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... do you shrive a message, exactly?
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(Fill in lovely pleasantries here, wishing you a delightful new year and recalling our happy previous interactions.) --] (]) 23:14, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
== 16 Questions ==


: Happy new year to you and all, ].
It is funny how edit conflicts turn out. (I don't know how to link to the Ref Desk Humanities page where we both just dealt with the last questionner, and the Middle Ages that went on forever.) Anyone would have thought we had rehearsed a "good cop, bad cop" routine. ] 02:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
: Sadly, the meaning of your question is not readily apparent to me, and has not helped. Over. -- ] </sup></span>]] 23:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
::Well, you mentioned a class of messages that would get "short shrift", which means they have little shriving time allowed. --] (]) 00:23, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
::: Ah yes, indeed. How easily one forgets when one is at my advanced stage of life. Not much point making threats if one forgets one has made them, is there?
::: Anyhoo, let us proceed in a forwardly direction. See . -- ] </sup></span>]] 02:14, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
:::: Well, glad we got that cleared up before Shrove Tuesday.
:::: I remember there was an episode of '']'' called "Rosa Krantz and Gilda Stern are dead". Don't remember anything else about it but presumably those were the names of the murder victims. Sometimes writers have to have a little fun. --] (]) 23:28, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
::::: <small>Just in case anyone comes across this exchange and decides to Google the title, it turns out it's actually "Rosendahl and Gilda Stern are Dead", so they made the allusion very slightly less obvious than I had remembered. --] (]) 02:20, 23 February 2024 (UTC) </small>


==Paul Bowles vandalism==
Thanks for the linking assist. I was hoping for a click-and-drag solution as I am the world's worst typist. I won't try it until tomorrow when I may be more awake. As for the student with the 16 questions, he/she is not studying and that is the problem. As I noted, I think the list is a year-end review, perhaps leading to final exams. (The time of year here in Canada and most of the northern US would be about right for that for public -i.e. "non-fee-paying"- high schools. Universities have been out since the beginning of April in Canada.) This is a student who has done nothing all year, perhaps a student who can do nothing, if the language level of the comments is any indicator, but who still wants to pass. (I taught a 3rd-year university course where 8 of the top ten spots in a class of 120 or so were held by students for whom English was not their cradle tongue; where I was consistently challenged -by students every semester, and, on one memorable occasion, by the Dean- for maintaining that "even in a business course" grammar, punctuation, spelling and internal logic all mattered; and, where plagiarism was so prevalent that I have had exactly the same poorly spelled, badly argued paper handed in by 3 students in the same class, though each one had a different title, to match one of the topics I had set. Insane! (When challenged on the papers, all three marched to the Dean's office the next day, with parents and lawyers, but without, oddly enough, copies of the papers.) I no longer teach. End of rant. ] 03:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


have you tried reading the article linked in the new york review of books? Search the quotations? Thank you, if you have any further thoughts please reply to my talk page before reverting any edits to Paul bowles article. here is the link for your convenience, you may start at the middle where he described the locals as "bunch of Ay-rabs" https://archive.is/8mSH0#selection-527.0-535.11 <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 02:14, 8 January 2024 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
To "get across" a specific meaning, however, you need a specific set of tools. "Ya, um, like, ya know, it's, ah, well, like that, ya know" just doesn't cut it. Don't ever get onto mass transit with a bunch of teens. They all have an Ipod in one ear and a Bluetooth or a cell phone in the other; five minutes of listening to what passes for conversation will turn me from a fairly liberal believer in things like public transit, to a rabid protector of the sanctity of the private car. Thanks again! ] 03:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
: In my edit summary there was no denial of the veracity of your cites. I removed the text because of (1) lack of balance, and (2) the fact that there was nothing about these claims in the body of the article. The ] section is meant to summarise what appears below ("In Misplaced Pages, the lead section is an introduction to an article and a summary of its most important contents"), but as there was nothing below of any relevance, there was nothing to summarise.
: Please post new threads at the bottom of a talk page.
: Please learn the rules of Misplaced Pages. -- ] </sup></span>]] 07:06, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
::hello
::I understand we have a difference of opinion between what you described as being "lack of balance". I cannot understand how a white predator who engaged in such heinous and unforgiveable crimes. whose "works of art" are a source of inspiration for deviant white pedophilias who continue to plague the sovereign and honorable country of Morocco to this very day; warrant no mention of it in the lead paragraph because you happen to believe it is "lack of balance".
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::In respect of https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Civility, I will now request a 3rd party moderator to meditate this matter, in the meantime; as you do not dispute the essence of the claim, I will ask you to wait and refrain from further editing the article until the process resolves itself. ] (]) 00:54, 9 January 2024 (UTC)


::: You seem to misinterpret me. The lack of balance, and the mention of these matters in the lede para ''and nowhere else'', are completely separate issues. -- ] </sup></span>]] 03:10, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
== spealing n gremmar ==
::: Also, it's rather disingenuous of you to reinstate your edits, then immediately request me to refrain from further editing. If you want to call in a moderator, that is your right; but you do it while things stand as they are. You don't request a moderator and then make a further edit before requesting me not to do likewise. As I said above, learn the rules of Misplaced Pages. -- ] </sup></span>]] 03:15, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
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wotcha jackofox,
i dinae meen tae intruude' bit ah caught thi egschange a'teewn ye and beille n ah hinck ye's r bith rite..., the spealing n gremmmer; no a daes is attrroius.
::Sorry dear Jackofoz, just some small fun, it is simple what a small mind will find amusing, this was done with the upmost respect for you and beille love ;) ] 09:48, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


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== moszkowski polonaise ==


== 2024 ==
I wholeheartedly agree that more of Moszkowski's piano works need to be recorded. As you probably know, Seta Tanyel started to record his works on the Collins label but the company went bankrupt after she had only recorded 3 CDs. These have now been reissued on the Helios label (a branch of Hyperion) but there seems to be no effort to continue - a pity and a surprise, as Hyperion is quite enterprising when it comes to recordings "off the beaten track".
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If you're interested in unfamiliar polonaises, you should try the two polonaises from Opus 8 of Karol Mikuli. Mikuli was Chopin's most promising student and his polonaises do credit to his teacher. They have been recorded on the Polish label "Selene" - I ordered a copy from Warsaw via the internet but there may be other ways. Incidentally the complete piano works of Paderewski have also appeared on this label - all played by Radziwonowicz.
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Are you familar with the works of Henselt? He is another composer whose works need to be better known. Then there's Alkan - and if you can play his etudes, I take my hat off to you!!
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On the Main page: ] who ] --] (]) 19:25, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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Today ], with related music and new vacation pics --] (]) 22:30, 30 January 2024 (UTC)


== Some more weird/cool names for ya ==
might just be me Jack, but you and ] look alike, love ] 12:09, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Just noticed this guy's birthdate, and i'm not implying you are that old, oh no not me, no siree bob


Hello. You may or may not be aware that your list of cool names was shared a coupla days ago on Twitter by Annie Rauwerda of Depths of Misplaced Pages. . Predictably, people responded with lots of suggestions of names to add. I added Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck, but lack the motivation to do any more. I'm sharing the suggestions here, in case you wanna do it. I haven't bothered to check the veracity of these names, so buyer beware. For what it's worth, many if not most of these folks have Misplaced Pages articles about them; I've boldfaced a few that do.
==Grammar==
Hi there. I know that you often contribute to the Academy Awards articles. I have a question that I wanted to ask you, as opposed to just reverting your recent edit. You say that the proper verb is the past tense (was/were) in sentences like "The first X-rated Best Picture winner was ''Midnight Cowboy''." I believe (but am not 100% sure) that the present tense (is/are) would be correct, as in: "The first X-rated Best Picture winner is ''Midnight Cowboy''." In the present day (say, June 14, 2007), ''Midnight Cowboy'' still '''is''' the first and only X-rated winner ... no? It's like saying, "Meryl Streep is the most-nominated actress". Not, "Meryl Streep was the most-nominated actress". Meryl Streep presently holds that title today (i.e., she '''is'''). So, too, ''Midnight Cowboy'' presently holds its title today (i.e., it '''is'''). No? What do you think? Or, maybe a better / clearer example: Halle Berry IS the first Black woman to win Best Actress. Even though that happened in the past (in the year 2002), she STILL today holds that title and she still today '''is''' the first Black woman to win Best Actress. You would not say that she '''was''' the first Black Best Actress because, as of today, she still is. This is probably very nit-picky, but I am curious about which is correct, past or present tense. Perhaps both are correct? I am not sure -- your thoughts? Thanks. (] 01:52, 15 June 2007 (UTC))


'''Thelonius Sphere Monk''', God Shammgod, Stirling Mortlock, Staff Sgt. Max Fightmaster, '''Cardinal Sin''', '''Kenesaw Mountain Landis''', Rad Heroman, Kool-Aid McKinstry, Christ Bongo, Radek Bonk, Blinky Palermo, Storm Hunter, Amillion Buggs, '''Dick Trickle''', Dong Dong, Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Hotman Paris, '''Preserved Fish''', Ponty Bone, Greg Killmaster, Major Dick Bong, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Pootie Tang, Percival Spear, Shamus Beagelhole, and Tanqueray Beavers.
: Hi, Joseph. Very interesting question, which doesn't seem to have a clear cut answer. When it comes to the first person to achieve any particular milestone, and others later did the same thing, we usually say "was". Eg. Neil Armstrong ''was'' the first human to step onto the Moon; Edmund Hillary ''was'' the first person to conquer Everest; George Washington ''was'' the first US President etc. However, it is not necessaarily incorrect to use "is", either; it all depends on the context, I believe. If you were at a formal dinner, and the after-dinner speaker was Neil Armstrong, he would probably be introduced as "Neil Armstrong ''is'' the first human to step onto the Moon". In an encyclopedic article, where we present facts about events that by definition happened in the past, we say "he ''was'' the first ...", the word "was" referring to the fact that the event took place in the past, but not acting as any kind of denial of the person's achievement. Where there's been, so far, only one person to achieve a particular milestone, eg. Halle Berry being the only black woman to win a Best Actress Oscar, there's nothing wrong with using "is". You could also use "only", or "first and only" (but that's a little tautologous). But what if the person is dead? Would we say "Washington ''is'' the first US President", or "Washington ''was'' the first US President"? If Halle Berry was dead, would it be "Halle Berry ''is'' the first ...", or "Halle Berry ''was'' the first ..."? I'd suggest we'd always say "was" in such cases; this suggests that whether the person concerned is dead or alive might also have a bearing on which word to use. It might also depend on the focus of the article - if the article were about Sidney Poitier, we could say "He ''is'' the first black man to win a Best Actor Oscar", but if the article were about the Academy Awards, not about Poitier in particular, it would probably be "was". What about things that only one person has ever achieved and it's now either extremely unlikely or impossible for anyone to ever repeat them? Frankin D Roosevelt is the only US President who was elected to 4 terms, and because the US Constitution now limits presidents to 2 terms, nobody else will ever equal his record, let alone better it, unless the US Constitution is again amended. I realise I just said "FDR ''is'' ...", even though he's been dead for over 60 years. That shows that even I break my own rules, and just how subjective this whole thing is. I hope this is of some help. Please come back and talk some more if you would like to. Cheers -- ] 02:52, 15 June 2007 (UTC)


While I'm here, I'll just share that I'm very impressed with your userpage, and with all the work you've done on WP. I'm a newbie, so all I can do is gape in awe, and dream of making a userpage half that cool. Cheers ... ] (]) 06:07, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
:: Hi. Thanks for your reply. This has become quite a complicated issue for me, and has puzzled me greatly. In any event, I posted this question at the Help Desk for Language: ]. The question and ensuing discussion are under the June 17 date, entitled "Verb tense." I thought that you might be interested to take a look at that discussion. Or perhaps you already have. Thanks. (] 00:59, 22 June 2007 (UTC))


: Thanks for that. I'm not a Twitterist so I wasn't aware. But anyone's welcome to add names.
:::Hi, Joseph. I did see that thread but initially refrained from getting involved, as I wanted to see what others thought, without influence from me. I've since added some later thoughts. Have a read. Cheers -- ] 01:29, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
: I too was a newbie once. It feels like just yesterday, but nooo. Persevere and all good things will happen. -- ] </sup></span>]] 06:26, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
:: Update: I have discovered I do indeed have a Twitter account. I've upgraded my profile a bit. -- ] </sup></span>]] 07:45, 23 January 2024 (UTC)


==Disambiguation link notification for January 26 ==
:::: I did so. Thanks! (] 18:38, 21 August 2007 (UTC))


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== Margaret Barnard ==


(].) --] (]) 17:47, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi. I notice that you have done minor editing of the Barnard article I created. I thought I would explain my capitalisation practice - which is described in the Australian Style Manual as Minimal capitalisation. It is the style used pretty universally in library catalogues. If you look at the back of the title page of many books published today you will see CIP (cataloguing in publication) data. Here are a couple from books in the current pile at my feet: ''Mailman of the Birdsville track: the story of Tom Kruse'', ''Snow falling on cedars'' and ''Yacker, Australian writers talk about their work''. In other words this style capitalises the first letter of the first word, and the first letter of any proper nouns. I realise that while it is what you will find for most titles in the National Library's database and in public library catalgues, most people don't notice. We were taught at school to capitalise the first letter of all letters except conjunctions, articles, prepositions, weren't we? Anyhow, as you will have probably guessed I am (well, retired now) a librarian and this is the style I use. I understood that Misplaced Pages allows a variety of styles as long as it is consistent within the article. I have used this style in all the articles (only a few to date) that I have created, but have tried to follow existing style in articles I edit. Is this wrong? Regards ] 07:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
:: Oops, and some people call it Sentence Case. Cheers, ] 10:29, 15 June 2007 (UTC)


==Role of Queen== == February ==
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But you're making it sound as if she ''just happens'' to live in the UK, which is a gross misrepresentation. She lives there because that is where her ancestors have been monarchs for 1500 years, it's her homeland, and she's British. ] 14:45, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
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Today, I remember 12 years of musical company and ] to ]. -- ] (]) 09:27, 13 February 2024 (UTC)


: Thank you, Gerda. I've loved Ozawa's recording of '']'' for decades. He used to be a young man. So did I, come to think of it. Better get on with it ... -- ] </sup></span>]] 22:00, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
== A rose is a rose is a daisy . . . ==
:: Did you see my personal memories? - I took a photo then, but not in focus, and probably not really permitted ;) ... and today ] --] (]) 22:26, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
:::Yes; lovely. -- ] </sup></span>]] 22:36, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
:::: Thank you! - The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and ], a friend here. Listen to ] (an article where ] is pictured), (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). --] (]) 16:16, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
:::: Mozart wrote ''Die Zauberflöte'', posters and say ''Die Zauberflöte''. I assume a requested move might result in renaming, as for '']'', but have better things to do. Can we agree? --] (]) 23:18, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
::::: Not really, Gerda. As I said in my edit summary, it all comes down to how Misplaced Pages names its articles. That can of course change over time, for a range of reasons, but currently the article is ''']''', and ] is a redirect. Redirects have their place, but imo as a general rule we should not be linking to redirects but to articles proper. -- ] </sup></span>]] 01:58, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
:::::: Hmm, mixing in &mdash; why not link to redirects???? It's usually the best solution (better than using a pipe) when the text that you'd like to have appear in the linking article does not match the article title. And I don't see any reason why the choice of the article title, from multiple plausible possibilities, needs to influence the text you write in the linking article. --] (]) 02:12, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
::::::: Thank you for the support. When there's a good redirect, why not use it? A woman who gets married but keeps her maiden name as her professional name. A village with a German name and a Polish name. Depending on context, the redirect may be the better choice. If a production of ] is performed by the English National Opera, it's of course better to use ], but a work composed in German (as one of the first few notable ones in the language), performed in German in Germany, should be Zauberflöte, imho. I wouldn't typically correct others, but in an article I stand behind, I mean it ;) - During the FAC for ], I talked to the principal editors, explaining that we can't speak of the premiere of ], when it was given composed in Italian and performed in Italy. And they understood, and I began to believe in miracles. On ] --] (]) 15:04, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
:::::::: For the life of me, I cannot see why the nationality of the presenting organisation is relevant. If both the ENO and the Vienna State Opera presented The Magic Flute, both in the original German, why would we call the first one "The Magic Flute" merely because ENO happens to be an organisation based in an English-speaking country, but the second one "Die Zauberflöte" merely because VSO happens to be based in a German-speaking country? What if they both presented their productions as part of the BBC Proms in London? Would the organisers risk confusing the public by giving them different titles?
:::::::: What if the opera were presented in Athens, Moscow, Saigon, Beijing or Riyadh (either in German or in the local languages)? Would we be required, under your thesis, to refer to the productions as '''Ο Μαγικός Αυλός, Волшебная флейта, Cây sáo thần, 魔笛''' and '''الناي السحري''', respectively? I hope you're not suggesting that. -- ] </sup></span>]] 21:17, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
::::::::: Sorry, I wasn't clear. Nationality plays no role (for me). The ENO has a program of performing everything in English, like the Komische Oper Berlin has a program to play everything in German. For the ENO, I'd say ''Dido and Aneas'' and ''The Magic Flute'', and for the KOB I'd say ''Dido und Äneas'' and ''Die Zauberflöte'', as their posters have. The Metropolitan Opera and the Berlin State Opera, however, will probably play (in the original language) ''Le nozze di Figaro'' and ''Die Zauberflöte'', (they also play The Magic Flute, for the Holiday Presentation), . --] (]) 21:44, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


:::::::::: That's all still irrelevant, for me. ''La bohème'' was written in Italian and is almost always sung in Italian. Yet it has a French title. Why? Because that is the title that it was given and is universally used. Do Italian opera companies use an Italian title? Not that I've ever heard of. Now, I'm sure it has been performed in English (hence "Your tiny hand is frozen" instead of "Che gelida manina"), and German (I've heard Tauber et al. singing arias in German) and probably various other languages too. Does the title change each time? No.
If you think you have troubles with Jack and John, my youngest grandson's legal name is Charlie James. Almost no one will believe that the real name is not Charles. The more interesting part is that these are the exact same names that were going to be given even if the baby had been a girl. ] 02:39, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
:::::::::: The crucial point is that we're writing an English-language encyclopedia for English readers, and we cannot assume that they read or understand any other languages. If it's necessary to explicitly state what language an opera is being performed in or a book is written in, that's fine, but that is a world away from actually referring to the opera's title or book's title in that language. We might tell readers that "Peter Ustinov recorded excerpts from '''''War and Peace''''' in the original Russian", but we would never tell readers that "Peter Ustinov recorded excerpts from '''''Война и Мир'''''". English Misplaced Pages decides, by consensus, what the titles of its articles are. Those are the titles we should use when referring to those things in other articles. -- ] </sup></span>]] 22:23, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
::::::::::: By (changing) consensus, Wagner's work is now ]. I'd still write ] if I referred to a performance at the ENO. It's good practise to add a translation to English when using foreign titles, especially in biographies. Rossini composed ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'', and that's what the Met announces. --] (]) 22:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
::::::::::: ps: Perhaps just read ]'s or ]'s article and see how these things are handled in FA class articles. --] (]) 22:36, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


== Janszoon ==
== Elgar's Enigma Variations ==


I understand your reasoning. It's just jarring that the first person named in the lead (one of only two) is unknown to the vast majority of Australians. To give him such prominence might suggest that he's some iconic figure in the culture. There's a general awareness though that the Dutch founded Australia first, hence why I condensed it to that. - ] (]) 09:58, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
What do you think of the new theory regarding Elgar's Enigma Variations which was added to Wiki in June 2007? Do you think it could it be the correct solution] 15:16, 30 June 2007 (UTC)?


: How many people know the name of our first prime minister, or our first governor-general? I'd say a lot fewer these days than one might suppose, thanks partly to our "world class" "education system" . George Washington probably rings a bell with more Aussies than Edmund Barton or Lord Hopetoun do. On this basis, would you propose skipping any mention of them from our articles? I certainly hope not.
== Tchaikovsky ==
: Re Janszoon: Telling people what they already know, but going no further when the information is available, seems a recipe for dumbing our readers down. -- ] </sup></span>]] 11:11, 15 February 2024 (UTC)


== CfD nomination at {{Section link|Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 24#Category:Assassinated journalists}} ==
Looking forward to read what you add since you've finished Poznansky's ''Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man''. I've done all I can and this article really needs to be eyed from a fresh persoective—something for which you're extraordinarily good. Been concerned about length for some time but sounds like you realize this may be a long article no matter how much everyone attempts to keep things brief. Perhaps that's the only realistic way of looking at the situation, considering the subject matter. ] 18:16, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


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That "fascist commment" is the worst pun I have come across in days. I am still befuddled about the "bassoon" analogy from the one who does not want to be identified, though the mental picture is clear enough. Is it slang that you recognized? The whole set up feels like trolling to me. ] 02:24, 1 July 2007 (UTC)


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and I would appreciate your view. I have become caught up in the question of ], to which I believe you provided some comment. (I am no longer sure that you did; my brain is fried.) Would you, (and I ask from great humility and with a full understanding of the onerousness of the task) take a look at the thread, and let me know if I am out of line? I will take a simple "yes" or "no", and promise not to ask for more. I would appreciate more, of course, but I have asked enough already. (I realize I have asked two questions: 1) to read the thread and 2) to comment on my being in or out of line. You can answer them here and with only a "yes or a "no" to either or both.) Thank you. ] 23:11, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


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1) Hi, Bielle. I read the thread, quickly. It wasn't onerous.


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2) I wouldn't say that you were out of line. But the statement ''"As there is/are no God/god/gods, there can be no meaningful answer"'' was more-or-less inviting a reaction; regardless of whatever had gone before. It seemed like you were stating that the non-existence of God/gods is an established, proven, incontrovertible fact, which I'm sure you would agree is not the case. The question of whether there is or is not a God or gods is not one that science will ever be able to provide an answer to, so it will always be a matter of belief and faith. As I'm sure you know, billions of people have been and are as utterly convinced of the existence of God as you seem utterly convinced of the opposite proposition. If you had said ''"'''I believe that''' there is/are no God/god/gods, so '''I can give you''' no meaningful answer"'', that would probably have been accepted without further ado. On the issue of whether the question as posed, and subsequently revised, is a suitable one for the Humanities Ref Desk, I don't think it was inappropriate. But others are free to disagree. (Oh, and thanks for your post about my "fascist" comment; I'm glad others appreciate my weird sense of humour). -- Cheers ] 03:25, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


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:You are right about 2). Misplaced Pages is right, also, to disapprove of WP:POINT, because it so often fails to impress or even be noticed. To make up for my tetchiness, I am ignoring all but two of the OP's personal remarks, covering ] and another question at ]. One I joked about in respect of the answering of his prayers retroactively, and the other was a more general note on being "incivil" in his apparent assumptions. I am also leaving him the last word on both questions. The fact that he continues to miss the point is there, or not, for anyone to read, and more words from me won't help. Thank you. I shall be less pointed in future. ] 05:11, 3 July 2007 (UTC)


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== Elgar's Enigma ==


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I am new at this so I hope this is the best way to respond JackOfOz. If not, let me know.


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Elgar did enjoy ciphers and he sent a very complex cipher to Dora a couple of years before he wrote the Enigma Variations. This Dorabella Cipher is well known among cipher "Enthusiasts" and none of them has been able to solve it for over 100 years. I personally feel that he thought, she could solve the simple four note cipher (3-1-4-2) he sent to her as his signature in two letters before telling her that she of all people should have guessed it. You must admit that the Britannia theory in no way addresses the "drop of the seventh in the 3rd and 4th bar should be observed." I think that was a big hint that the two sevenths were needed to get to 11 x 2/7 = 22/7. It is also important to realize that one did not need to guess the connection to all the clues to figure out that the enigma was Pi. All I did was think of his "circle" of friends, consider that Pi is a feature of all mathematical circles, play Pi (3-1-4-2) on a musical scale, and Voila!! Only later did I realize that Pi could fit all of the other clues that he gave.


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A sincere thank you for your consideration. ] 00:49, 4 July 2007 (UTC)


== May music ==
I would like to publish this Pi Theory of the Enigma in a peer review journal but I could use some suggestions for a Journal that has short turnaround time (from submission to publication). The Elgar Society Journal, edited by Julian Rushton, rejected it. (I suspect it may make his 1999 book about the enigma a little out of date.) In any event, I am looking for some other appropriate journals. Can you suggest any, or perhaps someone who could help me find the journal I am looking for? ] 17:52, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
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I remember our recent uplifting choral concert, with Bach cantatas and an oratorio, in pictures, on my user page and ]. -- ] (]) 07:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)


] is the Feast of the Ascension for which Bach composed his oratorio, - perhaps how the closing movement was performed in Bach's church. --] (]) 21:55, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
In your comments to me on July 4 re Elgar, you mentioned that Dora Penny had some mathematical interest. I have been searching high and low for a reference to substantiate that in the paper I am writing but have had no luck. If you could direct me to a possible source of that information if would be most helpful. Thanks in advance. ] 17:44, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


] is on the Main page ], together with an opera that reviewers deemed not interesting and too obscure for our general readers. The soprano thought differently, - . - Also on the Main page: a TFA by sadly missed Vami_IV. --] (]) 10:28, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
==Academy Awards==
Hello. I believe that you are (more or less) actively involved (and interested) in Misplaced Pages's various Academy Award articles. Am I correct? You may or may not have noticed that there is one red link in the Academy Award article per se -- it appears twice -- for "Best Original Musical" Award category. Because it is a red link, most people think it is not a valid award -- and it gets deleted on a regular basis. My question is this. Are you yourself interested in -- or do you know of any one else who may be interested in -- creating an article for that Award? This would, of course, eliminate the red link and people's temptation to delete it. I would do so, but don't have the time at present. Please let me know your thoughts. Please reply at my Talk Page. Thanks. (] 02:12, 16 July 2007 (UTC))


Thank you for improving articles in May! - ] mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. --] (]) 14:52, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
: Hi, Joseph. Yes, I am very interested in the Oscars pages, but I don't know much (nothing, actually) about this particular award. I might be interested in doing some research to start the article, but not at the moment. I'm going overseas in a few days, and will be having a wiki-break for over 4 weeks. Cheers -- ] 03:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
: Noblesse oblige. :) -- ] </sup></span>]] 22:31, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
:: What do you think about the notablity of ]? --] (]) 08:34, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
::: I'm not really interested in getting involved, thanks Gerda. -- ] </sup></span>]] 09:18, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
:::: understand ;) --] (]) 09:33, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
:::: closed as keep - I just couldn't understand how the lead - a few sentences - wouldn't clearly state that she is notable. --] (]) 18:00, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
:::: 29 May 1913: ] - ] --] (]) 09:56, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
:::: ] is about ], one of five items on the Main page - more musing on my talk --] (]) 23:06, 30 May 2024 (UTC)


== Gratitude ==
:: OK - thanks. Enjoy your break. Perhaps you can keep this in mind for after you return. Thanks. (] 03:43, 16 July 2007 (UTC))


I have learnt a lot from you, JackofOz. Many thanks. 04:57, 22 May 2024 (UTC) ] (]) 04:57, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
::: A follow up ... FYI, very recently, someone actually decided to start up an article on this. See: ]. Thanks. Just thought that you might want to know. (] 18:42, 21 August 2007 (UTC))


: Wow. I cannot imagine what has prompted this effusion of gratitude, but I do appreciate it. Thank you, ]. -- ] </sup></span>]] 07:20, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
==Educational Postnominal letters==
In regards to your edit on the removal of the educational postnominal letters on the ] article. I am going to revert your edit as just because it is not usual to see education postnominal letters it is not an excuse for removing them. I personally do not see anything wrong in seeing what educational qualifications someone has and where they have obtained them, in regards to their postnominal letters. The wikipedia manual of style does not state anything on the issue other then that the postnominal letter should be wiki linked (). Which in this case they were. If a Professor has a string of educational and professional postnominal letters then due to the large number of letters, it would be sensible to just have the most prestigious. Let me know what you think --] 14:19, 17 July 2007 (UTC)


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I would like to ask something from you, Jack. You were the best person I could think of, because of your neutrality and impartiality. Please, see whether you think ] should be re-opened. Rockpocket said on my talk page that only administrators could re-open the discussion but I totally disagree with him about that. As every Wikipedian knows, and probably you know because you've been here for some time, administrators do not have any more authority than any other user about any subject whatsoever. ] 02:50, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
: I would direct you to ] (note who it says should close reviews) and ], Specifically, "It is especially wasteful to go to deletion review over an unsourced stub when the alternative of creating a sourced article is available." There is nothing to be gained by this, A.Z. other than a (greater) reputation for trolling. Even if this article was, for some reason, to be undeleted on process, it would be AfD'd and deleted again immediately. If this article is to survive, it ''must'' be sourced and notability asserted (like every other article on WP). There is nothing stopping you creating that article. Either do so, or drop this ], because at your rate you will find yourself censured for disruptive behaviour before too long. ]<font color="black">e</font>] 03:02, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


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:: I didn't know about that. I changed the page about administrators accordingly. ] 03:08, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


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:::(after edit conflict; I'm responding to A.Z.'s original request) Hi, A.Z. Thanks for the compliment. I can't see where Rockpocket has said that ''"only administrators could re-open the discussion"''. He has said ''"Generally only another admin should reverse a closure that, by its very nature, is controversial. If you have concerns, I would suggest requesting an outside opinion at WP:AN/I"''. So, he's offering you another approach to resolve the issue. In any case, I'm not keen to enter into this debate. Firstly, your original article, which I'd need to see in order to get a handle on just what it was that's been found inappropriate for Misplaced Pages, is now unaccessible. The evidence suggests that it did not contain suitable references, and did not demonstrate notability, so whatever implicit truth it contained, it seems to have failed our criteria for articles. But more importantly, I'm in the middle of final preparations for an overseas trip, I have a number of tasks on my mind, and my time is very limited. Sorry. -- ] 03:12, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for your edits on the BSO and its discography. On another matter, I wonder if you would be at all interested in helping me get ] to a publishable state. Apart from some standard ce, I'm not quite sure what to do with the fairly extensive quotes from contemporary newspapers, which are not easily available for the average reader, but which contain (i fink) lots of relevant info.
::::I thank Rockpocket for the offer, but I won't accept it precisely because I think administrators shouldn't have any more authority than any other user. If he had offered that I post something on the users' noticeboard, I would gladly accept the offer. You deserve the compliment, Jack. Thanks a lot for considering it. I would just like to add that the discussion wasn't about whether the article failed our criteria or not. It was just about whether a discussion about whether the article should be speedily deleted or not should be re-opened. Thanks again. Enjoy your trip! ] 03:26, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


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: Greetings, O prophetic one. Thanks for the Gadgets suggestion. Very helpful indeed.
Hi. I've been working on the Greenway article, but I find it frustrating that there seems to be no list anywhere of his buildings. Do you happen to know many of them? I'm trying to make up a list for the article.
: I'll give Joe Beecham my world-famous once-over soon. It seems to have a lot of useful stuff, but it can probably be trimmed somewhat. Cheers. -- ] </sup></span>]] 00:52, 2 June 2024 (UTC)


:: Ha! Checking to see if you even bothered to reply, I glanced at your previous messages: I could listen to/natter about ''Gurrelieder'' for ever. Strangely enough, only a few years ago (after I wrote the BSO articles) I went to a performance of Schoenberg's farewell to late Romanticism given (appropriately enough) in ] where the British Symphony Orchestra made those recordings in the 1930s. Maybe I was sitting in one of the least favoured seats, but even with the vast assembled combined forces of perhaps 130 players and 200 singers, the music just seemed to disappear completely, utterly swallowed up in that huge and somehow unsympathetic space. Ah well, the technology of the time seemed to cope better than my all-too-human ear. ] (]) 21:23, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
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== Welcome Back, Jack! ==


== July music ==
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Thank you for having created ]! - I'll look at "her" tomorrow. - ] is about ], with a (new) pic in the article only, sadly. I found it difficult to point at a YouTube sample, because yes, her signature roles - the Nurse and Brangäne - exist in great full-length operas with great casts, but hard to find her. - Talking of YouTube: today I was pointed at ] by a friend who performed in the concert of the ] in their centenary year, and I'm quite impressed by samples (beginning and ] where I linked it) - enjoy! -- ] (]) 13:19, 19 July 2024 (UTC)


(sadly, another musician needs attention sooner than Cantelo) - ] is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially ], yesterday's was ], and on Thursday ]. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. --] (]) 11:35, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
I have missed your voice of sanity over the past month. I hope your trip went well. ] 04:27, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


On Bach's day of death my story is about his cantata ], although the article needs work. --] (]) 21:38, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
::I don't know who inserted the "Back Home Again" image here, but the message seems fine. (Images are something I haven't yet tried.) As for wars on Wiki, the same ones go on and on and on. Briefly, there arose an ] article, for example, but all the elements and attitudes were distilled from text on talk pages years old. Now that I have spent more time out and about reading articles and talk pages, it does seem more and more like the standard modes are argument, guerilla warfare and all out bombing; humanity seems a quarrelsome lot; some of us more than others, of course. The occasional editor/admin/bureaucrat -of which we have two new since you last were here- who works hard at civility and NPOV is often driven near to insanity by what reads to me like wilfull misunderstanding. I can take about half an hour of Wiki and then I go back to painting, or reading, or even housework, for a reality check. ''Plus ça changes '' . . . and all that. ] 17:49, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


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== John Simon ==
hi jack, glad your back, the ref desk has been somewhat bereft of wit and has to put wp with my inane humour, hail the Ox has returned! <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]){{#if:09:29, August 21, 2007 (UTC)|&#32;09:29, August 21, 2007 (UTC)}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> oops] 15:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


Hi Jack, hope you are well. I tracked down the Lloyd George quotation for you on Wikiquote. ] (]) 11:47, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
==Seeking Advice and Assistance re: Deletion of 7 ] Articles==
: Thanks, Duncan. Much appreciated. -- ] </sup></span>]] 12:46, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
To: ] -- Hello. I am coming to your Talk Page for several reasons. (1) You seem to have an interest in -- and consistently contribute to -- the various ]s articles. And (2) I am sure that you have been around Misplaced Pages much longer than I have and, thus, you have a better sense of how this all works and how to get things done. If those two assumptions are incorrect, please let me know. Assuming they are correct, I will proceed with my questions to you. Here on Misplaced Pages, I am most interested in, frequently contribute to, and tend to monitor and edit the various Academy Award articles -- of which there are many. That topic is essentially my primary interest here on Misplaced Pages. One day recently (about a week ago), I was reviewing / editing / proofreading the various Academy Award articles, as I do pretty regularly. Literally, as I was working on them, an administrator was deleting many, many of the articles -- I believe, seven Academy Award articles in total. I am sure that they went through the proper AfD process. However, I was unaware that they were even being considered for deletion (since they were not on my Watch List). As a result, I was not able to participate in any of the discussion or debate ... and all seven articles were ultimately deleted. The list of articles deleted is here (if you look under Item #3 on my "To Do List"): ]. Needless to say, I am very upset about this and I sincerely feel that these are worthwhile articles, into which a lot of work was placed (by me and by others). If I had my druthers, all seven articles would be un-deleted ... however, I am certain that Misplaced Pages hardly works that way (i.e., letting my druthers dictate the issue). So, basically, these are my questions to you. (1) Do you agree or disagree that these articles should have been deleted? (2) What, if anything, can I (or you or others) do about all of this? (3) Is there any way to fix this, or am I barking up a wrong tree, which will only result in banging my head against the proverbial brick wall? Will I be spinning my wheels, getting nowhere ... or can this situation change? By the way, the deletion debate is here: ] -- if you can call it a debate. I am really very upset about all of this. Please advise. PS: In a subsequent post, I can offer my specific reasons to un-delete these articles and to counter-argue the consensus reached at the debate. But, initially, I wanted to ask those (above) preliminary questions of you. Please reply at My Talk Page: ]. Another PS: I initiated a preliminary conversation with the administrator who deleted the articles. You can see that conversation on my Talk Page under the "Academy Awards" heading. Before my next move with that deleting administrator, I wanted to seek your advice on the best way to proceed. Thanks much. (] 18:18, 21 August 2007 (UTC))


== October music ==
: Hello. I was seeking some advice and assistance from you, and I posted the above message on your Talk Page on August 21. However, I have not as of yet heard back from you. Please let me know whether you have had a chance to read my question, and whether you are willing to offer me some advice and assistance in this matter. Please let me know, either way -- so that I can pursue this issue with you or, if you are unwilling and/or unable to help, so that I can seek advice and assistance elsewhere. Thanks. (] 00:40, 31 August 2007 (UTC))
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Thank you for having created ] - unbelievable story -- ] (]) 10:25, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
: My pleasure. I still remember his tear-inducing performance of the Elgar concerto - the first time I ever heard it played live - with the ] in Brisbane in the late 60s or early 70s. That's why I remembered his name, and why I saw it as my duty to fill a gap. -- ] </sup></span>]] 11:09, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
:: Thank you for having followed your tears. My introduction (first time live) to the concerto was by ], and I ]. --] (]) 12:37, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
:: I made Leif Segerstam my ] story today. --] (]) 13:31, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
:: Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world ]. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic in 2016. --] (]) 15:42, 31 October 2024 (UTC)


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::Hi Joseph. Apologies for the late response. I did read your question, but I thought the responses from others would probably have satisfied you, so I chose to let it lie. Fwiw, I would agree that having separate articles for the categories you created is not necessary - I see no reason why they couldn't all come under one article. As for dealings with admins, if it's important enough to you, all I can suggest is that if you can't make your voice heard by the ones you've already dealt with, enlist the services of an independent admin who's not been involved in the debate so far. At the end of the day, though, you may have to accept the consensus - that's how WP works. Best of luck. Cheers -- ] 22:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)


That's a reference to a location on your own computer, and won't work for anybody else... ] (]) 18:42, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
::: Thanks for the reply. For clarification, I myself did not create these separate articles. I merely contributed to them over time. They had been created by others quite some time ago, and then they were suddenly deleted out of the blue. As far as putting them altogether under one article ... under which specific article do you think they would appropriately fall? If it is the generic "Academy Awards" article -- that specific article would then soon become quite lengthy and cumbersome, no? And then, it would be proposed to extract stuff into smaller, separate articles ... no? Let me know your idea. Thanks. (] 02:11, 5 September 2007 (UTC))


: Oops. I meant . Thanks, I'll fix my answer. -- ] </sup></span>]] 20:03, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
:::: Knock, knock, Jack. Are you there? I need your help. (] 01:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC))


== November music ==
== John Ogdon's Rachmaninoff recordings. ==


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Today, I came across ] - what a life! You added a lot. What do you think of making her GA for her 115th birthday in January? - I added the ] which has more detail, but could not format the older sources properly. -- ] (]) 14:41, 8 November 2024 (UTC)


I uploaded more pics, on a mountain in the sun above the fog. - ] - ]. --] (]) 15:19, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
:Hi there, Musikverein. that I found by googling suggests he recorded most of Rachmaninoff's piano works, but '''not''' all of them. The ''Moments Musicals'', Op.16, for example, are not listed, and neither are the 3rd or 4th Concertos. I'll make a correction and you can have a look and edit it as appropriate. -- ] 04:15, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


... and now of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang ] at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --] (]) 18:47, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your prompt response, Jack, and also for resolving the matter. Great job on the edit, too.] 14:57, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


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Jack, I learnt a lot from your latest edit on the John Ogdon article. Amongst other revelations, I had no idea his compositional output includes even cantatas. Great contribution, congrats ! ] 21:00, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


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Hello, J of O! ref to 'toffee-nosed list of Brit PMs' who owned P Dawson's records: the only reason to know or mention this was because Dawson himself, in his own book, made a point about it (Fifty years of Song, 1951, pp 189-190). He obviously thought it was a good thing. I included it because it seemed interesting that all those leaders of British government through the inter-war years thought that ''he'' was such a good thing. But then his parents were Scottish, after all, and so were most of the PMs. ] 22:15, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
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:Hi Steven (or Dr Plunkett). Thanks for that info. However I still don't think it's an important fact, encyclopedically speaking. That Dawson mentions this in his autobiography would reflect, I think, the more fawning and subservient attitude that some Australians of earlier days had towards British Governments. The Union Jack was almost as often flown here as the ] was. Even ], who retired as Prime Minister as late as 1966, famously (and offensively to all the millions of post-war non-British migrants) said ''"We Australians are British to the bootstraps"''. So I see Dawson's mentioning the British PMs who owned his records as a reflection of the post-colonial times, no more. For the purposes of a 21st century encyclopedia, however, to single out these prime ministerial purchases as somehow conferring greater importance to his recordings than might otherwise have been the case, would be jingoistic and reactionary in the extreme. Their merit is musical, not political. (By the way, I absolutely love Dawson's singing and I have many of his records. In fact, I think I'll go off now and play some his LPs - yes, I still have LPs). All the best. -- ] 04:06, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


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==Bernstein's comments about Gould==
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The only change that I made was to change the words "''Why I do I not''" to "''Why do I not''." You must be mistaking me for someone else.] 16:16, 25 August 2007 (UTC)Lestrade
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== Don Giovanni (Karl Böhm 1967 recording) ==
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Can you please transfer from Draft:Don Giovanni (Karl Böhm 1967 recording) to Don Giovanni (Karl Böhm 1967 recording)) article? ] (]) 14:45, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
Thank you very much for catching that year typo - I kept typing 19 instead of 18 and having to correct them as I went along, but forgot to proof them all once I finished ]] 15:05, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


: Not yet. It needs sourcing, at least. And categories. -- ] </sup></span>]] 19:10, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
== Robert Hardy ==
Hello JackofOz. I saw your question on the Robert Hardy talk page and I wanted to pass along someone who might help. Recently ] went through several of the British actors that I have on my watchlist and cleared up the confusion over their honours situations. As a Yank I appreciated his acumen in this area so you might ask him about Mr Hardy's specifics. I hope that this helps and cheers. ] | ] 00:42, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


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==Happy Birthday!==
The next time you look at Tchaikovsky, you'll notice a lot has changed. Basically, I replaced an "essay" with a "Misplaced Pages article" from last January, then updated it with "info" which will hopefully be considered "facts." Some have wanted to see a Tchaikovsky article go to FAC; maybe, with some extra work from others, it may eventually be this one. I give up. As you can probably tell, I'm not happy about what's happened but am resigned to it and am not planning to write or add to any WIki articles soon, or perhaps at all. ] 21:55, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, can you tell me where you got the source that ] is of ] descent? As far as I know she is of Polynesian and Chinese descent. ] 19:34, 4 September 2007 (UTC)


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==Ben Kingsley==

Hi again JackofOz. I was just wondering if you could tell me why you added 'n' next to the film ''Turtle Diary'' in Ben Kingsley's filmography. You put it just outside of the link for the film. I have seen the film and this isn't part of the title. Does it mean something specific that I am unaware of or did you mean to put it somewhere else on the page? I wanted to check before making any changes because I know that you are one of wikiP's concientious editors. Thanks ahead of time for any help that you can give. ] | ] 13:09, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

:How extrordinarily odd! That wasn't one of the edits I intended to make. I can only assume (a) my finger went somewhere strange while I wasn't watching - but if so, it made 3 separate keystrokes on its little journey off with the fairies - or (b) the software had a brain spasm. I'm going with (b). I've removed it now. Thanks for the alert, MarnetteDm, and for the compliment. :) ] 00:09, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

==Oz flag==

Hi Jack. You're pretty quick off the mark. I just put it there about one minute before you sent your message. Actually, I didn't notice the glitch until you pointed it out. Doesn't bother me. I don't know where you'll find a glitch-free version. I took this one off Daniel's page.

I see you're Scottish as well. We sure get around, don't we.

] 12:52, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
== ] ==
Hi JackofOz! I'm glad to find a splendid wikipedian-pianist.In ],The ] has been fulfilled.

I'm wondering the fewer articles of Chopin works in wikipedia.The English speaking people don't prefer the articles or explanations of each piano works,do they?

I find the differences of our culture,including a lot of academic affairs.----] 01:50, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

== Thanks very much for the wise words ==

as well as for the compliment on ]. It wasn't so much a question of length that made me scrap the 90,000+ version as it was one of style. After reading ]'s comments of the article being "flowery" and "unencyclopedic," I asked Andy Wang to read the article. He confirmed that, while I had written an excellent essay, it was not up to Misplaced Pages standards in style and tone as well as length. Rather than keep working with a structure that obviously did not fit, I substituted the diff from January toward which Andy had pointed me to merely review, then started updating the info with copy from my article while attempting to keep things as purely factual and NPOV as possible. Yes, I was ''extremely'' frustrated—I allowed both the peer review and the fact I could get noone to simply ''read'' the article and let me know how things were flowing (including the editor who had submitted the piece for peer review in the first place as a prep for a go with the FAC). But my revamping the article was not an act of frustration. It was simply an adjustment that had to be done. I truly wonder whether I can continue as a Wiki editor, not becuse of what has happened but because I'm more aware of how much different my writing style and viewpoint is from WP standards. Maybe you went through something like this also—that's just a guess, with my thinking maybe this is more of a general feeling everyone goes through. At the same time, Andy has asked me to stay and I'd hate to let him down. Maybe you can share something that would help with my dilemma. ] 20:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

== Vladimir Horowitz master interview ==

ya know....i saw that master interview while i was editing, but rather than challenge it, i figured someone had to know what they were talking about. now just imagine the horror when i discovered it was apparently 'i' who put it there! i still have no idea where it came from. ''cut-copy-paste'' is indeed a very dangerous tool in the hands of the careless..... cheers! --] | ] 01:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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How?

... do you shrive a message, exactly?

(Fill in lovely pleasantries here, wishing you a delightful new year and recalling our happy previous interactions.) --Trovatore (talk) 23:14, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Happy new year to you and all, User:Trovatore.
Sadly, the meaning of your question is not readily apparent to me, and Wiktionary:shrive has not helped. Over. -- Jack of Oz 23:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Well, you mentioned a class of messages that would get "short shrift", which means they have little shriving time allowed. --Trovatore (talk) 00:23, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Ah yes, indeed. How easily one forgets when one is at my advanced stage of life. Not much point making threats if one forgets one has made them, is there?
Anyhoo, let us proceed in a forwardly direction. See Wiktionary: short shrift, Meaning 4. -- Jack of Oz 02:14, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Well, glad we got that cleared up before Shrove Tuesday.
I remember there was an episode of The Rockford Files called "Rosa Krantz and Gilda Stern are dead". Don't remember anything else about it but presumably those were the names of the murder victims. Sometimes writers have to have a little fun. --Trovatore (talk) 23:28, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Just in case anyone comes across this exchange and decides to Google the title, it turns out it's actually "Rosendahl and Gilda Stern are Dead", so they made the allusion very slightly less obvious than I had remembered. --Trovatore (talk) 02:20, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Paul Bowles vandalism

have you tried reading the article linked in the new york review of books? Search the quotations? Thank you, if you have any further thoughts please reply to my talk page before reverting any edits to Paul bowles article. here is the link for your convenience, you may start at the middle where he described the locals as "bunch of Ay-rabs" https://archive.is/8mSH0#selection-527.0-535.11 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:4040:9900:C000:2538:45A5:2CBE:C89C (talk) 02:14, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

In my edit summary there was no denial of the veracity of your cites. I removed the text because of (1) lack of balance, and (2) the fact that there was nothing about these claims in the body of the article. The WP:lede section is meant to summarise what appears below ("In Misplaced Pages, the lead section is an introduction to an article and a summary of its most important contents"), but as there was nothing below of any relevance, there was nothing to summarise.
Please post new threads at the bottom of a talk page.
Please learn the rules of Misplaced Pages. -- Jack of Oz 07:06, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
hello
I understand we have a difference of opinion between what you described as being "lack of balance". I cannot understand how a white predator who engaged in such heinous and unforgiveable crimes. whose "works of art" are a source of inspiration for deviant white pedophilias who continue to plague the sovereign and honorable country of Morocco to this very day; warrant no mention of it in the lead paragraph because you happen to believe it is "lack of balance".
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In respect of https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Civility, I will now request a 3rd party moderator to meditate this matter, in the meantime; as you do not dispute the essence of the claim, I will ask you to wait and refrain from further editing the article until the process resolves itself. 2600:4040:9900:C000:ED31:ECD:F340:1FEC (talk) 00:54, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
You seem to misinterpret me. The lack of balance, and the mention of these matters in the lede para and nowhere else, are completely separate issues. -- Jack of Oz 03:10, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Also, it's rather disingenuous of you to reinstate your edits, then immediately request me to refrain from further editing. If you want to call in a moderator, that is your right; but you do it while things stand as they are. You don't request a moderator and then make a further edit before requesting me not to do likewise. As I said above, learn the rules of Misplaced Pages. -- Jack of Oz 03:15, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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2024



Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy New Year

2024

-- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:28, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:25, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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Today a friend's birthday, with related music and new vacation pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:30, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Some more weird/cool names for ya

Hello. You may or may not be aware that your list of cool names was shared a coupla days ago on Twitter by Annie Rauwerda of Depths of Misplaced Pages. Here's her post. Predictably, people responded with lots of suggestions of names to add. I added Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck, but lack the motivation to do any more. I'm sharing the suggestions here, in case you wanna do it. I haven't bothered to check the veracity of these names, so buyer beware. For what it's worth, many if not most of these folks have Misplaced Pages articles about them; I've boldfaced a few that do.

Thelonius Sphere Monk, God Shammgod, Stirling Mortlock, Staff Sgt. Max Fightmaster, Cardinal Sin, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Rad Heroman, Kool-Aid McKinstry, Christ Bongo, Radek Bonk, Blinky Palermo, Storm Hunter, Amillion Buggs, Dick Trickle, Dong Dong, Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Hotman Paris, Preserved Fish, Ponty Bone, Greg Killmaster, Major Dick Bong, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Pootie Tang, Percival Spear, Shamus Beagelhole, and Tanqueray Beavers.

While I'm here, I'll just share that I'm very impressed with your userpage, and with all the work you've done on WP. I'm a newbie, so all I can do is gape in awe, and dream of making a userpage half that cool. Cheers ... Yesthatbruce (talk) 06:07, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I'm not a Twitterist so I wasn't aware. But anyone's welcome to add names.
I too was a newbie once. It feels like just yesterday, but nooo. Persevere and all good things will happen. -- Jack of Oz 06:26, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Update: I have discovered I do indeed have a Twitter account. I've upgraded my profile a bit. -- Jack of Oz 07:45, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

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February

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Today, I remember 12 years of musical company and give thanks to Seiji Ozawa. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:27, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, Gerda. I've loved Ozawa's recording of Gurre-Lieder for decades. He used to be a young man. So did I, come to think of it. Better get on with it ... -- Jack of Oz 22:00, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Did you see my personal memories? - I took a photo then, but not in focus, and probably not really permitted ;) ... and today a woman and her views --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:26, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Yes; lovely. -- Jack of Oz 22:36, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! - The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:16, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Mozart wrote Die Zauberflöte, posters and sources say Die Zauberflöte. I assume a requested move might result in renaming, as for Der fliegende Holländer, but have better things to do. Can we agree? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:18, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Not really, Gerda. As I said in my edit summary, it all comes down to how Misplaced Pages names its articles. That can of course change over time, for a range of reasons, but currently the article is The Magic Flute, and Die Zauberflöte is a redirect. Redirects have their place, but imo as a general rule we should not be linking to redirects but to articles proper. -- Jack of Oz 01:58, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
Hmm, mixing in — why not link to redirects???? It's usually the best solution (better than using a pipe) when the text that you'd like to have appear in the linking article does not match the article title. And I don't see any reason why the choice of the article title, from multiple plausible possibilities, needs to influence the text you write in the linking article. --Trovatore (talk) 02:12, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for the support. When there's a good redirect, why not use it? A woman who gets married but keeps her maiden name as her professional name. A village with a German name and a Polish name. Depending on context, the redirect may be the better choice. If a production of Die Zauberflöte is performed by the English National Opera, it's of course better to use The Magic Flute, but a work composed in German (as one of the first few notable ones in the language), performed in German in Germany, should be Zauberflöte, imho. I wouldn't typically correct others, but in an article I stand behind, I mean it ;) - During the FAC for Rossini, I talked to the principal editors, explaining that we can't speak of the premiere of The Barber of Seville, when it was given composed in Italian and performed in Italy. And they understood, and I began to believe in miracles. On Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:04, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
For the life of me, I cannot see why the nationality of the presenting organisation is relevant. If both the ENO and the Vienna State Opera presented The Magic Flute, both in the original German, why would we call the first one "The Magic Flute" merely because ENO happens to be an organisation based in an English-speaking country, but the second one "Die Zauberflöte" merely because VSO happens to be based in a German-speaking country? What if they both presented their productions as part of the BBC Proms in London? Would the organisers risk confusing the public by giving them different titles?
What if the opera were presented in Athens, Moscow, Saigon, Beijing or Riyadh (either in German or in the local languages)? Would we be required, under your thesis, to refer to the productions as Ο Μαγικός Αυλός, Волшебная флейта, Cây sáo thần, 魔笛 and الناي السحري, respectively? I hope you're not suggesting that. -- Jack of Oz 21:17, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Sorry, I wasn't clear. Nationality plays no role (for me). The ENO has a program of performing everything in English, like the Komische Oper Berlin has a program to play everything in German. For the ENO, I'd say Dido and Aneas and The Magic Flute, and for the KOB I'd say Dido und Äneas and Die Zauberflöte, as their posters have. The Metropolitan Opera and the Berlin State Opera, however, will probably play (in the original language) Le nozze di Figaro and Die Zauberflöte, look at Met (they also play The Magic Flute, for the Holiday Presentation), look State Opera. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:44, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
That's all still irrelevant, for me. La bohème was written in Italian and is almost always sung in Italian. Yet it has a French title. Why? Because that is the title that it was given and is universally used. Do Italian opera companies use an Italian title? Not that I've ever heard of. Now, I'm sure it has been performed in English (hence "Your tiny hand is frozen" instead of "Che gelida manina"), and German (I've heard Tauber et al. singing arias in German) and probably various other languages too. Does the title change each time? No.
The crucial point is that we're writing an English-language encyclopedia for English readers, and we cannot assume that they read or understand any other languages. If it's necessary to explicitly state what language an opera is being performed in or a book is written in, that's fine, but that is a world away from actually referring to the opera's title or book's title in that language. We might tell readers that "Peter Ustinov recorded excerpts from War and Peace in the original Russian", but we would never tell readers that "Peter Ustinov recorded excerpts from Война и Мир". English Misplaced Pages decides, by consensus, what the titles of its articles are. Those are the titles we should use when referring to those things in other articles. -- Jack of Oz 22:23, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
By (changing) consensus, Wagner's work is now Der fliegende Holländer. I'd still write The Flying Dutchman if I referred to a performance at the ENO. It's good practise to add a translation to English when using foreign titles, especially in biographies. Rossini composed Il barbiere di Siviglia, and that's what the Met announces. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
ps: Perhaps just read Rossini's or Wagner's article and see how these things are handled in FA class articles. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:36, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Janszoon

I understand your reasoning. It's just jarring that the first person named in the lead (one of only two) is unknown to the vast majority of Australians. To give him such prominence might suggest that he's some iconic figure in the culture. There's a general awareness though that the Dutch founded Australia first, hence why I condensed it to that. - HappyWaldo (talk) 09:58, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

How many people know the name of our first prime minister, or our first governor-general? I'd say a lot fewer these days than one might suppose, thanks partly to our "world class" "education system" . George Washington probably rings a bell with more Aussies than Edmund Barton or Lord Hopetoun do. On this basis, would you propose skipping any mention of them from our articles? I certainly hope not.
Re Janszoon: Telling people what they already know, but going no further when the information is available, seems a recipe for dumbing our readers down. -- Jack of Oz 11:11, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

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May music

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I remember our recent uplifting choral concert, with Bach cantatas and an oratorio, in pictures, on my user page and in my concerts. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Today is the Feast of the Ascension for which Bach composed his oratorio, - perhaps watch a bit how the closing movement was performed in Bach's church. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:55, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Magdalena Hinterdobler is on the Main page today, together with an opera that reviewers deemed not interesting and too obscure for our general readers. The soprano thought differently, - listen and see. - Also on the Main page: a TFA by sadly missed Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:28, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for improving articles in May! - Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:52, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Noblesse oblige. :) -- Jack of Oz 22:31, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
What do you think about the notablity of the baritone's colleague? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:34, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
I'm not really interested in getting involved, thanks Gerda. -- Jack of Oz 09:18, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
understand ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:33, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
closed as keep - I just couldn't understand how the lead - a few sentences - wouldn't clearly state that she is notable. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:00, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
29 May 1913: The Rite of Spring - today's story --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:56, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
Today's story is about Samuel Kummer, one of five items on the Main page - more musing on my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:06, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Gratitude

I have learnt a lot from you, JackofOz. Many thanks. 04:57, 22 May 2024 (UTC) Omidinist (talk) 04:57, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Wow. I cannot imagine what has prompted this effusion of gratitude, but I do appreciate it. Thank you, User:Omidinist. -- Jack of Oz 07:20, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks for your edits on the BSO and its discography. On another matter, I wonder if you would be at all interested in helping me get User:MinorProphet/Draft subpages/Joseph Beecham to a publishable state. Apart from some standard ce, I'm not quite sure what to do with the fairly extensive quotes from contemporary newspapers, which are not easily available for the average reader, but which contain (i fink) lots of relevant info.

Best, MinorProphet (talk) 17:43, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Greetings, O prophetic one. Thanks for the Gadgets suggestion. Very helpful indeed.
I'll give Joe Beecham my world-famous once-over soon. It seems to have a lot of useful stuff, but it can probably be trimmed somewhat. Cheers. -- Jack of Oz 00:52, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
Ha! Checking to see if you even bothered to reply, I glanced at your previous messages: I could listen to/natter about Gurrelieder for ever. Strangely enough, only a few years ago (after I wrote the BSO articles) I went to a performance of Schoenberg's farewell to late Romanticism given (appropriately enough) in Central Hall where the British Symphony Orchestra made those recordings in the 1930s. Maybe I was sitting in one of the least favoured seats, but even with the vast assembled combined forces of perhaps 130 players and 200 singers, the music just seemed to disappear completely, utterly swallowed up in that huge and somehow unsympathetic space. Ah well, the technology of the time seemed to cope better than my all-too-human ear. MinorProphet (talk) 21:23, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

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July music

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Thank you for having created April Cantelo! - I'll look at "her" tomorrow. - Today's story is about Ruth Hesse, with a (new) pic in the article only, sadly. I found it difficult to point at a YouTube sample, because yes, her signature roles - the Nurse and Brangäne - exist in great full-length operas with great casts, but hard to find her. - Talking of YouTube: today I was pointed at Elijah by a friend who performed in the concert of the Dessoff Choirs in their centenary year, and I'm quite impressed by samples (beginning and No. 32 where I linked it) - enjoy! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:19, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

(sadly, another musician needs attention sooner than Cantelo) - Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:35, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

On Bach's day of death my story is about his cantata Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94, although the article needs work. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:38, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

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John Simon

Hi Jack, hope you are well. I tracked down the Lloyd George quotation for you on Wikiquote. DuncanHill (talk) 11:47, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Duncan. Much appreciated. -- Jack of Oz 12:46, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

October music

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Thank you for having created Rohan de Saram - unbelievable story -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:25, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

My pleasure. I still remember his tear-inducing performance of the Elgar concerto - the first time I ever heard it played live - with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane in the late 60s or early 70s. That's why I remembered his name, and why I saw it as my duty to fill a gap. -- Jack of Oz 11:09, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for having followed your tears. My introduction (first time live) to the concerto was by Sol Gabetta, and I was close to tears. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:37, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
I made Leif Segerstam my big story today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:31, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world richer. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic in 2016. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:42, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

file:///C:/Users/User/OneDrive/Pictures/Letters-from-a-War-Zone.pdf

That's a reference to a location on your own computer, and won't work for anybody else... AnonMoos (talk) 18:42, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Oops. I meant this. Thanks, I'll fix my answer. -- Jack of Oz 20:03, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

November music

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Today, I came across Anna Bishop - what a life! You added a lot. What do you think of making her GA for her 115th birthday in January? - I added the GLS which has more detail, but could not format the older sources properly. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:41, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

I uploaded more pics, on a mountain in the sun above the fog. - Madeleine Riffaud - remember. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:19, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

... and now of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang Hevenu shalom aleichem at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:47, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

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Don Giovanni (Karl Böhm 1967 recording)

Can you please transfer from Draft:Don Giovanni (Karl Böhm 1967 recording) to Don Giovanni (Karl Böhm 1967 recording)) article? 176.32.30.189 (talk) 14:45, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Not yet. It needs sourcing, at least. And categories. -- Jack of Oz 19:10, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

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