User talk:Nick Michael

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  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.227.24.202 (talk) 06:49, August 24, 2007 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Nick Michael, 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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Psy guy ^(talk) 19:42, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] John Bull

Thank you for that cite! It's an interesting one indeed. I don't suppose you have a page number, do you? I put in an "xx" which you can replace if you can look it up (it's between the "ref" tags after the line in the article text, but shows at the end under "notes"). Otherwise the page number can come out, but the usual style these days is to put in pages for cites. Thanks! Antandrus (talk) 22:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aldegever

No problem - you're absolutely right to prioritise text over the rest. There are far too many turds dressed up with Christmas decorations, especially in Visual arts articles! Johnbod 01:14, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Now you look more Wikirespectable!

Johnbod 15:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your userpage

I have moved your user page as you requested at User talk:Essjay. If you would like information on how to do this yourself, should you ever need to again, see this page. Prodego ^talk 22:00, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk :Etching - support invited for proposal

Hi!, Your support is invited at Talk:Etching to reverse a new and unneccessary disambiguation page that has appeared without consultation. Thanks & enjoy the holidays! Johnbod 23:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

- my wiki Xmas card above. I've spread a few of your images around - they actually work really well with sharp images as they are so close to the actual size - see peasant, stocks, Hope, Landsknecht etc - rather cheekily put one on Renaissance Fair - don't know how long that will last. Have a good break! J Johnbod 23:53, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I hope you don't mind

I noticed your note on Antandrus' talk page and made a couple edits to the article, basically for house style things. It's a very nice article, well done! My only request would be for you to add inline citations using the <ref></ref> format. What I usually do is add what is essentially Harvard referencing within the tags. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Cheers, Mak (talk) 00:03, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

And adding to the above: nice job! I'm quite pleased to see this article. I changed the redirect, added a disambig notice at the top, and wikified a couple of things.

Should you feel so inclined, there are numerous other anthologies and publications from the same era that need articles. The ones by Thomas Ravenscroft come to mind. I'm starting on some publications from a hundred years earlier (for example, I recently put up an article on Petrucci's Odhecaton). Happy editing, Antandrus (talk) 01:38, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

(Re: Giles Farnaby) Marvellous! I'll have a closer look when I'm home from work. Have a look at Peter Philips for another glaring omission in our encyclopedia. There's a lot to be done on the Elizabethan and Jacobean era English musicians (and Germans too...) Best, Antandrus (talk) 23:58, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Very fine! You do excellent work. Your article reminds me that we need a Pierre Phalèse -- I'd been meaning to do that for a while now. I wonder if there is enough information on Tregian to attempt an article there? Best wishes, and have a wonderful new year, Antandrus (talk) 23:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Greetings again: yes, the plural form is better. As it turns out both virginal and virginals redirect to harpsichord. I wasn't thinking -- I'm accustomed to putting the double bracket before the terminal "s". Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 16:06, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Daniel Hopfer

Hi Nick, I started him off with a two-line stub (which has almost exhausted my knowledge of him) because I have seen officious bots going round de-linking redlinks, and there are several to DH which it would be a pity to lose. I'm not planning to do more. Bonne Noel to all, J Johnbod 23:06, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wheel Lock

I decided to check out the springs on a wheellock and violia! The are V style springs. I was thrown off by the clock like nature of the winding handle and the circular lock style. So that you know any spring can be prone to failure as repeatedly stressing the metal is its primary function. Everything that I have read on this subject seems to indicate that the lock was desirable for its function (in wet or damp weather it was more reliable than the flintlock) but that any problem with the lock demanded return to the gunsmith.

Cheers well done! Tirronan 16:36, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Heart-y hello

That's it! Yes, thank you, I was not dreaming. It has been many many years since I dealt with that material and so am glad to have sources that are better-informed than I. Merci! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 03:18, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No Blood No Foul

Thank you for the kind words Tirronan 15:33, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Francis Tregian the Elder and Younger

I originally changed the tag on both of these based on the time spent in prison (crime-bio-stub is not just for criminals but those accused of or related to crime i.e police). However having re-read both these articles I agree crime is probably not what they are most notable for so rather than reverting back to bio-stub I have put a UK-reli-bio-stub and UK-writer-stub respectively. If you feel this is still not correct then by all means change them, preferably not to bio-stub though as they both can atleast be classed as UK-bio-stub and I am trying to keep bio-stub down in size. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Waacstats (talk • contribs) 18:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Bastards and Burgundian fashion

I have added the Memling portrait of Antoine of Burgundy to the Commons, made a category for him there, and put a "commonscat" link on his page.

If you are interested in Burgundian fashion, perhaps you can add something something to 1400-1500 in fashion which has been tacked on to the front of our series. It's not my period, and I am not up to tackling expanding it by myself.

And by the way, should you want to add an "In fiction" section to Antoine, he appears in Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolò series. - PKM 19:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects and merges

Hi there. I just moticed this edit you made at the talk page that I had redirected. First, the edit wasn't showing up on the page because the redirect bit at the top over-rides everything else. Second, you seem confused between redirects and merges. A pure redirect is a page created as a redirect with no other history. Sometimes, a page is merged to another page, and a redirect is left at the original article. There are cases where a page or redirect need to be deleted, but this is not one of them. Deletion of a page is different from removal of the content from the page. Please see Wikipedia:Deletion and Wikipedia:Page history for more details, and ask at the Help Desk (or aske me) if you have any questions. Wikipedia is not really a china shop! Anything that is done wrong can usually be easily repaired. Carcharoth 14:02, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Glad I could help. Happy editing! Carcharoth 14:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sampler - thanks!

Thanks for uploading Image:Sampler by Elizabeth Laidman, 1760.jpg. We've desperately needed a good image for Sampler (needlework). - PKM 02:55, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, it was sewn by an ancestor of mine, Elizabeth Laidman, born c.1750/1. But I'm afraid that little Lizzie wasn't a dab hand at sewing and I hope she had other talents - some of the other ones I have seen are quite amazing! Incidentally, I have discovered the rest of the quotation (it's a long poem), but have failed for years now to discover the source of it. It's not Biblical, that's for sure. This family has Quaker forbears, and it may have something to do with the Society of Friends, but I still can't find anything about it.Nick Michael 14:12, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My Ladye Nevells Booke

Very fine indeed! We've needed that article. The 1590s were a small golden age for music, in many places; I love the music in this collection. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 22:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Compositions by William Byrd

Thanks for the help - I have had very little time to finish the article. I did find a copy of Mr Ladye Nevell's Booke and meant to add it in but never got round to it.

[User:Bewareoftheevilcheeseman|Bewareoftheevilcheeseman] 22:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1400-1500 in fashion

Nick, Things are starting to move over there, if you are interested. We could do with someone who knows the subject, as PKM & I are I think rather picking it up as we go along (I am certainly). We recently did the preceding century, which still needs expansion if you know about that. I see you have been cleaning up the toilets; was that my fault with the edit to Lady? The things one never thought one would be doing on WP! Cheers Johnbod 19:19, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong Beham?

(You wrote)

Thank you for your addition to the (Hans) Sebald Beham article. Unfortunately the Hans Beham who was a bell founder is not the same as Sebald Beham the engraver. Different people (no evidence that they were even related - and they probably weren't: although his family did originate from Poland, HSB actually spelled his name Peham until he changed it in about 1532), and different places.

If you agree with this, or unless you can provide evidence against it, could you please revert your edit.

If I were you I would create a new article on Hans Beham the founder, and add a disambiguation page.

Best wishes

Nick Michael 15:00, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out, but perhaps you could help by taking a look at the German reference I provided. [1] I don't know the language and had to rely on Babel Fish translation for that. What I find most puzzling is that even the dates match for Hans and Sebald Beham if what you say is true. Both of them lived in Nuremberg... I will gladly revert my edit if you’ll be so kind as to help by pointing out an online reference to Beham the bell founder somehow indicating the similarities and/or differences between them, or should we ask a German speaking editor - a history buff - to confirm your findings in German Wikipedia? --Poeticbent talk 15:37, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beham book

Sorry forgot about that bit, & did not pick it up on a quick scan. Hyatt Major doesn't mention the legal trouble in the bit I was reading, but certainly thinks Durer or his estate was rather ripped off. I'll steer a middle course.

Did you look at any of the fashion articles? Hennin is a bit stuck.

All thwe best, John

[edit] headgear

Many thanks for those comments, which I will work in. There is talk of pushing the article up the GA/FA ladder, which I am dubious about. On the loop, at hennin I put "There is very often a short loop seen on the forehead (right), presumably to adjust the hennin forward, and perhaps even to hold it on in wind." - which is (ahem!) pure OR, or OG (guess). This, my only pure costume history book:

Payne, Blanche; Winakor, Geitel; Farrell-Beck Jane: The History of Costume, from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Twentieth Century, 2nd Edn, HarperCollins, 1992. ISBN0060471417

- says (p.260): "the function of the small black loop over the forehead and what held these contraptions on the head are mysteries; the cone in fig 10-19 [a steeple hennin, similar to some in the Getty link at hennin] looks as though it adheres to the head by suction."

I have seen other references, but in a similar vein. I think it is clear the steeples were firmly attached to the very tightly pulled back hair, somehow, and held on that way. A big knot in the hair, with pins through that & the steeple? Or the end of the veil tied below a knot in the hair, and pulled tight through the open top of the cone before pinning? A good maid needed, I'm sure.

Johnbod 15:11, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I have just noticed there is a crown with a loop here [2] cheers Johnbod 00:07, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] U and non-U English

Hello Nick Michael, I changed "cruet", "fish knife" and "doily" to U. I am unsure of which they actually are, but they seem to me to be definite upper-class items. Am I missing something? I am of course perfectly willing to change it. :) Thanks, FrenchIsAwesome 04:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IP address

Thanks for your recent corrections on my Zombie article on Simple Wiki!
I recognised your IP address, thats how sad I am. I know how to put IP addresses to names.
Thanks again, Gwib 19:27, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Olive Oil

You'll be interested to know, dear pater, that the person who reached the longest confirmed lifespan, Jeanne Calment, attributed her longevity to Olive oil, which she poured on all of her food and rubbed into her skin!
So if you continue drinking it by the galleon, you'll be around to bug me and James for another 50 odd years!
Gwib 13:24, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

GOT MY FIRST BARNSTAR! And it was for a real reason as well, not something like "because you're so awesome". It was for all my work on those interwiki links. Woohee!

Gwib 10:50, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Pubic hair

Hello Nick - there is an RfC on whether to remove the photo from the article if you would like to participate and vote. --David Shankbone 17:27, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Priscilla Bunbury's Virginal Book

Great work on this :-) Le the 22:44, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

When I saw that title in my edit summary, I just had to check it out! I think my memoirs will be entitled "David Shankbone's Virginal Book" --David Shankbone 22:48, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pubic Wars and Michael Moore

Actually, the pubic war reared its hairy head on my ArbCom case with User:THF - it was raised as my own COI (despite consistent consensus to the contrary). People seem to be fascinated with that region...enough that it makes it into an ArbCom over COI edits to Michael Moore articles. Who knew! --David Shankbone 14:06, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Toilet

What we have is Pepys' quotation. "Citation" is a synonym, especially in common parlance, but it is not the same. Toilet is missing a bibliographical reference to the quotation: volume, page, etc. `'Míkka>t 17:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Funny that you mentioned Bible in this context. The text is uniquely identified by edition /ISBN number + page. Anyway, I made an online ref to the 1892 edition. Feel free to add a modern reference(eg. ISBN 0520225791), if you think google will go out of business. :-) `'Míkka>t 22:50, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Beham

Oh dear, that was the site with your's up, no? At least many are now on Commons I think. Johnbod (talk) 22:49, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I'm fine now, thanks. I know the print but hadn't seen yours - in fact I'm sure this has grown considerably since I last looked - lovely stuff. You might, or might well not, be interested in Wikipedia:Featured article review/History of erotic depictions - whether the review or (apparently less contentious) adding something to the article. PS Love the Burgo outfit! Johnbod (talk) 16:21, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

The portrait does look familiar somehow, but I can't remember why/who/where. I'll keep an eye out. Johnbod (talk) 23:30, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I should have posted this here and not in Johnbod's space: Image:Clouet Claude de Beaune de Semblancay.jpg - PKM (talk) 03:55, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Admin vandalism

Thought you might like to read this. --Gwib (talk) 10:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Your favorite photographer is on Simple! --83.76.192.172 (talk) 14:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar!

		The Invisible Barnstar
		I award you with an invisible barnstar, since so many of your mysterious articles remain invisible to the recognition they deserve. Gwib (talk) 05:26, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Virginals

Hi Nick -- I completely approve, and think that moving virginal to its own article is a superb idea. (Frankly, I had no idea it wasn't -- but I haven't looked at keyboard articles for a while!) There are many good reasons to do so, and you have given many on my talk page. Should you encounter any resistance, (highly unlikely), I'll back you up. The spinet precedent is significant. Oh, and by the way, I approve without reservation that delightful barnstar above this note. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 01:34, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Singapore family history

Hi, Nick. Your project sounds very interesting. Here are some suggestions:

If members of your grandmother's family died or were buried in Singapore, you might try applying to the Births and Deaths Unit of the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority to see if extracts from the Register of Deaths can be obtained. I believe applications can be made online. If a death certificate can be found, it will have information such as the cause of death and date and place of burial, which will provide leads for further inquiries to be made.

The National Archives of Singapore has a website called a2o (Access to Archives Online), where you can conduct online searches for records held there. It will help if you have an idea of what sort of records you are looking for (burial records and shipping lists, for instance).

Post a message on the Singapore Heritage Yahoo! group. Members of the community are usually enthusiastic about helping people with their inquiries.

Your ancestors may have attended services at one of the synagogues in Singapore, which might hold records that refer to them. You might try contacting the Jewish Welfare Board to see if they can provide any leads. Their contact details are as follows:

24/26 Waterloo Street

Singapore 187950

E-mail: jewishwb@singnet.com.sg

Website: http://www.singaporejews.org

Telephone: (65)6337 2189

Fax: (65)6336 2127

All the best for your research! Feel free to contact me by e-mail (click on the "E-mail this user" link) or through my talk page. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 22:31, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Any luck with your research? I'd be interested to know if are able to find anything useful. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 22:02, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Nothing yet JackLee: I joined the Singapore Heritage Yahoo group and am trying to get the flavour of it before I post. National Archives of Singapore is a brilliant site - many thanks for that. I have found many mentions of the names I am looking for, but unfortunately all connected with property, and it is impossible to know if they are one and the same person or related to them or what.

As for the Immigration & Checkpoints site, this looked promising, but in the end is not feasible: you can request a search, but you are obliged to give a month and a year, and the cost is $35 for that month - and $35 for every month thereafter. Since I only have a year - and that's hearsay - it yould be prohibitively expensive for a search that would by no means have any guarantee success.

I have written to the Jewish Welfare Board and await their reply (hopefully).

If I do get anywhere, I will certainly let you know. Meanwhile, I wish you the best of luck with your PhD which must be taking up most of your time and energy… Nick Michael (talk) 15:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Yup, it's probably best to try for a record at the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority only if you have more detailed information. ~~Also, check its website to see if it even holds records dating back as far as the 19th century – systematic registration of births and deaths may not have been in place that early on.~~ [Scratch that – birth and death records date back to 1872. — JackLee, 14:01, 11 June 2008 (UTC)] Your best bet may be synagogue and burial records (assuming they died and were buried in Singapore).

The property angle might be worth exploring. The histories of many Singapore street names appear in Victor R. Savage & Brenda S.A. Yeoh (2004), Toponymics: A Study of Singapore Street Names, Singapore: Eastern Universities Press , and if you can pin down whether it was your ancestors who lent their names to any properties, you can apply for copies of property deeds and land titles at the Singapore Land Authority's Integrated Land Information Service (INLIS) website.

Out of curiosity, I had a look at the online catalogue of the National Library Board. You might be interested in the following books:

Joan Bieder ([2007?]), Aileen T. Lau, ed., The Jews of Singapore, Singapore: Suntree Media – the blurb: "Many would be surprised to learn that Singapore has been home to a thriving Jewish community for almost 170 years – and even more surprised to hear that the community traces its roots to Baghdad, Iraq. What brought this group of Jewish pioneers from Baghdad to an island in the Southeast Asia? ... To give a full picture of the community, the author weaves together information from interviews, oral histories, memoirs, personal letters, family documents, photographs, correspondence and government records from Singapore, Israeli, Dutch and British archives, and traces the histories of the community's larger-than-life leaders and their families. Told through an introduction and 18 chapters, the author reveals how Jewish community members in Singapore suffered, survived and prospered to the present times. The book, with 450 illustrations and maps, and peppered with numerous box stories, highlights the contributions that Jewish leaders have made to Singaporean finance, business, medicine and law, while living in a Republic that provides respect, religious freedom, equal opportunity and full integration into society."
Eze Nathan (1986), The History of Jews in Singapore, 1830–1945, Singapore: HERBILU Editorial & Marketing Services .

— Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 16:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Samson

Does he figure in Arabic mythology[3]? If not one may add Urdu as well. A source would be appreciated. Thank you. --Observer99 (talk) 23:39, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Virginals: DYK nomination

Hi. Gwib nominated this article to appear on the "Did you know?" section on the Main Page, but a reviewer has noted that the fact in the nomination is currently unreferenced: see "Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on May 27". If you would like to try and get the article mentioned in DYK, you need to fix this problem by giving the relevant fact in the article a citation, and notifying the reviewer that you've done so on the DYK template talk page. You should do so ASAP as nominations in that list are currently being considered and non-qualifying ones will shortly be regarded as expired. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 22:01, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Results

On 2 June 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Virginals, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 17:11, 2 June 2008 (UTC)