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Barnstar!!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		This is for your valuable efforts on countering Vandalism and protecting Misplaced Pages from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Misplaced Pages. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 12:15, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! Very nice note. Larry Hockett (Talk) 18:08, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Christopher Lloyd

I realize that you have good intentions for deleting my additions to Lloyd's page. However, I'm absolutely certain that he's a comedian. In much of his work, he incorporates unexpecting wit and humor into his roles, even if what he's working in isn't a comedic role or project. Taxi and Back to the Future are definitely among them, because he incorporates remarkable humor and sense of improvisation throughout.

So, if you don't mind, I'd like to add in the term 'comedian' back onto Lloyd's page. The same with Paul Giamatti, as it's pretty much the same with him.

A person doesn't need to be in stand-up to be a comedian, really.Austin012599 (talk) 14:00, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

I know that you also have good intentions. I would just ask you to understand that our own certainty is nearly irrelevant on Misplaced Pages, since we base our assertions on reliable sources. If reliable sources usually characterized Lloyd as “actor and comedian Christopher Lloyd”, then I think you would be on the right track. As is, most RSs don’t use the definition of comedian that you are using, so they don’t call this type of actor a comedian. Accordingly, we should not do so either. I appreciate your understanding. Larry Hockett (Talk) 15:26, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Sandbox

If I am editing text that I inserted I will not use the sandbox - why did you not use the sandbox? If you want to be constructive why do you not find some photos for the article and insert them?Informed analysis (talk) 12:21, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

I use the Sandbox a good bit (see User:Larry Hockett/sandbox for some ideas that have started there in recent months), but on the Peck article I'm interested in whether the encyclopedia actually reflects the assertions made in reliable sources, so there is no role for the Sandbox in that case.

I could try to find some photos if you're requesting help with it; it's something I've done before (see my File contribs) but not particularly a strength for me. There is also a template that you can place on an article talk page to request images from others, though I can't remember the exact syntax of it right now. Larry Hockett (Talk) 12:32, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Interesting - once I finish doing all the movies from 1951 to 60 with sources names and full quotes, the second next film to do would be To Kill a Mockingbird, which I have not seen for 20 years - and it is on TCM tonight. Sort of ironic (or serendipitous).

Just a heads up: Like most formal writing, we usually use quotes only sparingly. As you do more and more work on this, I don't want you to feel picked on if other editors begin to notice that your editing doesn't really conform to WP convention. We all want to work smarter, not harder, no? Larry Hockett (Talk) 17:47, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

This is most puzzling. The editor Informed Analysis has been doing all kinds of research for a month now on Gregory Peck, and I look it over every couple of days and add some things and make some corrections. If you want to assist him or her in doing this article why do not find more sources and insert more data instead of just complaining and adding these strange citations. Why can you not be constructive?2607:FEA8:57A0:DE0:F846:DADB:3B47:CCB0 (talk) 03:45, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

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