User talk:Johnatlasevans

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Speedy deletion nomination of Good Cop on a Bad Day


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Additions to opera articles
It seems that, in good faith, you have added to the performance history sections of many popular operas. These have been reverted.

However, I should draw your attention to two aspects of the WikiProject Opera guidelines which have evolved over the past few years by a group who have dedicated themselves for some time, in my case since 2005.

1. Inclusion of performances of the popular repertoire

The rationale for not including the performances you noted is that, if we were to add every performance of an opera such as Carmen, we would fill pages and pages. Therefore only notable performances such as the first appearance by a well-known singer in the role might qualify.

2. Day / Month / Year date format

The standard world-wide format is to write 9 May 2012 rather than May 9, 2012 - or, what is worse, 9/5/2012 or 5/9/2012. We have adopted this standard, even though it may not be used widely in the USA.

I trust that you will see the logic of this but continue to contribute to opera articles. Viva-Verdi (talk) 00:51, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Anvil Chorus Performed at New York Metropolitan Opera, Travis Wojcik left, Antonio DeMarco right.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Anvil Chorus Performed at New York Metropolitan Opera, Travis Wojcik left, Antonio DeMarco right.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information or which could be adequately covered with text alone. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:


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