From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Anthony DiPierro
On 5/16/06, Peter Mackay <peter.mackay(a)bigpond.com> wrote:
But on looking at the template itself, it's
not that bad. Can't you
just grit your teeth?
I think part of the annoyance is that the template is so
often put in a ridiculous place (such as the two examples I
gave where it was in a section which was already obviously
about plot). Can I just grit my teeth? Sure. It's what I
do when I see something stupid on all those other sites that
I *can't* edit.
Perhaps the issue is placement. I guess a lot of editors just copy and paste
when starting a new article, and the template is automatically included,
even if it's not appropriate in that position, or it gets moved around a
bit. This is where intelligent editing comes in.
So long as we don't have a bunch of spoiler-template nazis whose aim is to
preserve these templates and maybe spread them around even more and it all
turns into a wikiwar, I really can't see the harm in removing them when the
section title says "Plot summary".
...And I should stop worrying about whether the term
"anal-retentive" should be spelled with or without a hyphen.
LOL!
Like having
one of my photographs selected to illustrate a
day of the
year. [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February
23]] - I
stood out
in the cold for about ten minutes before I got
the curl of the flag
just right, and I'm proud of that small detail, even if my ungloved
hands still give me twinges of pain each year on that day...
I was quite pleased when I ran across one of my photos on a
website outside of Wikipedia. Granted, it was a Wikicities
site, but still :).
And hey, that photo is awesome (though I couldn't help but
wonder whether the statue is a derivative of the original
photo and therefore your photo is copyright-tainted - see,
this is what I've gotta stop).
Thanks for the kind words. The original photograph is just awesome. Someone
even wrote a book about it: Flags of our Fathers. I wanted to get the flag
fluttering out dramatically like in the original, so yeah, I was being a bit
derivative with my shot of the monument.