User talk:Dybryd

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Thanks for your edits on Britten! Always nice to see another good editor in classical music. You seem pretty adept at wiki-markup, have you been editing as an IP? Anyway, welcome, and feel free to ask me any questions you might have. Mak (talk) 05:03, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion

Hi. When you want to delete an article you have created by mistake, just add {{db-g7}} at the top of it. Bye. (Liberatore, 2006). 13:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings from the Opera Project

Hi, and thanks for your note. I hope you will join the project if you are interested in opera. Re. spolier tags, we had a big discussion about them (it's in the archives) and decided to take them out. On role/voice type/first cast tables we have a model which is at Il campiello. Let me know if you have any other questions, and once again welcome to WP opera! - Kleinzach 06:15, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Sound recording

I just noticed your addition of a sound recording to Curlew River. Copyright is complicated, and I don't claim to understand it completely, but I have two concerns - firstly, I think the excerpt might be a bit long to be fair use, but I might be making that up. Secondly, it is unclear what specifically it is illustrating. In order for its use to be "fair use" I think you need to describe the excerpt specifically, and show how it illustrates a concept. So, for instance, you could talk about the use of the flute and how it represents the Madwoman in this instance? Note that I haven't been brave enough to upload any fair-use music :-) Also, when you have only one item, you can just use the Template:Listen (I've already changed the template). Cheers, Mak (talk) 04:05, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback--I was a little worried about the same things. I think/hope that the length is okay because it's not a complete track (the only concrete guideline wikipedia gives), and because the quality is a lot lower than on the cd. That's my story, anyway.

I know I'm lazy to upload it without incorporating it into the text, but I wasn't sure the upload would work. I'll certainly type up a little paragraph about it.

Dybryd 05:02, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

That sounds great, I understand your hesitation. Thanks, Mak (talk) 05:33, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Midsummer Night's Dream

Thanks a lot for all your work on this article. It was my first article and I made a whole load of newbie mistakes on it and because it's quite obscure no one was there to clean it up. You've made it look a lot better and have added some good stuff too it, so thanks. You seem to be doing a lot of Britten stuff, so keep up all the great work. Cheers, Moreschi 19:02, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I don't really have any qualifications, but I do want to make a project out of the Britten. There's a used copy of Peter Evans' book I've got my eye on to steal some quotes. It'd be nice to have a little musical analysis of the bigger works.

But this week I've been slacking! Soon!

Dybryd 07:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] lower-case initials

(Posted on the Engineer Bob talk page:) Hullo. Is the category you added to the CIVIL warS a joke, or is there a movement afoot to allow lower-case initials? That would be nice, since in this case the typography was a conscious choice on the part of the creator. Dybryd 05:02, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

That category has existed for quite some time; Wikipedia recognizes that some articles should begin with a lower-case letter, but for technical reasons all must start with a capital letter. When I stumbled across this article today I added the appropriate note and category for you. Engineer Bob 05:08, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Albert Herring

Hi - I didn't see the discussion you refer to, but curious as to why you have deleted paragraph about Spenser? Tony 22:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)Tony

I just don't think the friendship with Spenser is notable in terms of the work. Harry is a minor character and the role wasn't written for him the way (for example) Lucretia was written for Kathleen Ferrier or Oberon for Alfred Deller. Seemed weird to have a whole paragraph about some random kid when we don't discuss the ongoing relationship with Joan Cross or even Peter in the article.

You'll notice I also cut John Newton from the Curlew River page (sorry--I did give notice and wait a day for response). In that case, Newton didn't even originate the role, he was one of many boys who sang it. I left the note about David Hemmings on the Screw page, because in that case the detail did seem important to the meaning of the work.

Thanks for the article on the book--it's the first I've heard of it.

Dybryd 23:09, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Attractive?

Hello - me again. If you read Britten's Children, it is very clear that all the boys Britten befriended were attractive. It is, I believe, an important aspect of Britten's make up. Tony 22:58, 14 August 2006 (UTC)Tony

Well, I haven't read the new book, but I have seen photos of some of the boys he took under his wing in Humphrey Carpenter's biography. Most seemed to be quite ordinary, skinny little kids. Of course Britten was attractED, but he had his own reasons for that, and I don't think they had to do with beauty.

Dybryd 23:09, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

ps You're right about Tadzio being a Dancer. I never quite understood why Britten made the boy older i.e. 15, particularly as the original Tadzio that Thomas Mann fell for was 11/12 and yet he was older in the novella (13/14?). Death in Venice isn't one of my favourite's actually, may be because the book and Visconti's film had etched themselves into my brain. On the other hand The Turn of the Screw is brilliant and definitely adds something to Henry James' work. Tony 23:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)Tony

[edit] Matthew Stadler

By the way, I put that "film critic" into his heading, but I'm not really sure he is a "film" critic. Maybe just a critic, or a journalist, or an essayist.... at any rate, I'll let you fix that Wjhonson 00:43, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I would probably just say journalist. But I understand he is also a visual artist--the magazine he put out for a few years (which I never saw) was of graphic arts as well as fiction, and directed the illustrations for his first two books. That might be more significant.

Dybryd 00:48, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Stadler-Nicholas.jpg

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Thank you for your contribution. I've moved the page to User:Bjornar/BPOV pending due process at the Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). --Bjornar 18:46, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Previewing Categories

Hello. I saw your edit summary that said that it's irritating that you can't preview categories. Actually, you can. It doesn't appear in the preview pane, but if you scroll down past the edit window to the bottom of the page, the new category will appear. Just thought I'd let you know.

[edit] "Welcoming Congregation" restructuring

Please see my comment on reorganization of the "Welcoming Congregation" topic (replying there). Thanks! --Haruo 06:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Cricket-bat.jpg

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[edit] Image:Stuart-murdoch.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Stuart-murdoch.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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[edit] More replaceable fair-use images

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[edit] Does the ongoing fair-use purge actually conform to the fair-use policy?

I'm thinking no. The policy says:

"If unfree material can be transformed into free material, it should be done instead of using a "fair use" defense. [...] Neither photographs nor sound clips, however, can usually be "transformed" in this way. However, if the subject of the photograph still exists, a freely-licensed photograph could be taken.

So, must fair-use images be replaced if their subject is still alive? The policy immediately goes on to moderate this requirement:

"Always use a more free alternative if one is available. If you see a fair use image and know of an alternative more free equivalent, please replace it."

So, the policy does not require deletion of images where no free alternative is available. Replacing fair-use images with free ones is a worthy goal. Deleting fair-use images and leaving a blank is not,

Dybryd 05:39, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sappho

If you want to introduce such content, it is going to have to come with a reliable source, as the article is otherwise fully referenced, and introducing unreferenced content compromises quality. Thank you. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 01:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Please use the proper format for the refs in the future, but do you happen to have the ISBN number for that source? That would be a great help. pschemp | talk 04:34, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trisha Meili

I didn't know where else to bring this up.

User:70.23.199.239: "Thus, Meili was identified by white-owned media as the 'Central Park Jogger.'"

User:Dybryd "identification by the media - not clear that all media other than two newspapers and one radio station is 'white-owned.')"

I never made any such assumption. I was referring to a host of specific media organizations, all of which were white-owned, all of which sought to shield the victim from publicity, and which were where perhaps 95 percent of white New Yorkers (excepting those involved in, or friends or relations with people in the media, law enforcement, or politics) got their news on the case (all local TV news operations, CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox' national news operations, CNN, Fox News, New York news radio, the New York Times, Daily News, New York Post, New York Newsday and even the radical leftwing Village Voice). 70.23.199.239 22:46, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Are those media organizations "white-owned"? Why do you think so? I became interested in the case through Joan Didion's essay "Sentimental Journeys" which focuses on the role of race in the way the case was reported and discussed. Glancing through the essay, I see that Didion writes: "one of the problems with not naming this victim: she was in fact named all the time. [...] she was named, in the days immediately following the attack, on some local television stations."

I'll add the bit about the TV stations (which Didion, annoyingly, doesn't list) to the article.

Dybryd 23:14, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Creating a disambiguation page

When you create a disambiguation page, such as AFI Awards, please put a {{disambig}} at the bottom. Eli Falk 17:55, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Adam Bayliss

Re: Adam Bayliss

He is an Austrailian film producer whose films have been featured at the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival. I noticed that you contributed the article on the festival. The Bayliss article is in AfD and needs some documentation of his significance. Do you have sources which might help to persuade the AfD editors of his notability?

Thanks.

Kevin --Kevin Murray 19:53, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation.

Hello! I saw your edit to Queer theology and thought you might be interested in joining WikiProject LGBT studies. We would be happy to have you! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 17:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ATT Poll

Did you realize you put your vote in the 3rd "neutral etc" section? Just asking Johnbod 04:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

No, I didn't! I'm a dope! Thanks. Dybryd 20:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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