A Conversation for We Didn't Start the Fire - Project in Planning
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Apr 14, 2004
I'm such a total sloth. I'm part way through the entry on Birth Control and feel confident about finishing it. Thought I should check in about a time frame though. Given I'll probably be the last person to finish, you might want to set a ballpark cut off date, B.?
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
Mu Beta Posted Apr 17, 2004
Nope. I'll just pop round and chivvy you when I get bored. 
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Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
Florida Sailor All is well with the world Posted Apr 17, 2004
Back in post 18 I offered to cover 'The King and I' the offer still stands if the other editor has lost interest.
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Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
Mu Beta Posted Apr 17, 2004
Please go ahead. Consider it a foot race. 
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Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Apr 17, 2004
*relaxes again*
You know where to find me 
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
J Posted May 6, 2004
Looks like Gubernatrix threw his entries up...
I hasten to add one of them - Kennedy - already has an EG entry... and a damn good one A2181890
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
Mu Beta Posted May 9, 2004
Yeah. Everything that had Gube's name next to it is available to the general public once again.
Without clicking on the link, I take it you wrote the JFK entry, Jodan. Judging by that smug look on your face, that is.
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Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
J Posted May 9, 2004
In PR - A2322929
Don't look at who the author is.
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
Mu Beta Posted May 9, 2004
Are you just stealinf bits of my project and one-by-one turning them into 'real' entries? 
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Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
J Posted May 9, 2004
Yes.
Three. Nixon, Richard Nixon Back Again and Watergate.
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
Mu Beta Posted May 10, 2004
Grr. Am I going to have to wait until this thing clears PR to find out what to link to?
B
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
Smij - Formerly Jimster Posted May 10, 2004
*Thinks*
I think we could do with an update on this, B, and possibly a deadline. As there are areas that might well cross over onto the eventual 'What it was like in the 1960s' entry, it'd be better to have your project completed before we start our one.
Do you know yet what form the project will take? Will it be year-by-year, subject-by-subject or a combination of both?
The reason I'd like to start looking towards a deadline for this are three-fold.
- Firstly, from a purely greedy point of view, to have all of these entries in the Edited Guide will nudge us even closer to the big 7000 mark.
- Secondly, we have a bunch of very eager, talented sub-editors who could be invited to help out. In that way, we could treat this in the same way we used to treat University Projects, rather than clogging up PR and having to wait for each entry to be picked.
- Finally, the song was released in the UK on 30 September 1989. It'd be great if we can mark its 15th birthday with the whole project completed.
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
Mu Beta Posted May 10, 2004
"Do you know yet what form the project will take? Will it be year-by-year, subject-by-subject or a combination of both?"
Definitely year-by-year.
I will start chasing up the authors of missing pieces (there aren't actually that many), and advertise some on Challenge h2g2 as well.
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Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
J Posted May 10, 2004
"Grr. Am I going to have to wait until this thing clears PR to find out what to link to?"
Fine. I'll come up with Richard Nixon, ...back again and Watergate. But only because you grred. 
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
Mu Beta Posted May 10, 2004
Too late. I've done Richard Nixon.
B
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
J Posted May 10, 2004
Well, I just did it too 
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Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
broelan Posted May 14, 2004
Looking over the subjects that don't yet link to anything on your main list, I would be willing to do some work on:
Rock Around the Clock
Alabama
Birth Control
possibly Ole Miss
...that is if the original volunteers don't mind
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia Posted May 15, 2004
how close are you to completion?
Yes! I want to write for your project, Master B
Mu Beta Posted May 15, 2004
Pretty damn close. All that's left is this list on F150575?thread=419488
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- 181: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Apr 14, 2004)
- 182: Mu Beta (Apr 17, 2004)
- 183: Florida Sailor All is well with the world (Apr 17, 2004)
- 184: Mu Beta (Apr 17, 2004)
- 185: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Apr 17, 2004)
- 186: J (May 6, 2004)
- 187: Mu Beta (May 9, 2004)
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- 193: Smij - Formerly Jimster (May 10, 2004)
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- 195: J (May 10, 2004)
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- 198: broelan (May 14, 2004)
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