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There seems to be a bit of a spate of nominating conductors for deletion at the moment. Markku Laakso is already deleted and Sasha Mäkilä and Leonid Korchmar are under discussion. Does anyone have any opinions? -- Deskford ( talk) 12:43, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: Here's another one of those old Afc submissions which now is slated for deletion as a stale draft. Is this a notable musician, and should the article be kept? — Anne Delong ( talk) 00:41, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music enthusiasts: This old Afc submission, now slated for deletion as a stale draft, mentions unreferenced achievements. Is this worth saving and fixing up? — Anne Delong ( talk) 23:09, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear music experts: I found this abandoned Afc submission that will soon be deleted as a stale draft. I didn't find any reviews in English, but I don't really know where to look. Is this a notable singer, or should the article be let go? — Anne Delong ( talk) 23:15, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
What are Wikipedia's policies on "Reviews" sections in articles? I have just found one in the article Gediminas Gelgotas. Toccata quarta ( talk) 08:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Please note that this article is under attack by a POV pusher, who has even removed mention of Tchaikovsky's homosexuality from the lead, claimed that Tchaikovsky having been homosexual is "unproven" and that the article has "no source [for it]", and has marked his content edits as " minor". There's also plenty of nonsense floating around on the article's talk page. Toccata quarta ( talk) 07:29, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: Here's another one of those old abandoned Afc submissions. Is this a notable organization, and should the article be kept? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:34, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: This Afc page was never submitted to be added to the encyclopedia. Is this a notable pianist? He seems to have won some prizes, but I don't know if they are important competitions or not. — Anne Delong ( talk) 21:30, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello classical music experts! Here's another old Afc submission that has some references and a long list of compositions. Is this a notable composer? — Anne Delong ( talk) 03:54, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
FYI There is a multi-move discussion in progress on Talk:Capella (star) which also will move Latin Capella to Capella (disambiguation) which is not showing up on Classical music alerts. In ictu oculi ( talk) 08:21, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
If anyone's interested, there has been some edit warring at Karel Mark Chichon. Regards, Toccata quarta ( talk) 15:10, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Perhaps one of you could think of a good DYK hook for Jakob Lindberg, the first article by new user Avebury67307. The article is four days old now and needs to be nominated soon or the five-day window will expire. -- Hegvald ( talk) 17:11, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
This article has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions would be appreciated. — Anne Delong ( talk) 00:54, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: This old abandoned Afc submission has a lot of references, but they were hidden by bad formatting. Now that they are revealed, is this a notable choir? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:02, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Many of you will have observed, as I have, an anonymous editor with various IP addresses beginning 72.223... making repeated edits to articles changing "horn" to "French horn". Curiosity led me to investigate this a bit further, and I have discovered that there was a user CameronPG ( talk · contribs), blocked indefinitely in 2010, who exhibited some very similar behaviour. Editing patterns common to both include:
A note on CameronPG's user page, apparently from his mother, indicates that he has been diagnosed with autism. This may explain his unwillingness to communicate on talk pages. I don't know if any of this helps us deal with the problem, but I thought I should at least share my findings. -- Deskford ( talk) 01:26, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Proposals have been made to rename
and
Interested editors can comment at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 15. -- Deskford ( talk) 21:19, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm not disputing this edit by User:Grutness, but it does raise an interesting issue. How many other works titled "Overture" (and other works in Category:Overtures) should also be categorised in Category:Symphonic poems? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 23:43, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Please see the short discussion at User talk:Stfg #Symphony categorisation. I hope it speaks for itself.
I'd love to hear from anyone who can explain why symphony categories are currently structured the way they are, and can convince us they should stay that way. Cheers. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 23:50, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
He may well have died (he was nearly 90). However, two IPs keep adding that he died yesterday. They provide no published source, and I cannot find one either. I'm at 2 reverts so could other editors keep an eye on this. We simply cannot publish this without a reference. Wikipedia is not a source of "breaking news". Voceditenore ( talk) 10:09, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
This article may need a bit of cleanup, especially as regards WP:DUE. Toccata quarta ( talk) 10:36, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Somebody has just been adding a fair amount of texts in French to the article Ivry Gitlis. Any suggestions on what to do about it? Thanks, Toccata quarta ( talk) 09:48, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music/Guidelines#References calls for "the use of the semi-colon to provide bold-face (without the item cluttering the table of contents)". This directly violates Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Headings, which states: "Do not make pseudo-headings using bold or semicolon markup. Screen readers and other machines can only use correctly formatted headings. If you want to reduce the size of the table of contents (TOC), use {{ TOC limit}} instead." Guideline#References also seeks to restrict the use of options in WP:LAYOUT, and as such is a case of instruction creep. The archives of this talk page and the Guidelines talk page show no indication of these matters having been discussed. Is there any reason to retain the Guideline#References section? -- Stfg ( talk) 14:43, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music editors: This old draft was never submitted to be added to the encyclopedia. I had no trouble finding news and reviews for this musician. It needs a little work - anyone interested in improving it? — Anne Delong ( talk) 15:30, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: Here's another one of those abandoned Afc submissions. Is this a notable musician? Could there be references in Italian? — Anne Delong ( talk) 22:31, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
It looks like this article was an attempt to list all the (presumably original) works composed for piano duo (4 hands at either one or two pianos). Only someone who doesn't know the literature would think they could create such a list; a near-complete list would probably include hundreds of works, each one of which would need to be annotated (in keeping with WP's preference for lists). I'd say this article should be deleted. -- kosboot ( talk) 23:37, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Over the last few weeks, I've seen a slow edit-war by IPs trying to place unsourced sub-titles on Dvorak symphonies, for example calling No 8 in G major "Czechoslovak". This has extended to the Template:Dvořák symphonies as can be seen from its history to February 2014:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k_symphonies&action=history&offset=201403
Although the articles seem well-watched, I'm not sure the template is, so I'm considering asking for semi-protection for the template. Before I do, I thought I'd better ask if there is any validity in the appellations and I hope this is a good place to enquire. Thanks in advance for any insights. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 14:56, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear editors: This may not be the right place to report this old Afc submission. Is there a project for choral music? — Anne Delong ( talk) 19:40, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
In honor of National Library Week in the US, Oxford University Press is offering free access to all online OUP products during the week of 13-19 April. The official blurb is at: http://global.oup.com/academic/librarians/national-library-week/?cc=us&lang=en& Username & password are the same: libraryweek -- kosboot ( talk) 01:04, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
I'm thinking of suggesting Symphony No. 7 (Mahler) as a Good Article. Do you think it's ready? If not, what remains to be done? -- Leptictidium ( mt) 12:41, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering, what do you all think of this page move? Toccata quarta ( talk) 06:37, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
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The article Idin Samimi Mofakham needs massive cleanup. Help in fixing the article is welcome. Toccata quarta ( talk) 17:46, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: Does this old Afc draft have any information which should be added to the mainspace article Tatiana Shebanova? Or should be just let it go under db-g13? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:27, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: Here's another one of those old Afc submissions soon to be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable subject. and should the article be improved instead? — Anne Delong ( talk) 20:20, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Please take note: the article Musethica contains no references and does not comply with WP:NPV. The topic of the article may not even be notable. Toccata quarta ( talk) 11:56, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Please someone have a look at Talk:Pablo Casals. An IP has been removing all use of the Catalan name of Pau/Pablo Casals because the Spanish name is more common than the Catalan name in English sources (it is, by a ratio of 3:1), but I was under the impression that in articles specifically about Catalan culture we use Catalan not Spanish names if that is what English sources do - at least that is what I've seen. Unfortunately neither WP:ESMOS nor WP:CAMOS exist (or rather only as drafts we left on the shelf years ago) so I'd think asking at WP Classical music constitutes neutral ground. Guidance please. In ictu oculi ( talk) 23:46, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Update. The request for comments has been closed and it has been judged by an administrator that Pablo should be used. 86.131.145.4 ( talk) 21:07, 19 April 2014 (UTC) This is the same user as 131.111.185.66 ( talk), who has relocated since the beginning of this dispute.
I am writing to inform you that there is currently a request for comments on Talk:Pablo Casals in which some users of this project might wish to participate. 131.111.185.66 ( talk) 22:47, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Update. The request for comments has been closed and it has been judged by an administrator that Pablo should be used. 86.131.145.4 ( talk) 21:07, 19 April 2014 (UTC) This is the same user as 131.111.185.66 ( talk), who has relocated since the beginning of this dispute.
Dear classical music experts: This old Afc submission needs a rewrite for NPOV, which I am willing to do if this is a notable musician. Any opinions? — Anne Delong ( talk) 17:53, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello, maybe I'm just not with the program and if so let me know. But I just noticed this:
The categories this page lists are not the (normal-seeming) "Pupils of X" but something that is called "Pupils and pupils of pupils of X". This seems terribly awkward to me (indeed my first thought was that it was a joke or vandalism). This very complicatedly-named category type includes information that would be readily deducible from a simpler category type "Pupils of X". If someone can explain what is going on here, please do. Regards, Opus33 ( talk) 04:13, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Would User:Michael Bednarek and others prefer that I move these categories back to their original format: "pupils of X"? Hyacinth ( talk) 21:35, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
In response to the change from "pupils and pupils of pupils of" to "pupils of", a user has complained at Category talk:Pupils of Heinrich Schütz#Categories for this category. Hyacinth ( talk) 21:19, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Aside from reasoning, I would also appreciate if we could quote polices/guidelines.
Hyacinth (
talk) 07:29, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
We have solved the question of whether the categories should be titled "pupil and pupil of pupil of X" or "pupil of X". There is still another question, posed by Michael Bednarek, as to whether it should exist at all.
Hyacinth (
talk) 05:08, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Um, sorry to change the subject but: I only noticed just now (when I started editing the Haydn pupil category) that these categories are hidden (except to users who specify they want to see hidden categories). Is this what we want? I feel that a "Pupils of X" category would be at least as useful as many of the other non-hidden categories we already have. So I'm curious what people think about this issue. Opus33 ( talk) 13:00, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Talk:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in this section. Members' input there would be appreciated. The discussion concerns the content of the article's section Final illness and death. Voceditenore ( talk) 15:07, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
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We refer to, e.g. the Russian "school" of pianism, the Belgian "school" of violin playing, the French "school" of flute playing, and so on. The only such article I've come across is Hungarian school of violin playing (which I've renamed from "Hungarian violin school" to make sure it didn't sound like an educational institution). It’s currently categorised in Category:Music schools, which is normally reserved for your actual educational institutions, so that needs a rethink.
Any thoughts about how we name and categorise any similar articles? Are there any other others lurking? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 20:50, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Mind having a look at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Olga Pashchenko? Voceditenore and I aren't so sure about this one... Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 14:45, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: I have no idea what a "historically informed performance specialist" is, but this old AfC submission is about one and will soon be deleted as a stale draft unless it's a notable topic which should be kept and improved instead. What do you think? — Anne Delong ( talk) 12:06, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
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Archive 45 | ← | Archive 48 | Archive 49 | Archive 50 | Archive 51 | Archive 52 | → | Archive 55 |
There seems to be a bit of a spate of nominating conductors for deletion at the moment. Markku Laakso is already deleted and Sasha Mäkilä and Leonid Korchmar are under discussion. Does anyone have any opinions? -- Deskford ( talk) 12:43, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: Here's another one of those old Afc submissions which now is slated for deletion as a stale draft. Is this a notable musician, and should the article be kept? — Anne Delong ( talk) 00:41, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music enthusiasts: This old Afc submission, now slated for deletion as a stale draft, mentions unreferenced achievements. Is this worth saving and fixing up? — Anne Delong ( talk) 23:09, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear music experts: I found this abandoned Afc submission that will soon be deleted as a stale draft. I didn't find any reviews in English, but I don't really know where to look. Is this a notable singer, or should the article be let go? — Anne Delong ( talk) 23:15, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
What are Wikipedia's policies on "Reviews" sections in articles? I have just found one in the article Gediminas Gelgotas. Toccata quarta ( talk) 08:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Please note that this article is under attack by a POV pusher, who has even removed mention of Tchaikovsky's homosexuality from the lead, claimed that Tchaikovsky having been homosexual is "unproven" and that the article has "no source [for it]", and has marked his content edits as " minor". There's also plenty of nonsense floating around on the article's talk page. Toccata quarta ( talk) 07:29, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: Here's another one of those old abandoned Afc submissions. Is this a notable organization, and should the article be kept? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:34, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: This Afc page was never submitted to be added to the encyclopedia. Is this a notable pianist? He seems to have won some prizes, but I don't know if they are important competitions or not. — Anne Delong ( talk) 21:30, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello classical music experts! Here's another old Afc submission that has some references and a long list of compositions. Is this a notable composer? — Anne Delong ( talk) 03:54, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
FYI There is a multi-move discussion in progress on Talk:Capella (star) which also will move Latin Capella to Capella (disambiguation) which is not showing up on Classical music alerts. In ictu oculi ( talk) 08:21, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
If anyone's interested, there has been some edit warring at Karel Mark Chichon. Regards, Toccata quarta ( talk) 15:10, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Perhaps one of you could think of a good DYK hook for Jakob Lindberg, the first article by new user Avebury67307. The article is four days old now and needs to be nominated soon or the five-day window will expire. -- Hegvald ( talk) 17:11, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
This article has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions would be appreciated. — Anne Delong ( talk) 00:54, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: This old abandoned Afc submission has a lot of references, but they were hidden by bad formatting. Now that they are revealed, is this a notable choir? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:02, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Many of you will have observed, as I have, an anonymous editor with various IP addresses beginning 72.223... making repeated edits to articles changing "horn" to "French horn". Curiosity led me to investigate this a bit further, and I have discovered that there was a user CameronPG ( talk · contribs), blocked indefinitely in 2010, who exhibited some very similar behaviour. Editing patterns common to both include:
A note on CameronPG's user page, apparently from his mother, indicates that he has been diagnosed with autism. This may explain his unwillingness to communicate on talk pages. I don't know if any of this helps us deal with the problem, but I thought I should at least share my findings. -- Deskford ( talk) 01:26, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Proposals have been made to rename
and
Interested editors can comment at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 15. -- Deskford ( talk) 21:19, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
I'm not disputing this edit by User:Grutness, but it does raise an interesting issue. How many other works titled "Overture" (and other works in Category:Overtures) should also be categorised in Category:Symphonic poems? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 23:43, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Please see the short discussion at User talk:Stfg #Symphony categorisation. I hope it speaks for itself.
I'd love to hear from anyone who can explain why symphony categories are currently structured the way they are, and can convince us they should stay that way. Cheers. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 23:50, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
He may well have died (he was nearly 90). However, two IPs keep adding that he died yesterday. They provide no published source, and I cannot find one either. I'm at 2 reverts so could other editors keep an eye on this. We simply cannot publish this without a reference. Wikipedia is not a source of "breaking news". Voceditenore ( talk) 10:09, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
This article may need a bit of cleanup, especially as regards WP:DUE. Toccata quarta ( talk) 10:36, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Somebody has just been adding a fair amount of texts in French to the article Ivry Gitlis. Any suggestions on what to do about it? Thanks, Toccata quarta ( talk) 09:48, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music/Guidelines#References calls for "the use of the semi-colon to provide bold-face (without the item cluttering the table of contents)". This directly violates Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Headings, which states: "Do not make pseudo-headings using bold or semicolon markup. Screen readers and other machines can only use correctly formatted headings. If you want to reduce the size of the table of contents (TOC), use {{ TOC limit}} instead." Guideline#References also seeks to restrict the use of options in WP:LAYOUT, and as such is a case of instruction creep. The archives of this talk page and the Guidelines talk page show no indication of these matters having been discussed. Is there any reason to retain the Guideline#References section? -- Stfg ( talk) 14:43, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music editors: This old draft was never submitted to be added to the encyclopedia. I had no trouble finding news and reviews for this musician. It needs a little work - anyone interested in improving it? — Anne Delong ( talk) 15:30, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: Here's another one of those abandoned Afc submissions. Is this a notable musician? Could there be references in Italian? — Anne Delong ( talk) 22:31, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
It looks like this article was an attempt to list all the (presumably original) works composed for piano duo (4 hands at either one or two pianos). Only someone who doesn't know the literature would think they could create such a list; a near-complete list would probably include hundreds of works, each one of which would need to be annotated (in keeping with WP's preference for lists). I'd say this article should be deleted. -- kosboot ( talk) 23:37, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Over the last few weeks, I've seen a slow edit-war by IPs trying to place unsourced sub-titles on Dvorak symphonies, for example calling No 8 in G major "Czechoslovak". This has extended to the Template:Dvořák symphonies as can be seen from its history to February 2014:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k_symphonies&action=history&offset=201403
Although the articles seem well-watched, I'm not sure the template is, so I'm considering asking for semi-protection for the template. Before I do, I thought I'd better ask if there is any validity in the appellations and I hope this is a good place to enquire. Thanks in advance for any insights. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 14:56, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Dear editors: This may not be the right place to report this old Afc submission. Is there a project for choral music? — Anne Delong ( talk) 19:40, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
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I'm thinking of suggesting Symphony No. 7 (Mahler) as a Good Article. Do you think it's ready? If not, what remains to be done? -- Leptictidium ( mt) 12:41, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering, what do you all think of this page move? Toccata quarta ( talk) 06:37, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
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The article Idin Samimi Mofakham needs massive cleanup. Help in fixing the article is welcome. Toccata quarta ( talk) 17:46, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: Does this old Afc draft have any information which should be added to the mainspace article Tatiana Shebanova? Or should be just let it go under db-g13? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:27, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: Here's another one of those old Afc submissions soon to be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable subject. and should the article be improved instead? — Anne Delong ( talk) 20:20, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Please take note: the article Musethica contains no references and does not comply with WP:NPV. The topic of the article may not even be notable. Toccata quarta ( talk) 11:56, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Please someone have a look at Talk:Pablo Casals. An IP has been removing all use of the Catalan name of Pau/Pablo Casals because the Spanish name is more common than the Catalan name in English sources (it is, by a ratio of 3:1), but I was under the impression that in articles specifically about Catalan culture we use Catalan not Spanish names if that is what English sources do - at least that is what I've seen. Unfortunately neither WP:ESMOS nor WP:CAMOS exist (or rather only as drafts we left on the shelf years ago) so I'd think asking at WP Classical music constitutes neutral ground. Guidance please. In ictu oculi ( talk) 23:46, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Update. The request for comments has been closed and it has been judged by an administrator that Pablo should be used. 86.131.145.4 ( talk) 21:07, 19 April 2014 (UTC) This is the same user as 131.111.185.66 ( talk), who has relocated since the beginning of this dispute.
I am writing to inform you that there is currently a request for comments on Talk:Pablo Casals in which some users of this project might wish to participate. 131.111.185.66 ( talk) 22:47, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Update. The request for comments has been closed and it has been judged by an administrator that Pablo should be used. 86.131.145.4 ( talk) 21:07, 19 April 2014 (UTC) This is the same user as 131.111.185.66 ( talk), who has relocated since the beginning of this dispute.
Dear classical music experts: This old Afc submission needs a rewrite for NPOV, which I am willing to do if this is a notable musician. Any opinions? — Anne Delong ( talk) 17:53, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello, maybe I'm just not with the program and if so let me know. But I just noticed this:
The categories this page lists are not the (normal-seeming) "Pupils of X" but something that is called "Pupils and pupils of pupils of X". This seems terribly awkward to me (indeed my first thought was that it was a joke or vandalism). This very complicatedly-named category type includes information that would be readily deducible from a simpler category type "Pupils of X". If someone can explain what is going on here, please do. Regards, Opus33 ( talk) 04:13, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Would User:Michael Bednarek and others prefer that I move these categories back to their original format: "pupils of X"? Hyacinth ( talk) 21:35, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
In response to the change from "pupils and pupils of pupils of" to "pupils of", a user has complained at Category talk:Pupils of Heinrich Schütz#Categories for this category. Hyacinth ( talk) 21:19, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Aside from reasoning, I would also appreciate if we could quote polices/guidelines.
Hyacinth (
talk) 07:29, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
We have solved the question of whether the categories should be titled "pupil and pupil of pupil of X" or "pupil of X". There is still another question, posed by Michael Bednarek, as to whether it should exist at all.
Hyacinth (
talk) 05:08, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Um, sorry to change the subject but: I only noticed just now (when I started editing the Haydn pupil category) that these categories are hidden (except to users who specify they want to see hidden categories). Is this what we want? I feel that a "Pupils of X" category would be at least as useful as many of the other non-hidden categories we already have. So I'm curious what people think about this issue. Opus33 ( talk) 13:00, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Talk:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in this section. Members' input there would be appreciated. The discussion concerns the content of the article's section Final illness and death. Voceditenore ( talk) 15:07, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
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Adikhajuria (
talk) 15:23, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
We refer to, e.g. the Russian "school" of pianism, the Belgian "school" of violin playing, the French "school" of flute playing, and so on. The only such article I've come across is Hungarian school of violin playing (which I've renamed from "Hungarian violin school" to make sure it didn't sound like an educational institution). It’s currently categorised in Category:Music schools, which is normally reserved for your actual educational institutions, so that needs a rethink.
Any thoughts about how we name and categorise any similar articles? Are there any other others lurking? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 20:50, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Mind having a look at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Olga Pashchenko? Voceditenore and I aren't so sure about this one... Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 14:45, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Dear classical music experts: I have no idea what a "historically informed performance specialist" is, but this old AfC submission is about one and will soon be deleted as a stale draft unless it's a notable topic which should be kept and improved instead. What do you think? — Anne Delong ( talk) 12:06, 17 May 2014 (UTC)