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Dirty angel from the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa, c.1910

memo to self - arty student project pages to check through

• Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/California State University Sacramento/Art of the Ancient Mediterranean (Fall 2017)
• Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Amherst College/Women and Art in Early Modern Europe (Spring 2017)
• Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/College of DuPage/History of Art- Prehistory to 1300 (Fall 2017)
• Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Duke University/Art in Renaissance Italy (Fall 2017)
• Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Duke University/Art in Renaissance Italy (Spring 2017)

Johnbod (talk) 19:13, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Boston_University/Venetian_Renaissance_Art_and_Architecture_(Fall)

Johnbod (talk) 16:40, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Giacometti

Intresting seeing the emails involved in selling a $20 million sculpture A long way from eBay! No Swan So Fine (talk) 20:39, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Indeed - interesting! Cheers, Johnbod (talk) 23:24, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

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Dumbarton Oaks

Hi there Johnbod. I was looking at this page to see if there were any photos by Wikipedians and, to my surprise, saw that you had taken quite a number. I don't suppose you happened to capture this piece? I'd like to add it to the gallery at serpent labret with articulated tongue, but the museum will not license their own photos. Cheers, --Usernameunique (talk) 22:30, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure not - sorry. Just about everything usable is in Category:Johnbod_does_Washington. Assuming it's on display, you could ask the DC group if someone can go along. Johnbod (talk) 22:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Good idea! Turns out someone lives a ten-minute walk away, and was able to take a photo. --Usernameunique (talk) 16:03, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Glad that worked out. Go Georgetown! I don't take photos these days, as they are so bad - things like your labret are actually very hard to do well. But I was pleased to see that Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure has had an article for 10 years, presumably only because of my rather poor photo. I don't think I knew that. Johnbod (talk) 16:42, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

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Christian interpolations in The Twelve Caesars

I've reverted this at once, rather than open talk page discussion first, because the article you cited didn't include either claim, and the claims are rather extraordinary. But I have now opened Talk:The Twelve Caesars#Christian interpolations, so if you or the TA can add anything there, it could affect several of our articles. NebY (talk) 14:44, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

I think the issue is that modern editions silently leave these out, understandably, and they are just ignored in historians' discussions. I don't think I'm going to delve into this. Johnbod (talk) 17:51, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

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DYK for Walter Deverell

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Portrait miniature

Hi, I see you created the redirect Painting in little to Portrait miniature; the redirect is now linked to the Wikidata item miniature (Q282129). Would you agree that the other articles on that Wikidata item are the same subject as Portrait miniature? Melozone crissalis (talk) 23:41, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Well, mostly, but they might just be very small paintings of any subject, not just portraits. Johnbod (talk) 00:02, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the input. Melozone crissalis (talk) 00:07, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Meigle 2

Hi Johnbod! I noticed you reverted the edit made by Stinglehammer on the Meigle 2 article. Just for some context, I'm a student new to Wikipedia, researching Pictish stones for an Award project with the University of Edinburgh. I'd been chatting with Stinglehammer about adding a map with a location marker to the page and he kindly added it for me as an example so I could add the same to other articles I'd created. I just wanted to check what your reasons were for reverting the changes and whether perhaps there's a better way of creating maps etc that I'm unaware of. Thanks :) Aliceinpictland (talk) 17:04, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Revisited - the issue wasn't the map, which I've restored, but the bolding of Daniel Stone, which redirects to a different page (rightly or wrongly). Johnbod (talk) 17:50, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

That makes sense. Thank you! Aliceinpictland (talk) 19:19, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

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Roman and Byzantine domes article split

Hi Johnbod, any further thoughts about this discussion? Are you ok the the proposal to split the article into an overview/influence article titled "Roman and Byzantine domes" and a series of century-specific daughter articles with most of the detail? AmateurEditor (talk) 02:35, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

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I just restored the redirect we've had for 10 years. Johnbod (talk) 00:37, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Came here tenuously...

... but I greatly appreciate your Fast Show reference on your user page. Anyway, I'm off now to fix the drainage in the lower field, sir. Mac Edmunds (talk) 22:02, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Glad you liked it! That was .... nice. Johnbod (talk) 02:16, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

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Help needed

Blue_and_white_mosque_lamp._Circa_1505_CE._Iznik,_glazed._Museum_of_Islamic_Art_(Tiled_Kiosk),_Istanbul,_Turkey

I want to add this image in the infobox of the article Blue and white pottery, along with the pre-existing image, but I am unable to do so. Hu741f4 (talk) 22:26, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Yeah - you need thumb, for one. Johnbod (talk) 23:02, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

I think it should go in the article, but not in the infobox. At present the article is very short on text on Islamic pottery. Johnbod (talk) 23:10, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Walter Deverell typo?

Hi there. You added the following to Walter Deverell: "a wierd Arab band ...", sourced from Hilton. Is the misspelling of 'weird' a typo, or should it be followed by a 'sic'? Masato.harada (talk) 15:41, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

No, just a typo. Johnbod (talk) 17:59, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Figurines template

Hi, there, could you explain me this edit and why you summarized it as "this make little sense"? Which criteria did you use to order the topics?

Moreover, why did you supress the Mycenaean figurine on tripod article from the list? Fma12 (talk) 08:34, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

For historic types, covering a range of some 4,000 years, a rough chronological approach seems called for, rather alphabetic. This doesn't apply to other sections. I wasn't aware I had "suppressed" Mycenaean figurine on tripod - feel free to put it back. Johnbod (talk) 14:03, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, it's all clear now. BTW, quotation marks around suppressed are not necessary because as a non-native English speaker (), I may commit mistakes (just like you did erasing the Mycenaean article from the template). Thanks again. Fma12 (talk) 17:41, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

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Looking for an art historical term

Do you know whether there's a technical term for this attitude/pose in art, or how I might go about finding it? Standing figure, one foot lifted up onto an object, usually leaning on the forearm on the same side of the body? To me the stance signals "surveying one's domain", or an explorer's pose or oversight, but I'm wondering if there's a term for it as there is for orans or contrapposto. I have been flailing about looking, but since I don't know what to call it, I don't know what to call it.

Apologies if this seems random; yours is the first Wikipedian name that comes to my mind on art historical topics. Cynwolfe (talk) 15:57, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Not that I'm aware of, but there might be, especially in numismatics - they have a bunch of specialist terms for iconography. Don't know who to ask on that. Maybe look in auction/dealer catalogues online. Sorry. Johnbod (talk) 16:02, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

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June 2026

Hello, I'm Royz-vi Tsibele. I noticed that you made a comment on the page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art that didn't seem very civil, so it may have been removed. Wikipedia is built on collaboration, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. If you disagree with another editor's opinion, you do not have to use charged language like "nonsense" and "if you worked more in this area you'd know that" to make that known. Royz-vi Tsibele (talk) 23:49, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

You have rather sneakily used "personal attack" in you edit summary, but not in your actual comment here. This is less than ideal. Calling a comment "nonsense" is not a personal attack, as you'll probably come to understand as you get more experience editing. Johnbod (talk) 12:20, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Johnbod and civility. Lavalizard101 (talk) WP:SOLIDARITY 15:00, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

July 2026

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Again, please refrain from engaging in rude/uncivil conduct on this page. There is no need to decry other users as "self-proclaimed AFD specialists" to get your points across effectively. Royz-vi Tsibele (talk) 01:57, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

The ANI section above demonstrated very effectively that you and other editors have an understanding of what a "personal attack" is that differs greatly from what the community thinks. I suggest you refrain from posting these notices until this ceases to be the case. Johnbod (talk) 03:59, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

The result of the ANI discussion was a request that you and Lavalizard101 chill out and edit in a productive manner. Lavalizard101 obliged; this comment shows that you have not. Your additional remark was both unnecessary to the discussion and seemed intentionally provocative.

Also, the term "personal attack" is written in the edit summary automatically by Twinkle; that's not from me. Your conduct does not necessarily have to extend into personal attacks to be considered rude/uncivil. Royz-vi Tsibele (talk) 15:37, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:No personal attacks please! You are certainly responsible for your edit summary! Don't try to blame Twinkle. Lavalizard has dropped out of the page completely, probably from understandable embarrassment. You might consider doing the same. Johnbod (talk) 20:54, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Pinging @Lavalizard101 in case he wants to refute that. As for me, I'm going to stop feeding the trolls and do something more productive with my time on Wikipedia. Royz-vi Tsibele (talk) 22:22, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Did you read the essay that you linked to, feeding the trolls, Royz-vi Tsibele? If you're concerned about personal attacks from other users, you should be completely ashamed of implying that Johnbod is a troll. Bishonen | tålk 22:48, 2 July 2026 (UTC).

I dropped out of the discussion to prevent it turning into just me and John bludgeoning the discussion and to try and dissipate some of the heat that was building up in the discussion. And yes twinkle auto makes edit summaries when using the Twinkle warnings which cannot be changed. Also I agree with Bish on this Roy, linking to DFTT implies you think John might be trolling which he is not. Lavalizard101 (talk) WP:SOLIDARITY 10:40, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Another excellent reason for not using the Twinkle warnings - you can make a personal attack without apparently intending to, but are still responsible for it. Johnbod (talk) 15:13, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Linking to DFTT was a step too far, I'll admit that. But I would hope my frustration was understandable given the ridiculousness of this whole situation.

I will not justify Johnbod's newest cheeky comment with a response. Royz-vi Tsibele (talk) 16:08, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Brixton meetup next Monday 27 July

Hello @Johnbod! I am writing to let you know that the Brixton meetup is back at Brixton Library next Monday 27th July at 6pm-8pm if you're free it would be lovely to see you there! This month's theme is the history and multimedia of our neighbours the Black Cultural Archives as they complete their Wikimedia programme this year. If you have any ideas for sources let me know but generally just come along if you'd like to edit and chat with other Wikimedians. Colette Lambeth (talk) 17:53, 20 July 2026 (UTC)