User talk:Dominic Hardstaff/October 2009

Weirdness

Nope, Wolvie and Cap weren't created or co-created by Lee

What a very strange thing for someone to have believed in the first place. I guess seeing as he created the X-Men and the Avengers, and many people equate those groups with those two characters in particular, they put 2 and 2 together and came up with -7 WookMuff (talk) 01:33, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm guessing the editor's relatively young. --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 07:04, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Child's Play Remake

I deleted that section because the project has been scrapped according to Brad Dourif, and he said that they were doing something else. --Jabrona (talk) 016:16, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Do you remember where you heard/read this? --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 16:20, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

I read an article a few weeks ago that said so. --Jabrona (talk) 16:22, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Defaultsort

Hi. Do the first letters of sort key terms always need to be capitalised? I'm asking in order to make sense of your edit here. Cheers. --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 13:53, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes pretty much. The only de facto exception is for sorting scientific names of organisms into their families. I am working on a page to explain this in mind-numbing detail. Rich Farmbrough, 13:57, 16 October 2009 (UTC).

Thanks. --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 13:59, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

October 2009

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at User talk:Jeffreymoviechen. Such edits are disruptive and appear to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. magnius (talk) 11:58, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

What material have I removed from User talk:Jeffreymoviechen? I remember informing the user that he's allowed to remove stuff from his own talk page,[1] as outlined here ("Users may freely remove comments from their own talk pages"), but I don't recall removing your or anyone else's comments. And the page history appears to agree with my recollection. --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 12:47, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Blob4president

Thanks for your note. I agree with your assessment, so per WP:DISRUPT I've indefinitely blocked them. The reason I suggested ANI is because AIV is a quick throughput page designed for dealing with obvious vandalism. Anything needing more than about 30 seconds of poking around on the part of the attending admin is more likely to get the attention it deserves at ANI. To be fair, most admins will still look at other reports if they end up at AIV; I normally would myself, but I was a bit rushed yesterday... Anyhow, hope this helps, thank you for your vigilance, and if you notice them reappearing under a new identity, head for WP:SSP or drop me a note. All the best, EyeSerene^talk 15:44, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll be watching out for him. --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 15:52, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

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Re:sapphire

Is this right? --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 21:39, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm glad you asked, don't hesitate to do so. Which part of this you were asking about? I know only a few areas of history. As to materials science, sapphire is tougher and harder than glass; amorphous sapphire is indeed exotic; I've heard of sapphire being used (or just planned) in military, for its hardness and mid-IR optical transparency. Its thermal conductivity is great too. The major problem is price, which led to some "weird" preparation techniques, like sintering fine-grain alumina. Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

I mainly wanted to check that it wasn't somebody screwing around with the article. It landed on my watchlist after an incident of obvious vandalism, but I'm not in a position to spot the more subtle kind. Thanks. --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 05:59, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Aah. You're right that some elaborate ('hype') vandal edits may look like this one. Science articles are watched by several scientists-RCPers, thus in such rare cases it is safe to pass, when we wake up, we'll check :-) Edits like this one are welcome. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 06:07, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Milo O'Shea's SHRILL voice

Excuse me, I am a semi-professional vocalist and I know when a voice is shrill. Listen to Milo O'Shea in BARBARELLA, when he shouts "I'll destroy you with my positronic ray!" He is most definitely a high tenor, who would, if he had trained operatically, have played Loge (Das Rheingold) and Mime (Siegfried) and Monostatos (the Magic Flute). In a word, shrill.

--SingingZombie SingingZombie (talk) 08:15, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Curly Howard might be considered shrill. O'Shea, not so much. --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 09:10, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

That's a difference in technique, not in vocal instruments. Curly deliberately squeaks like a mouse. O'Shea mostly talks like a normal person, using the lower part of his voice, but that lower part sounds thin and sort of cloying as high tenors do when they speak normally. (The same is true of Laurence Olivier, and John Fiedler (the TV actor), and Peter Cushing, when they use their low registers.)

Hey are you the one who keeps deleting my description of Francis L. Sullivan (actor)'s appearence (big fat) and voice (rich, low)? If yes, knock it off! No description of Sullivan which omits these facts can be complete; they're the main things about him! He was a major porker, one of the first fat-character actors, and he could have beaten Sydney Greenstreet or Robert Morley or John Goodman or John Candy or even Jackie Gleason at sumo wrestling any day of the week. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SingingZombie (talk • contribs) 09:38, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

I am merely trying to see that the article maintains a suitable tone. --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 09:47, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Picture

I haven't figgered out how to post pix, but here's a good one of Francis L. Sullivan in OLIVER TWIST:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2444/3879338733_f224029a36.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by SingingZombie (talk • contribs) 09:56, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

We would need to be able to verify its copyright status (i.e. whether it's in the public domain or still owned by the production company or film distributor). The non-free content criteria only permit non-free images when free ones aren't available. --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 10:03, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

These two are nice too, although you need to increase the size.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/movies/amg/dvd/cov150/drt500/t558/t55880lro9e.jpg

http://img.freebase.com/api/trans/image_thumb/en/francis_l_sullivan?errorid=%2Ffreebase%2Fno_image_png&maxheight=80&mode=fillcropmid&maxwidth=80 SingingZombie (talk) 10:09, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

We still need to know the copyright status. --Dominic Hardstaff (talk) 10:33, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Bad Form

It is really bad form to delete other editors posts from discussion pages like you did here [[2]] If you feel the urge to do so again, kindly cite what Wiki policy you are following. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.193.240.57 (talk) 21:53, 31 October 2009 (UTC)