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Welcome!

Hello, Theolimeister, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ~~~~; this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Deb 13:14, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please cite sources for this article. Otherwise, it may be tagged as a candidate for deletion in the near future. Cheers. ++Arx Fortis (talk) 00:25, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adding pages from other languages[edit]

{{helpme}}Hi, I have been creating pages based around the Catalan soap opera El Cor de la Ciutat. I have been asked to cite reliable sources etc, but to be honest - the information I have been writing is just stuff I already know. I have looked on the website of the soap opera but none of the information I have knowledge on is on it really. I have been using a Catalan Wikipedia article as my basis of information and adding other bits which I know for myself. Can I quote the original Catalan Wikipedia article as a source? Perhaps anyone else with knowledge on the subject (although it is a little specialist) could help me in finding reliable sources?

Not really. Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source, which we're among the first to admit, and we're not a third-party source either - something separate from both the subject and the Wikimedia Foundation. The Catalan article should have sources of its own, which you can cite here. An effort should be made to find some English sources as well, though. Usually searching for key terms on a major search engine like Google or Yahoo can pull up some good sources for information. If not, you can post a message on the talk page or find a relevant WikiProject to assist you. Hersfold (t/a/c) 23:24, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

El Cor de la Ciutat[edit]

Hey there, I came across your new Template:WikiProject El Cor de la Ciutat because I monitor a bot which looks for new WikiProject banners not yet compliant with Template:WikiProjectBannerShell (WPBS is a function which allows WP banners to be collapsed to save space if there are several on a particular Talk page). Anyway, I made the template compliant and fixed the format error keeping the text outside the box.

By the way, to add the banner to a talk page, you should not paste all the code there, just paste {{WikiProject El Cor de la Ciutat}} into the page. It will appear the same, and then all pages are tied to the same template; when you make changes to the template, all pages will be updated.

By coincidence, I am also an active member of WP:SOAPS and perform a lot of our maintenance tasks. When I noticed that El Cor de la Ciutat was a soap, I added all of your El Cor de la Ciutat-related articles and categories to the Project and performed some other basic cleanup and sorting.

I noticed your question about sources above; a lot of soap articles have come under fire on this issue because many articles are undeveloped and of course there isn't a whole lot of coverage in mainstream media. Web searches may help, but is the series covered in any soap or TV magazines like US and British shows are? Anyway, some of your articles may technically be "in violation" but will probably not be nominated for deletion in their current state. If any of them is, let me or the Project know and we will work to save them.

Please let me know if I can help you out in any way in the creation and expansion of your articles. — TAnthonyTalk 04:55, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, you may want to use {{Infobox soap character}} instead of your new Template:El Cor de la Ciutat character; our template has many built-in fields and functions specially-designed for soaps (like a collapsible Relationships section), but you can still customize the colors. See Tina Clayton Lord for an example of it in use, and of course let me know if you have any questions about it. — TAnthonyTalk 05:03, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Speedy deletion of East Magazine[edit]

A tag has been placed on East Magazine requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. PookeyMaster (talk) 23:41, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject tags[edit]

Hello there! I've noticed that you've recently been adding the {{WikiProject Theatre}} template to many article talk pages. That's great! I would like to let you know of a special little feature that these tags have. When you put them on a page like Talk:Broadway theatre where there are multiple project tags, you should use the code:

{{WikiProject Theatre|nested=yes}}

This makes the template smaller and reduces clutter on the page like this:

Before:

This article is part of Wikipedia's theatre coverage, and has come to the attention of WikiProject Theatre, an attempt to create a comprehensive and detailed resource on the art of theatre on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate in the project, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page (just like any other article!), or visit WikiProject Theatre, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

and After

If you have any other questions or need any help, feel free to respond here or on my talk page. Happy Editing! --omtay38 01:03, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Template:El Cor de la Ciutat character requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes.

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:56, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright[edit]

Hello, Theolimeister. Concerning your contribution, Lily Allen and Friends, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material without the permission of the author. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/02_february/08/lily.shtml. As a copyright violation, Lily Allen and Friends appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Lily Allen and Friends has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

  • If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Lily Allen and Friends and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
  • If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Lily Allen and Friends with a link to where we can find that note.
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However, for text content, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Robert Seal (talk) 16:53, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Theatre March 2008 Newsletter[edit]

The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter (March 2008)
The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter!
Issue 1 - March, 2008

Hello and welcome to this, the first ever edition of the WikiProject Theatre Newsletter! If you haven't been over to the WikiProject page lately then you're missing out - the whole thing has undergone a complete makeover - see below for more info!
On top of this, we have brand spanking new templates (such as this one) and a completely revamped Collaboration of the Month - again, see below for more info on all of this.
Finally, a warning - the new-look WikiProject is still having the finishing touches put on it. If you find something that doesn't work, you don't agree with or is just plain missing, please don't hesitate to let us know on the WikiProject's talk page. We'll try our very best to fix ASAP!

New Look

As mentioned above, the WikiProject has recently undergone a spring-clean and we're dead excited about it! If you don't mind - we'd like to take this opportunity to explain some of the features and generally show off about it a little.

  • Colour scheme Those clashing colours have gone! All pages on the WikiProject now use two consistent shades of blue as part of the new streamlined interface (Those techies amongst us may wish to know that the precise names of the colours we use are: "lightsteelblue" for headings and "#c0e0e0" for backgrounds).
  • Navigation Menu Every page on the WikiProject now has the official WikiProject navigation menu so you can easily flick between pages and get back to the main project page. Say goodbye to clicking the back button several times!
  • To Do list/Open Tasks If you're stuck on what to do to help us then a list of the most important tasks is now available on the main page - no more excuses! At the moment, the list is looking a little short so if you have found something that you think ought to be added, then feel free to edit the list and let us know. Please refrain from linking to a specific article that generally needs an overall update. Single articles like this should be nominated for a future Collaboration of The Month - see below.
  • Article Structure This is a first for the WikiProject and is still under construction. What is the Article Structure page? Well, it's basically a rough guideline of sections to include when creating theatre-related articles - in particular, plays. As the scope of this WikiProject is so large, some sections of the Article Structure won't apply to all articles and other sections which will apply to a small cross-section of our article base have not been included in this Article Structure page. If you feel we have missed out something crucial which needs adding to most or all theatre-related articles then feel free to discuss it on either the Article Structure talk page or the main WikiProject talk page
Templates

All of the project's templates are now arranged in one handy page. Whilst we were going through we also noticed some that were missing. We have now added new templates in the form of:

  • {{WPTWelcome}} - a welcome tag to be placed on the talk page of a new user.
  • {{User WPTheatre}} - a userbox for members of the project.
  • {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/Sidebar}} - this template should be added to the side of any/all pages within the project to help navigate between project pages.
  • {{WPTheatre User}} - the template containing the latest edition of the WikiProject Newsletter (you're looking at it now!)
Collaboration of the Month

Ok, so this isn't exactly a new feature. It's always been there but has never really been updated on a, ahem, monthly basis (the clue is in the title!). The Collaboration of the Month (COTM) is now in template form to enable it to be streamlined across the Project, without having to be manually updated on each page. Don't worry if we've lost you at this point - the point is, it works! You can now nominate an article for COTM on the COTM page and we promise to adhere to it this time! It will be updated monthly! The more sharp-eyed amongst you may well have noticed that the COTM at the moment is still that old fella, August Strindberg. That's because no-one has nominated a COTM for this month (being a new feature an' all...) so we've decided to leave it as it is for this month until a new one has been democratically voted for.

And finally...

Thanks very much for reading down this far - hopefully future newsletters won't be this long! Please, if you can, invite new members and drop us a line over at the talk page to let us know what you think of the new look/newsletter and any suggestions you may have.

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Major update[edit]

Re: major update to WP:THEATRE - you may want to go back over some of those changes, which messed up a couple things - for example the equivalent WikiProjects in the other language Wikipedia Projects are no longer displayed on the left hand side under the toolbox in the new version. Cirt (talk) 11:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, in your major update to Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/Assessment, I'm curious - why did you remove the Request for Assessment that had been added by Cowardly Lion (talk · contribs) ? Cirt (talk) 11:26, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A clarification though, I don't want to come off in a negative way to you, I really do appreciate the work you are putting in to WP:THEATRE, just that these above things are a tad confusing. Cirt (talk) 11:28, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Theatre April 2008 Newsletter[edit]

The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter (April 2008)
The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter!
Issue 2 - April, 2008

Welcome to the second edition of the WikiProject Theatre Newsletter. This month's newsletter is focused mainly on recruitment and generally upping the profile of the WikiProject. Read on to find out more...

Recruitment

Just in case you haven't had a chance to head on over to our new-look WikiProject yet, this is to let you know that on the Templates page there is now a new "Welcome banner" which is to be placed on any new members talk pages. However, it is yet to be used as we haven't had any new members join the WikiProject within the last month! If you know of a user which has been contributing to theatre-related articles recently then why not drop them a line on their talk page and invite them to come and join us? That way, we can finally use thour lovely shiny new Welcome banner template. We hope eventually to be able to use this newsletter to show off about the vast numbers of new members we have joining us each month, rather in the way that the newsletters of other WikiProjects do.

Collaboration of The Month

This month's COTM has remained unchanged as no-one has nominated any articles to become the new incumbent. Quick - get yourself down to the COTM page and nominate an article for next month!

Assessment

Just a note to say that there are two articles down at the Assessment page which have requested assessment. Please could a member of the project pop over and assess them for us? It's only a small task.

Whilst we're on the subject of assessment, an ongoing task is to assess every article within Category:Unassessed Theatre articles, feel free to make a start on a few when you have a moment.

And finally...

Don't forget to add the WikiProject Theatre userbox to your userpage to spread the word about the project!

We're currently looking for members to volunteer in the compiling of this newsletter each month - please drop us a line at the talk page if you're interested in helping - be it in the delivery or writing processes of it!

You have received this newsletter because your name is on the list of Participants on the WikiProject page. If this information is out of date and you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name from the Participants list and also click here to stop receiving the newsletter.

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Your opinion Please[edit]

I would like your opinion at to the debate going on here [[1]] at the WikiProject Theatre.Smatprt (talk) 01:58, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Theatre May 2008 Newsletter[edit]

The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter (May 2008)
The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter!
Issue 3 - May, 2008

Welcome to our third newsletter - we've got lots to get through this month so without further ado, let's crack on...

The Big Debate - Character Lists in Play Articles

For those of you who haven't headed over to our talk page recently - you've been missing out! Throughout the past month there's been great discussion about the issue of character lists in play articles. The aim is to form a standard presentation of character lists to be used on all play articles so if you'd like to make your voice heard on the issue then check out the talk page now.

Collaboration of The Month

Yet again this month's COTM has remained unchanged as no-one has nominated any articles to become the new incumbent. Quick - get yourself down to the COTM page and nominate an article for next month!

Assessment

The number of articles at the Assessment page are growing - if you're feeling a little lost and don't know where to begin to help us out, head on down to the Assessment page and give us a hand.

New members

The past month has seen Dereksmootz, Duckie for broadway, Dozenthey, Fewster, Nrswanson, Kleinzach and Broadweighbabe join us - welcome to you all! It's wonderful to see such a large influx of new members.

If you've been editing a theatre-related article recently and noticed another user helping you who also appears to have an interest for the subject of theatre, why not drop them a line and invite them over to the project?

HELP!

We're crying out for people to help us out wherever possible. We are currently looking for members to volunteer to give us a hand in several areas. If you can do any of the following, please drop us a line at the talk page:

  • Newsletter Editor(s) - Always fancied yourself as a bit of a journalist? Perhaps you could help us write this newsletter - it doesn't take long to compile. Maybe you'd like to help but can't commit on a regular basis? In that case, why not rally round a few other members of the project to help you out and take it in turns each month to compose the newsletter?
  • Mailmen/women - If writing the newsletter isn't your bag then maybe you could help in the distribution of this fine document? As our membership grows it becomes quite laborious to send it to everyone. It's only a quick task that needs doing once a month, and really is just a case of copying and pasting a template onto our members talk pages.
  • Portal editor(s) - It's come to our attention that the Theatre Portal hasn't been updated in a long time and we'd like to get someone, or a group of people to take charge of it and get it up to the standard of some of the great portals out there (e.g. the Comedy Portal, the Solar System Portal etc).
And finally...

Don't forget to add the WikiProject Theatre userbox to your userpage to spread the word about the project!

You have received this newsletter because your name is on the list of Participants on the WikiProject page. If this information is out of date and you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name from the Participants list and also click here to stop receiving the newsletter.

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Theatre Projects[edit]

I am touched by your interest in my various updates. Like you I have been busy upgrading wiki pages with fuller and more accurate theatre information.

The trigger for me is usually a show or artist I am reviewing or interviewing (for The Stage and other journals). Thus I am about to review Richard Bean's new play The English Game at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, and found the existing page for him lacking playlists and review and interview links. Most of the material came from my copies of Theatre Record and its Indexes (first published by Ian Herbert from 1981 after the demise of Who's Who in the Theatre, and continues under the editorship of Ian Shuttleworth - both unsung heroes of theatre research).

At present my list of Performing Arts upgrades, major makeovers and new pages include the following, although I have probably missed out quite a few:

ACTORS Roger Allam, Frances Barber, Geoffrey Beevers, Jill Bennett, Ingrid Bergman, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Campbell, Anna Carteret, Charlotte Coleman, Tony Church, Charles Dance, Judi Dench, Patrick Doyle, Douglas Fairbanks Jr (Elstree), Lynn Farleigh (wife of John Woodvine), Emma Fielding, Michael Gambon, Aidan Gillen, Joan Hickson, Douglas Hodge (actor and director), Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, David Jacobs CBE (begetter of the Kingston Rose Theatre), Howard Keel (nee Harold Keel), Henry Kendall, Geraldine McEwan, Alec McCowen, Peter McDonald, Elizabeth McGovern (Chiswick based American actress), Helen Mirren, Hattie Morahan, Robert Morley, Bill Nighy, Monty Norman (Songbook), Eileen O’Casey (wife of Sean, lover of Harold Macmillan), Laurence Olivier, Nathaniel Parker, Alan Price (singer), Blake Ritson (Hattie Morahan’s fiancé), Anton Rodgers, Amanda Root, Katharine Schlesinger, Jenny Seagrove, Martin Shaw, Jack Shepherd (actor, director and playwright), John Simm, Auriol Smith (Orange Tree), Imelda Staunton, Patrick Stewart, Nora Swinburne, David Warner, Stephen Wight, John Woodvine

THEATRE ARCHITECTS and Artists Kodak Theatre (architects and designers), Tom Piper (designer), Michael Reardon (RSC architect), David Rockwood (American architect), Elisabeth Scott (Stratford Theatre architect)

CHARACTERS Joy Davidman (wife of C S Lewis), Harold Macmillan (real-life character in Never So Good)

COMPANIES Kneehigh Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company. Salzburg Festival (Max Reinhardt)

DIRECTORS and Producers Lindsay Anderson, John Barton, Michael Blakemore, Michael Boyd, Kenneth Branagh, Peter Daubeny (World Theatre), Frank Dunlop (Young Vic, etc), Peter Gill (NT Studio, Riverside Studios, etc), Rupert Goold, David Jones, Anthony Minghella, Christopher Morahan, Trevor Nunn (Macbeth, Much Ado and Comedy of Errors), Max Reinhardt, Karel Reisz, Kay Saxon, Auriol Smith, Sam Walters

PLAYS and Shows Absurd Person Singular, Blackbird, The Blue Room, The Breadwinner (Maugham), Cabaret (cast albums), Chains of Dew (Orange Tree), The Constant Wife, Cranford, Dealer’s Choice, Don Juan in Soho, Maxim Gorky’s Enemies, Glengarry Glen Ross, God of Carnage, Gone With the Wind, Hadrian VII, La Cage aux Folles, Langrishe Go Down, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Les Miserables, Next Door’s Baby (Orange Tree), Moonlight and Magnolias, Trevor Nunn’s Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Nicholas Nickleby (book, play, film and tv), Oklahoma!, Professor Bernhardi, Ronald Harwood’s Quartet, La Ronde/Reigen, See How They Run, Shadowlands, Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, Monty Norman’s Songbook and his 1982 SWET Award, Sunday in the Park With George, Undiscovered Country, The Winter Guest, The Years Between

THEATRES and Companies Abbey Theatre, Aldwych: World Theatre Season, Arts Theatre, Corn Exchange, Drama Centre, Gate Theatre Studio, Kodak Theatre, Menier Chocolate Factory, Northcott Theatre, Exeter, Nottingham Playhouse, The Other Place, Orange Tree Theatre (history, structure and repertory}, Oxford Playhouse, Q Theatre, Renaissance Shakespeare On the Road, Renaissance Theatre Company, Rose Theatre, Kingston, Royal Shakespeare Company RSC Theatres, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Swan Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Unicorn Theatre

WRITERS Rodney Ackland, Alan Ayckbourn, Harley Granville Barker, Beverley Baxter (as a critic), Richard Bean, Alan Bennett, Fanny Burney, Michael Coveney, Noël Coward, Martin Crimp, Daphne Du Maurier, Michael Frayn, Christopher Fry, John Galsworthy, Susan Glaspell, Simon Gray, Douglas Gresham, Christopher Hampton, David Harrower, Ronald Harwood, Michael Hastings, Amy Jenkins playwright (Daphne), Walter Kerr, Philip King, Joanna Laurens, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Sharman Macdonald, Norman Mailer (The Deer Park), Arthur Miller, Sheridan Morley, John Mortimer, Peter Nichols, Stephen Poliakoff, Nina Raine, Yasmina Reza, James Saunders, Arthur Schnitzler, Milton Shulman, Charles Spencer (‘theatrical Viagra’), Polly Stenham (That Face), Sewell Stokes, Tom Stoppard, David Storey, Robert Tanitch (archivist), Ben Travers Simon Trowbridge links (RSC Dictionary, archivist), John Van Druten, Laura Wade

MISCELLANEOUS Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, Critics’ Circle Awards 2007, Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland CATS, Evening Standard British Film Awards and many links, Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Is That All There Is? (film, song and many links), London Film Critics Circle, Lord Chamberlain, Theatre Record.

I receive constant help and co-operation from MarnetteD and Dnfenner (David Fenner), the three of us virtually constituting another theatre project!

I am happy to help with your project although not wishing to get involved in controversy!

My particular advantages are complete runs of Theatre Who's Who from 1933-1981, Theatre Record, Theatre World Annual, a back catalogue of many thousands of theatre programmes, a performing arts library, as well as years of theatregoing and reviewing. But as you know, it takes forever collating reiable information from all these sources, so I tend to do it piecemeal, when not earning my living as a writer.

Perhaps we can discuss this further some time.

Best wishes and thanks for your thought. John Thaxter (talk) 00:02, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS I have made my first contribution to your project: a stub of Harold Pinter's Proust Screenplay, staged as Remembrance of Things Past at the National in 2000 John Thaxter (talk) 14:44, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In Good King Charles's Golden Days[edit]

I have just created a new page for Bernard Shaw's In Good King Charles's Golden Days (note the apostrophe) but am balked by the fact that someone has borrowed or stolen my 1939 Constable edition with the beautiful Feliks Topolski line drawings! The Constable bumper bundle of Shaw's plays was published a year before this so I do not have a copy on my shelves,

Can you round it all off?

Best wishes, John Thaxter (talk) 15:31, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the contributions. I had foolishly forgotten that I have the complete playbill reproduced in the 10th edition of Theatre Who's Who and have now incorporated it in the Original production section. The only change of character names are that Charles II is known throughout as 'Mr Rowley' and Shaw elects to use Barbara Villiers' maiden name - but I have preserved the links.
Would it be fair to say that this is now no longer a stub? John Thaxter (talk) 08:36, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Shaw thing[edit]

As a modest further contribution to WPT I have rearranged the adaptations and revivals of Arms and the Man and inserted the September 1944 Old Vic at the New revival, starring Olivier, Joyce Redman and Richardson, which (believe it or not) I actually saw in the flesh.

The quote is by my good friend Robert Tanitch whose London Theatre in the 20th Century is a masterpiece of compilation if rather expensive (which, to Robert's annoyance, I managed to buy half-price from my local bookseller). John Thaxter (talk) 14:19, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oldsters[edit]

Although I created their pages long before our first exchange of messages, you may like to look at the articles on Nora Swinburne and Henry Kendall (actor), which are almost complete.

Also Q Theatre, which I shared at the start with Denis Fenner, and which could probably do with further expansion; although the thought of transcribing all those lists of Q Theatre productions in the appendix to Kenneth Barrow's history of the Q Theatre is a daunting one! John Thaxter (talk) 17:56, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bill Dudley[edit]

I found a useful British Theatre Guide interview with Bill Dudley and was surprised to find there was no page to link it from. So you will see that I have now created a new page - requiring considerable expansion, but a useful start. If anyone else in the project wants to get involved I would be more than relieved to get some help. My own affection for Dudley's work began with his video designs for Coast of Utopia at the National, and the astonishing spectral figure in the shower scene for Hitchcock's Blonde. Best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 10:27, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thea Sharrock[edit]

I have done a good deal of tidying up on the Thea Sharrock page, including regularising, detailing and correcting her list of theatre credits plus adding links to a couple of excellent interviews. If somone in the Theatre Project knows more about her private and early life, it would be useful to add more details - eg her parentage. Best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 10:05, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

British Theatre Guide[edit]

There is now a wiki page for British Theatre Guide. I've been using the BTG website for links to reviews because it is stable, unlike The Stage website - I am often unable to find my old reviews on The Stage website because the indexing is so poor and clogged by references to Mark Shenton's daily blogs.

BTG is listed by Intute as suitable for university research and higher education users. John Thaxter (talk) 15:53, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Martin Crimp and Howard Brenton[edit]

As further contributions to the project I have greatly expanded the Howard Brenton and Martin Crimp pages, not entirely unconnected from my reviewing the playtext of Never So Good and the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick, revival of Crimp's The Country, both for The Stage (plus a brief Stage feature on the Tabard makeover). Hope this helps - tell me if you do not want to know! John Thaxter (talk) 16:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Theatre June 2008 Newsletter[edit]

The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter (June 2008)
The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter!
Issue 4 - June, 2008
Collaboration of The Month

Yet again this month's COTM has remained unchanged as no-one has nominated any articles to become the new incumbent. Please can someone get down to the COTM page and nominate an article for next month!

Assessment

The ongoing task of assesing the articles at the Assessment page continues - if you're feeling a little lost and don't know where to begin to help us out, head on down to the Assessment page and give us a hand.

New members

The past month has seen Canadian Scouter, Carole Higgins, Gonzalo84 and Kiwiboy121 join us - welcome to you all!

If you've been editing a theatre-related article recently and noticed another user helping you who also appears to have an interest for the subject of theatre, why not drop them a line and invite them over to the project?

HELP!

As mentioned in previous newsletters, we're crying out for people to help us out wherever possible. We are currently looking for members to volunteer to give us a hand in several areas. If you can do any of the following, please drop us a line at the talk page:

  • Newsletter Editor(s) - Always fancied yourself as a bit of a journalist? Perhaps you could help us write this newsletter - it doesn't take long to compile. Maybe you'd like to help but can't commit on a regular basis? In that case, why not rally round a few other members of the project to help you out and take it in turns each month to compose the newsletter?
  • Mailmen/women - If writing the newsletter isn't your bag then maybe you could help in the distribution of this fine document? As our membership grows it becomes quite laborious to send it to everyone. It's only a quick task that needs doing once a month, and really is just a case of copying and pasting a template onto our members talk pages.
  • Portal editor(s) - It's come to our attention that the Theatre Portal hasn't been updated in a long time and we'd like to get someone, or a group of people to take charge of it and get it up to the standard of some of the great portals out there (e.g. the Comedy Portal, the Solar System Portal etc).
And finally...

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Your pix to Wikipedia Commons?[edit]

I'm gradually translating the Eastbourne article and putting it onto de/Wiki. Most of your pix are to be found only on en/Wiki. I did take the liberty of getting the one of Motcombe Gardens uploaded to Wikipedia Commons so that it could be used on the German site. May I do the same (could you do the same) for the others, plse? Mikeo1938 (talk) 13:34, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Billy Roche and Alan Ayckbourn[edit]

I have been collaborating with Chris Neville-Smith on a new page for Alan Ayckbourn's Private Fears in Public Places, also considerably upgrading the Billy Roche article, including adding brief extracts of my own reviews of the Wexford Trilogy since I could find no others giving a sufficiently brief description with the tone of Roche's Irish text. Best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 18:47, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I seem to have been corraled by Chris Neville-Smith into his sub-Theatre Project to provide articles on all the major Ayckbourn plays, as well as uprating the Ayckbourn article. For your information we have just completed a new page for Ayckbourn's Drowning on Dry Land (which I never actually saw) and to which I have added the Wiki Project Theatre tag. Hope that's okay with you. Best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 09:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
On the subject of Alan Ayckbourn, I've added Wikiproject Theatre tags to all of the Ayckbourn plays linked from the Alan Ayckbourn page that don't already have it. Most of these I otherwise haven't touched, and I'm in no hurry to look at them, so don't feel obliged to get through them in the next 10 seconds if you've got better things to do.
Cheers, Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 17:11, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have just written and posted a major new article under this heading, and tagged it as part of your Wiki Theatre Project. Hope that's okay. Regards, John Thaxter (talk) 11:09, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Turgenev took me to Dorothy Tutin and I have just started on a major upgrade of her page (from Theatre Who's Who so far). John Thaxter (talk) 10:27, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have now done a major theatre upgrade of the Michael Redgrave article, and perhaps the tag evaluations need reviewing! Best John Thaxter (talk) 11:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Which then took me to actress Margaret Rawlings, who now has a major page to herself. John Thaxter (talk) 22:59, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Recent death template[edit]

Hi. Please don't add the recent death template to people who died more than two months earlier [2]. It hardly seems "recent" at that stage. Thanks, WWGB (talk) 04:59, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alan Howard[edit]

In collaboration with MarnetteD I have been co-creating a page for the actor Alan Howard, although his own website, compiled and maintained by his wife Sally Beauman, is more than adequate - so I have made a couple links to it. But I may return with more material drawn from his own CV in Theatre Who's Who 1981 (the 17th and what was to be the final edition of this invaluable work). Best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 09:51, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The page is now as complete as I can make it. Best wishes, John Thaxter (talk) 20:59, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Angus, etc...[edit]

With regards to this edit, have you seen the film? I have, and during the opening credits it says "based on the novels...", and if you read the two plot summaries on the Wikipedia entries for those two books, and have seen the film, then you would recognise the two plots used for the film (the Robbie plot from novel 1, New Zealand and Dave the Laugh plots from book 2). Even the imdb entry lists the two source novels. Darrenhusted (talk) 10:41, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Donmar West End[edit]

As part of the Project I have considerably updated and edited the Donmar Warehouse page and the linked Michael Grandage page. Hope it's okay for you. Do try and see Ivanov at the Wyndham's (if you can get a ticket). My Stage rave review is at [3]. John Thaxter (talk) 09:42, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Royal Shakespeare Company[edit]

I have now claimed the Royal Shakespeare Company page as natural Wiki Theatre Project territory, having seen that Edith The Hutt (aka James R Bowe) was planning to reduce the RSC theatre listing to the ones currently in use, i.e. The Courtyard, etc.

I hope we can respect the Stratford history as I have contrived to do while building up the RSC page from modest beginnings to the present major article. However, I do agree that the 'notable actors' listing (not mine) needed pruning. Once the RSC Dictionary has been updated by Simon Trowbridge and put back on-line we do not really need a duplicate list of eminent Stratfordians I would be glad if you would also keep a monitorial eye on this page. My best wishes John Thaxter (talk) 15:16, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject El Cor de la Ciutat, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject El Cor de la Ciutat and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject El Cor de la Ciutat during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. — TAnthonyTalk 03:07, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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AfD nomination of June Lewis[edit]

An article that you have been involved in editing, June Lewis, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/June Lewis. Thank you. WWGB (talk) 13:25, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

NowCommons: Image:Eastbourne Buses bus.jpg[edit]

Image:Eastbourne Buses bus.jpg is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Commons:Image:Eastbourne Buses 64.jpg. This is a repository of free media that can be used on all Wikimedia wikis. The image will be deleted from Wikipedia, but this doesn't mean it can't be used anymore. You can embed an image uploaded to Commons like you would an image uploaded to Wikipedia, in this case: [[Image:Eastbourne Buses 64.jpg]]. Note that this is an automated message to inform you about the move. This bot did not copy the image itself. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 17:13, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image (File:Que logo.gif)[edit]

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WikiProject Theatre Newsletter - February 2010[edit]

The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter (Febrauary 2010)
The WikiProject Theatre Newsletter!
Issue 5 - February 2010

Welcome to the latest WikiProject Theatre newsletter (the first in quite a while!) bringing you news of what's going on in the project, what progress we're making, and how you can get involved.

Latest News
  • All theatre articles currently tagged with a project banner have now been assessed for quality. There are still plenty to assess for importance, though - see the article assessment page for details.
  • There is now a News section on the main project page, updated automatically to keep us informed of developments in theatre articles.
Collaboration of the Month
  • Theatre has been nominated as the next project collaboration. This could be an excellent opportunity to improve the quality of one of our most important articles - listed as one of Wikipedia's top 1000 most vital articles - but it needs a lot of work before it can be considered for even good article nomination!
  • Stop by the collaboration page for tips on how to improve an article, to add your support, or to suggest alternative or future collaborations.
Jobs you can do

Any and all improvements to theatre-related articles will help the project, but if you're looking for something to do, have a look at the to-do list. Some current areas of priority are:

If you are currently working on a particular topic or area of the project, and would like to muster some support from other editors, feel free to add tasks to the to-do list. Or even think about setting up an informal working group - create a project subpage to organise tasks in a central location. Remember you can always discuss ideas with others at the project talk page.

New members

If you've been editing a theatre-related article recently and noticed another user helping you who also appears to have an interest for the subject of theatre, why not drop them a line and invite them over to the project?

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Chalet 2 Holywell[edit]

Hello: I'd like to insert your picture of chalet 2 in Eastbourne to the corresponding page on fr/Wiki. It would illustrate the piece which I've just translated. However, it doesn't appear in Wiki/Commons. Could you pse move it to Commons? Also any other pix on the en/Wiki page for Eastbourne for future use. Thanks. Mikeo1938 (talk) 16:15, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:TVoter has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Mhiji 21:22, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Awards lists in play articles[edit]

Based on your past editing activity, you may want to comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Theatre#Award enumeration.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:10, 13 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The article Dígame has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unreferenced, no evidence of notability

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The article Mark Hadfield has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:BIO; no strong secondary sources, just appearances in cast lists.

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Nomination of Susannah Fielding for deletion[edit]

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Current Theatre COTM[edit]

Template:Current Theatre COTM has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:05, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/COTM, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/COTM and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre/COTM during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 04:16, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Collab-Theatre[edit]

Template:Collab-Theatre has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 18:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notice

The article So You Want to Tread the Boards has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable, possibly self-published book. There are no valid reliable sources being cited in the article, and I have been unable to locate any coverage or reviews of the book.

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Nomination of The Train Driver for deletion[edit]

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Nomination of Callum Dixon for deletion[edit]

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