User talk:Antandrus/Archive3

My talk page from Feb 20, 2005 to beginning of May 2005:

Rhythmic modes and Geisslerlieder

Thanks for both of these, Antandrus--clear and helpful!

In fact, if the author weren't you, I would have thought Geisslerlieder was a put-on: merry songs of the self-flagellators--straight out of Monty Python, no?

Cheers, Opus33 16:24, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks on WoW

I started moving articles back, saw you were doing it and went out to warn people. Stirling Newberry

Yes, I have two string quartets to get out the door before, don't laugh, some accordian music. Stirling Newberry 23:44, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Accordian Music

There is a large international community that wants new music to play, particularly music written for their instrument. Remember Haydn's law of Baryton composition - write what your patron's play. Stirling Newberry 00:22, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about the wikistress level over Sonata. Stirling Newberry 01:29, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome!

And thanks to you! I hate page move vandals. :P -Aranel ("Sarah") 00:53, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Seiki nagahara

Hi, I added several other articles by the same user to this VfD listing, if you want to change your vote. RickK 00:37, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

User:Vaoverland - administrator

Thank you for supporting my appointment as an administrator. I appreciate the pat on the back this represents. It felt nice to read the comments during the voting. Please let me know if you see something I should be doing as admin, as I intend to be fairly passive unless it is clear I should do otherwise. Thanks. Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 20:06, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Spelling corrections

Thanks for the round of "spelling" corrections that you made. Some editors have a funny idea of how to fix spelling. Cheers, -Willmcw 18:58, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

Anti-White Bias

Please stop reverting my edits. --68.33.122.254 02:27, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Dude, get serious. --Feitclub 02:29, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Your neo-Nazi, racist edits are not welcome here, and I will revert you on sight. Antandrus 02:29, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"Neo-nazi, racist edits" huh? Is it not true that the average IQ of the negro is 15 points below that of Whites? Or that a negro is 52 times more likely to kill a White than the other way around?--68.33.122.254 04:23, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:28, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Better yet, even if your "statistics" are correct, what do those numbers mean? Nothing.--Feitclub 16:41, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

Race and intelligence -They mean that negroes are stupid and violent, therefore inferior, and they should be treated as such. The negroes would fit in much better back over in Africa where they belong.--68.33.122.254 19:12, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"When I behold a Lump of Deformity, and Diseases both in Body and Mind, smitten with Pride, it immediately breaks all the Measures of my Patience." Jonathan Swift, 19:22, 15 Oct 1725 (UTC)

"Feed me," said the Troll to Antandrus, "For I am hungry and desirous of Attention."

"Why no," said Antandrus, "I have Food, but for you, I have none; and by the way, rv continued racist vandalism by 68.33.122.254". Antandrus 19:23, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No worries :-)

HTH. Ta bu shi da yu 04:34, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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This can hardly be pleasant work for you, Antandrus--it's like being the guy who stops the cholera epidemic by fixing the sewer break. Just to let you know your efforts are appreciated. Opus33 16:35, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yow!

I see the Neo Nazis are on to you too. Don't give in to those guys! Anyway, just popped in to say thanks for your kind words and to wish you all the best. Good luck with everything mate. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:08, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A prime connection

I hadn't known up until this point the extent of Mersenne's musical writings, which I found through your Mauduit article. Just a hello, and a reminder that someone does indeed read this stuff. :-) And chanson... yikes; another nice catch. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 19:44, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

And as per a wild hair planted last night: User:Mindspillage/sandbox. Feel free to edit. :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 17:56, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Scarlatti sonatas

Hey! I'm a new user here and when I was checking the 'sonata' article, I noticed that there were no Scarlatti's sonatas mentioned. I'm not too familiar with them and you seem to be an expert for early music. Could you add some of them? Looking forward for more collaborations (the only major work I did until now is categorizing pianists, but better than nothing!) --Missmarple 18:08, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Antandrus, thank you for voting for me in my adminship nomination. I very much appreciate your kind support. Best, SlimVirgin 01:58, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

Well...

Some guitar-lovers I'd rather like to offend, hopefully enough that they go love their guitars somewhere else. :-) (But not if they're playing Mudarra or Tansman.) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:05, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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I did not use to like him, several years ago, but Vivaldi is on the way - out. But, this was not vandalism, you insisted it was.

User: nobody (note by Antandrus: this was actually User: 4.161.5.193; there IS a user named "nobody", which 4.161.5.193 is not)

Hello, User:4.188.96.38 and User: 4.161.5.193, are you seriously suggesting that this [1] is NOT vandalism? You removed his entire biography. Give me a break, please. If you would like to add useful information to Wikipedia articles, that is also allowed. Antandrus 21:06, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

So, let others take care of this?

I have not been accused in Vandalism in Progress about removing his biography, but kept his list of music. (added by User: 4.161.5.193)

No, you haven't, because one-time vandalisms are not listed there, and anyway I fixed it. Removal of huge slabs of information is considered by the community to be vandalism, which is why I called it that, and I still fail to understand why you would do such a thing. Antandrus 22:17, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Did you know...

I know your summary said it wasn't quite done, but I submitted it to the queue anyway, since the jail bit was too good to pass up, and music articles *are* underrepresented.

By the way, I notice the "I don't want to be an admin" bit is missing from your user page... may I nominate you? Mindspillage (spill yours?) 16:41, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Of course; I'll probably do it when I get out of rehearsal tonight, then. (L'Elisir d'Amore (argh, what a sad little stub), first time with the singers... should be interesting.) Should have thought to time it so you'd be promoted on your wikibirthday... alas! Mindspillage (spill yours?) 17:22, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Carrizo Plain

Nice article! Well done. -- hike395 14:48, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hoppin

Thanks. I went to the library and got the smallest book that look comprehensive (that wasn't "studies in"). Hyacinth 23:42, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Rather, I chose the lightest book, since I don't have a car. Hyacinth 02:33, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Happy wikiday

I just happened to read your page exactly one year after you started on wikipedia and wanted to give some words of encouragement in passing :-) You have a very sensible attitude towards contentious pages, which I'm afraid I don't. I've looked through your list of contributions and there's a lot of lovely work in there. I will read your article about Arvo Part's piece used in Farenheit 9/11. I've heard some of his other music (on http://last.fm ) and liked it a lot. Mr. Jones 20:48, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for supporting my adminship — I vow to use my super powers for good not evil. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:41, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 04:13, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations! And happy belated wikibirthday. (Of course, it's sort of like getting a Dustbuster for Christmas, I guess, but I'm sure you'll use the mop and bucket well.) :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:21, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congrats from me too. Shouldn't think there'll be any difficulty for you slipping into your new role, but if you have any problems... Grutness|^hello? 05:07, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations from me too; well deserved. Jayjg ^(talk) 21:40, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hey, it was my pleasure, Antandrus. Use it for good! SlimVirgin ^(talk) 21:43, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

• Triple congrats! And yes, it's blowing like crazy out here. The wind closed Indian Avenue earlier today between I-10 and the Palm Springs city limits. Not bad right now, but I don't expect to do any R/C flying anytime soon.  :) Anyway, it was my pleasure to support you. Best of luck with the Holy Mop and Broom! - Lucky 6.9 01:15, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the help

Hey, I ran into your rollbacks of User:Whoever blocks me has no life!'s edits. You must've started from the bottom. Thanks for the help. I've blocked him indefinitely. --Slowking Man 23:42, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome! Yes, sometimes when I see those I start from the bottom; gets done faster. Thanks for blocking him. Antandrus 23:44, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Krystof Harant

You wrote: thank you for your edits to Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic; really I'm impressed anyone else knew about this guy; he's pretty interesting (but really shouldn't have bombarded the imperial palace with the emperor inside! bad move!)

The name is frequently seen in Czech publications describing this time. He is mentioned as traveller or soldier, never as composer. I got very suprised by the fact there was a composer at this time and place - common knowledge of Czechs doesn't know anyone before 19th century.

His cannoneer activity had likely made only little difference to his fate since the Emperor was on way to exterminate/expell all his opponents, once forever and no matter what. This stubborness made Thirty Years War so long. Pavel Vozenilek 03:33, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations

Please enjoy your new buttons. Coincidentally, I prefer listening to music composed up to and including the Baroque period myself (with a few notable exceptions). Cheers! Fire Star 03:44, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Congrats! I'm glad I could do my part to drag you into the cabal! Tuf-Kat 07:10, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

• Congratulations, and you are very welcome! --Merovingian (t) (c) 07:19, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia can do with more Jaynian's... helps keep things lively. :"D - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 09:06, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Musician category

Just a small note: you should change your category link from [[Category:Wikipedian musicians]] to [[Category:Wikipedian musicians|Antandrus]], so you'll be properly collated. I won't change it myself, since I don't think user pages generally should be edited by others. Ddawson 14:26, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

My page

Thanks, --SqueakBox 18:09, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Virtual piano

Just out of curiosity, how does this (or any) article get moved both out of VfD and/or renamed? Thanks. hydnjo talk 20:53, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well Your adminship, let me add my Congratulations .

Virtual piano came up when I was trying to recall where 440Hz was on a piano (I was fooling around with a guitar tuning program) and did a Google/Search Wikipedia on piano. I saw the VfD tag, added my two cents and added it to my watchlist. At the time I didn't realize how long it had been on VfD!

BTW, if I were to search today I'd start with Wikiwax [2], a very fine lookahead engine which presents the choice "piano, Virtual". My best wishes to you and your new authority, I'm confident that you will do well. ;-) hydnjo talk 23:41, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

One more thing, will the links to Virtual piano be automatically changed to the new and more descriptive name Piano key frequencies or does it get done manually? I know the old link-name will redirect but the new name would be nicer. hydnjo talk 00:10, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again for the links-fix but then, you did have a good incentive ;-) hydnjo talk 01:07, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Like I didn't know it was you and besides, I know how that 1040 devil can mess with your head. That's why I don't start 'till about tomorrow or maybe the day after and I'm going to fix that screaming Tokyo header right now. hydnjo talk 17:54, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Miner's lettuce

Nice photo. I hope you don't mind that I moved into the taxobox. I'd like to change the caption to indicate which of the plants in the photo is miner's lettuce, but I might fall asleep before I can hit the "save page" button. Pekinensis 04:08, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Tokyo

I'm sure you'll make a good admin. Do you live in Tokyo? I do. I haven't been that active with the Japanese Wikipedia community. But I would like to mee more of them.--Jondel 10:19, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

re: thanks

You are welcome. I belive that you'll make a good admin and editor. And thanks for your wishes and appreciation. -- Sundar (talk • contribs) 03:41, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

Boulanger

I noticed that... Lili just happened to pop up on Recent Changes while I was watching, and Nadia didn't! Guess I'll have to do something about that... ever notice how working on one article just leads to another that you must get on to? (Yes, of course you have.) I've been enjoying your non-musical additions, as well. :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 17:05, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Indeed, I knew of your intentions, but then again it looks less incestuous, so to speak, if someone else nominates me! I must say I'm surprised someone did—your comments (and for that matter everyone else's) make me blush. And I see you've been making good use of the tools you didn't think you'd want. ("Wand of Swatting", eh? Nicely put...) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 00:44, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikithanks

Hi Antandrus, thanks for reverting my userpage! TIMBO (T A L K) 05:06, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

More thanks

Thanks for supporting my adminship nomination --nixie 03:03, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Shame on you

You ought to be ashamed for calling a "consensus" version of the Ward Churchill article which is a whitewash of a rich white guy. Johnnyio 04:11, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

A "consensus version" is a version worked on by multiple people, not the work of one person operating numerous sockpuppets. I stand by my protection of the article and the version I have chosen. Antandrus 04:17, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!" William Blake 04:20, 20 Jul 1789 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for supporting my nomination on RfA, it failed because of Wikipedia's minority rule system, although I thought 21/8 support was sufficient. It was also cut short by 12 hours. But your vote of confidence is greatly appreciated, now let's build an encyclopedia! --Bjarki 14:03, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Medievla music

Hello,

I am interested in reorganing and adding to the medieval music pages. I have made some small changes already, but since you have done so mch work on them, I thought I would check in with you. I am a new member and do not want to offend anyone.

DrG

Thank you

It's a pleasure to join you in the cabal... and I'm no good with remembering handshakes myself; perhaps a call-and-response tune would do better between us! :-) By the way, how was your microwikibreak? Mindspillage (spill yours?) 20:57, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

A Composition Tool

I love you, Antandrus. Not you, but ur looks.

By the way, what do you use for a music composition tool? Sibelius, Finale, or any other tool? 66.74.179.23 (talk • contribs)

Finale mainly. Antandrus 00:38, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Procrastination abounds

Oh, sure, blame it all on me! You would have just found something else interesting to read otherwise. :-) (Notes from your strange anonymous secret admirer... or something... above?) Incidentally, if you have more time to read, I was egged on to contribute to meta:Polls are evil by Kim Bruning, which is a bit of philosophizing that needs more eyes; a topic that needed to be more than a semi-humorous poll. I admit it... I like writing about the meta stuff too, but it seems almost presumptuous to do so. Speaking of reading Wikipedia instead of doing work -- time for class. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 17:35, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Speaking of procrastination... alas, it's been too long since I was Catholic to do this properly. :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:00, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Musician's welcome

Thank you, Antandrus. I can't claim anything like your musical qualifications, nor will I have as much time as I'd like to devote to the project - but I hope I'll (slowly) be able to contribute something worthwhile!

I see musical quotations dotted about Wikipedia in the form of .png files - what's the best way to go about creating them? Do you need a music notation tool like Sibelius, then Save As…? You can enter maths formulas which get rendered as TeX - it would be great if you could do the same sort of thing for music. --RobertG 09:08, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Piano#The_actual_range

Hello again. Could you take a look at this? It seems a legitimate question but I don't have the answer. thanks, hydnjo talk 18:54, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks and BTW how difficult would it be to have the high notes at the top or does it seem OK the way it is (with the freqs fixed of course). hydnjo talk 23:31, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Nice job. Could you take a look at the notation of Bb7 which I changed to B♭7 to see which you prefer? Also, what are the rules that make that note Bb7 (B♭7) rather than A#7? Thanks, hydnjo talk 12:19, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Much nicer and less ambiguous without the dashes. hydnjo talk 15:17, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Piano key frequencies

Note taken regarding Unicode notation, I just assumed that all browsers would be OK. On another fine point, which would be preferable for dual notation: G#7/Ab7 or Ab7/G#7 or something else? Sorry about all the trivia questions here but I'd like to put this one away (if that's ever possible around here). hydnjo talk 18:29, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello, Antandrus. Thanks for your vote at my adminship nomination. I appreciate the support and your kind comments. Cheers! — Trilobite (Talk) 14:01, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Denied

I got rejected from FSU. My consolation (scant though it may be) is that others around me are also wondering what was wrong with them. I think I shall go do something completely without redeeming social value tonight, or something. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 20:29, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Reference desk question

Hello, I thought you might be able to help with a question I posted at Wikipedia:Reference desk#Symphony with bagpipe?. If so, thanks in advance. If not, no big deal. Thanks, Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 13:27, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

Are you sure it was a symphony? There is a famous piece by Peter Maxwell Davies (Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise) for orchestra, which ends, if I recall correctly, with a rousing bagpipe solo. This could be it. It's a great crowd-pleaser. Antandrus 16:21, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Piano key frequencies

Imagine if all 6,911,495 articles needed this much of your time and attention!!!! Thanks for doing the parts of which I had no clue how to do but now is there for all others to reference. That's what is all about I guess. hydnjo talk 20:15, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC). (fix edit summary)

France

Do you think you could write a stub at French classical music? It's currently a copy of much of music of France, except it's mostly about folk music, not classical. I'm not sure what would happen if I went to the trouble of nominating it for deletion, since I'm sure there could be an article on that topic -- probably somebody would write a stub... Tuf-Kat 02:41, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Good luck with the vandals and the death threats! Tuf-Kat 21:14, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

• Wouldn't it be better just to turn it into a redirect to Music of France? —Wahoofive (talk) 22:23, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Is separating out these articles part of a WikiProject or something? I don't see this on Music of Germany or Music of Italy (although that doesn't have much classical music at all) or Music of England or Music of Spain or Music of Russia. We should aim for consistency in these various articles. Although the Music of France article does say "Main article: French Classical Music" it isn't the main article at all, and I don't really think there's much more to say about classical French music, except for the section Classical era to present day, which is pretty lame. I'd feel better if Wikipedia:WikiProject Music discussed it before you go much further. Also see Wikipedia:WikiProject_World_music/Phase_2 —Wahoofive (talk) 23:46, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Okay, I guess it's just a matter of stub philosophy. Stubs are useful so people will have ready-made places to add new information, and since there's already a ready-made place at Music of France, my preference would be to keep it there until it really is too big and needs to be broken out. I couldn't agree more that this area, in fact all the classical music area, of Wikipedia, is very weak. —Wahoofive (talk) 02:03, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
      • If you're planning to write that article yourself, then it's your prerogative to do it however you want. I'm working more on the music theory articles. —Wahoofive (talk) 05:15, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Dairy farming

Care to explain exactly why you think dairy farming deserves {{cleanup}}? 18.26.0.18 03:55, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Oops, sorry about that. 18.26.0.18 04:05, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism By 24.107.7.165

How can this user be blocked. He is just not stopping.Gaurav1146 20:27, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)