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Welcome!

Hello, Modernist, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Tyrenius 09:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eva Hesse

Thanks for the additional material. Do you have any citation for the '62-'63 stuff? - Jmabel | Talk 23:06, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Personally attacked

That's pretty vague. You are going to have to be concrete about who is attacking you and, typically, provide links like this to the edits in question when you remark on them.

If it is nothing too extreme, you might just use {{npa2}} on the person's user talk page (or, if someone already gave them that, {{npa3}}), accompanied by a clear link to what you consider an attack. If they've already had a few warnings like that, don't bother talking to them: report it at WP:PAIN. And if it is really bad, write it up at WP:AN/I, and feel free to ping me on my talk page to point me to it once you have done that. - Jmabel | Talk 18:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Thank you very much for your support. I certainly appreciate it. Biruitorul 23:25, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio on Paul Durand-Ruel

Hi. I see you reverted user:Quarma's removal of copyright-violating content from this article. The material was taken from [1] and copied in large part word-for-word. This is particularly unacceptable if it is not attributed, but copyright violation is copyright violation whether it is acknowledged or not. Please, by all means use this as a source, but do not use its wording. you may wish to investigate our Wikipedia:copyright policy. Morwen - Talk 15:18, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken, I didn't take the time to establish what was copyvio material and what wasn't, as might have been ideal. If you wish to restore the non-copyvio material that would be great. User:Quarma tells me they have a book about the person in question and hope to flesh it out a bit more, as well. Morwen - Talk 12:52, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of years in art

Great work over the last few days. The article has substantially improved. + Ceoil 21:57, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

page you have contributed to is in danger of deletion

Hello - you might be interested in expressing an opinion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_songs_containing_covert_references_to_real_musicians, where they are considering removing this article from Wikipedia. Tvoz | talk 09:11, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Newyorkbrad's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA, which closed favorably this morning, as well as for your kind comments accompanying your !vote. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Best regards, Newyorkbrad 21:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your support

As you set out for Ithaka, hope the voyage is long
Knowledge is your destiny, but don't ever hurry the journey
May there be many summer mornings when
With what pleasure and joy, you come into harbors seen for the first time

Don't expect Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey
And, if I, one of your fellow-travellers, can offer something
To make this journey of yours even more fascinating and enjoyable
This is my assistance with anything I can help.

RfA thanks

Thank you for your Support on my recent nomination for adminship, which passed with a final tally of 89/1/1. If there's anything I can help with, then you know where to find me. Cheers.

- Michael Billington (talk) 06:50, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RfA thanks from Akhilleus

Modernist, thanks for your support in my successful RfA.

As the picture shows, the goddesses have already bestowed my new weapons,
which I hope to use to good effect. If you ever need assistance,
or want to give me feedback on my use of the admin tools,
please leave me a message on my talkpage.
--Akhilleus (talk) 17:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

re: Friedel Dzubas

Thank you so much for putting all that work on the article! I now have no doubt whatsoever that this gentleman is noteable :) --Lmblackjack21 16:29, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

… covert references …

Responded on my user talk page. - Jmabel | Talk 21:28, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History of Painting

What do you think about sub-dividing history of painting into 2 articles - history of western painting and history of eastern painting? Modernist 04:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Western painting surely has enough content to warrant an article of it's own. Perhaps Eastern painting, too. --sparkit ^TALK 13:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Western painting

I created a new page Western painting, and I also included the sections on Africa, Islam and East Asia. Please let me know your thoughts about either leaving History of painting alone, or turning it into an article Eastern painting. Modernist 18:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's looking good! My opinion is that the history of painting article would work best with brief overview sections of Western art, Eastern art, etc. with links to the more in-depth articles. ... or maybe the overviews could be in the painting article, ... ugh, I'm can't to focus on this right now. --sparkit ^TALK 03:25, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have been up to my ears busy at work, and have not had the proper time to read the guidelines on the use of images, but they seem to be open to various interpretations. My general take is that in the past I have eschewed the use of too many images in biographies, but I can see their value in the context of an overview like this one, especially in trying to illustrate the dizzying array of 20th century art movements. Until I can offer a more informed comment, my input is of little help, other than to say that you have done a terrific job with this article. JNW 03:13, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The page is looking good. Image description pages also need to include copyright details, where the image was obtained and a fair-use rationale for each use. See Image:Black font crop from Campbells Soup Cans MOMA.jpg Soup Cans for a good example.--Ethicoaestheticist 12:44, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Non-free content and your userpage

You have a number of works of art on your userpage that are still under copyright, and only being used for decorative purposes. Wikipedia's policy on non-free content requires that we only use such material in articles, and only when necessary. Just consider this an advisory note that you should remove the images from your userpage to comply with wikipedia's policy. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 21:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed those images. Modernist 21:38, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing these guidance suggestions to me: Wikipedia:Non-free content, I'll study them and if there are some images that I can retain, then I will put them back. Thanks again. Modernist 22:14, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Linking year-list

30-April-2007: As you may have noticed, the new nav-box for various topics ("Year_nav_topic") has an option "(list all)" to display the "List_of_years_in_art" (or the year-list in whatever subject). There is no need to edit every article "18xx_in_art" (to explicitly show "List of years in art"). In some cases, a "See-also" section already contains an option to click "List_of_years_in_art" since such a link is a see-also matter, outside the scope of the main article text. -Wikid77 11:21, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I/we have changed the nav-box: balancing what people want, I put "List of Years in xxx" at the top of the nav-box (Template:Year_nav_topic) which should be easy to see and link to lower-case "List of (y)ears in xxx" (seems ok). The template has been "graphic-designed" by User:Down10 to use gray-bar separators to distinquish areas clearly (also handles color-blindness). So, I'm hoping we have a balance of all requirements for the nav-box. See talk: Template_talk:Year_nav_topic#Aesthetics, for details. -Wikid77 13:36, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you for your help on Western painting. Modernist 10:46, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, thank you for writing most of the content! The "gallery problem" still mystifies me. --sparkit ^TALK 12:58, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's a new one on me - it's a user page, so I guess it is an unofficial list of pages that they think need sorting maintained by people interested in that - but how many people see it I have no idea. But there may be new visitors! Johnbod 18:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

a question

Sorry to trouble you again, I noticed today that User:Minderbinder reported Western painting and History painting here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cyde/Cleaned_up_lists I'm not familiar with all this, I'm not sure what will happen, do you know this process? I hope that the very hard work that we've done isn't in vain Modernist 18:49, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what to make of that. Best I can tell there's an effort to clean up nonfree image usage, but I've not come across a specific project page that details the process, if indeed there is a process. --sparkit ^TALK 21:07, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid that neither image-tagging nor list-clean-up are particular areas of my expertise. I suggest that you post to the noticeboard at WP:ANI with a request for assistance. You can mention that I sent you. :) Regards, Newyorkbrad 21:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Ganging up"

I am aware of this issue. It is ongoing and complex and will probably not reach an easy solution. It may well need to go to RfC etc if it continues. Tyrenius 00:02, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Surrealism image

There is no fair use rationale for why the image is needed in that article, and our fair use policy says that we need a detailed rationale for each usage of the image. Also, there are free ones available- I think the only way you could make a case for this image to be at the top of the page in this mannner was if it was the first piece of surrealist artwork. However, I know nothing about the history of art, not really my domain, and things are a little rushed for me at the moment. Reinstate it if you so wish, but please provide a fair use rationale for why THAT image is needed. I will be back in a couple of hours, I need some fresh air, I'll look at this again then. J Milburn 18:05, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Visual arts/Infoart articles

Thanks for deleting duplicates. I didn't have the will to extract the list, then check through it all afterwards as well. At least we know where the end is now. Tyrenius 04:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Would welcome your input

You may have noted that the Talk:List of notable converts to Christianity page is currently the subject of mediation. I believe you have made reasonable contributions to the discussion taking place there before, and such reasonable comments and suggestions should always be welcomed. I personally would welcome any comments you would see fit to make now regarding how you believe the dispute could be resolved. I can, however, understand that you might not wish to do so. Should that be the case, I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your earlier input. John Carter 15:03, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA :)

Thank you, Modernist, for commenting on my RfA, which closed successfully with a tally of 76/0/1! I hope I will meet your expectations, and be sure I will continue trying to be a good editor as well as a good administrator :) If I may be of any assistance to you in the future (or if you see me commit some grievous error :), please drop me a line on my Talk page.

Again, thank you, and happy editing! Fvasconcellos (t·c) 18:29, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

why did you remove artist Josh Gura from the list of American artists? where is your master list of referral?

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+why did you remove artist Josh Gura from the list of American artists?  where is your master list of referral?