User talk:Sketchee/FebMarApr2005

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[edit] Repairing one-hit-wonder list entries by adding quotes from CD booklet notes?

...it occurred to me that it might not be all that hard to perform a partial repair of some of the worst problems with One-hit wonders in classical music in the following way.

It is very likely that the program notes in the booklets for a CD containing one of these pieces will contain some kind of relevant comment, along the lines of "so-and-so is remembered for this piece although his other work is almost unknown," or "xyz is known almost exclusively for piece abc, but this CD demonstrates that his other works deserve to be better known," etc.

That is, by consulting CD booklet notes (rather than respectable music reference books) it might be possible to find a quotation which is a) not by a Wikipedia editor, and b) most people would read as confirmation of the composer's "one-hit-wonder" status.

I understand your main problem is not so much with the items being unsourced as with their being a vagueness in definition of "one-hit-wonder." Dpbsmith (talk) 14:01, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Opinion on Page title

Hi, did you use to have an amine page with a selection of anime graphics on the web? Just your description on your Wikipedia User page reminded me of that web page. Anyways,

I don't think I did, but I've abandoned a webpage or two in my time :) --Sketchee 18:36, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

I would appreciate another persons opinion on if the below propose title change sounds sensible:

[edit] Papua (Indonesian province) → Papua Province, Indonesia

Change from ambiguous title to concise English language title. 1) The whole island of Papua is not a Province of Indonesia; 2) Papua Province is the proper Indonesian title; and 3) the percise title "Papua Province, Indonesia" is already established as the English title outside of Wikipedia. To confirm established world usage outside Wikipedia: Google "Papua Province" provides 737 English all non-Wikipedia pages; Google "Papua (Indonesian province)" provides 236 English only copies of Wikipedia pages. --

--Daeron 09:40, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This seems reasonable enough of a proposal to me. I'm not familiar enough with the topic to say for certain, but it's at least a good enough argument to propose on Wikipedia:Requested moves. If you do, let me know and I'll probably follow that discussion and vote one way or the other then. --Sketchee 18:36, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks. I've done it a few minutes ago; I was somewhat nervous due to the harrassing it'll probably cause me from John_Kenney (OneGuy) & Wik (Gzornenplatz), but what's new. Oh, that comment about OneGuy is just my personal opinion that it's John's sock puppet, not got concert evidence yet.:)--Daeron

[edit] Classical one hit wonders

Hello. I've posted a compromise proposal on the VfD which seems to have some bi-partisan support. As the nominator of the article and one of its strongest supporters of deletion your opinion would be really good to have. The specifics are, of course, open to discussion. Thanks. -R. fiend 17:41, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vote

Hi Sketchee, I agree very much with your comments at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Offensiveimage. There's a similar vote at Talk:Autofellatio having to do with the autofellatio pic that motivated the template. I'd be interested to hear what you think. Cheers, TIMBO (T A L K) 17:16, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ==Me and Julia==

Salve, Sketchee!
Thanks for your comments on the Julia Stiles discussion page re the contretemps I'm having. I don't really understand where this fellow is coming from. He doesn't seem to have read the how-to pages I'm citing. The wholesale deletion of the bibliography I compiled, saying they aren't "references" is baffling. We seem to have fundamentally different definitions of the term "reference". I was looking through his talk page and I note that I'm not the first to have a disagreement with his edits. In any event, thanks for commenting. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 16:23, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Unreferenced

You might be interested in the discussion at Template talk:Unreferenced. —msh210 14:57, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)