User talk:Asmadeus

Kiev museum article
Thanks a lot for starting the article. Just to let you know in case you are not aware that there is a Ukraine Portal, particularly the Portal:Ukraine/New article announcements and Portal:Ukraine/Ukraine-related Wikipedia notice board. The New article announcements board is probably the most important and the most attended one. Please don't forget to announce there the new articles you create. Adding both boards to your watchlist is probably a good idea.

Finally, in case you are interested, similar boards exist at Russia portal as many editors contribute to topics related to both countries. The respective boards there are: Portal:Russia/New article announcements and Portal:Russia/Russia-related Wikipedia notice board. --Irpen 23:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Rail bridge in Belize
Thanks for adding a picture to Rail transport in Belize! It was missing for a long time. Just a small doubt - is this really a former railroad bridge? On the first glance, it seems rather broad (wide) for a narrow-gauge banana railroad. It would also help if you could specify the exact location (e.g., across which river) - especially if you are still in Belize. Otherwise, thanks for the contribution - and we are looking for more! Sapfan 23:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I was going back to Belmopan along the Hummingbird Highway the second time when I remembered the upcoming bridge. It is one of the widest and most spectacular bridges along the road - therefore I simply assumed that it may have been a former railroad bridge. My expertise in this field is nonexistent, so my assumptions may be wrong. Unfortunately I have left Belize, and neither can recall the exact location of the river. But I will double check the map and Google Earth's images - if my memory serves me correctly (this was only a day ago), it must have been the longest river crossing. I will have many more Belize related contributions. Check out the recent photo addition of the spectacular Big Rock Falls! -asmadeus 23:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Allow me



 * Thank you!!! -asmadeus 16:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Kiev Photo Requests
I am currently planning a trip to Kiev in May, 2007. I will spend a lot of time photographing Kiev's architecture and places of interest as well as random shots of daily city life. If you have any specific requests for your Wikipedia needs, please compile a list here, and I'll be more than happy to fulfill it. -asmadeus 20:48, 28 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot for your offer. I will think on what we need. Also, I did check out your page at fotki.com and some images can me used for sure. Would you mind put a note at your fotki page that you agree to release all the public images you have there under, say cc-by-sa or any other free license to your liking. Then we won't need to ask you every time we find something there to upload. (Personally, I think cc-by-sa is best for the sake of the common good). Cheers, --Irpen 20:49, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, actually, cc-by-sa-3.0 is better than 1.0, because 3.0 allows redistribution under not only "same or similar" license but "same, similar or compatible" license. In practice it may or may not mean in our case but why restrict usage if people come up with newer copyleft licenses? Copyleft is progress, isn't it? Thanks again.

Oh, and Kuban kazak, will probably ask you for Kiev Metro images. I will leave him a note. Cheers, --Irpen 00:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

List of Requested Kiev Photos
(please add your requests below)
 * Better shot of National Art Museum of Ukraine
 * Closeup of Ukrainian House
 * Ivan Honchar Museum
 * Mikhail Bulgakov Museum
 * Clear shot with better lighting of Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev
 * Kiev City Council building (on Khreshchatyk)
 * Museum of Western and Oriental Art and its interior
 * For now we only have a Kiev Opera of all theaters in the city. Does not mean we won't have them in the future. So, at least the most prominent ones would be great to have for the articles:
 * Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater
 * Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama
 * Kiev Puppet Theater, please take a shot of both the synagogue (its previous location) and the current location.
 * Kiev Circus too. It seems, however, that Circus is prominent enough and a free image can be found on the web within a reasonable effort. But still, why not take a shot if you are around...
 * Kiev Passenger Railway Station and new Darnytsia Railway Station
 * Bridges in Kiev as well as good views over the left-bank from the right bank as well as of the green hills with the domes, St Vladimir and Mother Motherland of the right bank taken from the left bank or Hidropark


 * Well its good Irpen made the introduction...the more the better. Not only the stations, but their vestibules and close-ups of the decorations if possible. Good job with the existing articles...Also Hotel Ukrayina could use a few shots. Удачи.--Kuban Cossack 17:30, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Some images may be available
Please note that some image sources already exist. See this thread. This may just spare you some work although if you would like to make a better image than there, this would always be great.

Also, I just added to the thread about another gallery I found. I meant this one. I think we will have a permission from them soon. The site's owner seems very friendly and accommodating. --Irpen 06:05, 2 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Understood. I'm going to take many photo shots regardless, hopefully improving on some existing angles, lighting, and quality - so the above list would be a guide to my travels. I don't see it as 'work' - more of a fun structured task. ;) -asmadeus 13:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Museum of Western and Oriental Art on DYK
Thank you for your contribution! &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 05:05, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Liszt Piano Concerto #1
Hi there. Thanks for your prompt reply at Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt) to my request for a reference. Not having the book you used for a reference, but relying (perhaps unreliably) on a Google search, it seems that there are a multitude of stories, perhaps all apocryphal, as to the origin and intention of the phrase, "Das versteht Ihr alle nicht." Also, I just attended a lecture by a noted musicologist who attributed the quote to Hans von Bulow and implied that it was meant to be critical of Lizst; certainly Liszt would not have used the phrase as a compositional tool if that were true. So I guess my tag was meant more to suggest that we add to the article some of the differing stories as to how the phrase came to be associated to the concerto, rather than providing a reference that indicates only one author's version of the story. That is, unless the author you cited has specific evidence that discredits the many versions of the story and proves only the one given in the article. In truth, I am skeptical of Hamilton's claim: it seems unlikely that a composer would write a whole concerto around a funny phrase. As a joke, though, applied in retrospect, it seems more appropriate. (Of course, I have no evidence or source of my hunch!) If this needs more discussion, I'm happy to carry this over onto the article's talk page. Thanks! VectorPosse 09:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * This whole discussion is intriguing to me, and I agree with what you're saying. I intend to do more research on it. -asmadeus 01:24, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

re "IMDB for books"
In regards to your claim that it is strictly POV, see http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1343205. It was essentially around that time that the term was used on a regular basis.SarcasticDwarf 12:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I dunno if you caught my reply on my userpage, so I am posting here: The original owner may or may not have coined the term, I really have no idea. I think the important point is that the mentioned site is the only one known by that term (possibly based on the publicity from that article, I am not sure). Even if it originally started as a sort of marketing phrase, I think it has grown beyond that. And for future reference, I do not think LibraryThing can really be considered to be in the same class as far as content goes as almost all of its bibliographic data is pulled from Amazon (IIRC).SarcasticDwarf 00:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey, Matt Ricks - Home Again
Yeah, I guess it isn't hard trance, I was going by discogs. What would you call it, since it's kinda between genres? --x1987x(talk) 03:15, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * But then again, I'm confused again when I see discogs '2 vibes' - always (be mine)--x1987x(talk) 03:19, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Vocals don't belong in hard trance (for sure), and discogs is seldom wrong in classifying the music - someone just submits the release with a style, and it may get accepted. Look at the "2 Vibez" release - it's got 'club' mixes - that's rare for hardtrance - and I have plenty of hardtrance vinyl and never even heard of the YAWA label. -asmadeus 04:54, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I've gotten around to sampling some hard trance artists on the the article page, ha, def. hard stuff. Most of what's at YAWA should be hard house/euro trance/dance or something in between. I completely agree with you, I was fooled by discogs! Thanks! --x1987x(talk) 02:12, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * hard trance? --x1987x(talk) 03:52, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. The "happy" synth line makes this a bit more hardstyle. Hardtrance, in itself, is almost dead these days. Check out anything from Noom records or Time Unlimited - mostly German labels from late 90s. -asmadeus 16:22, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Do you think 'DJ Dean - Kick off' is jumpstyle? I know it's hardstyle. I just noticed it's very jumpable, ha. and it's title is kick, could that be an indication that it's meant for jumping to. --x1987x(talk) 15:33, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Space music
Hi. It seems like you have an interest in ambient music. I wonder if you wouldn't mind taking a look at Space music when you get a chance. There is currently an ongoing issue there with one editor trying to suggest that space music is not a genre of ambient - and the discussion would certainly benefit from outside opinions by knowledgeable parties. --Gene_poole 07:21, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

History of Electronic Music
Please join to Electronic art music disuccion talk! I will support you --Susume-eat 05:57, 17 August 2007 (UTC) Now here: []