User talk:Russellbyrne

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. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:50, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * If the vast majority of the text is footnoted somehow, you can go ahead and remove the "ref needed" tag yourself. Folks only get sore if an editor doesn't actually addess the problem but removes it anyway. Just leave an Edit Summary saying "thoroughly referenced, removing tag" or whatever. Nice work, you've really tuned it up. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:05, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

File source and copyright licensing problem with File:BobByrne cue.jpg
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Robert Byrne
I've done significant work on that page to bring it more in line with Wikipedia style and needs (and only deleted minor things, though the things about his chess status needs an independent source). There's a lot of stuff to address on the article's talk page. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 20:24, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

I'm not in favor of including anything whatever about any living or recently departed descendants or relatives of Jascha Heifetz. I don't see that any of this is relevant to the core matter of Jascha Heifetz as an important musical figure, and it might be seen to smack of self-promotion. There are many genealogical or other websites better suited to a genealogical exposition of Jascha Heifetz's family and descendants. I have just removed a number of (erroneous, unsupported) references to members of his family. If whoever wrote this section to do with the "Family Life of Jascha Heifetz" would like to discuss this matter further, I'll be happy to do so. My comments with regard to whether or not to include information about family are certainly debatable but my particular objection has to do with what I know to be factual errors with regard to his family's genealogy. Mooshalah (talk) 08:28, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

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