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DYK for Stephen Gunzenhauser
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BorgQueen (talk) 00:02, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
DYK for Sybil Thorndike
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BorgQueen (talk) 12:03, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Alexis Soyer
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Your GA nomination of Alexis Soyer
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Good article reassessment for Limousin cattle
Limousin cattle has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. I have pinged you since you are the reviewer Onegreatjoke (talk) 20:09, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for taking my creator to FA!
Wodehousian Order of Merit | |
I quite enjoyed your "[i]ncidentally, and entirely irrelevantly" remark on DYK:Alexis Soyer. A silver cow creamer seems a fitting award for your efforts! WatkynBassett (talk) 09:15, 29 January 2023 (UTC) |
- Sir Watkyn, what a very pleasing message to get − thank you! I'm sure the cow creamer is not modern Dutch. Tim riley talk 18:13, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
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When you've stopped re-enacting Poirot
Any chance you could have a look at the Boulton and Park FAC and find the numerous deliberate flaws I've left in the article? I'd be much obliged. And KJP1, as it was you who gave me the lead to the subject in the first place, I'll extend the invitation to you too! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 13:36, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
- SC, will do (probably when back home) but before that, I see you have closed your PR on Snakehips Johnson without dealing with any of my comments. Tim riley talk 15:46, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Alexis Soyer
Hello Mr. Riley! Around thirty minutes ago, your article Alexis Soyer was promoted to FA status, although the bot is being a bit slow. Congratulations on this achievement! It was a pleasure reading and reviewing the article. Cheers to many more, Unlimitedlead (talk) 12:47, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
Promotion of Alexis Soyer
New FAC
I have put the article on Otto Klemperer up for FAC. SchroCat, Aza24 and Ian Rose kindly gave me their thoughts at peer review, and suggestions or comments from them and anyone else who cares to look in at the FAC will be welcomed. Tim riley talk 15:03, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
Unhelpful indexing
A while ago we discussed ODNB's unhelpful indexing and I thought you would be interested in an experience of mine. I wanted to check the Stock Exchange Year-Book for a non-Wiki article I am working on, and checking the BL index at home I found that the Birmingham Central Library has put it online, but only searchable in London in the BL. I was puzzled when I could not find it on a BL computer, and the assistance person could not find it either. I finally worked out that you have to search on a specific year, for example Stock Exchange Year-Book 1904. If you search for Stock Exchange Year-Book, it does not exist. Dudley Miles (talk) 22:26, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
- Dudley, we are at one about useless indexing. I send you Bernard Levin on the subject: here. You were kind enough to look in at the current FAC of the article on Otto Klemperer, and Levin − who admired Klemperer as much as I do − would have rejoiced at the excellence of the index of the main source, Peter Heyworth's biography. I have never seen a better index. The imbeciles who index the Stock Exchange Year Book so unhelpfully should be ashamed. On the other hand the ODNB has woken up and provided a useful index for its articles: if one is looking for, e.g., H G Wells one no longer has to scroll through dozens of Bishops of Bath and Wells and their Deans to get there, and you get in at the first attempt − a great, though lamentably overdue improvement. Tim riley talk 23:00, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Ping
Hi Tim. I pinged you at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Edgar, King of England/archive1#Comments by Unlimitedlead, but it doesn't seem to have gone through. I don't know why. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:18, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
- Curious! Now attended to, anyhow. (I entirely agree with you about the commas.) Tim riley talk 12:32, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @Dudley Miles: For the record, it's cause you didn't sign your ping on the same line; ironically, you signed every other line. Had you pinged in those lines, it would have gone through; but for it to have worked in the line it did, it required a signature in the same line. See WP:ECHO for further details :) SN54129 13:02, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
- Ah! Many thanks Serial Number 54129. A useful thing to know. Dudley Miles (talk) 13:27, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
- Indeed! But I think "This unnecessarily complicated piece of code was brought to you by the WMF" definitely applies :) SN54129 13:32, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
- Ah! Many thanks Serial Number 54129. A useful thing to know. Dudley Miles (talk) 13:27, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @Dudley Miles: For the record, it's cause you didn't sign your ping on the same line; ironically, you signed every other line. Had you pinged in those lines, it would have gone through; but for it to have worked in the line it did, it required a signature in the same line. See WP:ECHO for further details :) SN54129 13:02, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
Promotion of Otto Klemperer
Gabriel Fauré
Can you recommend any of the best recordings off the top of your head for my Apple Music playlist? I would like to spend the next month or so diving into his work. I tend to prefer the more modern recordings but I’m willing to listen to the older ones. Viriditas (talk) 09:02, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
- Viriditas, off the top of my head, and with a quick glance at my CD shelves. All but the Thyssens-Valentin sets are in stereo, and the others are in, to my ear, excellent sound:
- Orchestral:
- Masques et Bergamasques/Pelléas and Mélisande/Pavane: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner (Decca)
- Dolly Suite: an early stereo recording but in good sound and an incomparable performance, the French National Radio Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.
- Piano Barcarolles and Nocturnes: Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (Testament) or Kathryn Stott (Hyperion)
- Piano Quartets and Quintets: Domus (Hyperion)
- Violin Sonatas: Pierre Amoyal and Pascal Rogé (Decca)
- Cello Sonatas (and 'Elégie'): Steven Isserlis and Pascal Devoyon (RCA)
- String Quartet: Ad Libitum (Naxos)
- All the songs are worth exploring, and the Hyperion cycle with various singers accompanied by Graham Johnson is full of good things. Some of the best known are 'Après un rêve', 'Clair de lune', 'Soir' and the cycle, La bonne chanson.
- Requiem: if you like the Anglican choral sound the recording by David Willcocks and King's College Choir is incomparable; if (like Fauré) you prefer female voices you might try the LSO Live version conducted by Nigel Short.
- I hope, pretty confidently, you'll find some things there that will please your ear. Of the chamber works, I recommend the First Piano Quartet for starters. The later chamber works are tougher nuts to crack, though well worth the effort. Tim riley talk 10:05, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi Tim, I was hoping you might find that article interesting. I've recently finished essentially a head-to-toe rewrite and I'm planning to take it to FAC. In the meantime, I was hoping you might be able to find time to offer any thoughts on the peer review. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:54, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
- Shall do. I imagine you have alerted SchroCat? He is more up in topics of this kind than I am. Tim riley talk 20:53, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
"What God would have built if he had had the money" - GBS
Tim, apropos Hearst Castle, it's been picked up for DYK - not by me! The hooks are "the model for Xanadu" or the GBS quote. Both may generate a bit of noise; there is a cohort that's very hot on whether Hearst was the model for Kane, and thus the castle for Xanadu; and there's another that gets surprisingly worked up over the GBS quote, either saying he didn't say it, or that he said it about somewhere else, usually St Donat's Castle, or that somebody else said it. On the second, is there a definitive Works/Quotations of GBS you're aware of, that might have a stronger provenance for the quote? KJP1 (talk) 14:01, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
- Hmm. Not sure about the attribution to GBS. Plenty of books, including one by Hearst's son, say Shaw said it, and others hedge it by saying "is said to have described it as ...", but I notice that Michael Holroyd in his magisterial four-volume Bernard Shaw gives ample detail of Shaw's stay with Hearst but doesn't quote the line, and I suspect he would have done – who could resist? – if he was confident of the ascription. I know little of cinematic matters – the medium doesn't interest me much – and can't offer any thoughts on whether Hearst was the model for Kane. Tim riley talk 14:23, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for taking a look. Hmm, as you said. It's a bit dubious, isn't it. I think, as and when I wander to FAC, I will need to heavily caveat it. On a related point, Dudley has finished his review with a Support, here. If you had a chance to give it a once-over, I'd much appreciate it. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 10:40, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
Line breaks
In the caption in the Shepherd's Pie article, it would be nice to be able to specify that if the caption needs to be split over two lines, a good place to split it is after the word "peas". But I don't know of any way to do that. It's easy to specify where to optionally break a word (with ­), but I don't know of any way to specify preferred places to break a line between words in WP markup or for that matter in HTML. Is there one? --Macrakis (talk) 21:00, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
Alexis Soyer scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 10 May 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 10, 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/May 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:19, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
Peter Bloom's Berlioz in Time
Saw this and thought of you. Now Open Access from Boydell & Brewer here. You should be able to legitimately download a paginated, searchable PDF of the piece (as I did for something else). Their OA bit is only a small section at the moment, but new titles are being added regularly. Best, SN54129 10:40, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
Peer review: John Galsworthy
Another English author on his way, I hope, to FAC. I have Galsworthy up for peer review here and would be pleased to hear from anyone who chances to notice this shameless rattling of the begging bowl. Tim riley talk 16:10, 9 April 2023 (UTC)