User talk:Ham II

Hi Ham - I've done this, but what do you think about the above? Feel free to act if you want to! Best, Johnbod (talk) 03:35, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

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Fixed. Ham II (talk) 19:55, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi Ham - hope you're keeping well. I've been doing a bit with the lists of entries on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, mainly just alphabetising, and adding bluelinks and images. The Listed parks and gardens in Greater London one was already almost complete, so here I'm just looking to see what gaps can be filled. Which has led me to doing Pimlico Gardens. Now, try as I might, I cannot get the little locator red dot to show on the map. Any idea why? KJP1 (talk) 13:28, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Have now got the red dot to appear, but it does so just off the map! London Westminster obviously won't work. Given Greater London is too big, can you suggest any other map that will include it? Thanks again. KJP1 (talk) 14:20, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

@KJP1: Hi KJP1! If you replace the | map = parameter altogether with | mapframe-zoom = 15, and adjust the number according to your preference, you get a map with the pushpin at the centre. That's what I always prefer to use in infoboxes. All the best, Ham II (talk) 14:33, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Now that’s a nifty tool! Many thanks. I now feel I should use that on the others I’ve created, which is a rather daunting prospect… All the best. KJP1 (talk) 14:46, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Have you lost interest in this discussion, or are you still thinking? AmateurEditor (talk) 02:30, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

@AmateurEditor: Sorry I couldn't give this my full attention until now. It needs one's full concentration when there are so many interrelated issues to consider. Ham II (talk) 09:38, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

How fast he has faded! Had mega stroll on Wednesday, can't work out if this is in Fitzroy Place art or not! Really can't find Randall-Page's One and the Many on Artuk either. Mysteries upon mysteries. No Swan So Fine (talk) 12:50, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

He hasn't weathered the last 13 years too well, has he? I've created a new entry at List of public art in the London Borough of Camden § Primrose Hill. That's another one that's not on Art UK, so their coverage isn't complete. Not been able to find anything out about the Fitzroy Place one – is it too low to be seating? Ham II (talk) 08:44, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi, this pretty poor near-stub article, is (looking at the creator's talk) clearly some kind of copyvio/AI/unacknowleged translation. Or OCLC maybe. All but one of the sources are foreign, mostly German. I think the reader would be better served by a disam to the long Gothic sculpture, Romanesque_art#Sculpture, and sections in other articles (Ottonian, Anglo-S) etc. Needless to say, none of these are even linked to. What do you think? Also User:Mccapra, who has taken an interest. Johnbod (talk) 14:33, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

@Johnbod: I was about to agree to the dab page idea, but the author seems to have big plans for the article and has written some substantial sections on late antiquity so far (albeit logged out some of the time). Presumably if he gets on to the actual subject of medieval sculpture in the body text there'll be something equally beefy there? I'm inclined to wait and see what he comes up with. The stuff written so far will have to be seriously trimmed and rehoused elsewhere, and I'd like to give the page a thorough copyedit at some point so that it reads as more idiomatic English (as I did previously with Florentine Renaissance art, which was translated from French). Ham II (talk) 06:51, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

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Hope you are well! What are the next steps like for google sheet --> List? – Aza24 (talk) 05:03, 26 April 2026 (UTC)