section 1 of the stuff I pasted

[quigonginger]

Just a note before you begin.  The stuff I said I put in bold doesn't 
go to this e-mail in bold.  Sorry about that.  Ginger

SECTION 1:  TEXT ANALYSIS

1.1.1.1 Religious influences
Jen (2502):
I reviewed the subsections of Religious Influences, Wicca, Redemption 
and Lambasting. Started at around 400+ posts and now down to 200. The 
only recommendation I have is rolling Wicca into religious influences 
if that's acceptable. There were only 19 posts I kept for that 
category and most of them discussed Christianity and other religions 
anyway. As for debates which need to be coded carefully in the 
future, Christian vs. secular discussions regarding the references to 
Christmas and Easter have been overdone. I chopped several threads 
which were repeats. 

Carolyn (2505):
Jen: The only recommendation I have is rolling Wicca into religious 
influences if that's acceptable. There were only 19 posts I kept for 
that category and most of them discussed Christianity and other 
religions anyway. 

C: I'll do that. Doesn't sound like it's worth keeping the separate 
category 

1.1.2 Morality vs. Immorality
Debbie (2485):
1.1.2 Morality vs. Immorality 335/136 
1.1.2.1 Following/Breaking Rules 150/87 
1.1.2.2 Responsibility 32/16 
1.1.2.3 Respect/disrespect for authority 63/38 
1.1.2.4 Rashness and Anger 125/41 
1.1.2.5 Jealousy 104/50 1.1.2.6 Pride 34/19 
1.1.2.7 Revenge 23/17 
1.1.2.8 Justice 99/66 
1.1.2.9 Contrition and Forgiveness 46/26 

The main category now includes only general discussions of morality 
in the series and posts on one or another of the Seven Deadly 
Sins/Seven Heavenly Virtues that don't have their own subheads. The 
others are self-explanatory; I generally removed all the Snape's 
Anger/Ron's Jealousy etc. posts unless they had a broader point to 
make. 

1.1.8 Bravery and Courage
Carolyn (2488):
Well, I am very glad that Debbie had done the morality section, as it 
is certainly not my expert area and I was definitely dreading it. To 
compensate I have finally finished section 1.1.8/1.1.8.1, which I 
started months ago. Have to say it consists mainly of examples of 
various characters' courage or cowardice, and at one point I was 
going to take them all out. If I had, there would have been no 
section. So, dubiously, I went through pruning here and there, 
removing obvious glitches etc. Net result is: 1.1.8 Started with 98, 
finished with 81 1.1.8.1 Started with 97, finished with 78 There were 
only about 20 posts cross-coded to both I found, to my surprise. 

1.2.11.8 MWPP
Ginger (2515):
I finished MWPP, but it was only a slight reduction. It started with 
166 posts and ended with 121. Not up to my usual standards, I'm 
afraid. There was a lot of talk about which house(s) the guys were 
in. I kept a lot of it even though we now know that they were Gryffs 
because there was some good insight into the characters. The same 
holds for parallels between the guys and the trio and/or Neville. 
Since there were a lot of differing opinions (all of them valid), I 
was hard pressed to get rid of too much as there wasn't a lot of 
repitition.