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Thanks. I appreciate the extra effort you've put into the article.
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r_b_bergstrom 1258331269|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
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Oops. Double post.
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I saw that earlier, and I was a little weirded out by the "be warned, but be informed more" part. It seemed pretty ominous, but it's hard to read emotion on the internet, so I figured it probably wasn't intended to sound intimidating. At the time I decided I was going to just leave it alone…
…but since you've made the very reasonable request that we have more than just wikipedia as a source, I just added an entry for the book I can put my hands at the moment that discusses the Cathars. It doesn't really talk at all about the Perfecti, but it does corroborate the notion that the Cathars leadership were exterminated by the Catholic Church. I had listed it as a source for my more general Cathar page. I've seen other references in other things I've read, but none recently enough to be able to list in the bibliography from memory.
Giving it another google search, I did find an interesting site that discusses the possibilities of the Cathar lines surviving. Link to cathar-dot-info. It also mentions "Guilhem Belibaste" being put to death in the fourteenth century, and mentions a few other Cathar lines and enclaves that suffered similar fates… but suggests a secret succession / tradition could potentially have survived. I'll go add Cathar.info to the bibliography on the various pages, as I think it would be of interest to anyone using the Cathars in a game.
I would like to make a statement to the Anonymous poster. If anything in my Cathar pages offended you at all, I'm sorry. I myself am a vegetarian, and was raised Christian but am inclined to believe in reincarnation, so I find the Cathar very interesting. I intended my posts to be respectful, and am extremely sorry if I failed at that intent.
quarkstomper 1258318095|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » Cathar Perfect
I wish the Anonymous friend who made the edit to this page criticizing the "official view" would elaborate a bit. The article as written, seemed fairly balanced to my unknowledgeable eye. It did not brand the Cathars as heretics, and seemed to describe their beliefs and practices in non-judgmental terms. If the poster — or any of our other readers for that matter — knows of any contrary claims or information, I'd be interested in seeing it added to the article. And I always think it's a good idea to have more sources in the bibliography than just Wikipedia.
I added this comment to the page as well, since I'm not sure the Anonymous poster will see it here in the Forum.
And no, this is not a call to block Anonymous edits again. I don't think this guy is a troll. But I would like to see more substance from his remarks.
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in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » September 13
- sigh *. And I thought the year would give it away.
I'm sure it would have, if I'd bothered to pay any attention to the year. Well, to be honest, since I've never seen the series, I probably would have missed it anyway.
I now understand why you thought you could get away with without listing the series, and assumed we'd be clever enough to figure it out. Sorry I had to go and prove you wrong.
On a related note, I'd never before realized that the RPG Space: 1889 had a reference (almost a joke, even) in it's title, so thank you for opening my eyes to that.
If you need me, I'll be over here in the corner. You can't miss me, I'm the one in the pointy cap with the big "D" on it.
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in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » September 13
- sigh *. And I thought the year would give it away.
It's a reference to the mid- '70s TV series Space: 1999. I should probably edit the entry to make that clear.
r_b_bergstrom 1257776579|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
in discussion Meta Forums / Per page discussions » September 13
Re: The lunar explosion.
My two cents: I'm thinking that on fictional events, we probably need a reference to what it book or movie it's from. That way, if someone likes the idea and wants to incorporate it into their campaign, they'll know where they can go to get more information.
Or is, by chance, the event from a book or movie named Moonbase Alpha, and I'm just not cool enough to have that light a bulb over my head?
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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!'"
jhubert 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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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.
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in discussion General / General Discussion » Plunderable Resources
Mental_Floss looks like a fun place; an eclectic mix of weird and wonderful factoids.
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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.
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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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I've started an RPGNet thread in which I demonstrate how to use the Random Nations Generator in practice.
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in discussion General / General Discussion » Meeting the Press
More mentions of the Arcana Wiki:
- Questing GM blog post
- Held Action blog post
- A Cornucopia of Weirdness - Science Made Cool blog post
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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.
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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.
r_b_bergstrom 1254274083|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
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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.
quarkstomper 1254156871|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
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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.
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I've altered the tab view of the start page a bit. What do you think?
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