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Notes to Self

See Vaarky/Sandbox, Vaarky/Reference

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 mail_icon.gif 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)
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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 mail_icon.gif 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 mail_icon.gif 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 Email.gif 04:42, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Reply by: Vaarky 04:46, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

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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 Email.gif 05:21, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Reply by: Vaarky 05:23, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

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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). -- Chucktalk 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 Email.gif 15:10, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

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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)
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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? -- Chucktalk Giffen 04:59, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Reply by: Vaarky 05:28, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

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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]] Email.gif] 05:24, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

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