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Title of George Copeland article

FYI, when you created the article, you had quotation marks around the name of the article. I have moved it, so the article, instead of at the incorrect title of "George Copeland", is now titled George Copeland. —C.Fred (talk) 04:23, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

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Your work on George Copeland

I wanted to thank you for all your hard work on George Copeland. He's one of my very favorite pianists and your creation of and continued improvements to this article are very appreciated. If you could, please consider restoring some of the portions you cut earlier today. I didn't want you to think by my "better source needed" tag earlier this week that your primary sources aren't welcome. They certainly are in this case as there is no other means of obtaining this information. Sadly, there is no scholarly biography of Copeland, a regrettable fact I discussed years ago with the late Allan Evans.

Anyway, thank you so much. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 23:59, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Dear CurryTime, my pleasure. I didn't cut those things because of your "better source needed," never fear - I did read that apparently for Wikipedia articles you are supposed to avoid original research - part of that includes quoting from Primary Sources, particularly extensively, which I did. I would be happy to share what I have directly with you - in 2009-2010, I compiled a ton of materials with the intention of writing a Copeland bio, but there is just too big of a gap in our knowledge of the years between 1920 and 1936 for that to really be feasible. PianoDude2010 (talk) 00:19, 14 August 2023 (UTC)