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January 4

June Preston wiki page

Hello, My name is Sabrina Pires and i'm June Preston's daughter. I'm so sad... I seem to have done something wrong, however I dont know what it is with respect to my mom's wiki page. June Preston was a child star (like Shirley Temple) back in the '30's and 40's then became an opera singer in the 1950's. and born in Glendale, CA. Whoever changed it had born in "1930's or 1931" which is incorrect and her birth place changed to Wisconsin which is also inaccurate. You can look on any information on the web and see her birthday is 12/29/1928 born in Glendale... I can provide her birth certificate to you if you want it. I can provide any information you need to prove anything on her wiki page. I can scan and email you all that is needed.

The thing is I just want to keep my Mom's name alive through wiki. She is now 93 years old and I want to preserve her legacy. The information I had on there is all true, and I attached proof via photos and news clippings from Pinterest so it showed what the information that was put on the page was true and backed up with proof.

I am not very Tech savvy at all and I dont even know if this is the right way to talk to someone at wiki, i dont understand the "talk" page you have because I can read what people are saying but can't answer them on that page, so I tried this. People at wiki talk page: names "AssumeGoodWraith" and "Drmies"... but I dont know how to answer themn or talk to them to get my mom's page back to how it was.

Please help me, whatever I did to fix her birth date and place of birth etc. started some crazy thing to the point someone took out all the information off her bio, film career, Merchandising, Megalin Kiddies member, marriage and everything I worked so very hard on. It's all gone?

I don't know what I did wrong, it's all true with the proof attached so I don't understand why someone took it all off and I have no way of talking to them to explain anything, i dont know how to get ahold of the persons the name is "AssumeGoodWraith" and "Drmies".

Can you please email me to tell me what i did wrong or how to fix this, I can send you proof of all information on her page including her birth certificate if you like. I can provide my cell number if you like to talk to someone too. Thanks for your help in this matter, Sabrina Pires — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idoonie (talk • contribs) 20:22, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In the first place, don't worry, nothing that was on the page is lost, you (or anyone) can look at the page's history to get it back again.

In the second place, I am now searching through the Met's archives for performances of La Boheme in 1951, because that's the kind of source we can use. Irritatingly, I think they might only keep information on performers with 100 or more performances. It would help if you knew the month. Have a look at the list of popular sources: you want the green ones, not the red or yellow ones. IMDB is no use for us because the information often comes from Wikipedia in the first place (people send it in). You can reply by pressing edit (as I think you already found out, because you've managed it at least once before). Card Zero (talk) 21:39, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, of the two newspaper articles I've found on newspapers.com, one says that she was five in 1935 and the other that she was four in 1934. This may have been deception to make her appear younger than she actually was, but that's what we have to go by. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:49, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

January 9

1651 music notation

I'm digitizing an old book, and I have some questions about this score: Wikisource:Page:The_English_Dancing_Master-John_Playford-1651.pdf/8

Are the things like struck-thru fermatas, in this piece always over a dotted wholenote + wholenote pattern, really fermatas? It's a dance tune.
While the note names are clearly as on a bass clef, the actuall clef is some archaic C clef apparently typographically aligned to point to the space under the center line of the staff (on other pages too). THis is indeed where indeed the C would go. Any idea what this clef is called or how I should show it in Lilypond markup?
I'm having trouble replicating the barring of the original; I've got the functionality to remove all bar divisions, but I can't figure out how to selectively replace some, and do the odd double bar at the end (nor am I sure what that means).

I have had a hunt for this information and can't find it. If the Wikisource Scriptorium would be a beter place to ask, say so, and I'll ask there. HLHJ (talk) 19:58, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Or perhaps Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music theory. Not only is the pattern of the struck-thru fermate dotted wholenote + wholenote, but both have each time the same pitch, and the fermata or whatever it is, is positioned symmetrically over the dot. A modern fermata is positioned over the notehead. Another observation is that the "pupil" of the fermata (?) sign is not round, as is standard (see e.g. here), but has the same rotated-square shape as the noteheads. --Lambiam 00:44, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So these modern versions of the scores render it as a tie. And looking through carefully, I know one of the tunes, and that is what it sounds like. Tie (music) does not mention this notation, and I'd like to find a confirming source anyway. You're right, I should post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music theory, I didn't know of that forum. HLHJ (talk) 03:35, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

January 11

Supergirl version killed in the comics

In Supergirl (DC comic book series 1996—2003), issue #77, pages 9—10, it appears that Fatalist killed a Supergirl version. Is that an important Supergirl version in some way? Or maybe just a forgettable "alternate" Supergirl with no backstory or context?

This is part of the "Many Happy Returns" storyline. I also read some pages in Wikipedia and other wikis, but I didn't find the answer to this question so far. Thanks in advance. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 11:28, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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+In Supergirl (DC comic book series 1996—2003), issue #77, pages 9—10, it appears that Fatalist killed a Supergirl version. Is that an important Supergirl version in some way? Or maybe just a forgettable "alternate" Supergirl with no backstory or context?
+This is part of the "Many Happy Returns" storyline. I also read some pages in Wikipedia and other wikis, but I didn't find the answer to this question so far. Thanks in advance. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel Carrero]] ([[User talk:Daniel Carrero|talk]]) 11:28, 11 January 2022 (UTC)