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The Threepenny Opera

Please discuss any changes you want to make on the talk page first. I made most of my edits to correct innaccuracies and gramatical errors that resulted from your edits. Thanks. -- Cielomobile ^{talk / contribs} 05:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

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AMA REQUEST

I have opened your AMA case at Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates/Requests/February 2007/Andrew Powell. Just to make sure, is the dispute still active?--Natl1 (Talk Page) (Contribs) 21:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, I think that discussing the changes we made on Talk:The Threepenny Opera would be the best course of action for Andrew and me. I may very well have made some mistakes in my edits; let's try to discuss it all. The first step in dispute resolution is always trying to come to a conclusion on the talk page. -- Cielomobile ^{talk / contribs} 02:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Semele

A few clarifications. When a full encyclopedia article can be written on individual separate topics, it is common practice for those topics to have separate articles. In this case, it would be common practice for separate operas/oratorios, whose only relation to each other is that they have the same name, to have different articles.

Secondly, I don't think any of your excellent work was lost, just moved around a bit. It's still equally valid regardless of where it is.

Thirdly, Handel's Semele was originally composed to be performed as an oratorio and is listed in most major works of reference as an oratorio, though it is certainly often performed as an opera. The case of whether it should even be performed in this way - as an opera - is certainly a very live debate: under those circumstances it is also common practice to respect the composer's original intentions are regards the performance of the work.

Fourthly, in cases where there are multiple operas by different composers with the same name of roughly the same fame, common practice again is to title either one or both with the name of the operas followed by the name of the composer in brackets. Does this address some of your concerns? Best, Moreschi ^{Request a recording?} 13:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Moreschi, your phrase "originally composed to be performed as an oratorio" is bogus: you are building in your own conclusion. Semele is an opera. It is composed that way, as is evident from its score and libretto. Yes, it was performed at first as an oratorio, and we know why. Your "most major works of reference" fed on their own misinformation in the early part of the 20th Century, when Handel scholarship was minimal. Andrew Powell (talk) 10:11, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Philip Eisenberg

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Kleinzach's comments related to this prompter, and to prompting in general, imply that prompting is akin to backstage carpentry. Someone should talk to some opera singers -- say, Plácido Domingo or Renée Fleming, who are among the 100's of stars who have worked closely with Eisenberg -- to grasp what prompters do. Is Wikipedia to simply "skip" this topic? Andrew Powell (talk) 09:58, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

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This is a little stupid. We are talking about an orchestra with an annual budget of 1 billion yen. Andrew Powell (talk) 09:48, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

• There now a proper article on this orchestra at Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (created in April 2009). See my comments on Ottavio Dantone in the section below about the minimum requirements for an article and how to avoid deletion. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:14, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you. CalumH93 (talk) 09:16, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

This was never meant to be complete. Just a start. How are people supposed to contibute to a page that has been deleted? I don't have all the facts on this artist, but I do know that he is "established" and active; other contributors will know more. Andrew Powell (talk) 09:51, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

• Hello, Andrew. I've just 'rescued' this article. The problem is, even a stub article needs to indicate the subject's significance and provide a least one reference to support this. In the case of biographies of living people, an unreferenced article is subject to immediate deletion. If you create articles as just unformatted sketchy notes without any references, they'll often not survive long enough to be expanded or improved by anyone else. When creating an article from scratch, it's best to get it into some reasonable shape, even if it's only a stub, on one of your user pages. If you click on User:Andrew Powell/Sandbox and save the page, you can use it to draft articles before publishing them. Unlike the main Wikipedia sandbox, which is emptied every few hours, that page will belong to you and not be emptied or edited by anyone else. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 10:47, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

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