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[edit] welcome again

Ericspenguin, I also welcome you to wikipedia. I see you've been making good edits. Thank you. --DavidCary 23:20, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] renamings

Lovely. Part way through what I find is a remarkably unpleasant process of renaming and fixing redirects for a small article, I wonder if it was really the best idea. Perhaps I should have read more of that renaming/moving help page before starting. Hm. Eric's penguin 03:11, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oberlin College

Nice edits on the Oberlin College page. I'm fairly new to Wikipedia, but I'm a student at Oberlin. Did you graduate there? Feel free to respond by e-mail if you prefer - Really good changes and citations for the OC page. KRay 18:59, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I still haven't figured out how to linkify my name when I sign a post.

Signing with four tildes (~~~~) should leave a wikified name as well as a timestamp. Other useful stuff at the links above, or in the welcome message on your talk page. Eric's penguin 04:07, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese gardens

Hi Eric... I am wondering about the words "senzui" (or sansui) and "kare senzui" (or karesansui). What is the correct spelling of these words in English?

There is an article about Karesansui but the article for Sansui is about an electronics company. Is an article about "sansui" (the "mountain and lake garden") or is it spelt differently.

I am asking in order to correct mistakes in the Himeji Gardens, Adelaide article. Thanks! — Donama

Also, what is 水墨山水画? (I see that 水 means water and 山 means mountain) Ta! — Donama 02:36, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

The spellings of the Japanese are "sansui" and "kare-sansui" (with or without the dash or a space, as you prefer). Kare-sansui would be the dry rock gardens depicting mountain/water landscapes; it would appear that non-dry gardens are called simply "tei'en" (庭園 - garden) or "Nihon tei'en" (日本庭園 - Japanese garden). Sansui (山水) seems to be merely the common subject matter of such paintings (next para.) or gardens, and does not appear to have a page of its own in either English or Japanese.
水墨画 (suibokuga) is apparently identical to sumi-e (墨絵 - ink paintings). According to the Japanese page, 山水画 (sansuiga) is a genre of sumi-e which came from China: "Though works do exist which depict real vistas, most sansuiga are depictions of landscapes imagined from a rearrangement of realistic elements." If that doesn't make sense I'll try to translate more, but art's not my forte. 水墨山水画 (which would be "suiboku sansui ga", wherever you prefer the spaces or dashes) likely refers to a general grouping of those types of pictures.
Hope that helped. Eric's penguin 05:21, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Immensely. Thank you! — Donama 05:45, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Bow tie

Hi,

You may have an interest, since I saw your name in the history list of the Bow tie article: There's a separate article, List of bow tie wearers and an admin is suggesting deleting it. When I looked into the Bow tie page, I found there's already a list there. I don't have an opinion on which list should remain, but one really should go. I'd appreciate your advice on the Talk:Bow tie page, if you're interested and have the time.Noroton 00:54, 10 October 2006 (UTC)