Hello, I checked to see who had done such a nice job improving "Schleifer" and it was you. This led me to spot your notes on insertion arias, which suggest a really interesting article once you are done. A possible nugget you might enjoy for this purpose is the history of Luigia Polzelli, the mediocre soprano who was the cause of Haydn's composing several insertion arias. Happy editing, Opus33 (talk) 17:47, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks! I'm not done with Schleifer yes, and I've only begun "Interpolated/insertion" (name to be decided), not to mention I'm still working on Ziegfeld Follies of 1919, and, and.... :) -- kosboot (talk) 19:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Kosboot! I'm trying to help someone over at WP:ASTRONOMY. They're looking for an obituary of Priscilla Fairfield Bok which was published in: Sky & Telescope, vol. 51, p. 25 (1976). I've tried the databases I can access from home, but without luck. :-( Is that accessible through the digital database on-site in your library system? The record for the online database isn't clear about how many years it goes back. If all else fails, I'll stop at the library and copy it from microfiche. Thanks in advance for any help! Cheers, AstroCog (talk) 02:52, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I should be able to get it at work tomorrow - will let you know! -- kosboot (talk) 03:54, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh well - the material online is only from 1993 on, so I guess one would need to go to the originals or microfilm. -- kosboot (talk) 14:15, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for looking anyway! Cheers, AstroCog (talk) 15:00, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck, and have fun! -- Ssilvers (talk) 15:41, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- kosboot (talk) 15:43, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was asked not to at User_talk:Devin.chaloux#Leading-tone_Triad. Hyacinth (talk) 00:08, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Read that section again; my suggestion of reverting was endorsed. -- kosboot (talk) 00:42, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi - not only did I sign up already - I'm supposed to give one of the talks at the GLAM session. Gotta figure out what to say. -- kosboot (talk) 18:37, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Great meeting you in person at Wikimania. At the NYC table, there was a diagram on the tablecloth. Can you help me understand what it described? Thanks. 96.239.227.123 (talk) 10:27, 27 July 2012 (UTC) Please reply via:[reply]

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Congratulations on an impressive article. You have nominated a hook for DYK, and I have raised some minor issues. Your citing is also very good, but I notice there are a number of duplicated references. There are ways of avoiding this. Some editors use <ref name=xxx>citation</ref> on the first occasion, and <ref name=xxx/> thereafter. More recently I have used Template:Sfn, which takes a bit of learning, but it is elegant, and it automatically combines any duplicate references. If you would like to see a simple example of how this works, have a look at F. X. Velarde. Good luck.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 14:18, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks. This Sfn templates is exactly what I've been looking for (and I've been too lazy to use the other "rp" technique). I'll try to learn it and fix what's in the article (also standardizing my inconsistent use of British/English. -- kosboot (talk) 14:24, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note about this - it's a very impressive article, and my congratulations on it! I think the BL copy is probably Add MS 32339 - "SONGS set to music by John Gamble; the words attributed to Thomas Stanley. Paper; ff. 57. Late XVIIIth cent. The name, of Elizabeth St. John is scribbled on the fly-leaf. Belonged to Bishop Percy." This doesn't mention Rimbault, but two others (Add MS 24889 and 53723) are definitely from his collection.

I'm not sure if 32339 is likely to be suitable for an article - it's a lot shorter and there doesn't seem to have been much scholarly work on it - but as a companion volume, perhaps it'd be appropriate for a section on the main work? By strange coincidence, I have two images of Add MS 32339 on my desktop at the moment - I spent this afternoon preparing an upload of various music MS images, which should be up in the next couple of days! Andrew Gray (talk) 22:10, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a bunch! I think of it as "Wikipedia uniting collections that once belonged together." So any additions/emendations you care to make are welcome. I'll check my sources to see if they specifically mention which BL manuscript(s) are the allied ones. Thanks! -- kosboot (talk) 22:18, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lo and behold - commons:Category:John Gamble. The RISM catalogue entry for this MS (which is more detailed than the BL one) is here. This is a very long way from being my field, but hopefully there's enough there to confirm if this is the MS in question or not. :-) Andrew Gray (talk) 23:48, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I'll ask about it - thanks! -- kosboot (talk) 02:01, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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