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Maitresse declaree

A tag has been placed on Maitresse declaree, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Victao lopes (talk) 18:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

March 2008

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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Medusa. Your edits appeared to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Wisdom89 _{(T / ^C)} 22:46, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Medusa looked upon by Poseidon.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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Duplicate images uploaded

Thanks for uploading Image:Medusa in origin.jpg. A machine-controlled robot account noticed that you also uploaded the same image under the name Image:Medusa looked upon by Poseidon.jpg. The copy called Image:Medusa looked upon by Poseidon.jpg has been marked for speedy deletion since it is redundant. If this sounds okay to you, there is no need for you to take any action.

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Your image for Medusa

Thanks for your contributions to Medusa, but in general, original artwork like your Image:Origin of Medusa.jpg is considered unnecessary decoration for an article (I'm sorry if other editors removed it previously without explaining why). If you wish to reintroduce the artwork, I suggest you begin a discussion on Talk:Medusa and get a consensus before you so so. Thanks. — TAnthony^Talk 14:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Persus_armed_by_the_Nymphs.jpg

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Madame du Barry

The hidden comments about which you are getting upset are mine, with my signature *FW* for Frania Wisniewska, which you could have guessed by going back to the date when comments were inserted. May I point out to you that hidden comments within text are not *accusations of lies* (please find one instance where I accused you of lying), they are addressed as a point of discussion to the editor who wrote the contested part. That's what Wikipedia is all about. The fact that you may have read hundreds of books on one subject does not mean that everyone will agree that you know more about that subject than anyone else. There may be books you have not read. For instance, have you read memoirs in French written by individuals who personally knew Mme du Barry? If you have not, you should, because this would make you realise that, depending on whether they liked her or not, the authors of these memoirs either praised her or thrashed her (the duc de Choiseul, for instance, who could not stand her because he had tried to have his own sister become official mistress to Louis XV, so you can imagine what he wrote about Mme du B!). Some authors and libellists did not treat her any better than was treated Marie Antoinette, with similar accusations of both women being whores, which, as the article stands, gives the impression that it is what Mme du Barry was, i.e. a modern call girl. Frania W. (talk) 13:37, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Dear Sean, Thank you for your note. Please, do not feel bad about our little exchange via hidden notes in the du Barry article. There is nothing to forgive as you did nothing wrong. We only had a sharp exchange... So let's shake hands with the hope that, in the future, we can work in harmony, even if we rarely agree.

Her humble origins, and the fact that in spite of it she became the mistress of Louis XV, passing over all the other beautiful women who were vying for the *post* are at the base of the hatred many at Court had for her. You have to realise that the Court at Versailles was nothing but a wasp nest filled with gossip, greed & jealousy. People were divided into factions & the woman who would win the heart (and bed) of the king would immediately be sought after by those hoping to get the king's favour through her position, while, at the same time, she would be demonised by those who had lost to her. In the case of Mme du Barry, her supposed mémoires are apocryphal, i.e. the work of the baron de Lamothe-Langon. I am including a link to something you may find interesting.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:70FK_xYupOgJ:www.hist.cam.ac.uk/academic_staff/working-papers/2007-2008/WP02_08.pdf+Baron+Etienne+L%C3%A9on+de+Lamothe-Langon+apocryphe&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Now there are books that are not on Mme du Barry but which have details on her - books written by the authors themselves, who met her. In her Souvenirs, the painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun has eight pages on Mme du Barry & the conditions in which she did three portraits of her.

May I suggest that you do not give out your e-address for millions of readers to see?

Best to you, Frania W. (talk) 04:10, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ceto (mythology)

The article Ceto (mythology) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

non-notable

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Rocksanddirt (talk) 01:00, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

• Is clearly notable, has been redirected back to where it came from, viz. Cetus (mythology). Oceanblueeyes, your edits of that page do not seem to have been helpful, perhaps some guidance would be welcome

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Speedy deletion nomination of Maitresse declaree

Hello Oceanblueeyes,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Maitresse declaree for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

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