The Schubert article as well as several other large articles on composers and general classical music topics is mostly copied from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica If you look at the comment right before yours from Opus33 you ll see that we have been discussing how to deal with the EB s relentless heavy and pompous POV Feel free to edit them yourself I for one just haven t gotten around to dealing with the Schubert article yet but I m trying to rewrite most of the 1911 articles that are still in Wikipedia for the same reasons you mention 20 56 26 Nov 2004 UTC