JohnAnkerBow

Spoken article box

Please don't put spoken article boxes at the very top of articles. It pushes the infoboxes downa nd doesn't look good. Find a place for them elswhere - directly under the infobox is usually good. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 08:28, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

They're also often put in the "External links" section. Beyond My Ken (talk) 08:41, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Also "Spoken Article" does not seem to be an existing template. Please check your edits after you make them. Beyond My Ken (talk) 08:50, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@Beyond My Ken and JohnAnkerBow: I just noticed this too. The template is {{Spoken Wikipedia}} and it should be put in the "External Links" section. This creates a link to the audio recording right at the top of the article (on the far right side of the title line), as well as a "Listen to this page" box at the bottom of the article. For instance, this is the box for the Fraunces Tavern article. epicgenius (talk) 14:49, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: Thank you for this information, which I was unaware of. Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:19, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@JohnAnkerBow: You should correct the edits that you made in line with the information that Epicgenius has provided. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:16, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

@Epicgenius and Beyond My Ken: Thank you both for the help! I'm starting to catch on! - John

• HI, I'm glad to see that you're following Epicgenius' advice and putting the spoken article template in the "External links" section. One further thing: if there are already other boxes in the EL section, like boxes for Commons, or Wikiquotes, etc., please put the spoken article template under the existing template, not over them. They tend to get visually lost otherwise. Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:19, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

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Musicals "instrumentation" sections

Please do not add these sections to musicals. There is a fairly standard pit orchestra for most musicals of the golden age, and it adds nothing of encyclopedic importance to the articles to recite it in gory detail in each and every article. If a musical has a very non-standard ensemble, it should be mentioned, together with a source that *states* that it is non-standard, but it certainly doesn't need its own level two section -- just a sentence in the music or musical numbers section. If you disagree, you could raise the issue at the Musical theatre project talk page. Thanks. -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:20, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

@Ssilvers: Instrumentation breakdown can be found in many musical theatre articles. What is different about these articles? --John

Gory detail? 24.90.157.51 (talk) 07:02, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

		The Spoken Barnstar
		I came across your work when I was editing Benjamin Loxley and I wanted to thank you for recording so many spoken articles over the years. I have enjoyed quite a few of them that I found in your contributions and I am sure that so have thousands of other people! Your work is valuable and you have helped improve the overall Wikipedia experience with your fine recordings. Thank you for all your dedication! — The Most Comfortable Chair 08:18, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

On that note, Benjamin Loxley was recently promoted to good article status and it has gone through a significant rewrite since you recorded it. If you do become active someday again — and I hope that you do — please consider recording the spoken article again as the current version is considerably different from back then. Regards. — The Most Comfortable Chair 08:24, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks so much! I’ll add Loxley to my list of articles to re-record. 24.90.157.51 (talk) 13:11, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you JohnAnkerBow! — The Most Comfortable Chair 15:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Chestnut Street in Philadelphia

I was delighted to listen to your spoken article. Philly is may favorite city, I was there, and I've made Russian spoken article about Philly GK tramrunner (talk) 02:43, 16 August 2021 (UTC)