User talk:Tjmayerinsf
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[edit] Grue
For someone who wrote a scene of a man being turned inside out, "grue" would seem to be appropriate. See Wiktionary: grue: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grue Pepso 22:44, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Style policy
Hi. About a day you ago, you dropped in on the Film Booking Offices of America article and changed the phrase "seven hundred theaters" to "700 theaters" (I've restored it). So this sort of thing doesn't happen again, with some other article, you should be aware of two things:
- The general Wikipedia guideline on differing style preferences: "In June 2005, the Arbitration Committee ruled that, when either of two styles is acceptable, it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change."
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- The specifically relevant Wikipedia guideline: "Numbers above ten may be written out if they are expressed in two or fewer words, except in tables and infoboxes. Example: 'sixteen', 'eighty-four', 'two hundred', 'twenty million' but '3.75', '544', '21 million'."
Thanks, Dan —DCGeist 05:21, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] AdW: Astound Broadband
An article that you have been involved in editing, Astound Broadband, has been listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Astound Broadband. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 01:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC) --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 01:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hitchcock films
Hi, thanks for your contributions to these articles. Just a few points, though - subheadings are usually only capitalised for the first letter, per the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings), i.e. "External links". Also, I'm not convinced that the external links to the Turner Classic film database are very helpful, as they give little extra information beyond which the articles already give. Bob talk 17:15, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Alla / Allah
Please see my question at Talk:Garden of Allah#Alla / Allah. Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 06:30, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Color film (motion picture)
Tjmayerinsf -
Hello. You have made some wonderful additions to the Color film (motion picture) article, but all of them are uncited. I am working to clean up this article and would appreciate if you could provide citations for any of the questionable areas (noted in the article) for the information you have provided. All the best, LACameraman 00:13, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- Hi. I see you've been away from Wikipedia for a bit. I've been cleaning up Color film (motion picture) fairly considerably over the last two weeks. I ended up removing several passages you added in (mostly minor notes on smaller/secondary processes or companies) that I could not verify. If you have sources for these notes and would like to re-add them citing the various sources, please do. I hope when you return to Wikipedia, you have the opportunity to contribute once again to the article. All the best LACameraman 08:39, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
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- TJ - Once again, you made some wonderful contributions to this article - but I have deleted the massive addition you made on Technicolor as it is not germane to this article. This information belongs in the Technicolor article, but not in the Color film (motion picture) article. That kind of detail on one system renders an overview article unbalanced.LACameraman 23:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References
TJ - As I've noted before, you've added some good information to articles here, but neglected to cite them. Today you added a citation, but it is inappropriately placed. The passage, which you originally added, at Color film (motion picture) reads:
"Technicolor began as a subtractive color process developed by Dr. Herbert Kalmus, Dr. Daniel Comstock, and W. Burton Wescott in 1915 (see Additive section below) when Kalmus and Comstock were at MIT. The release of The Gulf Between (1917), filmed in Jacksonville, Florida and starring Grace Darmond and Niles Welch, was marred by persistent projection problems in its national tour. Only a few frames of this film are known to exist today."
You added an IMDb link as a citation at the end of this paragraph ([1]). Doing so means that the ENTIRE paragraph - or what is IMMEDIATELY preceding the citation is what that reference confirms. The IMDb confirms nothing about "persistent projection problems", a national tour or that only a few frames still exist. All that the IMDb can reference is that there was a movie in 1917 called The Gulf Between the location and cast. It is not necessary to utilize the IMDb as a reference for this material. The IMDb page references this film as the first Technicolor film, but unfortunately the IMDb is not considered a reliable resource for its' trivia entries.
I offer the above because, by way of your contributions, it seems that you may not be clear on how to use references. I have removed the IMDb reference and replaced the "citation needed" tag. The comments that Technicolor started as a subtractive process, was started during their time at MIT and that The Gulf Between print was marred by projection problems and only a few frames exist are the elements that need to be cited. The rest of the information is easily verifiable or otherwise cited in the article. Thanks for continuing to contribute to Wikipedia and to Project Filmmaking pages. All the best, LACameraman 06:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] No need to spend time piping those links
Hi. I just noticed that you've put piped category links into a few articles (Castro Theatre|Castro Theatre, Roxy Theatre|Roxy Theatre) where they aren't necessary. The piped link for (The Roxie|Roxie, The) is useful, but when the first word of the article title is the word under which the subject is supposed to be alphabetized on the category page anyway (Castro, Roxy, etc), Wikipedia will place it properly in the list without the addition of the pipe- so there's no point in wasting your time adding the piped sections to those links. Whyaduck 05:53, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] British dates?
Is there a reason why you changed all the dates in John Stossel to the British system? Stossel is an American journalist, and when you actually click on the links for the dates the articles use the American system. --JHP 10:20, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Recent Color Film edits
Hi, Tjmayerinsf!
You might have noticed that User:LACameraman reverted some of your recent edits to Color film (motion picture), and I thought maybe I should try to explain why. The IMDB is unfortunately not considered an authoritative source. First and foremost, it is often wrong. Secondly, it doesn't cite sources so it's very hard to follow the trail past it.
Also, please don't forget to provide an edit summary, it makes it a lot easier for other people to understand your edits, especially when there are multiple ones. Thanks again! jhawkinson 13:16, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
