User talk:Hyacinth

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Shape

Please have a look e.g. at the Dutch articles linked to Shape and de:Gestalt. It should become obvious that it doesn't make sense to merge these two meanings. --217.224.250.60 (talk) 20:36, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Hyacinth,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:01, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

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Merge proposal

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that there's a discussion at Talk:Slide (disambiguation) that might interest you. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 19:45, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky once again

A couple of years ago you contributed input for the peer review of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, especially regarding the article's coverage of the composer's homosexuality and marriage. The article eventually passed to FA status but is now being revamped and expanded to include additional research and sources. While I have reworked the portions on Tchaikovsky's engagement to Désirée Artôt and his marriage to Antonina Miliukova, I have not yet tackled the preceding section on his sexuality, which is brief but seems to-the-point and NPOV. If you have the time, I would greatly appreciate any suggestions on whether more needs to be done at this point and, if so, what might improve it. Thanks very much for your help. Jonyungk (talk) 07:53, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me and pointing out the challenge with language. Since you are much more attuned to the situation and potential solutions than I, could you please act with me in improving it? Even if this amounts to pointing out other instances for me to fix, it will be a greater benefit to the article and its readers than no help at all. I would greatly appreciate your expertise and effort in this matter. Jonyungk (talk) 21:51, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

The style guide really helps. I've already employed it in editing the Sexuality section and will post a link to it on Talk:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to avoid reverts to inappropriate language—a problem when the language issue came up in PR. Thanks. Jonyungk (talk) 13:50, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

You could write a book

Fiction novels may be your specialty, and maybe in such a novel a supertonic chromatic chord equals a secondary dominant. Sadly, it is only a way for one musicologist to describe the secondary dominant of the primary dominant of the key (hence its name). Only someone with zero understanding of the subject could create that redirect, not to mention your other edits. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 04:35, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

As I said before, comment on the content. Hyacinth (talk) 23:38, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

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Reply requested

Please explain why you followed me to the Civility page. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 15:03, 27 February 2012 (UTC)