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Thanks Hafspajen. I remember this - lived in Stockholm for a year, um way way back in 96! Ceoil (talk) 23:13, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

El Greco

How's the article coming? We're probably a little late for it to run Christmas eve this year, but we should still get it ready. =) Adam Cuerden 19:07, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Not great Adam to be honest. Real life has caught up unfortunatly, and but would still like to do up the article in the next week. We might have a FP nom with a decent article for next year. Ceoil (talk) 01:49, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Murder of Kylie Maybury

Hi We worked together to keep Samantha Smith a Featured Article, so I'm hoping you'd be willing to do me a big favour and help me in expanding Murder of Kylie Maybury. I'm also contacting other Wikipedians from the old days to try and help us with Kylie's article. Paul Austin (talk) 18:49, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Seasonal Greets!

Season's Greetings!

Cheers Crisco. Thanks for all the help this year. Best. Ceoil (talk) 03:52, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

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Best wishes for a happy holiday season

Thanks Hafspajen :) Ceoil (talk) 18:59, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Something beautiful for the holidays

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Merry Christmas

And to you, following a very productive an enjoyable year. So looking forward to seeing the Christus later tonight! Ceoil (talk) 22:12, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

I'll have to miss it! I'm on the way out soonish but because of delayed travel plans had just enough time to spam everyone with last minute Christmas greetings. It has been a productive year and I'm looking forward to more in the future. Victoria (tk) 22:22, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

P.s - I was in a rush last night, and so forgot to say how much I appreciate all the help on the Nativity. You've been a huge help there - it's really been a collaborative effort, so thanks a bunch. I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks for the Christmas wishes on my page. Victoria (tk) 13:03, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Nadolig hapus

Martinevans123 ... wishes you and yours:

"Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda"

May the true spirit of Christmas bless you with warmth and peace!

Thanks man. Ceoil (talk) 10:13, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Seasonal greetings

Yuletide greetings

Ha, this made me laugh. Very dry, well done. Ceoil (talk) 20:28, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

St Francis

Looks fantastic! Victoria (tk) 20:08, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm wondering that all the sources are referring to the Seraph-Christ, but there are two, not three, sets of wings. Ceoil (talk) 20:28, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

I wondered that too and then realised the third set is wrapped around his legs. I've found a few descriptions (surprisingly few!) that I've bookmarked to be added. Removing the "Christ" section was a good decision imo. Victoria (tk) 20:43, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, though I think the description sect might need a bit more; will tackle later on. Its shaping up well at this stage, we have a good variety of sources. Ceoil (talk) 20:45, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

It does need a little more. I got caught (overwhelmed) in the technical details and am now ready to fill in gaps elsewhere. I can maybe get to some of it tonight. Victoria (tk) 20:48, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Added the other version of Christ, but my cropping between the two images is not exactly matching. Dman it. Other than Jesus, I'm not finding a huge amount else that needs to be added, though will comb through for a day or so. Ceoil (talk) 23:11, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

I've not read through yet and wrote in some sort of a fit of "have to do it now" that came over me a few days before xmas. A bit tied up at the moment for a few hours, but I'd like to comb through myself - I thought there were a few points to be clarified but it's hard to tell when completely immersed in the sources. I needed a few days to regain perspective. Cropping isn't an issue for me, so don't worry about that. It really looks nice w/ detail from both paintings. Victoria (tk) 23:42, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

This

Well, this is probably the best we have. File:Jan van Eyck 070.jpg - unless Crisco 1492 can find a better file for this. Hafspajen (talk) 23:35, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

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About details, why don't you make you own details, Ceoil.- Yunshui's great idea.

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Cheers Hafspajen. I found since Virgin with Chancellor Rolin Luber.jpg, which isnt perfect, but better than a kick in the Bxoxcks. Ceoil (talk) 23:42, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

YES; I notice it. but it is still only around 658 × 575 pixels,. A bigger file could always be good, if possible to get. Hafspajen (talk) 23:46, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Do you get the point with the MAKE YOUR OWN DETAIL? Hafspajen (talk) 23:49, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

I do indeed and thank you very much for taking the time here to help me. Ceoil (talk) 00:18, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Hi Ceoil, many thanks for the card, and all the best to you and Liz for the New Year. I hope it's a happy one for you both. SlimVirgin 02:49, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you SV. Its been a great year, more than I can say, frankly !:) Hope Kafka Liz is getting used to all the rather odd and sing-songey Cork accents, like ;) Ceoil (talk) 03:01, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Ceoil, thanks for the good wishes. Merry Christmas, and happy new year to you as well! Tom Harrison 21:01, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

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Megadeth (it versus they)

Hey Ceoil, appreciate your copyediting work on the article. Just to mention, Megadeth is regarded in third person singular, so they/theirs are not applicable here. It was settled to go with "it" because of the band's American origin.--Retrohead (talk) 18:08, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Fine, whatever. That was a while ago. Ceoil (talk) 04:08, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

St Francis

I'm sorry, but tonight I have house guests and I have the flu. Victoria (tk) 02:49, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Ah ok, no problem. I'm not a doctor, but recommend a hot whiskey and an early night. Tomorrow, or a few days later, are other days. The article is fine and a credit to you. Ceoil (talk) 02:51, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year Ceoil!

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Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Misplaced Pages. Hafspajen (talk) 10:04, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Thats very kind. Thanks and returns Hafspajen. Ceoil (talk) 10:05, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you! Ceoil (talk) 19:55, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

The Waterboys' Paul Brown

Hello! I see you may have an interest for The Waterboys' Paul Brown article. The artist requested help on the IRC channel recently to develop this article, and made a copy and paste copyvio draft on the talk page (which has already been taken care of and deleted). As a result of this, I talk to them a bit and got them to post a list of possible sources on the talk page instead. I've copied the WikiProject banners from the band's talk page, and this page will need to have each WikiProject assess their own importance and ratings on the topic. Thank you for your assistance. — {{U|Technical 13}} 20:00, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

I dont. Plus, IRC? Pfff, Get real. Ceoil (talk) 20:05, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Checking in

…Re St. Francis. I finally (!) managed to read through and c/e a bit and I think I've caught about all I can get. The rest's up to you - especially re British English. Sorry btw for being cranky and disappearing - got bit hard by a flu bug. Plus, for some reason a tree had sprouted in my living room, shedding needles all over the place, and I couldn't get to the bookcases until it was banished! Which it now has been and so life is back to normal. Phew! Victoria (tk) 16:53, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

I noticed all the work. Cranky I dont care about. Re AM/BR English; frankly if my spelling is understandable in any language, its a bonus. Ceoil (talk) 02:05, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

I left some of Curly Turkey's points outstanding because I didn't know what to do about them. Victoria (tk) 04:38, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

P.s - very impressed w/ St. Luke. Victoria (tk) 04:41, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

cough. Ceoil (talk) 04:58, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

In Our Time. Would like to do something for the year of the Great War, but I keep choking. Waaay too many sources to read and I'm in serious R&R mode atm. Victoria (tk) 17:22, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

I've been watching. I wouldnt feel under pressure if I was you; its something you very much could do. yes 1914/5. You have enough form not to be choking, if that helps, and it really should. You have huge drive and ability. Ceoil (talk) 02:10, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the copy edits (and inlines)! Not so sure about the drive and ability but I read something somewhere about WWI art and that made me think we should do something for WP. I thought about BLAST - but vorticism takes imagism/modernism to the nth degree and I couldn't face it. So IOT instead. Would be nice to do this guy too. Victoria (tk) 15:47, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm totally out of my dept here, but enjoying. blast; what? But if you dont mind me jumping in .... us working together never ended in disaster before. Ceoil (talk) 02:32, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Sure, of course, no reason not to jump in. There are *lots* of sources though and I'm slowly making my way through first so as to get a better sense of how to structure. I'll send some your way if you're interested. In the meantime, I might be out for a while. Cryptic reference to Blast explained! Victoria (tk) 17:02, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

If I make a mess you can ask Mr Cas to block me. I know he has itchy fingers. Ceoil (talk) 17:08, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Speaking of messes, I may have made one at Saint Francis, which has brought me to my knees. IOT is in very early stages, so nothing to worry about and thanks for the copyedits! Victoria (tk) 17:22, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

No the edits on Franics were sound; I'll be happily going through IOT over the next few weeks. Ceoil (talk) 18:45, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

If you're okay with the St Francis edits, might not be a bad idea to check in there and sort out with Johnbod what's left to be done. I only have limited sources and can't carry it alone. Thanks and best. Victoria (tk) 16:20, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

I've updated; there a couple of points left that should be addressed; Victoria has done the rest. Johnbod (talk)

Indeed. Ceoil (talk) 19:15, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Congrats on the promotion! Victoria (tk) 19:02, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Well, it was down to you. Ceoil (talk) 19:45, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

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Just look at these...

• "Now and then the gnome took hold of the reins."–1907.
• Here is a piece of a troll herb which nobody else but me can find, 1912
• "Poor little Basse!", 1912.
• The Changeling, 1913.
• "Julbock."–
• At that moment she was changed by magic to a wonderful little elf, by John Bauer.
• "Once upon a time a prince was out riding in the moonlight"–The ring, 1914.
• "If someone else cries when you laugh then you will have your tears back."–The queens necklace, 1914.

Gosh. Best things he did. Hafspajen (talk) 18:18, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

This is the most delightful post I've had to my talk in years. Wow. Ceoil (talk) 18:20, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

And now you look at that dreadfull, tasteless selection ... I feel ashame in the name of the Swedish people making such a presentation of one of our national tresure. Yuk. Hafspajen (talk) 18:23, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Double plus good. This takes me back a bit - reminds me a an excellent book I had as a child. Kafka Liz (talk) 18:26, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

As a former resident, um, yeah. But...live and let live. Ceoil (talk) 18:25, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

• Well, I have no idea how this happened but people who doesn't know good artwork from bad sould stick to edit matematics and sush, not edit art articles, OHoh, this is a GAA, don't touch ..uhu...' Hafspajen (talk) 18:30, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Don't mock the Little People, Hafs. Bad art or no, they'll get ya ;) Kafka Liz (talk) 18:33, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

OH, no. I give them every Christmas their porrige. I am safe.... and they love me. One of them is crying on my shoulder that they made such anugggggly article of their best portraitist, I say. Hafspajen (talk) 18:38, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Good on ya :) Now watch out for that Marsh Horse Kafka Liz (talk) 18:43, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Better than the Marsh Horse have tried to take me down. Ceoil (talk) 18:53, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Don't make me wake the Bean Sidh. Kafka Liz (talk) 19:36, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

AW, A kitten... for 10 years ago it would made me so happy, but ever since I got so allergic to them that I start sneezing in the same second I met one. But I love puppies...hint hint . Hafspajen (talk) 19:07, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Ah, poo. Well, at least I know better for next time :) Kafka Liz (talk) 19:09, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Just change this one the Puppy article ... has plenty to offer...hint hint. Hafspajen (talk) 19:12, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

A puppy awaits you, Mr Hafs :) Kafka Liz (talk) 19:26, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

• The very best choice! Hafspajen (talk) 19:52, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

John Bauer

Hello, I don't think we've had the pleasure of meeting before. I noticed that you are doing some editing on the John Bauer (illustrator). Are you prepping it for something or are you just doing some edits that you think are better? While I don't mind the placing of the picture being varied (I had originally placed them something like that) the reviewer corrected this. Due to many editors tinkering with the pictures in this article, it almost did not pass the GAN. I hope this isn't the beginning of something like that, since that would jeopardize the article's current GA status. And yes, the pictures above are exquisite, I love them all. But during the review it was agreed that the picture in the article should represent Bauer's different techniques and parts of his life, not just "the best of". Additional pictures should be placed in Among Gnomes and Trolls. I hope this makes sense to you. And while Hafspajen may mock me as one of "the little people", my expansion of the article was in response to his wanting a nice text for the Tuvstarr pic. Best, w.carter-Talk 19:52, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Sorry about it, but this gave me kind of a shock. I removed this article from my watchlist for a long time ago, you know wery well WHY: . Now the topic came up again, because I somebody nominated a picture so I was surprised about the fact this pic that I added to the article wasn't there any more. You forget also the fact that before you came by I edited that article and had it on my watchlist. That was a long time ago. I read the review, and I think that mocking might be mutual... nasty editors editwarring over pictures? It looks like you thought I was a nasty editor. Pity you didn't payed more attention to comments like this: I think it would be an improvement to this article to include his most iconic works in the gallery here (maybe in conjuncture with the prose too) instead of using that space for relatively unknown, niche works. See for example here some of his most iconic works that were used on Swedish stamps, only one of which is included in this article. because the guy was right, and just complained about nasty people.

I am not talking about the text but the pictures. The article currently contains loads of low quality scans, like File:John Bauer self-portrait 1908.jpg, bad, washed out colours, File:Lappar i snöstorm av John Bauer.jpg some scan from an art book, this one - and nothing that he really is noted or famous for. That's a lame excuse that they can be found in an other article. I am sicerely shocked over the choice. Hafspajen (talk) 20:40, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

@Hafspajen: As I recall, it was all a bit of a mess when the whole thing started, I got caught in the crossfire between you and another editor, and bit by bit things were sorted out. It was my very first GA, which is always very tough, and I might have missed some things. I am still not too familiar with how a GA should be made and what changes can be done afterwards, without loosing the article's status. Why don't you discus the pictures with CaroleHenson who was the reviewer and better at this than I am, and see what can be done. The two pics you mention were placed as examples of early art (the book is mentioned in the text) and self-portraits. But I agree with you that these reproductions leave much to be desired. Do you have access to better copies? w.carter-Talk 20:57, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi W.carter; you are not beholden to any one GA reviewer, and by the way sorry if we have gotten off on the wrong foot. It seems to me that you were misinformed by CaroleHenson. Ceoil (talk) 21:45, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

• Yes, I remember now. I tried to forget, it was not you, but him. And the other editor made several attempts of outing towards me, why he never get blocked for that only God knows. The better scans are just above. I will not go edit that article again, but Ceoil who has circa 40 FAs might have some ideas. Hafspajen (talk) 22:08, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Well, I'm always open to suggestions and improvements as long as it's within the guidelines. I did some tweaking in the article that I don't think anyone can object to. The number of pics is still the same, one un-important gone and the nominated pic back. One can never have too many Featured pictures in an article, right? ;) And let's hope that Hafs digs up some better copies of the other pics. Those reproductions really are below par. Best, w.carter-Talk 22:13, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

— In Ceoil we trust. w.carter-Talk 22:16, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

No, your confused with the road to hell ;) Ceoil (talk) 02:07, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Even better. That is one of my favorites. ^^ w.carter-Talk 02:29, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Its all over for you. I'll take your Chris Rea and raise you with the Clash (though Chris Rea gets bonus ponts in my neck of the woods). Ceoil (talk) 02:34, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

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