User talk:Deskford/Archives/2016/November

Sorry

Sorry, I thought the revised link would be more helpful - will not do again. Regards Denisarona (talk) 15:26, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

No worries! The interlanguage link template has the advantage that it becomes a link to the English article if/when someone creates it, whilst still providing the link to the article in the other language in the mean time. --Deskford (talk) 15:45, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Sean Shibe

Is there a reason you removed the prod from Sean Shibe? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:54, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

I was unsure whether he would meet notability criteria. Most of WP:BAND, which you cited, is not relevant for a classical performer and I'm not sure if we have more suitable criteria defined anywhere. If we have, I can't find them. Sean Shibe is a young musician at the start of his career, but has established a reputation and is well known in the UK, particularly Scotland. The AfD process gives others more chance to evaluate the sources to assess his notability. My feeling is that PROD should only be used for clear cases of non-notability, not for a borderline case like this. --Deskford (talk) 22:26, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Two years ago ...

articles in need
... you were recipient no. 906 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:53, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Aw... thanks Gerda! Hope I've been doing vaguely useful things in the two years since. All best wishes! --Deskford (talk) 12:41, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks

Working on 21st-century classical music at present. A huge task... but necessary! Iadmc (Jubileeclipman) (talk) 19:20, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

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