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Your Mt Greylock photo

I took a stab at adjusting the balance on your Mt. Greylock photo-- hope you don't mind. I brightened it up a bit, increased the contrast, and tweaked the blue and green up a bit. If you don't like it, you can revert it (or let me know, and I'll do it). -- Mwanner 12:20, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs

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1. Kelly Trump - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Melancholia

Hi. You just added several hundred words to the plot summary of Melancholia, which was the perfect length before (just under 600 words, which is the max). You added a lot of very poetic prose and nice images, but they're not appropriate or necessary for a plot summary, which should be brief and a rough sketch. You're not writing a treatment for the film, just a summary of main plot points. It's okay to add back the actor links, but that's really all there's room for.

Also, your edits are all marked as minor edits, when they clearly are not minor! Please do not use that to mark edits of content--it's for doing things like fixing a spelling error or putting in a comma. Thanks.--TEHodson 07:54, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

-Well, the vast majority of my edits were in the first edit, which I did not mark as minor. The following edits were afterthoughts of a sentence or two, but I agree that if "minor" constitutes only a single character such as a comma, then they were not minor by Wikipedia's definition. (They were minor by my own definition, but Wikipedia has changed so much since my early days of contribution that I haven't kept up. They don't pay me enough to do that.)

I felt that the plot description lacked a few development points, but if the current limit is 600 words, so be it. I simply found the extant plot summary somewhat light on detail. I agree that there should be a standard of accuracy and brevity for Wikipedia, but my standards don't always match those of the editors. I have had a pretty dismal record of trying to add anything new since about 2009, as everything always gets deleted, contested, or rewritten. I go to the editors' pages and guidelines pages and am frankly swamped by new rules and the occasional Dickensian bureaucratic nightmare. (Dickensian makes more sense than Orwellian here, as I often find myself about a century behind.)

Anyway, while I appreciate the authors' attempts to make Wikipedia a repository of useful information rather than misinformation and trivia, more often than not I find myself butting heads with the more senior (or at least, more prolific) editors over rules that have been changed since the last time I attempted to add information.

Although your response was courteous and completely reasonable, I have doubts about bothering to contribute to Wikipedia in the future. I understand that WP needs rules to grow as a reputable source of information; OTOH, I have never contributed information that I consider frivolous, extraneous, inappropriate, or debatable (with the exception of some of my very first edits, 7 or more years ago).

But hey, whatever. Maybe next time. There was a brief period when anyone could contribute, improve, etc. Those days are gone (dumped in favor of all the Lit Majors who need something to pass the time) but I guess I still cling to them.

I will probably remain a faithful Wikipedia viewer, but I see little future for myself as a contributor (though I was asked to be an editor in the past). My father was a Fulbright Scholar in English Literature, so I learned a thing or two about writing and editing from him. I already hold myself to a rigid standard; when that standard falls short of Wikipedia's guidelines, I begin to doubt my priorities in even attempting to contribute.

This is not a minor edit.

I can sympathize with your feelings. As both a writer and a former, very passionate, filmmaker, I have had to learn a great deal of self-discipline in dealing with plot summaries. As a result I have sort of specialized in making them brief but informative, with references to style whenever possible, and the odd detail or two that I hope will make people seek out the film. I've also had to help other editors who are madly in love with this film or that to get a grip and allow the summary to be just a brief sketch, rather than an essay that evokes the mood of the film--that's not what we're here for. I make up for it by writing reviews elsewhere, where I'm allowed to use the sort of language I prefer and can focus on elements of the piece that just aren't appropriately discussed in a plot summary. If you want to expand the Melancholia article, find some reviews and essays--some scholarship, in other words--and do more in the other sections of the article where you can write more prose, less dry fact. Your writing was good--it just didn't belong in the plot summary (the sentence about Melancholia appearing large in the night sky was especially nice). But I hope you won't quit; we need good writers, and we are few and far between.--TEHodson 09:52, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

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