User talk:Schissel/Archive05b

Archive locations

Archives to date: User_talk:Schissel/Archive_10122004 and User_talk:Schissel/Archive05a (October 2004 to December 2004, and January 2005 to mid-June 2005 respectively. Inconsistent naming, I know. May move the barnstar to my main page, very proud to have received it but unsure of policy!) Schissel : bowl listen 16:57, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Barnstars and such are informal. Put yours whereever it makes you happy; most people put them on their front page or on a subpage. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 09:32, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you very much for your supportive vote on my RfA. I appreciate it! Thanks, Bratsche^{talk 5 pillars} June 29, 2005 16:17 (UTC)

Request

Hello, Schissel! I have a favor to ask of you (and several other admins), and I hope you would mind helping. User:Ashida Kim has been giving several of us some trouble regarding the factual accuracy of the article Ashida Kim. I was first made aware of this issue after someone listed the user on Wikipedia:Clueless newbies. Therefore, I contacted User:Ashida Kim and left him a friendly message and welcome note. He responded with insults, and I again politely replied, telling him that he needed to follow Wikipedia policy and provide sources/proofs to back up his facts. After checking out his history, I see several other users have been attempting to talk with him as well. He insists on talking to an administrator, via email. He claims that he cannot contact any administrator (despite being pointed to the list).(For appropriate sections regarding this matter, see the two sections on my talk page, see his talk page, see the section titled "Personal Attack" in the help desk (Wikipedia:Help desk#Personal Attack), see his contributions, and see Wikipedia:Clueless newbies). I do not wish to get involved in this dispute (several other users & admins are already involved), but he basically requested (challenged?) that I contact several non-involved admins after I made a friendly offer. Therefore, would you mind taking a look at this case and seeing what you can do? Thank you very much. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 3 July 2005 23:41 (UTC)

P.S. As for the barnstar, you're welcome! Feel free to move it to your main page, several other users have done that (for example, see User:Nichalp, who is a highly decorated Wikipedian :) ).

Thank you for responding to my request. I'm pleased to say that User:Ashida Kim has calmed down and remained civil in the discussion at Talk:Ashida Kim. Thank you very much! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 9 July 2005 02:35 (UTC)

C# vs. C-sharp

Hey, Schissel :) Recently, I reverted some of your key signature edits. Why? Because I remembered this discussion and thought that C-sharp is the ultimate answer :) If it's not, please reply so I don't make the same mistakes again. Thanks in advance, --Missmarple 21:22, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism on Sonata (music)

We've got a disruptive editor on Sonata Music because I reverted his vanity link. I'm out of reverts for the day, and while I might like to push it and get a ruling, I think it better that the community make it clear to Mr. Sur, or his promoter, that this isn't the way things are done here.

Example

Stirling Newberry 18:15, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

I was fairly sure I could revert again without problems, but I reasoned that someone so persistent as to dial up edit and log out was probably more of a problem than just one page.

Stirling Newberry 22:32, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

The user is upset that I took Chur off the Sonata page, and even has an edit summary "Stirling Newberry? Who is he?". Clear case of trolling here, and probably "vandalism". As for "notability", my royalty checks from composing say I am probably not a "notable" composer and none of my compositions rates being on a "most important" list of the 20th century. Speaking of which, the sonatas list is still woefully in complete. And while Chur certainly doesn't rate, it might be nice to find a few more sonatas from the last 25 years that do. Earlier he had a link to Sterling Newberry who is notable, but not as a composer. Stirling Newberry 23:53, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Greetings

For the past few months, we have been absolute strangers who have been editing each other's articles in the Wikipedia classical music department, without exchanging any contact. At last, I have decided to drop by and say hello to you. I came across your personal watchlist yesterday when I was checking the pages linked to Robert Kahn (composer) and slowly translating the German version into English (with the assistance of Altavista Babelfish and whatever gleanings of German I've acquired from years of curious browsing through multilingual CD inserts). I hope this will not pre-empt or interfere with any preparations you may be making to create these articles, but please be informed of my plan to translate the German equivalents of several other items on your watchlist, such as Matthias Georg Monn and Erwin Schulhoff (I'm currently expanding the coverage of composers of "degenerate music" condemned by the Nazis). The foreign-language Wikipedias feature many (relatively) comprehensive biographies of classical composers which should be incorporated into the English edition. I've been thinking about compiling a list of those which do not yet have counterparts in English. Such a list would help to indicate the gaps which should be filled with priority. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.--Defrosted 03:57, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Based on a cursory inspection of composer registries on different wikipedias, I would recommend checking the interwiki status of the German-language biographies before combing through the French lists. The German lists seem to be most extensive of any of the non-English wikipedias and contain most of the topics waiting to be written up in English; additional names can be plucked from the other languages later. I am also in the process of translating the French version of the stub for String Quartet No. 11 (Dvorak). You should be able to easily integrate the draft version of your perceptive musical analysis once I upload the translation. Regards,--Defrosted 12:08, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for posting the list on my talkpage, together with the reference to the recommended listening at classicalarchives.com. BTW, I believe List of compositions for piano and orchestra could benefit from the alphabetical partitioning you used to reorganize the List of compositions for cello and piano?--Defrosted 14:02, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

sorabji, copyedits

I dont understand the description on your last change on the article about sorabji. The source of my new things I put in is the German Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. I translated some text into English. helohe 02:13, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

kmccoy's RFA

Hey, Schissel,

Thanks for your support and kind words on my RFA. :) kmccoy (talk) 23:12, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA. I will do my best to serve the Wikipedia community as an administrator. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:19, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Versions of Fantasia Contrapunttistica

I added some Version information to the talk page of the Fantasia Contrappuntisitca page. But it has to be improved a bit I think. helohe 07:08, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Aleksandrov

Hello Eric,

you are wrong: there is an article about Anatoly Alexandrov in the German wikipedia. You have only tried the wrong spelling: "ks" should be "x". So look at m:de:Anatoli Nikolajewitsch Alexandrow. I have just revised this article. Quite a great composer. I have got the Hyperion disc with some of his piano pieces. It might interest you that m:de:Kategorie:Komponist will be divided into categories by nationality (e.g. "German Composer", "Russian Composer" etc.). Don't ask me why... By the may: thanks for your excellent Miaskovsky article! I am a great admirer of this composer. Best wishes, m:de:Benutzer:Holger Sambale

Yes, I am interested in some mutual work. Please inform me about your plans! Holger

Hello Eric, of course I can translate articles from German into English as well as from English into German. I think this is quite common - there are some articles in the German wikipedia which are translations (I might be wrong, but I believe that the article about Finzi is a translation - only to mention one example). There is even an extra page which lists articles that should be translated into German (however, I haven't looked there so far). I have just printed the Lekeu article as it is better to use a dictionary for some phrases. I suppose I will have translated it within the next days. Perhaps I will create a new account here in the English wikipedia for things like that... Holger

Guillaume Lekeu is now translated! --Holger Sambale 16:16, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. I have changed the article a little bit. As categories are also used in the German wikipedia, I know them. I have added categories to lots of articles myself... In this case, I used the article Nikolai Myaskovsky to find out which categories are common here. As I found a category named "20th century classical composers", I just changed it into "19th century classical composers". Quite strange that this category does not exist. If you want to have other translations, contact me! --Holger Sambale 15:18, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello Eric, I have just been here to publish my translation of the article on August Klughardt. I have once played his Cello concerto which is a nice work. Yes, I am also interested in composers like Golubev (unfortunately, I only know his Harp Quintet and a piano transciption of a part of his ballet Odysseus). In general, I am interested in all Soviet composers. For example, I like Myaskovsky's music very much, but also works by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Another great composer is Boris Tchaikovsky. There is a new Chandos CD with his 3rd symphony "Sebastopol", his "Music for orchestra" and his symphonic poem "The wind of Siberia" which is fantastic. I have also seen the Salmanov recording: It seems to be very interesting, all of his four symphonies. I know two of them (Nos. 2 and 4). I hope this will be out in Germany soon! Best wishes --Holger Sambale 11:31, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Hello, I have also got a recording of the Klughardt concerto (a Sterling disc). Of course, there should be more Weinberg recordings. I hope Chandos will continue their Weinberg symphony cycle (however, most interesting cycles I know have never been finished: Olympia's Myaskovsky cycle, Ivanovs on Cameo...). I have got quite a number of works by Boris Tchaikovsky: symphonies Nos. 2&3, Sinfonietta, Chamber Symphony, Theme and 8 variations, 4 Preludes for Chamber Orchestra, The Wind of Siberia, Music for Orchestra, The Bells, 6 Etudes for Strings and Organ, Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto, Clarinet Concerto, Signs of the Zodiac, Sextet for harp and wind instruments, String Quartet No.6, Piano Trio, Cello Sonata, Partita for Cello and Ensemble and Suite for Cello solo. Most of this is excellent! I have been told that his 4th symphony ("with harp") will be released in the next months. By the way, the homepage of the Boris Tchaikovsky society provides quite a lot of information. Best wishes --Holger Sambale 14:42, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

en rules

Why do you think that en rules (or n-dashes) are only for date ranges? They have a much wider range of uses:

"The en rule should be used to mark off a parenthesis which makes a notable break in the flow of the sentence [...] It may also be used to avoid parentheses within parentheses [...] The en rule should be used to join numerals expressing extent of time, distance, age, etc. [...] Names of joint authors are to be distinguished from hyphenated surnames and should be linked by an en rule [...] etc." (Rees, Rules of Printed English)

In the Theodorakis article, the em rule is OK, but I thought that the en rule was just as appropriate and (of course) shorter; which is more appropriate is difficult to say, because it's not clear what they're being used to do. The headings are really too long and clumsy, and need to be rethought. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:12, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Ernest Bloch's works for piano and orchestra

Hi! Would you please explain the relationship between Bloch's Concerto symphonique and Scherzo fantastique? Without having listened to these works yet, I got the impression from catalogs that they were two separate compositions in their own right [1], [2], but you evidently disagreed in your edit summary. Is the Scherzo a movement adapted from the Concerto? Intrigued to learn more about these pieces,--Defrosted 22:36, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Discuss not delete

The criminal investigation item in Charles Schumer should not have been deleted. It was very easy to verify as accurate -- as well as widely reported. If you felt that it required citation, the talk page should be used for that purpose. It should only have been deleted if it was false, or true but unverifiable. patsw 05:06, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

re: Image server

Yes, the formatting was correct, but somebody uploaded a new image over the previous one. I reverted the image and removed it as it was outside the fair use copyright. And it look like that same user also uploaded other copyrighted images. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:14, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

AMIB

Just to make it clear, I added that "I love bears" thing to A Man In Black's page after he added bears to my hate list. c_c - A Link to the Past (talk) 01:26, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Folding@home

I noticed you were one of the early members of the Wikipedia Folding@home team [3]. Do you know who set the team up? I'd just like to be able to edit the team a bit - logo, change the URL from en.wikipedia.org to wikipedia.org, &c. --Oldak Quill 05:56, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Defamation

Hi Schissel,

You may be interested in what's going on here. I have already sent a very angry letter to these people demanding that an apology be made; see my sandbox for the letter.

Kind regards,

Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 19:41, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

More stuff

Hi Schissel, it's me again.

Seeing that you and I have been conversing as of late, I was wondering if you would be interested in voting on my RfB. It is doing remarkably well, and I thought I'd let you in on it.

As far as that QuakeAID thing is concerned... well, we need to do something about that, then. I'll be talking to Jimbo later. Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 02:19, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Kit violin

At Talk:Kit violin, I replied with this. Thought I'd put it here in case you forgot it. BTW, now that I see your userpage, maybe you are an expert on the subject. I just said that in my comment there because I haven't seen any links from Google searches I've made that turn up with the term used interchangeably. So, here's what I said there: (have a nice day!)

Yes, I think so, but I'd like to have an expert on the subject say so. Why don't you put up the merge template, and see what happens? If nothing, I would say...be bold! --ViolinGirl^♪ 01:14, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Mozart and the Whale

I noticed you were active on the discussion page for this article. I've made some possibly controversial edits and would encourage you to visit the article and its talk page to view the edits and respond to my comments if necessary. Mrtea (talk) 05:03, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Sokolov

Sorry, I didn't know about the other guy, but I think including an alt use line should solve that problem. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 13:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC)