User talk:Josiah Rowe

W00t! They brought back Josiah Rowe! --Steve 18:04, 2 Dec 2004 (CET)


 * Good Lord. I've become a cross-fandom meme. --Josiah 2:00 AM, 3 Dec 2004 (EST)


 * Be proud. --Steve 07:53, 4 Dec 2004 (CET)


 * And I always thought it was mini-Josiah Rowe that would make my name known (and feared, if you've ever encountered it).


 * Oh, I fear it. --Steve 07:46, 5 Dec 2004 (CET)


 * As do I, my friend. As do I. --Josiah, 5 Dec 2004, 2:00 AM EST

I, I refer to myself in the third person. --Scripps Winborne Whorton Taylor 03:19, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * But... you just referred to yourself as "I", which is the first person! Does not compute... does not compute... *BOOM* —Josiah Rowe 03:32, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Removal of Landru from featured article nominations
Hi Josiah,

Your right, I accidently removed the Landru nomination when I removed the from the list. My mistake. -- Q 15:14, 16 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * Not a problem. I just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed some arcane MA nomination regulation. :) --Josiah Rowe 15:16, 16 Mar 2005 (EST)

Alright vs All right
Changing them is just fine and dandy... as long as you don't change quotes. Changing a quote is bad. :) -- sulfur 16:55, 1 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Is that "alright" from a script, or a transcript? If it was written that way in the script, that's fine, but if that's just somebody writing down what they heard in the dialogue, it would probably be better as "all right". —Josiah Rowe 17:02, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

My understanding is that most of the "alright" bits from TOS are from scripts here and there along the way. There was a guy who had a large collection of old scripts he'd picked up from around the way that went through and edited a bunch of those. So... I'm willing to take it on faith that the spelling's from the scripts in those cases. :) -- sulfur 17:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)


 * OK. If it's that way in the script, that's how it should be.  I had assumed it was just somebody's transcript. —Josiah Rowe 17:18, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Speculation
True, however unless it's noted by a valid source we don't report it as there are many fan speculations and we don't have enough room for them all. :) &mdash; Morder


 * True; but assuming the note about the Spockanalia article is correct, this is a bit of speculation that dates from the earliest days of fandom. (Spockanalia was the first Star Trek fanzine.)  As such, I think it's noteworthy as an early example of fanon being confirmed or referenced in canon.


 * Since the content of that fanzine is not available online, I'm not sure what sort of citation could be used other than the in-text mention. (We don't use the element footnotes here, do we?)


 * If the speculation bit is what needs citation, would you mind if I moved the incite to after that sentence? As it is now, it looks like we're asking for a citation that Nick Meyer wrote The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which is a bit silly. :) —Josiah Rowe 05:42, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I can understand the confusion.
 * Spock attributes the quote "If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" to an ancestor. This quote (and numerous variations) derives from the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Writer/director Nicholas Meyer, a Holmes fan, wrote the well-received Sherlock Holmes novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and adapted it into an Academy Award-nominated screenplay.

The above would probably be a better note as it leaves the reader to decide whether or not Spock is a decedent. :) &mdash; Morder 05:49, 9 June 2009 (UTC)


 * That's reasonable; but let's leave the incite in place after the Spockanalia sentence for a while, to give other editors a chance to find a reference if one exists. (There might well have been an article on Star Trek and Holmes in Star Trek: The Magazine, or some such source, which could support the Spockanalia bit better.) —Josiah Rowe 06:04, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Heh, if we find a note in another source then that's the one we'll keep and not the Spockanalia. Looks good to me anyway. :) &mdash; Morder 06:13, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Good point. :) —Josiah Rowe 06:14, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Masks
The "universally panned" note was meant as a lead-in to the other notes (and be covered by their citations). I rephrased it and put it with the Shankar note so it's clearer where the claim comes from. – Cleanse ( talk 03:04, January 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Fair enough. And I'm glad you found the Ron Moore quote.  I was watching this episode tonight and thought that it really doesn't deserve the reputation it has in some quarters.  It's like a Joseph Campbell lecture come to life. —Josiah Rowe 04:25, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, there's quite a few times where I think episodes are over or underrated in the comments of production staff, but they're still valid notes. In this case, I'm glad there was a differing opinion; it's good if the comments inspire debate about the episode rather than dictate. ;-)– Cleanse ( talk 05:20, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

Dashes
FYI, we've chosen (stylistically) to use shorter dashes than the full mdash that you have added to some articles. Our preference here on MA is the ndash, and it's often best to actually use the HTML code to create it, so that we can ensure that everything is the same size. Thanks. -- sulfur 11:22, July 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I'll use ndashes from now on, and I'll try to remember to type it in with the code.  I hope that it's still OK to change hyphens to dashes where it's appropriate, though.  I don't see anything about punctuation and the like in the Manual of Style; is it written down somewhere else?  Should there be something on the MOS page? —Josiah Rowe 18:10, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

Yah, hyphens (mid-sentence) should be an ndash. When used as a hyphen, just as in this paragraph, it should still be a hyphen. And I thought that it was in the MoS. I'll add that in soon to confirm it there. -- sulfur 22:45, July 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Technically, if it's used to separate a clause or phrase — like this — it's not a hyphen at all, it's a dash. Hyphens connect words, dashes connect clauses.  The usual typesetting convention is to use an ndash for a range or linked concepts (as in "The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, 1930–1944"), but to use an mdash to separate clauses or phrases, like I did in the first sentence of this paragraph.  But it's not set in stone — it's fine if local convention is to use ndashes throughout.  Is there a preference for using spaced dashes – like this – or unspaced dashes–like this–when using dashes to set aside a phrase or clause? —Josiah Rowe 05:22, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

Spaced dashes. Except when splitting words or dates. Those are generally just hyphens (since it confuses people too much most of the time trying to get things right). We went for simplicity, even if typesetting decrees otherwise. :) -- sulfur 10:07, July 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * When you say generally, does that mean that I shouldn't change hyphens in date ranges to ndashes? —Josiah Rowe 23:41, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

Generally, no. But... depends on context. :) -- sulfur 01:10, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean by that, but if I see hyphens being used in date ranges from now on I'll leave them alone. But if I enter a date range myself, I'm probably going to use the typographically correct ndash. :) —Josiah Rowe 01:25, July 6, 2010 (UTC)

Punctuation
I didn't know that an en dash is the proper punctuation for a range of dates, as in "late 2373–late 2375". Put it back then.--TyphussJediVader 00:01, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. :) —Josiah Rowe 00:04, July 16, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry...
I accidentally hit the rollback link when looking at your changes to The Wizard of Oz. Sorry about that. I'm doubly sorry if you were still working on the page and you get an edit conflict. :( --From Andoria with Love 02:43, September 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * No harm done. :) —Josiah Rowe 02:44, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

This is quite belated, but thanks for the heads-up regarding 'prevailing wisdom' and the word 'human' around these parts.
I can't say I agree with it, either, but I'll follow it from hereon out.–

Doctor Who
Way back in July you asked a formatting question on the Doctor Who talk page. No one seems to have responded until now, so I've passed along my 2 cents on the issue. Cheers! 23skidoo 03:50, October 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. —Josiah Rowe 18:16, October 17, 2010 (UTC)