Talk:Richard Strauss
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Much improved article
[edit]I hadn't looked at this article for quite some time and am delighted and impressed how much it has been improved since I last saw it. I had it on my to-do list but have now removed it as no longer needing upgrading, IMO. Has/have the main author(s) considered putting it up for peer review with a view to taking it to GAN or FAC? I think it deserves it. Tim riley talk 20:54, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
- Good question. @4meter4: any plans? Aza24 (talk) 06:35, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Tim riley: and @Aza24: I hadn’t considered it, but I might based on this suggestion. Thanks for noticing my work.4meter4 (talk) 05:10, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
"better source needed" tag on Strauss quote
[edit]There's a quote from Strauss's journals that now has a "better source needed" tag on it (added by Michael Bednarek June 2020: [1]).
The episode of Exploring Music it is cited to can currently be listened to free online (labeled Friday, June 14, 2024) for the next 13 days at https://www.wfmt.com/programs/exploring-music/. The quote is at about one-and-a-half minutes in.
I'd like to remove the tag since it's checkable right now, and also the "Richard Strauss" series gets re-aired on Exploring Music approximately every four years (and is listenable for two weeks online each time).
From May 2013 to sometime in late 2019, Exploring Music also had a listen-on-demand archive of all of its past episodes. The last Wayback capture of on-demand streaming of the "Richard Strauss" series is August 2018: [2] (no longer listenable, but describes each episode).
Bill McGlaughlin writes his own scripts and does extensive research for every episode, as noted in Exploring Music#Production and distribution.
I've been unable to find the quote in a Google search -- although there are many dozens of English-language biography books on Strauss, Google currently does not offer either previews or snippets of the overwhelming majority of them. Softlavender (talk) 22:32, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
- There are no problems with sources that verify a quotation but are no longer available. I suggest you update the URL and access-date and title/label of that reference, as well as indicating the time of the quote. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 00:30, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
- OK done, thanks. I'll keep an eye out for any books I come across physical copies of that may also include it (particularly if the books predate 2004). I have ordered a copy of the Tim Ashley book you mentioned in your rationale; the snippet on GoogleBooks shows he doesn't quote the whole thing but he may have a footnote that gives the exact date of the journal entry, etc. BTW, I prefer to title the week-long radio series "Richard Strauss" rather than "Strauss, Richard", because the title these series are announced as is the composer's normal name, not surname+forename. I have also Wayback-saved the link and added access-date to the ref. Softlavender (talk) 01:44, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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