Talk:Mina (Italian singer)

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Voice
Mina's vocal range is famously 4.4 octaves (continuous, with no flaws); not 3 octaves, from A2 to D6 ('Donna, Donna, Donna' - 'Brava') which makes her one of the biggest voices on the planet, and I think the article should say more about her vocal ability, which has been praised by virtually everybody, from Barbara Strisand to Liza Minelli, and which is really impressive.

In fact, she is arguably the best singer (given all the parameters one uses to value voice, from range to dynamics, to eclecticity, to projection, gliding ability, length of breath etc) the world has ever seen. 'Donna, Donna, Donna' alone goes from A2 to F5, which is almost four octaves in an individual song; that's in the scores, check the scores for 'Brava'; it goes to D6 with the last 'brava!'. It's in writing.... Her version of 'Hey Jude' reaches a B 5 flat; her live version of 'Adesso' reaches an C6, again, live as 'Brava' on Rai Uno.

Also, one should note that she can glide three octaves, and that she is perfectly accomplished in the whole female range, from contralto to full soprano; there are plenty of songs and live performances to show this.

Could younplease update the article? She is a goddess in Italy, the biggest Italian singer ever.

[User:2.28.166.3 ]

Hello, First of all, maybe you would care to introduce yourself?

Apart from own research and the Italian wikipage, do you have a solid source?

--Jaan Pärn (talk) 19:58, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello, hes, but it won't let me include it; if you do a search 'Mina Mazzini vocal range' video, you'll find a detailed analysis, easest way is to download a pitch app and measure her voice. I'm her nephew. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.166.3 (talk) 11:48, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

GA review
This article is not neutral and is rather opinionated. With sentences such as "Acclaimed for her voice and enormous performing talent", it clearly doesn't deal with the subject in a neutral. Let the facts speak for themselves. Other examples of non-neutrality and peacock terms include:
 * "popular albums".
 * "a solid working class family". Why "solid"? Seems like an opinion to me.
 * "transforming her from a rock'n'roll shrieker to a muse of cantautori". A different word to "muse" would be more netural.
 * "Another masterpiece interpretation of a Dionne Warwick's hit". "masterpiece"?
 * "Mina is a passionate cook and a poker player". "passionate" seems unnecessary here.

Also:
 * The lead needs to be expanded per WP:LEAD. Two or three paras should be suitable for an article on this size
 * In the interests of broadness, you should include a Musical style section, describing her musical output in a neutral, sourced manner.
 * You should move Discography, Filmography and Bibliography to Works of Mina or similar.
 * A lot of the prose needs work. I've spotted several spelling mistakes and awkward constructions, but it's worth fixing the rest of the article first before tackling the prose issue.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page. CloudNine (talk) 17:55, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

The contributions of UserTalk:84.220.25.149
I see, that an anonymous person with the computer 84.220.25.149 is contributing to the lead section by copying an old edition of the article. The article was re-written according to the WP:LEAD guidelines and I see nothing wrong with it, until proven so. User:Erikupoeg

To user User:Erikupoeg
Hello. I'm an italian Mina's fan. I don't know english very well and I can't use wikipedia very well ( infact I can't do anything with the exeption of rewriting page) I hadn't understand that I must not re-write the article about Mina. I'm sorry for this misunderstanding. But why Can't I give my contribute to wikipedia? I have the links of the informations I inserted into Mina's page. I will know if I can rewrite the page. Thanks a lot for the possible answers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Saretttttta (talk • contribs) 15:20, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello! You are welcome to contribute appropriately sourced information to Wikipedia. To avoid misunderstandings and reverts, you might want to post your suggested statements and their sources here on the talk page first to get consensus from other editors. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 15:30, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Unfree image in infobox
Please stop vandalizing. As Wikipedia guidelines state, the purpose of an infobox is not merely showing, what a person looks like, but giving an overview on the topic. Mina's album Studio Uno 66 is among her greatest achievements, which is discussed in the lead and the following sections in detail. Cover art is in place in the info box next to the lead section. More than a quarter of the photos used in the infoboxes of good articles about artists are licensed as fair use. Usage of cover art in infoboxes of good articles about musical artists is a normal practice, including the Supremes, Crowded House and Shelly Manne. Thank you. User:Erikupoeg
 * You seem to be as unfamiliar with Wikipedia's basic civility policy as you are with its non-free content policy. The infobox image in Crowded House (as well as the other band/member photos in that article) is free, the Supremes disbanded more than thirty years ago and Shelly Manne died in 1984. Mina however is very much alive, and for living people (and existing bands) the use of unfree images is not considered appropriate. (The cover of an album is considered appropriate in an article about that album, and screenshot from a film might be considered appropriate in an article about that film, but that is not an excuse to take such a cover or screenshot and use it anywhere where it comes handy. There are other unfree images in the article whose use is questionable, I only removed the most extreme one.)
 * See also Talk:Sylvie Vartan‎.
 * Regards, High on a tree (talk) 02:28, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Merge
I propose merging Altro into here, per WP:NALBUM.  Chzz  ►  07:41, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The discussion rather belongs to Talk:Altro. However, I do not see the purpose of the suggested merging. The Altro article contains nothing but an introduction statement and a track list. What would the merging to the Mina (singer) article mean? --Jaan Pärn (talk) 12:13, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Birth name appears wrong to me ?
"Anna Maria Mazzini"?? This sounds wrong. Mina (cantante) says Mina Anna Mazzini, and considering she's still a big star there, would you assume a wrong name would be readable in Wikipedia there for months or even years? That couldn't be, let alone by using plain logic. -andy 212.114.254.107 (talk) 13:58, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * The Italian wiki article cites no sources for the birth name at all. Per wp:v, there is no case there. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 16:05, 5 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi! I am Italian, I immediately tell you excuse for my bad English. I'm a fan of Mina, and I have inserted the source in the discussion of Italian wikipedia, the certain source of her birth name.  The wrong information that the name is "Anna Maria", there has been (because "Mina" is a strange name and above all because in Italian language it also means "bomb") always, but she has always said to call Mina. An accessible source also from you I hope, it's a video in youtube in which the singer, introducing herself to a quiz, saying her correct name of birth. The same thing also makes the showgirl Raffaella Carrà, introducing herself in fact with her own real name, Paffaella Pelloni. Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkj5uFC5TkU  (minute 0:22) --AlfaBetaGamma(talk) --22:00, 8 October 2010 (UTC).
 * She is biased in that matter. We need more solid secondary evidence like the sources already cited. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 15:51, 9 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Forgive me, if I don't understand what you are saying... she was influenced by what? Why can the two quoted articles as sources in the voice be considered valid and herself that says her own name, no? A lot of times she has specified that her name of birth is Mina, but being absent from scenes for so long, the journalists/blogger who don't know her very much are documented through wrong sources as this. Is a diffused error, and writing it wrong in this voice you increase the frequency of error. The articles you quoted as sources are equal to so many others that contain the correct name "Mina Anna Mazzini. Then why that two are quoted as sources? Make me understand. ...you enter in Italian wikipedia and search "OMRI" (Order of Merit of the Italian Republic), then laws the names in the list...  --AlfaBetaGamma(talk)-- AlfaBetaGamma (talk) 03:48, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It is really simple. If someone changes her name into something extraordinary, it may appear to add credibility to it to claim that it was actually her birth name. The claim can work in her interest. According to wp:primary, we need to be extra critical in first hand sources, especially oral ones backed up by no documentation. Regarding the decree of awarding the OMRI issued by President of Italia, it has no information on her birth name. The name in the document is "Mina Mazzini", which clearly refers to the artist's pseudonym. What we are arguing about is her legal name. The only sources that appear to be referring to official birth certificates are the reports on her acuisition of Swiss citizenship and marriage by la Repubblica paper, where she works as an author. If you have other sources referring to her birth certificate, please provide them. Regards, --Jaan Pärn (talk) 23:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The name IS wrong. I wish I could find the link to the La Stampa or Vanity Fair (I can't remember in which publication it was published) fan letter that Mina answered not too long ago in which she stated that she was born MINA ANNA and NOT Maria, and that she had no idea where the Maria came from. There is no doubt that she was born Mina Anna. In the several articles found on lastampa.it about Mina her birth name is stated as MINA ANNA! Mina "works" for La Stampa.. if Mina Anna wasn't her birth name she'd have corrected them by now. --LoserTalent
 * http://www.minamazzini.com/articoli/?sez=vanity&num=157     In this letter from November 2006, she, Mina Mazzini, states that her name is NOT ANNA MARIA (NON CHIAMATEMI ANNA MARIA. Nella lettera (splendida) di una depressa “in risalita” c’è solo un errore. Di nome). If coming from her isn't enough to put a stop to this senseless NON-issue, I don't know what will. Stop hurting the article. Thanks. --LoserTalent
 * I am perfectly aware that Mina claims her name is Anna Maria. It is just that according to wp:primary, we need to be extra critical in first hand sources, especially oral ones backed up by no documentation. If someone changes her name into something extraordinary, it may appear to add credibility to it to claim that it was actually her birth name. That's why we need wp:secondary sources for such a matter.--Jaan Pärn (talk) 10:30, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * is really absurd! Two different information, two different fonts, the same weight, or worse: more importance to that is less probably exact. The difference among a name and the other is that one is denied by the person who has it. The sources that say "Anna Maria" or "Annamaria" (this difference should already make suspicious) are only non official internet sites. The name "Mina" is confirmed more times by the singer, who in the link textually says: "My name is not Anna Maria. But how can I do to make it understand to whom persists to say: Anna Maria Mazzini in art Mina? I will make a photocopy of the passport where is written Mina. Baptized Mina, and so I hope that is ended."  I swear you, these are the same words that come in mind to me and to others, but we don't have the photocopy of the passport.  You look for things as "wp:primary / secondary.".. we not. You perhaps try to be precise, but the only result is that you declared a not true thing and you increase therefore the diffusion of error.  Sorry, really, but... this is... stupid.  At times the excess of rules can offend the human intelligence.  And transform truth and lies.  --AlfaBetaGamma (talk) 07:46, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
 * If you bothered to check, the name Anna Maria is cited not to "non-official internet sites" but to the Encyclopedia of Sanremo and two solid reports, one considering her acquisition of Swiss citizenship and the other detailing her name change due to her marriage. Wikipedia is not about true vs. false but about verified facts in reliable sources vs. unverified claims in dubious sources. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 18:36, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I have looked for. I didn't know about the existence of an Encyclopedia of Sanremo, I have seen is written there "Anna Maria", and I am sorry for this, but it don't catch a lot me. That book has been written by a some Marcello Giannotti in 2005, when Mina had already left the scenes from many years and the error was been able to quietly spread. And, trusted, the two "solid reports", are very relatively solid! Articles of newspaper, no photo of personal documents or similar things, she denies but uselessly. Ok, I must surrender me, it is everything useless. If a day she will show us a photocopy of her passport you will be the first person out of Italy to see it!  ;)  --AlfaBetaGamma (talk) 14:27, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Alright, let's just wait then. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 05:52, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Citations needed
I worked on the first paragraph to clean up the grammar a bit and to suggest that the quotes attributed to various celebreties be cited.Lacbolg (talk) 21:03, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Introduction
The name anna maria is totally wrong. I am italian and I know that because today is the mina's birthday I read it on lots articles. I want also insert the following information because of many artists said of Mina thing that can explain the puplic personage. I have also the links where I have taken this informations. I'm listing these references near the informations.

Mina Anna Mazzini OMRI (born on 25 March 1940), known as Mina, is an Italian pop singer with Swiss citizenship. She is an artist of international fame and her voice is one of the most regarded voices in the international overview of the music also for the her interpretations of songs. She is a point of reference for the female artists. For the great extension and agility of her soprano voice and her image as an emancipated lady, she was a staple of the Italian television variety shows and a dominant figure in the Italian pop music in the 1960s and 1970s. During the performances, Mina combined several modern styles with the traditional Italian melody and swing music making her the most versatile pop singer in Italian music. Mina dominated the Italian charts for fifteen years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity in Italy. She has scored 98 albums and 70 singles in Italian charts. She gave up public appearances in 1978, but continued to release popular albums on a yearly basis to date. She has sold about 150 million records. Frank Sinatra wanted Mina to come to America to sing with him but Mina had a fear of flying as Pippo Baudo, ( who is an italian presenter) said at " Porta a porta", wich is an italian talk show that is presented by Bruno Vespa, on 9/10/2008; of this testimony there is a video available on youtube and anyone can see it; always on youtube the same Liza Minnelli says these things of Mina: "She sings the songs as the song must be sun, just how the songs had been wrote, she is incredible, the tonality, the voice, are exquisite, she is divine, she sings with the heart, she has the best voice I have ever heard... She is for the music that De Niro is for the cinema... she is unique, there is only Mina". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFR3SxnvTs4 Louis Armstrong said of her: " She is the best white singer in the whole world". ( IF YOU WRITE ON GOOGLE MINA LUOIS ARMSTRONG YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF REFERENCES WICH ATTEST THAT) Also Michael Jackson, ( as the same Quincy Jones one of the biggest musical producer in the world said to Cristiano Malgioglio, who is a song writer, as the same Malgioglio affirmed during an interview done by IGN wich is online heading of the Adnkornos group ) had said that Mina has one of the most beautiful voice. In the same interview Cristiano Malgioglio said taht Jennifer Lopez affirmed of Mina she is the best singer of the pop music, the best white voice in the world, and she has the project of doing a cover of the new song " Carne Viva", present in Facile album, where she gives a token that she still preserve an exceptional vocal clarity and a notable vocal extension. I GIVE HERE THE LINK OF THE SAME IGN SITE THAT REPORT ONE OF ITS INTERVIEW AND FOR THIS I THINK THAT WE CAN TRUST OF IT....... http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/News/Spettacolo/Musica-Malgioglio-Jennifer-Lopez-incidera-Carne-viva-di-Mina_166837005.html For her 70 years she recived the wishes also from Barbra Streisand and other international artists.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT? CAN I EDIT THE PAGE? THANKS for PAYING ATTENTION! by Saretttttta (talk) 17:05, 25 March 2010 (UTC)sarettttttaSaretttttta (talk) 17:05, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Your proposal has multiple issues. First of all, a lead section should be a general summary of the entire article, so every fact in the lead should first be inserted in the respective paragraphs in the main body of the page. Currently, the lead is on the verge of being too long to be a concise summary. You have provided a source for Minnelli's quote on Mina. This should belong to the Legacy section. However, you have not provided the actual quotes, which Minelli presented in English, but a free translation of the Italian language interpretation. It is difficult to get the original text behind the Italian interpretor on the foreground, but I can give it a try to figure out what were her actual quotes. It is also problematic that the cited source is a Youtube video, which does not make a good source as it can be removed by the uploader any minute. Youtube videos are generally not considered reliable sources. Could you please provide an article from the Italian press that reports on Minelli discussing Mina?
 * Claims like "Malgioglio said that Quincy Jones had said that Michael Jackson had said..." are WP:GRAPEVINE and cannot be accepted. The same excludes the Jennifer Lopez quotes. If someone has made a comment, only a document on that direct quote can make a reliable source, not a document of someone claiming he heard that comment. Any claim can be verified by asking him/her directly and publishing it. If that has not been done, it is a clear sign that no such claim was ever made. Only primary sources are good in such cases. You need to provide sources for the rest of the quotes and other claims as well, including the quote by Louis Armstrong, otherwise they cannot be added to the article.
 * The Sanremo Encyclopedia lists Anna Maria Mazzini as Mina's birth name. You have not provided a single source to support your alternative claim. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 17:41, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

First of all I thank you for the answer. Well, also if the sanremo Encyclopedia lists Anna Maria Mazzini as Mina's birth name, it doesn't mean that it's right, also sanremo Encyclopedia is in english and it is write by ordinary pepole who take this information from...? : I can't give you the documents of the register of births of italian republic obviously and in the same way I can't call Mina and ask directly to her wich is her name... In Italy this is well known think. I have a lot of italian reference of journalist that say this, rather all journalists says this. However it is a sure think: see italian wikipedia. I don't have undersand why Liza Minnelli citation cannot be insert in the introduction. Under the italian traduction in the video there is the voice of the same Liza Minnelli that is very clear infact also if I am not english I understand and the fact that a youtube video can be removed in every second in my opinion isn't a valid motivation for not include the citation: also if tomorrow the video will be removed Liza Minnelli said these thinks and you that are a person who write in wikipedia can give testimoniance of this, and however there are always the RAI archive and than you can't say of the italian traslation that is a free traslation: what target should have the traducer in change the sence of the thinks have been said by Liza Minnelli ; I have some articles but are in italian language... I don't understand because the others citation of jennifer lopez and michael jaekson can't be included. Can you write in a more simply english? scuse me but I can't know english very well. Can you also say me whic are the sources of these? : ( a lots o information are surly wrong)

Mina Anna Mazzini OMRI (born Anna Maria Mazzini 25 March 1940),[1] known as Mina, is an Italian pop singer with Swiss citizenship. For the great extension and agility of her soprano voice and her image as an emancipated lady, she was a staple of the Italian television variety shows[2] and a dominant figure in the Italian pop music in the 1960s and 1970s. During the performances, Mina combined several modern styles with the traditional Italian melody and swing music making her the most versatile pop singer in Italian music.[2] Mina dominated the Italian charts for fifteen years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity in Italy.[3]  She has scored 98 albums and 70 singles in Italian charts.[4]  She gave up public appearances in 1978, but continued to release popular albums on a yearly basis to date.

Mina isn't Anna maria mazzini. She is also an italian citizen. Mina isn't a dominant figure only in the '60 and '70. Mina is still important in Italy and is at the centre of the attention: She open with her video the sanremo of the 2009. She has for her 70th birthday a programme in first night the next 29th of March on the most important national tv: RAI tv. Who Does say that Mina has scored 98 albums and 70 singles in Italian charts? and why not so we can't insert that she has sold 150 million of records( itis an information given by her discography home)? It's wrong also that her lastest apparence was in the 1978. it was in 2001( in fact in an other section there is this information but in the text of the introduction it is not present, so or we insert the two information or we don't insert any information in the introduction about her public presence: only one of the two could be not correct the message) live broadcast on internet and there are a lot of video and also an album with the movies of her performances. And she doesn't release only one album every year. there are a lots years where Mina released also 8 albums.

Sorry again and I pray you to correct my mistakes. Saretttttta (talk) 19:36, 25 March 2010 (UTC)sarettttttaSaretttttta (talk) 19:36, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * "In Italy this is well known think" simply is not going to cut it. Come up with a source that discusses the matter, relies on a document or something. Perhaps you can access one of Mina's biographies? --Jaan Pärn (talk) 20:34, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

But It is just this the problem: we never can't have a biographie the same Mina recognize. I want not to be problematic but there isn't an universal source of information, infact it's rare to find a singer who write his/her biographies personally: this is valid also for e.g. Barbra Streisand. There are many interview present in the official website of Mina: these interviews I guess totally reliable.http://www.minamazzini.com/news/ There are also historical movies of the RAI television of an interview to Mina at "Ieri e Oggi" of Lelio Lutazzi where Mina is the guest of that episode of the program where Mina said some things about herself, but also the italian program tv "Vite straordinarie" realized 2 months ago goes back over the Mina career. I don't have a biographies of Mina, but here in Italy Mina is the most important singer and we know all about her... for example in the USA whitney houston: she had a period of her life in that she uses drugs, and this is written on wikipedia, but there are any videos? or for example on wikipedia it's written that she did some bad performances in live around world and also at the celebration of one of the president if i weel remember... but there are videos? I want say a think can be retained true also if there isn't any video or other documents about but simply because it's a very well known fact. If we think about all the things are not ascertained by document we must delete the information of a mid part of the encyclopedia. My biographie about Mina is te result of the tg news( because in Italy Mina often is object of the most important tg of the italian television, RAI and mediaset, so many videos of public italian television), the interviews of the same son of Mina, Massimiliano Pani as in this article http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli-e-cultura/2010/03/25/news/mina-pani-2888803/. the facts are the biographie of mina's life, the fact for example that I see in italian television that she is still present also if she there isn't, also if this can sounds strange, but she is great just for her capacity of go ahead only with her voice and not with her appearance.

So, Can I introduce part of that I had elencated( not whole text for give shortness to the introduction),because of I have given also some references?? I want above all introduce some citations of Liza Minnelli, of Quincy Jones, Jennifer Lopez( I had given the information that the intervist was done by IGN, but I can say simply jennyfer Lopez, quincy etc. ... regard Mina as the best white singer of ever —Preceding unsigned comment added by Saretttttta (talk • contribs) 21:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I can only reiterate how it works here on Wikipedia: only verifiable facts that are published by reliable sources can be added. Self-published sources, as Mina's website or her statements somewhere on TV, are considered unreliable on Wikipedia. Massimiliano Pani does not mention his mother's birth name in his interview. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 09:27, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Minnelli quote: please provide her original words for checking here on the talk page.
 * Re: Lopez, Jackson, Jones etc. quotes: show sources that directly quote their statements on Mina. So far you have provided only hearsay. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 08:58, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Re: she is also italian citizen.: this source says otherwise. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 09:35, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

But the source you have found is of the 1989! it's absurd regard reliable sources not reliable, and reference of the 1989 reliable.........the actual Mina's cittadinanza is italian but also swiss.But the name of Mina isn't Anna Maria... see italian encyclopedia. And why the name must be Anna maria mazzini and not Mina anna mazzini( as it is in the reality) ? give me a source. these are mina sources on the name of Mina: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_%28cantante%29 http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/spettacolo/articoli/articolo477124.shtml( there is written that she has sold 150 millions of records also....) http://www.informazionepura.it/cultura/musica/1910-buon-compleanno-mina-sei-grande-grande-grande http://www.barimia.info/modules/article/view.article.php?26723 http://www.unita.it/news/culture/96617/il_senso_di_una_voce_la_mina_vagante_che_ci_ha_reso_europei http://www.ilsussidiario.net/News/Cinema-Televisione-e-Media/2010/3/25/YOUTUBE-Video-i-piu-visti-Mina-canta-e-da-la-voce-allo-spot-Barilla/75280/ http://www.ilsalvagente.it/Sezione.jsp?titolo=Mina-Lucio+Battisti%3A+un+duetto+scaricato+un+milione+e+600.000+volte&idSezione=6325 http://www.ilriformista.it/stories/Culture/195029/ http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/SoleOnLine4/Tempo%20libero%20e%20Cultura/2010/03/mina-70-anni-regina-esilio.shtml?uuid=1586073e-31ee-11df-8501-945fa6a15627&DocRulesView=Libero I have others links maybe 6000... Can I change the name now( this links aren't of the 1989, see the date)???

However Why the referencre you've given can be insert in the page and my information about jennifer lopez no? yours source is the same as mine: it's an article on an online heading. I have yet insert the source on this talk page: http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/News/Spettacolo/Musica-Malgioglio-Jennifer-Lopez-incidera-Carne-viva-di-Mina_166837005.html

quote: please provide her original words for checking here on the talk page. Video of Liza Minnelli: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFR3SxnvTs4 If you pay attention the words of Liza Minnelli are really really really clear

I'm tired to write the same things... I have given a lot of very reliable sources. Why can't I insert the information???? If I can't insert also part of the information I want say there are some information as I already have said on the page of Mina wrong. Give me the souces about she was a dominant figure only in the '60 and '70, her name is anna maria mazzini, she have records 98 albums. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.66.126.112 (talk) 11:59, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * You are mixing up her current name and her birth name. The article starts of with her current name Mina Anna Mazzini. Commented in the main body of the text. There should be no problem with that. On her birth name, we have two sources that say it was Anna Maria Mazzini. Apart from the Italian Wikipedia, which is a self-published source and does not count as reliable, you are to provide sources that deal with her birth name and claim otherwise. Ok, I can see the Il Sole 24 Ore actually does claim that her birth name was Mina Anna but that still does not override the 1989 la Repubblica report. I mean, the Il Sole 24 Ore does not cite any sources and therefore probably mirrors a common belief, while the la Repubblica reports on official documents. Moreover, here is a list of 18,600 internet pages that refer to the name Anna Maria Mazzini while less than 6,000 pages exist that include the name Mina Anna Mazzini.  --Jaan Pärn (talk) 14:19, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Re: Jennifer Lopez: the source provided by you does not include a direct quote by Lopez but just hearsay. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 14:46, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Re: If you pay attention the words of Liza Minnelli are really really really clear: Then it should not be a problem for you to provide her actual words not the double translation. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 14:47, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm not mixing anything: IT IS THE NAME. You have report a list of results on a google home page: can be many errors, you must give my the articles searching on google news( where there are more aviable references, because of the texts are taken from online headings) and than 6000 was an indicative number, let's say 6000: if you search on google news with anna maria mazzini you've only 11 results, on the other hand with mina anna mazzini you've 108 results. Obviously also my sources are more than 6000... But the page you have given to me isn't in english, the leanguage is doich? why have you searched on a doich version of google home page? What do you want about Liza Minnelli? Must I give you my traduction or what? If I give you a traduction of a heading you can say that is a hearsay... Finnaly give me the two source you've on the fact that her name is anna maria mazzini but this source must not be of the 1989 possibly. And why what you have write on english wikipedia can be regarded reliable and that is written on italian version of the encyclopedia can't be reliable??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.66.126.112 (talk) 15:05, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Re: IT IS THE NAME: Yes, it is her current name and is represented so in the article. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 15:14, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Re: Finnaly give me the two source you've on the fact that her name is anna maria mazzini: Her current name is not Anna Maria Mazzini, it is her birth name according to the documents she presented in her application for the Swiss citizenship in 1989, as reported by the la Repubblica. I don't think there are any recent developments in her birth name so a 1989 report is just as good as a later one. A birth certificate from 1941 would be best, but in the absence of that, we need to rely on wp:secondary sources that use official documents as their sources. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 15:31, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Re:What do you want about Liza Minnelli?: her original words. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 15:36, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Re:And why what you have write on english wikipedia can be regarded reliable and that is written on italian version of the encyclopedia can't be reliable??? All wiki-content on the web is WP:SELFPUBLISH and cannot be used as a source on Wikipedia. The same goes for the English Wikipedia article on Mina: it cannot be used as a source for, say, the it:Mina Mazzini article. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 15:44, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Re:Give me the souces about she was a dominant figure only in the '60 and '70—Go ahead: http://www.italica.rai.it/eng/principal/topics/bio/mina.htm --Jaan Pärn (talk) 15:54, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Re:Who Does say that Mina has scored 98 albums and 70 singles in Italian charts?—The data for the albums is from the HitParadeItalia site Top Annuali Album and that of the singles is from Top Settimanali Single. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 15:57, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Re: Yes, it is her current name and is represented so in the article. Why? Re: ''Her current name is not Anna Maria Mazzini, it is her birth name according to the documents she presented in her application for the Swiss citizenship in 1989, as reported by the la Repubblica. I don't think there are any recent developments in her birth name so a 1989 report is just as good as a later one. A birth certificate from 1941 would be best, but in the absence of that, we need to rely on wp:secondary sources that use official documents as their sources.''      maybe I didn't manage to explain my idea, because in Italy the birth name is the same of the current name in cases as this: Her bitrth name isn't Anna Maria Mazzini. What does it mean? what does mean the fact that her birth name was this according with the documents she presented in her applicationfor the citizenship? you don't have the documents where is written that mina's birth name is anna maria mazzini, this is an article of the 1989 that is about her application for the swiss citizenship, but you don't have the original document: the writer of the article on the Repubblica write as he knew in that period or rather the fact the name of Mina was Anna maria mazzini. Yes, the certificate of her born of the 1940, and not 1941, would be really reliable, but this article hasn't the same value of a birth certification! however you must give me also the second information you have give me only one source that is wrong because it's too far in time, the things change and the mistakes are corrected and it isn't the test of the birth Mina name: the autor of the Repubblica's article cannot have the originnaly document. Re: http://www.italica.rai.it/eng/principal/topics/bio/mina.htm this isn't a reilable source. Italica rai as you've have said is one web side, but isn't the official mina's biography! Mina is still in activity, I'm going to change now this thing: Mina is the most important singer in Italy and to her the 29th of murch on the rai tv is dedicated a programme in first night! I have written from 1960 to our days. You consent me at least to know this thing since I live in Italy... Re: The data for the albums is from the HitParadeItalia site Top Annuali Album and that of the singles is from  Top Settimanali Single.          An attendible voice is the Mina web site! If you consent Mina can know how many albums she has done, or no?? it's absurde to no retain reliable the Mina site about at least the records she has realized. I changed the number of albums was written on the introduction and I have written 134: I have counted the number of the cds there are in hight: THOSE are the cds Mina has scored obviously. Re: her original words.I have unterstood that you want the Liza Minnelli's words, but how you want thoso? you want that I write those on the same talk page sticking to the video of youtube or you want an article of an online heading??? 212.66.126.112 (talk) 18:18, 26 March 2010 (UTC)saretttttta212.66.126.112 (talk) 18:18, 26 March 2010 (UTC)212.66.126.112 (talk) 18:17, 26 March 2010 (UTC)saretttttta212.66.126.112 (talk) 18:17, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Replacing sourced information with unsourced one is diruptive. If you do not want to get banned, I suggest you stop doing that. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 18:37, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Re:you don't have the documents where is written that mina's birth name is anna maria mazzini—The current name is sourced to a report about her application for Swiss citizenship. It is reasonable to assume that the reporter used the official name of the singer. By the way, according to the la Repubblica in 1989, her name is not Anna Maria Mazzini but Anna Maria Mazzini Crocco. Obviously, Crocco was added in 1970 with the marriage to Virgilio Crocco. If you have evidence that proves that the author did not have access to any official documents and made an error, you should provide that instead of just saying: "Everyone in Italy knows that."
 * Re:things change and the mistakes are corrected —A person's birth name cannot change.
 * Re:Repubblica's article cannot have the originnaly document—You need to provide evidence to prove that.
 * Re:http://www.italica.rai.it/eng/principal/topics/bio/mina.htm this isn't a reilable source—Why?
 * Re:Italica rai as you've have said is one web side—Entirely true but you cannot simply delete that without replacing it with another reliable source.
 * Re:I'm going to change now this thing—I strongly suggest you don't change anything on your own. Your English is terrible and your edits suffer from WP:OR and the fact that you are a fan of the singer.
 * Re:I have written from 1960 to our days—Where is the source for that?
 * Re:An attendible voice is the Mina web site!—Vice versa, her web site is WP:SELFPUB.
 * Re:THOSE are the cds Mina has scored obviously—Note that the statement is She has scored 77 albums and 71 singles in Italian charts. meaning that this is not a full list of albums but only those that were listed in the record chart of Italy. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 19:12, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

I thanks you for the civil discussion. You threaten of ban me when I stay simply explain my opinion. However you're wrong, I know that the name of a person is the same, but what does it mean? If you have a wrong idea of this fact you don't know the reality but you think that is the reality. However wikipedia is a common serice and everyone sould say own idea without be threatened. I don't have threatened you and you aren't the owner of wikipedia and you aren't necessary right. I want to bring my knowledges but the pepole know that wikipedia is write by person who sometimes don't know all about the argoments as you in this case, but I think the fact to admit you cannot know all is a point of strong and not the contrary, is feeble who doesn't admit to not be necessary right. So pepole consider what the text give. I stop here my intervention because if a person doesn't want to have a civil dialogue without threats I guess it is worth continuing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Saretttttta (talk • contribs) 19:39, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Copy edits
What does it mean, "a reminder of her previous teeny image"? I am not sure "teeny" is the right word. -- Diannaa TALK 20:52, 20 May 2010 (UTC) What does the expression "an evergreen in Italy" mean when referring to one of the songs? Diannaa TALK 21:20, 20 May 2010 (UTC)


 * "A reminder of her previous teeny image" means that in Japan, she kept to exploit her image of a teenager, while in Italy, she had already worked out a new one. An "evergreen" in continental Europe means a song which is played over and over again. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 11:13, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I tried to improve the statements. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 07:24, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok. In Canada we do not use "evergreen" in this way. But I seem to recall it in articles about the Phillipines. It does not really have an equivalent in this country; perhaps we might call it a "hit". We use the word "teeny" to describe something very small, not something related to the teenage years. "Adolescent" might be the right word. I am back from our trip and will look the article over again in the next day or two.  Diannaa  TALK 21:00, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Fiume Azzurro
Mogol-Battisti's success encouraged Luigi Albertelli to copy Battisti's style in "Fiume azzurro", which earned a place in the Top 100 of annual record sales in Italy.

This sentence violates NPOV and is inaccurate. It rapresents the personal opinion of the source, plus Enrico Riccardi was the composer, while Albertelli was the lyricist.

I tried to make a change with a neutral:

"Fiume azzurro", composed by Enrico Riccardi and Luigi Albertelli, earned a place in the Top 100 of annual record sales in Italy.

before being told that It is impolite to delete sourced information.

82.84.164.66 (talk) 22:28, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Did you read what the source says? where it says "Dopo la mediocre "Uomo", offrono a Mina "Fiume azzurro" che, con i frequenti cambi di ritmo, gli stop e i dialoghi tra voce e orchestra, imita abbastanza sfacciatamente la produzione battistiana." Google translates this to say "After the mediocre "Man" offer to Mina "Blue River", by the frequent changes of pace, and stop the dialogue between voice and orchestra, quite shamelessly imitates the production battistiana." So the article refects accurately what is said in the source. -- Diannaa  (Talk) 00:41, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

What is this supposed to mean?

You are saying that "quite shamelessly imitates the production battistiana" is a neutral point of view or a fact? The author of the article has the right to express his opinion in his site. This is wikipedia.

Again, the source says "by the frequent changes of pace, and stop the dialogue between voice and orchestra". Even assuming the source is neutral, the article is inaccurate: the composer was Enrico Riccardi, Luigi Albertelli was the lyricist. It is written even in the page we are using as a source! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.84.164.66 (talk) 11:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The fact that a team of composers copies the style of another is entirely verifiable by comparative methods in musicology. In this case, I think most people who know Battisti's handwriting, would agree "Fiume azzurro" is done in a similar way. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 12:35, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

You are both keep dodging the arguments.

First of all: the composer of Fiume Azzurro was Enrico Riccardi, Luigi Albertelli was the lyricist.

Then:

'Mogol-Battisti's success encouraged Luigi Albertelli to copy Battisti's style in "Fiume azzurro", which earned a place in the Top 100 of annual record sales in Italy.'

This sentence is an opinion, not a fact.

You can say the structure of the song was polymorphic, you can talk about changes of pace, you can say the song structure is similar to Battisti's songs structures and you can analyze this song with any method you want, but there's no source who can say that Battisti's success encouraged the composer of Fiume Azzurro to copy Battisti's style.

Every attempt to say that is a personal opinion. There's no statement by the composer of Fiume Azzurro who says that.

Is I think most people who know Battisti's handwriting, would agree "Fiume azzurro" is done in a similar way enough for you to keep that part of the article as it is, then?

82.84.164.66 (talk) 13:01, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Most of musicology is opinion. An encyclopedia should include justified expert opinions. Were we to omit expert opinions from this article, we would have to give axe to most of the material here, starting from "the agility of her soprano voice and her image as an emancipated woman" and ending with "Mina's passions include cooking and poker." And this would be a disaster for this article. So whatever your intentions are here, this is not going to happen. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 13:40, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * We are allowed to quote expert opinions when writing the article, as long as we have a reliable source, which we do. -- Diannaa  (Talk) 23:05, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Helping to get a freely licensed image
I'd like to help get a freely licensed image for this article. I think it will not be difficult, but to do so, I think we will need the help of someone fluent in Italian and English.

Mina was most active during the 1960s and 1970s, and we are most interested in an image from that era. People have made the argument that to get such an image is "impossible" - but I don't see any reason why that should be the case! She's still active today, she has an active website, she writes a weekly newspaper column, and is still very much in the public eye. It ought to be quite easy to get a donation of an image under a free license. I am happy to help, if someone can help me find an Italian who is willing to assist.

What I propose is that I'll write a letter to her at La Stampa and/or through her website, in both English and Italian, asking for a donation.

If the answer comes back "no", then we can try to cast a wider net. But I think it's always a shame if we fall too quickly into using a "fair use" image when there exists the chance to get one under a free license!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 00:37, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks for that. I don't speak Italian and Italians don't tend to read English very well. A few years ago I contacted the minamazzini.com website with that request. They seemed happy to let Wikipedia use her images but I don't think they understood the concept of free license. So help from a native would be most appreciated. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 11:54, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * If you wanted to write a letter then I could probably get it translated (I'd have to check) by a friend who is an Italian linguist (drop me a message or an email etc. and I will try and figure something out) --Errant Tmorton166(Talk) 12:25, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Do you think this text would do?

Dear Staff of minamazzini.com,

We are writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia is currently lacking any images of Mina we can use in the articles about her. It is our policy to use only images that are licensed freely, i.e. free for anyone to copy, distribute and transmit the photos. The standard procedure for image owners is to release these under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. You can find the details in http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. We kindly request for a donation in the form of releasing images of Mina under the license, that would support the critical commentary of her appearance and image in the Wikipedia article on Mina (http://www.en.wikipedia.org/Mina). The work would be attributed in the manner specified by you as the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that you endorse Wikimedia Foundation). Please do not hesitate to ask for further clarifications.

Jaan Pärn

Jimbo Wales

Wikimedia Foundation

--Jaan Pärn (talk) 13:14, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Sounds great!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 13:53, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Cool! So long as there is no rush on this I will get the translation done next week when I see her :) --Errant Tmorton166(Talk) 08:36, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Citation in the caption
Rubikonchik, what are you on about? Show me where in Manual of Style (captions) or any other policy is it required from the image caption to cite a source that refers to the specific picture?! This is the matter of the image description page, in this case File:Mina1972.jpg, not the image caption. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 12:16, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Just because there is no free file is still not an excuse to use someones picture out of the info box. Off2riorob (talk) 12:24, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Well a fact tag is a pretty stupid way to say that. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 12:26, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

A good article review is irrelevant, its not an excuse to use someone else's work because we haven't got a free picture. Some people get the mistaken idea because they are interested in the person that they become desperate and think we must have a picture so they add non free pictures but this is a wrong thinking, we do not have to have a picture at all. It is also not an excuse to say we had to have a picture to get good article status, getting good article status is also not something that has to happen or is any kind of excuse to use a non free picture because we have no free one when a free one can easily be taken or found.Off2riorob (talk) 12:33, 24 August 2010 (UTC)


 * The picture is used for the purposes of criticism and comment on the image of the artist. According to section 107 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976: "The fair use of a copyrighted work...for purposes such as criticism, comment,...scholarship...is not an infringement of copyright." As I have already specified in the file description, the person depicted in the image lives in reclusion which means she has made every possible effort not to be seen by the public. Therefore it is beyond human abilities to create a free image of her. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 12:42, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, as Jim said, we are able to get one find one or ask for one, none of this is any excuse to use someone elses work. Beyond human abilities to get a free picture, what rubbish.Off2riorob (talk) 12:43, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

There is no authourity in this assesment to enable an authoritative use of this picture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_reassessment/Mina_%28singer%29/1 Off2riorob (talk) 12:48, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Mina' real name
The following source on Mina Anna Mazzini is The Most reliable: the Presidency of the Italian Republic. http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=48984 Regards--109.208.230.102 (talk) 15:40, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The currently cited sources are just as reliable. To make such a serious change, we should carefully investigate the birth and marriage certificates. Until that we have no grounds to alter the name. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 21:35, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Have you seen the source? You can imagine that the Presidency of the Italian Republic confers an official decoration under the name incorrect? The problem is that in Italy part of the press for many years, wrote of Mina mistaking her real name! --109.210.193.7 (talk) 11:27, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * We cannot ignore the reliable sources claiming her name was Anna Maria without the birth certificate or at least a marriage certificate. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 11:38, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Such a ridiculous discussion. Wikipedia is giving for sure a WRONG information and it seems all ok with that. I read such obstinate absurd things - in name of the rules? so maybe the rules are wrong someway... - in which a not-realiable-at-all Encyclopedia of Sanremo (oh please... : gains over Mina herself affirming here and there for years (and there are proofs that it is HER to write it) that her name is NOT Anna Maria. Is all this really happening? It looks like a dream! I mean... I'm dreaming about Mina publishing a huge autobiography affirming (again) that her name is not Anna Maria and you would ask for... her birth certificate! Really?!? Oh jeeze... Well, the sad thing is that we all know that Wikipedia is giving a bad service to the community with a wrong info... And more sad is the obstinacy of trying to keep a wrong info instead of trying to solve some rules in name of TRUTH. People around me do not trust Wikipedia. Now I know why. --Malawix ~  talk to me  ~ 4:25, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not about WP:TRUTH but WP:VERIFIABILITY. Your friends' doubt in Wikipedia is perfectly healthy, as a source with several unknown authors should be verified independently. See also WP:CW. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 09:03, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * We cannot ignore the reliable sources claiming her name was Anna Maria without the birth certificate or at least a marriage certificate. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 11:38, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Whatever. The links you are giving about Wikipedia's rules confirm - in this specific case? - that there's something not working properly about the rules themselves and their application. Appealing so striclty to those rules continue sounding really ridiculous when what Wikipedia (or who is talking in its name) is asking for is a birth certificate that we all know for sure that no one will ever be in possession of. We can talk and fight for years here about Mina's name, but the only thing we know for sure about (and you know it too, Jaan) is that the info Wikipedia is giving is wrong. --Malawix ~ talk to me  ~ 12:40, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * P.S. "We cannot ignore the reliable sources claiming her name was Anna Maria" and i do agree... but at the same time we cannot ignore the FACT that MINA HERSELF has been telling and writing here and there for years that her name is NOT Anna Maria. I use again the same example: if Mina herself will ever write an autobiography one day in which she will tell - once and for all - that her name is Mina Anna and NOT Anna Maria, it will not be a (the!) reliable source and Wikipedia will ask again for a birth certificate? Come on. Doesn't it sound ridiculous to you? I'm dumbstruck... --Malawix ~ talk to me  ~ 12:55, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Quite on the contrary. As much as I know, even the claim that she currently asserts her 'real' name as 'Mina Anna' features only in a youtube video from the 1970s. Even Mina's homesite does not feature the claim that her real name is Mina Anna Mazzini (see this google search). Moreover, even her homesite's database features 35 articles calling her 'Anna Maria Mazzini' (see this google search), while  only 16 feature 'Mina Anna Mazzini'. So, what you are desperately trying to sell as a fact is not established as such at all. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 12:34, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

You can see http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=48984 Bye--Music&#38;Co (talk) 16:21, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You are not too original here, this document was proposed already at the start of this section. You can see the comments below it, and the reliable sources you bluntly erased. The President granted Mina the OMRI but her parents were the ones who named her. Therefore the birth certificate and marriage certificates are the only official primary sources there can be. We have no information if the President's office used any official primary sources for her name, or whether they just used the name Mina requested them to use. Apparently she officially changed her surname twice, which has not stopped her from going under her maiden's name as an artist. We have nor reason to believe she would hesitate to do the same with her first name, regardless of what it officially is.


 * I would be rather curious of a source that says what certificates and from what registry organs the President's office used for compiling such documents. By the way, taking the name in that document seriously means you are simultaneously claiming she never acquired her husband's family name after her marriage.

In Italy on the official certificates, the women also maintain the last name of birth after the marriage, that of their husbands it is alone optional.Music&#38;Co (talk) 19:27, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Fine, but as I said, I would be rather curious of a source that says what certificates and from what registry organs the President's office used compiling the document. In the argument at Talk:Italian estimated best-selling music artists you claim, among others, la Repubblica is a reliable source, while here you say, [this account], which is just as likely to rely on official certificates, is unreliable. So which one is it? --Jaan Pärn (talk) 15:18, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

In this case I agree with you, La Republica is a more reliable and authoritative source, but I suppose that the official document of the Presidency of the Republic is precise even more. This time is indeed a big dilemma...we could bring both the names according to the two principal sources (it Mina Anna according Presidency of Republic, Anna Maria according to La Republica). Does thing think of it?--Music&#38;Co (talk) 18:32, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I tried to fix this according to your suggestion's spirit. There is, however, an important detail. The document issued by the President's office does not state the birth name but the current name, so we are still short of a major written reliable source stating her birth name was 'Mina Anna'. Jaan Pärn (talk) 06:02, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

So, Jaan, I don't know why, but you're damned determined. We all understood that you don't like the name "Mina". I want to introduce things from a different point of view: she could be called Mina Mazzini, Mina Anna Mazzini, Mina Anna Maria Mazzini, or as you say, Anna Maria Mazzini. In total are three names and one surname. We Italians, knowing this singer for 57 years (many) we have learned to distinguish the true things said about her and the incorrects. More importantly, we know our own language, our culture, and the papers of 60-70 years [once on the cover of a newspaper had written that the singer Mina had committed suicide, it really was not anything happened, it was a evening like many others, Mina has NEVER attempted suicide and after that cover she became mother for the second time and she is still alive. You do not want to doubt even this, I hope!?!]. What I would like to explain you this time, is that we Italians, about the three names written above, we are 100% sure of one: Mina; this is WITHOUT DOUBT her first name. Anna is the second, she confirmed. The one on which we have doubt is the third: Maria. So, why put a name correct at 40% instead of one correct at 95%?! "Mina" is certain, "Mazzini" is certain, "Anna" is certain, "Maria" not at all. Insert all three is more correct than enter only "Anna Maria"! You give more credibility to gossip sites than the site of Quirinal, this is a little offensive, but I am determined as you, so I try in another way: SIAE. SIAE means "Società Italiana Autori ed Editori" (Italian Society Authors and Editors), is where ALL the songs published (or not) in Italy are registered for copyright. Through this link you can see for yourself the name: just write "Mazzini Mina". www.siae.it Look: http://i57.tinypic.com/a0gi8p.jpg  --AlfaBetaGamma (talk) 05:39, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Sales number
Music&Co is currently edit warring to include the sales figure published by la Repubblica. Claims like this should be based on certain counting methods, not just an unsubstiantiated news article. The standard method appears to be the one applied by the List of best-selling music artists. Now I suggest Music&Co removes this poorly sourced claim himself or this matter will go to WP:BLPN. Thanks. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 14:52, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

These are for them nature sources, and they don't need to furnish their methodologies to the reader, because they are among the most authoritative in Italy. The numbers and the information from them bring they are popularizations of their investigations of market. The rest is an useless polemic. Mine is the artist more famous woman to the world, all the Italian they know him/it. And' a datum of fact what it belongs to the national culture to the peer of Celentano.

...and next time, if you talk about me, you can write before in my personal talk and not here. Your isn't the better way, and isn't correct to much. Music&#38;Co (talk) 17:47, 28 August 2012 (UTC) Thanks
 * This is rubbish. An encyclopedia publishes only verifiable sales numbers. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 17:58, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

you don't know what you say. To say "rubbish" to some of the most important Italian daily paper and to the national tv it is disrespectful indeed...and is evident that you don't know the Italian culture!Music&#38;Co (talk) 20:59, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Highly prestigious news services in the U.S. such as CNN for example, have a history of publishing inflated sales figures for U.S. based artists also, including Michael Jackson's 750 million. That doesn't mean Jackson has achieved that sales figure. 95% of the time, the news agencies publish sales figures given to them by artists' record companies. The news agencies rarely do the research on sales figures themselves. In the case of Mina, I'd avoid including the 150 million records, because Italian music market has never been among the biggest music markets, meaning it could never have generated 150 million records for one of their artists, regardless how high the sales were for Mina in the '60s, '70s (see my comment also at Talk:List of best-selling music artists).--Harout72 (talk) 15:32, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

it's wrong. Mina, celentano surpassed 150 million, Pavarotti surpassed 100 million, Bocelli surpassed 70 and Pausini about 70m. It's wrong79.0.199.237 (talk) 16:14, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Wrong name reported at the beginning of the article
At the beginning of the page it is stated:

"Anna Maria Quaini or Mina Anna Mazzini..."

this is wrong. As stated at the beginning of the italian wikipedia page (I'm italian):

"Mina, nome d'arte di Mina Anna Mazzini (Busto Arsizio, 25 marzo 1940), è una cantante e produttrice discografica italiana naturalizzata svizzera. Dopo il matrimonio del 10 gennaio 2006 con Eugenio Quaini è diventata Mina Anna Quaini secondo la consuetudine svizzera. Erroneamente molte fonti riportano Anna Maria Mazzini come nome di nascita di Mina, che in realtà è Mina Anna Mazzini."

which means that the original name was Mina Anna Mazzini and not Anna Maria Mazzini, even if this is reported on many sources. After, when she got married, her name become Mina Anna Quaini (here's the error, english wikipedia reports Anna Maria Quaini). Please fix this error =) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.134.61.11 (talk) 16:00, 3 March 2013 (UTC) Thank you. As you can see from the discussions above, the editors here are well aware of this material. However, the cited sources show the current formulation is correct. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 17:36, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Nessuno
The song "Nessuno" was originally recorded in the ballad style by Italian female singer Wilma De Angelis at Sanremo Music Festival in 1959 --86.205.169.82 (talk) 12:52, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Mina's husband
Mina's husband Eugenio Quaini was born in Cremona (Italy). He was childhood friend of Mina when the singer lived in Cremona.

"Sul finire degli anni settanta Mina si lega sentimentalmente al cardiochirurgo Eugenio Quaini, anch'egli cremonese, amico da sempre della cantante." --86.193.57.186 (talk) 15:57, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_(cantante)#23_agosto_1978:_l.27addio_definitivo_alle_scene Thank you; a fair point. Jaan Pärn (talk) 10:25, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes Quaini is a fellow from Cremona. Well Mina is not technically from Cremona because she was born in Busto Arsizio, Varese, but everyone here calls her The Tigress of Cremona -- SERGIO  aka the Black Cat 15:10, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Se stasera sono qui
Jaan, Se stasera sono qui's title is incorrectly translated. Should I Stay Here Tonight suggests that the character is saying "I'm not there but should I be there...". Actually the character is explaining why they's there: Se stasera sono qui / è perché ti voglio bene / è perché tu hai bisogno di me / anche se non lo sai (If tonight I'm here / It's because I love you / It's because you need me / Even though you don't know...). Regards and congratulations for a nice article about our greatest female voice :-) -- SERGIO  aka the Black Cat 15:08, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the comment. I'll fix it.

Jaan Pärn (talk) 18:05, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Armstrong's favourite white singer?
The article claims Louis Armstrong famously declared her to be “the greatest white singer in the world.” cited to Italian sources. None of the sources are contemporary and none of them specify the time or place when he allegedly made the claim. This gives no confidence for such a strong statement. Does anyone else think this smells fishy or is it just me? --Jaan Pärn (talk) 15:44, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * For the record, Made in Italy: Studies in Popular Music is an English-language academic book edited by Routledge, which is a respected academic publisher. The article almost enterely consists of Italian-language sources, which is not surprisingly at all considering Mina has received very little coverage in English sources, but this is not a reason to double check every sentence as potentially unreliable. The core issue is not if the sources are in English or in Italian, but if they are reliable or not. Besides Routledge, personally I have no issue in terms of reliability with Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata and Il Fatto Quotidiano, and additional RS are apparently easily available (eg. Famiglia Cristiana ). --Cavarrone 18:02, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * That is a rather formal test of reliability. According to WP:V, The best sources have a professional structure in place for checking or analyzing facts, legal issues, evidence, and arguments. The greater the degree of scrutiny given to these issues, the more reliable the source. Be especially careful when sourcing content related to living people or medicine. Concerning the fact of Mr. Armstrong's claim, the cited sources display exactly zero evidence. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 18:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Are you arguing that sources such as Routledge or Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata have not "a professional structure in place for checking or analyzing facts, legal issues, evidence, and arguments" or aren't, as WP:V says shortly before, "published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy"? I respect such opinion, but I would say the opposite, i.e that they are generally well-known for their accuracy and fact-checking. The fact they do not "display the evidences" you are seeking does not mean that they are that sort of sources which allow hoaxes and do not check and verify the contents of their academic books/articles before publishing them, it only means they did not cosidered the Armstrong's quote as controversial as to require further insights. --Cavarrone 22:19, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes well we Wikipedia editors do. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 07:31, 7 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Third opinion One of you requested a third opinion on this dispute, which I am here ot provide: however,this is not a very formal process, and my opinion does not carry more weight than that of any other editor. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the disagreement here, but it seems to me that there isn't much grounds for dispute here: this link definitely supports the cited content. The sources in Italian seem to as well, although I admit I have to rely on google translate for that. Jaan, what is your issue with these sources? Vanamonde (talk) 14:58, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The issue is that for a historical claim like this a historical source should be cited. Biographies and newspaper articles published by even respectable houses can mirror each other and nowadays even Wikipedia. The alleged quote has been up in the Italian article on Mina without a reference for years. Now it has made its way to this page. All I am asking is for the interested party to verify the claim with the documented time and place of its uttering. And the currently cited sources do not do that. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 16:39, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * With respect, Jaan, that is an unreasonable standard, which very little of the information in Wikipedia biographies, even FAs, meets. Actually, I am more inclined to treat a scholarly source like that provided here as reliable, than I would a contemporary newspaper article. In any case, even if you have a personal preference for such sources, the guidelines on this matter are quite clear: we treat scholarly sources as being of higher quality than newspaper articles. The date and time of the quote in question is not needed: it amply meets WP:V. Vanamonde (talk) 17:38, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Nothing unreasonable about WP:REDFLAG. This is an extremely simple matter of whether something happened or it did not. Not just any scholarly source will suffice but one that shows at least minimum scrutiny on this particular fact. What you are advocating is only a formal approach to verification of facts which will not apply for an exceptional claim like this. --Jaan Pärn (talk) 20:19, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The Armstrong's quote dates well before Wikipedia's existence, eg. it is mentioned in this article from La Repubblica published in April 1992, an age when not just Wikipedia was not born, but Internet as a whole was basically unknown and unused in Italy. As I said before, sources such as ANSA or Routledge (or La Repubblica, too) are well-known for scrutinying and verifying their contents before publishing them, they do not use to mirror Wikipedia nor to publish hoaxes. Wikipedia is based on what reliable independent secondary sources say, the hard task of researching the "historical source" with the exact date and place would be a remarkable exercise of investigative journalism, but it is not our duty and it is also simply unnecessary for the simple scope of mentioning a multi-referenced (and, at least in Italy, quite famous) quote. Cavarrone 23:14, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

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User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz has repeatedly tried to delete the "Se telefonando" fair-use sound file. Hulabaloo Wolfowitz, instead of the trivialities, maybe you would care to specify which 'purpose stated in its use rationale' is the 'file is not used for', especially compared to thousands of excerpts from nonfree recordings used to illustrate Wikipedia articles. For example, this. Is this a crusade against all of these, or do you have something personal against this specific sound file? ---Jaan Pärn (talk) 17:11, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

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