User talk:JeanColumbia

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[edit] A well-deserved Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
I am awarding you this Original Barnstar to recognize your consistently excellent contributions to Wikipedia — especially your contributions to musical theatre articles. Day in and day out, you quietly research, expand and edit articles on Wikipedia applying common sense, a collaborative spirit and thoughtful judgment. The continually improving coverage of musical theatre on Wikipedia owes much to you. Thanks! -- Ssilvers 14:49, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to add this barnstar to your user page if you like. -- Ssilvers 14:49, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Follies contributions

Thank you, thank you for your work in exhuming those terrific quotations on Follies! If I knew how to give you a star I would, but that's beyond my meager skills in coding-land. In any case, congratulations! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 13:22, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Invisible Barnstar

The Invisible Barnstar
I hereby award you The Invisible Barnstar for your tireless contributions to Wikipedia — especially those relating to musical theatre. Day in and day out you strive to improve Wikipedia through referencing and generally cleaning up articles that have needed attention for a long time. Many of these important contributions are easily overlooked, but fear not, for your efforts are truly appreciated. —Mears man (talk) 15:08, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kennedy Center Honors

Nice job with Kennedy Center Honors, Jean! -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:32, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments below please

Thanks for working on The Pirate Queen. It looks like once the show tanked, the editors abandoned the article. I think to tie it off, it needs a cite that supports a final verdict on the show's critical reception (maybe there's a "roundup" of reviews?) and something about the box office or amount that the show lost. Then, I think, the article will at least tell the whole story (if not in great detail), unless it gets revived someday. This seems like a job for SuperJean? BTW, if you want to see my latest WP article, check out Robert the Devil (Gilbert). I'm getting close to having a full set of G's major plays on WP. All the best. -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:09, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hairspray

Hello, Jean. Would you kindly look at the Hairspray talk page regarding Awards, and see if you can respond and, if you agree, work on the awards section? The new editor seems very knowledgeable about Hairspray and has access to a lot of materials about it, and I am hopeful that we can improve the article with her help. Best regards! -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:14, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Super, Jean, Thanks so much! See my comments over there. -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:53, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nice Work If You Can Get It

Thanks :) Bib (talk) 22:02, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Legally Blonde

Hi Jean, I saw you just edited the cast list article for Legally Blonde (musical). I recently posted a question at User talk:The 80s chick#Legally Blonde cast, asking that user what they thought should be done about the cast listing in the main artice (I saw that they had recently edited the cast section in the main article). I thought I'd let you know in case you had any ideas or wanted to comment. Thanks! —MearsMan talk 12:34, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Jean, I threw in my 2cents at the Legally Blonde talk page, so others could benefit from this recurring question. Please feel free to disagree/agree/comment there. -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:13, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Footnotes in headings; Awards, etc.

Here's a recurring issue: In the awards section, you generally footnote the source at the end of the heading. I cannot find a guideline on this in the MOS (am I missing it?) It seems to me that headings should not have notes, but I see the problem: It is awkward to figure out where to put the footnote. However, I think that the awards section can be treated like the Synopsis section: You don't need a footnote right in the section, you can just add a reference under the "References" heading at the bottom that says something like *[http, etc "Laurence Olivier Awards information for Xanadu]. Frankly, as I've said before, I think we are listing too many awards, and they take up too much space in these articles. I would suggest only listing both winners and noms for Tonys and Oliviers (if the show played in the West End or B'way), and for other awards, only list winners (and don't list any info for awards that are not truly a big deal). Of course, if a show did not play on the WE or B'way, an Obie or Drama Desk award, etc. would be more important. I'd like to hear your thinking about this, since you're doing the bulk of the work in this area. BTW, you may have noticed that a new editor named Marian Kroy is doing a great job improving some of our Synopses. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:15, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

1)I don't care where the reference goes, does the article even need one? 2) I have no opinion on what awards to include/exclude, whatever everyone wants is ok with me. (I'll stop working until you tell me what to do, I don't see any point in wasting my -and your-time.) JeanColumbia (talk) 17:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, as I said, my preference would be to just put the ref at the bottom of the article in the refs section. I would definitely list Tonys and Oliviers just the way you are doing it, and then winners of the other awards that you think are really significant (e.g., Drama Desk). You know much more about the significance of awards than I do, so I would go ahead with the ones that you think really add to the encyclopedia reader's information. I'm thinking that when a show is eligible for Tony awards, an Outer Circle Critic's Award *nomination* may not really significant, but as I say, I don't know, and you are much more familiar with the industry than I am. Of course, an important off-B'way play, for instance, is not eligible for Tonys, so the Drama Desk and Obie become more important.... I will follow your lead, because you are doing all the work here, but maybe I can save you a little bit of work. BTW, I asked the question at the musicals project talk page and did not get a lot of interest on it. LOL! -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:40, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Maury Yeston‎

I rescued the Maury Yeston‎ article from a horrible fate and did quite a reorg/wikify/referencing project on it. Can you please take a look? I think it needs a second pair of eyes. Mine are really bloodshot now! -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I wonder if we can get into the Tonys as "press" from Wikipedia.  :) -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:28, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fame (musical)

Hi,

What is the reason you deleted the Dutch musical-numbers and the cast on Fame (musical)?

Markmu06 (talk) 15:25, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Copy

This is a copy of the response I left on Markmu06 talk page:

==Fame (musical)== Hi, I used the "rollback" feature on 11:37, May 13, 2008, because User Special:Contributions/172.143.113.180 had deleted the entire article and added his/her comment :"fame s****s". Here is the specific action I took: [2]. I restored the article to the version immediately preceding this obvious vandalism; if I inadvertently did not get the Dutch musical-numbers and the cast that you refer to, sorry, that was not my intention! I merely wanted to restore the article to the version before the vandal and remove the inappropriate comment. The article was reorganized on April 22, 2008, as you can see here: [3]; I did not perform those edits/reorganization. It appears that I am not the editor you need to speak with (although I see that the material is in the article last paragraph of "Productions around the world", although not in exactly its original version). Hope this helps! JeanColumbia (talk) 15:57, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SP Quote

Hello, Jean. What do you think of this edit? Although it makes the quote shorter and snappier, does it remove balance and information about the direction and costumes that is of sufficient interest to justify the extra verbiage? Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 13:18, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

No opinion.JeanColumbia (talk) 20:08, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Hello, Jean. I'm putting the finishing touches on the film article, so you may want to remove all the info related to the differences between the play and the film, since I'm including it in the new article, where it's more relevant. Also, can't something be done to fix the Playbill image? In the film infobox, images can be adjusted by citing the number of pixels, i.e., 150px, 200px, etc., and I notice you designated the Playbill image as 180px, but it still is enlarged and blurred. MovieMadness (talk) 17:46, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the image, it needed to be adjusted to 135px for clarity. It looks fine now. MovieMadness (talk) 18:39, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism to Ginger Rogers

Ms. Columbia,

This is called vandalism:

First

And so is this:

Second

If you look at the history of Ginger Rogers you will see that 76.231.69.78 (talk · contribs) made two edits. You only reverted the last one, you missed the first one. Try to check the history tab and use radial buttons to "Compare selected versions".

~ WikiDon (talk) 03:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)