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W00t! They brought back Josiah Rowe! --Steve 18:04, 2 Dec 2004 (CET)

Good Lord. I've become a cross-fandom meme. --Josiah 2:00 AM, 3 Dec 2004 (EST)

Be proud. --Steve 07:53, 4 Dec 2004 (CET)

And I always thought it was mini-Josiah Rowe that would make my name known (and feared, if you've ever encountered it).

Oh, I fear it. --Steve 07:46, 5 Dec 2004 (CET)

As do I, my friend. As do I. --Josiah, 5 Dec 2004, 2:00 AM EST

I, I refer to myself in the third person. --Scripps Winborne Whorton Taylor 03:19, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

But... you just referred to yourself as "I", which is the first person! Does not compute... does not compute... *BOOM* —Josiah Rowe 03:32, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of Landru from featured article nominations

Hi Josiah,

Your right, I accidently removed the Landru nomination when I removed the The Aenar from the list. My mistake. -- Q 15:14, 16 Mar 2005 (EST)

Not a problem. I just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed some arcane MA nomination regulation. :) --Josiah Rowe 15:16, 16 Mar 2005 (EST)

[edit] Alright vs All right

Changing them is just fine and dandy... as long as you don't change quotes. Changing a quote is bad. :) -- sulfur 16:55, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Is that "alright" from a script, or a transcript? If it was written that way in the script, that's fine, but if that's just somebody writing down what they heard in the dialogue, it would probably be better as "all right". —Josiah Rowe 17:02, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

My understanding is that most of the "alright" bits from TOS are from scripts here and there along the way. There was a guy who had a large collection of old scripts he'd picked up from around the way that went through and edited a bunch of those. So... I'm willing to take it on faith that the spelling's from the scripts in those cases.  :) -- sulfur 17:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

OK. If it's that way in the script, that's how it should be. I had assumed it was just somebody's transcript. —Josiah Rowe 17:18, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Speculation

True, however unless it's noted by a valid source we don't report it as there are many fan speculations and we don't have enough room for them all. :) — Morder

True; but assuming the note about the Spockanalia article is correct, this is a bit of speculation that dates from the earliest days of fandom. (Spockanalia was the first Star Trek fanzine.) As such, I think it's noteworthy as an early example of fanon being confirmed or referenced in canon.

Since the content of that fanzine is not available online, I'm not sure what sort of citation could be used other than the in-text mention. (We don't use the <ref> element footnotes here, do we?)

If the speculation bit is what needs citation, would you mind if I moved the {{incite}} to after that sentence? As it is now, it looks like we're asking for a citation that Nick Meyer wrote The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which is a bit silly. :) —Josiah Rowe 05:42, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I can understand the confusion.

• Spock attributes the quote "If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" to an ancestor. This quote (and numerous variations) derives from the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Writer/director Nicholas Meyer, a Holmes fan, wrote the well-received Sherlock Holmes novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and adapted it into an Academy Award-nominated screenplay.

The above would probably be a better note as it leaves the reader to decide whether or not Spock is a decedent. :) — Morder 05:49, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

That's reasonable; but let's leave the {{incite}} in place after the Spockanalia sentence for a while, to give other editors a chance to find a reference if one exists. (There might well have been an article on Star Trek and Holmes in Star Trek: The Magazine, or some such source, which could support the Spockanalia bit better.) —Josiah Rowe 06:04, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Heh, if we find a note in another source then that's the one we'll keep and not the Spockanalia. Looks good to me anyway. :) — Morder 06:13, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Good point. :) —Josiah Rowe 06:14, 9 June 2009 (UTC)