Talk:Karlheinz Stockhausen

message: I've read the discussions in the archives about the unusual referencing on this page. Are any active editors still willing to defend this style? Popcornduff (talk) 06:34, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:CITESTYLE/WP:CITEVAR don't require that a particular style needs to be defended. There are >500 Harvard-style references in this article. I doubt there will be a consensus to switch styles. And which style would you suggest? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:15, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest using the same format every other Wikipedia article I've ever seen uses. Why does this article use a different one, and why would the consensus be to stick with it? Popcornduff (talk) 12:17, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  and  have >38,000 transclusions, so it's not uncommon. A citation style that has been used here continuously since the first citations were added in 2006 by User:Jerome Kohl shouldn't be changed without that editor agreeing – WP:CITEVAR: "it is normal practice to defer to the style used by the first major contributor". -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:02, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but if there's a consensus to change it, we can do it. Do you (or anyone else) feel the current method is the best? Popcornduff (talk) 14:27, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I do.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 16:40, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? Popcornduff (talk) 16:49, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

text: Since you have already consulted the relevant archive of this talk page, you will already have read my long answer. To summarize, Harvard citations are much less disruptive to the reader than either full-footnote or short-footnote style, which require continuous back-and-forth navigation merely to discover what is in the note (often not simply a reference). It is for this reason also that my rule of thumb is, "if a comment belongs in an article, put it there, not hidden away in a footnote; if it does not belong in the article, then delete it." I am surprised that you are unable to find any other articles on Wikipedia that use this referencing style. As Michael Bednarek points out, there are 38,000 transclusions for the harv citation tags on Wikipedia. I believe they are especially frequent in articles on music theory and 20th-century composers and their compositions (e.g., Rhythm, Tonality, Musical analysis, Whole note, Mode (music), Canon (music), Consonance and dissonance, Cyclic form, Microtonal music, Music semiology, Serialism, Neoclassicism (music); Béla Bartók, Frank Bridge, Arnold Schoenberg, Milton Babbitt, Luigi Nono, George Rochberg; Le Marteau sans maître, Piano sonatas (Boulez), Structures (Boulez), Il canto sospeso, Aquarius (opera), Symphony No. 7 (Davies), Bachianas Brasileiras, Rudepoêma, Impressions d'enfance, Octet (Stravinsky), etc.), but are also used, for example, in the articles Timbre, Renaissance music, Solage, Estampie, String Quartet No. 13 (Schubert), Delphic Hymns, Modernity, Lutheran chorale, etc.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 20:28, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: For what it is worth, I also found this style of referencing on this page very confusing. I guess if it is a style that works and has been used before then it is alright, but it is somewhat unsettling to see this style which is so much different from practically every other Wikipedia article.Ryzcheese (talk) 01:12, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

text: Do you have reasons pertaining to this page in particular, or is this opinion aimed at all of the thousands of pages on Wikipedia using this style? If the latter, I suggest you take this to Wikipedia talk:Citing sources, where a related thread has recently been opened at Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources#RfC_on_amending_this_guideline.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 00:52, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I also came here to say that the style of referencing feels very difficult to read. I think there's probably good reason that it's not the norm in Wikipedia. Wikipedia's not an academic text; it should be written to make information easily accessible to the lay-person. The first priority for a lay-audience is to have the information available in a convenient, readable format, which means not interrupting every half-sentence with citations. Only after reading, if a particular fact is highly important to the reader, will they need to look at the citations. Since there's no-one active on this page who can make a case *for* keeping it this way, it seems permissible to change it. DTysen (talk) 11:08, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You may like to have a look at the ongoing (?) discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Deprecate parenthetical citations. Toccata quarta (talk) 11:21, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: DTysen: "" – first, there's the discussion above in this thread; second, this has been discussed previously (see the archives); third, WP:CITEVAR is still unchanged. "" – it can be argued that an inline citation which gives author(s) and year, which is clickable to the full citation, is more readable and convenient than . The only problem with this article is its inclusion of about 100 works in "Sources" which aren't cited and thus ought to be in "Further reading" (that, and an unnecessarily small font for "Sources"). -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:18, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI, parenthetical referencing has been deprecated. Toccata quarta (talk) 13:47, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Referencing

message: I sympathize with the IP who removed the longish litany of references from the lead. Ideally, of course, this information should be referenced in the body of the article and then summarized in the lead without references. Is there any reason this is not done? It's also bad practice, if  not borderline original research, to say that something is "widely acknowledged" and then 'verify' this by widely citing sources. The best would be to cite one reliable source that says it's widely acknowledged. I think the lead is also a bit holographic, particularly the quote "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"; I think the essence of it is already included in being one of the most important but controversial. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 06:28, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have a very strong opinion on this. It's just that I would never leave claims like "widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries" unreferenced even in the lead section of an article, even if these claims were referenced later in the article body, if only out of fear of endless edit wars over these claims and drive-by removals. But then I must confess that me reverting the IP's removal of the references itself was some sort of a drive-by edit. It's just that these claims have been part of the lead section since at least 2007, and I am somewhat surprised that after all this time people see the need to change them now. But this of course again is a very weak argument. – Tea2min (talk) 06:48, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead 

message: As parenthetical referencing on Wikipedia was deprecated in September 2020, would anyone object if I began the task of converting it to standard citations on this article? If not, help with that task would certainly be appreciated. Popcornfud (talk) 23:14, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Popcornfud, what form of citations were you planning on using? Nikkimaria (talk) 00:34, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  I converted to sfn in In Freundschaft, and wonder if a bot could do such things. RexxS, what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:40, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:   you could probably get a bot to do much of the work with reasonable accuracy, but to be honest it's not the sort of job I'd leave to a bot. Folks can be really sensitive about citations and I think that even slightly controversial changes are best left to humans in these sort of cases. --RexxS (talk) 13:40, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  I actually believe that not much is won by changing the citations which are - to my knowledge - only used in this field. But what if templates harv and harvnb get deleted? - On the other hand, we could slowly do the job manually, as Francis Schonken also suggested. I guess with Br'er Rabbit around, it would be done overnight. Such a loss. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:10, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

text: Done – For clarity, bots performing tasks as suggested above would need an explicit approval, per the WP:PARREF RfC outcome. That usually means, approval before going to WP:BOTREQ or a similar request page, while going there without prior consensus usually means that the task would be turned down. --Francis Schonken (talk) 16:13, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

text:  For a start: below are converted citations to be copied, because I believe we could at least copy those already done once, sorted by author name, and year within one author, as Jerome did it. The citations in Stockhausen's are not numbered but look like a 3-digit figure. The timing of the deprecation was as bad as can be, coinciding with Jerome's death. Reverting the deprecation - in honour of his personal preference - might also be an option.
=== What to convert ===
The references in the body come in two forms, with (automatic) brackets when only one, with added brackets and semicolons as separators when more than one. The punctuation comes after the reference(s). Change 1: get the punctuation to the front, replace harv and harvnb by sfn, elimit exttra brackets and separators when more than one.
Change 2: Under header References, have reflist|20em and subheader Cited sources.
For an easy approach, that is enough, and has been done by Francis Schonken for Stockhausen, and by me for the Licht works. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:47, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parenthetical referencing 

message: The references in the body come in two forms, with (automatic) brackets when only one, with added brackets and semicolons as separators when more than one. The punctuation comes after the reference(s). Change 1: get the punctuation to the front, replace harv and harvnb by sfn, elimit exttra brackets and separators when more than one.
Change 2: Under header References, have reflist|20em and subheader Cited sources.
For an easy approach, that is enough, and has been done by Francis Schonken for Stockhausen, and by me for the Licht works. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:47, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  What to convert 

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In Freundschaft, - we had a long chat about Originale. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:25, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Converted references 

message: — Assignment last updated by Ceiap (talk) 20:35, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: 20th-21st Century Art, Performance and Media