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Yes that's what I mean. OK, than we'll start this ball rolling! I can help during christmas holidays and in end january.

oh and please put the thread in the right forum

do a search for siegel on imslp and you have >50 hits;

and visit http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Verifying_copyright_status for more tips

Ah, great, finally someone who takes initiative for this long lasting weak point of IMSLP. Do you plan to involve only the help pages and technical pages, or also the complete contributor portal with all its semi-encyclopaedic pages? Probably not. But the submission guide, and the guidelines, can be...

If you want to do it in future: click edit on top of the page, then move the whole template containing your file to the correct position. Thanks for the submission!

Has anyone still contact with this guy? I would like to ask him to reopen his archive, as it was nearly finished before takedown. We can give garantuee that there will be no new members who have access to the website.

I don't mind the upload slowing down. I'm actually very satisfied with it. The tempo before the takedown was way too high to keep up with, and we had to remove a lot of crap. Although I'm not doing a lot of copyright review any more, it seems to me that the current tempo results in an improved quali...

I would suggest to remove the "portal" page. I think only 1 link of this page is actively used. I don't think it's a nice welcome for a new visitor, who has no interest in the history of the closure. Probably some new visitors won't even get as far as the IMSLP wiki. Oh and there's still t...

there is already a category for works with parts available

A clear message on our homepage with the request of copyright holders to look up if their copyright has been offended at SMA might be appropriate.

let's remove all links on IMSLP to the site.

Yes, simply update the translation to the last english version (use diff). then update the page id in the AutoOldTrans template entry on the page and it's done.

however, I now see that the Page ID is not properly displayed

The grayscale will look nicer on a computer screen due to relative low resolution of a screen , but printed in won't make a difference. Try it, print a 300 dpi grayscale and a 600dpi monochrome and probably the monochrome will look even sharper. I can't compress either CCITT 4 in Photoshop, I don't ...

Visit the "public domain" page on the wiki.

BTW in Belgium there's a same organisation that does raids in music schools and imposes fines, even for public domain works. It's a real mafia.

In short: no

Or actually, at least in my case, the ones that have easy identifiable information go first, most of the times I'm too lazy for the hard ones.