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Request for the following books all from Amazon: | Request for the following books all from Amazon: | ||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sinatra-Richard-Havers/dp/1405314613/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438805111&sr=1-1&keywords=richard+havers+Sinatra. Sinatra] (£12.64) | |||
# [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frank-Voice-James-Kaplan/dp/0767924231/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1439832465&sr=1-1&keywords=9780767924238 Frank:The Voice] (£3.91) | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frank-Sinatra-Life-Worth-Reading/dp/1499117787/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438804515&sr=1-1&keywords=frank+sinatra Frank Sinatra: A Life Worth Living] (£5.97) | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frank-Sinatra-My-Father-Nancy/dp/067162508X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1443996392&sr=8-4&keywords=Frank+Sinatra%2C+My+Father Frank Sinatra: My Father] (£0.01) | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lady-Blue-Eyes-Frank-Sinatra/dp/0099557886/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438804648&sr=1-6&keywords=frank+sinatra Lady Blues Eyes: My Life With Frank Sinatra] £2.20] | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frank-Sinatra-American-Legend-Nancy/dp/1575441152/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438804778&sr=1-14&keywords=frank+sinatra Frank Sinatra:An American Legend] (£4.18) | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frank-Making-Legend-James-Kaplan/dp/0751541400/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438804789&sr=1-16&keywords=frank+sinatra Frank:The Making of a Legend] £0.75) | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sinatra-life-Remembered-Lew-Irwin/dp/0762403977/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438805154&sr=1-1&keywords=Sinatra%3A+A+Life+Remembered Sinatra - A Life Remembered] (£0.01) | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sinatra-Untold-Story-Michael-Munn/dp/1861055374/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438805297&sr=1-1&keywords=Sinatra%3A+The+Untold+Story Sinatra:the Untold Story] (£0.01) | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sinatra-Hollywood-Tom-Santopietro/dp/0312590407/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438805360&sr=1-1&keywords=Sinatra+In+Hollywood Sinatra in Hollywood] £0.01) | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sinatra-Life-Anthony-Summers/dp/0552153311/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438805398&sr=1-1&keywords=Sinatra%3A+the+Life Sinatra:The Life] (£0.01) | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sinatra-Behind-J-Randy-Taraborrelli/dp/1840180307/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438805435&sr=1-1&keywords=Sinatra%3A+The+Man+Behind+the+Myth Sinatra: The Man Behind the Myth] (£0.01) | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0553386182/ref=tmm_pap_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1442179384&sr=1-5 His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra] (£6.41) | |||
#[http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Hotels-Alastair-Sawdays-Special/dp/190613670X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442334937&sr=8-1&keywords=british+hotels British Hotels] -£6.92] | |||
; Non-financial assistance requested | ; Non-financial assistance requested | ||
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Revision as of 10:37, 5 October 2015
Basic information
Project details
- Full project name
- Frank Sinatra
- Project start date (include month, day, and year)
- When books are received
- Project completion date (include month, day, and year)
- March 2016
- Please describe the project in 1–2 sentences
- To get Frank Sinatra’s article to Good Article status by December 12, 2015.
- Amount requested
- £51.83 not including postage.
Project lead details
- Are you an individual or an organisation?
- Individual
- Are you currently a member of Wikimedia UK?
- Yes
- Project lead name
- Dr. Blofeld
- Project lead username or email
- Dr. Blofeld Email: diegoanderhijo@gmail.com
- Project lead title (position), if any
Goals and measures of success
Project goal
To get the Frank Sinatra article up to a minimum Good Article, eventually featured article status.
Measures of success
- It will be a success once the article reaches minimum Good article status and appears on the front page as a top DYK on December 12th.
Budget and resources
- Project budget breakdown
Request for the following books all from Amazon:
- Sinatra (£12.64)
- Frank:The Voice (£3.91)
- Frank Sinatra: A Life Worth Living (£5.97)
- Frank Sinatra: My Father (£0.01)
- Lady Blues Eyes: My Life With Frank Sinatra £2.20]
- Frank Sinatra:An American Legend (£4.18)
- Frank:The Making of a Legend £0.75)
- Sinatra - A Life Remembered (£0.01)
- Sinatra:the Untold Story (£0.01)
- Sinatra in Hollywood £0.01)
- Sinatra:The Life (£0.01)
- Sinatra: The Man Behind the Myth (£0.01)
- His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra (£6.41)
- British Hotels -£6.92]
- Non-financial assistance requested
- PLACEHOLDER TEXT
Impact and benefits
Sinatra is the sort of biography that I view as a sort of "penthouse" of biographical articles on wikipedia, if you pardon the Las Vegas pun. It doesn't get bigger or bolder than Sinatra. Arguably the most popular entertainer overall of the 20th century, certainly one of the world's most charismatic and enigmatic entertainers, who seemed to be a different person on many different levels, from singer to Hollywood actor to mob connections. I've become more interested in him in recent months as I've progressed with learning jazz, and have found his recordings the best way to learn the tunes and lyrics. He gets more than twice as many daily hits as cinema giants like Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart, two others I'm interested in at some point. Monthly he currently gets about 160,000 views, so in ten years this article will be seen by 20 million people, probably more as traffic grows each year, it might be nearer 50 million by 2025! I think it's one of those core articles wikipedia really must have a good article for.
Discussion
Hello!
Sorry to let you down Richard Nevell (WMUK) and Karla Marte(WMUK) but for several reasons I've decided to semi retire from wikipedia for the time being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld. I haven't retired fully yet, I'm still planning on making a grant proposal later in the year to WMF which might change things, which I hope WMUK will be happy to be a part of, but I've given way too much of my time and goodwill to the site for so long and got little back in return. I know that if I promote Audrey Hepburn I'll only continue to be faced with trolling and mass heartache I've faced with Kubrick and Sinatra. It just isn't worth the effort, and I don't think I'm valued enough to want to be able continue at the moment. Dr. Blofeld (talk) 19:18, 6 January 2017 (GMT)
- Hi Dr. Blofeld, I only just noticed that as we talked about this over email I never left a reply here. There is of course no let down. The work on Sinatra, Grant, and O'Hara has been an enormous effort which benefits hundreds of thousands of readers every month. Let's leave the final peak for someone else to scale. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 12:51, 27 March 2017 (BST)