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I found an existing stub article on a verifiably notable person, Leslie Bassett, who happens to be a personal friend of mine. I would like to honor him by expanding the article, but as it would come under the Biography of Living Persons category, I understand that it would need to be undertaken very carefully. Can anyone suggest the best way to go about this project?
I have explored his own website & believe that it could be the basis for fleshing out the article. My idea is to contact him, tell him what I'd like to do & enlist his assistance in writing the article (or at least approving / editing an article that I would write based on the information on his website.) Does that sound like a plan?
I realize that his website will not be considered a "reliable source" for verifiability purposes, but I'm confident that objective third party sources can easily be found to substantiate the statements I / we will make.
I made an initial edit, just adding the fact that he is now an *emeritus* professor (Should I cite the University of Michigan site from which I obtained the actual name of his professorship?) and the detail of his Pulitzer Prize, (which I obtained from the category link that was already in the stub article) because I thought those two facts were totally uncontroversial, a matter of public record and important basic facts. However, I don't want to go any farther until I have some assurance that I'm going about it in an appropriate manner.
Thanks for any help you all can give to a newcomer!
Hi Laurie!
I think that expanding his article is an excellent idea; he's a very notable composer indeed, and needs a better article. Some details and the works list are verifiable in the latest New Grove, and if there are published sources for other details they should suffice as well. (I met him, but don't know him well, and prefer to be anonymous here.) Best wishes, and a warm welcome to Wikipedia!! Antandrus (talk) 05:48, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
The categories show up fine. You probably needed to hit the Refresh button to force the server to show the newest version of the page. I found this article tagged for speedy deletion. I removed the tag, and moved the material from the talk into the article, edited some to avoid copyright violation. Barely, and it could use more rewording to take it farther away from the copyrighted text.
I removed the deletion tag, but I wouldn't be surprised if another editor took it to WP:AFD sometime. As you can imagine, we get scores of articles on musical groups every day and are pretty wary of including most of them, se WP:MUSIC for our standards. Your best bet for this article is to dig up references to the group from neutral and respected third parties, e.g. newspaper and magazine articles and reviews. These can be placed in the External links section. This will go a long way toward protecting the article from future deletion. If no such third party material exists, then yeah the article will probably be deleted eventually. Herostratus 14:59, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi again, Laurie. Yes, you were right: it was vandalism. When you see something like this but aren't sure, sometimes it is helpful to look at the other contributions by the same editor [1] -- clicking on the "diffs" shows you that it's a bored school kid. You can also read about how to deal with vandalism generally here: Wikipedia:Vandalism. Thanks for pointing it out--I fixed it--and happy editing! Antandrus (talk) 01:28, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
I notice that you've previously fixed some stuff on the Epicanthal fold article, thus I direct my request to you, as I'm new here & don't know how to do them myself. 1) The pic of the young woman has some vandalism to the copyright notice. 2) The other pic says it was cropped from a larger pic. The link to that larger pic is broken. Thanks! Mpwrmnt 06:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Looking at this, [2] I'd say you are doing a great job! Please continue; you're getting the hang of it nicely. Happy editing! Antandrus (talk) 15:35, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
The stuff I added on Salzedo is from Carlos Salzedo: From Aeolian to Thunder, by Dewey Owens (Salzedo's student). For a while I wasn't entirely convinced they had actually published it, but it seems there are more copies out there than my teacher's.... I'll be adding more as long as I urgently need to finish my grad school applications.
Anyway, you don't appear to be a harpist. How'd you get interested in Salzedo?
--Girlfriend of Merv 01:55, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
No, Anonymous users do not have the power to unblock themselves or anybody else, nor do logged in users. In this case, the IP address user merely placed the template on his page, indicating that he had been unblocked, when in reality, he hadn't. Cheers and Happy Editing. Canadian- Bacon 18:24, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! I had to laugh when I read the VP post and reply: I'm so not a techie at these things, and almost never edit MediaWiki things myself (preferring to leave it to people who specialise in such stuff: I'm just a musicologist and composer, LOL). Here, by the way, is a list of all the Mediawiki messages: Special:Allmessages. You could work directly with Mike Dillon if there is something you'd like to see changed.
Have to get away from Wikipedia for a bit, so I'm off to San Diego shortly to see Boris Godunov! Sure do hope it's a good production ... :) Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 03:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
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I was just thinking of you since I was over at Vox Femina Los Angeles and remembered your nice note to me. I see you're not very active, but I hope you are doing well! Herostratus ( talk) 19:42, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Welcome!
Hello, Mpwrmnt, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Sr13
18:46, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I found an existing stub article on a verifiably notable person, Leslie Bassett, who happens to be a personal friend of mine. I would like to honor him by expanding the article, but as it would come under the Biography of Living Persons category, I understand that it would need to be undertaken very carefully. Can anyone suggest the best way to go about this project?
I have explored his own website & believe that it could be the basis for fleshing out the article. My idea is to contact him, tell him what I'd like to do & enlist his assistance in writing the article (or at least approving / editing an article that I would write based on the information on his website.) Does that sound like a plan?
I realize that his website will not be considered a "reliable source" for verifiability purposes, but I'm confident that objective third party sources can easily be found to substantiate the statements I / we will make.
I made an initial edit, just adding the fact that he is now an *emeritus* professor (Should I cite the University of Michigan site from which I obtained the actual name of his professorship?) and the detail of his Pulitzer Prize, (which I obtained from the category link that was already in the stub article) because I thought those two facts were totally uncontroversial, a matter of public record and important basic facts. However, I don't want to go any farther until I have some assurance that I'm going about it in an appropriate manner.
Thanks for any help you all can give to a newcomer!
Hi Laurie!
I think that expanding his article is an excellent idea; he's a very notable composer indeed, and needs a better article. Some details and the works list are verifiable in the latest New Grove, and if there are published sources for other details they should suffice as well. (I met him, but don't know him well, and prefer to be anonymous here.) Best wishes, and a warm welcome to Wikipedia!! Antandrus (talk) 05:48, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
The categories show up fine. You probably needed to hit the Refresh button to force the server to show the newest version of the page. I found this article tagged for speedy deletion. I removed the tag, and moved the material from the talk into the article, edited some to avoid copyright violation. Barely, and it could use more rewording to take it farther away from the copyrighted text.
I removed the deletion tag, but I wouldn't be surprised if another editor took it to WP:AFD sometime. As you can imagine, we get scores of articles on musical groups every day and are pretty wary of including most of them, se WP:MUSIC for our standards. Your best bet for this article is to dig up references to the group from neutral and respected third parties, e.g. newspaper and magazine articles and reviews. These can be placed in the External links section. This will go a long way toward protecting the article from future deletion. If no such third party material exists, then yeah the article will probably be deleted eventually. Herostratus 14:59, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi again, Laurie. Yes, you were right: it was vandalism. When you see something like this but aren't sure, sometimes it is helpful to look at the other contributions by the same editor [1] -- clicking on the "diffs" shows you that it's a bored school kid. You can also read about how to deal with vandalism generally here: Wikipedia:Vandalism. Thanks for pointing it out--I fixed it--and happy editing! Antandrus (talk) 01:28, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
I notice that you've previously fixed some stuff on the Epicanthal fold article, thus I direct my request to you, as I'm new here & don't know how to do them myself. 1) The pic of the young woman has some vandalism to the copyright notice. 2) The other pic says it was cropped from a larger pic. The link to that larger pic is broken. Thanks! Mpwrmnt 06:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Looking at this, [2] I'd say you are doing a great job! Please continue; you're getting the hang of it nicely. Happy editing! Antandrus (talk) 15:35, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
The stuff I added on Salzedo is from Carlos Salzedo: From Aeolian to Thunder, by Dewey Owens (Salzedo's student). For a while I wasn't entirely convinced they had actually published it, but it seems there are more copies out there than my teacher's.... I'll be adding more as long as I urgently need to finish my grad school applications.
Anyway, you don't appear to be a harpist. How'd you get interested in Salzedo?
--Girlfriend of Merv 01:55, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
No, Anonymous users do not have the power to unblock themselves or anybody else, nor do logged in users. In this case, the IP address user merely placed the template on his page, indicating that he had been unblocked, when in reality, he hadn't. Cheers and Happy Editing. Canadian- Bacon 18:24, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! I had to laugh when I read the VP post and reply: I'm so not a techie at these things, and almost never edit MediaWiki things myself (preferring to leave it to people who specialise in such stuff: I'm just a musicologist and composer, LOL). Here, by the way, is a list of all the Mediawiki messages: Special:Allmessages. You could work directly with Mike Dillon if there is something you'd like to see changed.
Have to get away from Wikipedia for a bit, so I'm off to San Diego shortly to see Boris Godunov! Sure do hope it's a good production ... :) Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 03:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Herostratus has given you a
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Spread the goodness of kittens by adding {{ subst:Kitten}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or kittynap their kitten with {{ subst:Kittynap}}
Herostratus ( talk) 19:42, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
I was just thinking of you since I was over at Vox Femina Los Angeles and remembered your nice note to me. I see you're not very active, but I hope you are doing well! Herostratus ( talk) 19:42, 3 March 2011 (UTC)