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Vyacheslav Ganelin

Thanks for tidying up the list of recordings, MenkinAlRire. Thanks also for your improvements of other jazz related articles. Welcome to Wikipedia, and keep up the good work :) --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 17:57, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Herbie Hancock discography

Hi Menkin. In the HH discography you created the "Guest" voice. Here you posted some releases previously situated in "Sideman". Can you tell me why? I knew that an artist for to be a "guest" must be credited as "featuring" on the main title. SJ (talk) 23:54, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Doing a research on Google, i find that sideman and guest are the same thing. For this reason i reverted your edits. Read these links

http://musicians.about.com/b/2011/10/11/guest-appearances-and-you.htm (here you can read also the sideman rules)

http://ultimatemusicianpackage.com/exploring-music-contracts/

SJ (talk) 00:17, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Simone. Here we are at wikipedia, not at lawschool. the links talk about contracts. guest appearences are usually only for one track, as a sideman you are part of a band of another musician. that is a huge difference. - and please, don't add every record you see, where hancock is mentioned. he has nothing to do with those compilations. a discography is meant to be one of original albums (and some more like 'as sideman', maybe boxes with 'complete recordings', ORIGINAL soundtracks ...) over 70 compilation... it's just pointless, it's just the further exploitation of existing material without editorial justification (like 'complete recordings' or 'never before released' material) - Think about it. MenkinAlRire 01:00, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Two suggestions

From this talk-page entry of yours (click on the link to see), I have two suggestions for you:

One is, when you do a talk-page entry, use four tildes ("~~~~") at the end to create a dated "signature" for yourself.
Second (this you may not wish) if you click on your "red name" on the EoGuy talk page for instance and thence create a user page of whatever detail, you'll convert to a "blue name" (which I personally prefer over the red).

Not volunteering for any proofreading but will keep an eye out of course. Cheers. Swliv (talk) 06:12, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't understand the "CHECKED" reply to the dab link notifications on this page, but see that at least one (KWheeler) signifies "Corrected". Again, signing with four tildes would help, too. All best. Swliv (talk) 01:47, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

May 2013

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You edit to Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook

Hey, thanks for your edit! I read the description and thought I would clean the personnel list up a bit, but before I did I wanted to ask; you did adapt those track notes from the CD release of the album, right? I just wanted to make sure before I did anything since now the article also needs the CD track listing noted. Thank you! --LurganShmith (talk) 19:33, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

hi, please give me some more time, that was supposed to be the next step. I wanted to copy my rearrangement of Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur. I combined the lp and cd issues, since they are identical (despite the bonus tracks). it doesn't need so much space, and the numeration of the cd is simpler, without anyone getting confused looking for the lp (I hope.) - I have to admit, this time I couldn't really read the cover, I don't own it, but ususually discogs eg. provide jpgs, that are readable. In this case I trust discogs (while hearing the album), despite it's reputation as user content based website, therefore unreliable. (That's why all review refs are solely from allmusic, mostly scott yanow. wiki is getting to be a simple copy of allmusic. it is not really smart and reliable either, beside the reviews; but the release dates... and listing alphabetically the marimba player after the make up for the cover photograph, that's... it's been copied into wiki like that — oh, at the bottom of Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur there is exactly what I just described - I didn't came so far down after reworking the 9cd edition...

'while hearing the album', I just heard, that the details discogs provides on the personell can't be accurate. i'll see, maybe it's my fault... — thanks for your attention. MenkinAlRire 21:15, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Yesterday I simple forgot to close the window, so I had to rewrite my changes again. It's allright with the data from discogs. I just won't name it as ref, because of the police (they are heavely armed nowadays.) - MenkinAlRire 19:59, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind, but I just went ahead and fixed what needed to be fixed. I had been meaning to do it for half a year, but I got busy. Your recent edits reminded me of what was needed. -- For the record, what I did to the personnel list isn't entirely proper, but neither of our edits have been; I just did what I felt looked the least crowded and put names first (which is proper). With occasional exceptions, you usually don't list which track each member of an orchestra or band played during... but I did my best to figure out a way of noting it that didn't make my eyes cross trying to read. (joke)

Also, I poked my nose around the other article you linked me to and made a few minor edits, but you should really conciser adding a release history chart (like the one I added to Ella' Sings' Cole') to that other article to clear up all the catalog information you have in the track list sections. Also, the track list format that's used in Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook is acceptable for use because there is very little information in the track list. Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur has a lot of information crammed into it; it would befit greatly from adapting it into this format:

12" Long Play

Side A / Side One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:54
2.	"Example"	John Doe	2:46
3.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:58
4.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	3:26
5.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:48
6.	"Example"	John Doe	2:26
Total length:			32:02

Side B / Side Two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:54
2.	"Example"	John Doe	2:46
3.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:58
4.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	3:26
5.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:48
6.	"Example"	John Doe	2:26
Total length:			32:02

1991 CD reissue / CD (1991)

Disc One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:54
2.	"Example"	John Doe	2:46
3.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:58
4.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	3:26
5.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:48
6.	"Example"	John Doe	2:26
7.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:34
8.	"Example"	John Doe	3:34
9.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:58
10.	"Example"	John Doe	2:50
11.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	3:03
12.	"Example"	John Doe	3:04
Total length:			72:02

Disc Two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:54
2.	"Example"	John Doe	2:46
3.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:58
4.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	3:26
5.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:48
6.	"Example"	John Doe	2:26
7.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:34
8.	"Example"	John Doe	3:34
9.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	2:58
10.	"Example"	John Doe	2:50
11.	"Example"	John Doe John Doe	3:03
12.	"Example"	John Doe	3:04
Total length:			72:02

Oh! -- and before I forget, you mentioned avoiding discogs citations? It is true that discogs should only be cited when Allmusic isn't an option, but when it is the only option you'll be fine using it as long as you only cite and use the pictures of original labels and liner notes that discogs has posted. The information that they list very often has errors, but the picture don't lie. I've gone as far as citing online auctions that post pictures of album labels and covers. It's all as good as citing original liner notes... which is what is... really.

But - anyway - yeah - I'm by no means trying to tell you what to do - or what not - just sharing tips I've learned in case you didn't know... I hope it helps!--LurganShmith (talk) 03:59, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please disregard what I said about discogs -- I'm extremely dyslexic and big bodies of text scare me. I have to skim a few times to understand what they're saying... and I misinterpreted what you wrote; sorry about that.--LurganShmith (talk) 04:03, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Joe Williams (jazz singer)

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Page nominated for deletion

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John Scofield discography

You need to add whether the Date column is Date Released or Date Recorded. Thanks.
Vmavanti (talk) 22:37, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

John Taylor

I'm a little puzzled about how you think the John Taylor discography looks better than before. I remember in the 1990s, when the internet became popular, many people wanted to learn graphic design, how to present information, and how to write web pages. There were principles that were followed. One didn't simply guess or "wing it". The word "infodump" was used often as a criticism. I don't hear that word anymore. Too bad.
Vmavanti (talk) 20:55, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Vmavanti, yesterdays are always better even if it was 14/18. I did not say that it "looks better than before" (nothingness is the ultimate). I tried do be "comprehensive", there had no ideal design in mind, at least not an aesthetical, as imho wiki is not an elaborated magazine. My motive was a searchable discography, and with the late John Taylor there is no more, so comprehensiveness could be goal. I usually don't like it either, when the info gets too much; I added all the musicians only because someone before me already started this way. As wiki entries for the albums are very limited, so it is kind of an condensed all-in-one substitute. Every other alternative to get this information at once is tricky and time-consuming (I did it after all).

Your critic is no critic. If you think, the disco has bad style, sorry, but your polemic is bad style. You just dump your 14/18-I-was-there, it was better=I am better on me, without to mention anything concrete you are actually puzzled about, any constructive suggestion, how you would have done it and share your wisdom. So your words are not meant for me, they just serve yourself. I did my best and invested some hours. Maybe I got taken away with it, maybe it is cool to have a not so beautiful but comprehensive and searchable John Taylor discography. So thank you for nothing.

But anyway, if you like to tell me, what is puzzling you exactly and what could improve the appearance of the disco, you are welcome. MenkinAlRire 20:46, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Vmavanti, yesterdays are always better even if it was 14/18" I have no idea what this sentence means.
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You might want to click on my name and read that page before working on any more jazz articles. Thanks.
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Just fyi, I have taken this on for Wikipedia:The Core Contest, so will be rewriting it, probably completely, over the next couple of months, so any changes made now are probably not going to be in the eventual version, Best Johnbod (talk) 16:59, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I was going to do this, too, but not for some trophy. So I let you do your thing, since someone has to do it. At the moment I am working on the Dontello-lemma on the German wiki in my sandbox. We may correspond further about our handlings of the topic and could help us out as needed. I just migrated his catalogue to his own lemma, integrating all the small work.

I will also add many of my own photographs that I am uploading from time to time.

So glad to hear from you, MenkinAlRire 17:58, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nuking

i hope you realised that my "a bit of an over-reaction" was a tongue-in-cheek remark, not intended to be taken seriously. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:52, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@JMF I wasn't a 100% sure, but I certainly hoped so.) - Are you further engaged in the article? Please, feel free to comment on the thread by Johnbod and myself. I only get to read sporadically a paragraph or two, and there is so much to say. MenkinAlRire 17:21, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just an interested bystander, I'm afraid. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 18:11, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Adam and Eve (Dürer)

Hi. Just to say I'm impressed with the extensive work you are doing here, and really enjoyed reading through the Adam and Eve page, but do think you should reach out for feedback/learnings. If I was you I'd push Adam and Eve for either GA or PR; the advice you'd hopefully get will help and guidance you for future articles...you obviously have a lot of knowledge. I would be willing to guide Adam and Eve through a GA review for instance; although its cool to interact with people with common interests, there might still be a lot of work to be done. Best and talk later. Ceoil (talk) 01:10, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ps in terms of using existing articles as a guide, would focus on the approach used for Melencolia I. Ceoil (talk) 01:24, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ceoil. Hi, thank you. I wanted to come back to A+E to get the painting its own lemma. But I got entangled with Christ among the Doctors (Dürer), where I just finished work, so you can have a look at this.

That the articles have an odd structure is because they had it in the first place. I initially correct or add something small and then get incrementally more involved. There is no plan, the existing structure isn't (much) altered, and e. g. instead of an Iconography paragraph I helped myself with the fuzzy "Imagery" (already existing in A+E), because the arguments in part go all over the place.

That is probably your critique. Since it is an wiki article and not an essay, I do understand, and I know how an article could/should look like. When I try real overhauls and start from scratch, I usually abandone it halfway through. Writing is hard for me and is just driven by temporary exitement to rather better an existing text (factually) than to work out a grand scheme that will not be finished.

Feedback and collaboration are nice, but I haven't had the best experiences with it. I am at odds with the techniqualities and it is always difficult to get a satisfying answer (while the help pages are a horrifying jungle). Hence, I usually stay with the established style in an article.

I don't know what GA or PR means, so let's start from there. MenkinAlRire 12:14, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ceoil. Thanks for the edits on the page, much of it applied to the already existing text (and I only worked the part on the engraving). Although some cuts concern essential meaning that is now lost. :::E.g. you may draw a nude after a model on paper or a statue or just imagine it; or you have a live model before you as Dürer did. This was something new, "maybe the first in Northern art". Then you cut the following sentence completely, which refered to the significant difference between her and the Eve in the engraving. Besides, it was absolutely exceptional for her to be looked at naked and with such scutiny (it was not meant to be anecdotal or affirmative kitsch; the model's shyness is obvious in her pose, gesture and facial expression). Refs would be appropriate here, I admit. (Since then I also made another edit there without noticing yours.) Barbari was "initially" in Nuremberg to serve Maximilian should indicate, that he didn't stay long in town (and later had other patrons).

Then you cut "constructing them with ruler and compass". Maybe it is not the finest style, but again, it is of utmost importance. This is the practical expression of the idea of body proportions. I doubt if "measuring ... models" and "theories of proportion" alone indicate this (for everyone).

The links to the lists of Dürer's engravings and paintings are useful, one might not be aware of them. Since they are listed chronologically, they can help to get a broader sense of the works described here in relation to his œuvre.

"Copies in collections" and "survived today" should indicate, that the paragraph is not about the printing history, but of the still existing prints.

I also struggled very much with the images, and checked on the app, tablet and smartphone, and the page on the website, both tablet and PC with fixed page width. The images should be as near as possible to the relating text (particularly in the app) without lurching down too much on the (narrowed) website. I don't know on what device you work, but probably not on the website, since you cut the orientation (left) of some images (while "upright" does not make much sense to me); any improvement here would surprise me. (- This is what I meant with "not the best experiences", gaslighting here, and edits that could have been communicated.) MenkinAlRire 13:50, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, didn't mean to cut so much; it seemed like I was removing older stuff that was unclear or misinterpreted the sources. No problem with being reverted, and will go back over the edits in coming days. Re images, will do a comparison between the two versions, but again am not married to my changes...as you say above, the edits were really trying to fix the stuff that was there before you started on the page. Sorry and peace! Ceoil (talk) 21:12, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ps, obviously image placement is a subjective matter of preference; my main intention was to get both the drawing and painting into the lead, and to boost the size of the images within the galleries, which were tiny and surrounded by white space on my screen (desktop/ipad and phone but using the old legacy "vector" skin. Whats worked for me before is that editors share screenshots of what they can see on different devices. Best. Ceoil (talk) 21:18, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I dont really care about left/right aligned, long as they are of a size that the relevant detail is discernible.

Lastly re structure....I'm inclining towards your view; it might be worth boldly doing a series of cut and past "test edits", saving and then reverting, as a means for establishing what you think its best for these works. As the page has now gone far beyond how you found it, I think you are the best person to judge and decide. As said before, am impressed by your work so far. Ceoil (talk) 21:24, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ceoil. The idea to eventually share screenshots is a good one. How and where? I find it really hard to decide each time, particularly with the app and its restricted functions. But this is where I expect most readers to come from. Don't get me wrong, I think stylistically you did a lot of good. I wasn't sure about the older text, and English is not my mothertongue, so I am equally uncertain about my own stuff, where the English wording of often also foreign scholars come in as well as German semantics. Some cuts you did felt immidiately right to me, too. The structure of my sentences tend to be too convoluted, at least for Wiki, and for the English language as well. I am working on it. But I don't want to loose significant details.

I did some edits today and yesterday, added a source for the earliest female nude. I'll have a look at the images again. I am thinking about adding an image of his earliest drawing of Adam and Eve (in Paris), because of the equality between the two, their shared responsibility for the Fall. They are turned to each other, both holding an apple. At the moment, I think about the final engraving as 'Dürer's fall', giving Eve the whole responsibility. - But the article is already burdened with so much (illuminating) images. If need be I probably would remove Barbari's couple; there is nothing I can find on the picture so far. But the pose is so strikingly similar to Eve's, especially the left hand, that I couldn't resist to use the (not well known?) picture here. MenkinAlRire 23:47, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, look forward. Here is what I mean re size within galleries, and how you can use this talk to other editors if you have similar issues. I hope you realise my main motive here is that you continue to edit....have been active since 2004 and you are only the fourth or fifth editor with actual knowledge to meaningfully contribute to coverage of his works. Ceoil (talk) 00:32, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ceoil Ah, sure, just as usual; but it's unusual for me to see on a talk page. - As I said, the page might be overcrowded with images already (Not for me personally -there can't be enough to get the whole picture- but in the eyes of other editors #workload^%). This was my motivation to keep them in rather tight galleries (in one row on the website), and I tend to click on pictures anyway, then you can slide through them. But you are right, you should see enough of detail in the thumbs without having to use the viewer.

Nice to think of me as knowledgeable, but in fact, I have enless time on my hands, because I am on sick leave for about a year. I have some of the books and I have unlimited access to jstor through the wikilibrary. And I bought a tablet, it's more flexible than a PC. All I need for research.

% You might want to appease with my 'fear' to overcrowd things, would be appreciated,-) I had the same problem on Albrecht Dürer, but since most of the imgs are in the galleries at the bottom, I thought it's ok. The representative selection of an œuvre might be at least a nicer way or even more accessible than (in most cases) a very long list, which is best suited, if all works are linked. But with long lists I always tend to create a sortable table, despite on the app the sort function is not working yet (see Donatello (catalogue of works), where I eventually have to come back to).

(On the German de:Albrecht Dürer it actually works fine without galleries. I didn't alter much there.) MenkinAlRire 11:25, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Instead of edit-warrng your version back, please self revert and engage on the article talk page. Auctioneers are salesperson, and Art Institute must be examined case by case. Thanks. SPECIFICO talk 22:32, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SPECIFICO The texts presented on the artists and objects on the website of an auction house like Sotheby's are certainly not written by an auctioneer, who is a special kind of performer (like the news anker who presents the news hasn't neither written nor investigated the news). Auction houses employ usually several art historians with expertise in different fields. They provide good research, like any professional. They are at least as trustworthy experts as any art critique or curator. They have to be. Auction houses live on their reliability. What good would it bring to tell nonsense on objects they want to sell? Just because there were cases in the news, where fraud might have been involved, doesn't mean ALL auctions, auction houses, auctioneers and their websites are bullshit. (To believe that, would be naive and a prejudice like every notion on whole businesses or people) It's a serious business.

The information here would be especially hard to find anywhere else, since it is data from their own archives (It would be nonsensical to wait for an article or book where the data would be cited by someone else, as if the data would have somehow changed its quality).

It's a jungle out there, but I am not "warrng" anything. I just don't know what "self revert" would have looked like, and engaged in the summary of my edit. And #case by case, I tend to mistrust people who spell their name in bold capitals, but I won't hold it against you. I will look into "self revert", thanks for the tip. MenkinAlRire 23:36, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Self-revert means you should undo your repetition of your addition once it has been challenged by another editor. Please revieww wp:brd and wp:onus and engage on the article talk page. SPECIFICO talk 02:11, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kindly undo your reinsertion of the contested content and advocate for it on the article talk page. SPECIFICO talk 21:47, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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