User talk:Tyrenius

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Put new messages at the bottom of this page.

2006	2007	2008
Archive 1, Jan - May 2006	Archive 4, Jan - Feb 2007	Archive 9, Jan - 2008
Archive 2, Jun - Aug 2006	Archive 5, Mar 2007
Archive 3, Sep - Dec 2006	Archive 6, Apr - Jun 2007
	Archive 7, Jul - Sep 2007
	Archive 8, Oct - Dec 2007	How to archive

Children's Games (detail) by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1525-1569)

"Remember what we are doing here. We are building a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet. We are trying to do it in an atmosphere of fun, love, and respect for others. We try to be kind to others, thoughtful in our actions, and professional in our approach to our responsibilities." Jimbo Wales

If you require the assistance of an administrator, please see the list of administrators. To report a problem, see the administrators incidents noticeboard, the administrator's noticeboard and vandalism intervention.

Please don't post about new issues, which I'm not already involved in. Replies may be slow.

[edit] Victoria Miro Gallery

You've expanded it twenty-fold! That's a pretty darned impressive improvement, to put it mildly, and I commend your labor. I am (I will confess) a bit of a skeptic about galleries in general; they seem to all have a very high opinion of themselves, and the spam rate is high. I don't deny the notability of the subject in the article's current state. (I do, however, somewhat question the appropriateness of the long list of client artists. It rather resembles the catalogs in some manufacturers' articles, and verges on a violation of WP:NOTCATALOG.) --Orange Mike | Talk 13:06, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Great work on Victoria Miro!--Ethicoaestheticist (talk) 22:30, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Brayden Caya

Please let me know how I may be able to revise the page on Ben Decker so that it will not be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brayden06 (talk • contribs) 02:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 4/28 DYK

On 28 April 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Victoria Miro Gallery, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Bedford 05:17, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Referencing guide

I don't know where the terrific template for referencing that you left on EraserGirl's talk page came from, but it is terrific. I've borrowed it to leave for a new editor asking for guidance in referencing. If you wrote this, congratulations, it's better than any number of policy pages I've perused in assembling knowledge on referencing!! Wildhartlivie (talk) 23:54, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, I wrote it to provide a simple intro for new users, as referencing is essential and the existing pages something of a maze. You can post it on user or article talk pages as {{refstart}} or link to WP:REFB. You might like to watchlist the template and essay talk page to help keep an eye on it. Ty 00:24, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Four Freedoms

May I request your opinion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts#Four_Freedoms_.28Norman_Rockwell.29.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:42, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Also, pwlease come see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts#Four_Freedoms_.28Norman_Rockwell.29_part_2.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 17:06, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rat Bastard Protective Association

Thank you for the clarification. I appreciate it. I was unaware of the admin requisite for full protection. Since my other pages got deleted despite my request for discussion and review I was looking for some way for meaningful discussion to occur -- rather than simple deletion. Thank you, appreciatively, --Art4em (talk) 00:48, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts/Art Manual of Style

Are we ready to go official with this? There will always be more to add, but I think it has reached at least the level of compreheniveness other project MoSs have. Johnbod (talk) 01:35, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Brian Sherwin bio now has a claim of conflict of interest

Ty, I'd like your opinion on this. A person marked the Brian Sherwin bio I contributed as a conflict of interest and questioned my good faith. What can I do? Do new articles always get grilled like this? And so you know I almost have the Edward Winkleman and Tyler Greene bios done. May I show them to you before contributing? (Roodhouse1 (talk) 02:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC))

I raised it because the confluence of username and edit pattern was sufficient to be of concern. See WP:COIN#Brian Sherwin. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 03:59, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I've posted on WP:COIN and the article talk page. Ty 04:58, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Abstract Expressionism

Hi Tyrenius,

Please note that our site does not fit into point 5.

Our site has taken on board a new policy of becoming an informational hub for the art world. The article that we created on abstract expressionism is a great summary on the movement. It is one of the first in a series of articles that we will be releasing on art movements.

You'll notice that the article does not contain any advertising.

Please re-consider our link. I believe that it adds value to the Wikipedia page on abstract expressionism. If you would like to see the article modified in any way (or the page modified), please let me know and we will arrange it.

Dk321 (talk) 05:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AS again

Just in case you missed it. Crum375 (talk) 02:34, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Ake Lianga

Thank you for your find. Unfortunately, I haven't got a subscription to Project Muse either... Aridd (talk) 17:39, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Carptrash

Thanks for noticing the signature. I read through WP:DTR and then WP:TTR. Seems to be a lively discussion. I think there's occasions where templates work and not, it's probably much too for either to become guidelines and/or policies. But regular or not, no one remembers everything. No one follows all the rules all the time. To me a template is a precisely worded way of pointing out guidelines/policies that may have been or at least appear to have been violated. I'd feel like a frustrated whiny brat writing a specific reason when a template would suffice. Plus, someone went through all the work of designing templates (with different levels too). I'm sure their efforts would be better suited, while somewhat impersonal, for some users. Eventually if a problem exists, and I'm the first to come accross it, I would be willing to make a template for someone else to use should the same problem come up again.--_{Wiki11790 talk} 01:08, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unrelated issue of Internal Links

When editing a biography, do you think it's necessary to link the schools that a person has graduated from? Is it needed if the person is notable for something entirely unrelated to their education? Is it important to link all schools if the person receives a degree from an undergraduate and a graduate institution, but all of their research/work is done at the graduate school? or some other institution afterwards. I've been looking at a number of biographies where undergraduate institutions are mentioned once, linked, and are seemingly irrelevant to the rest of the article. I feel as though it is often unnecessary, and places undue weight on the schools they may have attended. But it seems to be commonly practiced.--_{Wiki11790 talk} 01:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Guy Denning

Hi, you removed my additions to Guy's entry in the wikipedia and cite the reason as a possible hoax. Did you consider asking Guy himself? (also, forgive me if I haven't worked out the subtleties of wiki communication...)

80.229.31.241 (talk) 19:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Cindy Sherman

Hi, can you take a look at Talk:Cindy Sherman? There's a discussion about whether or not to include information about a recently ~~released~~ produced documentary about the artist. Input from someone who knows what they're talking about (i.e not me) might be helpful. Thanks,--Ethicoaestheticist (talk) 15:54, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ty User talk:Artumentary is basically insisting (about how he's gonna edit this and that) and demanding...to put this movie on the Cindy Sherman page...no matter what, because he says so. She is uncomfortable, (I think eventually he might deserve a block, although I hope not)...I suggested to him that he create a separate article about his movie..He isn't interested - it has to be at Cindy Sherman he says, I stepped in to prevent an edit war....Modernist (talk) 00:04, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your input there...Modernist (talk) 10:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.--Ethicoaestheticist (talk) 11:19, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox Artist

Hi Ty. There are two ways you can go:

If you want to leave the parameter name as "Works", then yes, you will need to go around and change "Famous works =" to "Works =" in all the articles which transclude the template. And yes, you're right, that's probably a good job for a bot. In terms of finding a suitable bot to accomplish the task, I'd recommend placing a request at Wikipedia:Bot requests.
Alternately, you could change the parameter name back to "Famous works" but leave the displayed text as just "Works". That's a little less elegant, but I know of several templates where the parameter name and the displayed text don't match. And it would save you having to go around and change "Famous works =" to "Works =" in all the transcluding articles (Of course, if there are some articles which already have "Works =", they would need to be changed to "Famous works =", but my guess is there would be a lot less of them. But you'd probably still need a bot to check them all. However, changing the parameter name will fix a whole lot of articles immediately, so the bot work would be less urgent).

Hope this helps. DH85868993 (talk) 03:49, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

On my talk page, you wrote:

Thanks. I changed "famous works" twice on the documentation page[1] and three times on the template page.[2] Which of those are parameter name and which are displayed text? Ty 04:04, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

They were all changes to the parameter name except this one:

{{!}}width="85px" align="right" {{!}} '''Famous works''' {{!}}{{!}} <span class="note">{{{famous works}}}</span>

changed to:

{{!}}width="85px" align="right" {{!}} '''Works''' {{!}}{{!}} <span class="note">{{{works}}}</span>

That was changing the actual text which is displayed in the template. DH85868993 (talk) 07:52, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stub templates

You said: "Stub template goes above categories."

Sorry to gainsay you - Wikipedia:Stub:

=== Categorizing stubs ===

After writing a short article, or finding an unmarked stub, you should insert a stub template. By convention this is placed at the end of the article, after the External links section, any navigation templates, and the category tags, so that the stub category will appear last. It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it.

• Lainagier • talk • 10:46, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Ty, that made for an interesting read! • Lainagier • talk • 11:47, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox artist

No problem. Doing it by hand is much faster than filing a BRFA. Should be done within the hour. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 01:13, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Museums

Hello, Tyrenius. You have new messages at Stepshep's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} template.

§hep • ¡Talk to me! 16:58, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vaga

Hi TY, A couple of editors are going everywhere adding VAGA copyright tags..to images, I have no idea if this is sanctioned, real or a farce. User talk:Mocus22 started at Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg....now Mocus22 says that he represents VAGA....Modernist (talk) 03:10, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A favor to ask

Dear Tyrenius,

I would like to know if you can do a small review of me as an editor here, and tell me what I need to do to have a chance at becoming admin. Thank you! Arbiteroftruth (talk) 18:50, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Categories: Wikipedia administrators