User talk:Tim riley/Archive30

Hector Berlioz
To anyone who watches this page (thank you) – after a spectacularly thorough peer review I have Berlioz up for FAC. If you care to look in and add your thoughts it will be esteemed a favour.  Tim riley  talk   13:18, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd like to add a particular invitation (has this man no shame?) to Ceoil, Dmass, Genericusername57 and Smerus, who were kind enough to comment at PR. Anybody who is busy preparing to present a Cimarosa opera is, of course, excused.  Tim riley  talk   17:17, 1 November 2018 (UTC)


 * see here---Smerus (talk) 19:54, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, it's a disgrace!  Tim riley  talk   20:39, 1 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I was just going to go back today to the peer review and pick up where I left off - only to find I'd left it too late. My apologies - busy work patch... Happy to chip into FAC instead. Dmass (talk) 08:14, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Heavy going certainly at FAC with the unforecast turbulence, but thanks to you and all constructive contributors Hector joins our Panthéon. Merry Christmas!  Tim riley  talk   19:37, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Congratulations on finally bringing this one safely into port - especially with all the turbulence along the way... Happy Christmas! Dmass (talk) 02:25, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Carrie Tubb
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You've got mail!
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 * Thank you for that! Wikpedia does indeed attract its share, doesn't it!  Tim riley  talk   17:00, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks
Tim, thanks for your support of my FAC for Green Park tube station. That's my first new featured article in 6 years, almost to the day.--DavidCane (talk) 22:57, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

TFAs for December
Laurence Olivier for December 12 and Maurice Ravel for December 28.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:50, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Disregard Ravel, please, no doubt it will be used in the near future but per disccussion on my talk I feel it is too much from the same topic in too short a time, given January nominaitons.--Wehwalt (talk) 22:53, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Camille Saint-Saëns article
I've updated the Saint-Saëns article again. Hopefully it now reads appropriately.

I don't understand why you (and Smerus) have undone my change to the article on Saint-Saëns. My change seems to be very minor and adds extra information and evidence on Saint-Saëns's prodigiousness as a child. Could you please explain the reasoning behind your decision to remove it? Thank you.
 * The sources you cite are not reliable. They both, if I remember from checking them the other day, are factually inaccurate. As the books and specialist online sources used in researching this article don't say S-S was composing at the age of three I don't think we should add what may be incorrect information. If a reliable source can be found that substantiates it, then fine, of course.  Tim riley  talk   16:31, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Request
Tim, at the risk of sounding pushy or being a pain....can you revisit Gothic boxwood miniature pls. Ceoil (talk) 01:05, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * It's neither pushy nor painful – just a helpful memory-jog to a forgetful old codger, gratefully received. Support gladly added. Further evidence of forgetfulness: I forgot to mention when I was on the FAC page just now there are two tiny spelling points that either I missed or weren't there when I last looked in: there are two "cataloged" that should be "catalogued" in BrE, and one " millimeters" that should probably be millimetres. Not, I need hardly say, matters that alter my support, so I mention them here.  Tim riley  talk   16:35, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Introduced recently, I think. Many thanks as always. Ceoil  (talk) 18:14, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ....introduced by me, I should probably mention. Have asked my dearest wife, Liz, to monitor more closely such things, and now, every time I unwittingly put in Americanisms picked up from TV or worse, will be blasted with this and will have to fear God (Key lyric: If you fk up, I'm telling Tim, and by the very widely respect NOFX no less). That's me told. Ceoil  (talk) 02:02, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

FAC Mentorship
Hi, I've been trying to promote Mahavira to FA, but my efforts were not good enough. Recently, I was referred to FAC mentorship program, and hence I am posting this to seek your guidance for the same. Capankajsmilyo(Talk 06:42, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll be glad to help if I can. I'll study the article and then continue this thread on your talk page. More in the next day or two.  Tim riley  talk   15:30, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I have not forgotten this, and will do my level best to attend to it this week.  Tim riley  talk   09:13, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Seasonal greetings
How excellent to hear from you, dear BB! I shall be in touch by email anon, and meanwhile, seasonal greetings affectionately reciprocated.  Tim riley  talk   15:33, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Seasons
A characteristically artistic greeting. Thank you, dear Ceoil. Greetings cordially reciprocated.  Tim riley  talk   18:59, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Feel free to copyedit the greeting my man; I notice a dangling modifier and punctation lapses, although no american spellings slipping in, thank god. 20:02, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The greetings will do very nicely as they are! Thank you!  Tim riley  talk   09:13, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

 * Thank you, dear Gavin. Greetings most warmly reciprocated.  Tim riley  talk   09:13, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Jill Valentine FAC
Hi Tim. Since you're currently one of the most active FAC reviewers, I was wondering if you'd be able to review my nomination, which has 5 supports, but also an oppose. This might seem like a strange request, but I was hoping you could provide an aggressive review—'aggressive' in the sense of you reading the opposing user's comments before reading the article, and then being an impartial commentator in whether those opposing points genuinely preclude the article from meeting the FA criteria. Czar and I had been discussing the article on its talk page for several weeks, so I genuinely believe there's an element of "can't see the forest for the trees" in several of his points for opposing. I know it's a terrible time of year to ask this sort of thing, but if you have an hour or so to spare over the next few days, I'd love to get your feedback. Thanks, and merry Xmas. ;) Homeostasis07 (talk) 02:07, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I have put this on my to-do list and will look in if time permits during the week.  Tim riley  talk   09:13, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy Saturnalia

 * How very pleasing! Greetings most cordially reciprocated.  Tim riley  talk   09:13, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Berlioz
Hi Tim. Re this, I wasn't aware he had any preferences when it came to non-French versions of the title. But I've never seen it expressed that way; it's always but always "The Childhood of Christ". Don't we risk alienating our readers by referring to "Christ's Childhood", something they've probably never heard of? Cheers. --  Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  00:45, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Seasonal greetings, dear Jack! One can go mad trying to find an agreed way of rendering Berlioz's titles in French, let alone English. Holoman and Bloom call the work L'Enfance du Christ, Macdonald and Rushton call it L'enfance du Christ, Cairns is with you in calling it The Childhood of Christ, Melnic calls it Christ's Childhood and Barzun calls it The Infant Christ. My edit summary tried to pack too much information in. Although Berlioz was happy with Christ's Childhood, he originally had it published in English as The Holy Family. More recently it was given in London as The Infant Christ and The Childhood of Christ. This isn't an isolated case. You can imagine from the above the permutations one is confronted with in French and English for Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, and Cairns makes an exception to his anglicisation policy (Fantastic Symphony, Beatrice and Benedick) for Les nuits d’été, which he gives in French. I agree that if people are used to a particular translation it is jarring to find another used – I recall how irritating it was when ENO insisted on putting on Le nozze di Figaro as Figaro's Wedding – but in the case of L'enfance I don't think there is a standard version to diverge from.  Tim riley  talk   09:05, 23 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your thoughtful and comprehensive response. Yuletide felicitations to you and yours.  --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  10:48, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!


Hey there! Wishing you a merry christmas! I know it's early but tis the season. Do make a good wish =D Enjoy your holiday! Vincent LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 10:55, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas to all!
Thanks very much Tim, and a very happy new year to you and yours too! —— SerialNumber  54129  16:19, 31 December 2018 (UTC)