From spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com Wed Feb 1 12:05:03 2006 From: spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com (dungrollin) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:05:03 -0000 Subject: 3.8.1 Magical Ability In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Sorry for delay, internet playing up yet again. Jen: Dogs dressed as bees....but why?!? Dot: I liked the `*premier* online repository' bit. Jen: Yikes Dot, I don't want to read about you in People. Does the 'risk make it fun'? : ) Dot: No it doesn't. I'd never have been put in Gryffindor. But I love this bloody country, and I don't want to leave unless I really have to. Of course I could just clap my hands over my ears and sing loudly and claim that the rebels and militias will disarm and we'll have a free and fair election and everything will be fine. Tra-la-la. Jen: And if the birdsong turns into gunfire will you still have a chance to leave? Take care of yourself! Dot: Heh - there's a British couple who live just down the lagoon, and I have a place reserved on their `escape boat' (not nearly as hi- tech as it sounds), which would get us to the airport (95% of the battle) if the roads and bridges are too dangerous. That's for last resort rampaging-mobs-coming-up-the-road situations. So yeah, emergency planning is being... planned. Ginger ? I've gone through all those posts, and the ones that had your name on as reviewer I assumed must have been banished to that colloportused box at the bottom of the lake ? you know, the one with all the chains and padlocks, with the 24/7 mermaid guard... So I didn't touch them. (You did the purebloods/halfbloods bit as well, didn't you? Anything reviewed by you I didn't touch, which, you're right, turned out to be all of them.) In the end, I decided that the "Can squibs/muggles make potions" posts would be best off left cross-coded to squibs and potions. (But definitely not in magical ability). Anyone complaining? Good. I'm not quite sure about the "can Muggles use magical items" stuff though. We don't actually have a code for Muggles, do we? Though we do have one for magical items. I might just leave them in there. I'll finish tidying this section up (may come back and ask further questions for those currently under Misc) and then come up with a nice long definition for the catalogue tool which lists everything that mustn't go in. Dot Off dung beetling this afternoon. Hooray! From willsonkmom at msn.com Thu Feb 2 15:10:07 2006 From: willsonkmom at msn.com (potioncat) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:10:07 -0000 Subject: Weasleys, sort of, and other thoughts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Potioncat stumbles into the office. She has boxes of tissues, bags of cold remedies, an instruction manual from her other job and a rather discouraging note from her son's teacher. She dumps everything on her desk, pulls up the Weasley file and butts in on Jen and Dot's conversation. > Dot: No it doesn't. I'd never have been put in Gryffindor. But I > love this bloody country, and I don't want to leave unless I really > have to. Of course I could just clap my hands over my ears and sing > loudly and claim that the rebels and militias will disarm and we'll > have a free and fair election and everything will be fine. Tra-la- la. Potioncat begans to morph in front of everyone's eyes from a plump brunette (only her hair-dresser knows for sure) to a plump gingered hair matron. "Actually, Dot, the Sorting Hat would be shouting "Gryffindor!" before it even made contact with your head! I think you should sit quietly, listen to the birds sing, and get in touch with your inner Slytherin. It's time to slither out of there." She turns to Ginger and smiles, "By the way, dear, what was the name of the dream-inducing cold medicine you were taking?" She turns again, her hair brown, her slightly Southern accent back and speaks to the room in general, "Who has a giant sword, a big weed wacker, industrial strength doxie spray...I need something for all those 7th son posts!" Potioncat, trying to shush her inner Molly, and hoping Dot is taking care of herself. From elfundeb at comcast.net Fri Feb 3 01:25:00 2006 From: elfundeb at comcast.net (Debbie) Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 01:25:00 -0000 Subject: Crouch & Goblins & Trolls (and Barnyard Quidditch!) In-Reply-To: <20060129134134.69472.qmail@web30201.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I made a rash proposal to move posts from Goblins (2.14.3) to 3.2.4 (Money and Banking; Gringotts; > taxes) to which Ginger replied : > Funnily enough, I reviewed that category just this last week. I had just finished the 3.2.1 category and figured since they were related I'd just go on to that since I have that section. > > I remember cutting several posts that were also coded to goblins. 3.2.4 was 228 and is now 137. I consider myself done with it. If you want to check it out and add things that aren't in there, go ahead. Everything I cut about Gringotts was cut due to repetition, so anything you don't see there and want to add is "something new". Debbie: I went back to the Goblins, cut them down from 37 to 23, and decided not to move anything to Money and Banking. Much simpler that way. Unfortunately, I have done no other catalogue work for the last two weeks. I'm running out of good reasons to put off the House Elves any longer and am casting my eye about for excuses. . . Wait, I know! I can't do any more cataloguing until I stop by the Catalogue Office whetstone for a good sharpening of my machete. . . And while I'm there maybe someone will throw another party . . . Let's see, Valentine's Day is coming -- I'll bring along a big box of chocolates. Debbie hoping Dot's escape boat has lots of fuel stored up From quigonginger at yahoo.com Fri Feb 3 08:53:13 2006 From: quigonginger at yahoo.com (Ginger) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 00:53:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: 3.8.1 Magical Ability In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060203085313.90747.qmail@web30209.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Potioncat, who has turned momentarily from a brunette to a redhead, turns to Ginger and smiles, "By the way, dear, what was the name of the dream-inducing cold medicine you were taking?" Ginger, who, at age 39, has gone from grey to brown after being mistaken for her 31-year-old friend's MOTHER, answers: Just grab a bit of everything in the cabinet (except the preperation H) and go for several days without sleep or cigarettes due to a cough. Take a sick day from work and sleep during your usual waking hours. Discontinue if rash occurs. Meanwhile, Dot says: Ginger I've gone through all those posts, and the ones that had your name on as reviewer I assumed must have been banished to that colloportused box at the bottom of the lake you know, the one with all the chains and padlocks, with the 24/7 mermaid guard... So I didn't touch them. (You did the purebloods/halfbloods bit as well, didn't you? Anything reviewed by you I didn't touch, which, you're right, turned out to be all of them.) Ginger replies: Those would be the posts. I did half/pure bloods too. Lots of repetition there too. Ginger, who loves hair dye and now needs something to reduce weight as quickly as one changes one's hair colour. --------------------------------- Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com Fri Feb 3 13:41:15 2006 From: spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com (dungrollin) Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:41:15 -0000 Subject: 3.8.1 Magical Ability In-Reply-To: <20060203085313.90747.qmail@web30209.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I decided to rev up the chainsaw in the end, so I won't bother you all by asking questions. Magical ability was three-hundred-and-far-too-many, and is now 64. It will go down to 58 when I get my late bloomer code. 27 posts were rejected altogether, (pats self on back). New definition: "Not for relative ability of characters (leave under character codes), strictly: what magical ability is, how it manifests itself, how wizards use it to make things happen" Phew. I've updated all my definitions, in "table 3 Wizarding World", I've ticked my catevory off in "Allocations of review sections", and have put myself down for "beasts". Do I need to do anything else? Potioncat: "I think you should sit quietly, listen to the birds sing, and get in touch with your inner Slytherin. It's time to slither out of there." Dot: Unfortunately I've just sent off a fat proposal for a three-year project which would base me out here all the time... Course, it will probably be rejected on the grounds that it's too unsafe, so we'll see... February is really not the best time to give up the tropics for London, anyway. Bleugh. Dot, Assuring one and all that she's taking care and is not about to do anything stupid. (Or no more stupid than usual, at any rate.) From kakearney at gmail.com Tue Feb 7 03:06:43 2006 From: kakearney at gmail.com (corinthum) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 03:06:43 -0000 Subject: Blood protection and Missing 24 hours categories Message-ID: Kelly skips into office, wearing an oversized black-and-yellow jersey (no, not a sweater, a jersey) and waving a yellow towl crazily over her head. How 'bout dem Steelers?! :) Okay, back to Harry... Can I verify that the following categories have already been reviewed? 1.2.8.2 Godric's Hollow/Missing 24 hrs (Barry) 3.5.4 Blood protection at Privet Drive/Lily's sacrifice (Ginger and/or Dot) I just finished reviewing the Geography sections 3.15.4 Godrics Hollow and 3.15.5 Privet Drive. Both of them contained a lot of well-written posts on the missing 24 hours, but only one or two carried the code for it, and since that category is pretty young, I wanted to make sure the others didn't need to be added as well. Also, the Privet Drive category was full of Privet Drive protection posts. I'm almost certain those are reptitious, but just wanted to make sure that category had been thoroghly purged before I gave them all the ax. -Kelly From spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com Tue Feb 7 10:49:32 2006 From: spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com (dungrollin) Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:49:32 -0000 Subject: Blood protection and Missing 24 hours categories In-Reply-To: Message-ID: --- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "corinthum" wrote: > > Kelly skips into office, wearing an oversized black-and-yellow jersey > (no, not a sweater, a jersey) and waving a yellow towl crazily over > her head. How 'bout dem Steelers?! :) > > Okay, back to Harry... > > Can I verify that the following categories have already been reviewed? > > 1.2.8.2 Godric's Hollow/Missing 24 hrs (Barry) > 3.5.4 Blood protection at Privet Drive/Lily's sacrifice (Ginger and/or > Dot) > No, I didn't review that one. I think there are a lot of posts in 3.5.4 that I moved in from ancient magic, but I didn't do anything further to the category ... sorry. Dot Who spent Sunday avoiding a near-constant stream of visitors all eager to give her a blow-by-blow account of the Cote d'Ivoire Elephants' nail-biting 12-11 (on penalties) victory over the Cameroon Lions. From quigonginger at yahoo.com Tue Feb 7 12:40:50 2006 From: quigonginger at yahoo.com (Ginger) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 04:40:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: [HPFGU-Catalogue] Blood protection and Missing 24 hours categories In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060207124050.54225.qmail@web30205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Kelly skips into office, wearing an oversized black-and-yellow jersey (no, not a sweater, a jersey) and waving a yellow towel crazily over her head. How 'bout dem Steelers?! :) Ginger (who is actually a Detroit Lions fan, but who has relatives in Findlay, Ohio, home of Ben) waves her Terrible Towel in response and replies "Whee!" Okay, back to Harry...(and back to Kelly) Can I verify that the following categories have already been reviewed? 1.2.8.2 Godric's Hollow/Missing 24 hrs (Barry) 3.5.4 Blood protection at Privet Drive/Lily's sacrifice (Ginger and/or Dot) Ginger: I did 3.5.4. Was 206, now 134. Kelly: I just finished reviewing the Geography sections 3.15.4 Godrics Hollow and 3.15.5 Privet Drive. Both of them contained a lot of well-written posts on the missing 24 hours, but only one or two carried the code for it, and since that category is pretty young, I wanted to make sure the others didn't need to be added as well. Also, the Privet Drive category was full of Privet Drive protection posts. I'm almost certain those are reptitious, but just wanted to make sure that category had been thoroghly purged before I gave them all the ax. Ginger: Hmm, I seem to remember having to be rather ruthless and actually reviewing it twice to get it down as far as I did. I would think that 3.5.4 would be the proper place for those posts rather than in the geography section. Roughly how many do you have that are in question? If there are some that you would guess are not repetitive and are well written, let me know the numbers and I'll check them out. I could probably glance through fairly quickly as it is one that I did not too long ago. Now that NFL season is over, I should have more time on my hands to work. Ginger, looking forward to August. (more NFL) --------------------------------- Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kakearney at gmail.com Wed Feb 8 02:55:16 2006 From: kakearney at gmail.com (corinthum) Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:55:16 -0000 Subject: Blood protection and Missing 24 hours categories In-Reply-To: <20060207124050.54225.qmail@web30205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I wrote: > Also, the Privet Drive category was full of Privet Drive protection > posts. I'm almost certain those are reptitious, but just wanted to > make sure that category had been thoroghly purged before I gave them > all the ax. And Ginger replied: Hmm, I seem to remember having to be rather ruthless and actually reviewing it twice to get it down as far as I did. I would think that 3.5.4 would be the proper place for those posts rather than in the geography section. Roughly how many do you have that are in question? Me again: Way too many, about 25-30 (90% of the category). They definitely don't belong where they are now. I'll look through them more closely and see if any are worth saving for 3.5.4, and toss the rest. -Kelly From willsonkmom at msn.com Tue Feb 14 12:09:38 2006 From: willsonkmom at msn.com (potioncat) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:09:38 -0000 Subject: Address Message-ID: I will never, ever understand computers. For some reason clicking on the butterfly doesn't work, so I have to get to MSN from Explorer which means all my Favorites are different. Could someone e-mail me the link for the coding/reviewing site? Thanks. Potioncat...who is over her cold, did have some dreams, but nothing worth telling about. From quigonginger at yahoo.com Tue Feb 14 12:32:01 2006 From: quigonginger at yahoo.com (Ginger) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 04:32:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: [HPFGU-Catalogue] Address In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060214123201.72826.qmail@web30205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> potioncat wrote: I will never, ever understand computers. For some reason clicking on the butterfly doesn't work, so I have to get to MSN from Explorer which means all my Favorites are different. Could someone e-mail me the link for the coding/reviewing site? Ginger: Mission accomplished. Address sent via patronus so it won't fall into the wrong hands. Over and out. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From willsonkmom at msn.com Tue Feb 14 12:48:22 2006 From: willsonkmom at msn.com (potioncat) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:48:22 -0000 Subject: Address In-Reply-To: <20060214123201.72826.qmail@web30205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: > Ginger: > Mission accomplished. Address sent via patronus so it won't fall into the wrong hands. Over and out. Potioncat: And I must say, Ginger has a most unusual Patronus. It worked, I'm in. From kakearney at gmail.com Thu Feb 23 04:31:50 2006 From: kakearney at gmail.com (corinthum) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:31:50 -0000 Subject: 3.15 Geography complete Message-ID: Quiet around here, isn't it? Let's liven things up with a little magical geography. This should complete the 3.15 categories. The description for the main Geography/Location of WW Places category states that these codes are reserved for discussion of where these places may be located and should not be used for discussion of incidents that took place there. I allowed a little leeway in this respect when I could think of nowhere else to move the discussion. For example, discussion of who owns the Riddle House is still in the Riddle House subcategory. However, discussion of the protection on the Dursleys' house definitely does not belong in the Privet Drive category, since there are other codes devoted to that discussion. Also, Carolyn, when I reviewed 3.15.14 The Leaky Cauldron an eon or so ago, I asked that it be combined with 3.15.2 Diagon Alley, since the former is a tiny category that often overlaps the latter. Is that still possible, or was there specific disagreement? Below, I've listed the main discussions found in each category. However, the definition for each is just "Where is ___ located, with respect to real geography and with respect to other Potterverse locations? What are it's physical attributes?" Okay, on to the stats.. 3.15.3 The Burrow ----------------- Originally: 44 Now: 38 Where in the UK is Ottery St.Catchpole? Where is the Burrow in relation to the town? What does the house look like (to either witches/wizards or Muggles)? 3.15.4 Godrics Hollow --------------------- Originally: 67 Now: 45 Where is it? Is it a house or town or whatever? (now known, but it's a relatively small category, so I kept these). What happenned to the house/land post-Voldy? What is the muggle to wizard ratio there? NOT for other Godric-related discussion (etymology, ancestry, etc) or confrontation night discussion. Definitely don't need any more one- or two-liners suggesting it's in Wales based on Hagrid's fell-asleep-over-Surrey quote in PS/SS. 49473 Magic space/geography in general 3.15.5 Little Whinging/Privet Drive ----------------------------------- Originally: 37 Now: 14 Where is Little Whinging? NOT for discussion of the protections on the Dursleys' house (use 3.5.4 Blood protection at Privet Drive/Lily's sacrifice) 3.15.6 Riddle House ----------------------------------- Originally: 20 Now: 19 With one exception, all the posts here were speculation on the current owner of the Riddle House. Not really a geography discussion, but as I could think of no better place to move these posts, I left them here. 3.15.7 Malfoy Manor ----------------------------------- Originally: 8 Now: 6 Right now, just a discussion of what qualifies as a manor. 3.15.8 Azkaban ----------------------------------- Originally: 9 Now: 7 Where is Azkaban? 3.15.9 MoM ----------------------------------- Originally: 18 Now: 3 Where are the Ministry of Magic offices located? NOT for other MoM-related discussions, e.g. who works/worked there, government structure, DE connections, etc. 3.15.10 Hogmeade ----------------------------------- Originally: 30 Now: 23 Where is Hogsmeade in relation to Hogwarts? How is it protected from Muggles? What does it mean to be "all-wizard"? 3.15.11 Durmstrang ----------------------------------- Originally: 74 Now: 50 Where is Durmstrang located? I think every Eastern European and northern Asian country is hypthesized at least once, many accompanied by well-researched geographic and linguistic arguments, so don't add any more guesses unless really original and well-written. I weeded out some repetition, as well as the glaring geographical errors (a surprising number of people place Albania and Bulgaria near the Arctic circle, or at least in northern Europe). On a side note, I trashed post number 20401 on the grounds that any post that includes the entire text of a Daily Digest in it doesn't deserve consideration, even if it contains a brilliantly researched, life-changing dissertation. :) (it didn't). 3.15.13 Forbidden Forest ----------------------------------- Originally: 18 Now: 9 Where is the Forest in relation to the Hogwarts grounds? How large is it? Discussion of the forest as an entity (e.g. how dangerous is it?). There were a lot of "do werewolves really live there?" discussions; I kept those that discussed the nature of the forest, but removed those that strayed too far into discussion of werewolves themselves. 3.15.13 Beauxbatons ----------------------------------- Originally: 14 Now: 10 Where in France is Beauxbatons located? -Kelly From carolynwhite2 at aol.com Fri Feb 24 20:57:03 2006 From: carolynwhite2 at aol.com (carolynwhite2) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:57:03 -0000 Subject: Greetings.. Message-ID: A quick hello after a lengthy absence, and to let you know I plan to catch up on the catalogue this weekend, answer queries, produce an update etc. Still very committed, it is just that this job of mine has had to take precedence for a little while - not least because I took charge of a team of direct reports last week, and it's been, um, interesting. However, determined not to lose touch with this project, and to get it finished. I have heard from both Tim and Paul recently, and they are doing things, albeit very slowly. I am encouraging them to post something here to update us. I'm even re-reading the whole series just now, which I have not done since last year! Thanks to all of you for staying with it, despite our myriad other things to do. xxC From stevejjen at earthlink.net Sun Feb 26 21:53:10 2006 From: stevejjen at earthlink.net (Jen Reese) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:53:10 -0000 Subject: Greetings.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: C, with xxx and everything said: > However, determined not to lose touch with this project, and to get > it finished. I have heard from both Tim and Paul recently, and they > are doing things, albeit very slowly. I am encouraging them to post > something here to update us. > > I'm even re-reading the whole series just now, which I have not done > since last year! > > Thanks to all of you for staying with it, despite our myriad other > things to do. you know, it would be fun to start coding again. I guess that's out of the question without finishing the reviews? the Snape and Voldemort sections would be huge and unwieldy if we code more, I guess, although now everyone is on the same page for coding to a minimum. Anyway, just a thought. I'm itching to read the post-OOTP posts because I'm reading it to my son at the moment and finding it more chock-full of info than my last reading prior to HBP. I'm still plodding through Characterization and have some recs for that category, then I'm not signed up for anything else so will be ready for Snape. I guess he's next? Jen, finally with a day to devote to her on-line life which was getting seriously neglected. From carolynwhite2 at aol.com Mon Feb 27 21:32:55 2006 From: carolynwhite2 at aol.com (carolynwhite2) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:32:55 -0000 Subject: Greetings.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: --- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" wrote: > > you know, it would be fun to start coding again. I guess that's out of > the question without finishing the reviews? the Snape and Voldemort > sections would be huge and unwieldy if we code more, I guess, although > now everyone is on the same page for coding to a minimum. > > Anyway, just a thought. I'm itching to read the post-OOTP posts > because I'm reading it to my son at the moment and finding it more > chock-full of info than my last reading prior to HBP. > > I'm still plodding through Characterization and have some recs for > that category, then I'm not signed up for anything else so will be > ready for Snape. I guess he's next? > > Jen, finally with a day to devote to her on-line life which was > getting seriously neglected. > Well, if it would help keep this group together, I'm willing to consider it. I've even taken some time off next month to try and do a big chunk on this project, I feel so guilty! Snape is indeed next, did anyone have thoughts on Talisman's suggestions? C From carolynwhite2 at aol.com Mon Feb 27 21:49:57 2006 From: carolynwhite2 at aol.com (carolynwhite2) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:49:57 -0000 Subject: 3.15 Geography complete In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Kelly: Also, Carolyn, when I reviewed 3.15.14 The Leaky Cauldron an eon or so ago, I asked that it be combined with 3.15.2 Diagon Alley, since the former is a tiny category that often overlaps the latter. Is that still possible, or was there specific disagreement? Carolyn: Sorry to have overlooked this, no problem and now done. Kelly: 3.15.6 Riddle House ----------------------------------- Originally: 20 Now: 19 With one exception, all the posts here were speculation on the current owner of the Riddle House. Not really a geography discussion, but as I could think of no better place to move these posts, I left them here. Carolyn: I think this is the right decision. There really isn't anywhere else for them. Kelly: On a side note, I trashed post number 20401 on the grounds that any post that includes the entire text of a Daily Digest in it doesn't deserve consideration, even if it contains a brilliantly researched, life-changing dissertation. :) (it didn't). Carolyn: Really, the entire text? Where were the elves that day... Great - good to have you back Kelly. Where did you decide to live in the end? From carolynwhite2 at aol.com Mon Feb 27 22:02:08 2006 From: carolynwhite2 at aol.com (carolynwhite2) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:02:08 -0000 Subject: Trolls In-Reply-To: Message-ID: --- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "Debbie" wrote: > > Trolls (2.14.8): > Ahem! According to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in 1811 > Grogan Stump, the newly appointed MoM, decreed that to be a "being" > sufficient intelligence was needed to understand the laws of the > magical community. "Troll representatives were questioned in the > absence of goblins and judged not to understand anything that was > being said to them; they were therefore classified as "beasts" > despite their two-legged gait." > > I therefore petition to remove 2.14.8 to the "beasts" category. > However, to relieve any added burden on the Beasts reviewer, I > reviewed this category first (all 3 posts!) and reduced them to 1 > post. Debbie, just caught this. OTOH, security trolls were set to guard the Fat Lady after Sirius attacked the painting, and spent the time walking up and down comparing the size of their clubs . So, it appears they can at least talk, though possibly not about the finer points of wizarding law... From kakearney at gmail.com Tue Feb 28 01:22:29 2006 From: kakearney at gmail.com (corinthum) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:22:29 -0000 Subject: 3.15 Geography complete In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Me: > On a side note, I trashed post number 20401 on the grounds that any > post that includes the entire text of a Daily Digest in it doesn't > deserve consideration, even if it contains a brilliantly researched, > life-changing dissertation. :) (it didn't). Carolyn: > Really, the entire text? Where were the elves that day... Yup, all 25 posts, after a one-paragraph reply. I read about three of them thinking "why on earth are these here?" before I realized they were all part of the same message. > Great - good to have you back Kelly. I noticed that the Spells, Potions, and Incantations category isn't allocated in the database. Is it really unreviewed? If so, I'll take those. If I play my cards right here, I won't have to review a single character. Instead I'll just become a walking encycolpedia of all wizarding world minutiae. Where did you decide to live in > the end? I'm in Slidell, LA now (a suburb of New Orleans on the northshore). The Navy is covering my lease for a year, so I'll stay here until I start grad school this fall. -Kelly From willsonkmom at msn.com Tue Feb 28 15:12:24 2006 From: willsonkmom at msn.com (potioncat) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:12:24 -0000 Subject: Weasleys, Blacks and coding Message-ID: Potioncat looks up to see Miss heading for the office. The coffee is hot, water is heating for tea, the donuts are fresh and the lists at TOC and TOL are caught up, but not much progress had been made on the Weasleys...make that no progress has been made on the Weasleys. What to do? What to do? Potioncat gets a brilliant idea. Miss steps in the door and Potioncat calls out cheerfully, but trying to look a bit worn too, "Good news, another category completed! I've taken care of the Black family dynamics." Miss beams and Potioncat adds too softly for Miss to hear, "all 8 posts." I also deleted a few other codes, completely rejecting some of the posts. The codes weren't actually under my authority, but the posts were one-liners. I've less than 100 posts to read in the Weasley category, then I'll start chopping. Quite a few will be going. There are a hell of a lot of 7th sons. But I was amused that someone at TOL or TOC noticed a Septimus Weasley on the Black tree...Septimus "meaning" 7th son. Looks like JKR heard the theory too. As far as coding goes...I'd vote against it. Not sure how many categories are left to review, but I'd rather we take care of them first. I guess it depends on how the posts will be sent to the Public Catalogue. Can we really open it without Snape? If we are going to start coding, I think we need a cut off for the reviewer who will be coming along. For expample, we'd need to know the last current post in the Potter dynamics category before someone started adding posts. Or we need to know what the highest possible pre OoP post is...I guess that's really the same thing, isn't it? Because I'm very, very slow at reviewing these days, anyone who wants to can sign up for a group dynamic category. Ginger has finished some and I've done some. They're noted on the allocation database. I'm working on Weasleys now. It's been a while since I read the ideas on the Snape category. Maybe we should all look it over and start a discussion. What we need is a goal...and a slogun....That'll do the trick! Where's Jen? She's good at that sort of thing. Potioncat, HBP (half-baked planner) From willsonkmom at msn.com Tue Feb 28 15:48:43 2006 From: willsonkmom at msn.com (potioncat) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:48:43 -0000 Subject: Weasleys Message-ID: Noting motivates like success. Knocking off the 8 Blacks gave me the energy to take on the rest of the Weasleys and now it's done...that is, stage one is done. Now I have to go in and delete a heck of a lot of posts! I think when we do get to Snape, we should look at more than code at a time. Haven't we sort of come to the conclusion that a post really doesn't need more than 2 or 3 codes? Kathy