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Martin A. Uman

I'm moving the article back to "Martin A. Uman". Wikipedia naming convention is that an article on a person is titled with just their name, not their title. It makes the article easier to find when searching. Thanks, NawlinWiki 22:32, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

List of American artists

I am sorry to undo your work but this article has previously been deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of American artists and should not be recreated unless there is a substantial difference to the original. You can read suggestions regarding it in the AfD. I suggest discussing any proposals on Talk:List of American artists. You might like to involve Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts. Tyrenius 23:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Despite the above message, you have simply recreated the article without any discussion. Please don't do this again in breach of the AfD decision. Also there is no authority to bar red links from an article. Tyrenius 00:42, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

If a user leaves a message proposing discussion, then it is best to discuss first, before acting, as this is a collegiate project. I do not object to a list in itself, merely the form in which it existed. The British list in date sections is much better. The original US list had no date sections. I think your new version was a great improvement, so well done on that, but I'm not happy with just one section for the twentieth century. This section will be by far the biggest and it will also attract all the non-notable entries. I think it needs to be broken into smaller segments, possibly of 25 years each. Please also post on Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts to involve the views of editors who are likely to be helping to maintain any such list. Let's get a consensus before setting something up which people might not be happy with. If you didn't keep a record of your new version, I can retrieve it if/when necessary. Tyrenius 01:46, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I've moved your draft to a user sub page, which I hope is OK, as this is the normal practice. Also the cats have to start with a colon after the [[ to stop them putting your user page on the category page. I've done this. Tyrenius 02:47, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

I guessed that! It took me a while when I tried originally. If you follow the coding, you can create sub pages for whatever you want. Just put the code on your user page and you'll get a red link to click to make a user sub page. The key is the slash. Tyrenius 03:01, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for restoring the lists of American artists, I've added some names, you've done a really good job. Congratulations. Modernist 12:19, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. I'd like to celebrate with a barnstar for you. Do feel free to use the model on other lists of artists! Tyrenius 23:43, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		Excellent work on the recreation of List of American artists Tyrenius 23:43, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

List of American artists before 1900

I thought I'd bring this edit to your attention.[1] It struck me that it would be useful if an artist was known as a particular specialist, as in this case, that the information was included. Other possibilities that occur are "portrait painter", "landscape painter", "German Expressionist", etc, but only where this was clearly the case. It would help readers to locate what they were interested in. Tyrenius 07:15, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Jon Gnagy

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Cai Guo-Qiang Copyright violation

Hi, I have removed the majority of the text of this article that has been copied from www.caiguoqiang.com. Some of this text was included when you created the article. The artist is clearly significant and it should be possible to reinstate the main facts about him, but it should read like an encyclopedia article, not like publicity material. P.S Good work on the List of American artists.--Ethicoaestheticist 20:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs

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art in America

Thank you for quality articles related to American artists and the exhibition of their work, such as List of American artists 1900 and after, Cai Guo-Qiang, The Shapes Project, Palm Springs Art Museum, Portikus, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, illustrated, for service from 2006, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Two years ago, you were recipient no. 1954 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:14, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

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