http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Kraus

Thank you to all who contacted me on this list and off-list about my original posting, "Alfredo_Kraus citations". You have been very helpful.

Someone just added a "Sources" section to the above page with 13 lines like,

1.^ Please replace this sentence with an identification of which source(s) made these claims.

I did not write this or any other Wikipedia biography. Hopefully this Section will be read by the original author(s) of this biography. I cannot read their minds as to what References they used.

I will be unsubscribing from this list in the very near future. I have found that this list is NOT for newbies like myself who have only been editing pages for a short time. After reading two days of "banning Private Musings" messages, it seems clear that this list is meant only for the in-fighting of "Wikipedia Administrators", those who have the power to delete and/or revert everything us newbies add via "Edit".

There are some things that I am capable of doing to enhance Wikipedia entries, and things I cannot do, because of lack of expertise or time. Writing new biographies and sourcing current entries are things I cannot do.

I have been writing Discographies and Bibliographies, i.e. indexing musician's entries in books, since I first discovered the old UW-Parkside "Internet Music Archives" in October 1991. http://www.folklib.net/index/uwp_gone.shtml

At last count, over 3,700 mostly non-Pop/Rock musicians http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/birth2days.shtml found in over 280 books http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/bibliog.shtml

And, I have been accumulating links for also mostly non-Pop/Rock musicians since November 1995.

Examples of what I can do for Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Kraus#References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Kraus#External_links

To start with, I can do these two things for the 200 Opera Singers listed at, http://www.folklib.net/opera/singers.shtml including creating new pages for Singers who have no Wikipedia page now, but which will contain only the above two sections.

If something is wrong with what I have added to the Alfredo Kraus page, or if my doing these two things ONLY, per the examples, are unacceptable to you Administrators, I will stop editing pages. Thank you. ____________________________________________________________ Doug Henkle - mailto:henkle@pobox.com P.O. Box 1447, Oshkosh, WI 54903-1447

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