User talk:Brossow

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-- B.Rossow ^talk_contr

Grammar

I'm not trying to be a stickler or anything...I respect the devs and this wiki. My first edit was to correct the grammar so that it *would not* reflect poorly on anyone. I realize the need to maintain the quote, but leaving the grammar as is without any note or correction reflects poorly on the wiki (IMO). I'll leave it alone, since you'll probably undo my changes again, but I don't think copying/pasting poor grammar is a great idea. You can delete this after you've read it.

Believe me, it bothers me, too. One of my degrees is in English education. While the poor grammar bugs the bejesus me, I'm firmly against revising a direct quote -- in this case, from one of the developers. I believe that here the best thing to do is simply leave it alone. Most people probably won't notice the error without it being pointed out with [sic] and those who do notice it will probably get over it. Drawing attention to the error only worsens the MH image, IMHO, much more so than does simply ignoring it for a few days. That brings me to the most important point: the announcement will soon be gone from the main page, replaced with whatever news item is subsequently posted by the developers. So while I'm generally in favor of correcting grammatical and other errors whenever possible, in this case it's a direct quote that mustn't be changed and calling it out with [sic] only serves to throw a spotlight on it. Hope that makes sense.  :-) (P.S. Don't forget to sign your comments on Talk pages!) -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 20:35, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

sounds good, thanks for the reply--Soundstripe 20:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Work

Mainly advertisement designing for a couple of nightclubs. Just finished my studies last year, actually. Thinking of starting a little business with a friend. Yourself? :) Revengeance 07:11, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the Burroughs River Page

I think we should keep this page though possibly revert it back to the original page originally made by Dave. The page itself serves no more use other than a history to the development of the three new furoma locations. Also, we all love a little history of MH don't we? We're still trying to find out who Ronza is after all =p

• Since the articles for referenced locations are causing the same problem as crafted cheeses, I'm thinking we could use the same solution and just put them all into a single article. I've made an example in my sandbox after going through every location/loot/mouse description and only selecting the capitalized references. The exclusions include Ronza's homeland, Zugzwang's tower, the eastern island and the northern forest of Furoma. Revengeance 12:47, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Looks excellent! Start the page by clicking this link: Referenced locations. -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 13:38, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
    • Done. :) Revengeance 05:17, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Crafted cheese

Brent, why did you undo the changes I made for the crafted cheese pages? --Robinm 23:57, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

• Because the crafted cheeses should stay together as was previously decided unless and until there's more than a couple lines of info about them. There's not enough individual info to merit a separate page for each. If you look at page histories before editing, there's much you can learn.  :-) -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 00:00, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

An addition to the FAQ

Based on the fact that Dave Vanderburg himself has said that switching traps/bases will not affect luck in catching mice (according to his revision history of Master of the Cheese Belt Mouse), would it be worth mentioning that in the FAQ? It's (unfortunately) a REALLY widely-held belief that changing traps will make it easier to catch things, and it might sway people against it if we mentioned it. --Kirbix 03:27, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

• Go for it.  :-) -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 07:37, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
  • I actually feel that information would better go in the myth pages (could go in the FAQ as well) along side the cheddar banking myth.AzureOwl 09:06, 11 January 2009 (UTC)