User talk:WikiNotator

How can I correct a tooltip?
I've just added myself (James Ingram) as a student of Harrison Birtwistle on the following page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_students_by_teacher:_A_to_B The tool tip wrongly shows the eponymous American Soul singer, so I'd like to correct that. The tooltip should say: "James Ingram is an English composer and theorist. He was Karlheinz Stockhausen's principal copyist 1974-2000." It would also be nice to add a photo to the tooltip. How can I do that? WikiNotator (talk) 20:40, 21 April 2023 (UTC)


 * The tooltip is still incorrect.
 * I now see that a non-primary source is needed to show that the information is correct:
 * I have an official document from the Royal Academy of Music, dated 21st September 2004, stating that, according to their records, I studied with Birtwistle from 1968-71. So I've changed the source to "The Royal Academy of Music (London) records." and hope that's okay.


 * I would still appreciate help in editing the tooltip.
 * Thank you.
 * WikiNotator (talk) 08:39, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Articles with the same name on Wikipedia have to be given different names, often by adding a key word in brackets after the main name, e.g. James Ingram (composer) or James Ingram (theorist). Take a look at this disambiguation page: James Ingram (disambiguation). It won't be possible to change what you are referring to as the "tooltip" because this is usually generated by a short description tagged to the article - and this is called from within Wikidata. If there's no short description, then the first few words of the lead are usually used. Note that for an article name to have a live blue link, a dedicated Wikipedia article needs to have been made. The ideal answer is for there to be a Wikipedia article created, then that new article would be "disambiguated" from the other similar names.
 * In order to address the problem on this page List_of_music_students_by_teacher:_A_to_B of the wrong person being listed as a student of Harrison Birtwistle, until there is a specific Wikipedia article, I think the only way to differentiate the name is to deliberately create a red-link (probably James Ingram (composer)) - to prevent it calling the article of James Edward Ingram. Hope this helps. SpookiePuppy (talk) 17:34, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thanks for the help.
 * I've changed my disambiguation text from (composer) to (music notation) because:
 * 1. James Edward Ingram was also a composer, and
 * 2. Any future Wikipedia article would be titled James Ingram (music notation): My work has always been about developing new ways to notate music; my compositions were only written for that purpose, so I'm not really a composer.
 * BTW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ingram_(disambiguation) says that James Ingram (composer) is a "Sound Designer and Composer, engaged to Brittany Curran". I've never been engaged to Brittany Curran. WikiNotator (talk) 09:14, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Would you be interested in writing (or helping to write) the missing Wikipedia article about me? This would only need to be quite short. If so, how would you like to proceed?
 * My full biography is at https://james-ingram-act-two.de/impressum/curriculumVitae.html, but
 * The main points are:
 * 1948 Born (south-east London)
 * 1967-71 Studied at the Royal Academy of Music (68-71 Birtwistle)
 * 1974-2000 Karlheinz Stockhausen's principal copyist
 * 2000-present Freelance programmer and essayist.
 * Compositions: (see https://james-ingram-act-two.de/compositions/compositions.html)
 * 1967 Pianola Music
 * 1970 Untitled '70
 * 1970-71 Retrospective -- (unpublished)
 * 1971 The Probability of Harmony
 * 1971 Possible Developments
 * 1974-76 Vectors (performed at the Donaueschingen Festival 1978)
 * 1978-82 beyond the symbolic (performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain 1982)
 * 1986-87 The Innocent Bystander (BBC Singers, St Johns Smith Square 1987)
 * Private Software: (I've been programming since 1981. My first computer was an Apple II).
 * 1981-93 Krystals (an abstract data type)
 * 1993-94 ABM (a program for beautifying Finale's output files)
 * 1995-96 Music Tools (FreeHand plugins for use while creating Stockhausen's scores)
 * Public Domain Software (now on GitHub)
 * 2005- Moritz (https://james-ingram-act-two.de/moritz3/moritz3.html) and
 * 2005- AssistantPerformer (https://james-ingram-act-two.de/open-source/aboutAssistantPerformer.html)
 * 2020- ResidentSynth (https://github.com/notator/ResidentSynthHostTestSite)
 * Essays (all on my website, some have been published elsewhere).
 * 1983-84 The Notation of Time (Contact Magazine No.29, 1985)
 * 2002 Inherited Problems and a Proposed Solution
 * 2002 A Transcription of Curtis Roads' Sonal Atoms
 * 2002 Developing Traditions of Music Notation (Presented at Frauenhofer Institute, Darmstadt, Germany 9-11 December 2002 as part of the Second International Conference on WEB delivering of Music. Mentioned in their proceedings.)
 * 2008 On Being Invisible (Original version published in German in MusikTexte volume 119 (2008)
 * 2019 On Marcel Duchamp's "Erratum Musicale"
 * 2021 Tick-based Timing
 * (In preparation 2023: The Beginning of Time) WikiNotator (talk) 11:00, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Looking at the disambiguation page, it appears that there is another James Ingram who is a composer and sound designer. I would not recommend changing the existing text until a live article exists. However, it's not recommended on Wikipedia for the person the article is about to attempt to write their own article, per WP:NPOV and WP:COI. Also, any article which is effectively a biography of a living person WP:BLP should only be written if the Wikipedia policies and guidelines for notability WP:N and significant coverage WP:WISC can be genuinely satisfied. There are also policies and guidelines on the quality and reliability of sources, see WP:BLPRS, WP:BLPPRIMARY and WP:NOR. I hope this helps clarify things a little. SpookiePuppy (talk) 17:29, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
 * There are no longer any problems with my entry as a Birtwistle student on List of music students by teacher: A to B, so I think we can leave everything as it is. I'm not going to attempt to create a page about myself. Maybe someone else will want to do that later. We'll see.
 * All the best, thanks again for your help: WikiNotator (talk) 20:56, 30 April 2023 (UTC)