User talk:Tyrenius

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File:Pieter brueghel the elder-children playing-detail.jpg

Children's Games (detail) by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1525-1569)

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Terence Koh

Someone who claims to be this artist's personal assistant is attempting to change the year of birth. I'm not sure what the policy is for verifying birth dates. But there's WP:COI and WP:BLP issues. I suggested he contact you (hope you don't mind). Thanks. freshacconcispeaktome 22:36, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I have a very specific reason to be doubtful of the whole thing, which I can't go into publicly. This person seemed to want to deal with this via email so I sent him your way. freshacconcispeaktome 23:04, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My noms

I don't think you saw the humour in the statement.. nevermind.
Anyhow, I will soon be taking Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andersen Windows to deletion review, as far as I can see, the article is spam in its current form and the company is N/N per WP:CORP.<
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeremy Wafer seems to be quite notable, however i'm not sorry I did nominate as dramatic improvements to the article are now being made, although the nomination was made in good faith.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Distributed Art Publishers is clearly N/N per WP:CORP if it goes Keep i'll def. take to deletion review as the company is in no way notable.
In all cases, I take deletion seriously. As far as is practicable I try to ascertain whether the article in question belongs on Wikipedia according to relevant guidelines. However, if you have any further compaints/comments, etc feel free to take them up with me.
Yours - Ļıßζېấשּׂ~ۘ Ώƒ ﻚĢęخ (talk) 23:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

oops! I'm sorry about putting it on your user page, mistake =) -- Ļıßζېấשּׂ~ۘ Ώƒ ﻚĢęخ (talk) 00:15, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think I might take up your suggestion and change the joke a little. Anyhow, thank you for the discussion. I'm aware that I may make a few controversial AFDs and i'm unrepentent about that and shall keep making them until I can press "random article" 100 times and not find an article that doesn't belong on Wikipedia. -- Ļıßζېấשּׂ~ۘ Ώƒ ﻚĢęخ (talk) 00:56, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my talk page.Λua∫Wi se ^(talk) 09:15, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback

Thanks for adding the rollback function. I'll try to use it responsibly.--Ethicoaestheticist (talk) 21:49, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

For bestowing the rollback option, which I will implement with a combination of humility and glee. I will take a look at it when I have more time--I'm off to teach. JNW (talk) 22:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for supporting the proposal to nominate me as an administrator. I did decline, but I am flattered by the suggestion. For the moment, the plan is to continue making occasional edits and chasing vandals. Cheers, JNW (talk) 06:35, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jeremy Wafer

Done, a good result for all =). -- Ļıßζېấשּׂ~ۘ Ώƒ ﻚĢęخ (talk) 23:33, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

I'll try to use it wisely... freshacconcispeaktome 01:50, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing assistance

Ty, who to I set out a ref that I got from a newspaper which doesnt have a web link (its from 1919). regards--Vintagekits (talk) 21:42, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

<ref>{{cite news | title = Irish struggle long backed in Hartford | work = [[The Hartford Courant]] | date = [[5 August]] [[2005]] }}</ref>. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 21:44, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dadildo! --Vintagekits (talk) 22:03, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

NPA

I got your message and I agree. Sorry I didn't chase it up myself. --John (talk) 03:09, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hey Tyr. I just wanted to thank you for taking the initiative over the Vk issue. This is just about the most pertinent thing I have read in a year of this and succinctly sums up what I have been trying to say - not very well - using many-fold more words.

Just to reassure you, your comment is exactly what I want and, should he decide to listen too you, I would embrace any good faith efforts from Vk. I'm even willing to meet him part of the way, if he can begin to show good faith and persistently work in a civilized manner, in time I will begin to remove articles that overlap on our shared watch list (assuming there are other regular editors to keep an eye on those pages) thereby minimizing our sphere of overlap. I'm willing to do this, essentially restrict my own editing rather than ask him to restrict his, as a gesture of goodwill. But only if he can cut the incivility, abuse and snide remarks out completely and permanently. Rockpocket 21:48, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock Vintagekits

Can you please unblock him? He was obviously being provoked and that should be taken into account. I notice that when Kittybrewster and Astrotrain cause trouble they are never censured. Vintagekits has done a massive amount of work on Irish articles and made high quality articles on the Troubles. He has a large talent and this should be fostered and not attacked. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.192.185.211 (talk) 12:24, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There was no obvious provocation, unless you call editing wikipedia provocative. Well, you don't notice much do you? Partisan view lacking objectivity, hence discardable: Astrotrain block log, Kittybrewster block log. I recognise Vintagekits' contributions, which is why I bothered to interrupt my Saturday night to post on his talk page, but he has not taken up the offer to be unblocked yet by removing specified material from his user pages. If you want to be taken seriously, sign in and don't use a sock account. Tyrenius (talk) 14:02, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ab Ex

I find the inclusion of the Gorky highly misleading as a visual presentation of Ab Ex, and its only relevance to the movement is within Gorky's work as showing the initial signs of his later development. Surely a mature Gorky fits the bill. This painting sits much better as a derivation of Picasso's classical period. There are other dubious inclusions, e.g. Alexander Calder whose article doesn't even mention Ab Ex. I suggest copying all this to Talk:Abstract expressionism and holding discussions there. Tyrenius (talk) 15:34, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done, Modernist (talk) 15:41, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(added response) I actually think both Arshile Gorky and Alexander Calder belong here, if for no other reason than they are both important and seminal influences on the advent of American abstract expressionism. The Gorky actually is a forerunner of the developement of a type of Abstract expressionism, a little beyond the Picasso derived influence. Modernist (talk) 15:40, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ireland

Have you seen this, it requires a admin to undo.--Padraig (talk) 15:52, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.--Padraig (talk) 16:02, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Non-free promotional discussion

Hello, Tyrenius. Since you recently contributed to the lively deletion discussion for Template:Non-free promotional, I thought I'd let you know that I've continued the discussion about this template at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content#Template:Non-free promotional. The result of the deletion discussion was to keep the template, but there are still some questions about whether the current template serves a useful purpose and how to prevent its misapplication. Please contribute to the discussion if you are interested. —Bkell (talk) 17:55, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My Rfa

My effort to regain adminship was unsuccessful, and I'll do what I can to ensure your opinion of my suitability for adminship improves. Thank you for taking some time out of your day to voice your opinion.--MONGO 04:58, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Need help

Hi, I've found this voice and this redirect, but they are totally unreal, this player has never existed. What can I do? I'm not so expert about vandalism, I don't know what to do. Thanks TøW€®MªN ™ _{answer me} 08:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Domenico Lammardo for sure, Reiner Hasan I've never heard before, I think it's a fake too...244 games for the Italy U-21, unbelievable! TøW€®MªN ™ _{answer me} 15:15, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help and for the links!I've also written more infos here...TøW€®MªN ™ _{answer me} 15:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Elephant House

Sure, put me on the spot. I'll have to do some searching--I'll add it in when I find it. freshacconcispeaktome 21:08, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ferlinghetti

Try flickr. --evrik ^(talk) 21:45, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you dont tamper with my user or talk pages in future

Ronseal.--Vintagekits (talk) 21:47, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

VA team

Just been there! Shouldn't we both go to bed? Johnbod (talk) 03:11, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox Artist

Hi Tyrenius. I've posted a reply to your Village pump (technical) question. DH85868993 (talk) 07:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tyrenius. Actually, I wouldn't have deleted the "bgcolour" line from the sample template; I think it's better to leave it there so that people can use it (or remove it) according to their needs. The template doc says to omit this parameter if you want the default blue colour. The imagesize parameter is a little bit different; if people leave it as "| imagesize = ", then they will get the default image size. Incidentally, User:Lanovsky appears to have messed up the template's doc page back on the 14th of August by substituting values for the parameter names (e.g. they replaced "name" with "Frederic Lanovsky"). I'd suggest this was a mistaken good-faith edit; they probably meant to edit a transclusion of the template, but ended up editing the template (doc) itself. I recommend reverting the doc page to the version of 11th August, but with the current list of interwiki links. I'd do it myself, but you protected it. DH85868993 (talk) 08:54, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed up the template doc page. Regarding bgcolour, I made the note about removing that parameter if you want the default colour, bold, so that (hopefully) people should notice it. DH85868993 (talk) 09:18, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again Tyrenius. I notice you changed the "famous works" parameter to "key works". Did you actually mean to change the name of the parameter? Or did you just mean to update the text that gets displayed in the infobox? If you change the actual name of the parameter, you will need to go and update all the articles that transclude the template, most of which have populated that parameter. DH85868993 (talk) 11:16, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've reverted the change for the moment. A change like this which affects so many articles should probably be discussed with the relevant WikiProject (probably Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts) first. DH85868993 (talk) 13:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you very much for fixing the box on my user page. What was I doing wrong? Regards, David Lauder (talk) 11:28, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks so much for your very useful and completely voluntary info on repetitive references. I think I've 'got it' now. At least that particular little niggle. Plenty more, I'm sure... Nicstick (talk) 14:17, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]