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So far, so good on what you've written so far in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Your keeping things short gives info without impeding the flow of the article in any serious degree, so it's probably best to keep things that way. Looking forward to seeing more. BTW, know what you mean about laboring over seemingly small amounts of complex or hard-to-phrase material. Was going through that this morning on "Relationship With The Five" as you did the same further down the article. That section is hopefully a little clearer and more complete now. Jonyungk (talk) 21:56, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry about time. Just do the best job you can. I'm juggling a number of commitments and time restraints myself, so you're not alone.
As for Brian and the separate Works and Life thing, I can see both your points. On one hand, it can be all too easy to let an article get bogged down by going down what can seem several avenues at once. That may be his concern here and, to a certain point, I am wary of, as well. However--and this is a big "however"--you also have the question of how the composer's life affects his music and vice verse. With Tchaikovsky, the two are enmeshed much closer than usual, so you have to deal to some point with one when talking about the other. The bottom line: How far can you go down that road without derailing things and having to start again from scratch? It's basically one long, extended balancing act. I'm having to do some careful weighing and measuring myself with the musical politics Tchaik had to navigate around. It's all relevant, the full extent of it is not spelled out terribly often in Western sources and here I am having to show its importance in such a damn short amount of time. But it also can't be avoided--it has to be done so that people will have a clue what all the fuss between, say, Tchaik and Rimsky-Korsakov is all about. I know your job, at least in the Life section, is not an easy one. I realize that. But the rest of us working on the article really appreciate what you're doing. Keep it up. Jonyungk (talk) 23:06, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Glad you're being easygoing about all the shifting etc. Was concerned you, Smerus or someone else was going to say, "You cut the opera stuff and we just put it in," or something along those lines. Nice how things fell into place. Go ahead with Onegin if you want. Now that the "Growing fame; budding opera composer" section feels more solid, I may take a day or two off. We'll see. Jonyungk (talk) 15:56, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Not to hustle you along but how soon could you write a couple of paragraphs on the Tchaik operas, with the info attributed, and drop them on my talk page? The material can be tweaked and amended later, but I'm putting together a new Music section for the article and it is coming together quicker than expected. Please let me know. Thanks. Jonyungk (talk) 19:41, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, GuillaumeTell! As you may know, the Wikipedia Education Program has instilled a new set of standards that courses must meet to officially join the program for the semester. As you can see, one of the requirements is that at least one ambassador or professor is a Wikipedian, as this should give students more access to helpful information about contributing to Wikipedia and creating good content. You are listed on the Online Ambassador page; are you still interested in remaining active this semester? Some of these classes will have to remove themselves from the program should they fail to meet these standards, but we would like to ensure that new students are receiving proper support during the editing process. Please let me know if you are still interested in mentoring these students this semester and/or visit the Online Ambassador talk page to select a course that still needs an Online Ambassador. Thank you! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 00:23, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,480 last month to 9,599 on January 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 54 out of a total number of 2,906 articles.
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New software release
We are getting near to the next release of the MediaWiki software that runs Wikipedia, this will be version 1.19 and is expected in the second half of February. For those of you who are interested in the details of the changes then take a look at this page on MediaWiki.org. There is usually some disruption around the time of the release so if you experience problems then check out at the Village Pump to see if the problem has been reported. If it has not then report it so that the developers can get a view of the problem. One area of concern is the scripts used by users to perform routine tasks. It could be that if this change is included in the deployment then scripts may need to be changed to declare modules the script is dependent upon. So if your favourite script fails to work this could be the problem and will need to be fixed.
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I have at last addressed the points you raised in the autumn. If you have time, I'd be grateful if you'd give my replies and the associated redrafts the once-over. And then, I hope, it's ho for FAC! Tim riley (talk) 15:22, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
And following what I like to think of as your "sign-off" (mildly irritating office jargon but it serves its purpose) I have posted the article FAC page where, I hope, you may like to add your thoughts on the candidacy. Tim riley (talk) 15:33, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for signing on to our course project as an Online Ambassador! My hope is that we do great things together. I hope it's as rewarding for you as for the students.
Hi GT, hope your well. I have put that well known panto pro Leno up for Peer Review with a desire to submit to FA. It would be great if you could drop in and offer any comments. Best regards -- Cassianto (talk)
Rimsky-Korsakov or Rubinstein operas, anyone?
Hi there. Your work on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's operas made me curious on how knowledgeable you are about operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov or Anton Rubinstein. R-K is an FA I shepherded through FAC a year or two ago but I've never been happy about its music section, especially regarding the operas, on which R-K spent a considerable amount of his life and artistic effort. Since I'm slowly going through articles related to Tchaikovsky, I'll eventually have to address Rubinstein since he was Tchaik's composition teacher at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Is there any way you could eventually help me out with either of these projects? I'm talking long-term, timing-wise, so please don't think I'm asking about tackling everything right away. Besides, we all have lives to lead outside of Wikipedia, as well. Thanks. Jonyungk (talk) 16:13, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the reply and offer for help. I'll definitely keep you posted on developments. I saw what happened with the rollback after the fact. (I've been on Wikipedia less the last couple of days—getting over a case of sinusitis.) That kind of thing unfortunately happens a lot on Tchaikovsky, for all sorts of reasons, but it still boils down to vandalism. Thanks for keeping an eye out. Jonyungk (talk) 18:21, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
You really must stop referring to "Peter 'little black dress' Katona", or we'll all end up in court as defendants in a libel case. But apropos of that production, I saw Petra Lang in it, and it baffles me that she hasn't got a Wikipedia article. One for my to-do list, unless (shameless hint) you were inclined... Tim riley (talk) 18:36, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Music matters
Thanks for your post - have only just heard it myself as I was away for the weekend, hope you enjoyed it! I did the interview earlier in the week and was slightly in dread that Deathridge might pull the book apart but he seems to have been very well-inclined :-} --Smerus (talk) 19:20, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have to say that I prefer his choral stuff, but he seems important enough with the UK to warrant getting a basic article up for his operas. I think this one is going to the Edinburgh Festival this year. Another surprising redlink is Stanford Olsen. If I made that would you have anything to add? almost-instinct19:08, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I only know of Olsen because I have this DVD of Semiramide. A classier noise than Florez in my opinion. His Met career seems to have come to an abrupt stop in 1997, as far as I could tell from their archives. I think I might do some digging around to fathom the shape of his career before doing his page almost-instinct23:43, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It seems his entire career came to an abrupt stop - he cancelled everything for personal reasons and got a teaching job. He still sings, but on the side almost-instinct01:10, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,599 last month to 9,683 on February 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 67. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 55 out of a total number of 2,917 articles.
Currently we have twenty nine Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
New software release
By the time you read this the new software release mentioned in the last newsletter should be in as it is currently scheduled for 2 March. Problems in switching other wikis have been encountered, most notably Commons, which was reverted twice and, at the time of writing, is still experiencing problems with the new software. See article in Signpost for details.
Discussions
Members may be interested in some discussions that are ongoing at the moment. A discussion on whether or not secondary schools meet notability guidelines is still on-going. If you are interested in having articles on secondary schools then raise your voice in the discussion. Another schools related one is taking place on the talk page of template {{Infobox UK school}} about introducing co-ordinates in to the infobox in addition to the top right corner of the article. Similar discussion was also raised at {{Infobox UK place}}. If you have views then chip in and see if consensus can be found on these areas.
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I think I've changed the text so as not to contradict the point that the Hall was, arguably, not a major decorative work though the Chapel was, and is. But I am now pondering whether there should be a more substantial mention of Burges's work at Worcester College. Would be grateful for your views. KJP1 (talk) 22:37, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Beautiful. I think, "Now I must amend the Knightshayes section", go there, and you've done it already. The reference works fine. Many thanks. KJP1 (talk) 22:39, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The book by Dr Gillingham arrived today. Gorgeous and exciting. Fear I shall have to add to the Worcester College section. Many thanks. KJP1 (talk) 20:30, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oxford Georgian Society
Hello Mr Tell. A new editor, AktadG, has prepared a page for the Oxford Georgian Socieyt in his sandbox. A previous attempt I believe got deleted. It looks very fine, especially when I think back to my first attempts.... I'm about to give it a quick copy-edit - since this is more your field than mine could I ask you to run you eye over things. Clearly AktadG is for the time being primarily concerned with making notability clear. I'm also going to ask Voceditenore to cast her eye over it, since she's so strong on notability. Thank you! almost-instinct17:42, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
GuillaumeTell,
My students are back from spring break and will be starting their sandbox page and drafting this week. I'm giving them the go ahead if they've done their research and listed their citatations on their user page. I'm instructing them to go to our course page, click on the red link for their person, and choose "special:mypage..." to create their page. You'll be listed as one of their contacts if they should need help. In a week or so, the students will be getting to the point where they should be able to submit. Could you review some of these to tell students if they are ready to submit to AFC?
Thank you, Crtew (talk) 17:40, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I saw that you have created an article about a Serbian violinst. I was wondering if you and I could make the Petar Stojanović become a disambiguation page and you would move the article about the musician to something like Petar Stojanović (Serbian violinist) or Petar Stojanović (Serbian musician) etc. or simply without Serbian at the begining? Because there is another Petar Stojanović that plays football for NK Maribor and couple of days ago made a debut for the club, thus becoming the youngest footballer to appear for Maribor in Slovenian top division. He is also a member of the national youth selection so he is likely to gain prominence in the future. I would create an article about him using Petar Stojanović (footballer) or something like that:). Lep pozdrav, Ratipok (talk) 13:00, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I have created a disambiguation for the two articles under Petar Stojanović and also redirected Petar Stojanovic to lead to this page as well (redirected or fixed all talk pages as well). I think everything is in order and there shouldnt be any problems. Thank you, Ratipok (talk) 17:44, 27 March 2012 (UTC) :)[reply]
G&S Archive links
Thanks for updating the links in some articles. Unfortunately, the G&S archive underwent a rather extensive revision, during which many items were moved to slightly different urls, and many of the links need updating. Gah! I have been working on it little by little, but it will take a long time to find and update all of them. -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:16, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, Billington did not like it much. My own feeling is that Finborough is not doing the GD any favours by presenting this scaled-down version. I wish Billington could see the full-scale Buxton production in August, but of course he won't. -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:50, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,683 last month to 9,730 on March 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 73 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 68. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 55 out of a total number of 2,928 articles.
Currently we have thirty Yorkshire featured articles:
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Link rot
This month I thought that we should focus on link rot in articles. Articles are created with lots of references to online sources as this is often easier than using printed sources. This is all well and good until a few months down the line when the web site is no longer available or has been re-organised and the page linked to has been moved. Whatever the reason for the change results in the reference link in our article becoming dead or just pointing at the main page of the site in question. The link therefore provides no verification for the information in our article and needs to be repaired. If you find a link like this then it should be tagged with the {{dead link}} template rather than deleted as the information may give someone a clue as to where to find a replacement link. If you know where the page has been moved to then go ahead and change the URL in the reference rather than tagging it. You could Google to see if a new page can be located or use the Wayback machine to see if there is an archived copy of the page available. If an archived version is located then use the |archiveurl= and |archivedate= fields of the {{citation}} template to record the archived version of the page.
The more information that is recorded when the reference is added the easier it is to find replacement URLs so remember to record as much information as possible when adding a reference. A bare URL with no information as to page title, publisher, publication date etc. makes finding replacements almost impossible. You can add archive details when adding a reference so that there is a backup copy already recorded for the reference. A BOT is currently operating to add archive details to live links to prevent future link rot. For more information on the subject of link rot see here.
It would be good, if this month, we try to reduce the number of {{dead link}} templates in the project's articles as a BOT is currently going round adding the template to articles.
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The articles are going through review and one student recieved a WP:Victim and WP:1E. My student was basing her notability on WP:SIGCOV. I explained the reasoning here on the reviewer's talk page. But I'm really interested in how to shift the weight in these decisions to WP:SIGCOV. Your thoughts on this would be appreciated. Thanks, Crtew (talk) 21:14, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Mr Lear
I've looked briefly at the pages in question, and have boggled. I'll look tomorrow when I am sober, and will report back. Tim riley (talk) 21:59, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Sobriety has set in, but I still boggle. It looks right to me, but I'm fathoms out of my depth. I'll see if I can rouse someone more expert to action. Tim riley (talk) 08:54, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I hasten to rebut the slur that I dislike Lear. I am a great fan. If absolutely pushed I should have to choose Carroll over Lear (unlike G K Chesterton in his Defence of Nonsense) but I am a personal friend of the Blue Baboon who plays the flute. What I meant was that the techicalities of nominating Lear for 'anniversaries' was beyond my ken. Tim riley (talk) 10:23, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Gabriel and Alec
If you find yourself with nothing better to do, I have Gabriel Fauré up for FAC, and Alec Douglas-Home up for peer review. Though I'm a woolly liberal in good standing (neither Ken nor Boris got my vote this morning) I nonetheless enjoyed writing about Home, who was a good guy and an effective politician in a quiet way. Do look in if you have time and disposition. Tim riley (talk) 12:33, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand a .... about wikipedia but i would love to be able to contact you (user:Guillaume Tell) to see if you would like to help in our edition of Spinalba by Francisco António de Almeida our email: osmusicosdotejo@gmail.com please write, Marcos Magalhães 193.136.113.72 (talk) 11:34, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,730 last month to 9,769 on April 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 73 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 68. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 2,983 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Elections
May is the month for local elections to take place in many of our town and cities. This will create a lot of work in updating all of the place articles that include council make-up details. In addition each of the elections will require a new article creating to cover details of the election and the results in each of the wards. A number of elections from the last round of elections have not yet been created and it would be good if the missing election articles could be created so that we have a full set of recent elections for Yorkshire.
At the same time as the local council elections a number of cities in the area are holding a referendum on elected mayors. The main article will need to be updated with the results from each of the cities involved and any background that may be relevant to that article. Individual articles covering the referendum in each of the cities involved would also be useful to create while the details and references are to hand in the local press.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,769 last month to 9,824 on May 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 74 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 70. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 2,993 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Commons links
This month I thought that I would mention the {{Commons category}} template to generate a link to image categories on Commons holding additional images for topics. The template should be added to articles where Commons holds a number of other images that are not displayed in the article to provide a convenient link to these additional images. If you do not want to display the box then {{Commons category inline}} can be used instead to add an entry to the External links section.
The problem with both these templates is they use the article name as the name for the category on Commons so if an article is renamed the link is broken. To overcome this please ensure that all usages of these templates have as the first parameter the name of the category on Commons that is being used, even if it is the same as the article title. To enable those usages that have not been given a parameter to be tracked the hidden category Category:Commons category template with no category set has been set up. This has initially only been applied to the {{Commons category}} template. It would be good if members fixed these while editing articles to avoid having to edit specifically to fix the problem.
For newer members you can see hidden categories by setting the "Show hidden categories" option in the "Advanced options" section of the "Appearance" tab of the "my preferences" link.
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As you might have noticed, I don't do much round here these days (bad me). But I'm having the kind of surreal conversation on the Larkin talk page that does little to coax me back onto the path of righteous. Ooof. Anyway, hello and all that :-) almost-instinct23:03, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Country Houses
I was wondering if you or you know anybody who'd be interested in such a project. One of my chief loves is British country houses and I don't at present see a project set up to help coordinate it and to collaborate over. If interested let me know and I'll consider making a proposal.♦ Dr. Blofeld12:54, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Was it you who had that big list of missing country houses or something? If so, a big yes, I want to make the list as complete as possible and have something to work towards. Ideally all that are mentioned in the sum of Pevsner's books and more. Yes, the project like most would be a loose association but the thought of compiling GAs under one project is more encouraging I think and gives them more focus.♦ Dr. Blofeld16:28, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm extremely keen to see that database. Is it possible you could greatly expand the list of country houses? Even if you could download a list or email it to me so I could do something with it..♦ Dr. Blofeld18:46, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
OK, that sounds OK. But its the Pevsner books which appear to have the most in. What I really need is to get hold of the indexes to as many of his books by county as possible.♦ Dr. Blofeld21:13, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Its just I was doing some work recently and impressed how each village seemed to have about 2 or 3 country houses! Well, if the sources exist demolished houses are valuable too, the lists are supposed to include both, although articles on different buildings of the same place would of course be redundant. I had expected a full glossary of building entries at the back of the books. I'm thinking what the best way to do this would be. Is it possible maybe you could expand the list by county by scanning through each book and entering them into the lists whenever you can? Obviously it would be a gradual thing, but would be very valuable to even just access the names because potentially they can each be researched and missing articles started.♦ Dr. Blofeld21:43, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed you and Michael are planning to create a table for Donizetti's operas, which I think is a great idea. I would be willing to help out. (It is a rather long list.) PS - Why don't we just start it in article space, so that anyone who has access to Grove can pitch in? --Robert.Allen (talk) 02:16, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know about you, but I found User:AlanPalgut's removal of the no-break spaces was not very helpful. It's my impression that Michael's adding them made it much easier to find the appropriate blank cells in the table. I left a question about it on User talk:AlanPalgut. --Robert.Allen (talk) 22:57, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm unsure whether we need a notes column. What did you want to put in it? And, oh, you are ambitious: Donizetti is enough to think about right now! --Robert.Allen (talk) 08:03, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,824 last month to 9,880 on June 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 78 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 70. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 3,009 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Did You Know?
At the suggestion of a member I have added Did You Know? entries for the project to the article activity section of the newsletter. Not having had any entries since January this month saw seven Yorkshire related articles appear in this front page section. There is a list of the recent entries from the project's articles on the main project page with a full list here.
When working on an article it is always worth considering if it can be nominated for the Did You Know? section on the main page. May be a little more work but it does get the article recognised and exposed to a wider audience. The main requirements for a nomination are that, within the last five days, it was created, expanded fivefold or, for an unsourced BLP, newly referenced and expanded twofold. If you think an article meets these basic requirements then take a look at the eligibility criteria and make a nomination. The hook is the important part of the process as that is the text that will appear on the front page and this must be mentioned in the article with an appropriate inline citation to back it up. If you can suggest more than one hook for an article then the more chances of it been selected for inclusion on the front page. If you do nominate it is important to keep an eye on the nomination as there may be questions/suggestions from those reviewing the hooks that you will need to respond to if the nomination is to succeed.
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(talk page stalker) Even if they don't participate, once an article is in mainspace, these kinds of issues should always be discussed on the article's talk page so that a transparent record of them is easily available. Discussions on User talk pages get archived and are scattered all over the place. It also helps when making some edits to be able to say "See talk page" in the edit summary. Since there seems to be one good-faith but entirely uncommunicative editor making potentially unhelpful edits to the list, e.g. [1], [2], etc. it's a good idea to highlight your reasons for reversion on the actual talk page, particularly if they persist. Voceditenore (talk) 12:40, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Links to hard to find libretti
Hi GuillaumeTell, I wonder of you could help me. I'm making a website devoted to the opera, the peculiarity of which is line-by-line librettos. Recently I updated two Wiki pages on operas by Adolphe Adam: Le chalet and Si j'étais roi, I added links to libretto on my website. Libretto is really hard to find. Indeed.
My links were deleted by User:Alexf[3] because of spammy. What do you think about it?
If you're still planning to work with a class in the US and Canada Education Program this Fall, please add your name to this census. Once the new class list is available, I will notify you guys so you can sign up for a class (or two) that interests you. I hope you're still interested in supporting these students for the coming term. Thanks! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 20:34, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ave atque vale
I am sending this note to Wikipedians with whom I have most closely collaborated over the last six years or so. After pondering hard during a month's wiki-break in July I have sadly decided to withdraw fully from contributing. I have been worn down by continual carping, sniping and belittling from a wearisome few (you know the sort of people I refer to); the joy has gone out of taking part in this wonderful enterprise. I should be more resilient, but alas it's finally got to me.
Working with you has been a pleasure and a privilege: I count myself fortunate to have had such colleagues. My warmest wishes go with you for the future. I shall be happy to do any research, copy-editing, fact-checking etc you may ever feel inclined to ask me to do – but safely offline.
Very good to hear from you and thanks for adding PT to the British Architects list. He is quite interesting and in the 20s had an amazing client list! Now almost unknown. The Bettley RIBA monograph is the only work I know on him and Google gets you very little. Nevertheless, there's quite a lot more on him that can go in and I'll work the article up over time.
A very great shame about Tim. He was so helpful on WB and an absolute pleasure to work with. He'll be very much missed. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 05:37, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,880 last month to 9,942 on July 25th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 83 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 3,022 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Sporting feast
Just in case it has escaped members notice but August is a big sporting month with the 2012 Olympic Games taking place at the start of the month and the 2012–13 Football season getting under way from the middle of the month. There are likely to be lots of articles that will need changing as we go through the month with new signings, new records etc. so keep an eye on sport related articles and try and keep them up to date.
I have picked a pair of sport related items for this month's collaboration from the suggestions on the project talk page. So those of you with a sporting slant should have plenty to get going with this month.
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,880 last month to 9,942 on July 25th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 83 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 56 out of a total number of 3,065 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Schools back
This month is the time for the start of a new school year. All of those pupils going to a new school will be looking for information on their new school and so the school articles under the project's banner will get higher than usual hits. It would be good if members could keep an eye out for vandalism and the addition of vanity entries on the local school articles.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
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GuillaumeTell, I was wondering if you would be willing to sign up for another semester with my course? Students are again adopting journalists or events in which journalists have been killed. This time I am focusing on Mexico, Somalia, Syria and Lebanon, but I do have several students working on Pakistan, Bangledesh, Cambodia and others. You can take a look at the spread of the assignments. In addition, I have some content experts who know the language and culture for several of these countries. Greater care has been taken this semester in the selection of assignments by making sure there is documentation before students begin. Thank you for your contributions so far to the project! Best, Crtew (talk) 17:29, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I currently have the above listed at peer review as a result of a lot of work and research which I have conducted over the last couple of months. I would be extremely greatful for any comments you may have and would welcome any feedback or suggestions. Many thanks in advance. -- CassiantoTalk02:12, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hi GuillaumeTell. See [4]. I was thinking of doing October's OoM on radio operas, perhaps creating and/or expanding articles on some of the operas and composers on your great new list, but I need some idea on priorities. Any thoughts? Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:23, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Fairly pointless question: some Television Operas have made it into the stage repertoire; have any of the Radio Operas on your list? or have they survived, if at all, merely on the concert stage? almost-instinct11:22, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Interestingly, while adding a few dates to the Composed column just now, I've had a look at about 3/4 of the entries in Grove Opera and quite a few of the radio operas have subsequently been staged: both Bäck operas, Dallapiccola's, Egk's, one of Giannini's, two of Henze's, Lorentzen's, Menotti's, one of Mihalovic's, Petrovic's, both of Pizzetti's. Probably worth footnotes somewhere in the table and a mention in the radio opera article. No info on concert performances. --GuillaumeTell18:02, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 9,942 last month to 10,141 on September 27th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 87 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,102 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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Good evening! I am very confused by all of the codes and cannot understand why it is so difficult to input information when it seems like there's got to be an easier way! :( Dr. Tew recommended you as a source of help, so I am reaching out to you. Can you offer any assistance? I would greatly appreciate it!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ldfeller (talk • contribs) 00:11, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Please help!
Hi Guillaume Tell! I am working on a Wiki article for a comm class at USI and I had two quick questions for you. I am confused on how to use inline citation on my article. How would I go about creating an inline citation for a piece of information? And my second question is how do I add another reference to my reference list?
Thank you!Enweaver (talk) 22:12, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.96.148.210 (talk) 21:57, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Help requested for Dr. Tew's USI class
I'm a student in Dr. Tew's class at USI. Could you please take a look at my article and tell me how to get the Context section, which is presently at the bottom of the Aftermath section, into its own section between the aftermath and impact sections? There are still a few things I need to do on my article but could you please give me some general feedback too? Thanks in advance for your help. I appreciate it. Joecool2014 (talk) 14:30, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for help on article
Thank you for your words of encouragement, Mr. Tell. After I implemented the changes you suggested and fixed a couple ref tags in the aftermath section, the context section fixed itself. I still have some work to do on the article before submitting it, and I think it will be interesting to see new information added later on perhaps by those who knew de Dios better. Indeed my alias derives from Snoopy and 2014 is my year (hopefully) of graduation. Thanks again for your help. Best regards, Joecool2014 (talk) 03:42, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Pierre Monteux
I thought you may be interested to know that after some email discussions with Tim riley, and some final polishing, I have co-nominated Pierre Monteux at FAC. This was Tim's current project when he decided to leave Wikipedia, but I think it is worthy of consideration for promotion. Any comments will be welcome. Brianboulton (talk) 10:58, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 10,141 last month to 10,234 on October 28th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 88 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,140 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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I am working with Crtew from USI as a student and need help with locating and pinpointing Balochistan on the map that is on the page I am constructing. I have no idea how to do this. Can you please help?
Thank you,
Khbarton (talk) 13:05, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
JSTOR
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 10,234 last month to 10,275 on November 27th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 91 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 72. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 57 out of a total number of 3,163 articles.
Currently we have thirty one Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Signpost
The editors over at the weekly Signpost, that goes out to a large number of people on Wikipedia, have indicated that they would like to feature the Yorkshire project in one of the future editions. There was an invitation on the project's talk page for members to get involved in this by responding to a series of questions. It is disappointing that no members have stepped forward to respond to this but they have gone on my responses and the project should be featured in the 3rd December issue of the magazine.
Happy Christmas
It is Christmas time again so I would like to take this opportunity to wish all members of the project a happy Christmas.
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