User talk:Melancholia i

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1 Burg Rheinfels
2 In Tenebris
3 nice pix
4 Leonardo
- 4.1 Re dehumanising

[edit] Burg Rheinfels

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[edit] In Tenebris

This article has been deleted -- see WP:MUSIC. NawlinWiki 05:00, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] nice pix

Image:KL View from Bangsar.JPG is a great image. __earth ^(Talk) 04:58, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leonardo

First of all, what beautiful pix you take!

Secondly, with regards to Leonardo, I have just reverted your edits to the intro, and also to the bit about there being "only two incidents of his childhhood that he recalled"

This latter may seem impossible or unlikely to some people, so twice this sentence has been "diluted" by other editors. But, no, this is what my source book says, and what is always quoted as being the case. Whether Leonardo had reasons to block all other childhood memories, we will never know.

As for the intro:- I have made a small adjustment to the use of the word "infinite". It now reads:-

Leonardo has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was equalled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time, and the man with the most diversely prodigious talent ever to have lived.

Your edit:- Leonardo has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man" due to his great curiousity and inventiveness. He is considered to be one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance, and having some of the most diversly prodigious talents of his time.

Four points:-

Leonardo "is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time".

No need for the qualifying "of the Italian Renaissance". "of all time" is correct.

Leonardo "is widely considered ....to be the man with the most diversely prodigious talent ever to have lived".

No qualifying "of his time" is necessary.

If we were writing here about Raphael it would bbe correct to say "He is considered to be one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance,"

If we were writing about Alberti it would be correct to say "having some of the most diversly prodigious talents of his time."

But when writing about the talents of Leonardo da Vinci, no qualifiers are necessary. We are talking about the man who changed the way that every succeeding artist perceived light and shade, who was the greatest anatomist for 1000 years, who invented the parallel linkage and the rotating governor 300 years before James Watt, who drew topographic maps with an accuracy not equalled until the 19th century, whose portable bridge became a standard military design and whose bobbin winder was used in every cloth factory from Hong Kong to Manchester.

When you are about to make changes to the introduction of an article that has been rated as having Top Importance, and when it is clear that the article has been extensively worked on, for a week or so, by one particular person, then it is best to negotiate changes of meaning by leaving a message on the message page or contacting the person who is doing the writing directly on their talk page so they get the message straight away.

On the other hand, corrections to spelling, typos, links that are not working and all mmy annoying doubble letters are always welcome. So are suggestions for improvements.

--Amandajm 04:34, 9 February 2007 (UTC)