User talk:Safebreaker

Hello. Welcome to Wikipedia. Next time you see an error like the one on Bangor Grammar School you should just go ahead and correct it. Wikipedia depends on people constantly assessing and correcting others contributions! --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 20:08, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stefania Bonfadelli

Hi. Thanks for your message. I can't see any 'edit war flag'. I'd be happy to help if I knew what difficulties you are seeing. Best. --Klein zach 10:31, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Must have been an 'edit conflict'. All this means is that two people were attempting to edit simultaneously. If this happens you have to save your work and re-enter it. --Klein zach 12:01, 28 June 2008 (UTC) Do ask me any questions as necessary. --Klein zach 12:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

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Welcome to the Opera Project!

Hello, Safebreaker! We're delighted you've signed up to join us!

Opera is a very active, medium-sized project with more than 4,400 articles - it's smaller than the mega-projects like Music etc, but it is also larger than closely-focused projects such as Richard Wagner.

We have a discussion page linked to the main project page where you signed in. Participants work together on articles, see for example the Composer of the month, Singer of the month and Can you help? features on the Project page. Please take part!

The scope of the project is huge: 400 years of history, many countries and many languages. For that reason the editing style of opera articles can sometimes be complicated, so we have detailed guidelines for formatting on the project page, covering the tricky points like opera titles, capitalization, categories etc. Please don't be too bothered if you make a few mistakes at first - we all went through the same thing when we started!

Some opera editors use reference books such the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the Oxford Dictionary of Opera and the Viking Opera Guide. These are helpful for checking facts and providing the essential references required on Wikipedia. It's great if you can get access to these books.

However if you don't have access to books, there are still many other ways you can contribute to the project: compiling lists of recordings, writing synopses of your favourite operas using CD librettos, translating texts from other languages, picture researching, writing biographies of contemporary singers from online sources etc etc - and see also the To do list for articles needing attention.

We hope you have a great time on the Opera Project.
Please don't hesitate to ask us if you have any questions! We are always here - here!
Best regards!

--Klein zach 23:50, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Current Opera Project discussions

Hello from the Opera Project. I'm writing to all members on the active list to let them know that we could use your input on several issues currently under discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera:

The use of italics in article titles
Possible changes to the article guidelines concerning "Selected Recordings"
Suggestions for the July Composer of the Month and Opera of the Month

Please drop by if you have the time. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:30, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Message to all members of WikiProject Opera

Please see our project's talk page for a discussion of the possible changes to Wikipedia's policy on the biographies of living persons and the implications this will have for many articles under the project's banner. This is especially important if you are looking after or have created unreferenced or minimally referenced opera-related biographies of living people. Voceditenore (talk) 16:28, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Safebreaker (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

global block — possible incorrect IP address

Decline reason:

Clearing an autoblock

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I am not using any strange browsers, and the only other person on this IP address is my wife, who doesn't use Wikipedia, so if anyone has committed acts of vandalism it is me. However, I'd like to know what they are so I don't commit them again. I couldn't edit this page when the block was active, but I'm sure there must be a record of my banning somewhere. I could find no record of "Safebreaker" being banned when I was banned, nor did my IP address (79.26.54.56). However, the closest I could get to understanding what was happening was seeing that a ban had been placed on 79.26.48.0/21, which I assure anyone reading is absolutely not me. Please, in the interests of good editing,, tell me where I have gone wrong so it doesn't happen again. Safebreaker (talk) 10:47, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Some tips to help you out as and when you come back!

Hi Safebreaker, I thought I'd drop a few notes on your talk page with some help on writing articles :o)

First of all, it may be best for you to do a bit of reading, starting with the Wikipedia manual of style, which will give you a lot of information about how Wikipedia prefers its articles to be written. It's not as hard to follow as it might look; quite a bit of the information there probably won't be vital for you at first.

Second, I recommend you make a user sandbox - which is just an area you can use to practise in, and to make notes in, and to get things ready in. If you click this red link: user:Safebreaker/Sandbox, that will let you create that page (it gives you an edit window to start work in). Anything, anywhere, on the help and information pages which gives you an example, try it out in your sandbox until you're familiar with it.

For your article, the next thing you want to do is start collecting as much information as you can about it. Google searches (particularly in Books and Scholar) will be your best friend for this! Once you've found the information, the next most important thing is to start writing up each fact in your own words (very important, this), and make a note at the same time of exactly where that information came from. Build in the references as you go along; I'm going to copy in, down below this, a whole heap of help on doing references, which was produced by one of our best teachers (Chzz).

Here's another place that you'll find incredibly useful - citation templates which you can copy and paste into your sandbox, between <ref></ref> tags; you just fill in the blanks from your sources into the template, and you'll end up with nicely formatted inline citations :o) It all helps. Remember to add a references section to your sandbox (make a new line, and put ==References== on it, and type {{reflist}} on the next line, so that you can see how your citations look as you do them. Remember to save your page often! You don't want to lose your work.

Hopefully this will give you a good start and make life easier for you.

One last thing to keep as a motto: "It's better to write one good, well-referenced, nicely-presented article than it is to create fifty unreferenced one-line stubs!" Pesky (talk …stalk!) 09:02, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How references work

Simple references

These require two parts;

a)

Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref>

He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>

b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";

== References ==
{{reflist}}

(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)

To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Safebreaker/reftest and try it out.

Named references

Chzz was born in 1837. <ref name=MyBook>
"The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. 
</ref> 

Chzz lives in Footown.<ref name=MyBook/>

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates

You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | first = John
 | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
 | publication-date = 2001
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | page = 125
 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Here's a little bit of magic which can save you an awful lot of time and effort!

You might want to consider using this tool - (tools:~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py) - it makes your life a whole heap easier, by filling in complete citation templates for your links. All you do is install the script on Special:MyPage/common.js, or or Special:MyPage/vector.js, then paste the bare url (without [...] brackets) between your <ref></ref> tabs, and you'll find a clickable link called Reflinks in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). Then click that tool. It does all the rest of the work (provided that you remember to save the page! It doesn't work for everything (particularly often not for pdf documents), but for pretty much anything ending in "htm" or "html" (and with a title) it will do really, really well all by itself. For those it can;t do by itself, it gives you a pull-down (or up) menu of templates to choose from, which you can then fill in manually. Often the problem is "No title found" - sometimes the title is obvious (especially if it's a pdf), bit, if not, just open the page yourself and choose soemthing appropriate if there's not already a clear title there. Happy editing! Pesky (talk …stalk!) 09:02, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Rolando Rivi

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He will be beatified tomorrow, Saturday 06 October 2013, in Modena (not far from where I live). Then I hope to be able to put in as many references as you need! Safebreaker (talk) 07:29, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Santa Maria in Vado, Ferrara

Thank you for correcting my entry. The church was not in the Addizione Erculea. I misread an earlier map, and presupposed the architect and restructuring matched the other project. Thanks. Rococo1700 (talk) 18:38, 5 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Noi vogliam Dio, Vergine Maria - to 'e' or not to 'e'

Back in December 2011 you changed the name and lyrics in article Noi vogliam Dio, Vergine Maria, changing 'Vergine' to 'Vergin'. I've tried looking around but I really can't tell which version is 'correct'.

I do get lots more hits searching for "Noi vogliam Dio Vergine Maria" than searching for "Noi vogliam Dio Vergin Maria" (2520 vs 415)

Could you check around for which one is correct? If you can reassure yourself that 'vergin' is correct, then the article should be retitled. Shenme (talk) 05:24, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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