Talk:Claudio Di Veroli

Citations and sources.

"This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (June 2012)"

As of September 2012, the article has plenty of sources I would deem reliable in the links. Can this be removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arielsilvera (talk • contribs) 12:39, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

This article is based upon misleading and self-serving data. The subject has no degrees in musicology, harpsichord, or organology. The subject's books appear all to have been self-published by his own organization (BrayBaroque; one exception may be the book published in Buenos Aires; I have not yet been able to verify if that is a self-published book or not). Reviews of these publications have been very mixed, a fact that is not reflected in this article, and should be. See, for example, the less-than-sanguine review at http://www.vdgs.org.uk/files/VdGSJournal/Vol-03-2.pdf. (The subject apparently instigated a flame war with the author over the negative content of that review, which appears to this reader to provide a balanced adjudication.) The article repeatedly cites non-peer-reviewed sources as evidence of the subject's authority. The External Sources section was entirely made up of flattering mentions by non-authorities on internet chat forums. Many claims made in the article are clearly self-serving and are entirely unsourced. For example, the broad claim of "endorsement" by Gustave Leonhardt, John Barnes, et al. Irrelevant data (such as the languages spoken by the subject - which would only be relevant if the subject were a scholar interpreting texts written in those languages, which - as far as I can tell - he is not) abound in the article. Of grave concern is the lack of documentation (years taught, names of courses taught, division of the institution in which courses were taught) provided for the subject's teaching record. On the whole, this article contains almost nothing noteworthy and, in my view, is merely a publicity vehicle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MusicologyPhD (talk • contribs) 18:18, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

The original version of this article was approved by a Wikipedia referee. MusicologyPhD recently introduced 15 negative changes which, with their justifications in the article's History, are all unfounded. For example, about published reviews of my work (more than a dozen if we include recitals and conferences not just books) he wrote that "some were less sanguine": actually all have been very favourable except one, by Bradley Lehman. This only negative review was quoted by Musicology PhD to end his negative intervention, and he believes it "to provide a balanced adjudication", in spite of the rebuttal published at http://www.vdgs.org.uk/files/VdGSJournal/Vol-04.pdf. MusicologyPhD deleted the workshop part of the bio leaving only the recent one in Bray: purportedly my teaching was not international, which is untrue, and minor non-academic, which is also untrue. For example a workshop of mine was held at the G. Verdi Conservatoire in Turin, it lasted four hours and all the lessons in the Conservatoire were suspended so that all the students and teachers could attend. MusicologyPhD felt entitled to delete endorsements from world-leaing figures as "entirely unsourced", yet I have in front of me documents with the endorsements from Gustav Leonhardt, Hubert Bédard, John Barnes, Igor Kipnis, Patrizio Barbieri and others: Kipnis and Barbieri specifically authorised them to be made public. Let me note that Wikipedia User MusicologyPhD was created anonymously with the sole purpose of defacing this article: within minutes he/she entered the changes and then deleted his persona from the Wikipedia.((talk) 19:36, 3 July 2014 (UTC))

I asked Di Veroli for more sources and have thus added a number of references and small edits in the article. Please view the history. (Arielsilvera (talk) 20:35, 6 July 2014 (UTC))