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I'm probably going to do the June Christy/Stan Kenton Duet CD next. One slight problem though with the 'Release Date' of 5 May 1955 which you might have been the one to have provided in the first place. I have the original recordings taking place over 3 dates: 7 May, 9 May and 19 May 1955. Thus the above 'Release Date' would seem to be in error.
My Capitol CD copy seems to have been released in 1993. It had 11 tracks on it. However when the album was re-released in 2001 an extra 2 tracks Body and Soul and You're Blasé (from the 19 May session) were added.
Any comments? Thumper2 ( talk) 16:29, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, Alan! And a very happy New Year to you as well!
I think you've done a great job on that article! It really is an FA now. Which poem is next? Amandajm ( talk) 10:44, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind message. And yes, definitely re-read Hydriotaphia — especially the last chapter. The best prose in English, in my view. Best, Hydriotaphia ( talk) 03:28, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my screw-up about "through"! Good to learn about Wikipedia stylistics. Best, Hydriotaphia ( talk) 14:50, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Alan,
I just wanted to drop you a note to thank you for chipping in on the SAQ article. Quite apart from the general dearth of editors on the Shakespeare related articles, this fairly controversial article in particular needs all the level-headed editors contributing that can be found. If for no other reason then because too few editors makes it impossible to determine consensus (it's just the same small group of people going back and forth on the same issues indefinitely); but also, as Tom mentioned, it's critical to get some fresh eyes on it from time to time. Anyways, I don't mean to guilt you into spending too much time on it—I'm sure the demands on your time are at least as bad as anyone else's—I just wanted to send you a note of thanks for taking a look and to emphasize that, the sheer volume of Talk page traffic notwithstanding, the article is in dire need of more editors to make further progress should your interests and available WikiTime allow. Cheers, -- Xover ( talk) 07:52, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you Alan, that's very kind of you to say so. I believe this is one of the core points of assuming good faith: when someone appears to be behaving irrationally, consider what their perspective might be that would explain why they do so. In most cases you will find a perfectly plausible and rational explanation for it. For instance, I've long since concluded that the main problem in discourse with most of the anti-Stratfordian editors here is that they genuinely believe their own arguments, and are probably at least as frustrated with the mainstream as we are with them. That doesn't make the interactions any more pleasant in itself, but at least it allows you to attempt a constructive and collegiate debate rather than immediately devolving into confrontational and distrustful invective. Not that I always, or even usually, manage to live by it; but I would certainly consider it something to aspire to. -- Xover ( talk) 21:12, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
palk+mary!! Yes, I wuz gunna change that typo when the text went up and then thought, 'Nah, too many tweaks. They'll get it.' 'Palmary' has a specific meaning at least in the personal slant of my lexicon. It was frequently used to compliment a fine, or brilliant, 'emendation' of a manuscript reading in classical languages. But I shudda fixed it, ay! Thanks Alan Nishidani ( talk) 09:17, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
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The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works traditionally attributed to him. Proponents (called "anti-Stratfordians") say that Shakespeare was a front to shield the identity of the real author or authors, who for some reason did not want or could not accept public credit. Although the idea has attracted much public interest, all but a few Shakespeare scholars and literary historians consider it a fringe belief, and for the most part disregard it except to rebut or disparage the claims. Despite the scholarly consensus, the controversy has spawned a vast body of literature, and more than 70 authorship candidates have been proposed, including Francis Bacon, the 6th Earl of Derby, Christopher Marlowe, and the 17th Earl of Oxford. In 2010 James S. Shapiro surveyed the topic in Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, in which he criticised academia for ignoring the topic and effectively surrendering the field to anti-Stratfordians, marking the first time a recognised Shakespeare scholar has devoted a book to the topic. Filmmaker Roland Emmerich's next movie, Anonymous, starring Rhys Ifans and Vanessa Redgrave, portrays Oxford as the real author. ( more...)
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Thanks for the feedback. I would have thought it exceeded "Start" class, purely on the basis of the amount of text, although I don't think it really works that way. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:36, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your edit summary, Alan, I was hoping somebody would revert in just that way. It's not good to have the dumb-ass bots insulting the newbies. Bishonen | talk 08:55, 9 November 2011 (UTC).
Thank you for sorting that out. I was a little hesitant about removing it entirely. Amandajm ( talk) 04:18, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Reading Ian McEwan's Saturday this afternoon after years of dithering, I recalled our disagreement about the respective merits of the James' brothers' prose styles. I find, as a solace, on p.58 that the neurosurgeon Perowne is said to think that:-
'James had the knack of fixing on the surprising commonplace - and. . .wrote a better-honed prose than the fussy brother who would rather run round a thing a dozen different ways than call it by its name.'2005 p.58
Eureka, I chortled to myself quietly, while thinking that probably you can't, if you're normal, chortle quietly and perhaps I should have thought 'chuckled to myself quietly', only I'm not normal! So there you go Alan (as he abandons the keyboard and shuffles towards the hearth to continue reading, he muses:'Then again, that's ironical. Perowne is a neurosurgeon with no background in literature, unlike his brilliant daughter, who has to tutor his literary lackiness..Hmm. Cheers Alan Nishidani ( talk) 14:00, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm not going to fight over the spelling. You can have your way. Just pointing out that your edit summary is a bit offensive. "Rooves" is a perfectly good word. Just try Googling it. Plenty of hits. It may be old fashioned, or there may be some other reason you haven't encountered it, but do be careful with absolute statements of what's correct and what's not. HiLo48 ( talk) 06:12, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I am not sure if you found the way to clarify an end apostrophe by adding a nonbreaking-space " " afterward. Example:
"George Orwell: '' 'As the bones know' ''"
Alternatively, I often italicize the final quotation mark:
"George Orwell: '' 'As the bones know'"''
Either way, in many browsers, an italicized end apostrophe will be hidden by the final quotation mark, and so an alternate format (using or italic quotation mark) should be used. - Wikid77 ( talk) 23:25, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Yes, you're right. I don't know why I made that change! Amandajm ( talk) 02:23, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the message. I was never in favour of the change, but I wasn't that bothered about it. I couldn't just change it back at the time because of the technicality that the redirect had been edited. I just couldn't be bothered to go to the effort of making a request to change it, so I just piggy-backed on Tom's initiative. Paul B ( talk) 13:27, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Just incidentally, Alan. If like me you think TV steals too much of our attention from the spoken word, I can highly recommend the site (ABC-Late Night Live) where Kate T. was interviewed. Ignore the politics interviews - far too rightwing, anyway, for my sense of sobriety - but it provides three solid interviews a day, four days a week. A better average of good hits than one gets if one frequents the TED list. I find at least two or three in a week, on major books and scholars particularly, enjoyable 'listens'. Adams casts a broad net world wide and over multiple disciplines, and most importantly, he's read the books whose authors he interviews. Mustn't blog on. Cheers. Nishidani ( talk) 15:49, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Please note that I have reverted the capitalization change here. Not every appearance of the words "middle" and "east" in succession refers to the geographic region the Middle East! Please take note of this potential mistake in the future. -- Alan W ( talk) 05:38, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
For the record I didn't just stride onto the SAQ talk page, it was a continuation of a discussion on the 17th E of Oxford talk page and on my own talk page. I've never done edits where I've been forced to go into all sorts of detailed rules. IMO it's a good way for certain editors to keep other editors away from these topics, which they will probably have done with me. Life's too short. Sceptic1954 ( talk) 19:44, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch; as a law student, I probably should've caught that mistake as I typed it. :P Inks.LWC ( talk) 20:24, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
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I understand the reason you removed my essay from the external links on the Shakespeare authorship question article, and I appreciate that wikipedia cares enough for the integrity of its service to exercise these principles. I only want to add that I regret no exception can be made when an article is itself very carefully documented and written painstakingly by someone knowledgeable in the field, though not yet published under editorial guidance. The guidelines you linked have a lot of words like "generally," "largely," and "usually," which seem to imply wiggle room if the page manager judged the article worth reading. --Still, it's better to have oversight than chaos, so keep up the good work and thank you for your efforts to uphold wikipedia's standards. GregB ( talk) 03:55, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for not discussing this here first. I'll leave it to you to remove, if you see fit, the phrase "marking the first time a recognised Shakespeare scholar has devoted a book to the topic." You reinstated it because "Spurgeon's book was not about the SAQ as such, it was about Shakespeare's imagery." It seems more accurate, though, to say it was about comparing Shakespeare's imagery with that of other writers. In her preface she describes her planned three-part project:
This first study deals chiefly with suggestions as to light thrown by the imagery (1) on Shakespeare's personality, temperament and thought, (2) on the themes and characters of the plays. The other [two] books [never completed -gb] will be chiefly concerned with question of authorship considered in the light of this freshly collected evidence, and with the background of Shakespeare's mind and the origins of his imagery. (ix)
And:
[This method] enables us to get nearer to Shakespeare himself... throws light from a fresh angle upon Shakespeare's imaginative and pictorial vision... and it seems to me to serve as an absolute beacon in the skies with regard to the vexed question of authorship. (x)
The topic of this first book, the only part of the project she completed, I think should be understood as groundwork for her larger project. It is appropriate that she focuses on particulars, as no other scholar in her day appeared willing to do the necessary work of distinguishing these authors not by circumstantial, but stylistic evidence. The first authors she takes up for comparison are the two most commonly put forward by contemporary anti-Stratfordians as the true author of the works, in her Chapter II, "Shakespeare's Imagery Compared With That of Marlowe and Bacon." A few pages into that chapter she revisits her general thesis:
Shakespeare and Bacon are the two greatest men of their day, and the claim that Bacon is in truth Shakespeare and wrote his plays is still held to be a serious and well-founded one by a large number of people. It is natural, therefore, that one should be eager to ask, 'What does an examination of their images tell us?' (16)
The conclusion of that chapter returns to her general thesis:
These facts all point one way, and all seem to support the view that we have here, behind these two sets of writings, not one mind only, but two highly individual and entirely different minds. (29)
The first paragraph of the next chapter, "Imagery of Shakespeare and Other Dramatists Compared," repeats the thesis "that such analysis throws light on each writer's individual tastes or experiences" (30). Her chapter X, "Association of Ideas," concludes,
This curious group of images illustrates better, I think, than any other, Shakespeare's strong and individual tendency to return under similar emotional stimulus to a similar picture or group of associated ideas, and it is obvious at once that it forms an extraordinarily reliable test of authorship. (199)
Practically every page emphasizes "his most individual way of expressing his imaginative vision" (213), but occasionally, especially near the beginnings and endings of chapters, she explicitly mentions "the question of authorship. The fact that this metaphor is continuous, that it starts in 1 Henry VI and is developed in the two later parts, seems to me one of many proofs that the same mind and imagination has functioned through all five plays..." (224). On the next-to-last page of the book she is still emphasizing the comparison: "No other writer, so far as I know, certainly no other dramatist, makes such continual use of running and recurrent symbol as does Shakespeare" (354).
I think at least adding the phrase "with the exception of Carolyn Spurgeon in her unfinished project" is warranted. In the light of the stylometrics studies using neural networks etc., which are cited pretty widely and which date from the late 20th century, I think the entire statement is doubtful enough to delete.
A final question: Should I infer from your reply above ("there is much you could contribute to other Wikipedia articles, material that would not be removed") that I should not offer further contributions to this particular page?
A final note: I'm not very interested in credit, but I would like to contribute to accuracy where possible. GregB ( talk) 13:27, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Alan,
I am new to Wikipedia, so I apologize for not talking about my edits before hand.
I just think we should include Queen Elizabeth I as a possible candidate for authoring Shakespeare.
As queen, it is certainly possible that the works of Shakespeare have been edited, or even written by her directly.
I have found a few others who think the same way.
Here is the best article I found:
http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2007/10/essay-by-edwin-young.html
I don't know how to get this discussion started.
Maybe you can help me on this.
Thanks!
Reedlander ( talk) 20:37, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear Alan,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.
Best regards, — Scott • talk 19:48, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Good morning. I stand corrected and enlightened about your removal of William Hazlitt the essayist from the category list of English Unitarians. Did not realize he had renounced his faith neither did I know the list would have excluded defectors from it. Cloptonson ( talk) 11:28, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Warmest Wishes for Health, Wealth and Wisdom through the Holidays and the Coming Year! Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 01:26, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
that I could be 'under the weather' in the sense of 'going on the shicker', dipping the vinous proboscis into an assortment of grogs and ending up 'four sheets to the wind.' But in my state, I'd only end up doing a Jackson Pollack ( Blue Poles) by going for the big spit and painting the porch with a kaleidoscopic laugh, which wouldn't tickle my industrious wife's sense of serene order as the year spins on its axle and the preludial hours of the coming year are spent in making far-fetched promises to be a bit more tidy around the house! Cheers, Alan, and have a good evening, and an even better New Year, if that's possible. Nishidani ( talk) 20:40, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
I think Bmcln1 has made clear their desire to not be further bothered with anything related to that article right now, and we should probably simply respect their wishes. Hopefully we may regain their participation at some point in the future when the activity on it is such that participation brings them joy rather than frustration, as all such endeavours should ultimately do. -- Xover ( talk) 10:56, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Alan - Thanks for understanding/tolerating my need to include all aspects of these fine jazz musicians' talents. And your input, including but not limited to format concerns, is always appreciated!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Scberry ( talk • contribs) 20 April 2017 04:30 UTC (UTC)
Oh, thanks! Yeah, I'm mostly a stub factory, but someone's gotta get things started, right? I was mostly dormant on article creation for a long time, but came back to it recently. I found Aronov in the process of generating a list of American musicians who have articles on the German Wikipedia but not here. They have a few editors who have maniacally devoted themselves to writing music articles, especially in jazz, for more than a decade, with the result that they've got thousands more articles than the English-language Wikipedia does. I wrote the Aronov one on a lark, because it was easy to put up from an at-hand reference. I've been generating a list of missing articles here at User:Chubbles/Missing American music; you might find other great pianists waiting in the wings on it. Chubbles ( talk) 06:29, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Alan,
thanks for your feedback. You motivated me to document my contribution more thoroughly. I hope you will agree that the restated article adds to the reader's understanding by summarizing the common arguments for each work and presenting them in chronological form. I have endeavored to include source material where possible. The topic is controversial, I attempt to convey the material in a neutral tonoe. Unified field ( talk) 13:39, 30 July 2017 (UTC) |
Hi Alan! I don't use my real name on here but we met at a party in Brooklyn recently. Great to see you here! Woshiwaiguoren ( talk) 10:30, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
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...to go put notifications on people's talk pages for every Christian holiday. But as your companionship, support, and encouragement here has been a particularly bright beacon in an otherwise turbulant and depressing world, and since we've had little cause to converse over the past year, I'll break my long-standing habit. Happy holidays, Alan, and all the best to you and yours in the new year!
That "the more the brightest, the most capable, and those with the greatest integrity leave, the worse the situation gets" is true enough, but don't forget that we still have some of those left. Nor that, despite what I imagine would be your most vehement protestations to the contrary, you yourself would fit that bill. And I am equally grateful every time your username pops up on my watchlist! -- Xover ( talk) 22:38, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Hypocoroisms like the ones you are added are explicitly discouraged in the MOS despite your misplaced confidence that "there is nothing in the rules" -- did you even look into the rules or do you just make things up as you go along? This is not your personal playground, but a community of editors. One thing that this community agreed on was a standard of style so articles look similar (and at their best), this style guide is called the Manual of Style (MOS). You've been around long enough to know about it, please stop your disruptive editing and your edit-warring. More information can be found at MOS:HYPOCORISM. JesseRafe ( talk) 13:31, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
Please look at the Henry Mancini article for a solution to the objections of user:JesseRafe.
This method seems to be okay since he hasn't reverted it yet!
JaneOlds ( talk) 14:03, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
I'm putting it into PR for two months: Wikipedia:Peer review/Bengal famine of 1943/archive2. You don't hafta comment of you don't want to. Lingzhi2 ♦ (talk) 02:11, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
In re this. It looks a little ridiculous because it happens that the ref tag is in the last talk page section. But if it were used in, say, three different threads up the page a ways, and the refs from multiple threads were displayed in a single auto-generated list at the end, it would make more sense. Short version: while not a widespread problem, this bot task is actually a good idea (IMO, etc., obviously). -- Xover ( talk) 05:22, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
{{
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template added—is the last section on the page it doesn't look particularly good; and even worse when that section is a short one. It's a definite downside. However, I'll note, it's not a downside associated particularly with the bot: it is just adding the template that many consider it good practice to use manually. There's also no question that some pathological cases require human judgement: your Judith Durham example being an apt case in point. I've fixed the badly borked template syntax used there, but, again, that's on the comment's original author and the error message you note was present regardless of the bot (just displayed elsewhere).But mainly the issue is a fundamental disagreement: the bot's existence is premised on it being a good thing to keep references within the section in which they are used (on talk pages, not in articles). Per your "Adultism" example this is the point of disagreement. That's fair enough, but I'll suggest you consider whether your position is based merely on the visual aspects, as your comment seems to suggest. That aspect I'm happy to concede is not optimal. But my main reasoning is that keeping refs with the relevant section is a whole lot less confusing in most instances. The talk page is not one coherent work like an article is (well, should be at least). Combining the refs into one list is akin to combining article references from multiple articles into one list. And it really doesn't help that that combined list, when auto-generated, appears at the end of the page and looks like it is attached to the last thread there.In any case, while I'm the first to lament all these bots making mechanical edits to the detriment of human efforts, and too often with very dubious value, in this particular instance I will argue that your disagreement is with the underlying practice and not with the bot per se. The bot's operator is running it on the understanding that using reflist-talk is a good thing, and ran an RFC on one of the village pumps to assess consensus before starting. Unlike a lot of bot operators that are remarkably uninterested in consensus if they can get away with enforcing their subjective preferences by automated editing. --
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Please don’t revert my edit because you didn’t heard of the rebranding. Go to their website and you’ll see Dunkin on it. It’s just trying to get outdated and as time goes by, stuff need to be updated. MetricSupporter89 ( talk) 19:19, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
Dear Alan W,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.
Best regards, Urhixidur ( talk) 18:39, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
Alan W ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
This must be a mistake; the block notice says that editing from 174.202.0.0/19 has been blocked, but as far as I know my IP address to the outside world is not in that range; I always edit when logged in, anyway; also, I am not in the list of blocked users.
Accept reason:
Thanks again, all who helped with this annoying (and somewhat disturbing, since I knew I had done nothing to deserve a block) problem. And, at least in part, the mystery has been solved. I had forgotten the URL for the Web site where you can discover what IP address you present to the Internet, though later it did occur to me that I could check that way. Now that you (Xover) reminded me, I checked. And, indeed, even though Verizon (and, yes, I do use Verizon Wireless as my ISP, even for my desktop computers) tells me my IP address is 100.x.x.x, the Internet, I now see, sees me as 174.x.x.x. Verizon must translate one address to another somewhere on their network before streaming me out to the world, and the 100.x.x.x address must be good just up to some router within Verizon's network. So this all now makes more sense to me. The only part that is still a mystery to me is, How is it that I could work around the block by switching browsers? (Doesn't seem to be a cookie thing; I thought of that at one point and removed all the Wiki-cookies and logged in again, but that didn't help.) The other browser shows the same IP address via that Web service. I would have been surprised if it didn't, since I don't think Verizon would swap IP addresses on me while I was in the middle of communicating over the Internet, only maybe if I rebooted my modem/router. So I still can't understand that part of this incident.
Also, I never did recall reading that even admins can't just look at Wikipedians' IP addresses. Every day, it sometimes feels like, I learn something new around here, and I've been on Wikipedia for over 15 years. Good, anyhow, that it is possible for admins to grant me the privilege of bypassing a block like this one, and now I'm back in Wiki-business. Good evening, morning, or whatever time it is where all of you reside. -- Alan W ( talk) 03:55, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
Don't say " Fix ugly error". "Fix error" will suffice. Or, better still, "Fix redundant formatting in cite news template". It avoids the possibility of misinterpretation. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:04, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. I know this may sound a bit ridiculous but I’ve noticed the main picture shown of the Louisville skyline looks a bit outdated and thought maybe it could be changed with a more updated one with the Omni Hotel in it. Just a suggestion. Bonnycastledac ( talk) 03:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
By stubborn habit I stick to my reftoolbar [2], but in cases like SAQ i should learn to adapt to the environment. Could you recommend a tool or guide so I can attempt to get the hang of this form of referencing? Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 17:40, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi User:Alan W, I appreciate your interest in Thomas Moore, but please stop maintaining that he was not a composer as you have done in your last edits on his page. It may not be the best known and not the most important aspect of his career, but that doesn't mean it is not true. I know that he didn't write the musical arrangements of the Irish Melodies (which were done originally by John Andrew Stevenson and Henry Bishop, and some others later, including Michael William Balfe). But there is more to Moore, musically, than just the Irish Melodies. For example, I have in my collection a work called A Set of Glees that is "Written and Composed by Thomas Moore Esq." (to quote from the title page, published London: J. Power, c. 1832), and I have a few original songs also. When I find more time, I will add a section to the Thomas Moore article, but for the time being, please just accept it, please, that was a composer, too. – Aklein62 ( talk) 06:23, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi there. I've left a comment on Template talk:Romanticism about what seems to be the gender bias in Template:Romanticism. As someone involved in the template, I'd value your thoughts. Dsp13 ( talk) 14:45, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
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I'm probably going to do the June Christy/Stan Kenton Duet CD next. One slight problem though with the 'Release Date' of 5 May 1955 which you might have been the one to have provided in the first place. I have the original recordings taking place over 3 dates: 7 May, 9 May and 19 May 1955. Thus the above 'Release Date' would seem to be in error.
My Capitol CD copy seems to have been released in 1993. It had 11 tracks on it. However when the album was re-released in 2001 an extra 2 tracks Body and Soul and You're Blasé (from the 19 May session) were added.
Any comments? Thumper2 ( talk) 16:29, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, Alan! And a very happy New Year to you as well!
I think you've done a great job on that article! It really is an FA now. Which poem is next? Amandajm ( talk) 10:44, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind message. And yes, definitely re-read Hydriotaphia — especially the last chapter. The best prose in English, in my view. Best, Hydriotaphia ( talk) 03:28, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my screw-up about "through"! Good to learn about Wikipedia stylistics. Best, Hydriotaphia ( talk) 14:50, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Alan,
I just wanted to drop you a note to thank you for chipping in on the SAQ article. Quite apart from the general dearth of editors on the Shakespeare related articles, this fairly controversial article in particular needs all the level-headed editors contributing that can be found. If for no other reason then because too few editors makes it impossible to determine consensus (it's just the same small group of people going back and forth on the same issues indefinitely); but also, as Tom mentioned, it's critical to get some fresh eyes on it from time to time. Anyways, I don't mean to guilt you into spending too much time on it—I'm sure the demands on your time are at least as bad as anyone else's—I just wanted to send you a note of thanks for taking a look and to emphasize that, the sheer volume of Talk page traffic notwithstanding, the article is in dire need of more editors to make further progress should your interests and available WikiTime allow. Cheers, -- Xover ( talk) 07:52, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you Alan, that's very kind of you to say so. I believe this is one of the core points of assuming good faith: when someone appears to be behaving irrationally, consider what their perspective might be that would explain why they do so. In most cases you will find a perfectly plausible and rational explanation for it. For instance, I've long since concluded that the main problem in discourse with most of the anti-Stratfordian editors here is that they genuinely believe their own arguments, and are probably at least as frustrated with the mainstream as we are with them. That doesn't make the interactions any more pleasant in itself, but at least it allows you to attempt a constructive and collegiate debate rather than immediately devolving into confrontational and distrustful invective. Not that I always, or even usually, manage to live by it; but I would certainly consider it something to aspire to. -- Xover ( talk) 21:12, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
palk+mary!! Yes, I wuz gunna change that typo when the text went up and then thought, 'Nah, too many tweaks. They'll get it.' 'Palmary' has a specific meaning at least in the personal slant of my lexicon. It was frequently used to compliment a fine, or brilliant, 'emendation' of a manuscript reading in classical languages. But I shudda fixed it, ay! Thanks Alan Nishidani ( talk) 09:17, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
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The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works traditionally attributed to him. Proponents (called "anti-Stratfordians") say that Shakespeare was a front to shield the identity of the real author or authors, who for some reason did not want or could not accept public credit. Although the idea has attracted much public interest, all but a few Shakespeare scholars and literary historians consider it a fringe belief, and for the most part disregard it except to rebut or disparage the claims. Despite the scholarly consensus, the controversy has spawned a vast body of literature, and more than 70 authorship candidates have been proposed, including Francis Bacon, the 6th Earl of Derby, Christopher Marlowe, and the 17th Earl of Oxford. In 2010 James S. Shapiro surveyed the topic in Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, in which he criticised academia for ignoring the topic and effectively surrendering the field to anti-Stratfordians, marking the first time a recognised Shakespeare scholar has devoted a book to the topic. Filmmaker Roland Emmerich's next movie, Anonymous, starring Rhys Ifans and Vanessa Redgrave, portrays Oxford as the real author. ( more...)
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Thanks for the feedback. I would have thought it exceeded "Start" class, purely on the basis of the amount of text, although I don't think it really works that way. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:36, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your edit summary, Alan, I was hoping somebody would revert in just that way. It's not good to have the dumb-ass bots insulting the newbies. Bishonen | talk 08:55, 9 November 2011 (UTC).
Thank you for sorting that out. I was a little hesitant about removing it entirely. Amandajm ( talk) 04:18, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Reading Ian McEwan's Saturday this afternoon after years of dithering, I recalled our disagreement about the respective merits of the James' brothers' prose styles. I find, as a solace, on p.58 that the neurosurgeon Perowne is said to think that:-
'James had the knack of fixing on the surprising commonplace - and. . .wrote a better-honed prose than the fussy brother who would rather run round a thing a dozen different ways than call it by its name.'2005 p.58
Eureka, I chortled to myself quietly, while thinking that probably you can't, if you're normal, chortle quietly and perhaps I should have thought 'chuckled to myself quietly', only I'm not normal! So there you go Alan (as he abandons the keyboard and shuffles towards the hearth to continue reading, he muses:'Then again, that's ironical. Perowne is a neurosurgeon with no background in literature, unlike his brilliant daughter, who has to tutor his literary lackiness..Hmm. Cheers Alan Nishidani ( talk) 14:00, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm not going to fight over the spelling. You can have your way. Just pointing out that your edit summary is a bit offensive. "Rooves" is a perfectly good word. Just try Googling it. Plenty of hits. It may be old fashioned, or there may be some other reason you haven't encountered it, but do be careful with absolute statements of what's correct and what's not. HiLo48 ( talk) 06:12, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I am not sure if you found the way to clarify an end apostrophe by adding a nonbreaking-space " " afterward. Example:
"George Orwell: '' 'As the bones know' ''"
Alternatively, I often italicize the final quotation mark:
"George Orwell: '' 'As the bones know'"''
Either way, in many browsers, an italicized end apostrophe will be hidden by the final quotation mark, and so an alternate format (using or italic quotation mark) should be used. - Wikid77 ( talk) 23:25, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Yes, you're right. I don't know why I made that change! Amandajm ( talk) 02:23, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the message. I was never in favour of the change, but I wasn't that bothered about it. I couldn't just change it back at the time because of the technicality that the redirect had been edited. I just couldn't be bothered to go to the effort of making a request to change it, so I just piggy-backed on Tom's initiative. Paul B ( talk) 13:27, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Just incidentally, Alan. If like me you think TV steals too much of our attention from the spoken word, I can highly recommend the site (ABC-Late Night Live) where Kate T. was interviewed. Ignore the politics interviews - far too rightwing, anyway, for my sense of sobriety - but it provides three solid interviews a day, four days a week. A better average of good hits than one gets if one frequents the TED list. I find at least two or three in a week, on major books and scholars particularly, enjoyable 'listens'. Adams casts a broad net world wide and over multiple disciplines, and most importantly, he's read the books whose authors he interviews. Mustn't blog on. Cheers. Nishidani ( talk) 15:49, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Please note that I have reverted the capitalization change here. Not every appearance of the words "middle" and "east" in succession refers to the geographic region the Middle East! Please take note of this potential mistake in the future. -- Alan W ( talk) 05:38, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
For the record I didn't just stride onto the SAQ talk page, it was a continuation of a discussion on the 17th E of Oxford talk page and on my own talk page. I've never done edits where I've been forced to go into all sorts of detailed rules. IMO it's a good way for certain editors to keep other editors away from these topics, which they will probably have done with me. Life's too short. Sceptic1954 ( talk) 19:44, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the catch; as a law student, I probably should've caught that mistake as I typed it. :P Inks.LWC ( talk) 20:24, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
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I understand the reason you removed my essay from the external links on the Shakespeare authorship question article, and I appreciate that wikipedia cares enough for the integrity of its service to exercise these principles. I only want to add that I regret no exception can be made when an article is itself very carefully documented and written painstakingly by someone knowledgeable in the field, though not yet published under editorial guidance. The guidelines you linked have a lot of words like "generally," "largely," and "usually," which seem to imply wiggle room if the page manager judged the article worth reading. --Still, it's better to have oversight than chaos, so keep up the good work and thank you for your efforts to uphold wikipedia's standards. GregB ( talk) 03:55, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for not discussing this here first. I'll leave it to you to remove, if you see fit, the phrase "marking the first time a recognised Shakespeare scholar has devoted a book to the topic." You reinstated it because "Spurgeon's book was not about the SAQ as such, it was about Shakespeare's imagery." It seems more accurate, though, to say it was about comparing Shakespeare's imagery with that of other writers. In her preface she describes her planned three-part project:
This first study deals chiefly with suggestions as to light thrown by the imagery (1) on Shakespeare's personality, temperament and thought, (2) on the themes and characters of the plays. The other [two] books [never completed -gb] will be chiefly concerned with question of authorship considered in the light of this freshly collected evidence, and with the background of Shakespeare's mind and the origins of his imagery. (ix)
And:
[This method] enables us to get nearer to Shakespeare himself... throws light from a fresh angle upon Shakespeare's imaginative and pictorial vision... and it seems to me to serve as an absolute beacon in the skies with regard to the vexed question of authorship. (x)
The topic of this first book, the only part of the project she completed, I think should be understood as groundwork for her larger project. It is appropriate that she focuses on particulars, as no other scholar in her day appeared willing to do the necessary work of distinguishing these authors not by circumstantial, but stylistic evidence. The first authors she takes up for comparison are the two most commonly put forward by contemporary anti-Stratfordians as the true author of the works, in her Chapter II, "Shakespeare's Imagery Compared With That of Marlowe and Bacon." A few pages into that chapter she revisits her general thesis:
Shakespeare and Bacon are the two greatest men of their day, and the claim that Bacon is in truth Shakespeare and wrote his plays is still held to be a serious and well-founded one by a large number of people. It is natural, therefore, that one should be eager to ask, 'What does an examination of their images tell us?' (16)
The conclusion of that chapter returns to her general thesis:
These facts all point one way, and all seem to support the view that we have here, behind these two sets of writings, not one mind only, but two highly individual and entirely different minds. (29)
The first paragraph of the next chapter, "Imagery of Shakespeare and Other Dramatists Compared," repeats the thesis "that such analysis throws light on each writer's individual tastes or experiences" (30). Her chapter X, "Association of Ideas," concludes,
This curious group of images illustrates better, I think, than any other, Shakespeare's strong and individual tendency to return under similar emotional stimulus to a similar picture or group of associated ideas, and it is obvious at once that it forms an extraordinarily reliable test of authorship. (199)
Practically every page emphasizes "his most individual way of expressing his imaginative vision" (213), but occasionally, especially near the beginnings and endings of chapters, she explicitly mentions "the question of authorship. The fact that this metaphor is continuous, that it starts in 1 Henry VI and is developed in the two later parts, seems to me one of many proofs that the same mind and imagination has functioned through all five plays..." (224). On the next-to-last page of the book she is still emphasizing the comparison: "No other writer, so far as I know, certainly no other dramatist, makes such continual use of running and recurrent symbol as does Shakespeare" (354).
I think at least adding the phrase "with the exception of Carolyn Spurgeon in her unfinished project" is warranted. In the light of the stylometrics studies using neural networks etc., which are cited pretty widely and which date from the late 20th century, I think the entire statement is doubtful enough to delete.
A final question: Should I infer from your reply above ("there is much you could contribute to other Wikipedia articles, material that would not be removed") that I should not offer further contributions to this particular page?
A final note: I'm not very interested in credit, but I would like to contribute to accuracy where possible. GregB ( talk) 13:27, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Alan,
I am new to Wikipedia, so I apologize for not talking about my edits before hand.
I just think we should include Queen Elizabeth I as a possible candidate for authoring Shakespeare.
As queen, it is certainly possible that the works of Shakespeare have been edited, or even written by her directly.
I have found a few others who think the same way.
Here is the best article I found:
http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2007/10/essay-by-edwin-young.html
I don't know how to get this discussion started.
Maybe you can help me on this.
Thanks!
Reedlander ( talk) 20:37, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Dear Alan,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.
Best regards, — Scott • talk 19:48, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Good morning. I stand corrected and enlightened about your removal of William Hazlitt the essayist from the category list of English Unitarians. Did not realize he had renounced his faith neither did I know the list would have excluded defectors from it. Cloptonson ( talk) 11:28, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Warmest Wishes for Health, Wealth and Wisdom through the Holidays and the Coming Year! Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 01:26, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
that I could be 'under the weather' in the sense of 'going on the shicker', dipping the vinous proboscis into an assortment of grogs and ending up 'four sheets to the wind.' But in my state, I'd only end up doing a Jackson Pollack ( Blue Poles) by going for the big spit and painting the porch with a kaleidoscopic laugh, which wouldn't tickle my industrious wife's sense of serene order as the year spins on its axle and the preludial hours of the coming year are spent in making far-fetched promises to be a bit more tidy around the house! Cheers, Alan, and have a good evening, and an even better New Year, if that's possible. Nishidani ( talk) 20:40, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
I think Bmcln1 has made clear their desire to not be further bothered with anything related to that article right now, and we should probably simply respect their wishes. Hopefully we may regain their participation at some point in the future when the activity on it is such that participation brings them joy rather than frustration, as all such endeavours should ultimately do. -- Xover ( talk) 10:56, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Alan - Thanks for understanding/tolerating my need to include all aspects of these fine jazz musicians' talents. And your input, including but not limited to format concerns, is always appreciated!— Preceding unsigned comment added by Scberry ( talk • contribs) 20 April 2017 04:30 UTC (UTC)
Oh, thanks! Yeah, I'm mostly a stub factory, but someone's gotta get things started, right? I was mostly dormant on article creation for a long time, but came back to it recently. I found Aronov in the process of generating a list of American musicians who have articles on the German Wikipedia but not here. They have a few editors who have maniacally devoted themselves to writing music articles, especially in jazz, for more than a decade, with the result that they've got thousands more articles than the English-language Wikipedia does. I wrote the Aronov one on a lark, because it was easy to put up from an at-hand reference. I've been generating a list of missing articles here at User:Chubbles/Missing American music; you might find other great pianists waiting in the wings on it. Chubbles ( talk) 06:29, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Alan,
thanks for your feedback. You motivated me to document my contribution more thoroughly. I hope you will agree that the restated article adds to the reader's understanding by summarizing the common arguments for each work and presenting them in chronological form. I have endeavored to include source material where possible. The topic is controversial, I attempt to convey the material in a neutral tonoe. Unified field ( talk) 13:39, 30 July 2017 (UTC) |
Hi Alan! I don't use my real name on here but we met at a party in Brooklyn recently. Great to see you here! Woshiwaiguoren ( talk) 10:30, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
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...to go put notifications on people's talk pages for every Christian holiday. But as your companionship, support, and encouragement here has been a particularly bright beacon in an otherwise turbulant and depressing world, and since we've had little cause to converse over the past year, I'll break my long-standing habit. Happy holidays, Alan, and all the best to you and yours in the new year!
That "the more the brightest, the most capable, and those with the greatest integrity leave, the worse the situation gets" is true enough, but don't forget that we still have some of those left. Nor that, despite what I imagine would be your most vehement protestations to the contrary, you yourself would fit that bill. And I am equally grateful every time your username pops up on my watchlist! -- Xover ( talk) 22:38, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Hypocoroisms like the ones you are added are explicitly discouraged in the MOS despite your misplaced confidence that "there is nothing in the rules" -- did you even look into the rules or do you just make things up as you go along? This is not your personal playground, but a community of editors. One thing that this community agreed on was a standard of style so articles look similar (and at their best), this style guide is called the Manual of Style (MOS). You've been around long enough to know about it, please stop your disruptive editing and your edit-warring. More information can be found at MOS:HYPOCORISM. JesseRafe ( talk) 13:31, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
Please look at the Henry Mancini article for a solution to the objections of user:JesseRafe.
This method seems to be okay since he hasn't reverted it yet!
JaneOlds ( talk) 14:03, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
I'm putting it into PR for two months: Wikipedia:Peer review/Bengal famine of 1943/archive2. You don't hafta comment of you don't want to. Lingzhi2 ♦ (talk) 02:11, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
In re this. It looks a little ridiculous because it happens that the ref tag is in the last talk page section. But if it were used in, say, three different threads up the page a ways, and the refs from multiple threads were displayed in a single auto-generated list at the end, it would make more sense. Short version: while not a widespread problem, this bot task is actually a good idea (IMO, etc., obviously). -- Xover ( talk) 05:22, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
{{
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template added—is the last section on the page it doesn't look particularly good; and even worse when that section is a short one. It's a definite downside. However, I'll note, it's not a downside associated particularly with the bot: it is just adding the template that many consider it good practice to use manually. There's also no question that some pathological cases require human judgement: your Judith Durham example being an apt case in point. I've fixed the badly borked template syntax used there, but, again, that's on the comment's original author and the error message you note was present regardless of the bot (just displayed elsewhere).But mainly the issue is a fundamental disagreement: the bot's existence is premised on it being a good thing to keep references within the section in which they are used (on talk pages, not in articles). Per your "Adultism" example this is the point of disagreement. That's fair enough, but I'll suggest you consider whether your position is based merely on the visual aspects, as your comment seems to suggest. That aspect I'm happy to concede is not optimal. But my main reasoning is that keeping refs with the relevant section is a whole lot less confusing in most instances. The talk page is not one coherent work like an article is (well, should be at least). Combining the refs into one list is akin to combining article references from multiple articles into one list. And it really doesn't help that that combined list, when auto-generated, appears at the end of the page and looks like it is attached to the last thread there.In any case, while I'm the first to lament all these bots making mechanical edits to the detriment of human efforts, and too often with very dubious value, in this particular instance I will argue that your disagreement is with the underlying practice and not with the bot per se. The bot's operator is running it on the understanding that using reflist-talk is a good thing, and ran an RFC on one of the village pumps to assess consensus before starting. Unlike a lot of bot operators that are remarkably uninterested in consensus if they can get away with enforcing their subjective preferences by automated editing. --
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Please don’t revert my edit because you didn’t heard of the rebranding. Go to their website and you’ll see Dunkin on it. It’s just trying to get outdated and as time goes by, stuff need to be updated. MetricSupporter89 ( talk) 19:19, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
Dear Alan W,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.
Best regards, Urhixidur ( talk) 18:39, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
Alan W ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
This must be a mistake; the block notice says that editing from 174.202.0.0/19 has been blocked, but as far as I know my IP address to the outside world is not in that range; I always edit when logged in, anyway; also, I am not in the list of blocked users.
Accept reason:
Thanks again, all who helped with this annoying (and somewhat disturbing, since I knew I had done nothing to deserve a block) problem. And, at least in part, the mystery has been solved. I had forgotten the URL for the Web site where you can discover what IP address you present to the Internet, though later it did occur to me that I could check that way. Now that you (Xover) reminded me, I checked. And, indeed, even though Verizon (and, yes, I do use Verizon Wireless as my ISP, even for my desktop computers) tells me my IP address is 100.x.x.x, the Internet, I now see, sees me as 174.x.x.x. Verizon must translate one address to another somewhere on their network before streaming me out to the world, and the 100.x.x.x address must be good just up to some router within Verizon's network. So this all now makes more sense to me. The only part that is still a mystery to me is, How is it that I could work around the block by switching browsers? (Doesn't seem to be a cookie thing; I thought of that at one point and removed all the Wiki-cookies and logged in again, but that didn't help.) The other browser shows the same IP address via that Web service. I would have been surprised if it didn't, since I don't think Verizon would swap IP addresses on me while I was in the middle of communicating over the Internet, only maybe if I rebooted my modem/router. So I still can't understand that part of this incident.
Also, I never did recall reading that even admins can't just look at Wikipedians' IP addresses. Every day, it sometimes feels like, I learn something new around here, and I've been on Wikipedia for over 15 years. Good, anyhow, that it is possible for admins to grant me the privilege of bypassing a block like this one, and now I'm back in Wiki-business. Good evening, morning, or whatever time it is where all of you reside. -- Alan W ( talk) 03:55, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
Don't say " Fix ugly error". "Fix error" will suffice. Or, better still, "Fix redundant formatting in cite news template". It avoids the possibility of misinterpretation. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:04, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
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You might be interested in s:Table-Talk, newly scan-backed and corrected. -- Xover ( talk) 13:33, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I know this may sound a bit ridiculous but I’ve noticed the main picture shown of the Louisville skyline looks a bit outdated and thought maybe it could be changed with a more updated one with the Omni Hotel in it. Just a suggestion. Bonnycastledac ( talk) 03:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
By stubborn habit I stick to my reftoolbar [2], but in cases like SAQ i should learn to adapt to the environment. Could you recommend a tool or guide so I can attempt to get the hang of this form of referencing? Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 17:40, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi User:Alan W, I appreciate your interest in Thomas Moore, but please stop maintaining that he was not a composer as you have done in your last edits on his page. It may not be the best known and not the most important aspect of his career, but that doesn't mean it is not true. I know that he didn't write the musical arrangements of the Irish Melodies (which were done originally by John Andrew Stevenson and Henry Bishop, and some others later, including Michael William Balfe). But there is more to Moore, musically, than just the Irish Melodies. For example, I have in my collection a work called A Set of Glees that is "Written and Composed by Thomas Moore Esq." (to quote from the title page, published London: J. Power, c. 1832), and I have a few original songs also. When I find more time, I will add a section to the Thomas Moore article, but for the time being, please just accept it, please, that was a composer, too. – Aklein62 ( talk) 06:23, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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Hi there. I've left a comment on Template talk:Romanticism about what seems to be the gender bias in Template:Romanticism. As someone involved in the template, I'd value your thoughts. Dsp13 ( talk) 14:45, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
As a student learning about the nuances of Wikipedia editing, the editing with specific feedback on my addition to the Hurricane Sandy page is much appreciated.
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Hi. I can do some light cheerleading and stuff, but pleased be warned that I am a thin sliver of my former Gryphon self. The mere thought... and here I am not exaggerating... of the fetid slime I had to swim through in the past makes me feel as if earth's gravity had nearly doubled, and its skies are all grim and gray. Lingzhi.Renascence ( talk) 23:33, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
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