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I re-added a photo I took of Egyptian Halls, for the reason that it's fairly absurd to talk about the work of an architect and not illustrate it. It was then promptly removed again by User:Twospoonfuls, citing the reason "Thats what the commons page is for, and there is a reason: it looks crap". I disagree with both those of those points, as the commons is not there as a substitute for the wikipedia page, and many users will never click through to it. Egyptian Halls may indeed look like crap in the photo, but that, sadly, is what it does look like at the moment, like many of his other buildings. A photo of an architect, interesting as may be, doesn't really show the reader anything useful; a photo of one of their buildings does. If it's felt that the image of the Caledonia Road church, also the commons, is more suitable, then I don't mind at all. Maccoinnich 21:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm afraid my views on illustration a very much to the point. The Egyptian Halls picture does not "show the kind of detail he was known for" it shows the kind of detail he used in his middle eclectic period. To put it on the page without context was to suggest that it stands as synecdoche for Thompson's work as a whole, it does not any more than one of his early romanesque villas, or late ionic buildings would. To leave it there would have been actively misleading. I see you took that picture and I understand that you are parti-pris, but consider this - for the amount of typing you've expended berating me you could have added some content to the page and illustrated that. Twospoonfuls 14:52, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
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Please do not use this virtually unknown word. I had to look it up when I first saw it, yesterday, in a Liverpool article. My immediate thought was that it was a mistyping of "without". I agree with the fellow whose edit was "Exchanged obscure word for a more understandable one." 31.48.111.109 ( talk) 18:39, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
It is a Scottish English word, and is certainly not 'virtually unknown' in Scotland, where it is a perfectly normal word. Probably does make sense to change for an international readership, though. 109.149.9.143 ( talk) 19:01, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: no consensus.( non-admin closure) Eventhorizon51 ( talk) 21:48, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
– Rationale: No clear
primary topic. The architect is probably the most significant single topic, but the test of a primary topic is that it is more significant than all the other topics combined.
In this case the other topics include a leading theorist of British fascism (
Alexander Raven Thomson), a pioneering colonist of Australia (
Alexander Thomson (pioneer)), and two senior judges on whom we do not yet have articles.
The
90-day pageview analysis shows the architect getting about 60% of the pageviews, but that data may be misleading because the lack of disambiguation will direct readers searching for any of the other topics to the page on the architect.
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I re-added a photo I took of Egyptian Halls, for the reason that it's fairly absurd to talk about the work of an architect and not illustrate it. It was then promptly removed again by User:Twospoonfuls, citing the reason "Thats what the commons page is for, and there is a reason: it looks crap". I disagree with both those of those points, as the commons is not there as a substitute for the wikipedia page, and many users will never click through to it. Egyptian Halls may indeed look like crap in the photo, but that, sadly, is what it does look like at the moment, like many of his other buildings. A photo of an architect, interesting as may be, doesn't really show the reader anything useful; a photo of one of their buildings does. If it's felt that the image of the Caledonia Road church, also the commons, is more suitable, then I don't mind at all. Maccoinnich 21:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm afraid my views on illustration a very much to the point. The Egyptian Halls picture does not "show the kind of detail he was known for" it shows the kind of detail he used in his middle eclectic period. To put it on the page without context was to suggest that it stands as synecdoche for Thompson's work as a whole, it does not any more than one of his early romanesque villas, or late ionic buildings would. To leave it there would have been actively misleading. I see you took that picture and I understand that you are parti-pris, but consider this - for the amount of typing you've expended berating me you could have added some content to the page and illustrated that. Twospoonfuls 14:52, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 10:38, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Please do not use this virtually unknown word. I had to look it up when I first saw it, yesterday, in a Liverpool article. My immediate thought was that it was a mistyping of "without". I agree with the fellow whose edit was "Exchanged obscure word for a more understandable one." 31.48.111.109 ( talk) 18:39, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
It is a Scottish English word, and is certainly not 'virtually unknown' in Scotland, where it is a perfectly normal word. Probably does make sense to change for an international readership, though. 109.149.9.143 ( talk) 19:01, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: no consensus.( non-admin closure) Eventhorizon51 ( talk) 21:48, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
– Rationale: No clear
primary topic. The architect is probably the most significant single topic, but the test of a primary topic is that it is more significant than all the other topics combined.
In this case the other topics include a leading theorist of British fascism (
Alexander Raven Thomson), a pioneering colonist of Australia (
Alexander Thomson (pioneer)), and two senior judges on whom we do not yet have articles.
The
90-day pageview analysis shows the architect getting about 60% of the pageviews, but that data may be misleading because the lack of disambiguation will direct readers searching for any of the other topics to the page on the architect.
BrownHairedGirl
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