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[edit] Please use edit summaries

Hello. Please be courteous to other editors and use edit summaries when updating articles. The Mathbot tool shows your usage of edit summaries to be very low:

Edit summary usage for Josh a brewer: 19% for major edits and 70% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 10 minor edits in the article namespace.

Using edit summaries helps other editors quickly understand your edits, which is especially useful when you make changes to articles that are on others' watchlists. Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 18:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Searcy, Arkansas/Mike Beebe

Thanks for your input on the Searcy, Arkansas page, Josh. Please note, though, that I never actually said Mike Beebe was born in Searcy. The fact that he has lived and worked in the city for a long time would seem to fit at least one idea of a hometown, in my opinion. I wouldn't ever automatically assume that a birthplace equates with a hometown. If I did that, I'd be saying — for example — that Nicole Kidman's hometown is Honolulu. — ArkansasTraveler 14:10, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Username, user and user talk pages

Hi Josh, you had a different user page and another different user talk page at names which were not your username, which can cause confusion and mean the user contributions link does not appear on the pages. When moving the pages you said it was for caps, so can I suggest you change your username at Wikipedia:Changing username which will re-attribute your contributions to a new name of your choice. Thanks, mattbr30 13:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Right, Matt, I'll look into doing that.Josh a brewer 05:13, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] MFA article

Hi Josh, in regards to the Master of Fine Arts article, you wrote:

Thanks for your contribution to the MFA article. I don't think that the plastic arts and visual arts are the same thing, as you note indicated (the former term doesn't totally capture the latter), yet I'll let the edit stand, because it seems not to matter that much. In my understanding, the plastic arts do not include what most people usually think of when they think of art--painting. Josh a brewer (talk) 12:41, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I never said that they're the same thing... I indicated that visual arts is an umbrella term and that Plastic Arts is a type of visual art. In the same way the article sums up MFAs in Theater Production, Theater Acting, Theater Directing, Theater Technology, etc. as simply MFA in Theater Arts, I think it is appropriate for it to sum up all the visual arts media (e.g., photography, painting, print making, new media, etc.) as an MFA in Visual Arts.

I briefly looked into this and I think this is an issue of American vs. British English. In the American university system there isn't such thing as an MFA in Plastic Arts and, in fact, the American art word (and academic art world) doesn't even use the term (we simply call it "sculpture").

Even though there is such a thing as an MFA in Plastic Arts, I'm not sure it makes sense to specify it separately from Visual Arts. Plastic Arts is really a sub-category of Visual Arts (at least I believe that's the case, as an American art professor I'm mainly familiar with how we categorize things in the U.S.) and if the article specifically mentions "Plastic Arts," I don't see why it doesn't break out and mention all the visual art media: photography, ceramics, printmaking, painting, new media, film, etc. Simenzo (talk) 15:15, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Arkansas collaboration

As a part of WikiProject Arkansas, you are encouraged to vote for a project collaboration. Hope to see you there, Basketball110 20:19, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

The article "Arkansas" has been chosen for March's project collaboration. Voting has begun for April's collaboration. Hope to see you there, Basketball110 23:20, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Wikiproject Arkansas notification

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