User talk:Rich Janis

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Rich Janis, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  IZAK 14:50, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for coming to my aid in the Gilabrand flak

I was somewhat at a loss as to how to respond. Your comment was helpful and tactful. --Ravpapa 15:32, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] heads up

Hi, I've just left a reply to your note at Talk:Gloria_Emerson#John_Lennon_and_the_Anti-War_Movement. Cgingold 14:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks your thoughts on GA of Music of Israel

I put my response to Binguyen's comments on my talk page, rather than on the Music of Israel page because I was so pissed off by the review that my comments verged on the inflammatory. After Derwig sagely advised me to calm down, I moved the main comments over to the MOI page.

I suppose there is a certain vanity in getting GA status. On the other hand, I can't even brag about it - nobody here even knows my real name. It's kind of like the rabbi who plays a perfect round of golf on Yom Kippur ("Why did you let him do that? It's a sin" says angel Gabriel. "Yes, but who can he tell?" says God).

On the other hand there are risks involved, some of which were exposed in this review. The frequent use of sound bites, which are FU, could be considered excessive. The pictures could be challenged. The article presents a synthetic view of Israeli music, which some reviewers (Binguyen among them) could challenge as OR.

My own immodest opinion is that the article is FA material; even more than that, it is a model which other articles on national musics should follow. But my opinions in many matters here have been considered iconoclastic at best, and unhelpful at worst. So I am willing to continue to live with anonymity. It is consolation enough that every high school student that has to write a term paper on the Music of Israel will read our article first. --Ravpapa (talk) 06:08, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Question on mashups

Hi Rich, I noticed you were recently editing the mashup Wiki, and that there was some dialogue about RSS feeds and screen scraping. There is a space here to elaborate on the enabling technologies that will facilitate future mashup functionality (as originally mentioned in the closing para of [1])

I've tried to summarise the term mashup enabler here draft Mashup Enabler page and I wandered if you'd be kind enough to have a look at it and help toughen it up.

Many thanks in advance. Cadwellian (talk) 17:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


  • Rich, love your work, thank you kindly. Cadwellian (talk) 16:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)