Talk:Sergei Rachmaninoff

How should his name be written in Cyrillic? Guaka 13:31, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Сергей Рахманинов

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An anon just changed the "Rachmaninov"s in this article to "Rachmaninoff"s, pointing to http://home.flash.net/~park29/rachspell.htm as justification.

Now, I don't care which way we spell it (neither is more correct than the other - they're both legitimate trasliterations and they're both commonly used), but the title of the article ought to be consistent with the spelling we use in the article itself. So, if I move this page to Sergei Rachmaninoff, will there be any complaints? Normally I'd just do it, but there's quite a few redirects pointing here, and it's going to be a bit of a hassle updating them all in the event of an edit war... --Camembert

That site seems to make a good case. Google shows 245,000 hits for "Rachmaninoff" and 293,000 for "Rachmaninov", so although it seems a minority spelling it seems not to be so by that wide a margin. Anyone who feels strongly enough about changing it, however, IMO should do the work of fixing the redirects. -- Infrogmation 03:49, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Anon editor, I reverted the cut & paste placing the existing article at "Rachmaninoff" -- that looses the article history. If a page is to be moved, the "move page" function needs to be used. Understand that I personally have no objection to having the article at the "off" spelling, but moves need to be done properly. -- Infrogmation 21:41, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

How about we give it a week, and if there are no serious objections, properly move the article to "Sergei Rachmaninoff"? -- Infrogmation 17:04, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Yep, that's what I was planning. If you want to do it, save me a job, that's great :) --Camembert

It seems no one has objected, so I will delete the "off" redirect and move the page here. Help in changing links to our new spelling appreciated. -- Infrogmation 23:06, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

By the way, I'm almost a year off, but I thought I might as well add that the composer himself spelled it "Rachmaninoff". TheProject 15:57, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Hi. I'm the person who changed everything to the "off" spelling, and also the schmuck who tried to move it the newly spelled page without using the page move feature you speak of. Sorry! I didn't know about that. As for the spelling, the biggest point for me is that the composer himself spelt his name ending in "off". --Lousyd

Welcome. Well, we do encourage newcomers to be bold in making improvements, but one effect is that when well intentioned boldness messes something up, it may wind up being reverted. Well, if you'd like to give a hand, check "what links here" and help change the link to "Rachmaninoff" after I move the article to that spelling. -- Infrogmation 23:06, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

RachmaninOFF is more correct because that's the way the composer spelled it himself.

Biography

It would be good if we could seperate the Biography passage into smaller sections such as "Childhood" "Teenage" you name it. This would make the article more appealing to read than just a big hunk of text. Dont you think? - Faerun

pianoparadise.com

Discuss whether this site should be added as an external link Rachmaninov MP3 (http://www.pianoparadise.com/rachmaninov.html) download audio MP3 files of his major works for free.

Thank you for modifying every post I make, I am not asking for only YOUR opinion, which is why I posted this in discussion. You are wrong becuase audio is working just fine. You also say that classical MP3's should be searched on google, not WP, yet what is this link:

• audio mp3 (http://magomaev.ru/audio/Magomaev-Aleko.mp3) | video wmv (http://magomaev.ru/video/aleko.wmv) Cavatina of Aleko performed by Muslim Magomaev.

Maybe we should remove all links pointing to free audio mp3's? Evidently you can't have it both ways.

No, Wikipedia is not a link dump or a place off which you can score resellers' commission. You have spammed a number of other composers' articles with links to this site, which merely serves as a link factory to amazon and sheetmusic sellers. The MP3s aren't even on the site; they also just link to one or two external sites. And the biographies just seem like copies of wikipedia content. It adds absolutely no value in my opinion, and those in search of classical MP3s can use google if they really want to find music. Dewet 15:53, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)