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April 28, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
November 22, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
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Useless short references

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

There are several references to "Goldscheider" in the text, but there are two works by Goldscheider in the list of Sources. So nobody can tell which work is intended by each reference. DuncanHill (talk) 22:20, 17 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Fixed I've disambiguated the Goldscheider cites with full standardized ref templates with urls so that other editors can verify the changes I've made. I haven't found a cite of Goldscheider's Michelangelo: Drawings (1953) in the article, but I've left in the "Sources" section for now. Tomorrow I will see if it or a later edition might be used to support statements in the text. Thanks for pointing this out. Carlstak (talk) 03:59, 28 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Article error

Latest comment: 9 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

There is a (rather shocking, to my mind) grammatical error early in this rather important entry:

"Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art."

This is a dangling modifier. 'His work' was not born in the Republic of Florence, he was.

This horror urgently needs rephrasing, thus:

"He was born in the Republic of Florence, and his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art." 2A00:23C6:DC52:1B01:F405:680:C52A:BA6F (talk) 08:55, 19 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

ok 96.8.136.181 (talk) 17:06, 29 September 2025 (UTC)Reply