Talk:Longy School of Music

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[edit] Tone of recent edits

This is an encyclopedia article, not an advertisement for the school or an alumni page. Please re-write in a neutral tone, avoiding peacock terms. Also do not use "we". It's unencyclopedic and it strongly suggests a conflict of interest by the authors, which reduces rather than enhances the article's credibility. Thanks, Voceditenore 14:02, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recent Edits

Voceditenore, thank you for taking an interest in our project! I did not even think to check the the talk page on here until your name came up in class the other day. I have been working hard to improve the neutrality of my comments, and I figured that simply updating the history would be easy enough. If you have any more suggestions, I'm all ears! Deep-fried twinkie (talk) 18:48, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Most recent edit I'm starting to look at other conservatory wiki pages, so I added the information about the degree programs. Let me know what you think! Deep-fried twinkie (talk) 19:29, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I've fixed the referencing in the article. On the whole, Wikipedia prefers footnotes rather than the embedded links you were using because of the difficulties in associating them with their appropriate full references. I also removed repetitive external links, and moved some to the references section. You'll find this article useful: Wikipedia:Citing sources, especially Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Footnote_referencing for a guide of how to mark up the footnotes. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 02:21, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Wow, that looks so much better! I knew there was a way to do footnotes, but I hadn't taken the time to learn how to do the code properly. I'll share the links you provided with the others. It's very helpful! Deep-fried twinkie (talk) 19:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

The pictures look great! Zoe zelda (talk) 12:59, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting is a blunt instrument

Reversion is primarily a tool for quickly removing vandalism. Please do not use it for content disputes! At least 3 editors have engaged in this in the last few days resulting in the loss of valuable content including images, as well as the loss of considerable work put into formatting the references properly and copy-editing for neutral tone in interim edits.

There was definitely a problem with the overly promotional tone of some of the text, as I said above. There was also a problem with the unnecessary and uninformative lists of every course taught at the school. However, the way to solve this is to copy-edit the areas which need it - not wholescale reversions. Wholescale reversions are both lazy and destructive.

I have now re-edited the article to restore the photographs of and text concerning the concert hall and the Rey-Waldstein Building. I've reformatted the references, toned down the promotional language which keeps popping up, and restructured the headings. I fully support the removal of the material about mission statements etc. and the endless lists of courses. I have left them out of this new version. Any significant removal of material from now on needs to be explained and discussed on the talk page first. Voceditenore (talk) 07:35, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you Voceditenore for your work. It looks fine now, and preserves some of the additions to the article that did make sense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.100.0.83 (talk) 14:19, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Programs of study

It can be useful information for the article to cover the programs of study offered, provided it doesn't read like the school's prospectus and avoids repetitiousness. I've now added a concise section on Programs of Study, briefly outlining the types of degrees/diplomas offered and the majors available. The section is referenced to the Longy School's web page which describes the programmes in much greater detail (for readers who are interested). Note also that I have removed the red link on Collaborative piano since red links by their very nature are uninformative and instead linked it to Accompaniment which discusses how the terms 'collaborative pianist' or 'collaborative artist' are increasingly used by music schools to replace the term 'accompanist'. Similarly, in the absence of a specific article on Modern American music. I have linked it to Contemporary classical music (the meaning of 'American' in the context of the phrase can be inferred). Voceditenore (talk) 11:49, 23 January 2008 (UTC)