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Is this the correct Antonia Malatesta? From looking at Google Books and the dates, I gather there was another woman also in Milan by this name that was beheaded for an affair. If it is her I can add the image.---Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:15, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

The one who was beheaded was a different Antonia Malatesta

Here's a quote from http://genealogy.euweb.cz/gonzaga/gonzaga2.html#DL3 "E7. Rodolfo, Signore di Castiglione dello Stiviere, Solferino, Suzzara e Poviglio, a general, *18.4.1452, +k.a.Fornovo 6.7.1495; 1m: 11.1.1481 Antonia Malatesta, natural dau.of Sigismondo Pandolfo Signore di Rimini (+beheaded 25.12.1483)" I would have used Antonia Malatesta (birthdate-deathdate) for the one who was married in 1408, but I could not find either date for her. Antonia Malatesta of Rimini is more common than I thought! Peaceray (talk) 06:38, 5 March 2010 (UTC)Peaceray

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Violante Visconti

My pleasure - happy to be of help. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:17, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Peaceray, thank you for your help...sometimes I struggle with references. I enjoy creating new articles on wikipedia and I go through different faises like at the moment I'm creating articles for Aragonese royalty, I've had times were I created articles for Armenian royals, Italian nobles and french royalty thats why articles in my list may have relations to the previous and next article listed. Thank you--David (talk) 09:47, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Keep up the good work!

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Thanks for the correction

Even though I have done 300+ edits on articles, I still am a newbie at certain things, like how to move pages. Mahalo! Peaceray (talk) 07:22, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Moys

Thanks. I was tearing my hair out trying to do that! And Introducing... A Leg (talk) 16:22, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Removing prods

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Format

Ciao! Thanks for helping at the Visconti bio articles, which so far nearly only me cared to. Just some format notes: from what I can see, now all the images of historical characters are put on the right top, whatever the direction the face points to. Also put footers and succession boxes after ALL the text (i.e., also after external links, references etc.). Also if you can avoid placing images at center since the layout becomes a mess. Let me know for any help. Ciao and good work!! --'''Attilios''' (talk) 09:32, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

RE: Format

Aloha! Thank you for also helping with the Visconti articles. I created Violante Visconti & Beatrice Lascaris di Tenda, & added citations, {{Ahnentafel}} templates, & graphics to other Visconti articles. I plan to add some more citations, & hopefully some text, based upon Leonardo Bruni's Historiarum Florentinarum, which I recently read in an English trannslation.

• Regarding positioning of human images, Misplaced Pages:MOSIM#Images specifically says "It is often preferable to place images of faces so that the face or eyes look toward the text." I will take care of fixing those articles in which you changed it so that the face looks away from the text, so that they will then match the common preference of facing the text.
• Regarding Giovanni Visconti, I guess you missed my {{Under construction}} notice. I am planning to add a gallery template, but was initially unable to make it work right, so I placed the notice. I will be adding that presently. Also, you inadvertently removed the most symbolically important image. When Giovanni Visconti was confronted about the conflict of being both a man of the cross and a man of the sword, he responded that he used one to defend the other. Hence, the artist's choice to depict him with both. I eventually plan to add some text for the anecdote, once I rediscover the proper citation.
• Since you are much closer to historical sources about the Visconti, I was wondering: do you have any idea about the names or locations of the paintings depicted at http://www.kleio.org/en/history/famtree/sforza/1064.html?
• Also, do you have access to: Pier Candido Decembrio. Vita di Filippo Maria Visconti. OCLC 223020127.? Most of the sources that I have access to are decidedly anti-Visconti, & I would like to see more of balance in citations.

Peaceray (talk) 08:17, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Ciao! Some notes:

• As for the facing of the character, I noticed (and perhaps read somewhere, but unfortunately I can't remember where) that the left looking stuff is no more used. If you make a survey of ALL biographies here, you'll notice that the image of the character is always placed on right top corner now, whatever the MOS says.
• What's that picture you added in Violante Visconti, and from which source you took the identification of those saints with Violante and her brother?
• What is "Kenites" you mentioned in Violante Visconti's heritage?
• Unfortunately I cannot hepl with those sources you asked me for...

Ciao e buon lavoro! --'''Attilios''' (talk) 08:48, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Aloha!

• Regarding placement of images you are probably thinking of bullet #1 under Misplaced Pages:MOSIM#Images:
  • Infoboxes, images, and related content in the lead must be right-aligned
• Bullet #6 begins:
  • It is often preferable to place images of faces so that the face or eyes look toward the text.
• Since I had placed the picture in the ==Biography== section, I figured that the latter guideline applied.
• Also, the reason biographies tend to have the image placed right is probably an artifact from having been created as bio-stubs, which would mean that they had probably started with only a lead section.
• You can find the information about the Violante Visconti picture at File:Violante_e_Gian_Galeazzo_Visconti.jpg where there is a Violante Visconti at kleio.org link.
• I am not sure about the reference for Kenites; I would have to go back through my sources, some of which are not online and are not readily available to me.

Mahalo! Peaceray (talk) 06:12, 25 August 2011 (UTC)