User talk:DJRafe

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Hello, DJRafe, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! xC | ☎ 19:00, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] References

Hi DJ. Welcome to Wikipedia. I was very excited to see you contributing to classical music pages. When you need to insert references, the best way to do it is to use "ref" tags. See NatWest Three for an example of how to do this. Thanks. Grover cleveland 07:19, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PSO

Looks good to me! I haven't been watching that article lately and most likely would have made the same changes myself, so thanks for doing so. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 14:20, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good work

Great work on all the musicians! Grover cleveland 05:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Agreed! Kudos on the Kissin article!THD3 (talk) 00:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry!

Hi DJ. I am new to Wikipedia and unintentionally blanked the page on Simon Rattle. Please restore ist.

Sune Ugered


[edit] Formatting references

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Wikipedia has a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Using different styles throughout the encyclopedia, as you did to Riccardo Muti, makes it harder to read. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

please take a moment to review template:cite web template:cite news, for help on easily creating properly formated reference links. --emerson7 | Talk 01:10, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Britten church parables

Hi. Good of you to add references to these. I've removed the "unreferenced" tags - but you could have done that yourself (it doesn't need an admin to do so - I'm not one). BTW, could you put a line or two on your User page so that it doesn't come up as a red link. Any old stuff will do! Best. --GuillaumeTell 20:49, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs

Yes, it's a difficult question. An obvious stub is an article where clearly more needs to be said, and an obvious non-stub is one where all or most aspects have been covered, not necessarily in great detail. So for articles about operas, I'd be inclined to de-stub them if they include date and place of first performance, list of roles, synopsis, list of recordings, and references and external links, if any. Other sections (background, sourced discussion on the music, more performance history, role creators, etc.) are desirable, but the article can stand alone without them for the time being.

For other opera-related articles (singers, directors, managers, opera houses, companies, genres, etc.) it's more problematic. It depends on how much there is to say, but then, for example, a complete list of every performance in which a particular singer appeared would be rather wearying, and not all that notable, even for Maria Callas or Enrico Caruso. So one has to use one's skill and judgement.

If you want more opinions, feel free to raise the subject on the Opera Project talk page. --GuillaumeTell 17:13, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A Village Romeo and Juliet

Great job. Delighted to see this. There is also a DVD film version with Hampson. Best from the Opera Project. -- Kleinzach 00:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Belshazzar's Feast (Walton)

Nice job on the references; thanks! I further changed the bit about the Biblical sources because it's not exclusively Daniel; Psalm 137 is the most obvious. I just realized Psalm 81 is in the finale. David Brooks 19:03, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greek Passions

Dear DJRafe. I recently added Czech article about the opera to the Czech Wikipedia, including several info based on Czech language sources. If You want, I can translate it in a few days into the English article to give You some basis to edit. Anyway - thanks for Your interest in Czech opera, Okino 22:55, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

In my sandbox, You can find the translation. Choose any info You need - and ask any question. I have also written Czech articles of the Julietta opera and several others about Martinů stage works. --Okino 17:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MacDiarmid

Hey there

I made a few changes to the article Alan MacDiarmid, adding content and referencing. Could you please have a look and check if I made any mistakes? I'd be much obliged.

Appreciate it,xC | ☎ 19:00, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conductors

I came across your recent edits to Paul van Kempen and other conductors -- great work adding the references. I wish more Wikipedians were like you!! Grover cleveland 03:09, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Musical Times

I notice that you supply a lot of references to the Musical Times. Do you know of any way to access old issues online? Google Books occasionally has a "snippet view" but it's not that useful. Thanks. Grover cleveland 02:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mathis der Mahler

Many thanks for the additions! Is the 1995 Hamburg production a typo for 2005 or a different production? Sparafucil 11:40, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] formatting references

just thought you might find the following templates useful and helpful for including references into articles:

template:cite news: newspapers, news organizations, etc.
template:cite web: websites
template:cite journal: magazines and journals

--emerson7 | Talk 17:20, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lucerne Festival Orchestra

A great thanks for your important edits on Lucerne Festival Orchestra! Do you think of creating the article about Lucerne Festival? (Addaick 02:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC))

Hey, you put your meesage on my user page! You should put it to the talk page! (Addaick 05:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC))
I have put it back to the talk page. (Addaick 05:44, 31 August 2007 (UTC))

[edit] RFC:Conductor infoboxes

currently underway is an attempt by a just a few editors to prohibit the use of infoboxes in articles of all classical musicians. in my view, the manner in which the policy was adopted was just a bit underhanded, and skeevishly done. if you are at all interested keeping the infoboxes, please go here and join the discussion. if you would like to loose them...well...just ignore this message. cheers! --emerson7 01:55, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edo de Waart

I am wondered why HKPO is not listed in the succession box. Edo is currently the music director and chief conductor of HKPO. (Addaick 11:09, 10 October 2007 (UTC))

I see, thanks:) (Addaick 02:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Yakov Kreizberg

Thanks for your work on the Yakov Kreizberg page. It is atlast word looking at! Mariah-Yulia 20:13, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Harmonium (John Adams)

Nice improvement! Thanks. -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 05:03, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Contemporary music

Hi DJRafe, I wonder if you would be interested in joining the new WikiProject Contemporary music that I helped organize recently? You seem to be very knowledgeable about the subject. Best, --S.dedalus (talk) 04:02, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

No degree required. :) Many members of the project are amateurs or students like me. Wikiprojects like WikiProject Contemporary music are informal collaborations between editors. Project try to help standardize the articles within their scope (improving categorization, formatting, naming conventions, et.) and are a place where other users can seek help if a particular article requires expert attention. To join all you need to do is add your signature to this list and remove it if you leave. There are no “hours” required. You can contribute whenever and however you want. Hope to see you there! --S.dedalus (talk) 00:27, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Much thanks to your great contribution to Holiday Overture

The Original Barnstar
I am delighted to see that you have made great edits to Holiday Overture. In addition, I am impressed by your tireless and enormous efforts to Wikipedia. I am here to award you the Orginial Branstar to you. Addaick (talk) 13:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

PS: I am thinking about those list of instrumentation in Holiday Overture to be changed back to the nornmal form, ie: point-form or simply a sentence. Addaick (talk) 13:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Václav Talich

Hi, I´m new here and i tried to contribute to Václav Talich page.. Can you please check it or look at it, maybe I´ve done something bad and I don´t want to do harm here.. Thanks Vejvančický (talk) 09:25, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your remarks, I´m learning..Vejvančický (talk) 22:04, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Les Troyens

Hi there, we in opera project is trying to make the information as complete as possible, therefore the frame format has been standardized into almost all articles excpet for the some with lack of info. In the frame, we have list of roles + the singer. The frame format is the standard, if you have enough info for the rest, please add them on into the frame format. Thanks - Jay (talk) 01:46, 1 June 2008 (UTC)