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On 22 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hilda Annetta Walker, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that figurative artistHilda Annetta Walker(work pictured) objected to Modernist works because she found it difficult to tell what they represented? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hilda Annetta Walker. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hilda Annetta Walker), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Thank you, and you're welcome. I have searched the British Newspaper Archive for a mention of the Bell inn, Croydon, but found nothing. If you look at the commonscat, you'll see I found a couple of old photos of the Dog and Bull online, though. I'll keep looking. Storye book (talk) 19:04, 3 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
I think it is also used as a landmark reference point eg In the early 70s when the roads were being dug up for cable laying, a wall was found but it didn't quite extend as far north to the Dog and Bull. There is probably more to find. Whispyhistory (talk) 19:22, 3 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
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On 6 February 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frances Emilia Crofton, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that artist Frances Emilia Crofton had lithograph copies made of eight of her paintings (example pictured), and sold them for charity? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frances Emilia Crofton. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Frances Emilia Crofton), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Hehe, you are putting me on the spot - I guess I dropped myself in it there. But I shall answer you with respect and in all seriousness, because I admire Thomas Picken (I have not studied his brother Andrew who was a good portraitist, and strangely I cannot find anything about his other lithographer bro James Picken's work at all). So I guess you are using the word "bad" in fun, because T. Picken was never bad at his job. Bearing in mind he was only about 16 when he created this one it's a heck of an achievement. It's an exciting fire, and the reflections on the water and the looming Abbey behind the conflagration are both wonderful. All three of those effects would be enough of a challenge at that age, let alone doing it successfully. He understands composition already - he has the rule of thirds, he has movement in the line of the smoke, he has strong light-dark contrast - not as much as Dore yet, but getting there. But best of all he has the contrast of the shocking destruction in the middle (movement), against the quiet permanence of the stuff around the edge (stillness): abbey, Westminster Bridge, water, that building on the left). I guess we must assume that he had help at that age, but nevertheless - respect. As for the spotting, as you call it, well it's a tiny engraving, and I apologise if my large scan misled you. And a young lad would be given a second-quality bit of stone to engrave on. Thus most of the "spotting" which you noticed would be Picken using the rather coarse but consistent grain of the stone. So none of this so far gives away his age and early stage of apprenticeship. So you're right to talk about people and faces. In this picture he has not risked doing e.g. a close-up onlooker in a bottom corner, because he clearly can't yet do people properly. Those figures are rather unpractised stick men (well, almost) whereas the buildings show some years of skill already.
So yes, now we need to differentiate this from a mature work. The gourd picture is a bit problematic because unlike the fire picture (which I scanned myself) it is a poor reproduction, and we cannot see the engraving clearly. But we can still see greater skill and professionalism. The gourd, leaves, boots, and so on, all show different engraving styles, to bring out different textures - whereas really the fire picture had only one texture if you look closely.
Re the faces - I have been thinking about this, and although we can never write it in the article (unless a citation comes along) I am beginning to wonder whether T. Picken, unlike his brother Andrew, was unable to create portrait faces of recognisable individuals because he did not want to look at faces. Having a great artistic skill while not being able to do recognisable faces might (or might not) put him on the autistic spectrum. That might also explain his sheer dedication and intense attention to detail, especially in the ship engravings. The face in the gourd picture might be OK, until you realise that you probably could not recognise the individual from that stylised face with the too-big eyes and 17th-century drawing technique. The face in the Dunfermline picture here does not work with the pretty, long blonde hair of the young woman, and contrasts strangely with the absolutely superb drawing of the wild vegetation. On the other hand, it's a mystery picture with a missing or hidden woodcutter, so the woman may be intentionally mysterious. it's ambiguous.
So the more I think about your question, whether serious or not, the more I see in Picken as an artist. His technique does mature, certainly. The 16-year-old could not have created the missing-woodcutter picture yet. There is probably a lot more to learn yet, from Picken's work. I just wish we had more good scans of it. Storye book (talk) 15:37, 13 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
I looked too closely at too many commons file to not be serious! Although it's also good to have fun. I used "bad" in a relative sense as a shorthand for your "immature quality" (they are clearly all 'good' in an overall sense, as you imply). On your point about "different engraving styles", I did note that the Gourd image seemed to have greater variation in the way items were shaded and textured (while the fire photo seems to mostly create shading through thickness), which is why I took it as a more mature picture. I think you also make a good point about scan quality however, which I didn't account for before. I hadn't seen the Dunfermlin picture, as I only looked at Category:Images of England engraved by Thomas Ashburton Picken. That is a face in stark contrast to the rest of the image. I sympathise, I could never draw faces well myself within my (rather more limited) artistic endeavours. I very much appreciate your detailed reply and further pointers, this sort of learning is a great boon of the DYK process. CMD (talk) 17:08, 13 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
Welcome to the one hundred and fifty fifth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 16,522 last month to 16,781 on 27 February 2021). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 190 is ahead of WP:GM who have 88. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 79 while WP:GM has 69 out of a total number of 4,643 articles.
Currently we have sixty two Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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On 4 March 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frances C. Fairman, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that artist Frances C. Fairman painted portraits of Queen Victoria's dogs (example pictured) by royal command? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frances C. Fairman. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Frances C. Fairman), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Thank you for your message and talk with jarekt about the issue with picture of Kenwood mixer, you right I owner of Kenwood Chef Restore Ltd and Kenwood Chef Service Ltd. many of our pictures are on Instagram, Pinterest and our websites, understand need to source the original picture, I would do that and upload again or talk with jarekt about this
As you said before is correct, many information about vintage Kenwood models and specification is not on line due the age, the link provided just refer to one model A701/A
im happy to provide extra information and source to complete the citation and to get all right with the accurate information, thanks again Alex1975uk (talk) 20:18, 20 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
I went through that editor's most recent set of 6 edits, one by one just now, and it seems OK at the moment. But please keep up your good work of monitoring this - thank you. Meanwhile it was great to see Sian Phillips still going strong at 87. What a trooper. Storye book (talk) 13:12, 28 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
Welcome to the one hundred and fifty sixth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 16,781 last month to 16,840 on 13 April 2021). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 202 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 80 while WP:GM has 70 out of a total number of 4,650 articles.
Currently we have sixty three Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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Sorry for the delay in publishing this month's newsletter, but I have been out of action without a PC for about 3 weeks. Managed to get it fixed after lockdown eased on 12 April.
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Welcome to the one hundred and fifty seventh WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 16,840 last month to 16,854 on 29 April 2021). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 202 is ahead of WP:GM who have 87. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 80 while WP:GM has 70 out of a total number of 4,654 articles.
Currently we have sixty three Yorkshire featured articles:
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On 7 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Arn Gill (North Yorkshire), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the former Adelaide Level lead mine (pictured) at Arn Gill in Swaledale, England, was named after Lady Adelaide Lamont, a descendant of Judge Jeffreys? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arn Gill (North Yorkshire). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Arn Gill (North Yorkshire)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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On 21 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William Grainge, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the regular nature walks taken by historian and naturalistWilliam Grainge averaged 24 miles (39 km)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William Grainge. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, William Grainge), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hello! Your submission of William Grainge at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! 4meter4 (talk) 21:51, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
