User talk:Xanthomelanoussprog/Archive 2

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Whatever happened with this page
Xanty - you page looks like a new-beginner's. Hafspajen (talk) 21:17, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
 * You're back!!! It's been archived… on parchment stored in the basement of the Great Pyramid. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:02, 15 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Xanty, your busses the poorest in the world. I am stuck in Scotland somewhere where they said there will be a train 11.00 and when down at station the go ;Oh, that train stopped for two weeks ago.. blast them all. Can you imagine it? But all timetables SHOW this train, it is figuring in the timetables unchanged everywhere. Hafspajen (talk) 12:34, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Hafs, it's all gone downhill since they privatised it- the line belongs to one company and the trains belong to several others . Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 17:34, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, that explains it. Rather rude people too, which is surprising, since everywhere else they are quite nice though. Or people in Fort Williams are the worst in Scotland. Hafspajen (talk) 17:27, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Hm, should't it be a disambiguation page for this ugly unpleasant locality? Fort William, Scotland and Fort Williams ... Hafspajen (talk) 17:34, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

I just visited Edinborough and saw the the Scottish National Gallery and  Niagara Falls, from the American Side first picture to the left actually, and read the text beside the painting  - it is on display at the Scottish National Gallery.
 * Great! suppose it makes up for Fort William Chip supper and a dram of Laphroaig? Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 19:37, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, had chip supper with ... Irish coffee... - and saw Loch ness, Inverness, Edinborough and Portree too and climbed in the mountains of  Skye. And I am extemely tired. Hafspajen (talk) 19:44, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Vhy do you make fish and chips so big? Hafspajen (talk) 21:21, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * You're having a whale of a time then? Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:37, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Just never could finish it. But any time I tried it it was too big. Hafspajen (talk) 14:19, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

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 * Xanty, ... Wivenhoe Park (painting) ... added more ... translated - from by books. Hafspajen (talk) 16:54, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * And ... The Rocket (painting). Why can't people vote on a picture without me writing a new article on them each time? Full of terrible grammar mistakes of course. Thanks for taking care of them... Hafspajen (talk) 19:03, 21 November 2014 (UTC) ‎
 * Very good. Hafspajen (talk) 20:01, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Interesting article- interesting painter, Was reading "Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists to 1920" last night- some funny remarks about some very obscure painters. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:35, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Like ...? Hafspajen (talk) 22:29, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Coming up (just fetching book) Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:31, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * All this archiving. I have a certain feeling I lost a painter somewhere. Or two. Hafspajen (talk) 22:32, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Link's at the top of this page. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:34, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Sigh, not the same, (I meant both yours and mine) - where is the funny part? Hafspajen (talk) 22:48, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

INCHBOLD, John William: His poetry is probably more attractive than his painting.

HUNT, William Howes: His work is good enough to make one wish that it were better.

PEPPERCORN, Alfred Douglas: All in all, he is a very dull artist.

PATON, Sir Joseph Noel: His work was immensely popular with the laity, less so among artists.

MORTIMER, Thomas: He is sometimes miscatalogued as ‘F. Mortimer”, due to a large full stop between initial and surname.

MORTIMER John Hamilton: After a wild youth, he married a farmer’s daughter. Sober living seems to have been too much for his constitution, for he died within four years.

MARTIN, Jonathan: (Brother of John Martin (painter)) His most notable act was setting fire to York Minster.

MARKES, Albert Ernest: He drank a great deal, and was colour-blind, and both handicaps are evident in his work, which is dominated by grey-greens and highlights slashed into the paper with a knife.

Poor Mortimer - never marry a farmers daughter. Just see what happened to Rafael - who had kept a baker's daughter as a lover... Hafspajen (talk) 23:08, 22 November 2014 (UTC) MARTIN, Jonathan:must have been an early performance artist... MARKES, Albert Ernest too, obviously. Hafspajen (talk) 23:12, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I read that he was little, kinda ugly and loved to put on fancy clothes -looks like it's true. Hafspajen (talk) 23:29, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * AAAA... they doing the mess around ... now don't touch that !! Hafspajen (talk) 17:53, 27 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Hmmm, Albert Ernest Markes apparently signed "Albert" and did marine scenes. Those I see on the web suggest he was inadvertently before his time with the limited palette, but the palette knife trick I will file away for future use. Tantalising. Not sure it wouldn't get AfD'd if I wrote him up. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:01, 30 November 2014 (UTC) ... and more. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:03, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I suppose grey-green is quite appropriate for marine paintings! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:38, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Nom?
Do you feel like DYK -ing The Rocket (painting)? Hafspajen (talk) 15:00, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, later on. Gotta go out now. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 15:05, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Done- now my brain needs a rest. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:55, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * .Yep, hard work. Hafspajen (talk) 23:32, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

COI review
Hi Xanthomelanoussprog. I noticed you've chimed in on a couple posts of mine on user:Drmies' Talk page regarding my sponsored contributions. A quick look at your contribs also shows some collaboration with user:Crisco 1492, whos Talk page I'm a regular on, but it looked like your primary interest was in art pages?

I was wondering if you had an interest in chipping in on stuff like this and this on pages where I have a COI. The first being a draft article intended to get the page ready for a "Good Article" nomination and review, while the second is some obviously poorly-sourced material cited to a crowd-sourced review site.

Noting that your interests (at a glance) looks to be in art, as oppose to the types of business pages I usually work on, I wasn't sure if you'd like to chip in on this stuff or not. CorporateM (Talk) 01:58, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi Corp, sorry for late reply- I'll be happy to help out. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:11, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Awesome! Just wanted to check-in and see if this was still on your radar. CorporateM (Talk) 22:54, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * oh it is- been a bit busy of late. I'll have another read of it tomorrow and make some comments (constructive I hope!) Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:02, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, well I just asked for comments, but didn't say they had to be constructive (*chuckle) CorporateM (Talk) 00:49, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * FYI - user:Prelude after noon picked it up. He/she had mentioned on Jimbo's Talk page in a general discussion about paid editing that my version was obviously better and I invited him/her to consider the Request Edit if he/she had time. Per my usual, it is nominated for GA now. If you ever have an interest in chipping in, the Bright Line process leaves me indefinitely seeking a bottomless volume of collaboration and I am always needy for the time and attention of other editors. CorporateM (Talk) 14:01, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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Ah, than no problem, next week. it has to go in here -> Wikipedia Signpost/2014-12-03/Featured content. Hafspajen (talk) 22:09, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * oh, it's there already. Hafspajen (talk) 22:11, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Here's a box, we can do an article to, if you think.http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/whh/replete/coasts.html Hafspajen (talk) 02:13, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

kinda a life insurance. Hafspajen (talk) 16:25, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Those sheep need it . Saw a small George Vicat Cole earlier- reserve of £70- comes up on Tuesday- not very good- it's the size of a postcard, dull woodland scene. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:37, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

That's lovely. Could you pull yourself of for a second from the enchanting world of your art purchases and check out this?

Featured articles
A LOT of featured articles were promoted this week.

Anything you can give a hand with? (Copy your or additions before saving them - to avoid edit conflicting - I am on the Featured Pics.) Hafspajen (talk) 16:29, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * ARTICLE ( |nominated by ) Description.
 * Pah Wongso Pendekar Boediman ( |nominated by ) Description.
 * Paraceratherium ( |nominated by ) Description.
 * Ford Island ( |nominated by ) Description.
 * Garnet Malley ( |nominated by ) Description.
 * William Beach Thomas ( |nominated by ) Description.
 * U.S. Route 45 in Michigan ( |nominated by ) Description.
 * Australian raven ( |nominated by ) Description.
 * Lightning (Final Fantasy) ( |nominated by ) Description.
 * Léal Souvenir ( |nominated by ) Description.
 * The Fifth Element ( |nominated by ) Description.
 * And when you bought that Vicat, will you take a picture of it (without glare) - we don't have ANY of his works, only a picture made OF HIM, by another painter, bit of shame. Hafspajen (talk) 18:25, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Catalogue says 'Attributed to George Vicat Cole Woodland landscape bears signature"- it's in a gilt frame with his name printed in black. Looks to me like a sketch done on a dark evening in a wood whilst jogging. There's also a couple of Rowland Hilders- and he's the Turner de nos jours! I'll have a look later at stuff. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 19:33, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Paintings done dark evenings while jogging are often just great. Yes, we would need some -well - lot -  help and Adam is away, 11 articles! huh. Hafspajen (talk) 20:18, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, just got back home and now off to bed (early start tomorrow to go to Nottingham/Lincoln). I'll do something on Ford Island tomorrow evening, and then tackle another. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:33, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * OK:Hafspajen (talk) 23:19, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Leave this into your hands today. Hafspajen (talk) 09:53, 1 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Well, I took Pah Wongso Pendekar Boediman, since I am ready with the pics. Take next Léal Souvenir and  William Beach Thomas- and Might take Garnet Malley and the highway too, later. But leave Paraceratherium, The Fifth Element, Ford Island, Australian raven  and Lightning (Final Fantasy) too you. Hafspajen (talk) 20:53, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay- I've just settled down to the computer, with a beer cup of tea and a mission Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:18, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * 16-year-old can of John Smith's Tetley- it was rusty inside. Got enough iron in my diet. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:24, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Is that the trophy of the day? Don't bother about the rust, it can be cleaned. Though, one would expect that they don't only clean the outside of it.... Hafspajen (talk) 22:19, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Didn't improve the taste at all- my friend found it in her larder. No, I don't know either… Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:25, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Our English Coasts, 1852 ('Strayed Sheep')

DYK for Auguste Bonheur
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 18:28, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 * What do you know, this made it, finally. Hafspajen (talk) 20:10, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

The bad new or good news- is that this is your nr 5. Alexander Roslin, Rudolf Koeller, Fog warning, the Window, + Auguste Hafspajen (talk) 20:35, 2 December 2014 (UTC) Now you have to review first 1 before nominate next. Hafspajen (talk) 20:51, 2 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Good old Marcel Rieder...Hafspajen (talk) 02:32, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Niagara Falls, from the American Side
Hafspajen, one of the article's creators, has requested that your nomination of this article be withdrawn from DYK. Can you please post your concurrence (or disagreement) on the nomination page as soon as possible? Since it was your nomination, this decision is yours—we are happy to follow your wishes in the matter. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:34, 3 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I am sorry - but sometimes one get one or two reviewers that they just do the most unknowledgeable changes and then expect that one should do what they want you to do. This time it was bad luck - and it is weird to be forced to accept downright wrong content change - when it is just plainly wrong. And after you made them right again, there comes the other one - that was not necessary... your edits has nothing to do with the subject... oh,  really?  I know what I am talking about when it comes to art history - it DID  everything to do with the subject. And on top of evrything that sneaky -we need a new review because copyvio issues? Hafspajen (talk) 16:16, 3 December 2014 (UTC)


 * It was pretty odd behaviour- someone jumping in with size ten feet. I've got another artist in my sandbox- Tessa Beaver- never heard of her till yesterday when I found one of her etchings in a charity shop. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:25, 3 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes it was really odd, nobody goes into others DYKs, unless invited. How exiting!! Very good idea. I am a bit disappointed though you haven't noticed the changes in Mr Beech Thomas entry written entirely for you. Hafspajen (talk) 21:20, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh thanks- been away from the computer, watching a film at the cinema (Human Capital), haven't checked yet. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:42, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

And the exciting small details? ''Beach Thomas's primary interest as an adult was sheep'. He was active in the creation of the national parks in England and Wales, and mourned the decline of the sheep. His book published The English Landscape in 1938 include contributions to Country Life magazine.'' Hafspajen (talk) 21:53, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I saw that- you naughty naughty Hafs! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:10, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Jag är en Gummi- Björn, den lilla söta Gummy- Björn - hahahaha! Björn (talk) 23:30, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hombre Bola!!! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:36, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * ojaje ...hey when get married I want these guy to be there  Björn (talk) 23:54, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ar, bad article Hafspajen (talk) 01:39, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Shortcut
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Ways to improve Franz Xaver Petter
Hi, I'm Xcia0069. Xanthomelanoussprog, thanks for creating Franz Xaver Petter!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Good start but it needs references (footnotes and citations) to be a proper Wikipedia article :)

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Xcia0069 (talk) 08:34, 5 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Well, indeed. Hafspajen (talk) 16:01, 5 December 2014 (UTC)


 * A new article before breakfast. Whenever you want to make two ....Hafspajen (talk) 16:08, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, if you care for more... I have some ideas.. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Pleuer - Herman is not represented yet. Hafspajen (talk) 20:33, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Thu
The Fifth Element. Hafspajen (talk) 06:04, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Dig a link for December 6
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 * Well, I am really amazed by this guy, Xanty. Hafspajen (talk) 16:54, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah the new Signpost arrived. FP Starts with Genital mutilation...Hafspajen (talk) 21:43, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Ah, women...
Can you imagine that Hunt's wife engaged an other studio assistant painter when his husband became ill and made him paint her waist slimmer and her lips more red? A painter should never marry. Women are crazy. page 162 Pss, how disrespectful. Hafspajen (talk) 18:14, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * …and men are blind On the other hand, he might have had a subconscious tendency to make women plump. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 18:25, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Is that the painting? Not surprised she wanted her lips more red- they're competing with a red coral necklace and an intense pink hairband- she probably looked anemic. How many peacocks died to make that cloak, eh? Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 18:58, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ar, I have one of those days when I think women are stupid, false, narrow minded and hysterical and only care for their precious feelings, while try being seductive - and go on crying on peoples shoulders, oh, feel sorry for me ... Hafspajen (talk) 19:05, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * That's quite a combination! Would give me a bad headache. When life gets too much I always want to go to Bridgnorth Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 19:16, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * What's in Bridgnorth that can cheer up? The Bridgnorth Cliff Railway? Hafspajen (talk) 19:48, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Severn Valley Railway, castle gardens, old houses with caves, River Severn, fish and chip shops, Shropshire scenery. Nearby is Clun etc. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 19:51, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Sorry
I apologise for this edit summary, Xantho, I didn't mean it to sound the way it does. Bishonen &#124; talk 21:26, 7 December 2014 (UTC).
 * Even though the apology was neither needed nor expected, I think you've just gained a friend! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:47, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * "Surely" is a pretty snarky word fo sure, typical of the way Bishonen talks. Go ahead and call her Shirley!  darwin bish  BITE   ☠  23:17, 7 December 2014 (UTC).



Sure
No problem. It is much better like that! Hafspajen (talk) 23:45, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Christian Goller
I was just looking at the image you added to Christian Goller of justice with a serpent, and I couldn't find the serpent. Where is the serpent in that picture? CorinneSD (talk) 20:01, 8 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Ha! Had me worried there! It's apparently the way he signed his paintings, and is the squiggle under the year. Something here on the subject (haven't read it myself yet). Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:09, 8 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Interesting! The reference to the serpent must be simply the symbol that Cranach used as his signature. What Cranach felt the serpent symbolized is not clear. CorinneSD (talk) 21:57, 8 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I just saw the change you made to the caption. I don't see the serpent signature, do you? Do you think it's somehow incorporated into the lines of the figures, or do you think it got cut off when the photo was taken? CorinneSD (talk) 22:01, 8 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Just checked the original Christie's page- I didn't realise it at the time, but there was another level of zoom (I pasted together several screen grabs to make the image). This shows clearly a serpentine line underneath the year, with a crown or starburst above it. Guess I'm going to have to paste together a larger image! (groan- it only shows about an eighth at a time). I think the whole painting is shown. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:41, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry for creating more work for you. By the way, how did you come up with your interesting user name? CorinneSD (talk) 22:47, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * A friend years ago devised a psychological test, in which the word "xanthomelanous" was used (black hair, yellow skin).  . My father used to do the Times crossword (which I find impossible). One day he was stuck on a clue- the answer was of course "xanthomelanous". The only answer I ever got! And somehow I stuck "sprog" at the end when I needed an alias somewhere- just thought I'd re-use it. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:54, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh... Thanks for the explanation! CorinneSD (talk) 22:57, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * WHATT!! not an other red link artist... Hafspajen (talk) 01:24, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, thank God. Alexandre-Marie Colin. Hafspajen (talk) 01:25, 9 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Xanth, I hope you don't mind that I did some re-wording in the article. I have a question. In the middle of the second paragraph is the following sentence:


 * His analysis of pigments from the painting showed the presence of processed chalk and the absence of silver traces in the lead paint, both indicating that the painting was not genuine.


 * Then, in the second-to-last paragraph is the following sentence:


 * He adds that Goller’s palette is limited to a few dull colours and that an analysis of the the chemical composition of the pigments in these paintings, such as white lead, shows that the pigments used are typical of the 16th century.


 * It seems to me that the second half of this sentence and the entire first sentence contradict each other (regarding pigments and what they say about the genuineness of the painting or paintings). Am I reading this wrong, or is some clarification or change needed? CorinneSD (talk) 20:50, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, just sat through a two-hour film in a crowded cinema thinking "I wish the b… actors would get out of the way of the scenery". Kevin Kline is now banned from my talk page. Anyway, what it should mean is that the pigments used are the same chemicals as would have been used in the 16th century, however the trace impurity of silver that should be in the lead is missing. Silver is commonly found associated with lead in lead ore- modern methods of extraction remove the silver, hence lead white without silver is modern. With regards to the chalk (this is presumably used in the priming of the painting) the chalk is too finely milled to be authentic. Hope that's a bit clearer- thanks very much for going through the article. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:42, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation. I think both sentences are fine as they are now, except I think that the second sentence should say:


 * He adds that Goller’s palette is limited to a few dull colours and that an analysis of the the chemical composition of the pigments in these paintings, such as white lead, shows that the pigments he used are not typical of the 16th century.


 * If the pigments Goller used are not typical of the 16th century, the paintings could not have been painted in the 16th century, right? If I am right, the sentence is missing "not". For clarity, I would add that these pigments are modern:


 * ...and that an analysis of the chemical composition of the pigments in these paintings, such as white lead, shows that the pigments are modern and not typical of the 16th century.

CorinneSD (talk) 03:48, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll reword it in a bit- was just in the process of doing it when I realised I'd conflated the chemical analysis of the pigments with Hofbauer's statement. The analysis, revealing the traces of silver etc. is of the Justitia fake; Hofbauer made his comment about the pigments in relation to the 60 plus paintings he has suspicions about. However I'm unsure as to whether Hofbauer is extrapolating from the Justitia ananlysis or is referring to subsequent analyses on other paintings. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 08:36, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, done- but I've probably made a pig's ear of it. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 09:46, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Not at all, silk purse! BTW I thought "[B]ut Koepplin was unsure as to what had been made" wasn't entirely clear. Following the source ([Koepplin] kannte Goller, wusste, dass er dubiose Werke fabriziert, aber nicht genau was) I've changed it to "though not which paintings they were" (also added that K had known G). Can probably be improved! Bishonen &#124; talk 10:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC).
 * Many thanks!! It wasn't clear to me (via Google translate) what Hofbauer was referring to; notes that Koepplin had made that H. had acquired, or letters from K. to H. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 12:37, 11 December 2014 (U
 * I'm sorry, but, in spite of your (Xanthy's) recent edits to that very sentence, I'm still confused. As I outlined above, it is not clear to me how finding that pigments were typical of those used in the 16th century supports the claim that Goller forged paintings. Here is the sentence as it is now:


 * He adds that the palette is limited to a few dull colours and that an analysis of the chemical composition of the pigments in these paintings, such as white lead, shows that the pigments used in the paintings are typical of those that would have been used in the 16th century.


 * CorinneSD (talk) 16:09, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure either- I included it as a statement of fact rather than a sign of guilt. Part of the problem may be that I'm trying to keep away from having the article say Goller's responsible for any paintings other than the one he admitted to painting. The Bendor Grosvenor blog has a bit more on the Charles V painting (on the left in the article)- the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece across his chest should be gold, not red, and the badge of the Order is missing. The problem is to "authenticate" that as a Goller; I suspect the chain of agents between auction house and painter is probably very murky. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 19:12, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ask him to send you a fake Cranach. Hafspajen (talk) 21:42, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks to Hofbauer we know where he's going wrong- could give him some advice Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 04:26, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Xanty - do you feel like LIKE writing a nice Long long entry on Hillary Rodham Clinton? Only one featured article - so plenty of place. Hafspajen (talk) 03:49, 18 December 2014 (UTC) ..*? Hafspajen (talk) 10:40, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Don't know nuffink about her, Hafs. (apart from she's married to Bill). Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 10:50, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, you knew nothing about female mutilation either. I sincerely hope so. Hafspajen (talk) 11:31, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost/2014-12-24/Featured content ... Hafspajen (talk) 11:32, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh right! I'll get on with it tonight. Slow on the uptake, me Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 11:46, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

I am afraid it is rather bad art, yes, wouldn't like to have it even if they would give it away for free. Hafspajen (talk) 13:16, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Orgies
Hafspajen (talk) 15:35, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Lucy


Happy Saint Lucia's day!

"Good Morning" Xanthomelanoussprog: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia! 13 December is the day when Swedes perplex the rest of the world by showing up way too early in the morning dressed in white tunics, candles in their hair, singing and bringing saffron buns and breakfast in bed to nice people. Hope you have a bright day! Hafspajen (talk) 09:23, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

DYK for The Rocket (painting)
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Hi, Xanthomelanoussprog, looking at this, I feel pretty sure I made a a mistake there. Can you confirm, so I can remove it from the page and add it to another article? It is such a fine picture, it should be on an article, somewhere. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 20:22, 16 December 2014 (UTC) Hi Lotje- if you mean my comment, it was a joke about "tiffin" and "tiff"- sorry if it has mislead you. The original title is "Our First Tiff", but they are having tiffin- so they're having a tiff over tiffin! They look old enough to have had several dozen tiffs, mind you! I've removed the painting from the definition. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:02, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Lotje (talk) 23:08, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

This
Can't find this artist anywhere. Not that Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744). Hafspajen (talk) 19:54, 20 December 2014 (UTC) This is Alexander Pope (American, 1849-1924). Emblems of the Civil War, 1888. Oil on canvas, Hafspajen (talk) 19:55, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Alexander Pope, Jr.- seems to have been a sculptor. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:10, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * A number of artists best known for one field have surprisingly good works in another. Take Gustave Doré's oil paintings. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:59, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, that really surprised me! Eduardo Paolozzi- screenprints, sculptures and a London Underground station. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:21, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost/2014-12-31/Featured content
Just to note, the New Year's Eve FC is at what I like to think of as the "Lorem ipsum" stage - all the layout done, but still needing the text. Feel free to join in, but we have a week and a half before it needs to be done, so don't worry too much. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:42, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Balsam of Peru deletions
It is true that the Sellotape does not explicitly keep the balsam in my crack.

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Spare time?
Hm? Or you just care for cucumbers? Hafspajen (talk) 10:29, 28 December 2014 (UTC) mmmm… c'est nouveau… okay. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 11:28, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Quesque c'est le nouveau? Le concombre? Hafspajen (talk) 12:31, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, now I get it. The draft is new, yes. Hafspajen (talk) 08:14, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes,  I did noticed it.  Hafspajen (talk) 11:58, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * But that's life when everybody is hit by inspiration at the same time. Why did you removed this? It was good. Hafspajen (talk) 12:18, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks- thought it was a bit Anglo-centric- might try again Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 13:00, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Mmm.... the balsam of Per -u turned pink. Or is it just me? Hafspajen (talk) 13:22, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * "98" complained about Epefleche to the edit-warring board over that Balsam. At that point I thought "Sod 'im- he can have his tedious ramblings rendered in pink Comic Sans" Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 13:40, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Jolly good idea. Hafspajen (talk) 15:09, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * You are funny. Hafspajen (talk) 21:01, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Chuck it? Hafspajen (talk) 12:30, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I haven't a clue- I know the road, but I never knew it was called Brighton Road. There's an interesting part further south where there's Coulsdon Deep Shelters (wartime tunnels). Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 12:48, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Dancing Fairies. New. Hafspajen (talk) 17:26, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year Xanthomelanoussprog!


Happy New Year! Xanthomelanoussprog, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Hafspajen (talk) 10:05, 31 December 2014 (UTC) Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2015}} to user talk pages.

Signpost for the 7th
Thanks for all your work on this one, but I still think your name should come first as you put so much work into it. It's a damn good issue, and I think it'll go down very well! I'll set up next week's sometime after the lists are finalized tonight. Doesn't look too bad; lots of articles to make up for this week, but no lists as yet. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:29, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * It's first again. Xanty you can always change name to ABCDFXXanthomelanoussprog... ...Hafspajen (talk) 13:26, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Or we could alphabetize by surname. Null comes before C. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:59, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Aaah that's very kind Null Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:18, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost/2015-01-14/Featured content is up! I've roughed in the images; we'll see how things change once text goes in. Think I might skip the between-section images this week, but that does mean that giant John Barrymore image is problematic. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:40, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Great! Looking forward to contributing! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:57, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

...Actually - if anybody is interested, null doesn't exists at all. It is just a matematical concept. It is = nothing. It is made as an invention to make counting easyer. It is the ting that starts the 123456789 - all over again. 21 22, 23,, Hafspajen (talk) 18:43, 4 January 2015 (UTC) Grey Passion Hafspajen (talk) 13:11, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * That's pretty far out! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 15:09, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * not at all. Simple philosphy. Noboby ever said that we sould count to ten and start again. It could have been 8 - or 7 or 12. Dozen, yeah? Hafspajen (talk) 21:05, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ↑↑↑ The Grey Passion. One, two, three, many Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:10, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Or sexagesimal, how did you do those marks? Hafspajen (talk) 21:11, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Special characters/ symbols, up the top Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:33, 6 January 2015 (UTC) ♠♣♥♦m²m³
 * ÁčĊđĎġġŷŸȳŽ Insert non-formatted text here

this is all I have... Hafspajen (talk) 21:47, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ♠♣♥♦ where is mine`- ♠♣♥♦? Hafspajen (talk) 22:02, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Xanty I consider this an OK reference. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095209/bio An editor is removing and messing around with one entry at Chow-chow. What's -up- ? Hafspajen (talk) 20:10, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. we don't want to give the impression that those dogs are leftovers. Hafspajen (talk) 23:48, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Chow mein? Chow mein kampf? Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:52, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Chow-chow (food) - but what mein campf?Hafspajen (talk) 00:22, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Mein Kampf Kaffee. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 00:30, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 * You are just as bad as . Hafspajen (talk) 00:36, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 * No.5 in my list of all time favourite edit summaries: ... "Take Anchovy!" Martinevans123 (talk) 11:20, 30 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Xanty, I am afraid Adam is probably not going to edit [this] edition much, so we are on our own. Hafspajen (talk) 10:24, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh dear! I'll try and get some done this evening. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 11:09, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I will start now.Hard words Hafspajen (talk) 13:54, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

This time
I dedicate as a symbol of the German high life of knowledge, art, and culture Goethe in the Roman Campagna. That needs urgent attention of a native. Hafspajen (talk) 20:24, 9 January 2015 (UTC) Or it will be full of sentences like -
 * Tischbein kept the visitors firmly on multiple drawings. From the beginning of the public presentation of the image coined the table leg representation of Goethe in Germany. Hafspajen (talk) 21:34, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
 * That's Pareidolia- seeing the image of Goethe in a table leg. Why is Heyne so cross-eyed? Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:04, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Because the painter is bad. BAD. BUT Why are the frog-eaters using it? That is the question... when they have so much better paintings... like our Christian Gottlob Heyne. Hafspajen (talk) 02:45, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Soon we have to fix sexy Micelle too, otherwise someone will say we discriminate the First lady. Hafspajen (talk) 15:27, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Been involved in an auction-room battle. Only two people in the room knew the bronze object was a Ming dynasty Bronze mirror- me and the Chinese bloke who suddenly appeared. He won (I knew he wouldn't stop bidding, so I pushed him along a bit!). Will be back on the job this evening. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 15:39, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Ohm, out on the art-purchase field again... any time Xanty is not here , 'is roaming around on art auctions... No wonder the bloke wanted it. Bronze mirrors are said to bring luck. Hafspajen (talk) 16:11, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I mean cheer the fact she became FRirst lady. Hafspajen (talk) 16:17, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Wasn't an objection to the applause- it was because it was right after the bit about her paternal great great grandfather being a slave. You know what Americans are like half of them will give us hell for applauding Michelle, the other half give us hell for promoting slavery. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:21, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

- I got it back in Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:34, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * OH thanks. Well, I have to admit it reads as we DID applaud slavery, a bit bothersome. Hafspajen (talk) 16:44, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hope it is OK I asked Marty to help a bit. He might turn up at some point. Hafspajen (talk) 16:46, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * That's good- taking a break now, got to try to think of something interesting to write about creeks. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:50, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * File:Falero Luis Ricardo Nymphe.jpg Hafspajen (talk) 17:14, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

The Judgement of Solomon.Hafspajen (talk) 22:47, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Idea
http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/highlights/peter-paul-rubens-the-judgement-of-solomon/ https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/the-judgement-of-solomon/WAHXmaCV-zSYig?hl=en http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/peter-paul-rubens

Wikipedia Signpost/2015-01-14/Featured content
Great work, as always. You and Hafspajen did almost everything; this week I was mainly editor, layout, and image selection and captions, and thanks for that: Meant I could deal with mourning my dead pet without responsibilities getting to me too badly. (She died a couple months ago, but it was in the middle of that holiday to America, and I hadn't mourned yet...)

Let's see. Quick summary of the more major changes:
 * Added a "citation needed" running gag; we seemed to enjoy jokingly adding false information this week, this should keep there from being any complaints. I didn't use it for the joke about the yet-to-be-created "SF Art" fancast, since I changed "Uranus" to "moons of Uranus", as they're more habitable, and then apparently turned five years old.
 * Tried to focus the cathedral entries a bit, so that they're a bit more relevant to the pictures. They got a little diffuse, so I reigned them in a bit. Not that the material was bad, but better to focus on things in the pictures, so we don't distract from them.
 * Expanded "List of tributaries of Catawissa Creek" and "The Magpie" - I think the first is a very impressive list, when you realize the author also wrote very well-sourced articles on literally every entry in it, and the second could have stood where it was, but had a request for more, and who am I to object to a lovely image?
 * On Michelle Obama: While it's great we have an African-American First Lady, I cut "which we all applaud", as First Lady is a position got through marriage. The explanation of why it's significant is in the next sentence. I think we can make the case that she'd be notable, albeit less noticeable, without Barack, so added a list of a few more of her achievements instead.
 * I found "Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes" a little hard to understand (I hadn't heard of them or anything like them before, so I kept thinking "Wait, what mine?", etc.), so I rewrote the first half as if explaining to myself of 15 minutes before

Rest is just copyediting, I think. Anyway, I'm coming to this a little late this week, so wanted to give you a summary, so you can object to my meddling ways, if needed, and know where to look. Will copy-paste to Hafspajen as well, as it's meant for both of you. Adam Cuerden (talk) 03:05, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Will set up next week quite soon. Adam Cuerden (talk) 03:10, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost/2015-01-21/Featured content
Did the setup. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:54, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Could have
been something like Isaac Grünewald or so. Hafspajen (talk) 15:53, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I felt it may have been 1960s or 1970s- there was a noticeboard on the right which had a modern look to it (the photo didn't show all of it). Not too sure I want to find out the train has left the station. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:00, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Or so, I said, because I am not sure. But there were a circle of artists that had this style. I am sure the one who bought it knew about it or had the means to find out... Hafspajen (talk) 16:03, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Or they read Wikipedia. So my advice is don't post before you bought it. Hafspajen (talk) 16:04, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Damn! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:14, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, that's one possibility. Hafspajen (talk) 16:22, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm… better not mention the Roy Ostle painting I've just found, in a folder of tatty sketches. At least he signed his name, legibly. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:57, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Better not. Listen, Adam is gone for the moment... Or at least looks like he will not be back for a while. That means ... you know what. Hafspajen (talk) 20:37, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Right. I'd need a break after a farrago like that. Point me to it->>>>>> Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:43, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2015-01-21/Featured content + User talk:Adam Cuerden. Copy your things before hit Save because I am on it too. Hafspajen (talk) 20:58, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I did some of it. Your turn. Hafspajen (talk) 01:34, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The practicing the Ykrt is meant to be had the job of a painter Occupation or so, but couldn't come up with the English word, so wrote Swedish. Hafspajen (talk) 19:33, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Occupation+ Profession? Hafspajen (talk) 19:58, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmmm… thinking. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:15, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I have withdrawn ny nominations on FP and removed myself from the FP nominations, Featured picture candidates/A collection of paintings of that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence. Wikipedia is a rotten place and I was tired of it for a long time now. I am tired of this FP dramaboard. This is the Evil's playground, boasting people's ego's for fame and not willing to share just have themselfes more and more. Hafspajen (talk) 23:10, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

The Sing is almost ready - you will surely manage to get it in shape. I managed to engage Pilot. Hafspajen (talk) 23:16, 18 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I am happy to help. Hafspajen I will cover for you for now, but your clearly in need of some chill time. I am here to share the world as I am lucky enough to see it, and your support has helped keep me here. Reconsider, chill and keep the faith. Not everyone plays into the drama but it is a community so it gets tough every now and then. The world can be a rotten place, but only if you let it. talk→  WPPilot   23:25, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry to hear about the FP- good to have on board! I should be able to do more this evening (time here is 7.30 a.m. and it's cold, so unwanted chill time). Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:38, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Sign Post Draft
Wikipedia Signpost/2015-01-21/Featured content
 * I did most of what needs to be done on the next Sign Post to let you guys chill some. This is my first round at editing it, but I think it looks good. LMK your thoughts, I have added myself to editors of this section on a regular basis in the editorial obligation description. Other then doing some photo arrangement, it is close to done. LMK. talk→  WPPilot   19:48, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Psst
Do you think you can do something with the : the Ustaša–Croatian Revolutionary Movement, known as the Ustaše ... ? Hafspajen (talk) 11:51, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Any suggestions? I can do a rewrite this evening. It's a really complex bit of history (and I left out the Bosniaks already). Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 13:33, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Nooo, just thougt that Ustaša–.. known as as the Ustaše - is there a difference? Or it is a spelligh thing? I was wondering myself. Hafspajen (talk) 15:34, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * No need to rewrite anything, I mean. Hafspajen (talk) 15:36, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I just copied it from the Wiki-page- I have no idea. There aren't any Croats living near me (as far as I know) but there are Chetniks… Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 17:32, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Some people really try: A Reynoldsian is an adherent to the Reynoldsianism Faith, which was Founded by The Glorious, The Inseme Duex Rex Patriarch Reverend and Dr. Robert Allen LaVey Reynolds. The Holy Book of the Reynoldsian Faith is The Reynoldsian Way. There are also three hymnbooks, a book of sermons and a book of prayers. In The Father Church of Personal of Personal Redemption, from whence Reynoldsianism emerged and all to Line of The Inseme Duex Rex, Patriarch Reverend and Dr. Robert Allen LaVey Reynolds, The Holy Inseme Duex Rex, Patriarch Reverend and Dr. Robert Allen LaVey is God and Father to All. added to Joshua Reynolds. Removed, don't panic. Hafspajen (talk) 23:54, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Well that's pretty interesting! "Holy Inseme Duex Rex"- that's a good name for a pedigree German Shepherd. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:46, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes. Maybe we should suggest it to . She can give the idea to some of the dogs she judges, that are worthy. Hafspajen (talk) 14:49, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Man takes dog to talent scout "This is an amazing dog- he's called Holy Inseme Duex Rex and he can talk". Talent scout says "Okay", points at the ceiling and says "What's that?" Holy Inseme Duex Rex goes "Ruff!" The scout shouts "That dog can't talk!" and throws them both out of his office. Man turns to dog and says "What did you do that for?". Dog says "Well it looked pretty ruff to me." Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 14:58, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ....hahahahahaa Posting it at Drmies facebook..... if it's OK, hope it is, othreervise revert. Hafspajen (talk) 21:21, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Musical accompanient for the interesting poster ->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEtmTSPPZTA (Tamo Daleko played on a giant Balalaika and drums by some bored musicians. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:54, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Musical accompanient for the interesting poster ->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEtmTSPPZTA (Tamo Daleko played on a giant Balalaika and drums by some bored musicians. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:54, 21 January 2015 (UTC)


 * HUHUHOOHoh. Hafspajen (talk) 00:06, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Why do
you English keep theses things on the roof? just curious. Hafspajen (talk) 23:37, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't know- I've got half an idea, but… That's a Tudor period building, and their architecture can be quite flamboyant, like their costumes. During the period 95% of English religious art and sculpture was destroyed (according to Andrew Graham Dixon, and the link between a sculpture or icon and a metaphysical thing was deliberately broken. So maybe you could put a dragon on your roof without someone thinking that it actually was a manifestation of an evil being (like the change in the views on transubstationation in the Mass- at the start of the period you could be burnt for denying that the bread and wine actually changed into Christ's body, then later you'd be burnt for asserting that it did. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 08:21, 25 January 2015 (UTC)Meister Bertram von Minden 004.jpg
 * Theses Chistians are way to fast in burning each others. But it sounds like tha Calvinists and Zwingli against Lutherans, that teological controversy. Luther did claimed transsubstantiation. It was Calvin and Zwingli who said no tho that. I belive they had a row on that too. And then Zwingli was shot in the warfield, so I think God was not to happy with his ideas. Hafspajen (talk) 17:25, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * When I checked that cow file, I realized that it looked weirdly blurry somehow.

However this could work though, used and it can be uploaded in a higher version too, since it is in the MET. Hafspajen (talk) 20:26, 25 January 2015 (UTC) Hafspajen (talk) 20:21, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Xanthy what exacly are you waiting for? Hafspajen (talk) 22:23, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I've lost the plot here somewhere… Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:45, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

The PLOT:Try run this trough a google transl: http://runeberg.org/rydbdikt/tomten.html Hafspajen (talk) 20:54, 28 January 2015 (UTC) Midwinter cold is intense,
 * the stars sparkle and gleam.
 * All sleep in secluded courtyard
 * good next morning hours.
 * The moon lowers its silent track,
 * snow shines white on pine and spruce,
 * snow shines white on ceilings.
 * Only the plot is awake.

Exactly. : the snow is white on the ceilings. Only the (lost) plot is awake. Hafspajen (talk) 21:16, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * You might want to know how it was MEANT to be from the beginning:

The night is cold and hard, the stars sparkle and gleam.

All are asleep on the lonely farm deep dark the midnight hour. The Moon wanders his silent ban,

the snow shines white on pine and fir, the snow is white on the roofs. Only Santa Claus is awake.

Standing there so silent at the door, Red against the white powder, looking, as so many winters before, up against the Moon's disc, looking towards the forest, where spruce and pine rise around the yard a dark wall, brooding, though not to deep, over a strange thought. by Viktor Rydberg (translation me)

Hafspajen (talk) 21:17, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Question



 * Do you think, this has a chance? First I thought great, a google. But after looking uponon  it better, I am not sure.  Hafspajen (talk) 14:14, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

But there is really no other google file on her, - this is the only one. Maybe this could work though, is too used and it can be uploaded in a higher version too, if this is no god, since it is in the MET. Hafspajen (talk) 14:19, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Just remove links because my archie collapsed, so I remove them as soon as done with them.

Template:Did you know nominations/Ploughing in the Nivernais Hafspajen (talk) 16:58, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-04/Featured_content
New week's up. Will finish the who nominated what soon. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:26, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Gallery


I was looking through commons to find those blue-jacker-yellow -trousers Werther-look look, and this is all I found. Hafspajen (talk) 20:47, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Wonder what THIS was to represent, in memoriam Goethe? Meaning Goethe was a piece of shit or what? Hafspajen (talk) 22:44, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The turdlike one looks like it's meant to represent the whorls on a brain. Somewhere in the last few days (and I can't remember where, but I think it was in a programme about Holbein by Waldemar Janusczak) it was mentioned that a portrait of Henry VIII was copied so many times that there were as many copies per head of population as there are police in England and Wales (which would work out at around 4,000 copies for a population of 2 million). Will try and track that down. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 08:25, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Copy and paste when ready with yours

 * The Embarkation for Cythera (created by Jean-Antoine Watteau, nominated by Alborzagros) The Embarkation for Cythera  is a painting by the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau currently in Louvre, Paris. The painting is a sensual depiction of a  "fête galante"; an amorous celebration or party. The work celebrates love, with many cupids flying around the couples and pushing them closer together, as well as the statue of Venus nd Amor.  There are three pairs of lovers in the foreground.  While the couple on the right by the statue are still engaged in their passionate tryst, another couple rises to follow a third pair down the hill, although the woman of the third pair glances back fondly at the goddess’s sacred grove.

Sorry to hear
that one of your ancestors failed to get back in the sea, like it should have done. The most unforgettable reply. Also, your page looks very interesting. I may have to come back and visit when I have more time. Thanks for the Laugh. . Buster Seven   Talk  13:50, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! A lot of credit for this page must go to Haffs, who is a professional page decorator. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:12, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The moon lowers its silent track, snow shines white on pine and spruce, snow shines white on ceilings. Only the plot is awake. Hafspajen (talk) 21:56, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost/2015-02-11/Featured content
Just a heads up that the new framework is in place. It's a relatively short one, so I'm sure we'll do fine. Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:32, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
 * That was simply great, Xanty. What luck that we have such an art-insider among us, Xanty!! Hafspajen (talk) 18:34, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

 OBS: Very very close wording to source, biggest problem. (Details upper left corner) Then I have loads of other refs too, but I can't get out of the original wording, so I am stucked and never came so far trying to check the other ones..... Hafspajen (talk) 20:11, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

?
The notable exception is Devis's portrait of Sir Roger Newdigate, well done, Arthur. - ? Gone? Hafspajen (talk) 21:02, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Edmond Debeaumarché
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 6 February 2015 (UTC) Pup Art: Pets Throughout Art HistoryFor who knows how long, dogs have been referred to as man’s best friend and though this certainly holds true, I would say the same applies to other furry creatures as well, such as cats, rabbits, guinea pigs etc. I began thinking about our four legged as well as winged friends after returning from a trip home when my boisterous and mischevious black cat, Loki (he lives up to his name), greeted me with loud meows accompanied by frenzied purring, it seemed he missed me while I was gone, or maybe he was just hungry…but either way I knew I had missed him, antics and all. For those who have a pet or have ever owned a pet, whatever species or breed they may be, know what it is like to have a constant companion who always greets you, in a way, with a “smile.” About 10,000 years ago dogs became one of the first domesticated animals and by 3500 B.C. cats became a household pet in Egypt. Undoubtedly the longest lasting trend, that won’t be ending anytime soon; pets have not only become ingrained into our cultural history, but have been immortalized by the artist as well. When one first thinks of dog paintings, something similar to the amusingly kitsch painting from the film Goodfellas may come to mind, but contrary to this perception some of the most avant-garde artists such as Picasso have chosen to depict their canine counterparts.

Lol-quiz
Lucas Cranach, “Portraits of Henry the Pious, Duke of Saxony and his wife Katharina von Mecklenburg,” 1514

Portrait of Queen Katharine of Aragon with her Pet Monkey, 1530’s✅

Jean-Honore Fragonard, “Girl with a Dog,” 1770✅

Joshua Reynolds, “Portrait of Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester,” 1774, oil on canvas

Louis Bonnet, 1775 (he doesn't exist) ✅

Henriette Ronner-Knip, “Among Ourselves,” 19th Century- ✅

Henry Raeburn, “Boy and Rabbit,” 1814, oil on canvas✅

Edwin Henry Landseer, “A Favorite Greyhound of Prince Albert,” 1841✅

Claude Monet, “Camille with a Small Dog,” 1866

Edouard Manet, “La Femme au perroquet,” 1866- ✅

James Jacques Joseph Tissot, “The Fireplace,” 1869✅

Guillaume Dubufe, “Un regal pour son animal de compagnie,” (A treat for her pet) 1871, oil on canvas✅

Anna Merritt, “Portrait de Minna Sophia Farrer tenant un lapin,” 1878, oil on panel (sans lapin) ✅

Eastman Johnson, “ Lincoln as a boy reading at night ,” 1879 ✅

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “Margot,” 1881, oil on canvas almost

Paul Gauguin, “Stilleben mit drei Hundchen,” (Still life with three little dogs) 1888 ✅

Rupert Bunny, “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife,” 1902 Angels Descending (no wife)

Giacomo Balla, “Dynanism of a Dog on a Leash,” 1912:Dinamismo di un cane al guinzaglio

Fernand Khnopff, “Mary von Stuck,” 1916

John Duncan, “Baba and Billy,” 1920: Aoife by John Duncan

Pierre Bonnard, “Woman with Dog,” 1922 nothing

Adolf Dietrich, “A Gentleman,” 1928: portrait of a black pug dog, alert, in a naif styl e. nothing here


 * You got the titles, go find them. --Hafspajen (talk) 03:08, 7 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Is this any clearer? Hafspajen (talk) 22:42, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, right! My brain failed to connect the dots I've put in the one of the Earl of Southampton and Trixie- the only cat to have broken into the Tower of London. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:44, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Great! Pets in art... where should that go? Pet? - Do we have girafs?


 * The Doctor's new creation. Spit cake.  ‎Hafspajen (talk) 11:50, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Xanty, report. Hafspajen (talk) 00:56, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Hafs- Pets in art(icle) would be a big big task. I'll have a look through my random collection of books later, see if there's anything useful. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 06:20, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Then add to prt, simply. A couple of sentences would be usful... Xanty, what are you doing? Hafspajen (talk) 10:45, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Trying to get my tax done I've downloaded a pdf of Bolonkin's autobiography, and can add some stuff to the article later- it's detailed but a bit disjointed. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 11:21, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Very god. And you promised to nominate him who he ploughs the fields with untold sorrow. Could work. check here. Hafspajen (talk) 11:46, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks good. No, I am nnot going to add myself. You came up with the idea, made the article, - if you want to co-nom, ask him. Hafspajen (talk) 23:42, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Sakotis!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Here's a Sakotis for you! This cake promotes WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving this cake to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Make your own message to spread WikiLove to others! Happy editing! Hafspajen (talk) 11:53, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

It is lilac?

 * Did you noticed it that Auguste also has a plowing in the nivernais? File:Auguste bonheur a3274 plowing in the nivernais.jpg Wonder if some of his might also have a chance. Hafspajen (talk) 12:31, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Is this the lock-out or the look-out? The lock-out is when employers lock their employees out of the factory (one meaning)- or it could mean the lion is locked out of the pride. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 13:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

??Dunno. I never owned any factory. Hafspajen (talk) 16:37, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Alessandro Rosi


A tag removed without delay.

What's appening ere?
Tea Lautrec Litho (if you like psychedelic posters). Rigby Graham if you don't. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 08:28, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

++++??Hafspajen (talk) 22:49, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

?

 * Maybe  would like to take a look at this article, Heds socken. Hafspajen (talk) 14:50, 16 February 2015 (UTC)



Darkish

 * Trust you noticed it already. Hafspajen (talk) 05:40, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Giant luminous squid? No, haven't seen one in these parts at all Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 08:18, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Really? Rosa Bonheur - Chef d'un veau.jpg Hafspajen (talk) 14:42, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * SMirC-super.svg ...https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pet&diff=647755311&oldid=647748309 Hafspajen (talk) 16:33, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't we be working by now in the next? Can you learn how to set up a draft? Hafspajen (talk) 13:42, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Should be a matter of copying the framework from a previous addition. Might have a look in a bit (it's Çöčōä Țīmė) Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:24, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

.' CÖCÖCÖA time ??? Hafspajen (talk) 21:07, 20 February 2015 (UTC) Cadbury's Bourneville Cocoa Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:28, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * You can tell from the moment the flavour and lovely smell hit you when you open the tub, Cadbury Bournville Cocoa is made from the same high quality cocoa ...Hafspajen (talk) 22:16, 20 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Xanty Proxy, put up a draft. Adam is ignoring us. Hafspajen (talk) 23:38, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Might be best to wait a bit- see if anything happens. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:52, 20 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I did waited -we did left a message 17 February  for four days ago, actually.   I figured out now how  and put this up, Wikipedia Signpost/2015-02-25/Featured content - and because it is a damn long list, we are in hurry, and Adam is not around for same reason.  Thanks for all your work you put down on the Signpost. Go, go, go, - copy your work before save  - we are likely to hit a lot of edit conflicts. Hafspajen (talk) 15:26, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-03-04/Featured content. New I am going to screw this up. Hafspajen (talk) 23:51, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2015-02-25/Featured content. Hafspajen (talk) 00:13, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Your Special Wikiroom

 * Parrot
 * Sarcophagus
 * Samurai armour and katana
 * Aubusson carpet
 * Japanese vase
 * Gobelin tapestry
 * folio of engravings
 * three "connossieurs"
 * marble fireplace
 * portrait of Don Chabelieveit in rococo frame
 * wrought-iron parrot stand with feeding bowl
 * big wooden perusal frame
 * crystal decanter
 * marble statuette of someone in the nude
 * Chinese fan
 * ugly piece of furniture
 * silver spittoon


 * Expert, n. – Someone who lives more than 1,000 miles away.
 * – Sca (talk) 14:24, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

User talk:Xanthomelanoussprog
Hi,, take a look at the bottom of your user talkpage, it is in a mess. Lotje (talk) 15:43, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * It's Bonzo Dog!!! Such a sweet sweet little thing. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:50, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

→==A correction to last week's social diary. Mrs Smyth Piggot gave a talk to the Women's Institute on "Smocking and rugs", and not "Smoking drugs" as reported.==


 * ' Are you happy with your entry? It's here. Hafspajen (talk) 15:18, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Aaargh!!!!! Now I gotta do something. This evening. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Not happy? tried to involve the neutering theme ... somehow. Hafspajen (talk) 19:46, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Ploughing in the Nivernais
&mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 22:12, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Aristocratic painter
I wrote up Iakovos Rizos after massive amounts of research, in the course of which I discovered Albert de Belleroche, who seems to merit an article, even without his having been the subject of innumerable portraits by John Singer Sargent, with at least one blog post suggesting there was a bromance involved. He was also pals with Lautrec and preferred to ignore the fact he was the son of a marquis. The thing of it is, I learnt of him because he supposedly painted a portrait of "Jacques Rizo" that was well received at the salon, but not only can I not find that online, we don't appear to have a single thing by him on Commons. He died in 1944 so by lifetime plus 70 years, pictures of his paintings and lithographs should be out of copyright now, except for any first published after 1923, and he created relatively little after leaving Paris pre-First World War. So; are you familiar with this chap and do you think I should go ahead and write him up and kype some pictures of his femmes décoiffées and studies of shirtless brooding men, or am I up a gum tree? Yngvadottir (talk) 16:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * No, not heard of him. Nice paintings- he's mentioned in Taro Miyake's article. There's a bit here about his final couple of years in Southwell. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 17:09, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I can use that. Hmm. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:24, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * High art, low brow! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:16, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

The ploughin lection
What is: Molé et les factieux, File:Vincent Molé et les factieux.jpg. Hafspajen (talk) 17:20, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually appears to be Mathieu Molé (1584-1656), French statesman, and some rebels. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 17:48, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Why on earth are they giving ploughing lections? Or you mean the other. Hafspajen (talk) 19:21, 13 March 2015 (UTC)


 * "Started in 1793, the painting was completed in 1798. The top of the canvas burned in the fire museum on 7 December 1870. Purchased by the city of Bordeaux from Bernard Boyer-Fonfrède in 1830. Two preparatory drawings are in private collections and three painted sketches a collection of the Comte de Mimerel, one in the collection of Mr. Bruno Calvet in Bordeaux, the third sold in Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 23 June 1922 (no. 15). The scene reflects the ideas of the Physiocrats: << Treatise on the Cultivation of land >> (1750) by the agronomist Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) << rural general and particular philosophy or economics of agriculture> > (1764 3 volumes) by the economist Mirabeau (1715-1789). It may represent the family of the sponsor, the conventional Gironde future François Bernard Boyer-Fonfrède (1766 - 1793), his wife Marie-Anne, born Barrere, and their children Geneviève and Jean Francois Bernard, who is the lesson of plowing . Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:38, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, well.. quite enough for an article, no? Hafspajen (talk) 20:46, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Physiocracy. Yes. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:52, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * AHEM. ahem ahem uhum. scratch. Hafspajen (talk) 21:16, 13 March 2015 (UTC)



Xanty, I have an important question to ask.
Do you LIKE cows or I have been miss-informed? Hafspajen (talk) 20:46, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, I've never got into an argument with one. And they clean your shoes if you lie down in the field. Ellis Martin (illustrator) hasn't got an article- he did a painting of Boulter's Lock for the Ordnance Survey and designed a lot of their publicity in the 1920s and 1930s. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:52, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Noticed it. Hafspajen (talk) 21:50, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * But Edward John Gregory's painting of Boulter's Lock is here- Hafspajen (talk) 22:10, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, that was it. So, after these responses... no - I am not editing any more any Signposts. No point in posting anything ever at Adam's page since he never responds, and probably never even reads it. Just telling - if anyone ever will read it. - Hafspajen (talk) 12:46, 22 March 2015 (UTC).
 * Hi Hafs. I've read all the stuff- getting nagged at the moment in real life, will comment later. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 15:25, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, it is -as it is. Hafspajen (talk) 17:44, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes- Je suis en mission pour mon gouvernement Force de subversion, onzième commandement -MC Solaar Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 18:30, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Fixed... - your favorite... By the way, if we do that article (mostly you) and move it in mainspace, about that picture I found, do you want to co-nom? Hafspajen (talk) 00:18, 29 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, sound good. I'll try and have a look maybe Monday/Tuesday (Signpost taking up most of spare time at moment). Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 00:22, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Can imagine. I know how it is.  Hafspajen (talk) 00:57, 29 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Well, sorry you got blocked on the Swedish Wiki. Was trying to talk to them, and tell them you are my friend who only wanted to follow the IP users's bright idea of a Je Suis Hafspajen  - moment  or movement  on a Swedish Wiki- and hope they unblock you. I guess my temperament is not fitting in there. I am to much of a freedom-lover  and much of a non-conformist - to enjoy a much to strict atmosphere. Here nobody cares a bit how we use our talks and fun it is, too - as we many times already stated it... it is an atmosphere of creative chaos that is beneficial to the project, it is fun, humour that is doing no harm,  they give a personal touch, and some like EEng, Many of us happen to find H's efforts uplifting, amusing, and inspiring. (And in the best traditions of open content, I've shamelessly stolen it). Crazy EEng...  If it makes people amused,  is no  harm in it and  it is a creative fun ... and  at least 30 articles were created through this kind of fun, if not more, people picking up an idea, an other coming up with an other one, many of those articles went to DYK, at least five resulted in articles that later had Featured pictures from those article, lately it was the Ploughing in the Nivernais - both a DYK and a FP: so it is surely, in fact, beneficial to Wikipedia.   It is not about being  temperamental and dramatic - as some judged me - it is simply ... not liking to follow rules that there is little point in it. Why didn't they  show some more tolerance here? It doesn't cost them anything. Using pictures on a talk-page didn't hurt anyone. Placing a red link on a talk-page didn't hurt anyone. When we have so much fun here with our freedom of doing what we want on talk-pages .... it would feel like going in a desert with no water  - to conform to the no-picture, no-fun - policy.  Hafspajen (talk) 00:34, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately some people think fun is the enemy of progress and achievement, when (as these Nobel Laureates well know ) the opposite is true. Call me crazy. EEng (talk) 05:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Just did, EEng dear... Hafspajen (talk) 05:22, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, duhhhh!!! EEng (talk) 05:44, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, I guess, they they blocked him too.. Hafspajen (talk) 05:49, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Happy to notice you were unblocked. Hafspajen (talk) 17:05, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Fowler Calculators
I heard your sarcasm loud and clear and the redlink is now blue. On a related subject, I recall looking through four-figure mathematical tables at school, which were required reading in the pre-calculator era. Ritchie333 <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  10:28, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Great! I've got a photo of one I'll upload later. Yes, I remember those log books. A friend collects slide rules, and that's how I got to hear about these. There's also Thacher and Stanley calculators (which are drums) and Unique and Thornton Pickard (British manufacturers). Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 11:16, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I had a chat with (sorry, don't know her "regular" WP handle) just before Christmas about visits to the Science Museum, which she is a fan of (having only been there during the daytime with my kids, I miss out on the evening dos). You can find all sorts of gadgets like this in here, many of which I suspect are lacking articles. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk)  <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  11:59, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Gotta spare lifetime? Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 13:14, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

You've got mail!
 Go  Phightins  !  19:46, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

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Xanthi (regional unit), Articles for deletion/Log/2015 April 1. Hafspajen (talk) 02:59, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Niagara Falls, from the American Side
<small style="color:#999;white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:lightgrey 0.3em 0.3em 0.15em;">&mdash; <big style="color:#ffa439">Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 16:02, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

PLEASE COMMENT
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia (7th nomination)... Hafspajen (talk) 22:25, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

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Yes, I do need an invitation. I promised myself that I will not return unless somebody - anybody puts me back on that list. Until then, I will tell if things are wrong, if they are wrong. Hafspajen (talk) 12:47, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Crediting the the wrong person is serious. Also writing things and not having any idea is no good either, especially when he just copies my own comment and doesn't even explain it, what is all about. I don't like it. I don't like when people copy my comments and not even credit me for it.  Hafspajen (talk) 12:57, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Featured Content
We would like to have a group discussion on Skype text chat with everyone on the FC team. In a few days, User:Go Phightins! will contact you privately to coordinate this. Please let him know about your availability if you are willing to participate. Thank you. Gamaliel ( talk ) 16:11, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:41, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Copyrights
She had some big guns, and a nice runway. If it was not appropriate then it was removed. I have no plans to have a digital meltdown or create a hate page about others to make a point about how upset I am, over one of my comments being perceived as sexist. (I am not upset at all) and am frankly speaking glad that another editor was able to read the tone he/she felt from the comments and clarify it. That is how this site is designed to work. One can only hope that others, that perhaps do not have my yachting background would pick up on innuendo the comment might cause and it was removed. To me, all boats are "she" as it has been in nautical terms for hundreds of years. If you do not care to communicate that is fine, and your welcome to join Skype conversations regarding anything on SP as it is going to be more productive then picking my efforts apart, unless you simply can not help it, then go right ahead and pick away. If your interested in cohesive communication please use my talk page, and try to refrain from talking smack about my contributions. The Signpost is open to every editor to contribute to. My invite was from Adam Cuerden originally, I took him up on the request and am now the subject of a non stop bashing that your only feeding into. Thank you! <font style="font-variant:small-caps">talk→  WPPilot   17:08, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * So another editor sees your contribution and reads the tone as "low-brow" and "sexist" ->frankly speaking glad that another editor was able to read the tone he/she felt from the comments and clarify it (to quote you). Take it up with the editor responsible- I just reported their edit summary. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 17:29, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I am not concerned with it, and as such have no need to redress this with the editor that made the comment. I am concerned that you are unable to address me in cohesive manner and your contributing to a needless drama in progress. Please use my talk page if you have something you would like to communicate to me. Thank you! <font style="font-variant:small-caps">talk→  WPPilot   17:49, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, hey, you write the "sexist crap". Who am I to complain? Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:20, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * "I write sexist crap", well IMHO "your funny". It is sad that you see it that way, but under the first amendment everyone in the USA is allowed freedom of speech, and I commend you for that. Keep up the good work. Cheers! <font style="font-variant:small-caps">talk→   WPPilot   23:27, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * When something is encased in quotes it is a quotation. I am quoting the opinion of another editor who states that what you wrote is "sexist crap". Not my opinion. Other opinions that editors have expressed about your writing seem to be mostly concerned with plagiarism, i.e. you've been lifting chunks out of articles without putting them in quotes. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:42, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Using female pronouns for a boat isn't necessarily sexist, though of course it's as antiquated as Sir Walter Scott's prose. However, the vernacular, jocular tone of "she had some big guns" suggests personification, and so one wonders how one is supposed to read "and a nice runway"--as a "landing strip". Say, Xanty, where did all this take place? It's starting to sound quite exciting. Drmies (talk) 03:15, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I will be sure to do that in the future, it was not intentional and, as I have always said my contributions are considered part of the rough draft to ease the workload at Adams request. It would be nice to point these things out, in plain English as you have and it will be addressed in my future editorial contributions. The comment was a joke, I guess I am not keeping on what is Sexist Crap in this day and age. Opps perhaps but not worth getting upset over. Learn as you go. Hope that your day is a perfect one! <font style="font-variant:small-caps">talk→  WPPilot   00:48, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * My intent was to try and stop Hafs being so concerned about their edit being labelled "sexist"- hence I mentioned the characterisation of WPPilot's edit (as above). Just found out that my mental image of a mutinuous sailor kissing a big gun is in fact wrong- he's trying to whistle surreptitiously. Have a good day you both. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 06:46, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Here we go again
You used to do the FA's and you vanished. I am only willing to do FP's and assumed that you would do the FA's but when you vanished and made it clear that your not willing to communicate then I did what I could to cover for your deficiencies. Your making the publishing of this harder for no reason. You are not the editor in charge yet your clearly dedicated to sabotaging my efforts.

You are clearly good at picking apart my contributions, in spite of the fact that the publication readership is overwhelming increased over the last 4 issues, I can see based upon your comments that you are now going to pick up for your pal and rather then fix any problem you see, your going to use it to attack my efforts. Publishing deadline is still in the future, and ONCE AGAIN I HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT MY CONTRIBUTIONS ARE ROUGH AND OPEN TO CHANGE BY ANY OTHER EDITORS. I will let you do the ENTIRE next issue as I have had enough of this and all the drama is unhealthy. Wikipedia Signpost/2015-05-06/Featured content good luck and have a nice day, I am going flying! Have fun.........<font style="font-variant:small-caps">talk→  WPPilot   14:40, 28 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks- will do. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:12, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

A metaphor or a metaphorical device?
I think you're knowledgeable in art history, so you might be able to answer the question I posed at Talk:Gian Lorenzo Bernini. CorinneSD (talk) 22:02, 4 May 2015 (UTC)


 * You presume too much! I had a look and I'd rather answer here (because I had to look up what a metaphor was). I think the edit's probably correct- I understand a device to mean a pattern or design in an artwork; since the device could have some meaning (like the drawing of a knot indicating something bound in union) I suppose you could talk of a metaphorical device. But here the context seems to be Bernini's use of "offstage lighting" to highlight objects of devotion- areas of the painting are lightened as if illumination is coming from outside the canvas. Metaphor's probably better- but metaphor for what? The article doesn't say, does it? If all the world's a stage, what is all the light? I hope this is helpful. I've probably made a eejit of meself. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 22:25, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * No, you didn't make an eejit of yourself. Your comment is thoughtful and interesting. I think it is precisely because the sentence does not refer to a specific meaning that light is supposed to represent that "a metaphorical device" is better than "a metaphor". Also, I think, generally, a metaphor is used more in literature, and a metaphorical device is used more in art and theater. In any case, it has been reverted by User:Johnbod, and I think he's right. CorinneSD (talk) 22:58, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Good, 'cos me brain hurts now. Time to sleep, perchance to dream. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 23:02, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Wednesday
Cheers! — &#124; Gareth Griffith-Jones &#124; The Welsh Buzzard&#124; — 09:12, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks- he's still active on Commons, but hopefully no-one will slip up and let him back here. Haf's proposal that the Signpost shouldn't have bylines is a good idea- I was opposed to it some time back, but now see that it is the way forward. Would have put a brake on WP's relentless self-promotion. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 09:20, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

FC
Hey Xanth, as per our earlier discussion, I've recruited to help out with FC. I think we're going to work pretty well together! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 16:15, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Good! I'll make a start contrib later on. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:16, 26 May 2015 (UTC)


 * At your service. :) –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 17:36, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

List of scheduled monuments in Mendip
Thanks for your note re List of scheduled monuments in Mendip. Unless they have added one in the last month or two (which is always possible) then with User:Noswall59 I spent many happy hours trying to resolve the numbers English Heritage (now Historic England) count with duplicates, similar names etc etc (see User talk:Noswall59) If you are writing it up as the final one of the set you might want to mention a current featured topic nomination built on all of these (see Featured topic candidates/Scheduled monuments in Somerset/archive1).&mdash; Rod talk 17:51, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I've mentioned it, with a dash of Mummerset. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:37, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks - Wells Cathedral isn't a scheduled monument (although parts of the Bishops Palace are). I am currently searching the Historic England Lists to try to identify the discrepancy.&mdash; Rod talk 06:59, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * That's weird- Wells Cathedral says it is! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:05, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Monument number 196971, according to Pastscape. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:20, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Good spot. That Pastscape ref says "Scheduled. (6-9) ", but refs 6-9 are all over 50 years old or to minor newsletters rather than official sources. The current definitive list is The Historic England list. If you choose advanced search & select location as Wells & scheduled as heritage category it shows 3 sites (barn, gate & part of palace), not including the cathedral. If you do the same advanced search for location = Mendip & category = scheduled you get 234 - I'm trying to find which of those 234 are not in our list, or whether they have an entry twice (which happens sometimes).&mdash; Rod talk 07:36, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I tried to have a look- I got the 234 records, but can't display more than 25 on the screen at the same time (which makes looking for duplicates difficult) and the option to print doesn't allow more than 50 records. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:53, 18 June 2015 (UTC)