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Hello, Mademoiselle Sabina, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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TheRingess 06:55, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Misery

Hi, and welcome to Misplaced Pages!

I just had a quick question and a comment regarding your recent edit to the article Misery. I was wondering why you deleted the paragraph that you deleted? I haven't read the book, so maybe the information was incorrect or misleading. If it wasn't, I don't understand the deletion. But -- and this leads into my comment -- when you delete an entire paragraph from an article, you definitely shouldn't mark the change as minor, and it's generally a good idea to mention (in your edit summary or on the talk page) why you made such a significant deletion so that other people can understand what you're doing.

Welcome again! We're glad to have you. :) Feel free to get in touch with my on my talk page (or you can reply here, if you like) if you've got any questions or if you want to chat. Hbackman 21:52, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I think that it's okay to reveal the ending if you want to, because of the spoiler warning. It is up to you, though. I thought that you might have been deleting what someone else wrote, which is why I kind of jumped on it.

I haven't been around too long, but I have some vague idea of what I'm doing... ;) don't hesitate to ask for advice if you need any! :) Hbackman 22:09, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Policies and guidelines

It seems to me that it is more helpful to a new person to refer them to specific policies or guidelines than to merely tell them about it. I try to quote the relevant section, when short, as well as provide the wikilink. It is easy for me to do. After 6 months or so, I have wikilinks for a dozen or more of the most frequently cited project pages memorized. But, it is hard for a new person to find the relevant passage sometimes.

Forgive me if it seems rude, but I took a look at some of your contributions. May I make a couple of brief comments? Regarding your edit of A Chorus Line, you might want to refer to Misplaced Pages:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Avoid_overlinking_dates. "Generally, do not link , unless they will clearly help the reader to understand the topic." But when I looked at the year article, 1997, I didn't see anything that would help me understand A Chorus Line. You will find numerous examples where this guidance is not followed. It is easy to get the impression that all single-years should be linked.

Your edit of balance beam was very interesting to me. I remember seeing Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci on TV coverage of the 1972 and 1976 Olympic games. Their performances were so beautiful that tears came to my eyes. Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 17:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Misery

Hi!

I noticed you reverted my correction on the publishing status of the books in Misery (the film and the novel). Now, I haven't read the book, but I know for a fact that Misery's Child was in published form in the film, and that the manuscript was Paul's new, non-Misery book ("Untitled"). I've gone so far as to double check the DVD, just in case I had a false memory. In fact, I believe her buying Misery's Child in town is one of the clues that leads Buster to suspect her. In the case of the article, I had simply assumed someone had made a mistake without realizing, but you seem quite sure of how it is in the book...which leads me to think there may actually be no difference between the book and the film in that regard (not having read the book, again, I couldn't say). It's also possible King made a later revision, reflecting the film's choice (or vice versa). Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Yossarian 01:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for your message about the Misery edit!

I'm sorry for reverting your edit without checking with you about the DVD. The original Misplaced Pages edit--before I stepped in--made it seem as though Misery's Child was unpublished in the film, and that this was the book Paul was forced to rewrite. This seemed to be backed up by other reviews of the film I could find online, and I honestly couldn't remember anything different myself, so I made the changes. Since this doesn't seem to be the case--I stand corrected.

MC is definitely published in the novel version--I went back to my copy of Misery to check. My copy of the book dates from 1988, so it seems that this is an original plot point that carried over to the film. Namaste, Mademoiselle Sabina 05:13, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Children of Heaven

Great edit.

=)

Madangry 17:57, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words about my edit! Namaste, Mademoiselle Sabina 03:31, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Gymnastics

According to your userpage, gymnastics was one of your hobbies, besides, English seems to be your native language (or at least you write in it at advanced level). Then why had you stopped contributions to related articles? :( I was waiting for a few words about compulsories... At least I, consider your edits very valuable.

P.S. If you don't like me speaking to you for any reasons, feel free to tell me this. I'll understand. Cmapm 02:34, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Cmapm! I don't mind your speaking to me at all. You've been very nice to me and you've been a great help on the gymnastics-related articles. Thanks for all your encouragement!

I actually hadn't realized that I hadn't updated the gymnastics articles in a few days. I've worked on brushing up the articles for some of the British and Brazilian gymnasts, and I've been thinking about how to go about writing about compulsories. I'll definitely be getting back to work now. :) Namaste, Mademoiselle Sabina 03:26, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi again, Mademoiselle Sabina! I've seen your latest addition to Artistic gymnastics article, it was great! Sorry, I hadn't taken into account, that you might edit biography articles instead of editing topics on general subjects. And I thought, that you stopped edits at all :) And once more I want to say, that I like your gymnastics-related editing very much!!! Cheers! Cmapm 09:11, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Theater

Thanks for your recent theater edits. --Arcadian 12:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

"Alternative"

"Alternative" is both a noun and an adjective; "reserve" is fine, though. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 12:40, 16 March 2006 (UTC)