User talk:Mark Zinthefer
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Hello Mark Zinthefer, welcome to Wikipedia.
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- Hi again, sorry for the boilerplate. No, you are doing fine. Just came across you edits to the Troilo article; perhaps you are a tango fan? Thanks for your quick reply, just don't forget to add your sig next time! ;-) -- Viajero 21:34, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hi Mark I share your interest in the various terraforming technologies - and the KSR Mars books. I note that you added links to character pages for the book 'Red Mars'. could I ask you to reconsider, on the basis of the below - see my comments on the 'talk page' for Red Mars article below?:
- I propose we remove the individual character pages for this book - I mean, delete the pages for Hiroko, Sax, Boone etc...
- This is not to criticise the contributions to those pages, but I ask what role these entries have in an encyclopedia?
- I am not aware of any of these characters directly influencing other novels or being cited in academic works etc. ie. These characters are not Hamlet, Bloom or Superman - there is nothing more to know about them than you could find out by reading the book - so why do they deserve an encyclopedia entry?
- Being a fan of them is not a good enough reason. I like these characters too, but in the absence of evidence of their influence outside the text of the Mars Trilogy, I think the pages should go...
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- After thinking it over a day or two, I decided that, rather than delete the character pages (many of which were stubs), I merged their content into the Red Mars page. Thus, it is now redundant to maintain independent character pages for them. It just doesn't seem 'encyclopedic' (IMHO) to devote entire articles to fictional characters that have no known literary influence outside the text in which they were first written.
Mercurius 21:43, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] crypto corner invite
mz, I've noticed you've made several recent contributions to crypto articles. I'd like to invite you to drop by the WikiProject Cryptography page and take a look at crypto corner central. Something there might help you find your next crypto article edit. And you can have some fun if you'd like by chyming in on the great cy versus ci controversy (look under 'discussions' for it). We're not only serious cryptiacs, but have a sense of humor (well at least some of us).
Thanks for the help, and hope to see you chyming in again. ww 16:30, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Terrifica
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