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TFL notification

Hi, Dank. I'm just posting to let you know that List of plant family names with etymologies – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for February 25. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:32, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Looks good, thx. I'll reply on a minor point on your talk page. - Dank (push to talk) 23:12, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

February songs

frozen

Lovely to see that on the Main page, - thank you for some brightness there! I tried on my small end. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:15, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

That's some amazing DYK work you've done all these years, Gerda. - Dank (push to talk) 13:49, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, - one article written usually generates three red links ... - I wanted to write Prayer for Ukraine, after I heard it again, but for a change, it was already there. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:50, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

stand and sing --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:33, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

I took a pic in 2009 that was on the German MP yesterday, with the song from 1885, in English Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:56, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Very timely. - Dank (push to talk) 14:09, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Ashik

Dont follow me 88.201.0.111 (talk) 00:29, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrator activity policy update

Hello, Dank. This message is to let you know about a change to the administrator policy:

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:30, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks ... I saw it but I get that it's important to get this onto every admin's talk page. - Dank (push to talk) 20:40, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Some quick help

I think someone left their socks lying around over at User talk:Tamzin/340/112/16: An RfA debrief. Are they an LTA account? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 20:18, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

I don't have any personal knowledge that they are. Gratz on your RfA, btw! - Dank (push to talk) 23:01, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

July songs

July songs

Thank you for the lovely blurb for the Claudia character! - I went to a great concert last Friday, and took a pic of the happy conductor, with some good luck (further down on the page, with preview and review). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:01, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

John says "thanks"! - Dank (push to talk) 15:10, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

... moar 14 July: Voces8, pictured - I have a FAC open, in case of interest --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:14, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

today: birthday music for a friend, after hiking in the Swiss Alps and a funeral with flowers on a bench and a Rilke poem --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:53, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. - look for Stardust on my talk today ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda. - Dank (push to talk) 08:27, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Because someone who's been around as long as you and done as much good work as you have, probably doesn't have enough barnstars. Andre🚐 16:20, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

The same could be said for you! Kids these days ... never respecting their elders ... grumble. - Dank (push to talk) 18:35, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

September songs

music to explore to fight the grumble - the new Casals Forum for chamber music is just wonderful. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:25, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

94th Academy Awards FLC

Hi there,

Could you do a source review for the 94th Academy Awards regarding its featured list promotion? I would appreciate the feedback.

--Birdienest81talk 20:34, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know how to do FLC source reviews. - Dank (push to talk) 21:36, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I meant just a general review. User:Aza24 or User:Z1720 is handling the source review. Could you just do a proofread of the list?

--Birdienest81talk 07:56, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

I'd like to see one more support first. - Dank (push to talk) 12:35, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Okay, you got a support and another review this morning ... you probably won't need another review, but I'll keep it watchlisted just in case. - Dank (push to talk) 15:18, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Help edit TFA Blub?

Hi Dank, thanks for your help editing the TFA blurb for Amador Valley High School at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/October_20,_2022.

I do have one requested correction. Could you help update the blub to say that the school received 2nd in Robosub in 2022 (instead of 2021)? This is the source (also in the article): https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/3123762/25th-annual-robosub-competition-showcases-an-autonomous-future/

I don't seem to be able to edit the blurb myself anymore. Deltawk (talk) 01:26, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Great. Already done. - Dank (push to talk) 01:27, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Deltawk (talk) 01:27, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you ...

October songs

... for your help with the blurb of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:13, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Sure, I didn't do a lot, but always happy to help. - Dank (push to talk) 18:16, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

leaving the month with reformation and a cat treat --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:52, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Promotion of List of alismatid monocot families

Congratulations, Dank! The list you nominated, List of alismatid monocot families, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks FACBot (and Giants). - Dank (push to talk) 00:34, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

(From Gerda)

November songs

Thank you for the new list made while I was on vacation. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:45, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

December songs

Congratulations, with thanks for a long history of expanding the access to knowledge. I also like to share vacation pics again. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:52, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Your use of rollback

Please see WP:ROLLBACK: Use of standard rollback for any other purposes – such as reverting good-faith changes which you happen to disagree with – is likely to be considered misuse of the tool.

I'd like an explanation for this. --BorgQueen (talk) 19:38, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

I haven't been looking at WP within the last hour (which is when that edit happened). No one else has access to my account. But I was moving my mouse out of the way sometime around then; the only thing I can think of is that it must have made some very unlikely clicks while I was doing it. Sorry about that. Obviously, there was nothing wrong with your edit. - Dank (push to talk) 20:02, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Oh ok lol. What a naughty mouse! 🐁 --BorgQueen (talk) 20:05, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

FWIW, I've been here 15 years this month with 120k+ edits and this has never happened before. OTOH ... how weird is it that it made a random edit to a page that happens to be displayed on the Main Page today? It's very unlikely that anyone could have guessed my password, but I'll keep a sharp eye out for any other unexplained edits. - Dank (push to talk) 20:08, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

I think it's very unlikely I've been hacked or my acct has been compromised ... but I'll go report the incident at WP:AN just to be super-safe. - Dank (push to talk) 20:17, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Dank, I don't think you need to go to AN for what was almost certainly a misclick. If someone compromised your account, they would have done something impactful. :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 20:40, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Ed. Haven't seen you in a long time, what are you up to these days? We've been writing some lists and trying to get some gardening projects started. - Dank (push to talk) 20:43, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Finding myself with ever-dwindling time to edit, that's for sure! I'm in Milwaukee these days with a fiancée and a house, with all the projects the latter implies. What's a couple of your favorite lists that you've been working on? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 06:19, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Sounds very domestic, I'm happy for you. If you're interested in my humble lists ... WP:Featured list candidates/List of commelinid families/archive1 needs a review. (Some of these plant families have a high-powered type of photosynthesis called C₄ ... so high-powered that they succeeded in cooling down the planet when they evolved 33 million years ago ... hopefully they can do it again!) The other list is List of lilioid monocot families ... still working on that one in user-space, but hopefully that will be up at WP:FLC in a couple of weeks. - Dank (push to talk) 14:49, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! And I can definitely take a look this week. :-) It's fascinating (and maybe a bit concerning?) how many of our food crops are from this single family! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 07:20, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Happy Fourteenth Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Dank a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 16:03, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Chris. - Dank (push to talk) 16:05, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Thx Raju. - Dank (push to talk) 20:47, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Dank/Archive 85,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 16:17, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi Chris, thanks for the invitation, but I'm not much of a joiner. - Dank (push to talk) 16:22, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Lists

Hi, Dan. I think you do amazing work, and your commitment to these lists is wonderful. I know my comments on reviews often leave out the positive strokes. I realize that after the fact because I get so involved in the non-human part that I forget the person behind the scenes. I really apologize for that. You deserve all good things. Thank you for asking me to take a look. If you would be interested in me editing previous lists to make multiple images in each cell line up and be the same height as I did on the commelinids one, I'd be happy to in my spare time. I don't want to barge in anymore than I already have, though. For what it's worth, I have a hard time focusing on a smaller part of a review for FA and FL than a whole review for GA, which is why my comments tend to go all over the place, be overwhelming, and overdo it. Nothing I said was meant to cause defensiveness, if that matters, and tone is so difficult to express in writing. (Knowing shortcomings doesn't necessarily keeping one from having them.) Peace. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 19:30, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, not a problem. There's only one other list in the series, and I made some basic changes to it this morning. I'll take another look and see if there's anything else I can change that wouldn't require running the changes by the previous reviewers. But WP:FAOWN doesn't apply to WP:FLC ... that is, you or anyone else can edit that list at any time, I don't own the list. - Dank (push to talk) 01:15, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Done (with making edits to the previous list based on edits made to the current WP:FLC). - Dank (push to talk) 01:15, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Hey, Dan. I'm good to go with the list and said so on the FL talk page. When you have a list of the families and type genera for the asterids, let me know, and I can start collecting images if you wish. Great work on that list, as always. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 08:11, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Images at FLC

@Eewilson: Thanks, and thanks for the support. You're very welcome to review my FLC lists any time, and very welcome to make whatever edits you want to make to the lists after they emerge (successfully or unsuccessfully) from FLC (and it's very unlikely that I'll revert your or anyone else's edits at that point; I might do some minor copyediting). I'm going to avoid the temptation to diagnose the problems that FLC is having these days, I've seen enough diagnosing in my 15 years here to know that it never works, so I'll just bottom-line it: I'm not going to add any images to future lists (apart from one or two in the intro), and if someone else adds images before FLC, I won't nominate the list. If people add images after the list is promoted and they can successfully defend their choices, great. But ever since the addition of a requirement for image reviews, it's been hard, and in some cases impossible, to find image reviewers. (Of course, there's no shame in this or any other pervasive problems at FLC ... some problems just aren't immediately fixable, despite heroic efforts. Some day, we'll get it right.) - Dank (push to talk) 14:29, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, Dank. I'm just posting to let you know that List of alismatid monocot families – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for January 6, 2023. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 23:36, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Promotion of List of commelinid family names with etymologies

Congratulations, Dank! The list you nominated, List of commelinid family names with etymologies, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks much for your input and your dedication to FLC. - Dank (push to talk) 01:03, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

A very happy Christmas and New Year to you!
Have a great Christmas, and may 2023 bring you joy, happiness – and no trolls, vandals or visits from Krampus! Cheers SchroCat (talk) 11:12, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Nice to see you back, and many happy returns! I'm a fan of New Year's and Groundhog Day ... but, enjoy the season however you like! - Dank (push to talk) 13:51, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

December music

December songs

new year

Dan, we sang Charpentier's delightful Messe de minuit pour Noël yesterday, which was on DYK the day before, - a first for me. Today, pictured: the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt#DYK for Talia Or, in case of interest. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:26, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy holidays, Gerda. - Dank (push to talk) 17:42, 26 December 2022 (UTC)