User talk:Ewulp

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Guernica

Goodmorning, Why did you remove the complete paragrapf on 'The Bombardment of Almeria', the recently discovered counterpiece to Guernica? The paintings are 100% connected, historical, political. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CdGr (talk • contribs) 10:10, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Edgar Degas

Hello Ewulp. I'm wondering why you so quickly changed my corrections back to your original versions. Let's look at them one by one.

• The standard nomenclature for surnames in French which include de as a separate word is with a small first letter, as shown. Further, the French version of Wikipedia confirms that his family name was indeed de Gas ([[1]]).

• Since the standard nomenclature is de Gas, I removed the word "even" from your statement about de Gas being more aristocratic than De Gas.

• I confess my attempt to correct your hyphen to a dash was also incorrect in terms of Wikipedia's standard. But you should change your incorrect hyphens to the correct form of dash. But I accept that Wikipedia's dash symbol "—" is very (too) similar to the hyphen "–", and perhaps it was I who could not see the difference.

• English grammar requires that the word "either" be used only when two alternatives are being compared, the logic being that "either" is grammatically congruent with "both": you would not write "both from memory, photographs, and live models"; similarly you should not use "either" if there are more than two alternatives. So I removed the word "either" from "either from memory, photographs, or live models". (Incidentally, if there were only two alternatives, the word "either" should be in a different position anyway: "from either memory or photographs", or rephrased as "either from memory or from photographs".)

I thoroughly enjoyed your article ― thank you. I hope you accept that my corrections are not in any way meant as criticisms, but made in the interests of presenting good, consistent French and English usage to Wikipedia's readers. With this in mind, please reconsider accepting them. Cheers. (Harry Audus (talk) 08:51, 20 November 2021 (UTC))

Thanks for your note. You are correct about "either" (also about a comma you removed); I shouldn't have reverted those changes, which will be reinstated. Elsewhere, you changed an unspaced emdash "—" to a spaced emdash, which as you note is deprecated by our MOS. A hyphen "-" is much smaller and is not used where a dash is needed.

On the subject of Degas's family name, we can't use the French version of Wikipedia as a source; Wikipedia is never considered a valid source for Wikipedia (see WP:USERG). The source cited in our article is Jean Sutherland Boggs, who writes: "[Degas] is the form of the name of the family of bankers from which the artist sprung (see Sigwalt 1988, pp 1181-1191). His Neapolitan grandfather and the grandfather's children normally used this form", which Boggs says is incised on the family tomb in Naples (Baumann et al., p. 98). She specifies "Auguste De Gas" as the spelling affected by the artist's father, while the artist's brother René preferred "de Gas". Gordon and Forge (Degas 1988, p. 15) tell the same story: Grandfather René-Hilaire Degas settled in Naples after the Revolution and prospered. "It was not unusual for the new rich to want to give the impression of a landed background. This was the case with members of Degas's family, who began to spell their name 'De Gas' or 'de Gas' only in his father's lifetime". Henri Loyrette (Degas 1991, pp. 10–11) confirms this and gives additional details concerning the construction by Degas's brother Achille of a doubtful noble ancestry using the split name. We need to report accurately what our sources say, hence my revert. Ewulp (talk) 10:11, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Jules Pascin

I had started to c/e this article yesterday but note that you have been working on it so will leave it be. I'm curious why you felt it necessary to delete the info box I'd added. These are standard in any biographical and many other articles in different subject areas. They are certainly not "unnecessary".Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:26, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Infoboxes are often problematical in biographical articles, particularly in articles about people in the arts, because they tend to oversimplify the complex and to mislead by undue emphasis. When I said the infobox was unnecessary I was paraphrasing what it says at MOS:INFOBOX: "The use of infoboxes is neither required nor prohibited for any article". The ib you added had numerous problems great and small. For example, although his nationality was Bulgarian, that's not the whole story. ULAN describes him as an "American and Bulgarian painter"; The first line of Oxford Art Online's Pascin article defines him as an "American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Bulgarian birth, active in France." Wikipedia's article explains all of this in the lead sentences; the ib was giving a too-simple account. Pascin's education was in Vienna, where he attended the academy, and in Moritz Heymann's school in Munich; later in Paris he attended various academies including Colarossi's. Pascin is not strongly identified with any movement. There were also problems with WP:ENGVAR and date format which would have needed fixing; as I considered making the fixes I decided it was just as well to remove it entirely. Ewulp (talk) 23:20, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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		Thanks for all the watching! Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Adoration of the Shepherds (Poussin) is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod (talk) 10:26, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Johnbod! Happy Holidays to you as well, and best wishes for 2016. Ewulp (talk) 01:43, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for the good wishes, Modernist, and all the best to you and yours in this holiday season and the year ahead! Ewulp (talk) 01:55, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Alfred Hitchcock

Hi Ewulp,

Please see my comments at Talk on Alfred Hitchcock. I'd appreciate discussing them with you there. Thanks. X4n6 (talk) 10:17, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Is it 20 or 21

Your edit at Bosch and the issue if it is "around 25 paintings" or if it should say "20 or 21 paintings". The first one sounds like a guess, while the second one sounds like the editor has given this more precise thought. Changing to this wording may be better than either your or my previous edit. Cheers. Fountains-of-Paris (talk) 16:56, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Recently, I took a closer look at the sibling page for Bosch on his paintings and a separate gallery for his drawings. The current articles containing the galleries of Bosch painting appears to be missing all of the dates for the various painting at List of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch and I was wondering if you might have the interest to possibly fill any of them in as a start to organizing things there. Is this something which might be possible for you when time allows? Fountains-of-Paris (talk) 16:32, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Possibly; would need to research. Ewulp (talk) 01:11, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

I could not tell if its time for a Wikibreak for you. If you return soon to Bosch possibly you might be able to look at Hieronymus Bosch drawings which does not have the benefit of the dating of drawings which were usefully added to his page for his paintings. It is the five hundred year commemoration for Bosch now and perhaps you could add the dates at some time in the future for his drawings page, if time allows, which looks quite random at this time. Cheers. Fountains-of-Paris (talk) 16:37, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Pandora's Box (1929 film)

Please do not edit war. Instead, go to article's talk page and make your case, per WP:BRD. The article stays in the status quo ante during discussion. BMK (talk) 01:22, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Three years ago ...

visual arts
... you were recipient no. 504 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

I sing in the Reger-Chor, did you know? Requiem (Reger) was first. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:55, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

You're fortunate I think! Reger is one of my favorite composers. Ewulp (talk) 22:59, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Did you see the other compositions on my talk? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:03, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

2016

peace bell

The peace bell by Yunshui: let's make 2016 the year of the reader and of peace! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:58, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Four years now! Going to sing Der 100. Psalm in November, in Ghent --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:59, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Five years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:17, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Another year gone by too fast ... Thanks Gerda! Ewulp (talk) 06:40, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

... and six! Going to sing Nystedt, Brahms and Monteverdi! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:37, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

... and seven --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

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Gerome

If it is a statue by Gerome, then please fix the caption accordingly. Don't leave it unsaid. Do you know this statue? Isambard Kingdom (talk) 01:30, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

It's in the Musée d'Orsay as seen here. Ewulp (talk) 03:10, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

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Quote marks and punctuation.

Thanks for the heads up on the style manual for this absolutely trivial issue (one that, nonetheless, I thought I was fixing). My mistake. Isambard Kingdom (talk) 00:51, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Max Reger

I may have a language difficulty. Max Reger was the composer, pianist etc, - he performed, composed, published as Max Reger, not as the load of birthnames. - He was a bit unconventional, so the conventional order may be not the right thing to do for him ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:37, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Please see MOS:BIRTHNAME: "Many cultures have a tradition of not using the full name of a person in everyday reference, but the article should start with the complete version"; examples of proper style are given there (Fidel Castro etc.). Also see Hugo Wolf, Groucho Marx, Walt Disney, Kiki of Montparnasse, other similar cases. There's no reason to make an exception here. Ewulp (talk) 02:21, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks Johnbod, and all the best to you and yours for the holiday season and the year ahead! Ewulp (talk) 06:12, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you Modernist! Here's to a holiday season filled with cheer, and my best wishes to you for 2017. Ewulp (talk) 00:12, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

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Pablo Picasso lead

Excellent resolution, you hit the nail on the head. Ceoil (talk) 21:37, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Ceoil! Ewulp (talk) 02:09, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Please explain why you changed my edits to Picasso's Demoiselles. Not all scholars maintain anymore that it "Is" a brothel. Picasso never said this. Barr never said this, and Blier has overturned this idea entirely. In French "le bordel" does NOT mean brothel (that word is un maison clos). When something is a "bordel" it is a mess (like a messy room) or a complex situation (like the colonial war in Algeria was a bordel). Whitemill33Whitemill33 (talk) 22:07, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

The full explanation is posted at Talk:Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Ewulp (talk) 03:53, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Please explain

Please explain why you removed my edits? zingvin. Brueghel's style, more close to Northern Netherlands (including Hieronymus Bosch's and 17th-century Dutch Golden Age art) than Catholic-dominated Southern Netherlands. He was more Netherlandish (northern) than Flemish (southern) in his style (talk) 22:22, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

"Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker from Brabant" seems a better description of him than "Dutch/Flemish/Netherlandish painter and printmaker from Brabant"; please see the discussions at Talk:Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Our article follows reliable sources, and MOS:SLASH discourages use of slashes, which are especially awkward in a lead sentence. Ewulp (talk) 01:06, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Are you one of the administrators of Rembrandt's bio article?

Sorry for the question because I'm an amateur in arts! But I know that the literature on Rembrandt's life and artistic output is huge and could fill a small library. So why this 'good' bio article lacks extensive sections about Rembrandt’s extraordinary achievement as a draftsman (see notes by David Hockney in his interviews about Rembrandt's draughtsmanship) and as a printmaker (historically, he was the greatest etcher of all time, and one of the greatest and most original printmakers until now).

This good article also lacks an important section about Rembrandt's legacy and influence (both contemporary and posthumous) on art and intellectual world in general, especially in France, Germany, and USA (19th century-20th century). Please read quotes of Francisco Goya (I have had three masters, Nature, Velázquez, and Rembrandt), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Rembrandt the Thinker), Eugène Delacroix (Perhaps we shall one day find that Rembrandt is a greater painter than Raphael), Auguste Rodin (Compare me with Rembrandt! What sacrilege! With Rembrandt, the colossus of Art! What are you thinking of, my friend! We should prostrate ourselves before Rembrandt and never compare anyone with him!), Kenneth Clark, and even highly controversial Damien Hirst who thought Rembrandt was not a genius? (I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then... Anyone can be like Rembrandt... Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius). And where section about cultural depictions of Rembrandt‎, in novels and films ? Also, there are so few (compare with numerous wiki articles about his paintings) wiki articles about his drawings and prints/etchings!?

zingvin (talk) 22:22, 25 Jan 2017 (UTC)

I'm not an administrator. When something that should be there is missing it's because nobody has written it yet. Wikipedia is the work of volunteers. Ewulp (talk) 00:59, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

The prints have a section which is more or less proportionate with the scale of the article. Johnbod (talk) 11:59, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

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Merging identical citations

I wish you wouldn't do this. I like to work on articles over a period, adding multiple sources & fine tuning. Unscrambling these refs is a pain, & the gain to readers is minuscule. Johnbod (talk) 04:16, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Did not notice an expansion was in progress; will suspend action. Ewulp (talk) 05:05, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

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Check this out

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Appreciate your input

Hi Ewulp I would greatly appreciate your input here:[3], thanks...Modernist (talk) 00:56, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Salvator Mundi (Leonardo)

Hello Ewulp, could you keep an eye on this article Salvator Mundi (Leonardo), and it's Talk page. There seems to be much contentious editing going on, especially with regard to authenticity (See latest in Talk). Thanks.Coldcreation (talk) 07:33, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

That wasn't on my watch list but it is now—Thanks, Coldcreation. Ewulp (talk) 21:04, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Reverting my edits

Hello! You seem to have made poor judgement in reverting my edits over at judenhut! Please discuss why you feel that my edits were in error! Thanks. 76.169.78.241 (talk) 06:42, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

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Raeben

Hi Ewulp,

I saw that you added a detail about Norman Raeben in the page of his art teacher. May I ask you from where you drew this information and if know something about Raeben? I am carrying out a research about him and I am looking for any bits of information.

Thank you

Fabio Fantuzzi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fabio Fantuzzi (talk • contribs) 23:36, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

The name of Norman Raeben is not familiar to me, so I checked the edit history of John French Sloan and found that his name was added in this edit LINK by Arno Matthias on January 6, 2007. My edit only moved it to a different position, and I'm afraid I don't have any knowledge of this artist. Ewulp (talk) 03:38, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas Ewulp!!


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Happy Holidays

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Happy New Year, Ewulp!

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Art Gallery of Ontario

Hello Ewulp, you may be interested in this conversation about the gallery section of Art Gallery of Ontario. Coldcreation (talk) 17:36, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, it looks like it's settled since you posted but I'll add the article to my watch list. Ewulp (talk) 04:03, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Kempler

Thanks. He managed to get an edit into the Britannica article, see Wt:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Editing Britannica.com. Doug Weller talk 18:57, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

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Ingres

Thanks for edits. Its such a tragic canvas, both her story and his. Ceoil (talk) 08:48, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

I hadn't seen the drawing of Fleetwood Pellew before, and am equally delirious and horrified. It must have been really early in Ingres' career that he got away with it. Did Pellew not have a close enough friend to tell him that it made him look like a jumped up little; well you know. Ceoil (talk) 15:57, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Irish Americans

Please, stop to revert my Edits in Irish Americans — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:431:D729:B15F:2D65:82FA:2F5E:4E1C (talk) 02:52, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Here is the reason for the revert: You list a mix of regions (the South; New England), states (Montana; New York; North Carolina; Pennsylvania}, and cities (Boston; Chicago) under the heading "Regions with significant populations", and you cite a source that mentions none of the place names you've listed with the exception of Boston. Your selection is arbitrary—for example, why include Montana? According to our article, the percentage of Montana's population that is Irish-American is 14.8. That is less than New Jersey's 15.9%, and barely higher than Iowa's 13.6%, Ohio's 13.5%, or Missouri's 13.2%, and all of those states have much larger total populations than Montana's 1 million (New Jersey = about 9 million, Iowa = about 3 million, Ohio = about 11 million), which means they have larger numbers of Irish Americans. And since all of these other states are geographically much smaller than Montana, they have much greater concentrations of Irish Americans per square mile. This kind of detail is not well conveyed using the infobox format. Ewulp (talk) 05:52, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Revert on Armstrong

I'm unaware of any "blanking" that I did, but the power did go out while I was typing. I didn't delete entire sections, which is what the word "blanking" suggests. I can paste back my changes, which are all in the early years section, if you refrain from reverting. Thanks.
Vmavanti (talk) 01:42, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining that. I reverted because the article was in very bad state. All sections except "Early Life" were missing, which meets the definition of Wikipedia:Blanking, hence my use of the term. I presumed that you were either the victim of a good-faith mishap or your account was hacked. Ewulp (talk) 04:41, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Reverts on various artist pages

Hello, I've noticed you have undone a lot of edits I've made recently with the tag "rv spamming." I'm unsure why the edits have been considered spamming, could you explain so I can fix them? Thank you 128.239.106.66 (talk) 18:18, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

The reason for the reverts is that the inclusion of a single work (or a few works) by artist N in a group exhibition does not in most cases merit inclusion in artist N's article. Unless a group exhibition is of singular importance in the artist's career (or, like the Armory Show, a milestone in the history of art) it is probably too trivial to include. In Wikipedia articles about artists you'll notice that if any exhibitions are listed they usually are major solo exhibitions – see here for good examples to follow when editing artist bios.

The fact that every edit you have made adds information about the Muscarelle Museum of Art fits the pattern of spamming. Such editing is often done by editors who have a close association with the subject, and is discouraged because it looks promotional, whether intended or not. Please see WP:COI for more about this if it applies to you.

In cases such as Henry Ossawa Tanner I didn't revert, because the content you added is not out of proportion or out of context. Ewulp (talk) 01:51, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks! 128.239.106.66 (talk) 14:27, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Hans Bohrdt

On May 23, 2017 you added new material to the Hans Bohrdt article. In the World War I section you started a sentence as follows, but it is incomplete. I was hoping that you would go back and add the missing material. The sentence below was added during your last edit that day.

"Bohrdt must have felt that fate had indeed been most unkind, for d"

I was adding a photograph to the article today when I noticed the unfinished sentence. Zcarstvnz (talk) 14:10, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

That wasn't anything I added; it was part of a sentence in the existing article that got separated from the rest in the copyediting. It's a bit of subjective writing I intended to delete (and have now done so). Ewulp (talk) 00:47, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

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The Tyger

Hi, I want to thank you for pointing out that it is a poem. I somehow didn't see that and just blindly went and capitalized song.

Happy editing, --It's Boothsift 00:52, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

De Chirico

Dear Ewulp

maybe if you have time you can give again your contribution to the thread that you opened on the Giorgio de Chirico discussion page. Thanks, Alex2006 (talk) 08:07, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Da Vinci

Why Leonardo Da Vinci is called Italian when Italy did not exist and instead other historical figures such as Bismark is not called German? What is the convention or criteria? Jacob34T (talk) 23:24, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

This is the conventional description, as seen for instance in the Getty Union List of Artist Names, which is considered authoritative. In Wikipedia, Renaissance artists from Venice (e.g., Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto), Siena (Stefano di Giovanni), Parma (Parmigianino), Florence (Michelangelo), and elsewhere are called Italian according to art-historical custom. Ewulp (talk) 23:58, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Ok,thanks. But, why in the article of Christopher Columbus he is called Italian if he was Genoese? Jacob34T (talk) 02:16, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

The editors are following reliable sources. The matter has been discussed many times over the years on the article's talk page (see here and here for example); please search the archive on the talk page for more. Ewulp (talk) 03:56, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Virginia Liston

When you have a problem with a particular edit, please don't revert a long list of edits, because that suggests you object to every edit. Discuss that particular edit that you have a problem with rather than reverting everything. That's how Wikipedia is supposed to work. Now, I have a book by Scott Yanow called Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide that lists Virginia Liston's birth as 1890, not circa 1890. Do you have a problem with that?
–Vmavanti (talk) 13:41, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

My edit was the opposite of "reverting everything". Here is a diff showing your changes; here is a diff showing that my edit preserved all your changes except that I restored "circa" or "about" in front of the YOB and restored "it is thought that" in front of "she was born in Louisiana". You introduced an error by changing "single" into "song"; I edited that for clarity and added details and a source. By rough count, that leaves at least 20 other changes you made that I thought were fine and did not revert. You, on the other hand, reverted everything, including improvements entirely unrelated to your edits: a new reference, two grammar fixes, movement of some song titles from the lead to a paragraph where some context is provided, and correction of longstanding punctuation anomalies to bring the article into compliance with MOS:LQUOTE.

Blues Who's Who by Sheldon Harris gives Liston's YOB as "c1890 (unconfirmed)". Here is what some books published more recently than Yanow's say: Eagle & LeBlanc (2013), Blues: A Regional Experience has "Virginia Liston (v) (Louisiana, about 1890—St. Louis, Missouri, reportedly June 1932)" (p. 513); Jasen & Jones (2013), Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 says "c.1890–1932" (here); and Taft (2013), Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942 says "born around 1890" (p.378). Finally, the source I cited, Abbott & Seroff (2017), The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville, is a scholarly book that evidences considerable serious research and provides more detail about Liston's life than any other source I've seen—and concludes that her birth year and birthplace are uncertain (p. 178).

Reliable sources emphasize that many details about Liston's early life are unknown. I don't think we do our readers a service by pretending the questions don't exist. Ewulp (talk) 01:48, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

It's not life or death to me, but I do know what I'm doing. It's wrong to fall into the neoteric trap of assuming recent sources are correct while older sources are wrong simply because they occur later in time. It's like saying progress is built into time, i.e. what I think today, wrote today, did today, is automatically better than what I thought, wrote, did yesterday. Tuesday is better than Monday? Don't link big cities or states, so unlink New Orleans and Louisiana. That goes for infoboxes, too. What's the advantage in using a limp-wristed construction like "It is thought"? Why is "Virginia Crawford" in bold type"? Why is there a comma after "born in 1890"? The comma after "in local theaters in 1900" is a comma splice. Why remove the periods from U.S.? US is "us" capitalized. Why use "apparently"? You seem to like ambiguity. It either happened or it didn't. Don't speculate. This isn't the place for speculation. If something is known, source it; if not, don't say it. Encyclopedias are about facts. You tend to use journalistic construction and diction and National Enquirer insinuation. Most people do. See Quack this Way by David Foster Wallace. "Subsequently". There's another bugaboo. If you deleted that, would you lose anything? No. It's a word people use because other people use it. See Wallace again. Why remove the periods from Washington, D.C.? There's another comma splice after "Harlem theaters". Why fear the Oxford comma? If you hate Oxford, call it the serial comma. No reason to fear it. Ambiguity is always removed when you use it. So use it. Should be "Gray, Liston, and Williams". I don't understand the timidity regarding that usage. You used apposition incorrectly. When you wrote, "Several of her songs contained sexual innuendo, such as "Rolls Royce Papa", Rolls Royce is modifying innuendo. It should modify "songs". So: "Several of her songs, such as Rolls Royce". By the way, many or most blues songs contain sexual innuendo. I don't see the point in mentioning it here other than titillation. I worked for a radio station that had a blues program. Check your use of "remarried". See the ambiguity in the word? Click on my name for usage tips.
–Vmavanti (talk) 12:40, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Many newer and older sources (e.g., Harris) say that Liston's birth year is not known. "It is thought" means "this is what reliable sources say is likely, or widely believed, but they have reservations". Wikipedia reports what sources say. "Virginia Crawford" is correctly bolded per MOS:CHANGEDNAME. The phrase "born in 1890" does not appear in the article. A comma that precedes a conjunction separating two independent clauses is not a comma splice, and removing the one after "Harlem theaters" would create ambiguity. Neither I nor anybody else removed the periods from U.S. (Are you sure you know what you're doing? In any case, "US" is fine per MOS:US.) "Apparently" paraphrases our source, which says "Dave and Virginia seem to have separated by 1913". "Subsequently" makes it clear that she had not yet made DC her home in 1910 when she was touring Texas. Had you checked the edit history you would have noticed that I did not write the line about "Rolls Royce Papa", nor did I write "Gray, Liston and Williams" or "remarried" (although that is the right word there). Blaming me for things I didn't write and that your own edits left untouched makes a brilliant impression of course. But your effort here isn't a dead loss; I see from looking at MOS:NEE that the bolded "Crawford" belongs in the lead, and you've brought attention to one or two things that neither you nor I noticed before, which I'll fix. Ewulp (talk) 04:28, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

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Otto Dix

So are you saying that Category:Otto Dix shouldn't exist? Editor2020 (talk) 23:20, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

WP:OCEPON says "Eponymous categories named after people should not be created unless enough directly related articles or subcategories exist ... Practically, even most notable people lack enough directly related articles or subcategories to populate eponymous categories effectively but Category:Barack Obama, Category:John Maynard Keynes and Category:Albert Einstein are some exceptions." Category:Otto Dix contains three articles; numbers don't get much smaller than three. Ewulp (talk) 00:52, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

OK. So should we delete the Category:Otto Dix? Editor2020 (talk) 04:44, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

It should be deleted. Ewulp (talk) 05:09, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Mariana

Would you mind revisiting when you have time; think all of your suggestions and advice have been (finally) implemented, but I dragged in responding, the nom may be on the verge of overstaying its welcome with the co-ords :) Ceoil (talk) 20:12, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

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Harold Lloyd Wikipedia Entry and Racially Restrictive Covenants/Request to Correct False Allegations

Dear Ewulp,

We represent Harold Lloyd Entertainment, Inc. (“HLE”). Among other things, HLE is the owner of the copyrights and all rights, title and interest in and to the movies of Harold Lloyd (including but not limited to The Freshman) and the publicity rights of Mr. Lloyd, one of the most famous and popular actors and comedians of the silent era. We apologize for contacting you out the blue, but we are reaching out to you at the recommendation of legal counsel at the Wikipedia Foundation, who has suggested that we inform relevant editors of the official Wikipedia entry for Harold Lloyd, found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lloyd, about the serious concerns that have arisen regarding the unfounded allegations of racism and support for racially restrictive covenants that have been leveled against Mr. Lloyd therein.

Specifically, we are deeply troubled by the last paragraph in the Harold Lloyd biography section entitled “Personal Life” and its assertion that “[I]n the early 1940s, Lloyd supported a neighborhood improvement association in Beverly Hills that attempted to enforce the all-white covenant [in place in Beverly Hills] in court after a number of black actors and business had begun buying properties in the area,” (the “Allegation”). As detailed below, this Allegation is wholly without any factual basis. In the process, it not only unfairly besmirches the good name and reputation of an iconic Hollywood legend, but it is also has caused and continues to cause significant injury to HLE’s existing and prospective business relationships because of the very serious charges of racism that it raises—charges that are (rightfully) toxic in the public arena.

We understand, based on the Talk file for the portions of the Lloyd biography pertaining to racially restrictive covenants, that you have raised similar concerns about the references to racially restrictive covenants and Mr. Lloyd’s alleged support therefor. As you wrote in the Talk Notes: “The article shouldn't exaggerate Lloyd's role here; these covenants were unfortunately common throughout the US at the time, and Lloyd (as far as we can tell) was not one of the eight white Sugar Hill plaintiffs who sued to have their black neighbors evicted in the 1944 [sic] case that Judge Thurmond Clarke decided.” Indeed, there are no facts whatsoever establishing any link between Harold Lloyd and the Sugar Hills litigation or any of the plaintiffs therein and, as detailed below, any allegation of racism against Mr. Lloyd is wholly at odds with any facts we know about his life and how he lived it. As such, we are writing to kindly request that you might consider, in the interest of accuracy and fairness, to correct the problematic portion regarding said Allegation and the surrounding discussion regarding racially restrictive covenants. Your consideration of this request is deeply appreciated.

Allow us first to begin by thanking you for the unparalleled public service that you, through Wikipedia, provide to the world. Wikipedia is an invaluable public resource that has democratized knowledge and leavened disparities in access to social, political, cultural and scientific information and its many volunteers, such as yourself, play a vital role in that. As such, Wikipedia has represented a transformative tool for education, transparency, and, above all, the truth in a time when so-called ‘Fake News’ dominates the Internet.

With Wikipedia’s dedication to accuracy, proper sourcing and careful research in mind, the detailed analysis below plainly demonstrates that the Allegation against Mr. Lloyd Harold is without substance or reliable support. And, unfortunately, the Allegation tarnishes the legacy of an American legend and causes direct economic harm to HLE and its intellectual property and contractual interests. As you know, charges of racism and bigotry can impact the way in which a public figure is viewed and it can shatter careers and legacies (see, e.g., Paula Deen, PewDiePie, Kate Smith, John Wayne and Morrissey). When these allegations are without basis, lives are fundamentally altered both unjustly and unfairly. In this particular case, the Allegations have already threatened HLE and, among other things, interfered with its existing and prospective business relationships. Specifically, HLE is under contract with certain companies for a forthcoming original, feature-length animated motion picture based on Harold Lloyd and his films. This project is now in jeopardy as a direct result of the unfounded Allegations. These companies have put HLE on direct notice that investor concerns regarding the Allegations are significantly curtailing the ability of the movie’s producers to raise the necessary funding for continuing support of the project.

In the Wikipedia entry for Harold Lloyd, the Allegation is footnoted with a single citation to a single source—a book by Stephen Grant Meyer. The Talk File for the “Restrictive Covenant” section of Harold Lloyd’s entry on Wikipedia, further expands on the purported support for the Allegation by referencing “at least three reliable sources for Lloyd’s involvement in presenting the restrictions.” Yet these sources—books by Stephen Grant Meyer, Anima Hassan and Nancie Clare—do not provide any credible support for the proposition that Mr. Lloyd supported racially restrictive covenants and efforts to keep blacks and Jews out of Beverly Hills or his neighborhood. Thus, the Allegations violate Wikipedia’s commitment to accuracy and verifiability. Given the particularly incendiary nature of the claims—claims that easily fall under Wikipedia’s policy for “exceptional claims”—Wikipedia’s own burden of requiring multiple high-quality sources supporting the proposition is simply not met.

First of all, Nancie Clare’s book THE BATTLE FOR BEVERLY HILLS (St. Martin’s Press, 2018) states only that Lloyd “joined a neighborhood association whose goal was to enforce the city’s restrictive covenants that prohibited nonwhites, including Jews, from buying or renting property in the city,” id. at 195—an aspersion that could be cast upon millions of Americans at a time when both political major political parties—both Democrats and Republicans—supported such measures. More importantly, the book does not remotely suggest that Mr. Lloyd actually supported any efforts to enforce restrictive covenants (the proposition for which it is relied upon); rather, it simply claims that Mr. Lloyd was a mere member of a group that supported restrictive covenants. Above all, it does not provide any citation to substantiate its accusations and it does not provide any details regarding the neighborhood association in question or its identity.

Meanwhile, both the Meyer and Hassan books only restate claims from a single, 70-word article that appeared in the Chicago (Daily) Defender on July 28, 1945 (the “Article”). Specifically, Stephen Grant Meyer’s book, AS LONG AS THEY DON’T MOVE NEXT DOOR (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), alleges that “one of the white home owners who led the challenge to black occupancy in Beverly Hills was also an actor: the silent-screen comedian, Harold Lloyd.” Id. at 76. Yet the only citation it makes that might support any such speculation is to the Chicago Defender Article.

Amina Hassan’s book, LOREN MILLER: CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY AND JOURNALIST (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015), fares no better. It claims that “In 1941, . . . Harold Lloyd, famous for hanging from the hands of a skyscraper clock tower in Safety Last! (1923), led the drive to keep blacks and Jews from moving into nearby Beverly Hills. Id. at 132. To support this proposition, Hassan’s book also cites only to the Chicago Defender Article. And, to make matters worse and to cast the rigor of Hassan’s research into further doubt, she erroneously cites the Article to date the relevant events as taking place in 1941 when, in fact, the Chicago Defender has them taking place in 1945.

In effect, therefore, the Allegations against Mr. Lloyd solely emanate from the Article. All of the remaining sources that state the Allegation are simply mimicking the claim by citing back to the Article. Thus, to assess the reliability and accuracy of the Allegation, it is necessary to examine the Article. As even the most cursory review of the Article demonstrates, the Chicago Defender piece neither credibly asserts the Allegations against Mr. Lloyd nor does it have any support from other sources.

The Article, entitled “Harold Lloyd Heads Anti-Negro Drive,” appeared on the front page of the Chicago (Daily) Defender on July 28, 1945 and its total content of 70 words reads as follows: "The famous film comedian of the silver screen was reported as the prime instigator of the new Beverly Hills restrictive covenant drive. A recent letter, sent out over the name of the famous actor, called for a meeting of residents here to sign restrictive covenants. The letter, sent out through offices of the Chamber of Commerce, was disclaimed by company officials who admitted that Lloyd had been elected president recently."

While it is true that Mr. Lloyd, at one time, served as the head of Beverly Hill’s Chamber of Commerce, the remainder of the Article is filled with ambiguities, inaccuracies, unsupported speculation and sophistry:

1. The Article engages in pure conjecture and succumbs to salacious innuendo in remarking, vaguely and in the passive voice, that Mr. Lloyd “was reported as the prime instigator of the new Beverly Hills restrictive covenant drive.” Notably, therefore, the Article fails to name any sources for its idle and unsupported tabloid gossip. For example:
2. The Article refers to a purported letter that was sent out by the Chamber of Commerce which the Article ties to Harold Lloyd. But, notably, it does not say the letter was written or drafted by Harold Lloyd, or even approved by Harold Lloyd (it merely alleges that it was “sent out over the name” of Harold Lloyd).
3. The Article fails to quote any actual contents of the purported letter. As such, its characterization of the letter and its contents are rightfully suspect and unsupported.
4. The Article only states the letter “called for a meeting of residents . . . to sign restrictive covenants.” As such, the Article does not state, outright, that an actual position was taken in the letter (i.e., that restrictive covenants are good or bad) and, quite possibly, the letter, if it existed, may have only provided information that such a meeting was taking place.
5. The Article is unclear as to when the letter was sent out (referring only to the vague characterization of “recently”), a particularly odd omission since official letter are always dated. As such, the Article’s leap in logic—that Harold Lloyd was recently made president of the Chamber of Commerce and that, therefore, the letter must be reflective of his point of view, is pure speculation. Indeed, the Article does not expressly spell out that the letter was written or sent out while Mr. Lloyd was, in fact, President.
6. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the Article itself acknowledges that the purported letter’s authenticity and accuracy in reflecting the viewpoint of the Chamber of Commerce (and, by extension, Harold Lloyd, who is being tied to the views of the Chamber of Commerce by virtue of his presidency thereof for a period of time) was contemporaneously and directly disputed and called into question. As the Article admits, “The letter, sent out through offices of the Chamber of Commerce, was disclaimed by company officials.” This sentence—the concluding one in the Article—renders the salacious, unsupported and speculative headline “Harold Lloyd Heads Anti-Negro Drive” wholly bunk and makes any misrepresentation of this Article as historical truth wholly inappropriate.

It's also worth noting that the statements surrounding the sentence containing the Allegation in Mr. Lloyd’s Wikipedia page are also demonstrably false or inaccurate. Specifically, Lloyd’s Wikipedia page states that “Greenacres [Mr. Lloyd’s home] was built in the 1920s in Beverly Hills, one of Los Angeles’ all-white planned communities. The area had restrictive covenants prohibiting non-whites and Jews from living there unless they were in the employment of a white resident (typically a domestic servant). In the early 1940s, Lloyd supported a neighborhood improvement association in Beverly Hills that attempted to enforce the all-white covenant in court after a number of black actors and business had begun buying properties in the area. The association lost its suit in a 1944 decision by Federal Judge Thurmond Clarke, and in 1948 the United States Supreme Court declared in Shelley v. Kraemer that all racially restrictive covenants in the United States were unenforceable.” Yet these sentences, and their citing sources in the Wikipedia page, are riddled with errors.

Among other things, this section contains the following inaccuracies:

1. The lawsuit to which the sentences refer challenged racially restrictive covenants in Sugar Hills, which is not in Beverly Hills, but in the West Adams area of Los Angeles. See Victory on Sugar Hill, TIME MAGAZINE (Dec. 17, 1945) (referring to Sugar Hills as being in the West Adams area of Los Angeles). As such, there was no direct link between the lawsuit and Greenacres (which was in Beverly Hills), Harold Lloyd, or any neighborhood improvement association in Beverly Hills;
2. The “federal judge” handling the case was, at the time, only a state Superior Court judge for Los Angeles County (Judge Thurmond Clarke did not receive his commission as a federal judge until his appointment to the United States District Court for the Southern District of California in the 1950’s). See Victory on Sugar Hill, TIME MAGAZINE (Dec. 17, 1945) (noting that Thurmond Clarke was a Superior Court judge, not federal judge);
3. There was no West Adams Improvement Association or any other kind of homeowners association in the lawsuit;
4. The eight plaintiffs in the lawsuit were merely local citizens not officially representing any community; and
5. The decision was issued in 1945, not 1944). See Victory on Sugar Hill, TIME MAGAZINE (Dec. 17, 1945) (reporting that the decision occurred in late 1945, not 1944).

This lack of rigor and precision in the page authors’ investigations and research highlights the unreliable nature of the claims contained therein.

While both Los Angeles and the United States have provided unparalleled opportunities to individuals of all races, there is no doubt that the city and our country, as a whole, share a tragic history of bigotry and racism as well. The legacy of racially restrictive covenants continues to haunt us to this very day, as, among other things, it has directly contributed to the vast disparities of wealth that still exist between white and African-American families. But there is no evidence that Harold Lloyd led efforts to prop up the use of racially restrictive covenants or even supported them at any time.

Indeed, everything the historical record contains about Harold Lloyd’s life otherwise suggests that such covenants would be contradictory to his personal values and the way he chose to live. For example, as Wikipedia’s Harold Lloyd page acknowledges, Harold Lloyd was an active and honored Freemason and Shriner. As a Freemason, he earned the Rank and Decoration of Knight Commander Court of Honor in 1955 and was coroneted an Inspector General Honorary, 33°. As a Shriner, he was selected as the Imperial Potentate of the Shriner’s of North America in 1949-50. Non-discrimination and color blindness are core, essential values of both the Freemason and Shriner organizations, and have been so, long before such causes were popular or even widely accepted. As Harold Lloyd himself said in a 1949 radio interview regarding his involvement with the Shriner’s:

The Shriners have these marvelous hospitals, all over North America, that do nothing but cure little crippled children, and that's without regard to race, creed, or color. You can go into one of their hospital wards and see little colored children, little white children, all there just the same, there's no discriminating at all, and it's 100% charitable, and the Shrine does not seek aid outside. It's all done by the Shrine and of course that's one of the things they look with great pride upon. It's marvelous work..

Not only would support for racially restrictive covenants be inconsistent with Mr. Lloyd’s lifelong values, but it is also critical to note that there are no other sources that independently verify these incendiary Allegations against Mr. Lloyd. And, in fact, the individuals who know the most about Harold Lloyd’s personal history, life, values and belief strongly deny the Allegations’ veracity. Specifically, declarations sworn under penalty of perjury from Suzanne Lloyd, Annette Lloyd (unrelated to Mr. Lloyd), and Richard Simonton explain their relationship with and to Mr. Lloyd, the basis of their expertise and personal knowledge about Mr. Lloyd and their unequivocal certainty that Mr. Lloyd was never supportive of restrictive covenants and, in fact, found them morally repugnant and inconsistent with his values. Among other things:

2. Suzanne Lloyd, Mr. Lloyd’s granddaughter, was actually raised by Mr. Lloyd and his wife and, as a result, lived with him for over twenty years and she notes that “she never once heard Harold make a single derogatory remark about anyone based on their race, creed, or religion and I never witnessed him, or had knowledge of him, ever exhibiting any prejudice on the basis of race, color, creed or religion,” and states that the allegations of racism are “utterly inconsistent everything I know about the man that raised me,”;
3. Annette Lloyd, a noted historian and expert on the silent-era and the life and work of Harold Lloyd, declares that, “In the 40-plus year that I have studied, the allegation of racism published in the Chicago Defender in July of 1945 is the only instance I have ever encountered in which HL was mentioned in this light or accused of any sort of intolerance or prejudice,” and that, in light of what she knows about him and his life, the allegations of racism in the Article “are wildly implausible and, also, wholly unsupported by, and inconsistent with, the historical record, Lloyd’s personal values, and the manner in which he conducted his life,” as evidenced by, among other things, his political and charitable affiliations, and his work, where he regularly hired African-Americans during an era otherwise characterized by segregation and bigotry;
4. Richard Simonton, one of the Mr. Lloyd’s last surviving friends, swears, under penalty of perjury, that through his many decades spent with Mr. Lloyd, he “can say with confidence and certainty that I never witnessed him indicate or express any kind of prejudice--never an unkind word about anyone,” and that, among other things, Mr. Lloyd’s extensive involvement with, and commitment to, the Shiners (and their core beliefs kindness, tolerance, and colorblindness) would make any support of racially restrictive covenants utterly inconsistent with his charitable work and the values he embraced through his life.

Finally, the Beverly Hills Historical Society recently unearthed archival video of Harold Lloyd joyously visiting a sick African-American child and embracing him and putting his iconic spectacles on him. The child’s face lights up and the warmth in this interaction is clear to any observer. The video is utterly inconsistent with any view that Mr. Lloyd harbored any prejudice, let alone any virulent racist sentiments. We encourage you to watch the video, which you can download.

All told, therefore, the allegations that tie Mr. Lloyd to support for restrictive covenants, which are published as fact on Wikipedia’s Harold Lloyd page, ultimately all derive from a single 70-word Article that repeated unsourced tabloid gossip without verification or quotation. The same Article acknowledged that the very position supposedly attributed to Mr. Lloyd through the Chamber of Commerce had been disputed contemporaneously by the Chamber of Commerce itself.

As such, we are kindly requesting your action to correct and remove the Allegations from Mr. Lloyd’s page once and for all in order to serve the interests of accuracy and reliability that Wikipedia has always sought to uphold and to mitigate the tremendous damages that are being done to Mr. Lloyd’s legacy.

We appreciate your consideration of our request, which we do not make lightly, and we look forward to hearing back from you shortly. We’re also happy to provide additional details and documents if that might be helpful.

HLE1893 (talk) 01:53, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

I am not the author of the paragraph in question, which was added by an IP January 3, 2016, although I have reverted attempts to remove it several times. As explained on the article's talk page, this is "largely on procedural grounds: edit warring isn't the way to edit, and repeated invitations to discuss the matter on the talk page have been ignored". As you will see by these diffs [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], this matter is of interest to the Wikipedia community. I encourage you to post this request at Talk:Harold Lloyd. Ewulp (talk) 03:31, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

• HLE1893 has been indef blocked for making legal threats. — Maile (talk) 02:41, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Salvador Dali article English standardAemilius Adolphin (talk) 00:05, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello Ewulp

Sorry to bother you again with this but I have found that the Salvador Dali article had Feature Article status on 5 Sep 2006 and was almost exclusively in U.S. English at that time. I therefore propose to progressively revise the article into U.S. English in the absence of any consensus to the contrary. My apologies for the confusion.

Re your edit summary at Jean-Baptiste Debret...

here... At the time I removed it the gallery had 17 images in it. Seemed like a lot of images for such a short article. The iteration that you restored - the 6 images - looks much better. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 01:27, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

I saw that ... no worries! Ewulp (talk) 04:09, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

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Hello Ewulp. Your name was mentioned in a dispute about the Baby Esther article at WP:AN3#User:197.89.10.25 reported by User:Beyond My Ken (Result: Blocked for evasion) but it doesn't require a response. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 20:51, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

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Can you comment

Is it possible for you to check this problem out [9]?...Modernist (talk) 20:31, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for keeping it right

wishful thinking

I just so wanted that photo to be of Esther Bigeou and some evidence on the web, Syncopated Times in particular, backed it up. But of course as the file states, no documentation. I overstepped. Sorry and thanks. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 22:16, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. It's a shame the few verifiable images of her seem to be from old newspapers & are generally grainy. Ewulp (talk) 00:39, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Degenerate Art vs Degenerate Exhibition and Related Infobox

Hi @Ewulp!

I grant you may be right that an infobox may not be worth the trouble on the "Degenerate Art" page, though I was editing it down to focus more on the art than the exhibition. But given that it is about the art, and not about the exhibition, I think you are in error to lead with an image of the exhibition. EditGirl99 (talk) 22:03, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Possibly, although I think a good case against leading with an image of a particular work of art is that "degenerate art" is not an artistic style but rather a pejorative term used by the Nazis to describe whatever Hitler didn't like. As such, the term is more about Nazi art policy than about the art itself. The current lead image, which shows a few works of art and a few Nazis, ties this together. Ewulp (talk) 04:00, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Doodle

Hi! Thanks for your corrections in the edits I made in Doodle. I am not a professional artist, but being a painter was my childhood dream. Life made me a software consultant, but I still can't forgive myself for not being what I wanted to. I thought, at least, I would contribute on Wiki, so that I can be in touch with Art. From India, so my English may be weird, so you are all welcome to correct me wherever possible. (I am going to bring more edits in the Visual Arts articles on English Wiki with my limited knowledge.) - Veera.sj (talk) 12:06, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Changing other peoples' posts on discussion pages

Can I ask why you rewrote what I posted on the Baby Esther discussion page? [10]. Inserting the bit about liParamount's gigantic ke? What was the point of that?

No idea how that happened. Ewulp (talk) 08:26, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Salvador Dalí possible copyright issues

Hello there I notice that Wilafa has recently added images of some of Dalí's more famous works. I understood from previous discussions that these were under copyright and wikipedia does not have permission to use them. Do you know whether this is still the case? It would be great if we could use more images of selected works. Thanks Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 10:22, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

It's a safe guess that they are under copyright. The Wikipedia copyright enforcers usually take a dim view of using such images of an artist's work in a biography. In the case of (for example) Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), the jpg is allowed in the article Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) because the painting is the subject and is discussed in some detail; its use in the Dali article might be allowed if the fair use rationale for that article is deemed acceptable. Ewulp (talk) 02:27, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

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Devolving a reference on Suzanne Valadon

This was probably not your intent, but by taking a citation out of the {{cite book}} format, you broke the link from the {{sfn |Hewitt |2018 |p=388}} to the full citation, {{{cite book |last=Hewitt |first=Catherine |title=Renoir's dancer : the secret life of Suzanne Valadon |publisher=St. Martin's Press |publication-place=New York |year=2018 |id={{ISBN|9781250157645|9781785782749}} {{OCLC|1006391440|1026408741}}}}.

You were probably trying to correct the {{cite book}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |lay-date= (help) message that was produced by these deprecated parameters/values:

|lay-url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/books/review/renoirs-dancer-suzanne-valadon-catherine-hewitt.html |lay-source=She Was a Model for Impressionist Masters. Then She Became One Herself. — NY Times |lay-date=2018-05-29

Please look at Help:Citation Style 1#Anchors & Help:Citation_Style_2#Anchors. Please note that most citation templates automatically generate the ref parameter. Please see Help:Shortened footnotes to see how shortened footnote templates work with the parameter whether generated or manually set. Please also see WP:CITEVAR for additional information why citation styles should not be arbitrarily changed.

As you are an editor with a lot of edits (about 35,000 at this time & currently about 2850 at this time on the WP:WBE list), you probably will continue to encounter shortened footnotes. You may wish to look at User:Ucucha/HarvErrors & consider adding User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js to you personal common JavaScript page at Special:MyPage/common.js. You can find a bit more information in my presentation at commons:File:Converting_Harvard_citations_to_shortened_footnotes_(sfn).pdf.

BTW, the deprecation of the lay parameters are not exactly a done deal, as you can see at the discussion at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 82#Lay-url Peaceray (talk) 18:40, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

I've made occasional edits to Suzanne Valadon since 2006; e.g., this edit initiated the References section. Sadly, another editor arbitrarily changed the reference style to the {{cite book}} format last August, with no discussion and in violation of WP:CITEVAR. It is not a style I am familiar with; I was tempted at the time to revert the whole mess. Yesterday while editing Valadon I noticed an unsightly error message in the References; after 3/4 hour wasted in studying Help:Citation_Style_1#Anchors in search of a fix for the template, I made a repair that I knew would work.

Since you're the one who knows how to do this, could you also fix "Further reading" (the John Storm book) before I commit another felony? Ewulp (talk) 02:25, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

I corrected the hdl parameter for the Storm book.

I made the citation changes to the Valadon article. I actually believe the changes to be in concord with WP:CITEVAR#Generally considered helpful for the following reasons:

• imposing one style on an article with inconsistent citation styles; The article contained a mix of plain text & citation templates in the footnotes & the references section.
• improving existing citations by adding missing information; I added online links & author links, & ISBN, OCLC, & ISSN numbers.

Additionally, I moved items from the References section that was not used for inline citations AKA footnotes into the Further reading section, as suggested by MOS:FURTHER.

I also changed unlinked shortened footnotes to shortened footnote templates (e.g. <ref name="Marchesseau 92">Marchesseau 9</ref> & <ref name="Marchesseau 92"/> to {{sfn |Marchesseau |1996 |p=9}}) for a couple of reasons:

• They are more useful in that a click takes the reader to the full citation
• They provide a standardized display format.

Perhaps I should have noted my intentions on the talk page, but since there was a mix of citation styles, information to be added, & other optimization adjustments, I proceeded as per WP:BOLD.

I am admittedly a enthusiastic proponent of Wikipedia:Citation templates. If one uses Visual Editor, this is what it inserts into the wikitext.

Most experienced editors seem to have embraced them, & the template editors have spent a lot of time continuously improving & standardizing them. I think there is a host of benefits in using them that that make them superior to untemplated text. Peaceray (talk) 08:06, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

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Hi. That illustration is signed by Gunn (and Gunn is credited for it where it appears on the Smart Set article, and on the file itself). Sorry to revert your reversion, but it seems warranted. Jcejhay (talk) 10:57, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Well, you're right. Evidently I'd clicked under the image instead of on it, and landed on the Gunn cover from the Smart Set article. I apologize. Jcejhay (talk)

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There does seem to be a strong hint of WP:DUCK: All accounts show exclusive attention to the same article, make similar arguments, and the latest two accounts have four-syllable, eight-letter names starting with De, followed by two digits that add up to ten. But it may be best to ask an admin if this evidence meets the test, as I'm not experienced in these matters; I think I've only twice involved myself in sockpuppet cases, and those ones were comically obvious. Ewulp (talk)

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Hi there,

I wanted to quickly say thank you for pointing out the Twinkle mistake I made on Hans Grundig. I quickly realized that I tagged articles incorrectly, so I'm going back and correcting the mistakes. My apologies if I messed things up. Losipov (talk) 01:07, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Losipov! Ewulp (talk) 01:52, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks, Johnbod – Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year! Ewulp (talk) 06:51, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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Esther Jones

You wrote "See talk" while reverting all my edits. What talk am I looking at specifically? Do you not agree the article needs to be cleaned up? ParXivalRPT (talk) 01:58, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Sorry! My revert was a knee-jerk reaction to seeing, in the lead sentence, the same spurious date of death citing the same confused webpage that has been added again and again by a disruptive editor. Explanation is at Talk:Baby_Esther#Date_of_death_unknown: 1984 is the death date for a different "Little Esther", Esther Phillips. I've restored the rest of your edits which I overlooked before & which are welcome improvements. Ewulp (talk) 00:32, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Wonderful! I apologize for any unnecessary confusion, I will definitely make sure to look out for vandalism like that. Thank you. ParXivalRPT (talk) 01:55, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

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"... the Italian Renaissance painter and architect..."

"... the Italian Renaissance painter and architect..." is much better - look where they go. Cheers, Johnbod (talk) 02:28, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Johnbod, I'll revisit those. Ewulp (talk) 02:43, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

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