User talk:Pixelwriter

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Hello Pixelwriter, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place   on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Drmies (talk) 05:51, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Why don't you try to verify these facts? Drmies (talk) 05:51, 24 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your note. I can't find where to reply directly to Drmies; apologies for posting here. In short, the sentence "Ms. Shapiro’s pieces have been the topic of two doctoral dissertations, and her life and music were the subject of the one-hour syndicated radio show, American MusicMakers, broadcast in February 2006 on public radio stations across the United States." was removed because the subject has said that she has the dissertations in her files but cannot find them (and thus does not recall the names of the authors), and because the radio show link with the recording of the show resides on the subject's website, and it was presumed that this did not meet with Wikipedia's external link requirements. It seemed easiest to simply remove the mentions. Thank you. No peacock-ism intended, truly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pixelwriter (talk • contribs)
 * Sure. You can find my talk page by clicking on the "talk" link behind my name. The subject, ahem, can't find the files--that is unfortunate. Perhaps you could ask her to log on to Dissertation Abstracts International and find those references--that would be a nice addition to the article. If you would like to the subject and the article a favor, adding reliable sources to verify the facts in the article would be a nice start, or it will look like a mess for a long time. I'll paste a more extensive "welcome" template below with some links--but do have a look at WP:CITE and WP:RS, with a little hint of WP:V. This alphabet soup does not come with a spoon, I'm afraid. The matter of the language, that calls for a rewrite, at some point. For starters, while you and I would be polite to each other, encyclopedias go by last names, without the "Ms." But most important for now is the addition of good, published sources that verify some of the claims in the article. A nice foto, released to Wikimedia Commons, would also be good to add to the article--Ms. Shapiro is quite the looker, if I may speak boldly, but I'm not sure if chewing seaweed is the best way of presenting oneself in an encyclopedia. Anyway, it would be nice to make the article look nice. I wrote Joan Jeanrenaud a long time ago, and that's not a goodlooking article (and it has no photo--I'd love to have a picture of her ice cello) but it meets our requirements in terms of style and content. All the best, and give my regards to the subject. Drop me a line if you have any questions, or if there is anything else I can help with. Drmies (talk) 06:58, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

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I looked through Dissertation Abstracts, and all I could find was A teaching manual of selected tuba solos from the Prescribed Music List (PML) of the Texas University Interscholastic League (UIL) by Scott Daniel Roeder (2008). Apparently he performed Music for Four Big Instruments as part of his project. Regards, Drmies (talk) 18:04, 24 October 2010 (UTC)