User talk:JCaesar

From The TV IV

I set-up a compact table of contents for glossary type pages and put it on your House Medical Dictionary pages. Makes them much more functional and useful hope you don't mind. --The-jam

Not at all. In fact, may I say, THANK YOU. I was hoping to find a logical way to do that.

Re: Simmone Mackinnon

Didn't actually realise ya wanted it that way. As far as I was aware she's going by Simmone Jade Mackinnon, so it seemed kinda silly to have 2 pages for the same person. Will remember for next time tho.--Alcatel 05:57, 19 January 2008 (EST)

...oh, and btw, genuine thanks for the acknowledgement, it's always great to hear your contribution is appreciated.

House Dictionaries

Those House Dictionary articles are insane! I love them, and you're doing a great job with it. --Wizardryo\^talk 03:59, 25 March 2006 (EST)

Catchphrase

For what it's worth, Merriam-Webster Online says the spelling is catchphrase, one word. —Naddy 12:04, 5 April 2006 (EDT)

I just did a search, and I'll be happy to correct all usages. Thanks. —JCaesar 9:03, 5 April 2006 (PDT)

Actor Disambiguation

Why are you removing the disambiguation from actor articles that I have created? DCEdwards1966 | Talk 15:36, 8 May 2006 (EDT)

Most of my edits are done under the username DCEbot. I don't, however, run any bot code and all my edits are done by hand. When I create the episode pages for a show I try to create the actor and character pages as well. I have been using the names that IMDb uses because they have already had to deal with the disambiguation issue and I assume that they are pretty much the standard for this kind of information. I started creating the pages because I thought it would be easier for the casual editor to add information to an existing article.

I agree that the formatting should be standardized and I think the table format is the way to go. I too have noticed that many of the pages that have information on them appear to have been copied from IMDb. DCEdwards1966 | Talk 09:10, 9 May 2006 (EDT)

Admin

Hey man, congratulations on making admin. --Hawkman | talk 18:15, 17 May 2006 (EDT)

"Season Overview" for Season One of House, M.D.

Hi. I'm not aware of any new consensus regarding this. You refered to Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Season Four as an example and that page does contain a Season Overview link. I restructured the page because your text is really long – roughly 3 times longer than the Buffy text. IMHO that's long enough to justify its own article. And since we should put those Season Overview links in every season page, Season Overview pages should be used. --KAMiKAZOW 15:38, 19 May 2006 (EDT)

Monk

How about an explanation for moving this into drama. Actor Tony Shalhoub has won 2 Emmys, 2 SAGs and 1 Golden Globe for Monk, all in the comedy category. As far as I can recall, it's never even been nominated in the drama category. It clearly belongs under comedy. --MateoP 17:20, 8 June 2006 (EDT)

Didn't see your comment in that one thread, disregard. --MateoP 17:25, 8 June 2006 (EDT)

Unsure of placement

I have some information on props used in Blade: The Series. Where do you think this should be put? Not sure if there is a precedent for that type of information. thanks. --MateoP 21:53, 9 June 2006 (EDT)

Nomination voting

When is the nomination voting going to start? It should be soon if you expect everyone to vote by the fifth.The-jam 10:47, 30 June 2006 (EDT)

It started days ago. Check the forum. --Wizardryo\^talk 20:13, 30 June 2006 (EDT)

Can someone activate my account then it won't let me login.The-jam 03:09, 1 July 2006 (EDT)

Reply: Stay Away

Even allowing your absurd definition of vandalism (vandalism is blanking an article or replacing the text of an article with the word "fart", etc. Inserting information that you disagree with isn't vandalism), if I were to make an edit to, for example, correct a spelling mistake, that couldn't be categorized as a revert or vandalism even under your absurd definition of it.

You can't tell people to stop editing a page simply because it inconveniences you. Having someone edit while one is editing themselves is an inconvenience to everyone. Deal with it like everyone else does. But being a moderator doesn't entitle you to call dibs and demand that everyone wait until you finish just so that you don't have to experience this mild inconvenience.

Nevertheless, I'm going to let you have your way here, despite it being an incredible abuse of techinical power. However, I won't simply let it go, either. You, now two, abuses of power will be the subject of discussion in the future. My advice to you is to hang it up for the night and give yourself time to cool off and write some acknowledgments of mistakes (in the form of apologies) in the morning or whenever you finally cool down. --MateoP 00:32, 23 July 2006 (EDT)

Wow

Okay, you win. This is the longest definition I've ever seen on anything in my life. Bravo. --Wizardryo\^talk 08:40, 23 July 2006 (EDT)

Re: Wentworth Miller Page

Thanks, JCaesar. About the "Quotes" section, I never really liked that section on an actor's page but I don't have a strong opinion against it either. That edit made on Wentworth Miller's page was done ages ago - I don't really remember it except that I changed the text formatting since it was so messy. :) Thanks again, JCaesar for the compliment. :) -- Amadeus 06:49, 1 August 2006 (EDT)

Q

"This role has been played by Desmond Llewelyn and John Cleese." There have been no others

A quick perusal of the IMDb reminds us that there was a character of Q in both Never Say Never Again and the 1967 Casino Royale, and these were played by other actors. —Naddy 09:10, 11 August 2006 (EDT)

Talk Show Historical Guest Info

I've found the information on various sites on the net. Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien were the easiest to complete, although it is possible that there are some errors. The NBC site for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has a list of the last few seasons of episodes. The official site for Johnny Carson] has an incomplete database of shows as well.

I have accumulated data for Carson and Late Night with David Letterman but I don't think I have enough to flesh out the season pages. I finally added Leno since it is an ongoing show. The NBC website gives the show number as well as season start/end for the last few seasons which made it easier to add the later seasons without having complete info on the early seasons.

A good first place to start is TV.com, TVRage.com and IMDB.com. I think they were all seeded from TVTome but have diverged since then. TVRage seems to be more up to date on talk shows that TV.com.

I've been meaning to go to the University of Tennessee library. They have every issue of TV Guide on microfilm. That would be a good way to get fairly accurate data.

I guess, to answer your question, there isn't any one place to find the data. DCEdwards1966 | Talk 16:18, 14 August 2006 (EDT)

reply

Thanks for the tip, but I'm not going to radically change the way I write because one random control freak is annoyed by having to look at two spaces in edit mode. Even the extremely bureaucratic Wikipedia has no policy on the matter.

Furthermore, I would suggest that if you plan on participating in wikis more, that you get used to things not always been uniform one hundred percent of the time. It's the nature of the beast when you are dealing with hundreds or thousands of different people with different backgrounds. It's good to keep things somewhat uniform for organizational purposes, but petty things such as this just works to drive people away. Wikis aren't the place for obsessive compulsive people. Please don't reply further as I don't want to waste any more time from legitimate editing to participate in an unnecessary and fruitless conversation on french spacing. --MateoP 18:53, 20 August 2006 (EDT)

Asking someone to use last names for real people is asking for minor change. Asking them to slow down their typing so they can make sure they don't do one little thing they've naturally done their whole life is a major change. No one is holding down space until they feel like stopping. No one is putting 30 spaces or even 5 space. I'm putting 2 after periods only, which is extremely common.

Being annoyed by stuff is part of the territory on wikis. Even in the most bureaucratic settings they don't make policies because a handful of obessive compulsives are annoyed by seeing something in edit mode. In fact, there are things that you do that annoy me. Such as writing reviews for shows/episodes everywhere but in the review section. Do what I and everyone else who uses wikis do when mildly annoyed: deal with it. I suggest using the "control" button while you move the cursor. Or better yet, buy a mouse, they are increasingly common with computers these days. Reply if you want, but this is my last, there is a lot of real editing that needs to be done. --MateoP 19:28, 20 August 2006 (EDT)

Whose Line is it/Is It Anyway - Progress

I moved all the UK pages and edited the episodes of season four and five. I also found a way to move all pages at once, so if you want me to I could do that for the US pages, too. You would still have to edit the page contents to match the new names, though. --error 08:44, 8 October 2006 (EDT)

Glad I could help, even if I only got to half of the fourth season before bedtime. --Ryvius 04:52, 9 October 2006 (EDT)

Title Capitalization Style

CMS it is?

I'm not sure changing titles from AP to CMS style would actually be less work than the other way around. For instance, how many shows are there with the preposition "about" in their title? Really, it's a mess either way. —Naddy 09:06, 27 November 2006 (EST)

CMS lowercases prepositions regardless of length. Capitalizing prepositions with more than four letters is yet another style. (I don't know who's the most prestigious proponent of that.) —Naddy 16:16, 27 November 2006 (EST)

If you google for "title capitalization" you will find instances where the five-letter cut-off is recommended, e.g. [1]. I don't know if any reputable style guide supports this. Oh, and I'm mentioning this just for completeness' sake, I'm not arguing we should use it. As I said before in e-mail, there is no absolute right or wrong here, it's contested and a matter of house style. Whichever style you want to choose, I'm fine with it. —Naddy 19:44, 27 November 2006 (EST)

SNL Screenshots

I need to start clearing out the 9+ gigs of SNL episodes I've accumulated, so let me know if you need any screnshots from these episodes before I do it:

I'm going to be holding onto that last one since I have to restructure the specials entirely to fit in the ones that were missed, but the others need to go if they're just going to be taking up space. Let me know if you have any ideas, even for pages that haven't been made or filled out yet. --IndieRockLance 18:03, 6 January 2007 (EST)

SNL

Yeah, I included that in my tasks. As far as I know, he uploaded images images for all of the season 31 episodes, but didn't crop them or add them to the individual pages. All of them are named as "Hostname-Musicalguest" which kinda goes outside the naming convention I've been using but I'm sure that'll be alright. I used one of them for the Steve Martin/Prince episode, but only after making it look a little better. I'm going to keep hacking away at season 32 as it airs and try to add episodes I can find online. Right now I have Johnny Knoxville/System of a Down (30x18) and Sarah Michelle Gellar/Backstreet Boys (24x19) in the pipe, as well as SNL Remembers Phil Hartman once I figure out the special episodes quandary. --IndieRockLance 19:10, 27 March 2007 (EDT)

I would imagine that the band could be either its own page or part of the season overview in its own section. I'm hesitant to overload sections with excess information, so something on the band based on however we wind up doing the Weekend Update page or pages should be fine. Speaking of overloading pages, I have a feeling that pages like Bill Clinton may be getting to the point where they are unwieldy. It could be a good idea to put cabinet and related members of an administration on a second page if they're popularly shown in sketches like Clinton was. But the best thing to do for the specials would be to figure out just how many there have been, including Best Ofs and whatnot. From there, we'd have to renumber and fix the entries that are there and maybe relegate them to a different section rather than attempting to fit them into the season pages. --IndieRockLance 21:00, 27 March 2007 (EDT)

Just so you know, I'm grabbing all of Season 30 right now and will be tackling that when it finishes. 30 is a pretty notorious trainwreck season so this ought to be interesting. And by interesting, I mean painful. --IndieRockLance 14:40, 30 March 2007 (EDT)

I just had Futaba on there because I listed anything which I had pictures for that were missing pages, so feel free to do his page yourself since you're already working on those first season characters anyway. As to how to decide about characters, I would say that the character would need a bit more to it than just a name and a funny voice. Maybe went comes to characters like Sherry or Darrell Hammond's Skeeter, we should back up and think about whether or not the sketch had specifically called for that character. Like, Darrell Hammond frequently appears as a character named Skeeter, but that character is usually just an incidental yokel. I wouldn't call that a character worth noting. --IndieRockLance 16:03, 30 March 2007 (EDT)

I was under the impression that we were only doing pages for the anchors specifically, rather than big compilation pages like what we do for the presidents, anyway. Amber and Terrell, I would consider to be characters because it's more than just a name and a funny voice. Amber's sketches are clearly written with her in mind since the joke is that she doesn't really belong on any of the shows since she only has one leg and is generally trashy. Terrell is a case of a writer writing for himself and he was really the only recurring character who was named in those audience question monologues. --IndieRockLance 20:01, 30 March 2007 (EDT)

Ivy Awards

I didn't quite finish setting the awards up because I was having less and less time to work on them and it was also getting further and further away from summer so it seemed more and more pointless. I also wanted to try and write one or two comments for each category so I didn't see it as being that close to done. --The-jam 22:01, 16 January 2008 (EST)

Site notice

CygnusTM put a rss feed in the site notice I just commented it out until I had time to make a new post. If you edit MediaWiki:Sitenotice and remove the < !---- and ----> it will redisplay. --The-jam 19:48, 17 January 2008 (EST)

Voting for IVy Awards

I'm one of the top 30 editors and I would like to register to vote. --HuskersRule 18:29, 25 February 2008 (EST)

I also am one of the top 30 editors and would like to register to vote. Rvb strongbad 18:43, 25 February 2008 (EST)

Hi there, would you please register me to vote also. Cheers, --Alcatel 03:02, 26 February 2008 (EST). Thanks dude/tte, have now voted :-)) --Alcatel 02:22, 27 February 2008 (EST)

Year Cats / IVY Awards

I happened to see what you were doing in my watchlist and thought it seemed like a cool thing. I had actually thought about something similar to it before. I think the first one I noticed that you did was 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo which seemed like an odd one to start with, until I realized that is early in the alphabetical list, so I figured I'd pick up where you left off. I'll gladly continue work on it when I get a chance, but that might vary from day to day if/when I get the time. Quick question about it, how did you plan on dealing with miniseries/specials? Should they just go in the decade/single year categories? What about a 'YYYY Miniseries and Specials' category or something like that?

As for the IVY Awards, I will gladly vote if you tell me how to register. -Joltman 07:42, 29 February 2008 (EST)

Default Sort tags

I saw you were removing the default sort tags I put on the shows that start with multiple capital letters. I put those there because the Mediawiki software for some reason alphabetizes all capital letters first which is pretty counterintuitive to anyone looking up programs in categories. So unless you have a compelling reason why we shouldn't alphabetize a capital letter as if it was a lowercase letter please don't remove those default sort tags. --The-jam 14:01, 9 March 2008 (EDT)

Year Categories and Pilot Movies

How do we handle shows where a pilot movie/special aired well before the start of the first season, e.g. Red Cap or Intelligence? Does the pilot count for the premiere date, or do we stick it in the miniseries and specials category and use the first season for the premiere date? —Naddy 15:52, 9 March 2008 (EDT)

Year cats for unsold pilots and films

How are we treating unsold pilots, the same way we treat specials? Meaning they would get a decade, year, and year Miniseries and Specials. -Joltman 09:41, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

Also, what about films? Do we treat them the same as specials? Should we treat them differently if they are a TV movie vs a direct-to-video or theatrical film? -Joltman 09:49, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

About the IVy Awards

Thanks for inviting me to take part in the IVy Awards vote, but I couldn't do so due to personal reasons at the time (family emergency). — Eyes Only 20:49, 2 April 2008 (EDT)

Andrew Sachs article

The article on Andrew Sachs has been getting crazy hits this week due to the whole prank call controversy might be a good idea to do an update and include a mention of the controversy. --The-jam 19:07, 30 October 2008 (EDT)