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Corinne while editing Landscapes I checked Natural landscapes and got involved in editing it. Would you be willing to look at the following, which is part of the lede?
To me the Carson reference is unclear and I asked editor Rstafursky for clarification. I don't know if the problem has to do with difference between British and American English? As Rstafursky hasn't responded I plan to delete this sentence, but this may well result in conflict, so I'd like another opinion. I see that you are interested in both geography and biology. Thanks. Rwood128 ( talk) 15:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Author Rachel Carson describes a natural landscape as
Since I haven't gotten that deeply into the article, of course I would not object to your removing the entire sentence. I'll leave that up to you.
I have other concerns, though, with the lede:
1) This sentence does not make sense to me:
What's "the living or nonliving"? The previous sentence mentioned "living or nonliving elements". That's slightly more comprehensible. I see no reason to repeat the two words. Also, I don't think there is a spot on the earth that does not contain living and nonliving elements. It has been shown that even the harshest, most barren environments contain life (microorganisms, slow-growing plants, tiny creatures, etc.). So, to me, this sentence makes no sense at all. Even after reading the attached note, it makes no more sense than it did before I read the note.
2) This sentences makes little sense:
Unless a section of land is completely protected from wind, rain and sun, it is subject to (I prefer that phrase to "under the control of") natural forces, and even if human beings have been farming it, damming a river, building on it, etc., it is still subject to natural forces, so the word "current" is unnecessary (and I think the whole first part of the sentence is unnecessary because land is always subject to natural forces).
I think a lot of this article is gobbledegook. The part that makes the most sense and is the most interesting is the change in human beings' perceptions of, and relationship to, the natural environment over time. Later today, I will read the article all the way through. Let me know if you have any more questions. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:37, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, I wish that I'd had the courage to use the word gobbledegook! I've been trying too hard to understand Rstafursky's point of view. His statement (in Talk) that "wilderness is not a view" and "Wilderness is also misleading in the fact that it causes one to dream of wild things ... vicious things" are bewildering. I appreciate your thorough comments – including those relating to nature.
With regard to the Carson passage, my difficulty with the preamble to the quotation "Carson describes a natural landscape as a view or what is actually seen", and in particular I don't understand what view means here, especially as Rstafursky emphatically says on the Talk page that a wilderness isn't a view. The Carson passage doesn't help clarify this. But it is probably best just to delete rather than attempt to guess what Rstafursky actually means.
Don't waste too much time on this as it will only give you a sore head (see my attempts to sort things out on the Talk page). I just needed another view, in case I had totally misunderstood a valid, if strange view, of nature {my fields are literature and hiking). Many thanks. Rwood128 ( talk) 18:19, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, the term was new to me too, and it's good to hear some sensible comments on this topic. I have been using the geographers' definition as my focus, though at the same in my edits indicated that the term natural landscape had an earlier history in landscape painting and gardening. I certainly agree that the distinction between wilderness and natural landscape badly needs clarifying. Rstafursky clearly sees them as totally different but is clearly unable to clearly articulate the difference. I may email my neighbour who is a geographer. Rwood128 ( talk) 21:57, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was looking at the pictures you just added to your user page at User talk:Hafspajen#PPPPPPP. Do you know what the painting by Coebergher called Ecce Homo is about? Also, I'm just curious: why do you give headings like "PPPPPPP" to sections on your user page? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:30, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
[5] Hafspajen ( talk) 19:09, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84 - Hafspajen ( talk) 01:17, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I'm glad you are standing up for yourself. Never "throw in the towel", Hafs. You can see how many friends you have and how they came to your defense. I would just like to make a suggestion. If you are adding or modifying text in an article, you can let me know and I will be glad to go through and fix any errors I find. Of course, since, as Yngvadottir pointed out, you like to edit, save, edit, save for a while until you are finished, I would wait until you tell me to go ahead. That might cut down on some reverts by other editors. (I do think that editor should have waited until you were finished, and then brought any issues up on the article's talk page, and the personal attacks were inexcusable.) CorinneSD ( talk) 22:18, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, in article La Laguna Cathedral ve added a section that I consider important and added references, can have a look ?. Thank you very much: Chapter house and Icon Museum.-- 95.120.190.125 ( talk) 13:17, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Gerda Arendt Thank you! So nice to hear from you. Sorry you're presently in that predicament. Hopefully it is just temporary. Wish I knew German. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:39, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Corrine - please delete this comment if I am not supposed to respond here. I am not fully aware of all the normal practices yet. If I understand your question I "think" the confusion is that where the text ends as "mikesj" -- it is someone else's edits. I only have the one line edit/change/comment that ends with my signature. I don't know how "mikesj" is a full signature but I guess it does look like it is part of my comment since it does not have the normal format with date. however those changes were not done by me -- I only did that last one. I hope that helps :) BobRyan777 ( talk) 21:22, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Awesome! thanks! BobRyan777 ( talk) 22:37, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
It will continue the comment back at the left margin. By the way, if you put an editor's talk page on your watchlist either by clicking on "Watch this page" at the bottom of the edit window before you save it (just once) or by clicking in the star at the top of the talk page, then you will see all comments left on that talk page in your own watchlist. You can look at them or not, as you wish. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:48, 1 March 2015
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Bob I just wanted to mention something. It's not that important, just something to think about. I think you may have formed your heading to this section ("Nice to meet you Corinne, etc.") from seeing the heading of the previous section. There are no rules as to what to use for a section heading. Pretty much anything within good taste (and, of course, not revealing personal information about another editor) is fine. I've seen long headings, short headings, funny headings, even just a letter or a punctuation mark. Usually, however, the heading is related to the topic that you will discuss, such as the name of an article ("Society of Jesus"), a section within an article ("Supression and restoration") or a shortened version of it such you used, above, or a problem that needs addressing (such as "IP edits" or "Can you please look at this?"), or an interesting discussion or image that you want to draw your reader's attention to ("Interesting discussion"), or a request for help ("Need help with a template"). As you look at talk pages, you'll see the wide variety in section/comment headings. The one thing you don't see often is a user name in a section/comment heading, unless it is on a discussion page (such as RFC, ANI, etc.) that is dealing with a problem editor. There's no rule against it that I know of, you just don't see it. (I'm only talking about section/comment headings.) So, for example, you could write as the section heading: "Jesuits suppression section in Society of Jesus". In the comment itself, you can write, "Nice to meet you, Corinne". Then later you can provide a link to that section: Society of Jesus#Supression and restoration if you want to. Another thing I wanted to mention was that you can save useful links (internal, Wikipedia links or external links such as to an on-line dictionary), on your user page or your talk page. See a few at the top of this page. I had a little trouble with the Merriam-Webster link. It worked better without /dictionary. You will also see lists of helpful links on the user pages of many editors. You can copy and paste (in edit mode) into your user or talk page for future use. If you copy (not cut!) something from another editor's page in edit mode, be sure to click "Cancel" when you leave that page so that no changes were inadvertently made and saved. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:17, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Houses at Auvers. Read the refs and expand it. Hafspajen ( talk) 20:08, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Some of this could be added paraphrased, rewriten to avoid copivio, not my strongest side paraphrasing. It takes me a lot of time and energy . Don't like it much.
http://www.tfsimon.com/auvers-sur-oise.html ...
Vincent van Gogh is a symbol for the eternal problem with mankind: his questing for the meaning of life and the truth. In the course of his life everybody discovers life has no meaning, difference works up hatred and the truth has several versions... Vincent's life was short but his struggle for love and recognition was long and in the end unbearable. He had to get rid of the mortgage everybody gets from the so-called education you get from your parents and other people in your early-life. Everybody is a prisoner of his time and education. Vincent, too, but he wanted to do a lot in his own way, as a consequence people didn't understand him, were even hostile to him; this made him sometimes rebellious and he often felt lonesome. But as many people with mental problems, his imagination played a prominent part in the way he believed other people thought about him and his art. Van Gogh is often thought of as a loner, yet during his career he was surrounded by artists. He brought people together, provoked discussions, acted as a mediator between temperamental artists, and encouraged experiments and exhibitions. These artists in turn influenced Van Gogh’s personal and artistic development. During his ten-year artistic career, from 1880-1890, Van Gogh was highly creative. A full 864 paintings and almost 1,200 drawings and prints have survived. He was active in The Netherlands, until the call of France was irresistible, like for so many artists before and after him (like Tavik František Šimon). From 1886-1888 he was in Paris, from 1888-1889 in Arles, from 1889-1890 in Saint-Rémy, where he tried to recover from a mental illness and finally, from May, 20, 1890 until his death, July 29, 1890, he was in Auvers-sur-Oise, in order to recover completely. In May 1890 Vincent visited his brother Theo and his family in Paris and then settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, a little village at the river Oise around 30 kilometres from Paris. The town was chosen because Paul Gachet, a doctor, artist and collector, was living there, he agreed to take care of Vincent. Vincent managed to find himself a very small room in an inn owned by Arthur Gustave Ravoux and immediately began painting the environs of Auvers-sur-Oise. Van Gogh came to Auvers-sur-Oise, on May 20, 1890. “Auvers is very pretty,” he wrote to Theo, “there is countryside all around, typical and picturesque.” Auvers was an artists’ village, where painters such as Armand Guillaumin, Camille Pissarro, Charles-François Daubigny, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Paul Cézanne had already worked.
If you can't acces it, this is what it writes. Hafspajen ( talk) 20:50, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Throughout June, Vincent remained in good spirits and was remarkably productive, painting some of his best known works. The initial tranquillity of the first month in Auvers was interrupted, however, when Vincent received news that his nephew was seriously ill. Theo had been going through a most difficult time throughout the previous few months: uncertainty about his own career and future, ongoing health problems and finally his own son's illness. Following the baby's recovery, Vincent decided to visit Theo and his family on 6 July and caught an early train. Very little is known about the visit, but Johanna, Theo's wife, writing years later, would suggest that the day was strained and fairly tense. Vincent eventually felt overwhelmed and quickly returned to the more quiet sanctuary of Auvers. During the next three weeks Vincent kept on painting and, as his letters suggest, was reasonably happy. To his mother and sister Vincent wrote: "For the present I am feeling much calmer than last year, and really the restlessness in my head has greatly quieted down." (Letter 650) Vincent was absorbed in the fields and plains around Auvers and produced some brilliant landscapes throughout July. In Auvers Van Gogh painted more then 70 pictures. During these last weeks of his life it was only due to his work that he could forget about his illness, and he painted as if possessed. Among the works of the period are a religious work after Delacroix, The Pieta, The Church of Auvers, multiple landscapes and portraits. On the evening of the 27th July 1890 Van Gogh went at dusk into the fields and shot himself. With all his strength he managed to drag himself back to the inn; here he died two days later in the arms of his brother, who had hurried to his side. Besides Theo and Dr. Gachet some friends from Paris, amongst them Bernard and “Père” Tanguy, took part in the funeral.
Also this... Hafspajen ( talk) 20:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Vincent van Gogh repeated the motif of peasant huts on many occasions: "In my opinion, the most marvellous of all that I know in the sphere of architecture is huts with their roofs of moss-grown straw and a smoky hearth," wrote van Gogh in one of his letters. The thatched roofs seem to be just as much an organic part of nature as the hills, fields and sky. The hilly relief of the distance allowed the artist to accentuate the dynamics of space, which he reinforced through the use of colour contrasts. The tense, wavy brushstrokes and lines convey the artist's perception of life and the world. During these last few weeks of his life, Van Gogh painted a few portraits but mainly a large number of landscapes among which is "Les Vessenots," the part of Auvers where Dr Gachet -the first owner of this painting- lived. The work is characteristic of Van Gogh's pictorial language at the end of his life, in which he combines very reduced and schematised compositions with a narrow palette of luminous greens and yellows and the use of agitated and nervous brushstrokes which follow a waving and repetitive rhythm. The composition is a horizontal one with a typically raised horizon, grouping together a number of old cottages, some with thatched roofs, alongside extensive fields of wheat and a few waving trees. Although he always painted in front of the subject, the painting is a very personal vision of the landscape. Van Gogh transformed what he saw into something profoundly personal, giving visual form to the emotions which the landscape in front of him inspired in him. The fertile fields around Auvers produced conflicting feelings within him: the sensation of freedom which he had in front of these broad fields was counterbalanced by melancholy and a sensation of loneliness brought on by the sight of the wheat.
And this. Hafspajen ( talk) 20:53, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
This is template for this reference and text. .<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tfsimon.com/auvers-sur-oise.html|title=Van Gogh Museum|publisher=www.tfsimon.com|accessdate=2015}}</ref> But the refs are alredy in. Content need to be added, reworded content... Hafspajen ( talk) 23:10, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I think you might enjoy seeing the photos at User talk:Crisco 1492#Bonus. Regarding the two foot-bridges, I had already told Hafs that I don't know if I would have the courage to cross that high bridge. I just saw the other bridge today. My first thought was, "Is that the best they could do?", but then I saw the treeless land and thought maybe it was hard to find wood of any kind around there. Then I saw the great dark and light bands in the rock at the left, and I had to show them to you. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:52, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Corinne_Hotel -- Hafspajen ( talk) 14:48, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the help! It's really nice to get feedback when you're unsure of the new stuff!
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Hi CorinneSD! Thanks for the information - I'm massively confused though! I have been signing with "~ ~ ~ ~"(no spaces, 4 x tilda's) using the little link parallel to the insert pull down at the bottom of the editing window, per the tutorial here ... Wikipedia:Signatures, is there an undocumented issue with signatures or some "best practice" that you are possibly referring too? IamM1rv ( talk) 13:16, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I enjoyed reading the fairy tale on your talk page and looking at the accompanying painting. What country is that fairy tale from? I wanted to point out a typo in the fairy tale that kind of messes up the story a bit. It's minor, but you might like to fix it. It's in the second sentence of the last paragraph of the story:
I think it should be:
The man had been under a curse, not the girl, right?
Also, if you want to be really grammatically correct, you'll change "he was under" to "he had been under", because he was no longer under the curse. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:13, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for your work on Houses at Auvers. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 17:48, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just finished reading Christ in the House of His Parents. I made a few minor copy-edits. I have a question for you. In the section Christ in the House of His Parents#Consequences, there is a sentence that contains the word "typology". I didn't know if this meant the use of type, that is, printed letters, words and numbers, or something else. I typed "typology" into the WP search bar and it led to a disambiguation page. I couldn't find one thing in that list that would explain "typology". Can you either explain it to me here or create a link to the right article or section of an article? Thanks. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:29, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Would you be willing to assist me with my role on the signpost? I am no English major and your assistance would be really helpful.. talk→ WPPilot 04:06, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-11/Featured_content is the new draft we will be working on... talk→ WPPilot 04:38, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Fylbecatulous Hello, Fylb -- How are you these days? Hope you're doing well. Regarding WP:Featured picture candidates/vG's Bedroom, I thought I'd let you in on a lighthearted discussion I've been having with Rothorpe about absolute adjectives and how they do not normally require qualifiers (quite, really, very, etc.). See the second half of the section User talk:Rothorpe#Cinnamon. I also just introduced Rothorpe to FP. You're a good writer, so I think you'll appreciate Rothorpe's wry humor in his comment at vG's Bedroom; I'm absolutely sure, without a doubt, that there was nothing personal about it. (Since many people do use qualifiers, probably myself included, they probably won't even get the humor.) CorinneSD ( talk) 22:46, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Hafspajen ( talk) 21:05, 10 March 2015 (UTC) |
Vsmith V, I don't understand the difference in Sky: [8]. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:31, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84, Peter coxhead, HalfGig Speaking of MEDRS, see this edit to Herbal tea and the two subsequent edits: [9]. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:58, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith See this edit to Cake. [10] See what this vandal did. Be sure to scroll down in the text. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:08, 11 March 2015 (UTC) (Revised my comment; I had misunderstood that edit.) I undid it as vandalism. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:10, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen What's going on at Cherub? Now there is no image at the beginning of the article. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:29, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
about Cucurbita. Sorry that I can't help, I've had enough of that process where all mention of traditional medicine is removed under the MEDRS banner, no matter how carefully and painfully crafted the wording is, even when it is totally in accord with previous discussion and consensus. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 07:11, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith , Mike Christie I don't know about the other edits by this editor, but what do you think of this one to Radiocarbon dating? [11] Do you like the sound of "prior published papers"? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:03, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith Is there any way you could persuade User:Yngvadottir to stay as an editor on Wikipedia? She's a friendly, helpful, intelligent, multilingual Ph.D. who has done a lot of good editing, and just in the last few weeks has come under attack. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:31, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Catflap08 I hadn't seen your page or edits until today, but I was sorry to see User talk:Catflap08#Retirement. I've been lamenting the decision to retire by two other excellent editors, User:Sminthopsis84 and User:Yngvadottir. Just judging from your user page and your well-written comment, I think that you have probably also been an excellent editor on en.Wikipedia. I would like to urge you to reconsider retiring. The editors with a strong point of view on an issue may think that if they keep wearing down their opponents, their opponents will just stop participating and their versions will remain in the articles. Thus, in order to protect the knowledge bank of the world, and for the benefit of future generations of readers, it is important that you and many other conscientious editors continue to edit. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:03, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith Just thought you might be interested in this exchange. I'm puzzled as to who is right. Does Paine need some support? User talk:Paine Ellsworth#What "metadata links"? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:33, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Lysozym What do you think of this edit to Dari language? [12] The new version does not sound right for Persian (Farsi) (the way it was does), but I don't know if it is right for Dari Persian. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:27, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Did you see the template at the top of this article? Eilif Peterssen It has been there since 2012. Look at all the red links, too. Shall we work on this article? I'll wait for you to finish. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:46, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen This image is much too big. I tried to make it smaller, but I'm doing something wrong. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:56, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/list.php?m=a&s=tu&aid=4260
Hafspajen In John Lavery, there is a painting on the right with the caption, "Hazel in rise and grey". Since I thought "rise" might be a Scottish word, I looked up "rise" in Wiktionary and found no definition remotely related to a color, or a dress, or fabric. Look at the noun definition in [13]. Do you think it is possible that it should be "rose" (ie., pink)? Or could it possibly be a Scottish version of the word "rose"? Shall I ask an editor who edits articles related to Scotland? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:23, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just read and edited the article on Meijer de Haan. The Biography section has very little information about his life. The first two sentences are as follows:
First, he was born. But, because of the verb tense (had...had), "he had already had...success" sounds like he had had success before he was born. Presumably the success was a bit later in his life. If you have time, maybe you could find more details about his life to add here. Also, do you see the red-linked artist further down? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:53, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Hafs, there is no painting in the articles for these artists of the Glasgow School: Thomas Corsan Morton, Harrington Mann, Jessie Newbery, or Ann Macbeth, or Eleanor Allen Moore, Christian Jane Fergusson, James Nairn, George Pirie (artist), Hannah Frank. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:41, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) I will go over the Petterssen article tomorrow. I'm too tired now. Did you see my comment above about the image in John Lavery? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:56, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Rwood128 and Rothorpe I've been reading the articles about the New England states, and I just finished reading the article on Maine. I have two questions for you:
1) About two-thirds of the way through the section Maine#Geography is a verse from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay. I noticed that there is no punctuation at all in this verse, and I'm wondering if there is any in the original that should be there;
2) toward the end of the first (long) paragraph in Maine#Etymology, the same phrase is used twice. The phrase is:
I don't know if that was deliberate, but if not, perhaps another phrase (such as "put down roots" or "settled") should be used for one of them. I think overall, the sentences are fine. It's just that repetition that I don't think is needed. Any thoughts or suggestions? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:59, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. Do you think my last edit is OK? Hafspajen ( talk) 21:46, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
I don't think you have driven her away if that is what you mean. Rothorpe ( talk) 20:11, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. Do you think my last edit is OK? Rothorpe ( talk) 01:17, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Does this edit to Morus (plant) look right? The first part, especially, does not look right to me. [14] CorinneSD ( talk) 00:53, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith and Rothorpe What do you think of these edits to Loren Eiseley? [15]. There are quite a few. Be sure to scroll down. CorinneSD ( talk) 03:17, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Joshua Jonathan I just saw your edit summary, "Archivated", which accompanied your archiving of some material on your talk page. I just thought I would point out that the correct form is "Archived" (or "Archiving"). Here is the link to the Wiktionary entry for the word archive. Look at the forms for the verb. [16] The past tense, archived, and the past participle are the same.
CorinneSD ( talk) 16:30, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne. First off thank you for your support, as you are learning the politics here are difficult at times. You are correct in that I should have better tempered my words, and I have settled everything down so as to get back into a productive mode, sorry you were dragged into my frustrations. When I come under fire, so to speak I tend to regress and just go out and enjoy the many things that life has to enjoy, it always helps. As you saw there are all types here, and you just have to take some things with a grain of salt. I am also btw experiencing some serious medical issues that can cause me to get a little more frustrated then normal as I am facing a serious surgery in the near future, so often acquiring the content I get is also a painful process, literally speaking. I suggest that we redo the photo placement on the Reno Air Racing page. As you may have noticed in the other comments, I had loaded it up with some photos I took last year, and others had issues with the quantity of photos I was using. Perhaps we can work with @ Ahunt: and get that page up to snuff, I would love to submit a section as a featured page, and perhaps that one, with the collaboration of the three of us might be the first one. Before I came to that page it was really really bad, frankly speaking as it was only about the crashes that have sadly taken the lives of the brave men that fly in that race. I did strip some of the photos out, but it is really stale now without them. LMK. talk→ WPPilot 17:36, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was looking at the infobox and book cover of Swallows and Amazons that User:Rwood128 added to a comment at Talk:Great Expectations#Series and Serial and then I looked at the article on the author Steven Spurrier (artist) and it wasn't there. I wonder what you think of adding the book cover to the article on Spurrier. CorinneSD ( talk) 21:56, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
..And some shades of blue in fact are green. Shall we nominate that van Gogh? Feel like doing something else for a while. Hafspajen ( talk) 23:27, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
Jytdog I saw your comment on Paine Ellsworth's talk page, so out of curiosity I looked at your essay, "Why MEDRS?" I read the first half carefully and skimmed the second half. I just wanted to tell you that I thought it was brilliant. It is clear, well-written, and logically organized, and it has a good tone and is generally at the right level for non-experts in science or medicine. I don't know if you want any feedback from me. Though I have an interest in science, I am not an expert by any means. I have, however, copy-edited Epacris impressa, Radiocarbon dating, and Oil shale in Estonia as they were, or are, being prepared for FA status (see the peer review or article talk pages, including archives of those pages). I would not change much at all in your essay. It is really quite good as it is. I just have a few suggestions, including a few minor changes in wording, phrasing, or punctuation, if you're interested. If you are, please tell me where to make my suggestions:
Let me know. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:43, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
On 24 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Houses at Auvers, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Vincent van Gogh's Houses at Auvers (pictured) is an oil painting featuring a peasant cottage, as did many of his works? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Houses at Auvers. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:01, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
I am removing the Dickens articles from my watchlist so I wont see any response to previous posts there. I am going to miss seeing your improvements to articles outside of that area. I did need to point out that your misconstruing my posts were hostile was out of line IMO. If you take a look at this Talk:Laurence Olivier#Protected you will see what hostility actually is. I never even came close to to reacting like the posts there. I know coming here is petty of me so my apologies and please feel free to remove this - even unread if you wish. MarnetteD| Talk 14:21, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
MeegsC I was looking at the latest edits to Marsh and I wondered about them. I thought "habitat" was used correctly as an uncountable noun before it was changed to a countable noun ("a habitat" and "habitats"). I asked Apokryltaros at User talk:Apokryltaros#Marsh. He thinks the edits are fine, but I don't. I wondered what you thought. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:04, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
"Habitat" is certainly a count noun to a biologist. See the lead section of Habitat which correctly says that the human body provides a large number of habitats for different organisms. The whole of a marsh might be a habitat to a large mobile animal. A plant might only grow where the water is less than a certain depth, there is little shade, and the pH is within a certain range, so its habitat would be smaller than the whole marsh. Another plant might grow only on bare mud. A spider might only be found where there is vegetation of certain height. And so on. Peter coxhead ( talk) 23:04, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
You can add that category to your userpage if you like. Best regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 15:08, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I was just looking at the latest edit to Santiago Atitlán: [17] I was just wondering if "Tropical savanna climate" could apply to a highly mountainous, high-altitude area such as Lake Atitlán and the surrounding volcanoes. (And on another minor issue, why is "savanna" spelled without the final "h"? It's usually "savannah".) CorinneSD ( talk) 17:58, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen The correct spelling is "shepherd", not "sheperd". It comes from "sheep" + "herd".
This was wrong. But at least is going down with four votes, not only three. Maybe can be renominated some day... unless a miracle not happens in the last second. Hafspajen ( talk) 22:59, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Crisco 1492 or Hafspajen I liked the image of Messier 81 so much that I added it to my user page. However, I saw some unusual information in the licensing section under the file name, and I'm wondering if I need to list any particular permission next to the image on my user page. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:47, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Crisco 1492 In the article Amer Fort, which I was looking at after seeing the Featured picture nomination, I couldn't make out the image at the right in Amer Fort#Layout, so I clicked on it to get a better look. Here's the image:
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Sminthopsis84 edited today! Jippie!! Hafspajen ( talk) 22:55, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just finished going through La Laguna Cathedral (again) since more material had been added. I believe non-native speakers of English (probably Spanish speakers) have been working on this article. I left a note on the talk page offering to help clarify unclear spots. I noticed a red wiki-link to Juan de Miranda about two-thirds of the way through the article. I know I had seen that name before, so I thought I could clear up the red link, but I see that there are two Spanish artists named Juan de Miranda. It's got to be the one who painted a painting called (I believe) The Last Supper (it is mentioned near the red link in the article). Can you figure out which Juan de Miranda is meant, and fix the link (if there is an article on him)? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:54, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
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Rwood128 and Rothorpe I'd like to offer my support to NewsAndEventsGuy in his quest to remove the hyphen between "climate" and "change" in the phrase "climate-change fiction", the second phrase in the article Climate fiction, but before I do, I'd like your opinions. See Talk:Climate fiction#a dash of detail (first comment only) and User talk:Paine Ellsworth#Climate fiction. I don't think all noun phrases that are then used as adjectives need to be hyphenated, do you? (Of course, feel free to weigh in on those discussions.) CorinneSD ( talk) 17:29, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith Have you seen the interesting photos of geological features in the article Lord Howe Island? Look in Lord Howe Island#Geography and Lord Howe Island#Basalts and calcarenite. Also, from there I looked at the article on Guyots. I noticed (unless it's there and I missed it) that there is no explanation for the flat tops of guyots. There is a sentence at the end of the article that expresses Hess's theory, but no real explanation. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:07, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
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I just made an edit to Edna Ferber undoing an edit. I selected one of the standard edit summaries from the drop-down list at the bottom. After I saved the edit, I noticed that all the edit summaries on my watchlist had changed to capital letters. What happened? Can I get it to go back to the way it was? Do I have to undo that edit to do that? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I just finished reading the article on Mica, and I made a few copy-edits. I wanted to ask you about something. What do you think of the sentence with the long list of adjectives (indicating qualities, or characteristics, of mica) about a third of the way through the first paragraph in Mica#Properties and uses? While they may all be true of mica, the sheer length of the list may overwhelm a reader. A reader's eyes may begin to glaze over after the first five or so. Also, right after the list, specific qualities are discussed in detail, which is more informative. If you think it should stay, that's fine. I just thought I'd ask you what you thought. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:08, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I left a question about an edit to Stroma, Scotland on Prioryman's talk page. See User talk:Prioryman#Stroma, Scotland. However, I don't know whether I should just revert that entire edit, or just add the hyphens that were taken out. Two links were added in that edit, and I don't know whether they should stay or not, and I don't want to bother Prioryman again. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:38, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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Looks like the guy who named the file couldn't spell much .... File:Antoine de Favray - Portrait of the Countess of Vergennes in Turkish Attireontes of Vergennes in Turkish Gown - Google Art Project.jpg - it wasn't me this time. Hafspajen ( talk) 19:11, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Crisco 1492 I don't know what it's supposed to be. Perhaps: Turkish attire. After "attire", I don't know. By the way, I enjoyed looking at the photos of Indonesia on your talk page. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:18, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Rwood128 and Rothorpe What do you think of this edit to Edna Ferber? [18]. I don't understand the removal of the word "strong". CorinneSD ( talk) 00:16, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
If you liked it, you could have voted for it.. Canvassing you....- The Herald the joy of the LORD my strength 08:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
Jytdog Hello, Jytdog! Judging from the essay you wrote on MEDRS, I believe you have a background in medicine. Would you mind reviewing these edits to Diabetes mellitus [19] and those just previous to these by the same editor? I can't judge the content or formatting of section headings, but I wonder about the sentence that contains "must" twice.
Also, I haven't seen much work on your wonderful essay. Have you forgotten all about it? Did I do too much copyediting to your draft? If so, you can always undo my edits. CorinneSD ( talk) 21:16, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith, Rothorpe What do you think of these edits, and the ones just previous to them by the same editor, to Geology? [20] Vsmith, you can judge the content, but regarding wording, my impression is that the later versions are less direct and more wordy than the earlier versions. CorinneSD ( talk) 21:08, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
(1) Vsmith and Rothorpe I have just started reading the article on Stratigraphy. I want to ask you about something in a sentence. It's the first sentence in the second paragraph in the section Stratigraphy#Historical development. Here is the sentence:
I just wonder about "in the 1790s and early 19th century". I think the combination of two dating formats in the same phrase can throw a reader off, making him or her have to stop and think about it. I wonder whether it would be better to use the same dating format, either
or
What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:50, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
(2) Vsmith I want to ask you about another sentence. It's the second sentence in the second paragraph in the section Stratigraphy#Lithologic stratigraphy. Here it is:
I know this is probably clear enough to you, but I'm wondering if it would be clearer for the average reader if "that occurred" or "that took place" were added after "subtle changes". (I believe the paleoenvironment is the very ancient environment of the rocks and rock layers, right?)
– CorinneSD ( talk) 22:02, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
(3) Vsmith Here's another question:
The section Stratigraphy#Lithologic stratigraphy has a link to the article Lithostratigraphy and starts, "Lithostratigraphy, or lithologic stratigraphy,..."
The section Stratigraphy#Biostratigraphy has a link to the article Biostratigraphy and starts, "Biostratigraphy or paleontologic stratigraphy...". Does it matter that the first section has the two-word phrase and the second section has the one-word phrase? Or is there a good reason for that? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:11, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
(4) Vsmith and Rothorpe The last paragraph in the section Stratigraphy#Chronostratigraphy is:
I thought italics were used mainly for non-English words or in order to provide emphasis. I believe "lacuna" and "hiatus" are English words, and I don't think emphasis is needed here. Is there a reason why these words should be in italics? I was thinking of changing them all to regular (Roman) font and putting "on hold" in quotation marks. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:30, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
(5) Vsmith I was reading the section Stratigraphy#Magnetostratigraphy, and in the first paragraph I came across this phrase: "detrital remanent magnetism (DRM)". I have two questions:
(a) Since I had never seen the word "remanent", I thought it might be a typo for "remnant". First, I looked for it in the article Magnetostratigraphy (a link is provided at the beginning of the section), but I didn't find it. Shouldn't it be there?
(b) Then, I looked up the word "remanent" in Wiktionary, and I was surprised to find it there. It is indeed a word, so I guess it's correct. Is there any way to provide a wiki-link at the word "remanent" to the definition? I know an external link there is not right; is there a way to provide a wiki-link?
I'm puzzled by something. It seems as if "Lithostratigraphy" (or "Lithological stratigraphy"), "Biostratigraphy", and "Chronostratigraphy" are all activities or fields (that, of course, employ techniques or methods), but "Magnetostratigraphy" is a technique or method. Am I misunderstanding something? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:40, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
I wanted to reach out and say thank you for your comments. Don't be sad, I am not going away, and I am not going to discontinue to nominate photos I take in FP. It can be frustrating sometimes, from a creative standpoint I tend to lean towards the creative aspects of my contributions and it requires a thick skin at times to just overlook some of the random comments my photos often provoke. Frankly speaking it is exceptionally complicated to manage, as I do, the cumulative assets and skill sets that are required to contribute much of what I have placed here. IMHO it would be far more balanced if the voters were, in some way vetted and had some photographic background. You are welcome to also nominate my photos any time. I truly enjoy the art of photography, and appreciate your kind words and support. Cheers! talk→ WPPilot 03:57, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
I wanted to ask you about a caption:
What are your thoughts on that photo? talk→ WPPilot 17:13, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
WPPilot Wow, I can see why you said you have to have a thick skin on FP. They have pretty high standards for photos. When I saw the comments that the Avery Fisher Hall photo is not completely in focus, I thought, how can you get a photo of such a large building completely in focus at night? I guess they're looking for an urban Ansel Adams. When I saw the comments regarding the space ship plane, (oversaturated, out of focus) I wondered what they meant. I don't know what "oversaturated" means. Does it mean too much color, or too dark, or both? I really like that photo. I like the colors, and it looks in focus enough, to me. Is the oversaturation something that could be fixed using software? When I saw the comments regarding the sakura flowers, I was just puzzled. The flowers looked in focus to me, and I didn't see anything wrong with the background (the comment said, "What's with that stripe in the background?"). A lot of these were nominated before I got involved in Featured pictures, or I would have voted for some or all of them. Regarding the sailboat, I like the angle of the mast and sail, and the background. The only things I can think of that editors might have objected to are (a) the fact that the clouds are almost the same color as the sail, so the sail doesn't stand out as much as I might have; (b) there is a white reflection (probably from the sea foam just under the bow) on the side of the boat and the lower part of the sail, and, since it looks like a partly cloudy day, the white there, and even the yellow higher up on the sail, is puzzling. Regarding the last image, the regatta, (Star boats), I think it's all right, but I have a feeling it will not be successful. I think it is partly that it is such an overcast day, and partly because it is not clear which is the point of interest, the sailing boats/race or the red buoy. But you can always try. Of course I'll be glad to nominate the Lido photo. It's nice and clear. (I can't believe how many houses are jammed into such a small space, the little island and the surrounding land.) I will take some time to look at the background of some of the other photos, as you suggested. It sounds like you are busy right now, so no need to reply. Whenever you have time. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:01, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
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What do you think about this edit? I don't get it. Hafspajen ( talk) 21:22, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
Do you mean this? [21] In this edit, the editor moved the information about the founding of the Poor Clares and a third order (of laity, etc.) to a subsection (Founding of the Friars Minor) under the larger section Francis of Assisi#Founding of the Franciscan Orders. Since the Poor Clares was founded in 1211, only one year after the Franciscan order was founded, this organization makes sense. It's not under "Missions work" (now "Missionary impulse"). CorinneSD ( talk) 22:28, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
CorinneSD, I cannot do anything now, but will try and look at this tomorrow. Rwood128 ( talk) 20:10, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Do you agree with this edit to Bog and the ones just previous to it by the same editor? [22] CorinneSD ( talk) 02:38, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen and Rothorpe I was looking at the latest edit to Pierre-Auguste Renoir. [23] I wanted to see if the change was made due to a desire for political correctness or for accuracy. If I read the article correctly, in 1867 Renoir was not married, so I guess "mistress" could not be correct. However, I feel that, even if "lover" is more correct, the way the sentence is worded places too much emphasis on it. I thought if I reverse the name and the phrase, it would de-emphasize "his lover at the time". I would change from:
to:
I also think this order, giving the name first, shows more respect for the woman. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 01:19, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafs, there is no picture in the article on Turkeys that shows young turkeys. Can you find one? CorinneSD ( talk) 02:43, 7 April 2015 (UTC) Also, in your comment at Gaudioso, you might want to fix a typo. You have, "In he above reasoning". I think you mean "In the above reasoning". CorinneSD ( talk) 02:46, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was looking at this edit to Society of Jesus [26]. I thought other Wikipedia articles are not to be used as sources. Also, I noticed that the entire paragraph is unsourced. What do you recommend? CorinneSD ( talk) 14:10, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Do you agree with this edit to Pollarding? [27] I don't know whether it's important here, but I notice that it's unsourced. Also, even if the statement is all right, is it in the right place? If you approve of the sentence, I will fix the sentence structure a bit.
Also, did you see all the edits made just before that by an unregistered editor (red user name)? CorinneSD ( talk) 14:06, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
See this.] Sca ( talk) 01:18, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne. I did some re-arranging; only the welcome-message is still not okay, I think. If you don't like all this, please revert. Best regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 15:31, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen and Rothorpe What do you think of this edit to Isamu Noguchi? [28] If you think it's all right, a missing space needs to be added. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:07, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne. Thank you for your comments there. You said, "I thought William Avery did a pretty good job of summarizing your points", but perhaps you meant me? Alakzi ( talk) 17:28, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
He's done it! Alakzi ( talk) 13:05, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Pollarding All WRONG. Hafspajen ( talk) 14:39, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
In Spain and Italy Castanea sativa is pollarded, a lot, I don't know why. These images are typical of chestnut orchards. On a lighter note, apparently the author's name is Pauline Pears, as on the book cover! Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 18:10, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your message. Frankly I am shocked and devastated. I had no idea about this, unfortunately I was out of communication since January. She is wonderful and always will be. Again, thank you for letting me know. ( Erica Blatt Harkins ( talk) 02:41, 9 April 2015 (UTC))
Can you look at just that section? Various people reworked it. No need to ask me about changes, I didn't write it so feel free to just change as you see fit. Thank you. HalfGig talk 01:36, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
HalfGig and Peter coxhead I was going to put this on the article's talk page, but I don't want to overwhelm anybody (except you guys), so I'll post it here:
Folk remedies
I know that because sentences are paraphrased from various sources, it is not easy to form a cohesive paragraph in which the sentences flow smoothly from one to the next, but I thought I'd ask for feedback and/or suggestions regarding the section Cucurbita#Folk remedies. I noticed that the verb tenses change from sentence to sentence to such an extent that the sentences do not flow well and the paragraph has a choppy feel (and it's not just the verb tenses). I'm looking right now at the first paragraph in that section, and I will copy it here with the verbs highlighted in boldface so that they are easy to see. I have also numbered the sentences for ease of discussion.
(1) Cucurbita have been used in various cultures as folk remedies. (2) Pumpkins have been used by Native Americans to treat intestinal worms and urinary ailments; this Native American remedy was adopted by American doctors in the early nineteenth century as an anthelmintic for the expulsion of worms. (3) Seeds of C. pepo were used in southeastern Europe to treat irritable bladder and benign prostatic hyperplasia. (4) In Germany, pumpkin seed is approved for use by the Commission E, which assesses folk and herbal medicine, for irritated bladder conditions and micturition problems of prostatic hyperplasia stages 1 and 2, although the monograph published in 1985 noted a lack of pharmacological studies that could substantiate empirically found clinical activity. (5) The FDA in the United States, on the other hand, banned the sale of all such non-prescription drugs for the treatment of prostate enlargement in 1990.
(1) The first sentence uses present perfect tense (have been used) but gives no indication of when, how often, or to what extent. It's quite general. Presumably, the sentences which follow will supply the details, and they do, but notice the tenses.
(2) The second sentence has two clauses. The verb in the first clause is in present perfect tense (have been used), with no indication of when, how often, or to what extent – and since this sentence is giving examples supporting the first sentence, it really should give more of such an indication of time. The second clause (following a semi-colon) gives one detail of how this Native American remedy was adopted by American doctors in the 19th century. However, the present perfect tense in the first clause allows for the possibility, and to some extent suggests, that the use of pumpkins by Native Americans has continued up to the present. (However, the use of present perfect tense ("have been used") could also mean that pumpkins were used just a few times in the past.) Thus, the second clause "adopted..." is not about how Native Americans used the remedy; it is about the use of the remedy by [North] American doctors. Only by inference do we learn that Native Americans used the remedy in the 19th century, but it doesn't say anything about the centuries before or the century after. (The phrase "for the expulsion of worms" is not really necessary because an "antihelmintic" (or antihelminthic) means a remedy for the expulsion of worms.) If the sources support it, I suggest adding the adverb "long", but it would really be better to use a more precise phrase:
(3) The third sentence switches to past tense (were used). Since this sentence is another example of the use of Cucurbita in various cultures, introducing a use in another part of the world, I recommend putting the place first in the sentence: "In southeastern Europe, seeds of C. pepo were used..." However, the verb is in past tense, which suggests either that it was a one-time use at some time in the past, or that it was used in the past but no longer is used. If the remedy is still used today, or up until recently, the verb should be in present perfect tense ("have been used"). If the remedy was used in the past, some indication of the time when it was used would be helpful. To say something was used without giving the time leaves the reader wondering, "When was this? How long ago was this?" and "Why "was used"? Was it used only once or was it something that was common in the past but is no longer, and if so, why is it no longer used?"
(4) In the fourth sentence, it says pumpkin "is approved for use", but it doesn't say that it is used, so it is a little different from all the other examples. Also, the adverbial clause beginning "although": "although the monograph published in 1985...", qualifying the status of "approved" in the first clause, mentions "the monograph" when no monograph has been mentioned. To fix this, either "the monograph" needs to be changed to "a monograph" or a phrase explaining which monograph this was needs to be added (something like "the monograph published in 1985 that led to the approval").
(5) The fifth sentence states a fact, that the FDA "banned the sale of all such non-prescription drugs for the treatment of prostate enlargement in 1990", indicating a contrast to the German approval for that condition. It would be nice (and would support the first, or topic, sentence of the paragraph better) if there were some indication of the use (and status of approval) of any species of Cucurbita for treatment of any medical condition in the U.S., not just pumpkin and not just for treatment of prostate enlargement.
I know this is a rather detailed analysis, but if someone has the time and patience to follow it and knows the subject matter, some small tweaks to address the issues I've raised would probably produce a better paragraph. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:58, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Why is it I don't see your Flensburg question on my talk page? Sca ( talk) 16:30, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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Corinne while editing Landscapes I checked Natural landscapes and got involved in editing it. Would you be willing to look at the following, which is part of the lede?
To me the Carson reference is unclear and I asked editor Rstafursky for clarification. I don't know if the problem has to do with difference between British and American English? As Rstafursky hasn't responded I plan to delete this sentence, but this may well result in conflict, so I'd like another opinion. I see that you are interested in both geography and biology. Thanks. Rwood128 ( talk) 15:54, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Author Rachel Carson describes a natural landscape as
Since I haven't gotten that deeply into the article, of course I would not object to your removing the entire sentence. I'll leave that up to you.
I have other concerns, though, with the lede:
1) This sentence does not make sense to me:
What's "the living or nonliving"? The previous sentence mentioned "living or nonliving elements". That's slightly more comprehensible. I see no reason to repeat the two words. Also, I don't think there is a spot on the earth that does not contain living and nonliving elements. It has been shown that even the harshest, most barren environments contain life (microorganisms, slow-growing plants, tiny creatures, etc.). So, to me, this sentence makes no sense at all. Even after reading the attached note, it makes no more sense than it did before I read the note.
2) This sentences makes little sense:
Unless a section of land is completely protected from wind, rain and sun, it is subject to (I prefer that phrase to "under the control of") natural forces, and even if human beings have been farming it, damming a river, building on it, etc., it is still subject to natural forces, so the word "current" is unnecessary (and I think the whole first part of the sentence is unnecessary because land is always subject to natural forces).
I think a lot of this article is gobbledegook. The part that makes the most sense and is the most interesting is the change in human beings' perceptions of, and relationship to, the natural environment over time. Later today, I will read the article all the way through. Let me know if you have any more questions. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:37, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, I wish that I'd had the courage to use the word gobbledegook! I've been trying too hard to understand Rstafursky's point of view. His statement (in Talk) that "wilderness is not a view" and "Wilderness is also misleading in the fact that it causes one to dream of wild things ... vicious things" are bewildering. I appreciate your thorough comments – including those relating to nature.
With regard to the Carson passage, my difficulty with the preamble to the quotation "Carson describes a natural landscape as a view or what is actually seen", and in particular I don't understand what view means here, especially as Rstafursky emphatically says on the Talk page that a wilderness isn't a view. The Carson passage doesn't help clarify this. But it is probably best just to delete rather than attempt to guess what Rstafursky actually means.
Don't waste too much time on this as it will only give you a sore head (see my attempts to sort things out on the Talk page). I just needed another view, in case I had totally misunderstood a valid, if strange view, of nature {my fields are literature and hiking). Many thanks. Rwood128 ( talk) 18:19, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, the term was new to me too, and it's good to hear some sensible comments on this topic. I have been using the geographers' definition as my focus, though at the same in my edits indicated that the term natural landscape had an earlier history in landscape painting and gardening. I certainly agree that the distinction between wilderness and natural landscape badly needs clarifying. Rstafursky clearly sees them as totally different but is clearly unable to clearly articulate the difference. I may email my neighbour who is a geographer. Rwood128 ( talk) 21:57, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was looking at the pictures you just added to your user page at User talk:Hafspajen#PPPPPPP. Do you know what the painting by Coebergher called Ecce Homo is about? Also, I'm just curious: why do you give headings like "PPPPPPP" to sections on your user page? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:30, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
[5] Hafspajen ( talk) 19:09, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84 - Hafspajen ( talk) 01:17, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I'm glad you are standing up for yourself. Never "throw in the towel", Hafs. You can see how many friends you have and how they came to your defense. I would just like to make a suggestion. If you are adding or modifying text in an article, you can let me know and I will be glad to go through and fix any errors I find. Of course, since, as Yngvadottir pointed out, you like to edit, save, edit, save for a while until you are finished, I would wait until you tell me to go ahead. That might cut down on some reverts by other editors. (I do think that editor should have waited until you were finished, and then brought any issues up on the article's talk page, and the personal attacks were inexcusable.) CorinneSD ( talk) 22:18, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, in article La Laguna Cathedral ve added a section that I consider important and added references, can have a look ?. Thank you very much: Chapter house and Icon Museum.-- 95.120.190.125 ( talk) 13:17, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Gerda Arendt Thank you! So nice to hear from you. Sorry you're presently in that predicament. Hopefully it is just temporary. Wish I knew German. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:39, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Corrine - please delete this comment if I am not supposed to respond here. I am not fully aware of all the normal practices yet. If I understand your question I "think" the confusion is that where the text ends as "mikesj" -- it is someone else's edits. I only have the one line edit/change/comment that ends with my signature. I don't know how "mikesj" is a full signature but I guess it does look like it is part of my comment since it does not have the normal format with date. however those changes were not done by me -- I only did that last one. I hope that helps :) BobRyan777 ( talk) 21:22, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Awesome! thanks! BobRyan777 ( talk) 22:37, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
It will continue the comment back at the left margin. By the way, if you put an editor's talk page on your watchlist either by clicking on "Watch this page" at the bottom of the edit window before you save it (just once) or by clicking in the star at the top of the talk page, then you will see all comments left on that talk page in your own watchlist. You can look at them or not, as you wish. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:48, 1 March 2015
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Bob I just wanted to mention something. It's not that important, just something to think about. I think you may have formed your heading to this section ("Nice to meet you Corinne, etc.") from seeing the heading of the previous section. There are no rules as to what to use for a section heading. Pretty much anything within good taste (and, of course, not revealing personal information about another editor) is fine. I've seen long headings, short headings, funny headings, even just a letter or a punctuation mark. Usually, however, the heading is related to the topic that you will discuss, such as the name of an article ("Society of Jesus"), a section within an article ("Supression and restoration") or a shortened version of it such you used, above, or a problem that needs addressing (such as "IP edits" or "Can you please look at this?"), or an interesting discussion or image that you want to draw your reader's attention to ("Interesting discussion"), or a request for help ("Need help with a template"). As you look at talk pages, you'll see the wide variety in section/comment headings. The one thing you don't see often is a user name in a section/comment heading, unless it is on a discussion page (such as RFC, ANI, etc.) that is dealing with a problem editor. There's no rule against it that I know of, you just don't see it. (I'm only talking about section/comment headings.) So, for example, you could write as the section heading: "Jesuits suppression section in Society of Jesus". In the comment itself, you can write, "Nice to meet you, Corinne". Then later you can provide a link to that section: Society of Jesus#Supression and restoration if you want to. Another thing I wanted to mention was that you can save useful links (internal, Wikipedia links or external links such as to an on-line dictionary), on your user page or your talk page. See a few at the top of this page. I had a little trouble with the Merriam-Webster link. It worked better without /dictionary. You will also see lists of helpful links on the user pages of many editors. You can copy and paste (in edit mode) into your user or talk page for future use. If you copy (not cut!) something from another editor's page in edit mode, be sure to click "Cancel" when you leave that page so that no changes were inadvertently made and saved. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:17, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Houses at Auvers. Read the refs and expand it. Hafspajen ( talk) 20:08, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Some of this could be added paraphrased, rewriten to avoid copivio, not my strongest side paraphrasing. It takes me a lot of time and energy . Don't like it much.
http://www.tfsimon.com/auvers-sur-oise.html ...
Vincent van Gogh is a symbol for the eternal problem with mankind: his questing for the meaning of life and the truth. In the course of his life everybody discovers life has no meaning, difference works up hatred and the truth has several versions... Vincent's life was short but his struggle for love and recognition was long and in the end unbearable. He had to get rid of the mortgage everybody gets from the so-called education you get from your parents and other people in your early-life. Everybody is a prisoner of his time and education. Vincent, too, but he wanted to do a lot in his own way, as a consequence people didn't understand him, were even hostile to him; this made him sometimes rebellious and he often felt lonesome. But as many people with mental problems, his imagination played a prominent part in the way he believed other people thought about him and his art. Van Gogh is often thought of as a loner, yet during his career he was surrounded by artists. He brought people together, provoked discussions, acted as a mediator between temperamental artists, and encouraged experiments and exhibitions. These artists in turn influenced Van Gogh’s personal and artistic development. During his ten-year artistic career, from 1880-1890, Van Gogh was highly creative. A full 864 paintings and almost 1,200 drawings and prints have survived. He was active in The Netherlands, until the call of France was irresistible, like for so many artists before and after him (like Tavik František Šimon). From 1886-1888 he was in Paris, from 1888-1889 in Arles, from 1889-1890 in Saint-Rémy, where he tried to recover from a mental illness and finally, from May, 20, 1890 until his death, July 29, 1890, he was in Auvers-sur-Oise, in order to recover completely. In May 1890 Vincent visited his brother Theo and his family in Paris and then settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, a little village at the river Oise around 30 kilometres from Paris. The town was chosen because Paul Gachet, a doctor, artist and collector, was living there, he agreed to take care of Vincent. Vincent managed to find himself a very small room in an inn owned by Arthur Gustave Ravoux and immediately began painting the environs of Auvers-sur-Oise. Van Gogh came to Auvers-sur-Oise, on May 20, 1890. “Auvers is very pretty,” he wrote to Theo, “there is countryside all around, typical and picturesque.” Auvers was an artists’ village, where painters such as Armand Guillaumin, Camille Pissarro, Charles-François Daubigny, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Paul Cézanne had already worked.
If you can't acces it, this is what it writes. Hafspajen ( talk) 20:50, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Throughout June, Vincent remained in good spirits and was remarkably productive, painting some of his best known works. The initial tranquillity of the first month in Auvers was interrupted, however, when Vincent received news that his nephew was seriously ill. Theo had been going through a most difficult time throughout the previous few months: uncertainty about his own career and future, ongoing health problems and finally his own son's illness. Following the baby's recovery, Vincent decided to visit Theo and his family on 6 July and caught an early train. Very little is known about the visit, but Johanna, Theo's wife, writing years later, would suggest that the day was strained and fairly tense. Vincent eventually felt overwhelmed and quickly returned to the more quiet sanctuary of Auvers. During the next three weeks Vincent kept on painting and, as his letters suggest, was reasonably happy. To his mother and sister Vincent wrote: "For the present I am feeling much calmer than last year, and really the restlessness in my head has greatly quieted down." (Letter 650) Vincent was absorbed in the fields and plains around Auvers and produced some brilliant landscapes throughout July. In Auvers Van Gogh painted more then 70 pictures. During these last weeks of his life it was only due to his work that he could forget about his illness, and he painted as if possessed. Among the works of the period are a religious work after Delacroix, The Pieta, The Church of Auvers, multiple landscapes and portraits. On the evening of the 27th July 1890 Van Gogh went at dusk into the fields and shot himself. With all his strength he managed to drag himself back to the inn; here he died two days later in the arms of his brother, who had hurried to his side. Besides Theo and Dr. Gachet some friends from Paris, amongst them Bernard and “Père” Tanguy, took part in the funeral.
Also this... Hafspajen ( talk) 20:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Vincent van Gogh repeated the motif of peasant huts on many occasions: "In my opinion, the most marvellous of all that I know in the sphere of architecture is huts with their roofs of moss-grown straw and a smoky hearth," wrote van Gogh in one of his letters. The thatched roofs seem to be just as much an organic part of nature as the hills, fields and sky. The hilly relief of the distance allowed the artist to accentuate the dynamics of space, which he reinforced through the use of colour contrasts. The tense, wavy brushstrokes and lines convey the artist's perception of life and the world. During these last few weeks of his life, Van Gogh painted a few portraits but mainly a large number of landscapes among which is "Les Vessenots," the part of Auvers where Dr Gachet -the first owner of this painting- lived. The work is characteristic of Van Gogh's pictorial language at the end of his life, in which he combines very reduced and schematised compositions with a narrow palette of luminous greens and yellows and the use of agitated and nervous brushstrokes which follow a waving and repetitive rhythm. The composition is a horizontal one with a typically raised horizon, grouping together a number of old cottages, some with thatched roofs, alongside extensive fields of wheat and a few waving trees. Although he always painted in front of the subject, the painting is a very personal vision of the landscape. Van Gogh transformed what he saw into something profoundly personal, giving visual form to the emotions which the landscape in front of him inspired in him. The fertile fields around Auvers produced conflicting feelings within him: the sensation of freedom which he had in front of these broad fields was counterbalanced by melancholy and a sensation of loneliness brought on by the sight of the wheat.
And this. Hafspajen ( talk) 20:53, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
This is template for this reference and text. .<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tfsimon.com/auvers-sur-oise.html|title=Van Gogh Museum|publisher=www.tfsimon.com|accessdate=2015}}</ref> But the refs are alredy in. Content need to be added, reworded content... Hafspajen ( talk) 23:10, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I think you might enjoy seeing the photos at User talk:Crisco 1492#Bonus. Regarding the two foot-bridges, I had already told Hafs that I don't know if I would have the courage to cross that high bridge. I just saw the other bridge today. My first thought was, "Is that the best they could do?", but then I saw the treeless land and thought maybe it was hard to find wood of any kind around there. Then I saw the great dark and light bands in the rock at the left, and I had to show them to you. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:52, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Corinne_Hotel -- Hafspajen ( talk) 14:48, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the help! It's really nice to get feedback when you're unsure of the new stuff!
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Hi CorinneSD! Thanks for the information - I'm massively confused though! I have been signing with "~ ~ ~ ~"(no spaces, 4 x tilda's) using the little link parallel to the insert pull down at the bottom of the editing window, per the tutorial here ... Wikipedia:Signatures, is there an undocumented issue with signatures or some "best practice" that you are possibly referring too? IamM1rv ( talk) 13:16, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I enjoyed reading the fairy tale on your talk page and looking at the accompanying painting. What country is that fairy tale from? I wanted to point out a typo in the fairy tale that kind of messes up the story a bit. It's minor, but you might like to fix it. It's in the second sentence of the last paragraph of the story:
I think it should be:
The man had been under a curse, not the girl, right?
Also, if you want to be really grammatically correct, you'll change "he was under" to "he had been under", because he was no longer under the curse. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:13, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for your work on Houses at Auvers. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 17:48, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just finished reading Christ in the House of His Parents. I made a few minor copy-edits. I have a question for you. In the section Christ in the House of His Parents#Consequences, there is a sentence that contains the word "typology". I didn't know if this meant the use of type, that is, printed letters, words and numbers, or something else. I typed "typology" into the WP search bar and it led to a disambiguation page. I couldn't find one thing in that list that would explain "typology". Can you either explain it to me here or create a link to the right article or section of an article? Thanks. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:29, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Would you be willing to assist me with my role on the signpost? I am no English major and your assistance would be really helpful.. talk→ WPPilot 04:06, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-11/Featured_content is the new draft we will be working on... talk→ WPPilot 04:38, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Fylbecatulous Hello, Fylb -- How are you these days? Hope you're doing well. Regarding WP:Featured picture candidates/vG's Bedroom, I thought I'd let you in on a lighthearted discussion I've been having with Rothorpe about absolute adjectives and how they do not normally require qualifiers (quite, really, very, etc.). See the second half of the section User talk:Rothorpe#Cinnamon. I also just introduced Rothorpe to FP. You're a good writer, so I think you'll appreciate Rothorpe's wry humor in his comment at vG's Bedroom; I'm absolutely sure, without a doubt, that there was nothing personal about it. (Since many people do use qualifiers, probably myself included, they probably won't even get the humor.) CorinneSD ( talk) 22:46, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
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Vsmith V, I don't understand the difference in Sky: [8]. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:31, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84, Peter coxhead, HalfGig Speaking of MEDRS, see this edit to Herbal tea and the two subsequent edits: [9]. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:58, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith See this edit to Cake. [10] See what this vandal did. Be sure to scroll down in the text. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:08, 11 March 2015 (UTC) (Revised my comment; I had misunderstood that edit.) I undid it as vandalism. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:10, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen What's going on at Cherub? Now there is no image at the beginning of the article. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:29, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
about Cucurbita. Sorry that I can't help, I've had enough of that process where all mention of traditional medicine is removed under the MEDRS banner, no matter how carefully and painfully crafted the wording is, even when it is totally in accord with previous discussion and consensus. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 07:11, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith , Mike Christie I don't know about the other edits by this editor, but what do you think of this one to Radiocarbon dating? [11] Do you like the sound of "prior published papers"? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:03, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith Is there any way you could persuade User:Yngvadottir to stay as an editor on Wikipedia? She's a friendly, helpful, intelligent, multilingual Ph.D. who has done a lot of good editing, and just in the last few weeks has come under attack. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:31, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Catflap08 I hadn't seen your page or edits until today, but I was sorry to see User talk:Catflap08#Retirement. I've been lamenting the decision to retire by two other excellent editors, User:Sminthopsis84 and User:Yngvadottir. Just judging from your user page and your well-written comment, I think that you have probably also been an excellent editor on en.Wikipedia. I would like to urge you to reconsider retiring. The editors with a strong point of view on an issue may think that if they keep wearing down their opponents, their opponents will just stop participating and their versions will remain in the articles. Thus, in order to protect the knowledge bank of the world, and for the benefit of future generations of readers, it is important that you and many other conscientious editors continue to edit. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:03, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith Just thought you might be interested in this exchange. I'm puzzled as to who is right. Does Paine need some support? User talk:Paine Ellsworth#What "metadata links"? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:33, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Lysozym What do you think of this edit to Dari language? [12] The new version does not sound right for Persian (Farsi) (the way it was does), but I don't know if it is right for Dari Persian. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:27, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Did you see the template at the top of this article? Eilif Peterssen It has been there since 2012. Look at all the red links, too. Shall we work on this article? I'll wait for you to finish. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:46, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen This image is much too big. I tried to make it smaller, but I'm doing something wrong. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:56, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/list.php?m=a&s=tu&aid=4260
Hafspajen In John Lavery, there is a painting on the right with the caption, "Hazel in rise and grey". Since I thought "rise" might be a Scottish word, I looked up "rise" in Wiktionary and found no definition remotely related to a color, or a dress, or fabric. Look at the noun definition in [13]. Do you think it is possible that it should be "rose" (ie., pink)? Or could it possibly be a Scottish version of the word "rose"? Shall I ask an editor who edits articles related to Scotland? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:23, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just read and edited the article on Meijer de Haan. The Biography section has very little information about his life. The first two sentences are as follows:
First, he was born. But, because of the verb tense (had...had), "he had already had...success" sounds like he had had success before he was born. Presumably the success was a bit later in his life. If you have time, maybe you could find more details about his life to add here. Also, do you see the red-linked artist further down? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:53, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Hafs, there is no painting in the articles for these artists of the Glasgow School: Thomas Corsan Morton, Harrington Mann, Jessie Newbery, or Ann Macbeth, or Eleanor Allen Moore, Christian Jane Fergusson, James Nairn, George Pirie (artist), Hannah Frank. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:41, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) I will go over the Petterssen article tomorrow. I'm too tired now. Did you see my comment above about the image in John Lavery? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:56, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Rwood128 and Rothorpe I've been reading the articles about the New England states, and I just finished reading the article on Maine. I have two questions for you:
1) About two-thirds of the way through the section Maine#Geography is a verse from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay. I noticed that there is no punctuation at all in this verse, and I'm wondering if there is any in the original that should be there;
2) toward the end of the first (long) paragraph in Maine#Etymology, the same phrase is used twice. The phrase is:
I don't know if that was deliberate, but if not, perhaps another phrase (such as "put down roots" or "settled") should be used for one of them. I think overall, the sentences are fine. It's just that repetition that I don't think is needed. Any thoughts or suggestions? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:59, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. Do you think my last edit is OK? Hafspajen ( talk) 21:46, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
I don't think you have driven her away if that is what you mean. Rothorpe ( talk) 20:11, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. Do you think my last edit is OK? Rothorpe ( talk) 01:17, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Does this edit to Morus (plant) look right? The first part, especially, does not look right to me. [14] CorinneSD ( talk) 00:53, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith and Rothorpe What do you think of these edits to Loren Eiseley? [15]. There are quite a few. Be sure to scroll down. CorinneSD ( talk) 03:17, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Joshua Jonathan I just saw your edit summary, "Archivated", which accompanied your archiving of some material on your talk page. I just thought I would point out that the correct form is "Archived" (or "Archiving"). Here is the link to the Wiktionary entry for the word archive. Look at the forms for the verb. [16] The past tense, archived, and the past participle are the same.
CorinneSD ( talk) 16:30, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne. First off thank you for your support, as you are learning the politics here are difficult at times. You are correct in that I should have better tempered my words, and I have settled everything down so as to get back into a productive mode, sorry you were dragged into my frustrations. When I come under fire, so to speak I tend to regress and just go out and enjoy the many things that life has to enjoy, it always helps. As you saw there are all types here, and you just have to take some things with a grain of salt. I am also btw experiencing some serious medical issues that can cause me to get a little more frustrated then normal as I am facing a serious surgery in the near future, so often acquiring the content I get is also a painful process, literally speaking. I suggest that we redo the photo placement on the Reno Air Racing page. As you may have noticed in the other comments, I had loaded it up with some photos I took last year, and others had issues with the quantity of photos I was using. Perhaps we can work with @ Ahunt: and get that page up to snuff, I would love to submit a section as a featured page, and perhaps that one, with the collaboration of the three of us might be the first one. Before I came to that page it was really really bad, frankly speaking as it was only about the crashes that have sadly taken the lives of the brave men that fly in that race. I did strip some of the photos out, but it is really stale now without them. LMK. talk→ WPPilot 17:36, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was looking at the infobox and book cover of Swallows and Amazons that User:Rwood128 added to a comment at Talk:Great Expectations#Series and Serial and then I looked at the article on the author Steven Spurrier (artist) and it wasn't there. I wonder what you think of adding the book cover to the article on Spurrier. CorinneSD ( talk) 21:56, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
..And some shades of blue in fact are green. Shall we nominate that van Gogh? Feel like doing something else for a while. Hafspajen ( talk) 23:27, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
Jytdog I saw your comment on Paine Ellsworth's talk page, so out of curiosity I looked at your essay, "Why MEDRS?" I read the first half carefully and skimmed the second half. I just wanted to tell you that I thought it was brilliant. It is clear, well-written, and logically organized, and it has a good tone and is generally at the right level for non-experts in science or medicine. I don't know if you want any feedback from me. Though I have an interest in science, I am not an expert by any means. I have, however, copy-edited Epacris impressa, Radiocarbon dating, and Oil shale in Estonia as they were, or are, being prepared for FA status (see the peer review or article talk pages, including archives of those pages). I would not change much at all in your essay. It is really quite good as it is. I just have a few suggestions, including a few minor changes in wording, phrasing, or punctuation, if you're interested. If you are, please tell me where to make my suggestions:
Let me know. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:43, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
On 24 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Houses at Auvers, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Vincent van Gogh's Houses at Auvers (pictured) is an oil painting featuring a peasant cottage, as did many of his works? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Houses at Auvers. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 00:01, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
I am removing the Dickens articles from my watchlist so I wont see any response to previous posts there. I am going to miss seeing your improvements to articles outside of that area. I did need to point out that your misconstruing my posts were hostile was out of line IMO. If you take a look at this Talk:Laurence Olivier#Protected you will see what hostility actually is. I never even came close to to reacting like the posts there. I know coming here is petty of me so my apologies and please feel free to remove this - even unread if you wish. MarnetteD| Talk 14:21, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
MeegsC I was looking at the latest edits to Marsh and I wondered about them. I thought "habitat" was used correctly as an uncountable noun before it was changed to a countable noun ("a habitat" and "habitats"). I asked Apokryltaros at User talk:Apokryltaros#Marsh. He thinks the edits are fine, but I don't. I wondered what you thought. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:04, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
"Habitat" is certainly a count noun to a biologist. See the lead section of Habitat which correctly says that the human body provides a large number of habitats for different organisms. The whole of a marsh might be a habitat to a large mobile animal. A plant might only grow where the water is less than a certain depth, there is little shade, and the pH is within a certain range, so its habitat would be smaller than the whole marsh. Another plant might grow only on bare mud. A spider might only be found where there is vegetation of certain height. And so on. Peter coxhead ( talk) 23:04, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
You can add that category to your userpage if you like. Best regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 15:08, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I was just looking at the latest edit to Santiago Atitlán: [17] I was just wondering if "Tropical savanna climate" could apply to a highly mountainous, high-altitude area such as Lake Atitlán and the surrounding volcanoes. (And on another minor issue, why is "savanna" spelled without the final "h"? It's usually "savannah".) CorinneSD ( talk) 17:58, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen The correct spelling is "shepherd", not "sheperd". It comes from "sheep" + "herd".
This was wrong. But at least is going down with four votes, not only three. Maybe can be renominated some day... unless a miracle not happens in the last second. Hafspajen ( talk) 22:59, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Crisco 1492 or Hafspajen I liked the image of Messier 81 so much that I added it to my user page. However, I saw some unusual information in the licensing section under the file name, and I'm wondering if I need to list any particular permission next to the image on my user page. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:47, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Crisco 1492 In the article Amer Fort, which I was looking at after seeing the Featured picture nomination, I couldn't make out the image at the right in Amer Fort#Layout, so I clicked on it to get a better look. Here's the image:
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Sminthopsis84 edited today! Jippie!! Hafspajen ( talk) 22:55, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just finished going through La Laguna Cathedral (again) since more material had been added. I believe non-native speakers of English (probably Spanish speakers) have been working on this article. I left a note on the talk page offering to help clarify unclear spots. I noticed a red wiki-link to Juan de Miranda about two-thirds of the way through the article. I know I had seen that name before, so I thought I could clear up the red link, but I see that there are two Spanish artists named Juan de Miranda. It's got to be the one who painted a painting called (I believe) The Last Supper (it is mentioned near the red link in the article). Can you figure out which Juan de Miranda is meant, and fix the link (if there is an article on him)? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:54, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
talk→ WPPilot 17:43, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Rwood128 and Rothorpe I'd like to offer my support to NewsAndEventsGuy in his quest to remove the hyphen between "climate" and "change" in the phrase "climate-change fiction", the second phrase in the article Climate fiction, but before I do, I'd like your opinions. See Talk:Climate fiction#a dash of detail (first comment only) and User talk:Paine Ellsworth#Climate fiction. I don't think all noun phrases that are then used as adjectives need to be hyphenated, do you? (Of course, feel free to weigh in on those discussions.) CorinneSD ( talk) 17:29, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith Have you seen the interesting photos of geological features in the article Lord Howe Island? Look in Lord Howe Island#Geography and Lord Howe Island#Basalts and calcarenite. Also, from there I looked at the article on Guyots. I noticed (unless it's there and I missed it) that there is no explanation for the flat tops of guyots. There is a sentence at the end of the article that expresses Hess's theory, but no real explanation. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:07, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
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I just made an edit to Edna Ferber undoing an edit. I selected one of the standard edit summaries from the drop-down list at the bottom. After I saved the edit, I noticed that all the edit summaries on my watchlist had changed to capital letters. What happened? Can I get it to go back to the way it was? Do I have to undo that edit to do that? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:57, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I just finished reading the article on Mica, and I made a few copy-edits. I wanted to ask you about something. What do you think of the sentence with the long list of adjectives (indicating qualities, or characteristics, of mica) about a third of the way through the first paragraph in Mica#Properties and uses? While they may all be true of mica, the sheer length of the list may overwhelm a reader. A reader's eyes may begin to glaze over after the first five or so. Also, right after the list, specific qualities are discussed in detail, which is more informative. If you think it should stay, that's fine. I just thought I'd ask you what you thought. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:08, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I left a question about an edit to Stroma, Scotland on Prioryman's talk page. See User talk:Prioryman#Stroma, Scotland. However, I don't know whether I should just revert that entire edit, or just add the hyphens that were taken out. Two links were added in that edit, and I don't know whether they should stay or not, and I don't want to bother Prioryman again. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:38, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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Looks like the guy who named the file couldn't spell much .... File:Antoine de Favray - Portrait of the Countess of Vergennes in Turkish Attireontes of Vergennes in Turkish Gown - Google Art Project.jpg - it wasn't me this time. Hafspajen ( talk) 19:11, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Crisco 1492 I don't know what it's supposed to be. Perhaps: Turkish attire. After "attire", I don't know. By the way, I enjoyed looking at the photos of Indonesia on your talk page. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:18, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Rwood128 and Rothorpe What do you think of this edit to Edna Ferber? [18]. I don't understand the removal of the word "strong". CorinneSD ( talk) 00:16, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
If you liked it, you could have voted for it.. Canvassing you....- The Herald the joy of the LORD my strength 08:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
Jytdog Hello, Jytdog! Judging from the essay you wrote on MEDRS, I believe you have a background in medicine. Would you mind reviewing these edits to Diabetes mellitus [19] and those just previous to these by the same editor? I can't judge the content or formatting of section headings, but I wonder about the sentence that contains "must" twice.
Also, I haven't seen much work on your wonderful essay. Have you forgotten all about it? Did I do too much copyediting to your draft? If so, you can always undo my edits. CorinneSD ( talk) 21:16, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith, Rothorpe What do you think of these edits, and the ones just previous to them by the same editor, to Geology? [20] Vsmith, you can judge the content, but regarding wording, my impression is that the later versions are less direct and more wordy than the earlier versions. CorinneSD ( talk) 21:08, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
(1) Vsmith and Rothorpe I have just started reading the article on Stratigraphy. I want to ask you about something in a sentence. It's the first sentence in the second paragraph in the section Stratigraphy#Historical development. Here is the sentence:
I just wonder about "in the 1790s and early 19th century". I think the combination of two dating formats in the same phrase can throw a reader off, making him or her have to stop and think about it. I wonder whether it would be better to use the same dating format, either
or
What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:50, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
(2) Vsmith I want to ask you about another sentence. It's the second sentence in the second paragraph in the section Stratigraphy#Lithologic stratigraphy. Here it is:
I know this is probably clear enough to you, but I'm wondering if it would be clearer for the average reader if "that occurred" or "that took place" were added after "subtle changes". (I believe the paleoenvironment is the very ancient environment of the rocks and rock layers, right?)
– CorinneSD ( talk) 22:02, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
(3) Vsmith Here's another question:
The section Stratigraphy#Lithologic stratigraphy has a link to the article Lithostratigraphy and starts, "Lithostratigraphy, or lithologic stratigraphy,..."
The section Stratigraphy#Biostratigraphy has a link to the article Biostratigraphy and starts, "Biostratigraphy or paleontologic stratigraphy...". Does it matter that the first section has the two-word phrase and the second section has the one-word phrase? Or is there a good reason for that? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:11, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
(4) Vsmith and Rothorpe The last paragraph in the section Stratigraphy#Chronostratigraphy is:
I thought italics were used mainly for non-English words or in order to provide emphasis. I believe "lacuna" and "hiatus" are English words, and I don't think emphasis is needed here. Is there a reason why these words should be in italics? I was thinking of changing them all to regular (Roman) font and putting "on hold" in quotation marks. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:30, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
(5) Vsmith I was reading the section Stratigraphy#Magnetostratigraphy, and in the first paragraph I came across this phrase: "detrital remanent magnetism (DRM)". I have two questions:
(a) Since I had never seen the word "remanent", I thought it might be a typo for "remnant". First, I looked for it in the article Magnetostratigraphy (a link is provided at the beginning of the section), but I didn't find it. Shouldn't it be there?
(b) Then, I looked up the word "remanent" in Wiktionary, and I was surprised to find it there. It is indeed a word, so I guess it's correct. Is there any way to provide a wiki-link at the word "remanent" to the definition? I know an external link there is not right; is there a way to provide a wiki-link?
I'm puzzled by something. It seems as if "Lithostratigraphy" (or "Lithological stratigraphy"), "Biostratigraphy", and "Chronostratigraphy" are all activities or fields (that, of course, employ techniques or methods), but "Magnetostratigraphy" is a technique or method. Am I misunderstanding something? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:40, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
I wanted to reach out and say thank you for your comments. Don't be sad, I am not going away, and I am not going to discontinue to nominate photos I take in FP. It can be frustrating sometimes, from a creative standpoint I tend to lean towards the creative aspects of my contributions and it requires a thick skin at times to just overlook some of the random comments my photos often provoke. Frankly speaking it is exceptionally complicated to manage, as I do, the cumulative assets and skill sets that are required to contribute much of what I have placed here. IMHO it would be far more balanced if the voters were, in some way vetted and had some photographic background. You are welcome to also nominate my photos any time. I truly enjoy the art of photography, and appreciate your kind words and support. Cheers! talk→ WPPilot 03:57, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
I wanted to ask you about a caption:
What are your thoughts on that photo? talk→ WPPilot 17:13, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
WPPilot Wow, I can see why you said you have to have a thick skin on FP. They have pretty high standards for photos. When I saw the comments that the Avery Fisher Hall photo is not completely in focus, I thought, how can you get a photo of such a large building completely in focus at night? I guess they're looking for an urban Ansel Adams. When I saw the comments regarding the space ship plane, (oversaturated, out of focus) I wondered what they meant. I don't know what "oversaturated" means. Does it mean too much color, or too dark, or both? I really like that photo. I like the colors, and it looks in focus enough, to me. Is the oversaturation something that could be fixed using software? When I saw the comments regarding the sakura flowers, I was just puzzled. The flowers looked in focus to me, and I didn't see anything wrong with the background (the comment said, "What's with that stripe in the background?"). A lot of these were nominated before I got involved in Featured pictures, or I would have voted for some or all of them. Regarding the sailboat, I like the angle of the mast and sail, and the background. The only things I can think of that editors might have objected to are (a) the fact that the clouds are almost the same color as the sail, so the sail doesn't stand out as much as I might have; (b) there is a white reflection (probably from the sea foam just under the bow) on the side of the boat and the lower part of the sail, and, since it looks like a partly cloudy day, the white there, and even the yellow higher up on the sail, is puzzling. Regarding the last image, the regatta, (Star boats), I think it's all right, but I have a feeling it will not be successful. I think it is partly that it is such an overcast day, and partly because it is not clear which is the point of interest, the sailing boats/race or the red buoy. But you can always try. Of course I'll be glad to nominate the Lido photo. It's nice and clear. (I can't believe how many houses are jammed into such a small space, the little island and the surrounding land.) I will take some time to look at the background of some of the other photos, as you suggested. It sounds like you are busy right now, so no need to reply. Whenever you have time. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:01, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Linking. Legobot ( talk) 00:08, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
What do you think about this edit? I don't get it. Hafspajen ( talk) 21:22, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
Do you mean this? [21] In this edit, the editor moved the information about the founding of the Poor Clares and a third order (of laity, etc.) to a subsection (Founding of the Friars Minor) under the larger section Francis of Assisi#Founding of the Franciscan Orders. Since the Poor Clares was founded in 1211, only one year after the Franciscan order was founded, this organization makes sense. It's not under "Missions work" (now "Missionary impulse"). CorinneSD ( talk) 22:28, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
CorinneSD, I cannot do anything now, but will try and look at this tomorrow. Rwood128 ( talk) 20:10, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Do you agree with this edit to Bog and the ones just previous to it by the same editor? [22] CorinneSD ( talk) 02:38, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen and Rothorpe I was looking at the latest edit to Pierre-Auguste Renoir. [23] I wanted to see if the change was made due to a desire for political correctness or for accuracy. If I read the article correctly, in 1867 Renoir was not married, so I guess "mistress" could not be correct. However, I feel that, even if "lover" is more correct, the way the sentence is worded places too much emphasis on it. I thought if I reverse the name and the phrase, it would de-emphasize "his lover at the time". I would change from:
to:
I also think this order, giving the name first, shows more respect for the woman. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 01:19, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafs, there is no picture in the article on Turkeys that shows young turkeys. Can you find one? CorinneSD ( talk) 02:43, 7 April 2015 (UTC) Also, in your comment at Gaudioso, you might want to fix a typo. You have, "In he above reasoning". I think you mean "In the above reasoning". CorinneSD ( talk) 02:46, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I was looking at this edit to Society of Jesus [26]. I thought other Wikipedia articles are not to be used as sources. Also, I noticed that the entire paragraph is unsourced. What do you recommend? CorinneSD ( talk) 14:10, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Do you agree with this edit to Pollarding? [27] I don't know whether it's important here, but I notice that it's unsourced. Also, even if the statement is all right, is it in the right place? If you approve of the sentence, I will fix the sentence structure a bit.
Also, did you see all the edits made just before that by an unregistered editor (red user name)? CorinneSD ( talk) 14:06, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
See this.] Sca ( talk) 01:18, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne. I did some re-arranging; only the welcome-message is still not okay, I think. If you don't like all this, please revert. Best regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 15:31, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen and Rothorpe What do you think of this edit to Isamu Noguchi? [28] If you think it's all right, a missing space needs to be added. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:07, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne. Thank you for your comments there. You said, "I thought William Avery did a pretty good job of summarizing your points", but perhaps you meant me? Alakzi ( talk) 17:28, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
He's done it! Alakzi ( talk) 13:05, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Pollarding All WRONG. Hafspajen ( talk) 14:39, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
In Spain and Italy Castanea sativa is pollarded, a lot, I don't know why. These images are typical of chestnut orchards. On a lighter note, apparently the author's name is Pauline Pears, as on the book cover! Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 18:10, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your message. Frankly I am shocked and devastated. I had no idea about this, unfortunately I was out of communication since January. She is wonderful and always will be. Again, thank you for letting me know. ( Erica Blatt Harkins ( talk) 02:41, 9 April 2015 (UTC))
Can you look at just that section? Various people reworked it. No need to ask me about changes, I didn't write it so feel free to just change as you see fit. Thank you. HalfGig talk 01:36, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
HalfGig and Peter coxhead I was going to put this on the article's talk page, but I don't want to overwhelm anybody (except you guys), so I'll post it here:
Folk remedies
I know that because sentences are paraphrased from various sources, it is not easy to form a cohesive paragraph in which the sentences flow smoothly from one to the next, but I thought I'd ask for feedback and/or suggestions regarding the section Cucurbita#Folk remedies. I noticed that the verb tenses change from sentence to sentence to such an extent that the sentences do not flow well and the paragraph has a choppy feel (and it's not just the verb tenses). I'm looking right now at the first paragraph in that section, and I will copy it here with the verbs highlighted in boldface so that they are easy to see. I have also numbered the sentences for ease of discussion.
(1) Cucurbita have been used in various cultures as folk remedies. (2) Pumpkins have been used by Native Americans to treat intestinal worms and urinary ailments; this Native American remedy was adopted by American doctors in the early nineteenth century as an anthelmintic for the expulsion of worms. (3) Seeds of C. pepo were used in southeastern Europe to treat irritable bladder and benign prostatic hyperplasia. (4) In Germany, pumpkin seed is approved for use by the Commission E, which assesses folk and herbal medicine, for irritated bladder conditions and micturition problems of prostatic hyperplasia stages 1 and 2, although the monograph published in 1985 noted a lack of pharmacological studies that could substantiate empirically found clinical activity. (5) The FDA in the United States, on the other hand, banned the sale of all such non-prescription drugs for the treatment of prostate enlargement in 1990.
(1) The first sentence uses present perfect tense (have been used) but gives no indication of when, how often, or to what extent. It's quite general. Presumably, the sentences which follow will supply the details, and they do, but notice the tenses.
(2) The second sentence has two clauses. The verb in the first clause is in present perfect tense (have been used), with no indication of when, how often, or to what extent – and since this sentence is giving examples supporting the first sentence, it really should give more of such an indication of time. The second clause (following a semi-colon) gives one detail of how this Native American remedy was adopted by American doctors in the 19th century. However, the present perfect tense in the first clause allows for the possibility, and to some extent suggests, that the use of pumpkins by Native Americans has continued up to the present. (However, the use of present perfect tense ("have been used") could also mean that pumpkins were used just a few times in the past.) Thus, the second clause "adopted..." is not about how Native Americans used the remedy; it is about the use of the remedy by [North] American doctors. Only by inference do we learn that Native Americans used the remedy in the 19th century, but it doesn't say anything about the centuries before or the century after. (The phrase "for the expulsion of worms" is not really necessary because an "antihelmintic" (or antihelminthic) means a remedy for the expulsion of worms.) If the sources support it, I suggest adding the adverb "long", but it would really be better to use a more precise phrase:
(3) The third sentence switches to past tense (were used). Since this sentence is another example of the use of Cucurbita in various cultures, introducing a use in another part of the world, I recommend putting the place first in the sentence: "In southeastern Europe, seeds of C. pepo were used..." However, the verb is in past tense, which suggests either that it was a one-time use at some time in the past, or that it was used in the past but no longer is used. If the remedy is still used today, or up until recently, the verb should be in present perfect tense ("have been used"). If the remedy was used in the past, some indication of the time when it was used would be helpful. To say something was used without giving the time leaves the reader wondering, "When was this? How long ago was this?" and "Why "was used"? Was it used only once or was it something that was common in the past but is no longer, and if so, why is it no longer used?"
(4) In the fourth sentence, it says pumpkin "is approved for use", but it doesn't say that it is used, so it is a little different from all the other examples. Also, the adverbial clause beginning "although": "although the monograph published in 1985...", qualifying the status of "approved" in the first clause, mentions "the monograph" when no monograph has been mentioned. To fix this, either "the monograph" needs to be changed to "a monograph" or a phrase explaining which monograph this was needs to be added (something like "the monograph published in 1985 that led to the approval").
(5) The fifth sentence states a fact, that the FDA "banned the sale of all such non-prescription drugs for the treatment of prostate enlargement in 1990", indicating a contrast to the German approval for that condition. It would be nice (and would support the first, or topic, sentence of the paragraph better) if there were some indication of the use (and status of approval) of any species of Cucurbita for treatment of any medical condition in the U.S., not just pumpkin and not just for treatment of prostate enlargement.
I know this is a rather detailed analysis, but if someone has the time and patience to follow it and knows the subject matter, some small tweaks to address the issues I've raised would probably produce a better paragraph. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:58, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Why is it I don't see your Flensburg question on my talk page? Sca ( talk) 16:30, 9 April 2015 (UTC)