Impressionist

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La rondine

Why did you remove La rondine from the puccini page and replace it with a period?

Thank you for welcoming me

I view it as a great honor to be able to contribute.

La rondine Returns

I apologize for the silly blunder. It has been corrected. Thank you for drawing my attention to it.

I'm still new at this and I'm not quite sure whether you'll be notified about this post or come back to look for it or what; I would like you to know, though, that I REALLY appreciate your help. Thank you.

I made your page one of my watch pages, so I read it there, but when you commented on MY talk page, a little thing popped up on every page telling me I had a new message. Welcome! Captbaritone 16:43, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

That's so cool! What do I do to make sure each time I post a message it pops up on EVERYBODY'S page and gets into the next issue of Opera News?

Thank you for welcoming me. Impressionist

Verdi, etc.

Greetings! Well, regarding the role of the performer and the audience, I'm afraid you're preaching to the choir. I adore paying customers who love music, especially non-musicians, because without them I couldn't exist. As a matter of fact I'm writing something for them (you) right now, and I'm on Wikipedia taking my tenth or twelfth break of the day. So it goes. Being a composer, I may have a slightly different view yet of performers.

That Verdi article is ... unfortunate. It probably ought to be rewritten from scratch. It appears that this edit [1] may be the one to which you refer; I was reverting vandalism. ("Mike raines" is probably a fourteen-year-old delinquent at a middle school somewhere, who was cackling to himself while the teacher was out of the room.) I don't know if the Rossini story is true, and I'm skeptical; there is nothing in the New Grove article about it. Feel free to remove it. There is nothing in his complete works list resembling an independent overture to the Barber of Seville.

Best wishes, and nice meeting you! Antandrus (talk) 02:55, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh my, I wrote too soon. I found a reference in my 1980 Grove, which has a much different article, to the overture; "He made his debut with an overture to Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, played before a local performance of the opera in 1828." Unfortunately, that would indicate he was probably more than two years old at the time of composition. Antandrus (talk) 03:00, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

That was indeed amusing, in a dark sort of way. My own experiences with opera tend to be with the non-Mets and younger singers, so the last Tosca, and indeed the last Isolde I have seen, were hot enough to make me need to open the window for a blast of cool air, remembering. But the author has a point, and a strong one. Opera, and a lot of the "classical music" establishment, are driving away audiences, often quite unintentionally. Yet younger people do show up at the opera still; I went to see Vanessa in San Diego a few months ago and it seemed a good half of the audience was 30 years old. Don't know what to do to help, except that I agree with the writer that we must not drive them away.

I heard a fascinating bit on NPR about a year ago about crossover audiences at the Met: evidently they are getting a lot of people who are fans of punk rock. "What's so surprising?" said one; "both types of music are impossible to ignore, you'd never hear them in the elevator, and both hit you in the guts." Or something like that. I found it interesting, and rather a new thought. Antandrus (talk) 03:33, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Irish People

Thanks for the reply. The heading under which those people were listed was "Noted people descended from Irish immigrants"; GBS and Oscar were not descended from Irish immigrants - they were Irish. Faulker, Henry and London I did not include as I was not aware they had Irish roots. The Kennedys I left out as they are very well known. The point of the others was to avoid rehashing all the old familiar people of Irish descent and throw some light on new ones (especially Ali, Jimi, Ella and Juan). Hope that clarifys matters. Any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Fergananim 17:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

IP blocks

Hi Ricardo.

The quickest way to solve your problem of being blocked is to log off and then back on. If you use a dialup, hang up and redial. You must use AOL (152.163 is AOL, I know that for certain, I don't even have to check) and I think AOL will give you a new IP for each session. The other IP must have been used by a vandal and gotten blocked. (We actually have a policy of NOT blocking AOL IPs for longer than about 30 minutes or so, because of the danger of collateral damage; you present a perfect example.) Since you were able to post to my talk page, you must have an unblocked IP. Another possibility is that a logged-in vandal got blocked, and the IP behind it was one shared by you; I'll check to see if I can tell from the logs. Nice job on Verdi, by the way; I'll have a closer look once I have some time for editing again; I'm still busy writing for a concert next weekend ... best, Antandrus (talk) 22:44, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

AHA, I found the problem.

From the block log: 16:45, 6 October 2005 Hall Monitor blocked "User:152.163.100.201" with an expiry time of 2 weeks (persistent vandalism, multiple warnings)

It is possible User:Hall Monitor does not know that 152.163 is a dynamically-assigned IP, and is randomly assigned to different users. After the vandal was blocked on the 6th, you logged on sometime after that, were assigned that IP randomly from their DHCP pool, and ran into a two-week block. (An AOL vandal can evade a block just by logging off and on, so a two-week block has no more efficacy than a 15-minute one.) I'm going to unblock it. Antandrus (talk) 22:52, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

With all due respect, I don't see how I can have blocked your username; I've never even heard of you. Nevertheless, it's possible you share an IP with a user I have blocked, or indeed, that I accidentally blocked an AOL IP address. I'll check the block log as soon as I save this message, and get back to you. If it's the latter case, by the way, then the block will have expired by now - I don't remember issuing any blocks yesterday, and I tend only to block IP addresses for short periods. Furthermore, I never block shared IP addresses for longer than one hour (to combat schoolperson vandalism, for instance). However, the onus is on me to check, so I'll do it. Incidentally, I am slightly worried that your original message was somewhat aggressive in tone when there was absolutely no need for it. Rob Church ^{Talk | FAHD} 13:45, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

I've reviewed the blocks and found an AOL IP that I did block, which is most careless of me. The reason for the block was persistent copyright infringement and copyright fraud, hence the 72 hour period for which I blocked it. The block is now gone. I apologise for any inconvenience caused. Rob Church ^{Talk | FAHD} 13:49, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Alphax ^τεχ 05:18, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

FAC comments

Ricardo: regarding your comments on the Wikipedia:Featured article candidates, quite frankly, rather than replying to the good editorial feedback you are being given with personal attacks (which are against the rules), I suggest you might want to take their comments to heart and work to improve the article. →Raul654 20:34, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Hey, what's going on...

Yeah, it would be hard in any case...considering other uses choose to ignore that policy and instead focus on the POV thing. Unfortunately, I don't think theres a way to do that. Wikipedia does have a mailing list, but thats more like for everything in general. I suppose you could make a noticeboard, but that would be more or less the same thing as a project page, and people would not be contacted automatically. Maybe you could just do it the old fashioned way and get people's e-mails and create a mailing list. In any case, I think if you want people to support you, I think you should try to contact each person individually. It helps establish a relationship, and they'll be more likely to support you. Let me know if you have any other questions OmegaWikipedia 05:15, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I can definitely relate to you. I'm dealing with my own music issues right now, of people who are trying to cry foul for no solid reason except for the fact that there is a style dispute which theyre trying to exploit into something else. There really is a communication error in my situation too where the person I'm talking to completly ignores what I have to say and then focuses on something that has nothing to do with the situation. This person leaving racist and stereotypical comments about me doesnt help either, but what can you do? Wikipedia can be filled with people like that, and you just have to roll with the punches, and not let these people overwhelm you. OmegaWikipedia 08:15, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Lobbying should definitely be considered, but I think sometimes in a FAC, the person who closes it may use their own discretion too if they feel there are issues with the article that hadnt been resolved. Like I had an article that was up for FAC, and it had a majority of conseus votes, but the referenes werent fixed right, so they rejcted it anyway. OmegaWikipedia 08:34, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Final warning

Impressionist - Having seen your latest comments regarding Nichalp on the featured article candidates page, I'm giving you a final warning - if you continue to hurl personal attacks at other users (which as I said before, are strictly prohibited), I'm going to block you from editing. →Raul654 19:26, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Hey. I have a question. I'm going to vote "support" for the article you've nominated. Can you also vote "support" for the article I've nominated? Please? If so, see here: Nomination. I hope you vote for me, thank you! --Winnermario 20:26, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

I value your presence. Thanks. --Winnermario 21:04, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I'm wondering, did you vote for "Cool"? Your vote doesn't appear to be listed: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cool (song). --Winnermario 21:14, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm in your debt. If you ever need anything, just ask me. --Winnermario 21:32, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you. --Winnermario 21:35, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Karmafist

You're featured on User:Karmafist/users to watch; recently described by another editor as a "hate page". Andy Mabbett 11:09, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Now recreated at User:Karmafist/kittens and sunshine, with the same content, but no redirect from the former. Andy Mabbett 09:00, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Now recreated at User:Karmafist/Notepad, with the same content, but no redirect from either of the above. Andy Mabbett 10:38, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

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