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[edit] Barnstars From Archive

		The Original Barnstar
		For truly awesome and inspirational work on List of Shakespearean characters I award you the original barnstar SilkTork 00:16, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

		The Outlaw Halo Award
		To Andy Jones, for salvaging great works on pop culture for later use....cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:16, 9 August 2007 (UTC) (about the award)

		The Barnstar of High Culture
		I commend your hard work on William Shakespeare. Choosing to edit such a high-profile, controversial and research-intensive article is a mark of patience, perseverance and dedication to Wikipedia that is rarely seen. We clearly need more editors, such as yourself, who are willing to dedicate their time and energy to writing articles about their areas of expertise. Awadewit \| talk 04:41, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Good Humour
		In small recognition of your consistently witty edit-summaries, which are a joy to read, please accept this Barnstar of Good Humour. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 18:40, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Half Barnstar
		For your very fine work on Hamlet with Wrad --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 19:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		I award you this Barnstar for your tireless and fine work on Hamlet, while at the same time staying in good spirits. I haven't had the chance to work with you directly much, but your contributions deserve some recognition (though it looks like you've already got lots of it.) Happy Editing! Bardofcornish (talk) 22:57, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Screenshot?

For a Wikipedia-related reason, I'm trying to take a screeshot from a DVD. However I've never tried such a thing before, and the obvious approach doesn't seem to work. What I tried was playing the DVD in Windows Media Player, paused it at the appropriate moment, pressed FN - PRT-SC, opened Paint, and chose EDIT>PASTE.

What I got was a pretty good screenshot of the rest of my screen, but an oddly-transparent rectangle where the DVD image had been, which leaves me a bit stuck. I can't think of another approach. Any thoughts? AndyJones (talk) 15:25, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

do you have a digital camera?--TreeSmiler (talk) 15:27, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes. Do you mean take a photo of the screen, or telly, while it's paused? AndyJones (talk) 15:38, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Correct. This may be easier. I once took some photos of my TV screen as a test and they came out very well indeed. THen you can import into photoshop or something and crop/ adjust before uploading.--TreeSmiler (talk) 16:35, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll give it a try. AndyJones (talk) 16:37, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

The reason you get a black or transparent box there is because the DVD is being hardware accelerated and skips out on the OS altogether, or something along those lines. There are two easy ways to make screenshots from DVDs: 1. you can get a DVD playing program that has this as a native possibility (I think VLC, for all of its bugginess, does this?), or 2. you can go into your control panel, to your video settings, and turn hardware acceleration all the way to zero (off), THEN run the DVD in WMP and you should be able to take the screenshot in the convention print-screen way (but if you do this, don't forget to change your video settings done when you are done!). --24.147.69.31 (talk) 16:42, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Video overlay is the specific feature which gets in the way of screenshots. Oh look there's even an article. Hardware overlay is more specific and even mentions the screenshot problem. One movie player with built-in screenshot ability is MPlayer. (Run mplayer -vf screenshot dvd:// and press s at the appropriate time) --tcsetattr (talk / contribs) 21:40, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Also, VLC Media Player has a nice way to take screenshots (and you can even turn off overlay if you want, but that's not recommended for performance reasons) 83.252.191.12 (talk) 12:37, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Get thee to a punnery

And, no, I didn't write this entry just so that I could use the edit summary "Toby or not Toby, that is the question."

I see you've started getting your retaliation in first :) --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 09:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Hamlet on screen

Hello again AndyJones. I see that you are trying to get a table that works going on the "Hos" page. Unfortunately, I am not any good at getting them going either. I wanted to let you know that you might try asking at the Wikipedia:Village Pump to see if anyone can help you with this. Also, you can create a sandbox for tinkering with the table until you get it the way that you want. You do this by creating a page that reads [[User:AndyJones/Sandbox]] and then you can copy and paste the items from the article page to this one and begin working on them. Then when you have it the way that you want it you can copy it and place it in the main article. Please don't misunderstand - I don't have any problem with you continuing to expeeriment on the article page with the in use tag that you have been using - I am only mentioning this in case you didn't know about it. In any event good luck and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 17:05, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hamlet 1996 film

Hello again. Just thought that I would let you know that User:Pfistermeister is back at work on this page adding the unsourced items and continuing the rant on the talk page. I can't revert again without breaking the 3RR. User:ThuranX has also been trying to deal with this editor. Cheers and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 09:31, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Hamlet template addition

Hi,

I wrote the Hamlet (bibliographies) entry (apparently a real active one for other editors, if you check the history, he said with a touch of sad recognition).

I think it should be posted in the Hamlet box boilerplate. I'll gladly do it, but I don't have a clue how.

Best,

Shlishke (talk) 05:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Winter's Tale

Andy, In response to your note, I've put in several sources for the information I inserted into The Winter's Tale page, and hope this meets your satisfaction. In addition, sometimes, in the field of theatre and the creative arts, a production or performance itself becomes documentation as well; i.e., if a director or actor (or designer, musician, etc.) does something on stage that reveals something "new" in the text, that "something" can and should be considered "scholarship" as much as an article published in a journal or book. After all Shakespeare didn't publish his complete plays in his lifetime (including especially The Winter's Tale - which first appeared in the First Folio), and he probably had little if anyting to do with the Quarto publications that appeared during his lifetime; nor did he write articles or books or otherwise document how his plays were staged, or should be staged thereafter. Moreover, in academia, the staging of a play may be called "creative scholarship." What I have attempted to do in the section on The Winter's Tale that I added - bout the source of the name of the play - is to document an interpretation of the text based on a specific stage production, and have also included the references to document this interpretation. I appreciate your dilligent work on this. All the best, Weimar03Weimar03 (talk) P.s, I've also begin a "Sources" section at the bottom of The Winter's Tale, and encourage others to add to this.

Replied at User talk:Weimar03. AndyJones (talk) 13:33, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] East Coast

Assuming you mean the eastern coast of the North American continent: capitalize both words; no hyphen. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the note Andy. My edit summary was paraphrasing the statements that Branagh and Shakespeare scholar Russell Jackson make fairly early in the DVD commentary. Your note helps fill out some of that info and I appreciate the time you took to post it. As I remember it this DVD, released last year here in the US, has not yet been released in the UK. If you have a region free DVD player you might want to acquire it from Amazon or someone else as I found it to be interesting. If you ever do gain access to it I would be interested to read your reactions to their comments but please don't feel obligated to do either of these things. Thanks again. MarnetteD | Talk 22:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citing Shakespeare

Thank you for your guidance on the Shakespeare cites. I didn't have time to pursue the matter yesterday after leaving the question. Your advice will save me some time! LuckyThracian (Talk) 02:17, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Merchant of Venice

Hey, I very very nearly did this. Your doing it just minutes after my hesitation confirms what I felt! Cheers. Cowardly Lion (talk) 08:39, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] R&J

- No problem - I wasn't sure which sentence to change - since they are in direct conflict. Can someone fix one of them so that section does not contradict itself as it does now? Thanks Smatprt (talk) 14:10, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Well done - and much more readable. You might have a go at the same section in Julius Caesar, which has gotten a bit rough in the last few days. I believe you edited it before but some of that has gone missing. Good work as usual and I continue to enjoy your sense of humour and edit summaries. Smatprt (talk) 23:22, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of monarchs in the British Isles revisited

Hello, since you commented in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of monarchs in the British Isles, I thought you might like to know that it is again up for discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of monarchs in the British Isles (2nd nomination). Regards, Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Wikiproject you may be interested in

Dear AndyJones, you may want to join this project. I have found your userfied deleted trivia page useful and I think you would be an asset to this project. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 18:32, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Mediation?

Hello - you participated in Gavin.collins' Request for Comment, so I am alerting you that we are preparing a Request for Mediation regarding him. BOZ (talk) 03:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I am alerting you that we are now considering a Request for Arbitration regarding him as an alternative to mediation, and would like your opinion on the matter. BOZ (talk) 13:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hamlet in Klingon

I noticed that on the talk page of Shakespeare, you said, "They've even done Hamlet in Klingon." I thought this was a very entertaining piece of information, and was wondering where you found it. I think if you could reference it, it would be a good addition to the Hamlet article. Delduðling 21:50, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] comma in Hamlet

Ok, if serial commas are incorrect in British English, please remove all instances of it! In the lead, I can already spot: "revenge, incest, and moral corruption". Randomblue (talk) 21:45, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted trivia

I came across your page, and I was wondering if you needed some help salvaging some of that content. I don't know how you usually work with that kind of content, but I'm usually a trim and merge kinda person, although it looks like there's some content that isn't really worth keeping. --Nick Penguin_(contribs) 03:41, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I agree some of this is unsalvageable. When I have a free hour or so, my intention is to get rid of a few more pages that I think can't be rescued. User:Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles has asked if I'll transfer over to his user space any of these which I don't feel I can do anything with, so that's what I'll do. I think the very best way to work on them is to do what I did at The Tempest: compare this with this and then with The Tempest#Afterlife, which I think is probably well-sourced enough for FA. Of course, that's a very slow process, even if you're devoting a lot of time to Wikipedia, as I was then.

But, defintely, do feel free to work on that page. Add another column for your own comments, if you like. AndyJones (talk) 07:33, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Midnight Cabaret

I've reopened, and relisted the debate. It will be closed 7 days from today. - Rjd0060 (talk) 14:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

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