Talk:Choir of King's College, Cambridge

message: In one of the service lists last year, there was an evensong "Tomkins obit". King's only do obits for their own members, so I presume that, like Gibbons, Tomkins had a connection. However, I can't find any evidence in Grove to support this. I've added him anyway, as I should imagine it's true, but if anyone connected more closely to the Chapel could confirm that it's true, I'd be grateful! Stefan 00:31, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thomas Tomkins had no connection with King's College.  His name does not occur in the Commons books, which records choristers receiving their weekly "commons", nor in the Mundum (accounts) books.  I think that "King's only do obits for their own members" is not entirely true.  I don't recall there being a policy about this, as such, in my time there, almost 40 years ago.Soixante 18:10, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thankyou, Soixante, for this most enlightening piece of information! Stefan (talk) 00:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: His half-brother John was organist at King's, as was John's brother Giles, so perhaps the obit wasn't for Thomas, or was because these connections. --Pontificalibus (talk) 13:56, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Former Members

message: This is probably the incorrect place in which to post this, but I hope it will be forgivable. The link at the bottom of the page to Andrew Kennedy links to an American politician by the same name. The actual Tenor Andrew Kennedy appears not to have a Wikipedia page at all. Instead of appearing to remove a link, it seemed better to post the problem here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.232.242.127 (talk) 14:12, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: , the link is now correct. Verbcatcher (talk) 09:46, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Link 

message: Italic text  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.48.148.31 (talk) 15:22, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Psalms of David 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Choir of King's College, Cambridge. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110720005114/http://www.ofchoristers.net/Chapters/CambridgeKingsCollege.htm to http://www.ofchoristers.net/Chapters/CambridgeKingsCollege.htm
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 15:47, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I replaced the URL in the infobox with , which used the current (and more succinct) URL from Wikidata (www.kings.cam.ac.uk/choir) rather than the old URL (http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/choir/index.html). This was reverted by  with the edit summary "do not rely on Wikidata for the infobox". My understanding is that the use of  is common practice. , I'm wondering what your concern is. Thanks, 207.161.86.162 (talk) 03:17, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: You're free to reinstate the rest. The edit summary, if quite succinct, is essentially the whole of the issue: Wikidata is not Wikipedia, and data there can be changed or, worse, vandalised (like someone putting a spam link), by someone without it being immediately apparent what the cause of the vandalism or change is. For an infobox, it is better if the information is immediately visible and easy to correct. In addition, since infobox information should be based on article content, it makes more sense for all the information to be directly in the infobox and not on Wikidata. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs)  03:48, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  If that is the case, ought we deprecate , folding it into  and removing any reliance on Wikidata? 207.161.86.162 (talk) 03:54, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Some people obviously hold a position which is not quite the same as mine (otherwise there wouldn't be a template), although I'd personally agree with the suggestion. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs)  04:00, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reversion