{inuse}} tag and work it up to at least stub level. --khaosworks 02:45, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:TheDoctorMoniteredByCybermen.jpg

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It's a duplicate of Image:TheDoctorMonitoredByCybermen.jpg --Tim Pope 12:57, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ladder paradox

Thanks for your contributions at Ladder paradox and especially the illustrations. I've just uploaded Image:Ladder paradox garage irf2.png and Image:Ladder paradox ladder irf2.png to commons:. Without any text in the pictures themselves, they are ideal candidates for use in several Wikipedias. --Pjacobi 19:48, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Page Redesign

I, Mollsmolyneux, have redesigned the List of incomplete Doctor Who serials page. To view it please Click Here. Please leave any comments you have about the page on My Talk Page and tell me if you think I should put the page on. -- Mollsmolyneux 12:51, 12 Nov 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Image Tagging Image:HyperbolicMotion.PNG

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[edit] Rindler coordinates

Hi, Don, I have completely rewritten this from scratch with completely new figures. I still think the second figure in the old version is wrong and the first one is misleading; similarly for the text. I did keep an archive of the previous version (see the talk page), but I hope you agree that the new version is much better. ---CH 04:56, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] King Arthur project collaboration

The King Arthur Project has begun a collaboration to bring its main article, King Arthur, to WP:FA status. If you wish to contribute, please review the to-do list on its talk page. Let's make this article an FA! Wrad 03:30, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] One of the thoughts on your user page

Hello DonQuixote. I came across your user page because of your post to the Doctor Who wikiproject talk page about the editing of shows for commercials and you are so right. Great huge chunks of what I enjoyed on first viewing of many US shows are gone in repeats. Thank goodness for DVD's restoring these scenes. But the main reason that I had to leave a note is your comment on the mundane boxes leading one to the world of the fantastic that you posted on your page. I would add one more (though it doesn't quite fit in to your original thought). The monolith from 2001 also leads a more primitive human mind into new realms. My favorite piece of fancruftiness is to point out that the knowledge that comes from the monolith teaches primitive man how to kill and the knowledge from those in the TARDIS (a few weeks or years later) restores their ability to make fire. The fact that Stanley was living and working in England when "An Unearthly Child" and the next three episodes aired has always made me wonder if he might have seen them and had even the slightest scintella of a memory of them when he came to create the "Dawn of Man" sequence for his film (utter rot to most but a fun thought for me). My apologies for taking up your time and many thanks for the ideas expressed on your user page :-) Cheers and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 04:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quotes

Hey, I love the quotes on your userpage, but who are they from? Just curious. Great job so far, happy editing! - ђαίгснгм таιќ 04:59, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh!!! They sounded professional. Like real ones by some famous writer that everyone reads about in English class. Well, good job with your quotes. - ђαίгснгм таιќ 05:26, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Wenham Lake Ice Company

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[edit] Doctor Who Poll

Quick, hurry over to the "Time Crash" discussion page and register your vote for "The Doctor!!"

Blaine Blaine Coughlan (talk) 10:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ageism and sexism

Regarding your accusations on Talk:Donna_Noble#Age, I'd just like to let you know that I am personally offended by your accusations. Ageism and sexism? For starters, as another editor has pointed out, no reference was made to gender - that rules out sexism. As for ageism, to note that one person is older than another is simply not demonstrating prejudice. It was hardly as if I wrote 'Catherine Tate was older than David Tennant and this is wrong because older actors should be retired away to a retirement home.' So, no, my statements did not smack of ageism or sexism. No bias was shown. Removal on grounds of trivia is fine. To be accused of ageism and sexism is plain wrong. Wolf of Fenric (talk) 21:37, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

No, I'm sorry you're wrong. The simple fact is that stating one actor is older than another is not an act of ageism. No part of my statements were ageist. To talk about age is not ageism. To discriminate against someone because of their age, to show prejudice against someone because of their age or to express hatred towards someone because of the age is ageist. I did none of these. And where on Earth do you get the sexism idea from? My statements referred to men and women and were not making any disparaging remarks about either gender. It is not a question of whether I intended to or not - I simply did not directly or through implication demonstrate either ageism or sexism. I was merely attempting to note, (though the point has fairly been dismissed on grounds of trivia), that it is not common for the actor playing the companion to be older than the actor playing the Doctor as the Doctor tends to act as a guiding, father or grandfather figure. Other editors have agreed that your accusations are misplaced. I find it offensive that you persist in attempting to smear my reputation by levelling these misplaced accusations at me. Wolf of Fenric (talk) 02:19, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm afraid that is where you are wrong and are demonstrating sexism yourself. I would have added my comments regarding the respective ages of the actors concerned irrespective of whether the Doctor was played by a man or a woman. Your stance seems to be that Catherine Tate would be offended by someone merely stating she is older than David Tennant. This information is already available on Wikipedia with their dates of births and can be found elsewhere on the Internet, such as on the Internet Movie Database. I did not specify how much older she was merely that she was older, as I did with Gerald Flood, John Barrowman and Kylie Minogue - note the first two are males... - nor did I suggest in any way this was somehow wrong. By your argument, why can't males be offended by a simple age comparison? It's sexist to assume that just women would be offended by such a remark - but as I have tried to explain a mere mentioning that one person is older than another is not grounds for offence. The statements on the Donna Noble/Catherine Tate, Kamelion/Gerald Flood, Jack Harkness/John Barrowman and Astrid Peth/Kylie Minogue pages were removed on grounds that the information I added was trivial in its nature, not that it was demonstrating prejudice. I was merely pointing out the rareity of the sidekick actor being older than the protaganist actor in Doctor Who. I have nothing wrong with this and my statements did not suggest in any way this was wrong. Wolf of Fenric (talk) 15:49, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
The statements were made irrespective of Tate's gender. I may well have originally added the statements after the announcement of Donna as a full-time companion, (I can't remember if that was what prompted me to back in July), but the fact that I ammended my statements to include Gerald Flood upon realisation that he was older than Peter Davison surely would indicate to you that these statements were not driven by any sexist motivation, rather merely because I happened to realise that it was unusual in the history of Doctor Who for the companion to be played by an actor older than the Doctor. That I happened to notice this first with Catherine Tate is not because she is a woman but because I am more familiar with Catherine Tate owing to her fame and not Gerald Flood, a voice-actor who I doubt I have seen a photo of. That I bothered to check all the ages of the companion actors prior to and after Tate should also indicate to you that there was no gender bias in my statements, simply observed fact comparing ages already in the public domain, (I got their dates of birth from Wikipedia and IMDB). Please stop trying to make out that I am ageist and sexist. I am not. Wolf of Fenric (talk) 22:11, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
There are no grounds for people to find this sexist. I wrote the same for men and women alike. Wolf of Fenric (talk) 00:34, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
In the 21st century when men and women are regarded as equal in sensible society in Britain, to make a fuss over my pointing out that a female actor is older than a male actor but to say nothing in defence of the male actors I also noted as being older than a male actor is sexist as you are only leaping to the defence of women and not men. I think you are being ultra-sensitive about this. I cannot imagine anyone being offended by these statements. Considering the statements have been removed not on the grounds that you have issues with them but rather on the grounds that they are trivial, this is a futile argument and I see no point in continuing it further. We clearly will not agree on this issue and to continue sending messages back and forth will be a waste of time for both of us. Wolf of Fenric (talk) 01:17, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair Use

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[edit] Wikisource

Hi, due to an anon user fixing a problem with Supernatural Horror in Literature, I noticed that nobody welcomed you or thanked you for your efforts on Wikisource, so... thank you for your ~400 contributions!

I have made some minor formatting changes to s:Dagon, s:The Tomb and s:Polaris. Feel free to selectively undo parts you don't like. We have started rebuilding periodicals in which these important works first appeared; see s:Littell's Living Age and s:Century Magazine. John Vandenberg (talk) 01:07, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


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[edit] From Out of the Rain

Please note the entire discussion on the talk page. There's a pretty strong consensus about where the article should sit. In the episode itself, "Out of the Rain" is described in the manner of a place. Neıl ☎ 09:11, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Doctor Who newsletter, March 2008

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