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Triumph Renown

It is my understanding that the car was all set for production beginning in 1940 but that Alvis factory was wiped out. After the war there was nothing to go back to but the design (which was prewar). When I find a good reference I'll let you know. Happy New Year. Eddaido (talk) 10:54, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Noted. Interesting. Thanks. Looking at the other cars that were designed at the end of the 1930s, the look of the thing (Alvis/Triumph Renown) would have been seriously outside the mainstream in Britain (or indeed France or Germany) in 1939/40. But then it was pretty much outside the European mainstream as a Standard-Triumph in the 1940s/50s.

The combination of the timber frame and the aluminium panels was presumably the thing that enabled them to produce those "razor edge" corners, and it was only after 1945, with demand for fighter planes suddenly collapsed and an oversupply of aluminium from production facilities set up when money was no object now desperately needing to justify their capital cost, that aluminium for competitively priced (well, fairly and admittedly only for a few years) passenger cars could become a reality. Just reactive musings on my part, you understanding. Any outcomes of your further researches on this would indeed be interesting. And indeed, Happy Year! Saluts Charles01 (talk) 11:12, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

The styling was the very height of bespoke fashion in the last quarter of the 1930s, Alvis was upmarket. I should think a much bigger engine was intended for it. Here's a body of the same period. Best, Eddaido (talk) 11:20, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

You don't know what a truly Socialist govt was like. They rationed steel but Aluminium was uncontrolled. In any case Aluminium was the usual metal of the bodies of better quality cars in the 1920s and 1930s remember the constant English battle with little engines for tax purposes and heavy bodies. But the alloy was not structural like in recent cars. The sharp edges of the razor-edge style was called "the panel beaters' nightmare" here. Eddaido (talk) 11:35, 4 January 2016 (UTC) Alvis sports saloon 1939 - sports saloon with only 4 windows not six-light from a different angle rolls PIII, Eddaido (talk) 11:55, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year

A Happy New Year to you Charles! I was wondering if you or Furius could translate Electra, My Love from German?♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:49, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

I will if he doesn't! Best Charles01 (talk) 10:02, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Looks good, replied on my talk page about it. Some of those Balkan films are wonderfully interesting to film buffs as such as myself. The Goat Horn is another good one, that's Bulgarian. BTW there's a few red links in Elizabeth Rona which I just promoted for Susun, not sure if there's any you can do though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:01, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Sorted - as in I've done the easy (for me) bit on the Elisabeth Rona entry. However, it could be helpful if you could go back to the Electra entry and check out a couple of "disambiguition flags" it picked up (below) on two common names - John Cunningham and Bryan Burns. They're both names I picked up from elsewhere - probably German wikipedia - without knowing too much about the individuals involved, and when I go to people who have wikipedia entries and those names I find myself thinking "maybe:maybe not". Someone with a longer and closer knowledge of the world of films and critics MIGHT know at once whether the men in question are likely to be those ones. Or not. If you're not sure, I do not myself see any harm in leaving a link pointing to a disambiguation page until someone comes along who knows - at least beyond reasonable doubt believes they know - the answer. But no doubt you will have your own views on this! Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 11:50, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to a virtual editathon on Women in Music

Women in Music
	10 to 31 January 2016 Please join us in the worldwide virtual edit-a-thon hosted by Women in Red.

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Noted. I'll see where I get to (and whether any of the women currently on my "to do" list could be persuaded into a "music" category). Success Charles01 (talk) 11:14, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

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Intertranswiki

Thanks Charles for continuing this. Sorry that I'm inactive at the moment and am not helping you create articles. I've made it a 3 month thing now. so you can list what you want to get done in three months and then archive it. I've also dropped the bold for start class expectation to make things easier. Thankyou again for continuing to create from within the project.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:20, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Charles, can you check my article on Noura? You know French is the hardest language for me to translate and she is Algerian to boot so Arabic and French mix -- not my strong suits. That being said, she is definitely worthy of an article. As always, I appreciate your help and insight :) SusunW (talk) 06:52, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

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DYK for Elizabeth Rona

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:02, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I was waiting for the coffee to cool down when I spotted this notification. Still am. Regards Charles01 (talk) 14:34, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

New version of Vauxhall Firenza at dockside.jpg

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Hi,

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I've uploaded an altered version of the above image under the new filename Vauxhall Firenza at dockside (colour and brightness correction).jpg.

I've attempted to be as faithful as possible to the original by only adjusting the overall colour balance via the colour curves, rather than "cheating" by retouching specific areas to the desired colour(!) I couldn't quite get the under-car shadows perfect that way, unfortunately.

I've also increased the brightness and contrast and applied a little highlight/shadow filter to bring out the details- again, to the entire image- but nothing specific has been retouched or altered by hand.

Please let me know if there's anything you don't like about this! Ubcule (talk) 19:35, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. From the date of the picture I know (at least, I think I know) it was taken with a cheap camera. And I think the slide (Dias) must have been left out (by me!) in the open air for a long time, because there's a sort of dusty stain that you can see on much of the sky. BUT it's still a good picture in its way - interesting moody background and slightly unusual angle of an unusual car. And thanks to your version, I can see that the car was quite clean (though it's sad about all the rust along the sill under the door - confirms some of the unkind things we used to say about Vauxhalls back then...)

You have brightened the car but it still looks natural. I like that. If I had the skills/tools I should have done the same. Sometimes with very white cars the image of the car gets overexposed, and you lose some of the details - the panel gaps - but there's no danger of that here. Not enough sun. Yes, I like it. I have difficulty thinking of anything I don't like. I guess the sky still needs cleaning up, but I think that's an impossible job. I guess one might try making the sky look a bit darker/more stormy but WITHOUT losing any of the brightness/clarity of the car. That might give a slightly greater contrast between the threatening grey of the sky and the clean whiteness of the car. But ... again ... I would not know where to begin with that. I'm not too much of a GIMP-wizard, and even if I was I guess it might not be possible.

No further thoughts. Thanks again. Success Charles01 (talk) 20:02, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Glad you liked it; yes, I realised that it was possibly meant to be shot like that, which is why I didn't upload over the original. I didn't want to mess around with any details since it was really just a colour balance and brightness/contrast tweak of the original.

Bear in mind that the colour balance still isn't quite linear in the shadows, which might make it look a little yellower/rustier than it is.

Regarding the yellow streak in the sky, I have the same scanner model as you, and had similar issues with it (along with colour balance issues). I originally assumed it was the source negative, but it turned out not to be that when I rescanned it. I think it was some weird issue with light leak/reflection that disappeared when I covered any gaps in the holder... could not be bothered looking into it more than that. Personally, I think scanning is a pain in the neck to get right, and now I've done my own photographs, I'm pretty well sick of it. :-O

I've also uploaded a modified version of another image at File:Daihatsu Charade buying brandy (adjusted).jpg, though the colour balance still isn't quite right there, particularly in the highlights. Ubcule (talk) 20:19, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I'd noticed you'd done a cleaned up version of the Daihatsu picture. My instant reaction was that I like it less than the Firenza simply because the improvements draw attention to how dirty the car was! But that was always an "issue" with this picture. The adjusted version is clearer which should be good. I think I took this one with an Olympus OM2 which was a goood camera, though probably using a zoom lense which gave slightly less clarity than the standard lens with the fixed image size. But it was a good camera. (I wish I knew where it had got to.)

Anyhow, I just looked again at them this morning, and I think your version is better. Trying to clean the car using "tools" would certainly leave it looking unnatural which is not a good idea. Cretan dust/mud on the bodywork gives a certain atmosphere: presumably he'd come into town from the hills outside town, possibly to buy brandy.

Thanks. Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 06:58, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I can't swear that the colour balance is 100% perfect, and I'd have been suspicious, but since you mention it, I'm inclined to concede that it probably is reddish mud. Reason being that the tarmac- at a comparable brightness level- is grey, and if it had been purely due to a reddish cast in the darker areas, that would have been affected too.

I've nothing against retouching photos in principle- quite the opposite!- I just like to keep a distinction between what are (meant to be) faithful corrections in colour balance, brightness and contrast and (on the other hand) explicitly retouching particular details.

FWIW, I've attempted to remove the dust specks (which were significantly exaggerated by the highlight-retrieval processing) but tried to avoid modifying anything that was part of the photo itself.

Looks like the source photo itself was probably fine, I'm guessing that the colour balance was more due to the scanner(?) The OM-2 looks to have been a better camera than the secondhand Zenit TTL I had when I was a kid anyway. :-)

Ubcule (talk) 19:50, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. Definitely "better" without the specks of dust on the bonnet and a bit more of a "yellow" tint. I've not been back to Crete since then (1982) and memory for colours is not something on which I trust myself. But when you drive into the hills behind Xania the colour of the rocks and road surfaced where the roads are not paved / tarmac's is definitely yellowish-towards the colour of beach sand at Knokke but maybe "brighter" - rather than ... greyish - the colour of beach sand (except where imported) on a Canary Island. Thank you again. Best wishes. Charles01 (talk) 06:55, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Great fire of Tischenreuth (1814)

I have just been reading the sad story of the great fire when I noticed the name on the picture and began to wonder if this article was anything to do with Tirschenreuth Bavaria. Maybe regional spellings vary and Maybe its not. Ever onwards and upwards, Eddaido (talk) 11:19, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Well spotted. Best Charles01 (talk) 11:47, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

A year ago ...

"must be at the service of its readers"
...you were recipient no. 1130 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:49, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, Gerda. I was feeling in need of cheering up and you just did it. I hope Sunday is treating you well. Good things Charles01 (talk) 16:12, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

I hope telling you that it is two years now does the same! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:47, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Indeed it does. Thank you. Good things to you! Charles01 (talk) 11:27, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

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		Thank you for your tireless efforts to help me with translating French articles, without which, we would miss some very important contributions to the world. I've taken the liberty of nominating Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger as a 5x expanded article to DYK for Women's History Month. SusunW (talk) 21:38, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Noted. Thanks. No "liberty taking" involved. She does seem to have been quite a powerful force, though in our own more egalitarian age the "Lady bountiful I know what's best for the little people do goodery" sticks in the throat a bit - maybe more over here in "socialist" Europe than it would in the wider open (if only in some ways) parts of the USA. Either way, a joy of history, if you can manage it, is to try and see people in the terms in which they would have been seen by contemporaries and by themselves. That doesn't replace the wisdom of hindsight, of course. But it needs to complement it. So much history tells you SOOOO MUCH MORE about the times in which it is written than about the times (in theory) that it treats. Not invalid, but there can and should be more than one dimension to the historical prism through which human history is viewed. End of rant. Have a good weekend. Charles01 (talk) 07:02, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

The "do-goodery" You make me smile. I think that very prism effect is why I like writing about suffragists and activists. They were multi-faceted and you get to see all the bumps and bruises. Too many times the laurels heaped upon historical figures makes them seem unflawed heroes. I rather prefer my heroines to be "more human". In a way, the fact that they were women allowed the press license to make them real. Good wives stayed home and out of the public eye, thus even in (wink, wink, nod, nod) laudatory pieces about women activists, there is usually tarnish to the halo. As you say, it tells you a lot about the context of the times. SusunW (talk) 08:03, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger

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Thank you. Regards Charles01 (talk) 12:17, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

Hi, made a slight change to the above - is it better? Regards Denisarona (talk) 12:18, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Yes (secondo me...). Success Charles01 (talk) 12:27, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

For most of us Italian Unification is the only thing we know about VE, so maybe it makes sense to launch the entry with that nice quote. However, others might differ: I'm left feeling a bit agnostic about it. As an alternative, have you come across quote boxes? To see how they work, here are some (far too many, you may think) I used on a translation I did last year. Here's another for people who think there's too much blue in the world.

But no doubt there are other solutions. Regards Charles01 (talk) 12:37, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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