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Service award level

There has been a major revision of the the Service Awards: the edit requirements for the higher levels have been greatly reduced, to make them reasonably attainable.

Because of this, your Service Award level has been changed, and you are now eligible for a higher level. I have taken the liberty of updating your award on your user page.

Herostratus (talk) 14:25, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why, thank you! Urhixidur (talk) 00:12, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Alfredo Caronia

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Consequently, this article is about a subject that appears to lack sufficient notability.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Abductive (reasoning) 08:35, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalisation of French operas

I would have thought that a radical suite of edits to change the capitalisation of some French opera titles ought to have been proposed first at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera. You would then have been referred to Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera#Operas: capitalisation and diacritics and extensive discussions of this subject in the archives. In a nutshell: the Opera Project decided to follow reputable English language sources in this matter, instead of an inconsistenlty applied set of standards used in French writing. I suggest you revert all releated page moves and edits. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 15:26, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing inconsistent about French case rules. See http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_des_majuscules_en_fran%C3%A7ais#Titres_d.E2.80.99.C5.93uvres_ou_de_p.C3.A9riodiques In the particular case of this opera, you'd be very hard put to find a single case of the lower-case usage in Google Books. Looks open and shut to me. The WikiProject Opera rules state "For titles in their original (non-English) language, [...] the title is capitalized as it would be in a sentence in that language." However, the following sub-paragraph promptly contradicts this with its French examples: "For [...] French [...] opera titles, capitalize only the first word and any proper nouns (names of particular people or places) in that language, e.g. [...] Les mamelles de Tirésias [wrong], Les Indes galantes, Les contes d'Hoffmann [wrong], La vie parisienne [wrong] [...]". Looks to me like the committee who wrote this later paragraph has no clue how French case works. Urhixidur (talk) 01:07, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The two operas you picked are Italian operas (my hasty mistake in wording the section title above).
The attitude "I'm right, and I know it" is not how Wikipedia works.
Not discussing such changes at the Opera Project's talk page is contemptuous.
Using administrative tools instead of submitting a requested move is abuse of the mop.
This discussion should be at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera.

Michael Bednarek (talk) 06:09, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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 I would have thought that a radical suite of edits to change the capitalisation of some French opera titles ought to have been proposed first at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera]]. You would then have been referred to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera#Operas: capitalisation and diacritics]] and extensive discussions of this subject in the archives. In a nutshell: the Opera Project decided to follow reputable English language sources in this matter, instead of an inconsistenlty applied set of standards used in French writing. I suggest you revert all releated page moves and edits. -- [[User:Michael Bednarek|Michael Bednarek]] ([[User talk:Michael Bednarek|talk]]) 15:26, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
 :There's nothing inconsistent about French case rules. See http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_des_majuscules_en_fran%C3%A7ais#Titres_d.E2.80.99.C5.93uvres_ou_de_p.C3.A9riodiques In the particular case of this opera, you'd be very hard put to find a single case of the lower-case usage in Google Books. Looks open and shut to me. The WikiProject Opera rules state "For titles in their original (non-English) language, [...] the title is capitalized as it would be in a sentence in that language." However, the following sub-paragraph promptly contradicts this with its French examples: "For [...] French [...] opera titles, capitalize only the first word and any proper nouns (names of particular people or places) in that language, e.g. [...] Les mamelles de Tirésias ''[wrong]'', Les Indes galantes, Les contes d'Hoffmann ''[wrong]'', La vie parisienne ''[wrong]'' [...]". Looks to me like the committee who wrote this later paragraph has no clue how French case works. [[User:Urhixidur|Urhixidur]] ([[User talk:Urhixidur#top|talk]]) 01:07, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
+:#The two operas you picked are Italian operas (my hasty mistake in wording the section title above).
+:#The attitude "I'm right, and I know it" is not how Wikipedia works.
+:#Not discussing such changes at the Opera Project's talk page is contemptuous.
+:#Using administrative tools instead of submitting a [[Wikipedia:Requested moves|requested move]] is abuse of the mop.
+:#This discussion should be at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera]].
+::[[User:Michael Bednarek|Michael Bednarek]] ([[User talk:Michael Bednarek|talk]]) 06:09, 26 April 2011 (UTC)