Talk:Paul Rolland

Did recent stub sorting edits lose data?

Hi. I'm unsure about the effects of this pair of edits. I must start by saying I'm not sure what the whole stub-sorting thing is about but since it seems to be based on something similar to categories, I worry that it has now placed Rolland wrongly. As you see from the diff, the edits removed the three stubs {{Educationist-stub}} {{US-musician-stub}} {{Bowed-musician-stub}} and replaced them with the single stub {{US-violinist-stub}}. This seems odd. In his performing career, as the article makes clear, Rolland was not a violinist but a viola player, or violist, if you must, so whilst {{Bowed-musician-stub}} was a bit broad it was at least accurate, whereas {{US-violinist-stub}} is wrong. You might at an extreme pinch talk about Rolland the viola player but you wouldn't talk about Rolland the violinist. Odder, though, is the loss of {{Educationist-stub}}. Rolland's role as an education[al]ist far outweighs the importance of his playing career. Why's he remembered now? As a pedagogue, not as a player. The loss of that stub seems, then, to compound the previous error by throwing away the most important set of people that he's a member of. So, although I do not really understand the process here nor the exact effect of these stub categorizations, I do know that on the face of it what happens seems to have introduced inaccuracy and discarded data. But I'd be very grateful for your view and I am not about to start a fist fight over it! Thanks and best wishes, DBaK (talk) 01:41, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Aha. Brilliant sort-out by Waacstats, thanks! DBaK (talk) 14:14, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

During WWII and the Holocaust

This biography lacks a timeline: Under the section heading Education and career he is described with higher education at USA institutions and having performed with a Hungarian orchestra. What is known about his name change? Likely related to emigration from Hungary to the West, but why Rolland from Reisman? (N.B. This earlier name is missing from the only other WP page, de:Paul Rolland, nor is it mentioned in the Wikidata item.) -- Deborahjay (talk) 09:04, 18 October 2018 (UTC)