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Re [1], I'm a bit confused. The project page and banner itself says "This article is within the scope of WikiProject Classical music, which aims to improve, expand, copy edit, and maintain all articles related to classical music, that are not covered by other classical music related projects"—surely the Composers WikiProject would be a classical music related project? (And I haven't seen any other composers with the CM banner anyways) Aza24 (talk) 03:25, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I restored {{WikiProject Classical music}} at Orlando Gibbons because I understand that {{WikiProject Composers}} is for composers of all genres, not just classical (see e.g. Talk:Nobuo Uematsu, Talk:Henry Mancini). If WikiProject Composers is indeed a sub-project of WikiProject Classical music, then I was wrong. OTOH, in that case, all templates {{WikiProject Classical music}} should be removed from articles already tagged with {{WikiProject Composers}}, e.g. Talk:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Talk:Gustav Mahler, and a few thousand more (similar list from PetScan). -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 06:42, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There is definitely inconsistency in the project's scope. The original description (which I kept there when doing the project page redesign) suggests it is a daughter of CM and the Biography project, but its use suggests otherwise. Either way, "that are not covered by other classical music related projects" seems a broad enough designation to include WP:COMPOSERS, after all, it's not "that are not covered by other classical music projects". But honestly, I don't really care in the end :) Aza24 (talk) 22:20, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

August songs

Thank you for your great general fixes! My 12th today, DYK? I decorated, also for a birthday. Songs invite to more music, places, food and flowers. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:02, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking for this guy but had forgotten his given name, so I searched "Cassidy" and could find no reference to this Cassidy. Now consider, the 1st phrase on the Disamb page is

"Cassidy may refer to:"

and then consider, one of the three Cassidys in the "People" section is "DJ Cassidy", it seems entirely sensable to include a major composer in this section, or how else can one find Patrick Cassidy if you've forgotten his given name?

Cassidy may refer to...Patrick Cassidy, (composer), born etc. Can we not agree here? Mark^Dask 14:30, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that's confusing, but those are the guidelines for disambiguation pages: MOS:DAB, specifically MOS:DABNAME. The normal discovery in your case is to look at Cassidy, then at Cassidy (surname) – and then you're stuck because Patrick Cassidy is a further disambiguation name which you will not discover because you don't know his first name. OTOH, searching the internet for "Cassidy composer" will find him immediately. I've long thought that DAB pages for names should transclude their sub-disambiguation pages into the main list, but that requires a bit of extra work, once for each subpage and for each disambiguated entry the main page, but it's not the practice at the English Wikipedia. Our German colleagues do it; see de:Cassidy (name) where that happens. You can do it here too, but it would need to be done for all 6 disambiguated Cassidy entries to be consistent, and there's no guarantee the a) that will survive some other editor's idea of how these lists should done; b) that future disambiguated entries there will follow the same transclusion route. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:55, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well that was an education. I was strolling barefoot along the Wikishore; dipped my toe in the flow of disambiguation, when a WikiTitan leapt from the depth, varnished my toenails and left me a book of instructions, to while away the time, while they dried .

So now I know how disamb pages work, and also that your "own work" at Commons is prodigious; great collection. Thanks for the tour Mark^Dask

Re your edits made on 20 August 2021: Good edits. Thank you.  :-) --JimPlamondon (talk) 07:33, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Mike in no part of that French source you can read "variant". It's the same thing (that's a copy). Jack2008 (talk) 11:57, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you read the source, H425, at the library in Montpellier mentioned in the article Ut queant laxis? If you refer to the Larousse citation, it says that Arezzo borrowed the melody from a song that had been adapted for several odes by Horace that had the same metre. I'm not sure hat warrants calling it a "copy". Anyway, the Horace connection seems rather obscure and might well be omitted. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:30, 20 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Michael, You very kindly added the accent mark to the title of my article on Celia Torrà. I have figured out how to add accents in regular text, but now have another title that needs an accent: Mme. Tarbé des Sablons. Can you tell me how to add an accent in a title? I'm unable to edit it and have not had much luck searching on help. Thanks! T. E. Meeks (talk) 01:21, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's very simple. Just click on the "move" tab at the top of the article Mme. Tarbe des Sablons and overwrite the new name, Mme. Tarbé des Sablons, in the second box on the move instruction page. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:28, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - I did it! T. E. Meeks (talk) 17:36, 23 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Michael, the four-and-a-half-octave claim is substantiated by her IMDB and articles written of her. You can easily find these by searching that amount of range alongside her name. CPGACoast (talk) 09:40, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]