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[edit] Trumpet

I agree that the trumpet article needs a lot of work. I've noticed your efforts and appreciate them. Welcome to Wikipedia!--Dbolton 07:05, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Overtones

Here's the image as promised. Please put it into relevant articles as soon as possible. - Mgm|(talk) 21:15, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More trumpet vandals

I noticed that you reverted some recent vandalism to Trumpet. There's another one on there and since I'm fairly new at this (haven't read up enough on reverting and the appropriate warnings, etc.), I thought I'd ask you to revert it and take the appropriate action. Thanks. Special-T 15:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note! I have gone ahead and reverted the vandalism. If you want to read more about reverting vandalism, check out WP:VAND. Thanks again, --Hansnesse 16:29, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam

Do you mean our anonymous friend who inserted links to videposters dot co dot uk again? Yes, as you no doubt saw I dealt with this yesterday. I am afraid the best way I know is going through the anon's contributions list and reverting them singly, which is probably what you did. Looking at the user's contributions, s/he spent three-quarters of an hour adding links that have been almost immediately removed - s/he will probably work out that it is not the best use of time, and that there are more effective methods of search-engine optimisation! Keep up the good work! Best wishes, --RobertG ♬ talk 13:10, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Special-T! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. AmiDaniel (talk) 21:23, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bass clarinet category

A lot about the categories don't make sense. Anyway, you're right that it seems strange that the Bass clarinet article would be part of a category called "bass clarinetists." The most logical way would be to have the bass clarinet article in a category "Bass clarinet," then "Bass clarinetists" be a subcategory of that. But there's no "Bass clarinet" category right now because there's not really anything to put into it other than articles on bass clarinetists. In the future perhaps one could be added, to include articles on various models of bass clarinet or other bass-clarinet-related articles. For now, the main thing is to direct Wikipedia users to other related articles and categories so that they can further their research. Without including "Bass clarinetists" as a category there's no good way to do that. Badagnani 23:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, at least that's the way I've been doing it because to me the usefulness of the site is more important than being a stickler to the rules. It's very possible that having the players as a category in the instrument article is not kosher but I just don't see any other way to get our readers to the category otherwise. Badagnani 23:11, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

That's good to know. This seems most sensible, though many editors are very strict about not including overlapping categories, treating them as mutually exclusive. In many cases I disagree with this. Badagnani 23:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jazz

Thanks for your gentle reminder to clean up the grammar on my last jazz entry. Americasroof 13:50, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flat signs

I noticed the new round of flat sign changes on the trumpet article too. Apparently this isn't a problem for any of the main competitors to Internet Explorer, i.e. Mozilla/Firefox, Safari, or Opera. I was hoping this problem would fade away with time, since Microsoft is releasing a new version of IE in the next few months. Unfortunately, this bug has not been addressed in the current preview release (beta 3) of IE 7. The missing flat sign in IE is part of a wider issue: lack of support for mixed Unicode blocks (See Unicode and HTML#Web browser support). --Dbolton 18:09, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I recently changed some symbols to "flat" in the clarinet article on the basis of wanting to be more understandable. Apparently, there's a group who feel strongly against this, despite obvious problems with so many users seeing blank spaces. Just as the "real" flat sign is unsupported in some browsers, surely it is also difficult to comprehend for people outside or tangentially outside the music world, who have no idea what that "b" thing is. I'm in the music world myself, but think it would be far better to use English (spelling out "flat") rather than using a specialty symbol. If, that is, we want the most people to read and understand and comprehend, rather than merely being "correct" in our own small field. Yes? No? Other thoughts? (Wasn't sure where to put this, so I put it here.) QwertyUSA 11:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your note on ANI

I read your note in the Adminstrators' Noticeboard...on the vandalism-only account. I've reviewed the edits. With the exception of one/two edits, as you noted, they are all vandalism. I've placed a temporary block on the editor. — ERcheck (talk) 03:32, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image uploading

Drop me an email with the images attached and give me as much information about when, where and what was photographed. Also, let me know if you took them yourself or if there is another source and what license you would like them to have. - Mgm|(talk) 16:46, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sonny Rollins?

See my query there about yesterday's revert - I'm interested in understanding the reasons? AllyD 11:15, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] rm linkspam?

Hi, I would like to understand why you removed Dave Douglas @ All About Jazz from the external links section of the article Dave Douglas (and links to other allaboutjazz.com pages from other jazz related articles). Your edit summary rm linkspam doesn't make it clear for me what your objections to that link are. Best regards, BNutzer 19:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I found User_talk:Infrogmation#Jazz_link_-_spam.3F after posting the above ... BNutzer 20:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
See also Talk:Jazz#Commercial_links for more discussion on this topic ... -- Nilinator 20:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Odd vandalism

Greetings! It took me a minute to figure it out before I reverted that one. Apparently the vandal copied and pasted the entire paragraph on "Renaissance self-awareness" into another section later in the article, so unless I'm missing something (not impossible) it should be right now. Cheers! Antandrus (talk) 20:16, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 206.219.87.130 vandalism

Greetings! I've twice removed your report of User:206.219.87.130 vandalism from Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. The reason is that no vandalism has occurred past a {{uw-vandal4}} type warning or similar within the recent past. We do not operate on the immediate assumption that all edits from an IP are from the same person. The IP, especially one that is shared, could be used by anyone. In this particular case, there is no persistent chain of vandalism on related articles pointing to the possibility that this is a static IP used by a single person. As such, we must assume that we are dealing with multiple people, and use warnings appropriate to the occasion. With that in mind, we usually block an anon IP after they have continued vandalizing past a level 4 type warning that was given within the last 24 hours at most. This is why I've twice removed your report. I have left a level 2 warning on the IP's talk page. This, combined with the fact that there has been no activity from this IP for the last three hours means a block will have little, if any, effect on the person committing the vandalism. I hope this helps. If you have any questions about this, I'd be happy to answer. --Durin 16:38, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Greetings Special-T and Durin, and all! I agree that it is pretty certain that anon IPs are used by multiple users, and not all users are to be blamed for mis-use, but I have come across some/many cases in which there are clear patterns that suggest the same person/s (dare I say vandal?) is/are participating at the same time of day/once a week or whatever. Such behaviour seems to take place during school time and if such is the case, the teacher might be interested to know why a certain IP in his/her class has been blocked. My rationale for thinking that it's just kids having "fun" is that, barring some nasty arguments I've seen on Wikipedia, most adults don't really have time or interest in vandalising other people's contributions - do they? Be that as it may, my original reason for contacting you was to ask you to direct me to the ABC of reporting/dealing with vandalism, etc. for a crash course in helping out. Thanx and rgrds. Technopat 16:14, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanx for your prompt reply and recommendations. --Technopat 22:14, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hello! I just noticed that you helped fix one of my userboxes earlier and I just wanted to say thanks. Have a good day and take care! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ann Stouter --Ann Stouter 01:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Response

How DARE you try to patronise me - I made a legitimate edit to cut out an unnecassary statement and I will be reverting it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:144.82.208.13 13 February 2007

For your information, I have been editing wikipedia for a number of years now, just becuase my IP address only has edits today does not mean that I haven't edited it before. You will put people off editing if everything you don't agree with is construed as "vandalism". Why should I be warned about making a legimate edit just becuase you don't necessarily agree with it? Oh BTW how was my comment a personal attack. If people are going to "warn" me for no good reason I have a right to respond, I did not threaten you or insult you in any way. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:144.82.208.13 14 February 2007

[edit] Question

On the clarinet page you removed the comment saying they are made out of wood or plastic, what else can they be made from then? you said "many materials" - yes - that's becuase there are many types of wood and plastic - and all common clarinet materials fall into these two categories.

[edit] Re-linkspam

I just removed a bunch of it :). Darthgriz98 18:16, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reversion

Special-T, I noticed that you reverted one of my edits, but I can't for the life of me figure out - what did you change? (Sam Rivers's flute entry?) Thanks.Carlaclaws 16:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I think that clears it up for me.Carlaclaws 16:18, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clarion/Clarino

A Google Books search turns up the following uses of "clarino register" in relation to clarinets:

  • Anthony Baines, Woodwind Instruments and Their History
  • Albert R. Rice, The Clarinet in the Classical Period
  • Nicholas Cox, in Colin Lawson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet

If it's a mistake, it's a mistake being made by some pretty major authorities. (I note, though, that Rice uses both "clarino" and "clarion".) On the other hand, it looks as though "clarion" is considerably more commonly used than "clarino". My inclination would be to use "clarion" but note "clarino" as a synonym. -- Rsholmes 19:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I catch you using "nukular", I will revert! -- Rsholmes 19:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
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