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Hello

Hello Xevion brother -- jiy 05:42, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Web reference formatting

About the changes you made to the external links section etc. -

The link formatting results in lines such as--

van Rijen, Onno. "Opus by Shostakovich." '. . Accessed on [[]], [[]].

I'm not at all sure this was intended? ( I have accessed the page since and refreshed to see if it registered any change.) Regards! Schissel : bowl listen 18:48, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

accusations

please do not accuse wikipedia users of ad hominem attacks, especially where none exists.. it is uncivil.

thank you 71.129.2.122 23:13, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Classicalcat links

See WP:EL.

I reviewed the classicalcat link and found that:

1. The site is commercial.
2. There are excessive numbers of advertisements.
3. In order to actually download and listen to the MP3s, pop-under ads are triggered.
4. The site uses techniques to circumvent popup blockers.
5. The site has content that duplicates what we already have at Wikipedia, except for the MP3s.
6. The licensing status of the MP3 content is unclear. If it is a copyvio, then we should not link to it because we avoid linking to copyvio content. If it is public domain or available under a free license, we should transcode it to OGG and upload it to the commons. In neither case is the content suitable for an external link.

For these reasons I have removed the link.

The Uninvited Co., Inc. 21:38, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Then why not link directly to the appropriate third-party site that is hosting the mp3s in question? The Uninvited Co., Inc. 21:58, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

I am sending this out to wikiart folks everywhere,

so please don't feel picked on. Here's my thing. I've been watching list of sculptors recently and have been weeding out the entries in red on the theory that this is an index of sculptors in wikipedia. However I have been reluctant to remove artists that I know or discover to be real, wikipedia worthy people, so am trying to decide if I should just do a stub - maybe a lot of stubs - of these folks or leave them on the list [I HATE lists with too much red - check out the List of Frank Lloyd Wright works for example.

I checked out one, François-Joseph Duret (1804 - 1865) and discovered that there are at least two sculptors with that name, (1732 - 1816) and (1804 - 1865)- this one is the son - and both probably could comfortably be in wikipedia. I did have a rather bad moment when someone DELETED my article on Connor Barrett about an hour [maybe less] after I first posted it, on the theory that he was not wikiworthy [or something] and a lot of these fairly remote [in time and place from me] artists are a lot more obscure than Barrett. So, i would like to know that i have the support of the wikipedia art history community before doing this. Drop me a line, if you wish to sit down and be counted. Life is good, Carptrash 04:52, 4 November 2006 (UTC) PS although i do mostly American art i have contributed to lots on non-American articles including Aleijadinho, Ásmundur Sveinsson, Einar Jonsson, Gunnfrídur Jónsdóttir, Henry Moore, Ivan Meštrović, Ørnulf Bas, Rayner Hoff, and probably some others. I say this because most of the stubs I'm proposing would be Europeans.

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Friends Of Shirley Partridge

Hello Sketchee. Forgive me if I am not writing this in the right place, I noticed a note you wrote on the "Friend Of Dorothy" page a while back and thought you might be a good person to lend some support to the WWII/Dorothy Parker etymology. Some friends and I tried correcting the article by noting that "Dorothy from Kansas" was not the actual source of that expression. We provided the book and documentary film "Coming Out Under Fire" as a reference, and explained about the vernacular that developed from Mrs Parkers writings during the war. However, as I'm sure you know, the "Dorothy from Kansas" theory is much more popular. I suspect this is simply because gay people developed their own theory in the absence of the actual truth, and since we do not have great access to "Gay/Lesbian" History, an alternate explanation was developed. So the problem that we're having is that as we've tried to correct the article, a small group of dedicated "editors" are trying to protect the Garland theory and relegating Dorothy Parker and WWII to second fiddle. S/He/They have now gone so far as to "protect" the page from being edited, claiming that there are countless more "references" that support the Wizard of Oz theory. The problem with this, as I see it, is that there is BOUND to me more information supporting the Wizard of Oz theory, because that is the myth that developed in the absence of the actual story. However, none of these sources explain the history of how the term was developed. In "Coming Out Under Fire" we learn that there was in fact a vernacular adopted by Gay men who used it in their communication during and after that time. So this information supercedes any "Wizard of Oz" theory, because it actually explains its actual origin. I am hoping that you may know of some reliable sources to include, and also that you will make your presence known on the discussion board there. It has become quite an uphill battle for us. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by ShirleyPartridge (talk • contribs) 08:42, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

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Trois Nouvelles Études merger

This issue has re-emerged. If you have time could you leave a comment on the Trois Nouvelles Études talk page? Thanks. Jubilee♫clipman 18:17, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Category relevant

A long time ago, in this edit you added the categories Category:Production and manufacturing and Category:Product management to Reverse hierarchy. Now, these categories are questioned. Would you like to come and defend them? Or if they really are not appropriate, you might want to remove them. Debresser (talk) 11:17, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Composers project

Your input would be most appreciated at this debate: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Composers#Changes_affecting_the_classical_music_projects Thanks! --Jubilee♫clipman 01:51, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

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Drawing of Kim Jong-un

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Oops! I woke up this morning in dyspeptic mood and worked off my spleen on Lucien Garban. Apologies. I may indeed have gone over the top. (OK I confess I did somewhat). However, there's nothing in the article (or any source I could find) that justifies calling him a composer. I will try to find more and rebuild what I have defiled, or indeed you may consider that some or much of it should be reinstated. Best, --Smerus (talk) 09:52, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

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I have declined to delete this as an A7; however I have moved it to draft space for further development. See Draft:Baltimore Fishbowl. I will respond futher on the draft's talk page. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 18:33, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

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