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Hafs I found a nice painting by Herman Richir of Juliette and Rodolphe Wytsman and put it at the top of my talk page. I see that there is an article about Rodolphe Wytsman but no article on either Herman Richir or Juliette Wytsman. Do you feel like writing articles on them? Also, I saw that in the article on Rodolphe Wytsman, this painting of the couple is not there. It would be a good likeness of the artist, wouldn't it? This painting and one other are mentioned in that article in "Trivia", which I think is a silly name for a section. Maybe you could find the other painting, too. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:30, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
The Wystman article was translated from Flemish (Dutch).
I can generally make out simple Dutch due to my German and to the fact that I lived in Holland for a few months long ago (early '70s), and of course there's always Bing. I went through the article and revised some awkward translations, condensing here & there to delete superfluous details, such as Wytsman's four street addresses in Brussels. I dropped urbanist from the 2nd graf cuz I couldn't find a suitable translation; I thought of rendering it as "town planner" but that doesn't fit the context.
There are still too many names of minor artists and fellow art students in the article. Of the latter I dopped L. Cambier, Julien Dillen, Leon Herbo, Henri Permeke, L. Pion, F. Seghers and François Taelemans, as they seem to have no further significance. Also the others who joined later: Vela others clarification needed joined Albert Baertsoen, Frantz Charlet, Jean Degreef, Henry De Groux, Jacques Lalang, Jean Delville, James Ensor, Leon Frederic, Frank Leemputten and others. Superfluous for English readers.
This quote — J'espère que tout en n'étant plus Vingtiste, nous conserverons nos bons rapports et le plaisir que j'aurai de vous recevoir souvent à l'atelier — and its translation don't add materially to the story; briefly paraphrased.
I question the utility of the graf listing works Wytsman exhibited at Les XX, especially since we don't get to see them. But, if you're going to retain that section, the titles should be translated from French (and italicized — not quotes).
Deleted the next graf about his addresses — superfluous.
Re Rik Wouters, got of cancer from the Dutch article; seems he had "eye cancer." — ??
To me the article, which started at 2,000 words and is now down to 1,500, still seems a bit long for a relatively obscure artist, few of whose works are available on Commons. But ... whatever. Sca ( talk) 17:45, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
I don't see a prob w/the two links to Sinclair Lewis.
BTW, my current read is Main Street. Of course it paints a rather negative picture of small-town life in Minn. (my home state) a century ago, but the descriptions and character development are good. As you may know, the town it's set in, Gopher Prairie, was based on Sauk Centre, Lewis's hometown. It didn't win him much love there when it was published in 1920, but nowadays they advertise themselves as his birthplace, etc. Figgers. Sort of like Bob Dylan and Hibbing. Sca ( talk) 18:00, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
Rothorpe I can't believe it. I was trying to keep track of my edits so that I would see when I made my 10,000th edit, and I just looked and saw that I had gone right past it today -- it's at 10,022. I wonder how many of those are just adding or removing a comma. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:34, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
Perhaps you'd like to nominate Plattelandsgezicht for an FP? It's big enough — 1,674 X 1,282 px.
Hafspajen Hafs, I'm looking for images to nominate at FP. I started by looking at some artists in the Lists of painters by nationality, then going to List of American artists 1900 and after. I looked at the article on Isabel Bishop saw the article had no images of her work. Can you find something?
American artist articles with no images of works
That's all for now... CorinneSD ( talk) 22:52, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
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I was trying to find out on MOS:TITLES how the title of a Ph.D. thesis should be formatted in an article -- italics or quotation marks -- but I couldn't find anything. Can you tell me? Thanks. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:09, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
Congrats, you've converted me to spaced en-dashes. Sca ( talk) 21:58, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
CorinneSD,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
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Dear Corinne,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! A new year has come! How times flies! 2015 will be a new year, and it is also a chance for you to start afresh! Thank you for your contributions!
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Corinne, you might be interested in this. Sca ( talk) 14:43, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
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A hand-made greeting since the template seems to be broken.
So sorry! I backed out what I did, but that didn't solve the problem. (Then I added a hand-made greeting.) It looks as if New Year 2015 greetings added after a certain time aren't working, and furthermore that previous ones on the same page stop working. Just a suspicion, but I wonder if the problem could be related to this change made by @ Technical 13: at 13:34 UTC today. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 20:08, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
It is finally there! Your input and review would be greatly appreciated. I can never thank you enough for helping me all you have. The main reason I got serious about editing was to improve this article. HalfGig talk 00:23, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
You were quite right in your reversions/fixes to Nutmeg; I should have been bolder. Happy New Year! Peter coxhead ( talk) 18:49, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
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CorinneSD, I wish you a Happy New Year, and thank you for the good cooperation in the past as also in the future. Beagel ( talk) 12:10, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
do you think about this edit ? and this- this- fruits or fruit. Hafspajen ( talk) 15:41, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
The first one is correct. "Austrian beers" is plural, so the correct form of the verb is "come".
Regarding the palinka article, you will have seen by now that I made quite a few minor copy-edits and re-wordings. The decision as to whether it should be "fruit" or "fruits" was made on a case-by-case basis. Most of the time, the word should be "fruit". Only when it means "a variety of different kinds of fruit", collectively, should it be "fruits". CorinneSD ( talk) 19:50, 3 January 2015 (UTC) Ah. Right. Thanks. I looked at this artist - the Spanish one - he has only two pictures on Commons. It looks to me that he ismaking fun of those monks. Hafspajen ( talk) 20:13, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
This is how it looked like before - the pictures were quite boring. Replaced the water folly pic. Thanks for checking it. Hafspajen ( talk) 12:29, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Why would anyone like to delete this? Hafspajen ( talk) 00:15, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Hafs, you didn't sign this comment, but I figured out it was you. Well, I took a look. I wouldn't be able to judge what others said was duplication of material already in other articles without spending quite a bit of time reading those articles, but I saw right away that the writing was poor. I voted to delete and provided three examples of the poor writing. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:07, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Corinne. At the end of the 3rd paragraph of Bill de Blasio#Early life and education, I'm inclined to put a 'had' in: 'revealed that his father had committed suicide'. But would you? I've noticed AmE uses the perfect, including in the past, much less than BrE does. Sorry if I've mentioned this before, but you know what a poor memory I have. Rothorpe ( talk) 22:01, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
Dear CorinneSD I'm rather busy at the moment, bur will add Landscape to my watch list, and will try to contribute. All the best for 2015. Rwood128 ( talk) 01:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Re your recent query re style on 'Literature and landscape', see my comment on
User talk:Rothorpe (I'm still in the process of editing this section of
Landscape).
Rwood128 (
talk) 19:34, 20 January 2015 (UTC).
One Hundred and One Dalmatians say that is not up to wiki standards, but it is a rather old tagg, since 2009 or so. What do you think about it? I tried to add some refs. Hafspajen ( talk) 18:59, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
What an incredible painting! CorinneSD ( talk) 15:18, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hafs Are you following the edits regarding an image at Christopher Columbus? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:25, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
I can't even view it. It filled up my entire screen. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:28, 9 January 2015 (UTC) forgot the : , sorry. Hafspajen ( talk) 00:30, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Now it's not there at all. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:31, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafs? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:36, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
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Is there an easy way to determine the number of words in a selected paragraph or section? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:52, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
As a bonus, it also gives a character count.
All the best. Fylbecatulous talk 20:45, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
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I learned about a code for a no-break hyphen a while ago. I keep it handy at the top of my talk page. It's ‑
. I just used it in the article
Landscape where I added it before suffixes after noticing that it was breaking between the hyphen and the suffix at the end of lines. However, this no-break hyphen is shorter than a regular hyphen and is hard to see, and it's important to see the hyphen before a suffix. I suppose there may be some uses in which this shorter hyphen may be needed, but is there any way to create a no-break hyphen that is the same length as the regular hyphen? -- a puzzle for techies.
CorinneSD (
talk) 18:49, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
‑
is indeed identical in width to the regular hyphen ‐
, but a non-breaking
en-dash or
em-dash (or possibly a non-breaking
hyphen-minus). I rather doubt non-breaking duplicates of all those exist, but you can use the {{
nowrap}} template to prevent breaking: {{nowrap|non-breaking}}
will give "non-breaking", which indeed does not break.
Huon (
talk) 19:50, 8 January 2015 (UTC){{nowrap|-ship}}
should guarantee that there's no break between the dash (and here it's just the standard minus-hyphen, not a true hyphen) and the syllable. Try to break this: -ship
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It has acquired an important place in the history of art as a German icon of national painting. is this any correct English? Doesn't sounds right somehow. Hafspajen ( talk) 19:10, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Well, grammatically it's all right, but it could be worded better. I'd need to ask a few questions to clarify it:
1) Has [the painting] acquired an important place in the history of world art or only in the history of German art?
2) I don't really know what "national painting" means. That sounds kind of silly.
If it really is supposed to be "a German icon", then it is an icon only to Germans (unless "icon" is taken in the literal meaning of a religious icon), which would make "has acquired an important place in [world] art" unlikely, so the last phrase, "a German icon of national painting", should probably be:
So, re-worded, the sentence should probably read:
"It has acquired an important place in the history of world art as an icon of German painting."
Even then, I wonder whether "icon" is the best word there. I suppose art historians would find it acceptable. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:25, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
I mean it is a German icon. In art history. Hafspajen ( talk) 19:36, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Yes, but "a German icon" does not make as much sense as "an icon of German painting". CorinneSD ( talk) 19:38, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was looking at the latest edit to Attis, an article I had read about a year ago, when I read a sentence that made me think of the Vertumnus (painting) painting. It is early in the the lede:
I wonder if Archimboldo had this in mind when he painted "Vertumnus". I don't know what it would have to do with Rudolf II, though, other than possibly hinting that the emperor was like a god. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:29, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
No, I wasn't suggesting adding to any article. I just thought there seemed to be some common features between Attis and the painting. I had forgotten the content of the article on the god Vertumnus, which I must have read five or six weeks ago, but after I posted this comment, I read the entire article on Vertumnus, and, even though it says Vertumnus was an ancient Etruscan god, he was similar to Attis. I think, even though it doesn't say it, that the Etruscan god might have come from the cult of Attis. The two gods could have arisen independently; they're both gods of agriculture, orchards, and the seasons -- probably very ancient. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:14, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Explanation about the Golden Age. If you have read Vertumnus (painting) a couple of hours ago, it's not the same article any more. Hafspajen ( talk) 23:15, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafs Earlier this afternoon I was looking at all the images in the article Arthur Devis (1712–1787). I noticed that the third painting in the gallery is one painting of a tryptych. I'm wondering if it wouldn't be nice to have all three parts of the tryptych, in the order in which they are normally displayed. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:53, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
OK, explain. The article is very small. one has to chose from a big amount paintings. I tryed to put thewm together so I
Wanted to add these too, but somewhere I have to say stop. I chosed the best male pics, best woman, group and free open air group - and the one that matched, the ones that fitted and were goole files. .
Hafspajen ( talk) 00:08, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
O.K. I see you've put a lot of thought into it. The thing that got me really looking at the image was the fact that the caption starts Mr.... (and she's a woman). Is there any way to just have her name, "Mrs. Peter Duncane", or "Mary, nee Norris, wife of Mr. Peter Duncane" ? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:37, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafs I assume you've been following the discussion at Talk:Landscape#Landscape ecology. In the latest comment Rwood128 provided the definition of landscape from the article in Landscape ecology. I thought it might be interesting to compare that to the definition of landscape written by art historians. I was reading the beginning of the article on Landscape painting and I saw this sentence:
There's something here that is not clear:
I know the sentence continues, but this part ought to make sense, and it doesn't quite make sense. What exactly was meant by "and especially art"? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:48, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
And it would it make sense to leave in the word "especially" and leave out "and". Hafspajen ( talk) 02:00, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
When using the term "to cease fire", is it "I'm ceasing fire" or "ceazing fire"? With other words: "s" or "z", in the "active verb"? Bets regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 05:09, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I see you corrected the link for the category at FP nominations for Mr. and Mrs. Atherton, [4] but I now see the word "Wikipedia" twice, once before the brackets and once inside the brackets. Is it supposed to be there twice, or doesn't it matter? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:22, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Here you can look how it looked. Looked like a staircase. Hafspajen ( talk) 01:00, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafs, I'm looking for both ideas and images for the article on Landscape. I found this image from Agriculture:
but it doesn't look like a very sharp image. If you agree, can you help me find a similar image of these rice terraces but one that is sharper? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:24, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen You never answered my question, above, about the rice terraces image. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:32, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hafs What happened to the first image in the last row in the gallery at the end of the article on Jan Toorop? CorinneSD ( talk) 17:18, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Was wondering about sewing or tayloring or something. Hafspajen ( talk) 23:08, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
I'll look at those in a minute. Read the second paragraph in the section "19th century" in the "History" section in Women in the workforce: Women in the workforce#19th century. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:41, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Well, the image would go with Sewing, but I notice that there are already quite a few images in that article. The other article would be Tailor. I didn't seen any appropriate place for that painting there. I think it would go well with "Women in the workforce - History - 19th century". CorinneSD ( talk) 23:44, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Added to dressmaker. Hafspajen ( talk) 00:50, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
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Joshua Jonathan Rothorpe Are you at all interested in Gnosticism? Would you like to weigh in on a not-very-weighty discussion about a sentence that seems out of place in a section of the article? See Talk:Gnosticism#Can someone help me with this sentence?. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:53, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe I read the article on Liqueur. From there I went to the article on Schnapps and read that. I was surprised to see the last section in that article and wonder whether it should even be there. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 01:27, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Sca What's wrong, Sca? I hope you are just having dinner, relaxing with a beer, or watching a favorite program on T.V. CorinneSD ( talk) 02:17, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
I'll check in the morning but I know that Anglo-Welsh is no longer used. Rwood128 ( talk) 01:52, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
User:Rwood128 See Rothorpe's edits and our discussion at User talk:Rothorpe#Jonathan Swift. Thanks for your reply. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:54, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Did you say ....two thousand was a sock? See latest FP nominations. CorinneSD ( talk) 02:47, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen What happened? Why did you delete so much on your talk page? I stopped editing Talk:Landscape when you told me to. I loved what was on your talk page. Won't you please put it back, or at least some of it? CorinneSD ( talk) 02:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen, re Åreskutan, how is that Swedish å pronounced? – like a German ä perhaps? Sca ( talk) 22:37, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
I don't know Swedish, but I tried to find some information to help you. I looked at the article Swedish orthography and found a table in Swedish orthography#Sound–spelling correspondences that contains that letter (a with a little circle over it), but the information next to that letter doesn't help me. I tried to find something in the IPA article but couldn't find anything. Maybe you will be able to find something there. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:22, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe I wonder if you would read through the article on Giovanni Bellini and tell me what you think of the writing style. I won't say anything until I hear what you have to say. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I'm looking for a new painting to put at the top of my talk page. I want to see the paintings of Pierre Bonnard, but the article only has a few. Where can I find more, ones that I could put on my user and/or talk page? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:28, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Did you see the note I left at the WP FP for the John Quidor painting? I'll repeat it here: I noticed that the image of the painting of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman appears twice in the article on John Quidor -- once at the beginning of the article and once in the gallery. Should it be there twice?
Also, I read the article and made a few edits to improve clarity and sentence flow. I also added a "clarification needed" tag and note to editors which you might be able to answer and fix. The phrase "During that period" is not clear. If you figure it out, you can let me know here what it is supposed to mean and I'll be glad to fix the sentence. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:10, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just spent about fifty minutes copyediting the article on Benjamin Haydon. When I went to save, I got "Edit conflict". I tried to save the entire article with my edits but couldn't, so lost all my work. I'll leave it for now and re-do my work at another time. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:14, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Thank you for your comment, but there are a few things I don't understand. When I get edit conflict, I highlight the previewed text, right-click and click "Copy", go to the top edit window, right-click, click "Paste", and save. What is "command"? Is that the same as "control"? Or is it a different key on the keyboard? Is "command/v" the same as "Paste"? Also, you wrote, "do a command/c (copy). Then save your edit." Why would I need to save my edit if I haven't pasted anything? Wouldn't I just hit "cancel" to exit? Also, while you're here, I don't understand why you asked me about Swedish pronunciation. I know nothing about that. Also, I have no interest in beer, and finally, do you think that last question of yours (in the section above) was appropriate for my talk page? CorinneSD ( talk) 15:38, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was looking at the two images at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/William III of the Netherlands, and I thought that the difference between them was similar to the difference between the two images discussed at commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Anônimo - D. Pedro, Duque de Bragança.JPG and Talk:Pedro I of Brazil. You know I don't know much about image quality, and images of paintings that are in museums, but when I looked at the two images of D. Pedro, Duque de Bragança (Pedro I of Brazil) side by side, the first one, the one Adam wanted to delete, looked artificially bright, as if it had been scrubbed clean. I think a painting painted in 1835 is unlikely to be that bright. I don't think I should say anything, though, because I don't know enough about it. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:45, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Many thanks for the helpful advice. Rwood128 ( talk) 12:39, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Happy New Year (however belated). 1. I removed the reference to Compostela as it was tagged as unsourced since November 2014, and I have yet to come across anything mentioning it in any of my research. 2. I entered "Idacius (Hydatius) of Merida" in one of my earlier edits, as I found him called both, but on further review I switched it to simply Hydatius, as Idacius is too similar to Ithacius of Faro and discussion of their respective roles was becoming confusing. Just trying to make it easier to understand. If someone wants to re-instate "Idacius" I have no particular views one way or the other. Hope that clarifies things. Mannanan51 ( talk) 21:21, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen I don't know if you have seen this edit, but I wonder if you could check whether it is correct or not. Since it's by an IP editor, it could just be vandalism, and even if it is not vandalism, I'm not sure the extra names are needed. [5] CorinneSD ( talk) 19:20, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen and Crisco 1492 Adam Cuerden Please first read my comment just above. Then look at the last few edits to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It is possible that the information added is correct, but I think it should be checked by someone knowledgeable like you. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:38, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Am pinging Adam also because Hafs indicated Crisco is busier than usual, and I know Hafs is always busy. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:26, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
DXR Thank you for your kind reply at Multiple co-nominators of an FPC. I looked at the two graphs you made. I am always impressed by anyone who can make a graph, and more so when the graph is made on short order. I spent a few minutes trying to understand the graphs. When I was looking at the one on the left, I saw the "slices" of the "pie", where the five largest represent, I believe, the five editors who made the most edits (in your sample). I believe they are ranked one to five in the list. I was looking at the numbers. I saw that the heading said the figures were cumulative, so I figured out that:
I thought Editor 1 is ranked #1 because he/she voted the most times (in the sample), and that the ranking should go in order. The ranking numbers go up while the number of edits made by each editor goes down. I don't understand why you have Editor 4 -- who voted 8 times -- before Editor 5 -- who voted 9 times. Am I mis-reading or misunderstanding something? It's not a big deal. I'm just trying to understand it. CorinneSD ( talk) 21:53, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84 What do you think of the latest edits to Eggplant? [6]
I only think a few of them are all right. The others I prefer the way it was before. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:52, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Gerda Arendt I saw your very nice note to User:Ben MacDui at User talk:Ben MacDui#Precious again. I thought you might like to have the opportunity to correct a typo in it. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:33, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
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It was an interesting experience, but the part that remains paramount in my memory is your response to it all. -- Atsme☯ Consult 16:21, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen I nominated the Albertus Jonas Brandt "Flowers in a Terracotta Vase". After I saved it, I saw that "Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings" is linked in other nominations. I didn't link it. I didn't know it should be linked. Now I don't know (a) whether it is important to add the link, and (b) how to link it now that it's already in the nominations. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:50, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Question - what if I have my own photographs, and some of them are already in articles. Can you also nominate those pictures, or does it have to be photos of art? Atsme☯ Consult 05:25, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen, CorinneSD - what do you think about this one as a nom - [ [8]]. It's in use, and was used by one of the entrees in the WikiCup. it's kinda fishy, or maybe closer to "slippery as an eel". Atsme☯ Consult 02:17, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Yngvadottir I don't know whether you know French or not, but since you know quite a few languages, I thought I'd ask. What do you think of the change from "parmi" to "chez" in Robert Antoine Pinchon [9]. I thought "chez" was used when referring to a house or home. I suppose it could be extended to refer to a group of people, but this is a group of people in a metaphor, where the people are a group of painters who are being called "wild beasts" in relation to a classical sculpture in their midst. The painters themselves are not actually in the room; it's their works that are being hung on the walls in an exhibition. To me, "chez" means "at home" or "at home with" and "parmi" means "among", "amongst", or "amidst". I'm not an expert, so I thought I'd ask you what you thought. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:31, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
What do you think of this edit in Landscape? [10]
Hafspajen from an art expert's point of view, and Rothorpe from a writer's point of view. If the sentence without the addition of "an example" is not wrong, I think it would be less wordy (especially for the lede) and more concise without it. CorinneSD ( talk) 03:20, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I know you're busy, but I was wondering if you could take a look at the Cucurbita article now and let us know at the FAC page what you think now. We've had two Supports since your last visit, but we still need image, source, and copyvio checks. We truly appreciate all the help you've given so far and enjoy working with you. HalfGig talk 22:24, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
HalfGig I saw that in Michael Nee's list of species and species groups, the spacing around en-dashes was inconsistent, some with spaces, some with one, some with one before and one after, so I decided to add the spaces and make them all consistent. However, upon looking at it now, I wonder if there are too many dashes. Do you like the way it looks now? What do you think of changing the en-dashes that follow "origin" to colons: origin:? CorinneSD ( talk) 03:06, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
At the beginning of Cucurbita#Germination and seedling growth is the following sentence:
I find the first part of this sentence a little unclear. I'm wondering if it would make sense if we move "in C. moschata" to the beginning of the sentence:
Probably, "seed" is normal botanists' lingo, but I'm wondering if would be more understandable for the average reader if it were "seeds...develop" instead of "seed...develops". CorinneSD ( talk) 03:37, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
The first sentence of the second paragraph in this section is:
There are a couple of things about this sentence that are not clear to me.
(a) In this clause, "When there is more pollen applied to the stigma", it is not clear who, or what, would apply the pollen to the stigma. Presumably this is referring to natural pollination by an insect, but that's not entirely clear. Just the use of the verb "applied" suggests that it could be a human. Also, this clause gives no indication of when this happens, or why there would be more pollen at some times than at others. The word "when" really begs the question, "When?"
(b) Regarding, "as well as the fruit being larger and containing more seeds", it is also not clear when or why this would happen. (It's also not the best grammatical construction, but we can work on that.)
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Rothorpe, Mutt Lunker I saw this edit to Bass (fish) - [13], and I wanted to ask your opinion of it. I know that normally "fish" is both the singular and plural form of the noun (similar to "fruit"), but I believe that occasionally "fishes" (like "fruits") is used to mean "types of fish, collectively" (as "fruits" is used to mean "various types of fruit"). (I'm actually more sure about "fruit/fruits" than I am of "fish/fishes", so that's why I'm asking you.) What do you think? Is "fishes" appropriate here -- or is it ever correct? I know "fish" is not wrong here, but is "fishes" more appropriate? CorinneSD ( talk) 20:42, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Humboldtian model of higher education. If you can make this to flow smoothly and make sense that would something. It is a DYK, and the main editor Serten is German. I am to no good at language problems, tried to rewrite it into something that made sense to me but now it is rewritten by him again, so - I feel I can't really do much, because I did what I thought was right. DYK - Template:Did you know nominations/Humboldtian education ideal - and article Humboldtian model of higher education. I really don't KNOW what to do, after this diff I give up- it is a bit like Blade. If we don't get some language help it will not work. And I have to say, I don't always know what it is about either. My last version, cited at the DYK template is based on the English references. I know nothing about the Germans. That's the situation. Hafspajen ( talk) 01:01, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I want to find another picture for the top of my talk page. Once, you gave me a link to a lot of images -- many on a page -- but I can't find it now. It's not the link the Google Art project that I have at the top of this page. Can you help me? I've looked at the Google Art project (link at top) but haven't found what I'm looking for. CorinneSD ( talk) 03:31, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
I can help after Monday, - my language is in cats on my user page ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:07, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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Higher education: I tried, and left further thoughts on the article talk, - the place to concentrate efforts to improve the article. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:02, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith Do you think anything additional needs to be done? [14], [15], or is it best to ignore it? CorinneSD ( talk) 19:36, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
I'd like some help in moving some information that was just added to the article on Virginia Woolf into a note. See my discussion with Rwood128 at User talk:Rwood128#Virginia Woolf. I'd like to do this myself, but I've never added a note to an article. Could someone tell me how to do this? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:10, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Yes, it is somewhat confusing. The simplest way to explain it is to say that for VW, (1) citations go under the heading 'References' and (2) the note go under 'Notes' (otherwise you'll end up with two headings that are, confusingly, called called 'Notes'). This an alternative way to the frequently used system of putting both citations and notes under one heading. Citations on Wikipedia are sometimes placed under the heading 'Notes' and sometimes 'References'. You may think it not worth doing for one item, but I thought that you might be interested, as it can, in some circumstances, be a useful tool. See Novel for an example of an extensive use of notes. Rwood128 ( talk) 01:03, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Yes -- sorry I missed that step out.
Re Novel those notes were my attempt to try and sort things out -- the article is over-full with facts and I periodically try and improve it. Rwood128 ( talk) 01:18, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Good. Rwood128 ( talk) 11:08, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen Hafs, I noticed that in Karl Nordström, a lot of the image captions do not include the date of the painting. Is there a particular reason for that? Would you mind if I added the year to the captions? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:38, 4 February 2015 (UTC) Because if I did someone will come around and start sorting them after date. That crokus bowl is from 1910, that will make it jump to the end of the gallery - making it looking awkward. Why don't you make a list of them above? Hafspajen ( talk) 21:03, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Hafs, I just made a few copy-edits to the article on Albertus Jonas Brandt. I noticed something odd at the beginning of the article. The first sentence says, "Brandt was born on the 22nd as the son of a book printer and seller," but his date of birth is 25 November. How could he be born on the 22nd? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) (I wondered how you could ping Crisco with just "1492".)
I saw your last edit to Tilia in which you removed the material under "Cultural significance". I wondered if you were in a bad mood. I'm not saying it should go back in, but do articles on plants and trees generally have no section about the plant "In popular culture" or in "Literary references" or something like that? Don't you think it would be interesting for readers to read about references to tilia/linden/lime trees in literature? Unter den linden, etc. Just wondering. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:01, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Your comments above must have come after I revised the lede. Yes, I have seen the Oak article and put the list banner up on it.
What you say is perfectly reasonable. I'm not so sure now about the idea of a new tree article, especially as there is one on Tree worship. Cultural significance is a reasonable heading. I don't see much point now of moving material back into Tilia – it seems to me like needless work. Perhaps Hafspajen was too quick to act, I'm not sure?
Also while I accept that popular culture may be important, to list the title of a song because it has the name of a tree in its title is not. Rwood128 ( talk) 00:01, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I don't know how to make the image larger. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:29, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Also, did I do everything right? Why does it show up in my watchlist as if I had created a new page? I don't remember seeing that kind of thing in my watchlist before. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:36, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
まりも羊羹 I'm going to try to translate using Google translate. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:41, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
It only comes out "Marimo Yokan", which doesn't help. Perhaps you could do a search with the English phrase on Google, and see what comes up. At first, I thought they were billiard balls (for the game), but then I saw that some had a little bump on them, so they can't be billiard balls. Then I thought they might be some kind of candy. I don't know. By the way, I see the photo of the feral bull was promoted. I was surprised. Well, that's good, I guess. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:44, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't get the picture of the train station. Other than a depiction of a train and a train station, what is it supposed to be showing? It looks like the man going away from the viewer has knocked down a woman and is tripping (see the foot) of the man carrying glasses of beer. Is this a statement about a particular type of person? Why did you put the image here? Did you find it particularly interesting, or what? CorinneSD ( talk) 15:50, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
......don't get me wrong, I like Swabians. They are more genuine somehow. Hafspajen ( talk) 05:00, 11 February 2015 (UTC) I like the painting by Cot, but why did you put as a caption, "Portrait of the artist's daughter"? There is no girl, or even person, in the painting. The name of the painting is "Castle by the river". CorinneSD ( talk) 15:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
[18] suggested by Serten II. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:05, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Serten II Thank you for asking me to look at the IPCC consensus article. I just looked at it. I think I'd like to do a bit of reading first, to understand the basics of the topic and some background. Then I will go through your draft article carefully. Just give me a day or two to get to it. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Would you please look at the latest edits to Order of St. Benedict. The last of three by the same editor is [19]. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:15, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen After reading a recent comment on your page regarding Swedish food, I skimmed the articles on Swedish cuisine, Finnish cuisine, and Norwegian cuisine. I saw a photo of a pastry in the section Norwegian cuisine#Fruit and desserts that seemed awfully dark. I wonder if a better photo of this or other Norwegian pastry could be found. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:40, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen or Sca I've been reading the article on Danish cuisine. I came across a sentence that puzzles me. It is in the last paragraph of the section Danish cuisine#Breakfast, and I'll copy the first part of it here:
How can a porridge be cooked on rye bread? Should it be something like "a thin porridge cooked with rye bread..." or "a thin porridge made from rye bread..."? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:58, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
I'd suggest, if you renominate with just this image, it'll likely pass. Splitting the vote often doesn't help. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 14:12, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Is this [20] correct formatting in Marcus Aurelius? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:27, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Thanks for introducing me to Jean-Eugène Buland. Very interesting paintings. I made a few copy-edits to the article, but there are two sentences that are puzzling me. Perhaps they were translated from an article in French, but they sounds obscure and awkward in English:
1) In the middle of what looks like the second paragraph in "Biography" is the following sentence:
The part that puzzles me is "His participation in the Salon was compensated for by..."
It sounds like "participation in the Salon" was an onerous (difficult or unpleasant) duty. I don't think that could the the case. What does this really mean? Does it mean that his participation in the Salon had some positive benefits, or that his participation led to the awards?
2) At the beginning of what looks like the third paragraph in "Biography" is the following sentence:
The part that puzzles me is "He profited from the public commands emanating from..." This is definitely not colloquial English. What actually came to him from the major institutions? Commissions for paintings? Attention? Support? Praise?
If you could clarify these two things for me, I'd be glad to re-word the sentences so that they make sense. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:59, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
.'*It means: his participation led to the awards, of course. The other is less clear, commissions for paintings perhaps? Hafspajen ( talk) 04:51, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
a speculation, it would be a very interesting FP self portrait.-- Hafspajen ( talk) 05:11, 14 February 2015 (UTC) http://artsalesindex.artinfo.com/asi/lots/4735121 doesn't say. Hafspajen ( talk) 05:56, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Do you approve of this change of image in Franciscan? [21] CorinneSD ( talk) 17:02, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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I have been consolidating material moved from Cassava (about culinary use of cassava) to Cassava-based dishes (at the suggestion of two botanist editors, User:Sminthopsis84 and User:Peter coxhead). I am still working on the organization of the article. Is there a template I could put at the top of the page of Cassava-based dishes that indicates that the article is being worked on and not to edit until I have finished? I may need to continue this work tomorrow. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:44, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Your copy-editing work is very fine. I appreciate it a lot, as I'm sure many other readers and editors do. Thank you. -- Ori.livneh ( talk) 08:08, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
The Herald Hello, TH -- I saw your Valentine's Day template on Hafs' and Sca's talk pages. As someone who is interested in language, I just had to ask you whether "greet" is used as a noun in the variety of English you normally use (which variety I do not know). In American English, "greet" can only be a verb (I greet, you greet, he greets, etc.), not a noun. So "Valentine's Greets" is ungrammatical in American, and I believe also British, English. In American English, the noun is "a greeting" -- plural: "greetings". I'm just wondering what inspired you to choose that title for your template. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:32, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Yngvadottir, Sca Can you translate an image file name for me? It's for a photo of a vase that I've had on my user page for a while. I copied the file name and added it in the caption after what I had there ("Beautiful glass vase") and tried to get a translation using Google translate, but nothing came up.
Also,
Hafspajen I saw a note in the file information that the author/creator is unknown. Is there any way you can find out more?
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Vsmith V, I need an American editor's opinion. See Talk:Cake#Cake as a dessert?. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:34, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Peter coxhead Yesterday, I finished integrating the material I removed from Cassava (on culinary uses) into Cassava-based dishes. I put the material in the right country-section, deleted duplicate material, and made a few copy-edits. With regarding to Cassava-based dishes#Africa, I just added the material from the Cassava article but didn't do any organizing because it was in a different format from the other regions (it's sentences and paragraphs rather than country by country).
Before I begin a complete re-organization of the article, I want to ask you whether you like the organization as it is now or not. I had suggested to Sminth (and you), in her now-archived section on Cassava, that I remove the country sub-headings, leave the larger region headings, and, within each region, list the main dishes. I would list the dish, then describe it, then list the names of the dish in the various countries.
For example,
(etc.)
I think there is a lot of unnecessary repetition and description in the article, and this would make a shorter and more concise article. Sminth said this idea sounds good, but I'd also really like your opinion on this before I begin. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:38, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I've been reading the article on Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, and I've made a few minor copy-edits. I have come across something that needs fixing. The last paragraph of the section Adélaïde Labille-Guiard#Marriages, a single sentence, is as follows:
Notice the date that is given for the marriage.
In the caption of the picture of François-André Vincent right next to the Marriages section, it says they married in 1800. It also says 1800 in the article on him. 1800 may or may not be a round number, and "8 June 1799" is an exact date. Can you look into this and see which is correct? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:07, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, was admitted into the Academy on the same day in May of 1783 as Vigee-Lebrun, and perhaps even had more talent, yet her name is unfamiliar to most. Labille-Guiard did not come from an artistic family; her father was a shopkeeper, far from being an aristocrat. Thankfully her father did have a contact in the art world,such as François-Elie Vincent, the miniaturist. Vincent’s workshop was next to her father’s storefront. Adelaide started her tutelage with F.E.Vincent in 1763, and by 1769 she had become so skilled in the art that she was admitted to the Academie de St Luc. 1769 was also the same year in which she married for the first time and started her studies with Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, from whom Adelaide learned and perfected the technique of chalk pastel. She worked exclusively as a portraitist as early as the age of 19, and continued working in that genre till her death in 1803.Adelaide Labille-Guiard had a much different life than her contemporary, Vigee-Lebrun. Labille-Guiard was the youngest of eight children, her parents essentially merchants. She constantly went against the “norm” for her gender, being the only female pupil in a male dominated workshop at the age of fourteen. She seems to have quit her apprenticeship with de La Tour sometime during 1774, which is also the same year she started to exhibit her works at the Académie de St Luc. ... She also had a keen knack for capturing their character and personality through body language, facial expression and props that pertained to their profession, status, or hobby. This was also a trait of her tutor, Maurice Quentin de La-tour. Labille-Guiard also portrayed her sitters giving a direct gaze to the viewer in the majority of her works, which was in direct opposition to the work of Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun. Another distinct difference in their stylistic approach is in the dress of their sitters: Labille-Guiard portrayedher sitters in modern, contemporary fashions, while Vigee-Lebrunpreferred to show her sitters wearing neoclassical attire - ... Adelaide also battled criticism from the public and art critics,who said she was plain, uneducated, ... Along with success, come those who try to bring the successful down. It is something those in the public eye have apparently dealt with-for centuries: one may see it today on the cover of any grocery store tabloid. And so it was in for Adelaide Labille-Guiard. There was a controversial and “crass” poem printed and circulated throughout Paris about Labille-Guiard, essentially stating she had traded sexual favors for help with her paintings from François-André Vincent. The “poem” even went as far as to accuse her of having two thousand lovers, a play on words using Andre’ Vincent’s last name. It is now assumed that the author of this“poem” was her ex-husband', though it could never be proven (Aucchio). Labille-Guiard persevered however, and sought justice for herself and all other female artists to come after her. Adelaide Labille-Guiard was a feminist, fighting for the rights of woman within the academy and all of French society. Her career and life hold historical importance: she set precedence that all female artists in Paris thereafter her could use to their advantage. She was the first Parisian woman artist to overcome the obstacle“…of a non-artistic family background of low social class, of an unsuccessful marriage (the situation at least left her free to pursue her career), and of an Academy that admitted few woman and then only grudgingly with limited privileges”
Because I noticed that you have one of Juliëtte Wytsman's paintings on your user page, you might be interested to know that I've just created her article. – Editør ( talk) 00:30, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen Are you keeping an eye on Franciscan? [26] and subsequent edit. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:43, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Ruskinmonkey I saw your recent edits to Benjamin Haydon, particularly this group: [27]. I have studied them carefully and am inclined to revert the entire lot, but since I believe you made the edits in good faith, and you obviously like to write, I thought that instead of subjecting you to the shock of having all your edits undone, I would offer to work with you. I felt that, on balance, the way it was written was better than the way you have written it. I think you unnecessarily made the sentences wordier, removed some important pieces of information and added some unimportant details. If you'd like, I can be specific on each one of these. I just don't understand the reason for your re-writing perfectly good prose. There are one or two places that could have been improved, but I would have made only minor changes to achieve that. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:54, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Bryson Burroughs - have you heard of him? Hafspajen ( talk) 13:10, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen You will have seen that I changed the image at the top of this page to a painting by Jan Toorop. I really like this painting. I just used Google Translate to translate the word "Broek" (see the caption), and it translated it as "Pants". That doesn't seem to have anything to do with the painting. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:58, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for improving this article.-- 31.4.52.106 ( talk) 22:03, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Hafs What do you mean? Do you mean that you have put the image back where it was? User:31.4.52.106 I suggest you defer to User:Hafspajen's judgment regarding images. If there is a particular image you want to add, or if you have any questions about images, feel free to ask Hafspajen. S/He is very knowledgeable about images. A lot of editors have learned from him/her, and you can, too. Regarding the text of the article, let me know if you'd like me to work with you and help you get certain words, phrases and sentences that are at this moment still unclear into English. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:00, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
There is a one-sentence paragraph in Hunter's lead that could be easily merged with the first. There is no reason for it to be separate from the main one. Please be so kind to merge them, please. Thank you! 180.191.69.3 ( talk) 02:17, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, I am hope you are fine. I am not very active in Wikipedia anymore, because I have a lot to do in "real life". As for Dari: the whole article has become a battle ground of users with obvious political agenda. Fron a scholarly point of view, there is no doubt that "Dari"is just a word, a name, propagated politically since the 1960's, in order to alienate the people of Afghanistan from the word "Persian". Of course, the language known as "Dari" is nothing else but "Persian". Calling the various dialects of Persian in Afghanistan "Dari" instead of "Persian" is a political thing, not a scholarly one.
Wikipedia should stay politically neutral and present to scholarly view, that is: Dari is just a political name propagated by the Afghan government (which - by the way - has always been dominated by Pashtuns who do not speak Persian). That's also what Encyclopaedia Iranica writes.
-- Lysozym ( talk) 17:48, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Lysozym I'm sorry you are not very active on WP anymore. You are needed. Thank you for taking the time to leave me this note. I'm not much interested in the politics. As you can see from my user page, I'm mostly interested in improving the clarity of the prose in articles and in fixing little mistakes I come across. If you have time, would you look at something in Dari language? In the section Dari language#Vocabulary, there is a small table with two columns labeled "Persian-Farsi" and "Persian-Dari". All the words in these columns should be infinitives, to correspond to the English infinitives down the left. They should all end in "-dan". In the Persian-Dari column, two alternate verbs are given in each box – I believe one is similar to the Persian-Farsi verb and the other is different. For the English verb "to understand", two Persian-Dari forms are given. They appear to be "fah-mi-dan" and "fa-mi-di". The second one of these does not have the "-dan" ending; it has "-di" at the end; it also looks awfully similar to "fah-mi-dan" - only the "h" is missing. For all the other verbs, the second Persian-Dari verb was quite different from the first one. I think that is an error, but since I'm not sure, I thought I'd point it out to you. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:49, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
What Marsalokxx ? can't find it. Hafspajen ( talk) 21:53, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Sorry about that. (Next time just click on the picture first.) Where is Marsalokxx? (When I went back to your page to look, I saw that I had left out the "k" before the "xx", so I added it. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:10, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
I looked at the Lox and Gravlax articles but don't see anything about a pregnant lox. How can lox be pregnant? It's brined salmon. Anyway, we're getting further and further from the picture of the boats. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:14, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Hafs, I just finished copy-editing the article on Kerman. It took me more than an hour. I noticed that some of the images are not so great, particularly the slim image of the mosque with the blue dome, at the right. I'm sure a better image of that mosque can be found. Can you try to find a better one? You'll see what the mosque is called in the "Summary" section on the image file page. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:50, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hafs I found a nice painting by Herman Richir of Juliette and Rodolphe Wytsman and put it at the top of my talk page. I see that there is an article about Rodolphe Wytsman but no article on either Herman Richir or Juliette Wytsman. Do you feel like writing articles on them? Also, I saw that in the article on Rodolphe Wytsman, this painting of the couple is not there. It would be a good likeness of the artist, wouldn't it? This painting and one other are mentioned in that article in "Trivia", which I think is a silly name for a section. Maybe you could find the other painting, too. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:30, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
The Wystman article was translated from Flemish (Dutch).
I can generally make out simple Dutch due to my German and to the fact that I lived in Holland for a few months long ago (early '70s), and of course there's always Bing. I went through the article and revised some awkward translations, condensing here & there to delete superfluous details, such as Wytsman's four street addresses in Brussels. I dropped urbanist from the 2nd graf cuz I couldn't find a suitable translation; I thought of rendering it as "town planner" but that doesn't fit the context.
There are still too many names of minor artists and fellow art students in the article. Of the latter I dopped L. Cambier, Julien Dillen, Leon Herbo, Henri Permeke, L. Pion, F. Seghers and François Taelemans, as they seem to have no further significance. Also the others who joined later: Vela others clarification needed joined Albert Baertsoen, Frantz Charlet, Jean Degreef, Henry De Groux, Jacques Lalang, Jean Delville, James Ensor, Leon Frederic, Frank Leemputten and others. Superfluous for English readers.
This quote — J'espère que tout en n'étant plus Vingtiste, nous conserverons nos bons rapports et le plaisir que j'aurai de vous recevoir souvent à l'atelier — and its translation don't add materially to the story; briefly paraphrased.
I question the utility of the graf listing works Wytsman exhibited at Les XX, especially since we don't get to see them. But, if you're going to retain that section, the titles should be translated from French (and italicized — not quotes).
Deleted the next graf about his addresses — superfluous.
Re Rik Wouters, got of cancer from the Dutch article; seems he had "eye cancer." — ??
To me the article, which started at 2,000 words and is now down to 1,500, still seems a bit long for a relatively obscure artist, few of whose works are available on Commons. But ... whatever. Sca ( talk) 17:45, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
I don't see a prob w/the two links to Sinclair Lewis.
BTW, my current read is Main Street. Of course it paints a rather negative picture of small-town life in Minn. (my home state) a century ago, but the descriptions and character development are good. As you may know, the town it's set in, Gopher Prairie, was based on Sauk Centre, Lewis's hometown. It didn't win him much love there when it was published in 1920, but nowadays they advertise themselves as his birthplace, etc. Figgers. Sort of like Bob Dylan and Hibbing. Sca ( talk) 18:00, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
Rothorpe I can't believe it. I was trying to keep track of my edits so that I would see when I made my 10,000th edit, and I just looked and saw that I had gone right past it today -- it's at 10,022. I wonder how many of those are just adding or removing a comma. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:34, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
Perhaps you'd like to nominate Plattelandsgezicht for an FP? It's big enough — 1,674 X 1,282 px.
Hafspajen Hafs, I'm looking for images to nominate at FP. I started by looking at some artists in the Lists of painters by nationality, then going to List of American artists 1900 and after. I looked at the article on Isabel Bishop saw the article had no images of her work. Can you find something?
American artist articles with no images of works
That's all for now... CorinneSD ( talk) 22:52, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
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I was trying to find out on MOS:TITLES how the title of a Ph.D. thesis should be formatted in an article -- italics or quotation marks -- but I couldn't find anything. Can you tell me? Thanks. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:09, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
Congrats, you've converted me to spaced en-dashes. Sca ( talk) 21:58, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
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Dear Corinne,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! A new year has come! How times flies! 2015 will be a new year, and it is also a chance for you to start afresh! Thank you for your contributions!
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Corinne, you might be interested in this. Sca ( talk) 14:43, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
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A hand-made greeting since the template seems to be broken.
So sorry! I backed out what I did, but that didn't solve the problem. (Then I added a hand-made greeting.) It looks as if New Year 2015 greetings added after a certain time aren't working, and furthermore that previous ones on the same page stop working. Just a suspicion, but I wonder if the problem could be related to this change made by @ Technical 13: at 13:34 UTC today. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 20:08, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
It is finally there! Your input and review would be greatly appreciated. I can never thank you enough for helping me all you have. The main reason I got serious about editing was to improve this article. HalfGig talk 00:23, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
You were quite right in your reversions/fixes to Nutmeg; I should have been bolder. Happy New Year! Peter coxhead ( talk) 18:49, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
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CorinneSD, I wish you a Happy New Year, and thank you for the good cooperation in the past as also in the future. Beagel ( talk) 12:10, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
do you think about this edit ? and this- this- fruits or fruit. Hafspajen ( talk) 15:41, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
The first one is correct. "Austrian beers" is plural, so the correct form of the verb is "come".
Regarding the palinka article, you will have seen by now that I made quite a few minor copy-edits and re-wordings. The decision as to whether it should be "fruit" or "fruits" was made on a case-by-case basis. Most of the time, the word should be "fruit". Only when it means "a variety of different kinds of fruit", collectively, should it be "fruits". CorinneSD ( talk) 19:50, 3 January 2015 (UTC) Ah. Right. Thanks. I looked at this artist - the Spanish one - he has only two pictures on Commons. It looks to me that he ismaking fun of those monks. Hafspajen ( talk) 20:13, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
This is how it looked like before - the pictures were quite boring. Replaced the water folly pic. Thanks for checking it. Hafspajen ( talk) 12:29, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Why would anyone like to delete this? Hafspajen ( talk) 00:15, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Hafs, you didn't sign this comment, but I figured out it was you. Well, I took a look. I wouldn't be able to judge what others said was duplication of material already in other articles without spending quite a bit of time reading those articles, but I saw right away that the writing was poor. I voted to delete and provided three examples of the poor writing. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:07, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Corinne. At the end of the 3rd paragraph of Bill de Blasio#Early life and education, I'm inclined to put a 'had' in: 'revealed that his father had committed suicide'. But would you? I've noticed AmE uses the perfect, including in the past, much less than BrE does. Sorry if I've mentioned this before, but you know what a poor memory I have. Rothorpe ( talk) 22:01, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
Dear CorinneSD I'm rather busy at the moment, bur will add Landscape to my watch list, and will try to contribute. All the best for 2015. Rwood128 ( talk) 01:23, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Re your recent query re style on 'Literature and landscape', see my comment on
User talk:Rothorpe (I'm still in the process of editing this section of
Landscape).
Rwood128 (
talk) 19:34, 20 January 2015 (UTC).
One Hundred and One Dalmatians say that is not up to wiki standards, but it is a rather old tagg, since 2009 or so. What do you think about it? I tried to add some refs. Hafspajen ( talk) 18:59, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
What an incredible painting! CorinneSD ( talk) 15:18, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hafs Are you following the edits regarding an image at Christopher Columbus? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:25, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
I can't even view it. It filled up my entire screen. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:28, 9 January 2015 (UTC) forgot the : , sorry. Hafspajen ( talk) 00:30, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Now it's not there at all. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:31, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafs? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:36, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
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Is there an easy way to determine the number of words in a selected paragraph or section? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:52, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
As a bonus, it also gives a character count.
All the best. Fylbecatulous talk 20:45, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
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I learned about a code for a no-break hyphen a while ago. I keep it handy at the top of my talk page. It's ‑
. I just used it in the article
Landscape where I added it before suffixes after noticing that it was breaking between the hyphen and the suffix at the end of lines. However, this no-break hyphen is shorter than a regular hyphen and is hard to see, and it's important to see the hyphen before a suffix. I suppose there may be some uses in which this shorter hyphen may be needed, but is there any way to create a no-break hyphen that is the same length as the regular hyphen? -- a puzzle for techies.
CorinneSD (
talk) 18:49, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
‑
is indeed identical in width to the regular hyphen ‐
, but a non-breaking
en-dash or
em-dash (or possibly a non-breaking
hyphen-minus). I rather doubt non-breaking duplicates of all those exist, but you can use the {{
nowrap}} template to prevent breaking: {{nowrap|non-breaking}}
will give "non-breaking", which indeed does not break.
Huon (
talk) 19:50, 8 January 2015 (UTC){{nowrap|-ship}}
should guarantee that there's no break between the dash (and here it's just the standard minus-hyphen, not a true hyphen) and the syllable. Try to break this: -ship
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talk) 20:30, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
It has acquired an important place in the history of art as a German icon of national painting. is this any correct English? Doesn't sounds right somehow. Hafspajen ( talk) 19:10, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Well, grammatically it's all right, but it could be worded better. I'd need to ask a few questions to clarify it:
1) Has [the painting] acquired an important place in the history of world art or only in the history of German art?
2) I don't really know what "national painting" means. That sounds kind of silly.
If it really is supposed to be "a German icon", then it is an icon only to Germans (unless "icon" is taken in the literal meaning of a religious icon), which would make "has acquired an important place in [world] art" unlikely, so the last phrase, "a German icon of national painting", should probably be:
So, re-worded, the sentence should probably read:
"It has acquired an important place in the history of world art as an icon of German painting."
Even then, I wonder whether "icon" is the best word there. I suppose art historians would find it acceptable. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:25, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
I mean it is a German icon. In art history. Hafspajen ( talk) 19:36, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Yes, but "a German icon" does not make as much sense as "an icon of German painting". CorinneSD ( talk) 19:38, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was looking at the latest edit to Attis, an article I had read about a year ago, when I read a sentence that made me think of the Vertumnus (painting) painting. It is early in the the lede:
I wonder if Archimboldo had this in mind when he painted "Vertumnus". I don't know what it would have to do with Rudolf II, though, other than possibly hinting that the emperor was like a god. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:29, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
No, I wasn't suggesting adding to any article. I just thought there seemed to be some common features between Attis and the painting. I had forgotten the content of the article on the god Vertumnus, which I must have read five or six weeks ago, but after I posted this comment, I read the entire article on Vertumnus, and, even though it says Vertumnus was an ancient Etruscan god, he was similar to Attis. I think, even though it doesn't say it, that the Etruscan god might have come from the cult of Attis. The two gods could have arisen independently; they're both gods of agriculture, orchards, and the seasons -- probably very ancient. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:14, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Explanation about the Golden Age. If you have read Vertumnus (painting) a couple of hours ago, it's not the same article any more. Hafspajen ( talk) 23:15, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafs Earlier this afternoon I was looking at all the images in the article Arthur Devis (1712–1787). I noticed that the third painting in the gallery is one painting of a tryptych. I'm wondering if it wouldn't be nice to have all three parts of the tryptych, in the order in which they are normally displayed. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:53, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
OK, explain. The article is very small. one has to chose from a big amount paintings. I tryed to put thewm together so I
Wanted to add these too, but somewhere I have to say stop. I chosed the best male pics, best woman, group and free open air group - and the one that matched, the ones that fitted and were goole files. .
Hafspajen ( talk) 00:08, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
O.K. I see you've put a lot of thought into it. The thing that got me really looking at the image was the fact that the caption starts Mr.... (and she's a woman). Is there any way to just have her name, "Mrs. Peter Duncane", or "Mary, nee Norris, wife of Mr. Peter Duncane" ? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:37, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafs I assume you've been following the discussion at Talk:Landscape#Landscape ecology. In the latest comment Rwood128 provided the definition of landscape from the article in Landscape ecology. I thought it might be interesting to compare that to the definition of landscape written by art historians. I was reading the beginning of the article on Landscape painting and I saw this sentence:
There's something here that is not clear:
I know the sentence continues, but this part ought to make sense, and it doesn't quite make sense. What exactly was meant by "and especially art"? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:48, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
And it would it make sense to leave in the word "especially" and leave out "and". Hafspajen ( talk) 02:00, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
When using the term "to cease fire", is it "I'm ceasing fire" or "ceazing fire"? With other words: "s" or "z", in the "active verb"? Bets regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 05:09, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I see you corrected the link for the category at FP nominations for Mr. and Mrs. Atherton, [4] but I now see the word "Wikipedia" twice, once before the brackets and once inside the brackets. Is it supposed to be there twice, or doesn't it matter? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:22, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Here you can look how it looked. Looked like a staircase. Hafspajen ( talk) 01:00, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafs, I'm looking for both ideas and images for the article on Landscape. I found this image from Agriculture:
but it doesn't look like a very sharp image. If you agree, can you help me find a similar image of these rice terraces but one that is sharper? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:24, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen You never answered my question, above, about the rice terraces image. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:32, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hafs What happened to the first image in the last row in the gallery at the end of the article on Jan Toorop? CorinneSD ( talk) 17:18, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Was wondering about sewing or tayloring or something. Hafspajen ( talk) 23:08, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
I'll look at those in a minute. Read the second paragraph in the section "19th century" in the "History" section in Women in the workforce: Women in the workforce#19th century. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:41, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Well, the image would go with Sewing, but I notice that there are already quite a few images in that article. The other article would be Tailor. I didn't seen any appropriate place for that painting there. I think it would go well with "Women in the workforce - History - 19th century". CorinneSD ( talk) 23:44, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
Added to dressmaker. Hafspajen ( talk) 00:50, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
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Joshua Jonathan Rothorpe Are you at all interested in Gnosticism? Would you like to weigh in on a not-very-weighty discussion about a sentence that seems out of place in a section of the article? See Talk:Gnosticism#Can someone help me with this sentence?. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:53, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe I read the article on Liqueur. From there I went to the article on Schnapps and read that. I was surprised to see the last section in that article and wonder whether it should even be there. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 01:27, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Sca What's wrong, Sca? I hope you are just having dinner, relaxing with a beer, or watching a favorite program on T.V. CorinneSD ( talk) 02:17, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
I'll check in the morning but I know that Anglo-Welsh is no longer used. Rwood128 ( talk) 01:52, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
User:Rwood128 See Rothorpe's edits and our discussion at User talk:Rothorpe#Jonathan Swift. Thanks for your reply. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:54, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Did you say ....two thousand was a sock? See latest FP nominations. CorinneSD ( talk) 02:47, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen What happened? Why did you delete so much on your talk page? I stopped editing Talk:Landscape when you told me to. I loved what was on your talk page. Won't you please put it back, or at least some of it? CorinneSD ( talk) 02:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen, re Åreskutan, how is that Swedish å pronounced? – like a German ä perhaps? Sca ( talk) 22:37, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
I don't know Swedish, but I tried to find some information to help you. I looked at the article Swedish orthography and found a table in Swedish orthography#Sound–spelling correspondences that contains that letter (a with a little circle over it), but the information next to that letter doesn't help me. I tried to find something in the IPA article but couldn't find anything. Maybe you will be able to find something there. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:22, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe I wonder if you would read through the article on Giovanni Bellini and tell me what you think of the writing style. I won't say anything until I hear what you have to say. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I'm looking for a new painting to put at the top of my talk page. I want to see the paintings of Pierre Bonnard, but the article only has a few. Where can I find more, ones that I could put on my user and/or talk page? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:28, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Did you see the note I left at the WP FP for the John Quidor painting? I'll repeat it here: I noticed that the image of the painting of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman appears twice in the article on John Quidor -- once at the beginning of the article and once in the gallery. Should it be there twice?
Also, I read the article and made a few edits to improve clarity and sentence flow. I also added a "clarification needed" tag and note to editors which you might be able to answer and fix. The phrase "During that period" is not clear. If you figure it out, you can let me know here what it is supposed to mean and I'll be glad to fix the sentence. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:10, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just spent about fifty minutes copyediting the article on Benjamin Haydon. When I went to save, I got "Edit conflict". I tried to save the entire article with my edits but couldn't, so lost all my work. I'll leave it for now and re-do my work at another time. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:14, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Thank you for your comment, but there are a few things I don't understand. When I get edit conflict, I highlight the previewed text, right-click and click "Copy", go to the top edit window, right-click, click "Paste", and save. What is "command"? Is that the same as "control"? Or is it a different key on the keyboard? Is "command/v" the same as "Paste"? Also, you wrote, "do a command/c (copy). Then save your edit." Why would I need to save my edit if I haven't pasted anything? Wouldn't I just hit "cancel" to exit? Also, while you're here, I don't understand why you asked me about Swedish pronunciation. I know nothing about that. Also, I have no interest in beer, and finally, do you think that last question of yours (in the section above) was appropriate for my talk page? CorinneSD ( talk) 15:38, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was looking at the two images at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/William III of the Netherlands, and I thought that the difference between them was similar to the difference between the two images discussed at commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Anônimo - D. Pedro, Duque de Bragança.JPG and Talk:Pedro I of Brazil. You know I don't know much about image quality, and images of paintings that are in museums, but when I looked at the two images of D. Pedro, Duque de Bragança (Pedro I of Brazil) side by side, the first one, the one Adam wanted to delete, looked artificially bright, as if it had been scrubbed clean. I think a painting painted in 1835 is unlikely to be that bright. I don't think I should say anything, though, because I don't know enough about it. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:45, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Many thanks for the helpful advice. Rwood128 ( talk) 12:39, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Happy New Year (however belated). 1. I removed the reference to Compostela as it was tagged as unsourced since November 2014, and I have yet to come across anything mentioning it in any of my research. 2. I entered "Idacius (Hydatius) of Merida" in one of my earlier edits, as I found him called both, but on further review I switched it to simply Hydatius, as Idacius is too similar to Ithacius of Faro and discussion of their respective roles was becoming confusing. Just trying to make it easier to understand. If someone wants to re-instate "Idacius" I have no particular views one way or the other. Hope that clarifies things. Mannanan51 ( talk) 21:21, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen I don't know if you have seen this edit, but I wonder if you could check whether it is correct or not. Since it's by an IP editor, it could just be vandalism, and even if it is not vandalism, I'm not sure the extra names are needed. [5] CorinneSD ( talk) 19:20, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen and Crisco 1492 Adam Cuerden Please first read my comment just above. Then look at the last few edits to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It is possible that the information added is correct, but I think it should be checked by someone knowledgeable like you. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:38, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Am pinging Adam also because Hafs indicated Crisco is busier than usual, and I know Hafs is always busy. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:26, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
DXR Thank you for your kind reply at Multiple co-nominators of an FPC. I looked at the two graphs you made. I am always impressed by anyone who can make a graph, and more so when the graph is made on short order. I spent a few minutes trying to understand the graphs. When I was looking at the one on the left, I saw the "slices" of the "pie", where the five largest represent, I believe, the five editors who made the most edits (in your sample). I believe they are ranked one to five in the list. I was looking at the numbers. I saw that the heading said the figures were cumulative, so I figured out that:
I thought Editor 1 is ranked #1 because he/she voted the most times (in the sample), and that the ranking should go in order. The ranking numbers go up while the number of edits made by each editor goes down. I don't understand why you have Editor 4 -- who voted 8 times -- before Editor 5 -- who voted 9 times. Am I mis-reading or misunderstanding something? It's not a big deal. I'm just trying to understand it. CorinneSD ( talk) 21:53, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84 What do you think of the latest edits to Eggplant? [6]
I only think a few of them are all right. The others I prefer the way it was before. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:52, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Gerda Arendt I saw your very nice note to User:Ben MacDui at User talk:Ben MacDui#Precious again. I thought you might like to have the opportunity to correct a typo in it. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:33, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
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It was an interesting experience, but the part that remains paramount in my memory is your response to it all. -- Atsme☯ Consult 16:21, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-1012 http://stilllifequickheart.tumblr.com/post/7986598128/albertus-jonas-brandt-and-eelke-jelles-eelkema http://www.dekling.nl/winkel/overige-schilders/aquarel-van-albertus-jonas-brandt-1788-1821/
Hafspajen I nominated the Albertus Jonas Brandt "Flowers in a Terracotta Vase". After I saved it, I saw that "Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings" is linked in other nominations. I didn't link it. I didn't know it should be linked. Now I don't know (a) whether it is important to add the link, and (b) how to link it now that it's already in the nominations. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:50, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Question - what if I have my own photographs, and some of them are already in articles. Can you also nominate those pictures, or does it have to be photos of art? Atsme☯ Consult 05:25, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen, CorinneSD - what do you think about this one as a nom - [ [8]]. It's in use, and was used by one of the entrees in the WikiCup. it's kinda fishy, or maybe closer to "slippery as an eel". Atsme☯ Consult 02:17, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Yngvadottir I don't know whether you know French or not, but since you know quite a few languages, I thought I'd ask. What do you think of the change from "parmi" to "chez" in Robert Antoine Pinchon [9]. I thought "chez" was used when referring to a house or home. I suppose it could be extended to refer to a group of people, but this is a group of people in a metaphor, where the people are a group of painters who are being called "wild beasts" in relation to a classical sculpture in their midst. The painters themselves are not actually in the room; it's their works that are being hung on the walls in an exhibition. To me, "chez" means "at home" or "at home with" and "parmi" means "among", "amongst", or "amidst". I'm not an expert, so I thought I'd ask you what you thought. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:31, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
What do you think of this edit in Landscape? [10]
Hafspajen from an art expert's point of view, and Rothorpe from a writer's point of view. If the sentence without the addition of "an example" is not wrong, I think it would be less wordy (especially for the lede) and more concise without it. CorinneSD ( talk) 03:20, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I know you're busy, but I was wondering if you could take a look at the Cucurbita article now and let us know at the FAC page what you think now. We've had two Supports since your last visit, but we still need image, source, and copyvio checks. We truly appreciate all the help you've given so far and enjoy working with you. HalfGig talk 22:24, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
HalfGig I saw that in Michael Nee's list of species and species groups, the spacing around en-dashes was inconsistent, some with spaces, some with one, some with one before and one after, so I decided to add the spaces and make them all consistent. However, upon looking at it now, I wonder if there are too many dashes. Do you like the way it looks now? What do you think of changing the en-dashes that follow "origin" to colons: origin:? CorinneSD ( talk) 03:06, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
At the beginning of Cucurbita#Germination and seedling growth is the following sentence:
I find the first part of this sentence a little unclear. I'm wondering if it would make sense if we move "in C. moschata" to the beginning of the sentence:
Probably, "seed" is normal botanists' lingo, but I'm wondering if would be more understandable for the average reader if it were "seeds...develop" instead of "seed...develops". CorinneSD ( talk) 03:37, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
The first sentence of the second paragraph in this section is:
There are a couple of things about this sentence that are not clear to me.
(a) In this clause, "When there is more pollen applied to the stigma", it is not clear who, or what, would apply the pollen to the stigma. Presumably this is referring to natural pollination by an insect, but that's not entirely clear. Just the use of the verb "applied" suggests that it could be a human. Also, this clause gives no indication of when this happens, or why there would be more pollen at some times than at others. The word "when" really begs the question, "When?"
(b) Regarding, "as well as the fruit being larger and containing more seeds", it is also not clear when or why this would happen. (It's also not the best grammatical construction, but we can work on that.)
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Rothorpe, Mutt Lunker I saw this edit to Bass (fish) - [13], and I wanted to ask your opinion of it. I know that normally "fish" is both the singular and plural form of the noun (similar to "fruit"), but I believe that occasionally "fishes" (like "fruits") is used to mean "types of fish, collectively" (as "fruits" is used to mean "various types of fruit"). (I'm actually more sure about "fruit/fruits" than I am of "fish/fishes", so that's why I'm asking you.) What do you think? Is "fishes" appropriate here -- or is it ever correct? I know "fish" is not wrong here, but is "fishes" more appropriate? CorinneSD ( talk) 20:42, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Humboldtian model of higher education. If you can make this to flow smoothly and make sense that would something. It is a DYK, and the main editor Serten is German. I am to no good at language problems, tried to rewrite it into something that made sense to me but now it is rewritten by him again, so - I feel I can't really do much, because I did what I thought was right. DYK - Template:Did you know nominations/Humboldtian education ideal - and article Humboldtian model of higher education. I really don't KNOW what to do, after this diff I give up- it is a bit like Blade. If we don't get some language help it will not work. And I have to say, I don't always know what it is about either. My last version, cited at the DYK template is based on the English references. I know nothing about the Germans. That's the situation. Hafspajen ( talk) 01:01, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I want to find another picture for the top of my talk page. Once, you gave me a link to a lot of images -- many on a page -- but I can't find it now. It's not the link the Google Art project that I have at the top of this page. Can you help me? I've looked at the Google Art project (link at top) but haven't found what I'm looking for. CorinneSD ( talk) 03:31, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
I can help after Monday, - my language is in cats on my user page ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:07, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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Higher education: I tried, and left further thoughts on the article talk, - the place to concentrate efforts to improve the article. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:02, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith Do you think anything additional needs to be done? [14], [15], or is it best to ignore it? CorinneSD ( talk) 19:36, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
I'd like some help in moving some information that was just added to the article on Virginia Woolf into a note. See my discussion with Rwood128 at User talk:Rwood128#Virginia Woolf. I'd like to do this myself, but I've never added a note to an article. Could someone tell me how to do this? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:10, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Yes, it is somewhat confusing. The simplest way to explain it is to say that for VW, (1) citations go under the heading 'References' and (2) the note go under 'Notes' (otherwise you'll end up with two headings that are, confusingly, called called 'Notes'). This an alternative way to the frequently used system of putting both citations and notes under one heading. Citations on Wikipedia are sometimes placed under the heading 'Notes' and sometimes 'References'. You may think it not worth doing for one item, but I thought that you might be interested, as it can, in some circumstances, be a useful tool. See Novel for an example of an extensive use of notes. Rwood128 ( talk) 01:03, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Yes -- sorry I missed that step out.
Re Novel those notes were my attempt to try and sort things out -- the article is over-full with facts and I periodically try and improve it. Rwood128 ( talk) 01:18, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Good. Rwood128 ( talk) 11:08, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen Hafs, I noticed that in Karl Nordström, a lot of the image captions do not include the date of the painting. Is there a particular reason for that? Would you mind if I added the year to the captions? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:38, 4 February 2015 (UTC) Because if I did someone will come around and start sorting them after date. That crokus bowl is from 1910, that will make it jump to the end of the gallery - making it looking awkward. Why don't you make a list of them above? Hafspajen ( talk) 21:03, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Hafs, I just made a few copy-edits to the article on Albertus Jonas Brandt. I noticed something odd at the beginning of the article. The first sentence says, "Brandt was born on the 22nd as the son of a book printer and seller," but his date of birth is 25 November. How could he be born on the 22nd? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) (I wondered how you could ping Crisco with just "1492".)
I saw your last edit to Tilia in which you removed the material under "Cultural significance". I wondered if you were in a bad mood. I'm not saying it should go back in, but do articles on plants and trees generally have no section about the plant "In popular culture" or in "Literary references" or something like that? Don't you think it would be interesting for readers to read about references to tilia/linden/lime trees in literature? Unter den linden, etc. Just wondering. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:01, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Your comments above must have come after I revised the lede. Yes, I have seen the Oak article and put the list banner up on it.
What you say is perfectly reasonable. I'm not so sure now about the idea of a new tree article, especially as there is one on Tree worship. Cultural significance is a reasonable heading. I don't see much point now of moving material back into Tilia – it seems to me like needless work. Perhaps Hafspajen was too quick to act, I'm not sure?
Also while I accept that popular culture may be important, to list the title of a song because it has the name of a tree in its title is not. Rwood128 ( talk) 00:01, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I don't know how to make the image larger. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:29, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Also, did I do everything right? Why does it show up in my watchlist as if I had created a new page? I don't remember seeing that kind of thing in my watchlist before. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:36, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
まりも羊羹 I'm going to try to translate using Google translate. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:41, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
It only comes out "Marimo Yokan", which doesn't help. Perhaps you could do a search with the English phrase on Google, and see what comes up. At first, I thought they were billiard balls (for the game), but then I saw that some had a little bump on them, so they can't be billiard balls. Then I thought they might be some kind of candy. I don't know. By the way, I see the photo of the feral bull was promoted. I was surprised. Well, that's good, I guess. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:44, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't get the picture of the train station. Other than a depiction of a train and a train station, what is it supposed to be showing? It looks like the man going away from the viewer has knocked down a woman and is tripping (see the foot) of the man carrying glasses of beer. Is this a statement about a particular type of person? Why did you put the image here? Did you find it particularly interesting, or what? CorinneSD ( talk) 15:50, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
......don't get me wrong, I like Swabians. They are more genuine somehow. Hafspajen ( talk) 05:00, 11 February 2015 (UTC) I like the painting by Cot, but why did you put as a caption, "Portrait of the artist's daughter"? There is no girl, or even person, in the painting. The name of the painting is "Castle by the river". CorinneSD ( talk) 15:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
[18] suggested by Serten II. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:05, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Serten II Thank you for asking me to look at the IPCC consensus article. I just looked at it. I think I'd like to do a bit of reading first, to understand the basics of the topic and some background. Then I will go through your draft article carefully. Just give me a day or two to get to it. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:43, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Would you please look at the latest edits to Order of St. Benedict. The last of three by the same editor is [19]. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:15, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen After reading a recent comment on your page regarding Swedish food, I skimmed the articles on Swedish cuisine, Finnish cuisine, and Norwegian cuisine. I saw a photo of a pastry in the section Norwegian cuisine#Fruit and desserts that seemed awfully dark. I wonder if a better photo of this or other Norwegian pastry could be found. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:40, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen or Sca I've been reading the article on Danish cuisine. I came across a sentence that puzzles me. It is in the last paragraph of the section Danish cuisine#Breakfast, and I'll copy the first part of it here:
How can a porridge be cooked on rye bread? Should it be something like "a thin porridge cooked with rye bread..." or "a thin porridge made from rye bread..."? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:58, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
I'd suggest, if you renominate with just this image, it'll likely pass. Splitting the vote often doesn't help. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 14:12, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Is this [20] correct formatting in Marcus Aurelius? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:27, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Thanks for introducing me to Jean-Eugène Buland. Very interesting paintings. I made a few copy-edits to the article, but there are two sentences that are puzzling me. Perhaps they were translated from an article in French, but they sounds obscure and awkward in English:
1) In the middle of what looks like the second paragraph in "Biography" is the following sentence:
The part that puzzles me is "His participation in the Salon was compensated for by..."
It sounds like "participation in the Salon" was an onerous (difficult or unpleasant) duty. I don't think that could the the case. What does this really mean? Does it mean that his participation in the Salon had some positive benefits, or that his participation led to the awards?
2) At the beginning of what looks like the third paragraph in "Biography" is the following sentence:
The part that puzzles me is "He profited from the public commands emanating from..." This is definitely not colloquial English. What actually came to him from the major institutions? Commissions for paintings? Attention? Support? Praise?
If you could clarify these two things for me, I'd be glad to re-word the sentences so that they make sense. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:59, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
.'*It means: his participation led to the awards, of course. The other is less clear, commissions for paintings perhaps? Hafspajen ( talk) 04:51, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
a speculation, it would be a very interesting FP self portrait.-- Hafspajen ( talk) 05:11, 14 February 2015 (UTC) http://artsalesindex.artinfo.com/asi/lots/4735121 doesn't say. Hafspajen ( talk) 05:56, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Do you approve of this change of image in Franciscan? [21] CorinneSD ( talk) 17:02, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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I have been consolidating material moved from Cassava (about culinary use of cassava) to Cassava-based dishes (at the suggestion of two botanist editors, User:Sminthopsis84 and User:Peter coxhead). I am still working on the organization of the article. Is there a template I could put at the top of the page of Cassava-based dishes that indicates that the article is being worked on and not to edit until I have finished? I may need to continue this work tomorrow. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:44, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Your copy-editing work is very fine. I appreciate it a lot, as I'm sure many other readers and editors do. Thank you. -- Ori.livneh ( talk) 08:08, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
The Herald Hello, TH -- I saw your Valentine's Day template on Hafs' and Sca's talk pages. As someone who is interested in language, I just had to ask you whether "greet" is used as a noun in the variety of English you normally use (which variety I do not know). In American English, "greet" can only be a verb (I greet, you greet, he greets, etc.), not a noun. So "Valentine's Greets" is ungrammatical in American, and I believe also British, English. In American English, the noun is "a greeting" -- plural: "greetings". I'm just wondering what inspired you to choose that title for your template. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:32, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Yngvadottir, Sca Can you translate an image file name for me? It's for a photo of a vase that I've had on my user page for a while. I copied the file name and added it in the caption after what I had there ("Beautiful glass vase") and tried to get a translation using Google translate, but nothing came up.
Also,
Hafspajen I saw a note in the file information that the author/creator is unknown. Is there any way you can find out more?
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Vsmith V, I need an American editor's opinion. See Talk:Cake#Cake as a dessert?. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:34, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Peter coxhead Yesterday, I finished integrating the material I removed from Cassava (on culinary uses) into Cassava-based dishes. I put the material in the right country-section, deleted duplicate material, and made a few copy-edits. With regarding to Cassava-based dishes#Africa, I just added the material from the Cassava article but didn't do any organizing because it was in a different format from the other regions (it's sentences and paragraphs rather than country by country).
Before I begin a complete re-organization of the article, I want to ask you whether you like the organization as it is now or not. I had suggested to Sminth (and you), in her now-archived section on Cassava, that I remove the country sub-headings, leave the larger region headings, and, within each region, list the main dishes. I would list the dish, then describe it, then list the names of the dish in the various countries.
For example,
(etc.)
I think there is a lot of unnecessary repetition and description in the article, and this would make a shorter and more concise article. Sminth said this idea sounds good, but I'd also really like your opinion on this before I begin. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:38, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I've been reading the article on Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, and I've made a few minor copy-edits. I have come across something that needs fixing. The last paragraph of the section Adélaïde Labille-Guiard#Marriages, a single sentence, is as follows:
Notice the date that is given for the marriage.
In the caption of the picture of François-André Vincent right next to the Marriages section, it says they married in 1800. It also says 1800 in the article on him. 1800 may or may not be a round number, and "8 June 1799" is an exact date. Can you look into this and see which is correct? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:07, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, was admitted into the Academy on the same day in May of 1783 as Vigee-Lebrun, and perhaps even had more talent, yet her name is unfamiliar to most. Labille-Guiard did not come from an artistic family; her father was a shopkeeper, far from being an aristocrat. Thankfully her father did have a contact in the art world,such as François-Elie Vincent, the miniaturist. Vincent’s workshop was next to her father’s storefront. Adelaide started her tutelage with F.E.Vincent in 1763, and by 1769 she had become so skilled in the art that she was admitted to the Academie de St Luc. 1769 was also the same year in which she married for the first time and started her studies with Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, from whom Adelaide learned and perfected the technique of chalk pastel. She worked exclusively as a portraitist as early as the age of 19, and continued working in that genre till her death in 1803.Adelaide Labille-Guiard had a much different life than her contemporary, Vigee-Lebrun. Labille-Guiard was the youngest of eight children, her parents essentially merchants. She constantly went against the “norm” for her gender, being the only female pupil in a male dominated workshop at the age of fourteen. She seems to have quit her apprenticeship with de La Tour sometime during 1774, which is also the same year she started to exhibit her works at the Académie de St Luc. ... She also had a keen knack for capturing their character and personality through body language, facial expression and props that pertained to their profession, status, or hobby. This was also a trait of her tutor, Maurice Quentin de La-tour. Labille-Guiard also portrayed her sitters giving a direct gaze to the viewer in the majority of her works, which was in direct opposition to the work of Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun. Another distinct difference in their stylistic approach is in the dress of their sitters: Labille-Guiard portrayedher sitters in modern, contemporary fashions, while Vigee-Lebrunpreferred to show her sitters wearing neoclassical attire - ... Adelaide also battled criticism from the public and art critics,who said she was plain, uneducated, ... Along with success, come those who try to bring the successful down. It is something those in the public eye have apparently dealt with-for centuries: one may see it today on the cover of any grocery store tabloid. And so it was in for Adelaide Labille-Guiard. There was a controversial and “crass” poem printed and circulated throughout Paris about Labille-Guiard, essentially stating she had traded sexual favors for help with her paintings from François-André Vincent. The “poem” even went as far as to accuse her of having two thousand lovers, a play on words using Andre’ Vincent’s last name. It is now assumed that the author of this“poem” was her ex-husband', though it could never be proven (Aucchio). Labille-Guiard persevered however, and sought justice for herself and all other female artists to come after her. Adelaide Labille-Guiard was a feminist, fighting for the rights of woman within the academy and all of French society. Her career and life hold historical importance: she set precedence that all female artists in Paris thereafter her could use to their advantage. She was the first Parisian woman artist to overcome the obstacle“…of a non-artistic family background of low social class, of an unsuccessful marriage (the situation at least left her free to pursue her career), and of an Academy that admitted few woman and then only grudgingly with limited privileges”
Because I noticed that you have one of Juliëtte Wytsman's paintings on your user page, you might be interested to know that I've just created her article. – Editør ( talk) 00:30, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen Are you keeping an eye on Franciscan? [26] and subsequent edit. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:43, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Ruskinmonkey I saw your recent edits to Benjamin Haydon, particularly this group: [27]. I have studied them carefully and am inclined to revert the entire lot, but since I believe you made the edits in good faith, and you obviously like to write, I thought that instead of subjecting you to the shock of having all your edits undone, I would offer to work with you. I felt that, on balance, the way it was written was better than the way you have written it. I think you unnecessarily made the sentences wordier, removed some important pieces of information and added some unimportant details. If you'd like, I can be specific on each one of these. I just don't understand the reason for your re-writing perfectly good prose. There are one or two places that could have been improved, but I would have made only minor changes to achieve that. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:54, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Bryson Burroughs - have you heard of him? Hafspajen ( talk) 13:10, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen You will have seen that I changed the image at the top of this page to a painting by Jan Toorop. I really like this painting. I just used Google Translate to translate the word "Broek" (see the caption), and it translated it as "Pants". That doesn't seem to have anything to do with the painting. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:58, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for improving this article.-- 31.4.52.106 ( talk) 22:03, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Hafs What do you mean? Do you mean that you have put the image back where it was? User:31.4.52.106 I suggest you defer to User:Hafspajen's judgment regarding images. If there is a particular image you want to add, or if you have any questions about images, feel free to ask Hafspajen. S/He is very knowledgeable about images. A lot of editors have learned from him/her, and you can, too. Regarding the text of the article, let me know if you'd like me to work with you and help you get certain words, phrases and sentences that are at this moment still unclear into English. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:00, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
There is a one-sentence paragraph in Hunter's lead that could be easily merged with the first. There is no reason for it to be separate from the main one. Please be so kind to merge them, please. Thank you! 180.191.69.3 ( talk) 02:17, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, I am hope you are fine. I am not very active in Wikipedia anymore, because I have a lot to do in "real life". As for Dari: the whole article has become a battle ground of users with obvious political agenda. Fron a scholarly point of view, there is no doubt that "Dari"is just a word, a name, propagated politically since the 1960's, in order to alienate the people of Afghanistan from the word "Persian". Of course, the language known as "Dari" is nothing else but "Persian". Calling the various dialects of Persian in Afghanistan "Dari" instead of "Persian" is a political thing, not a scholarly one.
Wikipedia should stay politically neutral and present to scholarly view, that is: Dari is just a political name propagated by the Afghan government (which - by the way - has always been dominated by Pashtuns who do not speak Persian). That's also what Encyclopaedia Iranica writes.
-- Lysozym ( talk) 17:48, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Lysozym I'm sorry you are not very active on WP anymore. You are needed. Thank you for taking the time to leave me this note. I'm not much interested in the politics. As you can see from my user page, I'm mostly interested in improving the clarity of the prose in articles and in fixing little mistakes I come across. If you have time, would you look at something in Dari language? In the section Dari language#Vocabulary, there is a small table with two columns labeled "Persian-Farsi" and "Persian-Dari". All the words in these columns should be infinitives, to correspond to the English infinitives down the left. They should all end in "-dan". In the Persian-Dari column, two alternate verbs are given in each box – I believe one is similar to the Persian-Farsi verb and the other is different. For the English verb "to understand", two Persian-Dari forms are given. They appear to be "fah-mi-dan" and "fa-mi-di". The second one of these does not have the "-dan" ending; it has "-di" at the end; it also looks awfully similar to "fah-mi-dan" - only the "h" is missing. For all the other verbs, the second Persian-Dari verb was quite different from the first one. I think that is an error, but since I'm not sure, I thought I'd point it out to you. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:49, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
What Marsalokxx ? can't find it. Hafspajen ( talk) 21:53, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) Sorry about that. (Next time just click on the picture first.) Where is Marsalokxx? (When I went back to your page to look, I saw that I had left out the "k" before the "xx", so I added it. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:10, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
I looked at the Lox and Gravlax articles but don't see anything about a pregnant lox. How can lox be pregnant? It's brined salmon. Anyway, we're getting further and further from the picture of the boats. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:14, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Hafs, I just finished copy-editing the article on Kerman. It took me more than an hour. I noticed that some of the images are not so great, particularly the slim image of the mosque with the blue dome, at the right. I'm sure a better image of that mosque can be found. Can you try to find a better one? You'll see what the mosque is called in the "Summary" section on the image file page. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:50, 23 February 2015 (UTC)