User talk:Theolimeister

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Welcome!

Hello, Theolimeister, 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 messages on discussion pages using four tildes ~~~~; this will automatically insert your username 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! Deb 13:14, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] David Peris Noguera

Please cite sources for this article. Otherwise, it may be tagged as a candidate for deletion in the near future. Cheers. ++Arx Fortis (talk) 00:25, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adding pages from other languages

{{helpme}}Hi, I have been creating pages based around the Catalan soap opera El Cor de la Ciutat. I have been asked to cite reliable sources etc, but to be honest - the information I have been writing is just stuff I already know. I have looked on the website of the soap opera but none of the information I have knowledge on is on it really. I have been using a Catalan Wikipedia article as my basis of information and adding other bits which I know for myself. Can I quote the original Catalan Wikipedia article as a source? Perhaps anyone else with knowledge on the subject (although it is a little specialist) could help me in finding reliable sources?

Not really. Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source, which we're among the first to admit, and we're not a third-party source either - something separate from both the subject and the Wikimedia Foundation. The Catalan article should have sources of its own, which you can cite here. An effort should be made to find some English sources as well, though. Usually searching for key terms on a major search engine like Google or Yahoo can pull up some good sources for information. If not, you can post a message on the talk page or find a relevant WikiProject to assist you. Hersfold (t/a/c) 23:24, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] El Cor de la Ciutat

Hey there, I came across your new Template:WikiProject El Cor de la Ciutat because I monitor a bot which looks for new WikiProject banners not yet compliant with Template:WikiProjectBannerShell (WPBS is a function which allows WP banners to be collapsed to save space if there are several on a particular Talk page). Anyway, I made the template compliant and fixed the format error keeping the text outside the box.

By the way, to add the banner to a talk page, you should not paste all the code there, just paste {{WikiProject El Cor de la Ciutat}} into the page. It will appear the same, and then all pages are tied to the same template; when you make changes to the template, all pages will be updated.

By coincidence, I am also an active member of WP:SOAPS and perform a lot of our maintenance tasks. When I noticed that El Cor de la Ciutat was a soap, I added all of your El Cor de la Ciutat-related articles and categories to the Project and performed some other basic cleanup and sorting.

I noticed your question about sources above; a lot of soap articles have come under fire on this issue because many articles are undeveloped and of course there isn't a whole lot of coverage in mainstream media. Web searches may help, but is the series covered in any soap or TV magazines like US and British shows are? Anyway, some of your articles may technically be "in violation" but will probably not be nominated for deletion in their current state. If any of them is, let me or the Project know and we will work to save them.

Please let me know if I can help you out in any way in the creation and expansion of your articles. — TAnthonyTalk 04:55, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Also, you may want to use {{Infobox soap character}} instead of your new Template:El Cor de la Ciutat character; our template has many built-in fields and functions specially-designed for soaps (like a collapsible Relationships section), but you can still customize the colors. See Tina Clayton Lord for an example of it in use, and of course let me know if you have any questions about it. — TAnthonyTalk 05:03, 26 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Speedy deletion of East Magazine

A tag has been placed on East Magazine requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. PookeyMaster (talk) 23:41, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject tags

Hello there! I've noticed that you've recently been adding the {{WikiProject Theatre}} template to many article talk pages. That's great! I would like to let you know of a special little feature that these tags have. When you put them on a page like Talk:Broadway theatre where there are multiple project tags, you should use the code:

{{WikiProject Theatre|nested=yes}}

This makes the template smaller and reduces clutter on the page like this:

Before:

Theatre Portal
This article is part of Wikipedia's theatre coverage, and has come to the attention of WikiProject Theatre, an attempt to create a comprehensive and detailed resource on the art of theatre on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate in the project, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page (just like any other article!), or visit WikiProject Theatre, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

and After

If you have any other questions or need any help, feel free to respond here or on my talk page. Happy Editing! --omtay38 01:03, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:El Cor de la Ciutat character

A tag has been placed on Template:El Cor de la Ciutat character requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes.

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:56, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright

Hello, Theolimeister. Concerning your contribution, Lily Allen and Friends, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material without the permission of the author. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/02_february/08/lily.shtml. As a copyright violation, Lily Allen and Friends appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Lily Allen and Friends has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

  • If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Lily Allen and Friends and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
  • If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Lily Allen and Friends with a link to where we can find that note.
  • If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Lily Allen and Friends.

However, for text content, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Robert Seal (talk) 16:53, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Theatre March 2008 Newsletter

[edit] Major update

Re: major update to WP:THEATRE - you may want to go back over some of those changes, which messed up a couple things - for example the equivalent WikiProjects in the other language Wikipedia Projects are no longer displayed on the left hand side under the toolbox in the new version. Cirt (talk) 11:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Also, in your major update to Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/Assessment, I'm curious - why did you remove the Request for Assessment that had been added by Cowardly Lion (talk · contribs) ? Cirt (talk) 11:26, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
A clarification though, I don't want to come off in a negative way to you, I really do appreciate the work you are putting in to WP:THEATRE, just that these above things are a tad confusing. Cirt (talk) 11:28, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Theatre April 2008 Newsletter

[edit] Your opinion Please

I would like your opinion at to the debate going on here [[1]] at the WikiProject Theatre.Smatprt (talk) 01:58, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Theatre May 2008 Newsletter

[edit] Theatre Projects

I am touched by your interest in my various updates. Like you I have been busy upgrading wiki pages with fuller and more accurate theatre information.

The trigger for me is usually a show or artist I am reviewing or interviewing (for The Stage and other journals). Thus I am about to review Richard Bean's new play The English Game at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, and found the existing page for him lacking playlists and review and interview links. Most of the material came from my copies of Theatre Record and its Indexes (first published by Ian Herbert from 1981 after the demise of Who's Who in the Theatre, and continues under the editorship of Ian Shuttleworth - both unsung heroes of theatre research).

At present my list of Performing Arts upgrades, major makeovers and new pages include the following, although I have probably missed out quite a few:

ACTORS Roger Allam, Frances Barber, Geoffrey Beevers, Jill Bennett, Ingrid Bergman, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Campbell, Anna Carteret, Charlotte Coleman, Tony Church, Charles Dance, Judi Dench, Patrick Doyle, Douglas Fairbanks Jr (Elstree), Lynn Farleigh (wife of John Woodvine), Emma Fielding, Michael Gambon, Aidan Gillen, Joan Hickson, Douglas Hodge (actor and director), Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, David Jacobs CBE (begetter of the Kingston Rose Theatre), Howard Keel (nee Harold Keel), Henry Kendall, Geraldine McEwan, Alec McCowen, Peter McDonald, Elizabeth McGovern (Chiswick based American actress), Helen Mirren, Hattie Morahan, Robert Morley, Bill Nighy, Monty Norman (Songbook), Eileen O’Casey (wife of Sean, lover of Harold Macmillan), Laurence Olivier, Nathaniel Parker, Alan Price (singer), Blake Ritson (Hattie Morahan’s fiancé), Anton Rodgers, Amanda Root, Katharine Schlesinger, Jenny Seagrove, Martin Shaw, Jack Shepherd (actor, director and playwright), John Simm, Auriol Smith (Orange Tree), Imelda Staunton, Patrick Stewart, Nora Swinburne, David Warner, Stephen Wight, John Woodvine

THEATRE ARCHITECTS and Artists Kodak Theatre (architects and designers), Tom Piper (designer), Michael Reardon (RSC architect), David Rockwood (American architect), Elisabeth Scott (Stratford Theatre architect)

CHARACTERS Joy Davidman (wife of C S Lewis), Harold Macmillan (real-life character in Never So Good)

COMPANIES Kneehigh Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company. Salzburg Festival (Max Reinhardt)

DIRECTORS and Producers Lindsay Anderson, John Barton, Michael Blakemore, Michael Boyd, Kenneth Branagh, Peter Daubeny (World Theatre), Frank Dunlop (Young Vic, etc), Peter Gill (NT Studio, Riverside Studios, etc), Rupert Goold, David Jones, Anthony Minghella, Christopher Morahan, Trevor Nunn (Macbeth, Much Ado and Comedy of Errors), Max Reinhardt, Karel Reisz, Kay Saxon, Auriol Smith, Sam Walters

PLAYS and Shows Absurd Person Singular, Blackbird, The Blue Room, The Breadwinner (Maugham), Cabaret (cast albums), Chains of Dew (Orange Tree), The Constant Wife, Cranford, Dealer’s Choice, Don Juan in Soho, Maxim Gorky’s Enemies, Glengarry Glen Ross, God of Carnage, Gone With the Wind, Hadrian VII, La Cage aux Folles, Langrishe Go Down, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Les Miserables, Next Door’s Baby (Orange Tree), Moonlight and Magnolias, Trevor Nunn’s Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Nicholas Nickleby (book, play, film and tv), Oklahoma!, Professor Bernhardi, Ronald Harwood’s Quartet, La Ronde/Reigen, See How They Run, Shadowlands, Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, Monty Norman’s Songbook and his 1982 SWET Award, Sunday in the Park With George, Undiscovered Country, The Winter Guest, The Years Between

THEATRES and Companies Abbey Theatre, Aldwych: World Theatre Season, Arts Theatre, Corn Exchange, Drama Centre, Gate Theatre Studio, Kodak Theatre, Menier Chocolate Factory, Northcott Theatre, Exeter, Nottingham Playhouse, The Other Place, Orange Tree Theatre (history, structure and repertory}, Oxford Playhouse, Q Theatre, Renaissance Shakespeare On the Road, Renaissance Theatre Company, Rose Theatre, Kingston, Royal Shakespeare Company RSC Theatres, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Swan Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Unicorn Theatre

WRITERS Rodney Ackland, Alan Ayckbourn, Harley Granville Barker, Beverley Baxter (as a critic), Richard Bean, Alan Bennett, Fanny Burney, Michael Coveney, Noël Coward, Martin Crimp, Daphne Du Maurier, Michael Frayn, Christopher Fry, John Galsworthy, Susan Glaspell, Simon Gray, Douglas Gresham, Christopher Hampton, David Harrower, Ronald Harwood, Michael Hastings, Amy Jenkins playwright (Daphne), Walter Kerr, Philip King, Joanna Laurens, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Sharman Macdonald, Norman Mailer (The Deer Park), Arthur Miller, Sheridan Morley, John Mortimer, Peter Nichols, Stephen Poliakoff, Nina Raine, Yasmina Reza, James Saunders, Arthur Schnitzler, Milton Shulman, Charles Spencer (‘theatrical Viagra’), Polly Stenham (That Face), Sewell Stokes, Tom Stoppard, David Storey, Robert Tanitch (archivist), Ben Travers Simon Trowbridge links (RSC Dictionary, archivist), John Van Druten, Laura Wade

MISCELLANEOUS Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, Critics’ Circle Awards 2007, Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland CATS, Evening Standard British Film Awards and many links, Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Is That All There Is? (film, song and many links), London Film Critics Circle, Lord Chamberlain, Theatre Record.

I receive constant help and co-operation from MarnetteD and Dnfenner (David Fenner), the three of us virtually constituting another theatre project!

I am happy to help with your project although not wishing to get involved in controversy!

My particular advantages are complete runs of Theatre Who's Who from 1933-1981, Theatre Record, Theatre World Annual, a back catalogue of many thousands of theatre programmes, a performing arts library, as well as years of theatregoing and reviewing. But as you know, it takes forever collating reiable information from all these sources, so I tend to do it piecemeal, when not earning my living as a writer.

Perhaps we can discuss this further some time.

Best wishes and thanks for your thought. John Thaxter (talk) 00:02, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

PS I have made my first contribution to your project: a stub of Harold Pinter's Proust Screenplay, staged as Remembrance of Things Past at the National in 2000 John Thaxter (talk) 14:44, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] In Good King Charles's Golden Days

I have just created a new page for Bernard Shaw's In Good King Charles's Golden Days (note the apostrophe) but am balked by the fact that someone has borrowed or stolen my 1939 Constable edition with the beautiful Feliks Topolski line drawings! The Constable bumper bundle of Shaw's plays was published a year before this so I do not have a copy on my shelves,

Can you round it all off?

Best wishes, John Thaxter (talk) 15:31, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the contributions. I had foolishly forgotten that I have the complete playbill reproduced in the 10th edition of Theatre Who's Who and have now incorporated it in the Original production section. The only change of character names are that Charles II is known throughout as 'Mr Rowley' and Shaw elects to use Barbara Villiers' maiden name - but I have preserved the links.
Would it be fair to say that this is now no longer a stub? John Thaxter (talk) 08:36, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Shaw thing

As a modest further contribution to WPT I have rearranged the adaptations and revivals of Arms and the Man and inserted the September 1944 Old Vic at the New revival, starring Olivier, Joyce Redman and Richardson, which (believe it or not) I actually saw in the flesh.

The quote is by my good friend Robert Tanitch whose London Theatre in the 20th Century is a masterpiece of compilation if rather expensive (which, to Robert's annoyance, I managed to buy half-price from my local bookseller. John Thaxter (talk) 14:19, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oldsters

Although I created their pages long before our first exchange of messages, you may like to look at the articles on Nora Swinburne and Henry Kendall (actor), which are almost complete.

Also Q Theatre, which I shared at the start with Denis Fenner, and which could probably do with further expansion; although the thought of transcribing all those lists of Q Theatre productions in the appendix to Kenneth Barrow's history of the Q Theatre is a daunting one! John Thaxter (talk) 17:56, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bill Dudley

I found a useful British Theatre Guide interview with Bill Dudley and was surprised to find there was no page to link it from. So you will see that I have now created a new page - requiring considerable expansion, but a useful start. If anyone else in the project wants to get involved I would be more than relieved to get some help. My own affection for Dudley's work began with his video designs for Coast of Utopia at the National, and the astonishing spectral figure in the shower scene for Hitchcock's Blonde. Best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 10:27, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thea Sharrock

I have done a good deal of tidying up on the Thea Sharrock page, including regularising, detailing and correcting her list of theatre credits plus adding links to a couple of excellent interviews. If somone in the Theatre Project knows more about her private and early life, it would be useful to add more details - eg her parentage. Best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 10:05, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] British Theatre Guide

There is now a wiki page for British Theatre Guide. I've been using the BTG website for links to reviews because it is stable, unlike The Stage website - I am often unable to find my old reviews on The Stage website because the indexing is so poor and clogged by references to Mark Shenton's daily blogs.

BTG is listed by Intute as suitable for university research and higher education users. John Thaxter (talk) 15:53, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Martin Crimp and Howard Brenton

As further contributions to the project I have greatly expanded the Howard Brenton and Martin Crimp pages, not entirely unconnected from my reviewing the playtext of Never So Good and the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick, revival of Crimp's The Country, both for The Stage (plus a brief Stage feature on the Tabard makeover). Hope this helps - tell me if you do not want to know! John Thaxter (talk) 16:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Theatre June 2008 Newsletter