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[edit] Louvre at FAC

Hi, thanks for taking the time to read and comment on the FAC of the Louvre. I addressed your comments (see here). Inititially, I had been concerned about the length (this particular section was always the most fascinating to me, also) so I was trying to keep the article short. However, now that you have brought it up, I expanded the section per your suggestions. I agree, Lescot should be given more space. Please let me know what you think of the edits, and again, I thank you! Lazulilasher (talk) 22:42, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks...

for your kind words on my RFA and also all the help with William Wilberforce. I will get back to it soon, after I have recovered a bit from the stress of this week. I look forward to working together on Learned Hand too! Thanks again.--Slp1 (talk) 00:03, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tudor portrait artists

Dropping by to let you know that I've just read William Scrots (weird name), which I instantly recognised as an article started by you! :-) I just linked to it from National Portrait Gallery, which I just expanded, mainly to add a list of the exterior busts. Similar to what I did at Frieze of Parnassus. Any Tudor people in that list? Anyway, I see you are steering towards Arthurian areas at the moment. My next big project will be uploading pictures from a recent holiday. One of the places I went to was here, where I took loads of pictures. I also read a history of France, and kept thinking of Catherine de' Medici and her building projects, when I was reading that section of the history... I should probably ask people to do a wishlist next time before I go on holiday in the Loire Valley! It was the first time I had seen those French chateaux. Each one I saw was from a different period and instructive in its own way and with its own appeal. I was rather surprised though, to see that our articles on the chateaux (see Template:Loire) are not that good. I know you did that article on Catherine's building projects (I see that Catherine de' Medici's court festivals was started a few months ago), so I thought I'd mention this to you, but I'm going to ask a few other people as well, including those who write about architecture. PS. Forgot to mention that I only found out after leaving Amboise, that Leonardo da Vinci was buried there! Carcharoth (talk) 18:01, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Helping out with this and that is a good way to recharge the batteries before plunging back into what you really want to do. It can be very distracting though! I have a problem in that I have far too many pictures and it will take an age to sort through them. Sure, only a few pics will end up being used, but hundreds of pictures is sometimes a bit overwhelming. I did get a nice one though of the rather flowery and noble statement made by Henri, comte de Chambord, and engraved in marble, declaring that he would not give up his allegiance to the white standard borne by his ancestors before him, ie. he would not rule under the tricolor. And that was the end of the French monarchy, the last hope of restoration gone (though I'm sure it was only a faint hope). It's in French, so I have to find an English translation somewhere. Carcharoth (talk) 18:39, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

And I thought there was a French architect on the frieze! Frieze of Parnassus <-> Philibert de l'Orme <-> Catherine de' Medici's building projects. That was beginning to bug me. Glad I sussed out the link. Carcharoth (talk) 19:46, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Valois Tapestries

I somehow missed your April work on the Valois Tapestries. Well done, and thanks for the additional images! - PKM (talk) 00:21, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Yellow starch

Yes, I am interested in an article on Yellow starch. Was the fact that Turner was an accused poisoner who made her living from yellow starch enough to doom it from fashion, or did the King outlaw it? Have to research that...!) We have several portraits showing yellow-starched ruffs and cuffs in the Commons (Mary Radclyffe, Isabella Rich, and ?Dorothy Cary). - PKM (talk) 00:58, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Carr is wearing yellow starch. Do you want to start this and I'll jump in? I have to travel on business, may not have a lot of time the next couple of weeks. - PKM (talk) 20:03, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Queen Bess

Have you seen this BBC story? Carcharoth (talk) 12:56, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, someone has already added the information to Elizabeth I of England, which I am going to have to remove. Who would go to Alison Weir and Tracy Borman to verify a painting? See the comments that I will shortly make at Elizabeth's talk page. qp10qp (talk) 13:11, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Ooh. Lucky I didn't add that then! :-) Carcharoth (talk) 13:18, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Peer Review help

Thank you for you work as a peer review volunteer. Since March, there has been a concerted effort to make sure all peer review requests get some response. Requests that have gone three days or longer without a substantial response are listed at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog. I have three requests to help this continue.

1) If you are asked to do a peer review, please ask the person who made the request to also do a review, preferably of a request that has not yet had feedback. This is fairly simple, but helps. For example when I review requests on the backlog list, I close with Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, ...

2) While there are several people who help with the backlog, lately I have been doing up to 3 or 4 peer reviews a day and can not keep this up much longer. We need help. Since there are now well over 100 names on the PR volunteers page, if each volunteer reviewed just one PR request without a response from the list each month, it would easily take care of the "no response" backlog. To help spread out the load, I suggest those willing pick a day of the month and do a review that day (for example, my first edit was on the 8th, so I could pick the 8th). Please pick a peer review request with no responses yet, if possible off the backlog list. If you want, leave a note on my talk page as to which day you picked and I will remind you each month.

3) I have made some proposals to add some limits to peer review requests at Wikipedia_talk:Peer_review#Proposed_limits. The idea is to prevent any one user from overly burdening the process. These seem fairly reasonable (one PR request per editor per day, only four total PR requests per editor at a time, PR requests with cleanup banners can be delisted (like GAN quick fail), and wait two weeks to relist a PR request after it is archived), but have gotten no feedback in one week. If you have any thoughts on these, please weigh in.

Thanks again for your help and in advance for any assistance with the backlog. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:28, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Avonian Willie's ghost rises again

Shades of Tutankhamun! Carcharoth (talk) 12:31, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re Elizabeth Bentley

I'm glad you liked the article, and thanks for the kudos. I confess I'm rather proud of the work I did on that one. RedSpruce (talk) 10:28, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ping

You have mail, by the way, as long as your spam filters haven't eaten it up. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:09, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mary Shelley featured topic

I have started the long trek toward the Mary Shelley featured topic. I plan to do the "easy" articles first. :) I have put up Maurice for peer review, if you have time to look at it, fellow Shelley expert. The "Themes" section is the most worrisome section right now - I found it hard to join together the little bits of information that I did have. Awadewit (talk) 02:18, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually I already read it and thought it was fine. But I'll have another look.

Rather you than me with the featured topic, but put me down for Matilda. I'm already collecting sources. qp10qp (talk) 22:29, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

I've put Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men up for peer review, if you have time. Organization was horrifically difficult for this article. All suggestions are welcome! Awadewit (talk) 14:10, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I'll have a look at the weekend. qp10qp (talk) 15:21, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FA-Team

Do you think we need to alert FA-Team members on their talk pages that new projects are underway? They might not all be watching the FA-Team page. Awadewit (talk) 14:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I think so. But I am really really reluctant to taking anything resembling an organising role. qp10qp (talk) 22:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RCC history section regarding France

Hi Qp10qp, I have been looking at your suggestion for the history section some more. I know I said I thought it was too long but honestly, I dont have a better version. Would you be willing to add your text and reference it? I might add that I dont think it offers much more useful information than what is already there. I added some more comments on the article talk page where this is discussed and provided the full quote from Duffy's Saints and Sinners. NancyHeise (talk) 17:29, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] More on the three comets

I found this on the three comets, which is a treatise talking about the "III late comets", and it dates them as November-December 1664, January 1664/5 (is that a way of indicating that what we would call January 1665 was, in those days, both 1664 and 1665 - maybe a New Style/Old Style issue?). The third comet is dated April 1665. Some nice doom-laden quotes as well! Carcharoth (talk) 14:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Scrots - Edward VI portraits

Can you help on this. I'm fairly sure the one the article says is at "Hampton Court" is not - but this one is, or was till recently. Johnbod (talk) 04:09, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mary Shelley

I'm probably not qualified to offer a true peer review of this article, as I don't have most of the references provided. I've read through the most recent version, though, and it looks extremely good. --Bookworm857158367 (talk) 14:08, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mary Shelley and FAC

I have finished all of my pre-FAC stuff. For me, it is all about peer reviewers and what we need to finish up from the talk page. After that, I think I can say I am behind the FAC nomination. Just so you know, I am leaving for Wikimania on July 10, so we should plan around that - either before or after. Hope you are doing well. Awadewit (talk) 21:57, 14 June 2008 (UTC)