Talk:Palmette

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1 The Wikipedia background design
2 hello 212.243.38.122.
3 Quote
4 Dead link
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[edit] The Wikipedia background design

"The Wikipedia background design: a modern application of the palmette motif"

ahem, who came up with that idea ? as i see it (and it makes a lot of sense) the background shows an open book from the side. No palmette anywhere..... I removed it in my Edit of May 9th, 0:30 UTC

--213.101.255.209 00:22, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia background

The suggestion is simply that images like this, and echoes of similar shapes, seem meaningful to people. It seems as though the photographer and the designer of the page were at least partly aware of this. The book chosen to represent Wikipedia could have been shown from any other angle, but they liked this particular view.

192.91.247.236 15:21, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hello 212.243.38.122.

Hello 212.243.38.122. Thank you for your work on pages like Palmette. But, please consider using the Show Preview button to combine multiple edits. This will make life easier for your fellow editors.

Hu, interesting, thanks - sorry if I saved over any edits - you may be the first person to visit this page. -- AM 8 Nov. 2005 (UTC).

I didn't check to see if any edits have been "saved over", since I assume this amount of work is being done with care. I simply advocate a tiny bit of extra care to combine edits so that people can easily look to see what changes have been made. When I saw more than 50 edits to the page, I was unable to easily compare the current version with the version before you began the series of edits. I don't think there is a problem, but I haven't checked, because I am optimistic. I seek to encourage good editing. Lots of little refinements to smooth Wiki editing flow that you'll acquire as time progresses. Please consider picking a user name or ID and registering it. It is free and easy and gives your editing a good sense of continuity. Hu 04:18, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Hu thanks, yes. For the record, before the additions I made from 3 to 8 November 2005 the article/stub 'Palmette' had the following contents:

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Palmette also called anthemion (from the Greek ανθεμιον, a flower) is an art style based on the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree. It was largely employed in the Greek/Roman era to decorate:

the fronts of ante-fixae,
the upper portion of the stele or vertical tombstones,
the necking of the Ionic columns of the Erechtheum and its continuation as a decorative frieze on the walls of the same, and
the cymatium of a cornice.

Though generally known as the honeysuckle ornament, from its resemblance to that flower, its origin will be found in the flower of the acanthus plant.

End quote AM 212.243.38.122 23:51, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vase/hob_1972.11.10_av5.htm
- In Palmette on Sun Jul 16 21:27:04 2006, 404 Object Not Found
- In Palmette on Mon Jul 17 17:36:08 2006, 404 Object Not Found
- In Palmette on Thu Jul 27 01:18:21 2006, 404 Object Not Found

maru (talk) contribs 05:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.le.ac.uk/ur/urarch2.html
- In Palmette on Sun Jul 16 21:27:07 2006, 404 Not found
- In Palmette on Mon Jul 17 17:36:16 2006, 404 Not found
- In Palmette on Thu Jul 27 01:18:25 2006, 404 Not found

maru (talk) contribs 05:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dead link

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