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[edit] WikiProject Shakespeare

Hey! Just noticed your recent work on the Bard and wanted to invite you to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Shakespeare. Just add your name to the member's list. Basically what we do is try to improve any and all articles having to do with Shakespeare. Wrad 04:38, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Shakespeare project collaboration

The Shakespeare Project has begun a collaboration to bring its main article, William Shakespeare, to 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 15:28, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Shakespeare Collaboration

The Shakespeare Wikiproject is starting another collaboration to bring Romeo and Juliet to GA status. Our last collaboration on William Shakespeare is still in progress, but in the copyedit stage. If you have strong copyedit skills, you may wish to continue the work on that article. Members with skills in other areas are now moving on. Improving Romeo and Juliet article will set a standard for all other Shakespeare plays, so we look forward to seeing everyone there. Thanks for all your help with the project. Wrad 20:43, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth

Hi Ojevind. I noticed your edits to some of the Tolkien articles. Have you come across Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth yet? It's an attempt to organise Tolkien and Middle-earth related content on Wikipedia. It goes through varying levels of activity. If you want more background, have a look through the talk page archives and see what you think. There is also a welcome template around somewhere with standard link to look at, of that might help - not sure how much experience you have of Wikipedia. I'll pop that standard welcome message below. Carcharoth 22:40, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Ojevindlang, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome!

I'd forgotten how impersonal templates like that can be, so I'm going to add a personal note. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them, though from the look of your contributions so far, you are doing fine. Carcharoth 22:43, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! :) I seem to have messed up something now, though; I'll try to restore it.

Oops! I referred to something I goofed up with in the article about Creatures in Narnia (now amended). I'll go read the talk page archives now.

[edit] Question

Hi, glad to see another project member, Just a question:

Edith Tolkien says this:

By 1908 Edith, a talented pianist had become an orphan. She first met Tolkien in that year, when he and his younger brother Hilary Arthur Reuel Tolkien were moved into the same boarding house.

Does this mean the future couple shared the same boarding house? I think it does. (I don't have a personal copy of any of Tolkien's biographies, so just correct me if I'm wrong.) If Tolkien and his brother lived together but separate from Edith, mentioning the brothers' living arrangements at all would be superflous to the article. I'm expanding Tolkien family by condensing some info from the individual pages. More input on Tolkien's mother would also be welcome. (Ironically it's his father who gets a whole article, when he probably influenced him very little.) Uthanc 14:45, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi! :) Yes, they shared the same boarding house. If I recall correctly, Edith lived in the room above Tolkien's. I can look it up for you if you need more details.

[edit] Shakespeare project - New collaboration debate

The Shakespeare project's first collaboration has ended in success, with William Shakespeare reaching FA status! Congrats to all who chipped in! We also had success in our second collaboration Romeo and Juliet, which is now a GA. Our next step is deciding which article to collaborate on next. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Shakespeare#Next Collaboration to help us choose. Thanks. Wrad 04:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hamlet

The Shakespeare Project's new collaboration is now to bring Hamlet to GA status. Wrad 00:35, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Roy Campbell

Who called Jacob Epstein "greasy"? He or J. R. R. Tolkien? It's not clear. Uthanc (talk) 03:16, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

In the letter (Nr 83), Tolkien writes "greasy Epstein", so *he* did at least. Ojevindlang (talk)

Is that an ethnic slur, or an individual assessment? Probably the latter, as evidenced by his other comments elsewhere. Uthanc (talk) 09:54, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Of course, I can't say for certain which it is, but the words "greasy" and "Jew" do tend to turn up together in anti-Semitic parlance... Ojevindlang (talk)

[edit] Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Since you're posting a large list of possible inaccuracies, it would be prudent to list your references for such criticism. Otherwise, people (including myself) will view your edits as original work and thus subject to removal. Dyl (talk) 05:03, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Every "claim" I make is easily ascertainable fact. Consult any standard work of reference. Furthermore, I take it you noticed that my criticism of Weatherford's account of William of Ruysbroek's travel narrative is based on the fact that Weatherford's account is not supported by the narrative in question - which I have read. It's on my bookshelf right now. Ojevindlang (talk) 13:43, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

OK - I'll list references, though it feels a bit like finding support for the claim that 2 + 2 equal four. Ojevindlang (talk) 13:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)