User talk:Danproduct

External links[edit]

Hello, thank you for adding external links to public domain pieces. However, please make sure that they are of sufficient quality and there is no link to another recording – particularly a higher-quality one – of the same work. Please discuss link-adding on a wide scale with the relevant WikiProjects, such as WikiProject Classical music. Graham87 16:07, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OK. All the links I have inserted where to high definition public domain recordings. In some cases I agree, there were similar ones already on the page. But in other cases, there was nothing of comparable quality. For example on:

Coriolan Overture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No._2_(Borodin)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_in_E-flat_major,_D._568_(Schubert)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._6_(Tchaikovsky)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No._19_(Mozart)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_in_D_major,_D._850_(Schubert)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_in_A_minor,_D._845_(Schubert)

there is nothing of comparable quality on these. So how come I cannot post links to public domain youtube HD recordings in these cases?

All the best, Danproduct (talk) 18:19, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I was a bit hasty last night ... I even managed to remove a message you posted to somebody's talk page! I've put back the links to the only articles you edited that did not have an equivalent recording (either imbedded or linked): Piano Sonata in D major, D. 850 (Schubert) and Piano Sonata in E-flat major, D. 568 (Schubert). By the way, the links to scores should always go on top per convention, and you should never add your links to the top of the external links section – that is considered queue-jumping. What I meant by "quality" was the quality of the performance ... that recording you posted of Schubert's C minor sonata sounds tepid compared to the link that was already there. Graham87 06:41, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And I've just fixed the Schubert sonata link: it's now here. Thanks for, in a round-about way, helping me to find and fix broken links; while checking your edits more carefully today, I also discovered several broken links related to Tchaikovsky. Graham87 09:46, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And of course I re-added the link to String Quartet No. 2 (Borodin). Graham87 09:05, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the more than polite responses! I will do my best from now to check the following things before I post:

- that the song is not already in the article under ogg form

- that there isn't a link of comparable audio quality

- that the interpretation itself is of the highest quality possible

And I will add them last to the External Links section (hope I understood this right).

All the best,

Danproduct (talk) 15:03, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, sounds good to me. Graham87 04:50, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, if the performance already in the article and the one you want to link are remarkably different (e.g. use of a tenor/soprano in lieder, use of modern rather than period instruments) then I think it's OK to add the link. Graham87 05:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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