Talk:Blue Highways

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I'm just reading Blue Highways and working on a Google Maps rendering of the journey - not sure how to add this to the entry Dikko 10:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just made an extremely important edit to at least the first part of the article this 'Talk Page' is for. I am going back to look at the rest of the article, to finish the job. I may miss a few. Here's the nature of the edits:

His name is 'William LEAST-HEAT Moon' (look at the author's name on the book's cover!), not 'William LEAST HEAT-MOON' (the book cover puts the dash '-' in the right place). The 'middle name' is his 'native-american' name. Moon is his Anglo-style last name. This article, as written before my edit, put 'Heat-Moon' together, in the British-English aristocratic 'style' ('style' refers to aristocratic titles, q.v. the wikipedia articles about British Aristocratic 'Styles'), as though "Heat" is his mother's last name and she is the heir to a title, and "Moon" is his father's last name, and his father is also of the aristocratic class. WRONG!!!one!eleven!!

Also, there were some other misuses of the '-' character. Consult the 'New York Times Book of Style' for reference. I corrected them as I encountered them. I may have missed some, because whoever wrote/edited it did a whole heluva lot of errors on that point. I also may have done a few wrong. Oh well, everyone makes mistakes. If I EFF'd up, you correct it, correcting YOUR encyclopedia is not MY job.

BTW, here's my 'signature': 'New Sock Puppet' That's the username I made when I created a 'logon'. I first tried 'Sock Puppet', but that was refused. Some jack*** put a permanent block on 'New Sock Puppet' within 5 minutes of my making it, without ever giving a reason that I could find. Since then, I have never logged on with that username and successfully made an edit (BECAUSE I CAN'T (I tried it SEVERAL TIMES!!one!!), due to the jack***'s block. I have thus found it easier to make 'anonymous' edits that get attributed to whatever IP address my ISP assigns me. I have since found out that one of the IP addresses my ISP sometimes assigns me is also used by someone who gets accused of vandalism. Well, Wikipedia 'jack***es', unblock the username I created, and you will always know what edits I did, and who did them, vice the ones done by whomever else gets assigned the same IP address by my ISP. I don't care... 'No Es Mi Problema'. Your so-called 'encyclopedia' sucks, because I ALWAYS find errors in it, EVERY time I consult it on a subject I know. Like THIS ONE, for example. Sometimes I do an anonymous edit, but most times I don't. It's YOUR project, therefore it's YOUR responsibility to FIX the EFF-ups. Until, and unless, you manage to do that, you cannot qualify as a reliable source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.141.93 (talk) 01:19, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New Sock Puppet, again, another BTW. Once I changed 'William Least Heat-Moon" to the correct 'William Least-Heat Moon', all references to him, or his book, suddenly turn red. I investigated this. It turns out that all references to him refer to an article that gets his name wrong. The correct name doesn't refer to anything. Your 'encyclopedia' SUCKS. If you can get something THIS BASIC wrong, then it is REASONABLE to conclude that NOTHING in your 'so-called' encyclopedia is at ALL reliable. Sincerely, New Sock Puppet —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.141.93 (talk) 01:38, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New Sock Puppet, yet again. I seem to have edited the ENTIRE article. There was NOTHING after where I stopped. My Mistake!!one!eleven!! Still, all references I corrected turned red. The article about the author, or his book, gets his NAME wrong. It's all RED!!one!eleven!! It's not MY job to correct your dumba$$ 'encyclopedia'. You Wikipedia ***holes fix your OWN damn "encyclopedia". No Es Mi Problema!!uno!once!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.141.93 (talk) 02:28, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your attitude has no place here. Learn some manners before you start trashing honest work. 65.27.209.110 (talk) 19:52, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In a GOOD encyclopedia, it does not matter that your work is "honest", only if it's "competent". The work in question is NOT competent, so it's "honesty" is irrelevant. My "attitude" has no place here, solely because it appears that COMPETENCE has no place here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.141.93 (talk) 18:02, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I just looked at the talk page for "65.27.209.110". It looks like I'm being told that my "attitude has no place here" by someone who has apparently NEVER made an edit, except for one obvious VANDALISM!!!one!!eleven!! Pot -> kettle, kettle -> pot. ~~ New Sock Puppet ~~ out.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.141.93 (talk) 18:41, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

THEN, I went and looked at the article I was talking about, and now, almost all of it has been deleted. The article in question now says it's a "stub" (and also STILL gets his name wrong). This isn't an encyclopedia, it's electronic toilet paper.