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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by A Nobody (talk | contribs) at 16:46, 24 February 2010 (moved User talk:A Nobody to User talk:A Nobody1: Archiving.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

A Nobody's article contributions

Welcome to my talk page! Please be sure to make all posts civil and constructive, as I will ignore or revert anything I deem to be bad faith, dishonest, or vandalism. For example, anyone who has ever referred to me as something other than my username or by some insulting play on my username is not welcome here, barring they apologized and made good faith amends. Similarly, per WP:DENY, I do not usually reply to accounts or comment in threads in which accounts have commented who have sworn at or personally attacked myself and other good faith editors both on and off wiki. I will not reward incivility or hypocrisy. Also, let us try to keep two-way conversations readable. If you post to my talk page, I will just reply here. If I posted recently to another talk page, including your talk page, then that means I have it on my watchlist and will just read responses there. I may refactor discussions to your talk page for the same reason. Also, please do not refer to me here or elsewhere by my previous username as I changed names due to real-world off-wiki harassment that remains a concern. Due to the issues that caused my name change and other matters (such as the demands of college!) I may be slow in responding to messages and I may even stop editing for long stretches of time. Sincerely, --A Nobody 18:36, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To add to this article

I am not sure what was on the previous version of the article, but the following out of universe information can be added from "Resistance 2: Getting To Know Nathan Hale," PlayStation The Official Magazine 13 (November 2008): 62: the character is voiced by David Kaye. PTOM states that "The Resistance 2 story is all about Nathan Hale and his role in this great conflict." Ted Price, one of the game developers, adds, "Internally we wanted to know more about Hale, and focusing on him provided the opportunity to answer questions about him." Thus, I encourage someone to restore the article and add this information in a manner such as this:

Nathan Hale is the protagonist of the Playstation 3 games Resistance: Fall of Man and its sequel Resistance 2. He is voiced by David Kaye.[1]

Development

Ted Price, one of the game developers, adds, "Internally we wanted to know more about Hale, and focusing on him provided the opportunity to answer questions about him."[2]

Biography

Hale killed practically every chimera in England and then went to America to win again.

Reception

PTOM states that "The Resistance 2 story is all about Nathan Hale and his role in this great conflict."[3] Playstation Universe lists Hale among the top five Playstation 3 characters thus far.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Resistance 2: Getting To Know Nathan Hale," PlayStation The Official Magazine 13 (November 2008): 62.
  2. ^ "Resistance 2: Getting To Know Nathan Hale," PlayStation The Official Magazine 13 (November 2008): 62.
  3. ^ "Resistance 2: Getting To Know Nathan Hale," PlayStation The Official Magazine 13 (November 2008): 62.
  4. ^ Dave Wales, "Top five PlayStation 3 characters thus far," Playstation Universe (March 16th, 2008): http://www.psu.com/Top-five-PlayStation-3-characters-thus-far--a0003095-p0.php

Restoration

Nathaniel is a character in Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy. Nathaniel is one of the main characters of this series. After coming of age as a magician when he was 12 years old, he was granted the new name of John Mandrake, and is known by this name to everyone but the title character, Bartimaeus and in the later part of Ptolemy's Gate to Kitty.

Attributes

Appearance

In The Amulet of Samarkand he is described as being small and scrawny with dark hair. His hair, as he increases in rank, becomes increasingly long, but during the gap between The Golem's Eye and Ptolemy's Gate he has opted for a crew cut in (politically advantageous) tribute to the soldiers fighting in America. He is further described as attractive, with "the scent of power [hanging] around him" and of medium height and slender build, his forehead prematurely lined (Ptolemy's Gate, U.S. Edition, pg. 21).

Personality

Nathaniel is, at first, a small, shy boy uncomfortable with anyone who is not Mrs. Underwood or Ms. Lutyens. He is very nervous and scared by Bartimaeus when he first summons the demon. As the books progress, and he becomes more and more proficient, he also becomes more confident, and possibly overconfident. He works fervently when motivated, as is shown when he furthers his education with incredible speed in The Amulet of Samarkand. Throughout the books he also shows signs of ambition to rise through the ranks of the government, a common goal among magicians. Bartimaeus compares him more than once to Simon Lovelace, as they share a similar mindset, and habitual tics, such as stroking back their hair.

Role in books

The Amulet of Samarkand

In The Amulet of Samarkand, Nathaniel starts off as a young boy who, at the age of five, had been given up by his parents to apprenticeship under a mediocre Whitehall magician named Arthur Underwood, the assistant minister of Internal Affairs. Underwood begins teaching the boy in magic, but Nathaniel, being inquisitive, decides to advance his education to higher levels without the knowledge of his tutor.

However, at the age of eleven, in his master's house, Nathaniel is publicly humiliated by a greedy and ambitious young magician named Simon Lovelace. In a fit of juvenile fury, Nathaniel hatches a plan for vengeance. He sets several mites (a weak kind of imp) on Lovelace, but Lovelace is powerful and stops the mites, then proceeds to beat Nathaniel as punishment.

Later, after much research and preparation, Nathaniel summons Bartimaeus, a 5,000-year-old djinni, to exact his revenge on Lovelace. Mrs. Underwood - Nathaniel's master's wife - inadvertently reveals Nathaniel's true name to Bartimaeus. This vastly limits Nathaniel's control over the djinni, because spells can be cast on people when their true name is known (hence the practice of assigning names).

In the end, Nathaniel earns the respect of the majority of the other magicians including Rupert Devereaux, the Prime Minister. He is accepted as a magician in the government.

The Golem's Eye

Nathaniel summons Bartimaeus again, facing off against the Resistance and sinister magicians.

The second book picks up almost three years later and features Nathaniel as a junior magician working his way up the government ranks. He is described as one of the governments' rising young stars. In this book, Kitty Jones is introduced as an important character. She is a part of the Resistance movement, which seeks to end the oppressive rule of the magicians. Nathaniel is tasked by his superiors to crush the Resistance movement and capture the members. His task is complicated when a seemingly invulnerable clay golem starts to make random attacks on London. Much to the displeasure of Bartimaeus, Nathaniel recalls the djinni to aid him in uncovering the origins of the golem, and to save his own skin.

During the course of the book Nathaniel is almost fired from his post and executed for treason. By the end of the book however he has come back to favor when Duvall's conspiracy comes to light.

Ptolemy's Gate

In Ptolemy's Gate, Nathaniel has risen to the ruling Council and is arguably the most powerful magician in the government. He stands against a force of hybrid magicians with spirits trapped inside them, led by Nouda. Romantic feelings are hinted at in the book at various points between Kitty and himself. Nathaniel summons Bartimaeus into his body to help fight the Hybrids with Gladstone's staff, and destroys most of them, leaving only Nouda alive. However, during this fight, Nathaniel is seriously injured and he loses strength quickly, even with Bartimaeus' assistance. When Nathaniel and Bartimaeus confront Nouda, Nathaniel dismisses Bartimaeus which saves Baritmaeus just prior to the staff being destroyed killing both Nouda and Nathaniel. Bartimaeus returned to the Other Place, but is known to have survived; according to his "journal", he was summoned by a female magician with a stutter afterwards. Kitty, in the end, goes visit her old friend Jakob before she begins to travel around the world in a new life.

Trivia

  • Nathaniel's chosen magician name, John Mandrake, may be a reference to the popular comic strip and real life magician, Mandrake the Magician
  • Nathaniel's birthday is on November 26, as confirmed by the author.

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Copying content

There are a number of issues with your editing that I want to bring to your attention.

Contributing similar content to multiple articles
Contributing similar content to multiple articles, 8 November 2009

These are the same kind of edit as before. You did make acceptable (no "merged" in the edit summaries) edits in December and January.

Problematic:

  1. Rebecca Chambers (character), 4 February 2010 (History merge interleaved the histories, but the diffs are correct)
  2. Commentary on Left 4 Dead player characters' names, 14 February 2010

Not problematic:

  1. Work on Medal of Honor: Underground and Manon Batiste, 25, 26 December 2009
  2. Isaac Washington, 16 January 2010
Creating copying/attribution dependencies that may interfere with deletion

You have made a number of copying edits that may interfere with deletion, either by leading back to a main article like The Nightmare Before Christmas or Left 4 Dead or by creating a cycle of codependent articles.

Bold indicates your edits

  1. List of characters in The Nightmare Before Christmas → Jack Skellington → The Nightmare Before Christmas
  2. Rebecca Chambers → User:New Age Retro Hippie/Rebecca Chambers → Rebecca Chambers (character) → User:New Age Retro Hippie/Rebecca Chambers
  3. Left 4 Dead → Francis (Left 4 Dead) → Left 4 Dead

The Rebecca Chambers (character) situation was resolved by a history merge per WT:Articles for deletion/Claire Redfield (Character).

List of Caprica characters

Since you created this list article without using WP:Summary style or redirecting the character articles, it was a content fork at creation. The rapid creation of the combination article is somewhat concerning.

User:Deor has redirected all the character articles. You may

  1. Tag List of Caprica characters with {{db-author}} for speedy deletion, G7 as the only author and revert the redirects —since edited by other users Flatscan (talk) 05:11, 23 February 2010 (UTC), or[reply]
  2. Allow the redirects to stand.

Flatscan (talk) 04:31, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Other users have edited List of Caprica characters, so G7 is no longer an option. User:Magicus69 reverted Zoe Graystone to a full article. Would you explain why you merged that article to the list, given that its AfD had just closed keep? Flatscan (talk) 05:11, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I am sure I'm not the only editor who is curious as to your response to this, A Nobody. Has Flatscan raised valid concerns? How do you plan to address them? ++Lar: t/c 20:44, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I too am curious as to the logic behind this series of edits.   pablohablo. 21:30, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We continue to wait for an answer, A Nobody. Just ignoring this won't make it go away. ++Lar: t/c 14:18, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are you going to ignore their concerns just like in your RFC? Ryan4314 (talk) 14:49, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think that this is the only "answer" that will be forthcoming. Deor (talk) 15:03, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia Signpost: 22 February 2010

RE:WQA

I understand where you're coming from. I think I endorsed some of the more supportive statements at your RFCU. But as someone watching from the outside I see how these things go. Overnight that WQA thread has drifted exactly like I was afraid it would. I'll probably add another post in there, but I don't expect to change anyones mind or see some uninvolved admin to read it and start handing out blocks.--Cube lurker (talk) 15:05, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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