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Punctuation problems

I happened to be reading your stub article on Nigel Davenport when I observed a number of formatting problems, all caused by an irregular mix of straight and directed single-quote marks, most of which were clearly meant to italicize film titles. (I've fixed them all, but you might want to compare the current version with the way it looked before.) If you use a word processor like Microsoft Word that automatically converts straight quotes to directed ones, you might try pasting your text into a text editor and doing a global replace on those directed quotes to ensure the wiki markup works properly before copying it into a wiki edit window. (Usually, you can turn off directed quotes, but I imagine most folks don't want to do this just to make wiki editing easier.) Anyway, it's just a thought. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:59, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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ICA

I would be interested in knowing your source for the claim you made at ICA regarding the CIA. Ejgm 15:53, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much, I'll look it up. Ejgm 17:07, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gabo

Nice work on Naum Gabo! ora 23:11, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers for the message. I tagged it a whiel back as I came across the article (beign soemwhat of a fan) and spotetd the state it was in. Sadly I'm not that expert in the subject, but will go over it for clarity at least. No idea why he chose Gabo either, I'm sure i was told once but I can't recall. ora 12:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mary Allen

Hi! Thanks for your input on the article. Regarding your questions:

You're right that the Arts Council was criticised for not looking closely enough at the financial affairs of the House before making the grant. Allen should take some responsibility for this, as Secretary General, but remember that although she assisted in the assessment of the application, she was not a decision maker:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmcumeds/199i/cu0105.htm

My source for her surprise at the state of the House's finances is from her book, A House Divided. I would be happy for there to be a "she claims" and a reference!

I agree that the part about her succesfully steering the house through the refurbishment needs work!

The quotation you made from the report about her conduct, if you look closely, refers only to her actions in late April and early May 1997, the time at which the new appointment was being discussed between her and Lord Chadlington, not to her tenure as Chief Executive of the House.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! -- Con Dem^Talk 06:05, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More More Mary

Hi again Piers,

I was planning to reread A House Divided anyway, so I'll find the reference for the surprise, and see if there's anything on her version of why the exact financial situation was not known to her beforehand.

I suppose if your sources for her being approached before for the job two years previously are uncitable, they can't be included, which is a shame. Perhaps it says something about that in the book as well. Although it would be a pity to have too many quotes from the book, because it means that most of the article comes from one source! Perhaps the article should be clarified to reflect the exact meaning of the comments regarding her actions in the report.

Although there might be other questionable lottery decisions during her leadership, I expect that she was not specifically involved in them all. Perhaps these should be put into an expanded version of the Council article? Maybe with a mention in the Allen article.

The problem is, that although her actions from late April to early may were harshly criticised in the report, Allen did do good work at the Arts Council and at the House, and the Article might change to an extremely negative report. The fact is that, as detailed in the book (and i'm sure verifiable with other sources) she saved the House from bankruptcy on more than one occasion. I'd be pleased if some positive words about her work could be included as well as the negative, although it was the controversy that brought national attention (which is, of course, often the case.)

I'd be happy to help on other articles, but I'm not sure how useful I'd be - my knowledge is quite limited to this particular subject, rather than Arts funding in general. However, I do find it interesting, so wouldn't mind researching to make future articles better, or improve some existing ones!

looking forward to hearing your thoughts,

Con Dem^Talk 15:57, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Duplicated from my talk page: I have taken care of it. You might want to check if I missed anything. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 02:16, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Contemporary Art

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Nicholas Serota

Thanks for drawing my attention. However, the deletion is perfectly justified, as it is unsubstantiated gossip, and I doubt if it can be given a verifiable reference. The whole article could do with some close attention, and more references, as there is only one in the whole article at the moment. Tyrenius 13:53, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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McHale maniac

Someone keeps making changes to pages linked with John McHale and I saw you had reverted some. Its not just that they don't source but the language is very non-wiki. Can anything be done?Piersmasterson

All I've done has been reverting them at whining at the anon talk pages, having no effect. These days, though, I am without an internet connection, severely (or rather: completely and totally) limiting my ability to take care of that and other wiki things. You'll have to talk to someone else :/ --Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 16:14, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Victor Lewis-Smith

You asked for more biographic info on the guy. Well, it seems there's going to be a book - check the site (there seems to be a fight going on about what to include or not but I don't know anything about libel). Thought you'd interested, I was!

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