User talk:Gudzwabofer

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WikiProject Percussion

Are you sure you want to claim whistle as percussion? I've seen some odd ways to play woodwind, but banging on or with whistles isn't one of them! :-) Martin of Sheffield (talk) 14:47, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Please go back and re-assign the importance of most percussion articles to Low or Mid. They cannot all be High. Binksternet (talk) 06:12, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

So far all I have assigned are the percussion instrument articles, which are an important focus of the percussion project, which is all the rating system is about. There are plenty of unassigned percussion articles, mostly related to individual percussionists, percussion ensembles, and instrument manufacturers which you're more than welcome to sort through should you wish to join the project.Gudzwabofer (talk) 06:21, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Do you intend to move articles such as Tan-tan from High importance to Low importance? Or are you inviting me to clean up after you? Binksternet (talk) 06:29, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

A Tan-tan is a common percussion instrument in Brazil, therefore, it can't be classed as of low importance to the percussion category. The only reason I have given these ratings is as an aid to working on better organising the percussion category, as explained at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Percussion/Assessment. As you're not part of this project, I'm not sure what concern of yours this is. By "cleaning up after me" all you'd be doing is making my job harder. Honestly this feels like rather pedantic harassment.Gudzwabofer (talk) 06:40, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Also your description of this as re-assigning is inaccurate. Most of these pages were previously unassigned, as I personally reinstated the importance scale for the percussion project yesterday.Gudzwabofer (talk) 06:48, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

The point is that you assigned "High" to every percussion article, without regard to the real-world importance of the topic. By "re-assign" I mean that your new assignment should be redone because it is wrong in most cases. By the way, anyone who expresses an interest in WikiProject activities is free to comment or participate, without formally signing up as a member.

If you assign a High importance to every single topic in a WikiProject then you are already making the job harder. Binksternet (talk) 06:58, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

If you listened to what I said you would realise your point is moot. I have not assigned High importance to every percussion article, there are still 390 unassigned articles which would almost all be classed as low or mid level importance as none of them are instrument articles. The overal ratings may change in time. But for what I'm working on at present (and given the low level of participation in this project it is mostly me), this simplified approach is working best. I haven't even begun to look at categories because there are still percussion articles which don't even have a basic tag of belonging to the project. At present my main focus is to make sure they're all tagged with basic ratings, all incorporated into List of percussion instruments, and all given infoboxes and H-S classifications. I haven't even begun to look at how complete or incomplete category listings are, and I've only just begun to look at which articles may need merging. I've only made one submission in this regard so far.

Now that I have today just finished incorporating every presently tagged instrument into List of percussion instruments I'm not going to spend effort in trying to stop you touching the High, Mid, Low, and Untagged categories, but please don't remove any pages from the Top level importance as even the specialist technical stubs are there for a reason as I need to check if they're linked or incorporated in the larger top-level articles. Please also don't add tags to any percussion articles without also adding them to List of percussion instruments as this is the primary means of keeping track of which percussion instrument articles are presently in existence. (The categories are a mess and don't include many instruments). Also please don't simply revert what I've done on pages because in some cases I've added tags where no tags previously existed.Gudzwabofer (talk) 07:23, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Jason Barnes (drummer)

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