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Contents 1 Thank you 2 Plastic paint medium 3 Help! 4 Matisse 5 Military history WikiProject coordinator selection 6 Military history WikiProject coordinator election 7 René Magritte pop culture section 8 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 9 Notability of Zakpo 10 Template:Picasso works 11 Beginning to believe 11.1 HTML at Middle Ages 12 John Sloan thanks you... 13 The Third of May 1808 14 Edvard Munch 15 Congratulations 16 The Third of May 1808

[edit] Thank you

I am knocked over. You know that I admire your work, so that means a bunch to me. Big smiles from here, JNW 03:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Noticed that you recently contributed to Raphael Soyer. I thought the world of him, and visited him twice toward the end of his life. He was very kind to me. JNW 03:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of High Culture
		And this, not merely in reciprocation, but because I can't believe you have not received one already. For sterling edits and additions to matters aesthetic. JNW 15:51, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plastic paint medium

I noticed your edit[1] and looked further into that and Josignacio. There seems to be no notability or significant sources for either. I've speedied them. They've were linked in a number of other articles, and I've removed the links. You might like to keep an eye out. Tyrenius 03:14, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks! I'll keep a lookout. Ewulp 03:26, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help!

Ewulp Greetings my friend! I wrote a series of articles on Republic of Texas military history, and have submitted two of them for review for GA status. I could REALLY use your honest evaluation of both, (don't spare my feelings!), and of course, any help you feel like giving would be more than welcome, as you are a far better editor than I am! I worked very hard on these, researching the history, and then writing, and really could use a dispassionate evaluation by you, if you have the time. The five are Buffalo Hump, Council House Fight, Great Raid of 1840, Battle of Plum Creek, and Battle of Pease River. The two I submitted for GA review are Great Raid of 1840, and Battle of Pease River. I also completely rewrote Peta Nocona as part of the buttressing of the series. (If you want a laugh, I got into this because my grandson had an assignment in Texas history, and found little on wikipedia about it. He told me someone should rectify that, and after reading 14 books, I did. I would really appreciate your evaluation of the two I submitted for review...THANKS,old windy bear 17:11, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello old windy bear, good to hear from you! I've just given Council House Fight the once-over as a warmup for Great Raid of 1840, which seems a bit more challenging & which I'll look at next. Ewulp 03:14, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Ewulp Thank you my friend! I appreciate your help! These are good articles, but they needed your magic touch before the GA review! I don't know if you know, but I was recently elected an admin, (which I was greatly honored to be), and in the course of that, discovered that TomStar81 was not an admin, which surprised me - he is a superb editor, and really deserves the mop. If you have time, would you look at his nomination? [2] Also, are you interested in the mop? You would make a superior admin yourself. I have to laugh - I have come a long way from the early B & C days, to be an admin, huh? Anyway, are you interested? THANKS FOR THE HELP ON MY NEW ARTICLES! old windy bear 14:56, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

First off, congratulations old windy bear -- WP has just gained an outstanding administrator, with the dedication, the temperament, and an impressive record of accomplishments. For now I'd have to decline the role myself, but thanks for the good words. Ewulp 04:17, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Ewulp, Oldwindybear has e-mailed me and asked me to relay this message to you:

I recruited Ewulp, (a very good writer who often edited articles I had written for me) to review one of my newer ones, COUNCIL HOUSE FIGHT. He left me a message on research that I had the answer to, but of course, cannot now answer and correct. Would you be kind enough to go to that talk page, and leave him a note that I am not editing anymore, but the generally accepted answer, (and I can send you the sources if he needs them, for you to relay, since I cannot email him, as I am off wikipedia!) is that all the Comanche Chiefs were killed. The article could safely say that there are sources - the online Handbook of Texas is the primary one - which claim only 30 of 33 were killed, but most sources, the vast majority, say all 33 were.

I believe he should be able to receive e-mail, as it's still enabled.Proabivouac 04:43, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Matisse

TY for reworking the Matisse intro - I gave it a quick shot yesterday - not my finest hour. Modernist 11:59, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Glad to help! And very nice work on the much-needed expansion of Matisse as well as on Self-portrait/Autoportrait. Ewulp 06:31, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject coordinator selection

The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are looking to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by August 14! Kirill 03:05, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject coordinator election

The Military history WikiProject coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting nine coordinators from a pool of fourteen candidates to serve for the next six months. Please vote here by August 28! Kirill 01:21, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] René Magritte pop culture section

FYI, I put your inline comment

<!--A few examples suffice here to make the point that Magritte's work is often referenced in popular culture. It is neither possible nor desirable to list every pop culture reference to Magritte in this article. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of trivia; please consider whether any proposed addition will shed important new light on the subject: Magritte.-->

to good use here. (They didn't read it, but I did.) This little gem deserves to be spread around. I hope you don't mind if I lift it. Regards, CliffC 04:09, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

I'd like to nominate Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres as a good article. You seem to be the primary contributor to it. Do you mind if I do? –Outriggr § 08:09, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

I just changed my mind. :) It's more than worthy of consideration, but I'm not going to be available to respond to any "review comments" that are left on the talk page. (One of which will be, "Get rid of the image gallery. This isn't about an artist! Oh wait, it is, but...") If you want to continue, you could nominate it yourself. Cheers, –Outriggr § 01:51, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of Zakpo

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[edit] Template:Picasso works

As posted on User talk:Cburnett:

This was a very useful template, but is now redundant as the info is in Template:Pablo Picasso. If you, as original author, agree, I will delete it, as there seems no further use to be made of it. I will also ask User:Ewulp who modified a couple of dates. Tyrenius (talk) 20:24, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beginning to believe

... there is no such thing as a simple wikigraphic that works all the time...

re: VP (?VPP) a few days ago... On my monitor at least, your edit displays very badly. A single word ("The") is isolated at upper left, then there's the contents box, the two nav boxes and the image; some scrolling is required to find the rest of the sentence: "Middle Ages form the middle period..." etc. Perhaps an inconspicuous page-wide noprint banner would be fine, but if it's inconspicuous it will be easily overlooked, no? Is there any evidence that users have had trouble finding nav boxes located in External links? Ewulp (talk) 22:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

• Sigh... what browser were you using... the monitor shouldn't matter hill of beans... the text wrapping and such are HTML elements. Also just wondering whether that effect you describe is influenced by A) the fact that the page has the historical page notice "warning banner"... B) the TOCnestright.
  
  Could you play with the page in preview mode (as if reverting), and see if it clears that issue for you. Then if not, try again by deleting the TOCnestright line and repreview. If the wrapping you describe continues when the only thing left is {{commons-gallery}}, then there is a definite issue there. If not, your experiment should indicate the object which is rendering badly. Please let me know on my talk! Thanks! // FrankB 20:36, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Answer xposts

to and from HTML at Middle Ages

[edit] HTML at Middle Ages

I experimented with this as you suggested with the following results. First: my browser is Safari, and viewing your edit in the preview pane didn't resolve the issue. What eventually worked was this markup, excluding the "nowiki"s:

{{FixBunching|beg}} {{Commons-gallery<!--|R=Middle Ages -->}} {{FixBunching|mid}} {{Commons-gallery<!--|R=1 -->|Atlas of the medieval age|:|p=Middle Ages Historical Atlas}} {{FixBunching|mid}} [[Image:Giotto.mourning.750pix.jpg|thumb|270px|''Lamentation'', [[Giotto di Bondone]], c. 1305]] {{FixBunching|end}}

This displays as an intact lede section, with the 2 nav boxes at upper right above the Giotto jpg, and the Contents below the lede section in the usual way. I'm not sure if this is the result you intended, but hope this is helpful. Ewulp (talk) 01:39, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the courteous response... and apologies for missing your post. I could blame the holidays (and to some extent, legitimately can), but it was more likely a near in time post banner message was the next I saw coupled with my normal preoccupation of having twenty irons in the fire all at once on this project... I sortof just keep going where and whenever I have to leave off whatever the day or time... and so I just 'now' saw your message. (Heck, I talk to myself out loud too much as it is... I'd really be in bad shape if I started talking to myself on my talk too! <g>)

Insofar as your 'data' goes, makes perfect sense. The various browsers seem to have "issues" on the corners of HTML blocks, and inserting the FixHTML/FixBunching forces alignment by placing the contents in table structures. IIRC, I did not put a 'mid' call between the two, and Safari isn't one I've tried (Is that Unix platforms?). Sadly, my main computer and most of my browsers currently are in the repair shop, so say a prayer! <g> Hope the hard drive is alive at least!

FYI, the 'pre' block command can show things a bit better in many cases, as it essentially is equivalent to putting a nowiki on each end of a line, and letting the newlines do there thing:

{{FixBunching|beg}}
{{Commons-gallery<!--|R=Middle Ages -->}}
{{FixBunching|mid}}
{{Commons-gallery<!--|R=1 -->|Atlas of the medieval age|:|p=Middle Ages Historical Atlas}}
{{FixBunching|mid}}
[[Image:Giotto.mourning.750pix.jpg|thumb|270px|''Lamentation'', [[Giotto di Bondone]], c. 1305]]
{{FixBunching|end}}

With respect to the article... Danged if I can find an edit summary suggesting it was removed after this one... but bottom line, sometimes one just has to throw some spagetti against the wall to see how much sticks. Looks like this lot didn't.

Intuitively, disabling the "float Right" as shown in the commented version you report should be fine, and constrained (on most browsers) by the table element. Safari apparently gives a different order of precedence to elements, and prioritized the right float higher... or something like that. RU sure you needed to comment out the float command "<!--|R=1 -->"? Or the other, or did you add the {{FixBunching|mid}} after? Hmmmm my edit looks to me to be identical to your "success", so what the heck are we talking about anyway?

In any event, the issue is probably moot. This society is bound and determined to not give sister projects any free publicity, and so far as I'm concerned, putting things down in external links is about the same as saying "this is unimportant, you can stop reading now". Sigh.

Have a great new year, and again, sincere apologies for the tardy detection of your message. // FrankB 05:41, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

OKAY! Thanks for the clarification. My next OS will be named "X"... one of my best friends has been trying to get me into that mode for two decades plus!

re: Personally, I don't think putting things into external links consigns them to oblivion, as they're easy to find there and users quickly learn that they're worth exploring. ... I guess I'm just a little slow! <G> Have a great wildcard weekend! // FrankB 14:28, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] John Sloan thanks you...

and so do I. A few hours ago I noticed the contributions to his biography, and the attendant confusion. Didn't have a clue how to fix it, and the evening's plans beckoned anyway. Upon returning, it was clear that you had set everything right. Bravo! JNW (talk) 01:05, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for your note, last night after I finished up at Reginald Marsh, I thought that here might be a connection with the edits you did at John Sloan also....Check out the first message on my talk page - Ellsworth Kelly, an ominous threat from March 19th that does sounds like there is a class out there. I think the newly rewritten articles are definitely interconnected in some fashion, - all new names etc. I mentioned this to Ty also. Modernist (talk) 10:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Third of May 1808

Hi Ewulp, I have begun expansion of Goya's Third of May, in hopes that you and some of the other all-stars might be interested in turning it into featured article material over the next few weeks. I have used few sources, so there is much work to be done. It only occurred to me in the last week that May 3 will be the 200th anniversary of the event, so it would be great if this could be the FA for the day. Cheers, JNW (talk) 21:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Excellent! JNW (talk) 03:33, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edvard Munch

I've seen you have reverted my addition of Božidar Jakac among the artists that have been influenced by E. Munch. You have referred me to the talk page, however I have been unable to locate any discussion about what should be included in the infobox or similar there. What were you referring to exactly? The information added can be found in one of the sources provided in the Jakac article.[3] --Eleassar ^{my talk} 19:12, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

for the Third of May 1808, reaching FA and it's still April, thanks for your input.....Modernist (talk) 03:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Third of May 1808

Thank you, Ewulp, for all of your contributions to The 3rd, which were instrumental in getting the piece to FA status. If it reaches the main page next weekend, I would like all the contributing editors to meet in a pub to celebrate. Barring that, since I gather that some live in Ireland, some in Australia, some in England, and some in the U.S., a virtual toast will be in order. Cheers, JNW (talk) 12:49, 26 April 2008 (UTC)