Talk:Ophelia (painting)

Dubious

You don't get fever from a cold bath. --Abdull 10:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Says who? First, we are talking about Victorian models of what caused disease here, and that's all the source we have. She was supposed to have caught a "chill" (i.e. become feverish). Fever is a symptom, not a specific condition. Secondly, the sentence says she caught it "while modelling in a cold bath for the painting". It does not say that the bath caused the fever. That way, the Victorians sources for this story are respected, along with their assumptions about the causal relationship between events, without stating that the fever was directly caused by the cold. Paul B 10:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Use of citation templates

Hi, Ceoil, thanks for working on "Ophelia (painting)". I wonder, though, why you have removed all the citation templates such as {{cite book}} and {{cite web}}? I think they help to ensure a consistent citation format. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 12:09, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Jack, I dislike thoes templates as they add a lot of unnessary html, are difficult to manage, and because handcoding is so much easier (no need for cuting, pasting and modifying). Also, if you are editing a para that has a number of imbedded citation templates it can very difficult to follow what is going on (click edit on this), and tell where one sentence or clause ends and another begins. What is important is that the citation format (ie Harvard, MLA, etc) is consistently used across the article, not that a template (designed for beginners) is used. Ceoil (talk) 12:58, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Ceoil. Well, I doubt that they pose as much of a problem as you suggest, but don't feel strongly enough about the matter to suggest that the templates be reapplied. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 13:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Personally, I can't stand the blighters. Editing articles with these darn template formats is a nightmare. Paul B (talk) 14:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Kylie Minogue

I reworded the Kylie reference and moved it down to "Influences". I'm not really sure, though, that it belongs here at all. Influences does have a good catchall phrase anyway and there must be many, many such references, all of which we cannot list: is this one so specially significant? I am tempted to just remove it, but what do you think? Your view is very welcome! Best wishes DBaK (talk) 09:13, 1 September 2010 (UTC) PS Yes I know it's a great song. But.

File:John Everett Millais - Ophelia - Google Art Project.jpg to appear as POTD

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Picture of the day

Ophelia is an oil painting on canvas completed by Sir John Everett Millais between 1851 and 1852. It depicts the character Ophelia, from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark; this death scene is not seen onstage, but is instead described in a speech by Queen Gertrude. The painting was completed in two stages: first, the setting (drawn from the Hogsmill River in Surrey) then Ophelia (portrayed by Elizabeth Siddal). The painting is now owned by Tate Britain and valued at more than £30 million.Painting: John Everett Millais