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Thank you for your contributions as we've noticed that you've been making some great additions to the Wikipedia at the Komondor and Livestock guardian dog articles and we really appreciate it.
The Wikipedia can use as many quality members as possible.
If you need any help at all, you can contact me on my talk page or why not pop over to the Teahouse where there are always very patient, helpful and experienced editors available to give you a hand. SagaciousPhil - Chat16:49, 12 January 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Much appreciated, Warrington. She's lying next to me right now with her beautiful dog eyes. In her mind, she's probably chasing rabbits all across Smaland. Drmies (talk) 14:27, 3 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Morning Hafspajen (or is it Warrington - I'm not sure?),
I see you are still busily working on the Poodle article! It doesn't look as if we are going to get a response from the editor(s) who were determined to have a different version included, which was what I was hoping from the RfC. What about swapping the pic in the info box for something more appropriate? Perhaps the black in the Scandinavian clip? You know a lot more about Poodles than I do, so I'll leave sorting this one out to you - I might see if I can get some 'stacked' photos of Poodles next weekend as I will be at a show. I'm still busy trying to sort out the English Setter article at the moment! SagaciousPhil - Chat09:25, 11 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
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I don't know anything about this message calling you a dictator, but I have a feeling that I might upset some people here and somebody might think it was a good idea to prove that I am a JERK. Hafspajen (talk) 10:39, 19 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
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I have uploaded some pics of a male and female Komondor to commons - not very good pics, I'm afraid! The dogs are only one year old so do not have mature coats yet but they certainly are huge dogs. The male is apparently over 30 inches already. Search for Komondor as that's what I've labelled them. SagaciousPhil - Chat09:41, 17 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
They really are not good but they are here; sorry I'm trying to do upload from my iPhone and I'm not good at typing on the very small screen!
both are only just over 12 months old, so do not have proper cords developed yet
I have also just done some of a white Standard Poodle Komondor female
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I'm not sure if you are watching my talk page but I had replied to you there to say I think I've sorted the info box pic, so I await your approval...... The quality of this pic is a bit better as my little phone was more able to cope with the lighting but it's far better to have the 'stacked' pic in the info box. I'm just filling your talk page with pics!!!! SagaciousPhil - Chat12:25, 20 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
I am very impressed with the article! I have adjusted the references, so please have a look to make sure I have got them right - change them quickly if I've done it incorrectly. This is interesting, see page 35. They are called 'Wally dugs' in Scotland and were often a feature on mantelpieces in Glasgow tenements apparently. The designer that collection is about has an article Enid Marx, so maybe it could be tied in somehow?. I've not managed to find any Commons pics of an ornament to use yet - I like the art you have used though as I do like good paintings! I'll see if I can find more later. There was an old discussion at the Wikipedia reference desk at the start of 2008. SagaciousPhil - Chat10:15, 31 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
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I moved your recent contributions to Tea to the article's talk page because of concerns of copyright/plagiarism, WP:V, and WP:OR violations. Please be more careful when adding material to articles. I've pointed out on the talk page that at minimum it should be reworded and better verified with sources from the tea.co.uk reference. --Ronz (talk) 16:43, 4 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
I added that because that part was for a long time in the Tea (meal) article. When Logical Cowboy removed it, [1] with the motivation that it does not belong to the article tea as a meal, but rather to tea, I put that there, that´s all. Considering that it was in the article for a long time didn’t bother much to check it. I do not know who made the initial contribution. Hafspajen (talk) 12:22, 6 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
Oh, there you are Mr Bernadotte. Thought you might come by to visit. Thought a real username is a much better incognito, than an IP. What is IPA, India Pale Ale, or? I get confused by all those, Afb,DnM, OTH, Klm WMF - stuff, which lazy people adopt around here. Yes, maybe is time for Rolighetsminister article. Hafspajen (talk) 06:41, 20 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Hello Hafspajen. Thanks for the 'wee wally dugs' - it's always nice to add a few pics to a talk page. Actually the etymology of 'porcelain' is rather memorable, I think; my dictionary states:
"from French porcelaine, from Italian porcellana cowrie shell, porcelain (from its shell-like finish), literally: relating to a sow (from the resemblance between a cowrie shell and a sow's vulva), from porcella little sow, from porca sow, from Latin".
Well, I can't find anything to add to Vissefjärda anymore. The name pops up in plenty of Swedish newspapers of course, but I need some decent books with history and what not. Can you find anything? And can you drive up there and take a couple of pictures? :) Drmies (talk) 03:30, 2 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Do you have a reference for the tourism section - "The Sand-Covered Church is one of the most visited sites in Skagen. Travel agencies recommend the Church area for travel for recreational purposes." please? Otherwise it might be better to take that bit out for DYK as it will still be long enough as DYK wants a citation for every paragraph! I've 'real world work' to do today so won't be able to look for it, so I'm delegating. SagaciousPhil - Chat09:54, 7 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
Don't worry as it looks like that section was taken out; the article looks in good shape, so very well done! Everyone seems to have had a go at doing something on it so it has certainly caught people's attention. SagaciousPhil - Chat17:50, 7 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
'Yes indeed, fun too. Very nice of you to help. Christian Frederik Hansen is the right guy. Even you and Lady of Shalott. Hope it will go on catching people's attention att The Dyk. What are you working on, and on a Saturday? Hafspajen (talk) 18:01, 7 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
Very, very boring stuff - sub editing and formatting lengthy specialist reports to try to knock them into reasonable shape. Some spelling is dreadful, for instance, wearing spelt wairing, then people use their own made up abbreviations that I have to guess what they are trying to say! Does 'eff.' stand for effortless, effective, efficient or something entirely different? Sometimes no punctuation is used at all throughout thousands of words strung together. Still loads of them to do but given up for the evening and will start again tomorrow!
Done I think I fixed this, so Hafspajen you can ignore this helpful little bot. I wonder how an IP managed to find it to comment when it hadn't been listed? SagaciousPhil - Chat07:52, 8 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Dovecote.Bruyer pipe dog!
Here are more pictures of funny little houses for you - a Dovecote like a pretend little castle! It was built in 1800, so quite new really! And the 16th century Wine Tower that is supposed to be haunted! Lots more pics of ancient old monuments here! SagaciousPhil - Chat How come you want to marry Bish? I'm gutted you have jilted me! 19:13, 14 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
Woohhh, no haunting for me please. Well, about Bish, that is a long story, though, I might confuse Bish with someone else. Never mind, I might turn into a mormon, than I can have you both. Just have fait! Hafspajen (talk) 20:33, 14 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
Oh, right. They say than 2 m under the level (today's ground level) they found traces of plough marks, broken bricks, sea foam pipes, broken glass and ceramic pieces and some ... charcoal. Hafspajen (talk) 11:00, 15 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
Nice doggy pipe! Is that document a listing of "listed buildings" as that's what I was trying to indicate to back up the sentence about Denmark having it listed - or we will have to try to find it somewhere else. SagaciousPhil - Chat11:19, 15 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
Hmmm, I'm rather struggling with this (maybe I'm too used to Historic Scotland who make it really easy to get information). It's being more difficult as I can't make head nor tail of any computer translation! Is there no where that the Heritage Agency of Denmark keep an accessible database of listed buildings? I'm pretty sure it will be a listed building but if the ref I put in doesn't support it I'll have to take it out (before someone comes along and says what an idiot I am ) Do you think Drmies might know? SagaciousPhil - Chat14:58, 15 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
It should be an Heritage Agency of Denmark, but where? Not on Wikipedia anyway, I tried to find it. But than the Danish wiki is not the best, sorry Danes. Hafspajen (talk) 15:01, 15 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
Yes, this mentions the church as an ancient monument (e.g. an archaeological site) worthy of preservation!
There is rest for the weary, There is rest for you, On the other side of Jordan, In the sweet fields of Eden, Where the Tree of Life is blooming, There is rest for you.
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Thank goodness! Searching was making my head spin and my computer very tired from trying to translate! Can you insert it as a ref where I had the previous one? I can't translate the bits and pieces for the ref titles etc. SagaciousPhil - Chat15:38, 15 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
Can imagine... poor girl. this stuff is an 'inquiry' that has the aim of or on the account of the various types of enviroments in the area, naming the church as a site listed for of preservation. (Translation from Danish, do you understand what I meant? Hafspajen (talk) 15:44, 15 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
As long as it's a reliable source (it looks official enough to me) and it states the church is listed for preservation, it should cover it, I think? Could you manage to put it into The Sand-Covered Church in place of the one I put in earlier? I would end up making a mess as I don't know what the titles etc translates as but I am very happy we have found it SagaciousPhil - Chat15:55, 15 September 2013 (UTC) Now, are you marrying me or Bish? Reply
Yes, it looks very smart now (I don't think we could manage it as excellently as that!). The article is looking really good, don't you think? I hope it isn't too long until it gets moved to its slot on the main page! SagaciousPhil - Chat17:53, 15 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Feeling sea-sick?
←If someone built something like this these days, it'd be deliberate. Back then, it was probably incompetence (and I suspect the other houses are probably holding it up). Still, I find it rather appealing, and wish all buildings could have some kind of quirk. But then, I did grow up on the drawings of Dr Seuss..... PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 10:38, 25 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
Crazy. Womnder howis the floor insde (sea-sicknes)...? Is there everything rolling all over from one side to one other, like Owls cabin in Winnie-the-Pooh, eighth chapter of The House at Pooh Corner? This is the article you should add this two pictures, probably a case of Subsidence, and everybody would love that (the pictures not the subsidence). Hafspajen (talk) 11:48, 26 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
You bold fiend, building a replica "village", looking very nearly the same as the one on my talk page! (I hope you don't mind, but I moved the pics to the bottom, which is more normal, and this way the images don't run off the right of the screen, which they did before with my screen and browser). PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 21:17, 26 September 2013 (UTC)Reply
Hallo Ali, you kebab expert! I did stopped editing for a while, but I am back again.. And you? And what about your recent edits:who cares about people in the UK... haha... When are you going to put something, anything on your userpage? If you still have your name in red after five years of editing (or how many it was) still, people think that you are just a new editor. How about a nice picture of a kebab on it? (did it myself...)İskender or "Bursa kebabı" Or a description of yourself? Hafspajen (talk) 18:08, 3 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
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I'm going to try looking properly through the maltese article tomorrow to see if I can remove some of the unsourced and incorrect information. I noticed there might be some info in the saluki article for our dog culture one too! Do you think a possible solution to the dogs originating/developed in XXXX might be for the template wording to be 'originated or developed in whatever country'? Welsh mummy had her post operative check this afternoon and everything seems fine - stitches out at the end of next week! SagaciousPhil - Chat18:45, 22 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
.No, no it looks fine, just fine. I mean the talk page, not the maltese. What Croatian dog? Wonder where some people get their information from... So you noticed there might be some info in the saluki article for our dog culture too... If we ever find the time for that...Hafspajen (talk) 18:53, 22 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
They make it up as they go along and believe that if it's repeated often enough it becomes the truth! We'll get the dog culture done eventually, we can just do it in our own time. SagaciousPhil - Chat19:21, 22 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
Hi Hafspajen, I've tried looking at the OEB article - you've done a lot of work on it and the pics look good! I've had to remove the refs to dogbreedinfo.com as it's a site we take out of dog breed articles as soon as we see them because it's not a reliable source. The article has been a bit of a battleground for quite some time and it looks like a comment was blanked from the talk page but not by the editor who put the comment on; and someone blanked the merging of the Dorset Olde Tyme Bulldogge from the article as well. If I remember correctly, TKK encountered problems when she tried to edit the article. SagaciousPhil - Chat14:52, 29 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
They are just learning to eat rather than suck, so we give them a 'puppy porridge' in low flat dishes. It takes a few days for them to get it worked out properly. Now they are also starting to play and are great fun to watch. SagaciousPhil - Chat07:28, 6 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
You must feel like a real housewife! (I guess they don't wash up after themselfes... )
I'm finally getting Rosie and Sippi to clean up after themselves in the kitchen. But baby Liam is sick, and I've cleaned up more puke today than I have in a long time. And yes, it's important to make sure they don't walk through their puke, haha. One day I'll share an even funnier puke story. Drmies (talk) 03:17, 20 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
Oh, Drmies, you are a real martyr. And after all long years spent att the university... Good Housekeeping 1908, would be something for you now, or what do you think? Hafspajen (talk) 06:30, 20 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Sure, when I will go to Turkey, will definitely want to taste the real thing. You always accuse us, other Europeans to got it all wrong. The the bright side of life is the real Döner kebab. How is your temperature now? (I mean the weather...) Hafspajen (talk) 21:03, 6 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
Yes it needs something at present its completely un-encyclopaedic but I have no time since I am on a Wiki-break from tonight and this one is pretty demanding time-wise. Sohambanerjee199817:08, 7 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Dudley Leicester, something for dog in art? I don't think we need to be so fussy about that article, maybe we should just start it up and let everybody edit it and contribute...
These are very nice pictures BUT they do make me blush ! It looks like the Labrador Retriever pic has been swapped again. Maybe we should instigate a poll over on Drmies page to select the best image to use as all the nice people over there seem to like Labs? It's probably not worth getting into an edit war over, so might be easier just to leave the editor to include the image ... SagaciousPhil - Chat22:05, 20 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
Blushing? Drmies does this make you also blushing? Lately i found a lot of editors thinking this is not comme il fault, not nice, not modest enough, not clean? (Even Phil, a modern girl is blushing OK, in a brave way, but still)... Why? Has people stopped visiting museums? I mean all the museums are just full of this kind of pictures... Are we in danger of losing a part of our culture? And is this really - enbarassing? I feel that maybe we are loosing something here. Hafspajen (talk) 17:59, 21 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
I'm not really a "modern girl" (thank you for the nice compliment though!) I was educated in a very strict and extremely old fashioned convent school by some very austere nuns - that's probably why I don't use "bad language" or look at what they would have termed "naughty" or "indecent" pictures; they gave severe chastisement or punishment if any child did not rigidly follow the "moral code" they dictated! It would never be allowed these days but don't worry, I certainly don't find the pics offensive! Swearing doesn't bother me either ... ... just makes me blush a little! SagaciousPhil - Chat21:14, 21 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Hi, and firstly thank you for responding by adding refs to this article, which certainly desperately needs better sourcing.
However, if you can bear it, it would be preferable to have exact page references in each case, rather than simply repeating the name of a whole book each time. Sorry for the trouble. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:11, 26 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
All those years living without a barnstar... (actually I had recived only one) And now suddenly two at the same time!!!! Absolutely splendid!Hafspajen (|talk) 19:06, 26 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
You've got it! It is an old joke in this country that you wait and wait, and then two arrive one behind the other. I am not going to reply to the recent addition at the bottom of both my and your page, and would advise that you should follow my example. Cheers! — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| —20:00, 26 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
WWWWOnderfull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like those elephants... Phil, this guy, you wrote that he had some churches. Do you have any church pictures? Hafspajen (talk) 19:20, 26 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
I chose this one, best from the side, but the other pic has this monument on it.
I'm working on it to see if I can get a better one of Udny Church [4] as this one is too far in the distance and I don't know how to crop commons images. I may even try to create a stub article for it later. There is this one for Skene Parish Church but again, not brilliant. The images for Longside Church are not good either [5] unfortunately! SagaciousPhil - Chat10:21, 27 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
Yes, he did some work re-building the tower on the original castle before it was owned by Victoria. He did designs for the new version for Prince Albert but his son William is credited with the actual building work so that's why I dropped the image of it.
I was thinking of using an image of it in a 'gallery' at the bottom - see my earlier draft version here [6]. Smith also did the work for Dracula's Castle at New Slains Castle, which is now a very scary place to visit; actually I think the public are no longer able to gain access on health and safety grounds. SagaciousPhil - Chat10:50, 27 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I do like but maybe we need to change the heading to 'Gallery' or something as the other headings are Works? And look - images of Udny Church. Is the first one best? SagaciousPhil - Chat11:49, 27 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Sorry, I can't be of to much help. There was a little bit of a row about a new editor adding spam or advertisment links added to an article. I only made a comment on his/hers remark stating that he or she was "an experienced genealogist with forty years of research to his credit. I have created, with considerable effort, family tree charts to illustrate the Vanger clan", and that the book includes a family tree chart, which is inaccurate and incomplete. I said that there is no such thing as the Vanger clan in Sweden, and considering that genealogy is family history, and since there is no such thing as the Vanger family in Sweden, and also that Henrik Vanger is a fictional person, so no research actually can be made on the subject. Sorry for not being able to help you. Hafspajen (talk) 10:51, 27 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
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And the dog is the man's best friend
Morning, Hafspajen, thanks for fixing the pics on the Boxer (dog) article! It was really the continual copyright problems (which were also a bit POV about white boxers) that I was trying to get an Admin to look at as the editor was just copying text from other websites. I'm going to take that article and Shiba Inu off of my watch list or I'm going to end up in trouble for constantly reverting on them! SagaciousPhil - Chat07:29, 30 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
I hope that the problems will stop now. After all, that pic in the lead he/she was trying to add, was nice. Noooo, don't... Who is going to save us than? Can't we organize some kind of patrol? Hafspajen (talk) 11:51, 30 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
I don't know if they will stop as the editor doesn't seem to understand they cannot just copy wording from other websites - they also seem to really like white Boxers! I agree the image of the white Boxer is attractive and don't have a problem with it being included as you have done; just not in the info box as the lead picture as the colour is not accepted by all the major Kennel Clubs. I see the protection/pending changes has just been lifted from the Pug article, so that one is going to need to be watched more now as well. In the meantime, I'm having fun messing about with another castle (unfortunately I can only find an image of one of the lodge houses for that one though) and some other stuff! SagaciousPhil - Chat12:41, 30 November 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Gandy Dancer old Union Station gingerbread house
Hi Hafspajen, I've been checking through Gingerbread house this morning. I have a few queries that I hope you're around to answer! It might be because I'm in the UK but I can't access the references number 2, 6, 7 and 17 - are you able to access them still? The first paragraph in the 'Modern times' section needs a reference, can you remember where it came from? SagaciousPhil - Chat14:43, 9 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
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...the new Warrington isn't you. It's some kid who happened to register under your old name to mess around with his high school's article, imo. That's why I tried to clarify the situation at ANI; didn't want an admin to get confused and go warning or blocking you all willy-nilly. Zeng8r (talk) 20:24, 13 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
What you said. Dunno know if you want to remove the redirects or not; looks like somebody has already removed the auto-redirect from the other talk page. Zeng8r (talk) 20:28, 13 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
That's good because I don't want to have som vandals pages redirected to me. But I am not sure that I like the idea that someone has a user with this name around either. Hafspajen (talk) 20:32, 13 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
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And the dog is the man's best friend
Can you please stop changing my article
WE ARE A NEW BREED CREATED IN 2005
YES IT STATED WE HAVE THE SAME ORGIN OF THE OEB BUT THATS IT.
Please stop revering as OEB we are not--Freedombulls (talk) 21:05, 21 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
I am NOT changing your article, though it may need some changes, because it is written as an advertisement. I was adding only to See also the Olde English Bulldogge. Why did you remove that? That is not changing anything in YOUR article, as you put it. Why are you so determined to remove that? Do you want to disguise the fact that there is an article on it? Hafspajen (talk) 21:41, 21 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
It is nowhere near an advertisement that being said in my history part we clearly stated we are from Old English Bulldog.
I have no problems with you putting up an external link but I find the text behind it unnecessary because the OEB article stated the text which you put behind.
Again this an encyclopedia and we are a new breed so the article is justifiable if you ask me --Freedombulls (talk) 21:55, 21 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
You know, by Wikipedia standards this wording might be questionable: "The Leavitt Bulldog has a very stable temperament therefore our dogs are excellent family companions. They are easy to train and they are useful for all sorts of sports." It is very important that the article is neutral. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, This is a general guideline for Wikipedia. Just read this also, and you will understand. ->WP:Peacock wordsHafspajen (talk) 22:00, 21 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Thanks for your edits to Holmes. The article is pretty packed with images. It might be good to cut some to improve readability - text takes priority, with images there only to illustrate the points being made in the body. Best wishes Span (talk)23:23, 21 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
Second thought: we could probably manage without Auguste Dupin in "The Purloined Letter" and Sherlock Holmes Baffled, the first screen portrayal of Holmes from 1900 as well. Unless they are some of your special favourites. Hafspajen (talk) 00:26, 22 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
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TKK is hoping you have a happy, power outage-free winter holiday season, no matter what holidays you celebrate! Here's to food, drink, playing in the snow, and one more year of meeting our editing goals!
Thank you very much for your nice and thoughtful wishes. So far so good - for the Christmas holidays. There was plenty of food and drink and a lot of fun. And I really need a year like that. Nice. But - Oh my good Tikuko. a cat? Give me a dog please, any dog ...Bark at me, Tikuko, bark at me, remember? Bark at me, Tikuko, bark at me, please. Hafspajen (talk) 11:43, 27 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
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On 25 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gingerbread house, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the world's largest gingerbread house(example pictured) had edible walls and measured 2,520 square feet (234 m2)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gingerbread house. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
' Oh nice, Yngvadottir. I was wondering a bit, I don't think that it stayed as DYK even the whole 24 hours, it was changed pretty rapidly. Hafspajen (talk) 16:24, 27 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
(edit conflict) x 2!!!! Maybe the very kind and ever so efficient/helpful Yngvadottir could add it to the stats, as it takes me hours to work out how to do it (and I think I get the figures wrong half the time! ) By the way, Hafspajen, it was up for 12 hours (from midnight until noon, UK time) - it depends on what time cycle is set at DYK, occasionally it's only eight hours. SagaciousPhil - Chat16:47, 27 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
Christmas dinnerMachinima of Santa Claus's reindeer filmed in Second life Imploring that Hpj enjoys a sumptuous Christmas holiday and a naughty New Year! First play this → → →
Now play this! I dare you to tell me that you did not smile.
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Perfect timing. I made two contributions
I uploaded the new video of the making of the 2013 White House Gingerbread House. Much better than that Nixon stuff!
I packed the galleries (mode=packed) same space taken up, but white borders eliminated, the pix appear much larger. This might take some getting used to, but is definitely better IMHO. Feel free to revert this, but, please take a minute to decide first.
Thanks, Smallbones. Love that White house action picture. Much better than that Nixon stuff! About the galleries - Well As I tell everybody - uneven galleries gives me the creeps. Can't you do it so they are displaced evenly? Hafspajen (talk) 12:28, 25 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
Actually I don't think we can control whether the galleries come out even or uneven, either with packed mode or without it. It all depends on the reader's settings as far as the width of his/her screen and maybe the size of the type they've selected. You can set this so that your screen comes out even, but that's just one reader. I might check after the holidays with the tech folks at WMF if there is some workaround, but I'd guess it's not easy. Congrats again - it looks beautiful (at least on my screen)! Smallbones(smalltalk)14:48, 25 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
Glad to please you. If it depends on the reader's settings as far as the width of his/her screen - there sould be a solution for this, no? I am using full screen. At this moment on my screen Gingerbread houses gallery and the Other shapes gallery is twice as big as the Historical gingerbread shaping moulds gallery. The Merry-go-round in gingerbread - picture stans alone as a single picture in a third row, an all the pictures in the Gingerbread houses gallery and the Other shapes gallery are of different sizes. I don't know how it looks like on yours. Don't know how other editors experience my work, and this makes me a bit confused. Hafspajen (talk) 15:02, 25 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
Hi Hafspajen, I hope you're having a great Christmas! You can be very proud of the Gingerbread house article - it looks really good. Just to say that the galleries look entirely different on my MacBook than on my iPad, so the screens etc do make a difference. I love the image of the White House made from gingerbread! Now it's time for me to have some beetroot soup before finishing cooking - everyone is waiting and I don't think "but I'm complimenting my friend" will be a good excuse for a burnt Christmas dinner! SagaciousPhil - Chat15:15, 25 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! it was great enough. Now that would be a terrible thing (burnt Christmas dinner)! But the Gingerbread houses wouldn't been there where they were (tonight - I may say) - without YOU. You have to tell me how does it looks on your MacBook and on your iPad, when you have some spare time! This confuses me a geat deal, how am I suppose to know how my work look like everywhere. Hafspajen (talk) 15:34, 25 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
This might fit in one of your galleries above. It might also cheer you up a bit. Can you find a painting of "Verifiability?"
Your work looks different everywhere! BTW, I increased the size (height) of the gingerbread molds so that they appear bigger compared to the others. The heights were set the same, but since the widths of the molds was narrower, the overall pix were smaller (and even "appeared" shorter). Here's an exercise for you to get an idea of what happens when you change one of your settings. I'm on a MacBook Pro notebook, and this will all look different if you are on a different machine. Get out of fullscreen so that you can change the width of the browser window manually. Look at the galleries and change the width in and out. See how the galleries jump around. Well there are an esesentially infinite number of people on a very large number of different types of computers with maybe a dozen different settings each that they can set. Somebody will be viewing the article as you saw it at each step of the in-and-out exercise. Now change the zoom setting to 125% from 100% ....
Hope this helps All of this relative display stuff is a built-in design choice of the wiki software, and to a large extent to HTML in general. Smallbones(smalltalk)16:17, 25 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
This sounds like a serious problem to me. Isn't any way of making articles the same way everywhere? We had this problem raised once with one computer programing guy, but I am not sure that anything happened. YOu should try to look on the fullscteen. I say that the galleries looked better the first version on full screen. But the real problem is that it looks like there is no way to make everybody happy - and that people editing on one screen have no idea how it looks like for the others - and this sounds really distressing. Do you follow me? Hafspajen (talk) 16:55, 25 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
I follow and felt much the same way when I figured this out. Remember back when certain websites would say "this site appears better when using Internet Explorer"? I think they were right IF you were using the standard windows machine, with the standard settings, in the standard way they expect you to use it. But, these days there is no standard computer, no standard browser, no real standard settings, and people don't compute/browse in any standard ways. I believe that the relative display biases built into html and the wiki software isjust an acknowledgement of this. Suppose we set everything here to appear perfect on the MacBookPro with a Chrome browser, everything on the default settings. Now a new supermachine comes along (takes great photos and movies while talking on the phone and having a video meeting at the same time you browse on the internet and search a database and tricords) - its settings will change the displays and we'd have to rework everything when everybody adopts it. BTW, you can rejigger many of your settings in Wikipedia via the preferences tab. Now I'm not sure I'd want to change the situation, and don't know how to change it. Smallbones(smalltalk)17:30, 25 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
And look Gingerbread house was viewed over 5,000 times yesterday! –––> [9] I'll re-check the figures tomorrow morning and then add it to the DYK stats for you - probably with all different screen sizes? SagaciousPhil - Chat09:26, 26 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
At least 25,000, so it won't make it into that I'm afraid! Have you ever thought about archiving some of your talk page? It's lovely with all your pictures but getting very, very long - I will get repetitive strain injury when scrolling down it soon . When you look at my talk page, does the 'Morning Sagaciousphil' under the archive box change? I've been trying to get it to alter so it shows the name of whoever is looking at it. I've tried using the templates {{Current user}} and {{Revisionuser}} but I don't know if they are working or if I've even done it right! SagaciousPhil - Chat13:30, 26 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
After all that work, I'm going to make it longer again!
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Dear Hafspajen,
I haven't been up to logging on to Wiki in the longest time, and I can't tell you how much your not one, but two kind notes mean to me!
I am afraid I'm not au fait with graphics to send or make up a proper e-card / e-note, but the sentiment remains just as sincere in my wishes for you and yours to have a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2014!
Very ambitious. You Know that it took a hundreds of gardeners to maintain the Versailles’s gardens? Wish I had 50 instead the crap I have to work with! Hafspajen (talk) 20:03, 31 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
(edit conflict)*Happy New Year, Hafspajen! Lang may yer lum reek! We will shortly all be singing Auld Lang Syne [10] with a bit of this thrown in for good measure [11] but at the moment we are instead listening to this [12] - I hope you have a brilliant 2014! (and that these links work properly as I really don't do YouTube! BUT nobody can do New Year like we do in Scotland!!! SagaciousPhil - Chat22:44, 31 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
Joining arms for Auld Lang Syne is traditional for all events at the end of the evening - weddings, new year and any other opportunity! The fireballs at Stonehaven are brilliant and Up Helly Aa has to be seen to be believed - I now have to wish you all Happy New Year and goodnight as it's almost time for 'the bells' and we have guests arriving with their Black bun and beverages!!! SagaciousPhil - Chat23:45, 31 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
Oh, you were very sharp last night — … (surrealistic "un-real" – "sur-real") … you must have slept in the knife drawer the night before, but not the spork (spoon / fork), spife (spoon / knife), knork (knife / fork) and sporf (which is all three) drawer. — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| —08:34, 1 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Slept in the knife drawer the night before? That was funny!! (and probably really obekväm = uncomfortable and unpleasant), but sharp! Hafspajen (talk) 12:59, 1 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, Gareth, you know, if you can talk Swedish, you actually do understand the Norwegian - and even the Danish, though their language (the Danish) is slightly more difficult for a Swede due to their custom to talk as they had their mouth full of cheese and they swallow half of their words, so one is just kind of guessing what they meant. All are probably some different dialects of the Old Norse – the old Viking language! Hafspajen (talk) 16:48, 1 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, it makes sense. I notice myself that the English sometimes has quite similar words to Swedish and Norwegian words. Could be the reason why your father had such succes learning Norwegian (but he was probably talented at languages - and people from Wales are multilingual from the begining, no?). Rounding-up the Germans was surely a blessing for the poor Norwegians, they actually had concentration camps. Not so pleasant stories are told about the occupation. Hafspajen (talk) 23:00, 1 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
It was a bad time in their history. At the end of it, my father shook hands with both Haakon VII, the King of Norway, and their Prime Minister. During the German occupation of World War II the King was an important symbol of national unity and resistance. His steadfast opposition to the German demands of surrender was important for the fighting spirit of the Norwegian population. The constitutional powers granted to the King in the Norwegian monarchial system made his position very important and enabled the government in exile to continue its work with the utmost legitimacy. After the war the Norwegian royal house succeeded in maintaining a balance between regality and approachability. King Olav V was deemed the people's king and the spontaneous show of mourning from the population upon his death in 1991 demonstrated the high standing he had among the Norwegian people. Even republicans were among the masses lighting candles in front of the Palace.[1]— | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| —22:03, 2 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
OK, it is not red any more. Does this mean that my talk page will be different from evrybody else? Because in that case I am going to feel like an alien. Hafspajen (talk) 17:09, 3 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Just came by to say hey, nice edit notice. However! Notice and talk page are so big that my cursor can't keep up with my typing. Clearly you never learned to type at the speed I did, haha. Drmies (talk) 21:14, 3 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Both of them, Warrington. No: I see it now, it's the talk page. Right now I'm editing just a section, and it's fine. Would you like me to archive some for you? Or you can do it yourself--what I do is create User talk:Warrington/Archive 1, and then cut and paste the content I want moved. Advantage is, it's easy. Disadvantage, the archive doesn't have a history, but all of that is preserved in the history of the talk page. Drmies (talk) 22:28, 3 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes please, be an admin friend and do it. Why not? Who cares about history. But I don't want to remove my Christmas and New year messagers. Boy, I like this colour! Hafspajen (talk) 22:34, 3 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Gosh, Gareth.You maybe se them both, I mean the first page that was wrong for everybody, but you could se that. You but nobody else. You were complaining that the pics were too big, while nobody could see them. Now you can, as you say, see them both. Weird. What shall we do? Here Matty007 User:Matty.007 was moving thee first page to the next. Maybe this is causing the whole problem. This is how it should look like -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Hafspajen/EditnoticeHafspajen (talk) 23:19, 3 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
We Welsh have mystic powers. It is true there are two sets; when you choose to edit, you see one set, then two, then just the second. Now look at the scroll bar. Therefore, when editing and then hitting Preview you cannot see the section you are editing without having to scroll down. Maybe lose the Rotating Welcome sign (?) it is all over the talk pages so is not really original. Hope this helps. — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| —23:43, 3 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
My PC is silent, Gareth (or rather, it doesn't produce the sounds I want), but I already know the Goldfrapp song, and just hoped for a faithful reproduction... PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 21:45, 4 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
A very sad thing, indeed. Writing a critical essay (an argumentative piece of writing, aimed at presenting objective analysis of the subject matter, narrowed down to a single topic), that has to be ready soon. It is only 2 o'clock. AND you? Hafspajen (talk) 00:52, 5 January 2014 (UTC).Reply
When I click on 'Edit', I'm taken to the editing box, but there are also 4 pictures of dragons at the top of the page, with the editing box underneath them. Doesn't that happen with you? PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 01:09, 5 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Et tu Brute.... NO, I do have to go somewhere to a different place to check out what is happening. I have no idea how it looks like. Just read the discussion above and att Sag.phils talk. - Oh, wait a minute, how many do you see, eight or four ??????????? If you see only four, than everything is alright. WP:Page notice. Hafspajen (talk) 01:14, 5 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Still incredibly irritated whenever I come here to add some comment or other. Perhaps you will understand why one day. Buzzard — 21:39, 5 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Maybe you shouldn't get irritated over such small things, there are other things that are far more irritating, like this, -> just hate people doing this. Are you able to help finding refrences for the content deleted? I put the sections back and now I am trying to find some resources books or what not, from where I can put in some references in the different sections. The Celebration of Boxing Day for example was removed, before and it needs some refs. Hafspajen (talk) 12:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
@Gareth - is the preview/page still very long when you try to edit it, Gareth? I think it's a combination of Hafs talk page being fairly long anyway (although he has reduced it but then SuggestBot came along and added even more to it ). When I look at it in edit mode, three pictures are in a row, then the final one moves down - perhaps if they were made just a tiny smidgeon smaller they would all fit in one row? Are the images in my edit notice too big as well? I'm not very good at image sizing and usually have to rely on Hafspajen to do that! PS:I've just previewed this comment and it doesn't seem to have duplicated the edit notice this time? SagaciousPhil - Chat13:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Just to clarify, I was only asking Hpj why I could see those dragons - I wasn't complaining. I think people should be able to decorate their own pages as they see fit. Sorry GG-J. (Though Hpj should perhaps know that those 4 dragon pics appear as an uneven gallery for me haha!...) PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 21:48, 6 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I really hope it's just a cold. I spent large parts of my weekend sleeping, and am about to prepare to go back to bed, since I have to return to work and I still feel rather strange. I also hope I haven't made any bad mistakes or worded anything in a way that has annoyed anyone :-( Yngvadottir (talk) 21:30, 8 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please make sure to include an edit summary with every edit. Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history.
"Well, you can "warn" someone for not leaving an edit summary, but that's a notice, not a warning. Of course we want people to leave an edit summary, but it's not mandatory and therefore one should not be warned for not having done it." cite Drmies. Hafspajen (talk) 18:32, 16 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, sometimes I do and sometimes I don't, it happens that I edit the same article ten times and I don't remember to put one. But if you ask why I removed this picture, it was not a very good picture, so it was the reason why. Saw you put that back. Saw that you are the artist who created it too. Why I think is not a very good picture is because the composition is kind of dislocated, the picture show the legs or boots just as much as the two dogs, the puppy is way too small that one should be able to see it well, the Labradoodle in the picture is depicted from the rear, but the tail is off, is cut off out of the picture. The composition is very unbalanced, the left side is almost empty, while the right side is dominated by the Labradoodle’s back and the woman’s boots and skirt, and it does not show much of the dog’s characteristic features, so actually I think you should try to take a better picture to put into the article. There is a conflict of interest when promoting one’s own pictures. Even if I do understand the creator’s feelings for liking their own pictures, it’s not a good enough reason. Hafspajen (talk) 19:40, 11 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
I've just removed the image from the article as it does not add anything because neither of the dogs can be seen properly. PS - I thought we were now in 2014 (see the heading for this section ). SagaciousPhil - Chat20:09, 11 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
The user page brings up a question: why is Category:Deletionist Wikipedians being apparently used as evidence to support inclusion in Category:Wikipedian_physicians? Very weird. And yes, the back end of a labradoodle is indisputably of the utmost importance. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 14:52, 12 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hey Hafspajen, I'm not saying this is the best, or even a usable source, but this was the first thing I found about Leda's being raped, not seduced, by Zeus: [16]. LadyofShalott01:32, 15 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, yes it says in Yeats version. In many versions of the story, Zeus merely seduces Leda. This is definitely not the case in Yeats's graphic version. In the Greek mytology it is seduction, but as you say, Yeats may have his own version. But then it has to be precise meaning, in Yeats version, this and this poem. But, as a final thing, this doesn't sounds like a real rape to me. [17]Hafspajen (talk) 03:23, 15 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
I am a bit confused, who painted what? I have to confess that I don't know this artist, just found a picture about that dog, and it WAS a good picture. And I thought for myself, weird he has no article. Hafspajen (talk) 20:44, 21 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
What, no thanking? Speaking of which, there has only been one block so far for abuse of the "thanks" function AFAIK, but are you aware that I'm the admin who placed that block?[18]Whole ANI thread here. Think about it. (Kidding! I wouldn't want to confuse you this time.) Bishonen | talk19:33, 17 January 2014 (UTC).Reply
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and now please remove that scatebord from the article before we will be forced to contact the Latin, Icelandic and Indonesian Wiki community, when driven by their hunger for dogpictures start translating the article. :) Hafspajen (talk) 19:54, 17 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Oh, no, please.. :-( Did you click on the YouTube link, Tillman skateboarding? Very skilled and having a lot of fun! The little Veracruzian dog has the same determined appearance, you can practically see the leg muscles working. Think about it this way: it's standing on a "wheeled platform". What is a wheeled platform for standing on, if not a skateboard?
If you mess with me, I might start the section "Cultural depictions of dogs in popular culture," full of skateboarding dogs and BrewDog beers. I can feel it coming on, and I assure you a YouTube video is a cultural depiction. Bishonen | talk20:22, 17 January 2014 (UTC).Reply
Yes, I messed with the bulldog on the skatebord!!! Nice footwork. Yes please, do start a new section: Bishonen's drunk BrewDog beers skateboarding dogs drinking Bear-beer. Hafspajen (talk) 21:46, 17 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Nice! If I don't have to call you hen, of course. This is the last stupidity in Sweden, one should start calling people instead of he and she - hen. Neutral genus. Brand new word, and most silly. I have a secret passion for dark beer like Guinness beer, and Porter (beer). You maybe think that is - too .. well or? Hafspajen (talk) 20:25, 18 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Listen, there is an userbox for Architects, nothing for Landscape architects. I was leaving messages at the template userbox pages, - nothing - but it would be nice to have one. I mean to post it officially for everyone, who has this profession. My is just some kind of fake box. Hafspajen (talk) 22:04, 18 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Maybe we should wash them like Sagaciousphil washes her dogs and hang them by their wingspan of a B52 like Martinevans123 - Teddyevans123...Hafspajen (talk) 14:24, 19 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
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The Welsh rescue team bobsleigh from Davos, ca. 1910
Why does SuggestBot insist on being at the very top of your talk page? I think Gareth needs to work some magic to sort it out (or to go and hit SuggestBot on the head for being so ill mannered and jumping above everyone else?). SagaciousPhil - Chat13:00, 19 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, maybe yes. I am a little bit interested in some of the articles suggested, but this bot creates a mayhem every time is landing. Hafspajen (talk) 18:22, 19 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
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(waves to the dwaggies) Hippolife is a very short new article that was created in Swedish. I have nominated it for speedy deletion, but is it by any chance so well known in its field that you know of it and would like the article saved? I've asked the creator, but they may not see my note in time or may not dare click the button. Let me know if I should reverse the speedy nom. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:13, 20 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
A four-leaf clover was consistently believed to be a lucky charm. This very old Irish verse describes why:
Four leaf cloverOne leaf is for fame, And one leaf is for wealth, And one is for a faithful lover, And one to bring you glorious health, Are all in the four-leaved clover Spring is on her way
So, you think that WP:UA is better than WP:GA, is that it, eh? [19]
In certain things I am inclined to agree with you, and then, of course there are other points to consider too. But in the whole, I might think that we need more references and not so many not so neutral wordings. One have to think of the neutality policy.(just kidding)
And of course I and going to be extremely thankfull, 74, if you would decide to stop doing this Swedis Royalty stuff and get an account, but by now we all realize that there is no chance. So we will have to call you 74 for ever and ever, no? Hafspajen (talk) 23:51, 20 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
There are plenty good names out there, like Rosalina and Rufus, or Ronyx-Onyx or Repstege if you want something original. And this is only the RRR. Hafspajen (talk) 23:53, 20 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, easier than a seventy-four-letter approach, right? Hmmmm.... I've always wanted to be a galaxy in andromeda... or Hurricane Tungsten by Lee Daniel Crocker.[20] (DYK, that a professional dealer in Las Vegas can perform five shuffles in six to eight seconds?) You can call me HT, if you get bored of 74 and 4711 and such things. p.s. As for yourself...[21]74.192.84.101 (talk) 03:04, 21 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Oh Gerda, you are just jealous of the real-o-verse, because you want 28 *here* for us. But they are not gone, they are just (at least temporarily) in the real-o-verse, and may return someday. In the meanwhile, while it is a loss for us that they are not here helping improve wikipedia right now, it is a win that they are improving the real-o-verse, correct? Doing notable things, is also Good, methinks. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 02:07, 21 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
No, I am not jealous, don't give me that ;) - yes, I know he's doing good things for REAL. (It's he, pictured in the refs for the dangerous animal.) - also yes: he was reliably at my side when I needed help HERE, - but I will manage, growing up, have to ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:47, 23 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Captain Hafspajen WE HAVE MOVEMENT on the wikiscope. Corporal Gerda reports flamethrowing ducks at 13 o'clock. All hands on-wiki, dragons included, no time to File. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 05:41, 23 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thank your for humming (whose melody?) Magnificat and the pic, - for now I preferred a brighter one but may get back to your once the article grows up more, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:24, 22 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
My talk, will you find where you left sapphires? Line 6: "Hope is precious and great joy is found in living", with a link, - good duck luck, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:05, 23 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hello Hafspajen, I noticed that you are arranging pics on this page. I moved one pic because the text had large gaps and also to justify it. Can you check if everything is fine; if not then please let me know and I will revert my change. Thanks Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 14:32, 21 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Your wish is my command, Phil why don't you remove that pic of the lab? Or all we all waiting for Gareth Griffith-Jones to do it for uss? Hafspajen (talk) 15:08, 21 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, I think it looks better than a dog sitting! I've changed the caption slightly - although part of the dog's coat has been clipped, a lot is scissor work so I've used a more generic 'trimmed'. Re the choc selfie - I was kind of hoping whoever did the work to bring it up to GA might have removed it ... SagaciousPhil - Chat15:11, 21 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Tried to make up myif you cropped or went back for a new pic. I think you cropped it, no? No, wrong, it is a new picture. It is different. Hafspajen (talk) 16:27, 24 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
You can't get into the mansion house (the owners live abroad but it's still in private ownership). You can get into the extensive grounds and it's used a lot by local people especially for walking their dogs. A lot of the very scattered cottages - including one of the lodge houses - are let out as holiday cottages. SagaciousPhil - Chat16:56, 24 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
If I had a house like this I would probably like living in it. But, tastes are different. Nice of them to keep the park open, for people. Hafspajen (talk) 17:02, 24 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
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It has been more than 300 years that Voltaire said any of those quotes, and to this day, there is not even 1 reliable source that backs them. Regarding the quotes, that we are discussing on Voltaire's page. The ones about Islam. Bladesmulti (talk) 16:15, 26 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Again, point was. That it has been over 250-300 years that he lived/died. Surely, there should be multiple reliable sources for attributing anything that he has said. And if we can't gather, that means the information is wrong or irrelevant for adding here? That's it. Bladesmulti (talk) 16:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hi, Hafspajen. I'm wondering why you came to the decision that the Mrs Sarah Siddons - WGA8419.jpg at 124 KB is a better pic than Thomas Gainsborough 015.jpg 189 KB. For the sake of 65 KB, the image file used earlier is actually a better reproduction and is larger and more detailed at full resolution. The image you've replaced it with has basically only had the contrast lifted, brightening bolder colours which aren't prominent in the actual original, and has lost softer detail characteristic of Gainsborough's Rococo-influenced style.
Well you got a point on that one, more detailed at full resolution. My reason was only clearer colours, at the very size it is presented in the infobox. That infobox is making it too small, or is there any way of increasing the px? Maybe it should be in the article? Hafspajen (talk) 03:04, 28 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hmm, I'll take a look at at all of the convolutions on infobox parameters and see what I can come up with. There isn't any intuitive way in which to address it except in the body of an article. I'll let you know whether there's an easy method of doing this. I'm sure it'd come in handy for both of us for future reference. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 03:24, 28 January 2014 (UTC)Reply Illustration beats explanation. Western Engraving & Colortype Co.
I really don't know what the thinking behind it is. Galleries as separate from Wiki Commons galleries, as well as enormous, irrelevant and gratuitous image usage proliferates articles and no one seems to care about how byte-heavy 10 views of the same building or oversized pics of supermodels are... but there's something 'wrong' about a reasonably sized image for an infobox. Nice to know I'm not a lone wolf howling at the moon. Obviously, being able to recognise the subject of an article isn't as important as a pic per 1 sentence sections. Maybe it's an exercise in making stubs look like articles. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 03:52, 28 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
'Welll... I like images, especially in the art articles. It is wery difficult to explain a painting, much easier to show. Let's take Monsieur du Vaucel, for example. File:Monsieur du Vaucel.jpg Shall I say, Monsieur du Vaucel looks like a pear, with long white wavy wig? Much better to show Monsieur du Vaucel. But Some galleries are to much. White is an article that it just go mad with image galleries, for example. Hafspajen (talk) 04:06, 28 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
I certainly have no objection to galleries and pics in sections where they are relevant. I do get infuriated when they are essentially nationalistic propaganda (which is how I define 'gratuitous'). Sadly, I haven't found any information regarding resizing images slightly for infoboxes. I've tried the usual tweaks which only increase the size of the box, even though they target the image. I might take it to the Village pump and hope to get a sympathetic ear as I've noticed a few others have been querying the same thing since the end of December/early January. Something to do with the 'agile programming' for VE??? I'll keep you in the loop. Cheers! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:35, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
I hope too, Iryna Harpy, that you get a sympathetic ear ... put me on that list for those who has problems with it too. After all, if you say - lead images are quite alright at 300px (and most images in the lead are usally big) - then why make userboxes where the image is impossible to adjust and is even smaller than thumb size? Hafspajen (talk) 14:47, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
So I did, and ran into edit conflict ;) - can you please - wherever you know, add year, technique, size and where? model in the infobox. We need sources! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:51, 29 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
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international image inspiration
Thank you, returned Swedish user full of images, lover of (hot) dogs, for quality articles on art and artists, not only here but also in Swedish, including the pictured gem, and for inspiring others in your charming way to write together around the images you find abundantly, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
No, I only reviewed it for DYK. Did you read in the article that it saved a village from starvation, that a chef won a competition with it, and there's a children's book? For dessert: Nelson Mass, we'll sing it for Easter. - Dear knight, I have another job for you: please watch Symphony No. 8 (Dvořák), for vandalism. If you look at the recent history, I reverted nonsense several times. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:50, 21 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
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On 14 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Anecdotes de Suède, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Anecdotes de Suède, a polemic against the Swedish regime of the 1680s, appeared in French, German, and English before finally being published in Swedish in 1822? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anecdotes de Suède. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Everything really does seem to be turning into total silliness (whoops, is "silliness' going to be next on the list of "bad" words after "nonsense"?). I noticed the thread on Gerda's lovely talk page where Hafs has an image of (UUUUghhhhhh) boiled sheep's head and it reminded me of an old Scottish expression (admittedly generally from the rather more uncouth Glasgow areas ) that I am sometimes so very tempted to use: "Awa an bile yer heid ya numpty, ye dinnae ken whit yer talkin aboot." Oh no, wait - that would only be permissible if used by an Admin?? [me very quickly adds that this is said jokingly, just in case I end up being being dragged off to ANI next!]SagaciousPhil - Chat11:13, 23 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
Now, now, we have to remember that admins are also Gods creatures. Well, life is hard.
Now that was funny, Hafs - thank you for cheering my morning! Gareth - I think it's been a case of some of those editors getting out of bed on the wrong side this morning? Perhaps in Victor Meldrew mode? Or maybe their teams lost? [Not like our boys - Yeah, Yeah, Do We Rock? Yeah, Yeah, Take it to the Top? Yeah, Yeah Are we gonna stop? No way! Go, go go the Scottish and Welsh lads!!] Let's still be friends after the 15th? SagaciousPhil - Chat12:20, 23 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
A petard, from a 17th-century manuscript of military designs. Petards were early gunpowder bombs that operated on slow fuses. If the engineer failed to set a slow enough fuse he would get "hoist with his own petard".
How did it turn out? "Turned out nicely!" Oh, it makes for wonderful reading. I had an overwhelming 100% support from so many. They all made him look an idiot and it was closed by Admin WritKeeper (talk | contribs) with an edit summary, nuthin' ...can't get away with it., at 12:32 hrs. GMT (It was posted at 09:06 so only took less than 3 & 1/2 hours. It finished up with the conclusion is that he had practised WP:PETARD Good night to you, Hpj and to SP. It is great to be the recipient of so many endorsements. — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| —21:09, 23 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
Petard comes from the Middle French peter, to break wind, from pet expulsion of intestinal gas, from the Latin peditus, past participle of pedere, to break wind, akin to the Greek bdein, to break wind (Merriam-Webster). Petard is a modern French word, meaning a firecracker (it is the basis for the word for firecracker in several other European languages). Petardiers were used during sieges of castles or fortified cities. The petard, a rather primitive and exceedingly dangerous explosive device, consisted of a brass or iron bell-shaped device filled with gunpowder fixed to a wooden base called a madrier. This was attached to a wall or gate using hooks and rings, the fuse lit and, if successful, the resulting explosive force, concentrated at the target point, would blow a hole in the obstruction, allowing assault troops to enter. The word remains in modern usage in the phrase hoist with one's own petard, which means "to be harmed by one's own plan to harm someone else" or "to fall into one's own trap," implying that one could be lifted up (hoist, or blown upward) by one's own bomb. Just to show weapons of the period, I suppose(?) — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| —12:51, 24 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
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On 25 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alexander Roslin, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Alexander Roslin painted his wife painting a pastel of Henrik Peill, but the painting within the painting (pictured) is a lost painting? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alexander Roslin. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it may be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
And where are you this morning, Hafs? I hope you're not missing seeing your article in the pictured spot - very well deserved after all your hard work. And did I notice you put in some book references yourself using a template? SagaciousPhil - Chat12:12, 25 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
I nominated Rosenberg (link on the talk). If you have free time now, Roslin done: there are new refs, the kulning could be explained more, and - for fairness - the other singer should be expanded also ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:43, 25 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
Plenty of cake yesterday, so now it is time to think about breakfast. These aren't edible but if you don't like them, just remove - or as you are my personal image fixer, correct the size/layout! ♥SagaciousPhil - Chat10:08, 27 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
Preparations being made
A quiet moment
Looks nice - but I prefer my coffee strong and black!
Noticed. Really colorful page. You know, one of my friends painted the whole room like this, orange. It was really interesting. It was inspired by the courtyards from Copenhagen. They use to paint the courtyards orange-yellowish. Hafspajen (talk) 15:07, 27 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Milk Ranch Point
Hello. I didn't think it was that bad, but you can change the "width1=xxx" numbers until they look right, if you're concerned. If you think a single caption across both images would look better, you can use "footer=" - usage is explained at Template:Multiple image. --McGeddon (talk) 13:28, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
It is probably my artistic temperament. Gosh, I read that and it sounds complicated. I will some day sitt down and learn how to do multiple images. Until then can you try to do so that both images are of same lenght? If not, it will have to wait until I have more time to concentrate. Hafspajen (talk) 13:37, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
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The very last thing I want is to cause edit wars and disruption. If my edits have been harmful or unwanted, I am truly sorry for any trouble caused and hereby promise to refrain from such edits in the future and remove myself from the discussion. It seems as if SandyGeorge, however, no wishes to see me banned, which would be a shame. I do not plan on losing my rights to edit and do not want to escalate anything so I will lay low for a while and ignore the articles about celibacy from now on. Thanks for raising this concern and hopefully this will suffice. And my sincerest apologies for any trouble I may have caused. Mythic Writerlord (talk) 20:20, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
We do. And as for me personally, I am willing to accept the consensus that was reached by the wikipedia community in closing the AfD back in January. Also, I think it is better for me to not be involved in the discussion anymore. I do not want to cause trouble and it seems as if SandyGeorge now wishes to have me banned from this site, so I may take a break. Mythic Writerlord (talk) 20:28, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Eh, I am telling over and over again that you are probably right, right. The only problem is that one have to discuss things. If you try to discuss it, it might work. Hafspajen (talk) 20:33, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
I only made one single edit to that page today and this user is already calling it "edit warring". Oh well, thanks for your support. Much appreciated. Mythic Writerlord (talk) 20:34, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
If you could weigh in on Coffee's talk page this would be most appreciated. You wrongly gave of the impression of me being the disruptive editor rather then Andrey, and as a result SandyGeorgia now believes I am a problemetic user who should be banned. If you could explain some things it would be most appreciated. Mythic Writerlord (talk) 20:57, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
No, no! Don't be so hard on yourself. As far as I can see you are an excellent user doing your very best to improve wikipedia. And you made some wonderful suggestion. I am just asking you to clearify some things on Coffee's talk page before he gets the wrong impression from SandyGeorgia's edits. Mythic Writerlord (talk) 21:02, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
[/Very nosily butts in] As it looks like there are quite a few nice images to use on the Animals Portal, why not consider auto rotating them - a bit like Matty did with my archive box images? I think he does it on the Channel Islands Portal he set up as well? [closes door quietly behind me on the way back out]. SagaciousPhil - Chat15:24, 8 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
It was all the nice pics I saw on that nominees link that made me think of it. What I mean is the same trick that Matty used to make the images displayed in my talk page archive box change automatically between the five/six that I pick out. The Portal could have a selection of images that change. SagaciousPhil - Chat15:55, 8 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
It would just depend on how many it's set up for. As I say mine just rotates between five or six and I change the selection used every so often. SagaciousPhil - Chat16:11, 8 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Now the tricky question is, can it rotate multiple images? But then one can make a collage too, no? Like Crisco could do some, and then we could rotate them. Splendid idea! Hafspajen (talk) 16:18, 8 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
National Airlines used to have this beautiful poster that they displayed of this gorgeous stewardess inviting you onto the plane. Now her name wasn't Mandy actually, it was something like, er, oh gosh knows, "I'm Cindy", a very American name. "I'm Cindy, fly me" which was a quite sexual connotation as well, but I remember seeing in Manchester this beautiful poster and just below it was this tramp, I mean a serious tramp, quite a raggedy guy, looking up at this girl, and I thought God, do you know, there's a song there. Look at that guy looking up at Cindy-fly-me ...
So I brought it back, the idea back to the studio, where we were writing for the How Dare You! album, and put it to the guys: "Anybody interested in this 'I'm Mandy Fly Me'". I'd switched it to Mandy. And Graham said "yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Hafspajen (talk) 10:28, 9 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, it's great to feel that I was part of ... song-writing history. .
Cookies, everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I'll have a few of those, Hpj; it's just taken me over 2 hours to get here from Gareth's talkpage - what a nightmare journey! But hang on a minute, these cakes look rather familiar... PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 16:55, 10 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Eh I don't get anything anymore. Did they blocked Gareth Griffith-Jones and Martinevans123 too for Gerilla picturing ? or what? Hafspajen (talk) 11:02, 11 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
♥ Hafs, I am really sorry to read about the problems you're having over at the Swedish Wikipedia but to get the gist of what's going on I'm having to run it through Google Translate and it is making it just sooooo funny! A couple of examples of the Google translation from the ANI discussion: "Without being fully loaded on the matter ..." and "... in the midst of an infected discussion." Did the good Drmies infect them with something?? I've not been able to get any work done this morning because of giggling about this - but it does let you see why Google translations should never be used. ♥ SagaciousPhil - Chat12:41, 11 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
I've been blocked too! Though not on Swedish Wikipedia, at least that I can remember. If you need some input in Swedish, you could ask at User talk:Reckless182, who seems a very constructive sort of fellow. Although, now I go to his talk page, there's some sort of angry argument going on! Right, must join in, one moment... need yellow gox box socks... --Demiurge1000 (talk) 20:18, 11 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
But Mandy, here you say : Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and a community. At times people suffer from high stress levels, and the most important thing to remember is to have fun. Than you give me:WP:NOT. That says your not suppose to have fun, sooo.............?Hafspajen (talk) 00:31, 12 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, national dishes, "do not remove these" in the edit summary. :-) See #10 in this list. WP:OWN#Statements, which says "do not make such changes" just like you. It is a two-way street, don't drive on it, pick the collaboration-street instead. ;-) 74.192.84.101 (talk) 01:51, 12 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
By the way, Mandy this is Evans, the Marty - the man who doesn't have anything fancy - Marty this is 74 Mandy the craziest editor on wiki - well - actually you are just as crazy both. Time for you too meet and have a chat. Hafspajen (talk) 00:47, 12 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Martin Evans, you can call me 74. Hafspajen calls me Mandy, cause I always give them the runaround. :-) Have you read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?? "Mister Hafspajen! You tell Martin Evans that I'm the bull goose looney of this here 'pedia! I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November!" ;-) p.s. Hafspajen, if you want to get the dishes into national dish, you have to find some sources. Hasleth will help you, with any luck. But when you say "do not remove my work I AM THE QUEEEEEEN" in your edit-summay, of course they are gonna revert you, cause you aren't even a female, let alone the queen. Be nice, and work together as buddies. WP:WIKITYPE, buddies work *together* to find sources. Note the citation needed tag, I added that myself. <grin> 74.192.84.101 (talk) 01:46, 12 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Mandy, do you know that there are people who just go no putting unsourced like on everything, they go like: Jesus Krist was a man. Tomato is a vegetable. The Bucingham palace is a building [citation needed]. The Big Ben is in England [citation needed]. Wkipedia is an encyclopedia [citation needed]. USA is a land [citation needed]. London is a town[citation needed]. Ok, I think you get me here. This gives people a power over other editors to make them work harder just to find some more citations for things that are quite obvious and highly non-controversial. The thing if Voltaire loved muslims - well, that you see IS ControversiaL. Yes. But there is no reason running around and sprinkeling citation needed on things like - Pavlova is the national dish of New Zeealand. Because it is. And no need removing it, now that is even worse. Hafspajen (talk) 08:45, 12 March 2014 (UTC) Hafspajen (talk) 08:31, 12 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Still smelling sweetly... ILL-EEE-gal action de-TECTED! EXTERMINATE! Tillintetgöra! UTROTA! :-) "Mmmm^ Now shall I, or shan't I" or "Aaah This'll do for a snack"
Don't worry about events yesterday Hpj; like Drmies, I'm not concerned about having a blot on my Swedish block log, but I appreciate your concern. Here's another rose bouquet for you - I'm fairly confident these won't be removed, and I shan't be blocked for putting them here (looks over shoulder nervously...) PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 09:14, 12 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
I've just read Drmies' last post at the Swedish Wiki ANI thread (I hadn't realised it had all kept rumbling on): strong words but to the point. You do have friends here, Hafs, so don't take events over there to heart - you haven't done anything wrong. Perhaps, as Peter says, things will change for the better as a result of all this, but in the meantime there's plenty to do on the English Wiki. And, incidentally, can you really paint a Vermeer on a flyswatter? PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 23:42, 13 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Oh, well some Swedes are really like that, we could notice that in the big iconoclasm, but some are nice. By the way, I am no purebreed, my family is spread all over the globe, Norway, Sweden, USA, South-Africa (hope they are nice to the black people) and the South-Africans have a Sicilian connection and some Hungarian too. Hafspajen (talk) 10:21, 14 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
"The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations of national sovereignty. But what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term "mankind" feels vague and abstract" - Bertrand Russell. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:45, 14 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hello little Hafspaj. Is Saturday tomorrow! Little Bishonen give class in cake-eating in pocket on Saturdays (all welcome). See fridge section? All study materials in fridge stolen copied from little Hafspaj delicious cake gallery on Bishonen page. Little Hafspaj bigtime cake specialist! Feel free add more cakes in fridge, Bishonen and Darwinbish have been eating some! (No images outside fridge, please.) Kindly, bishzillaROARR!!22:22, 14 March 2014 (UTC).Reply
Elevator music only, because conversation is paramount! But if students bring live instruments, or sing barbershop, is also welcome. Any repertoire that goes well with coffee and cakes. bishzillaROARR!!23:47, 14 March 2014 (UTC).Reply
Zilly, you will one day suprise me. hey, maybe you did that already. Elevator music ? When does live recitation by Alfred Lord Tennisball and Percy Bish Shelley start the reception? Hafspajen (talk) 00:37, 15 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Eating on userpage, conversation on talkpage. I thought I said. How are you going to eat on the userpage without registering your presence there, you ask? Well, you'll just have to try. On the userpage: drink the lemon balm tea, eat the cakes, don't edit. (Unless indeed you wish to add more cakes to the fridge, that would be welcome, as are other moderate-sized donations.[29]) On the usertalk: converse. You see? Create a new section on talk and tell everybody your opinion of the cake you're eating, or tell them something else gracious and conversible. But I see you have indeed done it perfectly, after something of a false start. Incidentally, what can you mean by "party"? I must have given completely the wrong impression. It's not a party, it's an educational experience! An Open University class! Kindly do not demean it as a mere party. P.S. For the live recitation of Victorian poetry,that is well thought of, as it is indeed delightful and goes well with cakes. It starts when you click on the youtube link. Oh, and I see from your contributions that you have been spreading the word, that is most appreciated! Bishonen | talk16:17, 15 March 2014 (UTC).Reply
Hafspajen is more like the guy on the Captain Crunch box, than the guy on the Lucky Charms box. He prefers to swagger, and longs for a life on the ocean, rumour has it. However, unlike most pirates, Hafspajen decorates his own vessel. Shockingly tastefully, too! :-) p.s. Rumour has it that the Cap'n is actually a Viking, masquerading as a Frenchman,[31] click to see the scandal-mongers, if you dare. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 05:33, 20 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Many little green Lithops smiles for you
Paddy's day is, of course, the time for those of us who breed plants to go out to buy the green fabric to make the bags to cover the flowers, the green bags that Leprechauns can see but vandals apparently cannot. Thank-ee kindly for the reminder! Sminthopsis84 (talk) 17:47, 17 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hi. I saw your edits at the Tadao Ando article and comments on the article's talk page. I see you are an experienced Wikipedia editor, but I wonder if you knew that you can change the size at which thumbnail images are displayed in your browser by going to "Preferences" -> "Appearance" -> "Files". That allows you to specify the size at which thumbnails in Wikipedia articles are displayed on your own computer setup without forcing everyone else to use the same size just because it happens to look good on your computer screen. As mentioned in the guidelines at WP:ImageSize, forcing a "larger" image size actually makes it smaller for those readers who have a larger size set as preference. Anyway, I added a comment about this on Talk:Tadao Ando, so I hope you can have a look at the manual of style guidelines. --DAJF (talk) 00:30, 19 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Not quite over... yet.
Now see, if I was the royal type, from that particular nation, then dontcha think I would have come save your buttocks over at svWiki, when you got into hot water for all that wild ♥wikiLoving♥ you and your friends from enWiki were shamelessly engaging in? The sixties are over Hafspajen! Over I say! :-) Therefore, because I did NOT save you, that means I must NOT be the Svensk Jewel. Clear as mud? Okay, good then. Carry on. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 04:41, 20 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
You might be some long distance cousin. You did not get yourself blocked by leaving some Wikilove, but I do appreciate your concern. You are always very welcome to save me. Hafspajen (talk) 10:43, 20 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
{{smiley face}} Thank you! I will give it a week or so to let clear candidates come out, then start looking at how to work it. Thanks, Matty.00720:23, 21 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week, for , as Drmies says, being "a gem" in article collaboration and development, as well as enthusiasm. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)
I nominate Hafspajen as Editor of the Week for being an all-around nice guy and content creator. Hafspajen is actually a returning editor--they used to be Warrington--and has created and worked on tons of nice big and silly little articles, including a couple of DYKs. We've collaborated on quite a few of them, and The Sand-Covered Church was especially neat. Hafspajen thinks his English and his referencing skills are not up to snuff and I think he's bothered by this sometimes, but what he thinks he lacks he makes up for with his usual enthusiasm. He really loves the place and its potential, and I'm sure Editors Yngvadottir and Sagaciousphil agree that he deserves some recognition. And did I mention he loves dogs and protects them and their articles? And leaves sweet and appropriate images on images to make people feel better if they're down? He's a gem. Drmies (talk)
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Might need copper rich food
Are you feeling better today and not so exhausted? The thing we need a reference for is "Ninfa is located on a major flyway of birds migrating from Africa to Europe." Can you remember where that came from? Quest-Ritson's book looks lovely - I wish I could see more than just a few pages of it! SagaciousPhil - Chat11:16, 27 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, not quite all the way well yet, .... That would be the Italian reference. it belongs to that reference, after aside as a wildlife sanctuary... That part was added by Yngvadottir, by the way. Hafspajen (talk) 11:19, 27 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
After (edit conflict) Glad you're feeling a bit brighter! I will leave you and Yngvadottir to carry on with Ninfa. I wasn't intending to edit the article at all but then to try to stop you worrying thought I would just try to make sure every paragraph had at least one ref to cover DYK rules. Can you or Yngvaddottir add a ref to the bird bit, please? SagaciousPhil - Chat11:33, 27 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
No, don't leave me, hey there. Carry on, please. I just added that part to the previous sentence, both sentences are covered by the same ref, no problem. Actually they all belong to the same paragraph, just silly that somebody left that sentence hanging all by itself like that. Maybe it was me? Hafspajen (talk) 11:38, 27 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
I see you have a nice green tick on the nomination now! All your own work with just some help from Yngvadottir, so it's been an impressive job! SagaciousPhil - Chat06:29, 28 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
A bit late, I come to your admirable garden, fruit of admirable teamwork, it should be sheer pleasure now. As for the Hildesheim rose, I found great help for another church, who will look at the Hildesheim cathedral later, - that might be Pentecost rather than Easter, why not. A good time for the legend (if on its own) would be June, when they bloom. I collapsed a bit on my talk page but left the line on "patience" open ;) - I have a soprano on the Main page now, to be followed by an alto, on the last day of women's month, also a pleasure, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:36, 31 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
My Lovely Rose, Gerda, thanks for your beautiful picture. Yes, saw Hannelore Bode and even clicked on it... ... But do you really think I will go on doing DYKs after this Template:Did you know nominations/Garden of Ninfa ? should't people use better judgment when ripping green tics and removing articles from cueue, that there is obviously not a big deal missing or wrong? Do you think that it was a nice experience? Phil is still fuming, and hurt. I might be an idiot, but Phil is on her manyth DYK or so.... Hafspajen (talk) 15:07, 31 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I think you should go to DYK again. It was a unhappy series of misunderstandings, and will work better next time. DYK people have been accused of not enough diligence in the past, unpleasantly so, which made them extra picky. You have a great heart and will get over it ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:33, 31 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
I agree with Gerda, people are sometimes jumping at shadows because they don't want to be the one putting something which gets them in deep trouble on the main page. Matty.00716:41, 31 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thank you Gerda and Matty, for your support. Could someone try to explain this for Phil too? She is really hurt now. it would be a real loss if Phil stops doing DYKs, she is better than I am, and more experienced and took this really hard. Hafspajen (talk) 16:50, 31 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
The thing I am most angry about is the false accusation that the refs were bare URLs and that the editor making the accusations has not even apologised to Hafspajen - they only chose to apologise to BlueMoonset. Hafs did a lot of work on the article and did not deserve to be treated in such a disgraceful inconsiderate manner. DYK is supposed to help and encourage newer editors, not drive them away. SagaciousPhil - Chat18:00, 31 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Happy April Fool's Day
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' Man, pull yourself together. I don't want your sack. Just jump into it, and jump into your river, whatsitsname - Niagara? Zambezi? Hafspajen (talk) 18:42, 1 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
.. Send all number and all letter and we sending you FREE RIVER OF CHOICE (Hippo no longer available, sorry man) Many kindnesses, Joseph Diezani Madueke, (no relation) your bank man
No legal small printing, for you, JDM. You send your wife and I send you a sack. Can’t eat money. I Am the Walrus. I live in the Zoo and I am happy here. But if you incline to send something, send me your wife and a clear correct interpretation of Rasputin’s life. I read books in my free time, and this is complicated. Hafspajen (talk) 19:08, 1 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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On 2 April 2014, Schon gewusst? was updated with a fact from the translation of the article Karin Rehnqvist, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was: Karin Rehnqvist bezieht Kulning (Kuhlocken) in klassische Kompositionen ein. (Karin Rehnqvist includes Kulning (cattle calling) in classical compositions.) You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (quick check).
Well, I don't really get it. Some people are picky with references, I can give you a much better one. But do they really doubt that Jeasus spoke Aramaic? Hafspajen (talk) 02:35, 3 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hi Hafs, just a note for future reference. If you should happen to find an editor claiming to be very young, it's not a good idea to rush to an admin's talkpage and say publicly "hi, I found a seven-year-old editor, and the article they are editing is (link)!" This is because very young editors sometimes attract strange responses, some of which are not good. And admins' talk pages tend to be quite widely watched by some quite strange people, especially if they wear T-shirts a size too small.
Instead, a much better idea is to email the admin for advice instead.
(Of course, in this case it doesn't matter, because it seems the editor isn't in fact very young anyway, but in other cases it might matter.) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 12:23, 5 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, Demiurge1000. You know, it is not easy to know what to do with a weird account, and I ask often Drmies advice, he is one admin I do trust. It is indeed weird to find an account claiming to be six years editing banking topics. I was pretty sure that the editor was NOT a child. The reason why I ask on talkpage is because I decided not to use e-mail, you see. I would never say :I found a seven-year-old editor, if i was sure that it is indeed a child. I did think about these things before acting. But in this case the reason, you know is that his username was "asixyearold" - so if anyone was giving away information it was his/hers username. Hafspajen (talk) 12:41, 5 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, giving away too much information themselves is something younger editors do very commonly - still not a good idea to help broadcast the unwisely presented information more widely. As for "pretty sure", often it's best not to make any assumptions at all, although I think there's a user called something like "User:Eager toddler" and I guess we can be reasonably confident that editor is not two or three years old. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 18:23, 5 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Naughty, bad bot - don't annoy Hafs! I think I've fixed this. It needs a monkey for each ref - perhaps I should have used a "Hail Mary" icon, then I could have said: "Say a little prayer every time you insert a ref."SagaciousPhil - Chat08:08, 8 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hi, I am the webmaster for the JCCA -- the Japanese Chin Club of America (you may email me at the address provided at the bottom of http://www.japanesechinclub.org for verification) which is the parent club for the Japanese Chin at the AKC. The information (history) provided was placed up with authorization of the (at the time current) board of directors for the JCCA (Sari is our historian and member and provided the history for club use). I guess I need to learn how to properly quote reference this material in whole (I'm not a book author, but a simple webmaster and JCCA member). If you can provide details or help quote it for me, that would be appreciated.
As for the images, I'm working to knock down the amount of "personal" images posted to this site in an effort to only show a) the differences in Chin and b) the representations of a Chin. The including of a "gallery" will open a Pandora's box that should not offer an open door for any owner to think they can just post any picture and have Wiki host it.
--Proximo128 (talk) 16:48, 8 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Mmmmmmmm. Now there's enough even for Zilla herself and Bigfoot. I'll have appreciate the yummy-looking tiramisu, please. Welcome to the fountain of compliments and flower bouquets here, get some well-deserved appreciation! (And see also hint on talkpage. Flower duel?) Bishonen | talk09:10, 10 April 2014 (UTC).Reply
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Sorry about the issues with the Leavitt Bulldog page, but I've attempted to do just as you said. I've left references on the Talk page showing that the text the other person keeps reverting is false. I've even tried to refer them over to the Talk page in the desciption of my edits and asked for them to provide similar references for the version of the text they place, but it hasn't done any good. Seeing as I have provided references (quotes attributed to David Leavitt from a website maintained by his own organization) for the version of text I am proposing, what would you suggest I do here? They are suggesting that it was not a "portion" of the breed that the name-change applied to, but that is also obviously false as the breed has been accepted by the United Kennel Club under the OEB name by those breeders who were against the change.Ss 051 (talk) 17:06, 10 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Man, I don't know about the whole thing but you need urgently to fill in on the WP:dispute resolution, right now, urgently, imidiatelly or you get yourself blocked, please do so!!! You have al the chanses to be blocked right now, you broke three revert rule big time. Hafspajen (talk) 17:08, 10 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hello
Thanks for the invite but i have more than enough of all these debates going nowhere.
I do not see a positive thing in a other useless debate about head shapes.
First it was the notability after established that it was to personal and I was given a Wikipedia: Conflict of interest .
Also I was accused of using wiki for selling puppies.
But most important all wonderful work done by Sminthopsis84 is being destroyed by one person.
And some just allowed it to happen and a 2 months of critical work by Sminthopsis84 is deleted by a one minute press on the undo button action.
I wrote a little text and I will leave it at that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Leavitt_Bulldog_discussion
We have been around a view times debating on the article but always with a lot of respect and there was always the intention to help from you guys I respect you guys for that.
I hope you keep your eyes open for what’s is happening and wish you all the best.
Best wishes from Amsterdam Gr Barry--Freedombulls (talk) 18:31, 14 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
But what if there is a lot of conflicts. Stand up for yourself. I am for sure not able to do it for you because I don't understand what this is all about, Barry. But all those discussions were conducted by people who all had a certain idea about the subject. Conflict resolution is not like that. There are people who are trying to SOLVE the problem and they are NEUTRAL. Actually a nicest bunch of people you may ever met on the whole Wikipedia. Nothing has been deleted and destroyed yet. If you came so far you may just try to speak up for yourself and than give up, right? Hafspajen (talk) 20:28, 14 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Oh, never mind, I understand that you maybe can't agree, but one possible solution is that you agree about not editing each others articles... that would be something, no? Hafspajen (talk) 19:12, 15 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, I think that you are both nice guys and feel strong for those articles, but since you can't agree, it is best to stay away from each other. Ss should not edit Leawitt bulldog and you leave Olde for him to edit, and go with this solution. (Unless Sagatiousphil will not bite you both...) Hafspajen (talk) 20:04, 15 April 2014 (UTC)Maybe this could be posted on his page too.Reply
She had a point about David leavitt his statement on the page of Titikio.
But there was a lot more to it.
Back then was a year that the Old English Bulldog page was changed a lot( i think you guys name it a wikiwar ) and often with wrong information.
The leavitt bulldog page was still not running or better was deleted a couple of times.
David Leavitt looked for a way to inform the people correctly and posted up the link a view times but because Titikio kept deleting it David Leavitt left a note on his page.
But like I wrote this afternoon we indeed share the same old bloodlines but after 10 years we have more separate blood lines than just having the Old English bulldog to work with we have crossed more new lines the last 10 years.
We breed more and with a bigger breeders group 20 breeders and now we have a different look or like they say appearance which i think established already before with the diagrams.
Also his mention of being in the same show ring with OEB’S is true but there is also more to it we have not only the OEBKC dogs but also the Renascence bulldogs ,Alternative Bulldogs and all other Bulldog mixes in the same ring.
This was because the breed was not recognized and all show hosts end up putting all OEB or OEB mixes in the same show ring.
All over the world you can breed a dog like poodle to an OEB and still it is called OEB.
So that is where David Leavitt cry for help came from why else start with 3 x please??
But like i said I'm all for not work on each other’s page :-)
Gr Barry--Freedombulls (talk) 20:44, 15 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Sorry I did not see the part about putting it on his page.
I will no longer debate with him he can agree or disagree but I'm done debating.
I say this with all the respect i have i really appreciate your willing to work this out with us.
But like i said no more debates he can just take this offer or leave it but both is fine by me.
I already promise you i stay away from the OEB page no matter the outcome.
Gr barry--Freedombulls (talk) 21:12, 15 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hello!!! Hafspajen I am really grateful for your work on article Petunia.
I think Palecloudewhite removed the gallery only because of Pakistan.
Thanks again
Well, if you can give me the names of the cultivares, I would be very thankfull. Do you know the names of the petunias? Like 'Pink lady', 'Sky Blue', 'Snowy Angel'- you know the name of the petunia flowers on the little paper they come with. -Hafspajen (talk) 19:06, 15 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
It's absolutely nothing to do with Pakistan, it's because the images in the gallery were all the same, with the same caption, uploaded by the same editor who just so happened to have taken all the images. (Sorry for butting in, Hafs, but my motives are being seriously misconstrued here.) PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 19:12, 15 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! I hope that I filled in the right names of the cultivars. When you take other pictures, next time, you can look att the name of the cultivars and add them to the photo file name, when you put that on Wikimedia commons! Then everybody will know what the names are. Hafspajen (talk) 07:18, 16 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
'If you don't like the changes just put them back were it was. This article was on the list of the SuggestBot recommends these articles. Removed that but keept some of the suggestions above, Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot Fixing style/layout errors. No, it is not a special interest for me, dogs are, yes, but this is only a dog related thing. Why do you ask, Dougweller? Hafspajen (talk) 15:44, 21 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, they are. Don't worry, 11 years for a miniature poodle is nothing. Just middle age. These small breeds if taken care of might live up to 15-19 years sometime. Hafspajen (talk) 13:18, 22 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hej, Hafspajen. I just learned that "recent changes" patrolling can actually make you hungry. But here's a piece of cake for you adding some links to the article. De728631 (talk) 17:24, 13 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
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We just sit down and wait a while...
Hello, I understand your concern regarding the term in the article. However, while irony is often misunderstood, it is not within the scope of this article to explain that specifically. By that logic, we should modify every article that uses often misunderstood terms. Such an explanation is far too involved, and is simply jarring for readers. The purpose of the header section is not to address all possible misinterpretations of the content, but to provide a general look at the subject of the article. You should read WP:LEAD, the most relevant section in this situation is, I think "Apart from trivial basic facts, significant information should not appear in the lead if it is not covered in the remainder of the article." (I am copying these arguments to the article talk page, to have the discussion "out in the open") SilvrousTalk20:57, 18 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Can you go with a compromise and remowe it like tomorrow, this time? You know this article is still on the main page in certain countries. Hafspajen (talk) 21:03, 18 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
I don't quite understand. Our disagreement is on what's the best way to present the information that the article is about. I fail to see what relevance the article being on the main page has when it comes to it being correctly presented. If I am wrong, if the arguments for keeping that section in are objectively correct, then I would certainly prefer that to remain there. Or do you mean that the section should be there for now because of the large influx of readers from the front page? SilvrousTalk21:14, 18 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Alright, in that case I understand what you meant initially, sorry if I came across as a bit abrasive. I agree that we should "think of the children" in this scenario. SilvrousTalk21:24, 18 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Now, the gallery is disturbed and some of the pictures are below, under the gallery. But I just give up, it is impossible to edit wikipedia nowadays because all people have all kinds of monitors and - even different preferences - too, on top of all this biodiversity. I never changed my computer since 2007, but I know about this problem. It probably looks just great on yours the way you made it. Hafspajen (talk) 17:29, 19 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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No, I didn't think it [35] had any EV, as they say. It's just a vanity shot. Besides, I've forgotten how to upload pix to WP — it's so much simpler on Flickr.
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You've done some really good work on the Dogue de Bordeaux article! I hate to be the one to say it but dogbreedinfo.com is not a reliable source as it can be edited/posted to by anyone, so it's usually immediately removed ... Goodness knows - the trouble all these dog breed articles cause - maybe I'll stick to roses, artists, old country mansions and castles etc. I hope you're not cross with me about the German Shepherd? I was trying to help - but I guess it didn't work. I like your archive box; I've sneakily fixed the image in it so don't be cross with me? SagaciousPhil - Chat10:52, 20 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I previewed your user page with Hokusai Dragon and Pfau imponierend decreased to 350px, and found they uncovered the obscured user boxes. Among them: "This user has a nordic mother tongue and understands Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish." Ergo, Icelandic — ??
Did you know that Iceland was the first country to recognize Lithuanian independence, on Feb. 4, 1991? Soon after they renamed a street in central Vilnius Iceland St. (Islandijos gatvė). Sca (talk) 15:09, 23 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Did I say anything about being nice? I said in the nom that I would have preferred the other hook. (The article is "sold" by the pic, believe me, the hook doesn't matter. Once I created a soprano article for the one reason of mentioning a Bach cantata, - then "the people" found all the rest of the hook better without it.) - The quote is completely unrelated, simply what kept me busy today, it's a birthday (in addition to 450 years of Shakespeare), see top of my user page, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:26, 23 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Check that article, see if you can translate some to Swedish. I nominated it for the German Main page, - They didn't know who Purcell was ... - need sleep now --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:55, 23 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I do, but is it a reason not to give readers who don't know English or German no chance to learn about a great piece of music? A stub would do, ust to make the link possible. - Congrats to the pic promotion, - let us know about nominations, please, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:20, 24 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Re [41], did you see that a few weeks ago a company in Germany was caught turning out (apparently inadvertently) cups bearing a Hitler-era postage stamp, perforce with a profile of the Führer? They were quickly withdraw and destroyed. But somehow Stalin, equally murderous, marches undisturbed through Souvenirland. Sca (talk) 15:59, 26 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
If you're interested in that topic, here's a link to a documentary about how the descendants (mostly grandchildren) of Nazi bigwigs dealt with their families' creepy past. I found it very interesting. (German with English subs.) [42]Sca (talk) 16:03, 27 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hello Hafs, would you have any ideas for a source of a nice photo of this rose? (It seems to be rather rarely photographed with success, and I've found it impossible myself; it may need a studio portrait or considerable luck with garden light.) Sminthopsis84 (talk) 15:08, 27 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Hafs, I thought you may want a reason for this: I think linking to the blocking policy separately will do more good than piping a link to your userpage. Thanks, Matty.00718:23, 28 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Looking across the sea to Sweden only to see Hafspajen's chair is still emptyHafspajen's empty chair
Hafs? It's now two weeks and I've had no Swedish chef videos to cheer me up, no nice pictures added to decorate my talk page and the dog breed articles are being messed up without you here to keep an eye on them - I've stopped watching them ... SagaciousPhil - Chat09:04, 8 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
I think it's time for us to start composing special poems for Hafs. This being wikipedia, the first drafts would, naturally, be somewhat cracked. Wildly guessing that haf means half, which perhaps it doesn't, and with profound apologies to James F. Hanley and co-authors:
Half a pie is better than no pie, any old time, any old where.
A pie in the quarter, or even much shorter, ask anyone's daughter,
File:T.E. Lawrence, The dreamer whose dreams came true.jpg?
File:I dream of jeannie october 1966.jpg?
File:Kate Grinold at Dream Foundation Gala.jpg ?
File:Innocent Dreaming.jpg?
File:Ondine - Illustrated London News.png?
Thnk you, I looked, but it's not quite it yet, - look for meadow rather than dream. Two good ones already on my talk, with the lyrics and a translation, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:49, 13 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Sorry ewerybody - just decided to go and take a trip to Estonia, Turku, Latvia and what is the other one...Lithuania. Baltic states. Very interesting countries, have to get myself washed, pack up and have some rest... Thanks for all messages - en masse- 13..was it? Will be back. Hafspajen (talk) 13:06, 13 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Ooops. I was there and I am back, I meant... No, sorry, not time to Vilnius, even if it was my plan. Too many distractions on the way. Like a bunch of Russian turists at my hotel - well not even a hotel, but some kind of Youth Hostel (a terrible place) - the only one in the little town- keeping me awake till 2 o´clock and waking me at 5. 45 in the morning. And today same thing on the boat, speakers went on about 6, dear guest breakfast is served cough, grr krr, welcome cracklings noises to the table... arrival at 9 o'clock, everybodyexpectedtobein the cars... blast. when does turists sleep, anyway? I will go to take care of that part now. Hafspajen (talk) 15:09, 13 June 2014 (UTC) .Reply
Oh, hello everybody. Yes, the Russians were drinking vodka and were noisy. And were wearing (the women) those perms on the head and cleaning woman outfitts. But why they were doing their drinking in the morning, beats me. Hafspajen (talk) 20:24, 13 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
I do. Most definitely, Sca. No hotels at all to speak about, no restaurants to speak about, only a big lake. Nice church thought, but confusingly enough it was a Russian Catholic church. I always thought that the Russians were Orthodox. Xanthy, is that a fish or a what? Hafspajen (talk) 22:52, 13 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Palanga sounds good. I was in Kaunas, that was really nice. Also Klaipėda, Raseiniai and a bit all ower Balticum, like Tartu... I liked that city. It is one thing that made me wonder a lot. One can find huge amounts of deserted houses everywhere, even in the middle of the city, in Riga, Tallin, everywhere, simply everywhere. A very strange thing. Why, Sca? Hafspajen (talk) 13:40, 14 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
I don't have an explanation for the vacant houses. After independence, they had to develop a mortgage-lending system, and maybe the '08 crash hit hard. Donno.
Palanga can be crowded in summer, but the setting is gorgeous. (In Soviet times, only nomenklatura were allowed.)
Klaipėda is the former Memel, and there's some interesting history still visible there. Kaunas, as you may know, was the interwar capital (when Vilnius/Wilno was in Poland).
Kant and Sca in KaliningradSaw a bull moose standing in the water from a restaurant on the sand bank
It was a long time ago, back in '98. I was accompanied by my erstwhile Russo-Lithuanian ... Freundin? ... who brought language skills.
In Kaliningrad (ex-Königsberg) — which in Soviet times was a closed military district — things were broken-down, derelict, dirty, inconvenient, at times scary. For example, on one city bus it seemed as if the exhaust was piped directly into the interior. Even the locals were shouting complaints. Many people looked desperately poor, and just desperate.
But it was interesting, with shards of the city's long German past everywhere, including Kant's tomb next to the then still ruinous cathedral (since rebuilt, with German money).
From what I've since seen online, Kaliningrad has been cleaned up, and today is a fairly decent if offbeat place to visit. It would be interesting to go back. Sca (talk) 15:25, 14 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, depends, Sca. I was thinking of what you said, now for a while. I often realise that one can't really go back - anywhere. But - if you are willing to take it like a new experience, then maybe.Hafspajen (talk) 17:40, 14 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, of course. If there isn't any... We have the most weird categories, like commons Dogs facing left and that kind of things, so one useful would't hurt.
Just on limit. Very nice thought. But can you translate the Russian text? On the page description. Also, Sca, do you know or can find out how big is the picture? Hafspajen (talk) 23:03, 15 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
On Bing,[43]Раӣ translates simply as "Paradise." So perhaps "Angels on the Beach" is just some English-speaker's imagination.
Thanks for working on that. I remember thinking this one was a prime target for translation, now this is even better, since I didn't have to do anything :) Hekerui (talk) 20:08, 10 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hafspajen, with regards to galleries, there is a trend, among people who are not very interested in art, to remove them altogether. The reason is that there is a link to the atist's collection on Wikimedia Commons. However, I believe that showing works by the artist is a good idea, because that is what they are famous for.
But your collection of images was made up mainly of details, not the masterpieces for which the artist is famous, but just little bits of them. Out of your twenty images, only four showed complete paintings, and there were "last Supper" details all over the place with little indication which image they came from.
If you are going to make galleries, then every image that you put into it has to have a rationale. Two images showing the same horses' head and three images of different sizes showing the same apostles is very hard to justify, when they can all be found on Commons.
I agree that the article needed work. I have put some of the greatest commissions into galleries. Putting together galleries that look good, serve a purpose and are not going to get deleted takes a lot of work. Jamming together every picture that appeals to you, is not a good way to go. You need to choose high quality images that sit well together. Then you need to arrange them as if you were hanging works in a real gallery.
The person who deleted the gallery from Michelangelo was Johnbod. The reason that he did it was perfectly clear. It was a muddle of stuff, put together without apparent thought, and with Michelangelo's earliest work last in the series of images. If you have a look at the article on Michelangelo now, you will find that it has a gallery integrate with the text.
The portrait of the old man with the growth on his nose is Ghirlandaio's most popular portrait, because of the tender expressions of the man and the child. I am an older person, and I have had fairly extensive surgery on my nose for skin cancer. Like that old man, my grandchildren love me, despite the scars on my face. I suppose that you are either very young or very beautiful, to have made such a thoughtless comment.
Yes, I am very beautiful, thank you for giving me the new lection. Also notice some old people always think they know better that everyone else and never try to understand anyone. No good fait, that tends to disappear with age. According to them nobody has one clear thought or any intelligent intention whatsoever. And thus, they all should be despised and looked down on. Hafspajen (talk) 14:23, 10 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
I see. You are the person who referred to a little child's dear old grandpa as "that revolting old man".
I have told you that galleries that don't have a rationale get deleted. It happens all the time. Johnbod deleted your gallery last time, not me.
My suggestion is that if you want some of those details to be shown, choose about four, and make a new row, with a new heading and put them under the frescoes. But you also need to be clear as to why you have chose each detail. They need to show something really pertinent about Ghirlandaio's work i.e. if there are four images, you need to make four different points.
And yes, I am a retired college lecturer. I am accustomed to teaching, and respecting, people of all ages and all degrees of intelligence. Amandajm (talk) 14:38, 10 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Ice cream for you
Do you realise you've restored the article to the new version. I had reverted it to the long-standing version. It's the other editor that wants to make the change. Also, I haven't broken 3rr. Will you self-revert please? DeCausa (talk) 20:31, 11 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I realise that you have broken the 3rr. 1,23 Please discuss those changes, because edit war in never good. Later when you have reached a consensus, you make the article as you agreed on. Hafspajen (talk) 20:34, 11 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
DeCausa, I just informed Hafs on my talkpage that I'm fine if he reverts to your version so we can do some talking instead.
Btw, don't frown about the Swedish. It's just friendly Scandinavian banter.
DeCausa, that's not correct. A first edit, if it's a removal of someone's work one way or another, can count as the first R already. It may be that this is a matter of interpretation on the admin's part, but your understanding (which used to be mine also) is not correct. Sorry. Drmies (talk) 01:21, 20 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Drmies, yes I saw that being discussed in a thread somewhere (can't remember where) a few weeks ago, but didn't realise there was a definitive conclusion. It's a bit of a strained interpretation but it does deliver a fairer conclusion. Without it, it means that an editor introducing a change to an article can make one more edit than an editor "defending" the existing version, which I always thought was odd. Was it definitely resolved that that was the correct interpretation? Could you link to where it was discussed? (Btw, in the above circumstances, as I was the "defender", I had made only 3 edits, not just 3 reverts, so it still wssn't more than 3rr!) DeCausa (talk) 06:00, 20 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
DeCausa, I can't rightly remember, but I was the subject. Perhaps you can find it in the ANI archives, though I'm not sure if that's where it was. I remember it was during Bbb23's vacation (which was, admittedly, longer than it should have been), and I mentioned that. Sorry. It's real early here. Drmies (talk) 11:57, 20 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
You mean shorter than it should have been, Drmies. I'd change it, but that would count as one revert. It takes 4 reverts to breach WP:3RR, and the first edit counts as a revert if it changes material in the article. The only time it does not count as a revert is if it adds material that's never been in the article before. I've gotten into trouble for the strictness of my intepretation, so, just to be clear, that's literally what the rule means, but many administrators evaluating a block, including me, use their discretion in determining what constitutes a breach. Of course, there are also administrators who don't really understand the policy.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:06, 20 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Bbb23, Yeah! Is there a thread you can point to, for future reference, where that interpretation is spelled out as supported by consensus. It would be really useful to be able to point to that for those that don't understand this. DeCausa (talk) 22:17, 20 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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By the way... Drmies. You said you don't know anything about the museums inhabitants, well are you really sure? Remember Rosies friend, Edna or Ella or what was her name.. ahem. Hafspajen (talk) 04:23, 14 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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the lavishly illustrated Barock altar
Hafspajen, I've been reading Alan Palmer's The Baltic: A New History of the Region and Its People (2005), and I think you might find it interesting. Much about Sweden (those savages!) and other Scandinavian countries, and quite a lot about the Baltic states. Well written. Alas, no illustrations.
But, have you seen the lavishly illustrated Gotik book, ed'd by Rolf Toman? [44] You might find it interesting. (I have the English trans. [45]) Sca (talk) 16:00, 16 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Do you like Baluschek? (I'd never heard of him.) Maybe we could expand the English article with trans & pix from German. [46]Sca (talk) 18:42, 24 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
I love Baluschek's paintings! I'm so glad to learn about him. I'd like to put "Hans Baluschek Großstadtwinkel" on my User page, but I don't know if I can. I saw two different pieces of information regarding the licensing. One says it's in the public domain, the next says it is not because the copyright was renewed in the U.S. If I can put it on my User page, what shall I put regarding permission? CorinneSD (talk) 21:54, 24 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Don't bother about using pictures too much, Corinne. In worst case Stefan will come and snach it... Sca, do you speak enough German to translate that article? Hafspajen (talk) 22:00, 24 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, Hafs. I notice that the one near the top with the trains is Großstadtbahnhof -- big city train station? (I like that one, too.) CorinneSD (talk) 22:08, 24 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
(edit conflict)::Well, do you have like where your watchlist is a little thing sticking up googletrans? That should be a translation tool. but mine is half way out the page... actually, I am not the Technical Support - Genius, that would be Matty.007. Maybe we can ask how to make that work. Hafspajen (talk) 22:31, 24 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Bitte warte mal! — I'll plan to translate the Ger. article after I get back from Cal., so starting Thurs., OK? Sca (talk) 22:27, 24 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Oh, that was easy... Thank you. But why do I have gogletrans anong those those little flaps on top of the page, (You know, watch, warn, move..) because that one is not working. Hafspajen (talk) 17:41, 25 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
I don't have googletrans anywhere (but I got instructions on where to find it). How did you get it to appear on your talk page? User page? Could your problem with things going off the page have anything to do with the size of the latest image you placed here, the altarpiece (the one with a lot of blue and orange in it)? In 100%, it doesn't go off to the side, but when I change my zoom to 110% or 125% it is much wider than everything else on the page. CorinneSD (talk) 19:32, 25 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
I don't know. You know those little things sticking up above every page, where you can click for example to check your watchlist. It appears there if you put that to your preferences, but it doesn't working. Do you use Twinkle? Hafspajen (talk) 19:57, 25 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
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FYI, I'm working on translating the Ger. Baluschek entry, which is longish & might need condensing for Eng. readers. Sca (talk) 15:18, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
OK, I finally finished the Baluschek translation — it's at User talk:Sca/Archive07.Reply
It's still essentially a draft, but I can polish it later if need be. Meanwhile, you can hit the edit button, copy the text and paste it into Hans Baluschek. Feel free to edit the text or resize (or add & subtract) pics as you see fit.
I managed to trim it by about a third, from 4,700 to 3,000 words, but it's still lengthy and perhaps too detailed. The style in German was complex and at times confusing; I left out some of the more abstruse passages and references to things only Germans would understand.
I'm not sure why the "external links" ended up the way they did, but perhaps they'll change automatically when it's part of the English Baluschek article — ??
Small? listen, we can DYK this, this article is brand new. I can nominate it. Not quite ready with the pictures, got distracted here. But when we are ready, we can do it. (A small point - if we do that, we should ask an experienced DYK-er to go throug it - they check those articles quite rigorously...) Hafspajen (talk) 23:16, 28 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
He's certainly an interesting figure historically and artistically.
No one's ever said that before! In our family, that pic. is considered iconic, as it shows how they overcame such extremes of cold & snow in old North Dakota. (Taken in 1948.)
DYK — How about: ...that despite his socialist convictions, German Secessionist painter Hans Baluschek at the age of 46 patriotically volunteered for the German Army in World War I?
That is fine, to begin with. Try now to make it a bit shorter, like a slogan. Also make one about him exposed at Entartete Kunst. Hafspajen (talk) 14:18, 29 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, well... tastes and tastes. OK, is an early work, got that. Well, it is giving a rather creepy first impression on him, being the third picture one will see, I may say, but if you insist... Hafspajen (talk) 14:57, 29 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
I just didn't think Vereshchagin belonged in a Baluschek gallery. But I don't insist — it is creepy, so maybe we should throw it out — it's not necessary to tell the story.
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Re your comment about [50] — I de-sized orig. to make clear that now it's corrected Alt. 1 I'm nominating, and added a bit about the Doberan Minster article, which I spent quite some time on last week, mainly revising what appeared to be an awkward translation from German. (Recently I similarly micro-edited St. Mary's Church, Lübeck and St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk — shorter articles that you might also find interesting.) Sca (talk) 14:30, 6 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Hafspajen,
I liked your improvements to the page about Nuns. However, I have replaced the photo of the nun on a motor-bike for a couple of reasons. !. It's my picture and it's been on the page for a long time. 2. Wikipedia readers need to see something which is not just a 1940s stereotype of a nun from a bygone age: nuns are active now and need to be seen in the light of liberated active, dynamic women of the 21st century. There are plenty of other photos on the page of the traditional nun of yester-year. I do like the photo you posted - I hope you cane find another part of the page to put it. Best wishes Francis Hannaway (talk) 09:28, 9 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Francis, I have to say, that it was the look on her face that made me replace it... She looks fierce... Angry, pissed and upset and not very nun-like. But if you want that back, well.. not going to remove it. But she is looking daggers at the viewers... Hafspajen (talk) 09:35, 9 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Oh, well - it was one of about ten photos I took of her while she was struggling to turn her bike around. Perhaps she was a bit self-conscious at the time. I will look to see if I still have the rest of them - perhaps she is smiling in the others. But, the reason I care about this photo is that when I first made edits on this page there were only very traditional pictures of nuns. Yes, I know that these still exist - but readers should also be aware of other depictions ... especially with the amazing work they are doing in developing countries. I do have another, more recent, photo of a group of the same congregation in Basankusu, DRC. If you don't object I will change it to their picture - then we will both be happy ... I will still have my Congolese nuns ... and you will have happy nuns. Thank you for you kind response. Francis Hannaway (talk) 10:57, 10 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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for the Barnstar! The dog (left) is a welcome sight. I was out on Sunday with a family who own one. Such good-natured, friendly little dogs. Amandajm (talk) 02:11, 20 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Done. Thanks for your kind message. It took me a little while to get the hang of editting on Wkipedia. I do like finding substantial gaps in the encyclopedia and filling them in.
There were articles on other members of the Medici entourage, but not Gentile de' Becchi, who was much more politically active than the other members of the academy, and obviously very interesting as he was such a powerful orator. I have not yet been able to determine his precise role in bringing Pope Sixtus IV to a reconciliation with the Medici and Florence. Unfortunately my Italian is very limited. I'm still working on it. Amandajm (talk) 02:32, 20 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Victoria the babysitter
I don't think this is Kumioko for a few reasons. Filing a SPI report on the other account is not terribly difficult, and if you need help doing so it is available. Doctalk11:04, 20 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
I think I agree, though it's a tough call--but I haven't known Kumioko to so blatantly whine about some phony VA appointment. As for the other, please let's leave that be for now. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:11, 20 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Really? Drmies, My English comprehension is NOT poor. My written English is, because I have learned English by hearing, as a child, from my relatives in USA. In the summers. But I have never been in an English school, well, with the exception of the regular English classes in school, so I do speak English well, but writing is different, right. Jag vill berätta för dig är privat. By the way, in Sweden it is a requirement to be able speak English, if you want to study at the university, which I have done and do now again, and I am tired of this shit everybody have to take who cames near this editor, for one or another reason. Have no idea why is this tolerated. De hond is wedergekeerd tot zijn eigen uitbraaksel; en de gewassen zeug tot de wenteling in het slijk. Hafspajen (talk) 00:16, 21 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Nice of you to say so, but it's 1300 hrs here and I have eaten too well and drunk too much red wine so I gave up and played a beastly game of solitaire which I almost never win, instead. All I was going to do was sort out the galleries a bit, which is what I was prompted to look at. Is it really so bad? Amandajm (talk) 13:04, 21 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
It depends. If I play a game called "Free Cell" I always win, because there is always a solution. Otherwise no.
What do you think should happen with the article? If the galleries are left small, as they are, then it doesn't matter whether the pics are well matched, because they all have white borders. But if they are expanded, then they need to go together. Amandajm (talk) 13:33, 21 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well then, do it! And have fun! I like galleries. But people often don't really see what they are looking at, unless there is a good caption. I mean, they see; but they don't really see. I fixed some of the messiness towards the bottom of the article, but I have another little project underway, and I want to get back to it. It's taking a lot of research and thought. So I am going to leave the fountains to you. Amandajm (talk) 14:05, 21 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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See User talk:Victorlarsson - this new editor has created an article on Gunnilbo parish and a whole bunch of articles on local vicars and chaplains, which all seem to be based on a 19th-century book: Westerås Stifts Herdaminne by Joh. Fr. Muncktell. At the parish article he provided that link; at the vicars/chaplains articles he just cited it as his source. All but one of the biographies have now been deleted as non-notable; initially he posted them in Swedish, then what appears to be a Google or other machine translation was added, very bad partly because of all the abbreviations. Some of them may be notable, and I feel bad about how the editor must feel, so I'd be grateful if you can either establish whether any of them are worth undeleting or help me explain how we work here so he doesn't feel so bad (and maybe there are other things he can help us by writing up - at this point we have a longer article on the parish than the Swedes do, and at least one other person has added additional references and otherwise improved it). I think he's Swedish, and as you know I just fake being able to read Swedish, not to mention being not a church person. I'd be grateful if you can help in any way. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:23, 24 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hi I think the UFC 173 page could do with being semi-protected because it has just been vandalised twice and with the event taking place tonight I can only see it getting worse. Kind regards Lukejordan02 (talk) 19:15, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
OK thank you. Lukejordan02 (talk) 23:34, 24 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Any idea how long it could take for them to do something? If you view the page at the minute and click view history you will see why I am asking kind regards. Lukejordan02 (talk) 01:29, 25 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Haf, less is more. What really matters is the identification, not so much the CU. Please back away from the SPI since I don't think it will help. Drmies (talk) 00:01, 25 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Dear Hafspajen, that's what I was hoping to tell you privately, via email, to try and break it to you more gently--that CoM was Candle. I wanted to tell you a while ago already but couldn't. It's a painful thing since we all used to have so much fun together. CoM got in hot water not because of the stuff we all were working on, but because of other edits in more contentious fields--basically, if I can paint with a broad brush, making non-neutral edits in articles on Democratic politicians (not "Democrat"--that adjective is considered an insult in American politics, and that's the word he used recently) and various right-wing writers. This was followed by the kinds of personal insults you saw from Candle as well, so he was topic-banned, and when he socked he was blocked. The socking continued, and the socks were ever more outspoken and disruptive; it simply got out of hand. I've known this for a long time, and so has K-stick, but we couldn't prove it, not without compiling this massive amount of evidence: it took many hours. If I hadn't seen, on Recent changes, this spat with poor Viriditas, with the typical innuendo and personal attacks, I might have just let it go, and when I went through their edits I saw so many more instances of those false accusations; there simply was no denying that he was not a net positive. My trust was hurt as much as yours probably is; I guess you never really know another person well enough. Anyway, it's over, at least for now. He'll be back, no doubt, flying under the radar. As long as he can exercise more proper manners I may not have much of a problem with it, and we may never find out. All the best, and I hope to see you here again soon. Drmies (talk) 04:39, 28 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Just peeking round the door to see if you're here ...
Well, Drmies, tha<-t was - not a surprise, I suppose, but still it was. Why on earth all this bad mouth-behaviour... It beats me. ChildofMidnight can be both brilliant and nice. And by the way, the result was delete, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denise Donnelly so why do we still have ->Denise Donnelly - such a non notable peudo-scientist (well, at least without the involuntary celibacy stuff.)
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Ummm, I see that you're a Senior Editor III, but your recent edits to the Berlin Secession article didn't come out the way I'm sure you meant them to. (The image was crowding the tag, which was bleeding into the text, and the columns at the bottom were anything but even.) You do previews of your edits, right?...just askin'. WQUlrich (talk) 22:50, 3 July 2014 (UTC) (I mean, did somebody else use your computer while you were away? 'cause images are obviously your main interest) WQUlrich (talk) 23:05, 3 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
There were a couple of problems. The rows were broken, that was one thing. Then, the picture was way too small, one can't see the members at all. Third, that the tagg is squezed, that doesn't really matter. those taggs don't stay forever, the main thing is that the article has a stabile layout. And - a fourth thing - I don't know how YOUR layout looks. I edit on full screen on purpose, because that is how most official site are seen, university, businesses, different goverments and other official sites. If you don'yt use full screen, things may look different for you. It doesn't mean that I am out of my mind (not so nice to suggest that) - it may be something technical. The columns were even on my computer, and nothing you suggested you have seen was any problem as I saw it. Hafspajen (talk) 23:21, 3 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, there is something wrong, the images are overlapping on full screen, and not overlapping when I have the window "mediumized". I think the big one is too big for the text in the lead, maybe make a third row for the second image so it is pressed over to the left more. --kelapstick(bainuu) 23:39, 3 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
I am trying, but can't get anything to work. My recommendation would be to put the smaller image in the lead with a shorter caption, and the larger image with the list. Also the list needs to be evened out. Maybe three rows. I am just out the door in 15 minutes though, so won't be able to do anything tonight. --kelapstick(bainuu) 23:45, 3 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
And -,eh -now - it is a big gap now, a real big one - about 5 times the size of the lead down to the list. Wikipedia isn't workig any more with all those preferences and sceen-sizes. Sigh. I think ONE pictue would be enough, two is just complicatig everything. Hafspajen (talk) 00:14, 4 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Do that all the time... I have often realised that things don't look the same for all... It is maybe because now versus 2007 have more screens, preferences and more whatevers - that make this bio-diversity ... a bit trying. Hafspajen (talk) 01:45, 4 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Sorry, I didn't intend to impugn your sanity, it's just that...well...when I clicked on the link to your talk page I expected to find, um, someone with less experience. I didn't realize that different screens, preferences etc. had that kind of disruptive effect in terms of what various people see, and what I saw was a mess. It looks good now (that one image was really intrusive). Ultimately, I plan to expand the article and that should help. (I guess...I'm not so sure anymore.) WQUlrich (talk) 18:02, 5 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
But of course you should!!! It can be a very nice article. Very interesting time period. A possible solution if you want to add pictures, to put them under the list in a gallery - if you want to have more. I can start one for you - and I will not protest - if you remove it either, promise. Hafspajen (talk) 18:05, 5 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
By all means! I have quite a long to-do list and it may be months before I get to it. At the moment, I'm more involved in creating articles for some of the people on that list (and others). WQUlrich (talk) 18:24, 5 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Help! I changed pull quotes to a blockquote (since at WP:Blockquote it says not to use pull quotes. Pull quotes are for when the quoted material is "pulled" from material already in the article.), but I don't know how to format the reference. Also, I think this would look better if it were in smaller print, in a box at the side, don't you? CorinneSD (talk) 21:01, 13 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I just filled in two red links which you or Gerda might like to expand. P.S. Don't mean to be impertinent but you might consider archiving your talk page, it's pretty long!!♦ Dr. Blofeld22:07, 28 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
Why isn't ANYONE complaining about Drmies talk page, just about mine? that is always long. Ok, try too, later; but right now I am in the middle of something. Do you like Tibetans? Hafspajen (talk) 22:10, 28 February 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Really!!!!!!!"Can you do something about this really tight perm which my hairdresser gave me - I can't see where I'm going?!!" TailCurledTightI might soon go to a monastry
No, don't go Hafs - who would fix images for me if you're in a monastery [/* but wait, do monks have internet access in monasteries?] Sorry for sending you on a wild goose chase through the poodle articles, I was speaking about Maisie appearing here on your talk page! Maybe Bishzilla will come and chase Maisie away for you? ♥ SagaciousPhil - Chat10:14, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Oh, you are just as naughty like Bishy. OK; I will not go to any monasteries. I have been informed that monastic life is demanding; so although you do not need to be an Olympic athlete, it might feel troublesome; trying and bothersome.Hafspajen (talk) 10:19, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
But there are nice people and dogs at the monastery
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Sweetheart of the year
Hafspajen, no one, not even Yngvadottir, will ever surpass you in good faith and good intentions. Thank you for coming back to Wikipedia, and god speed. Drmies (talk) 04:58, 4 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
I thought it was rather cool that he'd painted the entrance to the Trinity Cemetery years before he was buried there. Found the pic. on Ger. WP.[56]Sca (talk) 00:28, 8 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
The German Wiki is a great source for pictures, that are used in a different way than here. I always try to see what they do owerthere. Norvegians can be good, to, Dutch sometimes, Italian and Spanish... depends on the topics. The Danish sucks. Hafspajen (talk) 00:35, 8 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hello, we previously had some discussions about toy galleries, at Talk:Teddy bear and Talk:Toy, which inspired me to create a gallery at Dollhouse#Gallery. You can also see there what I mean about having encyclopedic information about the contents of the images. I hope you like it! By the way, I don't know if you noticed already, but if you're interested in creating toy galleries, many of the articles in Category:Traditional toys and subcategories have plenty of free images available that would make for good galleries without copyright troubles. Cheers, Siawase (talk) 20:03, 23 May 2014
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Very nice! Well done. Hafspajen (talk) 20:09, 23 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, it is correct, this is a very good gallery, timeline, illustrating a point, and so on. The trouble with the bears was that it was very little info on them in the common files, so I was only guessing. Hafspajen (talk) 20:09, 23 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
I think I understand better now why the teddy bear gallery you created turned out the way it did. It's near impossible to create good galleries when the information about the images just isn't there. Cheers. Siawase (talk) 20:34, 23 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I liked the gallery addition you made, and hope I've improved it. More suggestions are welcome, though you know the heated atmosphere round here. Paul. Ceoil (talk) 10:51, 25 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Wishing you good puppy play time
Hoping you are having a good therapeutic break from wiki editing. So sorry that you have email turned off, so I can't send you more extensive condolences privately. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 22:05, 28 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Haffy, thanks for your generous comment at [58]. It's a pleasure working with you and trading thoughts.
Perhaps our efforts re Čiurlionis will engender more interest in the West in this fascinating figure, a national icon in LT (a fascinating place). Sca (talk) 16:46, 18 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I think that there are always artists that are known locally but not known outside their land. Many of them are very good too. Hafspajen (talk) 06:02, 19 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
If an editor has previously posted their own personal information but later redacted it, it should not be repeated on Wikipedia; if the previously posted information has been removed by oversight, then repeating it on Wikipedia is considered outing.
(WP:OUTING) And that belongs to topic Wikipedia:HARRASMENT.
Hafs -- Thank you for sharing these beautiful still life paintings! I love them. I noticed when I clicked on File:Pronkstillleven.jpg that there was a big red notice: "LangSwitch Error". Maybe you can fix that. CorinneSD (talk) 00:05, 28 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
I tried once to fix an error like that before at the Princess Tuvstarr nomination, but I never did succeded. It is probably Crisco the one who can do that. Hafspajen (talk) 00:11, 28 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
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That Limoges box is beautiful! I went to hear a talk about a collection of textiles, mainly Ikat, from the eastern islands of Indonesia this morning. Really enjoyable! Their was a dragonish one which was truly remarkable for the expertise with which it was created. Amandajm (talk) 06:13, 25 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
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The Userpage Barnstar
Don't know if you've ever received this barnstar, but if not, you certainly deserve it. Your userpage is an oasis of art and whimsy in this sad wasteland of bickering and blather. Zeng8r (talk) 14:15, 28 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Sadly, no. That's why I ended up browsing their site, looking for it. BTW, I've updated the gallery on my talk page with those I think most likely to pass. I'm holding off on nominations for now as we have a lot of excellent art on the nomination's page at the moment. Alright, I'm off to bed. Enjoy your lovely summer day. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:06, 29 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Bamberger RauchbierMidsummer pickled herring
For your good-humored patience and cooperation re Hans Baluschek, you are awarded this delicious snack, along with a beer. (Now all you need are some Wasa rye crackers, and maybe a shot of chilled akvavit.)
Thank you. Hm, it was a long time ago I had those crackers. I really like the ones made by oats... Hafspajen (talk) 16:18, 29 June 2014 (UTC)I don't know wich one is worst for babies, beer or sill. I might need to change that picture to save the baby.Reply
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Hi, IP address 174.19.6.83 has made changes on 6 (now more) different upcoming UFC events without proof or a reference for those changes, I have reverted them changes and have asked politely that they don't make unreferenced work, they have also broken links in the tables, please advise Lukejordan02 (talk) 17:30, 25 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
He has since changed the results of UFC 172 a past event, changing one of the competitors to a retired fighter this is pure vandalism now! Lukejordan02 (talk) 17:50, 25 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Want to nominate this, but having trouble getting a year on it, which is important for proving American copyright status. Any idea where to find that? Adam Cuerden(talk)00:19, 5 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
(talk page stalker)The file is derived from a Bonhams illustration for a sale of 19th century pictures, held in 2012. The auction listing doesn't give a date. I've just checked a couple of Sotheby's catalogues- four listings of Allingham watercolours, none dated (and one had the title and her signature on the reverse, so it looks like she didn't date them). According to the Helen Allingham Society she was painting until her death in 1926- so it could be as late as the 1920s. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:45, 5 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
I just spent some time catching up on the additions to your Talk page. I love all the photos of dogs and art, wonderful art. Then I saw the latest about the socks, etc., and your dismay. Please don't abandon us, Hafspajen! You are a light to my day, and I learn so much from you and your exchanges with editors. Do you remember how you felt when 74 disappeared? Well, this is worse. Come back. CorinneSD (talk) 21:53, 30 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hi Hafs, could you lend your expert eye to this template, which I think is not good. The colours look quite wrong on my computer, with pale pink not pale, orange/vermillion/red nearly indistinguishable, magenta/purple/deep pink likewise much the same. Also, the categories don't seem to be the best choices for roses. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 20:49, 29 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
You are quite right. Not for roses, that will not do. Roses have a very different color-scale, from the very light pink - almost white - to the light pink - and light pink on the bluish shade, versus light pink tinge on the varm side, the clear pink, and the warm-darkpink-reds and the cool reds . And the light pink with a salmon teint, those are quite difficult colours. The cold pinks going darker are also very difficult - going over into magenta... And then we have the very dark scale, almost brown versus the dark purple. And this is only the pinks and dark pinks. And the red-oranges, yellows, cream coloured roses - and so on. No - it will not do. Hafspajen (talk) 20:58, 29 June 2014 (UTC).Reply
Thanks Hafs. I've taken out all usages of the template and left an explanation on its talk page, so that's a step in the right direction. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:20, 30 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
There are a lot of images to choose from, and I'm not sure I've always made the right choices. You are free here. Ceoil (talk) 10:06, 22 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. The thing is if you are are very close to an article you develop blind spots, and need other eyes to slap you about the face. Ceoil (talk) 10:15, 22 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hi, just came over to thank you for the image placement there (very nice!), and see that Ceoil has already been here. Anyway, I'm happy, in particular, to see the detail of the donor. Also, this is a little late, but sorry for being crabby at Jan van Eyck. I wasn't cross with you; more with myself for not having expanded the text there. But that's now been done, no thanks to me, so all's well! Thanks again. Victoria (tk) 15:26, 22 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hafspajen, I'll fix it in my sandbox. Don't worry about it. Thanks for trying though. Victoria (tk) 19:57, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
Started a discussion at Corinne's talk, so maybe she can explain what is it she didn't understod. I imagine it is the panels that are the wings that open and close, or something like that. Hafspajen (talk) 20:02, 22 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
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That nice bright image appears to have been extensively digitally enhanced. I have already reverted it once previously, for that reason. Amandajm (talk) 17:36, 30 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Do you mean it would be a good idea to leave that image in the article for the time being? The painting is in fairly poor condition, and was transferred from wood to canvas, which is often problematic. I presume that the panel had borer or it wouldn't have been done. I don't know how we are going to get a better one. It would have to come from the Louvre. Amandajm (talk) 17:52, 30 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Re textiles, I wonder if I could persuade the local Art Gallery to let me photograph some of their stunning collection of Indonesian textiles.
The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney has a great collection of lace. Not a huge amount, but some top quality pieces, one of the finest bobbin-lace cravats that I have ever seen.
The cravat came from a woman from Vienna, I think. She just walked in one day, when the curator was feeling rather ill and thought "Oh No, not granny's crochetted doilies". The woman unwrapped this glorious piece of lace. The family was Jewish, and before they fled in 1939, each person took a single small treasure from their home. This girl took the cravat, wrapped up in a handkerchief, tucked up the leg of her bloomers. All those years later, she donated to the museum of Applied Arts and Sciences a.k.a. the Powerhouse.
How sad in a way, this story... and how nice also. It is always sad when people had to leave everything behind... Bur hopfully she did made herself a new good life and had the courage to let this treasure of her go, now. Hafspajen (talk) 18:33, 30 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I see you saw fit to remove a photograph I posted on the West Highland White Terrier page showing three sisters taking their three pet terriers for a walk. I came across them by chance over two years ago when I happened to pass through their village (what are the chances of ever coming across that combination again?). I won't go into the details, but it took several attempts and almost two years to track them down to ask their permission to use this photograph on Wikipedia. I thought it added a welcome human touch to the page. Now it is back to featuring only dog portraits. How many of those does one need? Anyway, the good thing is that I've learnt never to put myself to the same trouble again in the misguided notion of enhancing the look of a Wikipedia page. Kim Traynor | Talk21:12, 7 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
OK. I'm not hopeful that many will respond, but I do appreciate your gesture. (Just for info: it took about three or four phone calls and personal inquiries to a village Post Office and shop, then questioning several people on streets and in a hotel pub, plus two abortive searches for their parental home to find these girls. Believe it or not, I discovered their whereabouts purely by chance from someone in another village miles away from their own who happened to recognise the family from my description of the photo subject. Others may not share my opinion, but I still think it's a fairly remarkable photograph because of the two line-ups involved.) Kim Traynor | Talk00:41, 8 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, it sounds like a lot of trouble. Do you crop pictures? I think it could be made better by croping away a lot of the background. Hafspajen (talk) 00:53, 8 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
I had a look at the photo- although the caption says there are three generations, it's not obvious which is which (I guess the fat one on the left is the oldest). As the article describes the Westie as having natural instincts to both bark and dig holes, a photo of one digging an 'ole might be relevant. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:18, 8 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, Hafspajen, for message regarding new placement of pic - that's clever! As for crop, I'd be happy if someone modified it if that led to improved result. Message to Xanthomelanoussprog above - you'll find the relationships of the dogs explained on the Commons Description caption. Kim Traynor | Talk11:37, 8 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Sorry that I haven't been very communicative. I have been having a little crisis on the other side of the world! Things seem to be sorting out, but I will be very busy for a few weeks. I would love to have a look at the Rembrandt article, but I will have to leave it for a little while longer. Meanwhile, I'll take a look at those images you have put on my page, and get back... oh bother! I have just got yet another text message to answer. Bye for now! Amandajm (talk) 10:50, 21 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
No, I don't think so, Sca. I would watc the page, they might ask questions, thought, or tell you what to do. If they can't then probably our local technical genius Matty will surelly solve it. Hafspajen (talk) 16:46, 21 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Sir,
Carbolic acid does not contain chlorine, and thus it is not chloric; it is merely a benzene ring with an alcohol group bounded to it. I meant to write the word choleric and noticed the typo yesterday. The word choleric CAN refer to a person who is bad tempered or peevish, but also to an irritable substance. I will use the word "caustic" instead of "choleric" because its meaning is perhaps more apropos from your viewpoint.
As I've already mentioned, choleric can refer to temperament but also to anything irritable; would it be malapropos to say that is a substance is irritable? However you look at it, cabolic acid certainly is NOT chloric; it does not contain chlorine. Thank you for leaving the word "caustic" unedited, however.
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Hey, Hafspajen, of the FPs in this list, which would you choose as the lead image, and footer image? Note that portrait-orientation images go up as a pair. I'm a bit torn - we have a number of good ones. Not Godot's, though - he hits 100 images in a week or so, so I'll be putting up LOTS of him then. Adam Cuerden(talk)22:55, 30 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Question - There are two very different colour patterns in the history of this image... which ones are correct? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:54, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Richmond wished to paint large, allegoric works. "An allegory conveys its hidden message through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events". So… Richmond paints Anchises with his fist grasping a twig at a suggestive angle. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 06:56, 2 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, I was trying to work out what Anchises held in his hand- it seems to be a twig, maybe broken off in a moment of passion as he glimpses Aphrodite. Can't work out what the doves are supposed to symbolise though (in this story)- maybe cat food for the two tabbies. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 06:30, 3 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
What do you think about nominating Girls on the Banks of the River? Maybe it's it's rather too neat and idealized? Sca (talk) 22:09, 4 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! Just hope I can catch up to the schedule this week - I only just finished. But then, there were about thirty pieces of featured content, and this week only twenty, which should helpAdam Cuerden(talk)01:56, 6 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I assumed you were joking around with that (I only saw it because I was looking to see why you undid your edits on the bathing lady). I'm not trying to piss you off and thought we were quite friendly previously. Shows what I know, I'll stay out of your way in the future I guess. Belle (talk) 13:15, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
No need. I was just - angry for different reasons - even before - and you made a equaly not so diplomatic comment on DYK: Get reviewing, you bunch of slackers. Never mind - it was a joke - I know - but just then I was not happy with it - I got to many of this thrown on my face lately, so I you undid my edits. Was probably silly. So, I am fixing it now, just trying to finish my obligations here, couldn't let this stay as it was. Hafspajen (talk) 13:21, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
I don't really know where that picture is, I just like it. Was looking for Estrela Mountain Dog pictures, because we don't really have good ones - and this came up. About the girls - I just saved them over here because they got deleted - from an other page - with much Russian related stuff. Maybe it can be used somehow in Russian folklore - national costume .. or so. Hafspajen (talk) 17:41, 12 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Award Award
I hereby present you with the Award Award, for outstanding achievements in the field of award-giving to your fellow Wikipedians (award giver included). PeterIsotalo17:48, 12 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, congratulations on a nice DYK! (And thanks, but I got enough lovelies at home. If I could get a nap, that'd be great...) Drmies (talk) 17:56, 19 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
1. when in doubt, don't use it. 2. only use it for what I would call vandalism--your definition is a bit more expansive. 3. it only undoes the last (series) of edits by one editor. 4. try leaving an edit summary. Drmies (talk) 18:59, 19 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
If I had hit rollback here I would have undone all the editor's work--I just wanted to undo the deletion of the speedy template. (Perhaps article is already deleted...) Drmies (talk) 19:03, 19 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Wow. Wonderful article--thanks, and thanks to Crisco as well. (I looked, but I can't see the outline of the oar. Old eyes--though not as old as the Andrea Doria disaster.) Drmies (talk) 17:46, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. Don't be silly, you have to enlarge it to see oar, Old Mies. Try to look down on the page, thumb, at the first file version, 3 June 2011, there it is clearly visible. Oops, has been viewed 10039 times in 201407? Or is this thing broken? Hafspajen (talk) 01:13, 29 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hafspajen, I don't know what to make of this. You're referring to the Coat, of course--but I don't see much in the way of harassment there, just a comment: they're not even opposing. As I said before, this isn't something that an admin can do anything about. If there truly is a problem and it needs addressing, it will have to be done by editors, by conversation, by consensus. And those editors should be people who are well acquainted with the FP process, obviously. Sorry. Drmies (talk) 02:26, 24 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, that is basically the problem - they're not even opposing. Everybody keeps quiet and are intimidated. You don't know how the atmosphere was before. Only project people were civil and used npov language, oh those good old days... At least someting that I experienced as rather disturbing. I nominated a beautiful picture that I really thought was chaming, beautiful and wonderful, and that was not at ALL such crap shit and worhless bullshit as this editor succeded to look like, made me humiliated for my choice, made the other editor humiliated, the one who edited it; edited it perfectly after the acceptable standards - removing aging signs a little but but not deceitfult, - and all this with no consideration or interest for anyones feelings, criticinzing not the work but the people in the nomination, both, not in a NPOV way, but the most UNneutral way using words as horriblesilly, and derisory- and so on - not a constructive critizizm that we use to have before; but most certainly the most unconstructive criticizm ever since I have seen any FPs. This one here->Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Portrait de Jeanne d'Aragon, by Raffaello Sanzio, from C2RMF retouched.jpg.
Now it is chewing the Bixby letter and belive it or not - this kind of nominations were not standard before. Just suddenly pops oup from nowhere, and even if you think all those resoning sounds wise - it is not. It is somebody talking about art who doesn't have a clue actually. I am worried about what is happening while it is on. People who are uncertain might take this seriously, if not informed ot bother checking what's there actually.
As for the guidelines.:
Digital manipulation for the purpose of correcting flaws in an image is generally acceptable, provided it is limited, well-done, and not intended to deceive. - For historic images, acceptable manipulations might include digitally fixing rips, removal of stains, cleanup of dirt, and, for mass-produced artworks such as engravings, removal of flaws inherent to the particular reproduction, such as over-inking. Careful colour adjustments may be used to bring out the original work from the signs of ageing, (EXACLY WHAT Dcoetzee DID) though care should be taken to restore a natural appearance.
There was absolutelly NOTHING to shout horriblesilly, and derisory for. Digital manipulations must not deceive the viewer - but there was nothing that DID. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING: but people are scared off by the conflicts, lack of interest to a very long thread and few people care to read all that in order to support or oppose... Just destroying the project. I really don't mind if somebody is telling me a valid point, but telling off a lot off weird things in a particulary unpleasant way - I do mind, and C.o.m.c. does this, and who knows maybe is time for a new wikibreak, Drmies. Hafspajen (talk) 02:54, 24 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
AND NOW I SEE THAT IT HAD THE GUTS TO EDIT right in the middle of the nomination text, AND IT IS *******NOT******** her nomination, but mine, right, making it look like it was witdrawn or what, well, it is enough, Drmies. Hafspajen (talk) 03:14, 24 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Think also nominating the same picture I had, Drmies, same disrespectful behaviour towards other peoples boundaries, right, unconcern for the feelings of others, the attitude of irresponsibility, a low threshold for discharge of aggression, incapacity to experience guilt or to profit from experience, marked readiness to blame others and to offer plausible rationalizations for the behavior that has brought the person into conflict - and what do we have. Something blowing in the wind. Hafspajen (talk) 03:30, 24 July 2014 (UTC)::DrmiesHafspajen (talk) 07:13, 24 July 2014 (UTC)?Reply
I had a look through Coat's contribution history, and (after a summary reading) the snarkiness seems to have started back in March of this year (after some dispute over an image of Oscar Pistorius' trial). In my opinion, you're being subtly trolled (Coat used the term MSM (main-stream media) back in 2013- that's in the troll lexicon along with "false flag" and "sheeple") I'd back away and leave Coat to it for a while- Coat says they're going "off-planet" anyway (I'm not long for this world). The rest is smoke and mirrors- Coat's hints that they fear their real-life identity will be revealed, leading to embarrassment as their ex-colleagues find out they've been editing Wikipedia- well, Coat, don't even tell us you have vindictive ex-colleagues, especially one of which at least I know edits Wikipedia quite actively. You pair are more valuable than a patchwork garment; allow your emotions to heal before deciding on a course of action. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 17:01, 26 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Oh, Xanty, I know this. I think I know even the reason behind. Wish people would reflect more - and would learn to know themselfs instead of acting out their ... problems. Hafspajen (talk) 17:15, 26 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
The good doctor contacted me at breakfast time (that is, breakfast time for me)- he is very concerned about the situation but doesn't know the best course of action. I am a recent fan of Walter Sickert- his townscapes seem to have a strong atmosphere. One favourite is the Pierrots at Brighton- twilight, artificial light, melancholy. I wonder what Patricia Cornwell's got in her collection? (sarcasm) Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:27, 26 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, astoundingly, Coats has ignored my request for apology and instead has posted another comment reiterating that I am not courteous if I do not 'strike my oppose'. (sigh......)Fylbecatuloustalk01:05, 27 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
I am unfortunately not surprised. This will go on like this until somebody stops it, because this editor enjoys creating chaos. I think that this editor is the same one as a banned editor here, -> Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ChildofMidnight/Archive - who felt that s/he has to find a new nisch, where s/he can silently survive and have some fun without being noticed. Somewhere around me, maybe because we were friens once upon a time. See that discussion on. User talk:Hafspajen/Archive 1#SPI II. That editor had so many socks that it was unbelivable. And most probably several sleepers everywhere. As Drmies said there: He'll be back, no doubt, flying under the radar. As long as he can exercise more proper manners I may not have much of a problem with it, and we may never find out. - Now the problem is that this editor can't exercise proper manners, that is one of the great common points here. I couldn't stop her/him either, I tried but - no. You saw that too. It may be that I am wrong, but even if I am, it is just as bad as the other editor - making just enough trouble. That fear of getting into an investigaion - their real-life identity will be revealed - I think is more a fear that the above will be revealed. The admin who will dare dealing - if anyone will - with this editor, will have shit shrown in his face - for sure. Kelapstick maybe, he was one of the admins who piled up evidence. But this place is not big enought right now for both of us. Hafspajen (talk) 01:26, 27 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hafspajen, there is no way that this user is ChildofMidnight, no way at all. So please don't continue making that suggestion--it is incorrect. Drmies (talk) 01:34, 27 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
No, no. Very different areas, very different mechanical and grammatical qualities, totally different style. There is nothing they have in common. ChildofMidnight is not such a good student that he'd be able to change colors like this. Believe me: I worked with him for years, and I spent weeks on that SPI. Drmies (talk) 19:05, 27 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Was just online for few minutes, saw your message. Baby you are the most innocent, lovely, easy to fool and full of good will man, I ever met - and I love you, Drmies. You don't really think s/he will admit it? Haven't you noticed a certain talent at bluffing? Wow, now. People don't change. But I do like your innocence. And I am sorry to contradict you - but s/he is smart. Smarter and more elaborated then you think - and a great actress or actor. Hafspajen (talk) 19:24, 27 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Really? Why? People can move, live at a hotel, buy a new computer, because the old one got broke. Same spelling errors, (less) same kind of wording - same three sentences (but now carefully edited sometimes) - and more so especially in the beggining, when he/she was not scared to be discovered. S/he is not stupid. Don't you think that she/he learned while reading your investigation? You thought her/him how to avoid doing the same mistakes - because you were telling him/her just exactly how you discovered that she was she (or he). S/he is not going to go back to edit the same articles again, no, not now when banned a year from editing - no it has to be something completely new. Take my word for it that this user has no idea about art - but loves to stir things up. As the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville said in the book The Name of the Rose: If you wan't to find the horse, imagine being that horse and go where the horse would. This trace goes to FP, a new nisch, an old friend - who is considered not owerly brillinant.. (that's me - the one with the poor undeständåing of English) - well, not true but that is what s/he thinks... (IQ 154, but don't tell anyone - my English IS poor). S/he probably found that I am not as lost on the field of arts and a poor little rabbit as s/he thought of me in general, crying for help to edit articles and asking for correcting my spelling. All those academic studies help. So that was a little bit of a bad surprize. So now we are competing - s/he is competing with me and wants to win - and what s/he doesn't have in knowledge tries to add in incivility and bossines and - (her/his expertise) - and - s/he wants to show that she is better on this than me - but this is my field, you know. So that is the psychological aspect. Either way - s/he is a Wikipedia:Disruptive user. There is a fine line on Wikipedia between users offering critical analysis and advice on other users and their work, and people simply attacking other users and articles without warrant or cause. That line is passed. Have fun and take care, Drmies. Hafspajen (talk) 02:11, 27 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Bless you CorinneSD, for [69]. May all the angels in heaven guard you on you way, Corinne, and may they guard you constantly - because you had the courage to stand up for Fylbecatulous, and saying what you said - more courage than some. Take care and have fun. Hafspajen (talk) 03:28, 27 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I agree that I can't tell if the figures on the pedestal of Andrea del Sarto's painting are harpies, but they were interpreted as such and thus gave rise, in English, to the name of the painting. Rococo1700 (talk) 16:02, 26 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, Rococo1700 in that case it is maybe better to say as you said here: they were interpreted as such and thus gave rise, in English, to the name of the painting. That would be just fine. Hafspajen (talk) 17:18, 26 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I love this painting, but it's currently only used in a gallery. It's such a different view of van Gogh's work. Think we can find a good place for it so it can be nominated? Adam Cuerden(talk)03:44, 16 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Uncia uncia (Snow leopard) fur sk
I had this dream of you, and in this dream of you I frequently dream of you, always similarly. We were sitting across from each other at a table, maybe in Berlin or so, someplace mildly exotic, and you're being amusing. A few others are there as well, like Kelapstick possibly but betterlooking (sorry Dave!). And now I'm going back to bed. Natti natti!
Hafs, now that it's midsummer — and often uncomfortably warm where I live — I'm thinking of winter. (It makes me feel cooler.) Do you think it would be possible to assemble a 'winter' theme page of works by various Russo-European artists? Sca (talk) 15:27, 29 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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That peace rose looks very similar to the one in my sister's garden — same variety? I see from Rosa Peace that it was propagated in the U.S. (and elsewhere outside Nazi Europe) during WWII. Interesting history....
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Do you not yet see or understand?
Yes, Drmies; you are right, and they did won. I am not going to edit Wikipedia like this. - I am leaving Wikipedia - because there is obviously no help to get.
You are one of those tough guys who can manage to take as much shit that I am sometimes surprized of it - even if you put that terrible picture on you userpage - by Artemisia Gentileschi - you are managing very well. I am not like you.
I was trying to convince you that this user Coat of Many Colours:
No matter who he is - he is highly disruptive. He is engaging in behavior that is unacceptable for Wikipedia and he causes loads of disruption, and nobody cares. Coat's first edit is from 14 November 2013 ? Quite an accomplished editor for such short time. Just about a half a year - and knows everything about Wiki already. He is not a newbeginner - even if his account is only half a year old, he edited from 2013-11-14 until today 2014 -07 - 31. He knows a lot about Wikipedia. Do half a year old accounts usually go strait to Jimbo Wales talk page, [70], [71] start voting for administrators [72], [73] and edits Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee: [74], [75] ????
He is some banned user - attempting to evade disciplinary actions by using this practice, editing a small number of pages and getting involved in this project that very few people watch or can judge - the F. Picture. It is all described att the Wikipedia:Disruptive editing - (English Wikipedia behavioral guideline), for what is worth. No matter who he is - is not the great art genius he thinks he is in art, and definitly not a higher-ranked professional about art and art history but a big empty words when it comes to art - or even worse - comments like "This kind of processing is just silly, inauthentic, and derisory" - those are not arguments - those are NOTHING. (whoever he is - even if he is the King of England )
That whoever he is - he just behaved unacceptable towards me, he is clearly harrasing me, and nobody cared except Fylbecatulous and CorinneSD who mananged to say one or two sharp words of thruth, God bless them for that - but none of them are administrators an both are good fait editors who don't know much about socking, evading banns and that kind of stuff. -- Demiurge1000 tried to point out something - but if anyone keeps reading the page - water of the ducks back. But everybody else keeps quiet. Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. And considering how he behaved towards me I don't belive it for a second he will stop. That guy is sick - and he is a banned user - as sure as my username was Warrington and was changed to Hafspajen.
And yes I feel both bad and I an upset - right. He defeated me in front off all those people and made fun of me - on the one field where I am really an expert - and I am really an expert and I do know what I am talking about when it comes to art - while everybody is just watching silently and keeping quiet- - and he is obviously incivil, disruptive and unpleasant and nobody cares.
Just imagine the same thing happening to you imagine some guy coming around and making fun of you, Drmies, and destroying everything for you on some linguistic project where you really know what it is all about - but the bullying guy is using fine terms and convinvcing everyone and everything that you are the person who doesn't get it - not him - and the things you say are not true - and doing this to you repeatedly? And is making every move you do into a circus, following you arround everywhere, reverting even your withdrawn nomination... And goes on doing this under a long time - interfearing with you in the most uncivilized way - and all your friends whom you trusted and loved just don't move a finger for you.
I grow up in a home with artists (half of the family are artist while the other half physicians), I went to art school for 4 years, studied drawing and painting extra two years private, and studied yet art history two years. Plus I have the landscape architect exam - my profession - that is also about - in a way - visual arts, composition, colours and also space. Have you counted how many FP pictures I succeded to nominate - in a relatively short period? 15 - right - or maybe 16 - is this because I don't have a clue?
He who has ears let him hear he who has eyes let him see.
Thanks anyway to Fylbecatulous, Demiurge1000 and CorinneSD - who at least tried to stop this insanity while others only were watching or made some helpful comment in the middle of this conceptual fireworks display of violations of all Wikipedia interaction norms. Yes, we have gudelines, we have policies - a nice decoration that sounds good - but while others can count on me - I can obviously not count on them. Hafspajen (talk) 04:08, 31 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Coat isn't one of Salman's children. For someone who expresses concern that they might be "outed" Coat sure has posted a lot of personal information on Wikipedia. Coat's alleged field of expertise is computer algorithms (I have experience in this area, so I doubt it). Coat has started one article in the mathematical field, a kind of "conspiracy cypher" type thing. Is Coat English or American? Coat uses outdated English slang and English spellings of some words, current American slang and American spellings of others (Coat claims to have attended an exhibition in London at the beginning of the year). And now Coat's off for a month's holiday in Dubai (the hottest month of the year there) on the beach. I call bull. We shall see. 86.148.239.64 (talk) 06:58, 31 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hafspajen, I was so happy to see the notice that I was mentioned on your talk page. Maybe it was just an automated notice, but I was still happy. I second everything Fylbecatulous said, especially the last paragraph. I did not realize until I read what you wrote above that things were so bad. If you left WP, many people, including myself, would be very sad. I'd like to suggest that you make a formal complaint -- you'll need to find the right WP site -- and draw up a succinct numbered list of actions by Coat, kind of what you wrote above, with links to edits, and refer to specific violation of WP policies. (You could use your sandbox to prepare it.) I've seen this done, and it works. If you need help, ask User:Dougweller. You shouldn't have to go through this any more, and I'm sure you have, or will have, support. Wikipedia is lucky to have you as an editor, and we are all glad to know you. I hope you stay and continue editing. I don't know anything about sockpuppetry and know very little about the complaint process, but let me know if I can help with wording your complaint. CorinneSD (talk) 17:36, 31 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
I would love the image cropped to a landscape version of just the right creatures (2 blue in the foreground), Hafspajen or whoever is willing, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:09, 9 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Can you explain a bit more, Gerda as I'm not really very good at this - do you mean to take a bit more off the bottom of the image because, yes, that is easily done? SagaciousPhil - Chat20:51, 9 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
ps: thanks for help again! I changed the top of my talk for the occasion of seeing the cropped image on the German Main page on 2 September! Thanks for cropping, Sagaciousphil!
I am terribly sorry, I thought I'd posted here. Please don't leave - in the last few days we seem to have the possibility of 4 good editors leaving or reducing their activity dreadfully. I'm hoping we don't lose any of you. Do let me know if I can help at any time. Dougweller (talk) 18:01, 1 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
I hope you've "buggered off" on another adventure, and will return with more tales of strange foods and drunken guests, in obscure towns surrounded by lakes. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:16, 1 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hafspajen, your absence has been noticed — Oh yes, it's been noticed.... (sca)Hafspajen, I advise you to return to your post ... sooner, rather than later. (sca)
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I'm posting this here because all of you are so knowledgeable about pictures and I thought you might be able to help. I just noticed that an editor added an image of Calouste Gulbenkian's signature to the infobox in the article, but when I looked at it I thought the background of the signature was a bit dark. I'm wondering whether the background could be lightened. CorinneSD (talk) 00:24, 11 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
No, it is silent, it makes no noise. It is just calledping. You got a little orange box above your talkpage activated by this so called ping. It is just a funny Wiki-saying. Just saying - I send you a notification, allerted you, made you understand I wanted to talk to you... Altså, I pinged you. Hafspajen (talk) 22:30, 21 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I'm so sorry to see that you have gone Hafs! I couldn't bear it in here for a while myself, and come back to see that the bullying has driven you away. As was said above, your attempts to cheer people up are truly precious, adorable. I hope that wherever you are you are doing something peaceful and more rewarding that wikipediing. This video offers a few suggestions for how to relax, in case the hectic online way of life has somehow come to seem normal. Very best wishes to you, may you be truly free from the bullies! Sminthopsis84 (talk) 18:31, 12 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, I'm so glad you liked it :-) However, someone disagrees and unless you come back to help me out with the material, Hafspajen, I'm going to have to redo all that research. Glub. (Yes, her arms are a bit long, but maybe she has a long back to match.) Yngvadottir (talk) 12:46, 14 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Good to see you again, Hafspajen. But I share the hope that you do come back. Again, I'm sorry for my part in letting you down; and there are a lot of nice people here with more gumption than me. And a desperate need for people whose eyes and taste are better than mine :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 16:14, 19 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Sorry. And I am sorry he did attacked you too, because of that picture. I will only come back to participate in the same way as before - when everybody will realize that that editor Coat of Many Colours is the same editor that the completely uncivil bastard editor who was recently blocked (like two month ago or so) from editing for a year for disruption, uncivility and socking -- Candle alias Child of Midnight. And I am a targeted person - and you know that Candle DID targeted me and made quite a lot disturbing comments for a good del of editors and enjoyed to make a lot of trouble on a particular issue - at Celibacy.
I can recognize the signs... Horse droppings are not figs — do not be fooled by appearances. And Drmies, don't tell he knows about art, because he doesn't. One can change writing patterns by copying sentences - and one can read books of art - and this is the kind of comments someone would make who doesn't know much art but has a big mouth and have read two or three art books - about - Mary Cassatt, for example.
Now look what he is doing - vigourously - on Adam's van Gogh nomination, he realized it was me and Adam who were worked out that one. Now he won't let out of that one out of his hands to easily - he won't miss the chance of trouble it up...
No, I will not come back to participate in the same way as I did before, not like this. Only when this problem will be solved - as above or when he finally gets banned from editing WP:FP for his equally own merits for disruptive editing, harrasment and uncivility. He is not doing any good to that project, it is just a lot of disturbance and not one good point. At least if he would have SOMETHING intelligent to say - but it is just empty - air - plus a lot of words and lots of provocations - and a lot of trouble for everyone who tries to respond to it - because really there are no valid points and nothing intelligent to argue against. Why do people always think that they have to show this much good fait with competely uncivil people? Hafspajen (talk) 20:29, 19 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
And eight hours later he was in Amsterdam. The geolocation for Warrington looks pretty accurate (I checked accuracy with my own ip address, which is the same provider, and it was bang on). The style of the edit reads like Coat (though further down Coat refers to the edit as if it were written by someone else). Weird. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:44, 24 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hello Hafspajen, I saw that you made some changes to the gallery on the tree house page. I don't know if it was intentional, but you also reverted text edits I made to the 'Support methods and technology' section. I was planning to change the text back, but let me know if there was a problem with the new text and we can work out a better version to use. (Beechhouse (talk) 21:42, 13 August 2014 (UTC))Reply
OK. There's also a pretty good painting by Koller of his wife.
Yes, but where should we put that one - shall we chuck the cow? There are cows in the article already, but no wife. Or can we find other sources to expand a little more? Hafspajen (talk) 15:47, 15 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Someone, probably Yngvadottir, cleaned up my poor translation re Koller and the Swiss Northeastern Railways. Guess I should have found a source other than Bing for translating Verabschiedung. Sca (talk) 14:52, 16 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
I rather liked this Böcklin portrait of Koller at age 21, but I guess there isn't room for it now. Sca (talk) 14:56, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
You did? Put it back then. Hafspajen (talk) 16:26, 17 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Nemesis unblock
You have been blocked from editing until hell freezes over. You have been blocked for destroying one's sanity by placing satanic songs in one's head that will never leave. Once the block has expired, ha, that will never happen. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Bgwhite (talk) 23:04, 17 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Have mercy, Jesu! Soft! I did but dream. - O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! – Shakespeare's Richard III Act V, Sc. 3.
Note that it's discussion Coat's behaviour, and not taking issue with any of your edits. Rather, I thank you for all of your discussion regarding art subjects. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:31, 2 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
I think I saw some pics somewhere - a Russian guy - wathisname ... the guy with the bears and the cornfields. An article like Night in art could be the model.. or someting like that. Night in paintings (Western art). Winter in art? Shall we go for only western art or both? Or we could involve Cold Turkey to make the Winter Easter art - and go nominatnig them both as a pair in DYK? that would be something. But it is fully possible to make just one. Have you seen this category? Category:Winter_in_Russian_artHafspajen (talk) 05:57, 8 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Ah, so you're just keeping your hand in with occasional quiet contributions? An éminence grise maneuvering behind the scenes?
While you were away, my computer, afflicted for 2 mos. with popups & other glitches, miraculously fixed itself. Or Firefox fixed itself. That's the news. Sca (talk) 14:10, 3 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I apologise, Hafspajen. I was mistaken in thinking your comment had been edited out and I have said so at ANI.
The exchange I was referring to is this; you wrote:
Support, so many people can't be wrong. Subject is decent by modern standards. So many people can ertainly not wrong be wrong about that issue. Age - what? I have a friend that looks almost like this - and she is 30 years. And yes, we sick Scandinavian people do go swiming together all naked everywhere - and nobody turns a hair. We go to sauna too, same thing - all naked together, no problem. If God created man in his own image, so what's the problem? The human body is a natural thing - though some might find it repulsive - well, that's their problem, and it is in their mind, not in the real world. It can be easy to find faults everywhere - if one is loking hard enough... It looks like we are still back in the same old puritan times when this picture was scandalous - what does it say on progress? Let's not all behave like old world Victorians who put covers on the legs of the chairs and the tables because it made them excited.
I responded:
Comment Hafspajen, sorry, but you're missing the point. Neither I nor, I assume, Coat of Many Colours is objecting to nudity as such. I myself had a clothing-optional early childhood, as an older woman I continue to be shockingly immodest by North American standards (shocked a doctor - again - just days ago), I can't think of much that's more ridiculous than having to be clothed to swim or not being able to go naked when it's too hot for clothes, and I have been frequenting the great galleries of Europe for fifty years totally unfazed by 99.9% of the nudes. The problem is not the FACT of nudity, but in this instance the exploitative NATURE of the depiction of the nakedness of an underage girl.
The reason it makes you look bad is because, as I said, you were not addressing the point of what CoMC had said many times over. Instead, you were arguing against something s/he had never said. That’s not fair debate.
That was intentional. I was not going to respond to any of the points or arguments, considering - well -certain things. I was stricly commenting the image - and the debate in general. ... And - he should not responded to my text, because he was asked not to interact with me. Hafspajen (talk) 23:03, 3 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
As you can se above ... this page may not be edited under any circumstances by User:Child of Midnight, Candle Coat of Many Colours and any of his socks. Just pointing it out. Hafspajen (talk) 23:13, 3 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Attributed to Parmigianino, Formerly attributed to Raphael, possibly Antonio da Correggio
Hello Hafspajen. I decided to write you because of your status as a long time editor. I am writing concerning your undoing an edit (that itself was an undo) I made on the Rene Lalique page. A person created an entirely new section called Public Collections as well as at the same time or near that time, other related external links were placed elsewhere on the page. In the new section, they then listed 4 or 5 “museums” some linked to wiki pages about that museum, some to the museum, some without links. I undid their entire edit in good faith. I had three issues with the major edit:
1. The first so called museum on the list is a dealer’s related museum that is part of a cross linked sales effort by a dealer. The so called museum shares a mailing address, a phone number and website IP address with the dealer. The two sites, the dealer sales site and the “museum” site are cross linked to each other. The people involved buy and sell Lalique and send out emails and inquiries for buying and selling using their various museum titles. I believe this “museum” is of zero value to the wiki project. I recently removed several spam links related to that dealer and museum that were put in at the same time on the Rene Lalique page which you can see from the history. The inclusion of that so called museum makes the entire section appear to me as vandalism, and even more so being shortly after the insertion and removal of the spam links to that dealer and museum. I can’t imagine that any serious person would include that “museum” on a list of museums that might be of value to the wiki project.
2. I have a good faith belief that the person putting up the new section I reverted has a COI (not related to the dealer museum information as far as I know)
However even if this is not the case, it would have still been my decision to undo the new section based on the first “museum” on the list and the following 3rd issue.
3. Note the newly placed external links to the Rijksmuseum (this museum is also in the newly created section) and the V & A museum in the reference section. I believe these external links are spam, are out of place in the reference section as nothing in the article is validated by a citation to the information on those lines, let alone external links (the links are to picture pages), and these may also be COI. I thought I was deleting those also as part of the undo that you reversed.
In short, I believe that the newly created section is spam, vandalism, and possibly a COI as well, in addition to not adding anything substantive to the page. And that doesn’t account for the negative impact of the sales linked “museum” appearing on the page as part of this new section quickly after I deleted the previous spam entries. The other external links to picture pages at two museums (one of which is also in the new section) added as references are not references at all, are link spam and may be COI as well.
That is why I reverted the entry. I assume you could not know all of what I have written when you undid my edit to remove these things.
How about this: I will remove the spam references and the new section. I will add a sentence to the main listing saying that the works of Rene Lalique are in the collections of a large number of public institutions around the world including ….. and I will mention half a dozen serious museums as examples……. the Gulbenkian, the Rijksmuseum, the Musee Lalique and the Musee des art decoratif in France, the New York Metropolitan Museum, and the Corning Museum. This will leave the Rijksmuseum on the page. I got these names from the ongoing compilation of museums holding the works of Rene Lalique that is taking place at rlalique.com at this page: rlalique.com/rlalique/lalique-museum.php.
Would this be reasonable both from a common sense standpoint, cleaning up the issues, and also be of value to readers of the page?
The main difference is that raja yoga uses asanas mainly to get the body ready for prolonged meditation, and hence focuses more on the meditative asanas: Lotus Posture (padmasana), Accomplished Posture (siddhasana), Easy Posture (sukhasana) and Pelvic Posture (vajrasana). Hatha yoga utilizes not only meditative postures but also cultural postures. Similarly, raja yoga's use of pranayama is also devoid of extensive locks (bandha).
Thing I snached
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Ha, pinched that from a trusted editor
If you want me to close it I can, but you can also leave it open for a while if you think it might be referenceable (my spellchecker thinks that's not a word, but what does it know?). Belle (talk) 11:16, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
We were trying. I would hate to let down Sca, it would be fun to be able to find refs .. but now I tried and others too, and still facts are not referenced. I don't know what to do. See Sca's talk page too. Hafspajen (talk) 11:19, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
I'd leave it for a while, you can always withdraw it later; the nominations are weird, basically as long as you get the nom in before the deadline you can carry on working on it, and since you've put an "on hold" message on the nom, you've got some time. (Don't panic! Don't panic!). Belle (talk) 11:34, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
I'm not sure you can drink your coffee out of an unreferenced cup, that's probably against some Wikipedia rule (Maybe the websites some of the museums where his work is held have something about him?) Belle (talk) 12:02, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
I found four sites worthy to be used as external links, - look if you can upgrade some to refs. Please supply a publisher for every ref, - makes it easier to see if it's already there, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:07, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Spelling is good, but Schatz has to be capital, naturally ;) - The translation is awful, but you have to rewrite anyway. I suggest you take the HOLD notice off the nom, nobody looked anyway. What do you think of a hook like the PDF heading "the painter of the Swiss national animal"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:35, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
I received "Let sleeping dogs lie" in 2011 and didn't forget. The article is referenced and will be referenced more, no need for any hold, certainly not SHOUTING ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:45, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
OK, Gerda, change shouting then, if you perceive it so, if you wish so. I think I let Sca to work with the above references, he talks German much much better then me. Hafspajen (talk) 13:35, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Anyway, I don't understand this: In the cellar, on Zünd landscapes coined concept of "true real ideal landscape or ideal real landscape» is also Koller combination of precise study of nature, particularly the animal, and not the ideal, but the characteristic searching of composition aptly expressed.. What cellar. Hafspajen (talk) 19:06, 18 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Paul Gauguin is well known for his representations of tropical scenes, mostly including naked young women. He traveled to many different paradise islands in his time and with so many different sights to inspire him, it is no surprise that the majority of his artwork stems from these visits. The one pictured here is titled 'Aha oe Feii' and features two native ladies who are enjoying the heat of the day and relaxing next to a nearby tree. Painted with the characteristic muted and earthy colours, this art print by Gauguin would work wonders to transport you to a relaxing, tropical island whenever you need it.
This painting belongs to the stage of Tahitian Gauguin. The painter, who moved to the South Seas, had started painting with exotic content. He depicted especially women who are portrayed nude - chaste and pure nudity-. He intended to show the islands of the Pacific Ocean as a little corner of paradise where people live ain peaceful harmony between human and nature. this concept remains a mystery. Gauguin came from the world of Western Europe, much more complex and filled with selfish social and political and economic interests. Gauguin discovered there a different life. A life more simple and pure, simple but very obvious, made of genuine things, pervaded by a spirituality.
In this painting depicts two women, one sitting and the other outstretched on the beach. The subject is described by the painter in his book "Noa Noa":
two sisters on the beach that had just taken a bath, lay in random voluptuous attitudes, talk about a love of the past and of the future projects of love. A reminder of the divide: "What! Are you jealous? "
As usual in the paintings of Gauguin, the title of the work is written on the canvas, in this case in the lower left. It is written in Tahitian and its exotic sound serves to give more charm to the picture, a phrase actually uttered by the two women, to give more specific content to the framework.
If it was not for this phrase in the corner of the painting, the depiction could be mistaken for a pure decorative symphony of colours, searching only for the formal beauty of their bodies. But Gauguin meant a different stament with this picture. It has different meaning: the complicity of all women in the dialogue about the deepest, timeless mystery of life: love. The eternal feeling of love and searching about its meaning.
The picture with its decorative characteris more a two-dimensional image than a three dimensional.
Gauguin was very fond of this picture, so that in a letter to a friend he wrote: "I've been doing lately a naked heart, two women on the beach, I think it's also my best so far."
The painting was later bought by the Russian collector Sukin and like all the rest of his collection was nationalized by the Soviet state immediately after the October Revolution. Today the picture is displayed in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
...de staafkerk van Øye gebouwd is met vier staven die niet, zoals normaal, een hoger middengedeelte ondersteunen, en daarmee alleen te vergelijken is met de staafkerk van Wang in Karpacz? Sca (talk) 15:10, 1 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
... that September Morn survived the October Revolution, caused widespread controversy in the United States, and was featured on bottle openers, calendars, and candy boxes, but is now in a warehouse? Sca (talk)
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Respond? What would you like me to say?
(edit conflict) Say you love me ... Hafspajen (talk) 17:03, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
I already stated on the talk page that I translated the article from GerWP, which provided no ref's. Sca (talk)
Well, she asked for a reference for the section... otherwise we may take of the section. All the entries has to have references at DYK, and ... I don't know either what to say. Hafspajen (talk) 16:54, 3 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Here's the relevant sentence:1905 starb Rudolf Koller in der Hornau. Sein Grabmal steht im Friedhof Sihlfeld in Zürich neben Gottfried Keller. (Text already mentioned that he and Keller were friends.Sca (talk) 17:36, 3 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Alas, the pic. of a young Koller (sorry, but believe you added it) seems to be of his friend Böcklin. Image data on Commons include:
Description — Bildnis Arnold Böcklin, Gemälde von Rudolf Koller, 1847 (my emph.) — so that needs to be fixed, too. Sca (talk) 17:57, 3 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, if it's a pic. of Böcklin, which it is, we can't use it big & high on the Koller page with the strong implication (by juxtapositioning) that it illustrates the person of Koller. (Note also that the pic. appears as an illustration of Böcklin's bio in the German entry on Böcklin.) Sca (talk) 18:11, 3 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
… Brudgumseken (se bild) är en månghundraårig tysk ek som förutom att vara naturminne även har egen postadress?
Nej, vad ska den ha en postadress till? Får den brev? Hafspajen (talk) 17:08, 4 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Found Blacklock in Post Office Edinburgh and Leith Directory 1908-09here. He was Principal Teacher (presumably since the college opened in 1907). Bonham's sold Wool Stapler's Yard last year with an address on the back for the Blacklocks, 152 Fosse Road South Leicester Christmas 1920. The address is visible on Google Maps (house number's not blurred)- red-painted house. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:57, 6 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Hafspajen - I'm sorry about the mix-up. I didn't even actually read the content of what you wrote, and I had no intent to erase it. I'm editing on a tablet, and my thumb slipped, so I instantly reverted. I really should have dropped you a note, for which I apologise. Kafka Liz (talk) 14:34, 5 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
I compared it to an online image of a woodblock of the same subject, by Koson here. Identical layout, completely different treatment, different signature- I know he changed his name three times, but the difference in style is bizarre (he also did paintings, but it's not one of those). Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 06:46, 26 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
A close look seems to show that it's a mix of woodblock and painting- some areas are recessed into the paper, others are too delicate to be cut out of wood. I've emailed someone who has a large collection of his work- maybe will hear back Monday- Tuesday. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 14:43, 26 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I'm not quite happy with the images right of the FPs yet; I do try to have a variety of subjects, but I'm not sure they harmonize as well as they might. If you see an improvement (possibly replacing one with Pembroke College), let's do it. On which subject - there might actually be room for Pembroke College, but we need to finish descriptions, then I'll get my friend with a widescreen monitor to make sure it doesn't overflow too badly if we have the extra image. Adam Cuerden(talk)16:33, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Just not willing to start and end with something I nominated; Aiding a Comrade is my one self-indulgence for this month, I daren't do another. Also, big tall images look terrible on their own. Let's leave it for now; I might need to lose the gallery between FAs and FLs after the widescreen check, so I'd like to keep options open, not fill in all space yet. =) Adam Cuerden(talk)17:34, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Original – Johann Zoffany's Self-portrait as David with the head of Goliath
Sorry again about the spider. It'll stay small from now at least until the work's done. =) Anyway, I've cut " No, that's not a towel on his head - it is a hat." - unfortunately, "towelhead" is a really nasty American insult for Muslims, referring to the turban, and, maybe I'm being too cautious, but it's probably best to steer clear of that. Adam Cuerden(talk) 18:24, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
Ok, let's be cautious. Hafspajen (talk) 18:28, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hafs, I told you that I had decided to remove everything about "Rubens Peale with a Geranium" because I saw that it was already a featured picture. I had not intended for the details about that painting to be saved at all. I guess I don't know how to remove it. Sorry that I've made a mess there. CorinneSD (talk) 22:49, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
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I was looking at articles on American artists and came across the article on Agnes Martin. I was surprised that, in a substantial article, there was not one image. Can you help find at least one image of her artwork? CorinneSD (talk) 20:30, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hafs, I thought you might be interested in reading the article on John Hesselius. He was the son of Swedish artist Gustavus Hesselius. I had never heard of either one, had you? CorinneSD (talk) 22:42, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
Oh, he was Swedish American - like my uncle. And Peale's teacher - fixed you nom, by the way - found a GOOGLE FILE! Hafspajen (talk) 22:47, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
I noticed it too, especially the similarity of the tree branches. That's why I put them adjacent in the fabled gallery.
Hafs, I'm not "writing an article" about Moras; all I did was translate what's basically a stub on Ger. WP. The problem with it, as mentioned, is it's totally unreferenced. Ganz typisch. I'm not going to scramble all over the Net looking for "citations." I just want to get a small article on him out there — he deserves mention, with pics (but IMO not too many). Sca (talk) 16:48, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Eh, a journalist like you should write an article per day .... - but you are not expected to do this, I think Ynvadotter is out hunting already, she just wantedto make sure it has not beemn done before... Hafspajen (talk) 16:58, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Does it show for you when you enter 'Walter Moras' in the search box — or just when you click on the link in the previous post? Sca (talk) 18:06, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
@Xanthomelanoussprog: I couldn't find anything to document it, but I think Ida Baluschek was Hans Baluschek's sister. He had three sisters, two of whom died young. In both German WP articles (from which ours are translated), the father of these two Baluscheks is described as a Berlin Eisenbahningenieur, which I chose not to translate as "railroad engineer" but rather as "railroad designer," because in U.S. English "railroad engineer" can mean what Europeans would call an "engine driver." Sca (talk) 21:29, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, in German an engine driver is a Lokführer, not an Eisenbahningenieur. And the Ger. article says something about the senior Baluschek's relative prosperity: Franz Baluschek arbeitete als königlicher Eisenbahningenieur bei der staatlichen Eisenbahn, in die die privaten Unternehmen überführt wurden, und konnte so die Familie finanzieren, die in bürgerlichem bis kleinbürgerlich-proletarischem Milieu inmitten von anderen Arbeiterfamilien lebte.Sca (talk) 21:56, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
I'd like to know how these artists painted scenes of the middle of the winter. Many of the winter scenes I've seen here were painted before cameras were invented. Did they sit outside in the freezing cold for hours painting? Br-r-r. I guess they could just make a sketch and then fill in the rest indoors, but still... CorinneSD (talk) 19:54, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Well, one can paint from a little house where is warm, one can take a thermos - with warm drink and stand on straw, and make a little fire behind - or - make a sketch and then fill in the rest indoors! Hafspajen (talk) 20:13, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
@CorinneSD: Here's a description of how Monet did it:
"The desire to see the countryside beneath its white shroud had led us across the field. It was cold enough to split rocks. We glimpsed a little heater, then an easel, then a gentleman swathed in three overcoats, with gloved hands, his face half frozen. It was (Monsiuer) Monet studying an aspect of the snow." [2]Sca (talk) 21:47, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Two good ideas -- a heater and a thermos with a warm beverage. I should have thought of that. Still, it must have been awfully cold for Monet. CorinneSD (talk) 22:08, 25 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
^Quoted from Léon Billot in Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige, by Charles Moffat, Eliza Rathbone, Katherine Rothkopf and Joel Isaacson, p. 82, 1998, Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., ISBN0-85667-495-8
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Thomas Gainsborough - Landscape with a Flock of Sheep
FYI, Sunrise, Inverness Copse is an early version of We are making a new world and the latter is generally considered the better version.14GTR (talk) 12:42, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Yes, the first is a drawing or a sketch - and the other one is an oil painting. However I think that the first version has more of the scary dull dramatic quality. Also it is smaller, sometimes when drawing and painting are enlarged they loose little of their original fresh idea. It could be nominatedas a drawing. The problem is that it has to be used. Hafspajen (talk) 12:50, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Sunrise, Inverness Copse is 4,910 × 3,497 pixels and it is 35cm x 25 cm. Hafspajen (talk) 12:54, 16 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, true. Also, as stated above Sunrise, Inverness Copse is 4,910 × 3,497 pixels and it is 35cm x 25 cm, and a Google art project file, that's a good qualty file. The We are making a new world painting is only 800 × 625 pixels, and to nominate for Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, the minimum size is 1500 pixels x 1500 pixels -, so We are making a new world painting has no chance - 14GTR - Hafspajen (talk) 13:00, 16 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
I've always thought of them as two versions of the same, only one is the on-site sketch and the other the oil painting produced later after a short while back in England. There is a school of thought that regards them as a sunrise and sunset pairing, as these were often the two moments of greatest danger in the forward trenches.14GTR (talk) 13:13, 16 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state from the 12th century - until 1795- long enough. Or was it shorter? Or you mean was biggest. Hafspajen (talk) 23:23, 16 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
It seems like @you have already added the photo in the article, thanks. Actually there is no such rules that similar pictures can't be FP. FP is a standard of the image so what is the relation between nominating this and the one which is already FP? Now, this picture is the best quality image of Taj Mahal from the front. (Not of a south view or north view). The resolution is above the threshold specified in the Criteria. About the garden, they are actually a part of the Taj Mahal. See the article. Okay, will wait for a week before nominating. Thanks Crisco & Hafspajen. JimCarter(from public cyber)06:02, 14 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
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P.S. Krøyer: Roses (1893)
Hi Hafspajen. I seem to recall you have some expertise on roses, is that right? (Don't worry, I'm not demanding you send me a dozen). I'm looking for a link for a variety called Alba Maxima...
...but there doesn't seem to be an article on it, so I wondered if there was some other rose I could point to (of the right family or genus or whatever). Thanks, Belle (talk) 14:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. We seem to be short stocked on rose articles (that's probably the gender gap showing its effect; women like flowers, men like warships; not as a gifts on Valentine's Day though; "Darling, a bunch of frigates, how romantic!") Belle (talk) 17:36, 2 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Ha. I like that, but I won't write any rose article, because this is what I do for a living - I am not interested in doing it for fun. Pay me - and then I might... . Hafspajen (talk) 17:43, 2 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Art Collection of Prince Władysław Vasa
Hi Haffy, glad to see you're back. FPC is a bit different than the other Featured projects, in that an oppose doesn't mean death for a nomination. So long as it has at least 2/3rds (66%) supports (and 5 !votes), the image can pass. 4/5 is 80%, so the bird image is still passing. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:29, 7 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Has to do with how Muslims do their fasting during Ramadan. They don't just stop eating, but shift from eating 3 regular meals a day to 2 large ones, before fajr and after maghrib. It's very easy to overeat in such a situation, especially since sweet foods are very popular for breaking the fast. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:55, 7 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
They need only fast during the daylight hours. I'm not anywhere near an expert on the scriptural reasons, or the other practices, but I don't know any fasts in Islam which require 24 hours. Sawm has a bit more info. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:13, 7 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, it say: Fasting is essentially an attempt to seek nearness to Allah and increase one's piety. One of the remote aims of fasting is to empathize with those less fortunate members of society who do not always have food and drink readily available.
Also, I can imagine many other ways getting closer to Allah (praying, singing, poems, love, nice pictures - well I mean BEAUTY- ).... that could be just as good. So - I guess that it is mostly about to understand how those who need things live... The American Indians have religious rites when they use fasting to get visions - but ... that takes more fasting than just from sunset to sunrise. Hafspajen (talk) 15:28, 7 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hafstermaister, I give you Woman Reading a Letter and Man Writing a Letter. I'd have someone look over it--someone who knows what they're doing. I'd call on Yngvadottir, but I'm scared the wolf has got her. I'd call on Mandarax, for artsy stuff and sex, but they're in the slammer for being a spammer. I would consider SPhil, but I think you know the drill: if it's wrote by Drmies then the prose ain't worth a ... dime. Good luck with it. Drmies (talk) 00:57, 10 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
LOL. I have managed to clear one thing off my list today and am working madly on another, wrestling with Swedish while other household members make noise. And Hafspajen gave me two sets of Breughels to work on (see my talk page). But I'll see what I can do. Yngvadottir (talk) 01:02, 10 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yngvadottir, you deserve a Carnegie medal. Or a nice, spicy, grilled Conecuh sausage. Something that says "thank you on behalf of the world". Drmies (talk) 01:19, 10 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
PS Has to be a Vegetarian sausage, otherwise the dog will have the meat ... can't imagine she ever succeded to turn the pet into a vegetarian... Has anyone thought about DYK them? Hafspajen (talk) 08:09, 10 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
You're both welcome. Unfortunately I really overdid it yesterday and made errors; luckily others came by and fixed them. Have now resumed work on the Five Senses. I'm just translating the French for now; there are presumably other sources that can be added later, but that article happens to be based on English sources in any case. For the second Five Senses article, I'll need to hunt more than for the current one. ... It's just one dog now, yes. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:23, 10 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Sorry I haven't said anything sooner - I've been in four theatrcial shows in the last month, and have been rather out of it - but glad you've come back. You find the most interesting things. Adam Cuerden(talk)22:11, 17 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Hi. I am Skylar. I just came to say that you accidentally left a message on Drmies's talk page instead, mistaking him as Yngvadottir, no offense. Thanks, and please don't get me wrong on this. ;) Skylar3214 6:28, 18 September 2014
Don't worry, Skylar3214, Yngvadottir is watching Drmies page, . I had to thank her, you know, because she responded to a matter I asked him, while Drmies was out. I also had to thank her there so Drmies and other page watching admins who might want to help understood that the matter was fixed. Hafspajen (talk) 06:07, 19 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
OK. I understand. Thank you. Remember to leave a message on my talk page, if you ever need me for anything. Skylar3214 11:59, 18 September 2014
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I'm trying. I'm not a very good cop. I'm sorry if I've added to your hurt in any way. Either they will take the rope and use it to find their way through our labyrinth - or they'll use it to hang themself. Feel free to e-mail me and call me bad names, by the way; I can't e-mail you because you don't have the link there. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:36, 19 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Sorry, but I promised not to enable e-mails for Wikipedia om our computers, so I am not allowed to use our e-mails. And either way I wouldn't call you names. You are nice, never mind - don't change, Yngvadottir, I like you because of that. He is just a poor guy who loves that dog and he/she is hurt - and has no idea about any rules. Put that gallery in the article Yngvadottir and make him happy - ALT 3 - It just is probably that it was to many of this lately - and I don't understand why it is tolerated. - It is making the editing atmosphere bad, as it was said once - some classic essay. Hafspajen (talk) 18:02, 19 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Remember the blue-grey image you found for my dream? On the German Main page, today and tomorrow, sorry not with the picture, lower right (Schon gewusst? their DYK): "Ich gehe nicht schnell, ich eile nicht". I do not go fast, I do not rush. DYK? ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:27, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Sca ... see box. Hafspajen (talk) 20:03, 24 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Some knowledgeable person could write something about how artists have depicted snow and ice, their use of blue shadows on snow, darkness, etc. People struggling in one way or another with snow & cold — how to get the viewer to 'feel' cold.... Sca (talk) 13:59, 26 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
When I first wrote that on my talk page (three weeks ago), I thought you might be interested in producing, starting or somehow organizing a text. I'm simply not knowledgeable enough about art techniques or history to do so. (As I think you know, my areas of relative expertise include history and international relations, but not the fine arts.) I realize that English is not your first or even second language, though, so ... I don't know.
Re Magpie, I never did anything to The Magpie (Monet). Anyway, I'm tired of all the mean-spirited bickering at WP:FPC (and at WP:ITNC). For the present, I prefer to contemplate paintings I've assembled; I keep noticing new things in them. Paintings afford the artist many communicative possibilities not available to the photographer — though one also appreciates fine photographic work. Sca (talk) 15:42, 26 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
OK. Well, I don't know if I know enough of Winter paintings either. Ceoil is one of our great art experts, maybe he can help out with some ideas? Night in art is written somewhat in the same manner. If we want to write Winter in art, we need some sources at least. Hafspajen (talk) 15:45, 26 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Out of mere and egoistic self-interest, I turned your draft Quick and dirty wise into an article. Your sketch was imho sort of too pedagogic in approach, ist dangerous sometimes to have an actual background in the field your dealing with ;) Cheers Serten (talk) 16:24, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Imagine you want help whit illustrations on the Popular image of Native Americans in German speaking countries? Horses, I am not an expert on, do you want me to introduce you to Montanabw (horse expert?) You know that there is a Polo article, no? Hafspajen (talk) 16:44, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Oh dear, that quick and dirty move to mainspace causes attribution problems. Everybody please stand back while I try to do a history merge. I always get confused, so it will take me a while. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:19, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
OK everybody: the histories are merged, but it's overwhelmingly the draft version I had saved before seeing Serten's message on my talk page. Xanthemeloumanossprog (sp! I know! sorry!) got in an edit right before I did the merge, so I have put in the categories from that version but you folks need to look carefully at the two last versions and rescue any other improvements that I hadn't seen. Now I suspect I have to co-walk a dog and go to a supermarket; no, I haven't forgotten about your article, Serten, I'm very sorry, I'm kind of busy, but tomorrow my "weekend" starts. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:36, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
I'll do this much, Hafs, I'll check this outta the library and see if it provides info/inspiration. But I'm not promising anything! — when it comes to art history and criticism, I'm totally out of my depth. Sca (talk) 16:31, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yup, I shot that pic. in '06 from LT across the river from Neman, RU (ex-Ragnit) a few km. upstream from Sovetsk (ex-Tilsit). The Teutonic Knights passed that way repeatedly in the late Middle Ages. They used the river as a water-borne highway to 'pagan' Lithuania, where they rampaged and pillaged — the last crusade.
I got Impressionists in Winter at the library. It's a nice thick tome, but looks to be mainly about those ever-popular French Impressionists. My moody Russkis are left out in the ... cold. Sca (talk) 23:30, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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Saw this somewhere... Sca (talk)Swedish sauna sisters
Hafs, I've got all those calories to run off already and I've come over here to speak to you - and what do I find? Cheese! I love cheese, so now I want to eat a selection of cheese, biscuits and grapes! Remember I won't be around tomorrow so will you keep an eye on the dog articles (I know you and others do already) but can you keep a special watch on Šarplaninac - there seems to have been a slow edit war going on over Serbia/Kosavo; also Bulldog is being chopped and changed over whether it should be English or British Bulldog - I haven't raked all the way through the talk page on that to work out what the consensus is supposed to be as it seems to have been going on since mid 2012 but it has flared up a bit more recently. Thanks! SagaciousPhil - Chat18:51, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
I've got Cropwell Butler Stilton cheese in my fridge, and all the reliable sources on Goss crested china, courtesy of today's Sunday market. I had a quick scan through the Bulldog talk- can't make much sense of it. The names seem to be more prevalent outside of the UK, and may reflect confusion between "British" and "English". I've never heard of an English Bulldog- the bulldog as emblem is always a British emblem, with a Union Jack coat. It might be that the flare-up is due to the rise of English nationalism recently. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 20:30, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hey Hafs, since you're in the neighborhood, so to speak, how about sticking this one on the Different Anger page, then nominating it for an FP? Then we can take bets on how much wordage it will generate. (Sept. Morn got 10,500 words.) Sca (talk) 15:00, 30 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
NakedY bathingY cold waterY bush in foregroundY shrubbery in foregroundY artist is middle-aged white maleY other editors now know which buttons to pressY wrong colour castN. 15,113 words. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 16:59, 30 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
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OK; people does anyone knows how to get rid of a hacker? No, I am not imagining things. Programs are getting installed without I ever installed them, Windows is installing strange features and changes, all by itself, things move around, tabs are closed without me doing that. Hope i will be able to finish this message without anyone closing the tab. --Hafspajen (talk) 12:58, 31 August 2015 (UTC)Reply
OOPS, tabbs messing around again. It started like a couple of month ago, around April and I kinda left. When I again resumed my regular Wiki activities, and here we go again, it started rather massively again. It's not normal that the control panel is opening all by itself, that several tabs are opening and closing all by itself, time to time, clicking and clicking... and things that are moving around when you don't touch them. Pages started to open and close all by themselfes on my computer, and I never touched it at all, all by themselfes. No, things are not moving around all by themselfes, that's not a virus. A virus is not editwaring with you all day on what picture you should have on your background screen, changing it and putting different ones in. Things dong go crazy like that all alone. And later everything dissapeared and it turned pure BLACK all the time. Of course is hacking. It's just silly, because I don't have enemies in real life and there is nothing anyone would want to know about me or do things like this to me (in real life). I presume it is aiming towards to make me stop editing Wiki, or making editing unpleasant. I guess. Any ideas are interesting, how to make it stop, - except more hacking. Guys, hacking is illegal, you know. Hafspajen (talk) 18:40, 31 August 2015 (UTC)Reply
Hehe. Or an advanced poltergeist. Marty, I don't belive you. You are not the kind of guy, if you wanted to know anything, you would probably simply asked. Hafspajen (talk) 19:11, 31 August 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Thanks for the cupcake - it was delicious! Grutness...wha? 11:12, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
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I've 'real world work' to do today so won't be able to look for it, so I'm delegating. SagaciousPhil - Chat 09:54, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
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! It looks like the Labrador Retriever pic has been swapped again. Maybe we should instigate a poll over on Drmies page to select the best image to use as all the nice people over there seem to like Labs? It's probably not worth getting into an edit war over, so might be easier just to leave the editor to include the image ... SagaciousPhil - Chat 22:05, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
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But at least my talk page is being automatically archived again now - it took me ages to find out the bots weren't working and then I tried all sorts of permutations of coding to see what would work.
I almost asked the exceptionally clever Writ Keeper to step in and do some magic on it but didn't want to be seen to be beaten! SagaciousPhil - Chat 12:12, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
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