User talk:Ham II/Archive 2008

Martin Davies

I wondered where you got your information on about Martin Davies. You locate his death in 1978 but his obituary in Burlington Magazine records his death in 1975. Can I assume this is not a case of the report of his death being greatly exaggerated?--Oxonian2006 (talk) 22:00, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:British Isles portals

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:39, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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Chronology of works by Caravaggio

Any interest in trying to get this up to FL status? Remember (talk) 15:12, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Romeo and Juliet collaboration

Greetings! The current Shakespeare Project Collaboration is Romeo and Juliet. This project is currently going a thorough peer review and copyedit before moving on to FAC. The link to the peer review is Wikipedia:Peer review/Romeo and Juliet/archive1. Have a look! « Diligent Terrier Bot (talk) 20:47, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Reply at Talk:Leonardo da Vinci

Hi there,

Just wondering if you'd spotted my reply? I've posted lots of examples of problematic sections. Thanks, Papa November (talk) 08:10, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Western art

Hey, thanks much for getting started on the listification of Template:Western European & American Paintings. Do you need any more from the template, or can I go ahead and delete it? Peace, delldot ∇. 14:18, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I just realized I need to move the template to the new list name to keep the history intact for the GFDL because material is being used from it. Do you think what you have in your sandbox is ready for the mainspace (it doesn't have to be pretty)? If so I could histmerge them in the mainspace. Otherwise, would you mind if I histmerge the template into your sandbox? That way you can move the whole works into the mainspace whenever you're ready. Thanks again, delldot ∇. 14:54, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

No response so I'm gonna assume this is ok. Let me know if not and we'll figure something out. Peace, delldot ∇. 18:34, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Shakespeare notice

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List of Leo's paintings

I see that you are simplifying that list. Care is needed. While what you are doing seems like an obvious solution to a messy problem, the arrangement of sections has been very carefully devised to reflect the categories of work in an entirely accurate way, so the it doesn't lead to false assumptions.

• There is this problem that a 'minority accept several of the pics, but among that minority are some highly reputable people who offer very good reason for their assessment.

• In other cases the attribution is over a century old, and has not been seriously challenged.

• On the other hand, Carlo Pedretti's recent attributions have been treated with total scorn by most critics, regardless of the stated presence of a thumbprint. One of the pics is obviously not, but has been seen by very few people, and another is patently by the artist to whom it has always been ascribed. To suggest either is by Leonardo is foolishness. However, Pedretti is well known and both pics have been in the news in recent years. They have to be placed here, becasue if they are not then some well meaning editor will add them as "recently discovered" Leonardo's.

• The pic of the two babies might very well be a Leonardo, but as far as I know, this has never been seriously looked into by any of the big names.

Amandajm (talk) 01:22, 28 December 2008 (UTC)