User talk:Fribbler/Archives/2008/December

Dom Sébastien revert
Regarding, see New contributors' help page. I understand why you reverted and warned, but in this case the unsourced edit may actually be correct and the sourced claim bad. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:35, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

You're right. I understand that there's an appearance of conflict of interest here, but there's not much I can do about the fact that I, as sole editor of this critical edition, was the one who noticed that Wikipedia had mis-attributed it.

The confusion comes from two things. First, Rupert Christiansen got it wrong in the Telegraph article of May 2005. Second, the entire series of critical editions of Donizetti operas is overseen by hat are called "general editors," who are Roger Parker and Gabriele Dotto. The actual editing of each opera is done some other individual, who should properly be credited as the sole editor. What the general editors do is to assign each opera to an editor and check through the edited score before it is published. This is definitely not a situation of co-authorship.

The citation on Amazon is confusing about this, because it doesn't distinguish between the general editors and the editor of the specific volume. For a clear attribution of the edition to Mary Ann Smart (me), see the publisher's Web page  Here's one online review of the recent CD recording that credits me as editor      Maryannsmart (talk) 03:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Responded here. Fribbler (talk) 16:23, 11 December 2008 (UTC)