Ron MilesWebsite Owner  Commander In Chief Posts:864  
| 11/24/2011 8:21 AM |
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Thing 1: I didn't just remove your post, I removed another hostile post as well. It wasn't about censoring you personally, it was about doing my job and moderating this forum.
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one of my posts get gets wiped off. im I'm not happy with this. its It's ok for your
long time fans to post what they want but i I cant can't. i I dont don't think i I will
bother with your stupid wikki wiki now as most of anything i I put onthere on there will
be taken off by you anyway. thisis This is so unfare unfair on us new peple people here.
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Believe me, Harry, I encourage new people to post here. And sometimes unfair things happen and I try my best to correct them. But there is nothing unfair happening here. Numerous people have very politely pointed out to you how your style of writing comes across. A few people have pointed it out not quite so politely, and I have removed all of those impolite posts that I am aware of.
Please, give me some reason to believe you are not a troll. Get yourself a browser like Firefox or Chrome that has spell check built into it, and every time you see a word with red squiggles under it just right click on it and at least look at the corrections. Capitalize the first letter of your sentences. Please, do *something* to show a little effort.
"Sadly then I knew the answer. All her life she was a dancer, but no one ever played the song she knew." - The Residents
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Harry Whittleberry 2 Basic Member Posts:116 
| 12/1/2011 4:26 AM |
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ive been away on a holiday and have just seen what you have put in your last post. why shud i get a new thing like firefox and a spell check thing just to make sure every thing is spelt rite on every post i make here. i dont have to do that on other message borsd i use all the time. your being just to strikt with people. i have no problem reding wot i type here and my friends dontr either so what is your problem. i rite like this in school and dont get any thing sed to me and i get good grades to. |
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Ron MilesWebsite Owner Commander In Chief Posts:864
| 12/1/2011 5:23 AM |
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Dude, you don't have to do anything you don't want to. On the other hand, when you write like that you come across as either completely illiterate or else a troll, and nobody is likely to take you seriously at all. That's your choice.
"Sadly then I knew the answer. All her life she was a dancer, but no one ever played the song she knew." - The Residents
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Outlanders Veteran Member Posts:163 
| 12/1/2011 7:57 AM |
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Harry -
Didn't you say in a post to Baz that you were probably older than he was, and resorted to calling him a boy? And now you're stating that you're in school and that you use this kind of atrocious spelling and grammar all the time?
And you state that you get away with it?
My god above, no wonder the states is going to hell in a hand basket if teachers are allowing the English language to degrade in such a way that this kind of spelling and grammar is not only accepted but appears to be encouraged.
I can see your friends not minding, since clearly they are like minded and, if what you are saying is true, that lazy that they can't take the time to spell even the simplest of words and phrases.
I pity the new generation. Growing up fat and lazy and clearly stupid.
If people put as much effort into learning a new language and studying as they put into using Netspeak and butchering the English language, the next generation could be something wonderful.
Instead we get examples like this.
Again, no wonder not only the states but the world is going to hell on a bullet train.
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KerrickBasic Member Posts:322
| 12/1/2011 9:39 AM |
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Despite the fact that I've done (all) the work on the wiki, I don't mind other people chipping in. As long as I don't have to do a lot of editing to clean up after them. Note that I'm not bashing you specifically, Harry - I'm just making a general note. I have an English degree, so I'm a bit anal about spelling and grammar, and I want the wiki to look the best it can, which is why I'm constantly making improvements and corrections. I'm hardly perfect myself; this thing is huge (92 pages and counting), so there are bound to be a few typos and such around, but I do make an effort to find and fix them when I can. All I ask is that anyone else who wishes to contribute make the same effort. |
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KerrickBasic Member Posts:322
| 12/13/2011 8:45 PM |
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In addition to adding Time Nomads, Dark Carnival, and Moon Fate, I've made a bunch of fixes and improvements to various other pages: Fixed the double-spacing on some of the pages (for some reason, some pages ignore the carriage return after a tag, while others don't - I can't figure out why); Went over all the OL pages, as well as the timelines (added links, fixed some broken links, did some minor editing); Reorganized the Traderisms page so that the sayings are now grouped into rough categories (I say "rough" because most of them are Miscellaneous, but it still looks a lot better now, IMO); Fixed some stuff on the Gateways page due to new info; And probably a few other things I forgot about. It never ceases to amaze me that, despite how hard I try to stay on top of things, I continue to find small errors and such that need fixing. Ah well... it keeps me on my toes.  |
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Ron MilesWebsite Owner Commander In Chief Posts:864
| 12/13/2011 9:16 PM |
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Well, and Kerrick also went through and added links to Kindle and Graphic Audio versions of a ton of books in The Books section, which was no small feat. I truly appreciate all the effort that you have put into the content on this site.
"Sadly then I knew the answer. All her life she was a dancer, but no one ever played the song she knew." - The Residents
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KerrickBasic Member Posts:322
| 1/5/2012 8:22 PM |
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Always glad to help.  I've (finally) added Shockscape, Twilight Children, and Rider, Reaper to the wiki. I had the first two done last weekend, but I caught a serious case of apathy syndrome and put off doing the last one until today. Nothing really notable elsewhere, except for some stuff on the Gateways page (new notes and updated information). |
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KerrickBasic Member Posts:322
| 2/5/2012 4:02 PM |
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I've added Road Wars, Shadowfall, and Ground Zero. Only 18 more books until I'm caught up (not counting the new stuff)!
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KerrickBasic Member Posts:322
| 2/27/2012 3:15 PM |
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I've added Emerald Fire, Bloodlines, and Crossways. Among other things, I added info on the Genesis Project (which is placed under Overproject Excalibur, along with Project Janus, as they both deal with genetic research). Only one more LJ book to go...
Interesting note, for anyone who cares: All the towns (and Turquoise Lake) that appear in Crossways are real, except for Harmony. There's a town called Yarmony, but it's about 50 miles north-northwest of Leadville, on the other side of I-70. I'm not sure if Jack Adrian or LJ came up with Harmony as Krysty's hometown (I can't be bothered to look in PtH), but it looks to be placed roughly where Quartzville is now, along Route 9.
PTH also says that Sonja Wroth left before Krysty did and that Krysty was raised by her uncle; Crossways retcons this (Sonja left after her daughter, and Tyas wasn't mentioned at all, oddly), but I decided to leave the character entries the way they are - LJ likely did it simply to give Krysty a reason to go back to Harmony (in other words, something for the companions to do besides dropping Dean off at school).
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Wordsmithagain New Member Posts:5
| 2/28/2012 9:13 AM |
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Kerrick, what you say are retcons are just plain old errors, not deliberate changes.
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KerrickBasic Member Posts:322
| 3/18/2012 5:34 PM |
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Oh, okay. I wasn't sure about that... I figured LJ would've been more on the ball about something that important. 
Anyway, I've added Eclipse at Noon, Stoneface, and Bitter Fruit. I'm having issues with the wiki formatting - it might just be Internet Explorer being a bitch; when I was updating today, I got a compatibility view error. Specifically, the spaces that would normally appear from using a simple carriage return (as opposed to adding a tag) aren't there anymore. I had that problem before, then it mysteriously went away; I'm not going to try fixing it, because that's far too much work - it'll probably work itself out (again). |
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KerrickBasic Member Posts:322
| 4/25/2012 11:48 PM |
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After taking a long break, I've added Skydark, Demons of Eden, and Nightmare Passage. I also cleaned up some errors here and there and updated the DL timeline a bit.
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KerrickBasic Member Posts:322
| 5/16/2012 7:42 PM |
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I added Amazon Gate, Destiny's Truth, and Damnation Road Show. Yeah, the summaries are really short, because they're kinda light on content - especially the first two. Hardly any of it actually contributed to the plot.
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KerrickBasic Member Posts:322
| 5/31/2012 1:05 AM |
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I only did two books this time - Death Hunt and Shaking Earth. I added some stuff to the trivia page and fixed an error on the gateways page (mispelled Jamaisvous' name - it was "Jamaivous". Oopsie. :p).
Three more to go, and I'm all caught up!
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| 6/18/2012 2:48 AM |
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I read the wiki tonight after I got home, what an incredible amount of work on the book synopsis. Great reading for people who may have not picked up a particular book yet. Great job!
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Wordsmith-repriseFreelance Editor Basic Member Posts:150
| 6/18/2012 1:14 PM |
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I will add my two cents here. Kerrick has done a fabulous job. My hat's off to him. I've reference the Wiki myself while editing. Kudos for all the diligence.
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KerrickBasic Member Posts:322
| 6/24/2012 7:53 PM |
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Thanks. It's been a long road, but I'm finally caught up! I just added Vengeance Trail, Lost Gates, and Hell Road Warriors. I have to admit, I did a sloppy job with the last one, but it was really hard to summarize properly - there is just so much going on in that book that a summary would be nearly as long as the book itself (plus I'm just burned out ). There are several more books I'd really like to get my hands on, and maybe I'll order them through Amazon sometime, but right now, I'm going to take a break. |
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| 6/24/2012 9:44 PM |
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Posted By Kerrick on 24 Jun 2012 07:53 PM
Thanks. It's been a long road, but I'm finally caught up! I just added Vengeance Trail, Lost Gates, and Hell Road Warriors. I have to admit, I did a sloppy job with the last one, but it was really hard to summarize properly - there is just so much going on in that book that a summary would be nearly as long as the book itself (plus I'm just burned out ).
There are several more books I'd really like to get my hands on, and maybe I'll order them through Amazon sometime, but right now, I'm going to take a break.
Weird. I'm reading vengeance trail as we speak!
Ewoks and Tech-nomads, and fusion powered trains! Oh my!
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silentalbino Advanced Member Posts:742
| 6/24/2012 11:10 PM |
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And i'm waiting for my copy to turn up.
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