Latest comment: 14 years ago3 comments1 person in discussion
Happy New Year! The comic opera article says that Leo, the Royal Cadet was in the style of G&S, but the article on Leo does not say this. It may be that, like Victor Herbert, this german-born composer might have been more influenced by European operetta? All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:35, 7 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
Ah, well, no reason for me to question the G&S statement (thanks for the link to the librettist), although I thought it strange that it should be mentioned in the comic opera article but not in the opera's article. LOL re: List of Important Operas. The criterion for an important opera is, apparently, in the eye of the beholder. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:58, 7 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
I hope you understand that I was joking about the List. That is why I said "LOL". I remember the sturm and drang over this list very well. I was making fun of the fact that someone might think that Leo should be on that list. All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:30, 8 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Thanks. At Tim's request, I proofread the article and left several more hidden questions that I think Tim will clear up shortly, but feel free to help out if you can. All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:50, 10 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi Guillaume, it tests my patience when Americans claim exclusive ownership of both the Wikipeda and the English language. Lfd has escalated the matter on my talk page, and I could not refrain from adding my comments to the debate he has started here: Wikipedia talk:IPA for English#Rhoticity in place names. He appears to be insisting that it is Wikipedia policy to regard British English by default as a rhotic language, which it is clearly not, and I have written published works on the subject (which I won't cite on the Wiki). maybe you could chime in too while I am enlisting support from some of the other academic brits I work with on the Wikipedia. Cheers, --Kudpung (talk) 16:56, 12 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Hello GuillaumeTell! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 941 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:
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He was named Georges Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, but he was always known thereafter as Georges Bizet.
Doesn't that strike you as slightly odd? I know the French go in for multiple given names, but would anyone seriously have ever called him or referred to him as "Georges Alexandre César Léopold"? What I'm getting at is, there is no disconnect between being named ABCD and being known generally as A. Hence, there's no need for "but". But more to the point, everything I've ever read says that Georges was not one of his original legal names, but was given to him only at baptism. Sadie seems to be the odd man out here. Cheers -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 14:10, 18 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Please see our project's talk page for a discussion of the possible changes to Wikipedia's policy on the biographies of living persons and the implications this will have for many articles under the project's banner. This is especially important if you are looking after or have created unreferenced or minimally referenced opera-related biographies of living people. Voceditenore (talk) 16:10, 24 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
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...this! It would have completely ruined my "street cred". Have left you some feedback on Wexford at the OP talk page. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 10:13, 27 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2010edit
Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,888 last month to 7,950 on January 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 53 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 52. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,074 articles.
Currently we have seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:
There are now 73 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership remaining unchanged since the last newsletter though the number of
active members is currently low.
Thanks
A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.
To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
To all the WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.
Great!
Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Assessment
This month we focus on article assessment as a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes on this. In January the new version of the bot used for generating the information was deployed. For the observant you will have noticed the changes made to the assessment table on the left, it now has details of all of the pages other than articles that are tagged with the project banner. Now you can see counts of the categories, templates, files and other miscellaneous tagged pages that the project is looking after. The article count earlier in the newsletter does not include all of the newly reported classes as they are not really articles.
A new facility is the ability to click on any of the numbers and get a list of the articles that are in the intersection of the article importance rating with the quality rating. For example this enables you to see all of the articles that the project has rated as high priority stub-class articles. This is something that was not readily available prior to this revision of the bot.
The quality ratings are only valid at the time they are done and may be out of date as some of the assessments were done over two years ago. Many of the articles have changed since they were rated so it would be good if members could re-rate them when they see substantial changes to a particular article or flag it up for someone more experienced to take a look at and revise the quality rating if appropriate. Many of the articles were rated before the introduction of the C-class rating so may be over rated as B-class articles or under rated as Start-class articles.
Other changes have taken place in the formatting of the log files and more is to come. The data is now stored in a database off wiki and so tools can be written to generate further reports, have customised rating levels for projects etc. The bot is also able to get through the articles quicker and so is reporting changes daily rather than about weekly as with the previous version.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2010 articles selected below are as discussed on the project talk page.
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Thanks again. I'm hoping that there are enough supports for it be closed before anyone else gives me some more work. I'm wanting to turn my attention to Trevor Pinnock which is under threat of being delisted as a GA after the original editor has gone into semi-retirement.--Peter cohen (talk) 22:49, 12 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks again for the ocngratulations.--Peter cohen (talk) 17:39, 13 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
Blimey, yes all of those are very deserving, esp Coote. There's not a great deal to say about MS or ST, so I might see if I can knock something together for them both; there are plenty of online reviews to get them acceptably referenced. (I think a small WP-generated page heads off the possibility of someone just copying their agents' bumpf) Tynan's Adina at ENO was lovely (not a word I would use to describe, say, the excellent Gheorgiu DVD) - would like to hear her in something like Fille du Regiment almost-instinct 17:45, 22 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
Just because there are many refs in the article does not mean that the article does not need any more refs.
Guillaume, when an article has uncited info, it needs to have the refimprove tag. Once everything (except for obvious stuff, like Plato was a philosopher, etc) is cited, then the refimprove tag can go.
To help I'll mark things which need citations. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:36, 28 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
In regards to the infobox, it may display differently on your computer than on mine - On mine the infobox ends shortly after the TOC is concluded. WhisperToMe (talk) 01:16, 1 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,950 last month to 7,987 on February 27th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just behind WP:GM who have 53. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,117 articles.
Currently we have seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:
There are now 73 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership remaining unchanged since the last newsletter though the number of
active members is currently low.
Thanks
A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.
To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
To all the WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.
Great!
Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Biographies of Living People
This month we need to concentrate efforts on Biographies of Living People (BLP) as detailed at WP:BLP. There is currently ongoing discussions about what should be done with nearly 50,000 unsourced articles on living people that have accumulated and being tagged with the {{BLP unsourced}} template. Options range from deleting all of them immediately to a period of grace for the articles to be sourced. There is also discussions as to what should be done, going forward, with new articles on living people that are created without sources. Do have your say on these discussions here, if you are interested in biographical articles.
As a project we have not tagged many biographical articles but looking at the articles of people under the Yorkshire category an estimate of 150 of these are tagged as unreferenced. This does not include those related to the various sports people who play for the many teams in the area. Obviously those articles relevant to the project we would want to save from the axe and so we need to concentrate our efforts on referencing articles that have been tagged as unreferenced. Once articles have been given some references then the tag can be changed to {{BLP sources}} or removed, if full referencing has been done.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis. The latest listing was created on December 11th.
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Latest comment: 14 years ago3 comments1 person in discussion
I noticed yesterday that in the forthcoming Opera North production of Maria Stuarda the title role will be taken by Sarah Connolly. Apparently they will be using the version that Janet Baker used at ENO. I can't find much about what this "version" might be - is the role quite low for a soprano anyway? I was wondering if it were just a case of removing a few top notes or whether transposition was involved. Do you happen to know anything about this? This review of the JB recording says "Indeed, this version of the score, which Donizetti lowered for Malibran's own mezzo voice, suits her perfectly" which doesn't quite answer the question... almost-instinct 09:57, 9 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
I'm tempted to copy and paste the entirety of your incredibly detailed answer into the Maria Stuarda article, as a footnote next to the word "soprano". I went and listened to bits of Janet Baker singing MS, and found that my usual bemusement with her remains, but that's another story. At any rate, I think we should try to get some of this into the MS page. If I put something in, adapted from what you wrote (complete with all the lovely wikilinks) could you pop some refs in? I notice that I'm slowly being drawn into spending the greater proportion of my WP-time on Opera subjects ... not sure if that's a good thing. Much easier to write about things one is relatively clueless about, than things where one is aware of the ambiguities and problems, I find ;-) Thank you for your fulsome answer, almost-instinct 08:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
The bulk of your explanation now cheerfully crowbarred into place ;-) Btw, after asking you I spent a long time sifting through the various Google results for Maria Stuarda + mezzo etc - I couldn't find any reference at all as to what the actual emendations to the role might be. almost-instinct 08:24, 12 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Indeed, Wagnerians I can cope with (even Portillo!) As to this can of worms, well for those that reiterate the "humble origins" thing I suspect they have never stood in the house (or indeed bedroom) in which he was born. But anyway, personally I always thought that it was the Count of St. Germain that wrote the plays (he was immortal you know). You have far more patience then me to get involved in that one. And Ben Goldacre? Indeed, a very good reason the read The Guardian. Perhaps the perfect antidote to the insanity and quackery of the Daily Mail? :-) Tuckertalk 03:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,987 last month to 8,063 on March 30th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just behind WP:GM who have 55. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,139 articles.
Currently we have eighteen Yorkshire featured articles:
No members left the project this month: though the number of
active members is currently low.
Thanks
A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
Thanks to thos members that have been referencing the Biographies of Living People that was raised last month. We have cut the number of totally unreferenced articles to five.
To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.
To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
To all the WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.
Great!
Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Biographies of Living People
As a follow up to last month's feature on BLP articles a BOT is now creating project listings of those BLP articles that are tagged as totally unreferenced. The listing for our project can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Unreferenced BLPs, I have added a link to this from the project side-bar for easy access to the listing. There are just five articles remaining on the list at the time of going to press, so well done.
General Election
The next General Election will be announced sometime during the month and so we need to concentrate our efforts on the articles relating to this. There are two main sets of articles relevant here, firstly the constituency articles and secondly the articles relating to the candidates that are standing for election. Taking the first group there are a number of boundary changes relating to the constituencies in the area that will be implemented at the time of the General Election. These changes need to be reflected into the settlement articles that are affected by the change. I would suggest that the settlement's history section is updated to include details of the former constituency when adding the new one so that information is not lost. All of the constituency articles will need to be kept up to date with the list of candidates that are standing for the election. Much of the basic work on this has been done but new candidates will emerge until the closing date for candidates to declare. Note that the order of candidates should be maintained in ballot paper order prior to the result being declared so that we do not favour any of the parties in the election. So even if A. Aardvark is standing for the "Lets do away with wiki" party then they should appear first regardless of if we support them or not.
On the second set of articles, those on candidates, we are back to issues relating to BLP, NPOV and to avoiding them, or their supporters, using wiki as an electioneering medium. We should be vigilant to remove anything that ventures into this area as quickly as possible. There may be articles for candidates who are standing that are not tagged for the project so it would be good for these to be tagged so we can keep an eye on them. It is also a good time to improve the articles on the candidates as they will no doubt get more hits during the election period. Those of you in the UK may also see some of the candidates out on the campaign trail and it would be good to get a photo for their article if possible. It does not have to be a Yorkshire related politician as there are lots of articles about politicians that needed photos or updates to dated images.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis. The latest listing was created on March 23rd.
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Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
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Latest comment: 14 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Thanks for the heads up on the userboxes and employment status. I have updated my page: does it work OK now? (Thanks also for the two pints which I will return in kind someday...!) --Jubilee♫clipman 09:37, 3 April 2010 (UTC) PS the Yorkshire Project looks interesting: I must check it out one day --Jubilee♫clipman 09:39, 3 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
Yes, the boxes now look fine, and let's hope that the employment status changes soon. I've started a few Yorkshire articles and contributed to a number of others (but avoided the can of worms about whether Leeds means the city, the city, the city region, the former County Borough ....). --GuillaumeTell 10:43, 3 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
Excellent: thanks for that. On the other thing: thank good we don't live in Teeside/Cleveland/Durham Tees Valley/whatever... (Which county is it in anyway?) --Jubilee♫clipman 12:23, 3 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 14 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion
I've just created the page for Neil Howlett, the ENO baritone in the 70s and 80s. May I ask you to take a moment from your sensationally enjoyable work on the Opera North repetoire to look him up in one of your Boys Big Book of Opera Singers, and to add a whatever details there are there? I'm not finding much online. Thank you! almost-instinct 18:39, 27 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
I didn't see him on stage but I heard him in the flesh and was also v impressed by the recording of his ENO Iago. Was surprised he didn't have a page almost-instinct 21:49, 29 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 14 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion
Hi GuillaumeTell. I thought I had better tell you that I am moving from York to live with my dad in Scotland to be his carer. I'll be moving to my mum's first for a few weeks (most of my stuff is there) then moving up (more) North in a few weeks. I'll also be with out internet after tommorrow morning, therefore, and on wikibreak of indeterminate length since she has no reliable broadband connection (and editing via dial-up is near impossible these days...). Sorry I haven't told you till now: I have a ton of stuff to catch up with, here and in RL. We may never meet again in RL but I certainly enjoyed our chat and I thank you for the wisdom you imparted me with during that brief encounter. See you around WP soon. Cheers (!) --Jubilee♫clipman 23:37, 28 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
Oh... I still owe you two pints: I'll make it up to you in kind some how --Jubilee♫clipman 23:39, 28 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,063 last month to 8,082 on April 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 55 is just behind WP:GM who have 56. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,161 articles.
Currently we have eighteen Yorkshire featured articles:
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
Article Activity
Bramhope Tunnel promoted to GA following review on April 2nd Tickle Cock Bridge was nominated, reviewed and promoted to GA on April 3rd Cottingley Fairies was nominated, reviewed and promoted to GA on April 27th
Member News
There are now 75 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the April newsletter:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Elections
The next General Election will take place this month as will the local elections in a number of areas in the region and so again this month we need to concentrate our efforts on the articles relating to these.
Last month I concentrated on the general election related articles in the run up to the announcement of the election. This month we need to concentrate on the aftermath of the election. The constituency articles are the first ones that need to be looked at and the results added to each of these. This gives us an opportunity to have some references on these pages as there will be extensive media coverage for the results. The articles relating to the set of new MPs will need to be updated to include details of their election victory and the office they take up in the new parliamentary session. At the same time those articles relating to politicians who loose their seat will need to be updated to cover this and to show the successor to the seat/office they held. Other articles that need to be looked at are the settlement articles to see if they need updating as a number of them mention the party that represent the place and some give details of the MPs that represent them.
As well as the general election there is also the local elections that are being held on the same day and again this needs to be looked at when updating the settlement articles as the council make up is often described in the governance section or given in the infobox. These elections will necessitate new articles creating for each of the councils that are holding elections to record the details of the election and the results. Others may generate these articles and members should tag these with the project tag {{WikiProject Yorkshire}} when they find them so that they can be tracked and are not forgotten about.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2010 articles selected below are the editors choice as no one came up with any other suggestions on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis. The latest listing was created on March 23rd.
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Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
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I just realised that I made my reply on my own talk page - hope you noticed it was there, sorry. I don't know if you've bothered to look to see how I forced the columns for Director/Designer/Conductor: I found that even if one specifies the column size, they still vary - especially if one then changes the size of the window one has open on one's computer. Lord knows why. I found that using non-breaking spaces for the person with the longest name in that column gives that column a minimum size in a thoroughly consistent way. So, for example, on the Opera North: history and repertoire, seasons 1997–98 to 2003–04#Repertoire list in the Designer column you can see Robert Innes Hopkins; in the Conductor column Oliver von Dohnányi and Amir Hosseinpour/ in the Director column all have nonbreaking spaces. On Opera North: history and repertoire, seasons 1978–79 to 1980–81#Repertoire I had to use a non-breaking hyphen for "David Lloyd‑Jones/" which isn't identical to a normal hyphen, but as it doesn't really leap off the page, I don't think thats a problem. I'm not sure why I feel it to be so, but I think it looks an awful lot better when someone's name isn't split over two lines. (Um, the semiotics of identity?) almost-instinct 16:03, 25 May 2010 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 13 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Thank you for helping myself and my brother (Red_jay) as we are trying to improve the University of Leeds page. Your help has been greatly appreciated by us too! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgtjsell (talk • contribs) 20:41, 31 May 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,082 last month to 8,202 on May 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 54 is just behind WP:GM who have 58. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,182 articles.
Currently we have twenty Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Images
As a change from all the election related material this month I thought that we could look at images. With summer on its way in England then it is time to spend away from the computer and in the great outdoors. There are many events and places to visit so if you are taking time out at any of these then take along your camera and capture the scene. Then when back home you can upload the images to Commons so that they can be used on any of the projects run by the foundation. This is preferred to uploading just to Wikipedia as they are more widely available to other projects and save time of people having to make the transfer of suitable images. When uploading images to Commons then you need to categorise the image to enable it to be located easily and to group it with others of a similar theme. It is best to put it in a specific category, but if you cannot find one then pick the best fit you can and others will shift it around into more suitable categories. The process is similar to article categorisation and multiple categories can be added, as appropriate, but an image should not normally be placed in a category and one of it's sub-categories.
There are a number of articles requiring images and the Yorkshire related ones can be found here. Take a look before you go out as you may be able to fulfil one of the requests while out visiting.
If you locate an article that requires an image and no suitable image is available then add the {{reqphoto}} template to the article talk page to flag the article appropriately. If you want an image of a specific thing then you can use the of= parameter to give details. For example, if an interior shot is required of the building that is the subject of the article then use {{reqphoto|of=interior}}. You can narrow the image to a location by using the in= parameter, {{reqphoto|in=Yorkshire}} will request a photo in Yorkshire. If you use North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire or the East Riding of Yorkshire in place of Yorkshire then it will categorise in the appropriate sub-category but will not show up in the request box. A way round this is to apply Yorkshire and the division to the request and they will show up but remain unlinked. So to a request an image in the East Riding of Yorkshire it may be best to use {{reqphoto|in=Yorkshire|in2=the East Riding of Yorkshire}} to show in the request box and classify it in both Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Yorkshire and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
For biographical articles the biography project template {{WPBiography}} has a needs-photo= parameter which should be set to yes if a photograph is required.
When adding an image to an article also check the talk page and remove the flags if the image fulfils the request.
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Hi
As you are the editor that reverted the change, and I am the one that added the reference so I don't want to risk tempting an edit war to start or anything, would you be able to put one of the template messages onto the anonymous users talk page so they know not to delete without reason?
Thanks
Tomdresser27 (talk) 21:40, 17 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Hello! Your submission of The Rose of Castille 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! Regstuff (talk) 15:29, 29 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
On July 2, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Rose of Castille, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,202 last month to 8,225 on June 21st). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 54 is just behind WP:GM who have 59. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,193 articles.
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Pending changes
The trial period for Pending Changes is under way and will last for two months. Initially this will be restricted to a pre-defined set of articles that are updated on a daily basis. The queue of articles for the trial is here. This involves a change to the article settings, similar to article protection, that allows edits by anonymous and non-autoconfirmed users to be delayed before going live. (It is possible to set it so that all edits need reviewing but this is not been used for the trial.) These edits will only go live when they have been reviewed by another user who has been granted the Reviewer user rights. Pages with revisions waiting review can be found here. A large number of the regular editors have been granted this privilege for the trial and if not it can be requested here. It is a good idea to have a look at the pages that have this applied so that you are clued up for the discussion following the trial. Those of you with one of the selected articles on their watchlist will get a notification at the top of the watchlist page when there are pending changes to an article on their watchlist.
Once the trial is over there will be a discussion on rolling the system out generally or to reject this method of handing changes. If you want more details on this then take a look at the help document.
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Re the Guardian 1900 review, on reading it I was stopped dead by the following: "The librettos are derived from a French source, the famous novel of the Abbé Prévost having previously been borrowed by Auber and Massanet." (emphasis added by me). Eh? This seems like a gross error; the critic is surely getting confused with Manon Lescaut, which was based on a Prévost novel and was the subject of a Massanet opera. Do you agree? Brianboulton (talk) 09:00, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Hello! Sorry was away for a while - able to keep an eye on things but not do anything substantive. Anyway, I've had a first go - tell me if you think that looks ok. Are you intending to make a page called something like List of Opera North Repertoire, combining all the pages' info? I played with one on my [utterly messy] sandbox and found it enjoyable/useful almost-instinct 14:37, 20 July 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Thanks for the note on my talk page. I shall stick a toe in the water, I think. Greatly obliged for the tip. - Tim riley (talk) 20:15, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply
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I have created Die Gezeichneten and Der Schatzgräber. Both these articles have been expanded by myself and other users. Do you think they deserve start status on the WikiProject Opera's quality scale? Francesco Malipiero (talk) 13:08, 4 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2010edit
Latest comment: 13 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,225 last month to 8,254 on July 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 56 is just behind WP:GM who have 59. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 44 out of a total number of 2,201 articles.
Currently we have twenty Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Maps
This month I thought that I would focus on the current discussions over the maps used in infoboxes for UK articles.
Firstly an initiative by user Nilfanion (talk) is currently under way on producing map data for the whole of the UK. The maps would cover all counties, wards, civil parishes etc. and be derived from the Ordnance Survey OpenData release. Further details can be seen here where feedback would be appreciated on two specific concerns—the colour scheme and line thickness. Discussion is also taking place as to what features to include on the maps, such as rivers, roads and railways.
Second discussion here on another alternative for mapping data changes to existing maps in infoboxes for districts, boroughs and cities in the UK.
Thirdly a discussion on Wales maps in place infoboxes is under way here, which has branched out into a general discussion on the initiative by user Nilfanionhere.
It would be good if members take time to have a look at these various proposals and comment, where they feel they have some input to offer, as these proposals could potentially affect all of the UK articles with maps in their infoboxes. If you do not speak now then you will have to put up with the results!
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Hi Guillaume,
Are you still able to do a copy-edit on The Tempest? As expected it's taking some time to get a GA review of it so I don't think you need to worry that a reviewer would mistake a copy-edit as lack of stability. I realize everyone has constraints on their time, but since you were so kind as to offer, I'll chance being so bold as to enquire. :-) Cheers, --Xover (talk) 07:57, 10 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Well, I'm not happy about the use of lists, or the deviation from the standard sections (Sources and Date and text), but I am quite pleased to see someone working on it, so I'll try to not let my biases lead me astray. :-) As regards the anti-Strachey stuff, it was a relative recent addition which, I suspect, was weighted by more than due focus on the POV of those who want to argue for a much earlier date for the play. Giving some space to it is appropriate: there's been some articles back and forth between Aldus T. Vaughan (the co-editor, with Virginia M. Vaughan, of the Arden edition of the play) and Stritmatter—Kositsky on the topic, so it qualifies (just barely) as a relevant controvery (and is interesting to boot). The trouble is what follows those three (or so) sentences, which devolves into pure advocacy, as well as handwavy phrasings like “is traditionally believed” for things that, here, can be simply stated as facts. I've been meaning to take a crack at excising these and maybe improve the overall quality of the relevant sections while I'm at it; but didn't want to invite any potential controversy while we're waiting for a GA review. Anyways, I'm happy to see you bring fresh eyes to it, and would encourage you to keep at it (and by all means work directly on the article if you prefer, over the sandbox). Even if I should happen to not be swayed by the final result, the other editors of the article may like it better; and if push comes to shove I'm sure we can hash out a consensus version on the talk page(s) somehow. I'll try to take a closer look at your sandboxed version soon, and see if I can be persuaded that your approach is better— :-) —or, alternately, make some concrete suggestions for how my preference on the matter would run. PS. Feel free to reply here to keep the conversation together. I'm watchlisting your talk page. Cheers, --Xover (talk) 23:14, 15 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
One problem I see is the way the paragraph begins: "Some scholars have challenged the 1610–11 dating of the play, discounting the likelihood of Strachey's narrative as a source and proposing other, earlier, source material." As far as I know, S&K never offer up an earlier date for The Tempest; they only argue for a later dating for Strachey, and Hunter and Elze wrote before Strachey was nominated as a source although the way the sentence is written suggests that they were responding to the Strachey source. It seems to me the entire paragraph could be wrapped up in one sentence, including the scholarly disclaimer. Tom Reedy (talk) 01:36, 16 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Right, “S&K” are trying to discredit Strachey as a source—by pushing it past the first known performance of The Tempest—but they do so in order to support an earlier date for the play (since de Vere croaked in 1604). Hunter and Elze aren't, so far as I can tell, particularly relevant. Malone is—with his outdated (pardon the pun) date and missing Strachey as a source—and the article by Vaughan (and hence the earlier S&K article that he responds to) is; but the following stuff by S&K and such should probably be dropped. I'll have to take a closer look at the material in question; but either way it's getting way too much weight the way the section reads right now. --Xover (talk) 02:05, 16 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
OK, as Xover suggests, I'll move the section from my sandbox to the article, and let battle commence. You two know a lot more about S&K than I do, and I would be very happy if you could prune their section. --GuillaumeTell 11:03, 16 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Since I published an article rebutting S&K, I think any edits made by me would be seen as blatant COI, so I'll refrain. I have been meaning to add more sources, though. Alden's Arden introduction to the play is comprehensive and reflects the current consensus. If you need a copy let me know and I'll scan it into a PDF and send it to you. Tom Reedy (talk) 14:43, 16 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
I've now got the article, thanks, but the Arden intro stops after a couple of pages, so a PDF of it would be good. Incidentally, I have the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of the play (Ed David Lindley, 2002) and there's quite a bit there, among other things, about the Aeneid as a source - I was thinking of adding some of that. (BTW, S&K to me means either Steak and kidney pie or Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway.) --GuillaumeTell 15:43, 16 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
OK, I'll scan it this p.m. and send it to you. Incidentally, almost every statement sourced by S&K is suspect. These two especially:
Modern researchers have recently added Ariosto's 1516 Orlando Furioso as a possible cource for the play, as it contains many of the storm references also found in Naufragium.[15]
However, the ultimate source of Montaigne's passage is an account of Gonzalo Oviedo published in English for the first time in Richard Eden's 1555 Decades of the New Worlde, with which Shakespeare was evidently familiar.[18]
Their assertions have not been peer-reviewed, and assertion is no indicator of consensus, no matter where it is published. Tom Reedy (talk) 16:20, 16 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Ha ha! I reviewed the edit history and guess who added all the S&K material? Tom Reedy (talk) 00:27, 17 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Ive sent you part A of Kermode but your mailbox is full and won't accept part B. Download it and clear your mailbox and I'll send part B again. (It's even too full to take a message!). Tom Reedy (talk) 16:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Sorry about that - I don't have a lot of space and am lazy about clearing it out. Part A upped the % of used space from 92% to 105%. I've downloaded it and also cleared out several large files, and space in use is down to 82%, which I hope will suffice....... --GuillaumeTell 17:04, 17 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Just for completeness sake… I do intend to take a stab at rewriting the sources and date stuff with an eye to better balance between the accepted scholarship and the recent back and forth between Stritmatter–Kositsky and Vaughan (and, apparently, Reedy ;D). I'm just focussed on a different project just now that I'd have to set aside to do a deep-dive into this aspect of The Tempest. Not that that should deter anyone from improving those sections (COI issues aside); but I just wanted to make a note of it so it doesn't look like I abandoned the issue in mid-stream. --Xover (talk) 10:17, 4 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
I'll see if there's anything I can do without stirring up a hornet's nest, but I'm probably a bit out of my depth. I stopped copy-editing once the GAR started (but there doesn't seem to be a need to do any more apart from the above). Also, I've been away (went to The Winter's Tale and As You Like It at Stratford-o-A) and have been catching up on other things. I've only just discovered that it passed GA - congratulations. --GuillaumeTell 10:45, 4 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the message. Let me know where to comment, and I'll vote to delete it. I was never in favour of going forward with Ruddigore at this time. I'd like to move Pirates and Mikado forward first. If you feel like doing any work one either, that would be super. I've been busy with Kern/Bolton, etc. and all the D'Oyly Carte family articles. Getting Richard and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company articles up to GA has been something I hoped to do for awhile! Tim riley has been a great collaborator on those! Savoy Hotel is reopening 10/10/10, so I put a little work into that article, though it's still a little spotty. My summer has been busy. I visited Ireland for the first time just to sight-see. All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:49, 12 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2010edit
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,254 last month to 8,334 on August 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 56 is just behind WP:GM who have 58. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 47 out of a total number of 2,218 articles.
Currently we have twenty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Updates
Last month I brought your attention to the proposals for changes to maps in articles and the newer maps have started to be deployed on some of the Scotland and Wales articles. The English ones will follow on though there has been comments on the loss of some features so this may be revised before mass deployment.
The trial for the pending changes implementation has ended and after discussion a straw poll is under way and now is the time to voice your opinion over the trial and if pending changes should continue to be used or if it should be abandoned.
A further batch of about 10,000 images from the Geograph project has been uploaded to Commons. If you are looking for an image then there may be one available on Commons you just have to search for it! Many of the images are incorrectly categorised at the moment but these are being rectified as they are spotted. If you have time then you can give a hand checking out the image categorisation.
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You wrote: " I don't think that English National Opera "performs or has performed fully-staged versions of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan at least annually" (unless "at least annually" means any period of two or more consecutive years, which I don't think it should). I'm also dubious about the Carl Rosa Opera Company for the same reason."
You probably know ENO's history better than me, but I understood that between 1961 and 2006 they performed an awful lot of G&S. If we don't have this cat on the article, should there be no G&S cat at all on that article? If you look at the article, there is a whole G&S section. As to Carl Rosa, they have been performing mostly G&S since 1997 (indeed, I think nearly exclusively G&S), although they try to make it look like their repertory is broader. Let me know what you want to do re: ENO. I have no problem either way. -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:45, 7 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the message. OK, done as you suggested. -- Ssilvers (talk) 03:07, 8 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Nice work - I'd got it on my "Must get round to creating it sometime" list, but you've beaten me to it. Not that I've seen much of Leeds recently... PamD (talk) 06:45, 30 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. I'll be putting in some more detail, then it looks like a good idea to clean up William Halfpenny, and there's more to do on the York virtuosi... --GuillaumeTell 10:43, 30 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2010edit
Latest comment: 13 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,334 last month to 8,468 on September 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 56 is just behind WP:GM who have 58. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 48 out of a total number of 2,228 articles.
Currently we have twenty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Wikipedia 0.8 release
Work is starting on preparing release 0.8 of the off line version of Wikipedia and the articles are in the selection stage. The initial selection has been done using some metrics about each of the articles. The number of projects that are interested in the article and the breadth of the individual projects. This is followed by the ratings of quality and importance that have been assigned to the article by each of the interested projects. There is also factored in what is termed the "External interest points" which is based on the number of hits the article gets, the number of unique internal links the article has and the number of inter-wiki links the article has. If you want more detail of the algorithm used then see here.
They have also selected a specific version of each of the articles that they consider is a stable version without vandalism using a version of the WikiTrust algorithm.
After all of this work they have come up with a selection of 116 articles that have been tagged as relevant to our project and these can be viewed here. We have a chance to influence this selection by reporting articles that people do not think are suitable or where an inappropriate version has been selected. It would also be a good idea to try and tidy up these articles before they get published if anyone has the time. Of the 116 the two articles that have been identified by tags as most needing attention are Asda and Rotherham. We have until October 11th to check out and report any problems or improved versions that need to be incorporated in to this release.
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OK, tomorrow. I'm no expert in these matters, so will be concentrating on style and copy-editing rather than content (unless there's something that sticks out like a sore thumb), and will raise anything remotely controversial on the Talk page. --GuillaumeTell 00:28, 16 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for inserting the ref. Could you possibly do the same for List of Shakespeare authorship candidates? They're on the talkpage, and I've included the ones that are now there so all that needs to be done is one cut-and-replace. If you've been following the drama you know why I can't! Cheers Andrew. Tom Reedy (talk) 12:50, 22 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
I've only just logged in again (lunch, shopping, purchasing some Euros - I'll be away Monday-Thursday - etc.) and AFAICS Paul B has done the necessary, so I don't think there's anything for me to do. --GuillaumeTell 15:29, 22 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I'm behind the times. Thanks and have a good weekend. Tom Reedy (talk) 15:41, 22 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Hello GuillaumeTell, Thank you for starting the article on Šarlatán. I made some other additions. There may be more to add and will review it again when I have more time. Also, I have solicited the help of User:Vejvančický to check the thesis for relevant information. Best regards, Hrdinský〒 06:51, 22 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Yes, I started to have my doubts. I was working from the booklet notes to the Rousset recording which have potted biographies of all the singers except Millico. I've just noticed there's one very brief reference to "the castrato Millico, who played the part of Orpheus". No first name, no biographical details. Very odd. On the other hand, it has a paragraph of information on Caselli (although his dates are "?-?" and it says he is "infrequently mentioned in ancient documents"). It says he appeared in Aristeo and Bauci e Filemone (but not Orfeo). --Folantin (talk) 09:54, 1 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Hello Guillaume Tell! Although I do have to admit that ‘L’espoir renaît dans mon âme’ “is certainly out of keeping with the lofty character of the rest of the opera” (Charles Mackerras), I am enthusiastically fond of that aria, too. In Italy it is quite disliked by both musicologists and musicians. The critic Elvio Giudici, after stating it is by Ferdinando Bertoni, added that it proves to Gluck’s great advantage, “since the aria itself is pretty ugly”. Riccardo Muti would by no means allow Marilyn Horne to perform the aria in a Florence production of many years ago and she sensationally abandoned the theatre never to be back there again. There are good recordings of the French version by Rockwell Blake and, lately, by Juan Diego Florez, which are available on Youtube. There one can also find recordings (by Vesselina Kasarova or Ewa Podles, for instance) of quite a musically different third version of the aria, whose incipit is “Amour, viens rendre à mon âme”: it was so reworked by Camille Saint-Saëns and Pauline Viardot for Berlioz’s 1859 edition, turning it from an eighteenth century Italianate bravura aria into a nineteenth century French coloratura one. I don’t like this version that much. Cheers.--Jeanambr (talk) 11:04, 2 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2010edit
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,468 last month to 8,621 on October 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 57 is just behind WP:GM who have 58. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 49 out of a total number of 2,266 articles.
Currently we have twenty two Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Dead links
This month I thought that I would concentrate on the problem of link rot in articles. Many of you will have spotted a BOT tagging references with the {{Dead link}} template. The template is added when the external link in a reference is detected as being inaccessible or is a redirect to the main page of the site. You should not remove references that are marked as dead unless you are replacing the reference with a new reference. The information in the reference may be useful to someone trying to locate a valid reference for the text. In order to help this process, when adding references in the first place, add as much detail as possible. It is easier to put in the detail while the reference is in front of you rather than waste someone else's time having to fill in the detail. If you want more detail then see Wikipedia:Link rot.
Many of the project's articles have been tagged in this way by the BOT and it would be useful if members could take a look at the tagged references, when visiting a page, and see if the problem can be resolved. May be the link is now active again in which case it is just a simple task of removing the template. May be an archived copy of the link can be located at the Wayback Machine, just add the link to the reference, if it is templated use the =archiveurl & =archivedate paramerters to record the new location of the link. If the site has been restructured then it may be possible to locate the same page used in the reference by following the links from the home page of the site. In this case replace the URL in the reference and remove the tag. Finally a replacement reference may need to be located if copies of the existing reference cannot be tracked down. If a new reference is used then the old reference and the tag can be removed.
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Latest comment: 13 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion
...for all the work with York Castle!
Hchc2009 (talk) 18:29, 14 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
Agree, a few more modern day shots would be good... I'm down south, unfortunately, so it may need a local photographer! :) Hchc2009 (talk) 17:14, 15 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
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I've been meaning to work on Iphigénie and a couple of other Gluck operas but unfortunately I haven't had as much time as I expected this month. I'm revising the synopsis, the composition and background, and the performance history. The recordings section is all yours if you want it (it was a bit of a mess last time I looked). Cheers. --Folantin (talk) 18:45, 24 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
I don't know about a separate discography. Having looked at the German list, I see a lot of them are long out-of-print recordings plus some "semi-legit" live stuff. Should we include all of these? --Folantin (talk) 12:54, 25 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Many thanks for your suggestions. I agree with the listing of the bridges and i will reverse the list. I needed to correct the order anyway as i noticed that a couple of them were in the wrong place in relation to the template. That was because that part i left alone from the original article before i updated it. I will look around for a free use photo that shows the Castle Mills lock better. Again that image was there before i started updating. I will add the iron foot bridge on Foss Islands road to the list and template. As fort the page of Bridges over the Foss, i think you make a good point and will post a comment on the article discussion page to get consensus.Rimmer1993 (talk) 13:16, 28 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 8,621 last month to 8,665 on November 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 62 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 60. WP:GM also has the lead in FAs at 49 out of a total number of 2,292 articles.
Currently we have twenty four Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Happy Christmas
Wishing all project members a Happy Christmas and thanks for all the work you have put in to the project over the last year. We have made great strides forward especially in the area of Good Articles
and this month we have a bumper set of seven articles trying for GA status. Some passed the review while others did not, but even a try moves an article forward. Thanks to ll those involved in these articles and keep up the good work.
Cleanup listing
Some members will know that we were subscribed to the clean-up listing that was produced on an occasional basis by a BOT. The BOT owner has left and has not released the source of the BOT for someone to pick-up. The last run of this BOT was in March of this year. Others have stepped in and produced a new tool that runs on the tool server to provide projects with similar information.
The clean-up listing gives details of all of the articles with the project's banner that have clean-up tags attached to them. The listing is in alphabetical order but can be sorted on class, importance or the number of different tags found in an article. If you want the listing grouped by the different tags then the tag grouped listing should be used.
According to the tool run dated 28 November of the 8,729 articles in this project 2,725 or 31.2% are marked for clean-up, though I am unsure how it gets the article count figure as that does not appear to match the counts from the assessment table.
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Latest comment: 13 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion
Salut, Guillaume.
You just reverted the capitalisation of Italiana in the title of L'Italiana in Algeri, but it does in fact need to be capitalised because it is a noun based on national origin, not an adjective (as can be seen by the fact that it is modified by the definite article l'). See how this Italian title is treated in the Italian WP [1]. It is when such a designation is used as an adjective that it is not capitalised, e.g. un'opera italiana. Same in French, incidentally: Un Français, but un livre français. Awien (talk) 14:26, 5 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
All fixed now. Awien (talk) 14:30, 5 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
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Perhaps a better word? We know nothing about the captain except his servant died and was moorish, he could be anywhere in Florence.--Wehwalt (talk) 18:04, 19 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Hi, Guillaume, and thanks for your various suggestions and improvements to Schicchi. We are hoping to nominate this for FAC later this week, but if you have any further issues to raise, we'd be pleased to act on them first. Brianboulton (talk) 21:27, 20 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
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