User talk:Jeandebeaumont

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Jenny Lind

I'm wondering if you could reply to concerns about this article on Talk:Jenny Lind? Would that be possible? Thanks and best wishes. -- Kleinzach (talk) 09:56, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Jean, I'm sure you have a lot of interesting and useful material that could be added to the article and I look forward to it returning, properly formatted and referenced. You seem new to Wikipedia and I'm sure you didn't intentionally mean to add link spam, so I'd just like to point out a couple things before you make future edits.

1. Avoid external links within the article. Instead, use citations (footnotes) or if the link provides general information, put it in the article's "External links" section.

2. Don't externally link your web site (Icons of Europe) to every mention of it in the article. Only link it in a footnote and only then if it is relevant to supporting a particular statement or assertion. (The same thing goes for external links to other organizations.) When linking in a footnote, link to the specific page on the site, not the home page, unless the supporting information is actually on that page. And make sure the link is accurately described. For example, in a footnote, instead of putting this:

Chopin in the World

put this:

Jens A. Jorgensen, 'On the trail of Mazurka in A-flat, opus 24, n° 3', Chopin in the World, April 2005.

3. If you have disagreements, queries etc. concerning any parts of the article, don't add personal comments to the article itself. That's a real no-no.;-) Instead, you need to take the issue(s) to the article's talk page for discussion with other editors. To do that, just click on the tab at the top that says discussion. In the case of Jenny Lind, that will take you to Talk:Jenny Lind. When you get there, click edit and add your comments. Make sure you sign your comment on the talk page with ~~~~. That will automatically add your signature.(But edits to the article itself should not be signed.)

4. If you are making extensive edits to an article, you might want to work on them first in a personal sandbox so you can proof-read them (avoids making dozens of minor edits in a row which makes the article's history very difficult to read), and ask other editors for comments before you publish them to the article itself. To do start your own sandbox click on this link User:Jeandebeaumont/Sandbox, make an edit and save the page. It's also a good idea to add this: {{userpage}} or this: {{User Sandbox}} to the top of your sandbox page.

Hope this helps, and happy editing. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 12:23, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

It takes two (or three, or more) to edit war. I'm sure there was no bad intent on anyone's part, but thought I'd file the RFC before all out war broke out. It's a nice article, and I'm sure you have additional material as discussed above. Mjroots (talk) 15:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

P.S. if the Icons of Europe website is your own website, there could be a COI. Mjroots (talk) 15:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your note

Not at all. Good luck with the editing. I know it takes a while to get used to Wikipedia. By the way you can sign with four tildes, like ~~~~. Best Kleinzach (talk) 00:35, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

And thanks for your note to me. Sorry I didn't have time to explain everything to you clearly. You can refer to WP policies for lots of help with creating articles. Itsmejudith (talk) 14:35, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Jean, Thanks for your message. I'm just going to add a note on Talk: Jenny Lind about sources. Itsmejudith (talk) 15:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

New Username

Hi, JdB!

I was "MusicalConnoisseur," but I've recently changed my username to "La Pianista." I thought I like to let you know about the username change before our correspondance becomes confusing.

And here's a smile for your hard work on the Chopin-Lind story:

^LaPianísta! has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Jenny Lind

Re this edit, is that a book source? If so, {{cite book}} should be used and an ISBN quoted. Mjroots (talk) 13:01, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Re: Jenny Lind, the book source is properly listed at the bottom of the article, and only the author's name and page number goes in the in-line ref. See WP:CITE. BTW, the cite template mentioned above is optional, and none of the books in this article use it, so unless you want to convert them all, I wouldn't use the template. Thanks, and all the best! --- Ssilvers (talk) 19:08, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I understand. I had overlooked that the book source is listed below. Jean de Beaumont (talk) 12:06, 16 October 2010 (UTC)