Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Paul Wehage and Patricia Adkins Chiti

Paul was banned from putting his website and writings all over Wikipedia. This is what he said about it at The Wikipedia Review, Paul (as The Fieryangel) said this:
I got really mad. And I'm still mad. And I'm not alone. You guys blew it big time with this situation and you've paid for it many times over. [Wikipedia] will never, ever, get EU cultural funding for a Wikipedia project because of this.
Goodness! My guess is that Paul spoke to his friend Patricia Adkins Chiti, who is the President of Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Music. Is Ms. Adkins Chiti that powerful? Perhaps. When The Fieryangel's IP address was found to be originating from Musik Fabrik in Lagny-sur-Marne, The Fieryangel tried to claim that he was in fact a friend who sounded awfully similar to Ms. Adkins Chiti:
Let me start from the beginning: Paul Wehage runs Musik Fabrik music publishing, a publishing company who publishes almost all of the work by Germaine Tailleferre published after her death (ie most of the important works). Paul is a fine saxophonist and has performed extensively in festivals devoted to music by women, especially those organized by the Donne in Musica foundation. I met him in Fiuggi in 1998, where he did ten premières in three days of new music by women written for him. He's a real inspiration for those of us who believe that women's music is important because he puts his money where his mouth is: he plays the music and he publishes it. He's a very close friend, as is his partner, Jean-Thierry Boisseau.
That's an actual post by Paul Wehage as The fieryangel at wikipediareview.com. Here is an article written by Patricia Adkins Chiti talking about the 1998 Donne in Musica festival in Fiuggi.
It's quite possible that Paul Wehage or his boyfriend Jean-Thierry Boisseau did, indeed, turn Ms. Adkins Chiti against Wikipedia, and that she single-handedly got all the member states of the European Union to not do any Wikimedia projects (I wasn't aware they apply for government grants). Here is User:Jean-Thierry Boisseau during the Musik Fabrik Arbitration:
The main authority concerning this issue that I know is Mrs. Patricia Adkins-Chiti, the head of the Adkins-Chiti Donne in Musica foundation [http://www.donneinmusica.org], who has the world's largest library of music by women, who has written books, edited collections of music, produced television series etc. It is difficult for me to bring her into this discussion for several reasons - First of which is that her husband is Gian Paolo Chiti and we publish his music. Patricia is actually kind of upset that her husband has been "nominated for deletion" here, especially with all of the unkind (and unsourced) remarks that were made about him. She's not terribly "pro-wikipedia" at this point...and I don't think that this is going to change.

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