I wrote a trifle on "The Ruined Maid". Perhaps the text should be on wikisource? I'm really not one for analyses, so I probably have no business writing articles on poems, stories, and novels. If you can add anything, please do. I had always thought that Amelia was a "kept woman", so the prostitute detail was a surprise. Reading criticism kills the literary "magic" a bit for me, so I think I'm going to stick to bios in the future. INeverCry 03:48, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Поздравляю!!! INeverCry 08:04, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
What a great barnstar! That'll help me keep up my average of one a year. ;) All we need now is more dross. I usually try to turn mine into gold on ebay, but I end up with tin and copper most of the time.
INeverCry
20:28, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I've done a BIG expansion of George Crabbe. I still need to add some back-up refs and maybe a few more bio details, but the bio is just about complete. The criticism section is almost non-existent so I'll have to put something together. The naturalism and entomology section needs refs and maybe a small expansion, with more details about this area of his life. With your help and some time, perhaps this could be our next GA project? Take a look. The later life section contains an anecdote about Sir Walter Scott and King George IV's wine glass that I first read years ago in an Oxford volume of literary anecdotes. Also, there's mention of a town named Clifton at the end of the later life section, but I'll need your help for finding which Clifton this is. INeverCry 23:53, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm the one who should be apologizing (which I do), as it was quite an over-reaction. This is a nasty habit all too common among middle-aged Americans. ;) As for our reviewer, he's nothing compared to the Featured List fiasco I had to suffer through after nominating
List of Russian explorers; we worked on one reviewer's suggestions for over a month, an then, within the space of a day or two, the other reviewer came up with a bunch of new problems and failed the nomination. As you hinted, GA reviewers almost seem to be required to find faults as a prerequisite. I did my one and only review (
Flixton, Greater Manchester) in one day though! Also, as I mentioned, pending changes may be brought back to en.wiki soon. I don't think
voting against it will do a whole lot, though, as the "aye" votes have a huge lead. I have pending changes on ru.wiki, and probably de.wiki that have been "pending" for a year or more! (All I do is add pictures and interwiki). You and I should have no trouble getting reviewer/autoreviewer status; I just hope it doesn't chase away my old pal and collaborator Volodya. It's strange that with all the backlogs here, they don't seem to think pc will cause the same problems. Anyways, the Maid isn't looking quite as Ruined as she did originally. I'm thinking about doing a another trifle on Hardy's "The Respectable Burgher", though a bit better formed. I also ordered a copy of the 1970 Cambridge University collection of Crabbe's poetry, which should help with criticism for the article. Пока! Иметь хороший день!
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19:39, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
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Here's that other trifle I mentioned doing earlier. I included the text in this one because I don't think a synopsis could really do it justice. INeverCry 20:25, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Great new article! No surprise, of course. I hope you don't mind my adding what I thought was an apt illustration. Replace it at your peril - I mean your pleasure. ;) I've just started Waverly so I'll be off reading for the most part for some days to come. The first 5 chapters were a pleasant surprise, seeing that I was expecting something slow. I found it anything but. I ended up reading through chapter III on Edward's education several times, and adding some of it to my notebook. A modern diagnosis of Edward's mental habits might point toward a.d.d., (which is nothing bad really, as many high intelligence people have it - absent minded professors and such). INeverCry 05:01, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
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Here are a couple of things I was messing with, seeing that you don't use a sig and all. They're ready for use - all you'd have to do is copy and paste them into your signature box in preferences and check the box that says "treat the above as wiki-markup".
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20:06, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
As for WH being in Leicestershire, I would've thought the Worcester battle reference would have placed it rather in the West Midlands, though Charles might have gone a bit further knowing he'd be chased. Atleast we can be pretty well certain that WH is somewhere in the Midlands. I'm meeting the Bradwardines at the moment, btw. INeverCry 23:51, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Another excellent half-decent ;) article. What do you think of the illustration/caption I added?
INeverCry
18:35, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
The list of Russian-language Poets is the only one of the lists I showed you that I really feel proud of. If I didn't have to worry about copyright, I could've doubled what's on there. As it is, the samples are really high-quality, both as poems and as translations (mostly). The List of Novelists is problematic: notability of works always has a tendency toward subjectivity, and the "illustration" columns are almost entirely superfluous, as true illustrations of actual works are few and far between. I ended up filling these slots with just about anything.
As for Russian lit, if you only read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, you'd be discovering a whole world of literary "blessings". Chekhov's letters are wonderful, just like his stories. Dostoyevsky's letters are interesting as well. As for Lev Trotsky, I can't help but wonder what would've happened if he had become Secretary of the CPSU rather than Stalin. You might also be interested in the writings of Maxim Gorky, fiction, memoirs, diaries, etc.
As for me I have vague notions of expanding Crabbe's critical section and taking him to GAN, or of consulting one of the big players on here about GA chances for Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. I expanded the lead. We'll see. INeverCry 22:50, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
I've nominated my George Crabbe for GA. Wish me luck. INeverCry 20:55, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
I found a title page for the article. I'll have to take a closer look at it in a bit. INeverCry 20:44, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Take a look at the List of years in literature and the List of years in poetry. The early years are ripe for editing. I love lists... INeverCry 21:12, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
I found this user after looking at the Middle Ages article. Have a quick scroll down her user page. She has 50 FAs, 80 GAs, 100 DYKs, 160 GA reviews, etc, etc... This made me feel both immensely impressed and alot like one of these little fellows. ;) INeverCry 23:33, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Here's something I thought was pretty cool:
User talk:Courcelles#Yummy WikiLove and best wishes. Also, I hope you like the 1696 title page I added to your
Essays, as it was about the earliest thing I could find. I get to go to the doctor tomorrow; hopefully I'll get better pills than the ones that mother gives me. ;)
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02:37, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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The Courcelles tp got archived quick, so here's the animation I was talking about; It's really the called the Pesky express, but I diverted it for a sec. ;) It made me feel a bit better to see it, maybe it'll do the same for you. I hope to hear from you soon. INeverCry 03:09, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm glad you liked the animation, and to hear from you. What did you think of the personalized "Thomas Moore literary award", now featured at the top of my user page?
I went through the Essays and fixed up and seperated all the refs. All the archive.org stuff comes from universities, who often have stamped their library stamps right on old 1st ed title pages (I've spent many hours repairing the images for upload). These universities, especially Oxford's Bodlian, have some beautiful old stuff. INeverCry 20:26, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
I wrote a trifle on "The Ruined Maid". Perhaps the text should be on wikisource? I'm really not one for analyses, so I probably have no business writing articles on poems, stories, and novels. If you can add anything, please do. I had always thought that Amelia was a "kept woman", so the prostitute detail was a surprise. Reading criticism kills the literary "magic" a bit for me, so I think I'm going to stick to bios in the future. INeverCry 03:48, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Поздравляю!!! INeverCry 08:04, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
What a great barnstar! That'll help me keep up my average of one a year. ;) All we need now is more dross. I usually try to turn mine into gold on ebay, but I end up with tin and copper most of the time.
INeverCry
20:28, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I've done a BIG expansion of George Crabbe. I still need to add some back-up refs and maybe a few more bio details, but the bio is just about complete. The criticism section is almost non-existent so I'll have to put something together. The naturalism and entomology section needs refs and maybe a small expansion, with more details about this area of his life. With your help and some time, perhaps this could be our next GA project? Take a look. The later life section contains an anecdote about Sir Walter Scott and King George IV's wine glass that I first read years ago in an Oxford volume of literary anecdotes. Also, there's mention of a town named Clifton at the end of the later life section, but I'll need your help for finding which Clifton this is. INeverCry 23:53, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm the one who should be apologizing (which I do), as it was quite an over-reaction. This is a nasty habit all too common among middle-aged Americans. ;) As for our reviewer, he's nothing compared to the Featured List fiasco I had to suffer through after nominating
List of Russian explorers; we worked on one reviewer's suggestions for over a month, an then, within the space of a day or two, the other reviewer came up with a bunch of new problems and failed the nomination. As you hinted, GA reviewers almost seem to be required to find faults as a prerequisite. I did my one and only review (
Flixton, Greater Manchester) in one day though! Also, as I mentioned, pending changes may be brought back to en.wiki soon. I don't think
voting against it will do a whole lot, though, as the "aye" votes have a huge lead. I have pending changes on ru.wiki, and probably de.wiki that have been "pending" for a year or more! (All I do is add pictures and interwiki). You and I should have no trouble getting reviewer/autoreviewer status; I just hope it doesn't chase away my old pal and collaborator Volodya. It's strange that with all the backlogs here, they don't seem to think pc will cause the same problems. Anyways, the Maid isn't looking quite as Ruined as she did originally. I'm thinking about doing a another trifle on Hardy's "The Respectable Burgher", though a bit better formed. I also ordered a copy of the 1970 Cambridge University collection of Crabbe's poetry, which should help with criticism for the article. Пока! Иметь хороший день!
INeverCry
19:39, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
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Here's that other trifle I mentioned doing earlier. I included the text in this one because I don't think a synopsis could really do it justice. INeverCry 20:25, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Great new article! No surprise, of course. I hope you don't mind my adding what I thought was an apt illustration. Replace it at your peril - I mean your pleasure. ;) I've just started Waverly so I'll be off reading for the most part for some days to come. The first 5 chapters were a pleasant surprise, seeing that I was expecting something slow. I found it anything but. I ended up reading through chapter III on Edward's education several times, and adding some of it to my notebook. A modern diagnosis of Edward's mental habits might point toward a.d.d., (which is nothing bad really, as many high intelligence people have it - absent minded professors and such). INeverCry 05:01, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Antiquary - [[User talk:Antiquary|<font face="Copperplate Gothic Bold" color="black">Antiquary</font>]]
Antiquary - [[User talk:Antiquary|<font face="Mistral" color="black"><big>Antiquary</big></font>]]
Here are a couple of things I was messing with, seeing that you don't use a sig and all. They're ready for use - all you'd have to do is copy and paste them into your signature box in preferences and check the box that says "treat the above as wiki-markup".
INeverCry
20:06, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
As for WH being in Leicestershire, I would've thought the Worcester battle reference would have placed it rather in the West Midlands, though Charles might have gone a bit further knowing he'd be chased. Atleast we can be pretty well certain that WH is somewhere in the Midlands. I'm meeting the Bradwardines at the moment, btw. INeverCry 23:51, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Another excellent half-decent ;) article. What do you think of the illustration/caption I added?
INeverCry
18:35, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
The list of Russian-language Poets is the only one of the lists I showed you that I really feel proud of. If I didn't have to worry about copyright, I could've doubled what's on there. As it is, the samples are really high-quality, both as poems and as translations (mostly). The List of Novelists is problematic: notability of works always has a tendency toward subjectivity, and the "illustration" columns are almost entirely superfluous, as true illustrations of actual works are few and far between. I ended up filling these slots with just about anything.
As for Russian lit, if you only read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, you'd be discovering a whole world of literary "blessings". Chekhov's letters are wonderful, just like his stories. Dostoyevsky's letters are interesting as well. As for Lev Trotsky, I can't help but wonder what would've happened if he had become Secretary of the CPSU rather than Stalin. You might also be interested in the writings of Maxim Gorky, fiction, memoirs, diaries, etc.
As for me I have vague notions of expanding Crabbe's critical section and taking him to GAN, or of consulting one of the big players on here about GA chances for Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. I expanded the lead. We'll see. INeverCry 22:50, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
I've nominated my George Crabbe for GA. Wish me luck. INeverCry 20:55, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
I found a title page for the article. I'll have to take a closer look at it in a bit. INeverCry 20:44, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Take a look at the List of years in literature and the List of years in poetry. The early years are ripe for editing. I love lists... INeverCry 21:12, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
I found this user after looking at the Middle Ages article. Have a quick scroll down her user page. She has 50 FAs, 80 GAs, 100 DYKs, 160 GA reviews, etc, etc... This made me feel both immensely impressed and alot like one of these little fellows. ;) INeverCry 23:33, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Here's something I thought was pretty cool:
User talk:Courcelles#Yummy WikiLove and best wishes. Also, I hope you like the 1696 title page I added to your
Essays, as it was about the earliest thing I could find. I get to go to the doctor tomorrow; hopefully I'll get better pills than the ones that mother gives me. ;)
INeverCry
02:37, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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The Courcelles tp got archived quick, so here's the animation I was talking about; It's really the called the Pesky express, but I diverted it for a sec. ;) It made me feel a bit better to see it, maybe it'll do the same for you. I hope to hear from you soon. INeverCry 03:09, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm glad you liked the animation, and to hear from you. What did you think of the personalized "Thomas Moore literary award", now featured at the top of my user page?
I went through the Essays and fixed up and seperated all the refs. All the archive.org stuff comes from universities, who often have stamped their library stamps right on old 1st ed title pages (I've spent many hours repairing the images for upload). These universities, especially Oxford's Bodlian, have some beautiful old stuff. INeverCry 20:26, 13 May 2012 (UTC)