User talk:Ssd
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If you want to talk to me about #Category changes, please read the section below first and add your comment there. --ssd 02:14, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
If I answer your comment within a day of you posting it, I'll answer here unless you request otherwise.
I don't bother archiving what was here. If you wanna see it anyway, look for DELETED in the history.
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Sysop
Congratulations! After receiving 100% support on RfA, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Good luck. Angela. 21:10, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)
- That's a helpful link! I've put them all in my watch list, and downloaded for later persual the ones I dind't read on the spot. I'll go through all of them in the next couple of weeks (offline) and read the relevant ones sooner. --ssd 03:51, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Neal Stephenson
Feel free to revert my modifications if you disagree - I promise not to take offense. :)
I agree that the last four books are historical fiction, but after reading almost all of his work (I have not yet read "The Big U", and I have not finished "Mother Earth, Mother Board"), I find that he does tend toward the same topics. You can see it clearly in "The Diamond Age", which reads almost like a rough draft of the Cryptonomicon/Baroque Cycle story. The Diamond Age deals with digital currency, cryptography, alchemy, information technology (of course).... it practically even has Shaftoes and Waterhouses (but that is beside the point). It seems that any of his books or short stories (save the Stephen Bury books, perhaps) touch on many if not all of these topics. The latest books are set in the Baroque era, but in all other ways they fall right in line with his other works.
Just some ramblings. Make whatever modifications you feel are needed to make this a better encylopedic entry. -Armaced 16:31, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- I don't disagree, it is just that I can't figure out how to add the phrase back in without messing up teh prose. :) --ssd 02:05, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hmmm. In the first paragraph, we say that he has a predisposition to divert into explorations of the history of science. Then, in the second paragraph, it is mentioned that his latest work, The Baroque Cycle, is a very long historical novel.
Perhaps the snagging point of contention is that the old sentence "Neal Stephenson is known primarily as a science fiction writer in the postcyberpunk genre, although his latest works are historical fiction focusing on the history of science. " seems to insinuate that his latest work is not postcyberpunk, and is therefore an exception to his usual style. I think the latest books are postcyberpunk, in that they are science fiction books about information technology. Sure, they take place in the 1700's, but hey, that Enoch guy is really old. Anyway, as I said before, I can see how people would disagree.
By the way, are you reading (or have you read) System of the World? I am about half way through with it now and, while it is not quite as much fun as Cryptonomicon, I am having a great time with it. It is great to find an author that respects the intelligence of his readers. -Armaced 03:07, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- I haven't read the second book yet. It's sitting on the top of my bookpile. :) --ssd 03:17, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Categories for deletion maintenance
Hey, I need a sanity check on this, and since you're one of the other administrators that works on CfD, I thought you'd be a good person to ask.
I've done some restructuring at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/resolved which I think brings it closer to what it's supposed to be. (That is, interesting decisions are summarized, not included in full unless they are likely to be controversial, in which case I have archived them on sub-pages.) Is that acceptable? (I'm not done with all the summaries, obviously.)
I'd like to move on to archiving the entries at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/unresolved, which is generally a much bigger mess. I figure that individual entries there ought to all be archived on sub-pages, since they wouldn't be on unresolved if the discussion weren't worth retaining. I'd like to have my work checked by someone else before I start on this enormous project, however. --Aranel ("Sarah") 15:01, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- I love the summaries you've written, very nice! Including the date was a good idea. It may be a good idea to also include the final vote count (this is even more important on unresolved). I'd like to see links to the archived discussion; I don't know if the discussion is important on /resolved, but it is fairly critical on unresolved. People might add their comments to unresolved, so it might be a good idea for the date to indicate when the count on the summary page was last updated/changed. Good work! --ssd 15:56, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
WP:CfD
Yeah, I'm just trying to give you and Sarah a hand to get caught up. I usually take care of RfD and WP:AN, but you all seem like you could use a hand for a bit! :-) I hope I didn't mess anything up, or do stuff not a la your system; if so, apologies in advance. Noel (talk) 02:30, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Baldwin Brothers
Yes it is in Categories for Deletion, I just thought that since you created the category it would be polite to inform you. Dowew 20:19, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Template:Testday
Template:Testday, which you created, has been nominated for deletion at WP:TFD. BlankVerse ∅ 14:12, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Yea! Good riddance! --ssd 00:50, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)