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This is a notification that Category:Operas by Kurt Weill is being considered for renaming to Musical dramas by Kurt Weill at here. Please weigh in if you would like. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 08:25, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" has a tag for this project. I am a little confused now. Are we adding Film Musicals to this project or is that a mistake? "The Rocky Horror Show" is a theatrical musical and would be a part but does not have a tag. Help me out here is this a correct use of the project tag? -- Amadscientist 03:04, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
As per Wikipedia procedure for dispute resolution I am asking any and all members of this project to add input on a dispute over deletion of Taglines for this film, which was added to the National Film Registry in 2005. The original tagline "A Different Set of Jaws" is also listed as one of the most memorable taglines in history along with others. I also have at least one other reference source, an article on "The Rocky Horror Picture Show as Cultural Performance" with mention on the cultural impact of the tagline "Don't Dream It, Be It." Input is needed to resolve a current "Edit War" where an Editor keeps deleting without adding a better reason than he "Does not believe they are notable" with no further reference to back up the assertion. Thank you. -- Amadscientist 09:11, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
The article structure page hasn't been updated since May 26, 2007. I would wager that this has been long enough to say that it's working pretty well. I say let's all take one last look at it to see if there's anything missing and then, by vote below, let's determine if we can remove the not the final article structure notice. Obviously, this does not mean that we would never revise it again, but if it's doing pretty well, no need to call it unfinished anymore.
The result of this vote was to remove the notice. -- omtay38 00:31, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
If you could, please put <s>a line through</s> any concern you have written above that has been addressed and, if all your concern's have been addressed or more had been added, revise your vote as appropriate. Thanks! --
omtay38
16:01, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
A while back a series of guidelines were proposed for this infobox. Please take a look at the guidelines on this page to see if you have anything to add or any comments to make. Cheers. -- omtay38 21:41, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
All the templates tagged as part of this project are there. I know it's very busy and complex, but at least it's a start. -- omtay38 22:40, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I know, there's a lot to look at. This one's really simply though. Looking at other wikiprojects, many of them have a specific image or graphic that they use on their templates and other things that helps define the project. The images used in this project are very eclectic, to say the least. I propose that we either find or create a unique individual graphic to become the Musical Theatre Symbol on Wikipedia. My proposition is here, but feel free to propose others :-). -- omtay38 02:53, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I was trying to get the image in the left of the box that says "WikiProject Musical Theatre" and the box of shortcuts on the right. If anyone knows how to do that, you know, go for it.... — Music Maker 01:10, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
As a stub:
In the talk page notice:
Use it if you want, it's there for all
It looks like:
![]() | This user is a participant in WikiProject Musical Theatre. |
To use it paste:
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Theatre/Userbox/member}}
Wherever you keep your userboxes. Cheers! -- omtay38 18:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Dang, this project is pretty fun and moving along nicely. Good work. -- Amadscientist 22:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Both {{ Infobox Musical}} and {{ Broadway-show}} have been nominated for deletion. You can weigh in with your vote at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 June 17 — Music Maker 23:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Now that our article structure is set in place, it's time to get cracking on some articles. Instead of asking for nominations (and, thus, delaying the process) I simply picked ten musical articles and placed them on the to-do list. I hope nobody minds. I tried to pick musicals that were on the various levels of "average" in quality, length, new-ness, and controversy. I also tried to pick ten that I think most people will know of. So, go take a look, put your name on, and let's start editing! Cheers! -- omtay38 02:06, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm not very good with technical stuff. I was an English major! Tell me what needs copy-editing first, and I'll get on it. -- Ssilvers 05:04, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
LOL! All those cast lists have got to go! -- Ssilvers 13:09, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
In going through the infoboxes (and I remember this from last year), I've noticed a strange array of musicals based on anime (like Air Gear (musical)). These are stage productions with roles played by actors, but most of the productions are (as one might expect) in Japan and in Japanese. The articles are written from the perspective of how they fit in with the overall anime, and most of them have very little musical theatre-type information, like composer or lyricist or any member of the creative team. I don't even know how one might find information on these productions (in English), and I'm wondering what we should do with them. Should we consider them part of the canon of traditional musical theatre and get the articles to the standard upon which we've just decided, or should we leave them to the anime people to deal with? My own opinion is that I don't really want to deal with them, and we should leave them to the anime crowd. Thoughts? — Music Maker 06:13, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
LOL, as opposed to the Walt Disney Company? :-) -- Ssilvers 18:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I tried to make sense of the rock opera article, but it's a mess, and the editor there resisted any changes, so I dropped the issue. That editor had split the rock musical article from the rock opera article, so Broadwaygal and I worked on improving the rock musical article and the list of rock musicals. Would people please take a look and add information to the list of rock musicals and also see if you can improve the rock musical article? Does anyone have the stomach to try to work on the rock opera article, knowing that you will run into resistance? If so, I would support an effort to improve it, but I think the rock musical article is more important. -- Ssilvers 18:38, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Let's gather ourselves at some point and go over there in force to review/improve the article. In the meantime, everyone please review/improve the rock musical and List of rock musicals pages, which just need some expansion, I think. -- Ssilvers 21:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The AfD for Oedipus for Kids can be found here. Feel free to weigh in. — Music Maker 08:06, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The Afd for Flapper! can be found here. — Music Maker 08:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The Afd for David: the Musical can be found here. — Music Maker 08:42, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The Afd for The Phantom of Manhattan (musical) can be found here. This one's touch-and-go, but considering that ALW's cat just erased the entire score (which is such poetic justice, if you think about it....), who knows if this will ever be produced.... — Music Maker 08:53, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
EVERY song for EVERY Sherman brothers' musical has a page. The guy working on them is the same guy from A Christmas Held Captive, an AfD from last summer (himself a descendant of the Sherman brothers' [I think]). They all fail notability, and, if someone can get to them before me, great. If not, I'll get to them eventually. — Music Maker 18:43, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Just list your AfD's here when you're ready, so we can click on them. -- Ssilvers 21:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if everyone's watching that page, but I proposed some guidelines for article assessment on that talk page. — Music Maker 20:48, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Would anybody be interested in having a WikiProject Musical Theatre peer review? I've noticed that several projects incorporate them. Basically, if a certain member would nominate an article (s)he had been working on to be reviewed by fellow members of the project, most likely before sending it off for Good Article nomination. Reviews would be (in theory) more comprehensive than basic Article Assessment, since it is more looking at the "nitty-gritty" of articles that have been intensely worked upon already.
If anyone else would like to have a project peer review for exclusively musical theatre articles, I'll gladly create the page, but I also definitely understand that the project has a lot on its hands right now and maybe this should come later? — warpedmirror ( talk) 21:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't think we need a special peer review page. We're such a small project. I think that if someone wants a peer review, they can just ask here, and a few of us can review and give comments. Nice and informal, huh? -- Ssilvers 21:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | |
---|---|
![]() 1995 Revival Logo | |
Music | Frank Loesser |
Lyrics | Frank Loesser |
Book |
Abe Burrows Jack Weinstock Willie Gilbert |
Basis |
How to Succeed Without Really Trying by Shepherd Mead |
Productions |
1961
Broadway 1963 West End 1995 Broadway revival |
Awards |
Tony Award for Best Musical Tony Award for Best Book 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
I just wanted to leave a note here for anyone involved in switching infoboxes to make sure that we keep them uniform and standardized. Make sure you read all of the directions on {{ Infobox Musical 2}}, and there is a good example, there. (Which, oddly, is not on the article it represents....) — Music Maker 21:39, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Heyo all. Just leavin a quick note that i'm in the process of updating {{ Musicals-project}} so things might be gettin funky for a bit. Feel free to look (you can see how it displays at my sandbox. But please don't touch any copy of the notice anywhere. I have little (if any) coding experience so if I hit an edit conflict with you, I won't know what to do :-D. It's gonna be really cool when it's done, which should be very soon. Cheers! -- omtay38 21:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Need | The article's priority or importance, regardless of its quality |
Top | Subject is a must-have for a good encyclopaedia |
High | Subject contributes a depth of knowledge |
Mid | Subject fills in more minor details |
Low | Subject is mainly of specialist interest. |
My experience is that the priority rankings are not useful. They're just more work and clutter in the tag. If you take a look at the Bio assessments, they rarely fill out the priority. It's just subjective. You know if you think and article is important, and, in any case, people will work on the articles they want to work on. I vote to leave them out. -- Ssilvers 22:43, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Don't use it yet but it's done!
Take a look at it here: {{ Musicals-project}}
And look at some previews at my sandbox.
I've still got a little more work to do to make it all sync up just right, but it's goin really well.
The Return of The Glass Slipper and The return of the glass slipper were both empty save for an infobox stating a "2007 School Play". They've been AfD'd together here. — Music Maker 00:14, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Okay, everything in place. Check out the Article Assessment page for instructions. The next big task is to update all the talk pages of the articles that have already been rated. I've added the task to the Open Tasks page too, so if you wanna claim some letters as your own, please do so. Whoo, that was quite a day of work :-D. -- omtay38 02:45, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Is this what we're supposed to put on talk pages? {{ Musicals-project}} ? If not, what? Can you please give instructions for the very technologically challenged? -- Ssilvers 04:02, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
{{Musicals-project|class = * }}
Abbreviation | Full Name |
---|---|
FA | Featured Article |
A | A-Class |
GA | Good Article |
B | B-Class |
Start | Start-Class |
Stub | Stub |
List | List |
NA | Not an Article |
Blank | Unassessed |
Somebody suggested a Collaboration of the month page a while back and, since I was on a coding spree, I made one also.
It's at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musical_Theatre/COTM
Take a look, it's really self explanatory and, I think, will be a lot of fun.
Happy Editing -- omtay38 04:41, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I updated the page to have the same style as the main page. Take a look and tell me if it has any display errors in your browser. (And if you know how to fix them, please feel free to). :-D -- omtay38 06:48, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
I've started a list in my userspace of the articles that, once I have collected them all, I'm probably going to nominate for deletion (I haven't made up my mind about all of them. And, honestly, I'm not particularly a deletionist, but some of them are ridiculous.). Feel free to add as you see fit, but please don't remove any -- if there are any objections, they can certainly be raised during the AfD. Once they have been nominated, rather than taking up all of that room here, I'll change that page to be a compendium of the links to the debates, and will let everyone know. — Music Maker 05:50, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Added a sidebar to the main page!
If you wanna keep it handy somwhere on your userpage or something, just add {{ WPMT Sidebar}} to wherever you want it.
All suggestions are welcome :-D
Cheers! -- omtay38 01:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
The Article Assessment page has been massively revamped and reworked to fit with the new template and ranking system. Check it out, have a look, and then help out clearing the backlog of Unassessed Musical Theatre articles. I think this'll work out pretty well!
Happy Editing -- omtay38 06:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I've gotten through the initial list that I had posted and you can get to the AfDs for all of them
here. I've added a couple more to my list and will probably nominate them after I get some sleep.
I know that some editors have raised some issues with some of the ones selected for deletion. Really, in nominating all of these articles, what I'm trying to do is get some idea of what the WP community at large will consider notable for musicals, and what it will not. There are no guidelines at
WP:NOTE,
WP:MUSIC or anywhere else that really address the issue (there are a couple guidelines for songs, but not entire musicals). As such, if there are concerns, please weigh in at the AfDs. —
Music
Maker
08:49, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
The second set has been posted. —
Music
Maker
21:52, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I did some prettifying as a diversion on the main page. If anyone's display is way out of wack (or in wack... depends on how you define wack...) lmk. And, of course, if anyone thinks it's horrible, lmk. I removed the section on templates; as we have a subpage for it, I didn't think it was necessary. — Music Maker 04:20, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! The boxes on the right are much better. It looks to me like we need a list of musical theatre "genres" someplace, instead of merely linking to genre. Also, why do we need both a To Do list and an Open Items list? They even have some of the same items. In fact, there are four mentions of, and links to, the articles creation page. If we eliminate repetition and unclutter the page as much as possible, we will make it easier for people stopping by to contribute, IMO. -- Ssilvers 13:56, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
I hate to say this, but on my browser (Firefox), the main sidebar stands alone...you have to scroll past it before you get to the rest of the page...if that makes sense (maybe it's just my settings?). But I checked on Internet Explorer and it's quite pretty indeed. — warpedmirror ( talk) 17:00, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
This is a notification that Category:Operas by Kurt Weill is being considered for renaming to Musical dramas by Kurt Weill at here. Please weigh in if you would like. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 08:25, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" has a tag for this project. I am a little confused now. Are we adding Film Musicals to this project or is that a mistake? "The Rocky Horror Show" is a theatrical musical and would be a part but does not have a tag. Help me out here is this a correct use of the project tag? -- Amadscientist 03:04, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
As per Wikipedia procedure for dispute resolution I am asking any and all members of this project to add input on a dispute over deletion of Taglines for this film, which was added to the National Film Registry in 2005. The original tagline "A Different Set of Jaws" is also listed as one of the most memorable taglines in history along with others. I also have at least one other reference source, an article on "The Rocky Horror Picture Show as Cultural Performance" with mention on the cultural impact of the tagline "Don't Dream It, Be It." Input is needed to resolve a current "Edit War" where an Editor keeps deleting without adding a better reason than he "Does not believe they are notable" with no further reference to back up the assertion. Thank you. -- Amadscientist 09:11, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
The article structure page hasn't been updated since May 26, 2007. I would wager that this has been long enough to say that it's working pretty well. I say let's all take one last look at it to see if there's anything missing and then, by vote below, let's determine if we can remove the not the final article structure notice. Obviously, this does not mean that we would never revise it again, but if it's doing pretty well, no need to call it unfinished anymore.
The result of this vote was to remove the notice. -- omtay38 00:31, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
If you could, please put <s>a line through</s> any concern you have written above that has been addressed and, if all your concern's have been addressed or more had been added, revise your vote as appropriate. Thanks! --
omtay38
16:01, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
A while back a series of guidelines were proposed for this infobox. Please take a look at the guidelines on this page to see if you have anything to add or any comments to make. Cheers. -- omtay38 21:41, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
All the templates tagged as part of this project are there. I know it's very busy and complex, but at least it's a start. -- omtay38 22:40, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I know, there's a lot to look at. This one's really simply though. Looking at other wikiprojects, many of them have a specific image or graphic that they use on their templates and other things that helps define the project. The images used in this project are very eclectic, to say the least. I propose that we either find or create a unique individual graphic to become the Musical Theatre Symbol on Wikipedia. My proposition is here, but feel free to propose others :-). -- omtay38 02:53, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I was trying to get the image in the left of the box that says "WikiProject Musical Theatre" and the box of shortcuts on the right. If anyone knows how to do that, you know, go for it.... — Music Maker 01:10, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
As a stub:
In the talk page notice:
Use it if you want, it's there for all
It looks like:
![]() | This user is a participant in WikiProject Musical Theatre. |
To use it paste:
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Theatre/Userbox/member}}
Wherever you keep your userboxes. Cheers! -- omtay38 18:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Dang, this project is pretty fun and moving along nicely. Good work. -- Amadscientist 22:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Both {{ Infobox Musical}} and {{ Broadway-show}} have been nominated for deletion. You can weigh in with your vote at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 June 17 — Music Maker 23:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Now that our article structure is set in place, it's time to get cracking on some articles. Instead of asking for nominations (and, thus, delaying the process) I simply picked ten musical articles and placed them on the to-do list. I hope nobody minds. I tried to pick musicals that were on the various levels of "average" in quality, length, new-ness, and controversy. I also tried to pick ten that I think most people will know of. So, go take a look, put your name on, and let's start editing! Cheers! -- omtay38 02:06, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm not very good with technical stuff. I was an English major! Tell me what needs copy-editing first, and I'll get on it. -- Ssilvers 05:04, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
LOL! All those cast lists have got to go! -- Ssilvers 13:09, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
In going through the infoboxes (and I remember this from last year), I've noticed a strange array of musicals based on anime (like Air Gear (musical)). These are stage productions with roles played by actors, but most of the productions are (as one might expect) in Japan and in Japanese. The articles are written from the perspective of how they fit in with the overall anime, and most of them have very little musical theatre-type information, like composer or lyricist or any member of the creative team. I don't even know how one might find information on these productions (in English), and I'm wondering what we should do with them. Should we consider them part of the canon of traditional musical theatre and get the articles to the standard upon which we've just decided, or should we leave them to the anime people to deal with? My own opinion is that I don't really want to deal with them, and we should leave them to the anime crowd. Thoughts? — Music Maker 06:13, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
LOL, as opposed to the Walt Disney Company? :-) -- Ssilvers 18:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I tried to make sense of the rock opera article, but it's a mess, and the editor there resisted any changes, so I dropped the issue. That editor had split the rock musical article from the rock opera article, so Broadwaygal and I worked on improving the rock musical article and the list of rock musicals. Would people please take a look and add information to the list of rock musicals and also see if you can improve the rock musical article? Does anyone have the stomach to try to work on the rock opera article, knowing that you will run into resistance? If so, I would support an effort to improve it, but I think the rock musical article is more important. -- Ssilvers 18:38, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Let's gather ourselves at some point and go over there in force to review/improve the article. In the meantime, everyone please review/improve the rock musical and List of rock musicals pages, which just need some expansion, I think. -- Ssilvers 21:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The AfD for Oedipus for Kids can be found here. Feel free to weigh in. — Music Maker 08:06, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The Afd for Flapper! can be found here. — Music Maker 08:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The Afd for David: the Musical can be found here. — Music Maker 08:42, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The Afd for The Phantom of Manhattan (musical) can be found here. This one's touch-and-go, but considering that ALW's cat just erased the entire score (which is such poetic justice, if you think about it....), who knows if this will ever be produced.... — Music Maker 08:53, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
EVERY song for EVERY Sherman brothers' musical has a page. The guy working on them is the same guy from A Christmas Held Captive, an AfD from last summer (himself a descendant of the Sherman brothers' [I think]). They all fail notability, and, if someone can get to them before me, great. If not, I'll get to them eventually. — Music Maker 18:43, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Just list your AfD's here when you're ready, so we can click on them. -- Ssilvers 21:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if everyone's watching that page, but I proposed some guidelines for article assessment on that talk page. — Music Maker 20:48, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Would anybody be interested in having a WikiProject Musical Theatre peer review? I've noticed that several projects incorporate them. Basically, if a certain member would nominate an article (s)he had been working on to be reviewed by fellow members of the project, most likely before sending it off for Good Article nomination. Reviews would be (in theory) more comprehensive than basic Article Assessment, since it is more looking at the "nitty-gritty" of articles that have been intensely worked upon already.
If anyone else would like to have a project peer review for exclusively musical theatre articles, I'll gladly create the page, but I also definitely understand that the project has a lot on its hands right now and maybe this should come later? — warpedmirror ( talk) 21:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't think we need a special peer review page. We're such a small project. I think that if someone wants a peer review, they can just ask here, and a few of us can review and give comments. Nice and informal, huh? -- Ssilvers 21:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | |
---|---|
![]() 1995 Revival Logo | |
Music | Frank Loesser |
Lyrics | Frank Loesser |
Book |
Abe Burrows Jack Weinstock Willie Gilbert |
Basis |
How to Succeed Without Really Trying by Shepherd Mead |
Productions |
1961
Broadway 1963 West End 1995 Broadway revival |
Awards |
Tony Award for Best Musical Tony Award for Best Book 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
I just wanted to leave a note here for anyone involved in switching infoboxes to make sure that we keep them uniform and standardized. Make sure you read all of the directions on {{ Infobox Musical 2}}, and there is a good example, there. (Which, oddly, is not on the article it represents....) — Music Maker 21:39, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Heyo all. Just leavin a quick note that i'm in the process of updating {{ Musicals-project}} so things might be gettin funky for a bit. Feel free to look (you can see how it displays at my sandbox. But please don't touch any copy of the notice anywhere. I have little (if any) coding experience so if I hit an edit conflict with you, I won't know what to do :-D. It's gonna be really cool when it's done, which should be very soon. Cheers! -- omtay38 21:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Need | The article's priority or importance, regardless of its quality |
Top | Subject is a must-have for a good encyclopaedia |
High | Subject contributes a depth of knowledge |
Mid | Subject fills in more minor details |
Low | Subject is mainly of specialist interest. |
My experience is that the priority rankings are not useful. They're just more work and clutter in the tag. If you take a look at the Bio assessments, they rarely fill out the priority. It's just subjective. You know if you think and article is important, and, in any case, people will work on the articles they want to work on. I vote to leave them out. -- Ssilvers 22:43, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Don't use it yet but it's done!
Take a look at it here: {{ Musicals-project}}
And look at some previews at my sandbox.
I've still got a little more work to do to make it all sync up just right, but it's goin really well.
The Return of The Glass Slipper and The return of the glass slipper were both empty save for an infobox stating a "2007 School Play". They've been AfD'd together here. — Music Maker 00:14, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Okay, everything in place. Check out the Article Assessment page for instructions. The next big task is to update all the talk pages of the articles that have already been rated. I've added the task to the Open Tasks page too, so if you wanna claim some letters as your own, please do so. Whoo, that was quite a day of work :-D. -- omtay38 02:45, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Is this what we're supposed to put on talk pages? {{ Musicals-project}} ? If not, what? Can you please give instructions for the very technologically challenged? -- Ssilvers 04:02, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
{{Musicals-project|class = * }}
Abbreviation | Full Name |
---|---|
FA | Featured Article |
A | A-Class |
GA | Good Article |
B | B-Class |
Start | Start-Class |
Stub | Stub |
List | List |
NA | Not an Article |
Blank | Unassessed |
Somebody suggested a Collaboration of the month page a while back and, since I was on a coding spree, I made one also.
It's at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musical_Theatre/COTM
Take a look, it's really self explanatory and, I think, will be a lot of fun.
Happy Editing -- omtay38 04:41, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I updated the page to have the same style as the main page. Take a look and tell me if it has any display errors in your browser. (And if you know how to fix them, please feel free to). :-D -- omtay38 06:48, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
I've started a list in my userspace of the articles that, once I have collected them all, I'm probably going to nominate for deletion (I haven't made up my mind about all of them. And, honestly, I'm not particularly a deletionist, but some of them are ridiculous.). Feel free to add as you see fit, but please don't remove any -- if there are any objections, they can certainly be raised during the AfD. Once they have been nominated, rather than taking up all of that room here, I'll change that page to be a compendium of the links to the debates, and will let everyone know. — Music Maker 05:50, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Added a sidebar to the main page!
If you wanna keep it handy somwhere on your userpage or something, just add {{ WPMT Sidebar}} to wherever you want it.
All suggestions are welcome :-D
Cheers! -- omtay38 01:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
The Article Assessment page has been massively revamped and reworked to fit with the new template and ranking system. Check it out, have a look, and then help out clearing the backlog of Unassessed Musical Theatre articles. I think this'll work out pretty well!
Happy Editing -- omtay38 06:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I've gotten through the initial list that I had posted and you can get to the AfDs for all of them
here. I've added a couple more to my list and will probably nominate them after I get some sleep.
I know that some editors have raised some issues with some of the ones selected for deletion. Really, in nominating all of these articles, what I'm trying to do is get some idea of what the WP community at large will consider notable for musicals, and what it will not. There are no guidelines at
WP:NOTE,
WP:MUSIC or anywhere else that really address the issue (there are a couple guidelines for songs, but not entire musicals). As such, if there are concerns, please weigh in at the AfDs. —
Music
Maker
08:49, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
The second set has been posted. —
Music
Maker
21:52, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I did some prettifying as a diversion on the main page. If anyone's display is way out of wack (or in wack... depends on how you define wack...) lmk. And, of course, if anyone thinks it's horrible, lmk. I removed the section on templates; as we have a subpage for it, I didn't think it was necessary. — Music Maker 04:20, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! The boxes on the right are much better. It looks to me like we need a list of musical theatre "genres" someplace, instead of merely linking to genre. Also, why do we need both a To Do list and an Open Items list? They even have some of the same items. In fact, there are four mentions of, and links to, the articles creation page. If we eliminate repetition and unclutter the page as much as possible, we will make it easier for people stopping by to contribute, IMO. -- Ssilvers 13:56, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
I hate to say this, but on my browser (Firefox), the main sidebar stands alone...you have to scroll past it before you get to the rest of the page...if that makes sense (maybe it's just my settings?). But I checked on Internet Explorer and it's quite pretty indeed. — warpedmirror ( talk) 17:00, 22 June 2007 (UTC)