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Hey @Melchior2006. Thanks for your good work on cleaning up MOS:PUFFERY on highered pages. If you're interested, I have recently been cleaning up puff and undue information on secondary education pages in New England. Perhaps you might be interested in doing the same — there is a ton of work to do for to uphold WP:NPOV. GuardianH (talk) 21:11, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, @GuardianH. I will take a look a little later. You are working your way through these pages in a regional manner? Can you give me the category you have been working within? --Melchior2006 (talk) 06:35, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Melchior2006 I think schools in Template:New England Preparatory School Athletic Council would be a good start; I've been combing through a number of them recently. Schools in that template tend to have additional categories within them (i.e. miscellaneous athletic associations, etc.) and other categories within them, so you can also use those to branch out into other schools. GuardianH (talk) 18:14, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On an additional note, categories such as Category:Private high schools in Connecticut or Category:Private high schools in New York (state) by county, etc. etc. are great to look through. GuardianH (talk) 18:33, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Melchior2006, I thought you might be interested in this. A whole ton of the articles of schools listed in G30 Schools could use some substantial cleanup in terms of puffery removal. GuardianH (talk) 04:48, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I took a look. You were right! -- Melchior2006 (talk) 06:24, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Melchior2006. Thank you for your work on Thomas Meienhofer. Another editor, North8000, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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North8000 (talk) 15:08, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Melchior2006. Thank you for your work on List of Princeton Triangle Club shows. Another editor, North8000, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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Hi Melchior2006. Thank you for your work on List of Northfield Mount Hermon people. Another editor, North8000, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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North8000 (talk) 15:10, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Melchior2006. Thank you for your work on Peter Jarolin. Another editor, North8000, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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North8000 (talk) 15:11, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Melchior2006. Thank you for your work on François Bruys. Another editor, North8000, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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North8000 (talk) 15:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Melchior2006. Thank you for your work on List of Milton Academy alumni. Another editor, North8000, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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North8000 (talk) 15:14, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Melchior2006. Thank you for your work on List of Princeton High School Alumni. Another editor, North8000, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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North8000 (talk) 15:14, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For your tireless work on colleges, universities, and secondary schools expanding material, formatting, copyediting, and cleaning up boosterism, with diligent discourse on talk pages. What a big magnifying glass you have indeed, and the articles are visibly better off for it. GuardianH (talk) 00:32, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I really admire your work, too. Fighting boosterism is especially important when it comes to higher ed, since there is so much academic corruption out there and people abuse Wikipedia in order to promote schools or cover up deficiencies. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 06:31, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Melchior2006,

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Josey Wales ^Parley 08:29, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseywales1961: I just added another Richard Daschbach to the disambig page. --Melchior2006 (talk) 08:37, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks have a nice day Josey Wales ^Parley 08:43, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseywales1961:. Could you pls revert your deletion of the disambig page? There is nothing left there anymore. --Melchior2006 (talk) 08:49, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A page you created has been deleted as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

Do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject or any other entity. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:54, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Which page do you mean? Melchior2006 (talk) 21:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Pietro Amenta. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:51, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks for the info. The discussion about the deletion clearly shows that other editors don't think it was an attack page, and it was online for more than a year without any criticism, but I accept your decision. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 22:00, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. It occurred to me, from the interests you mention on your user page, that you might be interested in checking some of the German musical theatre-related articles against the English ones. If so, here are some possible things you might be uniquely positioned to look into:

• Does our Musical theatre article adequately reflect the non-English-speaking musical stage in Europe and beyond, as far as your research may have led you?
• Should anything from our English article on musical theatre be added to the equivalent German article?
• Is it true that Starlight Express had a historically long run in Germany? If so, can you please add a ref or two to our article on it about the German production?
• Are there any other examples of record-setting runs in Europe or other non-English-speaking countries that have surpassed, say, 5,000 performances?
• Gilbert and Sullivan works (one of my particular interests) have been played in Europe and around the world since the 1870s. This is mentioned briefly in the "Legacy and assessment" section of that article. Is the article missing anything particularly noteworthy?
• Broadway, off-Broadway, London and other US/UK theatres have often hosted foreign (and foreign-language) productions and touring companies. Are these described adequately in the obvious Wikipedia articles, and if not, can you add some description of the most important such productions and touring companies to them? (for example, Broadway theatre, West End theatre, off-Broadway, Theater in the United States, Theatre of the United Kingdom, musical theatre, theatre, etc.

Happy editing! -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:46, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I rarely do work on musicals. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 15:59, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Melchior2006, thanks for taking a look at the Daniel Diermeier article and making those changes. I was wondering if you had any interest in the edit request I made for the article to expand on some of Dr. Diermeier's more recent work with Vanderbilt? Any feedback you can offer would be highly appreciated. Cheers VandyBE (talk) 15:42, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I can take a look. --Melchior2006 (talk) 15:58, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm 4meter4. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Pacific Repertory Theatre have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Removing scholarly publications which are used in inline citations within an article is unacceptable. 4meter4 (talk) 21:48, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your input. Let's move this talk topic to the appropriate page (Pacific Rep Theater). See you over there. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 21:54, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User_talk:4meter4#Forest_Theater_and_Golden_Bough_Playhouse 4meter4 and Ssilver are discussing opposing merger of Forest Theater and Godlen Bough Playhouse together. Graywalls (talk) 02:21, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Graywalls I don't know about that. At this point it is a one-sided conversation. Ssilvers left a message on my talk page which I have not responded to yet. I haven't looked at those theatre pages yet, and have not formed an opinion. However, I do know from researching the PRC article that both of the theatre venues are old and historic and have long histories that go back to the early 20th century. Both theaters pre-date the PRC's creation in 1982 by decades and have entries in architecture books, histories of Monterey County/California, and of course coverage in newspaper archives across many many years; enough so that lengthy articles which pass WP:SIGCOV would be easily feasible. I would not be surprised if they were on the National Register of Historic Places or some other similar historic designation list which would pass WP:NBUILDING. Without even looking at the articles, my concern over a merger would be that the theaters lack a shared history for the majority of time that they have been operating as theaters. It really isn't until 1994 that the theaters begin to have a shared history, and as both theaters date to 1910ish there is about an 80 year history where they were independent of one another. For this reason, I suspect that a merger may not only be challenging, but also not ideal if not impossible to do. A bundled article would be clumsy and un-focused (what would we even call such an article). It also would be challenging to maintain both an appropriate encyclopedic scope and to match the standard article structure/WP:MOS practices used encyclopedia wide for articles on theaters. That said, if you have a well argued position as to why they should be bundled into a single article, and what the structure of said article would look like I would be open to hearing that proposal. Best.4meter4 (talk) 03:11, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think i might have been caught up in your trimming boosterism cruft.

I'm just editing punctuation

have a Wikipedia day, s Augmented Seventh (talk) 17:52, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your input. Let's move this talk topic to the appropriate page (Berkshire School). See you over there. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 18:33, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your helpful edits at Florida State University! After reflecting on it, I tweaked your recent edit slightly to clarify the original legislative purpose, which has two elements. Sirberus (talk) 14:53, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Drew Stanley (talk) 03:54, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thx for the tip; I expanded the article a bit. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 14:23, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

same issue - [2] Drew Stanley (talk) 21:47, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi -- no rush, just wanted to point out that it looks like some of the refs you added to this article are in the wrong place/attached to placeholder "asdf" text. Gnomingstuff (talk) 03:20, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up! I added a bit today. -- Melchior2006 (talk) 14:04, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]