User talk:MAD

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Anne Lockhart

Nice additions to the Anne Lockhart page. Are you a big fan to know all that information? --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 11:35, 24 July 2006 (CDT)

I'm webmaster of Anne Lockhart's official website. I just copied the biography I typed there. I can do the same for Terry Carter and Noah Hathaway. I don't have any Wiki knowledge, I barely know how to copy/paste stuff within Wiki. I'll leave it up to others to add the right Wiki links/tags in my text. --MAD 12:29, 24 July 2006 (CDT)

Welcome aboard! :-) -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 12:56, 24 July 2006 (CDT)

Welcome! --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 13:08, 24 July 2006 (CDT)

Just be sure what what you are copy and pasting is allowed and not copywrited. You cant just copy and paste any old text from any website without either permission or the correct license. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 03:08, 25 July 2006 (CDT)

I know, but I'm webmaster of Terry Carter's, Anne Lockhart's and Noah Hathaway's official site (and even Felix Silla's, Maren Jensen's and Herb Jefferson's but I haven't written biographies for them yet), plus me or my friend Mike wrote this ourselves. Mike and I are building a Galactica site for all series where we'll publish all our interviews. We're in contact with 150+ cast and crew of the orignal 1978 series. I'm good friends with most of the main cast (hence the fact I'm doing their websites). Some even stayed at my home. Of Galactica 1980 I'm in good contact with Robyn Douglass (Jamie Hamilton) by e-mail and she has family here in the Netherlands as well. I'm working on my contacts in the Galactica 2003 series, but the new gang is very different. Younger, life in the fast lane (always busy!), millions of fans and therefor far more private and herder to reach. But I do have good contact with some. We're e-mailing and calling with Aaron Douglass and just interviewed him 1.5 hours over the phone for our new website. Next week we're interviewing several others (Kandyse McClure, Nicki Clyne). I do appreciate websites like these very much. They're a good source of information (which is growing and not dead like most Galactica sites!), just like our website will be of course. I don't see it as competition, we're focussing very much on the people involved in all series and publishing interviews we did, it will be completely different. Some of the gueststars we've interviewed of the original 1978 series never told their Galactica adventure before to anyone. We think fans will be interested to hear/read this. Wouldn't you like to know how it was to work with Fred Astaire? Or what the Borellian Nomen are up to nowadays? Well, we know! :) --MAD 04:56, 25 July 2006 (CDT)

Thats great! I dont have any problems with you copying stuff from your own sites. I was merely making sure that you dont just take stuff willy nilly from other places :) I look forward to seeing your additions --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 05:33, 25 July 2006 (CDT)

I've add a "small" piece of text for Terry Carter (I tried not to destroy too much of the links/images that were already there), doing Noah Hathaway next.--MAD 07:16, 25 July 2006 (CDT)

Everything looks great. I just have one problem. Headings. I added an example of a few headings on Anne's page. I don't know where to "cut" it so I'll leave it up to you. Also, we have {{subst:Star Skeleton|FIRENAME|LASTNAME|SERIES CODE}} for use to create the prefect outline. You can upload images also and you can tag them by looking at the BW:ITP page too. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 09:38, 25 July 2006 (CDT)

Adding some minor pieces in the past was easy, because the page was already there. But starting from scratch... this Wiki is completely different from normal webdesign and I have to get used to it. Even something as easy as "italic" you have to add later because it doesn't pick it up from a Word file. And all this internal and external linking I also haven't figured yet. I did look how to add an image, but gave up. I still have to design a couple of more webpages and I'm trying to figure out designing in Joomla for my own site as well (plus I do have a normal dayjob and family). The harddisc in my head is a bit full right now. :) I truely will try to make an effort to add some stuff and devide by headers, but I'm too busy to figure out all there is to Wiki. Maybe later... But that's the great thing about this site/program, isn't it? What you leave open others can pick up. ;) --MAD 09:58, 25 July 2006 (CDT)

aye. A few pages we have to help. BW:TUT and BW:MARK. You can try things on the BW:SAND without messing anything up also. :) --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 10:04, 25 July 2006 (CDT)

"she has family here in the Netherlands as well" Does that mean you're a Dutchman, like me? If so, you're the third one I've seen around here, which is 3 times as much as I expected ;) --Catrope 08:27, 25 January 2007 (CST)

Dat klopt. Ik kom uit Rotterdam. Oh, ik ken heel veel Nederlandse fans hoor... Maar misschien zijn die niet allemaal even actief hier. :) --MAD 08:31, 25 January 2007 (CST)

Ik ken er ook genoeg (maar ik ben de enige die hier uberhaupt een account heeft), we zijn alleen niet oud genoeg (16-17) om TOS te kunnen kennen :P --Catrope 09:20, 25 January 2007 (CST)

Nou voel ik mij gelijk oud! :P Ik kan werkelijk niet zeggen welke van de 2 series ik beter vind. TOS is vooral nostalgie voor mij en ik vindt het nog steeds geweldig om naar te kijken. TNS is iets wat ik nu graag kijk en zie het ook niet als rip-off van TOS zoals vele TOS het zien. Ik bekijk het gewoon zoals het nu is en ga niet op zoek naar de overeenkomsten en verschillen. Maar goed: Leuk weer eens een nieuwe fan te ontmoeten (bezoek ook onze GALACTICA.TV site eens, we kunnen altijd wat hulp gebruiken... moet wel je Engels perfect zijn). Wie weet ontmoeten we elkaar nog eens IRL, want ik ben met de Utopia conventie weer bezig om cast van de nieuwe serie naar NL te halen. ;) --MAD 09:48, 25 January 2007 (CST)

Of we elkaar IRL gaan ontmoeten weet ik niet, ik woon namelijk in Harlingen :P En waar, wanneer en hoe etc. is die Utopia conventie dan? --Catrope 10:23, 25 January 2007 (CST)

Harlingen, ja, das wel ver (en natuurlijk nog geen OV kaart met 16). Utopia is in October pas, dus nog een paar maandjes weg. De conventie is in een hotel in Scheveningen. Vorig jaar hadden we Tahmoh Penikett (Helo) en Matthew Bennett (Aaron Doral/Cylon#5) geregeld, maar die zeiden beiden een week voor de conventie zelf af vanwege hun filmschema. Was HEEL wel erg jammer. Nu ik er over nadenk: ze zeggen trouwens allemaal wel heel veel af. Ben ooit naar Londen gegaan omdat er 4 main cast kwam en uiteindelijk kwamen er maar 2. Gelukkig waren dat Katee Sackhoff en Jamie Bamber dus dan ga je iig niet voor niets (maar toch blijft het ook hier erg jammer als je er speciaal voor gaat, dat er dan gasten gaan afzeggen). --MAD 11:03, 25 January 2007 (CST):)

Just to double check...

On the websites, you are the author of the information correct? Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 08:03, 25 January 2007 (CST)

Yes, all the info I always add is written by me. I'm the webmaster of several actor's websites (Anne Lockhart, Terry Carter, Noah Hathaway, Leah Cairns which are all good friends as well) and often add information on many websites on all the BSG (new and original series) actors (or crew). So if you find the same info here as anywhere else it will be me who wrote it (really, trust me!). I know how it works with the copyright. :)

For my GALACTICA.TV website, which focuses on all people in front of and behind the camera of all Battlestar Galactica series, I'm now in regular contact with 150+ cast/crew of TOS and about 50+ of TNS.

But how about editting the filename for Alastair Thorne like I asked on your Talk page? :) --MAD 08:18, 25 January 2007 (CST)

Roger that. Filenames are a bit harder. I havn't developed a script to do that. I been meaning to code that. :-) Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 08:24, 25 January 2007 (CST)

Could we copy all to a new page with the correct name and delete the other then? --MAD 08:27, 25 January 2007 (CST)

The article has been moved to the correct name. Shane is talking about the filename of the image file, which is still wrong, but all the links to that article and the the actual article should now all point to Alastair Thorne now. --Steelviper 08:37, 25 January 2007 (CST)

Great! Nobody reads the filename of the image anyway, the image says it all. :) --MAD 08:41, 25 January 2007 (CST)