User:MarnetteD/Sandbox

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I plan on using this for future article work but that may take a few weeks to get to.

This user's favourite animal is the red panda.


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So I don't have to search too far when I am adding these to actor pages[edit]

James Anthony Church
OccupationActor

Hard Questions for those that like the years active section[edit]

I have had concerns over this section for some time so thank you for bringing this up.

First off what does this section cover? I mean years active in what? Breathing

Actually,I am joking here. I know that this is the "actors" infobox. But as you start to answer the following questions you may wish that the answer was as simple as breathing.

What parameters are we using to use these dates?[edit]

Beginning date[edit]

How are we determining when a person becomes active as an actor?

As we proceed I think that we need to ask which of these terms are we using as they will come up time and again in the sections that follow.

Amateur roles - Virtually every actor begins their performing career quite young. In Helen Mirren's recent book she proudly points to her performance in a school play of Hansel and Gretel as the beginning of her career.

Professional roles - Are we using the first time that they get paid for performing as the start date?

Which venue of acting are we using?[edit]

Most actors perform in several different venues. Which one do use to determine the start date?

Stage - I start with this one as most (though not all) actors begin their career on stage. The amateur v. professional distinction is paramount here. The Monty Pythoners (except for Terry Gilliam) began their performing careers at either Oxford or Cambridge. This is noted in most of their biographies and autobiographies



At last now I can find this when I need it[edit]

The specific MOS section that covers this is Wikipedia:Manual of Style (film)#Lead section, which says "Avoid using "award-winning" and similar phrases in the opening sentence to maintain a neutral point of view and summarize the awards in the proper context in a later paragraph of the lead section."

may use someday[edit]

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Just in case I want to try this one day[edit]

The code for mine is at User talk:HJ Mitchell/Editnotice. If you want one, you can just add whatever you want to User talk:MarnetteD/Editnotice

Here is another cool one that I might use some day[edit]

Xmas items for future use[edit]

Season's Greetings, MarnetteD!
At this wonderful time of year, I would like to give season’s greetings to all the fellow Wikipedians I have interacted with in the past! May you have a wonderful holiday season! MarnetteD | Talk 04:00, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

MarnetteD | Talk is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Xmas, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec11}} to your friends' talk pages.

Happy holidays.
Best wishes for joy and happiness. Hope you have a great one! MarnetteD | Talk 00:27, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Happy Christmas![edit]

Happy Christmas!
Have a happy holiday season. May the year ahead be productive and happy. ~~~~

One of my own creation[edit]

Happy Holidays
From Stave one of Dickens A Christmas Carol

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

So you see even Charles was looking for a reliable source :-) Thank you for your contributions to the 'pedia. ~ MarnetteD|Talk 02:35, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Minor edits[edit]

Hello. I have noticed that all of your edits are marked as minor yet most of the are not. Please read this Help:Minor edit to understand what a minor edit is. If you have checked the "mark all edits as minor" box in your editing preferences please go in and uncheck it. If, on the other hand, you are clicking the "this is a minor edit" box before you save and edit please only do so when your edit truly is a minor one. Your cooperation in this will be appreciated. Thank you for your efforts here at wikipedia and happy editing.

These may be one of the greatest space savers ever[edit]

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A brilliant bit if wikiwisdom[edit]

Where does Wikipedia content come from?

One way it happens:

... I was just reading that page and my mouse slipped and hit the edit button. Then I tripped and as I was falling I hit the keyboard and typed all that content. As I struggled to my feet I was pawing at the desk and the mouse came down and hit save. (Crossmr, December 2010 UTC)

So I don't have to go searching for it when I need it[edit]

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Possible history page for MoS changes[edit]

Somewhere around three or four years ago (though I may have the timeline wrong and that will lead to my eventual question) there was a push to get away from lists, bulleted or otherwise, and turn those sections into prose. Within the last month or so I have started to see this tag {{create-list|section}} show up asking us to turn prose sections back into lists. This brings up questions like a) was there ever a consensus discussion to move away from lists? b) was there a consensus to move back to them?

Now I know that things ebb and flow around here and what was deemed "encyclopedic formatting" at one point in time can fall out of favor and change completely. I also know that some long term editors have great memories and can dig back into the archives to find where the original consensus occurred and where that consensus was changed. Sadly, some of us don't have as accurate memories and those that do might retire. So I am wondering is there any value to creating a "history" page for various sections of the MoS. For example

A treat just for you[edit]

{{subst:User:HJ Mitchell/WikiScotch|MarnetteD}} :Just thought that I would drop off a little treat for you during this anniversary. Here's hoping that the next ten presents more fun than frustration in our editing. ~~~~

Another set of links that are needed from time to time[edit]

I know that you will disagree with this Betty but most changes around here occur because small groups of editors have hammered out a consensus. Large discussions rarely happen and they often grind to a halt (as with the image requested placeholders of several years ago) and it is even recommended (as can be seen here Wikipedia:Consensus#Consensus-building_pitfalls_and_errors that discussion be kept to a limited number of editors. Also be aware that polls (straw or otherwise) do occur but they are not the final part of the decision making process per the item at the end of this Wikipedia:Consensus#Consensus-building_by_soliciting_outside_opinions section.

for copy and pasting[edit]

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More fun stuff[edit]

[[File:Palantir Stone.jpg|thumb|right|150px|It's like that.]]

EvilSnydley is watching you!
Muhuwahaha!

rats looks like I am going to need this[edit]

74.72.126.152 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

sheesh[edit]

this pic is too sweet [1]


The ultimate test of "It Makes Everything taste Better"[edit]

This [2] probably needs to be turned into a userbox.

Possible good/bad hand situation[edit]

194.176.105.151 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Yoinkster (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Other problematic IPs to take the occasional gander at[edit]

Highlights of my correspondence with John Thaxter[edit]

Tony Church

I witnessed a very funny press night with Tony Church playing King Lear in an RSC scaled down version at The Place off Euston Road. The date was 24 October 1974.

I was in the back row sitting next to Ken Tynan (plus his wife Kathleen), various other journos were scattered around. But in the front row, then reviewing for The Guardian, was Nicholas de Jongh.

As is Nick's wont, he scribbles in his notebook throughout a performance - I know for a fact he is writing his review - and there he was scribbling away. The actors endured during the first half, but after the interval, when he started again, Tony Church stepped out of character, briefly snatched the ballpoint pen, and said: "For Christ's sake, we are trying to do a play, and you are totally distracting us."

How we laughed and clapped. But more was to follow, as reported in Nick's review the following day:

"This review appears in spite of the fact that members of the Lear company used a little violence to try to prevent me leaving the theatre. As I was leaving I was grabbed, pushed up against a wall, held there and told that I was not leaving.

"I had disturbed the actors by writing notes and turning the pages of my notebook and insulted them by rushing out at curtain call. What was more I had ruined their performances. (Incidentally the play over-ran by twenty minutes. Their postplay diversion in which I figured against my will was lousily acted — I have to add"

24 years later The Stage reported that the director Lou Stein while doing dress rehearsals for Aids Memoire at the Royal Court (back in 1990), shouted at Nick: "For Christ sake stop that scribbling, you are distracting my actors!"

Best wishes John

Awards for names we know all to well now

(On the 1982 Olivier Awards) I also persuaded panel members that the Most Promising award should go to Kenneth Branagh not to Rupert Everett - I argued that Branagh had 'length' while Everett was a gadfly. The two young actors were sharing West End roles as public school boys in ANOTHER COUNTRY. 15 years later I was amused to read in Branagh's memoirs that he and Everett had assumed Everett would win, and so only Rupert prepared an acceptance speech. The result was that Kenneth was literally speechless when he went up to collect the prize

Nich Nick

I was privileged to be at the very first complete performance of Nicholas Nickleby at the Aldwych Theatre. It was a Saturday preview, starting with Part One and followed by the very first public performance of Part Two, There was a wonderful rapport between the audience and the actors, mingling in the aisles between the acts. I cannot now recall the starting time, but I do know that the final curtain came at half past midnight on Sunday morning.

It was my first encounter with Edward Petherbridge, the knuckle clicking Newman Noggs, who is now a good friend. His wife Emily Richards was to take over the role of Kate when the original actress was diagnosed with cancer,

The last buses and tubes had gone, But luckily I had my car parked right outside and took a few stragglers home before driving myself home!

I immediately wrote a rave review for the Richmond and Twickenham Times, published the following Friday, and later was absolutely amazed to find that my critical colleagues hated the show! Only Bernard Levin in the Sunday Times (and me) stood out from the crowd to acclaim it as a life-enhancing event. Of course they all eventually changed their minds and several even apologised in print - in a half-hearted sort of way.

I went several more times to the day-long performances, taking friends and family, but I was unable to book tickets for the final performance. So I turned up anyway and, by then knowing the Aldwych Theatre like the back of my hand, I snuck into a box, reserved for lighting gear, and saw the whole show form there.

Trevor Nunn was sitting yards from me in the Dress Circle, giving me quizzical looks throughout the day. So I had a congratulatory word with him at the end of the day, and he told me he thought I was Peter Hall taking a sneaky opportunity to see the show without paying. (In those days I was regularly mistaken for Peter Hall so it was no surprise - but nowadays I get mistaken for the ageing Sean Connery, which I think is an improvement if undeserved).

Mirren and Hoskins

He also sent a memory of seeing these two marvels performing in The Duchess of Malfi (here is a pic [3]) but I can't find the email so from memory - one of the young actors who played one of the children killed in the last act did not break character and remained prone on the stage at the plays end so, while the audience was clapping, Hoskins came over, picked him up and said "take a bow me son we get to go home now"


New section[edit]

Snowballs in warm climates[edit]

Yet another[edit]

A pain of trolls[edit]

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I hope not[edit]

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and [12].

And [13]
And [14]
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And [16]

Not the only one

If needed[edit]


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