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Hello, Schwede66. It has been over six months since you last edited theArticles for Creation submission ordraft page you started, "Amalgamations with Christchurch City".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you canrequest its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing.Liz^Read!Talk!01:37, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Captain Anonymous is back with their tiresome edit warring ondouble contrabass flute andsubcontrabass flute, can we please semipermanently protect these pages again (see recent edits and talk pages for easily ascertained context). Cheers and happy new year :)Jon (talk)02:09, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jonathanischoice, that's done.Schwede6604:00, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

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• Followingan RFC,Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as asubject-specific notability guideline.
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• The Nuke feature also nowprovides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee:CaptainEek,Daniel,Elli,KrakatoaKatie,Liz,Primefac,ScottishFinnishRadish,Theleekycauldron,Worm That Turned.

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WishingSchwede66 a veryhappy adminship anniversary on behalf of theBirthday Committee! Best wishes!DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk)03:48, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks heaps! And HNY to the committee.Schwede6604:00, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Eight years!

Thank you for RD promotions and sensible changes based on ERRORS! - Happy new year! --Gerda Arendt (talk)07:25, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HNY to you as well, Gerda. And thanks you for all your useful contributions.Schwede6608:35, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

story ·music ·places

Mystory today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. --Gerda Arendt (talk)11:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today a violinist from Turkey,Ayla Erduran, whom you can watch playing Schubert chamber music --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:10, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... and today,pictured on the Main page,Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal authorBrian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:12, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today, between many who just died,Tobias Kratzer on his 45th birthday who was good foran unusual DYK mentioning a Verdi opera in 2018, - you can see his work in the trailer of another one that I saw, and my talk page has a third (but by a different director). 2025 pics, finally. --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:57, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today I hada composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely withanother who just became GA, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk)09:02, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have more vacation pics to offer, and today's story ofWerner Bardenhewer. I took the pic, and it was my DYK on his 90th birthday, in both English and German. He spent the day in Africa, and after his return said - chatting after a mass of thanks he celebrated atMariä Heimsuchung - that we'd have to talk about these articles. --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:29, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Should the articleJoan Bolger andJim Bolger have the categoryCategory:People from Waikanae (where they currently live) or should the category be where they grew up or something like that? ―Panamitsu(talk)10:49, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Or should there be a category for each place they've lived? ―Panamitsu(talk)10:50, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

MorenaPanamitsu, I suggest that as long as someone lived somewhere for some length of time, and it's referenced in their bio, then aPeople from Foo category for each of those places is appropriate.Schwede6617:48, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've added that category to both of the articles. ―Panamitsu(talk)22:19, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Schwede66. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know thatDraft:Jonathan R. White, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six monthsmay be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, pleaseedit it again orrequest that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you canrequest it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia.FireflyBot (talk)20:06, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just for the record: not my draft (I merely moved it) but it's now redundant anyway as the article exists in main space.Schwede6621:02, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

SeeCategory:May 1941 in New Zealand which is down for merging, but which I have opposed as it is part of a series with Australia in Oceania, would you consider joining me in objecting?Hugo999 (talk)21:13, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hugo999, I suggest you should readWikipedia:Canvassing. Now that you've asked me, I wouldn't be able to contribute, because it could get both of us into trouble.Schwede6622:44, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Schwede66. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Hi I am currently working onDraft:Lyttelton Museum (I don't yet know if it's notable enough) and have noticed that in 2011 you tooka picture of the building on Donald Street. After being confused about why the sources show a different building, I looked at Google Maps and realised that the 'main' building (now demolished) is that white one visible on the right. Do you happen to have a picture of that? ―Panamitsu(talk)06:46, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I found justthe right photo on Flickr,Panamitsu, but the license isn't quite right. I've asked the photographer whether they are happy to remove the NP-part from the license. Meanwhile, I've created both a Commons category and a Wikidata entry for the museum.Schwede6608:08, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, fingers crossed. ―Panamitsu(talk)08:21, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guess whatI've just found. ―Panamitsu(talk)02:06, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Haha!Schwede6605:34, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! It's been awhile. Thanks for your help with DYKs. Happy new year.

Quick question you may know the answer to. I've been working the past few days on an article that is in draft.Draft:Leon Feingold. Am still working on it. When I'm done, if it gets promoted to be an article, will it be eligible for DYK? Here is the quirk. It looks as though it was once an article in the past, but lost that status. It looks as though it was Proded.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Leon_Feingold&diff=prev&oldid=1255209358 It certainly had issues then, including an apparent COI from an editor. Now it is a draft. Thoughts?2603:7000:2101:AA00:34FB:96:88B8:2C6D (talk)23:20, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HNY to you, too. Yes, it’s eligible:Articles that have been re-created from deletion may be considered new.Schwede6616:11, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thanks! Hope all is well. Will do some more work on it.--2603:7000:2101:AA00:6412:3406:5B47:5C1F (talk)23:03, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Having since looked at it in more detail (sorry, I’m away on holiday), I see that the deleted article has been restored to draft. The eventual article will thus count as new, but the five-time-expansion rule will have to be met.Schwede6616:25, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Administrators can nownuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days.T380846
• A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter inSpecial:RecentChanges andSpecial:NewPages.T56145

Arbitration

• The arbitration casePalestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

HiSchwede66, this is election time in India and some of us, have been trying to create pages for the new winning MLAs of Delhi. Two pages were created within a few minutes, by me and one more user, User talk:Xoocit. Request you to kindly look at the two pages and suggest if they can be merged. I createdAahir Deepak Chaudharyy using the spelling given by all the sources, including the official election commission of India site. Another page is created asDeepak Choudhary, based on the spelling of his instagram profile (as quoted by the user in his talk page reply). Since Xoocit created it a few minutes before I did, my page can be merged into his as both BLPs are about the same person. Grateful if you can look into it, when you have a minute.Davidindia (talk)14:32, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If it’s about the same person, a merge needs to be done. The second page should at the end remain as a redirect to the first.Schwede6614:51, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. Another editor noticed it and did a 'redirect'. Thanks for your time! BestDavidindia (talk)08:53, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

story ·music ·places

Thank you for having brought mystory today to the main page: a German-born Spanish art collector, - the video in her honour is remarkable, as what she gave the world. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:08, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Plishka, a bass who sang 88 roles of all kinds at theMet was interviewed before his (first) retirement. Declared ready on WP:ITNN. --Gerda Arendt (talk)17:42, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Posted!Schwede6618:57, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! -Today's story is aboutEdith Mathis, who portrayed young women byMozart. The video of a 1993 interview has videos of her performances. --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:22, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I point ata composer today, as the main page does. --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:52, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Schwede66. It has been over six months since you last edited theArticles for Creation submission ordraft page you started, "Jonathan R. White".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopediamainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simplyedit the submission and remove the{{db-afc}},{{db-draft}}, or{{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions atthis link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia!DreamRimmer bot II (talk)20:24, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not my article. I merely moved a draft within draft space to its common name.Schwede6601:24, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for postingGyalo Thondup to RD. For future, it's nice when notifications get sent to nominators and updaters.Cielquiparle (talk)07:40, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I forgot. Fixed now.Schwede6608:00, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! OnTemplate:Did you know nominations/2025 Balkan retail boycotts, you stated that2025 Southeast Europe retail boycotts couldn't be posted on DYK due tobeing on ITN. Is there a specific DYK or MP policy that prevents an item from being featured twice on a MP run? —Knightoftheswords13:46, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Have a read ofWP:DYKNEW,Knightoftheswords281.Schwede6614:26, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is also ineligible if it has, within the year prior to nomination or between nomination and appearance on the Main Page, appeared as a boldlink at In the news (ITN) or in the prose section of Selected anniversaries (OTD), or as Today's featured article (TFA). A nomination must go on hold if the article has pending nominations to appear at any of the same.

So it would still be ineligible even when it rolls off ITN? —Knightoftheswords15:30, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, because it has had its main page exposure.Schwede6617:25, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Same as always .. if you agree, credit to you.

...Danielle Sassoon, former actingU.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, credits her study of theTalmud as preparing her for her future legal career?

Sources: February 12, 2025,New York Timesarticle:"An Ambitious Prosecutor Quits Rather Than Do Trump’s Bidding; Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s interim U.S. attorney, built a life on conservative values and amassed a daunting resume. On Thursday, she took a stand against the Justice Department where she had made her career. " "In high school, she spent hours each day studying the Talmud, an effort that she has said prepared her to study law." and December 22, 2020, video at 21:01:"Alumni in Conversation: Clerking for the Supreme Court." "When I interviewed for the clerkship with Justice Scala ... among the things he asked me was ' What prepared you to do well in law school; what sparked your interest in the law?', and what came to mind and what I said was 'in high school I studied Talmud for hours every day, and that process of engaging in really what's a form of the Socratic method, which is how they teach law school, and also spending days unpacking the meaning of a single word or a single line, prepared me for analyzing the law in a similar way,' and in a vein that was very appealing to Justice Scalia ...."

Reviewed:Template:Did you know nominations/Louafi Bouguera Olympic Bridge2603:7000:2101:AA00:51B2:B05D:42F:C638 (talk)21:20, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 DoneTemplate:Did you know nominations/Danielle SassoonSchwede6622:15, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks as always. --2603:7000:2101:AA00:51B2:B05D:42F:C638 (talk)23:01, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So I'll preface by saying I am not an AP perm reviewer, so I'm not super-familiar with the criteria, but I am curious howthis user was granted AP when they are still having drafts declineda couple of weeks ago, and they have a number of other declined drafts.Primefac (talk)14:01, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Same as always .. if you agree, credit to you (and whoever else may be appropriate). Thanks.

• ... Basketball playerBarry Leibowitz said his teammateConnie "the Hawk" Hawkins claimed to be fluent in 50 to 60 languages, because Hawkins had learned one word in each of them?

• ALT1: ... that despite basketball playerBarry Leibowitz having been drafted by theNew York Knicks and played a year in theABA, he chose to play in Israel instead because of itssea,hummus, andtahini with olive oil?

• Reviewed:Prem Oraon

• 5x expanded.

2603:7000:2101:AA00:6103:B31A:D0F4:8A0E (talk)00:54, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note - I should perhaps point out that I have opened up aconversation with an editor who has to my surprise stripped RS-supported mention of Leibowitz from half a dozen articles today between 14:40 and 14:50 (see[1]). But while I've opened up discussion with the editor, I don't believe that impacts the DYK itself, as that editor has not as of yet sought to delete the same text from this article. --2603:7000:2101:AA00:6103:B31A:D0F4:8A0E (talk)03:23, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

--on this point, I made an effort to discuss the matter with the editor. But midstream herefused to respond to my effort to discuss his rationale for his deletions. I'm a bit perplexed as to how best to handle it. I don't wish to make a federal case of it, but do think that proper edits should be restored. --2603:7000:2101:AA00:C439:9C40:594F:1080 (talk)05:59, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!Template:Did you know nominations/Barry Leibowitz. ALT0 doesn't work because the hook is supposed to be about the subject, but this one is about someone else. I've had to trim ALT1 a bit to stay below 200 characters, which is regarded as a hard limit. That all said, now that the nomination exist, feel free to add additional hooks. All the best to you!

Thanks as always. I must have forgotten the rule that led to the death of the first hook - thanks for picking that up (and fixing the other .. which I had thought was sufficiently short, but I must have checked a draft of it and then made it too long. Best. --2603:7000:2101:AA00:6C8C:5E21:C096:C4B (talk)01:19, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the nomination template is quite clever these days and tells you the number of characters of the hook; that's how I noticed.Schwede6604:08, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ahah! Soon the systems will be smart enough perhaps to delete from lists of people, those that are redlinked (or not linked), and have no refs. --2603:7000:2101:AA00:6C8C:5E21:C096:C4B (talk)04:37, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Same as always .. if you agree, credit to you andUser:ForsythiaJo (and whoever else may be appropriate). Thanks.

• ...Bahraini authorFatema Al Harbi, who wears ahijab, posts aboutthe Holocaust on social media in response to widespreadHolocaust denial in the Arab world?

• ALT1: same as above except delete ", who wears ahijab,"

• Reviewed:James Charnley House

2603:7000:2101:AA00:C439:9C40:594F:1080 (talk)08:09, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Sorry for slackness. I've only just got round to nominating this, and it's technically a day late because I sat on this for three days. Hope they'll accept it.Template:Did you know nominations/Fatema Al HarbiSchwede6621:42, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• My apologies to you for leaving you a short timeframe. Many thanks as always.--2603:7000:2101:AA00:4EE:A2EA:A241:1EDE (talk)20:03, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission ofFatema Al Harbi at theDid You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) atyour nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here}02:46, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see that only you andFemke are actively granting Autopatrolled rights, and I know that evaluating an editor for this right takes time, so I just wanted to give you both a heads up about holding off on thisrequest a little longer. I believe there is a larger UPE/COI andWP:MEAT issue involving this editor. Please give me a week or two to start a proper SPI.Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk)13:43, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

Administrator changes

• Jarry1250
• Lethe

CheckUser changes

• AmandaNP
• Drmies

Oversighter changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• Arequest for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
• A series of22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of theadministrator elections process has been closed (see thesummary of the changes).
• Arequest for comment is open to gain consensus on whether futureadministrator elections should be held.

Technical news

• A new filter has been added to theSpecial:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below.T378488
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using theSpecial:Nuke tool.T376378

Miscellaneous

• The 2025 appointees for theOmbuds commission areだ＊ぜ,Arcticocean,Ameisenigel,Emufarmers,Faendalimas,Galahad,Nehaoua,Renvoy,Revi C.,RoySmith,Teles andZafer as members, withVermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards:1234qwer1234qwer4,AramilFeraxa,Daniuu,KonstantinaG07,MdsShakil andXXBlackburnXx.

On 5 March 2025,In the news was updated with an item that involved the articleLiu Jiakun, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on thecandidates page.Stephen21:43, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On8 March 2025,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleDanielle Sassoon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... thatDanielle Sassoon, a former acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, credits her study of theTalmud for preparing her for her future legal career? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Danielle Sassoon. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page(here's how,Danielle Sassoon), and the hook may be added tothe statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on theDid you know talk page.

SL93 (talk)00:04, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Same as always .. if you agree, credit to you. Thanks.

• ... Five-year-old actorAlex Garfin had his hair and eyebrows dyed blonde to play a Russian spy-in-training?

2603:7000:2101:AA00:C22:2CD8:7276:F08B (talk)22:02, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• No trouble. Can you please add a QPQ tothe nomination as soon as you can?Schwede6622:42, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks as always. Apologies. I'll blame my forgetting to do so till now on the time change. Here we go. I will add one now.2603:7000:2101:AA00:C22:2CD8:7276:F08B (talk)23:45, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

While clearing the main page's errors, you seem to have blanked my message for today's OTD entry. I've re-added it.JayCubby01:32, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

JayCubby, my apologies. Didn't look hard enough, it seems.Schwede6601:35, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries.JayCubby01:36, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm dealing with it now. Just awaiting protection to kick in.Schwede6601:39, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Same as always .. if you agree, credit to you andUser:Relspas (and whoever else may be appropriate). Lots of ALTs this time! Feel free to revise or delete any you have a problem with or dislike. Thanks.

Gil Hovav

• ... thatGil Hovav cooked shrimp in orange sauce, because that was served at theLast Supper?

• ALT1: ... that after the9/11 attack,Gil Hovavcooked a breakfast ofshakshuka for 500 firefighters working atGround Zero?

• ALT2: ... thatGil Hovav once accidentally marched with a sign that said “I'm a proud lesbian!”?

• ALT3: ... members ofGil Hovav's family walked from Yemen to Palestine?

• ALT4: ... thatGil Hovav reads the announcements atBen Gurion Airport for free, because he was annoyed by previous small grammatical errors?

• ALT5: ... thatGil Hovav met his husband in the army when they were both straight?

• Reviewed:Template:Did you know nominations/Remember Monday

2603:7000:2101:AA00:B988:8BEF:5DBE:59F6 (talk)01:58, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nice one! I'm sure that the reviewer will find something suitable. It'snominated here. I've made some tweaks to the hooks as part of this edit for your info to align withWP:DYKCRIT, and on the nomination page, I've added(pictured) everywhere.Schwede6618:48, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Thanks for making those fixes, and at the same time teaching me.2603:7000:2101:AA00:5067:11DF:1B10:DCD2 (talk)21:50, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On21 March 2025,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleFatema Al Harbi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... that Bahraini authorFatema Al Harbi, the first non-government Bahraini to visit Israel, faced death threats upon her return? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Fatema Al Harbi. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page(here's how,Fatema Al Harbi), and the hook may be added tothe statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on theDid you know talk page.

SL93 (talk)12:03, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just realized that my comment on the ERRORS page might come across as mean despite my intentions, but it felt like public shaming considering how often that page is viewed. I do have a talk page.SL93 (talk)18:29, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. I’m sorry for that,SL93. Public shaming was certainly not my intention. My comment was aimed at drawing attention to a little detail that can be overlooked. It was intended as feedback without any negative undertone. I hear what you say, though, and I shall be more careful to not use that well-watched page for giving such feedback.Schwede6622:33, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your nice response.SL93 (talk)22:35, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, how come you deleted two entries on today's OTD? I've asked over here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors#Today%27s_OTD), so feel free to respond to me there. Thanks!QueensanditsCrazy (talk)22:37, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As you saw, I answered your query at Errors. Given that you've made a follow-up statement,QueensanditsCrazy, and Errors has since been wiped, what I can tell you is that the main page was redesigned in 2006 to have columns, and we've been doing the balancing of the columns since then. I don't know whether that's documented in some guideline or not (those things are never covered by policy, by the way), but that's what we do. If you've got issues with it, the place to raise it is atTalk:Main Page.Schwede6601:04, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I might raise the issue and try to get a consensus (either way) cuz I thought it was strange, maybe others will agree (or not). Thank you!QueensanditsCrazy (talk)12:33, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Was it necessary to protect the page when it was just one ip address (who does not appear to be blocked or partially-blocked) that was vandalising?Traumnovelle (talk)23:44, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, with IPs, even if you were to block them, most have dynamic IP addresses. If you apply a range block, it can easily have a bigger impact than semi-protecting an article. I'm not sure whether that thinking is entirely within the accepted guidance. Feel free to have a look and let me know if it isn't. Either way, the protection will expire within a couple of days.Schwede6623:56, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can't IP ranges (along with accounts) be blocked from editing specific pages?Traumnovelle (talk)01:44, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's what page protection is for; you can't make it (the protection) specific to IP ranges, though.Schwede6602:04, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm talking aboutpartial blocks. They do appear to be a way to prevent disruption to the specific page without targetting IPs outside the range and blocking other pages.Traumnovelle (talk)02:26, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. I've never looked into that. I shall investigate, but it won't happen in a hurry due to real world pressures.Schwede6602:48, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, talk page is still open and the ip-editing rate was very intermittent.Traumnovelle (talk)02:51, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Re your edit summary atJoe Biden presidential campaigns (the ping didn't work, btw), I had no idea it was on the main page. This appeared to be a run-of-the-mill, and reasonable, technical request atWP:RM/TR. -Station1 (talk)06:10, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure why the ping didn't work; using the normal wikitext syntax [[User:Station1]] in an edit summary does create a ping as perHelp:Notifications#Mentions in edit summaries. Ah well. So here's a ping with my response,Station1.

The point of the edit summary was to make you aware ofWikipedia:MPNOREDIRECT in case you didn't know about it. From your reply above, I now know that you hadn't spotted that the item had been on the main page. Thus, there's nothing that you could (or should) have done differently. All is good. Have a good day.Schwede6606:22, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On4 April 2025,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleBarry Leibowitz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... that basketball playerBarry Leibowitz, despite being drafted by theNew York Knicks and playing in theABA, chose to play in Israel instead because of its sea,hummus, andtahini? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Barry Leibowitz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page(here's how,Barry Leibowitz), and the hook may be added tothe statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on theDid you know talk page.

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Hi I've just noticed thatCategory:Golden Bay andGolden Bay / Mohua have different names. Should I request a C2D speedy rename for the category? ―Panamitsu(talk)10:17, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've answered this atTalk:Golden Bay / Mohua#Time for a split?,Panamitsu. Let us have the discussion there.Schwede6620:18, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I didn't realise it was this complex. ―Panamitsu(talk)21:47, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for asking!Schwede6604:18, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CanTemmy Shmull (an article which I created) still be posted even though it was archived. I was just wondering because the article was sourced. Thanks.Sahaib (talk)00:29, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No trouble,Sahaib. I've invokedWP:IAR and posted this.Schwede6604:19, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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If that ping from the April 4 edit summary was a test, it worked.Station1 (talk)08:29, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nope; no test. I know what creates a ping and I also know what makes them fail,Station1.Schwede6609:50, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK, so now I'm curious. Two (serious) questions: Why did that first ping not work when the other three did? And what were you alerting me to re April 4?Station1 (talk)17:15, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1: I suspect it did work and you simply overlooked it,Station1. It’ll be there in your ping history. Click on the bell and look through the items.

2: Yes, that edit summary ping would have been confusing because I pinged the wrong user. D'oh! It refers to the above talk item named "OTD - how come deleted two entries?".Schwede6618:39, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The first thing I did, before I ever wrote to you, was check my alert history. That first ping is definitely not there, even though every subsequent ping from you is there. I guess it will have to remain an unsolved mystery.Station1 (talk)23:05, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Let's add it to the mystery file.Schwede6605:07, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just noticed our favourite IP editor at it again onTemplate:Selwyn - any chance we could get that added to the protection list too?Turnagra (talk)00:51, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Right then. I didn't "miss" that template as such because it doesn't contain any macrons. But it does have dual names, and those are another obvious target, of course. Now fixed; have applied permanent semi-protection.Schwede6605:11, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! And sorry, I didn't mean to imply anything with my message.Turnagra (talk)07:09, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I wasn’t complaining or anything. All good.Schwede6608:43, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

From memory, there are other templates that I didn't protect because of a lack of macrons. Once they flare up, just let me know.Schwede6605:12, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a list of unprotected templates to add to your watchlist if you haven't already got them:

―Panamitsu(talk)06:45, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Clever you!Schwede6606:47, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Have just had another one earlier today over atTemplate:Westland landforms - could I request protection over there too, please?Turnagra (talk)09:04, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 DoneSchwede6610:20, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Again atTemplate:Lighthouses of New Zealand. ―Panamitsu(talk)23:10, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AlsoTemplate:Tolkien tourism was vandalised 1 year ago and it hasn't been protected. Don't know if you want to protect it or not. ―Panamitsu(talk)23:13, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I shall go through the lot and protect them all. Will do over the weekend.Schwede6623:15, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

All done. Also the school templates.Schwede6605:24, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guess who's back ―Panamitsu(talk)23:30, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just foundthis from four hours ago. This person's tricks are evolving. ―Panamitsu(talk)00:02, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok I've just gone through all the railway templates and it looks like the IP editor hasn't found most of them yet, and an enthusiastic IP editor has been constructively working on them for months, so there's no need to protect them. I've added them all to my watchlist incase the vandal does find them though. ―Panamitsu(talk)00:40, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much.Schwede6601:43, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Our favourite editor is back. ―Panamitsu(talk)23:44, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are more templates... Sigh.Schwede6601:53, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I saw your protection ofTemplate:Upper Harbour Local Board Area but was confused because the page in question has never been vandalised, according to theprotection policy. Protection is not supposed to be preemptive and templates should only be protected when they are at high risk.Traumnovelle (talk)05:24, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The edit summary points to the discussion,Traumnovelle:Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 36#Low-level macron vandalism. Also relevant isthe discussion above. There are good reasons to act pre-emptively, as this is vandalism that can go undetected (for example, I found one today thatgot vandalised 14 months ago without anyone picking up on it), and it's way more efficient to do them in bulk rather than someone spotting it and then requesting protection. There's a furtherdiscussion here about what's going on. Lastly, what we would really have preferred doing was totackle this problem via an edit filter, but the request wasn't actioned.Schwede6605:40, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe the low-level disruption justifies the protection of so many pages. If you are able to protect the pages could you not simply just watchlist them?Traumnovelle (talk)05:47, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'll pass on that suggestion. My watchlist is just shy of 10,000 pages and I don't want to add to it with a couple of hundred templates.Schwede6605:49, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, and pingingOhnoitsjamie too.An IP you've blocked has been recently contributing under a different IP. My evidence is as follows: it's obvious. They talk the same way and are talking on the same pages, including to their other sockpuppet. Both IPs have had a round on my talk page. Their behavior is a repeat of what you blocked them for in the first place.The new IP hasn't edited in about 2 days, but just letting you know in case they get active again.Panini!•🥪18:00, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

3 months should be plenty of time to find new hobbies. Feel free to ping me if they return on a different IP.OhNoitsJamie^Talk18:43, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to learn that it's all under control.Schwede6623:30, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I wrotemy story today and then found it's the person's funeral day. - I hated to see DYK forJohannes-Passion (Gubaidulina) today instead of Good Friday, but it seems also right in the context. Thank you for your help with the wording. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:32, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are most welcome, Gerda. It's been my pleasure.Schwede6623:57, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! - I finally managed to upload the pics I meant for Easter, see places. - Also finally, I managed a FAC,Easter Oratorio. I wanted that on the main page for Easter Sunday, but no, twice. You are invited to joina discussion about what "On this day" means, day or date. --Gerda Arendt (talk)13:06, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings. I was trying to add an image of Peter De Lange intohis article but learned I couldn't because the infobox is taken from Wikidata, and I wasn't capable of editing it. I tried adding an image of him on Wikidata and it was visible on the Wikidata page but it strangely wasn't visible on the Wikipedia page of him. Is there a way to fix it? I read the error page and couldn't figure it out. It is also my first time editing Wikidata.Alexeyevitch^(talk)04:38, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure why it doesn't populate into the article automatically, but I've added it by using theimage parameter. See the docs atTemplate:Infobox person/Wikidata. Cheers,Dracophyllum06:00, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like it just takes some time to populate actually, the |image parameter is no longer req and has been rmved.Dracophyllum06:11, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) I have fixed it. –DreamRimmer◆06:24, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both!Alexeyevitch^(talk)06:26, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems I'm surplus to requirements :-)

I'm glad that it's been sorted.Schwede6608:05, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Nothing new: another RD article on his last day onWP:ITNN. --Gerda Arendt (talk)17:26, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help! --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:54, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I do what I can.Schwede6621:41, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Recommended reading today about the one:Christfried Schmidt, alsoa story about patience. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:31, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Margot Friedländer,May Abrahamse (with uncertain licensing of portrait), andVakhtang Machavariani (nominated) --Gerda Arendt (talk)14:24, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

musings on15 May --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:50, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for posting one of the two Yuri/Yury to RD. - I marked ITNN as posted, - credit? - I think the two should go together, having worked together and died the same day. --Gerda Arendt (talk)06:18, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I must have got distracted, Gerda. Credit now issued. Nobody has reviewedYury Grigorovich yet, hence it's not ready and can't be placed next to Yuri.Schwede6620:05, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today I could writemy first story on two subjects who recently died and appear together ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk)07:36, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, born 100 years ago,described by Alan Blyth --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:29, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Schwede66 and thanks for the heads up on this. It's a decent point which shouldn't really have got through FAC. Embarrassingly I was the closing coordinator. In case you care I have opened a discussion on sorting it outhere. Take care.Gog the Mild (talk)13:06, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gog the Mild, the way I see it, we are all volunteers and are allowed to sometimes not be perfect. Beyond that, I have a deep respect for the work done by FA and TFA coordinators.Schwede6622:38, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Schwede66,

I was looking through the user rights log and I noticed that you revoked extended confirmed access from some users for being inactive. I'm new to Wikipedia and not sure about the convention; is it typical for this permission to be revoked after a period of inactivity? For autopatrolled there isWP:APREVOKE but I did not find anything analogous for extended confirmed access.Stockhausenfan (talk)20:44, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, there’s no convention for it. I just did it as the rationale is the same as for the recent autopatrolled discussion (if a dormant account is compromised, you would not want it to have advanced permissions).Schwede6622:18, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, can you have a look at the recent history of theBassoon article, and tell me what, if anything, you or I could do aboutUser:And even Romanian's contributions...?Jon (talk)23:08, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've had a look and dealt with it.Schwede6608:34, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi do you remember what the username of the Depths of Wikipedia account on Wikipedia is? I want to show her the 360 degree image of inside a bag of cornflakes atCornflakes#History. I couldn't stop laughing for about an hour when I found it a few years ago. Surely she's covered it before? ―Panamitsu(talk)23:07, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Her public account isAnnierau, but she also has an anonymous account that I cannot recall.Schwede6623:10, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And yes, that is a funny image indeed!Schwede6623:11, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks ―Panamitsu(talk)23:31, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The disambiguation pageBoom Boom is funny too: "Boom Boom,Boom Boom Boom, orBoom Boom Boom Boom may refer to" ―Panamitsu(talk)06:54, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Panamitsu, P.S. I think the other account may beUser:Crunchydillpickle if I recall correctly.History6042😊(Contact me)19:33, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Schwede66, I see that you often post ITN recent deaths and would like to ask you to post Werenoi as it is about to be too old. Thank you, in advance.History6042😊(Contact me)19:34, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Schwede66, I am very sorry, I was just answering a question and did not realise that it was not allowed, again, sorry.History6042😊(Contact me)00:00, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also just so you know it is still visible on this page.History6042😊(Contact me)00:04, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No trouble. I didn't think it was deliberate. It says on her public account that she also has a secret account. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known either.Schwede6601:32, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thank you for understanding. :)History6042😊(Contact me)01:36, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Schwede66, I forgot to ping you at the entry forSamantha Kane atWikipedia:Main Page/Errors#Current DYK. I see you've already taken action on the request and edited the active hook. Best,Bridget (talk)18:06, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep discussions in one place. There is no point opening up discussions in another place.Schwede6618:08, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yep! I'm aware. I wasn't planning on discussing here.Bridget (talk)18:09, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why not ping me from where the existing discussion is?Schwede6618:13, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I know that the notification for a personal talk page message shows up differently than a normal ping. You took (admin-only) action on an active hook, and I think leaving a message here is warranted given this is a time-sensitive matter. I'm not discussing content at your page, simply notifying you.Bridget (talk)18:19, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you kindly,QuicoleJR. I appreciate your kind message.Schwede6617:56, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Stravinsky pictured on his birthday + Vienna pics - but too many who died --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:33, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alfred Brendel was one of the hardest, and still missing more lead and detail. Thank you for bringing him to the main page! Please credit a great team ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk)06:35, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

nevermind, - someone did it - today look atthe autograph of Beethoven's last piano sonata and listen to the pianist who wanted to serve the compositions most of all - thank you again for promoting! --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:41, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

While you are of course invited to check out my recommendations any day, today offers unusuallya great writer of novels,music with light anda place with exquisite food. --Gerda Arendt (talk)16:10, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello @Schwede66,

I have previously started a discussion on WP:ANI(Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#c-Thehistorianisaac-20250618030600-User:Nghtcmdr) regarding misconduct by another user, which multiple other editors have also spoke out on. However, there seems to be no admin intervention yet, so may I ask if you could go check it out?

Thehistorianisaac (talk)04:36, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Given that it's already at ANI, I shall stay out of it.Schwede6604:38, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok; However, may I ask if there is any way to be able to find admins to intervene quicker, as the ANI has received no Admin response yet, and even during the discussion the user in question has continued to direct false accusations towards me, and has deliberately shownWP:ICANTHEARYOU to editors who try to explain policies to them, so I would prefer if there could be a faster response.Thehistorianisaac (talk)04:44, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, there isn't really a way to speed things up. And in the big scheme of things, there's no need for speed either. If you are in the right, and the other user is in the wrong, simply lean back and watch things come to a slow end for the other party. If whatever it is that's going on gets to you, I suggest you take a wiki-break and catch some fresh air.Schwede6604:53, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks. I'm not really that concerned about the user's personal attacks, I just would prefer admin intervention come sooner than later.Thehistorianisaac (talk)04:56, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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On 8 July 2025,In the news was updated with an item that involved the articleTerry Brown (brothel owner), which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on thecandidates page.Spencer^T•C01:08, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Schwede, Could you replace the TFA for tomorrow with the following please? There are a couple of tweaks in there from the current version

'''[[Holkham Hall]]''' is an 18th-century [[English country house|country house]] in Norfolk, England, constructed in the [[Palladian architecture#Neo-Palladianism|Neo-Palladian]] style for [[Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation)|Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester]]. The hall was designed by the architect [[William Kent]], with contributions from [[Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington]], the Norfolk architect and surveyor [[Matthew Brettingham]] and Thomas Coke himself. Holkham is one of England's finest examples of the Palladian revival style of architecture. The exterior consists of a central block, of two storeys and four flanking wings. The interior of the hall is opulent, but by the standards of the day, simply decorated and furnished. The Holkham estate was built up by [[Edward Coke|Sir Edward Coke]], a lawyer in the reigns of [[Elizabeth I]] and [[James VI and I|James I]] and the founder of his family's fortune. It remains the ancestral home of the Coke family, who became [[Earl of Leicester|Earls of Leicester]]. The house is a [[Listed building#Grade I|Grade I listed building]], and its park is listed as Grade I on the [[Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England]]. {{TFAFULL|Holkham Hall}}

Many thanks -SchroCat (talk) 17:41, 11 July 2025 (UTC)SchroCat (talk)17:41, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, will action this when I’m at my laptop.Schwede6617:56, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks very much. -SchroCat (talk)18:25, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. That appears to be undoing some edits by Ravenpuff, and I take it that was deliberate.Schwede6621:56, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It also undid my nbsps, and I don't think that was deliberate, so I'm putting them back in.Art LaPella (talk)00:36, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My bad on that: sorry Art! Many thanks to you both. -SchroCat (talk)03:36, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with thecategorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments atWikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 July 6 § Individual sport clubs and teams on thecategories for discussion page. Thank you.Qwerfjkltalk14:04, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Really impressed with all your hard work & dedication adding "citation needed" tags all over the article, truly remarkable stuff. It's definitely improved the page no end. As for the medals, campaign medals aren't "gazetted", the evidence is in the campaigns he served in & the images of him wearing the medals of which several are linked but I added another - just to be sureBiscuitsBeforeBias (talk)22:22, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a complaint in disguise that I'm not prepared to post articles to the main page that don't meetWP:ITNQUALITY,BiscuitsBeforeBias?Schwede6622:27, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Then use your "special" powers to delete it, after all its only about a 110 year old WW2 vet.

BiscuitsBeforeBias (talk)06:49, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You do not need to be an admin to remove unreferenced content. Anyone can do that. My job as an admin is to post those articles that are ready; that keeps me busy,BiscuitsBeforeBias.Schwede6609:39, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Answering your question, I don't think a link toSir is an overlink, as it isn't common and is so misunderstood. The word is often treated here as part of someone's name, but it isn't that. If we want to seeSir Sidney George Holland, do we also wantMr Richard John Seddon?Moonraker (talk)10:06, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for posting your query here,Moonraker. Hm, let me get another opinion.Paora, you often deal with knights and dames; could you please look atthis diff and share your view with us? I wouldn't have any problems if you thought that Moonraker has got it right; in which case, I'd happily self-revert (or be reverted).Schwede6603:12, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PerMOS:SIR, "the title is placed in bold in the first use of the name", so Schwede66 is correct. Generally the specific knighthood will be linked from the body of the article, which then should give an explanation for the title of Sir. And no, we don't wantMr Richard John Seddon, just as we don't use Dr or Professor either; referMOS:MR andMOS:CREDENTIALS.Paora (talk)03:32, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; I knew you would know more about it than me having a hunch.Schwede6603:35, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks,Paora, I see thatMOS:SIR does lay down a rule, but do you not see my point? The "Sir" or "Dame" or "Lord" or "Lady" is simply a title, just like "Dr" and "Professor" and "Mr". Why should they be treated differently and bolded as part of names? Whether to link them or not is another matter, which I don't have a strong view on. No doubt there's a better place to discuss this.Moonraker (talk)10:28, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if there’s guidance that says so, and you think that’s wrong, then the discussion belongs onto the respective talk page.Schwede6610:50, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Sharing flowers with you onBach's day of death, - I decorated my user pages in memory, with his music, andmy story ends on "peace". - Thank you for RD promotions in July! --Gerda Arendt (talk)13:57, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, just responding here to your note in your edit summary for2025 Tasman District Council election:

I'm not sure about going into too much detail on the community board elections for these election pages. For one, I don't think they're particularly notable - as evidenced by the general lack of candidates for them around the country (present company excepted, of course).

However, if there was a wider consensus that we should also be including the details for the community boards on these pages, that would be fine. Though, I don't think I will be the one to add those in. It would add quite a bit more work on all of the pages, and the past couple of days I have already been finding the just keeping up with the candidates for the council positions is taking up a lot more time than I would like. After all the council nominations have finished coming in and that's all sorted (and maybe a bit of a break), I might be more willing to do some work there.-Radicuil (talk)08:51, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see. I understand where you are coming from. Let me explain how this all came about,Radicuil. In June, I spotted thatTheLoyalOrder had started an article for the2022 Tasman District Council election. Given that I live in the Tasman District, I thought I might as well add to that article. It already had the community board details before I started.

Later in June, I then started the2025 Tasman District Council election article. And sometime later, I created the2019 Tasman District Council election article. I based those on the 2022 article, and for that reason, they have a section for the community boards.

By no means do I expect you to add CB details to the various local election articles. You are doing an absolutely sterling job with the city and district council candidates, plus the mayoral contenders. If CBs aren't your thing, just ignore them. I know how hard it is to have a project going; I got somewhat overwhelmed by coordinating the Olympic articles forWP:DYK last year, and that was a total mission.

TheLoyalOrder, maybe you could add the missing Golden Bay Community Board members. There were two candidates there already before my name turned up in the nominations. Now that the nomination period is over, there are six names. I'm happy to amend all the other tables, and to write prose that isn't related to the Golden Bay ward. Where there's Golden Bay-related prose, I'll make suggestions on the article's talk page.

You are both doing a fabulous job. I wish I had more time. If I had, I'd help much more!Schwede6601:27, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On2 August 2025,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleTerry Brown (brothel owner), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... thatTerry Brown is reported to have founded an escort service using helicopters for remote rural areas? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Terry Brown (brothel owner). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page(here's how,Terry Brown (brothel owner)), and the hook may be added tothe statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on theDid you know talk page.

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Happy First Edit Day! Hi Schwede66! On behalf of theBirthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you madeyour first edit and became a Wikipedian!DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk)08:51, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I have created the articleRegent Theatre, Christchurch. I have completely lost interest in nominating articles for did you know, so if you, or someone else, wanted to, then you are welcome to do so. ―Panamitsu(talk)07:39, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good work,Panamitsu. That's a nice article. I'll be cutting back a week bit over the next couple of months. I'ma bit pre-occupied. Hence, I'll give this a miss.Schwede6608:41, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I'll ask if Cloventt wants to do it. ―Panamitsu(talk)08:53, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I thought The source says the water was below 0 degrees, do you have some other info saying it was the air temp? Can't check fully right now as out and about in Bulgaria... C  — Amakuru (talk)19:26, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, water below zero is commonly known as ice (unless we are talking about salt water, but this was a lake). I did not look at the source,Amakuru.Schwede6621:06, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Today's story - short version: ten years ago we had a DYK about a soprano who sang in concerts with me in the choir, - longer: I foundtoday a youtube ofan aria she sang with us then, recorded the same year, - if you still have time: our performances were the weekend before the Iraq war ultimatum, and we sangDona nobis pacem (and the drummer drummed!) as if they could hear us in Washington. --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:51, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe they heard the drums in Washington. But were they listening? Unfortunately not.Schwede6616:10, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe. Check out my talk for an Independence day, or: the pic of Oksana Lyniv was taken on 24 August. There's listening and reading intoday's story, and I like both. --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:33, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On top of my talk: birthday ofa great violinist and Requiem for a great friend. We sang Paradisi gloria from theStabat Mater in the end. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:39, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I saw your edit summary. I was not aware I was causing confusion with the links. Could you please elaborate? I imagine I just formatted the table incorrectly by accident at some point during my edits. Hopefully everything is in order now?Tangost1 (talk)23:30, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tangost1, you had created a link that pointed to a disambiguation page:Tony Brooks The page that you wanted to link to isTony Brooks (racing driver). My edit fixed it.Schwede6623:36, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah right, oops. Thanks!Tangost1 (talk)23:40, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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My story today is about a composer and his ballerina wife, pictured as I saw them in 2009. --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:01, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I enjoya DYK that pictures a person together with achievements in art. --Gerda Arendt (talk)12:06, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Schwede66, just posted a new article. Thought you might be interested.Section 22 of the Constitution Act, 1867Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk)04:20, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, great piece of work!Schwede6607:27, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Technical question: is the image of the BNA Act at the top of the page set to a good size? I’ve set it at upright 0.75, but I’m not sure if that displays well? (To avoid eye strain, I’ve got my screen display on my laptop showing large font, so I may not be the best judge of visual appearance.) The other images I’ve left at regular size, but didn’t want the BNA Act image to be overwhelming at top of page.Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk)12:47, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’m not sure. My thinking is that the content of an image doesn’t need to be readable. If someone does want to read it, they can open the file in Commons. What you’ve done is a compromise, whereby you can somewhat read it without going via Commons. Interesting approach. I’d say it’s a valid choice, but if you put the article through a peer review, others might see it differently. Hence, don’t get too invested in doing it this way.Schwede6613:48, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. May just change it to the default.Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk)14:46, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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