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Hello, Checkingfax -- I was just reading the article about Irving Layton, after reading the article on Leonard Cohen, and I made a few copy-edits. I noticed that there are several external links in the article. I don't know what to do about them. I wonder if you could take a look at the article and do something. Thank you. – Corinne (talk) 18:16, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
Hey Checkingfax, just wanted to let you know that the help page for 2FA has been moved to meta at meta:Help:Two-factor authentication. If you wanted to continue to expand the page, you can do so there. Thanks for your help and understanding, -- Ajraddatz (talk) 22:05, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Checkingfax,
The trouble with the entries for Jesse Cook et al. is that many editors don't seem to know what Flamenco is.
Briefly, it's the folk music of the Andalusian Gypsies, with a substantial non-Gypsy contribution also, and a less-substantial contribution from Latin America (estilos de ida y vuelta). All Flamenco may be classified by traditional styles, as the movements of Bach suites may be classified as minuets, sarabandes, courantes etc.
The Gypsy styles all fall broadly into the following forms: soleares, tientos, or seguiriyas; and the non-Gypsy styles are usually some form of fandango (with a few exceptions such as farruca). The rumba is only considered a flamenco form tangentially, and falls into the estilos de ida y vuelta category.
Corollary: albums consisting entirely of rumbas and/or vaguely-Spanish-sounding pieces are not Flamenco. Please note that I'm not saying they aren't good music. This includes all albums I've heard by Ottmar Liebert, Jesse Cook, and many others.
To those who disagree with me I say: listen to the album that started the whole thing, Fuente y caudal, which contains Paco de Lucía's big hit, the rumba Entre Dos Aguas. The other tracks are Flamenco!
(I should perhaps add that I was the flamenco correspondent for Classical Guitar magazine for twenty years, and for Guitar International for twelve years before that.)
Hope this clarifies my edit. Paul Magnussen (talk) 00:57, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:54, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
Hello, Checkingfax -- I was just looking at the article on Tahiti, and I made a few copy-edits. I was reading the caption of an image showing a banknote, in the section Tahiti#Twentieth century to present. The caption reads:
I looked and looked at the image and could not find any outline of Tahiti, so I clicked on the image. Then I saw the reverse side of the banknote, which clearly shows the outline of Tahiti. Then I looked at the caption again, and saw "(rev)", which I suppose means on the reverse, but (a) not everyone will notice or realize that, and (b) what is the point of mentioning "depicting the outline of Tahiti" when one does not see the outline? I'm wondering if there is a way to show both sides of the banknote, and, if not, whether we should just take out "depicting the outline of Tahiti (rev)" from the caption. – Corinne (talk) 16:41, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
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18:36, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News
Hello everyone, and welcome to the December 2016 GOCE newsletter. We had an October newsletter all set to go, but it looks like we never pushed the button to deliver it, so this one contains a few months of updates. We have been busy and successful! Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: Nominations are open for election of Coordinators for the first half of 2017. Please visit the election page to nominate yourself or another editor, and then return after December 15 to vote. Thanks for participating! September Drive: The September drive was fruitful. We set out to remove July through October 2015 from our backlog (an ambitious 269 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of oldest articles to just 83. We reduced our overall backlog by 97 articles, even with new copyedit tags being added to articles every day. We also handled 75% of the remaining Requests from August 2016. Overall, 19 editors recorded copy edits to 233 articles (over 378,000 words). October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. November Drive: The November drive was a record-breaker! We set out to remove September through December 2015 from our backlog (239 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of old articles to just 66, eliminating the two oldest months! We reduced our overall backlog by 523 articles, to a new record low of 1,414 articles, even with new tags being added to articles every day, which means we removed copy-editing tags from over 800 articles. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from October 2016. Officially, 14 editors recorded copy edits to 200 articles (over 312,000 words), but over 600 articles, usually quick fixes and short articles, were not recorded on the drive page. Housekeeping note: we do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your Watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk. |
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