QUOTE(Somey @ Mon 8th March 2010, 11:26pm)
QUOTE(Wiki Witch of the West @ Mon 8th March 2010, 5:12pm)
A few days before the chat log you have read, a different chat occurred where he boasted that his onsite outbursts had indeed been staged throughout his arbitration appeals...
Yikes! So maybe there really is some reason to believe he's faking the illness, either completely or almost completely... There goes my newly-coined term, then. (IMG:
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That still leaves one question, though (if you don't mind my asking): How did the "Mignon Nevada" article initially come about? Did you ask him to write it, or did he volunteer and/or insist, with or without your suggesting that it should be written? Or maybe it was more complicated than that...?
Shoemaker's Holiday and I often collaborated on content. You'll see quite a few conominations among our featured pictures and featured sounds and DYK articles. He has a real gift for restoring engravings and etchings; I tend to work better with color. We also work in different software and there are certain things which Photoshop can do more readily than GIMP.
So for the better part of two years it was very casual "Hey, could you help out with this?" or "Here's something that seems right up your alley." If the shared portion of the work was substantial enough we would conominate. Occasionally we would tug each other's sleeve to balance out the flow, with stuff each of us could do ourselves but didn't really feel fired up for.
Mignon Nevada was a restoration I did mainly to illustrate the Ophelia article. Note to self: do not restore images before checking thoroughly on how to use it. The Ophelia article had a lot of other images. Mignon Nevada was a notable opera singer who was in enough sources to justify an article, but I kind of burned out on her while doing the restoration. So it was along the lines of
Dude, I've helped you with a lot of your projects lately. Shoemaker's Holiday had done a lot of other work with opera and with Shakespeare; this wasn't a detour much outside his interests. And handing someone sources and asking them to start an article isn't normally deemed improper.