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Hi Bertaut, I was doing research on which adventure video games are awaiting an article and I happened upon your incredible work on the Dark Fall series.
I just wanted to send a message that if you're looking for a random project to work on, I've listed a bunch of articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Requests#February which could be of interest to you.
Thanks Coin945, I'll certainly keep that in mind in the future, but at the moment, I have enough going on to be keeping me reasonably busy. I appreciate you thinking of me though. Bertaut (talk) 01:53, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello B. An IP removed a section that I restored here. I then ran IA bot but it couldn't find any way to fix the dead link. Before it gets removed again I thought I'd check with you (or any of your TPWers) to see it you could do anything about this. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD|Talk01:16, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, I saw that. No, unfortunately the source of that quote appears to have been lost to the mists of time. It was from a PDF on the Royal Shakespeare Company's page which was removed quite some time ago. Unfortunately, I've only gotten into the habit of archiving my online sources over the last year or so. There is a much shorter version of the quote available online still, in a newspaper called The Northern Echo, but it's only the first three sentences. Every other site which has this quote seems to have taken it from the Wikipedia page. Having said all of that, however, I don't think the quote should be removed. It's a cracking quote, it's not like the article is full of material attributed to dead links, and the quote remained in the article uncontested for years when the source was still available. Bertaut (talk) 02:38, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Per WP:V it will have to go if we can't find somewhere to cite it to (WP:DEADREF and WP:BLP also apply, btw). There's really no rush, of course, as Bertaut points out; but we really should try to elicit a WP:V-erifiable cite if at all possible. See the article's talk page for a previous discussion (which I'm reminded I should follow up on, btw).
Incidentally, I'm not sure you've noticed, but there is a remarkable tendency for IP editors that remove otherwise apparently random chunks of an article to, completely coincidentally I'm sure, remove sections or sentences that touch on feminism, feminist literary criticism, gender studies, or, slightly less commonly, queer theory (this latter seems more subject to advocates that want every single detail in every Shakespeare article to somehow signify that Shakespeare was gay). I would suggest applying a healthy dose of scepticism if an edit or edits that otherwise would not set off alarm bells happens to remove discussion of such topics. The recent kerfuffle at The Tempest is an extreme example, but I've noticed more muted examples over a lot of visible articles and over several years. --Xover (talk) 06:44, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hello B. I saw your edit to your user page about the game article you have worked on and (for reasons that are a mystery) this game popped into my memory. I only vaguely remember the course of play but I do recall that we had to glue some construction paper to the base of the small Shakespeare bust game pieces to keep them from falling over. It is even possible that I still have this in a box in storage :-) I doubt that there is enough info out there to merit an article here on the 'pedia but I thought you would get a kick out of seeing it. Best regards. MarnetteD|Talk05:37, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Fascinating. I've never heard of it. I'll run it past the people on the video game project, there's a couple of guys there who are really knowledgeable about old obscure games. Bertaut (talk) 13:17, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
I was more thorough in reading the info at the website today. If anyone does create an article there is an interesting (to me anyway) DYK hook. The fact that an ad in a 1966 Life magazine lead to sales of 23,000 copies is fairly amazing. That has to be one of Avalon Hill's biggest sellers for one year. It is even possible that I saw that ad and then pestered my parents until they bought it for me. I did some searching but couldn't find that specific ad on the web. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk17:46, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello B. I hope you are well. Last Friday the third season of Shakespeare Uncovered started. In the Much Ado... episode they compared Dogberry and his cohorts to the Keystone Cops, That took me back to the first production of this play that I ever saw. In 1973 the Joseph Papp produced version starring Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes was broadcast on CBS. It was set in the 1920's and had D as a KC :-) Here is a clip. I look forward to the rest of this marvelous series. Best regards. MarnetteD|Talk00:28, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
Hey @MarnetteD: Sorry about the delay in getting back to you, but I was away for a few days. Yeah, I knew the third season was coming up. It airs here on Sky Arts as My Shakespeare, but its schedule is all over the place, shown at different times on different days of the week (to give you an example, season 1 of the show aired here as season 2, and vice versa), and I haven't been able to find anything about them airing season 3, but I'll keep an eye out. I've seen a few Papp productions, and they've always been great. I'm particularly fond of the Meryl Streep/Raul Julia Shrew, but the list of groundbreaking productions he worked on is just crazy. Bertaut (talk) 00:46, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi again. I know how frustrating a shifting schedule can be. Due to PBS pledge programing I missed the episode about Measure for Measure. Fortunately the DVDs come out next month so I'll catch up with it then. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk01:43, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Bertaut,
Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that
Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?"
My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk07:58, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bertaut, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year, Thanks for all your help and thanks for all your contributions to the 'pedia,
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