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[edit] Supernova Legacy Survey

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[edit] Megaprime

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[edit] Leonardo da Vinci

With regards to that page, the length is stretched to absolute maximum capacity, to a point where users are complaining. Please don't add any information that isn't really vital to understanding the man.

The sort of information that we have about Leonardo includes his appearance, his physical strength and agility, his vegetarianism, his buying caged birds and releasing them, his attitude to death and burial, the type of clothes he wore etc etc etc. Basically, the article could incorporate everything ever written or even speculated. But we need to keep it down. That's why the article Leonardo da Vinci's personal life and Cultural depictions of Leonardo da Vinci were created. Any more info about his birth, family etc needs to go there. Please expand these pages, but try to avoid fights over his sexuality.

  • I've incorporated his father's full name, but it's gone down to the biographical paragraph, because the intro has been criticised for it's length, and it's really not very significant information. As for the surname of Caterina, it is redundant. The matter of surnames is mentioned in the text. She may not have had a surname. Typical case is Piero della Francesca, who, also illegitimate, because his first name was common, took his mother's name to identify himself.
  • I've incorporated the hour (which I recall is stated by his Grandfather, but I had omitted as being not worth the extra line.)
  • An explanation as to what the 3rd hour mmeans doesn't belong on thhe text when the reader is trying to get at succinct information. That is "footnote" stuff, so I've turned it into one. The problem is that I nnow need edit abbout 30 footnotes that fall beneath it.
  • Brackets. Please don't bracket information if you can avoid it. If you look at the style of the article you'll realise that it's main editor has an abhorrence of bbracketted material. I like whole sentences, and incidental or explanatory stuff consigned to footnotes.
  • The sort of things which get bracketted are things like The boy was known as "Salaino" (Little Devil).

The other thing is, I am about to put that article up as a Featured Article Candidate again. I have in the last few weeks spent multiple hours searching for the sources of information that people have included without citation.

I notice that you added a book to the Bibliography. Is that the book from which the information that you included came? Under the presumtion that this was the case, I cited it as your source, but if, in fact, Leonardo's father's full name and the details of his birth came from some other place, I've got to change the citation immediately so please let me know ASAP.

While I realise I seem to be nitpicky, the aim of the exercise is to get this recognised as one of the best articles on wikipedia. If info is added without citation, or in places where it spoils the flow of the written language, it's a case of "bigger is not necessarily better".

Amandajm 08:37, 28 October 2007 (UTC)