User talk:Remember/Archive Nov 2007

OK, I'm in!

You invited me to WP Anthroponymy a few months ago, and as I just can't stop editing "name" articles, I've signed up today! I did loads of work disambiguating just about everything to do with Zechariah, and may have finished that today by splitting Zack as a disam page from Zack (given name). I also watch a miscellany including Sara, Nathan, Giles, Patrick, Shrivastava, Pillai, and Bayat, for no better reason than that I once rvv or copyedited them. Happy to be in!

The project page invites new pages to be listed. Does splitting name pages from disam count? Without significant additions, I would guess not. - Fayenatic (talk) 19:44, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Timeline of the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests

Hi there, noticed you created the above article, do you think we should delete it from the main article now? Thought I'd better check first in case it's not supposed to be! Sue Wallace 04:16, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah we should delete now. Remember 23:45, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Past Political Scandals and Controversies

Thanks for letting me know about this project. I added my name to the list of members, and am excited that this project was created. Looking forward to working on it. All the best. - Ukulele 18:15, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

DC meetup #3

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Reward board inconsistency

Your entry on the reward board mentions $50 as the reward, but later mentions $30 as the amount that would be collected. I don't intend to collect this reward myself, just thought I should let you know so you could fix it to whatever your intention was. :-) GreenReaper 06:12, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Waterboarding.

I would appreciate it when you revert me in an article and demand I use talk on my talk page - even rather arrogantly suggesting I could be banned whilst reinserting some words many of us consider weasel words (Controlled Drowning - for Torture) - that you first check your own house is in order first. You have not used talk on that article. 89.100.48.103 17:05, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I correct myself, you had used it yesterday, but not in relation to this controlled downing business, I had. 89.100.48.103 17:14, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

In Remembrance...

--nat ^{Alo! Salut! Sunt eu, un haiduc?!?!} 20:17, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Jennifer

Hi, I too was thinking the page about the name Jennifer should be at Jennifer (given name). However, I believe a Move would have been better than copy-and-paste, as it would have kept the page history with the article. Is it too late to ask an Admin to do that? I would then move the disam page over the redirect Jennifer. - Fayenatic (talk) 23:41, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

OK; I've added it at Requested Moves.- Fayenatic (talk) 13:34, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the star, Remember! I used to wonder whether I would get one for my copy-editing work, but had pretty much forgotten about it, being content with the improvements that I was making, scattered across the 'pedia. I guess it's the focus of joining a WikiProject that makes my work show up somewhere. Cheers for taking notice! - Fayenatic (talk) 23:26, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Links in signature

Hi Remember, I left you a note above. Another suggestion: you might like to revise your signature to include a link to your talk page from now on. It's done on the Preferences page. Cheers again, Fayenatic (talk) 23:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Template:Family name

Hello, some time ago you created Template:Family name. There seems to be something strange about it, because several articles that use it get a kind of hyphen on the left side of the article where the template is on the right side. The hyphen seems to be caused by the template because if the template is removed, the hyphen disappears. See for instance: Hasegawa, Yoshitsune, Bryant (surname). Arthena^(talk) 22:43, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

By the way, why does it have the wiktionary box by default? For many names this has no use. Arthena^(talk) 22:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok. I will look into it :). Arthena^(talk) 00:15, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't know much about templates but I did some testing by trial and error and I made some changes. I fixed the hyphen problem, removed the wiktionary box, and removed the reference thing (it didn't seem to work properly). I hope I didn't introduce any new problems, but it seems to look ok on a random set of articles that use the template that I checked. Arthena^(talk) 00:56, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Template:Boticilli

Why is the template name misspelled? -- VegitaU 01:31, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

'Cause I screwed up. But I have fixed it. Thanks. Remember 13:09, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Leonardo da Vinci

I think that the template that repeats the list of works which are already listed in the text is a total overkill. The list in the text gives a lot of specific information through its references as to if and why and by whom the paintings are considered authentic.

In transferring the information you have taken two very important works that are stated as being by Leonardo and other hands, and have put them under the heading of "Disputed works". They are not disputed in either case. They are known to be by Leonardo and his master Verrocchio, in the case of the Baptism,and Leonardo and his assistants the Credis in the other case.

Moreover, to include works that are generally accepted as Leonardo's in the same section as a painting which only one Art Historian in the world has ever said was a Leonardo is not a good thing to do. There are degrees of certainty about these things, which are indicated in the text, but not in your box.

If you are going to do this, you need to do it with a good deal of understanding. I would tend to limit the info in the box to only those works which are considered fairly certain. In the case of Leonardo, that is about fifteen paintings. And it most certaily includes those two painted by Leonardo with other hands: the Baptism and the Virgin of the Rocks in London.

Amandajm 13:26, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi again! About Leonardo.... please don't call him "da Vinci". Many of these guys were known by their Christian names, unless their surname was either very important or their first name was common and they needed to distinguish themselves. Leo was Leonardo from Vinci. Art Historians never call him "da Vinci". It's one of the ways that you know that Dan Brown doesn't know what he is talking about.

Likewise, people who want to prove that they are knowledgeable will throw around Michelangelo's surname. (He was minor nobility) But it is completely superfluous. If you just write Michelangelo then everyone knows who you are talking about. There is another painter by the same Christian name, but he is always known by his place name, Caravaggio.

A lot of the painters were known by nicknames. Masaccio means "Fat Tom", His brother was called Scheggio, the "Splinter" so he must have been as skinny as a rake. Botticelli was the "Little Barrel",(maybe he was a fat little baby) Leonardo's pupil Salaino was the "Little Devil", Uccello was "The Bird".

It's variable which name an artist of that date uses. For example Filippo Brunelleschi is known by his sur-name. So is his rival Lorenzo Ghiberti. But their good friend, the sculptor Donatello's real name was Donato di Bardi. If you were to call him that, no-one would know who you were referrring to!

I'll have a go at re-jigging your template to include only the really important works.

Amandajm 14:17, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

The Last Judgement

When I got your message, I thought it was a good idea and started stitching it together  :). I do this in Photoshop by just taking screen captures with the Print Screen key on the keyboard, then importing each piece, making sure each fits together exactly. Unfortunately, the Vatican made it difficult/impossible to download their original photo of each painting, so this is the best way of doing it (as far as I can tell). I'll let you know when I finish it - it's about 20% complete at the moment. FranksValli 20:22, 15 November 2007 (UTC)