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Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 22:31, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

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Dick Nixon

Nixon calling himself Dick to JFK and LBJ probably had more to do with the fact that he served with them in Congress for a decade or more (counting VP service) and they knew him as Dick before he dropped the nickname gradually in the 1960s.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:19, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

In those mischievous White House tapes, civilian Nixon greeted then-President Johnson as "Dick Nixon" at least as late as 1967, if you look it up and listen on YouTube. In informal conversations with peers, he was known for decades as identifying himself as "Dick Nixon." I chose the word "peers" with great care, however, since he liked "friends" like Bebe Robozo to address him with his current title long before he was president, as "Senator Nixon" or "Vice President Nixon" or whatever he happened to be at any given time. He certainly considered Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to be peers although of course he always used "Mr. President" during the presidency of each and expected and received the same when he finally became president himself. The name "Dick Nixon" should certainly be cited in bold print because it was how he was widely thought of prior to his presidency, hence the darker but even more pervasive "Tricky Dick" (which should probably also receive mention in boldface because it was so relentlessly prevalent throughout his career). I lived through all of this myself, getting most of this information in real time. Listen to him on tape with Kennedy or Johnson and you'll see that he calls himself "Dick Nixon." What I don't remember until after he resigned is his dropping his middle initial, which was always in evidence on posters and in newspaper articles about him. I knew that he dropped it but I don't think it was before his political career had ended although it's possible that it was. It was a sign of the times; now middle initials are generally out of favor but were once practically a necessity for practicing politicians, especially most presidents. While we're talking about alternate nicknames, unfortunately "RMN" doesn't have the same ring as FDR or JFK or LBJ although Nixon's last name was so short (five letters) that it practically made it a moot point. Nixon tried "RN" in imitation of his idol Theodore Roosevelt's "TR" but it never really caught on. I think we should definitely restore "Dick Nixon" in boldface; after all, Kennedy's Wikipedia article offers his nickname "Jack" in boldface and it would be a shame to shortchange Nixon's nickname. Racing Forward (talk) 02:16, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Hey man im josh (talk) 14:49, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Tim Graham (actor) moved to draftspace

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Episode list tables

Thanks for your recent contributions to List of Maverick episodes. I wish I had looked at this sooner so I could have mentioned this earlier, but the episode summary is really supposed to only be a plot summary of the episode. It should not contain extraneous information, such as writer or director. There are specific columns intended for that - they just were not added to that particular list. So before you go any further, please take a look at Template:Episode table and Template:Episode list for how these are used. Also, not specifically noted in the episode list docs, but if there are specific known details for story and teleplay, you should use Template:StoryTeleplay in the writer column. If it's just "writer", then no template is necessary, but if you identify "story" and/or "teleplay", then the template should be used. Hope this helps. If you have questions on how these are applied, ping me. ButlerBlog (talk) 17:26, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, Butlerblog. This site was originally formatted back in April 2006 by a bot operated by someone named "User:Docu", I think but I'm not sure; it gets a bit confusing trying to fathom bot technology if your knack is straight writing and researching. Of course one of the good things about Wikipedia is that so many different people with sometimes starkly different ranges of skills come in and make small or huge contributions. Anyway, this site started as straight text in 2005 and that was changed to something close to the current boxes in 2006 with occasional vast improvements in the boxes between then and now. When it comes to reformatting boxes, I'm not necessarily the fellow for that job, I research and write text for articles as well as occasionally inserting photographs when appropriate but it would take me quite a while to teach myself to reformat boxes while it's presumably a piece of cake for someone who operates a bot on a routine basis. I like the site as it is, with the additional information rather than a single terse sentence instead although I certainly see what they were driving at regarding all those boxes on the pages to which you directed me. It's a format for finding information lightning fast rather than savoring interesting sidelights and insights as one might when reading the original article instead of the episode list. I think the sidelights make the episodes even more entertaining but I understand the alternate perspective. Ironically, I just spent an hour or so adding writers and directors to episodes before following the red number at the top of the page and opening your comment; I assumed that it was letting me know about a faulty link, as happens to all of us, but then when I opened it before logging off, I saw your interesting paragraph. In any case, I'll now stop adding writers and directors until someone reformats the site if it's deemed advantageous, and I'll continue to make appropriate contributions when I can in any case, adhering to whatever format appears. I appreciate your telling me about this and I hope that we correspond again in the future. Racing Forward (talk) 19:07, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

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Book citations

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Drmies (talk) 15:29, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Graham87, look at the two responses by the editor on this very talk page, to asses their grandiloquence. Also see the overlap, on Maverick (TV series), Lee Marvin, James Garner. And they are a perfect CU match: the other account was created out of a desire to troll, or a certain frustration leading to that desire. Drmies (talk) 15:31, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Just ... wow ... Graham87 15:56, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:17, 13 August 2023 (UTC)