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Nikkimaria (talk) 13:45, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Alice Pollock

Thanks for your help on Alice Pollock. I will be nominating her for DYK on or before 10 August (you'll get a co-credit of course). Edwardx (talk) 11:23, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject assessment tags for talk pages

Thank you for your recent articles, including Witzchoura, which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like {{WikiProject Keyword}} to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Wikipedia:Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:42, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Hey, Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus - thanks for this. I tend to forget this, but usually pop back and add them in as I remember/notice them missing. Mabalu (talk) 13:26, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Coldharbour Mill

Many thanks for your kind comments - I'm a total novice with Wikipedia! Regards Harryadne (talk) 19:24, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Digby Morton

Thanks for adding the image Mabalu. I'm still a bit hazy on 'fair use'. Earlier today I emailed a man who posted under that piece and said he was a relative of Digby Morton (he's a US university academic so easy to track down via his uni address). I just let him know that I'd seen his post and there was a new page up on Wiki still being improved and if he did happen to have any contributions, such as family snaps, that could go into public domain, etc, etc...hopefully that won't upset him and I decided it probably can't hurt to let him know. Libby norman (talk) 14:14, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi Libby! - I have done a lot of fair use uploads, for Jean Muir, Robert Piguet, Nettie Rosenstein, etc., off the top of my head. I usually try to make sure the upload is as close to reproduction size as possible, cropped down (for example with Dorothy Liebes I consciously cropped down the photograph to remove over 80% of the original composition. I generally try to find a picture that shows the subject and if possible, gives some sense of their work (like Bill Gibb in his own knitwear or Giuliana Camerino in one of her trompe l'oeil dresses) so it serves a double purpose. One of the first fair use uploads I did was Elsa Schiaparelli because the original picture wasn't even of her - just a model wearing her clothes! For Mary Jane Russell the only images were all copyrighted, of her at the height of her modelling fame, so I chose one, cropped it down a LOT, and made it as small as possible to ensure that it couldn't possibly be pirated, whilst giving a good sense of her style and look at the height of her fame. It's quite straightforward as long as you do it carefully and appropriately and make sure the files are suitably small and low-res. Just doing one for Kiki Byrne now... Mabalu (talk) 14:24, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, that's really helpful! I'd like to do one for Barbara Goalen as she's impossible to describe but so familiar to anyone who has looked at 1950s designs. If I have a go, would you look at it and check to see if you think it would be likely to match fair use? Libby norman (talk) 14:31, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Sure thing! Yes, go for it. Do look at what I put on the Mary Jane Russell rationale as I think you can probably use the same text for Barbara with appropriate tweaks/adjustments. Mabalu (talk) 14:35, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Done! Let me know if you think Barbara Goalen looks OK with the image. And thanks for the advice. Libby norman (talk) 15:17, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

I think it looks great although the quality COULD be just a little bit better. But it's good enough to go. :) Mabalu (talk) 15:23, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

J-Lo dress

I've nommed it for GA, if you can find anything more in highbeam or elsewhere to further improve it go for it. I couldn't find anything more substantial to say.♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:28, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Groovy - I'll see what I can trawl up. There is definitely a lot of academic discussion out there, most of which is covered in the article as I recall. Mabalu (talk) 09:13, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on it, is it the first fashion GA? You might want to list it as a GA on your user page!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi User:Dr. Blofeld! I don't think it's the first fashion GA - Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon used to be one, and I'm pretty sure there have been others. But I will do that, thanks for the tip! Mabalu (talk) 21:44, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Meat dress of Lady Gaga too! Will look at the other article you mentioned later in the week.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:34, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

AERATBAG (talk) 00:12, 16 August 2014 (UTC)Dear Mabalu, I have been helping get a page up for Amanda Eliasch, Thank you for being positive. I am trying to repair whatever I can so that it does not get deleted. If you could give me any pointers I would be most grateful. Thank you. With best wishes RATBAG

DYK for Alice Pollock

Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 00:03, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

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