User talk:Sca/Archive12

Word count

Sca, I have removed my last and rather lengthy comment at ‎https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/File:The_Scream_Pastel.jpg because of your word count note. Please forgive me if I have broken some unwritten or written rule. I am really a newbie there.

I don't mean to be creating argument. I really set out to help Hafspajen because of the recent prickly atmosphere at FPC. Alas, this now appears that no one will notice or do anything to restore some peace to the process. If you desire, I can remove some of my other comments, although the comments will then make no sense. Although I was certainly mistreated and now Coats has made fun of me in the latest submission re: ducks; I really do not expect any apology or admin oversite. I think Hafspajen is sick of it all and actually I edit Wikipedia to keep healthy cognitively and mentally (laughable as that may sound) and I can't get overwrought emotionally my own self.

Since it seems a futile undertaking to try to amend an unhappy atmosphere at FPC, I probably will not continue to participate. Please let me know if you want me to trim my comments further. All the best and thanks. Fylbecatulous talk 14:33, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

No, Fylbecatulous, please put them back were they were, you comments were excellent. Sca is just trying to help by his humorous comments, trying to point out how silly and long those nominations became - because of - you know what. I will be gone now for a while - soon -, just trying to finish my projects, but not start any new. I offended somebody when I was angry myself, may God forgive me to make the same stupid thing like others do towards me, to poor Belle who never did me anything wrong. And I think Sca is right, nobody seems to notice anything. Yes, there is an unhappy atmosphere at FPC, and Sca really set out to help - you both do, bless you all. Hafspajen (talk) 14:48, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Ok, Hafs. For you I will replace my comments. We all just need to feel better and I will do anything, Hafs, to give you a happy moment. So my comments will go back in. Thank you for thinking them to be meaningful. . Cheers, Fylbecatulous talk 15:13, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Hafs for reverting for me. Everything and more gratitude. Fylbecatulous talk 15:17, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Sca, sorry. I did not remove your word count statement. I only removed my latest long comment, because of your note. I am actualy quite obedient to reasonable editors, of which you are one. Regards, Fylbecatulous talk 15:07, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

This has to stop somehow - people are geting hurt - I am hurting others - it is just a classic example of how the Wiki-enviroment got worse and worse, and provoke more and more stupid things. Hafspajen (talk) 15:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

I am not here. Technically... --Hafspajen (talk) 13:52, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

A miracle. Hafspajen (talk) 14:18, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Well, kind of a shame ..... no. Probably because of the simple fact that it is only here in the neiborhood... How about that winter article? Hafspajen (talk) 14:34, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

What am I doing wrong that everybody is avoiding me? Nothing sublime with mine? Maybe it was a wrong decision getting involved again. Hafspajen (talk) 20:07, 9 September 2014 (UTC).

What the hickey heck is that? Hafspajen (talk) 09:11, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

...Fylbecatulous ... see here. Hafspajen (talk) 18:38, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Hafs, thanks! I needed something hilarious. ツ Well, I tried to revert back to a good version with admonition to discuss on talk page, but alas, I too have also been reverted. Both Apollo284 and Sethplg are now at two reversions each within a few hours. I laugh at the edit summery I got: The section is called Health, not Healthy. These dog articles...Fylbecatulous talk 20:24, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Just keep reverting, Fylbecatulous. I can't do it, I am now technically in edit war, it would be third for me. The poor dog suffers of malnutrition. Wew can't have it in an encyclopedia. The guy doesn't give him food. Hafspajen (talk) 20:28, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

LOL. I know. That dog needs to be seen by a veterinarian fast. He is badly a poster puppy for PETA. Fylbecatulous talk 20:37, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Well, at least he came up with a better pic this time. But he can't sock like this. Hafspajen (talk) 20:40, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Red_Skelton

I suppose, if two people who know photography suggest something, you should at least try an alternative. I've uploaded one. I may be overreacting from one too many people seeing one of my restorations of sepia toned images, and immediately desaturating it and suggesting it as an alt, which makes you somewhat resistant. That may be an overreaction in this case, given photographic prints' contrast can be adjusted readily by changing development time from the negative. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 05:59, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

German Navy (Kriegsmarine) 2.0

Since you deleted my first post, I gather you don't want to discuss the topic. Very well, I shall change the wording accordingly. ÄDA - DÄP VA (talk) 17:26, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

I (usually) reply to messages here on the author's talk page. Sca (talk) 20:50, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Peace For You

On the solemn occasion of ... your Saturday, may I give you this Peace rose. Great rose, was given the name Peace 1945 when .. you know, before called Mme Meilland. But Rosa Peace is much better... Hafspajen (talk) 08:34, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Oh, yes. If it is big big, with this kind off lemonish yellow colour, sweet scent but not owerly strong and has this pinkish edges - yes it is a Peace. No other rose looks like this, really. Have you seen the dicussion at FP talk? I think that it was a positive thing. Whish other would back it up a little, of course, but it made me at least sufficiently safe to dare edit a little. Hafspajen (talk) 14:54, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Winslow Homer

His article is not showing much... of his best sides. —I know the name but not his work.

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Hafspajen (talk) 16:41, 7 September 2014 (UTC) Not like that silly nose, no. Hafspajen (talk) 11:29, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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You expressed a wish to translate from German..?

Rudolf Koller?-http://translate.google.com/translate?&u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRudolf+Koller&sl=de&tl=en-Hafspajen (talk) 18:14, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

the place looked pretty much like this ....

Koller Der Hirtenhof — I can almost hear the "William Tell Overture"

Stimmt!

Will start on it tomorrow ... probably. Sca (talk) 22:18, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Rudi looks promising too me. Hafspajen (talk) 22:54, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

I like these pictures. All my German knowledge I have cames from a village like this, where I was sent one summer to learn German. I probably learned a German with much accent ... I think. Loved the cows coming home in the evening, loved the stalls, the fresh milk still warm from the cow, the cats, dogs, the apple trees, the chickens ... I was a real paradise. Hafspajen (talk) 08:15, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Where, what town? Sca (talk) 13:51, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

There are hundreds of Bauernhof and farmyard photos on Commons, but only a few paintings. Sca (talk) 14:07, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Gosh, I forgot - WHAT a shame - it was a little village ... with paved stone yards and lovely people - only excuse - I was 9 years. Hafspajen (talk) 15:37, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Perhaps you have some record of the place in your 'stuff' — it would be interesting for you to go back & visit it again.

I'd like to revisit certain places where I spent time during youthful rambles about Europe in the early '70s. I never could understand Swiss German, but to this day I retain a few phrases of Dutch. (Such as, "Een pils, alst u blieft.") Sca (talk) 17:17, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Your Koller seems to have been a sort of Swiss cowboy. Sca (talk) 17:25, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Cowboy? What places were you loose and rambeling around - in Europe? Hafspajen (talk) 18:04, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Oh, Cologne, Bremen, Kiel, Berlin (W & E), Dresden, Prague, Vienna, Munich, Geneva, Lausanne, Brussels, Amsterdam, Utrecht, various spots in between.... Sca (talk) 20:39, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Holy smoke. Tha's half of Europe. Hafspajen (talk) 21:45, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Not quite. Never got to the Mediterranean countries. But in the '90s I did get to parts of E. Europe. (You might be int'd in my exchange with Ðiliff, who's currently in Lithuania.) Sca (talk) 22:04, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Could you please check out where he was born? Article say both Zurich and Slaugfdrh -something. Hafspajen (talk) 14:25, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

• Can you think about any interesting facts to mention for the DYK, - since as it is, it was expanded 5x now, so it is possible to nominate. Did you knew that ...... Rudolf Koller...... ? Except the fact how he died, because then we better let Martinevans123 nominate it - he is collecting that kind of stuff ... Hafspajen (talk) 15:02, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Born in Zürich, not Schaffhausen. I couldn't find any name for his father, who is ID'd in Ger. article as a Metzger und Gastwirt. His mother, Maria Ursula Forster, is mentioned by name (she was from Schaffhausen), but she doesn't turn up again, so I left her name out. Fixed.

Well, interesting facts: It struck me that he was friends with Gottfried Keller, a novelist famous in German-speaking lands for his novel Der grüne Heinrich (Green Henry), which I've read in German (in Fraktur, no less) — and that he's buried near Keller, too, probably as he wished; Koller died 15 years after Keller. Sca (talk) 15:24, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Ha, there we go again, gvraveyards .. sigh. I mean ... well, some fact that we can put in the article that makes people curious, wanting to check out this article - like .... the cow he painted eate his canvas ... or he was engaged in a relationship with his brother's wife ... or never worked on mondays ... or he liked lemons with beer ... or he invented the Hamburger .. or .. his painting was sold for 10 million dollars .. or well, you get it now ... Hafspajen (talk) 15:30, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

To be honest, Hafs, I didn't find Koller's story all that interesting. He studied hard, worked hard, and was successful and honored by his community. No running off with the maid or challenging a rival to a duel. No shocking paintings of ladies au naturel. (And, BTW, I'd never heard of him before you 'discovered' him. Keller OTOH is famous — in Ger. lit. anyway.) Sorry. Sca (talk) 16:04, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

PS: Added Koller's Schlittenfahrt to winter gallery. I guess his style is growing on me ... a little bit. Sca (talk) 16:58, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

I was affraid of it. So sigh - we have to do with what we have then ... (about stuff I don't like - well - I will tell you the secret, but when you read it will remove it - .) ... Hafspajen (talk) 17:47, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

I see. Well, I can relate. Some grim things in my childhood — not my family's fault — still give me Alpträume now and then, and I am, alas, in the latter half of my 60s. Sca (talk) 18:13, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Like? (or if you don't wan't to tell, don't tell)... Hafspajen (talk) 20:40, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

I think Koller Sleigh ride is a very good picture - by the way. Hafspajen (talk) 22:14, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Not something to discuss in a semi-public forum, other than to say it stemmed from childhood illnesses.

Koller. Keller's the novelist.

(Those crows in Schlittenfahrt look rather ominous, don't they?) Sca (talk) 22:23, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

..Who is Keller then. Ah, the novelist. Hafspajen (talk) 22:24, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Forgot to tell you, Marty is the worst joker ever. (Evans) He is laughing even when he sleeps. The cows - sinister {adj.} (även): portentous, inauspicious? Well, crows are like that. Hafspajen (talk) 18:52, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Er, you mean crows? (Krähen) Sca (talk) 20:26, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Well, yes. Thank God, you always know what we are talking about. Very Gymnastic of you. (FLEXIBLE)Hafspajen (talk) 20:33, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Koller's crows call to mind The Birds. Sca (talk) 20:43, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Oh, saw that. I was creepy. Have you ever nominated any DYKS+? Hafspajen (talk) 20:48, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Yes but I forget what it was about. Sca (talk) 21:04, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Now you sound like me ... It is about getting the article on main page, among Did you know ... Ans since you did't nominated many - or none - you might as well nominate the Koller article - since it has been expanded 5X since written... Hafspajen (talk) 21:11, 16 September 2014 (UTC) .

I always have problems with the nomination template. Doh! Sca (talk) 21:19, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

PS:

To DYK or not to DYK, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the apathy and indifference of callous readers, or to DYK against a sea of phlegm, thus heightening our page view statistics.... Sca (talk) 21:22, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

{{subst:NewDYKnomination | article = Man Writing a Letter | article2 = Woman Reading a Letter | status = new | hook = ... that WRITE YOUR HOOK HERE? | ALT1 = <!-- For more hooks, type " |ALT2 = " and/or so forth. --> | author = Drmies | author2 = Yngvadottir | image = Man Writing a Letter by Gabriël Metsu.jpg | caption = Man Writing a Letter | comment = | reviewed = If you reviewed another article before listing this DYK nomination, put it here. Otherwise leave this line alone; it will blank when saved. }}

Me too. How about this for inspiration - ? HOW many did you nominated so far. Hafspajen (talk) 21:25, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

why not? Hafspajen (talk) 21:27, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

What, no comment on my Shakespeare?

Well, take a look at my latest comment re September Morn. Sca (talk) 21:35, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

This?

Hey there it is a lot of new info... [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8][9]

MORE https://archive.org/stream/brooklynmuseumqu79broouoft#page/n389/mode/2up

See at the bottom of page 19 and over on to page 20

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Paul Ganz, “Contempory Swiss Art”, Brooklyn Museum Quarterly, Volume 8, April 1921, Number 2, pp 19-20 <https://archive.org/stream/brooklynmuseumqu79broouoft#page/n389/mode/2up>

Martinevans123, look here, Hafspajen (talk) 18:01, 17 September 2014 (UTC) THAN THERE IS OXFORD ART LINE: 'Koller on Oxford Art Online (you need a subscription for it though).

It reads:

Koller, (Johann) Rudolf

(b Zurich, 21 May 1828; d Zurich, 5 Jan 1905). Swiss painter. He studied in Zurich under such artists as Johann Jakob Ulrich before going to Düsseldorf in 1846 to work with Carl Ferdinand Sohn. In 1847 he was in Paris where he shared a studio with Arnold Böcklin. Two years later he went to Munich where he worked with a group of artists called the ‘Schweizer’, whose leader was Johann Gottfried Steffan. He returned to Zurich in 1851 and painted mainly pastoral landscapes (e.g. Waterfall near Zurich, c. 1851; Zurich, Graph. Samml. Eidgenöss. Tech. Hochsch.) evoking prevailing romantic sensibilities. His later paintings combine realist subject-matter with a carefully arranged and executed classical composition. He frequently chose rustic farm scenes containing animals, whom he believed represented a dignified and pure image of nature that was to be treated with respect. He was often considered to be the 19th-century counterpart to Paulus Potter whose paintings of animals were emulated at the time. His works are similar to those of Rosa Bonheur, as seen in Cows in the Roman Countryside (1869; Berne, Kstmus.). His most celebrated painting is the St Gotthard Mailcoach (1873; Zurich, Ksthaus), which depicts a coach at full speed attempting to stop suddenly for a herd of cattle obstructing the narrow road. After 1870, problems with his eyesight forced him to paint less, yet even late in life he was still capable of producing such lyrical paintings as Horses at the Drinking Fountain (1890; Le Locle, Mus. B.-A.). With Frank Buchser and Gustave Castan he worked diligently to advance the status of Swiss painters in the second half of the 19th century.

So you can probably use it to reference some of the information you already have in the article?

The details for the reference are: William Hauptman. "Koller, Rudolf." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. 17 September 2014. <http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T047215>

Braying?? Really? Lowing I could accept, but she's not a donkey! Martinevans123 (talk) 18:58, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Who++is not a donkey +???? http://www.phelpssports.com/printarticle.php?id=10004188 Hafspajen (talk) 19:25, 17 September 2014 (UTC).

Was it you who mentioned my old friend Jo Litty? [10] Martinevans123 (talk) 19:45, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Who, me? Never heard of him/her. Sca (talk) 22:15, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Il Pulcino Pio - very nice article - El Pollito BUrrito Mio... Paloma bruuu Hafspajen (talk) 19:52, 17 September 2014 (UTC) exotic animals

This business about the St. Gotthard Pass, St. Gotthard Tunnel, Alfred Escher and the Swiss Northeastern Railway is getting too complicated to explain succinctly in our brief article. Ref. No. 4 above claims "Koller’s famous painting, The Gotthard Post, is an allegory of the speed of the modern and the tension between old and new," but that assertion has nothing to do with Escher or the tunnel, which made the post road superfluous. Ref. No. 3 is more in line with our article.

Ref. No. 7 seems to be mainly an awkward computer trans. of the German WP article and contains such nonsensical sentences as, "This looked at the adoption of the industrialist and railway pioneer Alfred Escher a gift." (This from a part of the German article that confused me initially.)

Ref. No. 2 takes a somewhat different tack, being couched in terms of the 19th C. Swiss art scene, but it's from a commercial art gallery, anonymous and unreferenced. No. 8 is essentially an ad for tourist buses. And No. 1 is from a Florida-based commercial website offering equestrian products and tony properties to the horsey set.

None of these provides what I can identify as quotable scholarship on the subject of Herr Koller. Perhaps some of the verbiage from Oxford Art Online could be inserted, although I don't see it as particularly illuminating to the story of Rudolf Koller. Expanding the article significantly would require work by an art historian familiar with the genre and niche of animal painting. I for one am simply not qualified to write knowledgeably about this topic. although I'm happy to provide a translation from German WP when one is desired. Sca (talk) 22:15, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, looks like I got you in trouble... Shall I witdraw tha nomination? Yngvadottir said something like that. Hafspajen (talk) 22:22, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Up to you, Hafs, but writing the text and then looking for refs is not a workable approach, IMO. Sca (talk) 22:27, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Well, the rewier thinks that maybe we should give it a chance. And try to find more refs... we can still witdraw if we really didn't found any. This is German. http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D22039.php Hafspajen (talk) 11:58, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

OK. I added a linked mention of Jacques Raymond Brascassat with ref, and cleaned up some muddled chronology and awkward translations. Sca (talk) 15:27, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

You seen refs my page? Very German. Hafspajen (talk) 15:30, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Ulululululuulu, HOW many NICE cows that guy has! Yippie! Hafspajen (talk) 15:32, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

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Byron in Venice

Theses under could't save without removing h from http. Hafspajen (talk) 17:43, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

-h h-[ttp://www.google.se/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=24&ved=0CDEQFjADOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.swissmint.ch%2Fupload%2F_pdf%2Fdokumentationen%2Fmedieninformationen%2Fe%2FMM-19Jun2013-Kombi_e.pdf&ei=TMcZVMifNMb9ygO9t4A4&usg=AFQjCNFezUjpRGYvnxIonW_KexWdXqT2xg PDF] Hafspajen (talk) 17:31, 17 September 2014 (UTC) h-[ttp://www.google.se/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=30&ved=0CFsQFjAJOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.artfinding.com%2FBiography%2FKoller-Johann-Rudolf%2F36129.html&ei=TMcZVMifNMb9ygO9t4A4&usg=AFQjCNFFA86aKMsjdwfYLdHyxEFotiGidw]

Moved Aivazovsky's Moscow.... to winter gallery above. Sca (talk) 15:36, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Bovine

more chill

yeah, yeah, it is in the gallery already... but not this one. This has an article and is a gugug-file

Ready now? I think I remove the under referencing, and later confusion we may work out - later. Hafspajen (talk) 18:37, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Looks good to me. There was a problem with the last two ref tags (under 'Honors'), which I fixed. Sca (talk) 20:55, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. We were trying to do that at the same time, but you made it.

Have you some reference for his painter students somewhere? Otherwise you can leave a message to User:Belle to start reviewing.

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Stolen from M. Hafspajen (talk) 21:49, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Moo-o-o-o-o.... Sca (talk) 23:53, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

We have to be given the Fine Cow Award soon, for our special efforts in cow-depicting articles. Hafspajen (talk) 08:43, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

I'm so excited! — The anticipation is killing me.

What's that you said?

Gug. Hafspajen (talk) 14:29, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Just swallowed hard. Hafspajen (talk) 14:54, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Cow -boysHafspajen (talk) 17:19, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

I'm impressed — or at least I know I should be.

You'll be glad to know that sca is cooking up (or down) a batch of black bean & bacon chili made with fresh garden tomatoes from his very own back yard. Sca (talk) 17:45, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Moved Aivazovsky's Little Russia to winter gallery above. (Also made it my desktop background — for now.) Thanks. Sca (talk) 18:06, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Ox Cart is already in the gallery. Sca (talk) 20:44, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Much honored. But some philosops like Pytagoras would be disappointed with you... He hated eating beans.Hafspajen (talk) 18:30, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

They do pose some perils. Sca (talk) 20:42, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

How's this for a chilly scene? Sca (talk) 20:53, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Or this? Sca (talk) 20:58, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

.(edit conflict).So, go ahead and nominate it .Has an article and it is google. Hafspajen (talk) 20:55, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

That one is lovely. We rarely have so much snow. Hafspajen (talk) 20:57, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

selfportrait,

Now, how's this and this for chili scenes? Sca (talk) 21:21, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Very chilly - but Pythagoras would have pulled out every hair from his beard by now. He had a sect that he founded, they were not allowed to jump over fences, pick up things that fall down or eat beans. Pythagoreanism. Now go and nominate that Magpie. You found that, you fix that. Your nouveau specialité Le winter. Hafspajen (talk) 21:40, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

He should have been a stoic and accepted the consequences, however malodorous. Sca (talk) 00:48, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Well, he had a certain mystical filosophy behind it. Hafspajen (talk) 11:51, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Actually, I hate magpies. We have quite a few of them here and they are always screeching and cackling in a most unpleasant way. Sca (talk) 23:21, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Actually, I hate magpies too. Do you hate the picture too? Hafspajen (talk) 23:34, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Er, no. Sca (talk) 00:42, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

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Frank Buchserberg -what exacly mean by this is a translation of the article from German Wiki? Must have been hard... Hafspajen (talk) 16:23, 19 September 2014 (UTC) Frank Buchserberg ...but we have an article on him ...http://translate.google.com/translate?&u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFrank+Buchser&sl=de&tl=en

WHERE is that article? http://translate.google.com/translate?&u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFrank+Buchser&sl=de&tl=en Hafspajen (talk) 16:35, 19 September 2014 (UTC) Frank Buchser... indeed. Hafspajen (talk) 16:37, 19 September 2014 (UTC) OK, the funny part is that it say: This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia. And the article goes:Frank Buchser (1828–1890) was a Swiss painter. Well, indeed. Much trouble on translating that. Hafspajen (talk) 22:01, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

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Richard von Drasche-Wartinberg

Albert Friedrich Schröder Junge Dame beim Anlegen einer Perlenkette .. nothing here either

This guy doesn't even have an article.. [11]Hafspajen (talk) 16:08, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Schade... Sca (talk) 21:08, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Aivazovsky

Aivazovsky: - Little Russia (1868)

Hafs, have you noticed the shadowy figure with silvery hair in the doorway of the hut in Little Russia? I wonder what sort of person that's supposed to represent.... Sca (talk) 22:01, 21 September 2014 (UTC) That is the guy habnging around the doorway.

Nothing more probably. If you start pinging someone, put {{U|XXX}} or {{ping|XXX}}on (same thing) on the talk page or page - but you will need also a very recent signature after it. Otherwise it is not working. Now I will put {{U|Sca}} or {{ping|Sca}} on mine, (with a signature) check out waht is happening. Hafspajen (talk) 18:12, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Sorry don't see anything — what am I supposed to see where? Doh! Sca (talk) 21:11, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Have you noticed how the box is turning red when I mention you name(not here, here is not working, this is your page...)Hafspajen (talk) 15:57, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

WHAT box, WHERE? Sca (talk) 18:07, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Somewhere beside your name up on the page high up. a box, liiöle turns ded. beside watchlist, contrinutions, logout .. watch it now. Hafspajen (talk) 20:02, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Either I'm blind or I'm immune to this feature. Sca (talk) 20:29, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Nothing is RED? or ORANGE? maybe is missing... Hafspajen (talk) 20:33, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

OH! You mean up at the very TOP of the page? Yes, there's a white number there (99) in a red box. I thought the 99 meant the number of messages I had on my talk page, but I see it's the number of times sca has been mentioned by someone else somewhere else. So, finally, I GET IT! Doh! Sorry to be so obtuse.

{{U|Hafspajen}} Now, this only works if the person mentioning me pings me? Sca (talk) 20:49, 24 September 2014 (UTC)