Welcome! edit

Hello, Violncello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Tim | meep in my general direction 21:44, 12 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hey, welcome! Thanks for all your work disambiguating links and avoiding redirects. It's important work that's somewhat tedious to do (I know, I did a bunch of "J.S. Bach" ->"Johann Sebastian Bach" ones). It's useful to other editors if you use the edit summary box when you do that (just "dab" would be fine), and mark the edit as minor. That way they don't have to spend time checking your edits. Thanks, and happy editing :) Makemi 22:50, 22 February 2006 (UTC)Reply
Hi, welcome, and thanks for your edit re Chopin on LoPbN. As Mak says, "dab" is enuf, tho some editors have different styles about what they apply it to. I think i'd say "dab" when someone linked to the wrong article, say book in the context of the "book" or action and spoken part of a musical, and i've fixed it to [[book (musical theater)|book]]. But i say "byp Dab" when i "bypass" a disambiguation page that the user would otherwise have to view and click on to get to the article, by replacing the Dab-page's title with the article's title. I think it's easy at first to jumble Dabs and Redirects in one's head, even tho they are almost opposite things. (A Dab deals with two articles that a single name could have applied to; a Rdr deals with two names that need to be applied to the single article. The Dab and the Rdr behave very differently!) I would describe what you did for Chopin as "Byp Rdr"; again, the fix is rewriting the link, but there's only one article his name could apply to, so there's no dab involved. Again, it's a process of bypassing, by changing the lk to match the article, by rather avoiding a stop at a Dab page, you're avoiding the little message at the top that mentions the Rdr that the user didn't stop at. I certainly wouldn't bother you about it again -- letting you work in a way that suits you is much more important than whether you slightly confuse some colleagues -- but on the other hand, you'll probably quickly find the distinction between Dabs and Rdrs is clear and takes no effort, which can make our enormous collaborative process here a bit smoother. Thanks again for making the effort. It does add up in the end!
--Jerzyt 03:33, 1 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Sicily edit

Hello. Would you be interested in voting for History of Sicily for COTW here ? Thank you. -- Darwinek 20:39, 7 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

You are hereby awarded edit

 
The Minor Barnstar

Thank you for all your help bypassing redirects of classical composers! MarkBuckles 03:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! edit

Thank you for watching over my shoulder as I try to document pianists! I shall try to spell things better in future...

Rconroy 12:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Redirects aren't evil. edit

Please see Wikipedia:Redirect#Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken. —Keenan Pepper 19:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Taking you at your word edit

I've put together some biographies of singers to complete the 16 orginals in Vaughan William's Serenade to Music, and have, I suspect, not got the category links right. Grateful for your guidance (well, rescue, truth to tell).Tim riley 21:10, 27 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

  • Thank you so much for your guidance. I'll go and put it into effect. Tim riley 11:45, 29 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

List of recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry edit

You are one of several people who was instrumental in cleaning up my List of recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry page. This page was the first page I created and still remains the page that I have made the most edits to on wikipedia (95 edits). Thank you for your assistance. Since this page received so much more cleanup assistance than most of my other pages I am wondering if it was a focus article of a WikiProject Group. Do you know of any such designation? It would be helpful because I will be self nominating for admin tomorrow or Tuesday. Please reply at my userpage with any info you may have. TonyTheTiger 17:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Recordings preserved in the National Recording Registry edit

You have contributed as an editor to the List of recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry. It is undergoing an overhaul according to the recent peer review that generated the following feedback. In addition to the changes there, it is undergoing stylistic changes that prevail at lists that have been selected as featured lists. Conversion to wikitable format began with 2002 today because most articles that reach featured list status are in this format. Feel free to convert additional years, add more columns, or add further details. Hopefully many of the editors who have helped edit this page to its pre review state will help improve it to a featured list quality level. I may not return to make further edits until next week. TonyTheTiger 21:09, 18 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Lazarus and Dives RFC edit

An RFC has been filed to determine whether or not the position of the Jesus Seminar should be included in Lazarus and Dives. Your comments would be most welcome. --Joopercoopers 22:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Three Choirs festival edit

  Hi Violncello! An article you have been involved with has been tagged by its parent project as needing either a little attention to style, updating, or further development. If you can help with these minor issues please see Talk:Three Choirs Festival, and leave any comments there.--Kudpung (talk) 08:04, 1 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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