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Wright and Stockhausen
Hello Cquencer. I noticed two articles you edited, Cirrus Minor (song) and Richard Wright (musician) where you mentioned he was influenced by Stockhausen. I put "citation needed" tags on both edits, meaning I am recommending you edit further to state where this information comes from, in the form of an inline citation which will appear as a footnote. I presume you did read about this influence somewhere, so the citation can be added.

It wasn't clear to me, particularly in the case of Cirrus Minor, if Wright has actually stated he was influenced by Stockhausen on this particular piece, or if he said that Stockhausen was an influence in a more general context and you or someone else made the connection with this particular piece, or if the statement was merely saying it resembles Stockhausen's music. If presumptions are being made, this could be interpreted as original research which is discouraged at Wikipedia (but sometimes problems like this can be fixed with a rewording). I notice the section in Wright's article where you added this info already has a box at the top which says: "This article may contain original research or unverified claims. Please improve the article by adding references. See talk page for details." I felt that your edit was making the situation a little worse (but not enough to revert it). I also put a "citation needed" tag on the claim that the echo equipment was once owned by Syd Barrett (actually a citation for where the specific equipment ID is from, would be best).

I was reminded of this because another user, HexaChord posted the following on my talk page after seeing I added the tags: "Schaffner would be a source. Sorry, don't have an English version to cite but it states something like "Stockhausen-influenced" (didn't find the exact page, think it's in the 2. part of the book) and "he was interested in Karlheinz Stockhausen" (2. chapter, same page as entry Bob Close [sic] and Wright's College of Music days)."

If you need help formatting an inline citation, let me know... although I haven't learned the "new" way of doing this ("cite web" etc.), but I can help format it the "old" way which is still considered acceptable. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 13:41, 22 January 2009 (UTC)