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Dorothy Sweet[edit]

Who was the artist Dorothy Sweet, who drew London scenes in the 1920s/1930s ([1],[2])? What are her dates? Did she also work under another (married/ maiden) name? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:18, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There's some biographical information Here. She seems to also be known as "Dorothy F. Sweet", per This. Several sites mention that she was a member of the Society of Women Artists; here is their website. Perhaps contacting that organization may be useful; they may have records or archives that can be accessed. --Jayron 32 14:50, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have an account at Ancestry, and found a Dorothy Florence Sweet, art student, in the 1911 census, living at Glen Lyn, Fallow Court Avenue, North Finchley, Surrey. She was 30, so born c. 1881, and single. She was living with her widowed mother, Florence Clara Sweet, Florence's mother Clara Chapman (so Chapman is likely Dorothy's mother's maiden name), and a servant, Ada Day. Based on that, I found her baptism record: her birth date is 4 March 1881, and she was baptised at Weybridge parish, St James, Surrey, on 14 June 1881. Her father was Herbert George Sweet. She doesn't appear to have married. There's a Dorothy Florence Sweet who died at Hendon, Greater London, in the first quarter of 1972, age 91. --Nicknack009 (talk) 19:53, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This site includes a permit for her to sketch and paint in the East Sussex area in 1918 from the Imperial War Museum, which includes a photo of her, and her signature. --Nicknack009 (talk) 20:03, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What do you call this type of situation?[edit]

Say, the world's favorite color is blue, but the world's 2nd favorite color is also blue? And that can be possible, for example, people's who's favorite color is red, can say their 2nd favorite is blue, people who's favorite color is green, can also say their 2nd fav is blue. I'm thinking this situation is some kind of a paradox or anomaly, what would we call it? I know philosophy names a huge list of fallacies, but I'm wondering if these have names too? Perhaps this is also a computer-science question. Thanks. 67.165.185.178 (talk) 15:01, 18 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

You've just described a type of Ranked voting system. This is not a paradox, it's actually used in many places as a means of selecting elected representatives. --Jayron 32 15:34, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In a single transferable vote scheme for multiple seats, Blue is elected and then removed from consideration. (Those ballots that contributed to Blue are counted again but at a fraction of their previous value.) —Tamfang (talk) 19:34, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

67.165.185.178 -- When people compile, say, a list of the ten favorite movies of a group of people, they very rarely would use your procedure (the movie which has the most 1st ranked votes on the individual lists as the group's first-ranked movie, the movie with the most 2nd ranked votes on individual lists as the group's second-ranked movie, and so on down the list). That would mean that individuals' 1st-ranked votes for anything other than the group's overall favorite movie would have no influence on determining the group's second-favorite movie, which seems strange. There are voting paradoxes, some with real-world implications, such as the Condorcet paradox, and others extremely abstruse and theoretical without much relevance to politics, such as the so-called "Arrow paradox", but they're not what you described. AnonMoos (talk) 18:21, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Re: "I've just described a ranked voting system." Then what would you call a voting system where, if #1 is blue, then all the people who's favorite color is blue, is asked what their 2nd fav color is, and that largest majority, is polled? 67.165.185.178 (talk) 02:10, 19 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

I don't understand the last bit. Suppose most people prefer blue, and among those who prefer blue most consider red their second-best option. Is the "largest majority" formed by these preferably-blue-or-else-red people? What is it they are polled about? How is the outcome of the poll reflected in the reported preferences? --Lambiam 09:40, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Correct I just wondering what it's called. But the other way is to ask everyone what their #1 color is, then the 1 with the 2nd most votes is ranked as 2nd (as what AnonMoos above said). But then, you really wonder what if you just surveyed everyone who's favorite color is blue, and asked for what their #2 is, to see if it matches. 67.165.185.178 (talk) 11:48, 19 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

That is not a voting system. It is a property that the outcome of some particular preference poll may turn out to have. As far as I see it is not an interesting property, so I doubt anyone has cared to name it. --Lambiam 15:20, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

name this political figure[edit]

At the top of this article is a picture, apparently taken in 1994, of a Senator from Delaware between the then US Attorney General and … who? I remember her face but her name is not coming back to me. Please spare me looking up everyone who was in the Cabinet or Congress at the time! —Tamfang (talk) 19:31, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pat Schroeder.^[3] --Lambiam 20:26, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

THanks. —Tamfang (talk) 21:22, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

piero della Francesca di prospective pingendi[edit]

Hi another similar question

Is there any english translation of piero della Francesca di prospective pingendi

If not is there a way to find the text so I can google translate it, I have similar intentions for durers theoretical works

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.236.150 (talk) 20:39, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To what is that question similar? —Tamfang (talk) 21:22, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I already asked before if there was a translation of Albrecht Durer's workk on perspective in January. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:7830:DE40:35D1:7D90:829A:BD12 (talk) 21:23, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Under what user ID? --←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:54, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If it matters, the querant then (25 January) had the IP 107.77.232.225 (as is easily findable in the Archives). Presumably they, like myself, have a dynamic IP. So? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.193.130.191 (talk) 23:55, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This, then.[4] And the actual archive entry.[5] It matters because the archive search tool here is garbage. --←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 09:17, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There have been two replys and neither have began to help with my question

Both the English wiki article De prospectiva pingendi and the Italian wiki article link to the original text in two different versions (hosted by panizzi, hosted by codicesillustres) but you'd have to be able to read the medieval handwriting. 70.67.193.176 (talk) 00:26, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.234.215 (talk) 01:40, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]