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Good Article promotion

	Congratulations!
	Thanks for all the work you did in making Dr. No (film) a certified "Good Article"! Your work is much appreciated. In the spirit of celebration, you may wish to review one of the Good Article nominees that someone else nominated, as there is currently a backlog, and any help is appreciated. All the best, – Quadell

Ian Fleming

There was a small article about Ian Fleming in The Sunday Times this week. It's only four pages so I have scanned it in case there is anything that might be useful (the pages are not sequenced in order in the gallery, but files are named after the page numbers i.e. 18-21): http://postimage.org/gallery/7ia02is4 Betty Logan (talk) 07:03, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks for this - I'll have a read through them today and see what can be dropped into the article. Cheers - SchroCat (^ • @) 07:23, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

• I've uploaded the trailer cap to the main Misplaced Pages site at File:Dr No trailer.jpg. Fastily obviously couldn't afford us the courtesy of transferring them over (although it was pretty clear that was what was going to happen, either under a US PD licence or an FUR—I guess he just had to make things as awkward as possible). Carl Lindberg seems to have a pretty good grasp on the legalities, so I've assumed he is correct about it still being in the US public domain, but not in the UK. If this turns out to be incorrect down the line, we can probably cook up an FUR for most of the articles it is used in. I'm not sure there is much point in re-uploading the Honey Rider images since I recall you uploading one with an FUR, so that's pretty much taken care of. Betty Logan (talk) 19:35, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah - we'll have to live with what we have here. It's a shame, as FLs etc have a stronger need to free images than GAs, and it acted as a great free 'header' image in a number of cases. - SchroCat (^ • @) 21:37, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

• Betty, do you have an author for the article? There's some good stuff I'd like to drop in to various places. Cheers - SchroCat (^ • @) 21:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, it's written by Mark Edmonds. Replied to your email BTW. Betty Logan (talk) 03:24, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Cheers for that - and replied back! - SchroCat (^ • @) 05:40, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

just scheduled, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:43, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Congrats on that! I understand your aprehension (specially because my most edited article is on the TFA requests), but let's hope the visit spike ends up being good for the Bond articles. igordebraga ≠ 13:58, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

TBrandley 16:12, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Misunderstanding

Your edit here. Of course it's a 1977 book. "1978" refers to the Whitaker annual that contained the publication data. My edit here added the month of publication. As no other novel in the article has a citation verifying the month of publication I saw no reason to add one now. However editors may have wondered where I got the month from, hence the embedded comment. In future I'll add this information to the edit summary.

On the subject of Bond revisionism and how unreliable even primary sources can be (increasingly my major annoyance), the Fleming site appears to claim that Amis's identity was a secret at the time of publication ("Colonel Sun was a great success on publication and the intriguing mystery of the author's identify was well kept.") and that the book was a great success - whatever that means - which as we know was not the case. - Fanthrillers (talk) 17:16, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Mea culpa - I missed the addition to the month field and only saw the comment and thought you were questioning the publication year! I also have some issues with the IFP website and had to double check the publication dates of all the entries on the BL website, while all the other info I've taken from there I've also double checked elsewhere. - SchroCat (^ • @) 21:41, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Count de Blojean

As you can tell by my new signature, my Swiss retreat beckons..☠ Count de Blofeld 07:06, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

He he - the scouting mission for a Norwegian lair is almost complete. You could run the world from here and no-one could find you! - SchroCat (^ • @) 03:28, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

A view to a kill

The current dynamite part is completely inaccurate and you know it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.76.119.10 (talk) 22:36, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

No, it's no, and I know it. I also know (and understand) about WP:FILMPLOT, which is something you appear not to have read. - SchroCat (^ • @) 02:58, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Rollback?

Do you want the rollback userright to help you with vandalism? Ed  05:13, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Ed, That would be great, thanks very much! As this is largely for Fleming, does this come with special Bond-features, such as cattle prod, flamethrower etc? Cheers! - SchroCat (^ • @) 05:16, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm not authorized to give you the ejector seat. ;-) You now have the rollback and auto-patrolled rights. Use them well! Ed  20:12, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank's Ed - it's much appreciated. M ost of the stuff I had to deal with yesterday was well-intentioned but erroneous, but there was still a big amount of proper vandalism there too. Now I'm "licenced to rollback" I can sort these out much more efficiently. Cheers - SchroCat (^ • @) 07:40, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Precious

	James Bond big picture
	Thank you for quality articles and lists around James Bond, achieved in collaboration and precisely timed on today's Ian Fleming, also for fighting vandalism with cattle prod and flamethrower, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:13, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Congrats on the front page!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 15:31, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

You seen Skyfall? I'm going next week sometime, too busy tonight!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 19:51, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, like the sad git I really am I was at the 10.15 showing this morning! Bloody good film—truly one of the great Bond films of all time and Craig has cemented his place in Bond history with it. They've managed to get a solid and credible plot (with only one hole in it), a crackingly good cast and a superb ending. It's got everything you could want - including some nice humourous touches about some of the previous films. - SchroCat (^ • @) 19:57, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

That good? Wow. I'm so glad because Quantum was a major disappointment and I think with the right script Craig could produce one of the best films. Glad to see he has made it. Yeah just seeing the film poster and hearing the theme music I can tell it is gonna be something of a classic. I'm on the case with Le Mesurier this weekend, will try to make it more comprehensive but not overdo it. Now Dr. No, we really must get to FA. Another peer review and request input from Brian and Jim? ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:59, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah - I still need to clear a couple of bits off my desk first (both on Wiki and in RL) and then onto Dr. No for an FA push. It needs a good re-vamp before a PR, I think: there's no themes discussed and a few major bits that have to be done first, but it shouldn't be too much, once we get started. - SchroCat (^ • @) 17:17, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

This is a good source..♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 15:54, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Cheers for this: I'll have a look over tomorrow and see what can be used. Off to see it again tonight, so I'll be able to clear up some annoying points (what's Silva's proper name etc) - SchroCat (^ • @) 17:17, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Liking those film posters you uploaded. Are those the actual cinema posters at time of release? As it should be I think.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 14:12, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

They are! Someone gave me a copy of this a few weeks ago, so I've been able to find copies of the originals for every film, including details of the artists and illustrators, which is even better! - SchroCat (^ • @) 14:22, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Spy network

Do you think we could concoct an FUR to allow us to shove this into ? It is bloody marvelous! Betty Logan (talk) 18:00, 30 October 2012 (UTC)