User:Toughpigs/Talk Archive 25

Archive of Danny's talk page.

Psst
If you haven't, check your e-mail. -- Andrew Leal (talk ) 22:45, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, since you're around, if you still have time, or can remember to do so later this week, I'd like your input on Category talk:Celebrities. Apart from the grey area questions there, it's mostly just my long-winded statement describing our general practice to date, since we've been clarifying some "unwritten policies" or communal habits of late. -- Andrew Leal (talk ) 23:48, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Episode 0268
I saw that you added the page for Episode 0268. It says there that this epsidoe has Kermit's lecture on between, which eh demonstrates by being between two poles that are really mops being held by Grover and Herry. However, the page for Kermit's Lectures mentions another between lecture, from the first season, featuring Beautiful Day Monster. Did the source that you used specifically say anything about Grover and Herry being in that sketch, or could you have just misunderstood what sketch was included? Especially since Kermit was temporarily dropped from appearing in new material in the second season. The page for Kermit's lecture sketches mentions only one other sketch with a second season EKA, in which Kermit demonstrates heavy and light with the help of a feather. I don't know if that sketch just wasn't listed in the first season show content or if maybe it was and nobody noticed. And that between sketch that was pictured doesn't show Grover or Herry. If Herry has a blue nose in that sketch than it most likely did originate in the second season. --Minor muppetz 16:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Or that he had one at the beginning of the season. His illustration in the credit crawl has him with a blue nose as well. And since Kermit was not in anything from season two (I haven't seen any source that names one new segment with him in season two), then the segment in #268 would likely be the first season version. -- MuppetDude 15:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Then again, regarding Herry, the blue-nosed illustration could have been a mistake or something. Ernie was illustrated wearing his original purple and orange stripped shirt in The Together Book and Bert's Hall of Great Inventions, both of which were released two or three years after the first season. --Minor muppetz 01:44, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Your reverts to my edits
Why are you a fan of long sentences? They seem to just ruin the flow of the article. I personally don't think they are compound sentences. The "---" in sentences looks sloppy and not needed. Also, for The Comic Muppet Book: "that was published" sounds right, compared to what the article had. It was published then, and hasn't been published since... correct? Past tense should be used. RobJ1981 10:45, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, Rob. I should have said hi to you when I made those changes... Sorry, that probably seemed rude just to revert stuff without saying anything.


 * Collaborative writing is a tricky thing, and sometimes we may not agree on the best way to phrase a particular sentence. I think long sentences can be as effective as short ones.


 * Here's one of the sentences you're talking about:


 * "On this particular day, Scooter has arranged for a famous photographer to come take publicity photos for the show -- and Miss Piggy is horrified to discover that she's developed a spot on her nose."


 * In that case, the compound sentence establishes a relationship between those two events. Miss Piggy is horrified to discover the blemish because she wants to look her best for the publicity photos. If you write that as two separate sentences, it erases the relationship:


 * "On this particular day, Scooter has arranged for a famous photographer to come take publicity photos for the show. Miss Piggy is horrified to find that she's developed a spot on her nose."


 * Writing it that way, it seems like those are two unrelated events.


 * Here's the other sentence:


 * "The Comic Muppet Book is a 32-page graphic novel published in the UK in 1979."


 * "The Comic Muppet Book is a 32-page graphic novel that was published in the UK in 1979."


 * Both versions of the sentence are true, and both are grammatically correct. I think the first version flows better; read them both out loud and see what you think. -- Danny (talk ) 03:08, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Monaco Questions
Hey there,

I was recently converted to Monaco, rather quickly I might add, and had a few enquiries hopefully you could help with. I used to be using Monobook.
 * 1) At the top of your main page, instead of Google ads, you have one large banner ad. How?
 * 2) Under article, you have "From Muppet Wiki". I use to have something similar to this under Monobook, however it's not reappearing with Monaco.
 * 3) How did you get Special:AvatarUpload ?

Cheers, LordTBT Talk! 03:36, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi! I'm going to respond to your questions over on Redwall. -- Danny (talk ) 03:14, 2 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey, you caught me online. While I've noticed the ads at the top of the pages are either randomly Google or banner ads, I've also noticed on Muppets, Halo, & Wookiee that on the Main Page, the ad is always a banner ad, which looks sleeker than the Google ads when one enters the site. The characters in the books are actually rodents (mice & rats), so it explains the Google ads. I appreciate the Common.css tweak. Over the past week I've had a user who has refused to register no matter how many times I've politely asked them too, and has ignored requests to read our style manual and to sign talk pages. I'm getting a little frustrated applying multiple unsigned templates on a daily basis now. The ban wouldn't be permanent, it would be enough so that when the user was unbanned, they should have versed themselves with the style manual. In the welcome announcement it says sign, at the top of the page it says sign, and at the bottom it says sign. How hard can it honestly be? --LordTBT  Talk! 03:44, 2 March 2008 (UTC)