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Re McBarge DYK

Thanks for taking the time to clean up McBarge. Cheers, -M.Nelson (talk) 16:22, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

My pleasure. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 00:42, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

On your note

Thank you for it, which I responded to there. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 21:45, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Re: DYK nom for Robert Twycross

Hey, thanks for the note. I provided comments there. Overall, I thought the original would be good with some rewording.--NortyNort (Holla) 08:22, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Melliangee Pérez

sorry, i see now that there are references for the article; updated maintenance template to reflect that. cheers WookieInHeat (talk) 16:29, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. You were absolutely right to give that editor a level 3 warning. She did remove the {{unreferenced}} the first time you placed it there and gave no edit summary. (I removed it the second time with an edit summary, since it did have a couple "references" albeit very weak ones.) As you can see, she's had plenty of warnings already. It's pretty obvious this is, at best, a case of WP:COI,[1] and probably also WP:AUTO[2]. If she doesn't cut it out, she's going to end up blocked. I see this all the time with opera singers and/or their agents deciding that Wikipedia would be a great place to advertise themselves for free. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 16:38, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

thanks for the info. WookieInHeat (talk) 18:50, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

i see you added a bunch of info to the article, feel free to remove the template if you think its appropriate, makes no difference to me. WookieInHeat (talk) 03:03, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

User:Helgikroha

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser -- in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. (Abraham Lincoln) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Helgikroha (talk • contribs) 13:19, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Dear, Sir! Be so kind to tell me where did you get the idea of Abraham Lincoln on your personal page? Tell me please the exact link where it is located? Yours sincerely,User:Helgikroha —Preceding undated comment added 13:54, 3 October 2010 (UTC).

Hello Helgikroha, The quote can be found in many places on the internet,[3] but here's a book with the quote: [4] Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 16:53, 3 October 2010 (UTC) (PS. I am a Madam not a Sir. :-)

Joseph J. Spengler

Hello again, V. Amazing that you were able to get the above back up so fast. May I ask if you would know of any place where I could recover the "extract" links for the Publications of JJS, which were in the earlier article and which you used in your Temp article for the above? (They took a while to compile and I wanted to restore them.) Thank you. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 12:19, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

I didn't get it up. An administrator moved it and deleted the original after the normal 7 day notice expired. You can find the extract stuff in this version, although, unfortunately, you'll need to reformat it a bit to the way you prefer. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 13:06, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Ah, good. Just what I was hoping for. Thank you again, V. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 14:06, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

New page patrol

Hi, please remember to mark pages as patrolled after you have tagged them. Thanks, and keep up the good work :) --Kudpung (talk) 13:14, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

• Hi back. :-) I'm not sure what you mean. On the whole, I only check the results of User:AlexNewArtBot/OperaSearchResult. I'm not a regular new page patroller. Do you mean click the "Mark this page as patrolled" link if it appears on the article? I'll try to remember to do that if I encounter it in future. I'd never noticed it before. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:58, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Talbot Baines Reed

Hi. I'm just curious to know why you left a talkback template on my talk page. I don't think we've ever communicated before. However, I'm pleased to meet other linguists around here, and seeing a message here that concerned Brian, I've reviewed his Talbot Baines Reed article - with enormous pleasure.--Kudpung (talk) 09:05, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Because you left me message here and I replied. See New page patrol above. Perhaps you meant to leave it for someone else? Best, Voceditenore (talk) 09:51, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Claire Dux

Would you mind commenting on the conversation at Talk:Claire Dux? Thanks in advance.4meter4 (talk) 05:57, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky

File:Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky.jpg Here's a high res portrait of Komissarzhevsky that I just uploaded, in case you want to put it in your article on him.-- I NEVER CRY 14:02, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Great! Thanks so much! I've added it to the article. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 18:33, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

-- I NEVER CRY 02:55, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Operissimo concertissimo

The conversation at Talk:Operissimo concertissimo might by of interest to you.4meter4 (talk) 05:24, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the assistance.4meter4 (talk) 11:22, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

ANI notice

You may wish to comment here: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#A situation of COI, SPAs, vote stacking, and tag teaming.4meter4 (talk) 13:06, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Note to self: [5]. Voceditenore (talk) 13:54, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Jennifer Johnson, mezzo-soprano x3

Hi voceditenore. I just stepped into a tangled web unexpectedly when I created Jennifer Johnson (now a dab page). It seems there are several different operatic mezzo-sopranos by this name. If ever there was a need for a middle name it's now. lol If I were their agents I would be suggesting it. So far I have created Jennifer Johnson (English mezzo-soprano) with info basically taken from her website. I am having difficulty finding refs for her though, but her credits are notable enough there must be some press. I have also created Jennifer Johnson (American mezzo-soprano) about this singer, only to discover later that there is another American mezzo as well (see here). I'd appriciate some help if you have time. Thanks.4meter4 (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for catching my mistake.4meter4 (talk) 14:47, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. ;-) I'll leave it to you to fix the DAB page. Voceditenore (talk) 14:49, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Also, this Jennifer Johnson, is of very marginal notability. I wouldn't bother creating an article for her. Voceditenore (talk) 14:53, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I agree. She would probably pass an AFD just barely, but she's not really a significant singer. The other two seem like they are on the verge of fairly major careers.4meter4 (talk) 15:04, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Irving

This is outrageous. There was not sufficient notice given to WikiProject Cornell, and this is the first I became aware of the controversy. There is so much wrong with the article that I don't know where to begin. Perthaps we should move it to "Cornell literary societies" and have it cover all of the societies as a group, and then add a sentence saying that although all four societies died, an undergraduate fraternity claims to be a decendent (sic: descendant) of one of them. Racepacket (talk) 19:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Preceding comment in response to this. Voceditenore (talk) 08:41, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

• When you actually read the sources, they cover more than just the Irving. Hence, I have moved it to Cornell literary societies. Please help improve it. Racepacket (talk) 03:06, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

I've responded on Racepacket's talk page to keep the discussion in one place. Voceditenore (talk) 08:41, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for the heads up.--Cmagha (talk) 13:14, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cmagha

Perhaps you would care to comment here. Thanks.4meter4 (talk) 01:56, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Wagner (continued)

Well, Rossini died before any of the Ring was performed, and one wonders what Wagner he'd heard beyond say the Overture to Lohengrin or Tannhauser, and how well performed. But no doubt you know all that better than I do. Johnbod (talk) 15:43, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I Love Bacon!

Thank you for working on I Love Bacon article. I wanted to ask if your gonna nominate it for DYK. Spongie555 (talk) 02:07, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. ;-) I've nominated it here with you and me as joint authors. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 13:26, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

User: Helgikroha

Dear, Voceditenore! I am a lawyer in Vologda in Russia. Please help me scan the book (Henry Wynans Jessup The professional ideals of the lawyer: a study of legal ethics/Wm. S. Hein Publishing, 1986 – р.1 - 292;) and send me on my address in the form of a disc, if an email is very cumbersome. It is very necessary for the operation and comparison of the rules we have with American lawyers. Sincerely, lawyer Oleg Surmachev ({Helgikroha). My address: 160022, Russia, Vologda, Novgorodskaya street, house 25, apartment 89. PS: If you do, something that will be needed from our sources in Russian about the music, I am your servant.For giving prior information, thank you very much.(User: Helgikroha) —Preceding undated comment added 19:24, 2 November 2010 (UTC).

Hello Oleg, I'm afraid I don't have a copy of the book myself. I just found the quote by looking at one of its pages on Google Books. Try leaving a message at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Law, maybe someone there can help you. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 13:45, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Dear, Voceditenore! Ok, thanks a lot.(User: Helgikroha) —Preceding undated comment added 14:40, 13 November 2010 (UTC).

Janis Martin

Thank you for Janis Martin! I found my program book and added Isolde, with Tristan Hermin Esser, Brangäne Glenys Linos and the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. (I wrote this before, but forgot to save.). I started in German to write on de:Monika Frimmer and will translate soon. I didn't find specific info on opera yet. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:49, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

I'm too busy to devote much time to Wikipedia for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, some new(ish) editors are doing a great job in the musical areas I was interested in. I still hope to get the chance to expand a few articles I'm not entirely happy with. At the moment I'm mostly dealing with vandalism and trolling on my watchlist. I have about 1000 classical music pages on there and a couple of dozen history articles. You guess which cause the most problems! Cheers. --Folantin (talk) 16:38, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Irving Society... again

Please see Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 October 1.4meter4 (talk) 00:02, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Ah! I had taken that advertisement for Cmagha's fraternity off my watchlist months ago. I see he has an even bigger section devoted to the claim that the current frat house is a "literary society" So be it. As I said to him when I gave up trying to help him improve the draft, to any reader who actually knows anything about Cornell and that fraternity, it makes the frat look both silly and disingenuous. I'd just let it be and let the article speak for itself. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 17:15, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

What Men Know that Women Don't

What Men Know that Women (and feminized men) Don't

What entitles a feminized nebbish like you to delete a book that you haven't even read? Where's your book? Writer that you are. Wouldn't you like to learn something about men before it's all over for you. Tens of thousands of other men and women over the past 17 years have gotten something from my book about men. I hate opera. Which means I would never authorize myself to delete opera. Where's your review in the Irish Times or somewhere online. I'd like to be sure that the people who have the arrogance to give me the thumbs down have actually made some contribution to life besides just consuming and commenting on other people's work. We learned that Freshman year at the University of Chicago. This is the second time you're doing this to me so I want to know who you are. Liking opera is the exact opposite of what is required to delete a book about men. Who are you? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.234.207.192 (talk) 08:04, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

What Wikipedia Editors Know That IPs Don't

Was distressed to see you at the receiving end of this charm-attack, so, per WP:NPOV I thought I should balance it out by saying a general and hearty thank you for everything I see you doing day-in day-out here. Tu muterai pensier, se il cor dell'uom conoscerai, qual Filippo il conosce almost-instinct 09:33, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, Almost-instinct! It was all appropos of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/What Men Know that Women Don't. But don't be distressed. Comments like that speak very eloquently about the character of those who make them, far better than I ever could. Besides, he's given me another item for my brickbat collection.. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 10:46, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

What were you before you were "feminized"? ;-) almost-instinct 13:24, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

What Men Know That Feminists and Feminized Men Don't

You didn't answer my question. Where is your book? What is your name? Arrogant anonymous academics have turned wikipedia into the Popular Mechanics of thought. Who built the house you live in and the roads you drive on? Opera? No men. Men just like me. You live in a world built by us and think it's your job to critique it and approve it. No wonder the muslims are on the march in Europe. You have no business deleting my page because you know nothing about men. You are one of those bitter people who resent anyone who produces art or thought that is not up to your classical notion of what is acceptable. Who have no business making pronouncements on what I do, or upon the thousands of people, 19,000 on Youtube in the last six months alone, who absorb and digest what I have to say. Moreover, I can write circles around you, albeit not in Latin.Too bad. I'm a fan of linguistics, but we'll never get to that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.234.207.192 (talk) 15:57, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

• Please take any further discussion of this issue (preferably minus the personal attacks) to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/What Men Know that Women Don't. – Voceditenore (talk) 16:16, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Anthony Lewis (musician)

I just created this stub. Thought you might be interested in improving upon it. :-)4meter4 (talk) 20:03, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi there! Interesting chap. I'm off to the US again tomorrow and back on the 18th. But will defintely have another look when I get back. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 20:12, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Question regarding the images (Arnold Azrikan)

Hello Voceditenore. Some time ago you were assisting me in the creation of a new page "Azrikan" (a Russian tenor)- thanks a lot. That time I input several images for this singer from our family archives (and all images were published before in his biography). I was very illiterate of how to write the descriptions for the image usage and with the "public domain" use I later become frustrated of how widely and everywhere the images were used (there was even a comic situation there in Wiki when his photo from opera Mazepa was used as a real Ivan Mazepa's article in Wiki, and it took me awhile to prove that it was just an opera singer photo from the opera, and he was not Ivan Mazepa -can you imagine that?!). So, a couple of weeks ago I decided to ask Wikimedia how to avoid a public domain usage. The result was that someone from there just deleted all images in the Azrikan's article because the files were reviewed and probably someone did not like the copyright descriptions which I did upon inserting the images. I noticed this a few days ago and wrote back to Wiki Commons. I have to admit that their response was very friendly and right now they are trying to solve the problem, and they are discussing some possibilities for it, and I am thankful. My question to you is if there is a chance to input the photos again (I would be shocked if I am not allowed to do it for my own father) then how should I do the description to avoid the "public domain" usage? I will be extremely thankful to you for any advice you can give to me. Thank you. --Rozochka 18:34, 11 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rozochka (talk • contribs)

• Hi, Rozochka. It's very complicated, but basically the copyright of the photographs belongs to the photographer, even if they have been published in a book. For them to be freely licensed (and therefore OK to upload to Commons), the photographer would have to have died more than 70 years ago, or the photo would have to have been published before 1923, or you have to have proof that the photographer is a member of your family or have signed over the copyright to your family. You also have to bear in mind that even if you do own the copyright, when you upload an image to Commons, anyone can use that image any way they like, even for financial gain, and they can alter the image any way they like. All they have to do is credit the copyright holder.

  If the Commons discussion doesn't work out, there is a way that you can get one photo of your father in the article. That is to upload it to the English Wikipedia under fair use. This is possible since your father is deceased. But you can't upload it to Commons as they don't accept fair use images, and you can't upload more than one. Here is an example in one of my articles File:Richard Versalle as Tannhauser.jpg. You need to have a fair use rationale like the one I used and you need to be sure that it fulfils all 6 points in the rationale. Hope this helps. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 15:07, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

• Dearest Voceditenore, so many thanks and I have a good news today: the files were reopened and undeleted, here is the message from my talk:Comment

Reopen and undeletes done. Fix the descriptions and then we'll see where we are.     Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 20:42, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I will print your comments and will try to understand how to fix the descriptions. Almost all photos which initially were placed in the article were taken by my mother who died in 1988 and my older brother who is alive and participated in writing the article with the images. Couple of them were taken by the backstage people before the World War II (or during), they were old and died. I guess my mistake in the description was that I put "the author unknown" instead of the names - is this correct? I greatly appreciate your help, your comments are precious for me considering that I have a little knowledge how to do it right. The only thing I am confident is that there will be never ever any problems with the copyrights because it is our personal family archives. However, I understand the rules and will try to do my best not to break them. Many thanks. --Rozochka 15:37, 12 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rozochka (talk • contribs)

Russell Watson tours

Hi Voce. I'm bouncing this on to you because it seems to be up you street. AFAIK Wiki is not supposed to be an events calendar. I haven't tagged it for CSD yet, but I expect someone else soon will. --Kudpung (talk) 15:13, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

He's not under the opera project's purview, since he's never sung in an opera house. But no, Wikipedia isn't supposed to have this stuff. It really ought to go, but it's all over Wikipedia. I gave up trying to convince an obvious COI/fan editor not to do this for a real opera singer, Lorenzo Regazzo. He's got his schedule up until September 2011. Not to mention the execrable referencing, but he/she has been fighting off "all intruders" for over a year. 15:54, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Sorry!

... about the italiana imbroglio - I was in a hurry and didn't check the edit summary (which I normally do) after pasting what I thought was the correct link. Whether (s)he would actually have looked at it if it had been blue is an unresolved question. --GuillaumeTell 23:04, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I would. But I came here to note that I have consolidated my explanation of the grammar to the article's talk page. Awien (talk) 00:01, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Italiana / italiana

You might like to check out the Vetrina [6] article in Italian WP today. It happens that in two paragraphs we have clear and consistent use of an initial:

lower case for proper adjectives: penisola italiana, seconda guerra punica, alfabeto osco, la monetazione romana, monetazione greca

and upper case for proper adjectives used as nouns: dei Cartaginesi, dai Romani, dai Sanniti

just as required by the rule. Awien (talk) 00:46, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

CA

I stumbled on this through a rather akward attempt to nominate an editor for RfA without their knowledge. See: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship#Meaghan, and User talk:Meaghan#Question. May I suggest you gather your evidence together and take it to SPI?--Kudpung (talk) 21:24, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Someone's beaten me to it. Voceditenore (talk) 09:35, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Just have to say

(Star now here)

Boy, if you've made her half as happy as you've made me, you've done a good thing. Totally warmed my heart. Nice people rock. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:40, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Oops. Maybe she's not a widow! :O Still, very nice! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:32, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks so much! Really, it was my pleasure. Voceditenore (talk) 17:56, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

MRG beat me to it

Responded here. (Star now here). Voceditenore (talk) 17:52, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Revisiting old questions

Hi. :) Can you check [7] this against Grove for the CCI? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:02, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

It's OK. Obviously sourced from it, but not closely paraphrased and the organization of the information is quite different too. Voceditenore (talk) 06:35, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. :D I stayed off for all of the afternoon, but couldn't resist coming on for a bit this morning! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:06, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Source citations

Great job on the sources for Olga Imerslund and Grasbeck. Much appreciated! Dr. Persi (talk) 01:17, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome. But I can't see the Imerslund article growing beyond a stub until someone goes to libraries in Norway and does some research. Even so, I's say she was sufficiently notable. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 06:01, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Matthew Wood

Hi Voce. Just keeping you up to date as this possibly concerns Wikipedia projects you work on. Please see my comments yesterday at User talk:NathanLawrence, and today at Talk:Matthew Wood. I trust you understand I am most certainly not a deletionist, but due to the enormous problems we have had with CCI and socks this year with BLP, it's my policy to apply our guidelines more or less to the letter on all new pages I come across at NPP where I generally only go after the BLPs. Cheers, --Kudpung (talk) 04:10, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

I agree with your approach. At the Opera, Composers, and Classical Music projects we see an awful lot of these articles for "emerging" classical artists written by editors with an obvious COI and many of them copyvios to boot. They're a real pain, and it's quite hard to make the authors understand that "accomplishment" ≠ "notability", e.g. [8]. But I thought that since I had spelled out the lack of notabilty/referencing on the talk page, I'd at least help them out with some references and they can take it from there. I also changed the wording in some places as there was a bit of... er... 'padding' going on, e.g. not mentioning that "conducting the LSO" was actually a during masterclass, not a real performance. There is a school of thought that I've seen in AfDs, which I don't normally adhere to, that classical musicians are a bit like football players. If they step onto the pitch with a first division team, they are automatically notable despite a lack of individual coverage. I imagine this will go to AfD eventually, it will be interesting to see what happens. Voceditenore (talk) 05:58, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Golly! Can you read my mind? Or did you already have a sneak peek here this morning? --Kudpung (talk) 06:43, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

How funny! No I hadn't seen that. I was thinking of an argument used in this AfD [9]. Voceditenore (talk) 07:25, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Peter Fraize

I suspect that the work you did on the Peter Fraize article will wind up saving it from my AfD. Excellent work; you should be proud! —  X  S  G  15:10, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words. I see it has now been closed as keep. If at all possible I try to rescue articles about musicians (especially classical ones) from AfD. Having said that, I've argued for deletion in quite a few where they simply aren't "rescue-able", e.g. [10], [11], [12]. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 07:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Pagliacci (1982 film)

Many thanks for expanding this article! Lugnuts (talk) 08:22, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome! ;-). If you encounter any more opera film articles, I'll be happy to help. Just give a shout here or banner the talk page with {{WikiProject Opera}}, so they don't fall under our radar. Leave the class parameter blank. That will make them easier to find them via checking Category:Unassessed Opera articles. I normally check AlexNewArtBot/OperaSearchResult daily. But I'm going to be away for all of August with extremely limited (and sloooow) internet access. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:57, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Another Grove check?

Hi. :) Jan Nepomuk Maýr relies on two inaccessible sources, including Grove. Any chance you can check it for duplication at least against Grove? I'm still very slowly plugging away on the SingingDaisies CCI. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:17, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi, back.:) I had a look and this seems OK. Certainly no copying from Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Maýr has no article on its own and I checked the entries for "Smetana", "Prague" and "Czech Republic" too. This looks to me as if the main part (before it gets to the Smetana issues) is a summary based on the lengthy Czech WP article which pre-dates this one. Note there are no footnotes for that part. The part at the end about his relations with Smetana seems to be summarized from the WP article, which is referenced to Large (1970). There was a tendency in that editor's articles to occasionally list sources that weren't used to hide the ones that were. But I don't think this is the case here. Hope that helps. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:08, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, that does help. And, yes, I had wondered about that. Though I haven't tagged anything, there were a couple of articles that listed only the German source that included content that was not in the German source. :/ I suppose now that this is confirmed, I'll start tagging any issues that strike me like that as well. If I remember. :) Cycling through CCIs is pretty slow these days. It could be a month before I get back to him. :/ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:02, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Ellen Faull

Hi. :) Just wanted to let you know that I'm poking at this CCI. I'm not sure how extensive it is, but I found at least some text copied verbatim in Ellen Faull and have blanked with presumption on the rest. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:43, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Replied here. Voceditenore (talk) 16:09, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! You rock. :) And the CCI goes back into cold storage as I cycle through some others. :/ --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:24, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Oops! Not the first time I've forgotten to delete one of those, I'm afraid. When I start shuffling pages around, I sometimes lose my place. Fortunately, they get bot relisted at WP:CP on the very, very, very rare occasion that somebody doesn't catch it immediately. :D Thanks for the heads up! I've deleted. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:17, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Sociolinguistics of a collar metaphor

• Grey-collar (AfD discussion)

I've been looking for an editor like you. ☺ From what I can see, there's a fair amount of sociolinguistic discussion of this collar metaphor for social class as a whole, which we don't have because we try to divide the subject up by colours and don't address the whole thing. Chambers (ISBN 9780631228820, pp. 43 et seq.) indicates that there's a fair amount to say on this metaphor as a whole. Chapter 7 of Benczes (ISBN 9789027223739) looks promising, too. Certainly, linguistics aside, there are sociology sources treating this model as a whole, albeit saying that it is outdated and trite. Johnson (ISBN 9780631216810, pp. 29), for example, treats the colours as one single topic and notes its lack of utility. Docherty (ISBN 9780810849112, pp. 48–49) treats them as one subject, too. There are other sociology sources that note that there are actually several colour models for social class (white/blue, white/grey/blue, white/pink/blue) not one.

Is this the sort of thing that you could tackle? Uncle G (talk) 15:26, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

• Hi there. Sorry I've been so late replying—I've been abroad for the last 10 days. I've had a look at this article plus Blue collar and White collar. Neither of latter two are very good. Apart from the very poor referencing and essay-like style, they veer off-topic into socio-economic discussions of class-issues, industrialization, etc. etc. and not very well either. Possibly an attempt to pad out the articles? The Benczes is a good source! The relevant areas of linguistics here are those dealing with metaphor and particularly metonymy (done by both cognitive linguistics and stylistics, depending on the emphasis). Sociolingusitics would only come into play in terms of looking at socio-economic class as a variable causing linguistic variation, where blue/white collar is simply a short-hand name for a particular social/economic class. I agree that these would best be covered under Collar metaphor for social class (or something similar) with appropriate sub-sections and re-directs from the various "colours", It's not a project I could personally take on, though. Voceditenore (talk) 10:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Fancy seeing you there!

I saw your name on the talkpage of the WP Children's Literature Project and thought: "This lady gets around a bit!" It so happens that, as a break from opera in general and Monteverdi in particular, I have just finished expnding an article on Talbot Baines Reed, the Victorian writer of school stories. Maybe you would be interested in reading it? All good wishes, Brianboulton (talk) 18:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Question for you

Hey, Brian and I are starting work on Gianni Schicchi and we would welcome your comments as we work. To start with, is OperaGlass a reliable source in your view?--Wehwalt (talk) 16:56, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Well, it depends what you want to use it for. But on the whole, there are are a lot better sources. It's hosted by Stanford University, but it's the personal site of someone who is (or was) a research scientist there. Note that it says "This is a participatory site. Contributions are welcome!" at the bottom of this page. If you're going for FA, I'd find something else. Gianni Schicchi is very well documented. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 17:12, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Ah, it's for the current statement in the article that the plot set up for GS was, after Dante, based on a certain book. I'll look around for a better source. Brian and I are working in our sandboxes (Sandbox2 in my case if you want to peek) until we finish sections, to avoid edit conflicts.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:29, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

If you need a source for Inferno Canto XXX, how about this or this. Voceditenore (talk) 17:46, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

No, it is the "Commentary on Dante's Inferno by an Anonymous Florentine of the 14th Century" or however it is called.--Wehwalt (talk) 18:01, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

OK. The full text is quoted in Michele Girardi, Puccini: His International Art, University of Chicago Press, 2002, starting on p. 416. Voceditenore (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Perfect. Wonderful. Thank you!--Wehwalt (talk) 18:35, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Gianni Schicchi

Brianboulton and I are working on this article. It's perhaps two thirds done, the music section is still in process. We could use your help with notable productions to mention, plus your usual good work as you did with Tosca.--Wehwalt (talk) 11:15, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Is there anything specific you're looking for re notable productions, apart from my suggestions here? The only other possibility is the 1969 one in Florence directed by Tito Gobbi, with Gobbi also playing Schicchi (a specialty of his) - it went to the Edinburgh Festival later that year. There was also a sequel opera, Buoso's Ghost, by Michael Ching (notable chap but surprisingly no article on WP), which premièred in Memphis, Tennessee in 1997 and has since been performed elsewhere by smaller opera companies, usually in a double bill with Gianni Schicchi. More about it here, here. By the way, I captured the photograph of the Schicchi premiere that you mentioned [13]. Do you want/need it? I can upload it for you. Voceditenore (talk) 18:34, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, please feel free to upload it, I know Brian was going to but it is one less thing for him to do. I will look at your suggestions, which I had overlooked. Can you think of which non US/UK productions are most worthy of mentioning?--Wehwalt (talk) 18:51, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Probably the best bets are 1969 one in Florence directed by Tito Gobbi, with Gobbi also playing Schicchi, and the 2004 La Scala double bill with Eine florentinische Tragödie. The sets were by Ezio Frigerio and it was directed by a famous Spanish theatre director, Lluís Pasqual, updated to the 1890s. Review in Italian here [14]]. The review is online but the Giornale della Musica is a print publication. There's also this 2004 Paris one [15]. Same pairing as the ROH but a different director (Laurent Pelly). The Paris Opera recently put on the whole Trittico, in a 2008 production from La Scala directed by Luca Ronconi (the first time in 20 years the whole Trittico had been performed in Paris).[16]. Voceditenore (talk) 19:39, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

The Oper Frankfurt also staged Il trittico recently (2009?), in one set, a cruise ship. (I didn't see it yet.) Is it worth mentioning that the Gardelli recording is also of the trittico, Renata Tebaldi singing Giorgetta and Angelica in addition to Lauretta?

The link you posted, Voceditenore, is of a 2004 production. Also, I'd like to focus on Schicchi rather than on Trittico, if you get my drift. I am starting to suspect there is no real groundbreaking production because the way we view the opera really hasn't shifted in 92 years, it is a pleasant, funny hour with one brilliant aria.--Wehwalt (talk) 00:12, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Um, I'm not sure what you mean about the link to the 2004 production. Link 17 above refers to the 2004 La Scala; link 18 refers to the 2004 Paris one; and link 19 refers to the 2010 Paris Trittico. I don't have a link for the 1969 Florence one (a triple bill with La voix humaine and Il prigioniero) apart from Almanacco Amadeus [17] (see "25 Gennaio 1969"). I think you're right about no groundbreaking productions. Maybe just list some the various pairings/triplings outside the Trittico. I think the Tebaldi x 3/Gardelli probably is worth mentioning. Voceditenore (talk) 12:36, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Morgan Pochin

I am sorry if I am not approaching the communication correctly on this page....you very kindly assisted with the creation of the page for Juliette Pochin. I have stareted a new page for Morgan Pochin under the user name morganpochinfan. I am not sure if I have done everything properly and if so, how to release it to the world!. Sorry to appear so dim...any assistance you can give me would be happily received, regardsPochinfan (talk) 11:08, 26 December 2010 (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Morganpochinfan&action=edit#

• Replied at your talk page. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:31, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

sorry I should have thought about a heading! yes, I registered a new user..innocently and not knowing the repercussions ...I am just not having much practice/luck at doing all this properly!..without you I would have failed totally!. There could be more content on the Morgan Pochin page, I just thought I would make a start. If you think it is insufficient to warrant a separate page I will happily delete it. The subsection is a nice idea , but I will most certainly need some help. I am very happy to be guided by you...ref deleting the 2nd user page and creating a proper subsection etc etc. and a link to the sub section. You are most kind. best Pochinfan (talk) 12:39, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

• Replied at your talk page. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 17:58, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

many thanks for all your help...will attempt to get wiki permission for a Morgan Pochin photo now :) Pochinfan (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:16, 27 December 2010 (UTC).

Hi...I am trying to attach ref http://matthutchinsonwrites.blogspot.com/2010/11/pulling-focus-working-with-mozarts.html to a comment in Morgan Pochin ref the work they have done on new film FIRST NIGHT with Richard E-Grant. I have had several attempts and failed. I think I understand the REF format Ok but am not sure where to insert it or how it gets the appropriate ref number attached. I have had a look on the "learning" pages but am bamboozled I am afraid?. Any guidance/ lesson you can give would be great so I know how to add more. Sorry I am so hopeless, regards Pochinfan —Preceding undated comment added 08:24, 28 December 2010 (UTC).

I've added the link as a reference with a bit of text for context. Feel free to edit it. Re adding the references, the markup is:

<ref>Insert footnote text here</ref>

You can do this by hand or automatically by placing the cursor where you want the reference to be and clicking on in the upper toolbar of the editing box. In either case, the Wiki software will automatically number the references. Don't try to number them yourself, it messes up the formatting. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 15:14, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

many thanks..will have a go shortlyPochinfan (talk) 09:29, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Feldman

I thank you very much indeed. DGG ( talk ) 18:16, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

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Notifying projects about deletion discussions

Bonjour, I was only inviting the persons to come to give their opinion to protect this page for the history of women sports . This gesture is often made in the feminist project. But if it no correct, I am going to remove my appeal of help in the talk page project Women's history. Good luck to your project. Thanks, merci תודה --Geneviève (talk) 17:39, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Responded here. Voceditenore (talk) 18:48, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

WP:ANI

Hi. Recently I added an entry to WP:ANI, but it got deleted with no explanation. What did I do?--Laveol ^T 20:00, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

How strange! I didn't intend to do that. I must have clicked the revert button by mistake without realizing it. Go ahead and re-add it. Many apologies. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 20:08, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Either that, or if you posted anywhere else to ANI around the time Laveo's post went up, and received an "edit conflict" notice, it's pretty easy to inadvertently delete other's posts. ( I always "cancel" a post when I receive an edit conflict message, to prevent the ubiquitous problem, then refresh the page, and re-add in a new edit. ) Even if one doesn't receive such a notice, I've heard tell that unrelated posts can get dropped somehow, when editing a page that lots of other users are also editing, like ANI. I've heard credible (?) reports that there might be some bug in MediaWiki software that causes this. Best,  – OhioStandard (talk) 14:09, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Either way, there's no problem now. Cheers. --Laveol ^T 15:25, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Fertitta

Hi VdT. I should have jumped in and helped it on its way to its final deletion - it's been on my watchlist long enough. Don't hesitate to give me a nudge in future, because there are some things I somehow tend to ignore. I always do a thorough search before !voting on a AfD.

Request

I'm having difficulty finding sources with biographical content on English musicologist Frederick William Sternfeld (25 Sep 1914 - 13 Jan 1994). He was sometimes published as F. W. Sternfeld or Frederick W. Sternfeld. I would appriciate any help you can give. Thanks.4meter4 (talk) 17:56, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

I just found this which is a good start.4meter4 (talk) 18:02, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Rebecca Helferich Clarke FAR

Hi Voceditenore - If you have a few minutes, would you please return to your comments at the Rebecca Helferich Clarke FAR (review page at WP:Featured article review/Rebecca Helferich Clarke/archive1)? Nikkimaria has been working to address the issues with the article, and could use some more input. I have also asked an image expert to take a look at the article, in response to your comments about that criteria. Thank you, Dana boomer (talk) 18:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Handel's Rinaldo

Hi. I am taking up a suggestion recently made to me, that the Rinaldo article be improved and expanded, with a view to submitting it to FAC. The motive is the tercentenary of the London premiere on 24 February 2011, the intention being to nominate it as TFA for that date. It's a tall order, but just about doable; I hope to have a decent draft in about a week, then an intensive peer review and FAC nomination not later than 10/11 February. I have a fair amount of information about the opera itself - background, composition, plot, early performance history, etc. I have very little by way of information on the 20th century productions. I have the dates (from Amadeus) and a NYT review of the Met's 1984 production, and not much else. Have you any suggestions as to where I might get this information, bearing in mind that tme is short? (Amadeus lists a performance at Covent Garden in 1961, but it's not in the ROH database). Brianboulton (talk) 00:05, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi! Zurich Opera 2008 (conducted by Christie): "Director Jens-Daniel Herzog shifted the action from Jerusalem around the time of the First Crusade (1096-1099) to an airport luxury lounge and conference center, more than a wee bit later than the First Crusade. Rinaldo, the Christian warrior, wears a double-breasted navy blazer, needs a drink and gets frustrated when an elevator door closes ..." I can email you the full article — it's on subscription. La Scala did it in 2004/2005 - nothing dramatically different or special, directed by Pizzi. I can't find much about the famous 1989 La Fenice premiere when Horne sang Rinaldo. But you presumably have that one already? Voceditenore (talk) 19:34, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

I'd be most grateful if you would email me the Zurich Opera account. You're right, I have details of the famous (?infamous) Fisher version at La Fenice - I even have the recording (got it in a charity shop for £3.99). Unfortunately, the only English libretto I have is Fisher's chopped-up one! If anything else interesting comes to hand, I'd be glad to hear of it. Brianboulton (talk) 23:36, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

(Butting in) If you can read French, this looks like a pretty exhaustive documentation of modern productions of Rinaldo (scroll down): [18]. --Folantin (talk) 11:39, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Re above, thanks for pointing this out. I was able to gain sufficient information about modern productions from English sources, but I'll search through this again, with my fairly basic French, to see if any gems have been overlooked. Brianboulton (talk) 16:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

On a more general point, I have now posted the expanded Rinaldo to Peer Review, here. Because of the clock ticking inexorably towards 24 February, it won't be there for long. Any comments, criticisms, suggestions etc on the text will be much appreciated. Brianboulton (talk) 16:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Martin Shaw article

I've had a good faith request for help with this article from a new editor. Are you interested? You can email me if you like. I'd like to support this and make sure it stays separate from the problems over Robert Shaw. Dougweller (talk) 16:22, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

What kind of help are they looking for? I'd be happy to give them advice. The article could potentially become a very good one, and I agree it's important not to let the Robert Shaw mess spill over to this one. I see that some editors have already vastly improved the formatting, but the referencing style is all over the place. Voceditenore (talk) 00:20, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Aria (name)

I expanded the lead citing several sources that actually deal with the the etymology of the name. The source Uwo222 is citing, has nothing to do with the he etymology of the word. He is making his own interpretations based on that source. Kurdo777 (talk) 02:14, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Uwo222 is tempering with, and deleting sourced statements. Kurdo777 (talk) 06:59, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

I tend to agree with you about the appropriateness of his reference (and interpretation of it), but likewise, yours don't really pertain directly to the modern given name either. I suspect the modern given name. especially for males, has a much more complex etymology than a simple derivation from Aryan. I suggest you and he work this out on the article talk page. But as I wote there, do take care that if you do any changes, it's not by a wholesale revert which removes the reference formatting or other undisputed content in the article.

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French and German operettas

Thanks for your help on Le droit. Note that an editor has removed the overview info from the WP:LEAD at Filmzauber. See: this edit. See also the talk page. I believe that the way to to balance these articles (where there is a very successful English version) is to add more about the French or German version, not to stubbify the article and delete information about the English-language version. I would much value your comments at Filmzauber. Happy editing! -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:14, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Why should the WP:LEAD be one paragraph? Normally in the articles about stage works I have worked with (both G&S and musicals), we usually describe the actual work in the first paragraph (who wrote it, what it is based on, what the story is about), and then in the second paragraph, we usually talk about the productions and how successful the piece was, famous performers, etc. Here it's a little complicated, but it seems to me that breaking it into two paragraphs will help it grow. Let me know what you think. All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:46, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Do you have Ganzl? I understand that he says that The Girl on the Film had substantial touring after the original production. Can you add the cite? I don't have it, unfortunately. All the best. -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:00, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

• Sorry to be so late in replying. This got lost in the shuffle. Re the lead, it just seemed kind of odd to turn two sentences into two paragraphs. I'm not sure it encourages the lead to grow. But I'm not really fussed. Go ahead and split 'em again if you think it's better. From the various snippets I've been able to glean from Ganzl on Google Books (I don't have a copy, alas), he doesn't appear to say anything about a tour of The Girl on the Film. But, these sources [19], [20], [21] indicate there was one planned to New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, and that it definitely played in New Zealand. Hope that helps. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 17:43, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I added a sentence to the article. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:25, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Happy New Year. If you have a moment, please compare Der Graf von Luxemburg and The Count of Luxembourg. Should they be merged? I cannot do it myself, because of the predictable reaction by a certain editor. But I would support such a merge for the reasons previously discussed. As you can see, what happens when these articles are split, is that the article on the foreign-language version remains a stub. -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:53, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Happy New Year back! I've just had a look at the articles. I'd leave them separate for the moment, given that they've been split, the fact that the English version is "loosely" adapted, and that its article is so much more developed. I've added a better link to the Amadeus source, which gives much more of the performance history – in non-German speaking countries it was virtually always performed in the vernacular. I'll try to expand it a bit over the next few days, although I'm not very happy to be working with German sources. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 12:39, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Rodriguez

I made all the changes and additions that you suggested for my wiki page on "Santiago Rodriguez (pianist)" Can you take away the big box with all the problems at the top of the page now User:moormanstahlman

Thanks so much for all your help. This was my first time at trying a wiki article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.235.96.143 (talk) 23:01, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

• Replied your talk page. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 19:28, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Michael Hancock-Child

Does he have any evidence of notability? Dougweller (talk) 09:26, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Frankly, I don't think it would pass an AFD. It was originally proposed for deletion as an unreferenced BLP [22]. The references there were all I could find, including searching under Nik Hancock-Child (the name he performed under in the past). There is one semi-commercial recording which was reviewed in Gramophone although, no comment was made on him in the review (I've just added it to the article), and what appears to a review of the same recording in Fanfare (Google books snippet) which does mention him, although it appears to be not overly complimentary [23]. The Naxos recording simply re-issued four of the tracks on the Marco Polo one and all the rest are self-published. Zero press or journal coverage. Voceditenore (talk) 09:45, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks

Many thanks for your efforts at Cornell literary societies and related articles. I hope people keep their eye on this group. Cmagha created a new article, Huffman v. OPM, about a relatively obscure whitleblower case. I made some clean up edits, and then IndtAithir made necessary follow up edits. Racepacket (talk) 04:36, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you again for all of your assistance, including bringing home the needed references to bacon. Racepacket (talk) 18:20, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Will try to aid your understanding; it is the central issue in whistleblower protection right now, the object of legislative reform (unsuccessful) for the past 12 years. The field is obscure, admittedly, but not the case.--Cmagha (talk) 13:05, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

• Cmagha, your comment addressed to Racepacket has nothing to do with me or the topic of this section. Please communicate with other users on their talk pages, not via random comments on someone else's talk page. Voceditenore (talk) 13:33, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Koroğlu (opera) recordings format

I see you changed the format of the recordings section. (My version followed the standard Opera Project format, see here). I think it's absolutely fine to change it, but can you please discuss it first with the other opera editors, then publish the new format as backed by consensus, and then of course change the other opera articles to match the style. Thank you. --Kleinzach 08:48, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll bring it up for discussion after the weekend when more people will be around, but regardless of what the consensus is, if any, I won't be personally changing the other articles. Almost all of all of them that don't have a table format use a horizontal-style layout rather than the one in the OP guidelines, although in a wide variety of forms, e.g. [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30]. We're talking about hundreds of opera articles alone to "standardize", not to mention the ones for individual singers that have Recordings sections. I don't think that's a good use of editors' time, and I think other OP members would probably take a similar view. Voceditenore (talk) 15:29, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

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Re: new article on Ro Hancock-Child, concert pianist and composer.

Hello Voceditenore. My name's Ro Hancock-Child, and I've recently been told that you have been fairly active lately in editing a Wikipedia article about me. I see that you are a 'music-lover', which is good, but not a professional musician, like me.

I'm a busy lady, which is great, and because of this I have many agents and secretaries who act independently for me, also a considerable number of musical friends and colleagues of all nationalities who support my musical work, and my writing. We are not entitled to write our own Wiki articles, and I understand that others (not relatives) have generously been contributing to Wiki, creating to the best of their ability an article about me, based on what they know (gathered from me, and from published sources) of my life and my work.

I've been watching the progress of my Wiki article with much amusement, because people like yourself, who know nothing at all about my life, seem to have been removing material that is true and verifiable. I don't like this.

I myself can substantiate everything that went into the original Wiki article, and will do so on request. Maybe you don't appreciate the fact that new contributors have to get used to the Wiki formats, and learn the 'rules', so maybe some contributions are not immediately 100% up to speed with the required terminology, and have not yet adequately referenced the material; but references are certainly available for everything that has gone into the article so far.

People have contacted me this week because they have been very concerned recently that a large amount of changes have been made to the article 'Ro Hancock-Child', and much correct (and if need be, verifiable) information has been removed, and this concerns me greatly. I reckon I'm the expert on my own life, not you, and I'm honest, and don't make claims about things that are not true.

It's fine if you want to remove personal opinion, and too-enthusiastic adjectives, from the Wiki article, but removing fact is not acceptable to me.

I also want to make the important comment here that it is quite usual convention in modern musical parlance to refer in print (books, articles etc) to living women composers by their Christian name - using the surname (in my case Hancock-Child) is not normal practice. I would like to be referred to, in an article about me, as Ro, or she, so please do this.

If you live in the UK I would love to meet you, Voceditenore, retired academic, and introduce you to my work; you would find out that I am what the article says I am, exactly what it says on the tin. Others sometimes find multi-talented people difficult to accept; jealousy plays a big part in this, I'm well used to it, but I'm always sad when this happens.

No more unnecessary excision of material, please, just because you can.

Thankyou Ro — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rohancockchild (talk • contribs) 19:44, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

I have moved your comment to the bottom of the page here where new comments go. If you wish to discuss the content, style and formatting of the article, the appropriate place to do that is at Talk: Ro Hancock-Child. Thus I will reply only briefly here. Even if I knew Ro Hancock-Child personally and knew the assertions to be true, I would remove ones which cannot be verified by a reliable published source independent of her. If these sources exist then I strongly suggest that the series of people editing that article on your behalf add them. And yes, they are absolutely necessary. I left links to pages which explain this key Wikipedia policy on Talk: Ro Hancock-Child. Please read them carefully. And please read the other pages I have linked there concerning conflict of interest, autobiography, and biographies of living persons. This has nothing to do with technical expertise or lack of it. It has do with understanding and adhering to the key policies that underlie Wikipedia rather than simply ignoring them. I notice that you have insisted on re-adding the link to www.rohancockchild.com. Clicking on that link, produces a page with "This Account Has Been Suspended". I am going to mark it in the article with . I also strongly suggest that you read the guidance on Wikipedia:User pages and follow the guidelines there concerning the content of User: Rohancockchild which is currently very inappropriate. If you wish to verify what I have been telling you or to seek advice about the content of the article, you can post your query at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. For more specialised advice on the appropriate style and format of articles on classical composers and musicians, you can post at either Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers. Voceditenore (talk) 08:06, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Dear Voceditenore. Re: link to Ro Hancock Child's website. I see that on her website, the Wikipedia entry seems to be used by Hancock Child as independent validation of her professional worth. She doesn't bother even to do a biog on her own site, but links to Wiki instead. Reading the editing history, she appears to be writing a fair amount of this Wiki article herself with her own publicist and 'secretaries', and has a conflict of interest with the Wiki codes that you already flagged. This seems to be treating Wikipedia as self advertising and personal validation (that Wikipedia has somehow picked her out as a particular talent for recognition). Is this the purpose of Wiki? Cyranosnose (talk) 12:24, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

No it is not the purpose of Wikipedia, and it is especially wrong to imply that it has "chosen" her, when the article was clearly written by her and her associates. In fact, there is so little coverage of her in any sources that are independent of her own publicity that the article would have a very difficult time passing an Articles for deletion discussion. Unfortunately, a lot people try to use Wikipedia this way. I am going to seek advice at the Biographies of living persons Noticeboard. Voceditenore (talk) 12:53, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

I have now added this article for discussion at the here on the Biographies of living persons Noticeboard. You are welcome to participate in the discussion. Voceditenore (talk) 14:28, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Note: Biographies of living persons Noticeboard discussion now archived here. Voceditenore (talk)

WP Classical Music in the Signpost

"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject Classical Music for a Signpost article to be published this month. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Also, if you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day! -Mabeenot (talk) 21:44, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Responded here. Voceditenore (talk) 14:05, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, re Anne Sharp

Thanks a million for adding some references to the page I created on this opera singer. As you may have gathered, she is my mother, and still very much alive and with all marbles present and correct. Some of that stuff was acquired simply by asking her, but I have considerable documentation to support it. I have manuscript copies of Britten scores with alterations in the original cast's handwriting, typed-up scripts for the first BBC broadcasts of the works in question, original programmes, and of course her college diplomas. I also have contemporary press cuttings, and clippings from the Radio Times referring to her broadcasts (she did solo recitals on the Third Programme, recitals in London concert halls and other stuff I didn't include).

I don't know how to reference any of this stuff. Good grief, I even have the BBC archive recording of the original cast performance of The Little Sweep from 1949 on my iPod, but the BBC would probably have a hairy fit if I uploaded any of it. Any suggestions on how to make the article better referenced greatly appreciated. Morag Kerr (talk) 12:07, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Morag. You're very welcome. I nipped in as fast as I could because Wikipedia has a recently implemented policy of automatically proposing for deletion all articles about living persons which are unreferenced. If you have clippings etc., it's perfectly OK to use them as references. They don't have to be online. Just give the bibliographic info, e.g.:

New York Times, "La Tosca Makes a Record", 5 June 1891, p. 3.

Best, Voceditenore (talk) 14:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, much appreciated. I knew quite a lot of what I had written was referenced by the Britten-Pears Foundation article on The Little Sweep I had linked to, but I didn't know how to format it correctly. I'm very grateful for your efforts in that department.

I'll get the clippings box out and sort out some more references. There is also the matter of the non-Britten stuff she did as well. I've left that out for now because it's the Britten connection that makes her short career notable, but once that part is sorted, there are performances of The Magic Flute (Queen of the Night) and Carmen (Michaela), possibly others, and recital, concert and broadcast work. I know she was doing Zerbinetta somewhere, though that may not be referenced. Might be worth a short section even though on its own it wouldn't have been particularly notable. Morag Kerr (talk) 15:45, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

I couldn't resist to nominate her for DYK, some more inline citation is wanted there, you know more about the article than I do. - The date Rinaldo was fixed, finally. - As for DYK in general, I like your approach in the general archive, we could drop the other one. (How?) Perhaps we can keep a few (like three) hooks on top of the talk page, adding (and dropping) one a day? There are many undiscovered ones from 2010 which might be shown there first before going to the portal. Just a thought. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

I think there are going to be problems with referencing this article sufficiently for a DYK. The ref for the hook is OK, but most of the other information is unreferenced and cannot be referenced to published sources. It was obtained directly from the subject or unpublished documents. This is complicated by th fact that it's a BLP, and the reviewers are liable to take a hard line on this. It's why I didn't nominate it myself, although it's a really interesting article. Re the portal stuff, I'll reply on your talk page, as it's not really pertinent to this topic. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 09:47, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Would you recommend to hold the nom (improvements to be expected) or withdraw? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:45, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

It's worth asking the creator if she's likely to find any references for the two unreferenced sections in the next few days. If not, I'd withdraw it. Voceditenore (talk) 16:45, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Author commented, I'll watch now, thank you, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:45, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Le dernier sorcier

Hello! Your submission of Le dernier sorcier at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 18:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Please see new note on DYK talk page. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 21:20, 7 March 2011 (UTC)