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Thank you for expanding Bill Monroe

Thanks for adding more stuff in Bill Monroe. I really wanted to have special mentions on the Martin-Lyle and Rowan-Greene-Grier-James Monroe line-ups. I'd add a mention on the influence of his manager Ralph Rinzler, but I tend to be busy even during weekends and might not get around to it quickly. If you want to write it up before I do, please go ahead. --Lazybum 15:42, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keith style

What was the reason for your removing of the reference to the Keith style of banjo playing from the Bill Monroe article? --Lazybum 22:06, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Response re: Keith style

Thanks for asking -- my fingers slipped before I had completed my comment and I could not figure out how to edit it! Anyway, there is a link to Keith which the user can click, and in the Keith article is all the info. about Keith style. That's where it belongs, not in the article on Monroe. His time with Monroe was not relevant to his development of Keith style. Now, if you want to say that Monroe hired him *because* Monroe wanted to show up Flatt & Scruggs and show that Scruggs-style was not intrinsic to BG... then go ahead! I know some people believe this but I am not sure it is documentable. I.e. it's a question of the article's point of view. The Monroe article is from his point of view, not Keith's.

An interesting side note is that Keith has said that the longer he worked with Monroe the more he got away from "Keith" style and more back into Scruggs style, it just seemed to fit better. You can also hear the discrepency between styles on Salt Creek and Sailor's Hornpipe -- Baker can not play melodically and the two styles sound dissonant.

HTH

Line of Property

I'm interested in what your source was for the Actual Line section of the Line of Property article. Was it all from the 1850 E.B. O'Callaghan book? In particular, I was interested in the fact that the line followed Beaver Creek and not the present Unadilla River from the creek's mouth on up -- just looking for a reliable non-Wikipedia source to quote when using this information. —— Nonenmac 18:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Response re: Line of Property

It is interpretation from the maps, and especially if you try to draw a line from the known end point west of Rome through the known monument on the Hamilton College campus, and see where it intersects the upper Unadilla drainage.. Beaver Creek is equal size to the named upper Unadilla and farther west, so that fits also. You can also see the current property orientation in the Marshal, NY area between these points. The O'Callaghan book does not state this explicitly, it only gives the verbal descriptions.

You've hit on the fact that much of this section is interpretation from various evidence. You'll find similar in the Prevention Line article. I suppose this should be out of Wikipedia by strict guidelines. Probably the Oneida County and Madison County land records should be consulted.

Ithaca-Auburn Shortline

Just saw your update. Glad to see someone else is watching this. I have some other pictures of the ROW in that area, but none as scenic and Wikipedia-worthy, IMO. By the way, were you aware that your Pennsylvania & Sodus Bay pictures have disappeared? Choess (talk) 01:54, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Response: someone had hijacked my pages and copied them elsewhere, you must have found the wrong ones when searching. I've corrected the link in Wikipedia.

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Guitar tunings: WP:Lede

Hi!

The lede generally does not contain citations, per WP:Lede. Thus, it is inappropriate to remove something from the lede (generally) unless it is not a fair summary of the article. I understand that you read the article from the top, and later removed the supporting information from the article. However, your edit summary suggested a possible unfamiliarity with WP:Lede, so I hope you don't mind my refresher! :)

The reference by Dick Weissmann credits Joni Mitchell with "revolutionizing" interest in alternative tunings; the page needed to be given, I would agree. (Joni Mitchell used alternative tunings, to accommodate her post-polio weakness in the hands, according to the article. Another reason to admire her!) The reference by Sethares has a chapter on song tunings, and credits un-named guitarists with "popularizing" alternative tunings. He gives 3 tunings by Michael Hedges, in different songs, on 6 total pages.

I think that it is strange to have an article about music without mentioning key musicians in the prose (before the horrible mess of fan listings of tunings). Perhaps others should be mentioned? Perhaps Mitchell and Hedges should not?

I shall not simply revert your edits, and provide the page references, because I would like to get your help improving the article and I do want your advice.

Should we mention Hedges and Mitchell, with the references, of course?
Should others be mentioned?

I reply here in case you don't monitor guitar tunings. You are welcome to copy this and reply on the talk page of the article.

Sincerely, Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:07, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Drug-related suicides"

I think (I may be wrong...I did a little digging last night, but couldn't find anything to disabuse me of this) that "drug-related suicides" does in fact cover suicides by overdose. It has for years - I thought there might have been a change, but I can't find any evidence of one.

I agree with you that the wording is not ideal. I have never liked it...like you, I have always thought that it implies drug use, not simply the use of a drug one time to kill onesself. Unfortunately, that seems to be all we've got...unless you can find another category I'm not aware of.

(See Frank Xavier Leyendecker and William Lindsay Gresham - both of them were overdose suicides as well.) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:38, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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