User talk:Brianshapiro

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Hey there! Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like this place--I sure do--and want to stay. If you need help on how to title new articles check out Wikipedia:Naming conventions, and for help on formatting the pages visit the manual of style. If you need help look at Wikipedia:Help and The FAQ , plus if you can't find your answer there, check The Village pump or The Reference Desk! Happy Thanksgiving! Alexandros

Excellent entry on Neo-Grec style! Much more could be added in the way of Neo-Grec furnishings and decoration... Wetman 03:16, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Brian, you're a marvel! I absolutely *love* the article on Kitsch, and wish I could have written it myself. As for your request to loosen up the style, I probably could, a bit, but I'm not exactly the master of relaxed, hip writing myself-- there are others who would do a much better job. I'm flattered all the same at the request and if you really think my help would be an improvement, I'll do all I can!

I will try, if I can, to inject a bit on those like myself who collect kitch as kitch, which is probably a postmodern thing. But I'd welcome your comments on this first.

Steverapaport 21:32, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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[edit] Images

Hi Brian, thanks for the note about the image formatting on Neo-Grec, which BTW is one of my favourite examples of a Wikipedia article providing a good introduction to a topic. My current views as requested are below, but if you disagree strongly, I will not unilaterally revert.

  • Using the extended image syntax alone with "thumbnail" instead of DIV tags and pixel sizes:
    • means that all images are likely to get the same margins between text and image
    • reduces the amount of HTML in article edits
    • I agree that for an individual article, tweaking the image size improves the look, but I believe that it should be mostly avoided in favour of consistency, as we do for font styles and sizes.
    • More improvements to the wiki image tags are imminent improving caption formatting and the zoom symbol.
    • allows longer-term mediawiki software enhancements to be automatically implemented, e.g.
      • adjusting thumbnail size by one or more of browser screen size, user preference, media
  • small sizes are good:
    • Most web-users outside the USA are a few years behind on bandwidth, and some countries pay per KB or MB (but I acknowledge that your images are well compressed)
    • Many web-users have lower resolution screens and some use small-screen mobile browsers
    • The original image formats are only a click away
  • The Decorative Arts section benefited more from the pottery image than the Intro.
  • The left-placement and size of the painting image disturbed the flow of text too much.

Please note that these are only the opinions of one person. See meta:Image Box for past discussion on thumbnails. Even more importantly, please read Wikipedia:Image use policy and update your image pages accordingly to establish the copyright status. Other people have been removing unlabelled image files to protect Wikipedia.

Zigger 05:07, 2004 Apr 18 (UTC)

Hi Brian. Flicking through random pages, I came across Hierarchy of genres, which appears to be very largely your work. I was so impressed I had to pop in here and tell you. It's a great example of what Wikipedia should be - erudite, informed and well-written. Good work! --ALargeElk | Talk 09:27, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Image tag

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status?

You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, and so on. Click here for a list of the various tags.

If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the image from, and I'll tag it for you. Thanks so much. Denni☯ 04:23, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at Wikipedia:Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Likewise with Image:Hans Makart.jpg, which has been presumed public domain in the meantime. Thank you. [[User:Rdsmith4|User:Rdsmith4/sig]] 21:31, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Academic art

Brian. thanks for taking the time to write a message, It is an excellent article, in hindsight I realise that I wrote my hasty critique in a state of pique, I hope that it was not too harsh. the reason that I felt it important to include the english side of the coin was that i came to the page following a trail via more ambiguous terms such as 'art' 'fine art' and even 'beauty' - by comparison these pages are quite speculative. your work is remarkably encyclopedic given the amount of space.

Of course a nod to what was occuring in england at the time would be welcome, if only because it is the root (via William Morris) of the arts and crafts movement, the clash with the early modernists (the Bloomsbury group) and the subsequent political split between 'art' and 'craft' that mirrors social changes taking place in Britain in the early C20. It has been said that the work of James Joyce and Conan Doyle exemplify the different stances in thier respective exclusivity and inclusivity of the general public. In the uk at least is still very much a live issue - It leads to odd forms of classification, such as 'Artist Blacksmith' as well as two seperate streams of art education and at government level, both an Arts Council and a Crafts Council.

I wish I had the breadth of knowledge to write a coherent account of the british events, but unfortunately my understanding stems from practise rather than historical study. Good luck with your writing, I am sure it will be well considered and very interesting. regards DavidP 11:13, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

duplicate submission due to lag - deleted

[edit] William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery

You have in the past edited William-Adolphe Bouguereau. A related article, the William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery has been nominated for deletion for violating WP:NOT (AfD here). A proposal to modify WP:NOT is here. Please join either or both conversations and comment as you see fit. Dsmdgold 16:58, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Image Tagging Image:Bibliotheque Nationale Paris reading room.jpg

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Thanks for uploading Image:Bibliotheque Nationale Paris reading room.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

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