User talk:Mattissa

Probus, Cornwall

Great photos, thanks for linking them. DuncanHill (talk) 23:43, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Edit Summary

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thank you. --24.0.42.61 (talk) 15:41, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Could I second that and say: Please, please, please could you use edit summaries. Thank you! MSGJ (talk) 11:05, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Cathedral architecture

Thank you, Mattissa, I'm delighted! I'm glad that it was highly regarded enough for featured status. I withdrew it from the assessment process on English Wiki because they wanted me to rewrite the lists in prose and get rid of the galleries. I decided that the article was more useful in the format it was in, than it would have been with fewer pics and a gold star! So now I feel encouraged.

I have also been writing for Simple English Wikipedia, and I rewrote my article on Gothic Architecture at [1]. You might like that one as well. Amandajm (talk) 22:25, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I looked at your article and really liked what you'd done, with the additional pics. It's so good to be able to illustrate things so that people know exactly what you are talking about.

With regards to local schools v. styles. It sometimes amazes me how consistent a style can be... Romanesque is remarkably consistent across Europe. Gothic looks like Gothic, wherever it is, despite the graft of local characteristics. I suspect that to the unitiated eye, there wouldn't be all that much difference between St Peter's in Rome and St Paul's in London and Les Invalides in Paris, although to me, the differences jump out.

Yet, through it all, there seems to be a national mindset that produces local characteristics. The Italians were always rather half-hearted about Gothic. They never quite caught on to the feeling of it. The Brits were not that happy with Baroque. They did their spacial things in a very controlled sort of way, so that you really need to look and think to enjoy the buildings.

If you dont want to attack the gothic article just yet, there's always Romanesque architecture which has an accompanying gallery page! Have fun! Amandajm (talk) 14:12, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

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I don't know whether this is right. Don't really understand what's going on. HELP!!!!!!!!

reason: "My account was unfairly blocked for reason unknown to me. I have been working up to the point of being blocked without any problem. Please unblock so I can continue to work. Thank you"

I'm glad it's finally cleared up ;) Sorry for the hassle! Due to privacy reasons, we don't have access to the blocks that are not directly implemented against a user. -- lucasbfr ^talk 11:05, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

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