User talk:Artsojourner/Archive 1

Oregon (U.S. state)
A tag has been placed on Oregon (U.S. state), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. If you plan to provide more material to the article, I advise you to do so immediately, and also put a note on Talk:Oregon (U.S. state). An administrator should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 1 under Articles. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template  to the page, and then immediately add such material.Charles 20:20, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Art
You seem to be interested in art - at least, I assume so from your user page! You might like to look at the "years in art" articles, some of which I've done some work on over a long period. The List of years in art is still far from complete and might be an area where you could make a lot of contributions. (This is only a suggestion, of course.) Deb 09:58, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Photographs
Hi. I'm not very good with the photography side of things myself, but if you look around the edit pages you'll come across instructions for uploading images into articles. It takes a bit of trial and error to get it right - I've only done it once myself. I suggest you raise the query with one of the users who do it a lot, such as User:Dante Alighieri. They would be more use than me if you get stuck.

Yes, you can make changes to an article about yourself or someone you know, as long as you're careful. (Obviously you can't put stuff like "Artsojourner is the cleverest person on the planet" or anything like that!) Some people disapprove of the practice, but there's no rule that says you can't. Deb 18:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

List of years in art
Hi. Nice to see that you're active. Not sure that we've got the layout quite right yet, though. Have a look at the comments on the article's talk page from another user. Deb 22:12, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello and welcome
Hi Artsojourner, great to see another visual arts editor on board - there are surprisingly few on wikipedia! Just wanted to say that my comments on Talk:List of years in art were not directed at your additions at all, in fact I was delighted to see another user help build the page and agree with your Birth first, Deaths second, Events third guideline.

User:Deb has built this resource almost single handly, and IMO, and with help from editors such as yourself, is a potential candiate for Featured lists someday. - Coil00 19:07, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I just try any way I can to help I am more interested in meaning and how people and art relate and I think this is a great project in that light.

Again thank you for your comments. Artsojourner 09:15, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Unblock
A tag has been placed on Lee Isaacs, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable (see the guidelines for notability here). If you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please write  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

Please read the criteria for speedy deletion (specifically, articles #7) and our general biography criteria. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --  dhp 1080  (u&middot;t&middot;c)  18:07, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

About Lee Issacs
Well, I'll assume good faith in you creating the article, but wikipedia guidelines (more specifically WP:NOTE) state that articles must have significance. If you cannot find how this article can be used in correlation to the rest of the encyclopedia, it will most likely be deleted. Also thanks for addressing the issue in a civil fashion. --  dhp 1080  (u&middot;t&middot;c)  20:19, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Betty Beaumont
Sorry this response is so tardy. I haven't checked my messages for a while. I was very excited to help with the integration of Betty Beaumont into the environmental sculpture/environmental art articles. She must be an absolutely amazing person. I cross-referenced her in every way I could think of, since her work really spans a lot of categories. What a giant she is (albeit definitely of the gentle variety)! (I can imagine meeting her at a party. "So, what have you been doing - while I was expanding the planetary consciousness?"...) Thanks for your hard work and perceptive contributions! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MarylandArtLover (talk • contribs) 02:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

She talked a bit about her trials with her landlord and the new series she has been working on revolving around displacement of artists here in NYC and elsewhere. She is not aware that I decided to start this article. When and if she ever finds out I hope she is pleased. A gentle Giant indeed. She Rocks! I gotta tell you. We had actually met to discuss Buckminster Fuller and Black Mountian College among many other things and I tried to get her to talk about abut what she is doing now......Thank you for your contribution and help. She does span so many categories. Artsojourner 16:39, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Lee Isaacs
I've deleted the article you created, Lee Isaacs, because it didn't contain anything but a hangon tag. Instead of doing that, just write the article and save it when it's ready. - C HAIRBOY (☎) 04:38, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

NPA
I happened to notice your last edit contained a personal attack. In this, you referred to a group of people as "so-called editors". This is incivil and violates our WP:NPA policy. Please use care in the future. - C HAIRBOY (☎) 04:42, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

My saying "so-called editors" is in no way a personal attack Now if I said they were fools then maybe you could kvetch about it but I was completely civil I assure you. Threats dont help anything on wiki. Artsojourner 04:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I just tried again to include Lee Isaacs info with no luck. It seems to be stuck where is has been forever. I assume someone else has a block on it. Artsojourner 04:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

About removing photographers names who dont have articles
I have copied your question and my response from the List of photographers talk page, since you haven't replied and I suspect you don't know that I did. Pinkville 22:19, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Some of these artists were probably listed because they are important but havent yet been included as an article. I for one peruse this area to get ideas about who I may want to work with. I see no problem with listing non-article artists at all. Artsojourner 16:30, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * "Non-article" photographers are added to Talk:List of photographers (see above), which is the list that editors can consult to see whose article they might want to work on (anyone can add to this list). Please read the pertinent discussions above to understand why red-linked names are removed from the main article: List of photographers. However, looking at these edits that you made, I'm a little perplexed as to why you removed several names (of photographers who do have articles) from the main List, why you shifted some names around on the list so that they were no longer alphabetical, and why you changed the spelling of one of the names. The word "Wikipedia" was recently removed from the List description in keeping with the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Pinkville 17:48, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, I've responded to your post on my talk page at my talk page. Ciao! Pinkville 01:31, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Another reply on my talk page. Pinkville 15:18, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

"Pinky Bass"
Please don't create placeholder pages such as "Pinky Bass". Post the article after you have written it, not before. Also, please don't use quotation marks in the article title. Thanks, NawlinWiki 17:41, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Pinky /MM Bass
A tag has been placed on Pinky /MM Bass, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. If you plan to add more material to the article, I advise you to do so immediately. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template  to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Subwayguy 06:15, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I think this would be useful regarding Pinky Bass Subwayguy 06:20, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Got it! Many many thanks, Artsojourner 06:27, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

What kind of photos?
I see you've gone through List of photographers adding the kinds of photography each is famous for. This work was long overdue; thank you. However, I'm very surprised by your description of Eisenstaedt (in this edit) as a landscape photographer. Were you perhaps thinking of somebody else? Or am I underinformed about him? -- Hoary 10:54, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

writing articles
Here's a suggestion for how to put together material for a short article before creating a Wikipedia page (thereby avoiding that speedy delete situation). While you can certainly assemble information and write a draft in another programmelike Word or Appleworks, you can also do this on a Wikipedia user sub page. The latter method has the advantage of allowing you to readily see whether or not the formatting will work (such things as notes [ ], italics, wikilinks, etc.). All you have to do is start from your own user page: User:Artsojourner, add a backslash "/" and the name of the draft article (e.g. "/Pinky Bass") = User:Artsojourner/Pinky Bass. You can then start editing your new user sub page. You can add a link to the draft on your user page so it's easy to get to. When the article is "finished" (i.e. it contains enough useful information on the subject, written in an appropriately encyclopaedic style and with correct formatting) you can the ncopy and past it to a new Wikipedia article page. While you're working on the draft on your sub page, you can frewquently use the "Show preview" button to see how what you're writing will actually look when it's saved. One caution, don't add Categories to your draft, otherwise it creates confusion, just add the categories to the final Wikipedia article. Make sense? Pinkville 14:07, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I will definitely use this information. Thaks so much for the time and for sharing the information. Best, Artsojourner 17:02, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Removal of deletion notices
Please stop removing Articles for deletion notices or comments from articles and Articles for deletion pages — it is considered vandalism. You may comment at the respective page if you oppose an article's deletion. Thanks. SteveHopson 00:28, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

The notice said if I had something to add to the article I could take it off  and I added a few things and I took it off. I am in no way a vandal. This you must know by now. Artsojourner 01:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Why?
Why did you post this long note to the user Hoary on my user page?TheMindsEye 06:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


 * ==Hoary==
 * Geez! Hoary some of your edits and explanations seem so callous. Southern artists are different enough to have their own category I assure you just as southern writers should have their own category. Southwestern artists are in the same boat as they, too, are quite different from the rest of the country. What does this hurt if they have their own categories?


 * In just a day of recent edits, I find that you, instead of getting to the root of a problem or situation, had rather just delete it all rather than deal with it. I feel that this is a breach of respect for the other editors on here. You tend to overreach and have said in some of your edits that you dont have the time to bother. What does this mean? This seems pointless and ill conceived for you to waste all of this time if you dont wanna bother. In fact, you seem to have this idea that you know more about editing than anyone else on here. Anyone can just delete something. Deleting something is not the same as editing since deleting doesn't need any thought. Other editors spend their time building an article and adding pertinent information to include in these articles. You dont seem to respect your work on here as many of your comments seem pointless and harsh with no feeling other than disdain for what you are doing or bothering to do. It just leaves otehr editors frustrated and aggravated.


 * I dont claim to be any kind of editor at all since all I do is try to include information. If you dont like what you are doing then just dont do it because wasting other people's time and energy is bad Karma and how can anything good come from bad Karma, definitely a deal breaker for me. Artsojourner 06:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually I thought I was on Hoary's page Artsojourner 19:40, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Lee Isaacs, Elaine Hamilton
I'm sorry my reply to your message about Lee Isaacs is so late. I don't expect messages to be on my user page (User:MarylandArtLover). People usually leave messages on my talk page (User talk:MarylandArtLover). I think that's the convention around here. Also: if you leave a message there, I see an alert when I log in that a message is waiting for me.

Anyway, I couldn't find anything much on Lee Isaacs on the net so far (I tried searching "Isaacs, Lee" also).

Do you live in Birmingham, AL? I'm interested in a painter named Elaine Hamilton, and she's supposed to have a painting in the collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art. I bet they have it in storage. I hate it when people do that with beautiful works of art. Don't they realize they should just give it to ME?....

...OK. got your message. It can be a hard slog sometimes. Good luck! MdArtLover 13:48, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Lee Isaacs
Another editor has listed an article that you have been involved in editing, Lee Isaacs, at Articles for deletion/Lee Isaacs. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. --Eastmain 21:21, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: about Lee Isaacs
Hi. You need to stop putting identical messages on multiple uninvolved editors' talk pages, and now. See Canvassing. It's considered good form to go back and remove all those repeated messages, which are generally considered as warmly as spam. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 06:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

To Artsojourner: jpgordon is absolutely correct, but because I had been thinking of discussing this situation with you, I've responded to your message anyway on my talk page. Pinkville 19:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes he is correct--I will see it on the Afd-- but let me take the opportunity to suggest that you might try stronger first sentences: not "Lee Isaacs is an American photographer, living and working in Birmingham, Alabama."  but "Lee Issacs is a notable American protographer, known in particular for ..." There are deletionists who don't read beyond the first sentence, and some delete anythingthat does not literally contain the word "notable" in that sentence. DGG 18:29, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate your comments. Funny how a first sentence seems to set the tone on here. Artsojourner 15:29, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Pinky Bass AFD
Well I hope I was able to help. I've actually never heard of her or her art. I just browse through the deletion discussions and pick out some articles and try a google test. Depending on the results I can get from google, then, I either recommend deletion or keeping. I figured especially that if the Alabama State Council on the Arts saw fit to put her in a documentary, they know what they're talking about and she must be notable. Let me know if anyone shows up in that deletion discussion and makes strong arguments for deleting the article; I have a lot of experience with WP:AFD and I can argue convincingly from policy. Also, if the article gets deleted anyway, let me know and I will begin the process of having it undeleted. =) Can't guarantee that I'll be successful, but I'm pretty confident about it. Peace, — coe l acan t a lk  — 18:21, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you I appreciate that. Artsojourner 22:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Reply
I can understand how it can be creepy, but following the principle of good faith, I believe that users shadow others just to help them out and make sure they are contributing in the Wikipedia standard. Either way though, if you feel someone is giving you or a friend trouble, let me know and I might be able to sort it out. Cheers, Andrew 6 47 11:45, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I'll have a look when I get the moment. I'm in crunch time at university.   Andrew 6 47 22:57, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Melissa Galt
A tag has been placed on Melissa Galt requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. ukexpat (talk) 04:09, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * We have it fixed now. Many thanks to all who helped. Artsojourner (talk) 13:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)