User talk:Turnipface

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[edit] Man's best friend

Well, you presume a lot when you try to anticipate that this article may be created and called "Man's Best Friend (1989 album)". When different albums have the same name, I find the articles are usually parenthesized with the artist's name more often than the year. Your redlink is unlikely to ever be an article, but bluelinking it to Wild Dogs is actually useful. Though the act themselves are also linked, and I see from your history that reverts are your favorite edit, so... whatever makes you happy. -- AvatarMN 10:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Earth like planet?

I read this about 55 Cancri f in the Daily Mail and wondered if this is new info. As i'm not really into science maybe you could field this! I've seen on the edit history that you are the only person to of added to the article See this article for me to see if i'm right, thanks! And please get back to me. From Pafcool2 20:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

You'd be better off asking Anarchist42. He authored the article;[1] I just rated it. --Turnipface 20:30, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah! Sorry I was looking at another history page with your name on it, must of got them mixed up. My mistake! Pafcool2 20:35, 7 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] phantom

Looks just fine to me, nice job! Minnesota1 08:44, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trainunion

Were you he? --Turnipface 22:52, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

If you're asking if I'm User:Trainunion, the answer is no. I've had only one Sockpuppet in the years that I've interacted with Wikipedia, and that account was merely for the purpose of explicitly associating my real-world name with a handful of edits (as was noted on its user-page), as I wanted any conflict of interest that I might carry along with me in editing articles related to my industry to be clear and up-front. My recent edits to many of the articles edited by User:Gavin.Collins have been an attempt to clean up what I consider the wholesale misuse of administrative templates. In many cases, those templates are correct, and I leave them alone. In many cases, they are not, and appear to be added mechanically as a sort of wrote action. -Harmil 23:00, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dragon as a secondary source

This is something that I've been discussing in a number of places recently. Dragon does *not* always constitute a secondary source. However, when you look at the articles they range from clearly secondary sources: those that evaluate the state of the industry, the history of various fictional elements and games, etc. (the core beliefs series comes to mind); to the clearly primary sources: those that are original game mechanics or fiction. When you have a single magazine that has acted as the center of the genre for 35 years, it's hard to nail down exactly what it is. Certainly it has been a primary source, but I'm trying to note those places where it has been reference as a secondary source. One great example that comes to mind is The Shadow Over D&D which I used as a secondary source in Lovecraftian horror, and was entirely a survey of the history of Lovecraftian elements and direct inclusion in D&D.

PS: When you have such concerns, please come right out and question me on them. Please don't assume I'm a sockpuppet because you disagree with me. -Harmil 23:16, 10 November 2007 (UTC)