Talk:Ophelia (painting)

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[edit] Dubious

You don't get fever from a cold bath. --Abdull 10:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Says who? First, we are talking about Victorian models of what caused disease here, and that's all the source we have. She was supposed to have caught a "chill" (i.e. become feverish). Fever is a symptom, not a specific condition. Secondly, the sentence says she caught it "while modelling in a cold bath for the painting". It does not say that the bath caused the fever. That way, the Victorians sources for this story are respected, along with their assumptions about the causal relationship between events, without stating that the fever was directly caused by the cold. Paul B 10:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Use of citation templates

Hi, Ceoil, thanks for working on "Ophelia (painting)". I wonder, though, why you have removed all the citation templates such as {{cite book}} and {{cite web}}? I think they help to ensure a consistent citation format. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 12:09, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Jack, I dislike thoes templates as they add a lot of unnessary html, are difficult to manage, and because handcoding is so much easier (no need for cuting, pasting and modifying). Also, if you are editing a para that has a number of imbedded citation templates it can very difficult to follow what is going on (click edit on this), and tell where one sentence or clause ends and another begins. What is important is that the citation format (ie Harvard, MLA, etc) is consistently used across the article, not that a template (designed for beginners) is used. Ceoil (talk) 12:58, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Ceoil. Well, I doubt that they pose as much of a problem as you suggest, but don't feel strongly enough about the matter to suggest that the templates be reapplied. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 13:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Personally, I can't stand the blighters. Editing articles with these darn template formats is a nightmare. Paul B (talk) 14:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)