Hello again, Marjarau. I am a bird geek and usually edit or write articles about birds and ornithologists. I try to help out at the Teahouse and sometimes become interested in other subjects. I hope to help you get your Ilona Harima article ready for article space in March, Women's History Month in much of the English-speaking world.
References (sources) do not need to be written in English. Add as many Finnish sources as you find that provide details about Harima.
Your English is fluent, understandable and very good but not as smoothly flowing as a native speaker's. I notice that you sometimes mix British and American spelling. I venture a guess that you were taught British English in school but are influenced by American because it is more common on the Internet. Even native speakers find it difficult to remain consistent when we edit articles. I will try to help write the article so that it meets the standards of the en.Wikipedia Manual of Style. Some of my suggestions like the infobox artist are not necessary but are common in en.Wikipedia to provide a visual summary about a person or thing. If you prefer only prose, say so and revert.
I hope you will spend a little time working on your userpage. Experienced editor Pluma created a page of fun stuff(<=click on it). I hope you will add language userboxes to your userpage. They will automatically add you to lists of those who speak languages other than English and might be willing to help translate sources in another language.
Work will limit my time on Wikipedia for a few days but I will try to stay in touch and continue work on your article growing in your sandbox. For now, take care, DocTree ( ʞlɐʇ· cont) Join WER 01:48, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello DocTree, Please give your opinion on my Ilona Harima - editing in my sandbox. I've done some changes to the original infobox material: removed sculptor and Hilma af Klint - the connection to both is too small to be relevant in infobox. In addition to my language as a whole I'd be grateful to punctuation check - one of my weak spots. Thanks again!Marjarau (talk) 08:35, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Ilona Harima (4 March 1911 – 9 June 1986) was a Finnish artist whose paintings expressed deep oriental spirituality. Her style was strongly influenced by Buddhism and Hinduism but not similar to Asian art. Harima developed a personal style very different from the mainstream movements of that era such as Cubism and Expressionism during the period between the [World war}world wars]].
Hello again, Marja. One more task for you after moving your article. Did you notice that when you click on Sandbox you now go to Ilona Harima? After you move, the wiki software leaves a redirect. To clean it up:
As you see, I nominated your article for
Did you know? If the nomination is successful, your article will be featured on the en.Wikipedia
Main Page. On the day that it appears on the Main Page, hundreds of people will look at your article. Actually, because it is new and was nominated, many are already looking. To see how many, go to your article again and click the View history tab. Look for the line External tools: and then to the right for Page view statistics. When you click there, it will show how many viewed your article. Subtract you and me and the other helpers who edited since it moved to mainspace. All of the other views are visitors interested in learning about Ilona Harima or Finnish artists.
I hope you will continue to contribute to English Wikipedia. I found the article Birger Carlstedt when I was looking for more information for your article. Only 3 sentences, his article needs to be improved. If you look at the List of Finnish painters, this Wikipedia lacks articles on many prominent Finnish artists. I and many others would appreciate your helping improve en.Wikipedia if you have the time and inclination.
Take care,
DocTree (
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Hi again, Marja. I want to alert you that the Did you know? nomination for your article was moved to the DYK queue, the last step before it appears on the en.Wikipedia Main Page. It should appear on the main page in the next 24 hours or so. Watch for it (and make a screen shot to save for yourself and to share with family and friends). Take care, DocTree ( ʞlɐʇ· cont) Join WER 19:52, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On 7 April 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ilona Harima, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that paintings by Finnish artist Ilona Harima were influenced by the cultures of India and Tibet but she never visited either country? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ilona Harima. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Hello again, Marjarau. I am a bird geek and usually edit or write articles about birds and ornithologists. I try to help out at the Teahouse and sometimes become interested in other subjects. I hope to help you get your Ilona Harima article ready for article space in March, Women's History Month in much of the English-speaking world.
References (sources) do not need to be written in English. Add as many Finnish sources as you find that provide details about Harima.
Your English is fluent, understandable and very good but not as smoothly flowing as a native speaker's. I notice that you sometimes mix British and American spelling. I venture a guess that you were taught British English in school but are influenced by American because it is more common on the Internet. Even native speakers find it difficult to remain consistent when we edit articles. I will try to help write the article so that it meets the standards of the en.Wikipedia Manual of Style. Some of my suggestions like the infobox artist are not necessary but are common in en.Wikipedia to provide a visual summary about a person or thing. If you prefer only prose, say so and revert.
I hope you will spend a little time working on your userpage. Experienced editor Pluma created a page of fun stuff(<=click on it). I hope you will add language userboxes to your userpage. They will automatically add you to lists of those who speak languages other than English and might be willing to help translate sources in another language.
Work will limit my time on Wikipedia for a few days but I will try to stay in touch and continue work on your article growing in your sandbox. For now, take care, DocTree ( ʞlɐʇ· cont) Join WER 01:48, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello DocTree, Please give your opinion on my Ilona Harima - editing in my sandbox. I've done some changes to the original infobox material: removed sculptor and Hilma af Klint - the connection to both is too small to be relevant in infobox. In addition to my language as a whole I'd be grateful to punctuation check - one of my weak spots. Thanks again!Marjarau (talk) 08:35, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Ilona Harima (4 March 1911 – 9 June 1986) was a Finnish artist whose paintings expressed deep oriental spirituality. Her style was strongly influenced by Buddhism and Hinduism but not similar to Asian art. Harima developed a personal style very different from the mainstream movements of that era such as Cubism and Expressionism during the period between the [World war}world wars]].
Hello again, Marja. One more task for you after moving your article. Did you notice that when you click on Sandbox you now go to Ilona Harima? After you move, the wiki software leaves a redirect. To clean it up:
As you see, I nominated your article for
Did you know? If the nomination is successful, your article will be featured on the en.Wikipedia
Main Page. On the day that it appears on the Main Page, hundreds of people will look at your article. Actually, because it is new and was nominated, many are already looking. To see how many, go to your article again and click the View history tab. Look for the line External tools: and then to the right for Page view statistics. When you click there, it will show how many viewed your article. Subtract you and me and the other helpers who edited since it moved to mainspace. All of the other views are visitors interested in learning about Ilona Harima or Finnish artists.
I hope you will continue to contribute to English Wikipedia. I found the article Birger Carlstedt when I was looking for more information for your article. Only 3 sentences, his article needs to be improved. If you look at the List of Finnish painters, this Wikipedia lacks articles on many prominent Finnish artists. I and many others would appreciate your helping improve en.Wikipedia if you have the time and inclination.
Take care,
DocTree (
ʞlɐʇ·
cont)
Join WER
20:37, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi again, Marja. I want to alert you that the Did you know? nomination for your article was moved to the DYK queue, the last step before it appears on the en.Wikipedia Main Page. It should appear on the main page in the next 24 hours or so. Watch for it (and make a screen shot to save for yourself and to share with family and friends). Take care, DocTree ( ʞlɐʇ· cont) Join WER 19:52, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On 7 April 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ilona Harima, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that paintings by Finnish artist Ilona Harima were influenced by the cultures of India and Tibet but she never visited either country? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ilona Harima. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |