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October 13[edit]

Italian reader needed[edit]

I need an experienced editor who reads Italian to help me review our stub article on Michele Moramarco. There are several cited sources, but all of them are in Italian (which I can not read)... so I can not determine reliability, or whether they do or do not establish notability, etc.

If you are willing to help, please contact me at my user talk page. Blueboar (talk) 16:20, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what "Mazdean Christian Universalism" means, and the link on Mazdean is not too illuminating... AnonMoos (talk) 20:40, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is there some text you want read, or just the titles of the references and bibliography given? I have no trouble reading the titles, which seem relevant, but I am not sure they establish anything about her notability. The topic seems very esoteric--an apparently Marxist Italian analysis of Masonry in California? User:Soman might be able to comment coherently. The sole reference that you can tell is about her from the name is "F. Ferrari, La Massoneria verso il futuro (una conversazione con Michele Moramarco) (Bastogi, Foggia 2008)", which is "Freemasonry towards the Future, a Conversation with M.M." μηδείς (talk) 23:25, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Italian given name "Michele"—"Michele (given name)"—is for males.

—Wavelength (talk) 00:03, 14 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Scusi, non parlo Italiano. μηδείς (talk) 01:51, 14 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Guitar term[edit]

Is there any piece of musician's jargon that refers to the "smudged" sound a guitar makes when you play it fingers covering up some of the strings that aren't supposed to be held down for that chord? Bennett Chronister (talk) 23:17, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's called "palm muting" (even though it's not usually done with the palm). Adam Bishop (talk) 23:40, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Er, wait, you mean muted with the hand on the neck, I think. In that case it's just called regular "muting". Adam Bishop (talk) 23:46, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See Ghost note, probably more commonly called "dead note" when referring to guitar. --Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 09:41, 14 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]