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Your GA nomination of David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf

The article David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf for comments about the article, and Talk:David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Blueskiesdry -- Blueskiesdry (talk) 20:03, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

This would probably make for a really good DYK hook ngl. Blueskiesdry (talk) 20:58, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

You're right. I'll nominate it, thanks! – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 03:10, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Born to Run

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Born to Run you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Tkbrett -- Tkbrett (talk) 14:43, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Hey zmbro, just a heads up that I will be quite busy over the next week. I am going to try to do as much of the review as I can on Friday and Monday, but after those two days I wont have free time for another week. I will do my best though. Tkbrett (✉) 14:52, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Tkbrett No problem at all! Rome wan't built in a day. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 16:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

DYK for David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf

On 27 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that David Bowie narrated a version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf in 1978 as a gift for his seven-year-old son Duncan? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy FA status

Hello there, it has been a while since I've been very busy working but I've recently nominated Kanye West's acclaimed 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy for FA status after running through it again and as a West fan, I thought you may be interested in leaving some comments at the FAC. K. Peake 21:43, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

False titles

Hello - Just a friendly note to let you know that some edits who've made introduced false titles in sentences where one didn't exist prior to your edit (see: [1] ) - No worries, but your edit summaries refer to an essay, WP:FALSETITLE, that specifically advises against the edits who've made. I reverted the most recent two such edits, but it appears you might have done this at hundreds of articles (see link to edit summary search below). Please reread the essay and perhaps consider self-reverting these particular edits. Thank you. Señor Spock (talk) 18:33, 2 February 2024 (UTC) Señor Spock (talk) 18:33, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Señor Spock I think you might be misreading WP:FALSETITLE. A false title is without the "the", so the Rodrigo albums currently have a false title, which I "fixed". It makes a little more sense when you read it as "album by the American singer-songwriter" rather than as "album by American singer-songwriter". There must be a misunderstanding here. Yes, it is an essay that is not currently an actual WP rule, but I've already seen it be implemented across arrays of articles. I encourage you to re-read the essay. The way it's worded is confusing, as "removing" a false title means you "add" a "the". – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 19:27, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Here's the example from the essay you linked to in your edit summaries:

A false title is when you remove the article ("the", "a" or "an") before a noun, making it into a freaky psuedo-adjective.

• False title: The documentary follows American songwriter Bob Dylan.
• No false title: The documentary follows the American songwriter Bob Dylan.

I read the essay correctly, but misread your edits, which added the, not removed them. My bad - very sorry for the confusion. I'm still getting used to reading diffs and still get confused sometimes. Sorry to have bothered you - I'll revert my reverts. Señor Spock (talk) 23:24, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Señor Spock No problem at all! Happy we were able to

resolve the issue. :-) – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 03:44, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Born to Run

The article Born to Run you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Born to Run for comments about the article, and Talk:Born to Run/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Tkbrett -- Tkbrett (talk) 01:22, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Collab

Hi Zmbro, I hope you're well, and happy 2024! As you've probably noticed, I've been offline for a couple of months. Yeah, I know last year you and I tentatively planned to collaborate on "Cover Me" and I know I no doubt haven't been productive enough to give you confidence that it was worth your time to contribute either. Although I can't 100% promise I won't get busy again, I feel like the balance of my commitments and priorities in real life have shifted enough recently that I can probably get in a medium amount more Wiki time for the next while (and if I do get busy again and suddenly drop out once more, I sincerely apologize in advance). I see you've been making good progress with your Springsteen album article project (Darkness, and now working on Born to Run and The River). You'd originally proposed that we collaborate on one or more Springsteen album articles, and then I'd said maybe a song article would be less work and a better match for the amount of time I had. Now I'm thinking (a) You're making good progress on the albums, and when you eventually get to especially Born in the U.S.A. and maybe Tunnel of Love, I'd really like to be a part of that; and (b) It takes a lot of passion for the subject in order to commit to bringing an article to FA, and perhaps I never had the passion for "Cover Me" the song that I did for "I'm Goin' Down". Maybe collaborating on the album Born in the U.S.A. is a better match for both of us? I know you're in the middle of Born to Run and The River, but if I were to start working on Born in the U.S.A. relatively actively, do you think you'd have time to spare to work on it some now as well? I think I'd find that more motivating, and easier to not lose focus, if you were in there making a medium amount of edits at the same time as me. But, again, I know you're in the middle of other articles, and it may not be fair for me to ask you so suddenly to work on this now. Or if you do still really want to work on "Cover Me", that could be another option, but again, I think personally I'd lose motivation fast if I didn't see you in there making a medium amount of concurrent edits. Or, if you're currently too busy on Born to Run and The River to collaborate on anything with me now, maybe I'll start working on something completely different. Whatever you would like to work on with or without me is of course all good. :-) Let me know what you think, thanks, Zmbro! Moisejp (talk) 03:09, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Hey there Moisejp. Yes I've been chugging through this Springsteen project quite well. I haven't had much to do in terms of other hobbies so I'm back on my WP kick for the time being. I'm mostly looking forward to Nebraska, as that and Darkness are my favs. At this point I'm not sure whether I'll be doing Tunnel of Love or not, but I do plan by this year. However, that album turns 40 in June, and I think it would be appropriate to do some work on that before its anniversary. I'd be happy to do a collaboration for U.S.A.! I can start a sandbox for it and if you wanna start adding to it we can! – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 14:57, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Cool, I saw the page you created. Let's do it! I've started rereading the BITUSA section of Marsh. It's the best overview out there. Rereading it will remind me of all the main points to include and should get me in the right mindset. I'll start making edits soon. Moisejp (talk) 05:00, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

After I finish The River I think I might skip ahead to U.S.A. because of its upcoming anniversary. I intend to bring Nebraska to FA, and given there's a new book devoted entirely to it I have a good feeling it might take a while... – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 16:34, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Are you hoping to get BITUSA for TFA on its anniversary? I wasn't predicting we'd finish that soon (for one thing, there's so much written about BITUSA for us to sift through) but who knows, if there are the two of us working on it, we can see how it goes. For my part, I'm expecting to work on it steadily but not necessarily super speedily. But yeah, we can see, maybe things will coalesce faster than I was thinking. :-) That's cool there's a book dedicated especially to Nebraska. Moisejp (talk) 08:44, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Definitely not FA as that's a little too quick. The anniversary is early June so we'd basically have to fast track everything. It'd be nice to get it to GA, but at the very least I'd like to get it expanded before June. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 14:40, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

OK, I'm glad we're on the same page about that. I definitely wouldn't want to rush it, and am looking forward to doing a good, thorough job. :-) Moisejp (talk) 18:32, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Same :-) I'll get to work as soon as I finish The River, which should (ideally) be this upcoming week. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 20:14, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your good start to adding info to the article in your sandbox! Just now I verified for the first time in a while that I still have access to Newspapers.com. Just looking in 1984 and 1985, there's 10,000 hits for Born in the USA in 1984, and 20,000 in 1985. I'm determined to make good use of Newspapers.com, but am probably going to take a few days or so to figure out my best plan of attack for getting good info from there without being overwhelmed by all the hits. Also, which books do you have easy access to--I think I remember you mentioning in the past that you'd got Margotin and Guesdon, for one? I can try to figure out what other essentials there are, such as Geoffrey Himes' and Heylin's books (if you don't have them), and see about getting them from the library. I have Dave Marsh's Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s. Moisejp (talk) 06:16, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

I own Margotin & Guesdon, Carlin's book and Springsteen's 2016 autobiography. Songs is available through archive.org as well as Gillian Gaar. I requested Dolan's book over at WP:RX while I was sent the Kirkpatrick chapters on Nebraska and USA. I also have access to Rock's Backpages :-) – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 14:14, 22 February 2024 (UTC) P.S. that new book on Nebraska I mentioned earlier just arrived so I bet that has some good info since the two records overlap :-) – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 14:46, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

I've reserved Himes' book from the library. Unfortunately neither Heylin's E-Street Shuffle or Song by Song seem to be in my local library system. The Kindle version of E-Street Shuffle is $11 and Song by Song $4. It's possible I'll just get E-Street Shuffle or possibly both—I need to remind myself how easy it is to use Kindle and whether I can export to PDF or anything. Also, it seems to be I remember (from my "IGD" research) that Song by Song was merged into a later edition of E-Street Shuffle where the content appears as an appendix, but I'm not 100% sure. If so, I may only need to get the one book. But I remember Heylin's work contains lots of valuable recording specifics among other things, so I definitely want to use him. Moisejp (talk) 02:42, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

I got Himes' Born in the U.S.A. book from the library today. I'll do some scanning of it this weekend or soon. Moisejp (talk) 08:04, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Moisejp Cool beans. Just make sure whenever you add stuff you have a citation overall or at the end of each bullet. I'll be adding stuff from Margotin/Guesdon, Carlin, etc. and don't want to get confused on who said what. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 16:35, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

OK, sounds good. I'll go back and add citations to any bullets I haven't, soon. :-) Moisejp (talk) 18:54, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

March 2024 GAN backlog drive

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