Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music#Dvorak IMSLP links are all broken

The article Modernism (music) currently has 35 sfn error: no target messages. These were introduced by User:EdwardElric2016 and they were notified about that on 20 April 2024. It's impractical to expect anyone else to fix these incomplete citations, so I propose to roll back 172 edits and revert to the article's last clean version {{oldid2|1196720542|from 18 January 2024}}. Alternative suggestions are welcome at Talk:Modernism (music)#Edits after 18 January 2024 -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:38, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

: If we do that we loose a lot of information that the user added (based on the Spanish Wikipedia, it seems). The user hasn't edited since July, so won't help. Wouldn't it be easier to fix the citations than to create the added content once more? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:27, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

::Did you look at that page with User:Svick/HarvErrors.js / User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js / .harv-error {display: inline !important;} enabled? IMO, repair is not possible. Even if the original editor added the missing sources, there would still be a large number of completely unsourced paragraphs. That's why I propose to WP:STARTOVER. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 09:52, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

::: I guess I misunderstood "incomplete" as the refs are missing something (which we might find), but get from the last post that they may be just not there. Sigh. MONTENSEM, what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:06, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

::::It's doable. I would be willing to take it on; I could probably tackle everything with regard to citations and some superficial tweaking (on a cursory glance, it strikes me as a bit dated; but not necessarily in a bad way, and I wouldn't want to dig into it too much). I just don't have a lot of time or sense of what the future holds for me right now, so I hesitate to promise anything. I could try to do it here and there over the next year. MONTENSEM (talk) 01:01, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

:::::Thank you for volunteering, but in the meantime, I'm now going to revert mostly as I indicated. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:38, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello! I’d like to suggest an article for Alexander Scherbakov, a concert violinist and conductor with some notable coverage. Sources include:

• Epoch Times feature on his musical journey: https://www.epochtimes.de/kultur/durch-die-musik-in-den-westen-a470485.html
• Gezupftes.de video and bio: https://www.gezupftes.de/?p=7057
• https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/arbon-kreuzlingen-weinfelden/musiker-aus-aller-welt-kommen-ld.846439

https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/arbon-kreuzlingen-weinfelden/scherbakov-auf-thurgau-tournee-ld.395712

https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/arbon-kreuzlingen-weinfelden/suchten-ruhe-und-inspiration-ld.850490

https://www.muvac.com/de/profile/alexander-scherbakov

https://www.ambito.com/edicion-impresa/musica-alto-nivel-ushuaia-n3731867

His official site is alexanderscherbakov.com. Could someone assess his notability or help draft this? Thanks!

178.197.210.241 (talk) 00:19, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

:Noting that this would differ from the current two (as of 16 Mar 2025) on Wikidata, {{wikidata entity link|Q4528796}} (also {{ill|Alexander Shcherbakov (writer)|ru|Щербаков, Александр Александрович (писатель)|uk|Щербаков Олександр Олександрович (письменник)}}) & {{wikidata entity link|Q52602875}}, so the name of the article might need to be Alexander Scherbakov (musician) or something similar. Peaceray (talk) 01:30, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

::Thanks for the suggestion! “Alexander Scherbakov (musician)” works perfectly to distinguish from others. I’ve got more sources to support this:

::* https://www.romania-muzical.ro/articol/alexander-scherbakov-si-madalina-slav-concerte-in-portugalia/1032891/47/5

::* https://www.pressreader.com/thailand/bangkok-post/20080801/282643208331513

::Would someone be willing to start a draft, or should I submit via AfC as “Alexander Scherbakov (musician)”? Appreciate the guidance!

::178.197.210.241 (talk) 09:44, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

File:Symbol watching blue lashes high contrast.svg You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Goldman Band § Where is my template section for Goldman Band Cornet Soloists?, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:12, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

So, having taken a look at the participants page, I've discovered there were some indef blocked users and some users that haven't been active in a while. I'm thinking of doing a mass re-organization of this page. Any ideas? Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:50, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alex Klein; input from project members or page watchers/interlopers, especially those more familiar than I am with subject-requested deletions or how our notability guidelines relate to classical musicians, would be appreciated. Graham87 (talk) 07:36, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Could someone please assess this article about a conductor? It's rated as a Start in quality, but I would like it assessed against the B-Class criteria. Thank you in advance. Bearian (talk) 03:14, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

:Article's definitely not start class. I have re-assessed to B-class level, although somebody needs to get citations in for the dogs of desire section. ❤HistoryTheorist❤ 00:00, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

Satie was born OTD, and died 1 July 1925. I read the article today and believe that it might be a Good article until the centenary. Prose of bio is fine, music could profit from more detail. Some of this project's fine editors appear in the statistics. I am not one of them, so believe that I should not nominate. What do others think? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:48, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

The first step would be to nominate. The statistics show the first editors by added bytes (saying there are more than 700 others) as: Francis Schonken, Tim riley, Mccapra, Softlavender, Jerome Kohl, JackofOz, Mel Etitis, Martinevans123, Ser Amantio di Nicolao, TheBawbb, Modernist, Aza24, Imaginatorium, Hyacinth, Camembert, Kleinzach - no pings to people who sadly can't/don't edit. We all could read the article making improvements. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:48, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

:Most of the present text (81%) is by me: I overhauled the article three or four years ago, but as it seems peculiarly magnetic to implacable agenda-pushers I'm not interested in further involvement. Tim riley talk 09:07, 18 May 2025 (UTC)