... inviting you to check out "my" story (fun listen today, full of surprises), music (and memory), and places (pictured by me: the latest uploads) any day! --
20 January is the 100th birthday of David Tudor (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13, if we go by date instead of occasion as he would have thought, so see my story for last Sunday, and celebrate😉 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:09, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
England or France?
Johnbod, I notice that you are one of only two participants in Talk:Old master print (and the only one of the two who's still around); can I persuade you to consider a question about the captioning of one such print? (The print is from circa 1700 and is no masterpiece; and I plead innocent to any charge of "canvassing" as the only conflict is that between voices in my own befuddled head.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:57, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
Pancreatic cancer
Hello! As part of the Vital signs campaign 2026 we're trying to ensure all of our 101 top-importance articles are up-to-date. I see you've managed to get the article pancreatic cancer to FA in 2015. Would you be willing to do a (quick) update of the article? Some of the updates should be fairly straightforward (updating the prognosis section), whereas others might benefit from your contacts at Cancer Research UK. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 10:14, 8 January 2026 (UTC)
Hi Femke, unfortunately my contacts at CRUK have all moved on, after 12 years, but I will see what I can do. I always relied on them for thew medial stuff. Johnbod (talk) 16:18, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
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Second opinion time: have I been too heavy handed with this edit? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 23:12, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
No, I don't think so - in recent years the most important show has I think been this, last year. The Met one had come from NG london. Johnbod (talk) 23:37, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
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Regarding my edits on the Royal Gold Cup page. Firstly links to old defunct polities, in the text I've linked to both the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of France because neither currently exist. MOS:OL just says don't link to major examples of countries, given that the links to the old kingdoms and are in fact history pages themselves, there's nothing to stop them being linked.
Secondly, capitalising some titles; in each instance I capitalised the title when its referring to an individual in place of their full title. MOS:JOBTITLE specifically exempts from the usual capitalisation rules under that condition: 'When a title is used to refer to a specific person as a substitute for their name during their time in office'. Ecrm87 (talk) 17:39, 22 January 2026 (UTC)
These are bad edits, please don't repeat them. We certainly don't normally do what you have done - look at other pages. Johnbod (talk) 02:58, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
I've looked at plenty of other pages with these examples. Given you've not really supported your statement with any examples or bothered to rebut the policies it's you making the bad edits. Ecrm87 (talk) 14:38, 26 January 2026 (UTC)
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Hi there Johnbod. I was looking at this page to see if there were any photos by Wikipedians and, to my surprise, saw that you had taken quite a number. I don't suppose you happened to capture this piece? I'd like to add it to the gallery at serpent labret with articulated tongue, but the museum will not license their own photos. Cheers, --Usernameunique (talk) 22:30, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure not - sorry. Just about everything usable is in Category:Johnbod_does_Washington. Assuming it's on display, you could ask the DC group if someone can go along. Johnbod (talk) 22:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
Good idea! Turns out someone lives a ten-minute walk away, and was able to take a photo. --Usernameunique (talk) 16:03, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
Glad that worked out. Go Georgetown! I don't take photos these days, as they are so bad - things like your labret are actually very hard to do well. But I was pleased to see that Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure has had an article for 10 years, presumably only because of my rather poor photo. I don't think I knew that. Johnbod (talk) 16:42, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
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I've reverted this at once, rather than open talk page discussion first, because the article you cited didn't include either claim, and the claims are rather extraordinary. But I have now opened Talk:The Twelve Caesars#Christian interpolations, so if you or the TA can add anything there, it could affect several of our articles. NebY (talk) 14:44, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
I think the issue is that modern editions silently leave these out, understandably, and they are just ignored in historians' discussions. I don't think I'm going to delve into this. Johnbod (talk) 17:51, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
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Hi Johnbod! I noticed you reverted the edit made by Stinglehammer on the Meigle 2 article. Just for some context, I'm a student new to Wikipedia, researching Pictish stones for an Award project with the University of Edinburgh. I'd been chatting with Stinglehammer about adding a map with a location marker to the page and he kindly added it for me as an example so I could add the same to other articles I'd created. I just wanted to check what your reasons were for reverting the changes and whether perhaps there's a better way of creating maps etc that I'm unaware of. Thanks🙂 Aliceinpictland (talk) 17:04, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
Revisited - the issue wasn't the map, which I've restored, but the bolding of Daniel Stone, which redirects to a different page (rightly or wrongly). Johnbod (talk) 17:50, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
That makes sense. Thank you! Aliceinpictland (talk) 19:19, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Hi Johnbod, any further thoughts about this discussion? Are you ok the the proposal to split the article into an overview/influence article titled "Roman and Byzantine domes" and a series of century-specific daughter articles with most of the detail? AmateurEditor (talk) 02:35, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
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I just restored the redirect we've had for 10 years. Johnbod (talk) 00:37, 5 April 2026 (UTC)
Came here tenuously...
... but I greatly appreciate your Fast Show reference on your user page. Anyway, I'm off now to fix the drainage in the lower field, sir. Mac Edmunds (talk) 22:02, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
Glad you liked it! That was .... nice. Johnbod (talk) 02:16, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
I want to add this image in the infobox of the article Blue and white pottery, along with the pre-existing image, but I am unable to do so. Hu741f4 (talk) 22:26, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
Yeah - you need thumb, for one. Johnbod (talk) 23:02, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
I think it should go in the article, but not in the infobox. At present the article is very short on text on Islamic pottery. Johnbod (talk) 23:10, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
Walter Deverell typo?
Hi there. You added the following to Walter Deverell: "a wierd Arab band ...", sourced from Hilton. Is the misspelling of 'weird' a typo, or should it be followed by a 'sic'? Masato.harada (talk) 15:41, 24 April 2026 (UTC)
No, just a typo. Johnbod (talk) 17:59, 24 April 2026 (UTC)
Figurines template
Hi, there, could you explain me this edit and why you summarized it as "this make little sense"? Which criteria did you use to order the topics?
For historic types, covering a range of some 4,000 years, a rough chronological approach seems called for, rather alphabetic. This doesn't apply to other sections. I wasn't aware I had "suppressed" Mycenaean figurine on tripod - feel free to put it back. Johnbod (talk) 14:03, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation, it's all clear now. BTW, quotation marks around suppressed are not necessary because as a non-native English speaker (), I may commit mistakes (just like you did erasing the Mycenaean article from the template). Thanks again. Fma12 (talk) 17:41, 7 May 2026 (UTC)
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