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[edit] test

test

[edit] thanks

Thank you for your help on the Eternal Decision article. It is much appreciated. --E tac 11:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar. It has come right at a time when I have been feeling bad about my contributions to Wikipedia, it is just what I needed. Again, thanks, it is very much appreciated. J Milburn 16:15, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

And thanks for the support at the deletion debate! It is nice to have people like you around. J Milburn 18:53, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok, you deserve this-

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		I award this barnstar to Cricket02 for being really nice to me this evening, (and backing me up in a deletion debate in the most complimentary way!) making me feel better about my contributions, myself, and Wikipedia, right when I needed it. J Milburn 20:20, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Charles Timberlake

I have copied the article to the user's userpage. Remember to post warning messages on people's talk pages, not on articles'. I guess this is just a simple vanity, it may be worth keeping an eye on the editor, although I did leave them another note on their talk page. J Milburn 16:25, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage vandalism

Only just noticed the vandalism you reverted on my userpage. Thanks! J Milburn 16:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Userbox

Wow, you have better eyes than me and a couple other people cause I didn't see that nor the 3 others that were using the box. Thanks dude, I appericate the change :o) I probably wouldn't have noticed it. Thanks again! Take care...SVRTVDude ^{(Yell - Toil)} 14:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I am always checking Wiki...constantly or sending someone a link to a Wiki page. If it weren't for FireFox (which has Wiki as a search engine in it's search engine window), I wouldn't have used it as often as I do. Damn you FireFox *shakes fist*:) Have a good day and have fun "working":D:D - SVRTVDude ^{(Yell - Toil)} 16:39, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the star!

Thanks for the star! /Timneu22 17:10, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LOSER

You mean like your moronic Paul Mork references? The guy was an average coach at best and did not create the Paw Power chant. Galvin won 2 state titles you moron; MORK WON ZERO

No clue here: You must have the wrong talk page Cricket02 17:30, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I actually looked into the White Bear Lake, Minnesota history, and I think when you reverted 64.81.181.50's deletion/additions, 64.81.181.50 mistakenly attributed the Paul Mork comments to you. Actually, the original person that made the Paul Mork addition was Dbdawson back in April 2006. For future reference, I've stopped adding vandalism warnings to User:talk pages unless the vandalism is persistent. - cgilbert^{(talk|contribs)} 22:19, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for Barnstar

Thank you very much for the Working Man's Barnstar. I was surprised to see it awarded by you after my previous downgrading of Bradley Joseph's priority. I guess you're a very forgiving person. Thank you again. - cgilbert^{(talk|contribs)} 21:48, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Service Award

This editor is a Journeyman Editor, and is entitled to display this Service Badge

I see that as of today, with 6 months of contributions and 3594 edits, 2024 of which are in the Mainspace, on a total of 1751 unique articles, [1], you qualify for the Journeyman Editor service award. You can copy this and place it on your user page if you so wish. Congratulations and keep up the good work. - cgilbert^{(talk|contribs)} 22:58, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Music Barnstar

Thanks for the Music Barnstar, very much appreciated! :-) Madder 19:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bradley

It looks good

• Willmar[33] missing a full-stop
• notable for the freedom and variety of their structural design and technical challenges. needs a reference
• Merge the one sentence paragraph at the end
• This is on the article as a whole, when referring to him only use his last name - Joseph. M3tal H3ad 04:04, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Oo thanks for the start :) M3tal H3ad 07:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Jones (new age pianist)

Sorry, we edit fought and I rv'd an rvv of yours but I rv'd my rv. - Denny 00:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] barnstar

Thanks, familiar talk page... :) ed g2s • talk 16:26, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the Music Barnstar! That was a fun surprise to find in the midst of editing today! Parzival418 06:33, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Age music talk page - section out of sequence ?

Hi Cricket... I just replied to your comment on New Age music talk page about removing the Contemporary Classical alternative term. When I was doing that I realized that when I originally started the whole section that discussion is in (Considering a new approach for the Definition of New_Age_Music) - I did it like a blog - new stuff at the top. It makes that page read kind of funny. Now I've seen more talk pages and most of them have the older stuff at the top. A lot of the prior comments (lower on the page) seem to be out of date, though some still apply. I just wonder if some editors go right to the bottom of talk pages for the new stuff and this layout might be confusing. Do you think that needs to be fixed, or better to just leave it where it is? You're welcome to reply on my talk page or here, as you prefer. Thanks. Parzival418 05:58, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Received your reply on my talk page. Thanks for the clarification and checking out the older stuff on the New Age talk page. I hope you're enjoying your day too! Parzival418 06:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Voltaire

Yeah, thanks for reviewing it, that was what made me nominate. I honestly didn't think it was at good article level- I had to work a lot harder to get Askam there, and that was with help! J Milburn 17:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding edits to 20 Years of Narada Piano

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[edit] Advice

Hi. It's generally not a good idea to post uncivil comments and engage in unsubstantiated personal attacks against someone when making similar accusations against them. It tends to detract somewhat from your credibility. More so, when the subject of your attack hasn't actually done anything wrong. I refer you to WP:CIVIL. Thanks. --Gene_poole 04:21, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Please stop posting uncivil comments on my talk page. If you have evidence of improper behaviour by me, then put your money where your mouth is and start an RFC. --Gene_poole 06:10, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, let's see....My "uncivil" reply was:

Here, swallow you own advice. You can dish it out but can't take it. I come to Wikipedia for the intelluality, not to read your attacks against others who actually have something substantial to offer. Cricket02 06:05, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't see my reply any more uncivil than yours, nor all of the uncivil attacks initiated by you against others, i.e.Talk:New_Age_music#Ambient and New Age music. Also refer to WP:POT. Cricket02 06:21, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Allow me to put things in perspective for you: You appear out of nowhere and accuse me of attacking others without any evidence whatsoever. In so doing you defend a suspected self-declared psych case and serial sockpuppetmaster whose only contributions to WP involve trying to subvert WP:V and WP:OR because they don't fit his pet theories - which, funnily enough, are totally unsupported by both mainstream opinion and third party sources - despite his being asked for them time and time again over a period of 3 months. Your appearance just happens to coincide with the day my patience in having to deal with said psych case is exhausted, and I finally open a long-overdue RFC on the matter. After all of that do you really think I'm going to take you seriously? Do your research, and either put up or shut up. --Gene_poole 06:41, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm, wow, that was civil....Cricket02 06:42, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Cricket. Thanks for your positive presence in this frustrating situation. I think you're on exactly the right track with your short and polite response to the comment above. I look forward to continuing to work with you on improving the content of music articles with interesting well-referenced content. Parzival418 08:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

You are always welcome to contribute to Wikipedia if you comply with our neutrality, original research, verifiability and sockpuppet policies. --Gene_poole 09:07, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Defend Each Other

Hello, thank you for supporting my case. Welcome to the "club".--Doktor Who 09:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] considering edits at Pianists article

Hi Cricket

I was checking out the Pianists article while researching something else and found it was just a lists of lists. I planted some templates there with suggestions to merge the lists into the existing lists of pianists by genre, and also to make a couple new list pages for genres that don't have pianist lists yet. On the talk page there I also started some suggestions for what the Pianists article could be instead of a list of lists. I'd like your feedback on those ideas if you have time to take a look. I figured you might be interested since your fav artist Bradley Joseph is listed there! Thanks Parzival418 23:12, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minneapolis

Hello. Does Minneapolis, Minnesota look all right to you? Please pardon this form letter that is going to about a dozen people whose user name I recognize from some Wikipedia edit (could have been recent or in the past year). I expect to close peer review by nominating Minneapolis to featured article candidate in a day or two unless other editors have more work they'd like to do. In case the links help, places to make a difference are to edit in place, comment in the peer review, comment on the talk page, support or oppose when and if it gets to featured article candidate, or work on a child article linked from the following template. -Susanlesch 23:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

• Good luck with your FAC, Cricket02. One editor said hold off on Minneapolis. I updated the to-do list to say maybe we'll try after 1 May. Thanks a lot for your encouragement. -Susanlesch 17:37, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Marco Mann

Please read the wiki:bio evidence I posted on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Marco_Mann that demonstrates the notability of Marco Mann, and please reconsider your vote. Jumpster 11:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Minnesota

Hi, Cricket02. I have been adding the MN template to biographies, too, but I don't know the rules. There are a lot of people, maybe I should refrain? -Susanlesch 20:01, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for the laugh. You must be a comedian cricket. :-) Sure I guess I'll keep using them. -Susanlesch 00:50, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minor Barnstar Point

Awarded to CricketTwo by Λυδαcιτγ for updating Portal:Music/Important.

All contributions to the Music Portal are greatly appreciated! After the Birthdays section is done, I think the Portal will be ready for a drive towards FP, and keeping things updated is of course vital. Thanks, Λυδαcιτγ 02:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nan (artist) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion

Another editor has listed an article that you have been involved in editing, Nan (artist), at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nan (artist). Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in whether it should be deleted. Thank you. --Eastmain 23:22, 4 May 2007 (UTC) --Eastmain 23:22, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bradley Joseph

I have done what I can, but it wasn't as thorough as it could have been. Here's the difference, but I would rather not vote on the FAC nomination, it isn't something I do much. Feel free to drop me a line if you would like me to do anything, it means I can do the same back. ;) I see you were mostly responsible for the article- stunning work. I am yet to get any featured articles under my belt, I either run out of motivation, or run out of things to say. I recently got another good article, (Desolate North, an experiment to see how good I could get something that was barely notable) I just don't have the energy for much article writing at the moment, so I spend my time doing light admin work. See you around! J Milburn 20:27, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Reads much better. Only thing I can suggest is finding critical commentary on how his music has changed over the years, like comparisons between albums. Maybe his style has shifted over the years and some critics have made such an analysis. LuciferMorgan 20:07, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations, the first FA is always the hardest because you don't have much idea what to do, as you know it gets easier and lets hope you continue to write some more :) If you do have some spare time, could you possibly look at Still Reigning, it's short but it's my next FA goal. Congrats again and have a nice day :) M3tal H3ad 06:47, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that :) M3tal H3ad 11:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

You'll find that smaller artists are always glad to help, especially when they're little known. They're top notch, and keep in touch with him as he could prove rather valuable. When making interview requests I've found they're ever helpful. For example, if you choose to work up some Joseph related GAs whatever hard copy material he has may prove invaluable. Think of it this way; if you email and get a good response then great, but if you don't it doesn't matter as you never knew the bloke in the first place. With books, you'll need the ISBN number, which edition the book is, publication date, etc. etc. You're real good at editing Wikipedia, so I hope you work up future FAs (it's much easier after the first successful FAC). LuciferMorgan 18:54, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability tags

Why are you placing these notability tags? You may disagree think that reality show contestants do not deserve articles, but the solution is either a proposed merger or a proposed deletion. More tag spam doesn't help anyone. Gamaliel (Orwellian Cyber hell master) 17:38, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bradley Joseph Held Nomination

I imagine then that it is the template that needs upgrading. I left a comment on the page linking to where it was being held - I have no template writing skills or knowledge thereof, so I am unable to upgrade or alter the template without damaging it, I feel. --Ozgod 19:15, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Composer infoboxes

You recently spoke, on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera, against the blanket removal of infoboxes from articles about composers, or on an attempt to reach a compromise solution. Despite around a dozen people doing so, there are claims that consensus for their blanket removal was reached. You may be interested in the ongoing debate on the former talk page. Andy Mabbett 10:24, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Featured Content

Hi. The template guidelines state "Articles (10, most recent first)". Because Raul's a bit erratic with when he promotes, some articles will be there for days - like the ones you added on the 1st - and some will be there for weeks. Because the limit is 10, if Raul promotes more than 10 at a time some don't go up at all. It's a bit of a pain, but that's the system. I wouldn't worry about it unduly, but you might want to bring it up on the template talk page or Raul's talk page so that stuff like this can be avoided in future. I'd be happy to support you on that score. Cheers, HornetMike 14:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Eyes

Promotion? I'm confused... I'm still running round like a headless chicken trying to address other's concerns. LuciferMorgan 19:21, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Cool! That's likely the most stressful nomination I've been a part of. I'm quite prevalent at WP:FAR and've annoyed a good amount of people there in the past (I've been blocked twice), so I thought it was catching up with me. That's worth knowing that goings on thing, so thanks for the heads up. By the way, what you working on at the moment? LuciferMorgan 19:36, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

No I'm not up to much on Wikipedia at the moment - I'll be nominating Christ Illusion as a Featured Topic soon, but that's it. The next time you wish to work on an article for GA / FA, feel free to message me for my reviewing services. LuciferMorgan 19:57, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi, just thought I'd pop in and give you a cool tip. When citing to album liner notes, you first say X album notes, release date. Record label, issue code. With Christ Illusion for example, it turned out to be;

Christ Illusion album notes, August 8, 2006. American Recordings, 9362-44300-2

Hope this helps you learn something new. :) LuciferMorgan 22:26, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks :D M3tal H3ad 02:25, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Music

Cricket, I'd like to take you up on your offer to help with Portal:Music. Check out the talk page if you'd like to help. Λυδαcιτγ 02:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Glenn Galen topic

Okey dokey, thanks for letting me know but i don't think Musiclover will be too happy. Are you sure there are no other reputable sources?

Best regards

Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 18:51, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Ahh righty oh, thanks for telling me. Regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 15:25, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Hi, Cricket02. We could make one image with multiple frames like Image:Minnehaha four seasons.JPG (they could be three high or whatever) or a floating div with multiple thumbnail image links inside, or what I just tried (putting an extra image inside the first image caption). How would you like it to look? -Susanlesch 12:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Forgot to say, the reason it didn't fit before was there was blank (white) below the screen shot, so I reuploaded these trimmed to just the image.

[edit] Minneapolis

I'll run through a couple of them now; give me a minute. My computer chokes on PDFs, and I need to check some of your PDFs. For example, I think the second or third ref needs to use cite press release. Some may use the wrong template (cite news vs. cite web vs. cite press release, for example), others may have publisher incorrectly listed as author, while still others have no publisher at all. Give me a bit to go to my other computer and run through some of them. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:51, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

PS, the order of the parameters doesn't matter; the template produces the same thing no matter what order you list the parameters in. I'll have a look at a few now, and make some sample edits. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:58, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

OK, did a few sample; ping me when you need me to take another look. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:28, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Cricket02, thanks for the offer of help and the moral support. I went as far as I dare go to clean up the Minneapolis references. Only one template is citation (hope I don't regret that later), the rest are cite something. Some fields are missing in some of WP:CITET ( noted but unfixed) so I used cite journal for news a couple of times because it has the volume and issue fields, and then moved the publisher to the journal field. Looks okay except the italics. If you have time to scan through the refs for mistakes that would be wonderful. -Susanlesch 23:00, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Californication FAC

Your comments were great and brilliantly constructive. Thanks for the time you spent to review the article. I've responded and fixed up most everything. If you spot more problems in the future, just point it out. Thanks again and best wishes, NSR77 ^T_C 22:01, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Great, thank you. NSR77 ^T_C 01:17, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

		The Original Barnstar
		To Cricket02, for innumerable contributions to Wikipedia and WikiProject Minnesota as well as the Bradley Joseph featured article. Your edits are smiling. -Susanlesch 12:07, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John Mayer

I responded on the FAC. Actually, cite templates aren't required, and a lot of us hate them; I also manually format my refs as the editor of Mayer did. In the case of your FAC, cite templates were used, but weren't used correctly, so it was a different situation. What matters on Mayer is that all of the info should be provided in a consistent format, whichever style is used. Hope this helps—and please keep reviewing, we need more reviewers ! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:56, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the star, greatly appreciated :) I'm interested in what you plan on doing on Wiki now? M3tal H3ad 07:40, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RFC at Space music

If you would consider commenting at Space music I think it might be helpful. (reply here) Milo 10:00, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi Milo. Took a brief look but I don't know enough about either genre to comment right now but will try to find some time to read up. Cricket02 16:00, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi Cricket - it's been a few months, I hope all is well.

Because its related to New Age music, I think you have at least some expertise on this. For example, some of the artists played on Space music radio include New Age artists such as George Winston, Carlos Nakai, Paul Horn, Paul Winter, Vollenweider, Kitaro, Vangelis, etc...

The main issue is simply that one editor insists all Space music is a type of ambient music and wants to make that the center of the article. Yet even the person who started the first Spacemusic radio show has written in a book that spacemusic is a kind of New Age music. (You probably recall the disruptive editor from last time - he still WP:OWNs all Ambient music-related articles, including the part of New Age music that mentions Space music and Ambient music. I'm not naming him here, because this is about the music articles, not about him, I'm just mentioning this for context).

Overall, reliable sources don't agree about the definition, or even if space music is a genre. So the article should report what the sources state and we should not draw our own conclusions.

I would appreciate it if you would look at the two versions of the article and let me know what you think:

• updated version I added today
• previous version before the updates

(The history section in both versions is the same - I added that previously, before today's substantial update)

Here is the RFC, and a note I posted today after making the update:

• RFC link
• talk page note about the updated version

I respect your your skills in music editing and would value your opinion about the article. If you'd rather not, no problem. Thanks for reading my note. (Please reply here...) --Parzival418 _Hello 01:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi - thanks a lot for taking the time to review the Space music article and post your comments. As you saw on the talk page, it's been quite a journey, just to get to the point where we can fairly report what reliable sources have said. Your balanced viewpoint and comments are much appreciated. Have a good day! --Parzival418 _Hello 03:29, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi Parzival. I've been reading little by little for a few weeks now, the talk page was an exhausting read to say the least, plus looking at all references was time-consuming as well, so I do apologize for it taking so long. I admire your perseverance in attempting to report all views fairly and do hope that a reasonable compromise can be reached. Good luck. Cricket02 03:43, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. --Sinn 22:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Sorry for what you're going through...:( Cricket02 22:15, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Favor

Hello, Cricket02. I wonder if you have time to tell me if you can hear either one or both of these? 1 (new upload) and 2 (from Music of Minnesota). Thank you either way. -Susanlesch 20:55, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

• Hi. Thanks so much. I reported this issue "closed" at [2] but I can hear Minneapolis. Weird isn't it? Commons banner says tool server is down. Anyway, gotta be at work now (please no replies on this topic on my talk page if that isn't asking too much). -Susanlesch 15:50, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
• Hello again. Player seems to be working fine again on my machine. Sorry for the silence. Only kidding. -Susanlesch 22:27, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Glad its working again  :) Cricket02 13:51, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John Mayer FA promotion

I want to thank you for your assistance in bringing the John Mayer article to FA. It means the culmination of almost two years of work for me, and wouldn't have been possible without help from the WP community. Thanks again.--Esprit15d 12:29, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. It was a long haul for ya but you did it. Congrats. ♫ Cricket02 13:59, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thanks so much for the barnstar. It really is nice to be recognized. Verne Equinox 03:02, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes it is, and you deserve it.  :) ♫ Cricket02 03:04, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image tags

Hi, Cricket02. I guess it would make sense to ask the editor. Maybe when I removed the blank part of the images it was an unusual case. Maybe it triggered a robot or maybe the editor's intuition, looking at the pixel count in the file history. I agree there is no sign of a new reduction. You are so kind to send prayers to Minneapolis. -Susanlesch 04:28, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Okey dokey, I'll do that, thanks for checking though.  :) ♫ Cricket02 04:34, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Band of Liberty page/Charlie Adams

I am the original creator of the USAF Band of Liberty wiki page, and was a member and historian for the organization during the past 4 1/2 years.

Can you tell me when Charlie Adams was a guest artist with the USAF Band of Liberty? If so, it was not within recent memory.

Perhaps he actually performed with the United States Air Force Band in Washington CD; that's what Adams's own website infers (USAF Band). If you can provide a performance date, venue and the name of the specific Band of Liberty ensemble, I will repost his name.

[edit] Barnstar

Thanks for the Barnstar! Emmaneul ^(Talk) 12:38, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bradley Joseph

Cricket, I'd like to close out the fair use review on the article...everything seems fine now, with one exception - per Wikipedia:Music samples, the length of most of the music clips needs to be reduced to either 30 secs or 10% of song length, whichever is shorter, and the sampling rate needs to be 64kbps. I'll take care of this today, mark all the media as "reviewed", and close out the FUR on the article. I appreciate your patience with this process, honestly. If I haven't told you already, Bradley Joseph is a fantastic example of the best Wikipedia has to offer - I'm in awe of your ability to bring an article to featured status. If I can ever help by reviewing the non-free media in other articles ready to go up for GA or FA status, please let me know...I'm also happy to assist with getting copyright permissions, which I'm fairly proficient at.

Oh, before I forget - I'd like to move the free photo of Bradley Joseph to the Commons, where it will be available for use by the other-language Wikipedias who also have articles on Mr. Joseph. This will not affect its usage or availability on the English Wikipedia.

With respect, and best regards - Videmus Omnia ^Talk 19:07, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Cricket, I went ahead and did the reduction on the music samples in the article, though I didn't do anything with the Joseph samples used elsewhere. Basically what I did was mix left/right into a mono track, reduced the length to 10% or 30 seconds (whichever was less), added a brief fade-in/fade-out at the beginning and end, and then saved as an OGG with 64 kbps sampling rate. (I saw your note about sampling rate at my talk page - what audio mixing software do you use?). I made some minor tweaks to the image rationales and marked all 6 clips as having been reviewed, which hopefully should forestall any further challenges. If you're not happy with the section of the clips that I excerpted, please let me know. The review at WP:FUR has been archived. Please let me know if there's ever anything I can do to help you out in the future. Respectfully - Videmus Omnia ^Talk 02:33, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chameleon (Anglo-Canadian Band) and AFD

I added one reference and contacted WP-Canada Music section for help regarding the notability for this article. Thank you for extending the deadline, we'll see what can be done for the new user. SriMesh | talk 05:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

===Terry Cottam===

Added the content from [[Chameleon (Anglo-Canadian Band)] to an article about Terry Cottam, as there was more information, notability, references, and sources for Terry Cottam. I hope this is OK. Kind Regards. SriMesh | talk 02:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DR

Hi there, thanks for your kind and helpful message on my discussion page. I assume you haven't seen this decision, which seems to indicate that there is consensus to keep this particular image. Best, Badagnani 01:16, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't know why the tags remain on the photo page, unless someone just forgot to remove them. Over the past 2 weeks or so, in following FU discussions by the most active opponents of FU at WP, the rules have been relaxed somewhat regarding such photo (I think due to statements by Jimmy Wales and the WikiMedia board). Badagnani 01:27, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Enter Sandman

Since I particularly value your reviewing skills which I feel have come along greatly, I'd like to have you take a look at this peer review. If that's ok? It's a Metal article, and I feel sooner or later it'll become FA. Since I've never come across this editor at FAC, I'd like to help him as much so that he isn't scared of the FAC process. Thanks for your time. LuciferMorgan 14:25, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm flattered.  :) Done. ♫ Cricket02 18:45, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] King Crimson

The references to the old newspapers are included in the album booklets of the band's remasters. I could use the cite album template to reference these. Thanks, anyway - if you could do anything to improve the article, please do.-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 17:17, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Favor

Cricket, since you've brought a biographical article to featured status, would you mind taking a quick look at Meredith Eaton-Gilden (which I just expanded from a stub) and offer your opinion on what can be done for further improvement? Thanks! Videmus Omnia ^Talk 03:05, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Happy to....any time.  :) I'm not an expert at prose but I found the whole thing a very interesting read, and found no problems at all with MOS, POV, sourcing, etc. I'm impressed.  :) ♫ Cricket02 03:26, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Videmus Omnia ^Talk 04:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image Deletion

The best thing to do is let the IFD stay listed for the required five days and then close. Otherwise someone will raise hell again about procedural issues. -Regards Nv8200p talk 03:22, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Your comment as uploader will add some weight to the case for deletion, but I believe the best thing to do now is forget about it and let it run its course. -More regards, Nv8200p talk 03:32, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

• Woops, sorry about that. I missed this discussion and unorphaned the image. -Susanlesch 04:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

• Yep, I left feeling outta this and just looked at the votes and not stray comments I guess. -Susanlesch 04:39, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Soilwork

There's a new Metal related article at peer review, and that can be viewed here. Since you seem keen to pitch in with your valued opinions, I'd be grateful if you could pitch in with this one. Thanks for your time. LuciferMorgan 13:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot :) - give me a shout if I can repay the favour sometime. LuciferMorgan 08:44, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

By the way.. I think you're being penalized for working on obscure articles - if it's any consolation, I would have passed Rapture as a GA. You're better off working on articles with a healthier amount of sources. LuciferMorgan 08:48, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Happy to, any time. And the more I looked at Rapture the shorter it got so I just withdrew. There are lot more worthy articles out there. I was probably more irritated that it got reviewed in 8 minutes flat. Oh well, No biggie.  :) ♫ Cricket02 12:44, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] King Crimson

Woah didn't realize it's been a week already, sorry for the late reply. I'll look at it Wednesday most likely since the nom got reset. Have a nice day :) M3tal H3ad 12:09, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yanni's Crew

Hi, Thanks. The only images I own are from Yanni's Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino concert opening night, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, dated August 9th, 2006 (Officially known as Yanni Live! The Concert Event). Many shots of the crew were taken: Samvel Yervinyan, Alexander Zhiroff, Pedro Eustache, Alfreda Gerald, Ramon Flores, Dan Landrum, Victor Espinola, and many others. But I've none from earlier events. I'd be glad to upload them, if needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbahmanpour (talk • contribs) 15:08, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks. I uploaded a bigger hi-res one for Michelle Amato. Is it possible to delete the old one? (The new one has a different image file name.)

The following photos are added

• Alexander Zhiroff - Alexander Zhiroff
• Alfreda Gerald - Alfreda Gerald
• April Cap (Has a problem, I forgot to state "self" license, and now I cannot fix it!) - April Cap
• Armen Movsessian - Armen Movessian
• Charlie Adams - Charlie Adams (drummer)
• Dan Landrum - Dan Landrum
• Ming Freeman - Ming Freeman
• Pedro Eustache - Pedro Eustache
• Ramon Flores - Ramon Flores
• Samvel Yervinyan - Samvel Yervinyan
• Sayaka Katsuki - Sayaka Katsuki
• Victor Espinola - Victor Espinola
• Walter Rodriguez - Walter Rodriguez

• Yanni (HIMSELF!) - Yanni
• Zachary Carrettin - Zachary Carrettin --Komeil Bahmanpour 00:27, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

• Albums are great! Is it posible to remove the old pic of Michelle Amato from English Wiki? It's not needed anymore.
• I asked for "Komeil" username usurpation. It seems it's got a problem. Do you know how it can be fixed? Thanks in advance. --Komeil Bahmanpour 12:22, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi! Check this out! The third and fourth row of pictures are new. Soon I'll follow up with others! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbahmanpour (talk • contribs) 02:54, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. It's sad, a wikimedian requested the deletion of all of them, just because he thinks they're not captured by someone in the audience, and that discovery was from the size, angles, and lack of EXIFs. That's funny, becasue that night no one was photographing on the scene, just like every other invaluable live performance! I briefly replied like this: "Tell me, what consumer's video source has a 800x600 resolution or more? A Blue-ray? Yanni is not available on BD! The best consumer's quality chance for this specific video, is its widescreen 16:9 DVD, which is originally 720x480, that will be rendered 853x480 on PC 1:1 screen. Of course they're NOT taken by an SLR Canon. They're from an official ProDATA video taken by on-the-scene official Sony XDCAMs, something you might call a "master", which I OWN." The number of colors used and the size of images shows anyone they're not consumer's stills. I had a chance to have a legitimate collection of PDD video-stills and wanted to share it, but it seems... --Komeil Bahmanpour 04:21, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm so sorry for all the time you spent on this but I'm afraid that since they are still screenshots they will all be deleted. In my book, your work is very much appreciated. ♫ Cricket02 07:10, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Samvel

Are you serious? Why would I revert? Thanks for the picture. I was actually going to ask you to take a look. I wanted to create his article for a long time and when I saw Pedro's picture yesterday and it reminded me. Thanks again :) VartanM 20:06, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Nice to meet you Cricket, you're more then welcome to edit the article anytime you want. I just saw that the picture is being considered for deletion Maybe we can use a fair use from his site but most likely it will be denied, his article is BLP and they would require someone to take a picture of him. I will probably create the article for Armen Movsessian as well, but I have to find a source for it first. His official site seems to be down. VartanM 20:11, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

See if you can improve it. here :) --VartanM 22:22, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] South of Heaven

This is a GA I wrote ages back, though I'm wondering if it would pass FAC. It's a little short though, so what do you think? Hope you're well by the way. :) LuciferMorgan 10:43, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Funny, I've read it before as an example....:) I think it reads very well and believe it would pass quite easily. ♫ Cricket02 03:15, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. :) I'm going to try and FA it sometime next week. LuciferMorgan 16:15, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup in Minneapolis

• Cricket02, that was close, wow. Maybe some other time. Hope your visit is wonderful. -Susanlesch 08:16, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tool has been renominated at FAC

Hi Cricket,

I just remembered you expressed interest in a renomination of Tool at the FAC. Well, the I renominated the article some while ago, and I welcome you to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tool (band). Best wishes! Johnnyw talk 16:35, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Sure, I will have a look but may take me some time. ♫ Cricket02 19:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dungeons & Dragons (album)

Hi there, I've just nominated my first featured article candidate, in the form of Dungeons & Dragons (album), and you can see the nomination here. LuciferMorgan reccomended I ask you to take a look, not to mention the fact that you have helped me with music related articles in the past. If you don't want to comment on the nomination, that's fine, but any advice you do have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. J Milburn 20:48, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Happy to oblige J, nice to see you again. Small world huh? LM showed me the ropes, some of which I still barely dangle on, but I hang in there so I'll try. He's one of the most thorough and knowledgable FA reviewers out there.  :) ♫ Cricket02 02:57, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for the barnstar, I really appreciated. Someone sent me this video today, I'm sure you've seen it Pedro and Samvel are just great. :) VartanM 04:37, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes. And I've seen Dan Landrum in concert last year and is just amazing as well. I think they are all incredible beyond words. ♫ Cricket02 04:59, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes he is Armenian [3]. Usually all the Armens are Armenian, also our last names end with yan or ian. VartanM 05:25, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

No problem, here is one more. An interview [4] --VartanM 05:31, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

You gave me my very first barnstar! I was so not expecting that. Thank you very much! It's good to know my edits are appreciated. :) Cheers, Rocket000 13:35, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the barnstar! :)

Just out of curiosity, how did I come to your attention? Auntof6 05:58, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Typos

I'm alright, and I hope you are too. I'm not on Wikipedia much these days.. I think it gets a little too addictive sometimes. I definitely agree; not enough hours in the day!! LuciferMorgan 17:28, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

By the way, I know you're not as active these days but can you have a look at this peer review? That'd be greatly appreciated. LuciferMorgan 10:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Sure, I'll try some time soon. ♫ Cricket02 06:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you bunches!

Thank you so much for suppporting my RfA. I was promoted with a total of (44/1/0) - a vote of confidence from the community that I find humbling and motivating. I will not abuse your trust. Look forward to working with you! (Esprit15d 21:15, 5 November 2007 (UTC))

Congratulations. I wish you well. ♫ Cricket02 06:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jeff Oster

Thanks for posting that for me! I was so afraid to do it because of it being deleted right out of the chute! I have added a few things and clarified some because I know the artist pretty well. I've been in contact with him to make sure of these things and the sources you've posted there also verify my information's accuracy. You just have to sort of know these people to get the right info out there! I have met and worked with Oster, Ackerman, Jeff Pearce and Patrick Gorman, too. I'm working on getting to know Melissa Kaplan, too. Whatever you can do to help me post some things to their pages, I'd be very happy to work out with you, ok? Thank you! :) --Iamtanyaahogan 20:22, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Click there to open your card! → → →

Dearest Cricket,
Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 137 supports, 22 opposes, and 5 neutrals. Your kind words of support are very much appreciated and I look forward to proving you right. I would like to give special thanks to The_undertow and Phoenix-wiki for their co-nominations. Thank you again and best regards.

Lara❤Love 20:03, 10 November 2007 (UTC) Credits: This RFA thanks was inspired by The Random Editor's RFA thanks which was inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks.

[edit] Thank you!

I appreciate the Barnstar.  :D Can I ask what in particular got your attention? Katharineamy (talk) 18:22, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks from me too! Deb (talk) 12:19, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

		Armenian Barnstar of National Merit
		I, VartanM, hereby award you this Armenian Barnstar of National Merit for all the work you have done to improve the coverage of Armenian music related articles. Keep up the great work!
		this WikiAward was given to {{subst:PAGENAME}} by ~~~ on ~~~~~

--VartanM 18:27, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Metallica

Hi Cricket, long time no see. What are you up to on Wiki these days? I recently re-wrote the Metallica article from this and with the useful feedback you have provided in the past i was hoping you could make appropriate changes or leave comments on the peer review. If you're busy i understand, thanks for your time :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by M3tal H3ad (talk • contribs) 06:58, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

A compliment coming from you my friend. I've been working some crazy hours lately but I will definately have a look as soon as I can. ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 18:19, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look and making appropriate changes. I wasn't expecting you to look at as much as you did due to the article's size, so it's appreciated. It's probably the most looked at heavy metal article so i want to get it as perfect as i can. Thanks again :) M3tal H3ad (talk) 05:22, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

My pleasure. It reads very well! Have only fixed very minor things. I'm battling a bit of a cold, and got cross-eyed using a small screen, so I'll finish soon. ♫ Cricket02 (talk)

A few days ago i didn't eat fruit one day and got a cold that night >_>, couldn't sleep for hours because of my block nosed. Thanks again for taking a look! :) M3tal H3ad (talk) 03:10, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your edits to South of Heaven - they're very much appreciated. LuciferMorgan (talk) 09:39, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Update and very large apologies

It's done now. I'm really sorry about all this - just when I'd done all the prepping work, the parser broke, was fixed, but still wouldn't work only for this article - then I went away for a weekend to chop down some trees, and got back to find the parser fixed. Alleluia! Anyway, my sincere apologies for wasting so much of your time and for wrecking the article for a bit.

BTW, my congrats on a little landmark. I think this is the first article where I've removed fair use for Veropedia and then put all the fair use back in - usually I cut it all for good or only put some back as fair use overuse, but my word have you done this professionally and competently! Thank you on such a superb article, I really have enjoyed reading this beauty. Cheers, Moreschi ^{If you've written a quality article...} 20:15, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Again, thanks for your kind words. I have been fortunate enough to have received quite a lot of help from some fine members of this project, and to them I am most grateful. ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 16:06, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Peer review/Hybrid Theory

Hi there! LuciferMorgan recommended you as one of the users to review the article Hybrid Theory which is currently undergoing a second peer review and might soon become a featured article. With your help and scrutiny on the article, that goal might just become true. If there is anything at all, please reply on my talk page. Thanks! (SUDUSER)₈₅ 06:35, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Will be happy to. ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 16:00, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

For all those WP:FA fixes; just getting all the pieces in the right place is quite a chore, and it's nice that someone else watches out for those issues. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:08, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

My pleasure Sandy. ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 22:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bradley Joseph

Hello Cricket02 ,I have started translating an article of Bradley Joseph in Thai th:แบรดลีย์ โจเซฟ. --Sry85 (talk) 17:34, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Minnesota

I'm glad to see that at least one other person looks at the MN Portal. Feel free to change any of it when you want to. I swapped articles, pictures, and "things to do" earlier this week, so nothing is begging to be changed immediately. I also created short history articles for each month. Some of them are pretty wimpy, but at least the section won't be blank through the year. Cheers.--Appraiser (talk) 16:29, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Cricket02. Might I suggest a biography by someone else than me? I think I had a very long exposure as an editor (probably nobody else noticed though). Did Franklin Steele or Theodore Wirth ever get to the portal? -Susanlesch (talk) 16:48, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Franklin Steele was featured before. Theodore Wirth hasn't yet (if he is selected, that would be one more that I worked on). When I selected Hurwicz I wasn't thinking about who worked on the article - only that he won a Nobel Prize and was just in the news. Let's wait a couple weeks before changing it.--Appraiser (talk) 18:02, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

I have never read Carol Bly but I hope someone who has works on her article. -Susanlesch (talk) 10:19, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey! What a nice surprise to see you both!  :) I totally enjoy the portal and wish for more time to wander over more often. I only updated a few talk pages to reflect the archive. I've kind of fallen out of the mix though when selecting because I just get so indecisive, so many great biographies. So I at least try to help in smaller ways. You are both excellent writers, and I am not, but...if you ever need a copyedit, let me know and I would be honored to help. Merry Christmas. ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 13:37, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Season's Greetings

Season's Greetings from my hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Boy times have changed since, I think it was about 1994. So much overhead to lug around, but nothing the woman I met in the San Diego DMV couldn't write around in about 2 seconds with something called "ST Include" for Windows. Only kidding, I forgot the program's name but writing around an operating system would be quite easy for someone who completed studies in India recently. Best wishes for the new year from someone who thinks of you as the Jiminy Cricket of Wikipedia. And you helped me so much in about one email. -Susanlesch (talk) 02:15, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Season's Greetings

[edit] Awadagin Pratt's EMI recording

Thanks again for your assistance and suggestions regarding the inclusion of this recording on the Bösendorfer page. As noted on the talk page, I've added the recording data, although, from a lack of Wikipedia finesse, I did so in a rather "brute force" sort of way. I also followed your suggestion and added the recording to Pratt's page--a process that promptly turned into a can of worms, as the recording list there was sadly incomplete and out of date. I started the ball rolling to bring it up to snuff, but I don't have time to do a proper job of it at the moment. To be honest, that entire article needs some serious help.... Anyhow, just wanted to let you know that I do appreciate your guidance! Drhoehl (talk) 21:36, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] More about the Bösendorfer article

I've added another recording, a 5-disc set on Eurodisc by Gerhard Oppitz encompassing all the Brahms solo piano music. I think I got the template right by copying what you'd done with the Pratt disc. A couple of other matters: first, I'm beginning to think that a new section on notable recordings may be in order. Would you like me to give it a whirl? I may need some help with the pop albums, about which I have no details. Second, I'm not so sure about the citation of Havergal Brian as a Bösendorfer player; I think, if I understood right, you added it based on a link to the Wikipedia entry for Brian, but that article indicates only that Peter Hill recorded Brian's complete music on a Bösendorfer, not that the composer played the Bösendorfer himself. Just a heads up in case we need to make an adjustment. Thanks again for your help midwifing my Pratt entry! Drhoehl (talk) 21:52, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Nice to see you Drhoehl! By all means, please improve that section as you see fit. I didn't realize that about Havergal - skimmed the article too quickly I suppose, definitely remove. Your help is very much appreciated! ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 22:42, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thank-you

Hi Cricket - thank-you for the Barnstar! my first - so exciting!--Vannin (talk) 06:34, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Informing past contributors of new TFD for Template:Maintained

As you were a contributor in the last TFD, I am letting you know that {{Maintained}} is again up for deletion. Please review the current version of the template and discuss it at the TFD. Thanks! — BRIAN0918 • 2008-01-30 17:48Z

[edit] Re: View log

Good question. Probably should've posted a link to the script. It's here. Wizardman 19:49, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Minnesota Portal

Hi, Cricket02. Hope you are well and that the new year is the best one yet. I also asked Appraiser about this. Do you think four columns are too much? As the keeper of the flame do you think this page can be used for suggestions for all the categories? -Susanlesch (talk) 11:22, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Susan! I think the four columns look great and also a great idea for the suggest page. (I've not had time to be a very good "keeper of the flame"....:) ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 13:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks for your time taking a look. You made the important step to ask for suggestions! And put the system in place. Systems architect I think that is in IT. I might try to study the portal guidelines and then send this sketch to WikiProject MN and maybe portal peer review eventually but at the moment that sounds pretty ambitious and long term. Thanks again. Best wishes. -Susanlesch (talk) 20:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I think it looks great! Maybe featured portal some day soon.... 18:43, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your note here and just now. Portal:Kentucky had the idea of a round image at the right edge of a string of images so I tried it (there's no way I know to have them all the way across in one row). If you see anything I hope you will jump in and edit. Happy in advance of Valentines Day! -Susanlesch (talk) 02:13, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Are you kidding? I would no way know how to do that stuff! I'm impressed! ♫ Cricket02 (talk) 02:56, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

You have a background here on your talk page so I bet you can! Righto, thanks though, I better add documentation. -Susanlesch (talk) 03:00, 10 February 2008 (UTC)