User talk:JohnRogers

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Hello, John Rogers. Welcome to Wikipedia.

A few tips for you to start going. (I'll send more if I see that I can help you :-)

  • Just edit stuff off the cuff for a while. We like that!
  • When you have time, check out Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers + the links in there.
  • You can sign your stuff on talk pages with ~~~~ It will convert to your username + the time. "anon" is fine too.
  • If puzzled, put a question on Wikipedia:Village pump, or feel free to ask me on my talk page if it's a very general question.
  • Most of all, have fun but take our work seriously!

-- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 02:50 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi John, Blue Amberol Records doesn't make sense at the present. It doesn't mention the article's subject, and appears to be just disc listing. Start with eg Blue Amberol Records is a US(?) record lable whose titles include...

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I'm enjoying your contributions. One thing I'm wondering about is that lots of them have lots of unneeded html programing in them;

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etc. Are you adding those yourself, or is that an artifact of some program you're using? Wondering simply, -- Infrogmation 16:56, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi John, nice work except one thing - album and film titles should be italics not quotes. See Wikipedia style guide. Iam 05:34, Oct 19, 2003 (UTC)

...And please use the wiki 2 ' rather than html. Otherwise, keep up the good work! Cheers, -- Infrogmation 01:21, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Also, you've recently been converting song titles to italics -- according to the style guide for titles, song titles should be in "real" quotes rather than italicized (album titles are italicized):

"Red House" first appeared on the Jimi Hendrix album Are You Experienced?.

Perhaps you can reprogram your parser to change these to hard quotes? Jgm 13:30, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)

You have been doing a lot of good work and I thought I would mention that Tiles 06:55, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)


Thank you. I find the formatting guide (or is that rules) to be somewhat confusing but the data is worth the effort. If only there was a wiki symbol for Tab (sigh). John Rogers

There is. the semicolon ":", when it is the first character in a line. Actually, it works like an "indent" function; long lines are also wrapped. Hope this helps. -- Viajero 20:28, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Music, music, music

Hello. I don't think our paths have really crossed before. I'm glad that you are going around tidying up after me. Deb 21:18, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. That's a good suggestion of yours - though, now that we have the "Category" facility, I can see all lists being outlawed in the future. Actually, though, I think people are more likely to click on the name of the musical to get the credits, rather than on the year. It would be great to have a comprehensive set of articles about musicals, but I fear it will take quite a while - some are quite obscure, aren't they? Deb 19:05, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi, John. Yes, I think we should aim to create articles for as many musicals as possible. Let's face it, most articles begin life as stubs, so there's no shame in it. Deb 16:52, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Pop singers categorization

Hi. Taking a look at Traditional pop music, your recategorizing the Boswell Sisters as "Traditional pop music singers" seems not to fit, so I'm reverting. Possibly the article &/or categorizations need some reworking, do you have any thoughts or suggestions on that? Cheers, -- Infrogmation 15:31, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Recording dates

You seem to have a lot of recording dates and similar information. Where are you getting it from? I'm actually glad to see your edits to my articles, since they supply info I didn't have and anything that builds up the articles about the songs I like is good. -- BRG 15:23, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. The only source I'd seen online was for Perry Como's recordings, at [1] (which you probably know about). -- BRG 15:55, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hildegarde

You say: "Hildegarde recorded Darling,Je Vous Aime, Beaucoup on May 20, 1935.

I think it should be returned to the 1935 in music page."

That is very puzzling, because all the information I've managed to find gives the copyright date as 1936; how could it be recorded before it was written? (see, e. g. [2]) I wonder if your recording date is wrong? -- BRG 13:33, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Further search does seem to confirm your 1935 date, as see [3] and [4]. -- BRG 14:24, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
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