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(Slightly late, but welcome anyway) FlowerpotmaN·(t) 01:48, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- Theramin (talk) 01:52, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On 19 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Medici villas, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 17:57, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I really think you should consider merging these five articles into the talking statues article. It makes sense that a reader would want to read about them all in one article, I found it quite annoying personally having to click my way through each one just to read another paragraph, and I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one. Gatoclass (talk) 14:49, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On 20 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Triumphal Arch (woodcut), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 03:15, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On 24 May, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article First Congress of Vienna, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 15:32, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On 2 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hans Springinklee, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 11:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added your Villa Medicea del Trebbio to the next update. It will be on Main Page DYK in a few hours. --BorgQueen (talk) 21:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was just about to "tick" it when BorgQueen added it to the next update. Thanks for jumping through all the hoops. I know it's frustrating, as I've been there on several occasions myself. Alas, what is "common knowledge" to some won't be common knowledge to everyone - as DYK tends to avoid statements of the blindingly obvious (as they "lack interest") then citations are required each time for consistency. Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 21:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both, but it all seems such pointless rules-lawyerly box-ticking. The hook is an entirely uncontroversial point (and, indeed, widely known in the relevant field), and about half of the other sentences in the article could have exactly the same footnote, so why pick this one out?

Anyway, that is my Wikipedia time for another day spent advocating for my old articles rather than writing new ones. Perhaps the Villa Medici in Fiesole or Villa Medicea di Poggio a Caiano next. -- Theramin (talk) 21:49, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On 2 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Villa Medicea del Trebbio , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Maxim_(talk) 23:10, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry you didn't like the request for the cite, but we do have rules and if we start making exceptions pretty soon the whole system breaks down. If it's any consolation you are perfectly welcome to remove the cite once the article is off the front page. The cite is basically only there to help reviewers confirm the hook statement and for readers who might be interested in verifying the claim for themselves. Regards, Gatoclass (talk) 04:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just a background hum.

wooooooo

-- Theramin (talk) 22:57, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Has anyone ever welcomed you to Wikipedia, Theramin? Outriggr (talk) 00:08, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

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Hello, and thank you. Yes, I was welcomed before, but I blanked it a while ago (oh gosh, nearly 14 months ago - how time flies!). I am likely to be around a bit for a while, so I have reinstated my talk page.

It was rather odd for us both to try editing that one page at almost exactly the same time, but no damage done, I trust. -- Theramin (talk) 00:16, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I just assumed the blank user page was virgin territory. No damage done re the article edit--I reverted myself, assuming I had "edited over" your edit (an old copy of the page was still in my cache!), but I actually hadn't. Glad to hear you will be around a bit. Outriggr (talk) 01:50, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I just wanted to commend you on your wonderful new article The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope. I am a major fan of Rousseau's art and I greatly enjoyed reading about the history of this significant painting. Good job! :) Pastor Theo (talk) 00:50, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On February 5, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester 1857, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it 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.

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Materialscientist (talk) 18:05, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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What do you think of my edits to the article you wrote, Scenes from the Passion of Christ? --I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 00:19, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Er, thanks. To be honest, I doubt anyone is going to write an article on Maria Baroncelli (but you never know, I suppose); I don't care too much for the various templates you added ({{nofootnotes}}, {{orphan}}, {{refimprove}}; and the references were in fact the references I used to write the article, not external links. But thanks for adding some categories - I clean forgot. -- Theramin (talk) 22:33, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Another one that got away. Never mind. -- Theramin (talk) 01:29, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 03:13, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to review your Sargent DYK. However, just as you wrote, "this nomination procedure takes bloody ages. I doubt I will be bothering again", I found myself stuck at the reviewer's directions: "The bottom half of the nomination includes two lists of review points that you must check off". Of course I could follow the example of the other reviewers, but now I'd rather complain about what a convolution it all is. I fear that all of Wikipedia will eventually become like DYK; a bureaucratic maze of endless little policies that can't possibly stay self-consistent even if any human had the desire to follow them. Riggr Mortis (talk) 03:29, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed - two lists which you must check off. I haven't bothered with DYK for a about year (which is a shame, as it a good way to attract a little attention so I can be sure that someone has actually read the stuff I wrote and will hopefully correct the typos and other errors, rather than just slapping on daft templates - but then it is hard to believe that noone has edited Leg of mutton nude or Hogarth's Servants in the weeks since I wrote them). Ach, well, much of Wikipedia these days seems to involve some people telling others to do things, but few actually doing it. Sic transit gloria Wiki (as she said while editing in the back of my van). But thank you for your contributions. -- Theramin (talk) 23:15, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

I honestly couldn't process that - obvious it was "plays" now. Must be getting old. Anyway, Merry Christmas. Yomangani^talk 02:40, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your copyediting. No matter how long I spend writing offline, something always slips through. There are plenty of similar articles that could do with a look-see (I still can't believe that no one has edited Leg of mutton nude or Hogarth's Servants, but perhaps they are practically perfect in every way).

A very merry Christmas to you, and also a happy New Year. I am reliably informed that things can only get better. But then some also say that there are hardly any topics that are missing articles these days. -- Theramin (talk) 02:47, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for creating the article on the "Past and Present" series of paintings by Augustus Egg. I had a red link to Past and Present, No. 1 in an article and I intended to put something together, eventually, but I'm delighted to see that you beat me to it and wrote a thorough one on all three of the paintings.

OttawaAC (talk) 02:00, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I know someone who was watching BBC4 last night! (So was I.) :-) Deb (talk) 11:00, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This? Actually, I had been working on The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons offline for a while before some time before that programme was broadcast, but it was a happy coincidence that it discussed the paintings. -- Theramin (talk) 22:46, 14 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You've been doing sterling work, but I see from the above that you do know how to format a weblink, so please also do that with article references, which are not supposed to be left bare. Just say "National Gallery page" or something; ideally with "accessed June 19, 2012". Thanks. Johnbod (talk) 01:07, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]