User talk:Storye book/Archive 3

Nominations open for the Military history WikiProject coordinator election
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Re:Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov
Hi Storye book. I read your message and I listened to the wonderful you tube clips. My wife and I were just admiring them. What a lovely voice! Definitely not a countertenor (he doesn't apply falsetto). I asked my wife (she's an opera singer by profession) about the leggiero tenor classification and she told me that the term "leggiero tenor" is really only used to refer to a group of singers specializing in a particular set of Italian opera roles; apparently its not really applied to singers outside of Italian opera. She said the term lyric tenor would fit his voice. However, I do think we need a source to back up any designation in the article.Plumadesabiduría (talk) 20:13, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2009
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Brighouse
HI! Just got back today from a couple of weeks driving around the Alto Tajo (National Park) in Spain. I spteed your message and agree with your comments. I've edited the article accordingly! Richard Harvey (talk) 15:56, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Military history coordinator elections: voting has started!
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Vale of York hoard
I'm so glad you added this bit to the Museum page which is on my Watchlist... we went over to York on Monday to see it, well worth while. Amazing to look at a coin and think "This came from Samarkand and was in a field near Harrogate for a millenium"! Thanks for that. PamD (talk) 18:30, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2009
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Duke of Wellington's Regiment
Hiya! I hadn't realised you were into Military History, I noted you got the project Newsletter. :) I'm not in the Mil-hist Project, but I do know about the Dukes, as you may have gathered from my update of their bit in the Bankfield Museum article that you edit. I have been humming and 'aaring (?) about the Dukes, and its antecedent regiment's, articles for a while. Today I have taken a bold plunge into things and merged the '76th Foot (Macdonalds Highlanders)' article into the 76th Regiment of Foot article and updated that article with extra details about its original formation, having been raised by Simon Harcourt, 1st Lord Harcourt, who's article I have also updated. I have also merged the '33rd Regiment of Foot' article with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment article and heavily copyedited and updated that with extra detail, especially in the Sports section, which lacked sufficient links to famous sports personalities the regiment has spawned. I'd be grateful if you could take a look and see if I've got a bit blinkered in my edits, yes my eyes do hurt now, without detracting from the readability of the articles. Richard Harvey (talk) 16:18, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Leonid Kharitonov
Sure - it's my pleasure. Anything to help. :-) -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 17:17, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov
Hello! Your submission of Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Materialscientist (talk) 11:20, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Re: Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov commentaries
Hi, Storye book. Just to let you know that I am not an administrator. My advice on the talk page is simply based on a lot of experience creating and editing articles, mainly opera-related. By the way, if you ever need any advice or help on those types of articles, do drop by Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:40, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Soviet Army Ensemble
Hi -- I see you're the main editor of Alexandrov Ensemble discography. I've just added a couple of records that were missing, which I have in my possession; I don't have any sources for them other than the records themselves. I see that the spelling of at least one of the soloists -- Eisen -- isn't in line with your sources; it is what's on the record, though. If there's any more information I can provide from the LP that would be useful, let me know. Mike Christie (talk) 00:39, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Arthur Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington
Hiya! Could you please take a look at the re-write of this article by Tryde from 14 October. I'm not sure if the usage of the wording 'Wellington' is correct as the 'Name' for His Grace. It is after all a title and the article is about 'Arthur Wellesley', therefore a second opinion would be useful. To the best of my knowledge 'Wellington', as a name, is generally used to refer to the 1st Duke, not his successors. Richard Harvey (talk) 07:20, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * HI! I thought your suggestion to be quite sound, and so I edited the page accordingly, regrettably another editor has reverted that, So I am not going to bother with doing it again! I also fail to see the need to add a citation to prove he was born in Italy. Though Jane's new book does mention him being three years old, when her grandparents returned from Rome in 1918. Her Grandfather was in the Diplomatic service there. Mind you I haven't a clue where to find a citation to the plaque in the Bathroom at Eton!!! :) Richard Harvey (talk) 21:20, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Alexandrov Ensemble again
Hi, Storye book; I hope you don't mind a slightly off-Wikipedia question. I added those LPs to the Alexandrov article because I'm going through my old records and getting rid of them. I'm somewhat sentimental about them since they belonged to my father, and I'd like to replace them with an MP3 or CD version of the same tracks. I can't tell what the vintage is of the various recordings I can see on the net. Can you recommend a CD with the 1959 or 1963 London recordings? In return, I'd be happy to mail you these LPs if you'd like them, though they're not in the best condition. Thanks -- Mike Christie (talk) 00:54, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * You can reach me via the "Email this user" link on my user page. I'm in the US, so I can go ahead and send them and presumably they'll reach you once the mail strike is over.  Thanks for the pointers to youtube!  I will definitely be following those uploads. Mike Christie (talk) 10:44, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The link is on the left side of my talk page, in the sidebar, in the toolbox section. If you search for "E-mail" you should find it.  You can enable the link for yourself (if you want to) by clicking on "My preferences" at the top of the page.  No worries on the postage; it would cost you more in transaction fees to reimburse me than the cost of the postage.  I already have styrofoam peanuts and so on since I occasionally sell things on eBay, so it's not a problem.  They're not 78s; they're 33 rpm, and so a bit less fragile, but I'll double-pack them anyway.  I can see no hint of a date on them, but there's a handwritten $10.50 on one of them which means they were probably purchased in Australia or Singapore, which are the only places we lived with dollars for currency.  That puts it between late 1960 and early 1965.  Perhaps the Columbia records catalog numbers would indicate the date? Mike Christie (talk) 22:38, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2009
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 * Project News
 * Welcome to the nineteenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
 * Welcome to the nineteenth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.


 * WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,532 last month to 7,738 on October 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2.034 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 47.

If you would like to discuss changes to Priorities, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire

Currently there are seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:

Henry Moore • Caedmon • Sheffield Wednesday F.C. • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore • History of Sheffield • York City F.C. • Joseph Priestley • Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. • M62 motorway • Valley Parade • William Wilberforce • History of Bradford City A.F.C. • Last of the Summer Wine • Ealdred (archbishop) • Paulinus of York • Wilfrid • Cosmo Gordon Lang

There are also ten featured lists:

List of York City F.C. Clubmen of the Year • List of York City F.C. managers • List of York City F.C. players • List of York City F.C. seasons • List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons • List of York City F.C. records and statistics • List of Leeds United A.F.C. seasons • List of Scarborough F.C. seasons • List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland

Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.

Drax Power Station passed a GA review on October 5th Thomas of Bayeux peer review initiated on October 8th Sheffield was demoted from FA on October 9th Anne Brontë failed a GA review on October 10th East Riding of Yorkshire peer review initiated on October 23rd Leeds peer review initiated on October 25th David Wetherall passed a GA review on October 26th County Borough of Leeds nominated for GA review on October 26th Philip Larkin peer review initiated on October 27th County Borough of Leeds promoted to GA on October 30th
 * Article Activity


 * Member News

There are now 70 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the October newsletter:



No members left the project this month:


 * Thanks


 * For those of you who made changes and looked after the school and university articles after last month's feature.


 * There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.


 * The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs.


 * WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.


 * A big to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.


 * Priority Articles

The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -


 * Bradford • East Riding of Yorkshire • Henry Moore • Kingston upon Hull • Leeds • North Yorkshire • Ripon • Sheffield • South Yorkshire • Wakefield • West Yorkshire • William Wilberforce • York • Yorkshire • Yorkshire and the Humber

The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.

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 * Aims

After discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire in April 2008.

Specific aims for the project are:-


 * To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
 * To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
 * To bring our top level article Yorkshire up to Featured article status
 * To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
 * To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
 * To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members


 * Popular pages

Arctic Monkeys fight it out with Dracula
The addition of the popular pages facility to the Yorkshire sidebar last month has thrown light on which of our articles Wikipedia readers actually access most. The first month for which there is complete data is September when Arctic Monkeys were in pole position with an average 6,869 hits daily. In second place with 5,781 was Wuthering Heights followed by Dracula with 4,996. The table is sortable on a number of attributes but the sort takes a while to complete.

As the page has a link to current data it is possible to see and compare current raw data for daily hits. So far the October statistics (up to October 20th) reveal that Dracula with 5,474 daily hits is well ahead of seasonal favourite Guy Fawkes with 4,411, and last month's favourite, Arctic Monkeys, are pushed into third position with a daily hit score of 4,259.

Three football clubs Leeds United A.F.C., Hull City A.F.C. and Middlesbrough F.C.get into the top 25 along with several pages about literary topics such as the Brontë family and their works. Television personalities are well represented, Jeremy Clarkson (4,559) is 4th overall in the list and Judi Dench is 23rd with a hit score of 1,577. Do the history topics in the top 25 suggest homework assignments?

It will be interesting to monitor the rise and fall of pages on the list which will also suggest where our efforts as a project might best be directed for maximum impact.


 * Please remember...

The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis. The latest listing was created on September 4th.

Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible. Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
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Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference.
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Wiki Project Architecture
Hi Storye book! I am trying to revive this WikiProject which appears to have went dormant in the past years. I figured that you recently registered as participant and made some edits. After more than a month of efforts to update the Portal and WikiProject pages there are now finally a couple of things going on such as Selected article candidate Akshardham (Delhi), Peer review of Architecture of Bangladesh, or Featured picture candidate Auditorio de Tenerife. Your input and critique would be helpful to get a bit of activity on this project. cheers. Elekhh (talk) 23:58, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - December 2009
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2010
Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a better New Year! :) Richard Harvey (talk) 16:54, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Leonid Kharitonov (actor)
Hello! Your submission of Leonid Kharitonov (actor) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Materialscientist (talk) 07:23, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
 * We need a better reference for his biography, traced to, for example, a book, a reliable web cite (established newspaper or publisher), etc. http://www.calend.ru is self-published site, it is unclear where does that information come from. S nastupayushim. Materialscientist (talk) 11:28, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * About a week you still have. Materialscientist (talk) 11:41, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : XLVI (December 2009)
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Navbox problem
Replied on my talkpage for continuity. Richard Harvey (talk) 19:11, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Same again! ;) Richard Harvey (talk) 12:51, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Ditto! Richard Harvey (talk) 19:56, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikilinks
Hiya Linda; RE: 'Melodiya' - only the first instance of a word needs to be linked, not all of them ;), see:- WP:OVERLINK. Richard Harvey (talk) 13:02, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, ta.--Storye book (talk) 14:18, 8 January 2010 (UTC)