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Text categories

Hi Edmund, I noticed that you've been adding {{TextPageCat}} to many text categories, thanks a lot for that! I was checking, however, and there are yet a large amount of these categories to be created; I'll see if I can do this via a robot. Please wait for a few more days, I'll inform you if I don't succeed. Best, —Carlos (talk) 06:29, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Rationalising the text pages

I've been attempting over the last couple of months to tidy up the text pages (mainly Latin ones). I've reached the point where input from other administrators would be useful, so have started a discussion on the administrators' forum. Any thoughts valued, whether positive or negative. Jamesgibb (talk) 11:15, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Lyricist template

I suspect I have done this on text pages quite a bit, through ignorance, through weakness, through my own deliberate fault, Edmund. I'll avoid it in future and correct it as I light upon it. Jamesgibb (talk) 07:09, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks James, for this and for your work on the text pages - I'm sorry if my edit summary seemed brusque, I certainly didn't mean it that way. Would it be a good thing to have a template {{TextLyricist|LYRICISTNAME}}, or something similar, to function similarly to Template:Lyricist, but for text pages, so that texts by the same lyricist could be categorised together, with the contents of this category displayed automatically on the lyricist page (similar to the way that Template:LyricistSettingsList displays the contents of the category of settings of texts)? EJG (talk) 19:17, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Editions categories

Hi Edmund, as you've been actively creating the Editions categories, you'll probably like to know that this process became slightly simpler: now we can just watch the category:Editors lacking an editions category and follow the instructions there. Regards, —Carlos (talk) 15:49, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Merger of Come, let us join

Hi Edmund, thanks for merging the two pages; I just did it again, but this time the other way around, in order to preserve the oldest of the two pages (this should be attempted whenever possible). Regards, —Carlos (talk) 04:24, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Carlos. I hadn't realised the older of the two pages was to be kept for preference, but will bear this in mind in future. Regards, EJG (talk) 07:22, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
In fact it's not a rule written in stone, but public wikis tend to follow it because usually the oldest page has a longer history of contributions. Keeping the page history is required by CC licenses so that each contribution's author may be credited for it. Best, —Carlos (talk) 16:23, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Renaming pages

Hi Edmund, when moving a page to a new title, as you did to Awake my joy, awake I say (Thomas Clark), please check if there are any links pointing to the old title. If you move it without leaving a redirect, these links will become broken (see here, for example). You may either leave a redirect behind, or fix the links to point to the new title. Thanks, —Carlos Email.gif 12:57, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder, Carlos. I've updated A Fifth Set of Psalm Tunes (Thomas Clark), which I'd forgotten to do yesterday (the other pages on the WhatLinksHere list were ones generated from categories, so when the link tables were refreshed, these disappeared from the list). Regards, EJG (talk) 20:03, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Edmund, indeed most of the links to a works page are dynamic, we usually only have to worry about any links from the composer and text pages. Thanks again, —Carlos Email.gif 04:11, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Category versus text page

Edmund, I've noticed that you've been setting up categories with the same name as some of the text pages I've been creating. I suspect that there is something I am not grasping here, since a search leads to the text page, not the category. This is a request for enlightenment! Would it be more useful for me to create categories, rather than text pages?

Happy new year, by the way. Have finally got to Italy, after having had to rebook flights twice, since we were playing the wellknown Christmas game of "Pass the virus"
Jamesgibb (talk) 18:23, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi James - I hope you have a good trip to Italy. Thankyou for creating the text pages - I'd been setting up the text categories alongside these because the template LinkText on the composition pages, as well as producing a link to the specified text, puts the composition page into a category of the specified name. If that category doesn't exist, it shows up as missing on the composition page (so, for example, Category:This Advent moon shines cold and clear doesn't currently exist, so it appears as a red link on This Advent moon (Jens Klimek). If the category is set up using the template TextPageCat, as I've been doing, this provides a link on the category page to the text page you've set up.
For text pages with lists of settings automatically generated using the template TextSettingsList, the text category forms the basis of that list - it's perhaps not so important where lists of settings are created manually with details of voicings etc, as you've been doing, but might be useful in future as a maintenance check that all settings of a text are listed on the text page. In summary, I don't think it's so much a matter of choosing to have either the text pages or the text categories, but that it's useful to have both, that they are complementary to some extent, and that having both is supported by the way some of the text-related templates are set up at present.
On a related subject (i.e. text pages), at the moment most of our Old Version (Sternhold, Hopkins etc.) and New Version (Tate/Brady) metrical versions of the psalms are included on the respective psalm pages, with details of which version is used in a particular setting given in the list of 'Settings by composers'. Defend me, Lord, from shame is unusual in this respect, being a separate page for the first 6 verses of the New Version metrical Psalm 31. Could we merge Defend me, Lord, from shame back into Psalm 31? Thanks, EJG (talk) 18:00, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


Wakely's O Praise the Lord with hymns of joy

Dear Edmund, I downloaded the Sibelius file of this anthem, thinking that I would create a reduction for my organist, but discovered that Sib7 files are not backward-compatible with Sib6. If you have a chance, could you save the Sib7 score as Sib6 and let me have it or post it? I'll be happy to add the file with the reduction to cpdl when I'm finished. Thank you. Pwarrenbaton (talk) 04:46, 30 January 2015 (UTC)