Talk:Stanisław Skrowaczewski

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With this conductor we run into thornier problems than we'd seen with Günter Wand and Antal Doráti. At least one other person besides me tried valiantly to put that slash on that Polish L in Skrowaczewski's first name in both the article and the URL of the page. I reasoned, since it's possible to put acute and grave accents as well as umlauts in URLs, perhaps it's also possible to put L-slashes in URLs. It appears that it can't be done. At least the body of the article itself has it written correctly. -- Del_arte

[edit] Why was info removed?

This line was removed: Dr. Frederick Harris Jr., director of the MIT Wind Ensemble, is currently writing a book about Skrowaczewski. This info seems relevant to the article. Nationalparks 02:31, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

First, there is a problem of Verifiability. Second, it simply does not seem encyclopedic information. If Dr Harris had finished his book and it was available for sale and considered an authoritative source on Skrowaczewski, then it could be used as a source for the article. However, even then, we would not expect to see the sentence "Dr Harris has written a book about Skrowczewski" in the article. The mere fact that X is writing (or has written) a book about Y is not usualy encyclopedic, unless there is something especially significant about X. Suppose I was writing a book about George W. Bush. Would the statement "User:Grover_cleveland is writing a book about George W. Bush" be an appropriate addition to the George W. Bush article? No. So why is "Dr Harris is writing a book about Skrowaczewski" an appropriate sentence for the Skrowaczewski article? It seems more like an advertisement for Dr Harris than an attempt to add useful content to the article. Grover cleveland 10:32, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Could someone kindly add a phonetic pronunciation of his name? Every college classical DJ in the country will thank you.