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Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page has). Thank you for the Lilypond for them! - I saw a lovely opera by Rimsky-Korsakov, - see here. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:43, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, my story today 300 years after the first performance, is up for GAN. (Interesting repeat in the closing chorale.) Dada Masilo will be my story tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:28, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. - BWV 124, as you may have seen --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:09, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... and today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:37, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not introduce links in actual articles to user pages or sandboxes, as you did at Rätsel. Since these pages have not been accepted as articles, user pages, sandboxes and drafts are not suitable for linking in articles. and such links are contrary to the Manual of Style. These links have been deleted, please do not re-add any such links, thank you - Arjayay (talk) 20:30, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm baffled how a link in a comment in an article's wikitext, not visible to any reader, can be non-comforming to MOS:DRAFTNOLINK. I mentioned that user as an attribution for the score, which I should and is the right thing to do. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 23:21, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Michael, thank you for your work on List of Australian art critics (news periodicals)—much appreciated! You write "The table could be organised better combining last/first name and using {{Sortname}}" ...being rather dumb in terms of markup, that's a bit of a mystery to me in terms of implementing...is there a Help page I can go to for instructions? Jamesmcardle (talk) 01:46, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On second thoughts, it would be a lot of work for an article with no incoming links (an WP:ORPHAN), with almost no page views. Anyway, this how reformatting could work:

Now:

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century newspaper and magazine critics

Surname	First name	Life	Newspaper or magazine	Dates
Adams	Bruce	1950–	The Australian	1972–74
Adams	Bruce	1950–	The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)	1972–74
Allen	Christopher	1953–	Australian Financial Review	2005–2008

Using {{Sortname}} which would lose the ability to sort on "First name", which seems not particularly useful:

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century newspaper and magazine critics

Name	Life	Newspaper or magazine	Dates
Bruce Adams	1950–	The Australian	1972–74
Bruce Adams	1950–	The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)	1972–74
Christopher Allen	1953–	Australian Financial Review	2005–2008

There is a list using this method at List of performers at the Metropolitan Opera. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:33, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Much appreciated Michael, I'll give that a try after I attend to the lack of incoming links. Jamesmcardle (talk) 05:03, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Michael, in your latest edit to the article Dardanus (Sacchini) you also added, as a source for the cast, the Almanacco by Casaglia. In fact, however, the roles and performers reported there do not match those of the original libretto, and therefore, in my opinion, it might be preferable to remove the reference again (which was present at first, and was later removed after the original libretto was found). Cheers. Jeanambr (talk) 15:27, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

When the amateurish attempt by JCW-CleanerBot made me look at that article, I noticed Alamacco listed at "Sources"", but not being actually cited. So I restored it as a reference for the premiere date into the role box because the libretto page at Gallica showed the cast, but not the date. I wasn't thorough enough to inspect the libretto more closely because it specifies the date elsewhere. As for the discrepancies in the cast, which was listed according to Almanacco in this article originally: as Almanacco doesn't give any sources, their cast list ought to be investigated and mentioned in the article, or just omitted as a reference. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 02:22, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have not been able to figure out where the list of characters provided by the Almanacco might have been taken from. And it is not a question of simple discrepancies in the cast, but rather it's the list of characters that appears partly wrong: apart from the role of Arcas, it is substantially that of the opera by Rameau, still presenting the characters no longer featured in Sacchini's (Venus and Amour). I'd therefore be inclined to simply remove the reference to the Almanacco again, unless you yourself intend to proceed differently. Cheers. Jeanambr (talk) 08:18, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No objections. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 09:13, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]