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Some tea for you... |
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...and a little something to go with it. |
INeverCry 03:29, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Good to hear from you. I only take pain pills or muscle-relaxers rarely, and I don't care much for pills that alter the mind either. Lifestyle changes would do me good as well. The Tom Moore gif is amusing. I hope to be able to do that and more sooner or later. It's just a matter of studying Gimp and practicing. The Bodlian stamps their books right on the title page, something I don't like about most libraries. Why not just stamp the end papers, the half tps... Of course the lazy and careless librarians usually stamp right over text too... (just a personal gripe). I'm sure your new article will be impressive. You've put together a damned good bunch as it is, especially Sigurd, the feather in your cap. I sometimes sort and tag "newly created articles", and the general quality can basically be labeled as "shite", so even stubs from you will rise far above most. (I'm not sure that sounds like quite the compliment I meant it to be). ;) INeverCry 04:30, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
I would suggest using Beves of Hamtoun (poem) or such like, and afterwards adding {{For|the Middle English romance|Beves of Hamtoun (poem)}} to the Bevis of Hampton page. This way the redirect would basically point to both articles. INeverCry 20:30, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
It's too bad you're not a neighbor of mine - I could've brought you atleast a hundred or so imperfect volumes over the past 10 or 15 years that I ended up ripping apart in anger and throwing in the trash or donating to one of our local libraries or charities.
As for the "going big", my current projects are cleanups of Nikolai Uspensky and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, and a possible continuance of expanding Ivan Goncharov. Konstantin Balmont and a few others are waiting down the road. There are two other big articles that my Russian friend did a couple years ago, Zinaida Gippius and Dmitry Merezhkovsky, which I can't bring myself to work on, as the pair were evangelicals, and I don't have the patience for religious things anymore. INeverCry 20:45, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Wow. I've done a few minor copy-edits. I see a few refs that I'll need to convert to cite temps, and some more copy-edits are probably needed, but overall the article looks to be ready for a GAN. Rest up for that! I might look into a hook for a dyk too.
INeverCry
22:46, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
It was good to hear from you, and to see that your still able to do some writing. Personally, I've had enough of wikipedia. Take care. INeverCry 19:22, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
That was a nice surprise! You're also helping me to put off my ebay listings, which I'm always glad to have an excuse for. I was supposed to do them Friday... Your articles are way too good to be defaced by stub tags, for future reference. :) That was an article I thought me or Ammodramus would end up doing. Ammo is the guy who was responsible for my other successfully nominated GA for The Vicar of Bullhampton. I'm thinking of doing one for La Vendee in the distant future, if you or someone else doesn't beat me to it. Unless you're going to put up another article in the next few minutes, though, I guess I'll have to get to work on my listings. Work is the worst of 4-letter words to me, btw. INeverCry 21:42, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 21 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article George Ellis (poet), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that poet George Ellis accompanied England's Earl of Malmesbury to France in 1796 as a member of the peace negotiations? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/George Ellis (poet). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
![]() | This user enjoys the works of Sir Walter Scott |
It's nice to have a fellow book-lover for those pdfs. You may very well wake up to more of them in the near future. ;)
I switched out the pic in the Scott UB. Your comment about it being more accessible is very helpful, as I was thinking the same thing about the Bronte, Eliot, and Dickens UBs being a bit hard on the eyes. I think I may do more, for Gaskell, Collins, Trollope, Hardy, Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Burns, and Keats. Some Russian ones may be in order as well, atleast for Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev. I'll have to make some reader categories to go with them at some point.
You're right about Waverly. I stopped it a little past half-way. I loved the writing, the story, characters, etc, but I just don't have the needed knowledge of Scottish history yet. I kept looking up details about the Jacobites, the Old Pretender, etc, and it took away from my enjoyment. So I decided it would be better to study Scottish history a bit, and then return to Scott prepared. INeverCry 18:03, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
I've uploaded the 2008 book cover to use in both articles. This is the first I've ever heard of either work, so the Scotts and Lockharts certainly kept their secrets well. The price is ridiculous, which is pretty common for the EU press editions. These are for schools and scholars... and richies. ;) Perhaps, at some point, you could become the first to write a wp article on one of his plays. INever Cry 18:39, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Always nice to see a new Antiquarian offering. I added the 1st ed title page (of course), and cleaned up the refs to snazzy sfn style. Another editor added a great painting by Delaquaw. ;) Btw, I took down my illness tag here and replaced it with a pano of what my neck of the woods looks like (at the very start of wonderful Spring!!). I don't feel great or anything, I just got sick and tired of the sick and tired tag. ;) We're up around the high 90s (F) at the moment. :( If it were up to me, we'd have six months of spring, 3 months of Fall, and 3 months of Winter. INever Cry 20:03, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
I forgot to show you this little rework I did the other day. This is an author I've been interested in for a while, but I just picked up a copy of the new Oxford edition of A Child of the Jago. INever Cry 00:30, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I've responded on my talkpage.
INever
Cry
23:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
It took me a whole day to notice this one; I must be slipping. I hope you don't mind the headers I added. I also found a facsimile pic of the first page of the original manuscript. INever Cry 20:19, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Have a look: Commons:Administrators/Requests. We'll see how it goes. Wish me luck. ;) INever Cry 02:05, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
I don't know if you use the
popups gadget, but it's given me a bit of a laugh. When I scroll over your username the little wappen owl
shows up as your icon, but when I scroll over my own username my icon is the
symbol. My first thought was "how fitting".
INever
Cry
03:36, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
My first in quite a while: Mark Kharitonov; I've nominated him for DYK as well. I also decided to go for GA with George Crabbe once and for all, after creating seperate poetry and criticism sections. INever Cry 22:16, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind my little fixes to your userbox display. I spent a few hours adjusting mine today, and since I use the same tables as you, I though I'd make sure everything was even for you too. I'm obsessive-compulsive - I'm not as extreme as this guy, but I do arrange everything I own with mathematical precision. Let me know if you'd rather I kept my grubby paws off of your userpage. ;) I had to get rid of all the animations I had in my tables here and on Commons. They were just to busy, and were starting to bother me. My eyes are a bit bleary now... INever Cry 04:12, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
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The WikiHaggis | |
I hereby award you the
WikiHaggis! This means you are slightly nutty, sorta spicy, and maybe resemble stuffed pig
intestines.
I thought it was sheep guts, but who cares. ;) INever Cry 19:52, 8 September 2012 (UTC) Pass this WikiHaggis on by putting {{subst:WikiHaggis}} on someones talk page! |
Take a look at this little "award", on the bottom of my Commons talk:
here. I got a good laugh out of it, and I think I'll keep it, and maybe even display it. ;)
INever
Cry
18:32, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Here's a little something from a rusty old pen: A Dark Night's Work. The themes/criticism section is a bit sparse. I know and feel these things, but putting them into words has always been a bit distasteful to me. I often disagree with the critics too, making it even more difficult to write these novel articles. INeverCry 19:44, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
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Some tea for you... |
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...and a little something to go with it. |
INeverCry 03:29, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Good to hear from you. I only take pain pills or muscle-relaxers rarely, and I don't care much for pills that alter the mind either. Lifestyle changes would do me good as well. The Tom Moore gif is amusing. I hope to be able to do that and more sooner or later. It's just a matter of studying Gimp and practicing. The Bodlian stamps their books right on the title page, something I don't like about most libraries. Why not just stamp the end papers, the half tps... Of course the lazy and careless librarians usually stamp right over text too... (just a personal gripe). I'm sure your new article will be impressive. You've put together a damned good bunch as it is, especially Sigurd, the feather in your cap. I sometimes sort and tag "newly created articles", and the general quality can basically be labeled as "shite", so even stubs from you will rise far above most. (I'm not sure that sounds like quite the compliment I meant it to be). ;) INeverCry 04:30, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
I would suggest using Beves of Hamtoun (poem) or such like, and afterwards adding {{For|the Middle English romance|Beves of Hamtoun (poem)}} to the Bevis of Hampton page. This way the redirect would basically point to both articles. INeverCry 20:30, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
It's too bad you're not a neighbor of mine - I could've brought you atleast a hundred or so imperfect volumes over the past 10 or 15 years that I ended up ripping apart in anger and throwing in the trash or donating to one of our local libraries or charities.
As for the "going big", my current projects are cleanups of Nikolai Uspensky and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, and a possible continuance of expanding Ivan Goncharov. Konstantin Balmont and a few others are waiting down the road. There are two other big articles that my Russian friend did a couple years ago, Zinaida Gippius and Dmitry Merezhkovsky, which I can't bring myself to work on, as the pair were evangelicals, and I don't have the patience for religious things anymore. INeverCry 20:45, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Wow. I've done a few minor copy-edits. I see a few refs that I'll need to convert to cite temps, and some more copy-edits are probably needed, but overall the article looks to be ready for a GAN. Rest up for that! I might look into a hook for a dyk too.
INeverCry
22:46, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
It was good to hear from you, and to see that your still able to do some writing. Personally, I've had enough of wikipedia. Take care. INeverCry 19:22, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
That was a nice surprise! You're also helping me to put off my ebay listings, which I'm always glad to have an excuse for. I was supposed to do them Friday... Your articles are way too good to be defaced by stub tags, for future reference. :) That was an article I thought me or Ammodramus would end up doing. Ammo is the guy who was responsible for my other successfully nominated GA for The Vicar of Bullhampton. I'm thinking of doing one for La Vendee in the distant future, if you or someone else doesn't beat me to it. Unless you're going to put up another article in the next few minutes, though, I guess I'll have to get to work on my listings. Work is the worst of 4-letter words to me, btw. INeverCry 21:42, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 21 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article George Ellis (poet), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that poet George Ellis accompanied England's Earl of Malmesbury to France in 1796 as a member of the peace negotiations? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/George Ellis (poet). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
![]() | This user enjoys the works of Sir Walter Scott |
It's nice to have a fellow book-lover for those pdfs. You may very well wake up to more of them in the near future. ;)
I switched out the pic in the Scott UB. Your comment about it being more accessible is very helpful, as I was thinking the same thing about the Bronte, Eliot, and Dickens UBs being a bit hard on the eyes. I think I may do more, for Gaskell, Collins, Trollope, Hardy, Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Burns, and Keats. Some Russian ones may be in order as well, atleast for Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev. I'll have to make some reader categories to go with them at some point.
You're right about Waverly. I stopped it a little past half-way. I loved the writing, the story, characters, etc, but I just don't have the needed knowledge of Scottish history yet. I kept looking up details about the Jacobites, the Old Pretender, etc, and it took away from my enjoyment. So I decided it would be better to study Scottish history a bit, and then return to Scott prepared. INeverCry 18:03, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
I've uploaded the 2008 book cover to use in both articles. This is the first I've ever heard of either work, so the Scotts and Lockharts certainly kept their secrets well. The price is ridiculous, which is pretty common for the EU press editions. These are for schools and scholars... and richies. ;) Perhaps, at some point, you could become the first to write a wp article on one of his plays. INever Cry 18:39, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
Always nice to see a new Antiquarian offering. I added the 1st ed title page (of course), and cleaned up the refs to snazzy sfn style. Another editor added a great painting by Delaquaw. ;) Btw, I took down my illness tag here and replaced it with a pano of what my neck of the woods looks like (at the very start of wonderful Spring!!). I don't feel great or anything, I just got sick and tired of the sick and tired tag. ;) We're up around the high 90s (F) at the moment. :( If it were up to me, we'd have six months of spring, 3 months of Fall, and 3 months of Winter. INever Cry 20:03, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
I forgot to show you this little rework I did the other day. This is an author I've been interested in for a while, but I just picked up a copy of the new Oxford edition of A Child of the Jago. INever Cry 00:30, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
I've responded on my talkpage.
INever
Cry
23:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
It took me a whole day to notice this one; I must be slipping. I hope you don't mind the headers I added. I also found a facsimile pic of the first page of the original manuscript. INever Cry 20:19, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Have a look: Commons:Administrators/Requests. We'll see how it goes. Wish me luck. ;) INever Cry 02:05, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
I don't know if you use the
popups gadget, but it's given me a bit of a laugh. When I scroll over your username the little wappen owl
shows up as your icon, but when I scroll over my own username my icon is the
symbol. My first thought was "how fitting".
INever
Cry
03:36, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
My first in quite a while: Mark Kharitonov; I've nominated him for DYK as well. I also decided to go for GA with George Crabbe once and for all, after creating seperate poetry and criticism sections. INever Cry 22:16, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind my little fixes to your userbox display. I spent a few hours adjusting mine today, and since I use the same tables as you, I though I'd make sure everything was even for you too. I'm obsessive-compulsive - I'm not as extreme as this guy, but I do arrange everything I own with mathematical precision. Let me know if you'd rather I kept my grubby paws off of your userpage. ;) I had to get rid of all the animations I had in my tables here and on Commons. They were just to busy, and were starting to bother me. My eyes are a bit bleary now... INever Cry 04:12, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
![]() |
The WikiHaggis | |
I hereby award you the
WikiHaggis! This means you are slightly nutty, sorta spicy, and maybe resemble stuffed pig
intestines.
I thought it was sheep guts, but who cares. ;) INever Cry 19:52, 8 September 2012 (UTC) Pass this WikiHaggis on by putting {{subst:WikiHaggis}} on someones talk page! |
Take a look at this little "award", on the bottom of my Commons talk:
here. I got a good laugh out of it, and I think I'll keep it, and maybe even display it. ;)
INever
Cry
18:32, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
Here's a little something from a rusty old pen: A Dark Night's Work. The themes/criticism section is a bit sparse. I know and feel these things, but putting them into words has always been a bit distasteful to me. I often disagree with the critics too, making it even more difficult to write these novel articles. INeverCry 19:44, 20 November 2012 (UTC)