User talk:DrMedRenArtHistory
DYK for Pasquier Grenier
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On 11 November 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pasquier Grenier, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Pasquier Grenier sold tapestries to royalty across Europe in the 15th century? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pasquier Grenier. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Pasquier Grenier), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Aoidh (talk) 00:02, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
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[edit]Please stop (and sort out) removing necessary templates as here. Johnbod (talk) 04:43, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
- Doing our best here. My class of 33 students went live tonight and I was trying to fix some pastes from sandboxes. I apologize if I accidentally deleted some templates. Hands off on that from now on and I will leave it to the experts like you. We made major and significant contributions, so I am sorry for the few errors I made inadvertently. DrMedRenArtHistory (talk) 05:24, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
Nice to see this, but can he really be called "Flemish"? Looks very like a Walloon. Johnbod (talk) 04:47, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
- Great question-comment. The Flemish/Walloon question is historically complicated and is an especially politically-charged issue today. Netherlandish would, in my opinion, be a better than Walloon, but I will leave it as Flemish as that is the accepted term by medieval textile historians like myself. I recognize, however, that Tournai is in modern-day Wallonia. You are free to change it to whatever you think is best. I do appreciate you reaching out to ask my opinion. If I have time in the near future, I will research out to a colleague in Tournai who might have some light to shed on the issue. DrMedRenArtHistory (talk) 05:21, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi, I get that it's the end of semester and students are scrambling to fulfill assignements. That said, there are some basics that need to be taught so that the unpaid volunteers aren't put in a position to perform clean-up once the semester is done, class is over, and students long gone. For example please see MOS:Lead. As Johnbod mentioned above there are important templates that shouldn't be deleted; furthermore, the first sentence includes the article title in bold font. See for instance this edit at Donne Triptych where the bolding was removed (as were various sourced statements which is a little questionable). Moctezuma's headdress shows some similar problems: an entire sourced section is wiped out here; this edit basically wipes out the existing article & the lead with the requisite formatting and replaces with material from sandbox (which by-passes several policies and guidelines such as not deleting sourced statements, and bringing a discussion on talk pages in regards to such sweeping changes). These are examples only of what's showing up on my watchlist. Having brought students to Wikipedia I have always believed that it's paramount the students understand the very specific writing task at hand and that they (and by extension, their profs) don't leave behind work for unpaid volunteers. I taught myself by writing here and once I understood the specifics explained to students the difference between writing for a web tertiary source vs. writing an instructor assigned essay. As it happened after retiring I stuck around ... and hopefully am not coming across as too pedantic. But clean up is needed and the question is who will perform it? Also pinging Ian (Wiki Ed) so he's aware of these messages. Thanks, Victoria (tk) 16:32, 12 December 2024 (UTC)