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To User:Wehwalt:
Is me again.
"The resultant plaster models, made by Sinnock, were submitted to the Commission on March 13, 1926."
Which commission is this, Fine Arts Commission or National Sesquicentennial Exhibition Commission?-- Jarodalien ( talk) 14:02, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
And one more: "No further gold commemoratives, of any denomination, would be issued by the Mint Bureau until 1984." What happened at 1984?-- Jarodalien ( talk) 16:04, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello editors. My wife frequently suffers from insomnia, and one thing we've discovered is that reading from Wikipedia is an effective way of . . . boring her to sleep. To that end, I have been reading Wikipedia articles to her when she needs it and I've got a computer handy. Just after I finished reading List of common misconceptions, I had the idea that I could help out the community by recording the reading of the article, and contributing to the WP:SPEAK project. I plan on recording this article, soon (probably the next time she needs some help sleeping and I've got a computer). Don't expect an amazing reading, but it'll be something. I'm working under the assumption that something is better than nothing. McKay ( talk) 07:53, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Mentioned is H. P. Caemmerer, secretary of the Commission of Fine Arts. Is that the same as Arno B. Cammerer, former "executive secretary of the Fine Arts Commission"? -- Trilotat ( talk) 12:56, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Would a wikilink to John Frederick Lewis be appropriate here, maybe also a citation? Note, there is no mention of Lewis' submission of the sketches or Sinnock's adaptation of those sketches in the Lewis article. -- Trilotat ( talk) 13:06, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Does it really count as private advertising if Pass and Stow are defunct? Brutannica ( talk) 14:31, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
I am editing the following sentence, "Lewis, an attorney and artist, was president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts", so that it specifies, "Lewis, who served as president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 until his death in 1932, was known as a numismatist, but not as an artist." This description of Lewis is supported by the cited quote from Q. David Bowers' Commemorative Coins of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia, "John Frederick Lewis, born in Philadelphia on September 10, 1860, was known as a patron of the arts, not as an artist, but he did create the design for a commemorative coin." The reference to him as an artist may have resulted from confusion with the same-named English Orientalist painter John Frederick Lewis who died in 1876. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 16:53, 5 July 2016 (UTC)