User talk:Mav
If you've been frequenting the RecentChanges page, you might already expect that I am a Wikipediholic -- yep, I admit it.
Problem now is, sleeping has switched from a full (i.e. normal) to part time occupation.... oh well - you only live once, there's plenty of time to rest later...
placing my comments
on the talk page of the submitter.
Therefore many of the comments that follow appear to have gone unanswered - this is not the case.(Well, at least this is not necessarily the case.)
I oftentimes give quick, seemingly unkind and terse comments on talk pages and especially in edit summaries. However meanness is not at all the intent, just efficiency. This is a quirk of my rare personality type: INTJ. I do try to moderate what I say and how I say it -- mainly because my terseness sometimes leads to inefficient chit chat to resolve misunderstandings on talk pages.
Thank you for the welcome and the suggestions. I had visited a lot of the protocols before attempting to post and discovered that I need more sleep, some scotch, or a translator. Maybe some combination of the three. Being a humanities type, it was a little difficult to follow and internalize, so I tried to follow the style example of the person whose post I modified for content. Learning by doing, and all that.
Your suggestion about the sandbox (on this page, below) was a good one and I intend to take it. In the meantime, please be patient with my formatting errors, which will doubtless be legion. Once I learn it it will be learned.
Is there a convention for book titles similar to the one for movies? As there is no copyright on a book title, duplication occurs. (e.g., America (Warhol) v. America (Cheney) ) If there is no established convention, I suggest including the author's last name to preclude ambiguity, except in cases where the authorship is clear.
- Don't worry about formatting errors; just have fun and everything else will come in time. No there isn't an explicit convention for book titles but for movies it is Crossfire (movie) when a movie and something else share the same name and Titanic (1997 movie) when there is more than one movie by the same name. An unwritten convention is to have 1984 (novel) for novels (and if there is more than one novel by the same name then add the year). --mav
Mav, isn't it easier to just remove the old talk? It will be in your history anyway for those interested. Jeronimo
- I don't like archiving stuff in history since it is not at all easy to navigate, is not at all obvious that old talk is archived and most importantly, the archived stuff would be quickly lost in a buzz of many other revisions that represent single edits. Oh I also forgot to mention that I'm an egomaniac. :) --mav