User talk:EvanProdromou/July2003

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Great job on Palo Duro Canyon. It was one of the 5 featured new articles today. --Menchi 01:01 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Do you still oppose the removal of the text about Benjamin Franklin? -- 212.127.141.173 03:55 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Let's just say I'm very suspicious of anyone stripping out debunkage of anti-semitic propaganda. -- ESP 04:57 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Are you slandering me by innuendo? You sound just like RK. Perhaps I should demand an apology now. Anyway, I'm not the only person now who agrees that that portion should be removed. See for yourself.

Simmer down, potroast! I was just saying that my kneejerk response was to revert when I saw that 1) all that had been taken out was the anti-anti-semitic stuff 2) you didn't justify your actions in the summary line and 3) it had been reverted once before. Anyways, sounds fine to take it out. -- ESP 05:14 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment. I write because I like to share what I know with other persons, but these comments encourage me to continue. The Warlock 05:05 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi there, and a belated welcome from me! If you are into 19th century US history, you may want to look at Battle of Vicksburg, recently written by User:Dino. It's an impressive article, but I think it could use some copy-editing. Unfortunately I know nothing about the subject, so maybe you want to have a go at it.. Congratulations for being featured (even if only for a day ;-), I have replaced the link on your suggestion. --Eloquence 05:51 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Actually, I had Palo Duro Canyon up yesterday (preen preen). I'm not really all that into 19th century history, but I'll take a look at the B of V. -- ESP 05:58 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Oof, it's huge! -- ESP 05:59 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Great work on the Pike and Pike expedition articles! --mav

Thanks! I'm having a lot of fun. -- ESP 04:51 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Well, yes, they're nice, but for me your finest moment is still Simmer down, potroast. -- Someone else 05:15 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Lollapalooza is a great addition to Wikipedia! I'm a bit embarrassed that the article didn't exist before... --mav

Hey, you know, that's what we're doing here, right? Making the stuff that doesn't yet exist. Anyways, thanks! --ESP 04:53 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Don't be too embarrassed. I doubt that any of our competitors have an article about it .. --Eloquence

I think you have a very good point there. --mav

I hate to say this, but this edit is full of errors:

Only proper nouns should be capitalized in the intro. "Bathing machine" is not a proper noun.
"Etiquette" is correct.
"Voyeurism" is correct.
Newspaper titles should be italicized.
HTML comments asking for references within the article source text are generally considered acceptable.
"Equipped" is much more common than "equipt".
Section titles should not be capitalized.
" .. with an illustration of a row of bathing machines employing dipper" makes no sense. It should either be "a dipper" or "dippers" (as it was originally).

--Eloquence 05:07 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I know! It's terrible! I'm completely flummoxed as to how that happened! I swear I didn't do all that. I was reading the article, saw some spelling errors ("seperate") edited them, and saved. I fixed "equipt" to "equipped", and "etiquitte" (or whatever it was) to "etiquette". But look at that mess! I don't have any explanation for how it happened -- could I have accidently reverted? could it be a browser problem? -- but I'm 99.9% sure those aren't my edits. Of course, there's the possibility that I'm psychotic. -- ESP 05:16 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

OK, mea maxima culpa. It looks like I opened this edit for some reason -- I'm guessing a misclick when trying to open Infrogmation -- started reading it, then edited it for the terrible spelling, and saved it, doing a weird revert+edit. I'll try to be much more careful in the future. -- ESP 05:22 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I guessed as much (I had already written an explanation, but you were quicker ;-). No biggie. --Eloquence 05:27 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for your addition of Lollapalooza (or however you spell that) to the Perry Farrell page I created. Nahum 05:52 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Ha ha! You nailed it. Well, I just finished the first draft of Lollapalooza today, so I'm crazy for Perry Farrell. Hey, do you know anything about the ENIT festival? I can't find anything about it. -- ESP 07:14 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Since I live in Israel, I know next to nothing about festivals in the U.S. Nahum 10:14 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

If you liked "Crushing by Elephant", look at Hanno and History of elephants in Europe, and even Abul-Abbas. List of historical elephants used to be more fun before List of fictional elephants got split off :( -- Someone else 07:01 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)~~

Hooray for elephants! You know, there's a chapel in Lisbon with statues of elephants given to the popes by Portuguese rulers. Very interesting stuff! -- ESP 07:16 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

defence vs defense is actually a Eur/US spelling difference, rather than a "duh" :) Martin

You're right! And I probably shouldn't put in "duh" on my summaries, anyways, even if it's me who make the mistake. -- ESP 00:46 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)