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Entry: The 'Dilbert' Books - In Progress - A991226
Author: Jodan - Mining 42 - Secret prize for the 1,000,000th visitor to the AWW... - U201497

I thought of an update for the Dilbert strip entry, but I think the books and cartoons are different things

That's my excuse anyway.

Looks good

Researcher PSG - owner of several Dilbert books

As the owner of far to many of these books, (and thankfully someone who will never work in a cubcile again or indeed ever, I never got that far in the private sector to get my own cublicle) I can safely say that this is brilliant and accurate! is there a link to dilbert.com, and the other dilbert article. I'm sorry if there is but I didn't notice it.

Thanks

There's a link to the other dilbert article and the dilbert newsletter, I'll see if I can work in a link to dilbert.com

, owner of all the dilbert books

Anything else?

It's been in PR one week tradition... you know

The "In Progress" - shouldn't that go?

I think it looks . The link to dilbert.com can go down the bottom under a header called "Further Reading", if you'd like.

Niwt who doesn't read much Dilbert

I forgot to remove that when I put it in originally

Sorted now. I can make a further reading part

One very quick comment ...

Change the order around. Put the Chapter Books first, then list the Strip books at the end.

I found myself winding straight through the listing of Strip books, and could no longer be bothered to read the entry.

BBS

Ok - it's looking pretty solid. But there are some improvements I can see ...

- The Dilbert Principle. I assume that this is an adaptation of The Peter Principle (and is possibly even mentioned in the book). The original principle states that in a hierarchically structured administration, people tend to be promoted up to their "level of incompetence". Given that the PP was introduced by L Peter in a 1969 humour book, I think perhaps it's worth mentioning to explain the book title to the reader.

- Given that you've included publish dates for the first two books, shouldn't you include them for The Joy of Work and the Weasel book?

- Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel.
-- Overall I didn't find this a coherent explanation of this book. In fact given the depth of the previous two, it looks like you just rushed it in here.
-- Firstly please could you more explicitly state what the Weasel Zone is.
-- 2ndly you use the word "Explain" three times in 3 sentences. Perhaps you could just use "Also how other weasels work." and "To quote from the book:".
-- 3rdly just noticed you explained Weasel Zone in the 2nd quote, which indicates the lack of coherence and flow of the section.

- The Dilbert Cartoon Collections
-- Given that almost all of these are "a collection of newspaper strips starting from ... until". Could you not just put them in a 2-3 column table ... Book Title, Start Date, End Date ... and then include Asterisks/Footnotes/4th column for the exceptions.

Otherwise I think it does what it says on the label ...

Nice

BBS

The Peter Priniciple is mentioned in the book. I suppose I can mention it.

>>Firstly please could you more explicitly state what the Weasel Zone is.

It really isn't that important to the book It's a good quote, but that's basically the length of its mention.

>>Overall I didn't find this a coherent explanation of this book. In fact given the depth of the previous two, it looks like you just rushed it in here.

Anything specific?

As for the table, I tried it originally, but the expections made it too difficult.

I think I got all of the changes made I had some computer problems in the middle of my updating, so I had to start all over

Hmmm more problems with your computer than you could ever imagine ... it switched the order back around (post 9) ...

The Chapter sections seemed improved.

BBS

Doh!

I did it offline, and I guess I only changed the entry's order online...

So, um, is this ready now?

I changed everything they told me to

I think it is. Is it?

I guess it is.

Looks great
Two thumbs up!
(and I would say that even if you weren't part of the renowned Flying Jodeus Brothers)

Deus Ex Machina
who is a Dilbert fan

Thanks Deus.