User talk:DavidBrooks

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Too many vandals, too many overblown controversies, too much ill-considered accretion. But mostly too many vandals. After 2,583 edits, I'm taking my life back.

What I mean by "accretion" is well described in Roughtype (Nicholas Carr's) blog entry, under "The Cult of the Amateur".

Well, I'm back. A great cure for wikistress is to default to not adding every edited article to your watchlist!

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[edit] Dream of Gerontius

Came across your article while I was rewriting the article on A Sea Symphony (Vaughan Williams). It's one of the better articles on a musical composition I've come across so far. Thank you! Best wishes, --MarkBuckles 02:34, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello David, thanks for the note on my talk page. Singing under Britten certainly does give you bragging rights. I note the many unanswered comments and queries on the Gerontius Talk Page and I know sometimes one wonders whether anyone is even reading this or cares. I've been working on updating several of the most important choral works. Most of the existing articles are awful stubs. Feel free to drop me a note if you want feedback on anything or have any suggestions for work to be done. Best wishes -- MarkBuckles 07:14, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] EB1911 toward GA

I saw your work on the B's. I'm working on the A's as you could see on the A's first page. I try to copyedit (to my best) and fact-check the articles in an alphabetic order. Lincher 01:02, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ballia

I noticed that you copyedited the above article, but added 'still needs improvement' to your edit summary. I did some further cleanup on it today – what do you think of it now? So many India-related articles suffer from spelling and grammatical errors, and the moment you clean them up, some anon comes along and screws them up again. I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle here :( — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • ER • 02:47, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

It's greatly improved, yes. Good job! The next step in improving its style would be to reduce the number of short paragraphs - I think the "op-ed" style chops things up too much. Even with the existing text, just running some paras together would work. I came across this in passing when verifying the EB1911 articles under Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911 verification; I have no expertise in the topic. David Brooks 22:29, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I only got there because it linked to a disambiguation page, and then I got the mad urge to fix it up :) I'll see what I can do about the choppy paragraphs. — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • ER • 06:33, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Song-symphony

This is from the author of the article. Please check out Talk:Song-symphony for my comments regarding the possible erroneous nature the article. I very much appreciate your notifying me before editing my article. See also my own discussion page. Thank you very much.

Europus 22:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I am enlightened

Thanks a lot for your comments and suggestions, which are always very reasonable. While I may have had a bit of a problem with "MJD", I have no problem whatsoever with you. I thank you heartily for your effort in guiding me through this erroneous situation of my own crafting, and I now have a much greater understanding of Wikipedia and its policies because of it. I will certainly be much more cautious in my authorship/editing of further articles, but I will surely not cease to take part. Mistakes exist for us to learn from, and I am now enlightened. Besides, the information that I included in the article would make a good essay at least (with a few more sources). Again, thank you.

Europus 02:05, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Faust Overture

You may also want to check out my only other article on Wikipedia: the Faust Overture by Richard Wagner. It is much more suited to Wikipedia than the song-symphony article was. Come to think of it, I believe I recall having read once about a Faust Overture by Robert Schumann as well. I'm not so sure about that one, though. If one exists, it should also be mentioned in the article.

Europus 02:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1911 Question

Hi: Several months ago I was on the team finishing up the 1911EB transfer to Wiki. When I went to the Category:1911 Britannica page today, I noticed there were only about 70 articles in the category; it used to be populated with thousands of them. Did they get moved or something (to the verification pages?) thanks in advance, --FeanorStar7 01:09, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: New category for 1911 template

I did not have enough time to fully complete the move last weekend, I will try to do so in the next few days. I agrre the current categeory name is somewhat long. I'm very open to suggestions for a shorter name (renaming should be quite easy after I have updated the articles which remain in Category:1911 Britannica). The old name did not properly reflect its function in my opinion and I would prefer a name which start with "Wikipedia" to indicate it is a maintainace category, and not an article category. Cheers, —Ruud 17:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re:Nuttall

"It may be the only encyclopedia that has entries for fictional characters from Charles Dickens' books, but at the same time lacks entries for fruit."

I think I parsed that sentence differently to how you did ;) Tim! 16:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expandable Articles

Hi, there's a discussion on what to do with expandable articles here. As you've discussed this before I would appreciate comments. JASpencer 18:50, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vote?

Hello David,

Can you take a look at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Classical_music#Instrumentation

and perhaps enter a vote?

Yours very truly, Opus33 03:26, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Well, you asked for it... David Brooks
This is fine, thanks very much. Opus33 22:11, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:DBrooks_head.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] flats and sharps issue

You made a comment regarding the use of sharps and flats at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (music). Your suggested solution has developed somewhat since your last comment. Please feel free to weigh in on the proposed solution at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (music)#Unicode template for sharps and flats. --Dbolton 00:04, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] EB 1911

Hi

thank you for explaining your views - like i said i found it too uncomfortably close to the general whitewashing of the past in TV and movies - which is a pretty great insult to those who suffered - especially women like my great grandmother. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.179.246.234 (talk) 06:54, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cardinalist

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[edit] AfD nomination of Sammamish Symphony Orchestra

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[edit] Speedy deletion of David Welsh

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