User talk:Lackingdirection

Hi there,

Welcome to Wikipedia. Your first contribution looks good to me. Were you at the Prom last night? I'm adding a standard greeting template below which links to various useful places for newbies and lets you know how to ask for help. I hope to see more of you in the future.--Peter cohen (talk) 13:16, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem. I was there too. It looks as if I will be late for the organ concert but I must stop looking at Wikipedia or I'll miss the Gothic.--Peter cohen (talk) 13:34, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
 * It was an impressive piece of music. Certainly worth the time spent listening to it though it is somewhat patchy. I don't particularly like what Wright has done to Radio 3 but his programming on successive days of two works often regarded as too big to perform is an improvement on Kenyon's Proms.--Peter cohen (talk) 00:48, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

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William Tell performance history additions
Welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for your additions to the article.

Personally, I find that a long string of an online copy from the URL rather off-putting, since it tells no one about the author, publication, date, etc.

So, I ammended your a couple of your ref links to follow this pattern:

< ref  > - then a bracket [ then the http:// etc etc.  Leave a space and then follow with author, publication, whatever...followed by a closing bracket ] and then the <   /ref   >  (I'm using spaces here around the "ref" so you can see the contents)

You'll see that it looks a lot better and is more informative.

Best, Viva-Verdi (talk) 17:40, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

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 * Thanks Viva - you're right, that does look a lot better. Hopefully I'll get the hang of this quickly, and that's really helpful.  Working on an expansion of the synopsis as I re-listen to the recording - will try and post some of it later (would be great if you or another experienced editor could check it at some point after.)

Best, Lackingdirection (talk) 17:55, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
 * You beat me to the synopsis. It clearly has needed work. Last night certainly inspired some of us. Does the booklet for the recording mention anything about Britten reworking the Pas de Six? A decent reference for this would be useful.--Peter cohen (talk) 22:46, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Haha yeah - sorry about that - gave me the perfect excuse to listen again on a wet sunday afternoon. Do make any improvements you can think of though!  Nothing about Britten in the booklet, or Grove that I can see.  How was Gothic?  Came across an interesting discrepancy regarding what century this was set in (13th or 14th - waiting to hear back from Viva...).  I'm definitely enjoying this editing thing! – Lackingdirection (talk) 23:14, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

John Osborn (tenor)
Hi. I came upon the above article and have made some additions. A few things that you may not have absorbed yet: As you'll see from my username, I ought to have been listening to the radio on Saturday, but I was at the Buxton Festival watching Mignon. Best. --GuillaumeTell 17:18, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Obviously, you spotted that he's not the only John Osborn around, and you added the correct qualifier, too. What you didn't do was to add him to the John Osborn disambiguation page.  I've done that and moved the entries around to make them look tidier.  You might have a look at Manual of Style (disambiguation pages).
 * Categories: the Opera Project doesn't use Category:American male singers or other analogous categories - the usual thing is two operatic categories, in this case Category:Operatic tenors and Category:American opera singer stubs. The latter is a sub-category of Category:American opera singers, and so putting Osborn in both categories is unnecessary over-categorisation.  If/when the article expands, the latter can be swapped for the former.  Hope you can understand this - categories make a lot of people's heads swim!  More on operatic categories (and stub categories) at WPO.
 * Talk page: when starting a new article on opera, it's useful to put the Opera Project's banner on the Talk page.  I've now done that for Osborn, and added the Stub parameter.
 * If you want to, you could add more to the article - Osborn's roles, the (important) opera houses where he's sung, future plans, whatever, but I'd advise selectivity, plus it's important not to cut-and-paste or copy verbatim from his biographies or it may be regarded as a WP:COPYVIO.