User talk:Moisejp/Archive 6

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Gerda Arendt in topic Precious

Happy New Year! edit

  Best wishes for the New Year!
Wishing you and yours a joyous, healthful, and productive 2013!

Please accept a belated thank you for the well wishes upon my retirement as FAC delegate this year, and apologies for the false alarm of my first—and hopefully last—retirement; the well wishes extended me were most kind, but I decided to return, re-committed, when another blocked sock was revealed as one of the factors aggravating the FA pages this year.

Maintaining standards in featured content requires vigilance, dedication and knowledge of people like you, who are needed; reviews are always welcome at FAC, FAR and TFA requests. Somehow, somehow we never ever seem to do nothin' completely nice and easy, but here's hoping that 2013 will see a peaceful road ahead and a return to the quality and comaraderie that defines the FA process, with the help of many dedicated Wikipedians!

SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:45, 3 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Re edit

You are welcome buddy. It was a very interesting and captivating read. I would have never been able to write an article of such standard. Really. Jivesh1205 (Talk) 03:24, 17 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Main page appearance: Highway 61 Revisited edit

This is a note to let the main editors of Highway 61 Revisited know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on February 28, 2013. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 28, 2013. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 (talk · contribs) or his delegates Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), Gimmetoo (talk · contribs), and Bencherlite (talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you can change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:

Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in August 1965. Having until then recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album, except for the closing 11-minute ballad, "Desolation Row". Critics have focused on the innovative way in which Dylan combined driving, blues-based music with the subtlety of poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural chaos of contemporary America. Leading with the single "Like a Rolling Stone" (a top-10 hit in several countries), the album features songs that Dylan has continued to perform live over his long career, including "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Highway 61 Revisited". He named the album after the major North American highway connecting his birthplace, Duluth, Minnesota, to southern cities famed for their musical heritage, including St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans. The album, which peaked at No. 3 in the United States charts and No. 4 in the United Kingdom, was ranked No. 4 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. "Like a Rolling Stone" was listed at No. 1 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. (Full article...)

UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 14 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

Great work on this article. Thanks! Verne Equinox (talk) 23:49, 28 February 2013 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, Verne Equinox! :-) Moisejp (talk) 05:26, 2 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Please participate ... edit

... here. Jivesh1205 (Talk) 04:07, 28 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

Precious edit

visions of Bob Dylan
Thank you for quality articles on Bob Dylan's creations, such as Highway 61 Revisited, for working in the WP:DYLAN team managing to rescue his article from delisting, for collaboration and dedicated GA reviews, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:29, 3 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the collaboration on The Basement Tapes, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:07, 22 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

Three years ago, you were recipient no. 413 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:44, 3 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for today's Blonde on Blonde, performed in collaboration! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:43, 16 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Seven years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:06, 3 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

I'd Have You Anytime GAN edit

Hi Moisejp. Not sure if you're watching the page or not, but I think I've addressed everything in the GAR – thanks again for taking it on. And I see you've lost none of your admirers/fans from the last time I was here ... (I wish someone would give me a GA Medal!) Best, JG66 (talk) 22:10, 26 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hi again. Thanks for those edits you made in the article's new lead-in text I added – spot on. I've just removed the two refs you were concerned about and left brief replies on the talk page. Just to let you know, I'll be away from home & computer for over a week starting in about 24 hrs time – I will have access to a computer occasionally but no books etc. It would be nice (from my point of view) to get the process finished before I go obviously, but I don't want to rush you. If necessary, we could take this up again in a week or more's time – if you had more to add to the review? Thanks, Moisejp. JG66 (talk) 07:45, 30 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
Moisejp, thank you so much for the Music Barnstar. As you know, I've been coveting your GA Medal – but that really is the finest-looking wikipedia barnstar I've ever seen!! Cheers, and thanks again for taking the time to do the review. JG66 (talk) 23:37, 30 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Romanian website edit

Hi Moisejp, I hope you're well. I expressed my opinion here. Best wishes, Mick gold (talk) 10:11, 8 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Main Page appearance: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan edit

This is a note to let the main editors of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on May 27, 2013. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 (talk · contribs) or one of his delegates (Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), Gimmetoo (talk · contribs), and Bencherlite (talk · contribs)), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 27, 2013. If it needs tweaking, or if it needs rewording to match improvements to the article between now and its main page appearance, please edit it, following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. The blurb as it stands now is below:

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 27, 1963 by Columbia Records. Eleven of the thirteen songs on the album are original compositions by Dylan. The album opens with "Blowin' in the Wind", which would become one of the anthems of the 1960s, and several other songs which came to be regarded as amongst Dylan's best compositions and classics of the 1960s folk scene: "Girl from the North Country", "Masters of War", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right". Dylan's lyrics embraced stories ripped from the headlines about civil rights and he articulated anxieties about the fear of nuclear warfare. Balancing this political material were love songs, sometimes bitter and accusatory, and material that features surreal humor. Freewheelin' showcased Dylan's songwriting talent for the first time, propelling him to national and international fame. The album reached number 22 in the US (eventually going platinum), and later became a number 1 hit in the UK. In 2003, the album was ranked number 97 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. (Full article...)

UcuchaBot (talk) 23:04, 13 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Good Articles Recruitment Centre edit

 
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A barnstar for you! edit

  The Good Article Barnstar
For your contributions to bring Pacer (album) to Good Article status. Thanks, and keep up the good work! -- Khazar2 (talk) 16:58, 27 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
And thanks for getting this one into such good shape before nominating that no further work was required to pass it. Honestly, I often avoid reviewing music submissions because of the high level of copyediting usually required, but contributions like yours and User:Brandt Luke Zorn's are making me rethink my prejudices. Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 16:58, 27 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

updated Stanley Park page pt 2 edit

Hi moisejp, I just did a bunch of editing and research to the Stanley Park page. I noticed you were interested in getting it to GA status. Are you still interested? Take a read through before you make up your mind. I made a lot of changes.rhild (talk) 21:42, 19 August 2013 (PST)

Your GA nomination of Candida (song) edit

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Your GA nomination of Candida (song) edit

The article Candida (song) you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Candida (song) for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Khazar2 -- Khazar2 (talk) 01:12, 29 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you! edit

  The Good Article Barnstar
For your contributions to bring Candida (song) to Good Article status. Thanks, and keep up the good work! -- Khazar2 (talk) 01:13, 29 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

FAC edit

Given your help reviewing Cliff Williams, wonder if you could drop by Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Black Ice (album)/archive1. Thanks. igordebraga 11:31, 1 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

A strange one edit

Hi Moisejp – how are you? It's been a while, but I'm pleased to see you're still doing great work, judging by the above messages.

Look, I've got a real strange one here ... If you're not too busy, would you be able to look in at User talk:Quadell#mirror images? It's regarding a new Harrison biography, which … well, it basically rips off Wikipedia's Harrison album and song articles. Mighty strange, but mighty true.

What I'm hoping is, you might want to follow the link from Quadell's page and hit "helpful" on my Amazon review for the book – which I've signed as "HariG". In the interests of drawing attention to this issue – which, the more I think about it, is really concerning and far-reaching – I'd simply like to ensure that the review is helpful=popular enough to register in the listing's main space. Quite understand if you'd rather not of course (but I hope you do …). Many thanks. Best, JG66 (talk) 18:18, 9 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hey Moisejp, big thanks for your support. Best, JG66 (talk) 09:19, 10 November 2013 (UTC)Reply