User talk:Mikeoman

Welcome!

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Welcome![edit]

Welcome to the WikiProject Guitarists!! Take the time to browse around all of the projects work pages and feel free to comment on anything you think might require attention(or repair) Cheers and take care! ~ Arjun 14:43, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Guitarists newsletter[edit]

The WikiProject Guitarists Newsletter
Issue III - July 2007

Project news

Hey everyone! It's been quite a while since the last newsletter went out but it's time to tune up those guitars, set the amps to 11, and rock out a bit. Or for us old guys, put on the fingerpicks and set the amp to 3. A lot of people have been laboring away at guitar articles and their efforts are to be applauded. If you haven't edited in a while, why not pick an article from Category:Stub-Class guitarist articles and expand it? Or better yet, pick one from the article requests and create it. More tasks can be found on the main project page in the WikiProject Guitarists open tasks box.

I went through the member list and moved anyone who hasn't edited a guitar article in two months to the inactive section. If you're getting this newsletter, it means you are still in the active list. See you around --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 21:47, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Fingerstyle merge with fingerpicking[edit]

Hi Mike!

By all means, please proceed with consolidating Fingerpicking into Fingerstyle. I proposed doing so several months ago, but someone pulled the tag. I think the consensus, however, is clear, and you're on the right track.

One suggestion: perhaps we should spin the section on prominent fingerstyle players into a separate entry (i.e., a list). Lots of people seem to want to get publicity for obscure (and inappropriate) musicians by sneaking them onto that list, and I get tired of deleting them.

Good luck! I'll check in. -- P L E A T H E R _talk 22:54, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From WP:RM[edit]

fingerstyle guitar → fingerpicking — both refer to the same concept — after discussion on both pages we have come to the consensus to merge the two pages together as both of these articles have strengths and would compliment eachother, we want to call the article 'fingerpicking' but use a lot of the stuff from the 'fingerstyle guitar'. In that article, I have copied and pasted the 'fingerstyle guitar' onto my computer, however I won't go against wp's policies and copy and paste the entire article onto 'fingerpicking'- just a precaution in case we lose all that hard work, I can edit once the move is done, that's not a problem for me.--Mikeoman 12:38, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you have done the merging, copy-paste the result into fingerpicking, which is one of the pages merged. That has to happen on merging. Anthony Appleyard 15:22, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved these comments here from WP:RM so that they do not get lost. As Anthony says, when merging articles, the histories cannot be merged, so you have to pick which of the titles you want to use and put the merged text there. --Stemonitis 06:51, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fingerstyle/fingerpicking consolidation, as per consensus[edit]

Dear Mike,

I appreciated your message on my talk page. However, I've had to undo your recent edits, as they were in direct contradiction with the consensus formed by a year-long discussion on the matter. Puzzlingly, they also contradicted our previous correspondence.

Your own personal preferences aside, "Fingerstyle" has overwhelmingly emerged as the predominant terminology, as established in the talk pages. When I gave my approval to your consolidation, it was explicitly to redirect "-picking" to ""-style", NOT the other way around.

You've stated in your most recent post on my discussion page that you intend to eventually switch it the other way, which would be in keeping with consensus. But if that's the case, having it even temporarily in the exact opposite configuration would be a recipe for confusion. Besides, in the passage quoted above, you state, "we want to call the article 'fingerpicking'"--another contradiction.

Please leave the redirects in place as implemented. If you wish to improve the content of the resulting article, please don't substitute the text wholesale (as you've mentioned you intend to do). If you need to access the text of the (now-redirected) article, I can show you how.

I'm very happy to work with you on this Mike; it's clear you have nothing but good intentions here. But the fingerstyle/fingerpicking issue was discussed in great detail, and that has to be respected.

-- P L E A T H E R _talk 19:34, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Mikeoman, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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:Questions, 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! --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 18:12, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome![edit]

Welcome to the WikiProject Guitarists!! Take the time to browse around all of the projects work pages and feel free to comment on anything you think might require attention(or repair) Cheers and take care! ~ Arjun 14:43, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Guitarists newsletter[edit]

The WikiProject Guitarists Newsletter
Issue III - July 2007

Project news

Hey everyone! It's been quite a while since the last newsletter went out but it's time to tune up those guitars, set the amps to 11, and rock out a bit. Or for us old guys, put on the fingerpicks and set the amp to 3. A lot of people have been laboring away at guitar articles and their efforts are to be applauded. If you haven't edited in a while, why not pick an article from Category:Stub-Class guitarist articles and expand it? Or better yet, pick one from the article requests and create it. More tasks can be found on the main project page in the WikiProject Guitarists open tasks box.

I went through the member list and moved anyone who hasn't edited a guitar article in two months to the inactive section. If you're getting this newsletter, it means you are still in the active list. See you around --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 21:47, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Volunteers needed

The Guitar equipment task force needs editors to work on guitar equipment articles. Many articles for guitar manufacturers, guitar models, amps, and effects are basically one-sentence stubs or written like advertisements. If you're interested in this type of article, visit the task force page to sign up and browse Category:Guitar equipment task force articles for things to work on.
If you are interested in assessing guitarist articles, please see the assessment department. At one time, we had it cleared out, but there are now a lot of articles in Category:Unassessed guitarist articles.

To stop receiving this newsletter, please list yourself here.

Re: Fingerstyle merge with fingerpicking[edit]

Hi Mike!

By all means, please proceed with consolidating Fingerpicking into Fingerstyle. I proposed doing so several months ago, but someone pulled the tag. I think the consensus, however, is clear, and you're on the right track.

One suggestion: perhaps we should spin the section on prominent fingerstyle players into a separate entry (i.e., a list). Lots of people seem to want to get publicity for obscure (and inappropriate) musicians by sneaking them onto that list, and I get tired of deleting them.

Good luck! I'll check in. -- P L E A T H E R _talk 22:54, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From WP:RM[edit]

fingerstyle guitar → fingerpicking — both refer to the same concept — after discussion on both pages we have come to the consensus to merge the two pages together as both of these articles have strengths and would compliment eachother, we want to call the article 'fingerpicking' but use a lot of the stuff from the 'fingerstyle guitar'. In that article, I have copied and pasted the 'fingerstyle guitar' onto my computer, however I won't go against wp's policies and copy and paste the entire article onto 'fingerpicking'- just a precaution in case we lose all that hard work, I can edit once the move is done, that's not a problem for me.--Mikeoman 12:38, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you have done the merging, copy-paste the result into fingerpicking, which is one of the pages merged. That has to happen on merging. Anthony Appleyard 15:22, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved these comments here from WP:RM so that they do not get lost. As Anthony says, when merging articles, the histories cannot be merged, so you have to pick which of the titles you want to use and put the merged text there. --Stemonitis 06:51, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fingerstyle resolution[edit]

Dear Mike,

I'm relieved to hear that there was no malice afoot in the tinkering with fingerstyle. If you want to access texts from pre-consolidated versions of the articles in question, click on the "my contributions" heading in the top right of this page. All your contributions are archived there. Find an entry for the page in question, then click on the date of that posting. This will then take you to a version of that posting. Finally, click on the "history" tab, and you'll be in the full archive for the article. You can cut and paste text from there. Good luck! -- P L E A T H E R _talk 15:27, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:B. B. King[edit]

Please have a look at the section 'Sings or plays, not both' on BBK's talk page. Your comments on his musical style are along the same lines as mine, but I can't get any sources. Any ideas? Cheers - Rothorpe 17:46, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Though I’m a Londoner, I live in Portugal, so, alas, no access to any research materials. I read that about BBK many years ago, in the NME perhaps: it certainly seems to be true, but of course that isn’t good enough for Wikipedia. However I have noticed that at the end of the Lucille section it says that he admits to not being able to play chords very well. Perhaps that’s enough. What do you think? Thanks for replying & good luck with your own guitar playing. Rothorpe 14:00, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]