FirefoxMan 23:53, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Have you seen the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts#Printmaking_Categorization ? Probably not - few have! I want to re-organize the printmakers, but by period, then nationality, rather than by technique. Relatively few of them only used one technique - most pre-1800 etchers engraved did at least some engraving, often on the same plate - Rembrandt etc. When you come to Picasso, Munch etc, classifying by technique is hopeless.
Plus, although categories are not my strong point, I think adding "etcher" to someone who already has "French etcher" (a sub-category of "etcher") is not the correct Wikiway to do it. User:Goldenrowley might know. anyway I would welcome your comments on that page. Johnbod 01:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
is now live - thanks again for your help. Lets hope we attract some more elves. Btw, I've been doing some of the so-called "engravers" today & it's amazing how many were actually pure etchers, according to Hind. This I think means they might have engraved some passages, but left no prints that were not mainly etchings. Or they never trained in engraving at all. I have been correcting some pages & recategorising as P'makers as I go. Johnbod 03:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Btw, what was that article of yours he deleted - he deleted some of my edits also through not looking, or not knowing. Did you get it back? Johnbod 03:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I was really pleased to see your excellent work on this article. It is a wonderful place and I was "shipwrecked" there! When did you take the photos? Albatross2147 22:08, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi - I got your user id from the 'adopters' list where you indicated that you might be willing to help answer questions from new contributors? I was just wondering how 'edits' are counted? The reason I ask is that I am interested in voting on the Commons picture of the year but when I ran one of the edit counters, it indicated that I had made a total of 13 edits (and I need a minimum of 100 to vote). Is it only minor edits that count? I have started a couple of pages and have continued to add to them so I thought I would have more than 13 at this point. Not complaining - just hoping to understand! Many thanks for any help you are able to offer! :) -- Merteuil 17:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I assert to be the same user as commons:User:Merteuil. Merteuil 16:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I removed the tags. Nice job with the references! It's always good to include a few references or external links on a new article so people checking the new articles can verify the notability (also, for biographies, companies, and organization, independent sources are even better). In this case I guess I probably didn't need to tag it as "advertising"... that was my mistake. What i've seen a few times is people copy and paste things from promotional material that comes in bullet lists like "statements of principals" etc. In this case, however, the bullet list works nice to summarize the organization. Thanks again, and I hope you enjoy editing. Danski14 00:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC) 00:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Oh one more thing.. don't be afraid to be bold and remove tags if you feel it's appropriate. Danski14 00:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
FirefoxMan 23:53, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Have you seen the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts#Printmaking_Categorization ? Probably not - few have! I want to re-organize the printmakers, but by period, then nationality, rather than by technique. Relatively few of them only used one technique - most pre-1800 etchers engraved did at least some engraving, often on the same plate - Rembrandt etc. When you come to Picasso, Munch etc, classifying by technique is hopeless.
Plus, although categories are not my strong point, I think adding "etcher" to someone who already has "French etcher" (a sub-category of "etcher") is not the correct Wikiway to do it. User:Goldenrowley might know. anyway I would welcome your comments on that page. Johnbod 01:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
is now live - thanks again for your help. Lets hope we attract some more elves. Btw, I've been doing some of the so-called "engravers" today & it's amazing how many were actually pure etchers, according to Hind. This I think means they might have engraved some passages, but left no prints that were not mainly etchings. Or they never trained in engraving at all. I have been correcting some pages & recategorising as P'makers as I go. Johnbod 03:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Btw, what was that article of yours he deleted - he deleted some of my edits also through not looking, or not knowing. Did you get it back? Johnbod 03:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I was really pleased to see your excellent work on this article. It is a wonderful place and I was "shipwrecked" there! When did you take the photos? Albatross2147 22:08, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi - I got your user id from the 'adopters' list where you indicated that you might be willing to help answer questions from new contributors? I was just wondering how 'edits' are counted? The reason I ask is that I am interested in voting on the Commons picture of the year but when I ran one of the edit counters, it indicated that I had made a total of 13 edits (and I need a minimum of 100 to vote). Is it only minor edits that count? I have started a couple of pages and have continued to add to them so I thought I would have more than 13 at this point. Not complaining - just hoping to understand! Many thanks for any help you are able to offer! :) -- Merteuil 17:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I assert to be the same user as commons:User:Merteuil. Merteuil 16:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I removed the tags. Nice job with the references! It's always good to include a few references or external links on a new article so people checking the new articles can verify the notability (also, for biographies, companies, and organization, independent sources are even better). In this case I guess I probably didn't need to tag it as "advertising"... that was my mistake. What i've seen a few times is people copy and paste things from promotional material that comes in bullet lists like "statements of principals" etc. In this case, however, the bullet list works nice to summarize the organization. Thanks again, and I hope you enjoy editing. Danski14 00:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC) 00:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Oh one more thing.. don't be afraid to be bold and remove tags if you feel it's appropriate. Danski14 00:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)