User talk:Dennis Osmosis

An extended welcome
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I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 16:17, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

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Cheers. Leschnei (talk) 14:54, 7 December 2019 (UTC)


 * I don't really understand this but okay. Dennis Osmosis (talk) 14:34, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation
It is useful to have a range of tools for this and other tasks (particularly where large numbers of minor tweaks are needed). If you take a look at Disambiguation pages with links there are several available. 500-800 dab links are added to wp each day and it is a major piece of work from several of us to try and fix these - any help appreciated.&mdash; Rod talk 19:19, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Requiem
The txt of the liturgical Catholic Requiem mass is not "song lyrics", at least as I understand "song". It has a history of centuries and should be Wikisource, if it isn't already. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:15, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I find it interesting that you don't regard the music with the Requiem Mass as "songs", and the words within those songs not "song lyrics". What other alternative definitions do you hold dear? Dennis Osmosis (talk) 17:21, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * A related discussion is here. For someone from Germany - as I am - a song is not everything sung (which would be vocal music, choral music ...), but something short, and most often for one singer, - such as folk song, art song, you name it. Perhaps read song, where it says "the term is generally not used for large classical music vocal forms including opera and oratorio". Requiem seems a genre by itself, but closest to Oratorio, - not "a song". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:32, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * This is semantics. WP:LYRICS still applies, regardless of your personal definition of a song. Dennis Osmosis (talk) 17:44, 18 March 2020 (UTC)