Template talk:Music of Italy

message: I just tried to put in a link to the FIMI page under charts. It should link to FIMI: Federation of the Italian music industry, but it doesn't. It doesn't on this page either, as you notice.
: problem solved...maybe the case and colon or spacing was causing a problem. I redirected to Federation of the Italian music industry. It works.
Originally, I intended that extra page of festivals to be a place-holder and reminder to myself, so that I could write them up one by one and insert them into the festival section as separate "stubby" articles, as I did with the others. The list is still up (unlinked) at Italian music festivals. I still think it useful to have a longer list like that, but maybe it isn't Wikipedia policy.
(later) oops...I see that you just moved it over to the left under the main heading. I linked that to the list.
The regions are a problem. If I use my own page Music of Naples-- that I am currently working on--as a guide, I don't think I can cover all those areas in any reasonable length of time. 
That Patchanka link is wrong, I think. It isn't folk music. I'm not sure that it is even a separate category of music. I know there is one album by that name. If it is now a "kind" of music, someone should do a stub on it. Jeffmatt 07:50, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: FIMI link

message: I notice that when the music box first went up, someone deleted "Genoa" because it is not a region. That is true, but neither is Naples or Venice. "Regione" in Italian corresponds to "state" and is an official administrative unit. I don't see anything wrong with using "Regional" in the English sense--meaning "area", so I am happy with the listings the way they are and shall try to fill some of them in over the course of the next few days. (In the meantime, I'll let the main article go for a while.) But--to cover the nitpickers, we could change "Regional sytles" to something totally hokey and wishy-washy, such as "Styles by area", "Music, area by area", etc. etc. I favor leaving it the way it is. Jeffmatt 18:02, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree -- this is the English wikipedia, so we can logically use the English word "regional".  I'll go ahead and restore regional, since that's the most logical descriptor. (you may also be interested in taking a look at list of cultural and regional genres of music -- there's a bunch of Italian cities listed there, all of which came from Wikipedia:Music encyclopedia topics) Tuf-Kat 02:13, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And I've removed patchanka.  Good luck on the regions.  (you don't need to make them all as detailed as music of Naples, though that would certainly be great -- even just a couple paragraph overview of the most important bits can be useful). Tuf-Kat 02:19, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: regions?

message: I'm wondering if it is not a bad idea to load the Template:Infobox Region of Italy in the relevant pages of the regional aticles--not the whole box, just the map portion with the relevant region in red. I might try that if I get some energy. Or maybe not.Jeffmatt 07:02, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Out of curiosity, I need a geeked-down explanation of why the Valle d'Aosta link works fine from all the other regional articles, but from the main Music of Italy article opens to the discussion page and not the article. Jeffmatt 07:51, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see any problem... Circeus 17:54, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

text: For now, I'll put in a single parenthetical bit of text to cite the only source I am using.) Jeffmatt 08:29, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: how about the regional infobox?

message: ... of "Regional styles" to "Music by Region and city". I think it sounds better, but if anyone feels otherwise, feel free to change it back. (In which case, do it manually and not with the revert function or you might lose some of the new regions I put in.)Jeffmatt 18:56, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All of the regions and four or five important cities are now all blue-linked. Most of the blue links are "done" (or at least useful, though they could use further expansion) and a few are only stubs, but I'll get to them....about 5 or 6 left to go. Jeffmatt 17:50, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking really great! Tuf-Kat 00:33, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: changed name

message: At least the regions and the cities all have something longer than stubs in them. Obviously, they can use expansion. For example, most of them are missing separate sections on folk music, something that I might be able to get to, sooner or later-- but it would better if someone more knowledgeable about that area (that's 95% of the human race) jumped on board. Anyway, I'll turn my attention for a while to the Music Prizes in Italy. That should be a quickie.Jeffmatt 16:05, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Done"--kind of