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- СПУТНИКССС Р 02:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
"I read your (now deleted) comments on the Sviatoslav Richter Talk page and I have a question: why did you decide not to leave that text on the page? (Paul 23:43, 4 January 2007 (UTC))"
-First of all, I really appreciate the fact that you said something to me. Hmmm, well I took it off for a variety of reasons. First of all, I really like Richter alot and I feel he should be entitled to some amount of privacy about his sexuality - even if there is potentially support for the position that he was homosexual. Secondly, broadly speaking - I think people don't seem understanding of other people's feelings on most matters. It takes a remarkable mind that can really put his or her imagination inside someone else's mind and really try and think as they think, and see them for what they are. While I am not suggesting you or the others there are not this sort of person - I did find it unlikely that most people would welcome my feelings on the matter, especially given the hostility to the ideas I put forth. I really admire Richter and aside from Claudio Arrau, he is one of my favorite pianists (I think I admire Arrau slightly more). I did find some sources that suggest Richter was gay, and since you asked, I will show them to you:
1) http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/1999/01/05feature.html
2) Karlinsky, Simon. "Russia's Gay Literature and Culture: The Impact of the October Revolution." Hidden from History. Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr., eds. New York: New American Library, 1989: 348-364
I would agree none of these sources are necessarily demonstrative "proof" of Richter's potential homosexuality. The first source states he was homosexual because it was claimed by Richter's "friends (apparently a substantial amount of them)." While this is certainly not proof, it shouldn't necessarily be thrown out of consideration either. The second source has several passages where it asserts Richter's homosexuality - although I only read clips of it from the internet and am interested to see what the full text would say, and how exactly it backs up its contentions. Karlinsky would have had to make sure he backed up his sources very well in order for the claims in his book to be valid. He does have several historical claims that do seem to be supported though, like mentioning laws that banned homosexuality in Soviet Russia at the time - so at the very least some of the text seemed to be well supported. The other evidence I had was gossip from people who knew friends of Richter (there was lots of it, btw). Gossip is not demonstrable proof and is vaguely circumstancial at best and should not be taken seriously in Wikipedia whatsoever - so I don't mind if you discard those things that I've heard. Additionally, I don't know how much you like to "read between the lines" but Richter did seem to talk oddly positively about several male figures in the movie The Enigma (he described Oistrakh as "exquisite," Prokofiev as "healthy"), and his partner Nina Dorliac wasn't exactly the most attractive woman either (she suffered from baldness). While I don't want to say that this is evidence Richter was gay, it certainly doesn't help add to the perception that he was straight - not to sound like a jerk or anything.
Lastly, I have had experiences where people thought I was gay when I am not, so I do know the feeling of people saying things about you that are untrue. In this sense, I felt guilty posting any info that Richter was gay - although this is slightly different given that Richter might actually have been gay. I hope you understand my position a bit better and realize that I'm not trying to vandalize wikipedia or be a jerk at all. I just wanted to add what I thought might have been true about Richter (Jan 5, '07, 7:04 PM Eastern).
Hello! I saw your edit on the Richter article and I thought I'd say hello :) There's not many of us working on articles on classical pianists, so you're very welcome. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask on my talk page :) --Missmarple 14:08, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Lpgeffen! It's me again :) I would like you to know about this: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 February 11. I do feel that the 'Classical pianists' category works just perfect right now and would like to keep it just as it is now. Vote if you wish :) --Missmarple 11:02, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I will never tell of Special:Newpages! Oops. Choess 03:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
I see you've speedy tagged Gratchenfleiss. You might also be interested in Hieronymous Gratchenfleiss and Funerary Violin from the same author, both of which I've just tagged as "proposed for deletion". Tonywalton | Talk 19:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
a-HA! I've tracked down the elusive Guild. [1]. And guess who authored al this stuff? Rohan Kriwaczek, that's who. Strangest self-promotion I've seen in a while! Tonywalton | Talk 21:29, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
The Funerary Notebooks of Herr Gratchenfleiss – 15 Pieces. A series of 15 short pieces, each exploring a different aspect of our relationship with mortality. Composed in the guise of a forgotten composer who was the pinnacle of the great lost tradition of Funerary Violin. Comes with an accompanying historical essay, as all the works in this project do.
at http://www.rohan-k.co.uk/scores.html (my emphasis added) is tantamount to an admission that it's a complete fiction. It all sounds interesting, though — think I'll listen to some of his samples. Tonywalton | Talk 22:42, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
http://www.iussa.org/index.php?page=email (of all places) is the only place on Google that "Funerary Violin" turns up (apart from what looks like some sort of a stoplist or spam filter breaker). That page contains the following:
"Semi" fictional? Hmmm. This is the book featured at http://www.rohan-k.co.uk/books.html
I used http://dogpile.com to come up with the author's website, by the way. Tonywalton | Talk 22:57, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
[2] Well spotted! Sdedeo (tips) 03:42, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thought you might like to know that the front cover is now being used on this article. Also Sparks has a peer review and it is also up for good article nomination--KaptKos 09:30, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
The next step is to take it to AfD. Let me know if you'd like help. --Fang Aili talk 05:48, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I like the way you label new pages when called for as: {{Unreferenced|piece of crap}} Thanks! Paul 03:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. You may not have noticed that I did also wikify and clean-up that article; I didn't just put my little humour there and walk away. Mrmoocow 03:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
It seems odd to me that you've been marking deletion requests as minor edits.[3][4]. Could you at least use edit summaries to make the page history make sense? NickelShoe (Talk) 18:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Is an epic which deserves its place on Wikipedia, search it on Youtube for information on it.
err i've actually forgotten why this is here... on this page i mean, i know i put it on wiki, but i didnt think it was here. Ferretstu
You have added a CSD template and marked it as a minor edit. When you get a chance, please review Help:Minor edit. When submitting a substantial change it can be considered bad form to mark it as minor. Thanks for your consideration. Navou banter 02:44, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
I'll try to remember to include edit summaries for all my db tags. Paul 02:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC) AND I have changed my default to mark my edits major, not minor! That addresses the other half of your concern. Paul 02:53, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Can you explain why you tagged all those user talk pages as needing speedy deletion? {{db-talk}} does not apply to user talk pages. Metros232 01:41, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
I didn't really block Blocked, just redirected it to Block as the most obvious redirect. I'll watch it for a few days to see if it gets reverted. --Steve (Slf67) talk 01:11, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
I see that you removed the speedy tag from this page, so I'll ask you reconsider. I added a link to argan on the page and it seems to me that, given what argan means, the definition is suspect. It's an African plant and therefore the explanation of the source of the phrase makes very little sense. It's your call, but I think the whole thing is an invention. Paul 03:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Please do not Delete Jack555 Under the rules since I have said "The subject of the article is notable" I don't believe you can speed delete it. If you have a problem with my page please help me to meet your criteria. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jack555a (talk • contribs)
I removed your report from WP:AIV. As it wasn't an individual vandal report. Please go to WP:RFPP or WP:AN/I. --Wildnox(talk) 01:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Anon:
Registered:
Hm... should be fixed, now. If they do any more editing, it'll only be to their talk page, unless they manage to register another sock and evade any autoblocks coming their way. We'll see. Luna Santin 04:09, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
hello paul. i am Sevrugi Adam Linethzia from the Frankfurt am Main suburbs of Frankfurt in Germany. I am a pilot for Lufthansa Airlines. We should be having many fun and exciting times on wikipedia.
FYI, see: Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2007-01-25_History_of_IBM. Trevor Hanson 00:00, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
I resent that you labeled my edits as vandalism. Did you even look at my edits and edit summaries ? One of your reversions put back in a spelling error and a tourism promotion for the town of Whistler. All of the information that I did delete was excessive detail that does not have much to do with the subject of the article. Please be more respectful and considerate of my contributions. I have as much right to contribute to Wikipedia as you do. Thank You. -- 66.183.66.239 00:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
The edit summaries help, but when you delete an entire section without a discussion first then it looks exactly like vandalism to some of us. I obviously did not understand your intentions. The safest thing to do is to explain on the Talk page first. Paul 00:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
You accidentally left a message for User:81.84.174.159 on this page instead of this. I'll move your comments and delete the mistakenly created article. Owen× ☎ 17:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for reporting 71.83.93.47 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) on WP:AIV. However, please make sure before doing so that the user has been committing vandalism after having been properly warned. Having received a final warning for the specific problem at issue (in this case, spam links) is generally required. In this case, the user may not have understood at all what they did wrong due to the genericity of the warnings they received. See also WP:UTM for a handy list of warnings. Best, Sandstein 22:27, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
What do you mean by removing stuff from wikipedia? I found better wording for informations that I found (and also realized some parts of the article may be false) so I replaced it. It basically said the same thing so... If you want me to bring back some stuff I will. I'm still not completely wikipedia knowledgeable so.. sorry..
(comment above was unsigned, left by User:Naruelle on 6 February 2007 and reference is to article Asuca Hayashi.)
"Please do not remove content from Wikipedia, as you did to Taskmaster. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. -- Paul (User:Lpgeffen) 02:28, 7 February 2007 (UTC)"
Sorry, I was just reading the article and noticed that there were about 10 lines of "blahblahblahblah" (literally) at the bottom of the page. I thought it was vandalism and removed it. Is there a different protocol that I have to use for removing vandalism? I don't edit stuff on wikipedia that much so I don't know. 68.4.102.34 04:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
First of all, I thought it was disgraceful that on Zora Neale Hurston's page somebody wrote FUCK YOU BITCH right before the section discussing her death and because I don't deal much with Wikipedia and the edit page has many codes, I probably altered the incorrect section.Eventually, I did get delete it and you should be thanking me not threatening me with talks of vandalism. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.230.145.212 (talk) 15:10, 7 February 2007 (UTC).
You're welcome. At the very least I try to watch out for inappropriately used speedy deletion tags. I wasn't trying to imply that you are new, but I also wanted you to be aware that new page patrollers sometimes fall on the "tag first, ask questions later" side; starting with sources referenced usually deters that kind of tagging in the presence of a stub article. Leebo86 16:08, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
erm, thanks. --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 21:52, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Lpgeffen ! Thanks for your support in connection with the tampering with the Richter page. As you know, this Steiner Redlich has been repeatedly deleting content from the page, in spite of many warnings by several editors (myself, THD3, Emerson7 and Grover cleveland). He has even been temporarily blocked over this issue, but was back at his disruptive stance as soon as the block was lifted. My suggestion is that we first restore the page to its prior form and then lock it for some time, while we somehow try to convince Steiner that his current attitude is alien to Wikipedia standards. Failing that, I'm afraid we would have to block him indefinitely. Thanks again and best regards, MUSIKVEREIN (talk) 13:05, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Mr. Geffen:
Who in the hell is Marina Veranikina?????????? Never heard of her. I notice much of her silly reference material is expired or comes from non-notable sources. Placing her name next to Dobrowen and Safonov is beyond obscene, so please correct.
Russian instrumentalist (talk) 21:10, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Paul. Thank you for your great contributions. In your user page, you mention that trovar.com is your website and yet you added many links in Wikipedia to it. I commend you for being honest about it, but please be cautious before adding links to your site. Thank you. Sole Soul (talk) 17:10, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello Lpgeffen,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Nick Levay for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Shovon (talk) 16:58, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
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