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Hey, Pinkville. I'd like to ask you to please strike the personal attacks/assumptions of bad faith at
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Years ago you wrote most of the early version of
Hand-colouring of photographs. There is a long-dead link that you
added with reference to Hans Bellmer's photographs. Someone else later turned it into a citation, linked to the Internet Archive, etc. It looks like all it is is a picture of one of Bellmer's works, which of course is no citation at all for the statement in question. Do you think it was ever anything more than that? I'm thinking either we need different citation there or we should mark that as citation needed; it doesn't seem to me to cite for anything.
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Hello! I have recently made some edits on the page for
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I've had a read through and it's certainly a thoughtful and engaging article on an interesting topic. I'll have a closer look when I have a bit more time. Thanks for alerting me to it! :-)
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