Talk:Carl Maria von Weber
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I've started to tidy up this typically awful 1911 article - I've made some big cuts of material not about Carl Maria at all, but about his father, and generally modernised it. I hope the changes are improvements. I'll do the rest of the article later if nobody else does (and I'd love somebody else to). I really hate these 1911 articles - they might not be so bad if the people who imported them at least tried to wikify them. Ho hum... --Camembert
Awful! Just awful. I suppose it's better than starting from scratch ... is it??? Nevilley 17:28 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)
I sometimes wonder. One idea would be to put the 1911 text under a horizonal rule and start on something afresh, using the 1911 text as a source (this has been done at Johann Sebastian Bach for instance). Or else move the 1911 text here, to the talk page, to use as a source. But until somebody decides to write something new, I suppose it's better than nothing. Maybe. I've kept meaning to rewrite these 1911 pieces, but ... well, I'm too lazy, I guess. --Camembert
- Sure, OK. Would it be less frustrating if we put a line across the top with an empty or one-line "real" article until somebody writes something better? I don't think anyone would object. I'm not sure I understand the difference, though.--amillar
This one is particularly irritating in that it's one long narrative strain. I was trying to break it up into sections, or excise large hunks, but it's just sort of one amorphous, nott terribly NPOV blob... I'll hack away at it a bit. -- Dreamword 18:49 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)
- How about I rewrite it from scratch, basing it off the Grove and Weber CD liner notes, put all the 1911 EB text here in Talk and then restore to the article only the 1911 EB stuff that can be verified as fact? Del arte 18:00, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
There is some inconsistency in the birthdate of Weber. Various web sources give either December 18 or November 18.
I suppose this German website (http://www.pirna.de/personen/html/v__weber__carl_maria__.html) resolves the matter but I will not make any amendments until a weberologist gives us his opinion.
Kpjas 11:21, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)