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Thanks, Feldmahler, that's very clear and helpful. I've just tested the new template entries for nationality, which works very well. As it's a relatively quick cut and paste job to modify the pages where the categories have already been added, I'd prefer to do this so that people don't pick up any '...

If someone who understands these things can edit the composer FTE template to include the field for nationality, then I'll convert all the pages I edited earlier today to use the new template, and a team of us (hopefully) can get to work on the rest. Note that there are some composers who changed na...

Feldmahler, I can only say that no-one mentioned a 'template solution' when KGill first came up with the idea, or asked if he could go ahead, or even when he started last night. Thinking this was an excellent idea, and with some time on my hands today, I joined in enthusiastically, to find that I'm ...

Looks good to me! I've had a little dabble as well, hope you don't mind...

Wikipedia seems to classify some composers rather oddly- for instance, Szymanowski is listed as Polish even though he was born in the Ukraine. Szymanowski's family were Polish, but at the time of his birth they were living in the Ukraine, which was then part of the Russia Empire (and the country of...

I think if a link can be systematized out of a pile of links, it ought to be. It is also common for wikis to have standardized inter-wiki links. I'm all in favour of having standardized links, which is why I think IMSLP should link to Wikipedia in the same way as Wikipedia links back to IMSLP — und...

There are quite a few pages with two or more external links, only one of which is to Wikipedia. Would it really be helpful to split these up?

By "at the botom of the page", I meant still within the template (as in the examples I gave). Apologies for any confusion.

I see what you mean, but the multi-language code will still work if pasted at the bottom of the page. Like this: ====External Links==== * [[wikipedia:{{#iflang:en=Eugene Onegin (opera)|de=de:Eugen Onegin (Oper)|es=es:Eugenio Oneguin (ópera)|fr=fr:Eugène Onéguine (opéra)|it=it:Franz Liszt|nl=nl:Jevge...

You can just add the heading:

====External Links====

... at the end of the work page, with a bullet point underneath linking to the Wikipeda article. See the Brahms, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky pages for some examples.

I asked a friend of mine who knows about these things to look into it. He found that Edward Agate was born in 1880 at Pendleton (near Manchester), and died at York on 18 October 1940, aged 60. So it looks like Agate's translations will remain in copyright in the EU until 1 January 2011 — not too lon...

OK, I've modified the continuo headings again in line with the suggestions above.

See what you think about using the both the big and small category separated by a colon, I suggested it before. It helps keeps track of the whole hierarchy, which I like but others might not. For instance, it might be obvious that a sacred work will have text, therefore must be Choral, but it's jus...

Just looked at the categories and subcategories. looks generally much better then before, comments: 1) Concertante works: I guess is sort of a typo, if you have "3 or more soloists and orchestra", then the next category should be "2 solists and orchestra", not "2 or more......

I'm with Snailey on this one. Full instrument names, in score order, indicating keys for transposing instruments, e.g. "Clarinet (C)") — or doubling: "3 Flutes (3rd = Piccolo)".