User talk:Wpearl

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[edit] Redirects

If you want to create a redirect you can click on the #R on the edit tool bar to get the correct mark up. Then you just need to complete between the crackets to say where the direct should go and voila. If I can help you further, please feel free to contact me by clicking on the humbug in my username and then editing my talk page to leave a message. Happy editing. --Spartaz Humbug! 22:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects / Edwaert Collier

You've created a new article Edwart Collier, found out that the article already existed under a different name Evert Collier and then changed the text of the old article to "redirect" to yours. This way the discussion page and the history of the article were lost, while the old article also contained stuff that's not in your text (for example the three references). The thing to do in such a situation is to merge your text in the old article (you may even overwrite it) and then move the article to the new name, if you think that's better. Unfortunately, you used a name that he's basically not known by (24 google hits only should have given you a hint). The Dutch art-historical database (http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/) says that the preferred name is "Edwaert Collier" (4540 hits), but commonly seen is "Evert Collier" (Evert informal for Edwaert) (5870 hits, partially thanks to wikipedia of course), while "Edwaert Colyer" gives 2140 hits. Of course, the Anglicized form "Edward" pops up a lot too (2240 times for Edward Colyer & Collier combined), though he wouldn't have used that himself. I suggest you revert your redirect in "Evert Collier", merge your text in that article, rename it to "Edwaert Collier" and redirect "Edwart Collier" to "Edwaert Collier". Afasmit 04:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I have fixed the Evert Collier thing for you

I added a link to the painter from the Buccanneers page. Its appropriate to have a dull page disambiguation for this as there are only two and one is as also know as. A link from the article of Edward Collier is therefore the correct way to go. I'm going to review the redirect you put in and will probably reverse it but your link will remain.

Please remember to sign your name at the end of your talk page messages by adding 4 ~~~~ at the end. That makes it possible to know who said what when.

Best Spartaz Humbug! 06:36, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Samuel H. Kress

Thanks for the additions to the article Samuel H. Kress. The list of museums with collections donated by Kress is very useful. However, when you edit in the future please be careful not to destroy all the wikilinks that appear in an article's text. The Kress article probably had too many (it's not important to wikilink individual years, for example), but your recent edit removed all of the article's wikilinks, including some that are standard for Wikipedia biographies, such as dates of birth and death, place of birth, and so on (I've restored the essentials to the article). I noticed that you've started a couple of biographies of artists. They will be welcome additions to the encyclopedia. If you haven't seen it yet, you might find it useful to visit WikiProject Biography. Whyaduck 06:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

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