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Hello Brent,

On List of science fiction conventions you asked,

It would be perfect if it were a table with colums you could sort by, name, city, state, month. Can that be done? --Tbmorgan74 14:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I did not think such could be supported, but I found partial support; see How_to_sort_tables. However, not all information is suitable for a table; see When_tables_are_inappropriate.

In addition, all lists of SciFi convenations seem to get dated rather quickly. However, for the Southern U.S., this seems well maintained.

Wendell 12:44, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


I thought that was you when I saw your name come up somewhere. But I wasnt sure until I read your reference to GO and THAAD! I will go browse your contributions.

See you around!

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[edit] Discworld reading order

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[edit] Merger of comic book conventions with science fiction conventions

Why did you do this when the consensus in the discussion was against it? --Orange Mike 21:23, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Here's my proposed new lead paragraph for what was formerly List of science fiction conventions:

"This is a haphazard list of media fandom-bilking expositions, anime conventions, comic book shows, furry gatherings, a few science fiction conventions, and everything else remotely connected with imagination or "sci-fi" (but not necessarily with actual science fiction). Please be aware that many of these events (particularly those called "shows" or "expositions") are run for-profit for the benefit of the persons or corporation putting them together, and may have nothing to do with actual science fiction or science fiction fandom. You might as well go ahead and add more "conventions" as you find them; no quality control or evaluation has been exercised in compiling this list, since Wikipedia is an indiscriminate compilation of lists."

Obviously, too, you will need to pick a new name for the article, since the old name is false now. --Orange Mike 21:47, 26 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the infobox on MOBICON, That will really jump start efforts to get the page more wikified Defraggler 05:33, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] For your work on list of science fiction conventions

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for your thankless work on improving and clarifying the mess which is the list of science fiction conventions Orange Mike 19:21, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Honorverse

You seem to be the only major contributor of the series, so I'm hoping you can help me out. Fictional topics need real world information, such as development and reception notes from creators, writers, critics, fans and others based upon reliable sources in order to be a separate topic. Ones that don't have this information belong on lists or in the main article of the series. I have to imagine that out of all of those topics like characters, ships, and the other things on the template, some can achieve that information. But, any that cannot really need to be merged and/or redirected.

I imagine that you may not like the idea of that, but it goes with WP:V, WP:NOT (two policies of this site), WP:N, WP:RS (two of the more important guidelines), WP:FICT, and WP:WAF (two guidelines that directly relate to fiction). If you agree that merging and redirecting is a fine method, I would like to sort out which ones can possibly stay. If you disagree, please read over the above links, and I will try to explain why this is the best method. TTN 21:51, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

As a contributor to many HH articles, I do agree with TTN that we have too many articles. Quite a few can be merged into existing lists, and we need a 'list of concepts' (List of Honorverse terminology?) for stuff like Neue-Stil Handgemenge (wow, I thought I was a major geek of HH but haven't recalled this... and I doubt more then few dozen people alive do :>). -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  22:05, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Agreed that the Honorverse was in a poor state previously. I have created the world of honorverse portal. I simply tried to document the articles that existed to know where we stand. The template matches the current articles as they exist now, and it reflects the poor organization. Improvements to the organization should be done, and then the template can be made to match the then existing organization. I am not in favor of wholesale deletion or redirections. Aggressive editors cherry pick those WP policies and cite them to their benefit, and to the detriment of others. (Not that you have done so TTN. That would look like "Article deleted per WP: Blah Blah) Don't be hasty. These articles have sat idle for 2 or more years without controversy. They need improvements, not deletions. I try to anticipate the needs of the audience. The general audience needs thoughtful well cited articles about the books them selves. Self selected fans of the material may want more indepth summaries of the cannon that spans 14 novels. Give both of them what they want while isolating them from each other by controlling the proliferation of links. Differentiate the in-universe data from the real world data. Cite real world data. In-universe data can be cited from the canonical novels, or not, they can just exist. In the same way that each and every pokeman species is throughly documented, but not exactly well cited outside of the creators published works. This is a fictional world, have fun with it. --Tbmorgan74 22:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Lets move this conversation to the talkpage for honoverse Talk:Honorverse--Tbmorgan74 23:10, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] FYI Honorverse

FYI, someone's been prodding a bunch of Honorverse articles.

[edit] Lille Comics Festival

Great thanks for the add (list of science fiction conventions).  :-) Dorajor.

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