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Anna Blackburne scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 8 May 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/May 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 22:17, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of Anna Blackburne

Congratulations, Kusma! The article you nominated, Anna Blackburne, 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 The nomination discussion has been archived.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, Ian Rose (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. - Congratulations to the latest FA, a woman's biography! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you today for Anna Blackburne, "about one of the earliest woman naturalists in England, a notable collector of specimens who corresponded with Linnaeus and Pennant, among others."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:35, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

+1 Remsense诉 05:42, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

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) 14:16, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
• Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
• Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Intervention request by an Administrator, please

Hi, @Kusma . I'm contacting you after visiting [1] and [2]. I'm having a problem with users @TylerBurden (abusing his Wikipedia rights) and @Borgenland, who are deleting my editions in the conflictive page Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 December 2023 – present). Specifically, they're deleting a properly sourced edition by me, with a highly relevant deposition by NATO's supreme commander on April 10, here and here. Then, @Tylerburden also came to my talk page to try and intimidate me, and has also erased the content in the main page about the war Russian invasion of Ukraine, here. Sorry for bothering you, but I'd need help to learn how to proceed. Best regards, MaeseLeon (talk) 18:37, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

I had explained to them in my edit summary as to why and have made a more detailed explanation in their talk page, but instead complainant above has made wild accusations and bad faith assumptions. Borgenland (talk) 18:57, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

This does not appear to be an admin matter at this point. Not everything that is sourced must be included. If you wish to explain why you think the content should be included, the best place is on the relevant talk page. —Kusma (talk) 19:25, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Reviewer Barnstar
		Thank you for participating in the March 2024 GA backlog drive. Your noteworthy contribution (12points total) helped reduce the backlog by more than 250 articles! Here's a token of our appreciation. —Ganesha811 (talk) 23:28, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Arnold II of Isenburg

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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter

The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

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

Administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins

Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

• Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
• Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
• Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
• Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
• Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
• Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
• Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
• Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

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Your GA nomination of Arnold II of Isenburg

The article Arnold II of Isenburg you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Arnold II of Isenburg for comments about the article, and Talk:Arnold II of Isenburg/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Yakikaki -- Yakikaki (talk) 16:23, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

傳維基璽！

The Heirloom Seal of the Wiki

『受命於天既壽永昌』 I was going to wait to bestow this upon you until after the GA review was complete, but you once again pulling through with a knotty paragraph, coupled with me having added your idea to the History section and it looking particularly snazzy makes me pull the WikiLove trigger now. I know I've said it a lot, but thank you from the bottom of my heart for caring, helping me write the very best version of an article I care a lot about, and being nothing but a role model for my improvement as an editor. Remsense诉 00:05, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

非常感謝！ Currently it is a bit more like a really thorough peer review than like a usual GA review, but whatever it is, I think it seems to be improving the article. I hope to get through this bit of the source review over the weekend so I can look at your overall changes (and then take stock how much still needs to be done). —Kusma (talk) 21:14, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Hello @Kusma, thank you for leaving a comment on the FA review for Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. I was wondering if you would be interested in supporting the nomination? Llewee (talk) 13:21, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Test pages

Thank you for removing the speedy on Wikipedia:Move test page 1; would it be possible for you to also restore Wikipedia:Move test page 2? I need multiple pages to fully test functionality. BilledMammal (talk) 13:26, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

@BilledMammal: sure, I only deleted that one because you had re-added the {{db-g2}} tag. —Kusma (talk) 13:27, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you - I re-added it after remembering that the creator of a page wasn't supposed to remove the tag. BilledMammal (talk) 15:03, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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I use this as a guide. You are correct that our instructions are contradictory and unclear. Nikki said to discuss it on the page but my experience is policy discussions rarely go anywhere on WP. Hope all is well with you and that this helps. SusunW (talk) 17:48, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, this looks much better than our guide. I guess what we need is someone who rewrites our guide, not a long discussion on what colour the bikeshed should be. —Kusma (talk) 18:57, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

My thoughts exactly. If someone starts a discussion over there, I'll put in an appearance, but not likely to stick around if it is beating a dead horse. We really should fix the guide, but my experiences tell me it isn't likely. SusunW (talk) 22:44, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

I have added a link to your guide and started a discussion section at that page, but as I am not volunteering to do the rewrite (having no real clue about accessibility, I can offer only goodwill, not expertise) this may lead to nothing. —Kusma (talk) 09:07, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Alice Ilgenfritz Jones

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Greeting from Gother.com

Hi Kusma,

I'm Sun from Gother.com, we are the online travel agency platform which operates in Thailand for a few years, and also we are partner with the large financial institutions in Thailand, you can get more detail about me from these news https://www.phocuswire.com/thailand-ota-traveligo-gets-25m-rebrands-to-gother and https://skift.com/2023/11/03/gother-raises-25-million-for-asian-online-travel-agency-startup-funding-roundup/. By the way, could you please let me know how can I revise the page to be passed the review before I submitted again. Saranonk (talk) 10:08, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

@Saranonk, please do not write about your own company. If you do, you need to follow everything said at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest; Wikipedia is not a platform for advertising or promotion. —Kusma (talk) 10:51, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

@Kusma I understand your point, however let me clarify my intention a bit. My intention is not to advertise the company(I already advertise it in other platforms) but to give the information like who are we and what do we do, to people who is interested in the company, it's the same case as Traveloka or Agoda do. I'm very new for the Wikipedia so I would very appreciate if you suggest me how to revise content to be acceptable as the policy. Saranonk (talk) 04:47, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Statements like "The heart of Gother's branding is encapsulated in the concept Open-Ended Destination with Gother, the platform where travel means more than just destinations" are clearly advertising (and empty phrases). As at Agoda, a Wikipedia article is written using reliable, independent secondary sources (which must include any important negative content as per WP:NPOV). To qualify for an article, the sourcing must be good enough to pass the notability guidelines. —Kusma (talk) 10:37, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Alice Ilgenfritz Jones

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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

Administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

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Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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WP:GARC: Invitation to review Michael Dillon

Hello Kusma, You have been paired at good article review circles to review Michael Dillon. At the same time, another user will be reviewing the article you nominated. Please wait 24 hours or until all users have accepted their nomination before starting your review in case a user in your circle decides to decline their invite.

To accept or decline this invitation to review the article, visit WT:GARC/Circles#Circle #3.

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Your GA nomination of Margaret Carroux

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File:Oil portrait of Alexander Buchan, before 1769.png listed for discussion

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Your GA nomination of Margaret Carroux

The article Margaret Carroux you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Margaret Carroux for comments about the article, and Talk:Margaret Carroux/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:44, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Congratulations! - Nice to see Ulf Merbold on the Main page, next to a centenarian (documentation about it by Percy Adlon); Gerhard Klingenberg had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:38, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, I had not noticed that Merbold was on OTD. Good to see the Klingenberg AFD was closed quickly. —Kusma (talk) 22:21, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

What do you think about Klingenberg's DYK nom? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Not sure what is best to do. I don't think the story about his stage name is too bad. Another angle to use is perhaps leaving the Berliner Ensemble after the wall was built? —Kusma (talk) 16:14, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Luise Duttenhofer

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Your GA nomination of Luise Duttenhofer

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Danke Kusma

Danke vielmals, dass du dich für den Artikel Benjamin Schlein eingesetzt hast. Für mich war von Anfang an klar, dass Schlein relevant ist. Ich schreibe hauptsächlich auf der deutschen Wikipedia über Mathematik de:Benutzer:Tensorproduct (170 Artikel über Mathematik). Ich hatte am Ende einfach keine Lust mehr, mit Leuten zu schreiben, bei denen ich den Eindruck hatte, sie wollten gar nicht, dass der Artikel veröffentlicht wird. Vor allem habe ich fast 40 Mathematik-Artikel in der englischen Wikipedia geschrieben, der User:Ldm1954 hat nicht 1en mathematischen Artikel geschrieben. Er beschäftigt sich ja auch mit Chemie, warum soll er wissen, wer relevant in der Mathematik ist und wer nicht. Danke vielmals für die Hilfe.--Tensorproduct (talk) 21:05, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Ich verstehe deine Frustration. Leider funktionieren viele Dinge (insbesondere Neuanlage von Artikeln) hier nicht mehr so einfach wie vor 10-15 Jahren, da allgemein sowohl die Qualitätsansprüche als auch das Mißtrauen stark gestiegen sind. Viele Prozesse (gerade der Umgang mit "Draft space" ist da ein Beispiel) sind eher adversarial als kollaborativ. Es gibt natürlich gute Gründe für diese Entwicklung, insbesondere das enorme Vertrauen in die Wikipedia, das Außenstehende haben, und die daraus resultierende Macht. —Kusma (talk) 21:24, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 July newsletter

The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
• Skyshifter (submissions) with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
• AryKun (submissions) with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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DYK for Margaret Carroux

On 4 July 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Margaret Carroux, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Margaret Carroux's German translation of The Lord of the Rings contains errors introduced by her editor? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Margaret Carroux. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Margaret Carroux), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Thank you for another good one! - Libuše Domanínská would have turned 100 today, but I missed that ;) - Overnight, Tamara Milashkina became GA. --

Congrats! Carroux was actually my first new article this year, but I have a few fun projects coming up, so I hope there will be two or three more this month. —Kusma (talk) 13:08, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! - Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia, (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:27, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

I didn't know we had an article on the Grand Tour! I wrote about the Mozarts' visit to the British Museum at Andrew Planta a while ago. —Kusma (talk) 11:22, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Interesting! - My story today is - because of the anniversary of the premiere OTD in 1782 - 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, - so 3 times Mozart again if you click on "music" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:04, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. (DYK nom open for hook suggestion or review.) If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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Sorry to say this so suddenly

Sorry to say this so suddenly, but I am going to have to cancel this GA nomination; I am having a busy week and would like to cancel this to relieve stress. Thanks. Bennett1203 (talk) 02:46, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

@Bennett1203, no problem. I have deleted the review page. If you want to cancel the nomination, just remove the {{GA nominee}} from the talk page. —Kusma (talk) 05:05, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

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Not everyone

For User:Kusma/Beware of the Leopard, I thought you might be interested in knowing that 83% of extended-confirmed editors have never posted anything at any Village pump. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:29, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much, added. I've been wondering whether to add examples where people violated WP:LEOPARD and it all became a big mess, but I am afraid Vogon-shaming could detract from the message. —Kusma (talk) 06:22, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

If you are asking my advice, then I advise against it. There's the risk that someone might decide that this one example wasn't that big of a mess, so they can probably get away with not notifying people/groups expected to object (this is exactly when it will blow up in their faces), or that they'll find counterexamples, in which things were done poorly and didn't become a big mess after all (probably because the proposal was so sensible or so unimportant that nobody would have objected even if they had been notified. What ultimately matters is that the proposal works for people, not that you squeaked it through an official process), and so talk themselves into making the wrong choice for a less obviously acceptable proposal. I think it is better to let them see the principle.

Also, shorter messages are more likely to get read, which is another reason not to add a list of examples. WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:34, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. My original reason for not making a list was laziness. Now I am going to pretend it was wisdom :) —Kusma (talk) 08:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

A win–win! WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:25, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

AfD CSD G

Hi. Why you removed speedy deletion tag? I was wrong probably and violated AfD policy sorry Indiana's Football (talk) 09:10, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

I removed the speedy tag because it was visible on the main AfD log for the day, making it look as if it was up for speedy deletion. Other people edited the page, so I decided to close the AFD as withdrawn instead of deleting the AFD page. —Kusma (talk) 09:11, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

OK, understood Indiana's Football (talk) 09:13, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Johann Joseph Dömling

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Your GA nomination of Johann Joseph Dömling

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DYK nomination of Johann Joseph Dömling

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Your GA nomination of Maximiliane Brentano

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Hi

Hi Kusma, sorry for the accidental ping, i accidentally typed you in rather than the user (Vladimir.copic) i was referring to. 750h+ 11:04, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for letting me know. —Kusma (talk) 11:09, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

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Friendly GAN Review Request

Hello Kusma, I noticed your extensive experience in reviewing GA nominations, and I was hoping you might be willing to review my nomination for the Machu Picchu article. If a full review isn't possible, any suggestions or insights you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time! Best wishes, JustEMV (talk) 14:51, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

@JustEMV, I am not very active right now and won't be able to take on a formal GA review of an important article like this one. I may be able to make some informal comments, but it could be a few days. —Kusma (talk) 20:40, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I’d greatly appreciate any comments you can provide when you have the time. JustEMV (talk) 21:06, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Maximiliane Brentano

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DYK for Johann Joseph Dömling

On 19 August 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Johann Joseph Dömling, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Johann Joseph Dömling suggested in 1803 that venous blood contained carbon monoxide? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Johann Joseph Dömling. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Johann Joseph Dömling), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Rimini Protokoll

Hi, I realized on the main page that you are very actively writing high quality articles on German persons of interest. I am not so experienced in the en.wikipedia.org, but edited a lot some time ago on de.wikipedia.org. Can you tell me if there are basic differences in the way people choose or cite sources here? I am somewhat confused as my extension of the article Rimini Protokoll is constantly reverted, even if I gave a host of sources for almost every single sentence. I would be really grateful, if you could have a glance [on my revision] of the article. I also wrote this article about Pierre Charbonnier, without getting into such trouble.--Olag (talk) Olag (talk) 15:44, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Olag, I am on vacation this week. I hope I remember to answer next week. —Kusma (talk) 15:25, 21 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.

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:12, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

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

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• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
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Kahler not a topologist?

Hello. A few months ago you recently removed my entry to put Erich Kahler as a topologist in a teaching position when Hitler came to power. I concede it was not in the source given, and as such did not belong there. However, Kahler invented his namesake manifold, and manifolds are a major topic of topology. In addition, he was involved in differential geometry, which is closely related to topology. I am no longer interested in modifying the article in question but what is your reasoning for declaring him as not a topologist? I am genuinely curious. Thank you. MaribelGame (talk) 18:46, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

@MaribelGame, my main reason for removing Kähler was that he was not mentioned in the source cited. In my view, Kähler is not a topologist, but a mathematical physicist and differential geometer, so does not belong in the list (not every geometer is a topologist even if the subjects are related). At least not without additional reliable sources. —Kusma (talk) 19:05, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 64

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 64, July – August 2024

• The Hindu Group joins The Wikipedia Library
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DYK for Maximiliane Brentano

On 16 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Maximiliane Brentano, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Goethe used his unrequited love to Maximiliane Brentano as inspiration for his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Maximiliane Brentano. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Maximiliane Brentano), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Tunghsing Building

On 21 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tunghsing Building, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Tunghsing Building was the only building in Taipei that collapsed after the September 21 earthquake in 1999? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tunghsing Building. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tunghsing Building), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 00:03, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

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With regards to the Adolf Uunona Page

Can I get some kind of understanding on what it takes for a page to be deleted? I’d like to know why a page about a philanthropist (albeit with a historically similar name) was deleted multiple times. I’m not exactly new to Wikipedia, but I’m fairly new to editing so I don’t get things like policies. Cornishrom20 (talk) 09:55, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

There was no substantial change from the version of the article deleted in 2021, with the reasoning elaborated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adolf Uunona. More substantial coverage of the person in reliable sources to prove notability could lead to a different outcome. —Kusma (talk) 10:38, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Ok Cornishrom20 (talk) 10:13, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

User asked the same question, and was answered, at the Ref Desks. See this diff for the answer. DuncanHill (talk) 11:22, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

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

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A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for being on Wikipedia. We needed someone like you (Also, yes I saw the review log for Adolf Uunona and I understand that it was deleted due to lack of information, not due to him having the same first name as the German dictator.) Cornishrom20 (talk) 11:31, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! —Kusma (talk) 09:50, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Your welcome ^_^ Cornishrom20 (talk) 13:40, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

DYK:François-Louis Auvity?

Hello! I wonder if you could help User:Tim riley, User:KJP1 and me to nominate François-Louis Auvity for DYK? This French bishop was a powerful collaborator with the Nazis in France during the occupation of France during WWII, proliferating writings to Catholics encouraging collaboration and the Nazis' actions against Jews, communists, etc.

The article is older than one week, but I hope there is an exception here, because the editor who created the article on 16 September, User:Mémoiredumaquis, died on 27 September. He had created a Peer Review page for it on 18 September. When User:Tim riley discovered, a few days ago, that Mémoiredumaquis had died, he did further research to improve the article and asked KJP and me to review and improve it, which we did. The late Mémoiredumaquis hoped that this bishop's deeds would be more widely seen by modern readers, and I agree that this is a very interesting and telling subject, especially to anyone wondering what the Catholic Church was up to during this period in France.

None of us is familiar with the DYK nomination process, and we wonder if you could nominate the item for us? Any help would be much appreciated. Perhaps the hook could be:

• "...that the French Catholic bishop and anti-semite François-Louis Auvity welcomed Nazi Germany's 1940 invasion of France?"
• "...that the French Catholic bishop and anti-semite François-Louis Auvity collaborated enthusiastically with the occupation of France by Nazi Germany?"

Thanks for any help or advice! -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:06, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Ssilvers/@Tim riley/@KJP1, that's a noble cause and a very interesting article, I had no idea that French collaboration with my deplorable countrymen of 80 years ago extended to senior clergy. From a DYK process point of view: while I can try to ask for an exemption from the newness rule (which could be successful, or not), I would need to be absolutely certain of the sourcing for the hook facts (and sourcing for these facts needs to be provided at nomination time; either with links to an online source or with quotes from an offline source). Generally in the article there are various primary sources and some offline sources that are identical to those of the French version; I would like at least some assurance that these have been checked and ideally that someone can provide additional context if necessary. The Legeard source that is widely used is a WP:SPS that needs additional consideration and is probably not going to fly as sourcing for a Main Page hook.

An alternative to nominating now and asking for an exemption to the rules would be to first polish the article up to WP:GA status and then to nominate within a week of promotion to GA. I am happy to help with nominating once I am convinced with the sourcing. —Kusma (talk) 09:50, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Kusma, thank you so much for looking into this. Auvity certainly published his hateful writings to influence his French faithful and other French, but those are primary sources. If Legeard will not fly at DYK, then it seems like your Plan B is probably the best option. I don't know if you have any interest in this, but you may want to put up stubs for Auvity and the similarly odious Florent du Bois de La Villerabel on German Wikipedia. My own French and German are next to nil, though I like to sing German and French Lieder. -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:17, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Sockpuppet troll

Hello, and thanks for blocking User:EuphratesTigris. Turns out it's a sock account (and probably not new), so could you please also hide the racist trolling revision at this post by EuphratesTigris, and this post by GangesBrahmaputra? Thanks. Wikishovel (talk) 12:49, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

@Wikishovel, thank you for reminding me. Done. —Kusma (talk) 12:51, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

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GANs you might be interested in

Hey, I've got a couple of articles on Mongol women up at GAN, namely Al-Altan and Checheyigen. You gave some good comments at Hö'elün's FAC, so any chance you'd be interested in reviewing them (I'm asking because of the WikiCup)? If not, no worries. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:35, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Interested, yes. I'll see if I can find the time today or tomorrow. (I certainly won't start a review if I can't finish in time for you to claim WikiCup points). At first glance it looks not too difficult to access the sources with TWL? —Kusma (talk) 13:58, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Most should be fine on that count; I can also send you copies if you want. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:44, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2024 November newsletter

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Revision hiding request

Hello, and thanks for the quick deletion of the G10s just now. Could you also please hide this libellous revision by the same editor? Thanks. Wikishovel (talk) 10:00, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

@Wikishovel: Done and user blocked. Thanks for reporting! —Kusma (talk) 10:31, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

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DYK from 2006

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DYK that I used a DYK that you nominated in 2006 for today's story? Thank you! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:07, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

That was ... a long time ago. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! —Kusma (talk) 10:07, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

You are welcome! - I uploaded more pics, on a mountain in the sun above the fog. - Madeleine Riffaud - remember. - Please note that blank lines in threaded discussions "confuse" the screenreader. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:25, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

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