Talk:Leevi Madetoja

message: Hello, fellow editors. Just wanted to notify the community that I am presently at work on a large-scale expansion of the Madetoja bio, which can be found here. Any comments or suggestions are, of course, welcome! Sgvrfjs (talk) 07:22, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion underway 

message: Hey all. In an attempt to transform my running monologue into a dialogue, I wanted to get your thoughts on the following idea: the 130th anniversary of Madetoja's birth is due on February 17, 2017, and I thought it might be nice to get this article (albeit still in progress) up to FA so that it can appear on the main page as the Featured Article for that day. I did not, honestly, really enjoy the FA process on The Oceanides and swore I'd never attempt another one, but here I find myself with different plans, provided the Madetoja bio wouldn't, in your opinion, be too much of a heavy lift. If you have time to browse the article and tell me whether you think it'd be a pretty quick/easy FA candidate, I'd appreciate it. It's my first composer biography article and I see the final product coming in at 80,000 bytes (which is about average, I believe, for the FA composer articles). Also, as it sits presently, what would you rate it? (It's currently still rated as a stub.) Thanks! Sgvrfjs (talk) 21:18, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good plan. I recommend to try GA soon, then have a peer review, then FAC. We have time enough. I have a FAC open without a precious peer review, just because there wouldn't be time until the hoped-for date. Help welcome ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:50, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks  for giving me such a refreshing start to the day. I've read quickly through the article and am impressed by the level of detail you have already added. It's no longer a stub: for the time being I've given it a B rating but it seems to me that with a bit more work you could quickly go for GA. I suggest you try to expand on the music section (which often attracts attention by those who do not have time to go through the full article), perhaps expanding it by moving or adapting some of the comment on his compositions from the career sections or drawing on the separate articles you have written on his various works. I can help you out with a bit of CE work on the article but I don't think I'll have much time for constructive editing as there are a number of assignments on Scandinavians and Greenland I would like to deal with over the next month or so. Keep me posted on progress and let me know if you need help with any specific items.--Ipigott (talk) 07:58, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:   Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I'll put it up for GA once I "finnish" (pun!) the Music and Personal life sections, as that should be pretty much it on content, aside from a few more end of life details. Ipigott, thanks for the edits you've made; already you've helped to increase the article's clarity. Just two comments: 1) I think I'd like to stick with the British ". rather than switching over to the American ." , as with The Oceanides FAN, the contributors wanted European conventions for the dates and punctuation (but not spelling) since the article pertains to a European composer (while, we're at it, I've also gone with the British Sibelius's rather than American Sibelius' , which was decided on The Oceanides as well; I also believe this is what you did on your work on Sibelius's main bio); 2) I'm fine with removing quotations from the lede, but does that mean we need to change the wording? I'm a bit worried about that "the balance, clarity, refinement of expression, and technical polish of classicism" being too close (well, exact, really) for comfort. As for specifics I could use, I'm not good with understanding the "& nbsp" thing you guys did to The Oceanides, but I know that the whole Madetoja article needs it. Sgvrfjs (talk) 20:10, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I stay pretty busy in real life, but I'll do what I can when I can, especially after it passes GA. Will look in from time to time. Tks  Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 06:10, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plans for an FA on main page 

message: , refs 14, 23, 24, 32, 51, 80, 83 don't link to any sources—are there perhaps sources used on other articles that you add here? Aza24 (talk) 06:42, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for alerting me to this (rather embarrassing) error on my part. I am in the midst of other projects at the moment, both Wiki and real-life, but will take a look at the unsourced Madetoja references in the near future. However, this was a project I did about what, five years ago (!?), and my memory being what it is, I fear we may, eventually, have to purge the refs. I'll look for my old notes. Silence of Järvenpää (talk) 20:07, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ref errors