Talk:Pauline Fowler/Archive 3

message: I think more care needs to be taken when removing quotation marks from certain phrases and words. For instance, in a recent edit, quote marks were removed from words such as "formidable" and "important". This may give the impression that they are the opinions of the editor and not those from the actual source (particularly when the source is a book, not easily available for verifying).Gungadin♦ 01:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I removed some quotes the other day, because I thought they were being used for emphasis as opposed to quotation.  Feel free to add them back in, though it might be a good idea to rewrite the sentence to clarify that it's a quote. Like "According to John Smith, the final performance was "formidable". Though if there was already something like that, and I just missed it, please accept my apologies, and go ahead and fix. --Elonka 16:34, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of quotation marks 

message: I hadn't noticed this before, but is there a reason why the ellipses have all been changed to '. . .' , instead of using this ellipsis 'insert' button on the wiki edit keyboard '…' , which gives the dots much closer together
Is the large spaced version how we are meant to be doing it per MOS, or doesnt it matter?  Gungadin♦ 21:34, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know but if it's not MOS, I prefer "…" to ". . ."… There's a bit about usage at the ellipsis article. I was looking the other day for another article and I ended up using ". . .". anemone│projectors 23:40, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I personally prefer ". . ." to the smaller version, but either one's fine, as long as we're consistent. --Elonka 02:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  WP:MOS#Ellipses  SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:54, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Heh, it's nice to have a definitive answer.  Alright, " ... " it is!  :) --Elonka 20:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ellipses 

message: (going temporarily into American cowboy mode and waving hat around)  Yeeeeeehaw!  Congratulations everyone, we made it!  
Thanks are due to everyone that has worked on the article, or commented on the talkpage.  All of us working together have now produced an article that is considered to be one of the highest quality articles on Wikipedia, in the top tenth of a percent.  We're one in a thousand. :)
I know it was tough going at times, but ultimately I think that the discussions were good for us, as they helped us produce an article that is higher quality than it might have been if nobody said anything. 
Congratulations also to everyone for helping with what is now officially the first "soap opera" character article to have made FA status on Wikipedia.  It's a nice tribute to EastEnders, and who knows, might even make Pauline herself crack a smile!  ;)  
For those of you who are more familiar with the character, what do you think she'd say at this moment? Any fitting words? --Elonka 02:27, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: She would probably say "Oh Arfur!!" anemone│projectors 10:04, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't believe we did it! Well done everyone, I feel so proud! What happens next? anemone│projectors 10:06, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Congrats to everyone.  I hope no-one minds but I've just corrected some non-UK spellings in the article :) Stephenb (Talk) 13:37, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, congrats; you've all worked so hard on this article, this is truly awesome news! — TAnthonyTalk 17:11, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: FA

message: Is that still true?  Surely the character of Dot Branning has now run for 23 years (1985 - 2007) - the latter is not continuous, but the sentence doesn't specify that! Stephenb (Talk) 13:37, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Dot first appeared in July 1985, until 1993 where June Brown took a four year break and returned in 1997, so technically she's been on 'Enders for 19 years, Pauline is still ahead of her, you cannot count that 4 year period as she was off-screen.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rello34 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed it to "second longest-running original character" to avoid confusion. Anyway, Pat Evans will shortly overtake Pauline, assuming she doesnt leave in the next 6 months. We may have to change the wording again if someone like Sharon Rickman returns (again!), because even though Sharon won't have been on-screen for as long as Pauline due to breaks, she will technically be a longer-running character, because she would have appeared over a greater period of time. If any other originals return we can just change it to "one of the longest-running characters", or specify how we are defining "long-running". Gungadin♦ 01:25, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pauline is the second-longest running character to feature in EastEnders

message: *Washed out diva
*TV Review  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gungadin (talk • contribs) 22:14, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible sources for this page