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Amanda J. M. has at long last... 2006... discovered what a great place Wikipedia is to share information and ideas.
I am an art lover and a story teller. I particularly like art and stories that are uplifting to the human spirit. I look for the beauty in things and talk about it at great length. I like it when someone follows me from site to site and corrects my spelling errors and typos and makes my references work. I get put out when the someoone who corrrects my typos also removes every adjective. Adjectives are the basic tool of the Art historian!
I don't know how to stop this keyboard doing ddouble lletterrss. Every time I have to use the word "commissioned" it makes me nervouss. Also, coming to the world of computers rather late in life, I'm slow to catch on. How does one get those little lists of icons and things describing ones affiliations, gender, religion and so on? --Amandajm 10:46, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Update: It's 2010 and I'm still here, having fun! Amandajm (talk) 04:28, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
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AJM's advice to new editors
- Look at the article to see how it is laid out. The Table of Contents is the best place to start.
- Read the article to see if what you want to add or remove is appropriate, necessary, or adds value.
- Search for the right place to put it.
- Check Use the "Show Preview" to make sure that what you have done is appropriate and correct.
- Discuss any change about which you are uncertain, by placing your proposed text, or just a suggestion, on the talk page. Someone who watches the article will usually answer in a day or so. You can monitor this by clicking the watch tag at the top of the page.
- Be aware
- that an addition inserted between two sentences or paragraphs that are linked in meaning can turn the existent paragraphs into nonsense.
- that a lengthy addition or the creation of a new sub-section can add inappropriate weight to just one aspect of a topic.
When adding images
- Look to see if the subject of your image is already covered. Don't duplicate subject matter already present. Don't delete a picture just to put in your own, unless your picture is demonstrably better for the purpose. The caption and nearby text will help you decide this.
- Search through the text to find the right place for your image. If you wish it to appear adjacent to a particular body of text, then place it above the text, not at the end of it.
- Look to see how the pictures are formatted. If they are all small thumbnails, do not size your picture at 300 px. The pictures in the article may have been carefully selected to follow a certain visual style e.g. every picture may be horizontal, because of restricted space; every picture might be taken from a certain source, so they all match. Make sure your picture looks appropriate in the context of the article.
- Read the captions of existent pictures, to see how yours should fit in.
- Check the formatting, placement, context and caption before you leave the page by using the Show preview function, and again after saving.
- Discuss If your picture seems to fill a real identifiable need in the article, but doesn't fit well, because of formatting or some other constraint, then put it on the talk page and discuss, before adding.
- Be aware that adding a picture may substantially change the layout of the article. Your addition may push another picture out of its relevant section or cause some other formatting problem.
- Edit before adding. Some pictures will look much better, or fit an article more appropriately if they are cropped to show the relevant subject.
To be used when required
- Photograph taken in a public location in the UK of a building on permanent public display, and exempt from copyright under Section 62 of the Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988 ("it is not an infringement of copyright to film, photograph, broadcast or make a graphic image of a building, sculpture, models for buildings or work of artistic craftsmanship if that work is permanently situated in a public place or in premises open to the public")
Abuse
For use when necessary: WP:WQA
Amandajm (talk) 07:34, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Templates for formatting galleries
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Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni (1488). Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; formerly in the Morgan Library.
Articles and pictures
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Some FAs to which I have contributed
- Angkor Wat
- The Battle of Alexander at Issus
- Bodiam Castle
- Borobudur
- Bruce Castle
- Castle
- Las Meninas
- Matthew Boulton
- Robert Peake the Elder
- Stanford Memorial Church
- Henry Moore
- St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao
- James I of England
- Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes
- Shrine of Remembrance
- St Cuthbert Gospel
Articles for which I am the major contributor
"All the world's a stage,
and all the men and women merely players:
they have their exits and their entrances;
and one man in his time plays many parts..."
—As You Like It, Act II, Scene 7, 139–42[2]
articles followed by * are those I created
- List of Ancient Greek temples*
- Ancient Greek architecture
- Italian Renaissance painting*
- Thematic development of Italian Renaissance painting*
- Romanesque architecture
- Romanesque secular and domestic architecture*
- List of regional characteristics of Romanesque churches*
- Gothic architecture
- Renaissance architecture, A
- Architecture of cathedrals and great churches*, A
- Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England*, GA, DYK; FA and DYK on Anglicanism portal.
- Palazzo style architecture*
- Poor Man's Bible*
- Nativity of Jesus in art* in collaboration with Johnbod
- Sistine Chapel ceiling, GA
- Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes*, FA
- Leonardo da Vinci GA
- Leonardo da Vinci - scientist and inventor*
- Giotto
- Fra Angelico
- Edmund Blacket
- St Peters Basilica A
- St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney
- St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney
- Collegiate Church of San Gimignano
- Camperdown Cemetery DYK
- Stained glass
- British and Irish stained glass (1811–1918)*
- Rose window
- Cathedral glass
- Leadlight*
- Sydney Royal Easter Show
- S. John Ross (artist)* DYK
- Jean Isherwood*
- Wendy Richardson*
- Hardman & Co.
- Clayton and Bell*
- William Wailes*
- William Warrington*
- Thomas Willement*
- Christopher Whall*
- Shrigley and Hunt*
- Burlison and Grylls*
- Heaton, Butler and Bayne*
- Lavers, Barraud and Westlake*
- Alexander Gibbs*
- James Powell and Sons*
- Ward and Hughes*
- Memmo di Filippucci*
- Giovanni di Cecco*
- Lori and Reba Schappell
- The Baptism of Christ (Verrocchio)
- Sechele I* (developed from a one-line stub) DYK
- Arnold of Nijmegen* DYK
- Henry King (photographer)*
- User:Amandajm/Leonardo da Vinci, investigation, attribution and speculation
Articles created out of existent material
- List of cultural depictions of Wild Bill Hickok
- Organs and organists of Cologne Cathedral
- Organ and organists of Chester Cathedral
- Organs and organists of Chichester Cathedral
- Leonardo da Vinci's personal life
- Portuguese Gothic architecture
- Spanish Gothic architecture
- French Gothic architecture
- English Gothic architecture
- Architecture of the Spanish_Renaissance
- Renaissance architecture in Eastern Europe
- French Renaissance architecture
- Architectural development of the eastern end of cathedrals in England and France
Articles I have greatly expanded
- St Paul's Cathedral
- Michelangelo
- St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney
- Cologne Cathedral
- Bristol Cathedral
- Roof
- Chester Cathedral GA
- Carlisle Cathedral
- Chichester Cathedral
- Wells Cathedral GA
- Silhouette
Existent articles, reorganised and reformatted
- Anglican Diocese of Sydney
- Stained glass
- True Cross
- Tree of Jesse
- Holy Chalice
- Cathedral
- Architecture
- James I of England
- Cheese
- Tiffany glass
- Leonardo da Vinci's personal life
- Cultural depictions of Leonardo da Vinci
- Powerhouse Museum
- Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Lawrence Tibbett
- Namibia
Editted in collaboration with Attilios
- Cathedral of Bari
- Basilica della Ghiara
- Basilica di San Simpliciano
- Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio
- San Pietro in Gessate
- San Marco, Florence
- Certosa di Pavia
- Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua
Contributions to Christianity
(added bits)
- The Bible
- Biblia Pauperum
- The Fall of Man
- John the Baptist
- Shroud of Turin
- Passion (Christianity)
- Nativity of Jesus
- Historical development of Church of England dioceses
- Holy Wounds
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Madonna (art)
Other contributions to art and architecture
- Temple of Artemis
- St James' Church, Sydney
- Painshill Park
- Louvre
- Robert Peake the Elder FA
- Hans Holbein the Younger
- Henry Moore
- Las Meninas FA
- The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
- Cimabue
- Michelangelo
- Art History
- Mannerism
- Biblia Pauperum
- Western art history
- Eastern art history
- Gothic Revival architecture
- List of Gothic Revival architecture
- List of tallest churches in the world
- Architectural Glass
- Angkor Wat
- Greece runestones
- Cologne Cathedral
- Church of St. Walburge, Preston
- St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham
- Bristol Cathedral
- Carlisle Cathedral
- Chichester Cathedral
- Durham Cathedral
- Birmingham Cathedral
- Chester Cathedral
- Speyer Cathedral
- Architecture of Leeds
- Bruce Castle
- Maiden Castle
Contributions to Biography
- Walter Diesendorf* DYK
- Kenneth Shave*
- Montague Younger*
- Wendy Richardson*
- Jean Isherwood*
- S. John Ross*
- Matthew Boulton FA
- Thomas Earnshaw
- George Byron, 6th Baron Byron
- Cimabue
- Edward the Black Prince
- Florence Broadhurst
- Henry Moore
- John the Baptist
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Michelangelo
- Óscar Romero
- Robert Peake the Elder FA
- Queen consort
- Queen Mother
- Spike Milligan
- John Soane
Contributions to Australiana
- Sydney Royal Easter Show
- Camperdown Cemetery
- Tasmanian Aborigines
- Eucalyptus regnans
- White-tailed spider
- Australian Cattle Dog
- Clydesdale horse
- Wollongong, New South Wales
- Stock route
- 2000 Summer Olympics
- Bushranger
- Eucalyptus
- Mining in Australia
- Tasmanian Aborigines
- Azaria Chamberlain disappearance
- Railway accidents in New South Wales
Contributions to creatures, great and small
- White-tailed spider
- Australian Cattle Dog
- Eucalyptus regnans
- Clydesdale horse
- List of fictional birds
- Honey bee
- St Andrew's Cross spider
Places of interest
The human condition
Other matters
References
- ^ wga.hu
- ^ Wells et al. 2005, 666