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History of Christianity

I'm not here to nag, but before acting on advice given from my former GA reviewer Generalissima, I wanted to let you know she thinks it's time to submit to FAC. Substantive changes have been made to the article, but I want to know if you agree with her. Can you let me know today? If you both think it's time, I will submit it. Jenhawk777 (talk) 17:15, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Jenhawk777; On a quick look, I don't think the article will pass at FAC. It remains too disorganised, in both general and specific terms, with the detailing of both the broad and narrow themes and concepts varying widely and confusingly. I do not think I would be able to support the article's promotion at this time. I am sorry that this is probably not what you wanted to hear, and also very sorry that I have not been as responsive to you as I said I would. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:46, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

No, no, it's perfectly okay, really, I wanted your candid opinion. I am surprised to hear you think it's disorganized however, and would deeply appreciate some input on how to improve that. It's true that themes vary widely, but that reflects reality. How can I fix that? I accept your apology of course - you don't really owe me one - but you can make it up to me by helping me figure this out. Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:14, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Okay, so. I think perhaps more section titles might make things less confusing. I'm giving it a try. Please look it over. Jenhawk777 (talk) 20:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Normally I think I'm good at organizing lots of little things into broad overarching categories. I have now given it a shot. I will not move to FAC without your support, so please respond with whatever you think. Please. I need to get this off my plate. Jenhawk777 (talk) 21:38, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I can only speak with real authority on the medieval bits, so let's look at the basic structure of the beginning of the "Early Middle Ages (600–1000)" section.

• We start with a single sentence, thirteen-word paragraph on urban bishoprics remaining "nerve centers". As far as I can see, not only has this not been discussed previously (the closest I think we get is "Christianity had no central government, and differences developed in many locations.") but the word "bishopric" itself has not been defined, and it is not linked either.

• Already removed - before I even saw this! Jenhawk777 (talk) 06:14, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• Then, we have a paragraph on Christianity in the 600s (cited to Brown), but "religion in the Middle Ages was not unified and piously Christian. Instead, it existed alongside many of the old beliefs" seems to me an adaptation of what Van Engen actually said (and just on p. 526; I don't know why there are three other page numbers). Our article says that religion was not unified, where as V.E says "medieval Christendom [was not] singularly unified"—not quite the same thing. The vaguely-alluded to "old beliefs" also compounded with the earlier mis-adaptation to produce the impression that V.E. (and Powicke, who he quotes) are saying that the Middle Ages were religiously divided, when in reality the point is that paganism and Christianity co-evolved: "The history of the Church is the record of the gradual and mutual adaptation of Christianity and paganism to each other." (Powicke, 1935) As that sentence discussed both Christianity in the 600s and Christianity in the Middle Ages, the reader is not sure what period the "church of this period" refers to, and this particular reader is unsure why "simple folk" and "implicit faith" cannot be paraphrased. The final sentence is fine, except for Matter 2008 having an incorrect DOI and the last two page numbers being unnecessary, seeing as the sentence just cites the first sentence of the chapter.

• Let me start at the bottom. Christianity in the 600s and Christianity in the Middle Ages, The title of the section refers to both the Middle Ages and the period from 600 on. How is that confusing? They are the same things. "simple folk" and "implicit faith" are summaries of much longer descriptions - not paraphrased. Two extra page numbers are gone. One thing  Done Jenhawk777 (talk) 06:14, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• Correct me if I am wrong, but the 600s are not the same thing as 600–1000 or 600–wherever one thinks the Middle Ages end. If "simple folk" and "implicit faith" are summaries of much longer descriptions, they are ipso facto paraphrased and should not be in quotes (MOS:PMC).

• The first sentence on Christendom has two references, both Brown and Van Engen. Brown is there for the first half of the sentence, It is easy to forget how long-established Christianity felt itself to be in the 600s" is from Brown page 6. Van Engen is there for the rest. On page 519, Van Engen discusses older scholarship: ...each of those outlooks still shared the common presupposition that medieval culture was essentially "Christian" or "Catholic," and on 521 scholars and ordinary folks alike looked on medieval civilization as predominantly "Christian" or "Catholic" in character. Then he spends a few pages discussing scholarship of the last ten years till he gets to Gabriel Le Bras' masterful account of medieval ecclesiastical institutions revealed a Latin Christendom comprised of several overlapping and competing interest groups... Such close examination permanently shattered any hazy Romantic notions of medieval Christendom as singularly unified or pious... So that sentence has both "singularly" and "unified", the first ref has "essentially", and the third example uses "predominantly". I summarized what I understood to be the point: that religion in the Middle Ages was not unified and piously Christian. I will happily rephrase using singularly instead of unified for you.  Done Jenhawk777 (talk) 06:14, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• Um...okay... but piddling about with a single word and making the phrase less clear has nought to do with what I said. I repeat: in your attempt to paraphrase "any notions of medieval Christendom as singularly unified or pious [were shattered]", you have produced something like "the beliefs of the medieval period were not only Christian" ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:06, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

  It's the notions of previous scholarship claiming uniformity that were shattered. What exactly are we disagreeing about? Do you not think that's what Van Engen says? I have redone that paragraph. I'm unsure that it's any better. Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:11, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• Your next point: The vaguely-alluded to "old beliefs" also compounded with the earlier mis-adaptation to produce the impression that V.E. (and Powicke, who he quotes) are saying that the Middle Ages were religiously divided, when in reality the point is that paganism and Christianity co-evolved: No they didn't. This is a misunderstanding of what V.E. says. First, page 526 is summarizing old scholarship, and not yet reaching conclusions. Second, V.E. quotes Powicke as saying Paganism abounded, but it was the literal paganism of the natural man There was no mythical millennium of Indo-European folk religion (page 537), there was no organized paganism capable of "co-evolving" with Christianity. Medieval religion was divided. V.E.'s conclusions begin on page 537: medieval religious life included a constant struggle to establish or renew Christian religious culture in the face of various other religious practices, some derived from what Powicke described as the "paganism of the natural man," some of more ancient heritage. They co-existed. They did not co-evolve. Jenhawk777 (talk) 06:14, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• Okay, I can see how that might work, but the point that the previous references to a "not singularly piously Christian" religion creates the impression that there was an "organized paganism capable of "co-evolving" with Christianity" still stands. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:06, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

  Okay that's gone now. Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:11, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• Then, we have a section on the "Church and society", with a subsection titled "Christendom". Normally, we expect the bigger picture to be tackled first, so I am unsure why the—according to the article, "pervasive and unifying"—concept of "Christendom" is left until after a section on monasteries. It is not great that although this monasteries section has eight individual citations, only two are written by authors who could really call themselves subject-matter experts, and one of them died 90 years ago.

• Why do you consider the bigger picture to be the idea of Christendom? I can certainly flip the order if you prefer.  Done I don't understand this however: this monasteries section has eight individual citations, only two are written by authors who could really call themselves subject-matter experts, and one of them died 90 years ago. The subject matter being the Middle Ages or monastics or medicine or what? James Westfall Thompson was an expert in the history of medieval and early modern Europe. He did die in 1941, but his book has been reprinted several times, and the version I used is dated 2016. Blainey was an expert historian, and if you recall I was previously chided for not using more general histories such as his "Short History of Christianity", so that's why he's there. Koenig is an expert on the history of medicine. Butler was an expert on Benedict. Dunn is expert in history of religion. All works referenced are dated in the 2000's except one. What reference would you prefer? I don't mind adding or removing any - according to what they actually say. Jenhawk777 (talk) 06:14, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• Geoffrey Blainey's specialisation is "Australian economic and social history". Matthews & Platt are art and intellectual historians. Tom Woods, when not being a political commentator, focused on early-modern to present Catholicism, and his co-author is a cardinal specialising in catechesis. Dennis Dunn is a historian primarily of diplomacy in the modern era, who has a side project on the history of political thought. Koenig, King & Carson are all medical practitioners; Koenig's article says he received a B.S. in history, but that is unverified by the source. Finally, Haight is a professor in modern theology. I am unsure why you have brought up Thompson, who is not cited in the monasteries section, or falsely attributed expertise in relevant topics to Koenig and Dunn.

• Harold G. Koenig has a wikipedia page. He is an MD with an interest in religion and its impact on mental health. Roy T Matthews degrees are in history which he taught. Platt also has degrees in history with a focus on the history of religion. In universities, religion is in the humanities department. Their book is award winning and they are award winning educators. Religion is part of culture, right? I find their book excellent for tying cultural, social and religious threads together. But I won't argue further, I will just do my best to redo this section. Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:41, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• Then, looking at the "Christendom" subsection, that whole block of text which purports to be cited from V.E. p. 540 ... mostly isn't. Don't have time to analyse more than that.

• I am missing page numbers. That's bad, I don't know what happened, but the content is there. On page 539 it has "Christendom" ... was a term medieval writers applied to themselves and their civilization... as a universal society of believers subject to the vicar of Christ in Rome Page 540 has Christendom was a common religious observance (cultus) overseen and enforced by the king together with his lords and bishops. Observance began with baptism, and on page 541 "Christendom" was the term medieval folk at every level used to identify their religious culture. Page 543 has private confession, which originated in the monastery, only gradually became a ...routine ... required annually of every Christian after 1215. In the High Middle Ages it became the chief means of personal religious formation, chiefly by examining each individual against a standardized list of vices and virtues. The rest is on page 546: Certain religious observances were therefore expected of, and certain elements of religious culture were common to, all: baptism at birth and last rites at death to secure eternal salvation, rudimentary knowledge of the Apostles' Creed and Lord's Prayer, rest on Sunday and feast days (holy days) with attendance at mass, fasting at specified times, confession once a year after 1215 (usually Shrove Tuesday), communion at Easter, the payment of various fees and tithes at specified times, and alms for the needy (partly as a penitential exercise). Whatever their level of indifference, superstition, or immorality, every European grounded his or her religious life in this basic cultural structure. Boy I'm glad you found that! Thank you! Jenhawk777 (talk) 06:14, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• I have to say, I don't understand how any of this contributes to a "general disorganised air". Jenhawk777 (talk) 06:14, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• The above dialogue is 1,700 words (so far) of dialogue on five paragraphs of under 400 words. We are all volunteers on this project, and the most valuable resource is time. Going to FAC, where you can expect similar levels of scrutiny on every single paragraph and citation, and not having stuff like page numbers, WP:UPFRONT, or MOS:QUOTE well in hand, is not saying to reviewers "your time will not be used up sorting out basic issues, you can focus on just making sure this is some of WP's best work". ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:06, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Just to be clear, the above criticisms are not criticising what's not in the text (so no word count issues), it's what is already there that contributes to the general disorganised air. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry, it seems I've annoyed you, and I am unsure why. I thought I had to respond to all disagreements with quotes from the sources. I thought I was doing the right thing. I guess you are saying there should be no errors like missing page numbers before going to FAC. I will try to ensure that. But how does that impact organization? Jenhawk777 (talk) 16:52, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

No Jenhawk777, I am not annoyed, but perhaps channeling the strictness of the FA criteria. I do not know how to explain otherwise—but perhaps experience is better than words? It might just be best to nominate at FAC like Generalissima advised, to get an idea of what others expect from the article. I may be entirely wrong with my assessments (rare, but it has been known to happen)! Just be prepared, in case criticism and opposition does come up. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:01, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

If I am not annoying you with "basic issues" then it's all good. I would like to get as much of this out of the way as possible before nominating. Familiarity causes me to overlook things that jump out at you. I find you an invaluable aid. Please don't abandon me! I am pedaling as fast as I can! Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:42, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

I have reworked Christendom and resourced Monasteries. Go ahead and be strict. I apparently need it Tell me if this passes muster. Jenhawk777 (talk) 23:15, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

It's okay if you don't feel like going over the same section again. You gave me your advice and I did my best to follow it. Maybe we could just move on to the next section? Jenhawk777 (talk) 02:42, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't have much time at the moment Jenhawk777, and in any case I can't help with most of the article, so I think you should be WP:BOLD and go ahead and FA nom. At worst, you'll get pointers on what to work on in the future for the whole article. At best, the article will improve and be promoted! ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:59, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Will you downvote it if I do that? Jenhawk777 (talk) 15:16, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't think I can !vote, because I think I'm too involved with the article, so I'll probably leave the comments to others. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

So you won't uphold it either. Well, thank you for all you have done. Do you know of other Middle Ages experts I could ping and ask? Jenhawk777 (talk) 15:38, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Well, you've met Borsoka ;) I know of many Middle Ages editors, but most don't especially focus on theological-adjacent avenues, and they're much more likely to just turn up to poke at the stuff they find interesting in an FA nomination. What I think could be more helpful, before said FAC, is asking people who have previously improved broad-concept articles to a high-level what they advise on weighting and length. Buidhe could be helpful, but maybe also Chiswick Chap or Phlsph7? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:51, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. I love Buidhe! I will ask them and contact the others as well. As for Borsoka, I have done everything they asked, but when I asked them for an assessment of how well I had done that from their view, they declined to respond at all, because, they said, I "live in a different world" than they do. I have found their comments to tend toward the overblown and extreme. They accused me of OR over a sentence that had the wrong chapter in the citation. When I corrected it, they did not acknowledge that correction, or withdraw or strike the accusation, mark it done, nothing. It was left as if it was accurate - as if I never responded at all. They do not admit error when the mistake is theirs. They make big broad sweeping condemnations of an entire article - "it doesn't deserve GA" - as if any flaw of any kind, instead of being corrected, is cause for failure or even deletion. The drama, from what I have seen, is their universal response and not aimed just at me - it's not just women - but it is their "norm". I am assuming they must have a good side somewhere, but there is no doubt I am now on their bad one. I do not think they are capable of being fair and reasonable about this article, but I don't know what I can possibly do about it. Jenhawk777 (talk) 18:05, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

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TFA

story · music · places

Today's TFA, Felix M. Warburg House, was written by Vami_IV and Epicgenius, introduced: "This article is about another of the great houses that once lined Fifth Avenue in New York. Specifically, this is the mansion of Felix M. Warburg, a Jewish financier who ignored fears of anti-Semitic reprisal to his decided to build himself a big Gothic manor in the middle of New York City. Although the Warburgs no longer remain, their legacy does: the museum is now the home of the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) and the building largely survives as they left it. It's a beautiful building and I hope you will all enjoy it."! - in memory -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:11, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

A soprano with leading roles at the opera house of the years 2022 and 2023 (after several others) is notable. Kindly remove that tag. I can add a few sources. I hoped to get a Bach cantata ready for its 300th birthday on Sunday, sigh. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:04, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Typically, the sources which demonstrate notability should be cited in the article, Gerda Arendt, rather than vaguely floating around the internet. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:08, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

... "should be" - yes. I try again: it's not sources what make her notable, but what she does on stage, facts that is. Sorry, I had a busy week, concert, plenty of guests, and on Wikipedia, too many RD articles over several weeks + a weekly Bach cantata that turns 300.

• several reviews at different houses
• similar
• She'll give a lieder recital with a tenor and the music director of Oper Frankfurt Opera end of the month.

I'll travel all weekend, - there's life. Today, I gave priority to the memory of Vami. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't see any significant coverage in there Gerda Arendt, unless I'm missing something. 4meter4, as another opera specialist, what do you think of Magdalena Hinterdobler's notability? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:08, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I should go to bed because travel will begin extremely early tomorrow, but will add recordings because I feel under pressure. If Leipzig Opera, a public municipal organo zation, says which roles she performed there, they report facts. She sang in a world premiere there. Can we agree so far? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:19, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Did they provide significant coverage, Gerda Arendt? I wish you the best with your journey. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:21, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I will be distracted. I'd travel better if you'd take that tag away at least for the few remaining hours on the Main age. It discredits our content. - First recording added. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:37, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Second recording added. There are more. Nite. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:15, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

• @AirshipJungleman29 It is borderline. She is the main subject of the first cited source which is a print magazine as well as an online one: [1] This is really the only source with significant coverage. I was unable to locate anything else, which is a mark against notability. One thing is for sure, the article uses way too many non-independent sources, which I have pointed out to Gerda at several DYK noms, most recently Template:Did you know nominations/Daniela Kerck. I suggest whenever you see Gerda Arendt using opera company, theatre, or orchestra websites which use PR created non-independent bios (often self written or written by the subject's paid management) that you tag the article as I have done. Using these is unacceptable and a clear violation of WP:BLPSOURCES policy.

That said Hinterdobler is performing lead roles at significant houses. Her performances are getting reviewed routinely, as are her recordings; but I can't say they put much focus on her... She is getting a significant volume of media coverage, but it isn't particularly in-depth. For example The Guardian review of Die Loreley doesn't even mention her other than in the title's list of lead performers even though she is one of the leads... Gramophone mentions her in passing. The Leipzig Ring review lists her in the cast but doesn't have a thing to say about her performances. This review praises her briefly which is sort of typical of what's out there. Here is another example. One could literally dig up dozens of reviews of this type in opera magazines and reviews in local papers where she gets mentioned in passing; usually with a positive mention of her singing or acting. She doesn't get more than a sentence or two though. I think it could go either way at an AFD. I suggest taking it to AFD and seeing what others have to say. My guess is that there is a slightly better chance that it would pass an AFD, as opposed to failing it, given the large number of reviews. I would support deleting the article unless another source is found with in-depth coverage because I think she fails WP:SIGCOV based on the current evidence. 4meter4 (talk) 22:35, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I have nominated it 4meter4; we'll see how it goes. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:48, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

We'll see. I entered the train after 2 1/2 hours of sleep, and it had no WLAN connection. Very briefly: I am not afraid. I created the article to have Der Traumgörge on the Main page, because some people including 4meter4 prevented that for Liviu Holender, - mission accomplished (and there even was interest). What these two singers perform is note-worthy, whether there are "deep" reports about it or not. (Opera is teamwork. A fair critic can't devote deep coverage to all performers when there are many important roles, as in Meistersinger and Traumgörge.) If a consensus will think differently, I won't care. Holender had his recital, and Hinterdobler will get hers soon (28 May), with a tenor and the music director at the piano. I'm sure she'll receive the coverage you seem to need (and I don't understand why). Now I'll turn to preparing a meal in company, and enjoy the weekend, and better not even think of it. I will not create a new story for today but will leave hers "on". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:46, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Like on so many things, it seems that we disagree on how WP should function here as well. Still, you may be right. Enjoy your journey! ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:05, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Doom (2016 video game) - today's TFA is again by Vami --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:45, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Hö'elün - today's TFA is by you, introduced: "I intend to write a series of articles on the leading women of the Mongol Empire. There is no better person to start with than Hö'elün, the mother of Genghis Khan and thus the progenitor of the House of Borjigin. Her life was tumultuous but very interesting. I hope you enjoy."! - I enjoy, the article and the intention. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:33, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear (listen to the sample, perhaps) and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. Ms. Hinterdobler will get her recital next Tuesday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:10, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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Such sections are normally archived normally Throast; I don't know why this one has not been. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 10:01, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

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May music 2

Today's story is about Samuel Kummer, one of five items on the Main page - more musing on my talk, yes about shortening that hook --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:29, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure if I would call a single Frenchman and four Germans a broad view of music, but perhaps some see it differently. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:53, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

I had little time yesterday for fine-tuned wording, sorry, out 10am to 11pm. I seriously missed Vierne, as an indication for a broader view than German mainstream only, + really his (planned) focus in recording. I wonder why it was so important to cut those 7 characters. - I also missed the (almost) blind Vierne on a personal level, after just having met Graham. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:32, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

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Ludwigsburg Palace

Hi AirshipJungleman29,

You reverted my edit on Ludwigsburg Palace. Would you mind to redo it with a cropped version of my intended image? –Tobias (talk) 19:33, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't have much image skill. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Don't worry, I can do it as well. –Tobias (talk) 20:10, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

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Sending regards

Saw your edit summary comment on a watchlisted article. Hope you heal up soon, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 21:24, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Much appreciated, Rjjiii. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:25, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Recent Featured Article Revision

Why have you reverted my grammatical revisions in the article to their previous state? The sentences lack coherence and do not align with the overarching structure of the paragraph in each of the sections I've reviewed. I want an explanation please. GoodHue291 (talk) 23:46, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

GoodHue291, we both know perfectly well that none of your changes were "grammatical", and that the article was perfectly coherent before your superficial changes. Please, drop the charade where you have to look up a thesaurus for every second word, as mentioned here, and go and make some actual improvements, not superficial modifications, to the project.

Alternatively, if you want to continue this charade, please outline the parts of the previous revision which lacked consensus, with appropriate evidence from style guides as the article has already gone through a formal review process (WP:FAOWN). ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 04:29, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

I believed that the Manual Of Style was incorrect in the article, so I came and fixed it. It's correct both ways if you do "in particular", too. I am uncertain as to why you are criticizing my lexicon when it is not pertinent for this. I believe that engaging in a dispute with you is futile, as it will merely precipitate additional complications in the future.

Also, I've seen in your edit summary that there was some repetition in the sentences I've edited, can you point it out for me? I've seen no repetition whatsoever. GoodHue291 (talk) 13:21, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

"Nette based his plans on Jenisch's plans". I criticise your lexicon sigh because it hinders clear communication, which is necessary on Wikipedia. If you believe that the article violates the MoS, you should clearly state, preferably in the edit summary, what parts of the MoS it violates. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:38, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Following up on WP:GANMENTOR

I wanted to check in regarding the mentorship request at Wikipedia:Good article mentorship#48JCL and your message on their talk page at User talk:48JCL/Archive/2024/May#GA mentorship. Did they ever reach out to you after the review began? Because I don't see anything like that, and the review at Talk:Npm left-pad incident/GA1 doesn't look like a finished review. There seem to be a few like this, and they've just begun working on another two of mine (Talk:Federalist No. 8/GA1 and Talk:Fear of bees/GA1) in addition to the one that they failed previously. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 16:41, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

They may just not have much to say about non-source stuff. I'll drop a line on their talk. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:16, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

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Tiger

Hi, could you continue the review? LittleJerry (talk) 12:57, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry LittleJerry, I had significant health issues last week so my WP schedule went out of whack; will continue shortly. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:40, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Oh, okay. Get well. LittleJerry (talk) 16:37, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Hope you are better. Could you continue? Its getting closer to a month since I nominated and have no finished reviews. LittleJerry (talk) 22:26, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Will do tomorrow LittleJerry. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:18, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Quick Note

Hope you don't feel like I'm taking over your review! I don't expect to bring up much else at this point. Aza24 (talk) 18:14, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

No worries, your comments are always welcome. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:18, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

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This comment is not sensible. Threads in archive can be closed and these requests should be handled by an admin, not non-admins. Ratnahastin (talk) 09:02, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Sadie O. Horton

I found four reliable sources with the hook stated as a definite fact, and three of them were already in the article. I removed the last sentence. SL93 (talk) 17:27, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Quick look at our conversation on my Talk Page

Hello, I'm certain I have probably done a poor job of pinging you over on my page.

Could you please take a look and appraise my response to your feedback?

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Timurid Banner

Hi, the banner shown on the Timurid page is described as such by the source. If need be I can send scans of the book to show this HetmanTheResearcher (talk) 15:39, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi HetmanTheResearcher, the source describes banners with a variety of cut-outs, but always topped with a tugh and the Islamic crescent. The banner previously shown at Timurid Empire showed a singular, seemingly-randomly-chosen cut-out, without the tugh and the Islamic crescent. It is thus a pretty poor representation of a Timurid banner, seeing as the two things which most defined him as a ruler (his Mongol heritage and his Islamic religion) have been excluded.

There is also the question, to which I don't know the answer, of whether this banner was used only by Timur, in which case it is out of place on a Timurid Empire article, or by his successors too, in which case an argument can be made.~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:01, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. The source shows both a tugh and Islamic crescent, but being unaware of their importance in Mongol heraldry I didn't add them. I can add these in to better reflect the Mongol and Islamic aspects of the empire. The red banner shown is described as one of a variety used by Timur, I used it since that is what the accompanying illustration shows.

As for the scope the banner was used, I don't see this as a problem. Almost no banner or flag has been continually used by a country or state since their inception yet this does not prevent symbols from a specific time period being used. Even if the banner was only used during the time of Timur (I don't know either) it still forms an important part of Timurid heraldry that should be added onto the article. HetmanTheResearcher (talk) 17:22, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

It probably should be in the article HetmanTheResearcher, the question is whether it should be in the infobox. An infobox is meant to summarize the entirety of the topic; putting a banner possibly only used for much less than half of a historical state's existence is actively misleading. There have been similar discussions at Talk:Yuan dynasty and Talk:Mongol Empire. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:31, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

The infobox should reflect more what scholarly sources say about the topic. If studies of the Timurid Empire focus a majority of their effort on the time of Timur Khan rather than his successors then the banner in Timur's time period should be shown. However I'm not knowledgeable on Timurid historiography so I won't press the matter. Would adding the banner in the "Symbols of the state" subsection, with the changes discussed above, work? HetmanTheResearcher (talk) 18:17, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I think they would. Thanks for this productive discussion HetmanTheResearcher. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:19, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Same to you. HetmanTheResearcher (talk) 23:07, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Mentoring GA review process?

Hi! I saw you offer mentorship for GA reviewers and thought I would reach out. I recently reviewed Talk:Carl Friedrich Gauss/GA1 and I wanted to ask for your input on the review: is it too detailed/too shallow? have I overlooked some important aspects? Broc (talk) 14:09, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

That looks like an extremely thorough review Broc. Looking at the article, its tone is immediately suggestive of WP:PUFFERY, and I am glad to see that you have extensively detailed that yourself. I also think that its length of 11,000 words (excluding the selected writings section) is quite large according to WP:TOOBIG, especially for a biography; it's good to see that you have called out e.g. the anecdotes section for being possibly WP:UNDUE (this comes under GA criteria 3b) and 4). All in all, I have strong confidence that you will complete the review to a high standard—and, if you don't think it is being sufficiently improved, do not hesitate to fail the nomination. If you want to ping me again before you end the review, please do so! Best wishes, ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Human history/GA2

Hello, can you show me where you can hat reviews? It seems like you just disregarded and "closed" what I wrote. Bogazicili (talk) 15:00, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I'm the GA reviewer Bogazicili, so it's my decision what aspects are important enough to warrant passing/failing a nomination. In this case, I felt that your comments, under their own subsection, were unduly prominent in the review compared to their importance, so I hatted them. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:15, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Hatting seemed overly aggressive and dismissive to me. It could have been reformatted. Bogazicili (talk) 16:49, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

I don't know how that's aggressive. Your objection is really not fitting for a GA review, at least not in the way you phrased it: "massive systemic bias" is an enormous charge and really a serious accusation. I'm not removing it from the talk page, where you also placed it, but in the actual review, no. Drmies (talk) 16:51, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Hatting was overly aggressive compared to allegations of "massive systemic bias" and "biased coverage" directed at the article's authors? Sure. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:57, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

It seems that way to me. No colonial genocide by Europeans are mentioned. So it fits with Wikipedia:Systemic bias Wikipedia tends to show a White Anglo-American perspective on issues due to the preponderance of English-speaking editors from Anglophone countries. By the way when I say systemic bias, it doesn't necessarily mean something on purpose. I don't think anyone is purposefully trying to mislead. Bogazicili (talk) 16:58, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Well, I don't need to be explained what systemic bias is, but clearly you are pointing at the written article, and the article is written (and reviewed) by actual humans. Plus, it's a general article; it can't mention everything. If you have a proposal for a sentence or two to qualify that European colonization resulted in the deaths of millions of people through all kinds of factors, including slavery, genocide, disease, that's fair, but that's a long way from the claims you made. Drmies (talk) 17:04, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Lol, sorry, maybe I was a bit dramatic, but it did indeed feel massively biased to me. I mean not even a single sentence on indigenous genocides. Bogazicili (talk) 17:08, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

If you had approached with some courtesy, maybe you would have been received better. Immediately assuming theres a conspiracy by well-meaning volunteers is not a good look. Aza24 (talk) 18:07, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

This is what I meant [2] Bogazicili (talk) 18:10, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Iron Maiden article

Hi! I have read your changes to the article and will try to leave descriptions of any changes I have made. Generally, I can agree with your way of argumentation regarding specifying artists who were inspired by Iron Maiden at some stage of their career. Over the years, I have literally read about thousands of cases of this type, among artists representing completely different subgenres of rock and metal. The rest is mentioned by the experts mentioned in the article. In view of all these opinions, the number of examples given seems trivial and completely inadequate to the actual situation. Another issue is what does the term "directly influenced" mean here? How can you determine with absolute certainty which artist is more or less inspired by Irons' work? Yet another matter is that in the case of describing the influence on artists posted on the websites of groups stylistically similar to Maiden, it was enough to specify a number of names, even without detailed links, or to assign to this group artists who in interviews declared their fascination with someone's work and influence. That's why I included examples of many artists representing various subgenres of music, including some of their statements. Is this incorrect? It looks as if slightly different verification standards were applied to Iron Maiden compared to similar artists. THX for your time and patience RALFFPL (talk) 18:50, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

RALFFPL you will find lots of referenes stating that Irpn Maiden's contribution to the genre is massive and incomparable. So cite those! There is no point in having sentences like "Bands A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, and N were influenced by Iron Maiden." There is no point. You should instead have sentences, cited to independent, third-party reliable souces, that all heavy metal bands were influenced by Iron Maiden. That removes the need for sentences like "Lady Gaga was influenced by Iron Maiden", when all that the source actually says is "I attended an Iron Maiden concert". I and others have previously warned you about ownership of content and similar disruptive editing; let's not have similar here. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 02:09, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi. THX for your reflections. I must admit in the case of a band as Maiden there's no need to cite too many other bands influenced by them. Some of them (not necessarily only metal performers) we could notice as an example. Yes, we can easily find many sources bringing references to Iron Maiden's undisputable contribution to the genre. And there are still some subjects not described in the WIKI article: Maiden's lyrics and the literature and cinematographic inspirations. It's worth writing a little more about the visual aspects of the band's cover illustrations and the shows. Once again - thx for your advice! RALFFPL (talk) 08:33, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

If you can find high-quality reliable sources talking about lyrics and cinematography (i.e. not just random tabloid websites with names like metalcrypt.com), then sure. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:52, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi! Once again you've deleted the info from the IM article. No, it's not about attending the concert - SOAD music was influenced by galloping style of Maiden so same as most of rock bands back in the day. It's clearly stated in the source, cited from Tankian's statement. Once again you deleted links because it's about IM you probably ignore it. RALFFPL (talk) 12:40, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

@RALFFPL, please assume good faith and avoid this kind of attack on other users. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 13:57, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Apologies RALFFPL, I was looking at the wrong source. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:13, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

OK, but (I must admit) some of Your decisions I found misunderstood especially when I tried to check the articles on Wiki dedicated to the aforementioned artists inspired by IM - and there are TONS of info about them being strongly inspired by the Brits or so. Please - if you decide to cancel my work - just discuss the problem. Once again - maybe my words were too heavy. Regards RALFFPL (talk) 19:39, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

We've talked about this above RALFFPL: probably most of rock music, and certainly all of metal, has been influenced in some way by Iron Maiden. We could have a list of thousands of bands, or we could have one sentence saying "thousands of bands were influenced". Wikipedia prefers the second way. Apologies again for my mistake above. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:43, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, once again - I wouldn't like to make you feel insulted. You are right, sometimes less is more :) RALFFPL (talk) 19:53, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Iron Maiden Nominations and Awards

Hi. I've noticed you deleted some awards from an article, including a large list of Japanese Burrn! Magazine annual Awards. Burrn! Awards are annual fan voting accolades honored with statuettes and many bands on Wiki noticed those as their notable awards (see: Megadeth). Restore this one PLEASE. I don't know why in Maiden article we couldn't notice those ones. Regards RALFFPL (talk) 19:04, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

No, because these annual fan voting accolades are not worthy of inclusion. Anyone can create a magazine and start handing out accolades. If you see them on any other pages, please remove them RALFFPL. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:52, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

So same with the American Metal Edge magazine Readers' Choice Awards? It looks like the equivalent of Burrn! Awards, and the creators of WIKI articles dedicated to awards, have been including those especially if we talk about metal bands... RALFFPL (talk) 19:58, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Sure! I didn't have time to evaluate all the sections individually. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:59, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of Shigi Qutuqu

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Puzzle designer

The hook was in the article. “The puzzles for the game will be designed by a group named QuizKnock, as Akira Tago, the puzzle designer for the other Professor Layton games, died in 2016.” SL93 (talk) 17:43, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

RoySmith SL93 (talk) 17:44, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Oh, that sort of puzzle designer. I thought that the puzzle designer was an in-game thing, otherwise how would the game "feature" it? Anyway, the hook was withdrawn hours before I even commented, so that was moot. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:48, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Pointy

Your RfA vote is. As always I think these public votes are a problem. You and I work together, and I try to get along with everyone. We have different thoughts about who would make be a good admin; it is not a reason for us to be enemies or to get pointy. I think someday you may want to be an admin, and I would hope you would try not to make antagonistic votes or belittle editors with different ideas about governance. Lightburst (talk) 17:17, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Yoda. WP:POINTY refers to "disrupt[ing] Wikipedia to illustrate a point". What disruption was caused to Wikipedia by my !vote? The arguments in your oppose are so weak they convinced me to support—that is the honest truth. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:29, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

You were making a point by mocking my vote and rationale. I can tell you it feels disruptive. I reached out to you as a colleague who shares larger project goals with you and I thought it was worth a try to contact you directly. I will try to avoid interaction with you going forward. Lightburst (talk) 18:05, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Lightburst, I am dismayed (1) that an experienced editor such as yourself feels that simple disagreement is disruptive, when in reality it is the normal state of affairs on Wikipedia, and (2) that you take it personally enough to commit to non-interaction with me. It was not personal in the slightest—for example, I have previously (for the benefit of your privacy alone) requested and obtained oversight deletion of certain comments on-wiki. My !vote was simply commenting on the sheer weakness of your rationale. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:54, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

I came here and you continued mocking me by calling me "Yoda" and saying that pointy means something else. How about WP:AVOIDYOU if pointy does not work. We can disagree about who is a good RfA candidate without personalizing and your vote was 100% personal. It only bothered me because I thought I knew you. You literally mocked me and then said, "Who me? But I did nice things for you... it was not personal". I do my best to work with everyone and I try to have a short memory about perceived slights. Lightburst (talk) 19:41, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

(1) "Pointy your RfA vote is" is about the most Yoda phrase it is possible to say; (2) if you want to say that another editor has breached a behavioural guideline, make sure you know what the guideline actually says (this applies to both the above and the RfA); and (3) "per [username]" has always been regarded as a valid !vote because it clearly refers to the person's argument, not their identity. I maintain that no mocking was intended or POINTY disruption made. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:57, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

I meant pointy because it is it is WP:POINTY. YMMV

As a rule, editors engaging in "POINTy" behavior are making edits with which they do not actually agree, for the deliberate purpose of drawing attention and provoking opposition in the hopes of making other editors see their "point".

Isn't that what you did? You say no. It is an incongruent vote, like me saying "oppose per a AirshipJungleman29" which is designed for you and others to get the point that your vote is wrongheaded. But if I make that my rationale this point it would be a pointy-cancelling-loop. Lightburst (talk) 20:22, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

No, I am in perfect agreement with the edit I made—I supported the RfA and your comment was the reason why. I made a point with it—that your argument was self-defeating—but its purpose was to support the RfA, not to draw attention or provoke opposition. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:41, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Alrighty then. I will try to stay out of your line of fire. It is always worth trying - especially if it only shows another editor that there is a real person at the other end of a username. Lightburst (talk) 20:46, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

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June music

story · music · places

Today's story is about the TFA, by sadly missed Vami_IV. In my support in 2018, I hoped to do justice to Schloss Köthen next - which I will begin today, finally, promised. Its Bachsaal was pictured to begin the year. For more related thoughts and music, look on my talk for 1 June. - Will nominate a woman for GA. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:21, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Franz Kafka died 100 years ago OTD, hence the story. I uploaded a few pics from the visit of Graham87. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:20, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Best wishes for your health! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:22, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Today I wanted to write a happy song story, on a friend's birthday, but instead we have the word of thunder on top of it (as you know). I found a (July) hook that at least didn't mention the first Sunday after Trinity on the Tuesday after the second ;) - The new lilypond - thanks to DanCherek - is quite impressive. As my 2 Jun story said: Bach was fired up. - Today's Main page is rich in music, also Franz Liszt and a conductor. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:51, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

I know, I promoted both. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:17, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you ;) - For the remaining cantatas, I'LL try to stick to those with a fixed date, St. John's, Visitation, Reformation, Christmas. We will, however, face the problem one more time: on Palm Sunday. I wouldn't want a reminder to music specifically composed for Palm Sunday to appear some days after Easter ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:14, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about an opera performance I watched (actually the dress rehearsal) in 2012 and made a DYK hook in 2017, and my 2012 prediction that we met a great singer was right ;) - if you have more time to read, there's a new GA, Cecelia Hall, and the de:Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine on the German Hauptseite, - both topics were stories before. + new pics. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:12, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Today is "the day" for James Joyce, also for Bach's fourth chorale cantata (and why does it come before the third?) - the new pics have a mammal I had to look up --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:03, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I have to bother you with hook wording. In Prep7, I read: "... that Daniela Kerck crafted a new ending to Puccini's unfinished opera Turandot for the 2024 Internationale Maifestspiele?" - As a reader, I'd think she is another composer who completed the unfinished composition. I searched for that wording in the nom and couldn't find it. She was both the stage director and the scenic designer, which is rare, and I think should show, as 4meter4 who crafted the hook, worded. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:37, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

A good point, I'll put that back in. In case you are unaware, you will often find that the wording in the nomination differs from that of the final set. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:17, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. How is this next time, for transparency: you take an approved hook and put that in prep, and perform trimming/rephrasing afterwards, for us not so qualified as detectives to follow what happened? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

That is precisely what happened. It seems you didn't try to follow. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:15, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

I tried, but didn't look deep enough, sorry about assuming the wrong thing. (I looked at a "trim" edit from my watchlist, and saw that it was a different hook, and failed to see that you did the trimming in several steps.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:24, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Having looked: it's good now, but would be excellent when it could be clear hat she wasn't a stage director (at times) and a scenic designer (possibly at other times) by profession, but that she performed both functions for this production. I wasn't able, - what I tried in the original hook was rejected. I trust that you are better at it ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:43, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

New pics of food and flowers come with the story of Noye's Fludde (premiered on 18 June), written by Brian Boulton. I nominated Éric Tappy because he died, and it needs support today! I nominated another women for GA in the Women in Green June run, - review welcome, and more noms planned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:15, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Today we have a centenarian story (documentation about it by Percy Adlon) and an article that had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:42, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Today is a feast day for which Bach composed a chorale cantata in 1724 (and we had a DYK about it in 2012). Can't believe that Jodie Devos had to die, - don't miss her video from the Opéra-Comique at the end, - story to come. The weekend brought plenty of music sung and listened to, and some of it is reflected in the last two stories! + pics of good food with good company --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:55, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

The image in my DYK story is what I happened to see from my seat in a performance before the festival (with Anna Netrebko in the title role but sold out of course, and the other was possibly the icier Principessa anyway). I recommend the trailer video for a taste of opera, with various scenes to the end of the music that Puccini was able to finish before he died in 1924. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:41, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Re Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1 (Schoenberg): "We talk about a key composer's Opus one, a piece of significance. Can you - anybody - please explain to me why we would find a fact interesting that this piece shares with hundreds of other compositions??" The question remained unanswered. Do you have an answer? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:17, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

The alternative being something vaguely pretentious which someone else wrote about the piece, Gerda Arendt? From the hooks you've written over the years, that seems to be the real feature which all the compositions have in common! ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:24, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

The alternative after ALT0 was struck which tried to "also" say what these compositions are about (Thanks and Farewell) and that a highly notable pianist performed, one of the composers later banned by the Nazis. The works are much more then "songs". Did you listen, btw? For some reason, 10+ years ago it was possible to say something substantial about a composition, take BWV 20. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:37, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

If BWV 20, a seriously good hook, is evidence, I think you have lost some creativity over the years. Do me a favour and let's not have any "...that [singer]/[composition] was described as "[rather pompous description]" hooks for a while? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:20, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

I take "seriously good hook" with pleasure. It's 5am, I'm on a train after three days travel, in a hotel with a miserable connection, so probably shouldn't respond ;) - I still feel that in the very unusual case of speaking abut the Opus 1 by one of the composers whom even people not into classical music may know (as infamous), in his anniversary year, we should say something more interesting than only that his music was controversial, even the first published piece, which they probably know already. I also feel that we should picture him. There's not much room left if we also want to speak about hostile reactions to please the crowd. My attempt was to mention the topics. (Did you listen?) The quote by Alma Mahler, also infamously known, was only my second choice, which I sort of liked because it shows the style of the period. We could now, after MONTENSEM expanded, perhaps even find something else which is unique to this unique piece. I heard it, which was already on DYK with the singer, Liviu Holender, and was highly impressed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 03:29, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Again, you vastly overestimate the knowledge of readers (helpful comic; I would guess that no more than one in fifty know the name of Schoenberg, let alone the names of his pieces or the controversy associated with them. As always, it comes down to whether you recognise that the rest of DYK wants to write for the wide audience, as you seem to have also wanted in 2010. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:54, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Yasuke archives

Hi there,

Sorry about that, I thought your script glitched and somehow moved the messages to a new archive page instead of Talk:Yasuke/Archive 1 where there was still plenty of space.

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ChristieBot being odd

Definitely a bug. The root cause was the removal of the status parameter weeks ago. ChristieBot didn't get upset till the new subpage was created; I'll have to look at the code this evening and figure out how to stop it from repeating the nominator information, though it should be complaining about the missing status parameter. I could have it add back in a status parameter if one doesn't exist, I suppose .... Anyway, thanks for fixing it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 18:05, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

I fixed it by having it check for the "Nominator:" line before adding it. That way it will continue to post the errors in the errors section of GAN, which is better than trying to guess which status it's supposed to have. If you spot this happening again please give me a nudge. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:30, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Kalmyks

Hello, I'm coming to your talk page with a little review request. I've kind of stumbled upon the long sock story surrounding User:Lurk shirk, but it is a rather confusing case. However, what I've gathered is that they used to just copy-paste big chunks of one and the same text across multiple articles and that they were particularly focused on certain topics such as interracial marriage and genetics. Iirc, I've seen your name in the SPI on that user and I've seen you reverting some edits by this user on the Kalmyks page [3], so I thought that you might be familiar with their usual copy-pasted texts and am asking for your judgment on an edit from an IP that was added some time after the Lurk shirk was closed: [4]. Does this look like something that Lurk shirk + alter egos would copy-paste into articles? The content looks kind of odd to me. It certainly looks copied because it obviously contains "raw" text with reference numbers that lack the underlying wiki syntax (e.g. [3] — without hyperlinking). The content is still in the article and I don't want to simply revert it based on a suspicion given that I'm not really familiar with the SPI case. Could you check it, please? Nakonana (talk) 20:33, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Actually, I might just be paranoid, I'm not even sure what made me think that those two users could be connected, there doesn't really seem an overlap in topics of interest. I guess it's just the fact that the text was likely just copied from somewhere. Sorry, if it's an absolute false flag :> Nakonana (talk) 20:46, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

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Draft talk:List of petitions calling for Israel to be banned from sports

How do I reply to the question you asked on the talk page? Tried to do so but was unable. MaskedSinger (talk) 17:55, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

I am unsure what question you refer to MaskedSinger. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:41, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

I had comments re the article and had so just posted them here Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Israel MaskedSinger (talk) 18:50, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Shagdarjavyn Natsagdorj

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Thank you

I wanted to thank you for all the encouragement and well wishes, wish I've noticed for a long time. I've had a wickedly rough year IRL, and haven't always responded, but I've always noticed and appreciated the support. Kinds words are salve on wounds during rough times. Thanks so much, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:07, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Oghul Qaimish

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GA-related discussion

Just wanted to make sure you get a heads up about the discussion over at talk:human history#Periodization. I'm not involving myself with the GA process itself, but I just want to make sure you're not blindsided by anything. Peter ^Isotalo 11:53, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I think you should reconsider your approach to human history. You've been a GA reviewer for some time and now you're actively involving yourself in a content dispute discussion, including a very personal comment about a minor disagreement over some rather ungenerous comments from you back in October 2023.[5] You had the chance to comment on my question in the GA but you chose not to.

Rather than threatening me with an ANI thread over perceived slights, I think you'd be better off simply taking me seriously. Your interaction with me so far has, in my view, mostly just been sarcastic and irritable. In other words, very ungenerous. Peter ^Isotalo 18:29, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

On the contrary, I am taking your words more seriously than you seem to. See the ANI for details. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:41, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

About that recent addition to DYKG

Hey! I saw that you made this edit – i think it's good, but i don't wanna set the precedent that unapproved nominations need to be two months old before they can be rejected. Any ideas on how to punch up the language? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 23:31, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

User:theleekycauldron, there's a line at WP:DYKNOM about rejecting stale unapproved nominations which should be in WP:DYKCRIT but isn't, for whatever reason. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:51, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Prep 3 Image

I am well aware, but the image is not clear at a small size. The reviewer hasn’t approved the image either. SL93 (talk) 18:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Siege of Baghdad

The Guy Le Strange source you removed is dated but he is an Orientalist. --Kansas Bear (talk) 01:14, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

July music

story · music · places

I support the recognition! - My story is today about the first published composition by Arnold Schönberg which I was blessed to hear. Listen ;) - I recommend others to perhaps read what Alma Mahler (to-be-Mahler at the time, to be precise, who was present at the first performance) said, and agree that yes that was too much for the Main page ;) - However, continuing our conversation from above, we'll have readers who never heard Schönberg's name, and we have others - let's say 5% - who know him rather well as the founder of the (rather brain-driven) 12-tone system and who might be as surprised as I was that he began his career with such an emotional expressionist piece. My math: those could profit from a real surprise specific to this piece, while most of the other group would probably not be interested anyway (so not click or click but not read), and some might click and read even if we say something more than that the audience was hostile (which is so true for so many pieces that it's almost not worth mentioning). - Could you offer a hook for the Gerhard Klingenberg nom, perhaps? Some compromise knowing that I'd like to do justice to a specific subject, be it a piece of music or a biography, and not say something that could be said about others as well? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:03, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

You say 5%, I say 0.01%. On Gerhard, I like that his direction at the Burgtheater focused on a divided Europe after he was himself compelled to leave East Berlin after it was divided by the Berlin Wall. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:12, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Could you word precisely that this Austrian was invited to East Berlin by Brecht, and then ... - as you said? Highly unusual! While "divided Europe" is a broad concept, no? - Would you agree that "Danton's Death" sounds like a title raising interest, even of people who don't know who Danton was? - For the Schönberg math: Twelve-tone technique has a reader steady readership of more than 200 per day and shows his pic, - that's not like Mozart but also not like 5 views per day. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:34, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

I'd like to see your effort at wording it for the non-specialist readers. For me "Danton's Death" falls under WP:DYKFICTION—you can name a fiction anything you want. Those who read twelve-tone technique are likely to know something about music composition—you can assume exactly the opposite for the readers of the main page. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:43, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Danton's Death is based on Georges Danton's real death, not pure fiction but a place in European French revolution history, on top of literature. I think that is interesting to non-specialist readers. There are links to help those who don't know yet, - why should the little space we have in hooks go into explanations? When I wrote the original hook for Klingenburg I did try to mix general interest in: stepping in early, a great house in the world, a dramatic title. - When we write about chemistry, or politics, we may miss readers not interested, but reach others. Why should that be different for music and theatre? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about a Bach cantata premiered 300 years ago OTD. - Two thoughts: if you like the Klingenberg divided Europe hook you can approve it. I think that Danton's Death is more interesting but who cares what I find interesting. - I introduced 5 composers banned by the Nazis with the Liviu Holender hook, and they found interest then, check out Schoenberg and Zemlinski. The Nazis banned these people, - should we do the same, arguing that readers don't know them? I believe they should be known, not only as composers but as people with a history, - Schoenberg went to California, changing his name. People don't know that, so can we please change this ignorance? The Nazis ridiculed Schoenberg's music as degenerate: I believe we might say that it isn't, that it is interesting, instead of only saying that the audience reacted with hostility. 2ct. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:12, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

You seem to have forgotten that you nominated an article on a piece of music, not on Schoenberg himself. DYK is to showcase new and newly improved articles, so we focus on them, not whether the subjects of related article went to California or were banned by the Nazis or whatever (neither of which were discussed in your hooks). ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:19, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

When I create new content I usually have a story in mind, according to "Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the DYKTALK." I hear a concert, with 10 fascinating songs that I believe deserve an article, and pick two of them, Schoenberg's Op. 1, because it's his anniversary year, and his first published work, interesting, no! I wanted to "focus on them", but all that was left in the hook about the fascinating songs is that they were met with hostility. I was happy with the hook about the concert. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:33, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

But you didn't focus on the songs, you focused (as you tend to do) on the performances and the people you find interesting. You could have focused on the reversal of the "thanks"-"farewell" order, and what it means—that would be interesting. You could have done some delicate writing on the "metaphorical transformation of the lyric"—would be a higher tier, but probably still interesting.

But no, as always, you go through your routine inventory of what to include: 1) place 2) year 3) musician/actor 4) random superficial critic quote. As a result, dull, dull, dull, boring. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:45, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

The thanks-farewell order wasn't yet in the article when I worded the hook, - had to word because of the 7 days limit. Farewell. Thanks. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:22, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

3 July is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, and I'm happy I had a meaningful DYK in 2021 (there was none for him, or any of his operas, - I didn't look further). It's also the birthday of Franz Kafka, and I uploaded pics from his family's album seen in Berlin. - I am happy to have received an award for the Women in Green drive that you recommended, but didn't they see they'd wait for reviews to be completed? (One is still open.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:50, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean: you nominated two articles as part of WiG, and both now have the GA icons. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:53, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

I see now that I forgot to nominate Tamara Milashkina, - nevermind, I don't expand for awards ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:01, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Overnight, Milashkina became GA and Lando Bartolini went to the Main page. I made my story about his almost unbelievable career, and for me, that rings with music. I guess that no music would be left in a DYK hook ;) - I felt understood here, though. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:02, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

ps: Libuše Domanínská - yesterday's story - would have turned 100 today, but I missed that ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:18, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

My story today is - because of the anniversary of the premiere OTD in 1782, at the Burgtheater - about Die Entführung aus dem Serail, opera by Mozart, while yesterday's was - because of the TFA - about Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera by Offenbach. - Thank you for promoting the Burgtheater director for DYK! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:21, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

My story today is about Marina Kondratyeva, - what would you suggest for a DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:55, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

... and today's about Ruth Hesse - pic in the article only, sadly. Five years ago, we had the DYK for her, the first that I remember where a critic's saying was finally accepted. I don't normally care about what critics say, but once that happened, I tried it for compromise. Can we agree on treating each nom on its own instead of "always the same"? The Kondratyeva nom is open, - your chance for a hook, and I promised myself not to comment ;) - 21k+ looked already at her article. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:48, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:26, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Just a look at music (on my talk) shows remembrance of three people who died, and creating an article or improving one is all I can do. Three are on the Main page today, and three others planned ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:07, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations: Genghis Khan is FA! - I have - sad record - three women in the RD section today, - now three men planned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:45, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

		The Vital Articles Barnstar
		Finally, the Genghis Khan FA is complete! You've done the big one, and I'm super proud to see it. Congrats on getting a coveted Level 3 Vital FA, and what I assume is a shoe-in for a Million Award. You continue to be an inspiration as always. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 16:19, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

• Fantastic work! I'm in awe. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:35, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

DYK

I have a few questions regarding this:

• Why do you say there is not a viable hook? The latest hook was approved by two editors, with a third one saying they didn't find it hooky enough, but also not giving a chance for that comment to be responded to.
• Can you point me to the two-month limit? I was not aware of that.
• Where can I appeal your decision?

Thanks, VR _{(Please ping on reply)} 18:56, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

The latest hook had not been reviewed at all, and two editors—myself and theleekycauldron—felt it was neither interesting enough nor really neutral enough. As the nomination is two months old, it can't even be described as "new" or "recently expanded". You can find the two month limit at WP:DYKCRIT. If you want, you can appeal at WT:DYK—but that would need "exceptional circumstances", and timing out hooks is very common. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:36, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

I see the two month limit now, thanks. The latest hook had been proposed by the reviewer themselves. No concerns regarding its neutrality were raised (I see you're raising it now after closing it) and the concern regarding its interest was raised just an hour before it was closed. The nomination was made May 18, but did not attract a review until June 28 - how is that ~1.5 month delay my fault? VR _{(Please ping on reply)} 04:43, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Hooks cannot be approved by the person who proposed them—you would have needed to find a new reviewer. If a nomination is uninteresting or complicated enough to sit for 1.5 months without getting picked up by a reviewer, and then fail to find a viable hook in three subsequent weeks of workshopping, that's an excellent sign it's not a good fit for DYK. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:35, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sarlyk Yak

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Sarlyk Yak2.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:45, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Genghis Khan

I am eyeing up Genghis Khan for TFA for 29 August. Would you be ok with that? Gog the Mild (talk) 14:45, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Gog the Mild I would quite like it to run on the 800th anniversary of his death in August 2027 , so no unless it can run twice in under three years, sorry. Thanks for promoting! ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:50, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Nope. It was just a thought. Nice work. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:53, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

How long does it usually take FACBot to update articles/talkpages Gog the Mild? It doesn't appear to have done so for any of the nominations promoted/archived yesterday. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:30, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

I think it usually runs once a day. They have been picked up and sent to Wikipedia:Featured articles promoted in 2024, so something is happening. Let's give it another 24 hours before we press the alarm bell. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:01, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Ref help

G'day

I need some magician help.

I added a new source on Byzantine Empire and nested the chapter authors, per our previous Talk discussion to help reduce the source duplication.

Two and a half issues now appear: chapter author Kazhdan has another book in 1990. And the editor Shepherd also wrote a chapter and has another book (different year). The citations pull the correct information (and works fine for the other chapter authors) but it's generating an error that I do not know how to fix.

Kazhdan I believe can be fixed by renaming the other book referenced as 1990a, but I can't solve the nested chapters so that (1) they do not point back to the Shepherd chapter (2) have it point to the book itself.

FWIW the book was published in 1992 but the content came from 1990, I played around with this to try to solve the abobev but alas nope.

• Shepherd, Jonathan; Franklin, Simon, eds. (1992). Byzantine Diplomacy: Papers of the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. ISBN 9780860783381.

Biz (talk) 01:50, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Solved it. Probably could be done better, but no more errors. Biz (talk) 02:27, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Category:Suicide attempt has been nominated for deletion

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PROD of IAAF Hall of Fame

Hi, thanks for your contributions. I reverted your PROD on IAAF Hall of Fame. I don't think it's right to PROD an article before doing an online search to see that it has in fact been covered by independent outlets like Reuters and Track & Field News. Also, WP:DEFUNCT is not a valid reason for deletion. Thanks, --Habst (talk) 12:42, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 220, August 2024

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DCWC August update

The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for a month, and we've already seen some momentous improvement in the quality of many articles about underrepresented subjects! So far, our top-scoring participants are:

• Magentic Manifestations (submissions) – 338 points, mainly from nine good articles. He's a contender for the "most submissions for a single country" specialty award, with nine submissions for India.
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• Generalissima (submissions) – 290 points, the bulk from her featured article about Greenlandic interpreter Qalaherriaq and two China-related good articles.
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) – 245 points, mostly from the achievement of bringing Genghis Khan to featured status.
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Mongol Khans at Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/People/Politicians and leaders

Hello,

I undid your edit. We now require a discussion before adding articles to VA5. You are obviously welcome to propose their addition. _pbp 20:32, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Second opinion on Dia Bridgehampton

Hey, thanks for your comments at Vital articles. Thought provoking, I think I overstated some things which you helped me see, even though I still disagree. Anyway, the force at which you disagree makes me think, if you have time and care, you would be the perfect second set of eyes to look over a GAN I am having trouble with. I haven't requested a second opinion before, and I think it would be too early to request one before completing any part of the review process beyond #3 (maybe I'm wrong).

This is what it looked like when it was nominated. My concern was it was not clear if the subject of the article was the museum, or the building the museum is in. I think this was very apparent from the lead, but also from a history of the museum not mentioning the museum until halfway through.

In talking to the nominator, it has become clear the issue is complex. In their words: "Dia Bridgehampton, while ostensibly an art museum, is really a permanent, site-specific, art installation". The artist the museum is about oversaw the creation of the museum, renovating the building for it. The museum today features exhibits from previous uses of the building, and a post on the stairs, painted by the artist, is an exhibit. Still, this doesn't change that the article is about the museum, not the building. If it reads like its about the building then it's too broad and fails #3b.

I've been suggesting changes to make it clear to the reader what the subject of the article is (i.e., splitting the building history into a section later in the article). But it is clear to me now just how much of a rewrite is needed. The lead has been focused on in rewrites, and the subject of two out of the first three sentences is still the building/structure.

Again, if you have time and are okay with bypassing the second opinion feature in just this instance, I would be grateful for your insight into whether this is a problem, and where the article is now. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 12:43, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of Genghis Khan

Congratulations, AirshipJungleman29! The article you nominated, Genghis Khan, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 19:49, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Belated, but congratulations on this monumental achievement! Truly a pillar of WP's biographies. Aza24 (talk) 03:32, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

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Please restore your edit on Donald Bochkay

AirshipJungleman29

Your edit was reverted for lack of a reference. It is on page 54 of Yeager's eponymous book. Here are the words from the book:

    Don Bochkay was the old man. He was about twenty-five, a Californian who loved to tinker with cars. Silk panties or nylons were impossible to get in wartime London, and he had his mother send him some to use as bait. One night, five of us were in a West End pub getting drunk, while Ol' Boch made a play for one of the barmaids by giving her a pair of fancy silk panties. "Honey, "Boch said to her, "you stick with me and you'll be fartin' through silk." That line became famous throughout the entire Eighth Air Force.

I think that story and quote is an important part of anything about Donald Bochkay, especially since it was soon widely quoted in the Eighth Air Force.

Tupelo the typo fixer (talk) 12:56, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Tupelo the typo fixer, not entirely sure what you're talking about. I have made one edit to Donald H. Bochkay, which was adding the words "propeller-driven" to a sentence. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:02, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

So sorry, I assumed that you had made the entry that was reverted right after you made your edit. Turns out that the that Toadboy123, who did the revert, was reverting his own edit!!

Tupelo the typo fixer (talk) 16:59, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Latin tenses referencing

Can you please advise on how the referencing of Latin tenses could be brought up to a higher standard? Thanks. Kanjuzi (talk) 04:55, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Kanjuzi, see UndercoverClassicist's comments in the GA review. Essentially, every bit that analyses, explains, or interprets the Latin language must be cited to a modern secondary source. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:31, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

OK, I'll accept your judgement. Of course the great majority of statements, certainly those which are the least likely to be challenged, are referenced to standard reference books such as Gildersleeve & Lodge. Other statements, which are common ground and well known to all students of Latin, it seems to me don't need a reference. However, it seems to me that a rating of "C" is rather low if we compare this article to the criteria in Wikipedia:Content assessment for grade C. Descriptions for class C such as "Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study" seem far wide of the mark in this case. Kanjuzi (talk) 13:06, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Kanjuzi, C-class is defined at Wikipedia:Content assessment as failing "one or more of the criteria for B-Class." One of the B-class criteria is "The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations." A Wikipedia article is not meant just for students of Latin—it is meant for readers of all experience. A "moderately detailed study" requires the article to satisfy the verifiability policy properly; at the moment, the article doesn't do that, but it shouldn't be much work at all to get it up to standard. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:14, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Oghul Qaimish

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August music

story · music · places

Today I have three "musicians" on the Main page, one is also the topic of my story, like 22 July but with interview and the music to be played today -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:26, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

The Gibson hook should have been edited for "unlikely to change". ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:27, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

I thought it was for all time zones, - would you have a better option? - Congratulations to the GA (below)! Thank you for watching over my silly mistakes like in the FAC. Before going to bed last night, I found another source with more detail about the sad story of the Gotteslob version, a missed chance for ecumenism. Should I add that or rather let readers draw their own conclusion? - Today I'll be busy expanding BWV 113 (great music, I just listened), and enjoy summer. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:23, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the elucidation over at the composer's DYK! - On 13 August, Bach's cantata was 300 years old, and the image one. The cantata is an extraordinary piece, using the chorale's text and famous melody more than others in the cycle. It's nice to have not only a recent death, but also this "birthday" on the Main page. You know that I don't like remembering the calendar date much but this happens to a private celebration also ;) - find a rainbow in my places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:42, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Removed DYK image

Why did you remove that DYK image? I don't see how it violated WP:DYKIMG, because it is crop of an image used in the second bolded article and I'm not sure how it is violating WP:DYKVAR either, because there was only one other sports-related hook in the set, but maybe I am missing something here. – Editør (talk) 20:52, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

WP:DYKIMG: "Try to avoid images that divert readers from the bolded article into a side article – for example, taking a hook about a fictional character and picturing the character's also-linked portrayer." An image depicting Bol would have diverted a massive amount of attention away from the articles the hook was created to showcase.

WP:DYKVAR: "try to avoid having two images of people in adjacent sets." There was also an image of a person in the previous set. Given the DYKIMG problem, I chose to adjust this one.

Hope that helps Editør. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:14, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanation. – Editør (talk) 08:44, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Just for my understanding, isn't today's DYK image (10 August) doing what you prevented for the earlier athlete image, divert attention from the bolded article? – Editør (talk) 18:01, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes; I wouldn't have promoted it and didn't notice it. The editor who did promote it is rather new to DYK prepping, so it's understandable that they didn't know that part of the guidelines (but FYI CSJJ104). ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:33, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing that out. Hopefully my future promotions will prove less controversial :) CSJJ104 (talk) 17:38, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 August newsletter

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
• Arconning (submissions) with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews;
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on Genghis Khan and 2 good articles; and
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Susanna Hoffs, 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.

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Harvb for multi source and inline

Yo

Playing around with a way to consolidate citations when there is an inline reference that we don't want to add to the bibliography. It works, but it's complicated and not consistant with the rest of the article we are working on so wanted to get your perspective if doing this occasionally is ok or not worth it. I can see doing this for a lot in the specialist sections to reduce undue issues.

To see what I mean: user:Biz/sandbox Biz (talk) 22:40, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Why would we have specialist sections Biz? This is a general purpose article, meant to be accessible by all, not Slavery in the Byzantine Empire or similar. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:52, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

I took a sentence just so you can see the difference in citation, not the content. Society, Government and military, etc and all their sub-sections. That what I mean specialist, because unlike our narrative historians, their are historians who specialise in these areas and often we only need them once. There are nuggets of knowledge in single sources that we can put inline, but it gets cluttered. Biz (talk) 23:08, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Putting aside whether choosing which specialist historians not to cite is WP:OR, the WP:FACR require consistent citation formatting, which this is not. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:10, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

To be clear, adding more published historians, not less, is the goal. Your clarification WP:FACR would not accept this is appreciated. I'm pausing indefinitely my work on reviewing new sections, or until at least, I've gone back and re-reviewed previous sections I worked on to a better standard and now that I have more experience as a reviewer, library researcher, and knowledge of the Byzantists. Biz (talk) 17:59, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

"adding more published historians, not less, is the goal" this seems far too simplistic. Featured articles require "a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature". The reason narrative histories and edited collections are so valuable is that they are expected to have already done the thorough and representative survey, and will have weighed them appropriately. There have been thousands of Byzantine historians—adding them willy-nilly just as a goal in itself falls well outside the purview of editorial discretion. It will be a good idea to re-review previously-written sections, but remember to question why the content of specialist sources meets WP:PROPORTION if it isn't mentioned in the narrative histories or edited collections. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:25, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Understood. I hope you don't construe my attempts at critical thinking with original research. Please correct my thinking in interpreting this requirement with the below:

As principles

1. Build on the current article by scanning scholarship for the latest to include, rewrite if needed due to neutrality, concision, comprehensiveness, CLOP and remove sources if assessed as not appropriate.
2. if Kaldellis (2023) or Treadgold (1997) or the several edited collections of Oxford and Cambridge mention it, that's a good baseline of a survey. If citations support the points of ideas in a paragraph that are made by the above, then that's a valid inclusion. (Due to the age gap between the sources, expecting consensus on all the above is too conservative as it cuts out the latest thinking like the very credible Beard and Kaldellis who in different specialties agree on the impact of 212.)
3. 2-3 citations per sentence, 3 if practical
4. At minimum, three different sources per section for diversity of views

This discussion would be more fruitful on a section by section or topic basis but maybe that's for another day. I can at least justify it if asked, and would be open to suggestions. Biz (talk) 20:55, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

The "latest thinking", unless known for certain to be high-quality like Kaldellis's narrative, should probably play a lesser role than you think. Wikipedia is by design meant to be conservative, or "behind the curve" of scholarship (WP:RGW). ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:22, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Ok if that's the only comment then we are aligned then.

Howard-Johnston just published in July a new book that I've recently added, who along with Treadgold and Kaldellis are considered the experts in the middle period. My yard stick of latest is certainly yard-sticked with people of their calibre. The Roman Empire article was using Gibbon's view until this week for its end dating (and also puts to an end a decade plus of talk debates), so I appreciate conservative but there's a point.... Biz (talk) 21:49, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

AN response

Hi AirshipJungleman29, I don't think it is productive to psychoanalyse why another editor does X or Y in a manner as you have done on the AN page. There are probably better ways to make your point, it weakens after the first sentence. CMD (talk) 11:42, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

The psychoanalysis (as you put it) was my point, and I disagree, it has been productive in the past. On a completely different note, do you ever intend to run for the mop Chipmunkdavis? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:50, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Well, at least it's based on past experience. I'm always open to the idea my incivility sensor is poorly tuned. On the different note, I have never intended to run for a mop, and I don't think it has really come up. CMD (talk) 12:11, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

That's a shame, I think you'd do well with it. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:12, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, that means a lot. They do say that intending to get the mop is a sure way to not get it, so perhaps I've cleared one hurdle already. CMD (talk) 12:15, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Apologies

I'm sorry for how I acted towards you on the ERRORS page. You're a good editor, and I appreciate that you are an active DYK promoter. SL93 (talk) 20:02, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

No hard feelings here, SL93. Thanks for your work at DYK too. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:22, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm going to take a picture of this and put it on my fridge. So much of what I see is negativity, so this is a welcome respite. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 00:26, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Limia perugiae DYK

Thanks for promoting it with the photo! It's an exceptionally good shot of such a restless animal. Regarding this change, I think that the original "sneakily impregnated by" would be more intriguing than just "mating with". Surtsicna (talk) 21:19, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Is that sufficiently supported by the source, Surtsicna? I also have to be wary of length, as it's a fairly long hook already. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:31, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes, it is entirely supported: "... it became apparent that intermediate size males, which exhibit little courtship but more simple sneaking behavior as an alternate mating tactic, are more effective reproductively than the more extreme social and size classes ... which are practically excluded from reproduction. ... allowing lower rank males a greater opportunity to mate successfully." The picture of subordinate males sneaking up while the big guys fight seems too funny to miss. Surtsicna (talk) 22:41, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

The rewording also changed what the cited research found. The subordinate males do not just mate with the females when the dominant males are preoccupied with fighting; they sire offspring while the dominant males fail to do so altogether. And, of course, "mating" just does not sound as intriguing as "sneakily impregnating". Surtsicna (talk) 12:45, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Regardless, "impregnating" is neither in the quote above or the article, so I'll stick with "mating". ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2024 (UTC)