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Welcome to my talk page. This operates as a normal talk page: you write a message, I reply. After a while I tend to delete items that have been dealt with, such as notices, complaints and old issues. I do tend to keep nice things around for much longer, so keep that in mind!

Barnstars and other nice words

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Hey, I just wanted to say thanks. Paul Couvrette's article is teaching me about how to be a Wikipedia contributor without going out of bounds. Your edits and the steps you've taken have helped a lot. Cheers LawrenceTemple (talk) 03:55, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for creating the Artists' stubs

I'm enjoying finding links within Wikipedia to your stub articles and adding bits of info where I can from other sources. But I was really delighted to find the portrait of Loretta Hines Howard, which was already on Wikimedia Commons. I'm glad you posted on the Women in Red Talk page and drew my attention to your efforts. It's fun contributing in collaboration.Oronsay (talk) 02:54, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree one hundred percent! And I thank you sincerely for your efforts. (PS: yes, Loretta Hines Howard is really interesting. there is lots of material there.) ThatMontrealIP (talk) 03:02, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A quilt for you!

For your contributions to the impromptu virtual editathon to get the quilters of Gee's Bend on Wikipedia. Thank you!

--Nonmodernist (talk) 14:15, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks! It was very pleasant working with the impromptu team (Pinging @Ser Amantio di Nicolao:) on this! Thank you as well for your excellent contribs.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 15:00, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Virginia Overton

On 26 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Virginia Overton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an original work by artist Virginia Overton was used as a prize at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Virginia Overton. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Virginia Overton), 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.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

women artists

Thank you for quality articles about women who create art, such as Virginia Overton and Kader Attia, for beginning many more, also from your hometown Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, for expanding articles such as Geneviève Cadieux, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:54, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Thank you! I did not realize until now that you had added me to the Precious list! I am so honoured.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 23:42, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

This kitten would like to thank you for your efforts to bridge the gender gap.

Bsoyka^✉ 04:18, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the welcome cookies

Thank you for the welcome! I hosted my first Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with my art history students last week and am busy editing and adding too. Thank you for the encouragement. And by the look of your bio page, I would love to touch base with you next year when we set out to edit again, because it is a Women and Gender class and it looks like you have started some great stubs that we could work on growing. Thanks again! Eccaldwell (talk) 17:11, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Eccaldwell: yes, welcome! We can use as many art historians as we can get! Let me know if you have any questions or need help with anything. You might aloso want to join the Wikiproject Women in Red. The talk page of the project has lots of good discussion. The stubs on women artists that I started are just a hobby: feel free to give any of them to your students to expand, no appointment required. Welcome aboard.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 23:40, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merci Beaucoup

An okra in bloom from New Orleans for all of your help. I still feel like I'm getting my wiki-sea legs, but I couldn't do any of it without your assistance. Bgourgeot (talk) 16:13, 27 June 2019 (UTC) bgourgeot[reply]

My pleasure! Let me know if you need help with anything. That last article was good! You will be a wiki-pro in no time. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 16:29, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for your help on Oppenstein Bros! Racheleo97 (talk) 17:02, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You keep helping this newbie Wiki user figure out this site! Thanks for your citation style guide, as well. You have been a huge help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Racheleo97 (talk • contribs) 13:24, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	hey thank u for your help with eliza douglas and monika baer. keep doin the good work + see u around ~~ Rgm38 (talk) 22:22, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

a cookie for you

WomenArtistUpdates has given you a c ookie!

Thanks for patrolling the women artist pages.

DYK for A Line Made by Walking

On 10 January 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article A Line Made by Walking, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the sculpture A Line Made by Walking proposed that the simple act of walking could be an art form? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/A Line Made by Walking. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, A Line Made by Walking), 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.

--valereee (talk) 00:02, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A sincere thank you!

		The Special Barnstar
		Thank you for all of your efforts to rescue and greatly improve the KT article! LorriBrown (talk) 19:47, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I think it was the right outcome. Now, I would suggest that all family members of KT leave it to mature naturally. There are lots of other articles to edit! ThatMontrealIP (talk) 23:15, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple personalities

This reminded me of this and this. While the AfD process here in en:Wikipedia can be drawn out and tiresome (example), deletion requests at Commons are simple. -- Hoary (talk) 08:15, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Hoary: Thanks for that. I do image deletions so infrequently that they are not as fluid for me as my quick draw on the Twinkle AFD button.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 03:39, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

More work on referencing

See [1] for more at working on referencing.Dthomsen8 (talk) 01:07, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Marianna Simnett

I picked this up from requested articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Arts_and_entertainment/Visual_arts&diff=prev&oldid=940747638&diffmode=source. At this point I'm just trying to figure out what the sources actually say, but If you have some spare time, could you take a look at Draft:Marianna Simnett? Thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vexations (talk • contribs) 02:25, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Vexations: I added sections and organized what you found, which is a lot of material! I think there is a surplus of interestsing art ideas, but perhaps not enough Wikipedia-like facts to ground them. I might suggest moving the works inline with the main section that describes her work, to give context to the ideas. I did not want to go too far as you have done a significant amount of work there and I do not want to mess up your flow. But ping me anytime! ThatMontrealIP (talk) 03:37, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Various questions, ThatMontrealIP

On your questions, 1. I rounded up sources/citations for the Terrell James personal life section and published them. Sorry, I didn't realize that that was all that was needed. Which relates to #2, following...

2. I've only ever edited one page because I found it too challenging. Not Wikipedia per se, but the labor of putting my prospective subjects into Wikipedia form. I discovered myself to be quite the amateur frankly, which in my opinion is not a good match for Wikipedia.

3. I'm married to Terrell James, which made her a good subject for me to try first off. She'd been contacted by various people who wanted to learn/practice article skills; my thought was to learn/practice them myself.

4. In working on the article I was acutely mindful of the potential for conflict of interest bias, so you can see (for instance) that all qualitative and most other descriptive passages are from published sources quoting particular people (Walter Hopps, Alison Greene, Stephanie Buhmann, etc.). I didn't judge there to be a question about notability (since she's collected by some of the world's most prestigious museums, exhibits internationally, and has been widely published in newspapers, books, and catalogs) so I felt that with a strictly disciplined reference/citation regime re: descriptive language there'd be no problem.

Finally: is this the correct venue for communicating? I jumped ship from Wikipedia a couple of years ago and can't remember what is where.