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Hey

Oi, you haven't put your email into your preferences!

Only reason I noticed is that I usually ask this privately, but anyway...fancy a shot at RFA? I would be happy to nominate you. Best, Moreschi (talk) (debate) 22:02, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

• Oi, Moreschi, I've sent you an email so you'll have my address if you ever need it. Thanks for the offer and your confidence. But... admin-ing would take too much time away from what I really enjoy – writing articles, rescuing worthy kittens from being drowned at AfDs, and helping out on the Opera Project. The latter can provide quite enough wiki-drama as it is. ;-). Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

It was a delight...

...to read this brilliant piece. And I wasn't even looking for it; I came here to thank you for backing me up on the GA issue on Egardus, since that's something that's been bugging me for a while and had to get off my chest. But your essay was spot-on. Oops, there I go again, pretending to be an adult! Need to get a bouncier, animated signature ... Antandrus (talk) 23:02, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I'll make you one if you promise to give me three barnstars. ;-) Seriously, though thanks for the kind review. I wrote that when WP was in the midst of an invasion by a particularly... er... time-consuming... bunch of 13 year olds. At one point there was even a WikiProject (now deleted) that was awarding them barnstars for every 1000 edits, every 50 AfD's "voted on", every 5 (hapless) editors they adopted, etc., etc.. For a while, I and a couple of other editors spent all our time running around cleaning up after them, until they lost interest and/or got blocked. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Much appreciation

Hi, Voceditenore. Thanks for the beautiful rewrite on John Andrew Rea. I would prefer not having to delete noteworthy articles, but the current backlog at copyright violations leaves me little time to revise much text. (Especially in Moonriddengirl's absence.) I just wanted you to know that I very much appreciate your contributions. Cheers. — CactusWriter | ^needles 06:21, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome ;-) and you were absolutely right to delete it. If you have time, could you do me a favour? I've re-written Juliette Pochin on Talk:Juliette Pochin/Temp. Would it possible to move it into article space. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:33, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Done. Another nice job -- and better still was your discussion with the original creator on the talk page. "...Teach a man to fish..." etc. You're a good teacher. Cheers. — CactusWriter | ^needles 16:13, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! In my university teaching days, I once had a student who plagiarsed my own book in her essay. But at least it took some effort, bless her. She typed it out from the hardcopy — must have taken ages. Re "teaching how to fish...", I'm not sure how many new fishermen it produces for Wikipedia. In the Opera Project we get a lot of articles for singers, opera companies, etc. created by their agents and PR people, and sometimes themselves. In my experience, the best I can hope for is that they'll edit their article according to the guidelines in future. I have yet to find one who has ever contributed anything else to Wikipedia. Their only interest in the project is as a PR tool. Having said that, at least it results (after much red-pencilling from other editors) in one new article on a notable subject that we didn't have before. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 10:05, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for teaching me also, about every singer to opera and avoiding answers.com! I keep supplying singers to the project who never sing opera, last Dorothee Mields. When I found a Bach singer who also sang opera I nominated that fact for DYK, Franz Kelch, to be 95 this year, no PR involved. Unfortunately the only source for him I found in English reads like a machine translation. Any help in that case? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:50, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

My god, plagiarizing the prof's own book -- that's sadly funny -- the very definition of clueless. I would suggest she switch majors. I know what you mean about bulk of submissions coming from PR types. (It's one of the reasons I refrain from offering copyright violators much opportunity to license the source website -- the promotional text couldn't be used anyway.) But, occasionally, unexpectedly, when the stars align just so... you'll come across a true angler among the crowd of daytrippers. When is that next blue moon anyway? — CactusWriter | ^needles 19:03, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Assistance Please

Hello Voceditenore. Would you please check my user talk page? Some time ago you were assisting me in the creation of a new page, ".Gabriel". As you requested, I posted my request on that page but haven't heard from you. I understand you are very busy but would really appreciate your help. Thank you!TF537 (talk) 21:35, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Infobox

Please see edit request. In the meantime, you can use put the alt in the image parameter. e.g. |image=[[File:example.png|200px|alt=Example alt text]] Racepacket (talk) 21:55, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

• Image_alt parameter has been added to {{Infobox play}} Racepacket (talk) 22:16, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

• Great! Thanks so much! I'll add it to La Tosca. I used your "get-around" for the book infobox at I Love Bacon!. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 18:06, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

With Gratitude

Dear Voceditenore, We the Futureclass of 2010 would like to extend our sincere thanks for all of the help you have given us this semester. Your knowledge and efforts have aided us both as Wikipedians and as curious musicians. Our gratitude is boundless!

We hope to continue to stay in touch and look forward to continued collaborations! From the bottom of our hearts, Ksbaryton Searsjm Johncello2010 Ericakyree MatthewKim927 Dbalandrin Ijmusic Ksbaryton (talk) 01:14, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

• Thank you to all of you! It's been a pleasure to watch the progress of Professor Jackson's classes since he started the Futureclass project four years ago, and I have to say this year's has been the best one yet. Wikipedia now has six new articles thanks to you, and in an area that is noticeably under-represented in Wikipedia's actually useful stuff. I've learned a lot from all of you too... about musicians and composers in an area far from the dusty corners that I usually edit in. You've all been great sports—it's not easy for new editors here, especially when they have to jump in at the deep end as you did. Best wishes to all of you and enjoy your well-earned Christmas holidays. Voceditenore (talk) 11:13, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

• You really know how to encourage your fans! Thanks for validating the students' efforts and for contributing to the success that each enjoyed. We are particularly honored that you deem our stuff actually useful! Your message to Matt Kim about Lauba's image will help next year's aspirants. Ijmusic (talk) 00:27, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Coming of Age (BBC TV series)

I would question why the BBC are allowed to vandalise the page and put blatant propaganda on there suggesting that the response to the programme was mixed in some way, when in fact it was universally appalling. Every time real and referenced reviews are put up, they are taken down by some BBC apparatchik dickhead. Why are they not censored? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.176.103 (talk) 18:06, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

This has nothing to do with "real and referenced reviews" being taken down. You deliberately inserted false and in several cases defamatory content about living people in multiple articles related to this show, as well adding as your personal commentary disguised to make it look as if it were a quote referenced from a reliable source, e.g. [1], [2], [3], [4]. You are going to get your IP, aka Oxford University, blocked if you keep it up. Voceditenore (talk) 18:50, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Travesti/Victorian burlesque

Tim just did a nice job expanding the Victorian burlesque article. Does anything need to be added back and forth between this and the Travesti article that you are working on? Just a thought. All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:28, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

What do you think of the current merge proposal at Burlesque (literature)? I wonder if merging it into the poorly-written Burlesque article will destroy any value (or chance at expansion) that it may have. Your comments would be valued at Talk:Burlesque. -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:31, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello, V. You may find this article of interest: http://www.jstor.org/pss/3826405 -- Ssilvers (talk) 06:20, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Steve. I'm going to file this away for when I next add to Travesti. I've still got a bit to do re the ballet sections. But I never seem to get the time. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 14:10, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Keto and Kote

Many thanks for re-establishing this article. During copy-edit driving I found the previous version a complete copy-and-paste violation from inception; I was the one who tagged for deletion. I have to say your succinct but elegant stub is superb, and should be set as an example of “how to do it”’. I have a tendency to reduce faulty articles to the brusque and barren, so I will log your Keto and Kote as a guiding light. In admiration. Acabashi (talk) 03:24, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Castrato parts

Hehe :) Moreschi (talk) 17:38, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Above comment is in response to this. Voceditenore (talk) 14:08, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Jonathan Cohler

Given what Classmusic posted on the JC talkpage and on my own talkpage ("Your attempts and collusion here and elsewhere have nothing to do with the substantive discussion of articles at hand" - yes he means you, too!) I've moved the discussion here. Hopefully some helpful admin will take control of the situation.... Happy editing ;-) almost-instinct 08:25, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I don't know if I can call myself a helpful admin, but hopefully I am...

*ahem* Hi! Almost-instinct brought this to our attention, so I figured I'd take a look. Turns out Classmusic and Cohler are indeed one and the same. Given that fact, I've blocked Cohler (as that's the account the user retired) and left a warning for Classmusic here. Hopefully, that's the end of the sockpuppetry.

As for whether or not Cohler/Classmusic is the subject of the article is unprovable - if they are, then there's a clear conflict of interest and the article will have to be rewritten to avoid any bias. I'm sure Almost-instinct and yourself can figure something out in this department. Of course, this isn't free leave to spin the article as you wish; rather, try to weed out any possible bias or weasel words. I've told Classmusic not to edit the article for now, and I'll keep that restriction in place until they venture out onto their talk page and actually discuss this issue.

That aside, hopefully this eases your guys' workload a bit. Keep up the great work, m.o.p 18:10, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Not so much a helpful admin, as a Deus ex machina ;-) almost-instinct 19:53, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Hey, I've always fancied being a plot device. Cheers! m.o.p 20:17, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I wish I could be a Deus ex machina ;-). On a more serious note, see Talk:Jonathan Cohler#Copyright issues. User:Cohler quite openly said he was the subject of the article and that he had added a GDFL license to his website so it could be copied verbatim onto Wikipedia. Not sure how much more proof is needed, re the conflict of interest. It's funny, people who use WP for PR never quite realize how blindingly obvious promotional text is, nor do they realize that it actually reflects negatively on the subject, regardless of who put it in the article. Anyhow, thanks again for your help. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 15:15, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't know there had been an admission of personal identity - funny, because he was accusing you two of trying to out his identity, yet he did so himself.

Anyway, a bit of stuff happened behind the scenes, and it's clear Mr. Cohler does not wish to participate in the project further. He won't need his accounts to edit. Again, you and almost-instinct have been great: keep it up! Cheers, m.o.p 19:53, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I wonder if VdT regrets bringing her "latest tussle" to my attention? ;-) I hope m.o.p. got accused to having "an axe to grind" aswell? Sometimes I wonder if the warning "If you do not want your writing to be edited, used, and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here" should be written in flashing pink almost-instinct 21:08, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!

OMG! Thank you so much for your contribution to the Collage New Music article! It looks amazing. I am very new to wikipedia and I am having a wonderful experience thus far. Thank you so much. Kwaumane (talk) 18:00, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

You're very welcome, Kwaumane :). By the way, I've moved your message here to the bottom of the page. New ones always go at the bottom of the page in Wikipedia-land. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 18:14, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Category:Unassessed Opera articles

Thank you for de-populating Category:Unassessed Opera articles. This has bugged me for a long time, but I didn't have the guts. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:05, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Not as friendly as I'd hoped?

Thanks much for your help at my talk page. :) The template that drew the unhappy reply was {{Uw-copyright-new}}, which was intended to be less bitey than {{Uw-copyright}}. His response suggests that he still found it offensive. :/ Maybe it's the inclusion of "plagiarism" in the headline? Do you see any way that could be made better? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:23, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi MRG! The word "plagiarism" in the header might well cause upset to some as it normally carries connotations of "intentional dishonesty". I think it would be enough to change the header to simply: Avoiding copyright issues or Avoiding copyright problems. But leave in the points and links about copying and attributing PD/WP sources, as this is useful to beginners. The template's really only used in copyright infringement situations anyway. We already have reasonably friendly {{Uw-plagiarism}} for failure to attribute PD sources and {{Uw-copying}} for failure to attribute copied Wikipedia text. By the way, I notice that {{Uw-copyright-new}} has no categories and isn't linked from Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace either. I had a heck of time trying to find it a while back when I wanted to warn a newbie :) Voceditenore (talk) 14:14, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Done, thanks. :) And I forgot to add cats when I moved it from my sandbox! That's taken care of now. :) It's in both Category:Copyright maintenance templates and Category:User warning templates. I also added it to Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:57, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

Thank you for clarifying things for me in our recent debacle. I regret the tone I used to characterise your edits and I hope this won't affect a future constructive editing collaboration. ClaretAsh 11:52, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

No problem and thanks for stopping by. . Voceditenore (talk) 14:08, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Copyvio

Hi Voce. I just caught and deleted David Lively as G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.joseph-marx.org/artist-biographies/david-lively.html © 2001-2006 Berkant Haydin. The entire page was copied verbatim with just a few very minor rephrasings, and Wikilinks. My concern is, that User talk:Clover999 as the major contributor (but not creator) to Claudio Arrau may have introduced text or sections copied from other sources. This is the only other article to which he has contributed to any extent - he only has a total of 77 edits. What do you think? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:22, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

I had a look at the article history going back to the beginning. All his contibutions have been lists of awards, recordings etc. and minor copy editing. Seems OK. Voceditenore (talk) 09:10, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm signing off for a while, and not sure when I'll be back. Mail me if you need anything. BTW: I assume you've read Tory's report. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:50, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for Sourcing Ibrahim Tatlises as a tenor

Hello,

I was traumatized because someone deleted Ibraimh Tatlises and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from the tenor page without due process... so thanks for sourcing Ibo. As for the great Ustad NFAK, any search for "Nusrat Jeff Buckley" should do. AFAIK, Jeff was the main source of comments on NFAK's voice from a fellow-singer perspective.

This is from a guy who likes writing in Wikipedia but finds the current reference format too tiresome to even contemplate (I have some 2000 edits). So, thanks again. elpincha (talk) 13:36, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi Elpincha. I've now added a reference for Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as well as Ibrahim Tatlises. The unreferenced additions were especially problematic because neither of the Wikipedia articles for those singers even mentioned that they were tenors. I know it seems tedious to have to provide references from reliable sources for assertions which are not obvious or common knowledge, but this is becoming increasingly mandatory on English Wikipedia, and it's really important. Otherwise List of tenors in non-classical music and similar lists can rapidly become full of disinformation and false information and (at the very least) worthless to readers. If you find referencing tiresome, don't use the the {{cite}} template. I agree, it's a way too complicated and inflexibile. I have over 40,000 edits and I still reference everything by hand. The simplest thing for you to do in future is to click on the referencing tab in the edit tool bar (2nd from end on the right). This produces:

<ref>Insert footnote text here</ref>

Then simply replace "Insert footnote text here" with the URL of the source. Like this:

<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-fourth-tenor-1344618.html</ref>

It's not elegant, but it's adequate. Other editors can then format it better, and you won't find your additions reverted.

Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 14:14, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

I get ya. Back in the day, 2005 or so, there used to be a due process where you would be challenged first, and then reverted, giving you a week or so to come up with the reference. I still think that just undoing an edit is not the Wikipedia way. But you're correct, if I want to stay an editor there's some stuff I should learn. Alas, this won't happen soon... constraints of age. Thanks again. elpincha (talk) 14:23, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

I agree, it would have been preferable to add ^{[citation needed]} and leave it for a few days before removing it, but you wouldn't believe how many unreferenced "drive-by" additions that list gets, many of them with completely false information, and the editors who watch it get impatient after a while. As for your age being a constraint, don't get discouraged. I'm nearly fifteen years older than you and a grandmother. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 14:34, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Note to self

Ralph Lyford and Castle Agrazant (ejly) – Voceditenore (talk) 06:39, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Burlesque

Thanks for watching the dead links. It's a big shame that the PeoplePlayUK site went down, as it had a huge amount of info for Victorian articles. I think that most of the content migrated somewhere, but I'm not sure where. Any idea? All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, the only dead link was PeoplePlayUK. The other 2 were spam/copyvio. Anyhow, the Theatre Museum's contents are now held by the Victoria & Albert. See the V & A's Theatre and Performance collections page. If you search the V & A collections, the online objects generally come with a lot of informative text in addition to the image. See this, for example. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:40, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Just in case you don't spot it on your watchlist....

...see what I added in this diff almost-instinct 16:17, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Very nice! As I was watching, I couldn't help thinking that he looks like a more svelte version Carlo Baucardé. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:50, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Gosh yes! Good to see that modern lush-toned voices don't have to come out of half a tonne of New World granite jaw-line :-) One thing the recording doesn't give a real indication of is just how big a sound he makes. On Ye YouTube from the concert there's also this bit of Bellini, which makes a nice contrast. Ok, time to stop spamming you with links ;-) almost-instinct 12:27, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi Voceditenore! I was so excited to see that WP:Opera is going to participate in Women's History Month! Anything I can do to help, promote and contribute, just let me know. ...you know, I've never been to the opera. Someday, I hope! SarahStierch (talk) 23:23, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

José Iturbi International Music Competition

I recently came across an article on the José Iturbi International Piano Competition which was in a poor state. I then went to the competition's website here which states that the competition has two tracks: one for pianists and the other opera singers. I accordingly moved the wikipedia article to the José Iturbi International Music Competition (which was a redirect previously) since it seemed to be a more appropriate title. However, the history for the competition given in the article does not appear to match the history given at the competition's website see here, which makes me question whether there may be more than one competition with this name. Perhaps you might be able to help me solve this puzzle/correct this tangle?4meter4 (talk) 19:58, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Here's what I did. The previous garbled text in that article actually referred to a completely different competition with completely different winners—the Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi. So I took that content and created Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi. I changed the redirects to that page as that's what they are basically referering to in the articles in which they are linked. I then rewrote José Iturbi International Music Competition to reflect the piano voice competition by the José Iturbi Foundation. I also put {{distinguish}} hatnotes on the two articles. There's more on Talk:José Iturbi International Piano Competition. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 10:28, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!4meter4 (talk) 13:13, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Provincetown Playhouse

Voceditenore, Thank you so much for restoring this article. I had wanted to do this but could not untangle the history. I am very interested in theatre articles and it always disappoints me to see one of them in trouble. Especially a key theatre like this one.--Foobarnix (talk) 11:16, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Precious

	voice of opera and reason
	Thank you for tremendous reliable support of the opera scene in general and my efforts in particular, teaching me and others patiently about sourcing and style, creating and expanding articles almost before I ask (La Petite Bande, Stefano Bernardi), setting the scene for unknown composers and their work. Standing ovation! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:23, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Replied on Gerda's talk page. Voceditenore (talk)

Thank you! Would you perhaps use your skills in copyright and review one article in the CCI of the gem's photographer? Sorry, not much opera, only Judith Blegen in a list. - Second request: someone red link created Elizabeth Connell, it still looks like the obituary, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Re: linking references

Hi Voceditenore, Our conversation with User:Jean GUERIN 2 concerning Jean-Vital Jammes has been interesting, to say the least. He is inexperienced with the Wikipedia, but well motivated. However, I wanted to make some comments about formatting links in the sources, which is not specific to that article, so I thought I would put it here, where it won't distract. I realize it is common practice to link titles to online sources. I want to explain why I prefer to link the page references, book titles, and online copies separately. In some situations an article may cite more than one page in a source, so keeping links to specific pages and/or text in the notes section allows more than one page location for a particular source to be linked. In the source list itself, it makes sense to link the title page of the online copy, which is after all the location of the bibliographic information in the citation. This practice also makes the citation universal, ie, the item in the source list can easily be copied and pasted, without further editing, into other articles where the source may also be used. There are also advantages to keeping the links to online copies in the same location where we usually put an ISBN or OCLC number. I started doing this for cases like the following:

• Grove, George (1900). A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (4 volumes). London: Macmillan. Copy at Wikisource. WorldCat search results.

It may be better to reserve titles for linking to Wikipedia articles about the books, and keep links to online copies in a similar location to OCLC numbers and ISBNs. This location also allows us to identify the website where the copy is located, and in cases where there are two online copies, for example, the Internet Archive and Google Books, one can link both and let the reader know ahead of time exactly where the link is going. These copies are sometimes identical, but sometimes not. Different scanned copies can have errors, so that some pages are unreadable. Linking both lets the reader know that alternatives are available. Also, I personally find that the book browser and book text search facility for the Internet Archive is awfully slow, especially for long books. The copies at Google Books can generally be searched and browsed much more efficiently. However, I can see that some readers might prefer to use the Internet Archive reader. Isn't it better to give the reader a choice? --Robert.Allen (talk) 18:50, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

You're right, I'm rather unexperienced in using Wikipedia, but I know how to use a wiki ...

Some information about my publications (in French) here : http://fr.geneawiki.com/index.php/Utilisateur:Jean_GUERIN

Jean GUERIN - Paris 21:33, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

• Reply to Robert Allen: You raise a good point. I'm not really fussed one way or another about how the links to a source are presented.:) So please amend wherever you think it appropriate. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 12:14, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
  • Please see Talk:Jean-Vital Jammes for an explanation of the nature of my disease. --Robert.Allen (talk) 08:52, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
    • "Sourcer-itis", eh? Have you tried vitamin C capsules? :) Best, Voceditenore (talk) 13:34, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Jean-Vital Jammes

Hi,
Thanks for initializing the Wikipedia article about Jean-Vital !
However, this article has been written from sources which are compilation books or newspapers copying one another without any verification. I have been gathering precise and official documents about Jean-Vital for about six years. These are either official French documents or family documents and photographs. My documents are “primary sources” in Wikipedia understanding, but I assert that they approach the truth closier than fanciful texts of “Touchatout” ! I will try during the next weeks to give you more valid information according to the rules of Wikipedia.
Sincerely yours,
Jean GUERIN - Paris 21:33, 18 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jean GUERIN 2 (talk • contribs)

Hello, Jean. I've copied your message to Talk:Jean-Vital Jammes in this section and responded to you there. I think it's better to discuss these issues more generally with all editors working on the article. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:55, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Torture during the 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising

I'm currently in the progress of re-writing the whole article. I would appreciate if you would give me time to do so. Bahraini Activist ^{Talk to me} 16:30, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

• Replying at your talk page. Voceditenore (talk) 16:34, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Can you take a look at the rewrite? Bahraini Activist ^{Talk to me} 15:10, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Responded here. Voceditenore (talk) 07:46, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

re: File:Jean-Vital Jammes and Marie Garcin.jpg

This seems like it could have been uploaded to Commons, since the photographer died in 1931. I'm curious why you decided to upload it to the English Wikipedia. (There is apparently a big effort underway to move files like these to Commons. Not sure why.) --Robert.Allen (talk) 22:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

• Responded here. Voceditenore (talk) 07:13, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

WP Women's History in the Signpost

The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Women's History for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 01:03, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Richard Wernick article image marked for speedy deletion

If you could provide advice on how to contest the speedy deletion, or what type of permission I would need to do so, that would be wonderful. I've described what I have done to receive permission on the image talk page: File_talk:RichardWernick.tif Thank you! Slinnger (talk) 05:39, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

(Edit 2/28/12) Thank you for your speedy and resourceful help, as always. I will be in contact with Presser to see if I can get a more license that includes free use. Best, Slinnger (talk) 14:41, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

You have a response at the Teahouse

Our goal is to keep things as simple as possible. Obviously my response is wrong, but now it looks pretty hectic in response to Googly. I suggest perhaps we can rewrite the instructions for Googly and remove what is now appearing really overhwhelming (even for me and I'm a long time Wikipedian!) Also, if you have interest in participating as a host, you can learn more here. Thanks for visiting the Teahouse! SarahStierch (talk) 16:35, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

re: File:Le journal de Rouen black and white.jpg

I saw that this very useful file that you made was moved to Commons, and created a new category for it. You may want to check it over to make sure everything is OK. Thanks! --Robert.Allen (talk) 23:12, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello, Voceditenore. You have new messages at Almavivatmm's talk page.
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New Page Triage engagement strategy released

Hey guys!

I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the initial documentation about the project and also the engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyeswikimedia.org.

It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 02:04, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

"See also" sections

I looked for a guideline that gave guidance concerning the location of this section, but I wasn't able to find one. So with the two examples I found where it was place below the references, I thought it was worth a try. I think it might actually be preferable since this puts it nearer to the Categories which is another method for finding related articles. But I realize, of course, that it is almost always just before the references. --Robert.Allen (talk) 08:17, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi. The guidance is at MOS:APPENDIX. I think we need to keep to the MOS as much as possible for consistency across articles and with the rest of Wikipedia. Voceditenore (talk) 08:23, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

I confess that I was unaware of the three navboxes already at the bottom of Opera when I first added the new Template:Navbox performing arts to the "See also" section. This made me think that maybe a lot of readers totally miss seeing them. At least the "See also" appears in the TOC. We should probably discuss this further on the Project page. --Robert.Allen (talk) 08:31, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Carmen revamp

I am still toiling at this, and hope to have something broadly reviewable in about a week. I have removed the exhaustive list of films and other adaptations, most of which have little or nothing to do with Bizet's opera, and have replaced it with a brief prose summary (in the "Recordings and adaptations" section. It may be worth reassembling the list and linking to it, but I would rather concentrate on the main article for the present. Brianboulton (talk) 21:08, 8 March 2012 (UTC)