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Giordano Bruno=

Sorry but the reason I edited the sentence is that its poor grammar. prove to me that its good grammar? --Zgrillo2004 ^{—Preceding undated comment added 01:16, 13 August 2016 (UTC)}

Hal Blaine

Not any more, I didn't. Thanks for the tip. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:50, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Glad to hear it. And glad to see you around again. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:21, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Who you calling round. Okay I gained a few pounds, so what! Carptrash (talk) 19:33, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Betcha I've gained more. I couldn't fit into last year's swimsuit the other day when I tried. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:06, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

This is definitely not "More is Less" territory. Carptrash (talk) 00:37, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, but who's counting? Besides my potential future nutritionist... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:21, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

♭Round, round, 'git a round, U both are round ♭ Buster Seven Talk 18:18, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

File:Matzen Cain & Abel.jpg / c:File:Matzen Cain & Abel.jpg

Could you please license the photograph so that it is not deleted? Thanks. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 00:04, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

More for your list

Hello, Carptrash -- I saw your comment on User:Rothorpe's talk page, and out of curiosity looked at your user page. Great page! I thought of a few additional words and phrases for your list:

• There can be no doubt that...

• Indubitably,...

• I think we can agree that...

 – Corinne (talk) 03:34, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

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Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral (Ulaanbaatar)

Dearest Carptrash, thanks a lot for your great help, have a nice week end. Greetings from Caselle Landi.

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Wenceslao Selga Padilla

Please, I ask also 5 minutes to correct my mistakes in this new page, because I don't know the reason of Christian leader infoboxes with deprecated parameters. What I wrote of wrong? Can you help me, please, to take off this red link?

Thanks a lot for your precious help and havve a nice week-end!

Rei Momo (talk) 07:24, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your precious help!!! God bless you!!! Rei Momo (talk) 21:38, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

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Samuel Yellin

Wow. You started this article back in August 2004. Almost all of the images have been removed on copyright challenges, but we can start again. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 01:00, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Yellin's own work became PD in 2010. There might be an argument for his collaborations with architects who haven't been dead 70 years, but their number is dwindling. I categorized a couple dozen images already on Wiki Commons. Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning must have been an enjoyable creative challenge. Happy 4th! == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 12:07, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

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A cup of tea for you!

You weren't a bother at all with your posts to my talk page. Cheers! ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 22:59, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

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You may want to take a look at this: Strengthen the Arm of Liberty. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:38, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

From my understanding, they are essentially about the same thing. Consolidating the two articles and appending your list to the result would seem to make sense. Strengthen the Arm of Liberty already has a Wiki Commons category. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 23:11, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

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Careful with grammar and syntax

Hi Carptrash. I'm Kevin, the interim EotW facilitator. I recently awarded the award to SummerPhDv2.0, and I (a) wanted to let you know that I slightly reformatted the nomination text to make it more comprehensible and (b) wanted to ask you to take more care for future nominations. The full text of the nomination is presented directly under the award, and it's important that the EotW project be seen as professional and a prize that's actually worth something. Therefore, please ensure that your nominations are grammatically correct, that formatting is correctly done, and that there is more substance to the nomination than "this person is controversial but dedicated", before they are accepted and enter the queue to be awarded. Let me know if you need help on future nominations. All the best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 02:45, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Carptrash, my old friend, I hope you don't take offense at Kevin's message. I'm sure he sent it with the best of intentions. His bedside manner may need some tweaking but his good faith is well known. Your nomination was appreciated months ago when it was first presented and, had I gotten around to it, I would have vetted Editor Summer a bit and "pumped up the volume" and added some tid-bits of his editorial stats. I did it all the time for other nominations over the years. I just forgot to do yours. Buster Seven Talk 14:19, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

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hello sailor

hey Carptrash how are you? I'm reminded I had something to show you, but..... mmm, that notion is going to play hide and seek in the shadowy windmills of my memory, back there. Maybe it'll come back! What are you up to? --Lockley (talk) 22:34, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

similar story here -- firing on all two cylinders in the last few months, exercising my patience every day, housework. Can't complain because it sounds like there's somebody moaning and --hey, that's my voice, and if that voice isn't offering any solutions I just don't want to hear it. "Okay, self, what do you propose?" So I can't complain. --Lockley (talk) 23:09, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

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Vicken von Post-Börjesson

In the immortal words of Nick Yemana, "I have nothing to add."

I say go for it - it's a perfectly legitimate choice, long as you leave a redirect. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 07:12, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

File:MidlandTheaterRelief.jpg

Do you have more information on this , such as where it is and the original cast-maker? (from the photo it looked like a brnoze cast relief)? 16:08, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

IS that you Sfan00 IMG? Yes, this is part of a long, involved victory-out-of-tragedy story that I will write up some day. Surely you are not worried about the copyright issues of a picture of me with a small part of something else in the background? Carptrash (talk) 16:23, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Nope, I was wanting to note who the bronze maker was for descriptive purposes. And sometimes we all forget to sign postings Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:25, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Yes Sfan00 IMG, it is human to forget. At my age this is not seen as a crime. The original of this was a plaster mural by Corrado Parducci in the Midland Theater in Midland, Michigan. When the wonderful art deco theater was destroyed in order to build a drug store (that was never built) the mural was - after quite a fight - saved. Dow Chemical, the makers of napalm and rulers of Midland, got involved and supplied the casting material to make a mold of the relief and made another plaster version that was repaired. It was then shown at the local art museum in an exhibit that I was involved in as the Parducci "expert." Then the repaired plaster was cast in bronze and erected in a local park. I hope that helps. Carptrash (talk) 16:36, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

I thhink on the above basis, you've just demonstrated a good rationale for including it in article, as well as in your userspace, and even if it was challanged on copyright grounds, you have a very strong position for exerting 'fair-use'.

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:49, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Sfan00 IMG, well if I use it, actually,I'd use other better ones of it, the work was never copyrighted, and if that is automatic, it certainly was never renewed, plus I have somewhere permission from Parducci's son to use any images of his father's work in any way I wish, though I would be hard pressed to find it in writing. But it is an interesting piece with an interesting story, perhaps I shall do an article. Someday. Carptrash (talk) 17:07, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

About GA nomination for the Wrecing Crew

I'd like to nominate the Wrecking Crew article for GA nomination in the next day or so, but I had heard somewhere that it might be possible to do a joint GA nomination. I haven't found anyone who can tell me how that could be done (if possible). I'm wondering if you may know how. Because, if I only find the way, I'd like to dual-nominate the article along with you, as a thanks all of your efforts there and your constant encouragement. If we cannot find a way to dual-nominate it, then, I could nominate it myself, but mention your name at the top of the review as a tolken of thanks. Garagepunk66 (talk) 03:21, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

I went ahead and nominated it. When the review starts, I want to mention your name at the top. Garagepunk66 (talk) 04:41, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

A piece of sculpture for you!

		The Barnstar of Fine Arts
		Here is a token of appreciation for all of your contributions here at Wikipedia. I've noticed you've written extensively about various fields of art: painting, sculpture, photography, and of course also music. I might add that that the list in the Wrecking Crew article is a real work of sculpture! And, I'm glad to see someone's writing about WPA art from the 1930s. I should also note that your user page is a work of art too. I see that photo of your work station, decorated with those art books magnificently strewn about like a Jackson Pollack painting. And, then those pictures of your little doggies down at the bottom in various "poses" and "compositions." So, I thought I'd say thanks for everything! Garagepunk66 (talk) 02:44, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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Just Wonderin'

I noticed that one of the pictures on your user page has a photo of a band with someone on drums who looks a lot like you--and I know they must be from New Mexico, because there is an adobe house in the background. So, I was wondering if that's you on drums and about the band. Which also begs the question--when did you first start playing and what was your first band? You may have been too young to have played in a band then, but... what were you up to roundabout 1966? Do you remember bands like the Kreeg, the Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2, the Movin' Morfomen, the Chob, or the Burgundy Runn? Garagepunk66 (talk) 06:10, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

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CE

What you want I think is WP:ERA. Have you read it? Doug Weller talk 18:24, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, @Doug Weller: I must confess that I rarely read wikipedia rules, procedures, etc. Which is not necessarily a good thing. Carptrash (talk) 18:34, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

They're useful sometimes. :-) Doug Weller talk 18:44, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Yes, @Doug Weller: I get it, though perhaps more useful to admins than the Hoi polloi. But also useful, I suppose, for those of us who are trying to help fledglings to fly here. My approach is probably not the best one for them. Carptrash (talk) 18:50, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

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Guitarists

I thought some of 'em were lit up already, if you catch my drift? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:07, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Looks like I'm on fire tonight! Ahahahahahahahaha...hahahahaha...haha...ha...yeah. Perhaps I'd better quit before I burn out. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:15, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

What is it Usher says? Can't stop won't stop? (Had to look that one up, I did.) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 12:39, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Your edit to 118 Alex' talk page

Hi Carptrash, you need to stop messing up my talk page Your edit was undone as it is very messy. 118 alex 03:55, 10 September 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118 alex (talk • contribs)

I had to share a remarkable

Commercial Gothic

....bit of wisdom I stumbled over. Trying to verify the architect of the somewhat-familiar-looking Kentucky State Reformatory (photograph here) drew me to a 2015 online news source that says, with a breathless authority: "His designs were known to incorporate the building and its purpose into an operational unit. He favored limestone because the horizontal lines reflected the essence of streamlined architecture and the corners of the building could be easily sculpted into linear curves reflecting the Gothic style of the 1930s." Maybe we should establish an annual award for this kind of um incisive observation. Who could we name it after? --Lockley (talk) 04:05, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Well, perhaps Edward Bulwer-Lytton, or "Bulwer-Lyttonesque", but I'll know more after figuring out just what 'the Gothic style of the 1930s" was. I still want to do a Commercial Gothic article, but I doubt that's what this fellow had in mind. Carptrash (talk) 18:27, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

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A Barnstar for You!

Stumbled upon your user page in my morning ramble through Wikipedia, and it made me laugh. So:

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		Thanks for the levity! ABF99 (talk) 16:52, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

just a tip

I just noticed your work on Hugh Cairns (who does not exist in wikipedia) and I see that this page has some excellent stale gossip about Cairns, John Evans, Domingo Mora, and other familiar names. I wonder what would happen if you plugged CP's name into that old newspaper engine? Fun things I bet! --Lockley (talk) 22:44, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Let's live.Carptrash (talk) 22:51, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Mmmmmm, they want my credit card number for a free trial and I'm not so inclined. Carptrash (talk) 22:54, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

(that's weird, that doesn't happen on this side.... I wouldn't be inclined either... sorry! I'll make a note to capture the Cairns / Evans / Mora stuff into Gordon. The gist is that Cairns had planned and mostly completed the work on the north porch of Trinity church, but he quit, because he couldn't work for John Evans. He even offered to finish the job for free if he didn't have to work for Evans. Mora stepped in, having to puzzle through some of Cairns' decisions. I think that stuff is interesting.)--Lockley (talk) 23:26, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Great stuff, the human angle, often overlooked. See you at Gardon, if not sooner. Carptrash (talk) 01:44, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

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Conversation from elsewhere - since removed

When you removed René Hall's (Subject/Headline)

ethnicity from the lead should you not add it in somewhere else? Or is it deemed to be not notable? Einar aka User:Carptrash (talk) 16:18, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Feel free to do so, but it requires a reliable source. User:Sundayclose (talk) 16:24, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

You are kind of being a dick here. Google his name in images and see what comes up. he was the guitar played for Billy Ward and the Dominoes, he was from the New Orleans set with Earl Palmer and Fats Domino. Of course he was black. Carptrash (talk) 18:20, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

And of course you are welcome to add it with a reliable source. Consider this a warning for making personal attacks. If you plan to push this further, read WP:HARASS and be prepared to explain yourself at WP:ANI. Now, stay off my talk page, and that's the only time I'll say that. Have a good day. Sundayclose (talk) 18:57, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

As I thought. Well if you really want me off your talk page you will need to remove my X-mas card that i spotted about halfway down your talk page. Carptrash (talk) 19:02, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

So anyway I am looking for a good source the Hall was black. Let me know if you have one. Carptrash (talk) 19:20, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

PS. I found a good source, Earl Palmer.Carptrash (talk) 19:59, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Dicks will be dicks

... which brings to mind "the brick dick."

Note how I incorporated 3rd Sculpture International into Henri Gabriel Marceau. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 19:57, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

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There is an interesting discussion about synthesis at the Garage punk talk page, started by an editor we know well who sprinkled citations in the article with false "not stated in source" tags and seems to think that commonly understood and accurate generalizations about the form expressed in the article constitute WP:SYNTH. Garagepunk66 (talk) 05:31, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

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Most of the added info appeared to be out of scope for the article so I reverted to the version straight before. (An easy way to do this is load up the previous revision through history, click edit when viewing that version, then save with no changes.) While some of them were style/layout edits, I cant say they were 'better' so didnt see a need to keep them. There might be a WP:MOS page somewhere that indicates in what order references/further reading go that would explain them. Only in death does duty end (talk) 08:19, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

@Only in death: thanks vry much and thank you especially for the tip about editing in "history." I always hope I won't need that sort of thing again, but it seems that i usually do use it later. Carptrash (talk) 15:44, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Its basically a cut-price rollback on the article. Its not for general usage as it removes *all* edits since the older revision. If there are edits by multiple people doing different things, in most cases it shouldnt be used as it throws the baby out with the bathwater. Only in death does duty end (talk) 15:49, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

@Only in death: Thanks again, I understand that this would remove all changes and will proceed with caution. I come across this sort of thing about once in a blue moon, but even those do occur. Though, global warming might make then happen more, I'm not sure yet. Carptrash (talk) 15:54, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Destructo84 deletions

Thanks for the help. I'm not sure what to do about these. About half of them really ought to be deleted, even tho the tagging was done in bad faith. I finally did decide to delete a few, leave the speedy tags on a few, untag a few altogether, and send the bulk of them to prod. I did this very quickly,and if you think I should have done otherwise, please tell me. If you want to do differently than I, just go ahead. This is an exceptional case. But someone should certainly have looked at these articles earlier! (I decided to to block recreation of his draft--that's an exceptional measure I do very seldom--so he does have a way to go forward if he wants) DGG ( talk ) 20:01, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

@DGG: I suspected something like that might be the case, but decided not to look. That's what admins are paid the big bucks to do. (joke, even if in bad taste) I thought you did very well with this editor, I was just pitching in with my usual stuff to new editors, my version of "get your feet on the ground before you try jumping and at least know some of the rules before you break them." As far as cleaning up the other articles that this editor pointed out, wikipedia is under siege by the commercial world and you are on the front lines. For me to suggest what you should do from way behind the lines seems like the worst sort of arm chair quarterbacking to me. If you are not an American and don't understand our sports analogies, change that to "back sear driving." Carptrash (talk) 20:11, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

I live in NYC. Admin shave no special skill in judging articles. I can & will deal with the editor, but I never want to make single-handed judgments on articles. Normally in speedy, I consider the tagger as having made a tentative judgement and asking me to confirm. When I find something worth speedying on my own, I just tag it, and let some other admin judge, and almost all admins do the same. In this case, obviously, I cannot trust the judgment of the tagger, even on a preliminary basis. If you and I agree, then that means something. DGG ( talk ) 21:17, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Gottcha. So if there are others of these articles you'd like a second opinion on feel free to drop me a card ,tho not now, I'm off to my regular Wednesday afternoon Happy Hour gig with Up a Creek. Don't worry, no article about them will be forthcoming. Carptrash (talk) 21:56, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

OK, here's one. no rush. Please look a the talk p. for Spiceworks and see my changes in the article. If you think it should go to AfD, pleases send it there. DGG ( talk ) 14:52, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

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W GR confirmation

Too bad about nothing getting submitted, I guess. Confirming no, because there is no indication at wp:MPS, altho that is incomplete, and I get no relevant hits trying "Washtenaw" and/or "Greek" and/or "Revival" at NPS focus search site, which should be complete. Via Michigan's interface, searching on Wm Anderson Hs's NRIS number, I can get to this very-slow-loading PDF for Wm Anderson Hs, but that is from 1981, and the few other Greek Revival-looking ones at National Register of Historic Places listings in Washtenaw County, Michigan are all very old too. Oh well. That covers one passing remark, but I still have not processed all that you and G wrote back and forth at Talk:Second Empire architecture in Europe. I hope I am not irking either of you due to that. Thank you for being flexible back and forth there. --donoram 20:54, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

The William H. Davenport House house in Saline is a fine 2E that even has a 2E carriage house on the grounds. I am a little surprised that the (so called) Quirk Mansion and the Gilbert House both in Ypsilanti are not listed as they are fine, large 2E specimens. Well I am truly off now, catch you later, Carptrash (talk) 21:22, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

TILT TILT TILT TILT TILT

Happy to oblige - just finished the last of 'em, though. There always seem to be fewer sculptors than painters... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:31, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Well, I'm any fool, and I don't paint. Take that for what you will. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:12, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Interesting - I wonder why he was added to that category in the first place. I'll remove 'em both for now; they can always be re-added later, if need be. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:41, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

I should probably see if I can't find anything online. I'm at work, so no print sources at hand.

Also I have stuff to do. But, you know, priorities. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:51, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

I went ahead and removed it myself. I had a look at the deletion discussion - there's no reason it should have been up for deletion. Just someone trying to make a point, it looked like. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:02, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Take care - catch you on the flip side. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:09, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

And that would make you...Bavaria, I presume? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:50, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

I'm going to be singing something by a German guy tonight...possibly. Other than that I got nuthin'. Had a Bavarian great-uncle, though. But he wasn't a sculptor. At least, I don't think he was, unless he got up to something none of the rest of us ever knew about. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:05, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

You should get together with User:BoringHistoryGuy, who also goes out singing stuff.Carptrash (talk) 21:07, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Gaetano Michetti

 Done what you asked! Hope now it is clearer. Thanks a lot for your help, see you soon. Rei Momo (talk) 21:45, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks again. I go to sleep, have a nice dream. Rei Momo (talk) 21:52, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Pedimental sculptures in the United States

What do think of this as a table with an introductory article above it? == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 14:45, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Glad you like it. It's mostly your work, recycled. I'll let you write the introductory article. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:35, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

I went back to my initial order, putting the buildings column first. Although the focus should be on the sculpture, nobody (but you?) knows them by their names. Wisconsin State Capitol was a bitch, but it's finally done. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 18:53, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

There are three other people who also know the names, but i spent one of those great field trip days at the Wisconsin Capitol, even managed to get on the roof, right next to Bitter's four huge groups up there. Too bad it was pre-digital days, so I was somewhat limited in what i could shoot. Thanks again, Carptrash (talk) 19:14, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

I haven't done the Allen County Courthouse (Indiana) pediments. The SIRIS pages on it were confusing. Is it important? == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 19:36, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Well I have a booklet on it somewhere, if you can lay it out I can fill it in. Though skipping it is okay too. Walt and I have about 100 pediments listed in our Field Guide, they are not all going to make it, so this one does not need to be kept. Carptrash (talk) 20:18, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Keep some for yourselves. But the article/list is well enough established that we don't have to worry about its being deleted. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:43, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

It's a fine photo, and I'm glad you added it. But I think it's more likely to take me Into the Lowlands of the Mind. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 02:55, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

I dug that picture out from deep inside my old lap top, part of a longer story, one of my one time trips with someone. The young lady from the Lowlands of your mind is also the main picture in an Architectural Forum article, July 1925, entitled The Problem of the Pediment, turns out she is California Today - which I would not have guessed. Not 1925 anyway. 1965 maybe. Carptrash (talk) 04:23, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

My guess would have been Minerva, but I suppose 1920s California women also could have pet owls.

I reluctantly posted a NYC example older than the Phila one. And Bitter's great pediment for Broad Street Station. Both demolished. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:39, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes, this was before the Spotted Owl became extinct, they were very popular as house pets. Carptrash (talk) 17:13, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

I'm beginning to get concerned that the size of this might become overwhelming. Maybe, with every other state capitol or city hall listed. I've skipped most of the 1930s classical buildings in the Federal Triangle (sorry, Walker H.), but buildings like NYPL & Brooklyn Museum seem to belong. You're the expert. Once I've gone thru what are obvious choices, I'll let you decide. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 17:33, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

At some point it might be a good idea to break it up, perhaps by state? I hate trying to go in the middle of these huge tables and make some change, add something, whatever. My Brother & I are starting up our winter season tonight, which means 4 hours of playing in a sports bar - did I mention, tonight? I have work to do (I make up the set lists) and it always wipes me out for a couple of days, so by all means add the NYPL (MacMonies?) and I suspect French's Brooklyn one and then let's see what we have. A lot, thanks to you. Carptrash (talk) 17:41, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

D.C. and NYC might wind up needing their own sections. Hope the gig goes well. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 17:46, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Forget NYPL -- it's a sculptured frieze below a blank pediment. Category:Sculptured friezes in the United States? I don't think so ... (yet). == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:40, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Take a look at Grand Central Station. Would you characterize the Mercury clock as a pediment, or something else? == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:00, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

According to Kvaran & Lockley (and others) there are a couple of small peds at the NYPL, but you seem to have plenty to do without them. I would not consider using Grand Central Station because K&L don't count it and that was because, if I can try and outguess those guys, the pediment is actually the frame in which sculpture is placed. So, no frame, no pediment, no inclusion. Make sense? Carptrash (talk) 19:06, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes, and I agree about the frame. But I've seen statuary atop a pediment called pedimental sculpture, which is why I hesitated. There must be a Greek term for that. Your photo of the Tippecanoe County Courthouse pediment is a delight. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:01, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Sarra Lebedeva

Not sure how far up your alley this is, but any improvements would be greatly appreciated. I could not believe that we didn't have an article about her yet. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:30, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Wonderful, thanks. I found in researching the article that I didn't care for her work nearly as much as I thought I did, but she was a crackerjack portraitist. I may have some other Russian lady-type people coming up soon...apparently we have fewer articles on Russian and Soviet women artists than I realized. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:42, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

My one real reference, being on Aurora Press from the 1970s presents a pretty orthodox (Soviet style) view of these artists, but I'll toss in what i can where ever I can. Most of the stuff I have on Soviet art is in Russian, but since mostly I just look at pictures, that's okay until I am looking for something specific. But it is fun for me to revisit this material. Carptrash (talk) 17:46, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, one of my sources (both in English, thankfully) is a lot more in the mold of the Party-approved literature than I'd remembered. Still and all, it's proving to be quite useful.

The other source - John Milner's A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists, 1420–1970 - is really wonderful if you can ever get your hands on it. Hugely comprehensive and compulsively readable, even if it's a bit dry sometimes. My one quibble is I don't always agree with his choice of transliteration, but that's a minor point. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:55, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

I have a series, looking at The Art of Soviet Ukraine right now, that actually has more english than I had remembered, but is not really indexed, just lists the artists, their dates and where the artwork is. A quick look through reveals nothing by Ms. Lebedeva, but I was reminded why it is that I sort of like (a true guilty pleasure) Soviet art, sculpture in particular. As propagandistic as it is, it is, to me, effective. except perhaps a bit too much Lenin for me. a dozen would be okay, but . . . . .......... Carptrash (talk) 18:08, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Ah, yes. Indexes are not for Russian readers, I am told. Probably a bourgeois invention.

There was a great exhibit here in DC a few years ago of Soviet-era art from a museum in Minneapolis, and there were some wonderful pieces there by artists I'd never heard of, even. Typical propagandistic stuff, but they were good. I remember in particular one of a group of milkmaids leaning against a fence having a laugh. Yeah, "happy workers" and all, but the play of light on both them and the background was expertly handled. Wonderful stuff. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:18, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Soviet art education was a thing of beauty. I was once at a school that was lucky to obtain an art teacher who had been educated in Soviet Russia. Within a few weeks she had her students producing amazing stuff. Then she was gone and they went back to plod, plod, plod. I'm looking at the Art of Soviet Byelorussia now where I learn (after finding the English section) that "The accomplishments of .......... can only be considered in in the context of the October Revolution." But then, next the painting of the happy peasants entitled Collectivization I find an amazing marble carving of Rabindranath Tagore (the only musician-poet to win the Nobel Prize for Lit before our man Bob) that knocked me out. Carptrash (talk) 18:33, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Soviet anything education was a thing of beauty - just ask my mother. (Who can't draw to save her life, but that's another thing.)

Do you have a set of books for all of the former Soviet republics? There might be some interesting material on Central Asia in there. I went to a lovely little exhibit at the Textile Museum a few months back, which had quite a bit of work by Central Asian painters. And I wanted to buy the catalogue for reference purposes, but not at the price they were asking. No way... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:37, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

I have RSFSR, Byelorussia, Armenia, Kirghizia and Latvia, and then ''Modern Finnish Sculpture, Finland coming as close to being the Finnish Soviet Republic as is possible without actually being there. There also is another Armenia book somewhere, but because it is not part of the series it is somewhere else. Carptrash (talk) 20:40, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Kirghizia...that one might be fun. And I know a couple of really good Latvian artists...wanted to go to the museum when I was in Riga last year, but it was closed for renovation. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:53, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

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Just droppin' a line to say "hello". I hope everything's comin' along well. Garagepunk66 (talk) 01:18, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

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It was you ...

Karl Bitter, Atlantes from St. Paul Building (1896)

... well, yours.
I remembered that there was a better image of the Bitter atlantes, but left things alone because the old image was yours. Turns out the better image also was yours:
So much for discretion. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:55, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

One can run but one can't hide. Carptrash (talk) 22:18, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

With my knees, no, one can't run.

Smallbones pointed out a couple hundred new images of Gettysburg that had been uploaded to Wiki Commons. In the process of categorizing them, I pleasantly revisited a number of your photos. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 12:47, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

My G shots were the fruit of one wonderful day passing through, back when I had knees. Carptrash (talk) 15:29, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Found a pair of murals in the wild...

...while on my lunch break. My sometime office is around the corner from the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building. Popping into the post office, what do my wondering eyes behold but two murals by Alexander Brook gracing the entryway? These are almost the first two I've seen in place.

Talking of which: when I have a moment I need to look into it, but there should be ample material for a companion to the post office mural list detailing WPA artwork in other government buildings. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:58, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Ser Amantio di Nicolao So do you think such a list should be just murals or include all WPA artwork? I say murals but . . . . .Carptrash (talk) 21:00, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Depends. If there's too much, it can be split into two lists; otherwise I'd incorporate everything into one list only. I don't imagine there's much outside DC. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:07, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

I believe, @Ser Amantio di Nicolao:, that your thought would land clearly in the failure of imagination pile. WPA art can be found in a wide variety of courthouses, federal and more local ones, as well as on university campuses, housing projects, schools, just all sorts of places. I already started one list, List of New Deal sculpture, that includes both pieces found in USPOs (which were excluded from the List of United States post office murals article, and maybe better belong there?) but I think a list of New Deal murals that excludes post offices would also be a good idea. Or should all the non-USPO WPA art be on one list? It would be pretty large. Carptrash (talk) 15:55, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Ah, yes - thought I'd specified federal government. Sorry. I didn't think there were that many WPA projects building federal buildings elsewhere during that time.

I'm easy either way, though. Certainly a list of non-post office murals, and eventually I would like to see coverage of other WPA art. Whether or not on the same list I don't think it matters that much. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:59, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

So, @Ser Amantio di Nicolao:, what would a list of non-post office WPA murals be called? List of non-post office WPA murals? Or maybe "New Deal" is better than "WPA" since it is a more inclusive term. That's still sort of a bulky title. Carptrash (talk) 16:05, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Well, it should be "WPA" for starters, at least, since that's in the title of the other page - if one contains "New Deal", then both should. I might suggest creating simply a "List of WPA murals" and then note that the post office list is broken out of that. That might be the best way to do it.--Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:57, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately @Ser Amantio di Nicolao:, not all the federal art projects of the New Deal were WPA projects. For example, the Public Works of Art Project was not. I think. This is why I chose the "New Deal" option in the sculpture list. In common usage today the term "WPA" is used in a broad sense to include stuff that might not have been WPA projects, but is that how we should proceed? Carptrash (talk) 22:36, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Let me turn that on its head - were all the post office murals WPA projects? Or were some non-WPA? Either way, I think there ought to be consistency in naming, if only for the fact that to do otherwise might be confusing. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:16, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

I think, without looking it up, that some of the early murals were NOT WPA projects, but this is without looking it up and that can be . . . ... less that ideal. Carptrash (talk) 02:16, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

What needs to happen is that a List of New Deal murals article needs to be started. It needs to begin with "Murals that are in USPOs are listed here, so this is a list of federally funded murals from the New Dael era that are not in post offices. Everyone is encouraged to comment before I rush off and just do this. This is to, but not limited to: @BoringHistoryGuy:, @Ser Amantio di Nicolao: @Lockley:. Carptrash (talk) 21:27, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

So, just trying to keep things straight, would an organizational chart look something like this?

• New Deal murals
  • Federal Art Project (WPA) murals
  • Public Works of Art Project murals
  • Other murals

... or would it have to be far more complex?
Also, if the current list of post office murals mixes WPA and PWAP works, does the table need a "Project" column added? Is it important to distinguish them by project? and is it difficult to determine which is which? == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 01:09, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

TRAP is another one, and no it is not (opinion) necessary to distinguish between the various programs as long as the title of the article is inclusive. So if we'd gone with WPA USPO Murals we would be in trouble. As it is, if someone paints a mural in a USPO today we could include it. That is why I want to go with the "New Deal" title. Carptrash (talk) 01:19, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

TRAP Treasury Relief Art Project - turns out to be a WPA project, but there was an earlier Treasury Dept art program that was not WPA. Carptrash (talk) 01:24, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

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I think you'll enjoy this

Carptrash & Lockley. Bitter's 1894 Broad Street Station relief, over the 2nd story Main Waiting Room windows and the 15th Street Tunnel. So, is this a pediment or a tympanum? == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:15, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

I am comfortable with "pediment" . . . . . . . . . . . . .............. largely because I looked it up and both Dennis (1967) and Schevill (1917) use the word. Carptrash (talk) 16:01, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

"Pediment" is what I've always heard used, but it is technically over a window (or set of them). I guess one could argue that the piers between the windows function like the columns of a portico. A shame that the sculpture and the 1/2-size model don't survive. There is a surviving plaster model that was owned by Horace Howard Furness. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 17:17, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

I'm appreciating the gigantic nerve of Frank Furness. And the way, because that's over an entry big enough to take a streetcar, it must have contributed to the feeling of a ride when you slipped underneath. If more underpasses had a big ragged Karl Bitter installed overhead..... more accidents, probably. --Lockley (talk) 22:58, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

and btw BHG, thank you for finding that and uploading it! --Lockley (talk) 22:59, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

I knew the photo only thru a blurry copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy. It's nice to have a decent image of it. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 01:16, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Bitter's pediment was 50 ft wide (that's a 3-lane street going under). There's also a Joseph Pennell lithograph of it. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 01:21, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Size counts. Carptrash (talk) 01:29, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Karl Blossfeldt article.

My understanding was that EU copyright terms were life + 70. So 1932+70 would be around 2002. However, you may wish to ask someone in the US to check whether Blossfeldt's works were ever formally registered in the US. ( The reason is to do with how URAA is applied.) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:39, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00:, thanks for your quick and useful reply. I checked the US copyright archives and there is no Blossfeldt there. The book that I have is the 1929 (I think, there is no date in it) German version so German laws should be there relevant ones. Now to try and navigate the uploading process. Carptrash (talk) 15:43, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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Phoenix P.O.

I added your images to the article. Hope all is well. My world has changed with the passing of one of my sons. The healing process is underway. Buster Seven Talk 18:28, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

@Buster7:Thanks, I am moving at the speed of a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk on this, but it all is forward motion. Since you did most of the work on this article previously I hope that the chart format meets with your approval. Carptrash (talk) 19:01, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

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Garage rock task force

I am in the midst of developing a garage rock task force page and was wondering if you would want to join when it's created. I have messaged a few users so far, but it would be so valuable to have a veteran presence in the group. It will take a little time because I am still fairly new to how to best organize the page.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 01:08, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

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I'm still a novice here, and ran into an issue today. TheGracefulSlick invited me to join his garage rock task force but his talk page is protected. How can I respond positively to him?Frankzappatwin (talk) 16:08, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

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DYK question

You nominated the Country Joe and the Fish article for me awhile ago so I think you'll know more about this than I do. I wanted to nominate Blind Willie Johnson, an article I brought to GA a month ago. My question, is it too late to nominate the article since its expansion was a month ago? I think Johnson is deserving of it, considering how influential he was on the blues and folk music.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 00:11, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

I never do any DYK or GA stuff, so I am not the one to ask. Carptrash (talk) 18:53, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

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