Misplaced Pages

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The Misplaced Pages philosophy can be summed up thusly: "Experts are scum." For some reason people who spend 40 years learning everything they can about, say, the Peloponnesian War -- and indeed, advancing the body of human knowledge -- get all pissy when their contributions are edited away by Randy in Boise who heard somewhere that sword-wielding skeletons were involved. And they get downright irate when asked politely to engage in discourse with Randy until the sword-skeleton theory can be incorporated into the article without passing judgment.

—Lore Sjöberg, from "The Misplaced Pages FAQK"

This, the funniest thing I have seen on wikipedia, was stolen from DreamGuy

This editor will not be accepting the edit reviewer rights or having anything to do with "pending changes" - all that is changing are the rules and uses concerning them. Ultimately, it is going to lead to and immense amount of trouble and/or kill "The Encyclopedia any one can edit? and more recently

And in 5 years of Wikipediaring - this has been my favourite edit . The trouble is, I feel I may have spoilt the fun of someone similar to myself.

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Old messages are at:

• User talk:Giano II/archive 1 (From Oct 2004)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 2 (From Jan 2005)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 3 (From July 2005)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 4 (From Jan 2006)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 5 (From July 2006)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 6 (From Jan 2007)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 7 (From July 2007)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 8 (From Jan 2008)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 9 (From July 2008)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 10 (From Jan 2009)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 11 (From July 2009)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 12 (From Jan 2010)
• User talk:Giano II/archive 13 (From July 2010)

Essays and thoughts:

• A few thoughts on writing Featured Articles
• A few thoughts on Misplaced Pages (unfinished)
• One of the reasons I seldom make proper edits these days. and it seems many others too

Pages that might be interesting to edit and improve - help yourself!

List of Dukes of Osuna

Please leave new messages below

Basildon Park

I love it! (But you'd missed the bathroom fittings, tsk tsk. I have added them.) I've merely started a "light copyedit". Bishonen | talk 17:30, 25 August 2010 (UTC).

• Thank you. Funily enough, the house has a stupendous 1930s art deco bathroom on display - truly, perhaps you would like to write it up - even the loo is disguised as an armchair - which I think is very cool!  Giacomo  17:41, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello

How are you this fine September day? I hope you are keeping well. Stifle (talk) 11:45, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

• I am fine and why do you want to know? ----

And I would be better still is this bloody stupid Blackberry thoing let me sign my name

Giano, to get to the "~" key that is used to sign your name, press the "sym" button (right next to the space bar) and the "~" is right above the T. At least that's how you find it on my American Blackberry, it might be different on yours. Tex (talk) 17:16, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Ah, thank you, I'm home now. There is a sort of "longways on" thing above the T, I wondered what the "sym" button was for. I shall try it out tomorrow; I much preferred my old phone, I could use that without all this funny business. I remember a happier day when one just picked up the phone made a simple phone call and that was that. This thing wants to know if I am calling someone's office, mobile or home before it finally condescends to connect me - it should mind it's own business and remember it's a phone and who is paying for it. I suppose it's nice to know that I can edit Misplaced Pages even when on the motorway - I wonder if checkusers can detect who it is? - they need something to do other than peek and pry about. Now that could be very funny - I must expirement and see.  Giacomo  19:49, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

You're one of the encyclopedia-builders I respect most and I was merely interested as to your welfare. Stifle (talk) 20:59, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

That's very reassuring Stifle.  Giacomo  21:19, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Lady Catherine's cruise

How terrific to be joining you all. I hope we don't get another storm and that Lady C. has that piano bolted down tight. Poor Bishonen! And doing so well with the Chopin, too! What a deathless moment when they all went through that window. Good thing the lid was up, eh. I must say Bishonen is a genuine trooper: where did they find that ukelele? And we said that an encore couldn't top the act! --Wetman (talk) 00:40, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

• It's true Mrs Bishonen does need to practice her Chopin - her fingering is not all it could be, but have no fear dear Mr Wetman, you and I will soon be entertaining our friends, you seated at the (bolted down) Steinwey in your white nautical dinner-jacket, cigarette holder in hand; me standing alongside, in my black satin, and pearl choker as we play and sing a selection of Ivor Novello's little ditties. Lady Catherine de Burgh (the Late) (talk) 08:11, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

And, no têtes de fantaisie, Lady Catherine?

May I explain to the rest of you. You see, friends, on last year's cruise Someone Nameless retrieved Giano's dinner card from the threshhold of his stateroom door, and, using purloined green ink, and more than passably imitating Her Ladyship's beautifully controlled hand, added, to the card's lower right corner: Têtes de fantaisie

After luncheon, Giano completely disappeared and was not seen or heard from all day. As eight o'clock rang and the company sat to table, Giano made his glittering entrance, bowing his head to get in the door. He was wearing an enormous papier-mâché sultan's turban, tinted with watercolour and hung about with cut-glass drops improvised from the chandelier in Giano's stateroom.

There was a moment of silence, broken by Her Ladyship's somewhat chilly "And what is the meaning of this, Giano?"

Giano never lost his poise for a moment, and carried through dinner with great aplomb, I must say. Later, the cut-glass pendants were returned to the chandelier. As in a game of Murder, some likely suspects aboard Scrotum were eliminated afterwards, by deduction, but the Culprit was not found.--Wetman (talk) 10:02, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

• Ah that beloved youth, Giano, I keep his foto on the piano always, to remind myself of that happy occasion - what a master of disguise he is. Was ever an aunt so blessed? Lady Catherine de Burgh (the Late) (talk) 11:41, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

day of glory

You were right, it is a certain anticlimax. All I've done is revert ignorance and unhelpful prose.--Scott Mac 08:26, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Yerse, there is a very good reason why I no longer do FAs; after the first dozen-or-so times even the main-page-rewarding invitation to tea with Jimbo loses its novelty. With so many experts on her, one wonders why the unfortunate woman languished unwritten and unloved for so many years.  Giacomo  18:20, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

It's the idiots who think improving an article equals 1) translating it into American or 2)enforcing NPOV by making sure it is fair to modern day Jacobites. 3) Turning good prose to simple boring English for those with a reading age of four. It just makes you want to scream "I've worked on this for three years whereas you've not even once read it properly, so please f*** off". However, I'm sure such sentiment is anti-wikipedian.+--Scott Mac 19:36, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

• Oh I say it to people all the time, don't worry anout it. It rather all comes back to Randy in Boise and the Peloponnesian War. One just has to learn what to ignore and for how long to ignore it before one erupts. For weeks, I have been dropping heavy hints while seemingly studiously ignoring someone assembling galleries of monumantal proportions, tilting the balance on architectural pages, little knowing that's what categories and blue links are for - sooner or later I shall have to put a stop to it - and then everyone will say how mean I am, but c'est la vie and so on. I spent a happy morning earlier this year, in Rome, traipsing around the Stuart palazzi and their nearby churches - I recomend you do the same and then hike off to St Peters to see the memorials - it's very therapeutic and puts things very much into perspective - some of us know and breath the subjects others alas, merely read abreviated biographies and a few websites and feel they know the lot.  Giacomo  21:48, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

• The difference between what's good and what isn't sometimes has very little to do with what the FA/GA reviewers think. I've had a failed GAN and I've refused to make changes demanded at FAC; we each have to do whatever we feel is in the article's best interests, no matter the consequences. I think it's sometimes called integrity. Malleus Fatuorum 23:14, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

True, but once a page is written and one has left it alone for a few weeks, one has to accept certain edits by others, even if one feels they are not always in the articles best interest, otherwise the peanuts all arrive on the talk page or ANI screaming "ownership." The dilemma is knowing where to draw the line between the well meaning, but fairly harmless dumbing down of an article and screwing that article's perspective to such an extent that the page loses its integrity. I don't think its so much one's own integrity, but knowing where to draw a line in the sand.  Giacomo  07:20, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

FAR notice

I have nominated Simon Byrne for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. -- Cirt (talk) 02:37, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Cirt you are a troll, go away.  Giacomo  07:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)