User talk:Alexs letterbox

Welcome!

Hello, Alexs letterbox, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Hi Alexs,

Regarding Pamela Courson, Wikipedia cannot accept an article that is derived from copyrighted text, unless permission is granted under the GFDL or a less restrictive license (e.g. public domain). To read more about what is and isn't acceptable, see Wikipedia:Copyrights (specifically, the section called "Contributor's rights and obligations"). Thanks and I hope you stick around here! DanKeshet 19:41, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

Riley

See the talk page. Suffice to say, biography.ms is a Wikipedia mirror. --SFoskett 01:12, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Porgy and Bess excerpt

Just noticed that Image:PorgyAndBess Extract 4.PNG from Porgy and Bess doesn't appear to be working since you tried to clean it up yesterday. I'd fix it myself, but I don't have any good music software on my computer. Cheers. --Baron Larf 12:35, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Funnily enough

I was looking at the opera stubs that you created, having just previously read the Love Quadrangles question I signed up for at this site --GuillaumeTell 11:38, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A note to myself

MCC has 203.144.21.77

Image Tagging Image:Carmen Influence Theme.ogg

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DVD sources

Alex, you edited out my Hildegard Behrens DVD purchase specifics. While DVD's don't have ISBN's, there is precedent in Wikipedia for pointing to Amazon.com to purchase books: see Wikipedia:ISBN and [1]. So I felt I was within my rights by including a specific ASIN number for Amazon. Wdfarmer 19:37, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Carmen

I just read some of the traffic about Carmen's nomination for featured article. Prior to seeing it, I edited parts of the article thinking that the article was written according to French grammar rules but was otherwise very good. I fixed most of the obvious problems and might edit it a bit more if you want to resubmit the article. It's pretty good, better, for instance, than the article over on th French Wikipedia. Modus Vivendi 02:47, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of operas

I've responded on the List of famous operas talk page. The list is supposed to be for operas in the standard repertoire or historically important operas. In my opinion, with only one current production worldwide, and since I've never heard of it before (yes, this may be stuck up, but I did get a Bachelor of Music at an opera school, so I figure not even hearing of something means it's probably not extremely important) I decided to remove it. We can discuss this further on the article talk page. Also, it is already listed on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Opera Work List (which it just occurs to me should probably be in the main article space) and List of operas pages, so it's not like there's no links to it. Cheers, Mak (talk) 03:18, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Music of Carmen

Hello. What seems to have happened with this article is that you nominated it for AFD, started an AfD subpage, then realized that PROD exists and figured you'd better do that instead; then, someone else removed the prod tag (which is allowed, that's how prod works). However, the AfD subpage still exists and technically is still active (I think this is the part that wasn't clear to you--both deletion processes are active policy). So, I've listed the nomination and opened the debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Music of Carmen; you're welcome to comment there. Let me know if there's anything I can do. Chick Bowen 16:02, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pamela Courson

I hadn't logged in in a long time, and found a new message from you re: Pamela Courson. I had said:

Hi Alexs,

Regarding Pamela Courson, Wikipedia cannot accept an article that is derived from copyrighted text, unless permission is granted under the GFDL or a less restrictive license (e.g. public domain). To read more about what is and isn't acceptable, see Wikipedia:Copyrights (specifically, the section called "Contributor's rights and obligations"). Thanks and I hope you stick around here! DanKeshet 19:41, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

Although you didn't start the article, you had copyedited it. You can no longer see your edits, because it was deleted as a copyright violation. I may have thought you had earlier contributed it anonymously or I might have just been warning you not to waste your time because it was a copyvio. Anyway, no harm meant! Sorry for the 2-month lag time on my response.

--DanKeshet 01:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Brunnhilde

Since when does Brünnhilde not sing in that piece? That would come as a big surprise to Kirsten Flagstad, among others. I just assumed you were vandalizing the article. Wahkeenah 01:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have not seen the opera in awhile. You could be technically correct. I have it on videotape someplace and will check it out someday when I find it. Wahkeenah 19:50, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Das Rheingold Characters List

Good point... I created a discussion section here. Fireplace 15:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Porgy and Bess

Oops - sorry! WikiProject Musicals is finally getting some momentum (the project has been essentially dormant for...forever) and we've just been tagging all the articles in List of musicals for our project's purposes. Porgy and Bess was on there...I did see that it was an opera but wasn't exactly sure if we would use it (for instance, Rent is technically an opera, but is generally considered to be a musical). I'll go ahead and remove the tag! – warpedmirror (talk) 16:27, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Carmen

Thanks for your message. i have re-removed some of the Carmen entries. We'll see what happens. This trivia stuff has been annoying and I am delighted that you have at last got some action on it. I think we are all united on the issue - with the exception of Marc! - Kleinzach 09:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Simon Rattle.png

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Porgy and Bess

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I am not sure how to contact you through wiki so i will like this.. One of the great things about wiki is the depth and breadth of the knowledge to be found, while i willingly concede my first entry on porgy and bess contained superfluous and maybe even sycophantic, the latest contribution is a totally unbiased account of a very important chapter in the history of Porgy and Bess. As you know an encyclopedia contains comprehensive information on various subjects. I cant understand why wiki users shouldn't have a good deal of information this chapter in the life of porgy and bess and the gershwin estate. This is the first time ever that the gershwin estate have allowed such changes to be made on stage.. It is a Worlds Premiere of Porgy in a new form directed by one of the worlds most successful musical theatre directors. I am not opening up a soap box discussion on the merits and the flaws of the transition, merely documenting the bones of the process and the main players involved. Wiki users will not lose but only gain from this added information. I am very sure that the gershwins would not consider this information to be superfluous or this production to be just another in a line of porgy prodictions..Please consider.

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Porgy and Bess

I have seen you have made changes again, i would appreciate you explaining to me why one line 'would be enough' and 2 paragraphs too much? you obviously have much more wiki experience than me and your understanding would help me. This is the biggest thing to happen to porgy for decades, there are 4 other 'subsequent productions' mentioned each with an average of 2 paragraphs written about them. What qualifies these as being worthy of 2 paragraphs.. is it because they are of american origin? Why is his production less interesting than Crawfords revival? .. Also, because the production is currently running you can imagine why wiki users would want their encyclopedia to have more information on this production. Please contact me so i can understand better. I imagine you also want what is best and are confident enough that an independent assessment would rule on what is best for wiki,