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Arbitration case

An arbitration case has been submitted to review the actions surround the recent Giano case on AN. I've listed you as an involved party, and you may wish to view the case here. --InkSplotch 18:04, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

You wouldn't believe me, Giano, but I expected repraisals from minute to minute all day long. I may imagine their panic after you returned to normal editing today. Now there's gonna be a huge bazaar... --Ghirla 19:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

I honestly don't know how you mean this statement. I'm not trying to launch or extend attacks on anyone, but many have wanted ArbCom to speak on their own behalf throughout this and I felt it was time. Giano, your statement on the arbitration page is rather cryptic, and I was hoping to encourage you to express fully what you feel right now. I don't think anything is a foregone conclusion at this point (i.e., this isn't a kangaroo court), and the only way we'll be able to sort this all out is to express our views fully, in a neutral forum. --InkSplotch 23:50, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Inksplotch, If you wish to discuss the Carnildo|Kelly Martin debacle, I would imagine this is the correct forum here, failing that your own talk page, or the IRC channel where I believe Misplaced Pages matters are now openly aired. Please do not involve me, or my talk page. Ghirlandajo - I love that image on Egyptian Revival architecture, it's almost has an art-deco feel combined with the Egyptian, perhaps that sort of concrete 1930's style of the Egyptian needs to be more brought out do you think, especially if you could find some more examples - we could expand n that theme - what d'you think? Giano

The Queensway Tunnel isn't a bad example by Herbert James Rowse who seemed did quite a bit of egyptian art deco I believe. --Mcginnly | Natter 08:55, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

They are very good, I had never really admired that sort of Egyptian?1930s?Cinema architecture, but it really is a style of it's own if you think about it, more than just a sub of Art deco - it would make a very good page, easy to get fotos of too - electric light bulb growing out of my head! Giano 09:00, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm on dial-up just now, so I can't investigate the building in detail. It is cetrainly not typical for Soviet architecture. The architect might have seen the Egyptian Gate by Adam Menelaws; they are mentioned in Pushkin (town) and in this album. --Ghirla 19:59, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Giano

Hello,

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Giano. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Giano/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Giano/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, MacGyverMagic - Mgm| 22:16, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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I still don't know what "behind the skips" means. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 02:34, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Skip (container) it is where they hide the things they want to sell rather than throw away. I love our local tip, I do most of my Christmas shopping there! Giano 06:12, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

It is the top link on skip! -- ALoan (Talk) 09:32, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Rotundity

Giano, why the uncertainty within what is now Italy between rotonda and rotunda? (See e.g. the first para of Villa Capra.) I'd guess that they reflect different versions of Italian and that Florentine and (earlier) Venetian Italian show a difference, but guesses aren't sufficient. The words are weighing on my mind after my recent return from Estonia, where little rotonde or rotunde seem popular (notably that just up the hill from the old building of the University of Tartu) and are delightfully labeled rotund, giving them a particularly self-satisfied air. -- Hoary 04:32, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Why not add a few words here where all will be made crystal clear, I now have a mental block over which to use when speaking any language. Incidentally why has University of Tartu got that horrible box thing, giving among other things it's telephone number, are we now a "telephone directory"? and even a hedgehog may have gathered it is in Tartu, it's hardly likely to be in Paris, Texas is it? That same illiterate hedgehog may have also gathered that "Universitas Tartuensis" is Latin rather than Estonian or whatever it is the natives speak in those parts. I think when I have finished the small local difficulties I am having elsewhere, I shall divert my full attention to info-boxes. Nice to here from you Hoary. Giano 17:47, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

And always a delight to have a word from you, Sir. (The little local difficulties really are too silly; I thought I might make a stern comment, but each time when I tried to read what was necessary in order to do so, I nodded off. So I contented myself with a single riposte to another comment. Sorry about my laziness here.) Yes, we certainly see eye to eye over infoboxes. My most coherent attack on the silly things is here; it was inspired by a rating of Pierre Rossier, not my work but instead that of Pinkville; as he puts it: I can't think how an infobox actually helps anyone at all. But if Time magazine is one's academic ideal, then I suppose that would alter the judgement. -- Hoary 14:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)