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Thanks for your help with the Unforgetting LA project! The organizer was so happy with all of your wikignome-type edits! Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:39, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you Calliopejen1! I wish I had been able to be there in person. I hope everyone there had a good time. We definitely added some needed articles. Thanks for creating Grace Clements (artist). Gobōnobō  + c 18:53, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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excessive external links
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Don't know if I'm asking this in the right place/way, please correct me if not. If the excessive links refer to recently added links to notable images by the artist who is the subject of this article, Polly Thayer Starr, they are temporary while I await open source permission for some of her images from the trustees of her estate. Would replacing them with images when I get permission solve the problem? Thanks. Dorothy Koval (talk) 15:52, 17 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi. First, thank you very much for starting the article on Polly Thayer Starr. I was quite glad to see it. The tag that I placed at the top of the article was for the links in the article that go to other websites. With few exceptions, external links like those are discouraged in the body of the article (WP:ELNO is the guideline). External links are good in the References and External links sections. I'm less concerned with the links in the 'Notable works' section than I am with the links like the one for Andre l’Hote that goes to his Tate biography. For those, we prefer use double brackets to link to the Wikipedia article for André Lhote, like this: André Lhote .  Gobōnobō  + c 16:05, 17 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I tried a number of times to link to the Wikipedia article on André Lhote, but was unsuccessful, evidently because of something to do with the accent. Yours works fine, though, so I was probably inserting the accent wrong.  For artists like Philip Hale, Harry Wickey, Carl Nelson and Beatrice Van Ness, who do not have Wikipedia pages even though they have made significant contributions, would it be better to leave out the links altogether or to put them in footnotes although they aren't exactly source material?  (I suppose it would be best to write articles about them...eventually!) Dorothy Koval (talk) 04:06, 18 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for linking Lhote. If the links aren't source material, they should probably be excluded. The link to A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940 could be converted into a reference though. For the artists who don't yet have Wikipedia pages but are significant enough to meet notability criteria, a good option is to link the name anyhow. This will make a red link, ala Beatrice Van Ness, that will signify that an article doesn't yet exist but could someday. Gobōnobō  + c 14:01, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I linked Van Ness and Thayer's father, Ezra Ripley Thayer. It looks like User:KyCour has drafted an article for him in their user space at User:KyCour/Ezra Ripley Thayer. Gobōnobō  + c 15:10, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Very glad to see that someone is writing about Ezra Ripley Thayer. Thanks for that link!  I would think, though, that linking to someone who doesn't yet have a Wikipedia page would be both confusing and frustrating to the non-editorial reader.  At least linking to an outside source gives the reader an idea of the teacher/painter's work, and its relationship to the subject's...but maybe it's better just to skip the link and let the reader sort through Google if they care?  I do much appreciate your help with this.Dorothy Koval (talk) 22:10, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * It's probably best to let the readers sort through Google, but red links are okay when they aren't overused and might improve the likelihood that an article is created. Wikipedia has an external links guideline if you're interested in the particulars. I left a note for KyCour, so maybe the link to Ezra Ripley Thayer won't stay red for long. Gobōnobō  + c 23:04, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

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