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The Threepenny Opera

Please discuss any changes you want to make on the talk page first. I made most of my edits to correct innaccuracies and gramatical errors that resulted from your edits. Thanks. -- Cielomobile ^{talk / contribs} 05:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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AMA REQUEST

I have opened your AMA case at Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates/Requests/February 2007/Andrew Powell. Just to make sure, is the dispute still active?--Natl1 (Talk Page) (Contribs) 21:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I think that discussing the changes we made on Talk:The Threepenny Opera would be the best course of action for Andrew and me. I may very well have made some mistakes in my edits; let's try to discuss it all. The first step in dispute resolution is always trying to come to a conclusion on the talk page. -- Cielomobile ^{talk / contribs} 02:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Semele

A few clarifications. When a full encyclopedia article can be written on individual separate topics, it is common practice for those topics to have separate articles. In this case, it would be common practice for separate operas/oratorios, whose only relation to each other is that they have the same name, to have different articles.

Secondly, I don't think any of your excellent work was lost, just moved around a bit. It's still equally valid regardless of where it is.

Thirdly, Handel's Semele was originally composed to be performed as an oratorio and is listed in most major works of reference as an oratorio, though it is certainly often performed as an opera. The case of whether it should even be performed in this way - as an opera - is certainly a very live debate: under those circumstances it is also common practice to respect the composer's original intentions are regards the performance of the work.

Fourthly, in cases where there are multiple operas by different composers with the same name of roughly the same fame, common practice again is to title either one or both with the name of the operas followed by the name of the composer in brackets. Does this address some of your concerns? Best, Moreschi ^{Request a recording?} 13:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 I have opened your AMA case at [[Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates/Requests/February 2007/Andrew Powell]]. Just to make sure, is the dispute still active?--[[User:Natl1|Natl1]]<small> ([[User_Talk:Natl1|Talk Page]]) ([[Special:Contributions/Natl1|Contribs]])</small> 21:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 :Also, I think that discussing the changes we made on [[Talk:The Threepenny Opera]] would be the best course of action for Andrew and me. I may very well have made some mistakes in my edits; let's try to discuss it all. The first step in [[Wikipedia:Resolving_disputes|dispute resolution]] is always trying to come to a conclusion on the talk page.  -- [[User: Cielomobile|Cielomobile]] <sup>[[User talk:Cielomobile|talk]] / [[Special:Contributions/Cielomobile|contribs]]</sup> 02:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
+== Semele ==
+A few clarifications. When a full encyclopedia article can be written on individual separate topics, it is common practice for those topics to have separate articles. In this case, it would be common practice for separate operas/oratorios, whose only relation to each other is that they have the same name, to have different articles.
+Secondly, I don't think any of your excellent work was lost, just moved around a bit. It's still equally valid regardless of where it is.
+Thirdly, Handel's Semele was originally composed to be performed as an oratorio and is listed in most major works of reference as an oratorio, though it is certainly often performed as an opera. The case of whether it should even be performed in this way - as an opera - is certainly a very live debate: under those circumstances it is also common practice to respect the composer's original intentions are regards the performance of the work.
+Fourthly, in cases where there are multiple operas by different composers with the same name of roughly the same fame, common practice again is to title either one or both with the name of the operas followed by the name of the composer in brackets. Does this address some of your concerns? Best, [[User:Moreschi|Moreschi]] <sup> [[Wikipedia:Requested recordings|Request a recording?]]</sup> 13:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)