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• Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/California State University Sacramento/Art of the Ancient Mediterranean (Fall 2017)
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Johnbod (talk) 16:40, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I was thinking it would be fun to put together a France related set for Bastille Day. Perhaps you have an article you plan to work on that would fit the theme? Best, Thriley (talk) 21:57, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing planned as yet, but I'll have a think. Johnbod (talk) 02:05, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Adam Cuerden has nominated J. K. Rowling for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:30, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Johnbod:
I was wondering if I could ask you for some feedback on the Painshill article? I did some work to expand it earlier this year and am considering nominating it at WP:GAN. Landscape gardens are not my field of expertise, and I thought you might be a good person to consult, particularly as you have several art-related FAs under your belt!
Could I ask you to take a look at the Painshill page and to let me know if you think it has potential for a successful GA nomination please? I’d very much welcome your opinion on the article structure and on any additional points that you think I should try to include. I'd very much value your input. Thanks very much!
Mertbiol (talk) 21:20, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great improvements! On a quick look, certainly seems GA standard. I know the garden. You might move some of the images into mini-galleries. Johnbod (talk) 01:17, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Johnbod, on the La Tene culture page you removed my previous edit and wrote; "you need to say more than "edited", especially given your history". I was wondering what you think I've done wrong, or that you find particularly objectionable in my editing history. Ario1234 (talk) 02:23, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've read your talk page. Johnbod (talk) 14:33, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have request a move from Sweyn Forkbeard to Swein Forkbeard at Talk:Sweyn Forkbeard#Requested move 7 September 2025. Any comments from you would be helpful. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:38, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You have changed the English translation of the French name (La Partie de bateau) from A Boating Party to The Boating Party, the work we know as The Boating Party says its alternate names include La partie en bateau and it is on FRWP at Promenade en barque. I am just wondering how sure you are about this change.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:14, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, sufficiently for this. That "Le/la" is the definite particle (the) and "un/une" the indefinite (a) is pretty basic. Johnbod (talk) 14:49, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Johnbod! Letting you know that the Brixton meetup is back at Brixton Library next Monday 29th September at 6pm-8pm if you're nearby and free it would be lovely to see you there! Come along if you'd like to edit and chat with other Wikimedians, I am still on the hunt for a good topic! Colette Lambeth (talk) 18:03, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I kindly ask that you maintain civility, as this is not [1] I also note that after more than 50 years in the ceramic field (industry, academia and publishing) I have read (and written) a considerable about on the subject

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Please learn to sign your contributions! Frankly, I find your claims hard to believe as the terminology is long established and well known. What, according to you, is the point of the term earthenware? Johnbod (talk) 18:52, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am not understanding what are these "claims." And my point of view on the sense of the term, this has no relevance in this discussion, and so also your point of view is not relevant. Regarding the terminology that is established since long time, I have provided many, many citations that are in disagreement with what seems to be only your personal preference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.2.183.171 (talk) 19:00, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As I've explained on the talk, the links your google search came up with are not about "pottery". Johnbod (talk) 19:02, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Many of the links are for glazed terracotta pottery. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.2.183.171 (talk) 19:21, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request withdrawn - was informed it would be canvassing.

Hey @Johnbod. Do your remember the day you made your first edit here..!! Your wiki edit anniversary is today, marking 19 years of dedicated contributions to English Wikipedia. Your passion for sharing knowledge and your remarkable contributions have not only enriched the project, but also inspired countless others to contribute. Thank you for your amazing contributions. Wishing you all the best for the year ahead :) -❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 04:35, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Johnbod (talk) 12:53, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, apologies if the edit caused any issues in the Ancient Greek art article. Assume good faith as I was trying to help the reader based on a decluttering mindset. Apparently there is a specific style for this type of articles that I was not aware of. Is the particular style formulated in writing somewhere? If not, shouldn't be a good idea to formulate a policy/page that it would outline these styles, i.e., in art related topics we burn (emh.. "not use" I meant) the infoboxes and sidebars. Judging from your tone, this was not the first time.

Also, the Notes subsection needs some clean up as it is mixed with citations, footnotes (explanations e.g., #11), references (#45, #48, #112, #113, etc.), and with broken/dead links (#92 and #74). Is this part of the style (mix references style I mean) or the article needs someone to do this (sort out the references & remove dead links)? A.Cython (talk) 16:02, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I expect MOS:ART and the templates policy pages say something about this; have you looked at them? It is rarely a good idea to replace a lead image with a template; very few readers actually follow the links on these. By all means remove dead links (if they are really dead). The "mix" is part of the style. Johnbod (talk) 03:38, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Being nasty to other editors because you think you are smarter because you repost one person who cites this same article, will not get you ahead my friend. Wjhonson (talk) 22:08, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother you. But there is an IP that has posted their concern(s) about the image in the Guy XIII de Laval article.[2][3] I have asked them twice to use the article talk page to address their concern. Seeings how you're the only art historian on Wikipedia, that I'm aware of, could you look into this matter?? --Kansas Bear (talk) 18:19, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done that. Johnbod (talk) 03:44, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My sincerest thanks! --Kansas Bear (talk) 04:29, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Indeed. I created the disam page precisely for that link. Silly bot. Johnbod (talk) 02:27, 23 November 2025 (UTC),[reply]

Hi, and I hope all goes well. Love your work here, and still surprised that not more art professors, students, artists, art museum personnel, and others edit Wikipedia art pages. Came by to ask if you can take a look at Category:Sleep in art and add all the obvious ones I've missed. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:10, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Randy! Got 4 more so far. Johnbod (talk) 03:02, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I came to the right place. I was thinking that there are probably more sleeping non-human animal paintings or sculptures that would fit the category. And among Madonna and child works, many must portray Jesus asleep (but not sure which ones). Randy Kryn (talk) 03:42, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think sleeping baby Jesus' are at all common actually. Johnbod (talk) 13:50, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Too much noise made by the animals. The nativity paintings may have quite a few, and that's probably a click-on-each-one search. Should I leave a note about this at the visual arts project page yet? Wanted to give you and myself a chance to dig in a little on the sleeping treasure hunt. Had fun last night on the search, thanks for playing. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:10, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, do. Johnbod (talk) 20:54, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Our recent correspondence drew my attention to your user page, and I saw your mention of RexxS. I totally agree. After the enormous amount of work he did for the project, in so many different ways, losing him was a great loss. And, while I think what he did which led to the ArbCom case was ill-judged, it was not the great evil that it was made out to be. There was a truly absurd level of over-reaction to it. JBW (talk) 21:05, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, though I think his involvement had been reducing anyway. Sadly, we loose so many of our best people, for various reasons. Johnbod (talk) 22:25, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated Æthelred for FAC and a reviewer has suggested adding images of relevant objects. As historians say that some of the best illuminated manuscripts are dated around 1000, I think an illustration from one (or more) of them would enhance the article. Do you have any suggestions for relevant images? Dudley Miles (talk) 13:59, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure - gives me a day or two. Johnbod (talk) 18:54, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Johnbod! This is an invite to let you know that the Brixton meetup is back at Brixton Library next Monday 1st December at 6pm-8pm if you're nearby and free it would be lovely to see you there! Come along if you'd like to edit and chat with other Wikimedians, if that takes your fancy! Colette Lambeth (talk) 13:34, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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For the first time, I was involved (a bit) in a pictured ITN blurb. More pics of buildings by him on my talk. - I am not so sure that Joseph's first dream is ideal for Christmas, because it will have happened much earlier than Christmas. Annunciation to Mary is - naturally - 9 months before Christmas, and while we don't know when she told him and he had reason to end their engagement (which the dream prevented), it will have been months before Christmas. (Her visit to her cousin was traditionally remembered on 2 July.) A later dream, telling him to flee to Egypt, would be better. - I thought that Es hat sich halt eröffnet would be ideal for Christmas Eve, but - given the DYK review - doubt that the image will make it, - would you be interested in writing an article about it, now or later? - Or perhaps a different review ... -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:04, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you'd sent me this 5 hours earlier.... It's a cute picture; maybe for next year. The Christie's essay is enough sourcing. Johnbod (talk) 01:19, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

First: congrats to your picture on the main page. For the other, not even a hook made it in time. The idea of having the angels next year makes me smile ;) - Laughter for Christmas - enjoy the season! (needless to say, I would have liked to have that pictured on the main page, but at least it got a sentence today.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2026!

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		Season's Greetings
		Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Dowth, a neolithic passage tomb in Ireland]] is my Wiki-Solstice card to all for this year. ("During the winter solstice, the light of the low sun moves along the left side of the passage, then into the circular chamber, where three stones are lit up by the sun. The convex central stone reflects the sunlight in to a dark recess, lighting up the decorated stones there.") --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:11, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:13, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		Io, Saturnalia!
		Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth (talk) 13:49, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I do in fact speak modern English. I was editing that article at 2 AM and made a minor typo, that doesn't mean I can't speak the language. Also I would highly appreciate if you stopped reverting my edits wholesale and instead made more productive improvements to the article. ~2025-31340-95 (talk) 19:17, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was improving the article by reverting your incomplete sentences. That you thought the pre-existing text was 'joking' suggests to me you aren't up with recent trends in the study of Old English literature. User:Drmies, perhaps you'd be kind enough to look at recent edits there, & maybe supply a ref or two? Johnbod (talk) 03:26, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was trying to remove some of the nonsense about critical queer whatever theory that was tacked on at the end (and wasn't cited). I said I thought the pre-existing text was joking because it was a complete non-sequitur and brought American race/gender politics into an article about 1000 year old literature. The incomplete sentences were because I was editing it at 3 AM and was tired, but you didn't need to insult me because of that. Also I see that you re-added the removed sentence and I'm really pissed off about that because I thought we agreed to get rid of it. ~2025-31340-95 (talk) 06:24, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems pretty obvious to me that the editor is removing uncited material that they don't like, and that's all there is to it. The editor may think that their own perspective, whether that's anti-queer or racist or whatever, is not a perspective but an objective, neutral way of looking at things, but they are mistaken. That last part of the sentence is actually the only part that makes sense: otherwise we have "since the 1970s they've been doing what they were already doing", and looking at "neighboring cultures and Latin" is actually so vague that it's meaningless. Those things were already looked at. Drmies (talk) 15:07, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Come on Drmies, we all have different political ideas (yours are pretty obvious just by looking at your recent interactions with me). If you are going to describe my political ideas as "racist" without even knowing my political ideas, that is pretty clearly a personal attack against me and is highly disrespectful and completely misrepresents my political views (which you never bothered to inquire about before judging). Anyway, my edit was strictly in the interest of improving the quality of the article and not in advancing an ideological agenda. ~2025-31340-95 (talk) 18:30, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Johnbod I think I have the Niles book in my office; this will be a nice 2026 project. Merry Christmas! Drmies (talk) 15:17, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) Indeed, thanks! Do you have a handy reference to Bumper Fun Book of Pinko Politically Correct Polemics on Old English literature or similar? I know you have to read such stuff professionally. [pre-edit conflict] Are you dreaming of a White Christmas? With a Belgian soon-to-be daughter-in-law, we had a burst of Saint Nick fun earlier in the month, & I still have some Speculoos biscuits left. I'll think of you next crunch. All the best, Johnbod (talk) 15:19, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, no, I'm just dreaming of the end game. Paying off mortgage, retiring, selling the house. Enjoy your speculaas--I've lost the taste for it, but not for pepernoten and I still have a few. Thanks, and I hope you all have a wonderful marriage feast, Drmies (talk) 16:41, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

	A very happy Christmas and New Year to you!
	Have a great Christmas, and I hope 2026 brings you joy, happiness – and no trolls or vandals! Cheers SchroCat (talk) 09:27, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wishing you and yours a fantastic Christmas (or holiday season for those who don’t celebrate) and all the best for 2026. 🎄 ❄️☃️ Here’s to a collaborative, constructive year ahead — with good faith, good edits, and just enough discussion to get things done! (and here's Sir Nils Olav inspecting his troops... one of my favourite POTDs) Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 15:13, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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	Infinite Possibilities
	Is this real life? Yes! Is this going to be forever? No! Elvis is getting ready to leave the building and 2026 is about to be born, kicking and screaming. They say nothing gold can stay, but I say, don't listen to them, stay golden all the same. Here's to a new year of infinite diversity and beautiful combinations! Viriditas (talk) 21:52, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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	Holiday wishes and a happy new year!
	Happy Holidays Johnbod! पाटलिपुत्र (Pataliputra) (talk) 06:49, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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300 years ago, a Bach cantata was born: happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:41, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

... inviting you to check out "my" story (fun listen today, full of surprises), music (and memory), and places (pictured by me: the latest uploads) any day! --

20 January is the 100th birthday of David Tudor (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13, if we go by date instead of occasion as he would have thought, so see my story for last Sunday, and celebrate ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:09, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Johnbod, I notice that you are one of only two participants in Talk:Old master print (and the only one of the two who's still around); can I persuade you to consider a question about the captioning of one such print? (The print is from circa 1700 and is no masterpiece; and I plead innocent to any charge of "canvassing" as the only conflict is that between voices in my own befuddled head.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:57, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! As part of the Vital signs campaign 2026 we're trying to ensure all of our 101 top-importance articles are up-to-date. I see you've managed to get the article pancreatic cancer to FA in 2015. Would you be willing to do a (quick) update of the article? Some of the updates should be fairly straightforward (updating the prognosis section), whereas others might benefit from your contacts at Cancer Research UK. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 10:14, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Femke, unfortunately my contacts at CRUK have all moved on, after 12 years, but I will see what I can do. I always relied on them for thew medial stuff. Johnbod (talk) 16:18, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Second opinion time: have I been too heavy handed with this edit? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 23:12, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No, I don't think so - in recent years the most important show has I think been this, last year. The Met one had come from NG london. Johnbod (talk) 23:37, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding my edits on the Royal Gold Cup page. Firstly links to old defunct polities, in the text I've linked to both the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of France because neither currently exist. MOS:OL just says don't link to major examples of countries, given that the links to the old kingdoms and are in fact history pages themselves, there's nothing to stop them being linked.

Secondly, capitalising some titles; in each instance I capitalised the title when its referring to an individual in place of their full title. MOS:JOBTITLE specifically exempts from the usual capitalisation rules under that condition: 'When a title is used to refer to a specific person as a substitute for their name during their time in office'. Ecrm87 (talk) 17:39, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

These are bad edits, please don't repeat them. We certainly don't normally do what you have done - look at other pages. Johnbod (talk) 02:58, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've looked at plenty of other pages with these examples. Given you've not really supported your statement with any examples or bothered to rebut the policies it's you making the bad edits. Ecrm87 (talk) 14:38, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This is from Wikipedia's article on the Renaissance:

"The Renaissance period started during the crisis of the Late Middle Ages and conventionally ends with the waning of humanism, and the advent of the Reformation (1517), the Sack of Rome (1527) or the Counter-Reformation (1545), and in art, the Baroque period."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance#Period Kirsten Jørgensdatter (talk) 01:25, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not a WP:RS, as you should know. Read the start of the article. And see this search. Johnbod (talk) 01:44, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Intresting seeing the emails involved in selling a $20 million sculpture [4][5] A long way from eBay! No Swan So Fine (talk) 20:39, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed - interesting! Cheers, Johnbod (talk) 23:24, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there Johnbod. I was looking at this page to see if there were any photos by Wikipedians and, to my surprise, saw that you had taken quite a number. I don't suppose you happened to capture this piece? I'd like to add it to the gallery at serpent labret with articulated tongue, but the museum will not license their own photos. Cheers, --Usernameunique (talk) 22:30, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure not - sorry. Just about everything usable is in Category:Johnbod_does_Washington. Assuming it's on display, you could ask the DC group if someone can go along. Johnbod (talk) 22:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea! Turns out someone lives a ten-minute walk away, and was able to take a photo. --Usernameunique (talk) 16:03, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Glad that worked out. Go Georgetown! I don't take photos these days, as they are so bad - things like your labret are actually very hard to do well. But I was pleased to see that Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure has had an article for 10 years, presumably only because of my rather poor photo. I don't think I knew that. Johnbod (talk) 16:42, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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I've reverted this at once, rather than open talk page discussion first, because the article you cited didn't include either claim, and the claims are rather extraordinary. But I have now opened Talk:The Twelve Caesars#Christian interpolations, so if you or the TA can add anything there, it could affect several of our articles. NebY (talk) 14:44, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I think the issue is that modern editions silently leave these out, understandably, and they are just ignored in historians' discussions. I don't think I'm going to delve into this. Johnbod (talk) 17:51, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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