User talk:Vaarky

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Notes to Self

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Privacy policy

Hi Vaarky! I saw your interest in page ChoralWiki:Privacy_policy. In fact, looking at the logs I saw that this page was created by a spammer on 27 December 2007 and deleted by Robert on the same day; it was recreated 4 days later by the spammer and this time blanked by Robert. So it has never held any information of value, that's why I deleted it. If you wish to work on this page even so, the easiest way would be to copy for instante the text from http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy and make the appropriate changes. Thanks —Carlos  16:07, 27 July 2008 (PDT)

Thanks for the information. That's the same place I was thinking of starting. Will try to get you folks a draft soon. --Vaarky 17:08, 27 July 2008 (PDT)

Posted by: Vaarky 15:34, 8 August 2008 (PDT)	Help
Note to self: text of California's Online Privacy Protection Act, effective July 1 2004; and a summary

NULLRequests

Hi Vaarky, I made the changes you suggested to those two Request pages, but after they were moved, their talk pages became inaccessible, so I am replying to you here instead. —Carlos  12:18, 29 August 2008 (PDT)

Thanks, Carlos. --Vaarky 09:14, 30 August 2008 (PDT)

Does this mean any time you move a page, all the Talk discussion associated with it is lost? If so, is there a way to fix that? I will minimize moving things unless I hear otherwise. --Vaarky 02:12, 6 September 2008 (PDT)

No Vaarky, the problem was only with the Requests talk pages, that were inaccessible because of a server misconfiguration that has already been solved (see here). Usually when you move a page there is an option (checked by default) to also move the talk page, if it exists. —Carlos  03:13, 6 September 2008 (PDT)

Rod Mather

Hi Vaarky! When editing Rod Mather links, please replace the old links by

• [{{website|Rod Mather}} {{net}}] PDF and MIDI files.

instead of

• [{{website|Rod_Mather}} {{extpdf}}] [{{website|Rod_Mather}} {{extmid}}] .<br>

Note that the underscore can be used interchangeably with the space character.
Thanks! —Carlos  04:42, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Reply by: Vaarky 04:46, 15 October 2008 (UTC)  Help  I defined the variable with the underscore in it, and apparently space and underscore are not interchangeable in that context. I'll just change the variable to Mather (redoing the pages) and punt on the question of underscore versus space.

You were right, in this context the character used surprisingly does make a difference! In other templates, I've been using both characters with no problem, but the parameter is used to form links; in this case it's used as a test inside the {{switch}} function; that probably explains it all. Thanks_again! :) —Carlos  05:21, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Reply by: Vaarky 05:23, 15 October 2008 (UTC)  Help  That's why I work hard to avoid spaces in variables--it can lead to complications if nested or not escaped properly.

Link to Psalm

Hi Vaarky. In this edit you added a link to Psalm... did you mean to add a link to a particular Psalm page? I'm afraid I don't know what you were trying to do otherwise I would put it right. --Bobnotts talk 21:04, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

It links to multiple verses, a link to each of which can be found on the Psalm page. What's the best way to link in such a scenario? --Vaarky 22:52, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

These have to be treated "by hand" ... I've fixed the links (and corrected the wrong citation for one of the three Psalms in the score). -- Chuck_talk Giffen_♫ 02:04, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Mundy

Hi Vaarky! You did a nice reworking on the Mundy page. I would only suggest that in such situations you try to use a lot the 'Preview' button until you come up with a satisfactory result, and only then click on Save. That's what I usually do and it works fine for me. If you use Firefox, there's no risk of loosing your additions by a power failure or whatever, because it keeps the page history even in these situations. And if you don't like a change you've just previewed, you can always click on the back button and return to a previous stage. Regards, —Carlos 15:10, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Posted by: Vaarky	Help
Hi, Carlos--thanks for the feedback. I am a habitual document saver and did not realize that I wouldn't actually be losing my edits in Firefox. Very useful to know.

Deleting score page disambigs

Hi Vaarky. I notice you've been deleting these since we agreed they were too much to handle for every composer, and I support this. I wonder, though, if you agree that it would be a good idea to check what information is on the disambiguation page and add that to the appropriate score pages? This disambiguation page details 3 score pages on CPDL by Josquin using the text Ave Maria, but not all of those pages link to each other. I think it's a good idea for us to include a link to other settings of the same text as the work on a given score page so that users can quickly go to those other settings if the page they've arrived at isn't the one they wanted. This would work rather like the Wikipedia system of "This article is about the American basketball player. Did you mean the British one?" I generally think this text should appear right at the top of the page like on this page and this page. Do you agree? --Bobnotts talk 22:55, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Posted by: Vaarky 23:47, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Help

I agree that it is good to include that type of notice on the score info page. However, mentioning the exact number could convey incomplete info with the illusion that it's complete if, say, a fourth different Ave Maria setting by Josquin turns up on CPDL and we say there are exactly three. So I think it would be even better to leave the count as "more than one" and also reference the composer page, such as" "Note: CPDL has more than one setting of Alma Redemptoris Mater by Tomás Luis de Victoria. For the setting for double choir, SATB.SATB, click here. To check if there are other settings, please see the composer page for Tomas Luis de Victoria." If you're in agreement, I can go back and fix that up this weekend.

At some point, I thought we had agreed that 3 or more works with the same title by a composer merited a disambiguation page. Did this change? And, if so, when? It is not so difficult to establish and maintain these disambiguation pages if there are some agreed upon standards: when one sees a composer page with at least the minimum number of works with the same title, then a disambiguation page is created. What's the problem? -- Chuck_talk Giffen_♫ 04:59, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Reply by: Vaarky 05:28, 25 February 2009 (UTC)  Help  Here's some of the recent discussion about it: Archived:Alma_redemptoris_mater_(Orlando_di_Lasso) What are your thoughts?

José Uruñuela

Hi Vaarky, thanks for revising his biography, the text is looking great now! :) —Carlos [[[:Template:Carlos]] ] 05:24, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Glad to help if I can. -- Vaarky 05:28, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Text categories

Hi Vaarky, it's my understanding that people searching in Category:Icelandic texts are looking for pages that really contain texts in Icelandic. If they want to find works in Icelandic (with or without text included) they will search inside Category:Works in Icelandic (where Lofsöngur is already categorized). What do you think? —Carlos [[[:Template:Carlos]] ] 04:41, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Reply by: Vaarky 04:54, 20 June 2009 (UTC)  Help  Thanks for taking a look. I will remove the Textx category and add the Works category for that page.

Douglas Leedy compositions

Hello,

I am Douglas Leedy's publisher (MaterialPress.com) and engraved the score of Dido's Lament from his ms.. Leedy asked to put online here as I cannot handle the colume of choral publications. You do not need to correct the "ng" (in "mang- na") in the text, as he wishes a classical pronuncitation (not a renaissance as one supposes for Willaert) which requires the "ng" sound on the written "g" before an "n". Leedy is a scholar of classical pronunciation so I would defer to him in this case, above and beyond his instructions in the score.

He has since made some changes in the score which I will soon incorporate in a new version here. --DJWOLF 04:31, 04 July 2009 (UTC)

Reply by: Vaarky 15:43, 9 July 2009 (UTC)  Help  Thank you very much for clearing that up, and welcome to CPDL. I'll make a note on the discussion page for the piece as well, in case anyone has questions in the future and doesn't check this talk page.

Included/excluded

(relocating this from my user page to my talk page) In this edit, does 'incl.' mean 'included'? In fact, we have 673 requested score pages plus 471 completed, more than a thousand in total. I wish you the best for holidays, if any (I leave tomorrow). Claude 18:12, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the catch. Already fixed. -- Vaarky 02:35, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you =) and a suggestion

Thank you so much for the reply...(about adopting Bach's page and how to respond a score request) I think this kind of guides should be posted in a help page...because, like in my case, I want to do much things here but I don't have a clue on how things are done, I suppose there are others who feel the same but are more shy to ask for help... =) I also suggest adding a help section explaining what are templates...and other names which seem weird to some persons.

I also noted that some special pages are translated to other languages...but not Spanish...I know there is a huge amount of potential users who don't use the site because they don't speak a word of English...I live in Argentina and where I live there is a lot of choral activity...many of the conductors I know have this problem I mentioned. I suggest the site but they can't use it... If what you need is just a Spanish speaking volunteer, count on me!...thank you again...Saniakob 06:13, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into integrating it into the help system. Thanks also for your interest in helping with Spanish translations. Carlos posted some information and it looks like you've already started working on it. Appreciate your help! -- Vaarky 06:03, 11 July 2009 (UTC)