Talk:Dr. Killjoy

=Notes on my edit=

I am fine with nitpicking, especially when editing a Wiki. However, while I was okay was a couple edits to my original additions, a few I was not. And, as such, I have fixed them.

While I like the phonetic aesthetics of “tolerated,” allowed is actually more fitting. Tolerated is less specific and can denote ignorance, willful or otherwise. While Killjoy was not necessarily supervised, nor were his experiments 100% sanctioned, he was the head administrator of Carnate Asylum, and his patients had to come from somewhere. But, you were right about removing the part about the prison. The Victorian home was built in the later 19th century, turned into the institution at the turn, and then closed in the 30s. All before Fort Maleson was built, which was before Abbot.

Seeing as how Torque was never officially diagnosed (by Q.L. or anyone else), Killjoy’s diagnosis is merely an well-educated guess, although obviously skewed by his obsession with Torque and his own personal shortcomings. Therefore it cannot be an official diagnosis, hence "alleged." Also consider that the conditions Killjoy proposes are largely fictitious and/or antiquated.

The exact decade in which Killjoy is not known. While it is likely that it was the same time the asylum was abandoned in the 30s, Killjoy could have left any time before that. And “early/mid 20th century” does indeed include the 30s. It’s not early-20th, it’s not mid-20th, it’s between. Hence early/mid.

Also, commas are used to separate both appositives and negations in a sentence. The sentence in question, obviously, starts “The ingenious, albeit quite probably sociopathic, surgeon…” The middle of that statement is mostly an appositive, but could be considered either. Additionally, "off the coast of Maryland” and "for some reason" are also an appositives.

Ex: “I am drinking Cherry Coke, a type of soft drink, as I edit this Wiki.”

This is the proper way to express such a thought. To not include the commas is grammatically incorrect.

The rest of your edits are fine. I kinda added all that on the fly, and my edit was admittedly a bit screwy.Dr. Quincy Lancelot Killjoy, M.D., Psy.D. (talk) 03:29, October 2, 2018 (UTC)