User talk:Marchjuly/Archives/2023/April

Question from GLENDA Russell on Mark L. and Harriet E. Monteith House (02:14, 13 April 2023)

We bought the Montieth home and estate in 1984 and I had it nominated for the National Historic Register soon after. In December of 1985 it was excepted... The Nation Register is a farce!!! Only the Kiosk still stands!!! --GLENDA Russell (talk) 02:14, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi GLENDA Russell. I'm not sure what you're question has to do with Wikipedia. If you feel some of the information in the Wikipedia article about Mark L. and Harriet E. Monteith House is incorrect, you can start a discussion about it at [[:Talk:Mark L. and Harriet E. Monteith House or perhaps seek assistance at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. If there's some new information about the house that can be verified through the checking of secondary reliable sources, then perhaps the article can be updated to reflect that; however, Wikipedia doesn't really have any control over the National Register and can't really help you if you're having issues with it. The Wikipedia article about the house should only reflect what reliable sources have written or said about the house. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:03, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Kink???

The parliament diagram module is broken due to a security bug that was first noticed on the 18th of April. Before then, all parliament diagrams were working. I tried my best to use the diagrams generated by Parliament diagram tool as a temporary fix to the various articles using the module. See my edit to the Swedish Riksdag for example.

I would have done the same for the National Assembly of Botswana had I remembered earlier. So when I tried to edit the page after remembering, I saw your edit and was initially relieved by it.

However, the language you used on your edit summary took me by surprise. I find that remark meaningless and unnecessary as this wasn't caused by me. This isn't a 'kink' I have, it was functioning properly and I did in fact, use my sandbox to test that out by the way! Aficionado538 (talk) 07:08, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you would like me to do here. Since you didn't really leave an edit summary when you made that particular edit, there was no way for me to know that you were tyring to fix a problem and had been working on it in your sandbox. Perhaps, it would be more helpful if you started leaving more descriptive edit summaries when editing instead of bolierplate and meaningless ones like "Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit" (as you've done in what looks like 459 out of your last 500 edits). So, instead of expecting everyone else to read your mind or otherwise correctly guess what you were tyring to do and then getting slightly miffed when they don't, being a little more specific with your edit summaries might reduce the chances of you being taken by surprise yet again by someone else. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:30, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

The issue here isn't my edit summaries. And, I wasn't 'fixing a problem' there was no problem to be fixed to begin with. The problem arose across many Wikipedia graphs, not just the parliament diagram one.

As for the tags, I don't see a problem with those at all. They are displayed by millions of Wikipedia edits. As a matter of fact, these tags are automatically generated, I don't add them after every edit as a replacement or substitution for edit summaries. I do add summaries where necessary and I've taken note of that! Summaries or mere tags shouldn't serve as a digression from the main topic at hand.

My point is—the parliament diagram template was up and running at first instance; it wasn't some little sort of experiment or me being capricious per se. Aficionado538 (talk) 22:34, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Again, my point is that I'm not sure what you expect me to do. I can't go back and change the edit summary I left based upon what you have posted above. The main topic at hand (at least in my opinion) is that there was a problem with the way the page was being displayed after you made your edit and I reverted back to the last stable version. I went back a few edits prior to yours and didn't see the same problem; so, I assumed (mistakenly perhaps) that the errors was caused by your edit. The edit summary I left was not made in bad faith and was not a personal attack against you or anyone else, and the suggestion I made about "working out kinks in your sandbox" was also made in good faith. Now, if you feel any of my actions were inappropriate (i.e. some sort of serious violation of WP:BEHAVE) that need to be more formally addressed, you're more than welcome to seek assistance from others at an appropriate administrators' noticeboard. There is, however, no further point in continuing this discussion here since it's unlikely anything is going to be resolved here. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:29, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Dora Maar page

Hi I noticed that Dora Maar’s wiki page contains none of the artist’s work. Although she was one of Picasso’s wives/lovers she was also an artist in her own right. I am wondering where I could find a wiki editor to help right this wrong. victoria Voxtoriaa (talk) 22:59, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi Voxtoriaa. You can start a discussion about this at Talk:Dora Maar and see what others who might be more familiar with Maar and her work think. You can also try asking about this at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Visual arts or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women artists since the article about Maar most likely would within the scope of those two WikiProjects. Adding images to articles often depends not only on context but also the copyright status of the image. Examples of copyrighted works of art can be uploaded to Wikipedia as non-free content, but such content needs to satisfy Wikipedia's non-free content use policy each time it's used. This policy is quite restrictive by design, but perhaps one or two examples of Maar's artwork that are either specifically the subject of sourced critical commentary somewhere in the article or are considered by reliable sources to be most representative of her particular style of painting could be uploaded and used in the article. However, it would be much better to see whether any of her artwork might be something that has fallen within the public domain first because that would be much easier to use and preferrable to non-free content. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:44, 20 April 2023 (UTC)