User talk:Dereksmootz

Welcome

Hello, Dereksmootz! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! --Kleinzach (talk) 10:27, 9 May 2008 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Christie

Thanks for your ratings for the Christie play pages - almost all of those pages being "under construction" and your excellent feedback and comments have been noted. As regards the summary for Alibi being perhaps too long, I think it's very hard to abridge Christie material (your superb summary for The Hollow proves that!) and if ever I find myself wondering if I am being too verbose, I just remember the Wikpipedia rule - quoted above - to "be bold"!! Please keep the comments and contributions coming. It's great to get feedback and not type away in a vacuum!--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 19:22, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks for your latest comment! I'm trying to get further material together for other Christie play pages, especially "Towards Zero" and "Go Back for Murder" which don't have pages yet and expand some of the other pages. I've found further sources for contemporary reviews of the other plays (including "The Hollow") so it's just a matter of getting the relevant journals out next time I'm at the British Library and getting appropriate quotes. I've also obtained a copy of Herbert Gregg's slightly vituperative memoirs so I can add to the play pages where he was the director. Please keep me posted of your views through the ratings and I will amend/add/delete as appropriate - it's nice to get the peer review!--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 15:11, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Derek,

I see that you've just added Alibi to the list of Christie plays. I've deliberately not done this in the past (and reversed it when someone else did) for the simple reason that Christie did not write the play. My judgement is that if we go down the route of "written by...based on Christie's..." then we end up with a template as big as the introduction page! The alternative is that we add a section to the end of the template for plays/books by other authors based on her works. Before I wade in and reverse what you've done, I'd like to discuss. Cheers.--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 19:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Cheers! All the best, John--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 20:04, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar!

Wow! I've seen a few other people's pages where they'd been awarded barnstars and wondered what you had to do to get one - you well and truly have made my day! Thank you so much!--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 22:08, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Theatre June 2008 Newsletter

The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter (June 2008)

The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter! Issue 4 - June, 2008 Collaboration of The Month Yet again this month's COTM has remained unchanged as no-one has nominated any articles to become the new incumbent. Please can someone get down to the COTM page and nominate an article for next month! Assessment The ongoing task of assesing the articles at the Assessment page continues - if you're feeling a little lost and don't know where to begin to help us out, head on down to the Assessment page and give us a hand. New members The past month has seen Canadian Scouter, Carole Higgins, Gonzalo84 and Kiwiboy121 join us - welcome to you all! If you've been editing a theatre-related article recently and noticed another user helping you who also appears to have an interest for the subject of theatre, why not drop them a line and invite them over to the project? HELP! As mentioned in previous newsletters, we're crying out for people to help us out wherever possible. We are currently looking for members to volunteer to give us a hand in several areas. If you can do any of the following, please drop us a line at the talk page: Newsletter Editor(s) - Always fancied yourself as a bit of a journalist? Perhaps you could help us write this newsletter - it doesn't take long to compile. Maybe you'd like to help but can't commit on a regular basis? In that case, why not rally round a few other members of the project to help you out and take it in turns each month to compose the newsletter? Mailmen/women - If writing the newsletter isn't your bag then maybe you could help in the distribution of this fine document? As our membership grows it becomes quite laborious to send it to everyone. It's only a quick task that needs doing once a month, and really is just a case of copying and pasting a template onto our members talk pages. Portal editor(s) - It's come to our attention that the Theatre Portal hasn't been updated in a long time and we'd like to get someone, or a group of people to take charge of it and get it up to the standard of some of the great portals out there (e.g. the Comedy Portal, the Solar System Portal etc). And finally... Don't forget to add the WikiProject Theatre userbox to your userpage to spread the word about the project! You have received this newsletter because your name is on the list of Participants on the WikiProject page. If this information is out of date and you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name from the Participants list and also click here to stop receiving the newsletter. To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know here. To view previous editions of the newsletter, click here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let us know on the talk page.

Proposed deletion of Dracula (1980)

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WikiProject Theatre Newsletter - February 2010

The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter (Febrauary 2010)

The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter! Issue 5 - February 2010 Welcome to the latest WikiProject Theatre newsletter (the first in quite a while!) bringing you news of what's going on in the project, what progress we're making, and how you can get involved. Latest News All theatre articles currently tagged with a project banner have now been assessed for quality. There are still plenty to assess for importance, though - see the article assessment page for details. There is now a News section on the main project page, updated automatically to keep us informed of developments in theatre articles. Collaboration of the Month Theatre has been nominated as the next project collaboration. This could be an excellent opportunity to improve the quality of one of our most important articles - listed as one of Wikipedia's top 1000 most vital articles - but it needs a lot of work before it can be considered for even good article nomination! Stop by the collaboration page for tips on how to improve an article, to add your support, or to suggest alternative or future collaborations. Jobs you can do Any and all improvements to theatre-related articles will help the project, but if you're looking for something to do, have a look at the to-do list. Some current areas of priority are: Improving top-importance articles Prioritisation of unknown-importance articles Creation of requested article stubs If you are currently working on a particular topic or area of the project, and would like to muster some support from other editors, feel free to add tasks to the to-do list. Or even think about setting up an informal working group - create a project subpage to organise tasks in a central location. Remember you can always discuss ideas with others at the project talk page. New members The past month has seen Poisonborz, 15lsoucy, LaNaranja and Phaeton23 join us - welcome to you all! If you've been editing a theatre-related article recently and noticed another user helping you who also appears to have an interest for the subject of theatre, why not drop them a line and invite them over to the project? And finally... Don't forget to add the {{User WPTheatre}} userbox to your userpage, and {{WikiProject Theatre}} banner to article talk pages to spread the word about the project! You have received this newsletter because your name is on the list of Members on the WikiProject page. If this information is out of date and you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name from the list, or click here to stop receiving it. If you have any news or announcements to be broadcast, do let us know on the talk page.

Problems with upload of File:Long Grazing Acre.jpg

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Euripides' Medea

Hi. I noticed that you rated the article on Euripides' Medea as low-importance on the WikiProject Theatre scale because it's about a single play, and you stated on the discussion page that "a single play constitutes a "highly specific area of knowledge."" This seemed to me a highly eccentric importance rating for a play as famous as Medea, so I checked out WikiProject Theatre's rating guides. Sure enough, on the Assessment page it recommends giving a High rating to "extremely well known and commonly-researched plays or people". You might want to revise the importance rating because Medea is one of the most frequently performed and frequently translated of all classical tragedies, and there are literally thousands of scholarly articles about it. Lexo (talk) 23:41, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi again. Thanks for the swift and gracious reply. I wish I had the time and energy to give the page the attention it deserves but I'll do what I can in the meantime. Cheers. Lexo (talk) 01:13, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Paddy Keenan Brown Album.jpg)

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Nomination of Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for deletion

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