Talk:Emperor Norton/Archive 1

message: :Also, the page is in the wrong place. People would know who "Emperor Norton" is; almost no-one will recognize "Joshua A. Norton."
This is more-or-less handled by the fact that there is a "redirect" located at Emperor Norton that takes people to this article. We could debate which article title should take pre-eminence, but for the reaons I cited above, I'm loathe to do that.   --Atlant 13:26, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it's really sad. I did what I could.    --Blacklite 00:47, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location 

message: Emperor Napoleon III is not called 'Louis Napoleon' very often, and 'Napoleon III' generally follows or precedes that, check Google. Adding 'Napoleon III' would be the least, perhaps just use it instead. (although there was no other Emperor Louis Napoleon of course, and the link redirects)
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Was this guy emperor of the United States or just San Francisco? I remember hearing about him at the Worldcon in San Francisco in 1993.   --JohnAbbe
:The United States. And there's also that Protector of Mexico thing. --KnightofNEE 02:14, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
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Would the person who keeps making drastic changes to this page stop claiming them to be a "minor edit"? Label them as a major edit so I can see what you've done in the differences panel. I can't be bothered going through with a fine tooth comb to evaluate every change you've made, and as I am displeased with enough of them I am forced to simply undo everything and reinstate my previous version.
Please read the text before you edit - some of your changes fundamentally alter what is being said, so they are not "minor edits". --MMGB
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I removed the picture, linked from  here because it was probably copyrighted. Sorry if I was wrong.
--Democritus
:Norton died in 1880, and the copyright horizon is 44 years later in 1924; I don't see any way in which a photo of him could be copyrighted unless it was involved in some sort of derivative artwork. 
::I restored the photo. Not only is it nearly impossible that a photograph of someone who died in 1880 might still be under copyright, the site it is from explicit says "zpub is not interested in asserting copyright interest for uses that are not commercial in nature", and I'm sure they would view us that way (although we are, strictly speaking, a commercial enterprize, I think their intent matches ours). --LDC
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His decree was not properly observed by the rebellious politicians in Washington. 
This sentence seems demeaning to me. It's as if the author is chuckling to himself as he types this. That's just my impression. Mabye rebellious could be changed or omitted? I would have done this myself but wanted a consensus from the rest of you. --DryGrain 22:23, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: While this alternative government is an enemy of the empire, it holds the country together while we find a successor to Norton the Great. ;-) Just leave it. --Woodrow 22:25, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Misc. Discussion 

message: Rewrote the lead to state things as they ought be. Thanks. Comments welcome. --SV(talk) 01:06, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fighting article degeneration, or just better rewriting skills?