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Contents 1 Claremont Braineaters 2 List of fiddlers vandalism? 3 Eitch:Braineaters... 4 Fourth opinion on booking ahead 5 User gallery 6 Martie Maguire 7 Categories

[edit] Claremont Braineaters

I have userfied this article per your request, at User:Eitch/Claremont Braineaters. Please be aware that the May 11th edits are after the deletion discussion was completed and the original article was deleted (it was recreated by the original author, and then deleted again); I assume you know enough about wiki article history to sort out what was there when. Let me know if you have any questions, and if/when you're done with it so I can redelete the content. -- nae'blis 16:16, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, will do --Eitch 17:05, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's been nearly a year and I've finally done a serious edit of the Braineaters page. I'd like to reinstate the article and see what the detractors have to say about it, but I can start for a deletion review if you think that's the way to go. — eitch 16:27, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in responding, I don't login much these days. I think the article is a good start, but the big thing to avoid re-deletion/overturn the AFD is showing that independent sources find the Braineaters notable. News media coverage, any books on the subject or magazine coverage that isn't specific to the school, etc... specifically, any opinion statements such as you have in the lead paragraph should be cited inline if at all possible, or removed/reworded. -- nae'blis 15:32, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of fiddlers vandalism?

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[edit] Eitch:Braineaters...

1. 3.4.3 Brianeaters

Poor Brian. And I thoroughly enjoyed the page and links. -fish 19:41, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

What? And, Which page? --Eitch 23:32, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I think you updated the contents yesterday, but before you had, Section 3.4.3 was in contents as "Brianeaters". As it's your page, I figured I'd let you change it. Evidently, you did so before seeing this. -fish 22:34, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Gotcha. But it's not my page — it was deleted over a year ago, and it was moved to my userspace temporarily while I worked on bringing it up to spec. Didn't touch it until yesterday, but finally things are moving. — eitch 01:20, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fourth opinion on booking ahead

Hi Eitch,

I added a comment at Talk:Contra dance#Booking ahead that you might be interested in.

Joriki (talk) 21:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

(I did read this at the time — just in a bit of wikilag) Yes indeed, glad to see someone else take issue with that non-committal third opinion. Looks to me like this will never be resolved. Now every time I see {{fact}} or {{pov}} I wonder how many points in WP are permanently frozen in dispute. — eitch 06:39, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User gallery

First off, you failed to sign our post on my talk page. Please make sure to do so by placing four tildes (like this: ~~~~) at the end of every comment. As for your suggestion: actually, the great thing about the Internet and Wikipedia is that we aren't running out of server space any time soon. A user subpage with some photos on it does not take up any processing power or disk space at all, practically speaking. We do not delete things on a space issue alone ever on the site. VanTucky 02:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

First off, I apologize for not signing... and I'm not saying this to start a fight with you (if we could do this in person, I'd be using a friendly tone) but it looks like your talk page has its share of arguments, and you might want to be careful with telling established editors the basics of editing.

Anyhoo -- Looking again, I guess the userpage guidelines are not rigid on how much non-encyclopedic content you have in userspace. And whatever, I certainly don't care enough about my interpretation of the guidelines to argue that you should take it down. I was just wondering about your thoughts. — eitch 02:41, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't realize you've been active lately, I saw the deletion notice just above and thought you were a newbie. My sincerest apologies. As for the gallery, the truth is that I keep my uploads there not as a way to show off (I didn't even take 95% of those photographs, how impressive is a server upload?), but because even if they aren't in use now, I upload images that I think fill a void of subject matter in terms of things needing illustrating. So I keep them there because I want easy access to them, instead of having to go to Commons and hunt one down. Example: the biggest section is sheep photos, which is because I brought Domestic sheep to FA and needed a wide variety of useful images to choose from. VanTucky 03:48, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Martie Maguire

Hello! I noticed that you changed Martie Maguire's page. I'm wondering if listing her as a Country Fiddler rather than a Country Musician is right. I feel sort of new to this. She is a multi-instrumentalist. Please let me know. I can always use some help! --leahtwosaints (talk) 11:22, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Leah, you're absolutely right. I was on a fiddler-categorizing binge, and didn't even realize she played other instruments.

The trick with categories, as I see it, is you want to make the categorizations as specific as possible. It isn't always possible, since categories are included in other categories in ways that make it not just a straight-forward hierarchy.

In the case of Martie Maguire, it looks to me like she belongs in "American country singers," "American country guitarists," "American country singers" (all of which are in "American country musicians by instrument", "Country-rock musicians," and "Mandolinists". To put the article in these categories, just type

[[Category:The category name, with correct capitization]]

at the bottom of the article. To find other categories you think are relevant, you might try doing a search in "category space" (in the wp searchbox, click "search" instead of "go." from there, check only "category" in the "advanced search" box and search for "country music" or whatever). Definitely ask me any other questions! — eitch 07:12, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

All gone. Glad to see someone else who's interested in categorizing musicians - that's what I spent a lot of time doing last year, before getting bored and turning to other things! Perhaps I ought to start again... Anyway, if you've not seen it, WP:MUSCAT sets out the approach taken so far. Regards, and happy editing. Bencherlite^Talk 10:13, 7 June 2008 (UTC)