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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:46, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Notes

I ended up reading Jeanie first, so I do have some notes for that as well. My main note would be to continue fleshing it out with sources, as there's a good start here. You may also want to look into uploading one of [=loans__status__status%3A%22-1%22&and[]=mediatype%3A%22audio%22 these recordings] to the Commons - they should all be in the public domain, so you can have your pick.

For the opera, here are my notes:

Ultimately you're on a good path here, but this needs some editing here and there. With claims, make sure that you attribute them to the person making the claim, especially when using terms like "likely" and "therefore". These aren't inherently bad, just they're typically used when someone is writing out a personal theory. Since this looks like it's a common theory, you may want to mark it as such. Maybe something like this?

A common theory that has been espoused by music historians such as Jan Smaczny is that Dvořák used an existing libretto by the German poet Karl Theodor Koerner written in 1811 because he likely had no access to a librettist.

This is something typed off the fly, but it gives an example of how it could be stated. This isn't a huge issue since I do see where you've done this for some of the claims, but it's something to watch out for. You absolutely need to attribute anything that uses the phrase "calls to mind", however. Another note is that you generally shouldn't direct people to go to an external site unless it's in the external links section and even then, it should generally only be to things like official pages or to places that aren't sales pages. The Amazon link will need to be removed for the live article, since Amazon links are typically not seen as appropriate for Wikipedia articles.

Now as far as adding music goes, you would upload it to Wikimedia Commons directly - but only if the content is in the public domain, a zero license (must be very clearly marked!), or released under a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA Creative Commons license. The license must allow for the music to be freely altered and distributed, even commercially. Since both of the recordings listed in the draft are recent and look to be under a commercial license, I don't think that either of those would be able to be uploaded. This may honestly be pretty difficult to find offhand, so I wouldn't really worry about finding anything for this. Let me know if you need any help with this, since I know that uploading can be a bit of a bear to get used to. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:55, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Notes 2.0

Hi! I made some tweaks to attribute some claims, however my only true note at this point would be to make sure to specify page numbers when citing large sources like books. This is something that you can do after you move the work live, as I think that this is definitely ready to be moved live! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:58, 21 November 2018 (UTC)