User talk:Joeymike

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Michelangelo
Welcome and thanks for your edit.

If you follow the link to Michelangelo, you will find that his name is given in full as part of his biography, because it is relevant on that page. In other articles that relate to Michelangelo, his family name is not used. There is only one great Michelangelo. So art historians generally consider it quite unnecessary and a bit of a w*nk, when people insist on putting in his surname. There is another famous artist whose given name was Michelangelo, but he is always known as Caravaggio.

On the same tack:
 * Verrocchio, Donatello, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Raphael, Uccello, Titian, Giorgione]], Tintoretto and Palladio never need two names. Their names are either Christian names, surnames or nicknames, but they only ever need one.
 * Some Renaissance artists are always get their full name, in particular the Lippis, (father and son), the Ghirlandaios, because there were three of them; the Bellinis, and the Pisanos, for the same reason. Piero della Francesca get his full name.
 * Leonardo da Vinci is shortened to Leonardo, but should not be shortened to "da Vinci" or "Da Vinci".

Amandajm (talk) 02:06, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

If you are looking around for articles that you would like to edit, a good way to start is to go to the left menu and click "Random article". If you look at a few, you will see that while some articles are full of information and are well written, there are a great many that need a lot of work, and many that are only stubs of a few lines. You will notice that in your right-hand menu bar, you have a "sandbox". It is a very useful place to experiment with editting.


 * A mistake that is commonly made by new editors is that they go straight for the articles of major importance, and these are (generally) the best researched, the best written, and the most strictly patrolled. Even so, new editors often pick up minor errors like typos, even in the best articles.
 * Another thing to watch out for, as a new editor, is Spelling.
 * Articles about the USA and many general topics use American spelling.
 * Articles about the UK and many articles about Europe, including Art and Architecture that is specific to Europe, use British spelling.
 * So if you are American and you find "colour" not "color" (or any other "-our" word) and "travelling" not "traveling", (or any other "double-consonant-ing or -ed" word) and "-ise" not "-ize", then do not under any circumstances change the spelling, unless the article clearly uses US Spelling. If you change British spelling to American spelling in any article that is written in British English, you will immediately get your head bitten off!

Happy editing! Amandajm (talk) 02:06, 18 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Joeymike, I notice that I left you a message on this matter back in August last year. Read the explanation written above.
 * Let me explain this to you as simply as I can: Was the song "The Yellow Submarine" performed by John Winston Lennon, James Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey, or was it performed by the Beatles?
 * Michelangelo, as an artist, is just known as Michelangelo. His full name is in the biography. It doesn't need to be in every article about an individual work. Amandajm (talk) 09:07, 14 April 2014 (UTC)