User Talk: Lambiam

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Happy First Edit Anniversary Lambiam 🎉

Hey @Lambiam. Your wiki edit anniversary is today, marking 20 years of dedicated contributions to English Wikipedia. Your passion for sharing knowledge and your remarkable contributions have not only enriched the project, but also inspired countless others to contribute. Thank you for your amazing contributions. Wishing you many more wonderful years ahead in the Wiki journey and a blessed New Year. :) -❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 18:08, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

A sturgeon for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Hi there! I've seen you around answering tech questions at the reference desk ↗! You usually beat me to it, and for that I've brought you a Pallid sturgeon (Parascaphirhynchus albus).
Much love, rock on forever! ⚠︎ ArkadenBoden ⚠︎ (talk) 14:09, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
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Avram Grant's correct date of birth

To be precise, the first two sources, those relating to personal information, both in the template and in the biography, where the real name and place of birth (which are certainly accurate) are listed, however, give inaccurate dates. The first is May 4, 1955, and the second is May 6, 1955... — Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by ~2026-15808-85 ↗ (talk) 12:43, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Re: Buz

Thanks for your message. I did not know him. The subject appealed to me on various different levels and I often write about California-related history topics, particularly when they intersect between art and tech. So it was only a matter of time! Viriditas (talk) 22:18, 22 April 2026 (UTC)
:Given that you enjoy this kind of thing, I think I should take a moment to explain how exactly I ended up writing about Buz. It was October 2024. I had just become aware of the Valparaiso University deaccessioning controversy ↗. I wrote that article (first appearing as a subsection in another article) in a series about the controversy. This included three new articles on the paintings involved in the dispute: ''Rust Red Hills ↗'', ''Mountain Landscape ↗'', and ''The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate ↗''. While researching the backstory on this series of paintings, I begin to notice a pattern with artist Childe Hassam ↗ (''The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate''). It turns out, he had created a series in California, but nobody had ever written about it on Wikipedia. Curiouser still, there had been some kind of unspoken rivalry between the coastal art worlds. One author made the claim that New York art critics had ignored California Impressionists and other modernists on the west coast. Naturally, this led me to create the California series by Childe Hassam ↗. It was while working on this article, namely the works of Childe Hassam unique to that region, that I came across Buz's original Tigertail website, which I believe still exists in the Internet Archive ↗. That led me down a rabbit hole ↗, and I started wondering who exactly had created this great and informative site that nobody else had managed to duplicate? It turns out his name was Robert Uzgalis ↗, and I was impressed by the information I found about art history, info that had been largely ignored by everyone else. This was not the last time I ran into Buz, because I probably would have forgotten about it right then and there had I not moved on to another topic altogether, that of Jules Tavernier ↗. I was trying to trace all the Hawaiian paintings by Tavernier in May and June of 2025, and lo and behold, I could only find one site that did so: Tigertail. I eventually created a short bio about Buz himself in my sandbox, where it sat until I created it in mainspace in September 2025. Seemed like the least I could do for someone who was helping me so much from the beyond. And that, as they say, is the rest of the story. Viriditas (talk) 22:53, 22 April 2026 (UTC)
::BTW, I wanted to thank you for this discussion, as it disturbed the cobwebs in my mind and forced me to remember that I had planned to create an article about Childe Hassam's ''Geraniums'' series, which takes place in the Blumenthal garden at Villiers-Le-Bel. If it wasn't for this discussion, I would not have returned to it. Viriditas (talk) 23:48, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Barnstar for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For answering well in reference desk, with explanatory answers. You did an overall great job on this! I hope you become a host in reference desk. ~2026-33106-46 ↗ (talk) 22:21, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
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It looks like my confusion was justified

As it turns out, Mrs. Blumenthal was not Couture's daughter.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Viriditas/sandbox69&diff=prev&oldid=1357988259 ↗ I intuitively picked up on this because it sounded odd to me to refer to Blumenthal as the owner of the house. Viriditas (talk) 22:02, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

:I finally resolved this with a footnote: "Thomas Couture had two daughters, Berthe-Genevieve and Jean-Cecile (Baroness Risler). Neither of these women married a Mr. Blumenthal. Weinberg notes that Hiesinger, Adelson and Gerdts all repeat the error in their work. Correcting the record, Weinberg writes 'The Blumenthals occupied a house on an estate owned by a daughter of the French painter Thomas Couture." This error likely comes from a misreading of an 1888 letter written by Hassam: "The proprietor of the property that my friend lives [on], married one of Couture's daughters...'" Viriditas (talk) 23:28, 10 June 2026 (UTC)