User talk:Robert Nottingham

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getting an image on a page

Hi bob,

Try reuploading the file as Properties_box.jpg (lower case .jpg, not upper case .JPG). Then use something like

[[Image:Properties_box.jpg|left|Sample Properties box]]

to display the image. I hope it works!

ChuckGiffen 08:46, 10 January 2007 (PST)

Thanks Chuck but that doesn't seem to work. Have a look at the page: Admin:Uploading-New-Files Bobnotts 09:09, 10 January 2007 (PST)

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Hi Bob, thank you for the message on my discussion page. Indeed, I've been editing my first page way too many times; I wasn't aware one could simply preview a page before committing it, but I will be aware of it in the future. Thanks again! --Arthur

Nowowiejski & Grzegorz Miskiewicz

Hi again, Bob; I just saw you requested deletion for Nowowiejski, which seems only right; however, on the other hand, I think this is a submission by a Polish composer who might need some help here on CPDL. Indeed, the page has been created by Grzegorz_Miskiewicz, whose Composer page could use much tidying up, as you can see. But still, the files linked to from his page are very much real, and the page for which you requested deletion is nothing else but an (admittedly buggy) reference to what seems to be a Polish version of “Stille Nacht”, the all-time favourite Christmas carol: check http://www.grzegorzmiskiewicz.republika.pl/cichanoc.pdf which obviously is the link the contributor meant to put on that page, and not the silly URL http://www.cichanoc.pdf/ (still, that is rather funny, I think, because it looks like a real URL from far away). By the way, from my very weak knowledge of Polish, “Cicha noc” indeed means “Quiet night”, so »Stille Nacht« in the original German.

Anyway, that particular page must still be deleted, and the (correct) reference has to be added on Stille Nacht (Franz Xaver Gruber); but, more importantly, I feel we have to contact the contributor and help him out with the process of submitting scores on CPDL, because he seems to have very much good will in contributing here. -- Arthur 2007-02-23 06:24 CET (05:24 UTC)

Arthur,

I hadn't noticed his updated page - good spot! Yes, absolutely, contact him and let him know the correct procedure (you're well versed with that now, I hope?) As I speak no Polish, perhaps you should send him an email! He does indeed seem like a very positive contributor. Let me know how it all goes. -- Bobnotts 23:22, 22 February 2007 (PST)

All right, I'll ask Polish friends to translate a simple explanation of how the submission process works on CPDL and contact him.

PS: Thank you for the kind works on Talk:O Little One Sweet (Johann Sebastian Bach) :-) -- Arthur 2007-02-23 06:45 CET (05:45 UTC)

What manner of thing is this?

Bob:

You did some work on the Thomas Ravenscroft Page, about which you wrote in the change comment that you "reduced the page size".

what exactly does this mean?

ns

Noel, this means (exactly!) that I have substituted the links for pdf and midi icons ("http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif" and "http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif") for {{pdf}} and {{mid}}. These two templates take up substantially less space than the whole link so it will be quicker for users to view the page and quicker for users to edit the page. Thus, the page size is reduced. -- Bobnotts 20:19, 23 February 2007 (PST)

Just commenting in passing: the actual gain in disk space on server is nothing, I think, compared to the benefit users will have in editing the page, because it looks so much nicer. So thank you anyway, Bob, for this idea! -- Arthur 2007-02-25 07:12 CET (06:12 UTC)

Canons (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

I'm not sure I agree with what you've done with Canons (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart): you put a redirection to point it to Category:Canons, but it's really not the same, since the Category page lists all canons (of course!), and the former page should list only canons by Mozart; which I think is rather useless, since to my knowledge Mozart's canons are by far not as numerous as Bach's cantatas, and I see no reason to have a standalone page only to list them, not to mention a special category. So, the page should be deleted, shouldn't it?

Well, actually, there's more to it: if you look back in the past you see that it has been added as a Work page for one particular score [1], but then the link became invalid [2] which it still is the case as of today. But on the other hand, the submitter, Jurriaan Grootes, did submit many other files, for example Psalm 13, Op. 27 (Herr, wie lange willst du) (Johannes Brahms), and there the external link is perfectly valid. And guess what? If you follow the link you find Mozart's canon there; the correct URL is now http://www.vocalpdf.nl/part/canons-vkd.pdf

I suppose everybody will agree what we have to do is to revert the former state of the page and simply correct the link; I'll do it later. -- Arthur 2007-02-25 07:12 CET (06:12 UTC)