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Picta, picta, picta! TCO (talk) 04:37, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

I would have loved to, but I'm taking a complete break for an extended period, so must pass. hamiltonstone (talk) 03:37, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

March 2011 GAN backlog elimination drive a week away

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When you've had a decent break

I wonder if you could just briefly train that lynx-eye of yours on the close-to-final pre-FA draft of the Shakespeare Authorship Question. Your early willingness to take on the unenvious challenges of our request for peer-review bore very good fruits, and since then several strong editors have joined in, or returned to help the article along. A review you of the work done since then would be most welcome, though one appreciates how appallingly tiresome much of this must seem. Regards Nishidani (talk) 13:23, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

I would have loved to, but I'm taking a complete break for an extended period, so must pass. hamiltonstone (talk) 03:37, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

List of Presidents of the National Assembly of Togo

I would have loved to help, but I'm taking a complete break for an extended period, so must pass. hamiltonstone (talk) 03:37, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Main page appearance

Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on June 11, 2011. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 11, 2011. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article directors Raul654 (talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! ۞ Tbhotch™ & (ↄ), Problems with my English? 02:37, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Makinti Napanangka (died January 2011) was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert region. She lived in the communities of Haasts Bluff, Papunya, and later at Kintore. Kumentje Napanangka began painting Contemporary Indigenous Australian art at Kintore in the mid-1990s, encouraged by a community art project. Interest in her work developed quickly, and she is now represented in most significant Australian public art galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia. A finalist in the 2003 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, Kumentje won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2008. Her work was shown in the major Indigenous art exhibition Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Working in synthetic polymer on linen or canvas, Kumentje's paintings primarily take as their subjects a rockhole site, Lupul, and an Indigenous story (or "dreaming") about two sisters, known as Kungka Kutjarra. She was a member of the Papunya Tula Artists Cooperative, but her work has been described as more spontaneous than that of her fellow Papunya Tula artists. (more...)

International Space Station

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Thank you

Thank you for your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Harold Pinter/archive1 which helped in the process of getting this article to FA status. Jezhotwells (talk) 16:43, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

No problem!--Zoupan 17:50, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Feel like diving back in?  :-)

I hope you come back! In any event, enjoy the holiday season. -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:54, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Janice Mills in List of Australian artists

I reverted her spammy entry several times and felt that I should help. Thanks for fixing my error and the note! Jim1138 (talk) 03:11, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

No worries. It also looks like her user page breaches WP guidelines. <sigh>. That will have to get dealt with too. hamiltonstone (talk) 03:14, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

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Main page appearance: Steve Dodd

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Steve Dodd

Steve Dodd (born 1928) is an Indigenous Australian actor, notable for playing indigenous characters across seven decades of Australian film. After beginning his working life as a stockman and rodeo rider, Dodd was given his first film roles by prominent Australian actor Chips Rafferty. His career was interrupted by six years in the Australian Army during the Korean War, and limited by discrimination and typecasting. Despite this, by 1985 he had appeared in 55 movies or television features. Dodd has performed in some of Australia's most prominent movies, including Gallipoli and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, in which he played Tabidgi, the murdering uncle of the lead character. He has also held minor parts in Australia-based international film productions including The Coca-Cola Kid, Quigley Down Under and The Matrix. He has appeared in minor roles in early Australian television series, such as Homicide and Rush, as well as more recent series including The Flying Doctors. (more...)

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Alt description

Hi! Congratulations on the article!

The reason that I removed the description of him as "young Aboriginal" is because the context of the article tells us he was indigenous Australian (in the first sentence) so it doesn't need repeating. We also are told at what date/age he enlisted for Korea.

With regards to alt descriptions, I fought quite a long battle to get people's names included, instead virtually meaningless and pointless descriptions such as "man in black suit and white shirt facing left". The page advisory page has been entirely rewritten, using most of my suggestions. (I'm an art historian and have written museum educational material for the vision impaired.)

Sometimes a detailed description is really useful, but all that is needed here is a statement that the picture represents Steve Dodd in uniform. The addition of the slouch hat and the smile adds to the word picture. Restating that he is Aboriginal doesn't.

The other option is to include a really solid description of the man's appearance e.g. "Steve Dod in military uniform. He is a slim handsome Aboriginal man with deep set eyes, very dark skin and a broad smile which shows large teeth." Although words like "handsome" are regarded as POV in the regular text, I do not hesitate to use them in alt descriptions, if it adds to the concept. in this case, because the man is an actor, the fact that he was a handsome young man is relevant.

Concerning the critical comment by some critic about the stereotyped aboriginal tracker in Little Boy Lost, the film was based very closely on the facts. I remember the incident well. It was customary to call in black trackers. The criticism is really quite stupid, and I would drop it, simply because it's not in line with the facts. If an aboriginal tracker had not been shown, then there would have been a real problem.

Amandajm (talk) 05:59, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Just looked at your user page What a great job you are doing in your writing about notable Aboriginal Australians! Amandajm (talk) 06:29, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

(ec)Thanks for that. I'm going to leave the Little Boy Lost stuff as it is a reliable source and consistent with other info, but thanks for the rest of that, that helps. hamiltonstone (talk) 06:41, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

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Indigenous Australians
Thank you for making Indigenous Australians known, as artists and as people, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:06, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Bronwyn Oliver

The DYK project (nominate) 00:06, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

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