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This is an archive for User:Pianoplonkers from the 1^st December 2009 - 31^st January 2009. Please post any new comments on my current talk page

Userpage

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I have a series of Hiddens Templates on my userpage but unfortunately, they cover my userboxes. How do I stop them from doing this and make them just fill the white space?--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 21:17, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I used {{clear}} to fix it, but it shoved everything way underneath your userboxes. You might look into templates that make your list of userboxes collapsible, like the one on my userpage. Killiondude (talk) 22:39, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Files on Wiki Commons

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I have uploaded several files but I would like them to be transferred onto Wikipedia Commons. Would this be possible. Here is a list of the files that need transferring:

Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 20:44, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You can do it yourself by reading the directions on WP:Move to the Commons or you can flag them as meeting the requirements for moving, by adding {{MovetoCommons}}. Killiondude (talk) 20:50, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Files

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I have moved all of my files to Wikicommons but what do I do with the Wikipedia uploads?
Also, the file of File:Rondo Alla Turca.png on Wikicommons has been distorted but I uploaded an undistorted file. I there a way of undoing this?

Tag all the Wikipedia files with {{NowCommons}} and an admin will come along, check that it is done right, and delete them. I reverted the Commons file you linked, so the first version is showing now. Killiondude (talk) 09:37, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Opus 62 No.1 (Mendelssohn)

Is the title to Opus 62 No.1 (Mendelssohn) correct--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 20:14, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If there are Opus 62 No.1's by other composers, then yes. Since there is at least one by Chopin as well, then the (Mendelssohn) is required. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 20:48, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. This is now being discussed here. --Klein zach 06:53, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Eric muhlbauer

Hi. I saw that you changed your mind about the speedy tag for this, but there was an even better one: as the article said that someone (not the main subject) "happens to be a fag", what it needed was {{db-g10}} or {{db-atk}} "Pages that disparage or threaten their subject or some other entity". That puts it in a high-priority cue for admin attention, and generates a suitably fierce warning for the author's talk page. There is good advice for speedy taggers at WP:10CSD and WP:A7M. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:54, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice. I will use this next time I find a page like this.--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 16:57, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Table of Contents on my Userpage

Is is possible to stop the contents table on a page appearing at all on a page--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 17:44, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Use the magic word __NOTOC__. Tim Song (talk) 17:51, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Try that, but I'm not sure it works on a user page. You can arrange that you don't see tables of contents by unchecking "Show table of contents" on My preferences/Appearance/Advanced options. More details at WP:TOC. JohnCD (talk) 17:56, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Userpage

Your user page is looking really good, but did you by any chance borrow it from Jimbo Wales.--Etincelles ♬♬^(talk) 13:02, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ha ha! How did you guess? Thanks for the compliment--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 13:04, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your rollback request

Hello Pianoplonkers, I have granted rollback rights to your account in accordance with your request. Please be aware that rollback should be used to revert vandalism/spam/blatantly unconstructive edits, and that using it to revert anything else (by revert-warring or reverting edits you disagree with) can lead to it being removed from your account...sometimes without any warning, depending on the admin who becomes aware of any misuse. For practice, you may wish to see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. Good luck. Acalamari 16:57, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Christof Plümacher

I declined your speedy deletion request. The article makes reasonable claims of notability. LadyofShalott 17:19, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Userpage

On my Userpage there is a rollback template and a qui template at the top on my userpage but there are on top of each other. How do I put these next to each other and not overlaping? Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 19:23, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You can use the offset parameters on either {{rollback}} or {{statustop}}. To move {{rollback}} to the left, use the extra_offset parameter with the number of pixels to move left, like {{rollback|extra_offset=120}}. To move {{statustop}} to the left, use the offset parameter with the number of pixels to move left, like {{statustop|offset=50}}. You can also move {{statustop}} down with the offsettop parameter and the number of pixels to move down, like {{statustop|offsettop=50}}. Depending on how you want them placed, you use or more of these parameters. Please let me know if there are any more questions. Thanks! --Mysdaao ^talk 19:51, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mazurkas Op. 17

Why have you written Op. 33 titles in the article, and created Op. 33 redirects to the Op. 17 page?

Please sort out this mess.

Etincelles ♬♬^(talk) 22:56, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That looks much better now. However, you mentioned that Horowitz played the whole set, he is only known to have played No. 4. - Etincelles ♬♬^(talk) 08:21, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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--Taqi Haider (talk) 12:50, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mazurkas Op. 17 (Chopin)

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Could someone quickly rate this article. Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 17:49, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You can rate articles yourself. Hopefully if users can write articles in a neutral point of view then they can rate them neutrally too. Please see WP:COUNCIL/AFAQ and WP:ASSESS. Killiondude (talk) 18:11, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My Menu Bar

Please see commons:User Talk:Pianoplonkers#Links on my menu bar

I have answered on your talk page on Commons. Please let me know if there are any more questions. Thanks! --Mysdaao ^talk 15:39, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My Featured Picture Candidate on Commons

Please see commons:User Talk:Pianoplonkers#Featured Picture Candidate--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 11:50, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I replied, but you don't need to use the helpme tag to answer questions on other projects. Commons has a perfectly good commons:Commons:Help desk that you can use in the future, and asking for help there is more applicable. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 12:31, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Hope you have a great new year too! --Jubilee♫clipman 01:05, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Star and Merry Christmas

Please see my awards page for this message

List of films that most frequently use the word s***

I realise you find this offensive, however there is an identical page for the f-word. User:Lemonsters08

Indents

How do you put in an indent?--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 12:44, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The : character at the start of a paragraph indents that paragraph, see Help:Wiki markup Josh Parris 12:51, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Attack pages

Hi. Thanks for tagging Robert pinchin just now, but better than {{db|attack page}} is {{db-attack}} (or the equivalent {{db-atk}} or {{db-g10}}), which has the advantage of putting the page in a high-priority queue for admin attention. Regards, JohnCD (talk)

I know this, but I would normally use twinkle although this doesn't work on this particular browser. I couldn't remember the code so I put that in instead--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 16:53, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem - it worked! JohnCD (talk) 17:05, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Signature

On my signature, it would like to have a link on the two musical notes to my contributions, but I would also like them to be black. Could you have a look at it and possibly change the one below to match this description

Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 07:55, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 07:55, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How's that? --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 08:00, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 08:00, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Notice

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When I am editing some pages, they have a notice at the top telling you something about editing the page eg. User:Jimbo Wales. How do you do this?--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 19:49, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They are edit notices. That page describes how you would set one up. Killiondude (talk) 19:53, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 19:54, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Birnbaum

Greetings. I have nominated the above page for deletion. I welcome your input at the articles for deletion page.THD3 (talk) 18:00, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Steinway Model D-274 Page Notice

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Please can you create a page notice for this page: My User Subpage for Steinway Model D-274. The code is displayed below:

Please improve this page!

When this page was first created, it was deleted and changed to a redirect due to notability problems (see Talk:Steinway Model D-274)

I would love you to edit this page and make it so that it is valid for Wikipedia!

Comments or questions on this page should be directed to my talk page or Etincelles' talk page. Thanks --Pianoplonkers (talk • contribs)

Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 19:05, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done fetchcomms☛ 19:51, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 19:56, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Updated version

Please can you update the page notice on User:Pianoplonkers/Steinway Model D-274

Please improve this page!

When this page was first created, it was deleted and changed to a redirect due to notability problems (see Talk:Steinway Model D-274)

I would love you to edit this page and make it so that it is valid for Wikipedia!

Comments or questions on this page should be directed to my talk page or Etincelles' talk page.

Thanks --Pianoplonkers (talk • contribs) and Etincelles ^(talk)

Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 17:31, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). IShadowed ✰ 17:40, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, this in case you didn't see it. I'm fairly sure that a transclusion would work in this case. JamieS93 21:07, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Steinway Model D-274

Is there any way of advertising a page for improvement on wikipedia? (see title). Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 19:58, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, what exactly do you want to do? Requesting help in writing this page? Regards So Why 20:30, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can request that the article be peer reviewed here or ask for help at the appropriate Wikiproject here, or you could ask any user you spot expressing interesting in the topic on a similar page by sending a message on their talk page. You could also ask the league of copy editors. I would suggest the Wikiproject as the best bet, as a peer review might not review an article before it has been moved to the main space from a user subpage. Regards, SGGH ^ping! 20:55, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Categories: Music competitions prize-winners

Several categories related to music competition winners are being targetted by a user, and I think it would be useful that you give your opinion regarding the neccesity of these categories and maybe later help proposing changes to the present guidelines (music awards and prizes). The categories proposed for deletion are #Category:Prize-winners of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, #category:Prize-winners of the Paloma O'Shea Piano Competition, #Category:Operalia, #Category:Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and #Category:Prize-winners of the Besançon Conducting Competition. Cheers.--Karljoos (talk) 15:04, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey!

Hello, Not revealing my identity but we were on the phone the other day and I promised you I'd have a look at your page :) It's pretty good but I can't find the self-playing piano that you said was here... --91.109.110.254 (talk) 18:22, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Userpage

On the right hand side of my userpage, there is a box with some quotations in but it protrudes out, to the right, from the rest of the boxes that are aligned to the right. Can you fix this so that they are in line please--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 16:28, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Pianoplonkers. The box alignment looks fine to me (on Firefox 3), so it might be a browser-specific issue? --KFP (talk | contribs) 17:03, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I could see the problem in IE (not in FF). It was caused by the code colspan="2" you had in that cell that I removed. It's still little wider, but I don't know what causes that. Svick (talk) 17:17, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism on my talk page

Thanks for removing it. I can't believe people can be so stupid.--Kalphiter (talk) 02:31, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Zapdos221

I think your twinkle hiccuped here, as I tagged the page, but you warned the user. In any case, I have removed the warning that you posted them (so as they don't have two duplicate warnings). Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks a lot for you work in the new pages. Kindest regards, Spitfire^Tally-ho! 17:17, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 17:17, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My Watchlist

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When I use Twinkle or Friendly, the page that I am editing is added to my watchlist. Is it possible to stop this?--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 17:00, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Read the documentation here and here. Algebraist 17:32, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Both Twinkle and Friendly can be configured, see Wikipedia:Twinkle/doc#Configuration and Wikipedia:Friendly#Configuration.

To stop watching all changes made by Twikle and Friendly, add following code to your User:Pianoplonkers/monobook.js (if you use the default monobook skin):

if( typeof( TwinkleConfig ) == 'undefined' ) TwinkleConfig = {}; // DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE - ALL TWINKLE SETTINGS AFTER THIS
TwinkleConfig.watchProdPages<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>=<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>false;
TwinkleConfig.watchRevertedPages<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>=<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>[ ];
TwinkleConfig.watchSpeedyPages<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>=<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>[ ];
TwinkleConfig.watchWarnings<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>=<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>false;

if( typeof( FriendlyConfig ) == 'undefined' ) FriendlyConfig = {}; // DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE - ALL FRIENDLY SETTINGS AFTER THIS
FriendlyConfig.watchTaggedPages<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>=<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>false;
FriendlyConfig.watchWelcomes<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span><span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>=<span class="wikiEditor-tab"></span>false;

Svick (talk) 17:37, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} When I tried this, it still added the pages to my watchlist. Could you have a look and change my monobook accordingly please--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 18:51, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Right, sorry, I fixed the code above. I can't edit your monobook.js, so you have to do it yourself. Svick (talk) 19:09, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Warning on User talk:66.204.41.2

Hi. You recently issued an "only warning" to User:66.204.41.2 for this edit on the Template:X2 page. This page is actually a sandbox, so the edit wasn't vandalism. If you don't mind, I'm going to remove the final warning, and then add a level 2 warning for a different unhelpful edit made by this user. Thanks! -- Lear's Fool (talk | contribs) 01:26, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, thanks for picking it up--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 07:03, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please look more closely

Hello. :) You recently left a warning template on my talk page. This is the version of the article that you reverted back to. Please look a little more closely. I was reverting vandalism, not causing it. Compare the version you reverted to with my edit. I won't edit the article until you've had a chance to check it for yourself because I don't want to appear to be vandalizing in the face of a warning, but I'm sure that once you compare the two versions you'll revert it yourself. Take care, and happy editing! 152.16.16.75 (talk) 10:13, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. I just wanted to let you know I took care of it. I saw that you had edited since I left the note above and hadn't had a chance to get to it so I reverted with an explanation in my edit summary. It has been fixed. Happy editing! 152.16.16.75 (talk) 02:28, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 07:35, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Steinway Model D-274

Dicussion copied from Archive of WikiProject's Talk Page (Archive 24)

Back in June, I created an article called Steinway Model D-274. However, after discussion, it was decided that the content should be removed and the page be turned into a redirect. I feel that this page, with work, could be considered to be an appropriate article for Wikipedia. Currently, I have a copy of the page in my userspace (User:Pianoplonkers/Steinway Model D-274) and I am trying to improve it. I am writing to ask if anyone would like to help me achieve this and make it a good article. Please contact me on my talk page to inform me that I have found someone that wants to help me. Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 07:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Overall, I would say that it is a fine article. Some additional sources could be used, but that isn't the biggest probem here. I think the assemblage of the "facts & figures" and "encasement" sections are not up to wikipedia's standards, due to their format. The title of the former section is especially not to wikipedia's standards; while it is not trivia (considering how it holds information about the measurements and other useful stuff), it does have the title of a section of miscellaneous information; those sections are definitely discouraged on wikipedia. If I came across this article in its current shape as an article and not just a user subpage, I would support its existence on wikipedia, but improvements would be recommended. Thanks. Backtable _{Speak to me}^{concerning my deeds.} 21:03, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Reviews

It has been suggested that User:Pianoplonkers/Steinway Model D-274 be peer reviewed. Is it possible to do this? Thanks--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 16:58, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Peer review--Jac16888 ^Talk 17:22, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikitables on Vladimir Horowitz discography

I was wondering whether you could center all of the images on Vladimir Horowitz discography in the Album cover columns and what code would be needed for this. Please could you please tell me what it is--Pianoplonkers♫^(talk) 10:42, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can center the images by placing them betweeen the <center></center> tags. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 13:01, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]