User talk:Abaca

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		I hereby award this Barnstar to Abaca, for tireless and diligent improvements in the article Thomas Pynchon, correcting my own ultraviolet prose, and generally making the article worthy to be Featured. Anville 09:27, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Infobox

I appreciate your edits to the Infobox inside Gravity's Rainbow. However, it's generally consensus within the WikiNovels project that whenever information on a book's first edition is available, it takes precedence over other editions. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/GeneralForum.

Secondly, Released applies to the original publication date (1973 in this case), not the publication date of a given edition (2006, as you suggested). Series refers to an author's series of books, not a publisher's. Spamguy 16:14, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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(1) I agree most spellings of Thomas Pynchon's mother is with a "K" but in SSDI she is cited with "C" for Catherine. See: [[1]]

(2) In lifetime of his father, Thomas was probably referred to as "Jr" but he is the fifth "V" to bear that name. See: [2]]

(3) BTW, your work on Thomas Pynchon's article is great!

Mel 00:22, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

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Against the Day

I did some cleanup work on the page for the Next Thick Book, Against the Day. In addition to deploying inline citations, I paraphrased the plot synopsis which had been quoted in its entirety. See how it reads now, if you like, and improve accordingly.

Happy editing. Anville 22:03, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I see you fixed up the excerpt using the Penguin catalog before I could get to it. Good job! Anville 15:18, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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Sorry

I was trying to find a way to make the copyvio tag still have the original text still show up (trying to make it less obstructive) but failed. Not really good on templates. ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 01:01, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Edit summaries

I'd be obliged if you did not mark as minor edits that clearly are not. It gives rise to suspicion that you're trying to slip things under the radar. Like a quote that's just been excised for copyright reasons, for instance. In the case of the reinsertion of the text, I'm moved to agree that the format of the quote does add to the article, and meshes well with the sentence "Pynchon employs the spelling, grammar, and syntax of an actual late 18th century document,", and so I'm not going to pull it again.

Having studied your edit record, may I ask if you have any WP:COI issues? thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:54, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

The standard MO for copyright violations is to blank them first, ask questions asked second. Contributors who have added one copyvio often have added more than one, and so studying contributor history is a sensible precaution. The tone is, don't mess with coyvios. --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:12, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Pynchon External Links

I see you restored the San Narciso external link I removed. The reason I took it out is that it's specific to a particular novel. I think it belongs on the Lot 49 page, not the Pynchon page, but don't feel so strongly that I'd revert your edit (especially after all your work on this page!). Still, you might consider it. Rknasc (talk) 15:17, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

FAR for Thomas Pynchon

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