User talk:Amandajm/Archives/2013/November

Sant'Alessandro capital in Romanesque Architecture
Hello Amandajm, I am gpcarrai (Giampaolo Carrai,Italy). The photo of Sant'Alessandro capital that you have cancelled ist an interesting example of survival/revival of roman tradition in Italy during romanesque age (an other famous example of italian medieval classicism ist the baptistery in Florence). I think that in a complete article, for a complete vision of romanesque architecture, these exceptions are useful and clarifier. Romanesque architecture is extremely various. The quality of the photo is not too good, because the church is closed (2002!) and I used an old photo of my collection, but is neat. You can find more informations and images about Sant'Alessandro church, with bibliography, in italian wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Alessandro (Lucca). I hope that this interesting photo will be again in the article of wikipedia about romanesque architecture. ciao Giampaolo Carrai gpcarrai Gpcarrai (talk) 19:30, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Romanesque secular and domestic architecture
Thank you for your remarks.

It was out of my mind to imagine that in Wiki Manual of Style (please note the capital letters) it is, should I say, prescribed to use for any title, the sentence-style capitalization instead of the title-style capitalization. Now that I was graciously informed by you of such weirdness (and of my ignorance), I'll conform. Who am I to go against the MoS rules?

To go to the gallery question, what do you mean with “In most articles about paintings, this is not the case, and the changes to packed galleries doesn't work effectively.” I can't see paintings in the Romanesque secular and domestic architecture pages, and what exactly do you mean when you say that packed galleries don't work effectively? I used galleries in the first place for the reason that the preceding formatting didn't work well (on my monitor, that is). But nowadays there are so many monitor resolutions, and sizes, and zoom factors, that it's really awkward to find a generally good way to show pictures or any other thing that is visually affected by the combination of monitor dimension / resolution / magnification factor.

Anyway, the confusion originated by your communication even escalated by noticing that in the Romanesque architecture pages, which you made so extensive contributions to, almost all pictures are formatted in packed galleries. And now that you reverted the reversion of my contribution, I am even more confused. Please, illuminate me.Carlotm (talk) 09:50, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

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Jesenite
Can you tell me what this word means? Yours curiously, Bashereyre (talk) 09:07, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

November 2013
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st james
I have been looking into the article. I already made some changes although more work on references are needed imho. Here are some first remarks:
 * the article cries for a good picture
 * the article reads on one hand "constructed between 1819 and 1824" and on the other hand "It was constructed between 1820 and 1824".
 * I would add an infobox but I would not impose it

Hope this helps Alberto Fernández Fernández (talk) 18:58, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Culture of the Sea
Hallo, I'd be really pleased if we could work out any needed changes to Sea quietly, here or at Sea in culture, where we won't be threatening to upset an exceptionally hard-won consensus. Sea is a long and carefully-constructed FA, and we were forced to cut down the culture section, so adding to it might be a good thing. I do hope you see where I'm coming from on this. The result is that we have the subsidiary article, Sea in culture, which can perfectly accommodate additional material - indeed, we could work it up to GA if you felt so inclined.

I'd like to suggest, therefore, that you freely make all the changes you have suggested, but to Sea in culture, and then we consider very slowly what to tweak back in Sea. That way, we can assess the balance of materials in a broader cultural context than will ever be possible in Sea, which is quite rightly in 'summary style', skimming quickly over a mass of material. For what it's worth, I'd love to see some Masefield and Kipling in there too, but we have to remember that we are under the cosh to be global, however glorious the maritime past might have been.

Finally, could you please reply here, rather than anywhere else - I shall watch; feel free to ping me if I miss something. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:44, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * OK! I'm flapping around being blunt and Bogan, as usual. I have been told about it. I should listen! Do you want me too delete my comments or would that be going too far? Amandajm (talk) 09:19, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Not sure of protocol here. Maybe move them to Sea in culture, if that's allowed. Anyway, let's continue here or on that page. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:55, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

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Likely
not in informal American usage, but we should change it. Sorry, I didn't see the "in use" on Jesse. I see St James Church, Sydney is progressing well! Johnbod (talk) 18:28, 20 November 2013 (UTC)