User talk:Tim riley/Archive44

Season's curmudgeonly greetings!
Thanks awfully for your help at the latest FAC Tim, and all the best to you and yours for the coming year! SN54129 —  Review here please :)  16:11, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Reversion? Why not re-insert several words?
I'm confused by your decision to revert a tremendous amount of formatting in John Barbirolli merely for what appears to be a desire to re-insert a few words which I'd deemed redundant. Please re-consider your choice for how to conduct an edit (or in this case, a reverting edit) instead of (I presume for the sake of expedience) a simple mouse click. A quick copy and paste of the words that were excised would have taken only a minute, and it would have kept the rest of my edits intact.--SidP (talk) 20:30, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I have not reverted anything of yours, as far as I know. I see another editor reverted your edits on the Barbirolli article, and I entirely concur with that much respected editor's revert. You may like to familiarise yourself with WP:CITEVAR before making wholesale changes to the agreed version of any featured article in future.  Tim riley  talk   20:38, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I will. My apologies for my mistake(s), and I will check the link you provided.--SidP (talk) 17:41, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
 * SidP, that's a most gracious reply! I wish you happy editing.  Tim riley  talk   18:45, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Workman, "Love unrequited robs me of my rest"
I have added the recording at Charles H. Workman. The transfer should be similar to the one you have on your 1970s record. D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 23:15, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I think it's probably faster than the original and makes Workman sound a bit like a chipmunk. What do you think, Tim? -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:14, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Gerry Treacy's version of this recording is also quite brisk: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iW45BouYFnI. I wonder how Tim's transfer from the Pearl compilation comparés. D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 02:32, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what to make of this. The transfers on You Tube and now here are slightly faster, and therefore higher-pitched, than the one on my 1970s LP transfer (Pearl 118/120), but even the latter, I think, is questionably fast. "Chipmunk" is not far wrong. I've experimented using Audacity and a reduction of 5% in the speed of the You Tube transfer brings the key down to D minor for the main part of the song, which is what the score prescribes, and at which pitch the voice sounds like a normal baritone. That's just my subjective view, of course, but objectively it seems pretty unlikely, does it not?, that the musical director would have transposed all the orchestral parts up a semitone or so for the recording session, and Workman would certainly have learned the piece in D minor and sung it in that key in countless performances since December 1897. Without documentation of the playing speed of the original it is purely speculative; Workman recorded for Odeon, not HMV, which is a pity as I have a contemporary HMV catalogue, which gives playing speeds for its various discs, ranging from 74 to 81 r.p.m., but I have no reason to suppose the Odeon engineers were any more wedded to 78 r.p.m. than their HMV colleagues. How would it be if I uploaded the D minor version as an ogg file, replacing the current one, and, if need be, reverting if the consensus is agin it? –  Tim riley  talk   10:18, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Afterthought: I think (mind, I say I think) you can compare the faster and slower transfers via this link to the Smash ftp site, whither I have uploaded them. The link remains active for a week.  Tim riley  talk   12:59, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The slower one is far superior -- much closer, at least, to what Workman would have sounded like. The faster one gives a clearly misleading idea of Workman's voice. -- Ssilvers (talk) 13:49, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I think that's right. Am I imagining it, or do your ears find the same, that in the triple helping of Workman as Lord Chancellor on You Tube, his voice sounds like a normal baritone in "The Law is the true embodiment" and "When I went to the bar", but then goes high and strangulated in the transfer of the Nightmare Song? I think the last must have been recorded, or else transferred, at a different speed from the other two.  Tim riley  talk   14:30, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

[Left]. You have sent me to a link with Suart's Nightmare song, but I found what I think you meant. I don't think any of the three are very accurate to what the original sounded like, just due to the primitive recording technology. When I Went to the Bar is probably the best, but I certainly agree that the Nightmare Song is too fast. No one would have conducted the orchestra like that! -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:44, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Ssilvers, Tim riley, I have updated the file again with a corrected speed. It's a revision to the same file. Let me know what you think. D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 16:17, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Ssilvers: oops! Sorry about that!
 * D. Benjamin: that's a decided improvement.  Tim riley  talk   18:20, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * D. Benjamin: That's better, but still a click too fast, I think.  Can you try it slightly slower?  -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:02, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

The Play Pictorial, Dec. 1903
Hi Tim --- you have scanned in images from "The Earl and the Girl", The Play Pictorial, December 1903 pp. 55–80; do you have the names of the photographers listed in the table of contents for the magazine? I have seen this in other issues of the periodical but don't have this one. D. Benjamin Miller (talk) 08:10, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
 * No, sorry.  Tim riley  talk   08:55, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Recording Britain project
While working up, 3, The Grove, Highgate, I stumbled across this,. I wonder if the “Recording Britain” project deserves a mention in the “Wartime” section of Lord Clark’s article? Hope you’re keeping well. KJP1 (talk) 21:50, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * p.s. - Which, now I re-read it, really should be more than its current B-Class. KJP1 (talk) 22:03, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you, KJ! I'll place this high on the to-do list. Most kind of you to point me in its direction.  Tim riley  talk   20:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Always precious
I remember great work together, and thank you for the invitation to help with Messiah which introducing me to the FA-world. Can we perhaps begin again? I believe that I became more tolerant of different viewpoints. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:32, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Sibelius's Kullervo's British connection
Hi, Tim! I do hope you've been well. Given your expertise in, and outstanding contributions on Wikipedia to, British classical music, I was wondering if you would be willing to assist me with something. I am at work on an expansion of the article about Sibelius's choral symphony Kullervo. The world premiere of this piece outside of Finland was in Bournemouth, England, on 19 November 1970, with Paavo Berglund conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Helsinki University Choir. Berglund and the BSO also made that same year the first studio recording of the piece. I am in search of information about the November performance in the British newspapers of record, for two reasons: first, I have been unable to find in the Sibelius sources I have the names of the two soloists (on the recording it's Usko Viitanen and Raili Kostia, but I don't want to assume that it's the same); and second I wanted to know how one or two British critics received the performance. Thus far, I have only been able to find a short article in The Times from a week before the concert, announcing that it would occur. I'm not great at searching newspapers, and the resources I have at my disposal don't give me access to many British newspapers... thus, I thought I'd turn to you. Very warmly, Silence of Järvenpää (talk) 20:21, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Silence of Järvenpää − I'm pleased and honoured to be turned to. I'm no expert on Sibelius (though I love his music) but am reasonably good at researching, and will see what I can dig out for you. I'll report back on your talk page.  Tim riley  talk   20:48, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
 * And now done. I hope you find it useful.  Tim riley  talk   21:21, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, Tim! ... you never disappoint! I very much appreciate this assist, and do believe that citing Mann will do wonders for the article I'm at work on! (And thanks for teaching me new idiomatic expression in "sailing close to the wind"!) Silence of Järvenpää (talk) 21:35, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Messiah (Handel) scheduled for TFA
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A barnstar for you!

 * I say! How very kind and how very gratifying! Thank you, The Bawbb.  Tim riley  talk   09:12, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

A book labelled not a "source" in Hector Berlioz article
I'm still learning some of the technical terms used in Wikipedia. You reverted my addition of a book on Hector Berlioz, saying it was not a "source". What qualifies a book as a "source"? Since the book seems very current and relevant to Berlioz, please suggest what I do with this item. Happy to take advice. Pete unseth (talk) 19:12, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The list of sources comprises all the books cited in the article. If we don't use a book as a source it doesn't belong in the list of sources. Some Wikipedia articles have a "Further reading" section, consisting of other books that cover in detail a particular aspect of a subject more than the main sources do, but my own Wikipedia mentor years ago commented, "If they aren't worth using in the article, why list them?" The book you favour looks interesting, but does it contain anything essential to but so far lacking in a 9,000-word article? I note from the publisher's blurb, for instance, that it examines the Symphonie militaire in the period before it became the Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, and Berlioz's relationships with Liszt and Wagner − genuinely interesting stuff for Berlioz enthusiasts, but surely not really core material for a Life-and-Works encyclopaedia article? There are many, many books entirely or partly about Berlioz, and we can't list them all. I hope this is helpful, and please don't hesitate to call on me in future if I can be of help to you in editing.  Tim riley  talk   19:53, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Tim. I have no comment on the Berlioz case but I do not agree on the general principle of further reading sections, which I think are very useful. Your argument applies for an article an editor is working on, but I often come across sources which look useful for articles I do not presently wish to work on, and in that case I add them as information for any editor who does want to work on the article - maybe me at some later time. I have also - very rarely - added books which clearly are important but which I cannot use because they are in a language I do not understand, and this is another case where I think they belong in further reading. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:05, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Just to un-muddy the waters, it is crystal clear, as Tim said, that an unused source does not belong in the "Sources" section. -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:58, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Pete unseth, please see the above, from me and two long-standing and valued Wikipedian colleagues: articles can have "Further reading" sections (for more details see MOS:FURTHER), of which Dudley is more a fan than I am, though I take his point. Ssilvers rightly emphasises that the list of sources is limited to works actually cited. I hope this helps clarify the matter from your point of view. And let me repeat that my door is always open if ever you want advice from a long-standing Wikipedian −  Tim riley  talk   18:42, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks Pete unseth (talk) 20:35, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Corinna
Hi Tim – it's been a while since we had any interaction, but I wondered if you had a moment spare to cast your eye over Corinna, at peer review here in preparation for FAC. Your eagle eye at ironing out any creeping Americanisms in my millenial BrE, and any remaining infelicities in my prose, have always been appreciated! (And do let me know if you have any articles of your own where I can return the favour!) Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 13:35, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * It will be a pleasure. I'll look in over the next couple of days.  Tim riley  talk   14:13, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * And now done. I was right: it was a pleasure.  Tim riley  talk   18:43, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I can take you up on your offer, above, if you have time and inclination to dip into an article on an early 20th-century novelist. I have Arnold Bennett up for FAC. I haven't taken anything to FAC for ages (years, I think) and so will be particularly glad of any thoughts you may like to add there.  Tim riley  talk   23:11, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Comma in Gustav Mahler
I will explain why I am undoing your undoing of my removal of the comma. A comma would be appropriate if the second clause had a separate subject and verb -- if the sentence read, "Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and he was one of the leading conductors of his generation." In "Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation," however, the subject and verb of both clauses is "Gustav Mahler," so a comma is not appropriate. This rule is stated as follows by Bryan A. Garner, who prescribes using a comma "To separate coordinated main clauses -- e.g.: 'Cars will turn here [,] and coaches will go straight.' [Garner's bracketed comma.] There are two exceptions: ... second, when the subject of the second independent clause, being the same as the first, is not repeated (e.g., 'Remedies that prevent harm altogether are often better for plaintiffs [no comma] and are always closer to the ideal of corrective justice.')." [Garner's bracketed "no comma."]Maurice Magnus (talk) 13:03, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * This’ll be fun to watch! KJP1 (talk) 13:05, 9 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Would I be right in supposing you to be American? American beaks have instilled some foolish superstitions about commas into their hapless pupils over the years, but this article is written in the Queen's English and not Ameringlish, and Mr Garner's dogmatic nonsense is irrelevant. If you can back up your assertions from Fowler or Gowers they can be taken seriously.  Tim riley  talk   13:23, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm American. I believe that you are edit-warring to the same degree that I am, but I will drop the matter because of its triviality, even though I'm right :) Maurice Magnus (talk) 13:31, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Arnold Bennett
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Seeking guidance on revert edit.!
Greetings.! Recently you reverted one of my edits in which I added "Infobox person" (Georges Feydeau). In my last few edits I added this in other biographies too where I found no "Infobox". After your revert I want to be careful before adding "Infobox" in any other biographies. Kindly guide me in which biographies will it be more constructive. This will be more helpful for my edits in the future. Happy to learn from your experiences. Thank you for your valuable time.! Thirukannan (talk) 16:49, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Greetings cordially reciprocated. The first thing to say is that my view is not the same as that of some other editors. Some think every article should have an info-box, though that is not Wikipedia's policy, which is that editors should decide, article by article, whether an i-box is helpful to readers. Generally boxes that concisely summarise a subject are useful. So, in biographies, boxes giving sportsmen and sportswomen's career stats, a politician's offices held, a cleric's posts occupied are really helpful to our readers, but for e.g. composers or dramatists they are not much help: consider what you put in the Feydeau box: it simply duplicates the information already set out clearly in the lead. In my view the i-boxes in these articles are excellent: Cosmo Gordon Lang, Neville Chamberlain, Sachin Tendulkar, and here they are an amateurish waste of space, offering the reader nothing of any use: Ludwig van Beethoven and Alec Guinness. But these are just my views, and others will disagree vehemently. I-boxes are a highly contentious subject among Wikipedia editors.  Tim riley  talk   17:40, 11 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much for this detailed response, and your thoughtful insights on the subject of 'infobox.' So far I am not aware of it. Now I understood. Also I got few links on my talk page. I will carefully read the policies and previous discussions about it.


 * I will be more cautious in the future. Thank you for your guidance, and valuable time. With kind regards,
 * My pleasure. Happy editing!  Tim riley  talk   18:29, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Arnold Bennett
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Muriels
I was too young and too green in the 90s to ever have been to the Colony Room, but assuming you did at some stage? The amount of books and articles have read that mention the place makes it seem almost unreal and romanticised beyond belief. Would love to hear from somebody with 1st hand exp. Thinking as tying up the Muriel Belcher bio. What a charismatic, handsome and dignified woman. Ceoil (talk) 12:35, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Ceoil, alas, although once upon a time I was often a guest at another fairly raffish club in Dean Street, I never set foot in the Colony Room. I'd dearly love to be able to give you some OR background, but I fear I really have to let you down!  Tim riley  talk   22:36, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The French pub is good enough, and seems to have had a lot of the same waggish crowd! Ceoil (talk) 19:31, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Promotion of Arnold Bennett

 * Hi,''' Tim riley ,
 * Congratulations for the best contribution.!
 * With kind regards, Thirukannan.
 * Thank you. That's most kind.  Tim riley  talk   09:04, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Congratulations, Tim riley. Great work, as always!  -- Ssilvers (talk) 15:23, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you my dear Ss! Your painstaking input to the FAC helped enormously.  Tim riley  talk   16:54, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

To anyone kind enough to watch this page ...
...I have put Georges Feydeau, the great master of French farce, up for FAC, and the thoughts of any interested editor will be most welcome there, though a word of warning to anyone looking in: you may or may not lose your trousers in Act 2.  Tim riley  talk   09:04, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

And a GAN
I've put Henry Lytton up for GAN too, if anyone's interested in reviewing it.  Tim riley  talk   16:57, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Steak Diane
Thank you for your contributions to Steak Diane. I've made some small modifications to distinguish contemporary sources from later sources more clearly. Reports in 1955 may reflect distorted memories or for that matter retrospective claims of priority. I did find it surprising that the first mention is in Switzerland! --Macrakis (talk) 11:55, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Macrakis, not a bad idea. I've followed it up with dates for other retrospective attributions later in the article. A bit of OR: I had a beloved friend, b. 1911, who remembered the original simple dish from eating in the West End before the war and used to get mildly cross when cream and mushrooms and other additions became common in later decades. (Should we mention these latter day intruders, perhaps: see here for instance?) My very fallible memory tells me that she remembered it being flambéed at the table by the head waiter at Luigi's in Jermyn Street, who told her it was named after his wife, but this is not merely OR but HUOR (highly unreliable OR).  Tim riley  talk   12:13, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * HUOR is always fun... but as you say, not suitable for WP. Re cream, etc., if we can document them from good sources as a later variant, we should mention them (see my essay on authenticity), and without editorial judgement, e.g., "starting in the 1960s, many recipes include cream",[footnote] but with critiques if they're notable, e.g., "...although some food critics disapprove".[footnote]
 * You removed "generally prepared in restaurants tableside". Is that because you don't think that to be true, or because we don't give enough evidence for it? My impression is that, like the original fettuccine Alfredo, tableside preparation was standard, and in fact a big part of its appeal.
 * I didn't realize that "In 1900, Smith emigrated" was a US usage. To my eye, "In 1900 Smith emigrated" looks wrong. --Macrakis (talk) 15:41, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I sympathise about the commas. Just an Engvar thing. To the American eye the phrase looks naked without a comma and to the English eye it looks cluttered with one. (Why should "In 1900 Smith emigrated" need a comma when "Smith emigrated in 1900" doesn't? And in the King James Bible we rest content, commaless, with the opening words, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth". But we have our own linguistic superstitions: try the so-called split infinitive or the double pluperfect on the average English writer and stand well back as sparks fly.)
 * As far as I know the only two people who have expressed disapproval of the modern added cream and mushrooms (for the prevalence of which I can find ample citations) are my darling old friend, dead these twenty-one years, and me. I'll rummage and find a suitable reference. Tableside service? If the dish is flambéed that of course is going to be done at the table, but there are more non-flambée than flambée instances in the sources we have used. But you jog my memory: I have seen a letter to a paper − possibly The Times − from a restaurateur on that very subject, which I'll dig out and post on the article talk page for you to consider whether we should bring it in.  Tim riley  talk   17:31, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Because I know you miss them.
Featured article candidates/Siege of Guînes (1352)/archive1

Gog the Mild (talk) 14:33, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Excellent. Shall look in over the weekend, not least to discover what it was you were doing down the back of the sofa when you found the article.  Tim riley  talk   17:32, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * And now done.  Tim riley  talk   19:33, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, that's good, old-fashioned service. You even read the preamble!! I must delve - for want of a ruder word - down the back of my sofa more often. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:07, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

Keswick issue
Hi, just so you know. I've started a discussion on the talk page on including England under the lead summary but you appear to disagree with its use. I won't revert your edit but have pinged other editors involved with geography. Thank you and reply to me there DragonofBatley (talk) 20:41, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * As everyone else disagrees with you there I hope we may all consider this rather pointless matter closed.  Tim riley  talk   15:45, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Bridget
Are you satisfied with this edit by an IP? If not, please revise: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bridget_D%27Oyly_Carte&type=revision&diff=1087791705&oldid=1081281973 -- Ssilvers (talk) 11:33, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks all right to me.  Tim riley  talk   11:44, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Promotion of Georges Feydeau
Excellent, congratulations! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:26, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Peer review
I did my best to give you some feedback at Peer review/Reynaldo Hahn/archive1. I don't often involve myself in peer review, so apologies if my formatting is not within a standard protocol for a PR. I happen to love Hahn's art songs, so I took an interest in this particular PR. Best.4meter4 (talk) 19:34, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, 4meter4 ! Excellent feedback − really helpful − which I shall enjoy following up.  Tim riley  talk   19:59, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

File:Charles J. Phipps by Alexander Bassano.jpg
I feel like I've gone through slightly more of a journey than expected when trying to see if we could get a slightly better image for him. Google to a website to tracking down the original source, to reading a good chunk of that source for documentation. Anyway, you found the initial photo, so thought you might be interested. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.9% of all FPs 14:41, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Excellent work.  Tim riley  talk   07:50, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Adam! Tim and Adam: the caption in Phipps's article said "Phipps in 1890".  Though the image was published in The Building News in 1890, I suspect that it is an earlier "official" photo of the architect, who was born in 1835. He appears in the photo to be in his early 40s, not mid-50s. I have changed the caption to "c. 1890", but is there any indication of when Bassano took the photo?  -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:50, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * None I saw, but it's over a bunch of pages. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.9% of all FPs 23:00, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Henry Lytton
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A congratulations and thank you
Hi Tim, I'd like to offer both a late congratulations on the Bennett and Feydeau FAs, and an expression of gratitude for giving FA candidacy another chance. Your articles are a staple of the FA oeuvre, and have been sorely missed! I presume that you have Hahn next in mind for FAC?—I will be sure to leave a review there if so. A friend of mine recently learned a Hahn art song—of which I can't recall the name, but do recall it being remarkably gorgeous. I find myself deep into French music at the moment as well, having recently learned Ravel's Une barque sur l'océan and working on fixing up the Josquin des Prez article... I hope all is well with you. Best – Aza24 (talk) 20:38, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I say! How very pleasing! I've had two substantial contributions to the peer review chez Hahn, which will have me sitting at a desk in the British Library for a day or two in the near future doing the necessary research. I'll see about FAC after that. As to the mélodie your friend learnt, if perchance it was Hahn's best-known, it has long tickled me that if you feed the title into an online translator − "Si mes vers avaient des ailes" − both Google and Microsoft will tell you that it means "If my worms had wings", which, poetical and musical considerations apart, might cause consternation at the Natural History Museum. Meanwhile, if you have mastered Une barque sur l'océan, or even come near doing so, you have my unstinted admiration.  Tim riley  talk   21:44, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

RE: Joyce Grenfell
Hi there. Yes, according to the Manual of Style for the Template:Infobox person: "For deceased persons still married at time of death, do not include the end year". Samuel J Walker (talk) 18:12, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that! Duly added to my crib sheet for future reference.  Tim riley  talk   20:05, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Wiley Rutledge
Hello Tim; I hope you're remaining well. Might I be able to interest you in taking a look at this peer review of mine? Your comments are always invaluable, and I'd be much obliged if – your time permitting, of course – you'd be kind enough to stop by. Best regards, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 08:41, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I'll gladly look in, though the subject is well outside my area of expertise (such as it is), and I can probably only comment on the prose rather than on the content.  Tim riley  talk   15:26, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
 * And now done.  Tim riley  talk   19:56, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

It's That Man Again
To anyone kind enough to watch this page: I have nominated our article on the wartime BBC radio comedy series It's That Man Again for FAC, and comments are cordially invited on the FAC review page.  Tim riley  talk   15:04, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
 * FYI --67.187.73.94 (talk) 16:13, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * FYA? Meaning? Fatuous Yank Idiot? Flouting Your Intelligence? Unclear.  Tim riley  talk   16:20, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * FYA? No. FYI. --67.187.73.94 (talk) 16:49, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Civility forbids me to mention what the A might then stand for in the first guess. I have raised the question of the tense in the FAC, where you are welcome to comment.  Tim riley  talk   16:52, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

In appreciation

 * Well, thank you. Not entirely sure about "actionable", which I associate with being sued for libel, but reviewing at GAN, PR and FAC is a Good Thing.  Tim riley  talk   21:30, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Random
Spotted on a user page "Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.". Gog the Mild (talk) 22:17, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Royal Gallery of Illustration
Went in and grabbed the largest copies I could get of all these posters. Was able to document them well enough for Commons while I was at it, so... Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8% of all FPs 22:23, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Gr.. gra...gr... gram...oh, you know what I mean
Good evening Mr riley. Could I solicit your opinion on this edit? I am inclined to revert. But that may simply be putting it back into Derbyshire dialect. Many thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:35, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * In my view it is correct with or without the "thereafter", but to my eye it looks starchy with the addition and not entirely smooth without it. If it were my prose I'd go for "Shortly afterwards he was expelled...". This seems to me to flow better and would have the additional advantage of outraging apostles of AmE punctuation, who will have to get their sal volatile out at the sacrilegious omission of a comma. Just a suggestion, natch. It might be better still, if the sources permit, to say "Within x weeks or y months he was expelled ..." but you'll know if that's a possibility.   Tim riley  talk   08:14, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Many thanks Tim, it is so helpful to have a handy oracle. Gog the Mild (talk) 09:27, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * My pleasure, though handy is hardly the word at the moment, with my right one in plaster. Back to two hands from tomorrow, I hope.  Tim riley  talk   11:20, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * A joy to correspond with someone whom nothing gets past. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:28, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I think you may have mistyped. The phrase you need is "someone who is nothing but past it."  Tim riley  talk   13:56, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Tommy Handley
Hi there. I don't quite understand why you reverted my edit in the first place. There is nothing "strange" about the edit I made. Samuel J Walker (talk) 18:03, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Please discuss on the article talk page.  Tim riley  talk   18:04, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
 * With respect I don't see why we can't discuss it here but I've put a note on the article talk page. Samuel J Walker (talk) 18:10, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
 * We should discuss such things on the article talk page for the simple reason that anyone interested in the subject can see what is proposed/disputed. A private argument on a user's talk page is no use to anyone other than the two participants.  Tim riley  talk   18:27, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Peer review
To anyone kind enough to watch this page or who otherwise happens to see this, I have W. Somerset Maugham up for peer review, with a view to taking him to FAC. Suggestions for improvements will be gratefully received on the peer review page –  Tim riley  talk   10:36, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Bernard Levin
Hi, about Bernard Levin, wanted to ask you about the issues you have with this edit, as there is no WP:CITEVAR violation anymore, and the MOS:DATES and MOS:ORDER fixes were re-added; if you just have a problem with me reverting your edit, then please revert your last edit yourself. Saksapoiss (talk) 21:18, 23 August 2022 (UTC)


 * No objection to your other edits - ulc and so on - but please refrain from persistent WP:CITEVAR violations: they are unhelpful and discourteous as well as contrary to Wikipedia's rules. As your other alterations, they seem in line with MoS guidelines, and if so, fine. The citations for footnotes might conceivably be better in the form you propose (the existing version goes back some years) but you must propose such changes on the article talk page and not just impose them unilaterally.  Tim riley  talk   21:29, 23 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Your "Thank" message in response to the above is much appreciated.  Tim riley  talk   08:07, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Vaughan Williams
I suspect that "Sources" was mislabeled and should be "Further reading." Not one of the listed "sources" has a page number; it seems more like a bibliography. More important is that we include a major new biography of Vaughan Williams. We have three choices: (1) Revert your reversion so that the new book is listed, (2) Change "Sources" to "Further reading" and add the new book, or (3) create a "Further reading" section solely for the new book. Do you have a preference? Maurice Magnus (talk) 12:55, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * 1) "Sources" was not mislabelled. It is a list of books used as sources, which is why it is called Sources. There is a very simple reason why none of the sources listed has a page number: the page numbers are in the References section; there are e.g. more than twenty references to Kennedy's 1980 book. How would WP:V be satisfied if we put " pages 19, 43, 44, 74, 37–38, 76, 85, 114, 139, 179, 218, 221, 224, 254, 268, 276, 412–416 415, 420, 421, 427, 428, 431 and 432" after the entry for that book in Sources?


 * 1) Before considering adding a Further reading section you should read Further reading. If you contend that your favoured book contains "additional and more detailed coverage of the subject" over and above that in the existing sources, please add a section to the article talk page to the effect that your book says x, y or z, not mentioned in earlier sources. If you can't identify anything important of that nature, there is no pretext for adding a Further reading section. If there is anything new of importance, please mention it on the talk page and we can adjust the article accordingly. –  Tim riley  talk   13:44, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I agree about your first point. As for your second point, I have not read Saylor's book, but the review to which I linked, which is by a leading music critic Tim Page (music critic), states, "Now Eric Saylor, a professor of music at Drake University, has published a valuable study of Vaughan Williams’s long life and multifarious work, one that will serve both the novice listener and the scholar. It is fair-minded and wide-ranging, both easy to read and unusually weighty...." Page concludes (in an exceedingly trite sentence), "Mr. Saylor’s book may be recommended to anybody in search of information about this admirable man and creator."


 * This establishes, I think, that knowing of the existence of this book would be useful to readers of Wikipedia's entry on Vaughan Williams, and I will therefore create a "Further reading" section for it. I hope you will agree that informing readers of the existence of this book is more important than correctly applying Wikipedia's rules that prescribe where and when books may be listed (if I am applying them incorrectly). If you don't, then do what you want, and I will drop the matter. Maurice Magnus (talk) 14:28, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I agree with Tim riley – this FA sets up the references, notes and sources correctly, even elegantly. Moreover, if you want to discuss the improvement of a particular article, you should do it at that article's Talk page so that everyone interested in the article can see the discussion. -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:27, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you for that, Ssilvers. I think I have set out clearly and fairly what criteria need to be satisfied for a Further reading section to be added. If they are not (and nothing above suggests that they will be) we can delete any unjustifed attempt at doing so, but you're right − the article talk page is the place for this discussion.  Tim riley  talk   14:37, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Somerset Maugham, again


After a productive peer review I have W. Somerset Maugham's article up for WP:FAC. If anyone who watches this page or otherwise chances to see these words cares to look in at the FAC review page it will be esteemed a favour.  Tim riley  talk   20:26, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

ITMA
I didn’t know you cared! With your superb work on ‘conventional’ entertainment I almost missed your recent FA. With a sudden flash of inspiration starting in late December last year I vastly improved and expanded British sitcom, aided and abetted by excellent contribs from Philip Cross although we were not working as team and were barely aware of each other’s work. It’s not FA or even GA material but it was a lot of hard work but fun to do. Naturally ITMA gets a mention. Britcom is a history of a genre of TV humor rather than an anthology, but it demonstrates what makes our UK humour so special. If you are of my generation (and I think you are) you might enjoy the nostalgia evoked by reading it. Favorite armchair, a bottle of well matured Gigondas… Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:06, 1 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I shall go and read that article. No Gigondas to hand, but I have a nice plump Juliénas on the go.  Tim riley  talk   17:19, 1 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Ah, a Beaujolly! Don't hesitate to tell me if the quality of the Britcom article makes you cough and splutter. I hate wasting good wine. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:11, 2 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Didn't know the crus, and knowing that you're not likely to be drinking Château Bag-in-a-box Nouveau from the Co-oP, I looked it up. Liked what I saw and went and bought a bottle in Udon. Arm and a leg at twenty-four quid but went down very well with a lamb couscous so I wrote the missing article. Easier to get here in Thailand than my favourite CDR, the meaty three neighbours Vacqueyras, Gigondas, and Cairanne. Not dissimilar in a way to the Juliénas. Thanks for the tip. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 09:38, 3 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I say, Kudpung! That's a mightily impressive article to have put together in next to no time. I'm sorry to say it induced me to open another bottle of the stuff. As to the British sitcom article, it brought many a smile to my septuagenarian eke.  Tim riley  talk   18:48, 5 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Yes, it's pretty good stuff. I hope you can afford it if it costs anything like it does here! No great performance really, I've written lots of Wikipedia articles about wine. I took some cues from the fr.Wiki effort and borrowed their Commons images. Nothing that would warrant  an attrib as a translation though, but out of courtesy I did give them a mention on the tp. Glad you liked the Britcom. A rambling stroll through some of the funniest parts of UK culture when we postwar born Brits still had something to laugh about, but not one of my best efforts. Since the turn of the century overzealous PC stymies anything that could stimulate the slightest snigger.  Instead, comedy is now studded with unfunny four-letter words that would give Ms Whitehouse and even Johnny Speight a couple of turns in their graves; there's not been any laugh-out-loud telly to wax lyrical about and that's where I'll leave the article.  And I'll let you get on with your work. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:38, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

David Meyer
Hi Tim, hope you're well! Can you find anything on David Meyer for his London stage work, this lists a few performances at the White Bear and Aldwych Theatres but the source looks like a Wiki and not reliable. and User:7&6=thirteen might also find something. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  18:12, 2 September 2022 (UTC)


 * What ho! I'm replying on your user talk page, as there's a fair bit of text for you to consider. In my book there is no doubt of the notability of someone who directs an opera conducted by Richard Hickox.  Tim riley  talk   10:59, 3 September 2022 (UTC)


 * If there's anything left that you feel should be added feel free to add it. His brother Anthony Meyer was deleted, but I redirected the article. I could have probably found enough for a start class article but he seems to be less notable then his brother. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  10:01, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

1899 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
If you have some time, could you look at the above, now at FAC? Despite the mundane title, it's a most interesting story. Wehwalt (talk) 20:59, 5 September 2022 (UTC)


 * It will be my privilege and pleasure. In fact, having finished dinner, I shall look in now.  Tim riley  talk   21:00, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

A rare distinction

 * How very nice! Fifty is a decent haul, but the beloved Brian Boulton contributed a hundred, and computers run out of memory to count how many Wehwalt has clocked up. The rest of us bob along in their wake.  Tim riley  talk   22:08, 22 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Congratulations, and the high quality of your quantity speaks much. Wehwalt (talk) 22:50, 22 September 2022 (UTC)


 * A half century. Congratulations indeed! KJP1 (talk) 05:10, 23 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Well done Tim, the coverage of English (and French!) music, literature and performance is that much richer for your contributions. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:53, 23 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I shall need a larger size in hats! Thank you all for such kind remarks. They are, as I hardly need say, very much appreciated.  Tim riley  talk   12:02, 23 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Congratulations on this wonderful milestone and, of course, on your rich contributions to Wikipedia beyond the 50+ FAs. Of equal importance is your generous and skillful advice and congenial collaboration, peer reviews, GA reviews, research and other extraordinary assistance that you give to other editors here.  You will look good in a 10-gallon hat!  -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:04, 23 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Yee haw, y'all. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:02, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Monsieur Pamplemousse moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Monsieur Pamplemousse, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Kleuske (talk) 10:46, 24 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Kleuske, if you read the article more carefully you will see that every statement in it is cited to a published source with full bibliographical details given on the page. Kindly undo your unwarranted intervention without delay. You will see from the entries immediately before this that I have been receiving congratulations on my 51st successful FAC - I do know how to write and reference an article. No apology required as long as you undo the damage straight away.  Tim riley  talk   10:56, 24 September 2022 (UTC)


 * In the absence of action on your part I have restored the page to its proper state. Please tidy any remnants of your intervention.  Tim riley  talk   11:13, 24 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I draftified because I could not find any sources independent from the subject, i.e. not references to the book itself, so it fails WP:GNG. I hoped you might rectify that. Congrats on your FACs, but that does not mean WP:GNG does not apply to your writings. I'm very sure you know how to write, but a well written article on a non-notable subject is still in conflict with policy. Also waiting a full 17 minutes does not exactly constitute patience. Strange as it may sound, I do have a life besides Wikipedia and obligations to match. But we'll let the community decide.


 * Ah, yes. I am not about to apologise. Kleuske (talk) 13:09, 24 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Lastly, Copy&Paste moves are usually frowned upon. An experienced user ought to know that. Kleuske (talk) 13:30, 24 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Ahem! In an article about a piece of music we say what the score says, quoting bar number; in an article about a play we summarise the action and cite the page numbers of the playscript. In an article about a novel we summarise what the novel says, quoting the page or chapter numbers. By your imbecilic logic every such article would fail GNG, but they don't and neither does this. You want us to say what somebody else says the book says? Duh! As to your hit and run editing, I do not think it proper or colleaguely to make such a drastic and unreasonable change as you made without waiting to see the consequences, but your conception of good manners may not coincide with mine. As to copying and pasting, happily there was no need as I draft in Word and had a copy of the untampered article there. Just as well, as it turns out.  Tim riley  talk   13:39, 24 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I strongly suggest you bring that up on the appropriate page, without the "imbecilic logic" type of remarks, since that does show your "conception of good manners", not mine. Kleuske (talk) 13:51, 24 September 2022 (UTC)


 * It would have been another courtesy if you had mentioned that you were nominating the article for deletion. Good luck with that idea.  Tim riley  talk   15:15, 24 September 2022 (UTC)


 * The upside is, the independent sources I requested were actually provided, So I'm happy with that outcome. Kleuske (talk) 16:35, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Kleuske, you simply jumped the gun. Tim was in the middle of putting up the article.  If you had just waited a few hours, all this could have been avoided, and so the only real outcome is that you wasted your own, and a lot of other people's time. -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:09, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I beg to differ. Kleuske (talk) 21:46, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Ssilvers, your wise words are wholly ad rem. A short civil note on the article talk page would have been the commonsense and courteous course. A jackbooted trample is seldom necessary or desirable.  Tim riley  talk   20:19, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I admire your restraint Tim. Dudley Miles (talk) 15:44, 24 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Dudley. As Dr Chasuble says, "Charity, my dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect".  Tim riley  talk   15:49, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Arnold Bennett, again
Hi Tim, I'm writing a short note for the Arnold Bennett Society newsletter about the improvements we've been able to make to AB's Wikipedia entry (and others that may need to be made), in the course of which I will be mentioning your name. How can I describe you? I'm thinking of something along the lines of 'experienced Wikipedia contributor who specialises in early 20th-century writers and composers' - or what would you prefer? Jrsd (talk) 10:03, 13 October 2022 (UTC)


 * That's fine with me. As always, let me know if I can be of any help. By the bye, if you want to, you can email me by clicking the link on the left of this page.


 * I'm trying to persuade myself that John Galsworthy's article needs the Riley oar put in, but his life-story is so eye-glazingly dull − unlike those of Bennett, Maugham, Shaw, Walpole, Wodehouse et al − that I can't quite summon the enthusiasm. (And though he was a good writer, he strikes me as v. lucky to have got the OM and the Nobel Prize for Literature.)   Tim riley  talk   10:29, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Frivolity from KJP1

 * Is the game: "Thinking of suitable descriptions for Tim", one anyone can play? KJP1 (talk) 10:09, 13 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Less of your cheek, my lad!  Tim riley  talk   10:29, 13 October 2022 (UTC)


 * If we are allowed Latin - and as it is Tim, I am sure we are - how about "Tim the Tribulator"? Gog the Mild (talk) 13:30, 19 October 2022 (UTC)


 * A classical education is not all it's cracked up to be, but I can tell you that Timothy is "God-fearing" in Greek. Away from Latin and Greek, one of you two ruffians has a Celtic name meaning "handsome by birth" and the other has a Hebrew name meaning "snub-nosed". I decline to identify which is which.  Tim riley  talk   13:44, 19 October 2022 (UTC)


 * My given name in Biblical Hebrew means "hearkening". Now there is wishful thinking for you!. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:06, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

In appreciation

 * That's very kind! A similar gong, but Grand Cross, should go to you, as a reviewer of the greatest assiduity in between your FAC co-ord duties.  Tim riley  talk   07:58, 19 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hear hear -- for both of these sentiments! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:21, 19 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Ian, you are in line for a Grand Cross with oak leaves and knobs on, and quite right, too. At the end of the day, we all do our best.  Tim riley  talk   13:27, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Prince Octavius of Great Britain/archive1
Hi, @Tim riley! You may have seen my message on Featured article candidates/Prince Octavius of Great Britain/archive1, but just in case you have not, I'd like to apologize for the way I handled your comments regarding the FA nomination. I did not mean to come across as rude and dismissive, but looking back at it, my messages certainly seemed that way. I am so sorry the way I handled that situation. Thank you for your comments! I have reconsidered my previous hesitation and fixed your concerns. I look forward to seeing you around! Unlimitedlead (talk) 23:05, 24 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Apology accepted, naturally. We all get things wrong from time to time. I'll keep an eye open for future FACs from you and will offer what help I can.  Tim riley  talk   11:34, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Welcome home
I couldn't possibly comment, as doing so (there) may entice the wolves to the door. I hope you had a wonderful time up the Nile, welcome back. Yours truly, Senna Pod 2A02:C7E:2A55:1500:4DF6:503D:BC76:8165 (talk) 21:31, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Artemy Vedel
This Ukrainian composer has been up for a pre-FA peer review for several weeks now, without any responses. Are you able to take a look for me? Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 22:32, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Cosima Wagner
Yes, an improvement. When there is a run-on sentence consisting of two essentially unrelated thoughts, it should be split into two sentences. In this case, marriage and legacy are essentially unrelated and should be separated. Your grammar looks bad to me, so please explain why it is not. Zaslav (talk) 21:26, 12 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Please discuss on the article talk page, where any interested editor can say if s/he agrees with you or prefers the version agreed by the main author and the reviewers at PR and FAC. For my own part I am not disposed to debate grammar with someone who imagines "so" is a conjunction in good written English. (See Fowler, current edition, p. 757.)  Tim riley  talk   08:58, 13 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Good advice; I take this away from you. I am not disposed to debate grammar with someone who is pompously self-righteous but cannot distinguish a run-on sentence (see any elementary writing instruction) and has no self-awareness.  Zaslav (talk) 06:58, 14 November 2022 (UTC)


 * By the way, what WP policy accepts the idea of a "main author"? I recall the principle that no article belongs to anyone.  I agree you won't find that in Fowler.  Zaslav (talk) 06:59, 14 November 2022 (UTC)


 * The main author in this case is the late Brian Boulton. He wrote 79.8% of the current text. Some of us who respected him greatly and miss him keep an eye on the 100+ articles he successfully took to FAC. We attempt to fend off (usually) well-meant alterations that are not helpful. We do not quarrel with valid and helpful tweaks, e.g. here.  Tim riley  talk   09:42, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Pommes boulangère


I bought Delia’s Complete Illustrated for Christmas 1995. We’re still using it and her Potatoes boulangère (p=229) is one of our favourites. All the best, KJP1 (talk) 19:44, 27 November 2022 (UTC)


 * I was surprised we had no article on pommes boulangère, and the skimpy affair I ran up this afternoon will just have to do, unless (hint) someone improves it. I love boulangères − so versatile − they go with so many main courses. I'm agnostic about their posher sibling, gratin Dauphinoise: very nice, but I've never found a meat it quite seems to go with. As to Delia, I am an admirer, and to Hell with the snobs who sniff at her − though I think they are latterly almost an extinct species, happily. −  Tim riley  talk   20:43, 27 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Afterthought: KJ, in your 1995 Delia did she use veg stock? Autres temps, autres mœurs, and all that.  Tim riley  talk   21:04, 27 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Rather unhelpfully for Delia, she says “stock”. It’s the 1989 BBC Books edition, and the recipe just says “5 fl oz hot stock”. We use chicken, but I guess beef or vegetable would work. I’m with you on Dauphinoise, but J adores it with pork. KJP1 (talk) 22:05, 27 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Pork? Not tried. I'll engage you separately by email on that.  Tim riley  talk   22:16, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

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A Saint-Saëns curiosity for you
Dear Tim, Doubtless you already knew all about his revolutionary chanting in Uruguay (I didn't). Best wishes from an ip, 86.186.94.153 (talk) 17:16, 29 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Excellent stuff, and addressed on Saint-Saëns's talk page. A pleasure to encounter.  Tim riley  talk   19:56, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Felix of Burgundy
Hello Tim, 11 years ago you passed Felix of Burgundy as a GA. I've given the article a few tweaks, and I wondered if you could take a look at the article again? I have put it up for a peer review, prior to attempting to get it to become a FA. Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 19:16, 1 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Good grief! I was still in my fifties then! As a septuagenarian I shall crank myself up to look in again. I look forward to it.  Tim riley  talk   19:51, 1 December 2022 (UTC)


 * And duly done.  Tim riley  talk   18:00, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Just a hello
Hi Tim,

I was trying to wrap my head around some of the Wikipedia article format controversies, and the rabbit hole I followed brought me to a Wikipedia note appreciating you back in 2012. The Alice in Wikipedialand adventure reminded me of the numerous times I've reflected on you. My specific example was your help with the Frederick the Great good article and featured article reviews and how much your gentle, constructive, and encouraging comments really helped me to become a better editor (I think!), and indirectly helped guide me to a place where I could feel most useful to the Wikipedia project at large. And you taught me a lot without the sense of "teaching" at all! As I once wrote you before in the pre-Covid era, I think you are truly one of those editors that makes Wikipedia not just a strong source of information, but a pleasure. I'm so glad you stay engaged with it! Appreciatively Wtfiv (talk) 00:30, 8 December 2022 (UTC)


 * What a very pleasing message to get! Thank you so much. As to "gentle, constructive and encouraging", sometimes the first of the three adjectives falls by the wayside under provocation from drive-by editors, but not too often, I hope − and I also hope you will call on me for input whenever you feel the need.  Tim riley  talk   18:50, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas!

 * It's a Christmas present in itself to see you back, SchroCat. Even though I see you are continuing Brian's policy of cheering us all up with articles on disasters and outrages. I'll clock in chez Kelly over the next week or so.  Tim riley  talk   19:51, 22 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Although an obvious outrage (politically speaking), I have nothing but admiration and respect for Dr K, who was a decent man caught in a nasty vortex. Hopefully the article is neutral in its approach - I found this one of the more difficult articles to strike the right balance of achieving that neutrality. Cheers. - SchroCat (talk) 20:08, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Vaughan Williams and Evans
Hello, you undid my revision to the Vaughan Williams page. Have you bothered to check the article and page in the reference? (Adams 2013, p. 38) It of course includes the name of Edwin Evans who had originally recommended d'Indy as a teacher for VW. Why did you remove the addition without checking the original reference? If you look at my Talk page you'll see that this happened before at the Fauré page where I made a correction backed by the cited literature. This makes it quite arduous to contribute to Wikipedia. Let me add, how could I have proceed in a better way? CharlesVilliers (talk) 13:18, 22 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I wonder why you think it important to include in an 8,000-word article a factoid that doesn't make it into the 450-page authorised biography of the composer, by VW's widow? (Evans is not mentioned even once in the entire book.) If you reread your addition carefully you will see that you failed to cite the statement to the Adams essay or indeed to cite it at all, but letting that pass, it seems peculiarly irrelevant to single someone out for making a suggestion that was ignored. By the way, discussions such as this should be on the relevant article talk page, where all interested editors can see them, rather than on one editor's user talk page, seen by few.  Tim riley  talk   14:57, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Otto Klemperer
To any visitor in diesen heil'gen Hallen: I have put the article on Otto Klemperer up for peer review, with a view to taking it to to FAC. Comments and suggestions for improvement will be gladly received.  Tim riley  talk     Tim riley  talk   20:14, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Felix of Burgundy
Hello Tim, just to let you know that Felix of Burgundy is now up for FAC, and of course, Happy New Year! Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 19:45, 31 December 2022 (UTC)