Talk:Erik Chisholm

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Request for assessment at WP:SCO
The excellent Mr. Chisolm was previously unknown to me and I am afraid I can't offer much by way of guidance on his Scottish years. In any case they seem to me to be covered in some detail. My sole source of information on this subject is Keay, J. & Keay, J. (1994) Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland. London. HarperCollins. The information provided is quite short but contains these facts and opinions:
 * "much of his music, including his charming settings of his wife Lillian Scott's poems, is at its most expressive in small lyric and dance forms."
 * he "was responsible for the first public performances of over 200 new works, including Sorabji's gigantic Opus Clavicembalisticum, dedicated to Hugh MacDiarmid".

Here are a few stylistic suggestions. It is a fine piece of work, but for it to be a credible WP:GAC the following need attention.

There are far too few in-line citations for a GA. Ideally almost anything that could be challenged should be have a reference. The existing citations should all quote a title and publisher and publication date if available. In the case of a web reference, all should have a retrieval date. See here for some examples.

I am not very familiar with articles about music, but in general lists should be avoided. I would suggest moving the existing 'discography' to a separate list, and retaining a para or two stating what the most important or interesting works are in prose style with a suitable link to the list (perhaps using a {main} or a tag).

WP:MOS would like you to re-name the References section as 'Notes', and the Sources section as 'References'. The same stylistic issues apply to your existing 'Sources' as suggested for the citations above.

When you have done everything else to your satisfaction, fix the opening para per WP:LEAD. Essentially, there should be a mention of a key fact from each major section and anything in the lead should be enlarged on later.

A few small points:
 * "it was for him Sorabji deigned to perform his Opus Clavicembalisticum". An example of something in the lead not expanded on. 'Deigned' is an interesting word in this context and I was disappointed not to read more.
 * "Chisholm did not support the current South African policy of Apartheid." No capital A needed.

'Erik' is an unusual spelling. Did he have Scandinavian antecedents perhaps? Ben MacDuiTalk /  Walk  12:05, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for all the ideas and will get to work on this article in earnest soon. --Cazo3788 (talk) 15:35, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
 * However, I disagree with you on one point - Apartheid is spelt with a capital A (as a South African I know).--Cazo3788 (talk) 20:24, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Schooling
The article states that "he had not graduated primary school" but nobody "graduates" primary school in Scotland. If as mentioned above in the article he left at 13 is "did not complete secondary school" intended? Mutt Lunker (talk) 11:50, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

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