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- Hi, Noirish, Welcome to Wikipedia!
Happy Wiki-ing. -- John Fader 18:43, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Happy holidays Steve-O
Thanks for getting in touch with me. By the way I think your web site is the best noir site on the WWW. I link the articles I edit to your site (external links) if you have an article on the film but the link gets deleted sometimes as some consider it SPAM. What bull-shit! In due course I'll try to get a consensus that it's not. I will try to get a noir task group together in the Film Project. One of the things I'm working on is cinematographer articles. It's slow going. This is what I'm working on: Luigi's Noir Projects. Keep in touch and I'll try to post on your site. Best always, Steve-- ♦ Luigibob ♦ "Talk to Luigi!" 22:56, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
The images of Henry Fonda and Jason Robards you uploaded for Once Upon a Time in the West look to me like they are the wrong aspect ratio. They look significantly taller than they should, I think, comparing to other images of the actors, and looking at a copy of the film (particularly directly comparing to the scenes where the screenshots are from). I wondered if you could say where these are from? I have seen versions of the film shared that were the wrong aspect ratio before. -Ethan (talk) • 2008-01-8 12:00 (UTC)
Cleaning up the List of disaster films
Steve...At one time you showed some interest in the List of disaster films. I was wondering if you would be interested in coming back and discussing all the clean up that needs to be done to it? - LA @ 02:30, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey Mr. Film Noir Man
I'm trying to take care of your talk page as you drop in and out of Wikipedia. If you get a chance send me an e-mail as I'd like to ask you something. Thanks. I still can't believe that FILM NOIR OF THE WEEK site of yours. It's mind boggling. AWARD WINNING. Your biggest coup, of course, is getting such noted noir authors and historians to write articles. KUDOS!!!! I may reach out to some media sources so an article can be written about the site and your efforts. See you in a dark, foggy night, wearing trench coats, of course, -- ♦ Luigibob ♦ "Talk to Luigi!" 09:10, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- More updates for images, all taken care of or will not be needed. Best Luigibob (talk) 16:56, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks Steve
Thanks for placing a kind note on my talk page. I stand by my previous comments re your Film Noir of the Week web site. An incredible job, sir. You are one of the best. Please keep in touch, and if I can be of help, do drop me a line. Best -- Lou Luigibob (talk) 22:27, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
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Manpower poster
Thanks for unearthing a poster for Manpower with Robinson, Dietrich, and Raft. I have a magazine version of one somewhere with the "He's mad about the whole thing" taglines cited in the opening sentence of the article that I'd like to pull out and frame one of these days. I'm fascinated by this movie, one of the many remakes of a Robinson film about fishermen from the early 30s, but I've never had a chance to see it. It's practically the only one left on my short list of movies I've wanted to catch but haven't, come to think of it (except for Lon Chaney, Sr.'s "Road to Zanzibar"). Don't really know how good Manpower might be, but Raoul Walsh is a hell of a director (my favorite of his work remains The Big Trail). I think Raft's really underrated as a screen personality, by the way. He was wildly popular in the '30s and one of his pictures, Night After Night, launched Mae West . Oddly, they died within a day or so of each other and their corpses briefly turned up on gurneys in the same hallway of the same morgue for a "silent reunion." --Wastetimer (talk) 17:43, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
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Hangover Square
Hello. Weblogs specifically fall under WP:LINKSTOAVOID, irrespective of their subject matter or whether or not they were written by the editor who added them. There's an exception if they've been written by a recognised authority in the field, but this one doesn't seem to have been. --McGeddon (talk) 23:30, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Incidentally, if this is your own website, please familiarise yourself with Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines before adding the link to any more articles. Thanks. --McGeddon (talk) 00:02, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- I understand your point but why am I all of a sudden being singled out? I've posted dozens of links to my site and others in the past with no problems. I am an authority on the subject as well. I can prove this if this is going to become an editing war here. With all the editing being done and spam being added to Wikipedia I'm surprised my attempts to help expand the little film noir section is being criticized. This is one of the faults of Wikipedia. I understand you need a think skin when people jump on and edit your work, but to do so with only to follow "the letter of the law" seems silly. I've been a contributor to Wikipedia for years. --Steve-O (talk) 17:48, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- To be sure your are an expert in film noir film, Steve. As I've noted in the past your "Film Noir of the Week" is arguably the best web site on the topic (I do not like the term genre for film noir). You argument is spot-on, as I hardly edit in Wikipedia these days due to some of the same concerns you articulate. I visit your sire often. Have a Happy Holiday season Steve. See you in the dark.....Luigibob (talk) 19:59, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- No special reason for you being "singled out" here, you've just been noticed as adding apparently WP:EL-failing links to some articles. It's the "do you ever go fishing?" thing.
- Wikipedia has a strict definition of who does and doesn't count as a "recognised authority", but even if you meet the criteria, you should still be very careful about adding links to your own websites, as per WP:COI. If your website is a definitive and recognised authority, then other users will link to it; you shouldn't have to promote it yourself. --McGeddon (talk) 15:03, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
You appear to have added a link to your blog on Abandoned (1949 film) again, with no rationale in the edit summary - you really should take a quick look at Wikipedia:COI#How to avoid COI edits before adding any more links to your own website. It's advisable that you discuss a self-promotional link on the article's talk page before adding it.
If there's a wider issue that I'm missing, or that you'd like some guidance on, feel free to leave a message on my talk page, or fire a question to the good people at the Films WikiProject. --McGeddon (talk) 20:56, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
- And okay, thanks, I see you're leaving some useful comments on the talk pages now. You should post these comments before adding the links, though - as the owner of the site, you have to explain why it should be added, not why it shouldn't be deleted.
- I'll leave a reply on the Abandoned talk page, but it's probably more constructive to raise this at Films WikiProject, so that other interested editors can see it and get involved with the conversation. --McGeddon (talk) 20:59, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
- well, these links have been up for years until recently. I'm restoring them with justification. I will post at Film Project too after I try to restore all the work I did here that was wiped out by a couple of over anxious editors Steve-O (talk) 21:03, 9 November 2008 (UTC)