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Hey

Oi, you haven't put your email into your preferences!

Only reason I noticed is that I usually ask this privately, but anyway...fancy a shot at RFA? I would be happy to nominate you. Best, Moreschi (talk) (debate) 22:02, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

• Oi, Moreschi, I've sent you an email so you'll have my address if you ever need it. Thanks for the offer and your confidence. But... admin-ing would take too much time away from what I really enjoy – writing articles, rescuing worthy kittens from being drowned at AfDs, and helping out on the Opera Project. The latter can provide quite enough wiki-drama as it is. ;-). Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

It was a delight...

...to read this brilliant piece. And I wasn't even looking for it; I came here to thank you for backing me up on the GA issue on Egardus, since that's something that's been bugging me for a while and had to get off my chest. But your essay was spot-on. Oops, there I go again, pretending to be an adult! Need to get a bouncier, animated signature ... Antandrus (talk) 23:02, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I'll make you one if you promise to give me three barnstars. ;-) Seriously, though thanks for the kind review. I wrote that when WP was in the midst of an invasion by a particularly... er... time-consuming... bunch of 13 year olds. At one point there was even a WikiProject (now deleted) that was awarding them barnstars for every 1000 edits, every 50 AfD's "voted on", every 5 (hapless) editors they adopted, etc., etc.. For a while, I and a couple of other editors spent all our time running around cleaning up after them, until they lost interest and/or got blocked. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:49, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Much appreciation

Hi, Voceditenore. Thanks for the beautiful rewrite on John Andrew Rea. I would prefer not having to delete noteworthy articles, but the current backlog at copyright violations leaves me little time to revise much text. (Especially in Moonriddengirl's absence.) I just wanted you to know that I very much appreciate your contributions. Cheers. — CactusWriter | 06:21, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome ;-) and you were absolutely right to delete it. If you have time, could you do me a favour? I've re-written Juliette Pochin on Talk:Juliette Pochin/Temp. Would it possible to move it into article space. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:33, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Done. Another nice job -- and better still was your discussion with the original creator on the talk page. "...Teach a man to fish..." etc. You're a good teacher. Cheers. — CactusWriter | 16:13, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! In my university teaching days, I once had a student who plagiarsed my own book in her essay. But at least it took some effort, bless her. She typed it out from the hardcopy — must have taken ages. Re "teaching how to fish...", I'm not sure how many new fishermen it produces for Misplaced Pages. In the Opera Project we get a lot of articles for singers, opera companies, etc. created by their agents and PR people, and sometimes themselves. In my experience, the best I can hope for is that they'll edit their article according to the guidelines in future. I have yet to find one who has ever contributed anything else to Misplaced Pages. Their only interest in the project is as a PR tool. Having said that, at least it results (after much red-pencilling from other editors) in one new article on a notable subject that we didn't have before. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 10:05, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for teaching me also, about every singer to opera and avoiding answers.com! I keep supplying singers to the project who never sing opera, last Dorothee Mields. When I found a Bach singer who also sang opera I nominated that fact for DYK, Franz Kelch, to be 95 this year, no PR involved. Unfortunately the only source for him I found in English reads like a machine translation. Any help in that case? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:50, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

My god, plagiarizing the prof's own book -- that's sadly funny -- the very definition of clueless. I would suggest she switch majors. I know what you mean about bulk of submissions coming from PR types. (It's one of the reasons I refrain from offering copyright violators much opportunity to license the source website -- the promotional text couldn't be used anyway.) But, occasionally, unexpectedly, when the stars align just so... you'll come across a true angler among the crowd of daytrippers. When is that next blue moon anyway? — CactusWriter | 19:03, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Assistance Please

Hello Voceditenore. Would you please check my user talk page? Some time ago you were assisting me in the creation of a new page, ".Gabriel". As you requested, I posted my request on that page but haven't heard from you. I understand you are very busy but would really appreciate your help. Thank you!TF537 (talk) 21:35, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Infobox

Please see edit request. In the meantime, you can use put the alt in the image parameter. e.g. |image=] Racepacket (talk) 21:55, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

• Image_alt parameter has been added to {{Infobox play}} Racepacket (talk) 22:16, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

• Great! Thanks so much! I'll add it to La Tosca. I used your "get-around" for the book infobox at I Love Bacon!. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 18:06, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Coming of Age (BBC TV series)

I would question why the BBC are allowed to vandalise the page and put blatant propaganda on there suggesting that the response to the programme was mixed in some way, when in fact it was universally appalling. Every time real and referenced reviews are put up, they are taken down by some BBC apparatchik dickhead. Why are they not censored? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.176.103 (talk) 18:06, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

This has nothing to do with "real and referenced reviews" being taken down. You deliberately inserted false and in several cases defamatory content about living people in multiple articles related to this show, as well adding as your personal commentary disguised to make it look as if it were a quote referenced from a reliable source, e.g. , , , . You are going to get your IP, aka Oxford University, blocked if you keep it up. Voceditenore (talk) 18:50, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Travesti/Victorian burlesque

Tim just did a nice job expanding the Victorian burlesque article. Does anything need to be added back and forth between this and the Travesti article that you are working on? Just a thought. All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:28, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

What do you think of the current merge proposal at Burlesque (literature)? I wonder if merging it into the poorly-written Burlesque article will destroy any value (or chance at expansion) that it may have. Your comments would be valued at Talk:Burlesque. -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:31, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello, V. You may find this article of interest: http://www.jstor.org/pss/3826405 -- Ssilvers (talk) 06:20, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Steve. I'm going to file this away for when I next add to Travesti. I've still got a bit to do re the ballet sections. But I never seem to get the time. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 14:10, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Keto and Kote

Many thanks for re-establishing this article. During copy-edit driving I found the previous version a complete copy-and-paste violation from inception; I was the one who tagged for deletion. I have to say your succinct but elegant stub is superb, and should be set as an example of “how to do it”’. I have a tendency to reduce faulty articles to the brusque and barren, so I will log your Keto and Kote as a guiding light. In admiration. Acabashi (talk) 03:24, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Castrato parts

Hehe :) Moreschi (talk) 17:38, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Above comment is in response to this. Voceditenore (talk) 14:08, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Burlesque

Thanks for watching the dead links. It's a big shame that the PeoplePlayUK site went down, as it had a huge amount of info for Victorian articles. I think that most of the content migrated somewhere, but I'm not sure where. Any idea? All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, the only dead link was PeoplePlayUK. The other 2 were spam/copyvio. Anyhow, the Theatre Museum's contents are now held by the Victoria & Albert. See the V & A's Theatre and Performance collections page. If you search the V & A collections, the online objects generally come with a lot of informative text in addition to the image. See this, for example. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:40, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Carmen

I have finished my work on this. The peer review threw up some interesting suggestions, many of which have been absorbed into the article. It is now at FAC (please take a look), and I am working on improving and extending the discography subarticle. I have not done anything with the "adaptations" which were removed from the older version of the article, and it may be a while before I can get to deciding what should be done here. Brianboulton (talk) 18:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations on getting it to FA, Brian! I'm going to be away for the next 2 weeks and wouldn't be able to help with an "adaptations" page anyway. One of the advantages of page like that is to keep all sorts of minor (and often very trivial) distractions out of the main article. A popular work like this is particularly prone to that kind of stuff, often added "drive-by" without references or context. But let's see how it goes. There may not be a need for an "adaptations", at least in the near future. By the way, can you get the Carmen Filmography link to work? I can't and have tried multiple times. :/ Best, Voceditenore (talk) 15:21, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I will continue improving the discography article as time permits. In due course I'll open a rudimentary "adaptations" article for the purpose you describe; it won't be long before the trivia merchants start tampering with the main article. It went through the FAC process so smoothly and swiftly that I can't help an uneasy feeling that something important got missed. Brianboulton (talk) 15:38, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Smithsonian updates website!

Hi Voceditenore! The Smithsonian Institution Archives took notice of your finding about Clara Hasse's death date and will be updating their records, website and Flickr! The changes should take place tomorrow. So thanks for the great find! Sarah (talk) 14:23, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Excellent. It's nice to see that the traffic between Misplaced Pages and its sources goes both ways. Last year I got the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings at UCSB to change a glaring error on their database which found while I was researching Stanislao Gastaldon. In the process, I discovered another and even more whopping error in New Grove Dictionary of Opera which had been propagated all over the internet, but that's Grove's problem. OK, now I'm off to give the Harvard library system a nudge over this. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:32, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Co-Dependents Anonymous

Please help me get the correct information about Codependents Anonymous to remain on Misplaced Pages. I don't know your protocols. JBR1970Jbr1970 (talk) 02:17, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

• Replied at your talk page . Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:15, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for answering in ordinary English. I do not expect to be able to learn wikipediaeze enough to correct the article. The article you are reverting to simply doesn't make sense. Could you at least remove the explanations of codependence from it. I will return in a week. We are leaving home this minute so I am unable to go beyond this at this time. Thank you. JBR1970Jbr1970 (talk) 12:34, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do, but probably won't be able to get to it until next week. Voceditenore (talk) 12:53, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Tobias

Apologies if this is in the wrong place (finding out how to contribute to Misplaced Pages is a very steep learning curve and I've only just learnt Joomla, brain hurting!). Huge thanks for the rewriting and reformatting of the article on Dove's Tobias and the Angel. I'd only just discovered it was there and found it was so incomplete and inaccurate it needed some serious input. Having been in the project from the very beginning I felt I had the authority to write on it, and did post some material from my website - hadn't realised this seems to count as conflict of interest. But it certainly doesn't violate copyright which presumably belongs to me, and I'd like to be able to insert a photo of the Birmingham production, would this be allowed? I'd be very grateful if you had time to help me on this. Kate Quartano Brown (talk) 15:56, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Longy redux

Dear VdiT, This autumn's Longy class, my best ever, begins their Misplaced Pages projects soon. May we impose upon you again, or would you prefer that we hit the Teahouse, which was a big help for the Berklee students this summer--though those who got their work done early very much appreciated your kind help. Welcome back! Yours, Ijmusic (talk) 23:07, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi IJ! Great to hear from you again. Yes, I'll be happy to help with the Longy students. I couldn't do much for the Berklee crowd as I was away in August and had computer problems in September. I'm glad they found the Tea House useful, though. I'll keep an eye out for your new brood. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 12:24, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Bless you, dear VdiT. You continue to make Misplaced Pages a welcoming environment for us Newbies! With thanks, Yours, Ijmusic (talk) 02:43, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

My wife thinks that I should send you a dozen roses. My students and I agree. We appreciate so much your making the posts better and generally guiding us through the Wikithickets. Yours, Ijmusic (talk) 14:38, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Little favour

A while back I did some work de-fluffing Richard Gombrich. I think it still needs some more, but I have a little learning to the most dangerous degree and can't really see the wood for the trees. I'm pretty sure the structure is still hagiographic. May I ask if you could do a quick brisk hacking back of the undergrowth? Am pretty sure that the list of publications goes way beyond the notable, too. Amuse yourself by reading how it looked five years ago almost-instinct 12:07, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Query

I wanted to thank you for your assistance in creating Mr. Strantz's article I spearheaded awhile back. What great insight when you commented that since Wiki is global state abbreviations were unnecessary. I also wanted to ask.. a facebook page was created using the article as a basis.. is this done automatically and how would I find it's creator? Kindest ccard12Ccard12 (talk) 06:15, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi! I'd forgotten all about that article. It's looking great now. Just one thing, I thought it better to have an image of Strantz in the infobox instead of the golf course and uploaded one with a fair use rationale. I then moved the golf course image to lower down in the article where it lists the courses he designed. Hope that's OK.

Now about Facebook... Facebook automatically creates pages from Misplaced Pages articles about people. (They copy the latest version and periodically update the page automatically as the article changes.) Since our license permits anyone to freely re-use the articles here, we have no control over it. I have heard of some living people who have objected to these Facebook copies of their articles, but they had to take it up with Facebook if they wanted them removed, and I'm not sure how successful they've been. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:05, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

I thought the same thing, but suppose initially what came to mind was a course image. Thank you for that, I am in total agreeance. I think the page is done at this point, so thank you once again. I may create future articles on the courses he designed so perhaps I will call on you once again for your expertise if thats alright. Ccard12 (talk) 16:41, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks

I'm grateful for your clear explanation and kind welcome on my first interaction with Misplaced Pages. The format here is slightly intimidating and I'm wary of breaking taboos or upsetting anyone so your breakdown and reassurance was greatly appreciated. :-)

SonnySonnyWilliamson (talk) 11:27, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Giovanna Gray

DYK gong archived here. Voceditenore (talk) 09:35, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

I just wanted to say, nice job on the Giovanna Gray article. Going to the old, foreign language sources is something not everyone can do, and it makes a big difference. David.thompson.esq (talk) 13:01, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, David. I had a lot fun writing that. Most of the articles I write tend to be of this type, e.g., Cristina, regina di Svezia, Mala Pasqua!, Stanislao Gastaldon, Andrea Salvadori, Eugenia Tadolini. I figure that for the really famous composers, operas, singers, etc. there are plenty of online sources, but for these, the only place people will be able to find detailed information, in English, and free of charge is Misplaced Pages. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 10:07, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Image

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2004008982/resource/

What do you think of this image, which also covers an opera singer without photo? Adam Cuerden 21:47, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

It's OK, but I'd never use it for Lillian Grenville. The one of her alone will be much better for that article. It's also a much more arresting image than this rather stilted duo. But this one would be good for Gustave Huberdeau and Natoma (kills 2 birds with one stone for that article). Voceditenore (talk) 17:57, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Here are some more possibilities for articles and future articles with no images:

• http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.00006/ for Eleonora de Cisneros

• http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2004000007/ Josephine Jacoby (Met contralto)

The Bain collection is very badly annotated, I'm just plowing slowly through all the images and clicking on ones that likely to be opera singers. I may find some more...

Best, Voceditenore (talk) 18:11, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Any idea which Stephano the Jacoby is? Niklausse is almost certainly Tales of Hoffmann, but I'm not sure off-hand about a Stephano trousers role. Adam Cuerden 19:10, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

I assume Roméo et Juliette she sang it many times at the Met at around the time that picture was taken , and her career was almost entirely at the Met. Voceditenore (talk) 19:20, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Ah, thought that would've been too high for her, since Misplaced Pages labels it as a soprano part. If she sang it, though, it's probably that. Adam Cuerden 19:58, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

The Met lists her as a mezzo-soprano (rather than contralto), and the role is frequently sung and recorded by mezzos, e.g. Kristine Jepson, Susan Graham, etc. Voceditenore (talk) 10:18, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

Below relates to this. Voceditenore (talk) 13:32, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Temp pages deleted. I see that the day has been closed out (didn't notice when I worked on CP this morning). Woohoo! January is almost history. :D (And I felt like sharing some pretty flowers. :D I could have just put them here, but Wikilove makes it easier for me to format than just dropping images on pages.) --Moonriddengirl 16:47, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

Rosine Stoltz

Some time ago, you started the article on Rosine Stoltz. There is now a discussion about the date of her death. I wonder if you could consult your original sources and let us know. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:58, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Replied at Talk:Rosine Stoltz. Voceditenore (talk) 13:32, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

IEP

Hi Voce. I see you're still very much on the ball with the IEP issue. Not that 16 months later has anyone in the Foundation really taken a blind bit of notice of what Torey said. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:12, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Jane Joseph

A year or two back, you were instrumental in preventing the demotion of the Rebecca Clarke article at FAR (I had a small hand in the rescue, too). I have been working on the biography of Jane Joseph, an approximate contemporary of Clarke, although she died young. If you have time, I'd be very pleased if you could read the article and possibly let me know on the talkpage what you think. Regards, Brianboulton (talk) 13:58, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Please accept this article

Please accept this article. http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Tambov_State_University&oldid=555222380 Александр Граф (talk) 12:42, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages talk:Articles for creation/Tambov State University was deleted for blatant copyright violation soon after you posted this message. I'm not sure why you contacted me. I didn't review this article. If I had, I would have marked it for deletion myself. Voceditenore (talk) 15:42, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Notre-Dame de Clignancourt

A most pleasing new article. I'll add the church to my itinerary for a vaguely-planned, Fauré-themed wander round Paris. Don't bother to reply to this: I just wanted to express my appreciation. – Tim riley (talk) 19:50, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

RfC on title of Sarah Brown (wife of Gordon Brown)

Hi, this is to let everyone who commented in the last RM know that there's another RM/RfC here, in case you'd like to comment again. Best, SlimVirgin 19:12, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Baroque

Enjoy your vacation! - I came to ask you to look if I got your plurals right in this table. I guess we should specify somehow what to prefer ;) - take your time, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:18, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Greetings, can you help with this?

Hi, I do not know if you are one of the editors familiar with adding IPA pronunciation to biography pages.. the editors who have assisted me in past years with such issues no longer come to mind. Sigh. I am hoping you might be able to help and correctly add that to the lead of the article for Michael Oher, whose name is pronounced 'Oar. For an example, see the lead of the biography of Rory Gallagher. If this is not your kind of expertise, is it possible for you to ask around and find an editor who can help? Thanks, of course for your time.. either way, it's always nice to meet another editor! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 13:27, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Leah, nice to meet you. :-) If his last name is pronounced like "oar" (as in the thing you row a boat with) then the IPA would be: /ɔːr/ (no need for a stress mark as it's only one syllable). Best, Voceditenore (talk) 13:49, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

I went ahead and added it to the article. I've never done that before and the template is quite fiddly, so check that it's OK). Best, Voceditenore (talk) 14:02, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Looks great! Last time I asked for such a thing, it was for the biography of Rory Gallagher, if you wish to prepare notes, but this is a vast improvement from finding HIS NAME IS OAR jammed into the reference section right under the {{Reflist}}!! Thanks! ;) --Leahtwosaints (talk) 20:24, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

User:Michał Sobkowski

Thanks for helping with this. See User talk:Black Kite#User:Michał Sobkowski. INeverCry 16:41, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm glad I could help. The person stalking him is a nasty piece of business :/ Voceditenore (talk) 17:39, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Two more articles which could use your help

Hello,

Thank you for your clean up on Don Bosco Bandel. Could I also request you to look at Don Bosco Liluah and Don Bosco Park Circus, both of which suffer from similar issues?

Thanks a lot for your help, TheOriginalSoni (talk) 18:44, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

My pleasure! I'll have a look at both of those tomorrow. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 18:55, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

• Hello,

I just noticed that there were some new accounts removing a lot of possibly valid information from the Don Bosco Liluah article too. Could you please look into it, and re-add anything thats necessary? (For example the heads of the institution needs to be re-added)

TheOriginalSoni (talk) 07:42, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Please also ping me when/if you're done. I note a mass removal of information (from the new users under question) thats certainly valid to the article IMO. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 10:25, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi. I've pretty much finished with Don Bosco High & Technical School, Liluah. Feel free to tweak it. I went through and re-added most of the material that had been removed by the sockpuppet brigade, although I pruned it down considerably and copyedited it. I drastically truncated the Church section—it was blatant copyvio. See Talk:Don Bosco High & Technical School, Liluah for more. I'll have a go at Don Bosco Park Circus in the next couple of days. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 15:09, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

@Voceditenore

Hello, obviously I'm not able to create an article from the technicial side in Misplaced Pages. First, I want to confirm that's me who created the article on Schliessmann for <artistsinternational>; second, because now I don't have any further idea, perhaps, you asw an objective person could do the article about <Schliessmann> for Misplaced Pages? Perhaps we both could work on it? Otherwise, if not, I'm sure, the artist himself can live without being represented on Misplaced Pages ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elvirtuoso (talk • contribs) 21:31, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for getting in touch. I'm pretty sure he's notable enough for a Misplaced Pages article, and I'll see if I can start one in the next couple of days. The problem with using biographies from artist management sites, even if they weren't copyright violations, is that the wording is way too promotional for a Misplaced Pages article. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 21:37, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

St. Andreas

What a nice surprise, that musical church! - I am not happy with the present "German: Andreaskirche". Yes, there are several "some-saint's-kirche", but in most cases (and in this one) that is a little sloppy abbreviation, the official name is typically "St. some-saint", as here: "Dominikanerkirche St. Andreas". We don't have to make sloppiness official ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:48, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

I was just going by what German Misplaced Pages had and thought you had removed it by mistake. Go ahead and change it (or remove it), whatever you think best. Voceditenore (talk) 11:56, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

I will leave it for the moment, as I received a comment towards "more English names" on my talk. - I know that our concert posters have "St. Martin" as the name, and "Martinskirche" is not even unofficially used, but I guess that may vary, by region and denomination, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:09, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Well, I wondered about that too, but the church names on English Misplaced Pages articles are wildly inconsistent, e.g. Église Saint-Georges (uses French name), Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadeloupe, Basse-Terre (uses the English translation of the French name), Santa Maria de Ripoll (uses the Catalan name), Trinità dei Monti (uses a shortened version of the Italian name), and Archbasilica of St. John Lateran (uses the English translation of the Italian name), etc. etc. I'm not really fussed one way or another. Voceditenore (talk) 12:40, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Nor am I. It's not "The Flying Dutchman" where I still think the work should be named as its creator called it. ("Nenne mich so, wie du willst, daß ich heiße.") - In this case, I like to have the name similar in both languages and still recognizable. A little bit of internationality doesn't hurt, and we don't have a common name for this church that was not even known at all to the English Misplaced Pages so far, - thanks for changing that! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:01, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Help Please....

Hi,....this message is being written after noticing your username at the talk page of the article a http://en.wikipedia.org/G_S_Pradeep,....if u hav nothing to do with this,...I am sorry,...)),. I was editing this article at http://en.wikipedia.org/G_S_Pradeep and noticed some 'copy-pasting' done from https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/muslimsangamam/ctAVVr5Ggec ,I edited a few of those without knowing that they were 'copy-pasted' but since i noticed it ,...i thought of reporting it,....is THIS THE RIGHT PLACE TO REPORT ?? Is editing the 'copy-pasted' parts vandalism, by any chance?? please help,..I am new to this.....:( and could u reply at MY talk page?? Andrewthomas310 (talk) 17:24, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Replied at your talk page. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 18:22, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank U

Seed Global Health

What I did originally wasn't actually a history merge; I was just correcting a system bug whereby a page that gets turned into a redirect sometimes starts getting erroneously picked up as an uncategorized article. However, following your comment to my talk page I did histmerge the two articles — so everything's back to normal now, and thanks for the heads up. Bearcat (talk) 08:49, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

May the Berklee students solicit your counsel this summer?

Dear VdiT, With the blooming of the lindens, the Berklee students begin their Misplaced Pages projects. Might you be available to lend such counsel as your schedule permits? Hoping you're well, Yours, Ijmusic (talk) 23:38, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi IJ! I'd be happy to keep an eye on them and help out where I can. I'll be in Italy all of August, so won't be active here on Misplaced Pages then, but I'll be available in July and in September when I return. When does their assignment end? Best, Voceditenore (talk) 19:10, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

You blessed creature! Thanks, VdiT, for offering your counsel again this year. Though pages should be done by August 9, I encourage our fledgling editors to continue overseeing their work. For what other undergraduate endeavor confers such immortality? Ijmusic (talk) 18:05, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Administrator?

Well his talkpage says he is! Should I be going for impersonation as well? :-}--Smerus (talk) 07:43, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

His talk page doesn't say anything about being an admin. His user page says he's an administrator on uk.wikimedia.org, not here. Note also his user rights . It doesn't change the basic thrust of your argument, though. The shenanigans at RW and the similar attempt at the OP talk page a couple of days before the TFA for Carmen in April were basically attempts to game the topic ban, in my view, and ended up being quite disruptive. I'm quite sure there will be more of the same every time an article without an infobox (regardless of its subject, but especially if it is remotely related to classical music) comes up for TFA. 08:29, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

• This is a different point, but it's the same title I'd use so putting it here. Have you given thought to running for adminship at WP:RFA? I'd certainly nominate you, you do a lot on the site and I run into you enough to know that you'd be good with the tools. Wizardman 00:31, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I think you'll find Voce has had adminship suggested a couple of times already ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:31, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Yep. As Figaro would say, "tutti mi chiedono, tutti mi vogliono". Seriously though, thank you Wizardman for the vote of confidence, but adminship would just distract me from content work (broadly construed). I could use the ability to see deleted articles, as this is very useful for copyright clean up, but it seems there is no support for any admin rights to be unbundled. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:52, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi Voce, Thanks for all the help yesterday. I think I had been editing for such a while, and got very tired. You really came to my rescue! --Robert.Allen (talk) 19:51, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Potential copyright problem

An editor has raised a copyright problem here on the Chevron article, where it appears that someone from the company has sprinkled copyrighted material from the company website throughout the article in a way that may be difficult to detect and correct through the entire page. I'm not sure what to do about it and I'm betting we have some kind of copyright-checker tool that might help identify all of it?

A while back you fixed the copyright issue on the public relations article and I thought maybe you could help. CorporateM (Talk) 21:33, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Replied at Talk:Chevron Corporation#Tackling the issues. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 12:56, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. It should be easier to cleanup thanks to your links. It was brought up in relation to this COI submissions page I drafted. Slim and Core raised opposition to the idea of drafted materials that are copy-pasted in. I've created GAs following that process in a PR role, but they raised this as an (apparently valid) counter-example. CorporateM (Talk) 17:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Bluthochzeit

Can you deal with a question raised in the nom? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:05, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

End of civilization, etc.

As you are probably aware, Gerda has now unilaterally started changing navboxes for Monteverdi and Verdi operas, without consulting on the relevant talk pages. I don't think this was what you had in mind, but maybe it was? Is it in your opinon OK to revert these with a request for discussion on each talk page? Can we advise Gerda to take this no further at present with out requesting disucssions? I don't want to launch a huge mess on ANI, etc.--Smerus (talk) 09:13, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

(watching) I replied on the project talk, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:22, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Gerda, that was not a reply, it was a declaration that you will continue regardless.--Smerus (talk) 10:03, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi both. I've left a comment at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Opera#Template:Infobox opera, momentarily breaking my resolution not to get involved ever again with that idiotic (both pro and con) subject. Voceditenore (talk) 12:41, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, voice of reason, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:49, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

(ec)Gerda is also putting duplicate navboxes on all the Massenet operas. If this isn't a WP:POINT attack then I don't know what is. To VDT, nobody else thinks the infobox issue is idiotic. There is a general recognition on both sides that it will affect the future direction of the encyclopedia. Putting your head in the sand is not a sensible option. --Kleinzach 12:51, 8 July 2013 (UTC)