User talk:Joan arden murray/Archive 2020-1

April 2020
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Tom Hodgson, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.  freshacconci  (✉) 14:13, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

William Blair Bruce
Please stop your disruptive editing. Stop messing up the references and adding non-neutral language to the article. Please make yourself familiar with Manual of Style and Neutral point of view before making any more edits. Inserting the same edits a third time will be regarded as vandalism and may get you blocked.

Also, this is not a proper way of adding a reference or literature to an article. I suggest you do the tutorial The Wikipedia Adventure to learn how to edit properly. cart -Talk  23:25, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

addition under Further Reading?
Cd you add an item to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_McLaughlin under Further Reading: Isabel McLaughlin: Recollections, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 1983? The reason I ask is that I am the author. It is a helpful text on the artist. Thank you for your consideration of this request.Joan arden murray (talk) 17:47, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Looked like a source that could be added. cart -Talk  21:24, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Dear Ms. Carter, I read your site on Benedicks-Bruce and want to add a story about her. When I got to Gotland in the 1970s, the Board of Trustees at the Fornsal (then in charge of Brucebo ) remembered her: they said she wore black, old fashioned clothes, and that she always carried an umbrella. One day, she was buying oranges and mistook what the grocer said about them. He said they were from Carolina. She thought he was being impertinent, saying her name, so she struck him with her umbrella! I imagine you read the collection of Mrs. Bruce`s letters to Bruce`s mother. They are in the Art Gallery of Hamilton and I had copies made for the Fornsal. Joan MurrayJoan arden murray (talk) 00:03, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * What a good story. :-) That sounds like Carolina, she was a feisty woman indeed, thank you for sharing. I'm sorry, I haven't read those letters. I left the island before I got around to it. No need for you to be formal with my name, here we are all just working colleagues and I'm mostly "Cart" to people here or the full W.carter. That is not my real name, like most Wikipedians, I use a nom de plume when I edit here. --cart -Talk  09:04, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Cart, can you look at Laura Muntz Lyall, I changed the artist`s birthplace due to new evidence and made a mess. now the footnote to my bookm p. 48, about the illness at her death lks wrong. i tried the format suggested, will you fix? her birthplace is on my page 133, her illness on her death, p. 48. thanks, jmJoan arden murray (talk) 13:41, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Ok, fixed. You almost did it correctly, the trouble was that you had one book and two different pages in it you wanted to use as references. That can be tricky. There are several systems of making/adding refs in an article and I see that there are a couple of them used simultaneously in the Laura Muntz Lyall article. I think I'll teach you the one I find easiest, and I think it could work for you too since it is clse to the academic way of writing references. I saw that you tried it in some cases before, example: (Nowell, 7). You can use this form if you want to use the book once or as many time you like as reference. You can of course use it for several books in one article too.


 * First of all you have to define/introduce the book you want to reference on the article page. You do that by adding it in a Bibliography section. Like I did here. Remember to include all the code signs you see there, even the ===.


 * Once the book is added, you use another code than the usual "ref". You use the curly brackets, the code abbreviation, last name, year and page. Like this: (once again ignore the "nowiki" you see in the editing window). You can see how I added those codes to the article here.


 * That way you only have to write the code for the book once, and you can use it as many times you like in the article.


 * Also please remember the code == on either side of Further reading when you add it. That is the code that makes the words into a heading. The number of = corresponds with the hierarchy of sections and subsections. I have fixed that for you here. Take a look.


 * I hope the above mentioned ref system will work better for you, otherwise please let me know and we will try something else. cart -Talk  14:37, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

I did the fn 3 i needed on florence mcGillivary, looks alright. i will get the page no. tomorrow. The head of the National Gallery Library sent me an email. she`s working from home. On his Artist`s Information form, he signed Peleg Franklin Brownell so cd you change the heading on the entry on him? one thing: will you use === on either side of the heading? Joan arden murray (talk) 23:23, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I will get back to you on this in a day or so. It's the weekdays now and I'm rather busy with my normal job. Just be patient for a while. cart -Talk  08:30, 21 April 2020 (UTC)