Talk:Charles Rosen

How to include the Library of Congress discography?
Hello Michael, thanks for the cleanup edits. My query is: how we might include this now-deleted bit:


 * An extensive Rosen discography is given at the web site of the Library of Congress:.

This page strikes me as very professional and far more complete than anything we might hope to do here. Can you suggest a way to put it back in?

Thanks, Opus33 (talk) 03:31, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * That web page indeed very useful; it is cited 6 times throughout the article under the title
 * "Charles Rosen", biography, discography, Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress (currently as #5)
 * It is normal practice in Wikipedia articles that sources used in citations are not repeated in the external links section, so I'm not quite sure whether and how that page ought to be mentioned again. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:04, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Ref 14 is gobbledy
Has anyone got an upated link? If not, it should be removed. Tony  (talk)  03:47, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks for raising this. The live page on manager's site is indeed frazzled, so I've updated to clean archive.org version. Same page was ref'd elsewhere in article without even a link, so updated there, as well. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 13:06, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The article is in pretty good shape. The man was fabulous. Tony   (talk)  14:49, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Discussing reversion
Hello, I don't mean to be mean or aggressive or anything like that, but really, I just could not see any improvements in the most recent edit and I just went ahead and reverted it.


 * Warring back and forth about date formats seems really unhelpful. I've gotten used to day month year (which for at least a while was the obligatory WP standard) even though I'm American, and I'm happy to keep using it.  Let's just let things lie, ok?
 * Many, many readers, particularly outside America, will not know what "wonky" means and we really should be helping them out.
 * Contrariwise, the person who knows not where New York City is is a very rare bird. It patronizes readers to tell them it is in the USA.

Yours sincerely, Opus33 (talk) 18:31, 19 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree with you, in the main. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 04:35, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Rosen was American. So the date format used in the article will be mdy. See MOSNUM. Tony   (talk)  08:01, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I visited the MOS page and its affiliated talk page, where I was greatly entertained by:

It has been 53 days since the outbreak of the latest dispute over date formats.


 * So, when a different balance of opinion converges on the MOS pages and reinstitutes mdy, do you plan to come back here and insist that I use it? Regards, Opus33 (talk) 06:26, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
 * "reinstitutes"? Do you mean "reinstates"? If so, I don't understand: mdy and dmy are both mandated for certain types of articles. That has had long-standing community support. Why, suddenly, is there a problem? Tony   (talk)  10:53, 21 December 2015 (UTC)