User talk:SarahStierch/Old Archives 2

Art articles
Hey Miss Vain, I'm so glad someone else is working on contemporary Native artist articles. I've added links to some of your new articles at List of indigenous artists of the Americas, which is the international version of List of Native American artists. Please feel free to make any additions/suggestions/changes to WikiProject Indigenous peoples of the Americas - it's brand new and completely up for editing. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 00:10, 28 February 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Archive
Something had gone wrong with your talk archive (wrong slash used, and moved to the main namespace instead of the user talk space), and it was eventually deleted. I have restored it and it is now at User talk:Missvain/TalkArchives1. Fram (talk) 14:51, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Corwin Clairmont
The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Wah-Du-Sheh (Bundle) (1997) by Truman Lowe.JPG
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File source problem with File:Native Peoples Magazine by Ryan Singer.jpg
Thank you for uploading File:Native Peoples Magazine by Ryan Singer.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Native Peoples Magazine by Ryan Singer.jpg


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Since you are interested in
Native American sculptors perhaps you would consider doing an article on Cliff Fragua, who created the statue of Popé that's New Mexico's second statue in the National Statuary Whatever. There is a picture of Fragua and the statue at a few of the related articles. Interested? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 04:46, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm familiar about the work! I'll add it to my list. Thanks Einar :) Missvain (talk) 04:48, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Life is good. I have more pictures (I think) of Fragua and Popé, but not much on his training and that sort of thing. I've put off doing an article for years, seeing your recent note revived my interest. Carptrash (talk) 04:53, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK issue
Hello! Your submission of Dana Claxton at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! I've supplied an alternate hook. If you have a source which supports your original hook, you may certainly add it and restore that hook. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  10:50, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Wim Hora Adema
Thanks for the quick review! I left a note on the DYK Suggestions page. I've also expanded the article--she's even more important than I thought she was. Thanks again! Drmies (talk) 18:25, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, and I don't mind verbiage changes--awkward English sometimes results from looking at a Dutch article and writing an English one based on them. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 18:27, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

CFD
Be advised of the discussion at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_March_6.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:34, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Dana Claxton
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   19:03, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar
thanks for the barnstar, i dunno how good the photos are though, when i see them on the screen i cringe, so much for composing in the camera. btw, did you notice that Siris is down? did they change links recently? i'm having difficulty clicking through to all those references. Slowking4 (talk) 19:36, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * view it while it lasts. Slowking4 (talk) 17:16, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Zoo photos
Thank you for adding so many photos to zoo articles. We have a lot of articles that need them. However, at least for articles that have a WikiProject Zoo banner, please do not remove the photo request tag if the photos being added are just closeups of animals at the zoo. The photo requests (at least if I wrote them) are for "photos of the XYZ Zoo." Although we also include pictures of animals in zoo articles (and I will not be removing any of the photos you are posting), these articles are about the zoo, not specific animals, and we need at least some photos that show what the zoo looks like. Until we get at least one such photo, we would like to keep the photo request.

I will be going through all of these articles and creating categories in Commons if necessary, and adding links to these categories in the zoo articles. This will also give me the chance to reassess the articles (some are basically just C-class articles waiting for photos), and do some other unrelated infrastructure cleanup (formatting, units, etc.). And, where, where the photo is a closeup of an animal, and not of the zoo.

I would like to particularly thank you for the photos of the Naples Zoo (Caribbean Gardens). Both photos show a wider context, and I've been waiting until our next trip to Florida (probably not until next year) to get some photos and turn this into a C-class article. This will let make those changes sooner. Donlammers (talk) 12:45, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Ryan Singer (artist)
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   18:02, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

I discovered this sentence
in the Monument article. As my "go to" editor in Washington I am wondering how it sounds to you.
 *  The Washington Monument's location (and vertical geometry, though not physical detail) was conceived to help organize public space in the city before it was ever connected with George Washington. Does that sound right?  Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 01:47, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know as much about the Washington Monument's history, however, the "vertical geometry, though not physical detail" sounds odd to me. I think a re-write of that sentence can happen, and perhaps a source for that fact? Missvain (talk) 16:20, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * yes, location of a monument by L'enfant while washington was still alive. after his death much history of design changes and subscription (not enough money to complete) will look for source. inartful description of design in sentence. obelisks were all the rage. Slowking4 (talk) 16:36, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The fact that "obelisks were all the rage" was just used on my talk page is AWESOME. Thanks again guys. My work has had to move away from public art for a little while, for my thesis work, so I am so happy you guys are doing all you can. I'll be back, but I'm still!! Missvain (talk) 16:39, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * well i gave it a go check it out . the passing architectural fashions seem a little stuffy and grandiose (am i being post-modern?)Slowking4 (talk) 17:26, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the kitten and the star. Both come very rarely to my pages. Carptrash (talk) 00:17, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Revert
Whoah! Sorry, about the accidental reverting of your edits on your own page! That was a slip of the thumb on a phone when I was trying to see something else completely. -Uyvsdi (talk) 03:51, 13 March 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Categories
Hi, I really appreciate and applaud the new articles you've created for Native artists. And I completely support organizing Native artists by media. Subdividing those further by country and century seem a little excessive, but I can live with that. However, "traditional" and "contemporary" are too subjective to be effective categorizing tools – they mean wildly different things to different people. Since you were dividing categories by century, at least that would be consistent (21st-century artists would be by most definitions "contemporary" – although some people use this to mean working in a Western art media; usually it's post-WWII or post-1960s/post-modern). You haven't answered any questions from Talk:Contemporary North American Indigenous artists. It seems you are generating what will become dozens of small categories simply to correspond to the template. There are other means of organizing/showcasing groups of artists. -Uyvsdi (talk) 19:13, 13 March 2011 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Contemporary Métis installation artists
Category:Contemporary Métis installation artists, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:06, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Please help
Hello, I'm a Belgian citizen and I found you in the "Art" discussion page", I would like to ask you some help concerning a wikipedia article about the artist ben heine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ben_Heine. Please let me know how I can do to improve this article or to have someone do it as I really find it difficult to edit stuff properly on Wikipedia, I can't do it myself... (and each time I tried to improve it in a neutral way, someone removed it) --Caring-writer (talk) 22:30, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

I've been following Ben Heine's work for many years, may I mention that the current article is a text that appeared on Wikipedia in 2006 and that reflects what he did in that time only. He has totally changed and evolved. He has made many more things since then. He is a globally appreciated artist and he needs a better bio. There aren't so many criticisms about him. The article isn't fair, it REALLY NEEDS MANY UPDATES and contains strong mistakes about the artist. Many well known national newspapers and magazines have talked about him and his work recently (see a non exhaustive list here below), none of them is even mentioned in the current article. He has stopped making political art since more than 2 years. Please just consider these publications, most of them are a few days/weeks old only... Daily Mail, The Telegraph, El Pais, Repubblica, De Standaard... These AREN'T blogs!!! These are national papers read by millions of people.

Please have a look to the following list of errors in the current article (which I detailed here below, and which I'll mention to several other admins if needed and if not taken into account).

List of important errors in the current article about Ben Heine:

1) Ben isn't a political artist anymore, it's true he used to make political art accusing Israel of "crimes against humanity", but he stopped making such illustrations in 2009 and wrote an "[[open letter to the Jewish Community]]" in December 2010 apologizing about his past behavior (saying it was the influences of his studies in Journalism. Parts of his final assignment talked about the "limits of freedom of expression in cartoons"). In this letter, he also firmly condemned the infamous Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest and said he was feeling deeply guilty about it. Here is the letter translated in English (Google translator). Ben doesn't deny the Holocaust, he visited Auschwitz Birkenau and feels sincerely sorry about the past suffering of the Jewish community.

2) Ben doesn't contribute to these websites anymore: DonQuichotte, MWC News, Rebelion, Tlaxcala, Irancartoon, Syriacartoon, Arabcartoon, Persiancartoon, Karikaturevi, Azercartoon, Dessin d'humour, National Caricaturist Network (Ben has explicitly asked these sites to remove all his illustrations from their platforms)

3) Ben doesn't collaborate with "La Libre Belgique" Anymore. Only 4 or 5 of his old cartoons have been published in this newspaper (in 2006 and 2007).

4) Pencil Vs Camera is not just a "little detail" in his biography, it is a creative and original series that has generated some huge reactions on the web and in the written press (see a non exhaustive list below). It is such an innovation that several TV channels around the world have also talked about it: Globo - Brazil, TV Brussel - Belgium, and many others). Same for "Digital Circlism"...

5) "Pere Ubu" (one of the main newspapers that clearly accused Heine in Belgium has removed the accusation from their site

6) Most of the links in the "notes" section (expecially the url's linking to images on Ben's blog) do not work...

7) Ben removed from his sites (blog, flickr, Deviantart and official site) all his cartoons accusing Israel or any Israeli person (Avigdor Lieberman...).

8) He didn't participate "recently" to the Kruger Workshop. This event happened in 2006!

So, I really hope you'll aknowledge that 90% of the article is based on inaccurate facts... I would like to see a real neutral article about that artist.

List of recent notable publications with Ben Heine works and biography:

WEB:

- DAILY MAIL (UK - February 2011) - EL PAIS (Spain - February 2011) - THE TELEGRAPH (UK - February 2011) - NEWSLITE (UK : February 2011) - BBC Brazil (Brazil - February 2011) - LA REPUBBLICA (Italy - February 2011) - TV BRUSSEL (Belgium - January 2011) - CNN Turk (Turkey - February 2011) - POP PHOTOGRAPHY: (USA - January 2011) - SHORT NEWS (Germany - February 2011) - ESTADAO (Brazil - January 2011) - HET NIEUWSBLAD (Belgium - February 2011) - DE STANDAARD (Belgium - February 2011) - OBVIOUS MAG (Spain - January 2011) - WEBOVINY (Slovakia - January 2011) - ARTE SPAIN (Spain - January 2011) - Accessible Art Fair (Belgium - 2010) - TrendsNow (France- February 2011) - CHINA DAILY (China - 2010) - DUSHI (China - january 2011) - ABDUZEEDO (Brazil - 2010) - Other publications in 2010

PRINT:

- Pop Photography (USA - January 2011) - Het Nieuwsblad - 1 (Belgium - 2011) - Het Nieuwsblad - 2 (Belgium - 2010) - Ca m'intéresse (France - 2010) - Daily Mirror (Great Britain - 2010) - Bookedi (South Korea - 2010) - Digital Artist 1 - 2 - 3 (China - 2010) - Belgian Embassy in London (February 2011) - Photoeidolo (Greece - 2011) - Šeimininkė (Lithuania - 2010) - View Mag (Germany - 2010) - Shambala Sun (Canada - 2010) - Imagine Demain le Monde (Belgium - 2009) - La Libre Belgique 1 2 (Belgium - 2009) - Moonwalk Through Art (The Netherlands - 2009) - Rolling Stone (USA - 2008) - 3e Millénaire (France - 2011)

My suggestions for a new neutral article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ben_Heine#Article_about_Ben_Heine_needs_many_updates_and_corrections_.28please_read.29 (it would be good to add some of the above references, feel free to add more)

Caring-writer (talk) 22:39, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Jeffrey Gibson
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   00:05, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Jim Denomie
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:20th-century Inuit photographers
Category:20th-century Inuit photographers, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 12:28, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:21st-century First Nations photographers
Category:21st-century First Nations photographers, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 12:31, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Maya conceptual artists
Category:Maya conceptual artists, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:10, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:21st-century Native American conceptual artists
Category:21st-century Native American conceptual artists, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:20, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Faye HeavyShield
The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Picture request
Hey there Miss Vain hows things going. Someone dropped a note on my talk page with a request for some images and I thought you might be willing to do me a favor if you happen to be near it and snap a photo or 2 of the Georgetown Library. The address is 3260 R St. N.W. Washington, DC 20007. If its out of the way or you don't have time I understand. Well take care and let me know if you need anything. --Kumioko (talk) 00:22, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey! Glad to hear from you :) That is a bit out of my way, I am renting a car for a trip this weekend so I will make time to drive by and take a few shots :-) Missvain (talk) 18:36, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh thanks. Its no big deal if its out of your way I just thought you lived around there somewhere. Have fun on your trip whereever you go. --Kumioko (talk) 18:44, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Howling Wolf (Cheyenne)
The template you put on the article looks great 7mike5000 (talk) 23:08, 25 March 2011 (UTC).
 * Thank you!! My first time creating one, was a lot of hard work :) Missvain (talk) 16:23, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Charles Alston
Hello! Your submission of Charles Alston at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! StAnselm (talk) 22:43, 12 April 2011 (UTC)