Talk:W. D. Caröe

Unattributed quote: A consummate master of building according to medieval precedent

User:Sionk tagged the quote "a consummate master of building according to medieval precedent" with {{cite quote}} more than a year ago, and no attribution has been provided. The quote was added by User:Nedrutland, here.

I have made a web search for this quote applied to Caröe and have found no source other than those that are likely to have been derived from here.

However, I have found this phrase in the 1901 supplement of the Dictionary of National Biography, where it is used to describe John Loughborough Pearson, the architect to whom Caröe was articled. See s:Pearson, John Loughborough (DNB01).

The phrase may have been reused to apply to Caröe, but it's use in the ONB for a different architect makes it less likely that it was applied to Caröe by a reputable architectural critic.

I will remove the quote. Verbcatcher (talk) 23:15, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

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Can this be made any bigger? What's preventing a larger px value from taking effect? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:16, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

I have tried to do this a couple of times. I think the problem is that the image at Commons:File:St Michaels Elmwood Road Architect.png is only 120 × 149 pixels. I conclude that the software component that rescales images for Wikipedia pages can reduce the size but not increase it. If so, you could download the image, rescale it using your preferred software, and re-upload it. This image could handle some enlargement without becoming too blurry, but this would be too big.

I haven't done this (yet) because the licensing is wrong. The image was not created on 4 October 2014 (Caröe died in 1938), and "Source Own work, Author Basilcat1" is almost certainly wrong. I don't think we can establish that this is definitely old enough to qualify as public domain, see c:Commons:Anonymous works#United Kingdom. My reading is that it is only ok if it was published (e.g. in a book) more than 70 years ago, i.e. before 1947. In view of this I am reluctant to interfere with the Commons page, other than to nominate it for deletion. If it is deleted from Commons then it could almost certainly be uploaded to English Wikipedia with a non-free use rationale. Verbcatcher (talk) 00:37, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

@Martinevans123: success! I have made the picture bigger by using the {{multiple image}} template with a single image. Verbcatcher (talk) 23:47, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me. That's very ingenious! I guess I'd better not suggest an infobox now?! Martinevans123 (talk) 18:21, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

It might simpler with an infobox, see here. Verbcatcher (talk) 20:56, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Ah right. A good idea then. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:59, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

{{Infobox architect}} is the one to use, as in Edwin Lutyens. Verbcatcher (talk) 21:05, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks have copied over. Please tweak as required. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:15, 26 June 2017 (UTC)