User talk:JohnJHenderson

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Contents 1 Welcome! 2 White Mountain panorama 3 hello 4 Your templates 5 Review 6 Artcyclopedia 7 Exceptional newcomer award 8 Deletion of pages 9 Spaces 10 Confirmation 11 Copyrights 12 Vandalism 13 Stub categories 14 Picture 15 Images 16 When is a stub not a stub? 17 Commons cat 18 Article review 19 Tennis 20 Image:Bcyoung.jpg 21 Josh White 22 Winipesaukee links 23 GA 24 Talk:Pillow fight 25 Users in Center Harbor 26 Gerry 27 Kensett 27.1 another comment 27.2 response 28 White Mountain Art 29 Tennis scoring

[edit] Welcome!

Welcome!

Hello, JohnJHenderson, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] White Mountain panorama

• I completely agree about labeling the peaks. The problem is - I don't know them. Tried to look them up when captioning it. Can you point me to a reference? Debivort 16:04, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Your guess about the perspective of the panorama is exactly right. I'd very much appreciate the peak names and ref. Of course, you are welcome to modify the caption without consulting me, if you'd rather. Thanks Debivort 17:40, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Hello JJ. Thanks for the pointer to the book. Based on the names you gave me, I came across an online topo map that led me to call the peaks a bit differently though. Here is its (very long) URL: http://www.mytopo.com/map.cfm?mapparams=zone%3D19%26easting%3D290153%26northing%3D4884654&CFID=30163628&CFTOKEN=94894370 I should have also let you know that the pic was taken from the valley floor, rather than the summit, which contributes to my sense that the summit of Flume was not visible. I've updated the image and caption with the names as I interpreted them, but would very much like to know if you agree with my assignment. Thanks, Debivort 00:59, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
      • Aah - now it's up. I think I must have edited and previewed it without saving last time. Debivort 17:21, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] hello

Hey there. Yep, that's the right way to contact me. The terms and conditionss link you showed me say that the content may be used for, "personal, educational, non-commercial, non-profit use". Wikipedia can't use 1) personal only licenses, 2) non-commercial licenses nor 3) non-profit use only licenses. We use the GFDL which allows use by companies (for profit). Do you want to relicense this work into the GFDL? If so, then after we confirm that you own the copyright (done either by you putting up a page on your site, thus proving you control it, or by me sending you an e-mail [listed at the site] and you responding.) the content could be used. Confirmation, sadly, is needed because we have had people in the past either lie or be mistaken about the copyright situation. Again, welcome. Broken S 00:31, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

As to your "blemish on your record" comment, don't worry no one here is judgmental. Many many people make this mistake and once this is cleared up the page will return to normal. I hope you donate much more content to Wikipedia in the future. You might want to read Wikipedia:Copyrights (even though it is boring). Broken S 00:34, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Alright, I'll email you from an address at your website (john at johnjhenderson dot c). Wikipedia articles are actually quite long sometimes so condensing them might not always be required (see Wikipedia:Article size). Also, rememeber not to just copy and paste your articles over. It is imperative that you wikify your articles (apply standard wikipedia style per our style guidelines). Unwikified articles are harder to edit and improve and don't help Wikipedia all that much. It would be nice if you added a line saying that you license the content into the GFDL (or any free license, like cc-sa-by) on your copyrights page. So it is clear (and other people could help you move content over from your website). If you intend to only release some articles under the GFDL then I'd write that you have released some to us on your copyrights page. 00:54, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I sent the email. Broken S 01:02, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

No, you needn't be concerned. Add Template:Confirmation to the talk pages of all the articles you upload (i'll do it for you on the first one). That will indicate that you have confirmed as the copyright owner. Some people may still be confused and tag it as a copyvio. Just change it back and show them this page or the talk page with the template. Cheers! 01:31, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Not a pain at all. If you think it's wikified enough (it looks pritty well wikified to me), then just remove the tag. It's a fairly subjective standard. The only other thing might need to be done is that you might want to add some links on the page (like his birth place or clubs or anything where an article exsits or should exist which someone might want to click on). Broken S 02:50, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

What you did was configure the alt text. To make it appear as a caption you have to add "|frame|" (which adds a frame around the picture where the caption sits) or "|thumb|" (as i did) which makes it a thumbnail and adds a frame. If you haven't looked at it already, Wikipedia:Picture tutorial can be quite useful. Broken S 03:22, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it looks very nice. Maybe one day you could submit it to peer review and it could become a featured article on the front page. Broken S 03:41, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm, I don't really know much about the subject, so it's hard for me to suggest a title. We don't even have an article about White Mountains Art or even better Art of the White Mountains (similar in naming to Visual arts of the United States). Perhaps you should create it there with a section about the history. Then if the section about history gets to big it could be moved out per Wikipedia:Summary style. Also, you can get more people to notice your articles if you link to them from others. If you were to make "White Mountains Art" a link from White Mountains (New Hampshire) (I assume it's those white mountains you're talking about) would be useful and would increase the profile of your article (and pagerank). The title you suggested wasn't bad though (there is no need to write and art and artists when art will do just fine). Don't worry to much, the name can always be changed later with little effort by using the "move" button. Broken S 03:58, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your templates

Might I ask why you created Template:Campbell? I know you might be typing things like that often, but templates should be used for temporary things (cleanup tags or deletion tags), things that will change, or thing that we want to keep track of. I don't see why we would want to keep track of what articles cite that source. What you might want to do (if you don't want to continualy write the same thing over and over again) is make a page in your user namepsace (say at User:JohnJHenderson/Campbell. Then you could write {{subst:User:JohnJHenderson/Campbell}} to substitute in the reference whenever you need it. The same goes for all of the templates you made. If you haven't all ready read it Wikipedia:Template messages might give you some ideas about what templates are used for. Most likely if you leave the setup the way it is someone, maybe me, will put them up on WP:TFD. Broken S 20:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

not a problem at all. In case you're unsure, you can request deletion by adding {{db|creator requests deletion}} to the template. Remember that even if you use the templates in your userspace you should use the "subst:" (as in substitute) prefix because it helps take the load off of the servers. 22:19, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I think I understand your question and the answer is: no that can't be done. Instead you could make many templates with only a number difference like User:JohnJHenderson/1 User:JohnJHenderson/2 (remember that any page can also function as a template if you put the page name in brackets). It seems you are already doing somthing like this. Why do you want your reference templates to be updated when you make changes centraly? Shouldn't they be complete when you add the template and you can subst them in? Doing it your way puts a slightly higher burden on our servers.Why can't you just copy and paste these references every time you need them? Administrators (or sysops or janitors as some people call them) are people granted with more functions than standard users. Administrators can delete articles and block problem users. See Wikipedia:Administrators for more details. I notice your actions by looking at Special:Contributions/JohnJHenderson and my watchlist. You can ask for help from other people at WP:HD or (if you have IRC]) WP:IRC. I don't mind the questions, I love to help (although I am not always at my computer). 00:19, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

If you wrote the template right the first time you could just subst everything in and if you do happen to make a mistake going through and fixing it wouldn't be so hard. I don't think there is a search powerful enough to find those references for you but you could just go through your contributions page or make a list of the articles on your userpage. Anyways I just remembered that we have Template:Book reference (I assume those are books you are citing, we also have more such templates here). You can format them all the same way by using that template (see Template talk:Book reference for instructions on how to use it). You can get a spellchecker by getting the google toolbar (it has an integrated spellchecker I think it might only works for firefox though. Broken S 15:51, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Link just the first. Unless you haven't mentioned it in a while and the person might be confused as to what it is. Broken S 01:07, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Review

I'm turning in for the night soon, but I'll try to take a look at it tommorow. (Note that I am not an expert on this subject, or even art history in general) In the meantime you might want to submit it for peer review (they can sometimes be helpful with spelling, tone, formating and the like). Also take a look at my comment on the article's talk page. Broken S 03:22, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

The standard style for headings (see this, yeah we have lots of pages describing style) is to lower case everything except the first word and proper nouns. For some reason I thought "The Willey Tradegy" is a proper noun. It probably should be lower case. Broken S 00:16, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

I'll defer to you for issues of actual content (as I've said before, I'm no expert on this subject). Our naiming policy concerning capitalization is at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization). It says, "Convention: Unless the term you wish to create a page for is a proper noun, do not capitalize second and subsequent words." Whether or not White Mountain Art is a proper noun (is the article about an art movment or just art in that area [the article didn't make that clear to me]) I'll leave to you. It'd be best if you could get permission from the photographer. No need to rush yourself in making changes. There is plenty of time (the article is quite good already). Broken S 00:34, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

By the way, was White Mountain art based on text from your website? If so that template needs to be placed on the talk page. Broken S 02:19, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Is the text close enough so that someone could pass by and think that it was copied from the site? If so then a template telling people not to worry might be appropriate. If you have changed it enough then don't worry about it. Broken S 03:15, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Sadly I don't know of many examples. The issue is, did you take (or crib off of) any of the text from your website/article. If so then we need to do the same thing we did with Talk:Benjamin Champney. For example the paragraph

Beginning in the 1830s, the landscape painters of the Hudson River School "sought to define America and what it was to be an American. Artists of that time saw themselves as scientists making documents that expressed Christian truths and democratic ideals" (Keyes 1996:91).

Seems to be taken from here (which is not the same as the first site the text was taken from). Which you wrote. You need to be sure that you own the rights to that text (sometimes writers forfeit the rights to ther text, I have talked to writers before who didn't realize this) and then we should add a template (like that on the other article) saying that you have relicensed that part of the text from that site into the GFDL. This is to insure that no one else comes by and says that you stole it (or for the publication to come by and say you stole it). As to the naming of the company article, yeah naiming things like that is hard. The official policy concerning page names is at Wikipedia:Naming conventions. I don't believe we have a standard for company names. It's best to use whatever is most common (or else whatever the official name is: is the company called Data General in tax forms?). Both are fine though (as long as Wikipedia:Redirects are available for the alternate names). We had a similar debate at the Google article (it was previously called Google Inc.). It seems someone else has already answered your other question at the help desk. Broken S 20:30, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

You could upload all the pictures you want to talk about to the commons (commons:Main Page) and then use internal links to them. That way we avoid making external links (which look ugly), but let them see the article if they want to. For more information about the commons see Wikimedia Commons. On commons you could make a page just full of pictures and paintings and link to it at the end of the article (for example see commons:Leonardo da Vinci). I agree that showing them all would get crowded. Just show the best examples (your discretion) and link the others (preferably at the commons, but external links work too). Broken S 04:06, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Artcyclopedia

I have mixed feelings about Artcyclopedia. What I like about it is that it provides direct links to specific examples of an artist's work in online museum collections. So, if I want to see a comprehensive selection of John Kensett's work in museums, the direct links are all there. It's much more efficient than searching on Google (though I see they have some broken links). Their list of available American artists is sufficient, but not great. What's not nice about Artcyclopedia is the commercialism, as you mention. I've never added it as a link to any Wikipedia articles myself--I'd rather see the best images right in the article, or have direct links to the best museum images in the article, rather than linking to a bunch of links. --Worldofdew 00:57, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Exceptional newcomer award

For your great contributions to Wikipedia, I award you the The_Exceptional_Newcomer_Award. Broken S 02:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of pages

To get any page deleted (including user pages) add {{db|reason}}. You can type templates or any syntax in a way so that it does not expand (you don't need to write "bracket") if you use the <nowiki> tags. You can get them by clicking the picture of a W with a cross on top of it (above the edit box). Broken S 21:42, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

By the way, the reason you were confused was that the person who gave you the advice used a template to avoid using the nowiki tags. The Template:tlp helps autoformat templates when discussing them. You should have copied the plaintext (not the wikicode). Broken S 21:48, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Spaces

You can't have spaces in html code (as far as I know) so instead we use underscores. For example World_War_II = World War II (look at the code to see what I changed). The underscores however shouldn't be visible in the file name at the top of the page (it should appear as spaces, if not show me what image you are talking about). Sorry it's one of those annoying limitations in the software. Broken S 23:02, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

You can learn about gallery tags here and here. I don't think you can get more pictures across, it's pretty automatic. By the way if you want to include tags in your messages use the nowiki tags I described above (or it'll get messed up like it was). I don't know if you are aware of this, but you can link to pictures without displaying them by including a colon ":" in front of the word image. This way you can discuss an image and link to it without displaying it (if you are having space issues). Cheers! Broken S 01:37, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Confirmation

All right, I tagged it for you. Thanks for checking on that. Broken S 00:29, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

forwarding the email would help. Broken S 00:30, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes I got it. Sorry I forgot to check my email. Thanks. Broken S 16:57, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyrights

If the image was taken before 1900 and no major (copyrighatble) revisions of it were made since, then you can probably assume it has entered the public domain because it is so old. I would upload it and write everything you have told me and add {{PD}}. The only thing I'm not sure of is whether the "CURTEICHCOLOR REPRODUCTION FROM KODACHROME ORIGINAL" changes are enough to get a new copyright. Is the picture in color (did they colorize it)? This nifty table, says that works published before 1923 are in the public domain. Broken S 00:14, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

The way to defeat vandals is detailed at Wikipedia:Vandalism. First use the warning templates {{subst:test}}, {{subst:test2}}, {{subst:test3}}...{{subst:test5}}. If they continue to vandalize, report them to WP:AIV, where an admin will block them. You could also report them to WP:VIP. To remove vandalism follow the instructions on Wikipedia:Revert. Remember not all bad edits are vandalism, some are user tests ("Can I really edit this webstie?") or ignorance about our policies. Broken S 15:45, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

if the vandalism is very atrocious you can skip those steps and just alert an admin or immediately list on WP:AIV. Broken S 15:47, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

In response to your question on my talk page, I just happened to notice an anon user edit in the "Recent Changes" page. As far as I know, the best way to deal vandalism is to keep your eyes open and when you see it, fix it as quickly as possible. --Do Not Talk About Feitclub (contributions) 03:43, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub categories

...are listed at WP:WSS/ST. Cheers! -GTBacchus^(talk) 20:27, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

No, no e-mail needed. You're trustworthy. Broken S 00:26, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Yes, it's nice to see someone else around here who is interested in 19th century American art...it's been a backwater of Wikipedia. As for images, I agree that the images don't look good stacked one on top of the other, all on one side. Frankly I think one of the best examples of how to use them that I've seen is your White Mountain art article. I like how the images are interspersed, some on the left and some on the right, and that they relate to the adjacent text. My personal opinion is that galleries work best if you have more than three images in them; I think they also risk interrupting the flow of an article if they're put in the middle—I like text that wraps around images, but that's just me. The Bierstadt article makes it difficult to wrap text because it's not very long. I don't feel too strongly about it though; I just write, and leave the images to others :) --Worldofdew 01:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] When is a stub not a stub?

Have you checked out Wikipedia:Stub? Under the heading "Essential information" there are some guidelines about when an article is considered a stub or not. It's basically a judgement call, which you're welcome to make anytime: when you feel that it's no longer a stub, you're probably right. I hope that helps. -GTBacchus^(talk) 00:16, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Commons cat

You can't put White Mountain art in that category because they are in different projects. You could create an article commons:White Mountain art and put pictures and captions there (like we have a page commons:Africa and a category commons:category:Africa). That isn't necessary though. Broken S 17:08, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article review

Alright, I just finished looking at Bob Gibson (musician). It's pritty good. I have just a few issues.

• The picture says that it is PD because there was no copyright statement. Despite the popular belief one must no mark things as copyright for them to be copyrighted. Things are assumed to be copyrighted. Is there some special reason you think it is in the public domain?
• That article is too long to be a stub. Stubs are 1 or 2 or 3 paragraphs. Not 6+. Stubs are just critically short articles that need attention.
• Your writing style is more flashy than most articles here, but I'm not sure if that is a bad thing (people are always complaining about Wikipedia's writing style). It could stand some toning down.
• It'd be nice if you'd put the ISBN of the book reference you used after the reference. Wikipedia automatically wikifies ISBN numbers (eg ISBN 666666666)
• It could use some more external links.
• As you know, I know nothing about this man and I can't comment on the content or accuracy of the article.

I'll take a look at the second article soon. Broken S 14:40, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

After looking over Mount Chocorua (New Hampshire) my only question is why it isn't named just Mount Chocorua since it doesn't seem there is another Mount Chocorua with an article to conflict with it. Broken S 02:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Anyone could move it. I didn't/haven't because I don't know if the move should be done. If there are no other mountains with the same name it should certainly be moved. If there are others (they just don't have articles), a disambig page may be in order (with red links for the others). Broken S 23:05, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tennis

No , you shouldn't be using a template to keep the content identical. The Tennis article should be using summary style (summarize the scoring article). The content doesn't need to be word for word the same (and shouldn't be because then the tennis article would be needlessly long). Does that answer your question? Broken S 21:06, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Besdies adding "~~~~"? That's what I always do. Broken S 01:56, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't know of any special method. I'd just login, erase the IP and replace it with your sig (or make a comment below yours saying "that's me"). Broken S 20:38, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Am I glad you're around to help edit the Tennis articles. :) Noelle De Guzman 13:16, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Bcyoung.jpg

You changed the Public Domain tag to PD-Old on this image. This is a minor point, but Benjamin Champney died in 1907 (99 years ago). The photograph came from his book, published in 1900. Since the photograph was of Champney as a young man, we can presume that the photographer has been dead for 100 years, but we can't be certain. It seems this is a very gray area. In the US, the image is clearly in the Public Domain. Shouldn't the tag remain just PD? I'm just trying to understand what tags are appropriate. JJ 17:48, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

I didn't realize it was such a close call, I have changed the tag to {{PD-US}} now. The generic {{PD}} tag is deprecated, so that's why I am not using it. People have decided it's better to use more specific tags for PD images. they are actually listed on the Template:PD if you wanted to look at them. Does that new tag seem right to you? If not feel free to change it and/or let me know whatever you want :D - cohesion★talk 22:11, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Josh White

Yes, I agree with you about this. I don't know enough about Josh White, in fact (though his son has a website that discusses him), but I think the onus is on the editor who added the text just a day or two ago. S/he doesn't seem to have responded yet. Badagnani 23:27, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Winipesaukee links

External links are the biggest pain in the ass in wikipedia. Now that the site is so popular, everybody comes flocking here seeking traffic, and balancing between spam/commercial crap and useful/informative sites can be tricky. - DavidWBrooks 22:40, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA

Sorry, I do occasionally take some time off wikipedia to sleep. I added GA. Although I'm not convinced the present formatting is the best at least it shows the images are utilized in the article. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 01:49, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Right, as I said on the talk page I'm fine if you change it back to whatever seems best to you and the main content contributors to that article. The real problem is that high image to text content ratio of that article. Ideally, there should be more text to disperse the images in, thus eliminating the need for a photo gallery. You might consider moving some of the images to Wikisource, as an alternative to a photo gallery. I don't actually have that much experience with articles relating to art, so please don't feel the need to take my suggestion. It was just that: a suggestion. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 20:36, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Pillow fight

see response NTK 21:06, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Users in Center Harbor

Don't know if you're interested or not, but I've created a "User Box" for people in Center Harbor. You can see it at User:SatyrTN/Userbox/CenterHarbor and/or add it to your page by putting {{User:SatyrTN/Userbox/Center Harbor, NH}} on your home page. See Wikipedia:Userboxes for more info.

Thanks! -- SatyrTN 04:37, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gerry

JJ, I linked to The Old Man of the Mountain because of Gerry's painting of this view, of which he is known to have made several copies in different sizes. The best known and largest, to my knowledge, is the one said to be in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. You might know of others. Thanks for your note, and let me know if I'm wrong on this score. Regards Jack Bethune 12:40, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

John, yes, I will offer some published references to the Gerry view I mentioned, but it will have to wait until I return home. Am typing this on a hotel computer a continent away from my home, but should be back in touch soon after 9/20. Regards, Jack Bethune 00:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the question you raised on my Talk page: I am a long-time admirer, student, and occasional collector of American art, with particular interest in the Hudson River and White Mountain Schools, as well as in American Impressionism. As for Gerry, I know of no image of him. How he managed to escape being recorded is not only puzzling but also amazing. With best wishes Jack Bethune 18:01, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kensett

Thank you for your message; I appreciate your contacting me. I strongly believe that in articles about art or artists, readers need to see plenty of their work and without having to jump to another page. The work itself is generally the most important thing about the subject of the article, and nothing in writing can replace what's lost if the reader doesn't see the art work. You mention (I think) two competing values: good layout and (if I'm interpreting you right) perhaps overburdening the reader with lesser works. As to the first, I personally don't even mind crowding a page with pictures because I think they keep the reader interested and pull the reader further into the article, even when they crowd the layout, but I realize I'm in a minority on that. As to the second, I think if a picture is down further in the page, adding it to the article can't hurt the article. I think the Noroton picture (the pine tree and rock) is beautiful online, particularly when you see it enlarged, and the other picture with the frame in it (I think that's the Darien shore picture you're referring to), while not the best as a picture, has a lot of merit to it. If we could get better Kensett pictures, I'd agree to replace these.

But I think I have a better solution: Plenty of art-related articles here have "galleries" with pictures at the bottom. With galleries, the pictures don't disrupt any layout, and the galleries are at (or near) the bottom of the page. This gives you your layout and me my inclusion of pictures. I don't know how to create galleries, but I can learn. What do you think? One other thing I do like that you may also are somewhat larger versions of the pictures than we have right now on the page. I think that gives casual readers a better chance to see how beautiful the pictures are and keeps them more interested. If there are fewer pictures butting up against the text, perhaps they could be a bit larger. Noroton 16:59, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I just learned how to do it by copying what was done at the Jan Vermeer article. If you like this, just copy and paste it to the Kensett page and remove the other versions of the pictures. This isn't my ideal (I'd like bigger pictures), but I think it meets your goals and mine:

The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut

Study on Long Island Sound at Darien, Connecticut (1872)

Noroton 17:17, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] another comment

John,

Was that you who just messaged me? If so, you weren't signed in. I took a look at Kensett work online through a Google Images search (I searched for "John Kensett" but then just "Kensett" which was better. Here's a link to that second search (1,700 results! But not all are the painter):

[Kensett]

If you think it's a good idea, the gallery could be expanded, and either you could upload the pictures or I could help. I don't mind whether or not the Darien picture with the frame stays or goes, although I think the Noroton rock picture looks good. My original interest in Kensett was the fact that he used to live near where I live and I could use some of his pictures to illustrate the Darien, Connecticut article. Noroton 20:27, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] response

I already cut the caption in the gallery box, above. I see nothing wrong with a longer caption to give more information to a reader, although they generally are better with a larger picture. I think the information you use for the captions is fine in this case, so long as the information is on the picture's image page (and it is).Noroton 20:36, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, cut the Darien painting then. I'd like to put a gallery at the bottom, though. What do you think of that idea? Would you want to upload some images to it (I'd be happy to do that work myself)? If not, would you have suggestions as to what paintings would best go into it? I'm thinking at least six works. Noroton 20:45, 8 December 2006

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[edit] White Mountain Art

Sure - I'll be glad to add a credit to the picture - sorry about that. -- Sturgeonman 00:31, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tennis scoring

Thanks for the reference on the gunning stuff. It's interesting, but if you look at pages 10 and 11 of The Official Encyclopedia of Tennis (the 1980 edition, more or less), they have a long article about how the scoring system came directly from the old Court Tennis scoring, which had been using 15-30 etc. since the 15th century. Since Court Tennis was still being played at Hampton Court (and still is, for that matter) by the same types of upper-class people who began playing lawn tennis, it's gonna be a hard sell to say that there is any other origin for the scoring. It might be worth a footnote, however, to say that the LTA offers an alternative theory, which is such-and-such. I don't think Wiki ought to go on record, however, as saying this is anything but an alternative one. And I gotta say, then in my 51 years of hanging around the tennis world, and studying it up to point, I've never heard of this before. But it's still interesting. Best for the New Year! Hayford Peirce 16:15, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I got you confused with someone who emailed me a couple of days ago with more nonsense about the gunning stuff. When I replied above I was in a hurry and still thinking of that. Your LTA link, obviously, is just saying what earlier editors have written from time to time, that the system might come from the times of the clock. I see no reason why this can't be put in the article, along with some caveats such as "one theory is that etc." And as I said above, even the gunning stuff could probably be footnoted. Hayford Peirce 17:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

It seems perfect to me what you wrote; now we'll see if the "gunner" theorist ever comes back.... Hayford Peirce 00:32, 2 January 2007 (UTC)