Well. So. I've uploaded three new photos of this surprising mirage, seen earlier this year in Northumberland, and offered them here where I am trying not to be pushy about it ... without having a properly detached view on whether they are any good ... without knowing how long it might be before anyone notices them ... and without seeing the usernames of any of my regular co-editors in the article history! So do please feel free to have a look, but no rush – this is not a big deal and the sum of human knowledge will not change massively one way or t'other. I have approached one other editor who was a significant past contributor but her current involvement is unclear and she doesn't know me from Adam, so ... yeah. Another early major editor was cast into Outer Darkness some time ago, details unknown ... so, again, yeah. Best to all, DBaK (talk) 15:20, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - August 2021
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 17,054 last month to 17,119 on 28 July 2021). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 209 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 82 while WP:GM has 71 out of a total number of 4,680 articles.
Currently we have sixty five Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Olympic and Paralympic Games
Happy Yorkshire Day, this month with the Olympic Games in progress it would be good to take a look at some of the articles related to Yokshire competitors. I have gone through and tagged those competitors that have articles and are born in Yorkshire, though there are a significant number that do not include details of where they are from. If you know ones that should be tagged then please take this opportunity to tag them and add relevant categories to their articles. Many are just a couple of line stubs and could do with improving to give some background to these athletes. Many are in need of photographs and there may be some free ones available to help illustrate articles.
Later in the month there will also be the start of the Paralympic Games. Another set of articles that will get a high number of hits as people search for details of the competitors and could do with work to get them in to shape.
Hopefully we will have more Yorkshire medals from both games to celebrate.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The August 2021 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page. I have gone for a couple of current Olympians this month though could not find any B-class so have gone for a C-class.
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Thanks for cleaning up my sloppy prose. You probably noticed, but in case you didn't, it's at FAC at the moment, if you fancied reviewing it... Cheers GirthSummit (blether)14:45, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
You're very very welcome Girth Summit and yes I had noticed – I maybe saw you alerting another editor and that is why I looked, because it sounded interesting! I'm a bit rubbish at all that formal stuff, tbh, but I will try to have a look in and see if I can offer anything remotely useful. Cheers DBaK (talk) 16:51, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Ah yes - Gog mentored me through my first FAC, so thought I'd drop him a note about this one. Thanks for anything you can offer, appreciate what you've done already. Cheers GirthSummit (blether)18:03, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
"funnels or spouts"
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In my extremely slow trudge at the history of music article, I've just come across the Ancient Persian "Oxus trumpets" (c. 2200–1750!) which are so small that some think they're not trumpets at all but "funnels or spouts". This seems like something you need to know... perhaps the reasonable conclusion is that all trumpets are nothing more than "funnels or spouts"? Aza24 (talk) 07:21, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Ah yes, Aza24, I fear that you have hit upon the essential truth of my entire career right there ... funnels or spouts ... who knows??? :) DBaK (talk) 21:55, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Wow, thanks Martinevans123 – what an interesting pair of links and what great brass on the Wyatt! I am ashamed to say I didn't know about Mongezi Feza but I will rectify this asap. Cheers DBaK (talk) 08:34, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for much trumpet inspiration! - DYK that I was named awesome Wikipedian 11 years ago today OTD? Same day as Brianboulton, which came as a big surprise and nice coincidence when I found out. - Thank you also for speaking for me on the TFA talk. I usually watch FAs forever, but not that one, I usually thank every FA writer on TFA day but not that one because he told me that my thanks are not welcome. I watch the article for today, to help fight vandalism, but will not go to the talk page as feeling extremely unwelcome. There is this belief that an accepted FA version is kind of sacred which I don't support. Why not improve? - If you want to go a step further representing me, go and fix the atrocious indenting in the current discussion about a comma, in respectful memory of RexxS, - the guideline is on my user page and on top of User talk:Drmies (easier to find). It's so easy: copy the indenting you find and add yours ;) - a little step towards more accessibility. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:07, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
Today: 2 interesting DYK (I think, one an opera for brass and timpani alone in the orchestra for most of the time), sadly 2 who died (on top of 2 from Poland yesterday), and a concert in which Daniel Barenboim just played piano, - and afterwards he and the orchestra received last year's prize (pictured). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:52, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
(too tired for the September pic) I heard a concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra today, lovely, perhaps you know the trumpet players pictured on my talk? (There was a third for Beethoven 7.) Vasily Petrenko - program says he's now their chief conductor, our article knows nothing about that ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:46, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and sixty first WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 17,119 last month to 17,227 on 5 September 2021). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 205 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 85 while WP:GM has 69 out of a total number of 4,683 articles.
Currently we have sixty seven Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Paralympic Games
This month with the Paralympics Games in progress it would be good to take a look at some of the articles related to Yokshire competitors. Many are just a couple of line stubs and could do with improving to give some background to these athletes. Many are in need of photographs and there may be some free ones available to help illustrate articles. This set of articles that will get a high number of hits as people search for details of the competitors and could do with work to get them in to shape.
We now have more Yorkshire medals from these games to celebrate.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The September 2021 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page. I have gone for a couple of current Paralympics this month though could not find any B-class so have gone for a C-class.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
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Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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Welcome to the one hundred and sixty second WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 17,227 last month to 17,270 on 29 September 2021). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 207 is ahead of WP:GM who have 90. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 85 while WP:GM has 69 out of a total number of 4,690 articles.
Currently we have sixty eight Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The October 2021 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
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Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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Gerda's September corner
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Fabulous, thanks Gerda Arendt for all the above! I got to play some Beethoven also this weekend, and a touch of Schubert. It made a lovely change from months of no-concerts. Cheers DBaK (talk) 11:50, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
Great! Rehearsing Rossini, Rheinberger, Mendelssohn and Rutter for real performances! Did you notice the link to my brother in an earlier version? (Fidelio) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:53, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
Absolutely, yes I did! Is that him with the bass aloft in the Mitglieder page on their website? I am not sure I can remember his first name or have lost track. Whoever it is, it is a very splendid photo! Cheers DBaK (talk) 12:24, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
His first name is Gerhard, and he's also pictured in an external link of Der Kontrabaß, and far right on the tuning pic I took of Fidelio. - Today: a woman in red (back to the beginning of the thread), two who died under "in memoriam" and LouisAlain missed - my first editnotice read: "Every editor is a human being" which is quoted from a comment by Geometry guy in a 2012 discussion on WP:AN. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:18, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi DoodleZoo! Thank you for the message, and I am very sorry for the slow reply. You might well be right about Allred, but I am afraid that it is not something that I can help with. It can be quite intimidating for new editors to jump in and try to start a new article; however, if you have a look at the links that someone left in the Welcome note on your Talk page, and maybe in particular have a look at the Teahouse – where they specialize in support for new editors – then you might find enough to get you started. Good luck and best wishes DBaK (talk) 11:58, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Boeing 737 Max edits
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Hi, Thanks for the Feedback. I have read the page, and from what I conclude from it, it suggests that there should be a change to CE/BCE when there is no specific reference to Christian/European historical topics (although vague) Also, the wiki states "more neutral and inclusive of non-Christian people is to call this the Current or Common Era (abbreviated as CE)" In this case, an article about Halley's comet, which was also observed in the far east for examples, I would deem it appropriate. Fsikkema (talk) 22:46, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
today: see yourself, read about a hymn praying to not be on earth in vain, about a comics artist whose characters have character (another collaboration of the "perennial gang", broken by one of us banned), and in memory of the last prima donna assoluta, Edita Gruberová. I had to go to two grave sites last week, one who died now, one who died 10 years ago, so standing upright and in black seems appropriate. More colours - but subdued - can be had on hikes, - updated. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:40, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
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I just wanted to make my appreciation known for your very civil participation in this discussion. Your comment was quite thoughtfully said and you offered some great feedback. Hope you have a nice rest of your day! ––FormalDude talk00:25, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
Thanks FormalDude for your very kind remarks. It is such a tricky area, and involves some people for whom I have the greatest respect, and whom I do not wish to annoy ... but I felt I should try to contribute something. With all good wishes, DBaK (talk) 16:22, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
FormalDude just wanted you to know I have unwatched and given up. Once the insults start, I remember why I chose this username. Good luck. Cheers DBaK (talk) 12:36, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundred and sixty third WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 17,270 last month to 17,376 on 7 November 2021). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 205 is ahead of WP:GM who have 91. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 87 while WP:GM has 70 out of a total number of 4,695 articles.
Currently we have seventy Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
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