User talk:Amandajm/Archives/2011/November

Personal Attacks of other editors
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This warning first warning is in reference to these comments here. 842U (talk) 12:32, 8 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I fail to see which part of that was an attack, and recommending that Amandajm reads the welcome page strikes me as rather pointless. Nev1 (talk) 13:22, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The advice to look at the welcome page is included in the first warning, giving an editor an opportunity to review the guidelines on civility. As cited above, it is a personal attack to say to someone "but if you really must act like know-it-all kid." I've heard worse, but I won't let this slide -- to keep it from escalating.842U (talk) 16:50, 8 October 2011 (UTC)


 * WP:DTTR. Nev1 (talk) 17:15, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Formal apology

 * I hereby apologise to 842U for referring to this person as "acting like a know-it-all kid" over the matter of insisting upon the deletion of referenced material, and replacing it with a non-descriptive adjective of the type known on Wiki as "weasel words".
 * I further apologise for accusing 842U of "argu[ing] like the third speaker in a fourth form high school debating team"  over the application of the word "unique" when used in the context of a discussion page in an attempt (by me) to explain to this editor why the article's introduction needs to talk about the significance of those extensive factors which set this building aside from every other building.
 * Furthermore, I would like to withdraw the potentially embarrassing question "Do you really have to win, when it is a subject that you so patently know nothing whatsoever about?"

My apologies are proffered.

Amandajm (talk) 02:30, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Stained glass - Jim Gary
Thanks for the addition of Jim Gary's sculpture. Can you possibly include the location. Is it on permanent display? Or is it privately owned? Amandajm (talk) 03:12, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Jim Gary's life-sized figures entirely of stained glass are all in private collections, so I did not include a location. For the same reason, I also didn't want to include a full view. There are Gary sculptures on public display that include stained glass, but the glass is incidental to the larger metal sculpture in those works (such as his centerpiece of the Colts Neck memorial garden). I consider these life-sized figures by Gary as among his finest works. Being free-standing works so well executed that they may be displayed in the round and as beautiful from any view, they are exquisite examples for the use of stained glass (and his well-lauded skills). Some day this one may go to a museum collection, then a full image would be appropriate. Will expand the caption. _ _ _ _ 83d40m (talk) 15:47, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Already expanded it in a cross-edit, too much? Feel free to chop. _ _ _ _ 83d40m (talk) 16:16, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Love it! Go to sleep and I'll look for some more examples tonight or tomorrow... on my way off-line right now. _ _ _ _ 83d40m (talk) 16:36, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Mission impossible... nothing listed under "stained-glass sculpture" and no good examples found in related categories. Lots of "ghastly" works as you noted. Did find the work of Joseph Ferguson on the web, but not copyright free. Will keep it in mind, however, and will come back with other examples if found. _ _ _ _ 83d40m (talk) 01:27, 12 October 2011 (UTC)