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== Prioryman's sanctions ==

I believe you undertook to look into getting Prioryman's sanctions fully and properly recorded. Any progress on that? I had occasion to check [[WP:RESTRICT]] when I saw that Prioyman was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SirFozzie&diff=prev&oldid=490081841 petitioning] Sir Fozzie for his Climate Change restrictions to be lifted. Those restrictions aren't listed on [[WP:RESTRICT]] either under Prioryman or ChrisO. Incidentally, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battlefield_Earth_%28film%29&diff=prev&oldid=489752995 this edit] is a violation of his restrictions per [[WP:ARBSCI]] (which ''are'' listed more or less correctly) - perhaps you can give him a reminder of those sanctions? Thanks. [[User:Delicious carbuncle|Delicious carbuncle]] ([[User talk:Delicious carbuncle|talk]]) 23:04, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

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Removal of Rokossovsky image from Konstantin Rokossovsky page Nov. 2011

I know its not your job but perhaps you can help.

Have not checked this file in a while. I am a wiki amateur but this is about the only wiki page I maintain. I noticed this deletion. Very curious as to why it was deleted from here: File:Person rokossovsky3.jpg I looked for a discussion on this topic elsewhere but could not find it.

http://ww2db.com/images/person_rokossovsky3.jpg

This photo of Rokossovsky is easily one of the most famous photographs of the second world war, and symbolic of the underlying story of the competition between two of the Red Armies most important commanders of WW2, Georgy Zhukov, and Konstantin Rokossovsky, the first on a white stallion, the second on a black one. It easily qualifies for fair use as significant photo in and of itself -- in much the same way as the photo of the Soviet soldier flying the Red Banner over the Reichstag in Berlin qualifies as a historically important photograph. It entails an important incident where these two famous commanders of the Red Army were both given command of the victory parade in Moscow in 1945.

It reflects Rokossosky's political and military significance as one of the most important military commanders of the second world war, since is shows him being honoured at the Moscow victory parade of 1945 as one of two commanders selected by Joseph Stalin to lead the parade.

The fact the wiki article on the Victory Parade on Red Square is mostly about the story of how these two competitors were given "joint" command, despite their years of competition. That wiki article is a good example of the political and historical significance of this event that is the subject of this photo. It is a photo that captures the culmination of the whole war from the Russian (and Soviet) point of view, including the important personalities of the conflict on the Russian side.

Furthermore it helps tell the story of the article because Konstantine Rokossovsky's life story is heavily bound up in the competition with Zhukov, and this is referred to repeatedly in the article, and no other existing photo really captures that theme.

The rendition of this event has even been made into paintings: http://great-victory1945.ru/marshals_zhukov_and_rokossovsky.jpg as found on this site: http://great-victory1945.ru/victory.htm

Other images of this parade, and incidents relating to it appear all over wiki, but this one is deleted. I don't get it.

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Victor Jones (WWII) at DYK

I've reviewed your nomination of Victor Jones (WWII) at DYK, and there's a couple of fairly minor issues to tidy up. Miyagawa (talk) 22:28, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Eye candy to draw you in

The reason the perspective is so striking is because, as Rob made clear in his sandbox article, van Gogh was using a perspective frame, although the one he was using at this time was a relatively primitive affair compared to the one he finally had constructed for him. He liked doing perspective views from a height. You can see the same thing in his Landscape With a Carriage and Train eight years later at Auvers, though by that time he had dispensed with his frame..

Thank you for your comments. I happen to be a great nephew of Anton Hirschig, who was lodging with van Gogh at the time of his death, whose article (also translated in the Dutch wiki) I contributed. I did make a number of other van Gogh edits at the same time, but I'm not an expert and I didn't contribute Rob's edits. The name 'Hirschig' is a corruption of Hirsig, the Swiss origin of the family. All Hirsigs ultimately come from Amsoldingen in Switzerland. The current rash of Hirsig 'Rinpoche' socks (but they're not) is just a clan joke.

The present drama stems from my efforts to get Wikipedia's iconisation of Vincent van Gogh's painting At Eternity's Gate as a representation of mental anguish rolled back (the linked article on the painting was largely contributed by Rob). At Eternity's Gate, as its conventional name suggests, is in fact a depiction of a weary and elderly man contemplating his passing. It is an image of mortality, frailty and sanctity, and we have Vincent's own letters to confirm this. An entire 1998 book At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent Van Gogh by Kathleen Powers Erickson is essentially devoted to it. In the 1970 catalogue raisonné, it was given the title Worn Out: At Eternity's Gate. To represent this painting as depicting mental anguish is as egregiously misinformed as representing the Mona Lisa as a portrait of a flirtatious courtesan. It has nothing to do with debates about reinventing an artist's intentions. It is simply plain wrong and van Gogh would have been horrified to see it iconised in this way.

I really have retired from editing Wikipedia. A passing madness.

Flora sends her regards. 80.90.43.128 (talk) 03:22, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 April 2012

Prioryman's sanctions

I believe you undertook to look into getting Prioryman's sanctions fully and properly recorded. Any progress on that? I had occasion to check WP:RESTRICT when I saw that Prioyman was petitioning Sir Fozzie for his Climate Change restrictions to be lifted. Those restrictions aren't listed on WP:RESTRICT either under Prioryman or ChrisO. Incidentally, this edit is a violation of his restrictions per WP:ARBSCI (which are listed more or less correctly) - perhaps you can give him a reminder of those sanctions? Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 23:04, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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