Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde
I plead guilty as charged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Bumbry
Subject: Wikipedia article on Grace Bumbry
BCC: Casey Abell
In response to my edit which placed Sections in the same order I have
seen them on many other Wikipedia (WP) pages for Opera Singers and other
Musicians,
External Links
References
your edit changed them to,
References
External Links
You wrote explaining why the order of Sections I have been adding to
WP pages is wrong.
At 09:28 AM 11-12-2007 -0800, you wrote:
I was just following the usual practice at Wikipedia by
placing the
"External links" section at the end of the Grace Bumbry article. As
Wikipedia:External links says: "If an article has external links, the
standard format is to place them in a bulleted list under a primary
heading at the end of the article." If there is a different convention for
opera singer articles, I have no problems with the "External links"
section being placed somewhere else in the article.
To [WikiEN-l]:
I thought that WP was trying to emulate a real paper
encyclopedia. In a real paper non-fiction book, the bibliography is always
the last thing before the Index. Why WP calls a bibliography "References"
doesn't make sense, but I would accept that, IF it was consistent
throughout all WP pages, but it is not. The Section naming inconsistency
displayed at,
http://www.folklib.net/opera/wikipedia_sections.shtml
is unacceptable, at least to me. "usual practice at Wikipedia" ... where
exactly is the documentation for the proper naming and order of ALL
Sections for Musicians? I will continue to look for the consistent rules
that govern how Musician's Sections are to be named and exactly what
consistent order they are supposed to be in. I had plans on adding
"External Links" and "References" to the WP entry for the 200 Opera
Singers
listed on my page,
http://www.folklib.net/opera/singers.shtml
plus in my fifteen years of indexing almost 300 books about musicians,
http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/bibliog7.shtml (opera)
http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/bibliog.shtml (general)
I also have "Reference" lists for about three thousand others,
http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/birth2days.shtml#COPYRIGHT
However, as my WP editing is wrong by following consistent paper publishing
rules, and there are no consistent Wikipedia rules to match, there is no
point in my continuing.
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P.O. Box 1447, Oshkosh, WI 54903-1447