User talk:Ben Novotny

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:31, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Notes

Hi! I have some notes:

• "Though she differentiated her work by often using the title, Lied fur Klavier (Song for Piano)."

This is a sentence fragment, so it needs to be fixed.

• "Despite this self-criticism"

This is kind of a personal statement in how it's posed, but it's an easy fix - just attribute it along the lines of "Historians have stated that despite...". We could also just leave off this part and leave the rest of the sentence to stand on its own since this first part isn't really necessary per se.

• "music was written on coloured sheets of paper,"

This isn't negative at all - I was just wondering if there was a reason she chose to do this. It's really an interesting factoid!

• Only use the person's last name when you're referring to them, unless the article is about a group of people with the same last name. The other exceptions would be if the person is widely known under their first name, such as Cher or Madonna, or if it's something like us referring more than once to a family member with the same last name.

Overall this looks good! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:00, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

• Hi! I would use the European spelling since Mendelssohn is from Germany. The basic rule of thumb on Wikipedia is to use country specific spelling for a given article. It usually means that articles use either British or American English. There's more info about this here, if you're curious.

The info about the colored paper is just so freaking cool - I'm glad you added that. This definitely looks ready to add to the live article! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:52, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Fanny Mendelssohn

Ben - Please don't delete unsourced information unless it looks wildly wrong - just tag it with {{fact}} and another editor will come along and source it. Thank you.--Smerus (talk) 20:41, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Bu the way - can you please clean up your citations in the text? There are a number of refs like this - "Todd, R. Larry. (2010). Fanny Hensel : the other Mendelssohn. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 351. ISBN 978-0-19-518080-0. OCLC 301705955." Where the book or article is listed in the sources section, you need only enter (for this example, for instance): <ref>Todd (2010) p. 351</ref>. Otherwise the 'notes' section gets ovwrwhelmed with text. With thanks, --Smerus (talk) 09:04, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Yes that would be an improvement. I was not aware of this method. Thanks for informing me.

• That's great. When you get round to it, can you also check the dates you use , and make sure that you include page references. (e.g. some of the references to Todd (2010) are written as 'Todd (2014)', and have no page refs.) Many thanks,--Smerus (talk) 11:47, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Your draft of, and the peer review concerning, the Fanny Mendelssohn article

Ben, could you please have a look at Wikipedia:Peer review/Fanny Mendelssohn/archive1#Wiki Ed, and leave your comments there, regarding that topic (if any)? Thanks. --Francis Schonken (talk) 06:01, 28 October 2020 (UTC)