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Re: Oops! Sorry About That!
quarkstomperquarkstomper 1257569640|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General / General Discussion » Oops! Sorry About That!

I keep getting your first and last names mixed up. Probably because I used to live in Minnesota, the home of former Vice President and one time presidential candidate Hubert H. Humphrey.

Which reminds me of a story.

My grandparents lived in Minneapolis, and they once had a pastor at their conservative Lutheran church who was a liberal. During the election of 1968, he invited Humphrey to speak at that church. When some of his conservative parishioners objected, he said that if Richard Nixon wanted to come to their church, he was welcome too.

On another occasion, a Republican member of the church spotted him with a button reading "H.H.H." and chided him for wearing a campaign button because pastors should not involve themselves in politics. "This doesn't stand for Hubert H. Humphrey," the pastor said innocently; "It stands for 'Holy, Holy, Holy!'"

Re: Oops! Sorry About That! by quarkstomperquarkstomper, 1257569640|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Re: Oops! Sorry About That!
jhubertjhubert 1257496166|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General / General Discussion » Oops! Sorry About That!

Eh, it happens.

And call me Jürgen - whenever people call me "Hubert" I get flashbacks to my time in the military. ;)

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Re: Oops! Sorry About That! by jhubertjhubert, 1257496166|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Oops! Sorry About That!
quarkstomperquarkstomper 1257477583|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General / General Discussion » Oops! Sorry About That!

I see I've been giving Decade pages the wrong tag. Sorry. Thanks for cleaning that up, Hubert.

Oops! Sorry About That! by quarkstomperquarkstomper, 1257477583|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Re: Plunderable Resources
quarkstomperquarkstomper 1257396764|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General / General Discussion » Plunderable Resources

Mental_Floss looks like a fun place; an eclectic mix of weird and wonderful factoids.

Re: Plunderable Resources by quarkstomperquarkstomper, 1257396764|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Ferrets in the News
quarkstomperquarkstomper 1256873042|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Ferret Legging

I thought about making a page for this story: Florida Man Steals Ferret by Hiding it in Pants and linking it to this page, except that I just did a story on another guy smuggling reptiles underneath his clothing yesterday.

Must be a weird week for pets and trousers.

Ferrets in the News by quarkstomperquarkstomper, 1256873042|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Redirect Pages
quarkstomperquarkstomper 1255866288|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Victoria Of The United Kingdom

Yeah, I've become converted to the idea of making Redirect Pages. At first I thought they were an unnecessary bit of clutter that could be handled just as well by a bit of editing on the page. But that was before I did the page for Queen Victoria and discovered that in order to follow Wikipedia usage I had to call her "Victoria of the United Kingdom". Which meant that every place I wrote "Queen Victoria", I had to change it to "Victoria of the United Kingdom | Queen Victoria" so that the tag would go to the right place. Or else use "Victoria of the United Kingdom" instead of "Queen Victoria" when I wanted to link to Her Majesty's Page.

("Her Majesty's Page"? Sounds like some kind of footman.)

I understand why Wikipedia follows a format of "REIGN NAME of COUNTRY" for kings and such; it enables the site and us to easily differentiate Henry II of France from Henry II of England. But Queen Blessed Victoria! There is only one Victoria Regina. Still, as Emerson said, "A foolish consistency is better than no consistency at all."

Or something like that.

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in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Random Nations

I've started an RPGNet thread in which I demonstrate how to use the Random Nations Generator in practice.

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Re: Meeting the Press
jhubertjhubert 1255112368|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion General / General Discussion » Meeting the Press

More mentions of the Arcana Wiki:

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Re: Meeting the Press by jhubertjhubert, 1255112368|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Hoo hah! This one was a monster!
quarkstomperquarkstomper 1254540980|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Gilbert And Sullivan

I think I'm finally done with my epic bio of Gilbert and Sullivan. There are still bits and factoids I'd love to slip in, but I think for now I'm going to call it done. I also made entries on the relevant day/year pages for all the significant dates. That was a beast to do too, but it whittled down the number of "day" and "year" pages we need to set up yet.

Hoo hah! This one was a monster! by quarkstomperquarkstomper, 1254540980|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
quarkstomperquarkstomper 1254274644|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Welcome to the Arcana Wiki!

Another problem. As it's set up now, the preview pages give the first hundred or so characters of text on the page, no matter what that text might be. In some instances where the page has a piece of flavor text at the beginning, this snippet of text out of context makes no sense and is confusing to the casual reader rather than helpful. I don't know if there's any remedy for this, or if it's just something we'll have to live with.

by quarkstomperquarkstomper, 1254274644|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
I second what he said, and then some.
r_b_bergstromr_b_bergstrom 1254274083|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Welcome to the Arcana Wiki!

I don't care for the new layout, I'm afraid.

Maybe it's not displaying right on my computer? The "10 random pages" section has only 8 pages listed, and they're in huge rectangles with just a tiny bit of text in each rectangle - tons of wasted space.

Plus it's listing redirect pages, so several of the boxes are filled with things like "[This template is just for use in setting up automatic redirects to other pages. This is useful when a page you've created has several possible names or spellings, none of which have any functional…"

If you can set it to not list redirect pages, days, years, and stubs, then it might be worth the eyesore of the layout, the conspicuous wasted space, and the way it messes up the flow of the text off to the right. But as is, I really don't like it.

Sorry if that comes off as harsh.

I second what he said, and then some. by r_b_bergstromr_b_bergstrom, 1254274083|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Page Previews on the Start Page
quarkstomperquarkstomper 1254156871|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Welcome to the Arcana Wiki!

Hm. The preview of the pages under the tabs might be useful to readers. I don't like how the rest of the text is ootched to one side, though. It means that there is a sentence fragment directly under the previews and I wasn't at first sure where the first part of the text was.

Page Previews on the Start Page by quarkstomperquarkstomper, 1254156871|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
jhubertjhubert 1254140327|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Welcome to the Arcana Wiki!

I've altered the tab view of the start page a bit. What do you think?

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in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » The End Of The World As We Know It

I've found this interesting article at Salon:

The Four Horsemen send their regrets - A list of failed predictions of the end of the world, including a few current theories that probably won't pan out

All the dates mentioned in the article really need to be added to the timeline…

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in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Random Nations

I've started to use the rng_economy tag, and added the following new economic systems:

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Am I misunderstanding this?
r_b_bergstromr_b_bergstrom 1253136343|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » 5 Popular Zombie Survival Tactics

Sometimes you just have the time to aim for the head…

Was there supposed to be a "don't" in the middle of that sentence?

Update: I guess there was.

Am I misunderstanding this? by r_b_bergstromr_b_bergstrom, 1253136343|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Why the News Section exists
jhubertjhubert 1253005512|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Putin - The dark rise to power

I've added a lot of news articles to the Arcana Wiki over the last year. But every month or two I come across an article which is pure gaming gold.

This article is one of them.

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jhubertjhubert 1252950935|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Government

Well, I finally got around to adding a few more…

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quarkstomperquarkstomper 1252548726|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Degenerate Matter

Well, considering I used to draw adult furry comics, maybe I shouldn't go there.

by quarkstomperquarkstomper, 1252548726|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
r_b_bergstromr_b_bergstrom 1252506411|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Degenerate Matter

In the time-honored tradition of the internet, it would now be appropriate for you to take offense and assume that the entire point of my making that page was to personally affront you. Then, I, in response, shall become deeply offended as well. Once that is in motion, we can engage in a nasty, ugly flame war.

In the interests of making sure that you are properly armed for said flame war, I volunteer the fact that my parents are unwed. If you run out of argument material, you may always fall back on my bastardy.

:)

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