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Djegan 20:21, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Women in Art

Nice job adding the Pre-Raphaelite artist section. - AKeen 19:49, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Good points

Hello Charivari. Thanks for the pointers; you're quite right, I did a bog-standard job of it! Sorry! Will read the necessary guidelines. Thanks for setting my mistakes right. Hope to hear more from you again, Fergananim 11:23, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Savoyard pages

Dear Charivari, You are correct that one should not copy from a copyrighted source and merely republish on the web without permission. However, the Savoyard descriptions will not violate copyright for two reasons. First, I have permission from the authors of the Who's Who pages that I have used, who are personally known to me. Secondly, the Savoyard pages are a collaboration between myself, Marc Shepherd and others. Here is our proceure. First, I get some biographical material from the who's who pages and other sources (The G&S Companion, etc.) and edit it down to a more encyclopedic format. Then Marc pulls out various biographies and other secondary sources and adds more citations and material to round out the research. Finally, other editors can look over the pages and add/edit. So, if you give the new entries a couple of days, I think you will find that they are not dependent on any one source. Fair enough? (A good example might be the Martyn Green page.) Ssilvers 12:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Gala Dalí

Hi Charivary, I wonder why you think category "Russian models" is inappropriate ? Gala was born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova in Russia and posed as a model for Dali. Sure she was more then a model for Dali but she was both Russian and a model. Am I wrong ? Thanks Abune

Reply

Hi I missed the out of date link, but the double ArtMagick link is a personal site, it's not academic, or verifiable. I won't delete it and if you feel really strongly that this particular personal site does add something, then leave it as an external link. StopItTidyUp 11:12, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Morris Dance link deletion

The user had few contributions and was adding external links to multiple articles. it is a behaviour pattern that tends to worry me.Geni 11:26, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Spam blacklist

Well, try to add that link back and you'll see how m:spam blacklist works. When a link contained in the an article gets blacklisted, the article becomes uneditable until the link is removed. Conscious 09:10, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Regarding the article Ash, Surrey - you have edited, have you got any green idea about the origin of the name Ash?

Eliko 00:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Tilusha Ghelani article

Hello. While I can see that you do a lot of good wiki-work, I question the relevance of some details within your article on Tilusha Ghelani. The Lorca, for example, was not a professional production and has little connection with her reason for notability - her work as a radio producer. Very few Biographical articles warrant a description of a subject's A Level studies. While you have been thorough in your internet searches on Ms Ghelani and in your source-notation, not all sources are acceptable in terms of verifiability and the Biography of Living Persons Guidelines. Comprehensiveness does not necessarily aid comprehension.

I thought it polite to raise the issue with you, so that you can edit it yourself should you wish to.

Cheers. Ned-kogar 01:54, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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Lists of people named Alison and Allison

Hi, I notice that a few months ago you split the lists of people named Alison and Allison to separate pages. In the past there has been a consensus, e.g. at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people named Jacob, that a list of people with a common name should be removed rather than split, and separate lists should be deleted.

In case it's hard to trace what happened to the pages, you split Alison (name) to lists called Alison (given name) (which had previously been merged) and Allison (given name). Today I moved the lists to List of people with the given name Alison and List of people with the given name Allison, then moved the name article from Alison (name) to Alison (given name).

I propose to put the lists up for deletion, but am checking first with you as a courtesy. – Fayenatic London 17:49, 19 July 2013 (UTC)