User talk:Johnbod

• Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/California State University Sacramento/Art of the Ancient Mediterranean (Fall 2017)
• Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Amherst College/Women and Art in Early Modern Europe (Spring 2017)
• Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/College of DuPage/History of Art- Prehistory to 1300 (Fall 2017)
• Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Duke University/Art in Renaissance Italy (Fall 2017)
• Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Duke University/Art in Renaissance Italy (Spring 2017)

Johnbod (talk) 19:13, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Boston_University/Venetian_Renaissance_Art_and_Architecture_(Fall)

Johnbod (talk) 16:40, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Quick facts

story · music · places

Close

300 years ago, a Bach cantata was born: happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:41, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

... 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)

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)

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)

An automated process has detected that you recently added links to disambiguation pages.

William Lee Hankey

added links pointing to RI and RWS

Georgina Moutray Kyle

added a link pointing to Unionist

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 19:54, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

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)

An automated process has detected that you recently added links to disambiguation pages.

William Lee Hankey

added links pointing to RI and RWS

Robert Edge Pine

added a link pointing to National Portrait Gallery

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 19:54, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

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)

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Thomas Jones (artist), a link pointing to the disambiguation page Marble Hill was added.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:55, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

On 28 January 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Idyllic school, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that The Times said in 1871 that the Idyllic school "aims at making pictorial idylls out of the unpromising materials of lowly life in town and country"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Idyllic school. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Idyllic school), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

This is from Wikipedia's article on the Renaissance:

"The Renaissance period started during the crisis of the Late Middle Ages and conventionally ends with the waning of humanism, and the advent of the Reformation (1517), the Sack of Rome (1527) or the Counter-Reformation (1545), and in art, the Baroque period."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance#Period Kirsten Jørgensdatter (talk) 01:25, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a WP:RS, as you should know. Read the start of the article. And see this search. Johnbod (talk) 01:44, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Intresting seeing the emails involved in selling a $20 million sculpture A long way from eBay! No Swan So Fine (talk) 20:39, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Indeed - interesting! Cheers, Johnbod (talk) 23:24, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Painted ceiling, a link pointing to the disambiguation page Assumption was added.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:54, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

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)

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Hodegetria, a link pointing to the disambiguation page Santa Maria dell'Itria was added.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:55, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello! Your submission of Walter Deverell at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! 22:08, 17 February 2026 (UTC)4meter4 (talk) 4meter4 (talk) 22:08, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

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)

On 4 March 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John Robert Cozens, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a John Robert Cozens painting set the record auction price for an 18th-century English watercolour at £2.4 million? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John Robert Cozens. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, John Robert Cozens), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

HurricaneZeta^C 00:02, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

On 5 March 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Walter Deverell, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the only painting Walter Deverell ever sold, A Pet, was bought by William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais as an "act of charity"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bosco Nordio. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Walter Deverell), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:33, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I see you created the redirect Painting in little to Portrait miniature; the redirect is now linked to the Wikidata item miniature (Q282129). Would you agree that the other articles on that Wikidata item are the same subject as Portrait miniature? Melozone crissalis (talk) 23:41, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Well, mostly, but they might just be very small paintings of any subject, not just portraits. Johnbod (talk) 00:02, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the input. Melozone crissalis (talk) 00:07, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

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)

The Core Contest—Wikipedia's most exciting contest—returns again this year from April 15 to May 31. The goal: to improve vital or other core articles, with a focus on those in the worst state of disrepair. Editing can be done individually, but in the past groups have also successfully competed. There is £300 of prize money divided among editors who provide the "best additive encyclopedic value". Signups are open now. Cheers from the judges, Femke, Casliber, Aza24.

If you wish to start or stop receiving news about The Core Contest, please add or remove yourself from the delivery list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:20, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

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)