User talk:Vami IV/Archive3

Australian localities

Please note the edit summary that I put at Banjup, Western Australia - thanks JarrahTree 00:01, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

I didn't tag it with WP:Cities. –Vami_IV✠ 00:04, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

apologies - I must have misread edit history - JarrahTree 08:36, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

for your work on numerous India related articles... Adamstraw99 (talk) 15:08, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Muchas gracias! Assessing Indian cities has been a bit of a personal hell for me because of how many parameters there are in the India WikiProject banner. I'm glad someone appreciates my efforts. –Vami_IV✠ 15:15, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Try editing at Wikia military

Greetings, I noticed your message on WikiProject United States about that battleship list. I know it's a real disappointment when you have to work with some people here on EnWP and theWolfChild is a problematic editor at best. If you find the environment here too frustrating and would like a calmer and quieter place to improve articles, I invite you to try editing at the military wiki on Wikia here. I highly recommend changing the skin to monobook from the Wikia skin though. Cheers! 2601:5CC:100:697A:F55F:44A4:194F:D883 (talk) 04:07, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Nice, personal attacks from someone hiding behind an IP address and who has never contributed a single thing to this project. "Vami IV" is welcome to edit wherever he likes, but I, and several others here I'm sure, appreciate the efforts he's contributed to this project. And while I did revert one of his edits, I explained that on the talk page, and the revert was supported by another long-time editor here, and after some brief discussion, pretty much all of "Vami IV"'s work will go into that page. So the drama you're trying to create here is pointless. - ^theWOLFchild 04:56, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

>Problematic editor

>10 year club

This does not compute. I won't be leaving behind a 21k+ edit career to work at an offshoot wiki, but I appreciate that persons outside Wikipedia appreciate (for lack of better word) my work on en-Wikipedia. –Vami_IV✠ 05:04, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

No problem and I never meant to indicate you should completely stop editing here. I just suggested that if you needed a break for the drama or wanted to do some article editing for articles that may not meet Wikipedia's notability criteria you could do that there. BTW, even though they have been editing for 10 years doesn't preclude them from being a problematic editor, he continuously stirs up drama unnecessarily and there are some admins and WMF employees I include as problematic. PS, I have been around for more than 10 years as well and have an edit count that exceeds both of yours combined if that helps my credibility any. Cheers!

@Thewolfchild: You are, by any definition a problematic editor and this isn't my first edit, IP's change, they aren't static! I just don't use an account because I don't edit frequently because, to be honest, the editing environment on the English Wikipedia isn't very friendly. Also for what it's worth, there is always a couple to a few who will support any decision on here. Rarely do you get unanimous consent, which is totally understandable in a diverse environment, but hardly lends credibility to your claims of being right. 2601:5CC:100:697A:F55F:44A4:194F:D883 (talk) 13:33, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

You shouldn't be posting and pinging comments to me on someone else's talk page. And since your disruptive edits have already been removed from my talk page (by someone else, before I read them) you are no longer welcome to post there. If you think I'm a sock, go open an SPI. Meanwhile, your comments smell, (reek actually), of a disgruntled former editor who got booted from WP by "some admins and WMF employees [you] include as problematic", and is now evading his ban to try and recruit editors to fledgling website, the only site that will have him. You've been here 2 days, not "10 years", and you don't have "an edit count that exceeds both of ours", you have (as of now) a total of 15 edits. That's it. Now run along back to "militwikia" or whatever it's called. - ^theWOLFchild 15:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

...aaannd this IP user has since been blocked for... (wait for it...) ban evasion and socking. Gee, what a shock. - ^theWOLFchild 00:08, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

God bless TonyBallioni. That is all. –Vami_IV✠ 09:27, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Coffee sounds great!

I'm more than happy to sit down and have a coffee with you, anytime. I'm glad things got worked out. Keep your compass set and your eyes on the horizon, and don't let the squawking of the gulls distract you. Cheers - theWOLFchild 15:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

1981 English cricket season and similar articles

I wouldn't have thought that these articles qualified as lists in the sense that Wikipedia uses the term. JH (talk page) 10:00, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Every sports season I've seen was classified as List, so I assessed likewise. I think the argument thereof is that the season articles list the results of every game in that season. –Vami_IV✠ 10:02, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up on what Agathoclea said on the WP Germany page. FWIW, I agree with him/her when he/she says, "Be careful with sports seasons though, they might contain a list of teams or games but are not a "list" in themselves." JH (talk page) 16:26, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

German Municipalities

I noticed you moved the rating of quite some from Low to Mid. That is not what we have discussed. I am looking for a standardized exception to the existing assessment guide for some outstanding municipalities that are on par with the towns, not to change the assessment guide altogether. Agathoclea (talk) 10:16, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

My folly. –Vami_IV✠ 11:02, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

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Gatoclass (talk) 00:32, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Ferdinand Feichtner

Hi Vami_IV. Thank for the German Order of Merit. I have been writing a lot of German based articles in the few years. It's good to see they are appreciated. scope_creep (talk) 07:55, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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Katharinenkirche F

Thank you for improving! Can we expand it together? It's on my to-do-list (user page). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:35, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

I would be happy to! I saw it on your user page and decided to check it out and thought I couldn't pass up such a prize. –Vami_IV✠ 13:38, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

I added a bit. Expanding 5*, and all of it sourced, is a challenge. (Without sourcing, it would be easy, simply translate more.) Your turn for the day. I may look again tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:12, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Sehr gut. I may be slow in starting today, however. –Vami_IV✠ 14:55, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

As you may have noticed, I changed my approach. DYK or not, - I wanted to show more images, so translated much more, - music, naturally ;) - I wrote about the Bach vespers before, so that bit is easy to source. If you can translate a bit more, we should be long enough for DYK, and the can see if we find enough sources. And even if not, it's much more beautiful than it was! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:36, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

I'll try to work in some citations from that book I used recently, hopefully soon. Been busy with not Wikipedia projects for the first time since I graduated high school. –Vami_IV✠ 01:12, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

I think now Reformation deserves an extra subheader, - some is under Baroque. - Some sources say Reformation in Frankfurt was 1522, others 1533, - don't know whom to believe. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:24, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

I agree - regardless of the date of its beginning, the Baroque era and Reformation are separated by over 200 years of history. –Vami_IV✠ 14:52, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

We are now long enough! Thank you. Need to nominate tomorrow. Will you or should I? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:00, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Go ahead. I've got a campaign I need to finish. –Vami_IV✠ 18:05, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

A year ago ...

"help Wikipedia pages in need"
... you were recipient no. 1637 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:44, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

January to March 2018 Milhist article reviewing

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Regarding your edit on St. Michael's Church, Hildesheim

Hi Vami IV,

you have set the Category from "11th-century churches" to "11th-century Roman Catholic church buildings". Is this category correct? During the 11th century it was Catholic, but today it is "Evangelisch" wich is according to my understanding in english something like protestant. So my question: is the category "11th-century Roman Catholic church buildings" in this case correct?

--GodeNehler (talk) 20:36, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

I am diffusing Category:11th-century churches. If it was Catholic in the 11th century then I think it's okay. "Evangelisch" is indeed a cognate for "Evangelist," better known in this context as Lutheran. –Vami_IV✠ 20:39, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

I had a similar query over Stow Minster. Although I understand that the church would have been Roman Catholic when first built, it seems a little untoward that a church that has been Protestant for several centuries should be placed in a Roman Catholic category. Dave.Dunford (talk) 22:50, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Add appropriate categories as need be. I'm just taking out a backlog here. –Vami_IV✠ 00:58, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) (after e/c with the below) But is it a useful edit, if it changes a correct but over-broad category to a misleading narrower one? The Stow Minster edit is not helpful. I see that Durham Cathedral is listed as Category:12th-century churches: is that another backlog you are planning to clear up? It is also Category:Former Roman Catholic churches in England: that pair of categories seem perfectly correct and useful. Calling it a "12th-century Roman Catholic church building" would be unhelpful. PamD 07:07, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Absolutely agree (see below). Can you not do this, until you have a consensus for such a change. It's confusing for readers who don't have an understanding of English/Welsh church history to categorise churches as RC, when they haven't been Catholic for hundreds of years. KJP1 (talk) 07:11, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Forgive any lack of couth in my saying this, but I was unaware that Wikipedia readers made much use of the Categories. @PamD:: I may. I have thousands of Wikipedia articles cataloged as Bookmarks in my browser and I wanted to knock off one more (11th-century churches), but gained probably around 90 while doing so. –Vami_IV✠ 16:00, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Roman Catholic church categories

Hi, I really don't think it's useful or helpful to readers to put English/Welsh churches in a RC category. All such churches were Catholic in the years before the Reformation, as this was the only church, but they haven't been Catholic for over 400 years. KJP1 (talk) 07:05, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

@Vami IV: Please do not continue with this diffusing for UK churches, as there is clearly unhappiness from several editors. Note that the diffuse notice says "should be moved to subcategories where applicable". Where the subcategories are not applicable, don't move. I think a whole batch of your recent edits need to be reverted but will find somewhere appropriate to discuss this first - no time today, off on a course all day followed by out all evening, but @KJP1, Dave.Dunford, and GodeNehler: other editors may be able to do something sooner. PamD 07:13, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Suggestion: if you think diffusing the churches-by-century categories is important, do so by country rather than religion, e.g. Category:11th-century churches in the United Kingdom or Category:11th-century churches in England. A precedent exists for Category:12th-century churches in the United Kingdom. I propose that you undo your recent categorisation by religion. Dave.Dunford (talk) 08:23, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

no problem with differentiation by region. KJP1 (talk) 11:35, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Rather laboriously, I've rolled back your edits on all the English and Welsh churches, except redirects (which I'll get round to unless you can), or where it was actually appropriate. I've not done it for Northern European churches but I suspect it's inappropriate there too. I'm sure you did this in good faith, but such large-scale re-categorisation should really be discussed before you begin doing it. KJP1 (talk) 12:55, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Roman?

Our article is Catholic Church, not Roman Catholic Church, - perhaps the categories should eventually follow? Before the Reformation, all Christian churches in the West were "Catholic", or better "catholic"=the one common church there at the time. No need to stress "Roman". 11th-century church says enough, - there was no other then. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:47, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Atonement

@Dave.Dunford: I will begin immediately. –Vami_IV✠ 16:02, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

I have finished. I also tracked down the redirects I categorized and had help from Gode Nehler in tracking down the northern European churches and that one Egyptian Coptic church. –Vami_IV✠ 16:52, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

I have unwittingly made an error in the naming of this category; @PamD:, could you change "Churches" to "churches"? –Vami_IV✠ 17:04, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

I don't know anything about moving categories, and I'm not an admin if one is needed, so I'll leave it to someone else. PamD 21:28, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

But, looking at all this again for the first time at the end of a busy off-wiki day, I'm delighted to see that reason has prevailed. Thanks, all. Subdivision of century churches by location makes sense. PamD 21:29, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

I've renamed the category (I don't think I'm an admin either, but I was able to do it using the Move option under "More"). Thanks all. Dave.Dunford (talk) 21:37, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Dave.Dunford That creates a redirect. I had hoped to avoid doing that. –Vami_IV✠ 22:53, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Isn't a redirect the right thing to happen anyway? Don't think it's a big deal personally, but is it possible to request deletion of the redirect? Dave.Dunford (talk) 14:31, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

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Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Lovely! - I'll be out, please watch. If you can find more refs, fine - somehow I thought it wuold come tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:55, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Woot! –Vami_IV✠ 17:10, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

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List of battleships of Japan

Vami,

I want to apologize for stepping on your toes there. I don't want to take any credit away from you regarding this article!

Cheers, --White Shadows ^{New and improved!}

You had no way of knowing; not your fault. It's a good thing that I'm not the only one eyeballing these lists! –Vami_IV✠ 01:48, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Let me know if you need any help with anything. I have no issues reworking all of those nasty citations for you if you'd like to focus on the actual text of the article. I'm at your service!--White Shadows ^{New and improved!}

Please change all sfn formatted footnotes back to the original citation style. You do not have the right to make that change. See WP:CITE.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:39, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

FYI

I reverted your edit to List of battleships of the United States Navy. As before, if you have any questions, I'm happy to discuss it with on the article talk page. Just lemme know. Cheers - ^theWOLFchild 00:08, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

FFU

Hey I uploaded the file you requested at WP:FFU, but couldn't you do it yourself? L293D (☎ • ✎) 16:27, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

I genuinely thought I couldn't. When I went to upload it, I got sent to WP:FFU. Thanks for uploading it and sorry for any hassle. –Vami_IV✠ 17:15, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

List of battleships of Japan

Any reason you blanked the list?--White Shadows ^{New and improved!}

I saw your edits on the talk page. I'm very sorry if there was any ill-will generated over the citation style. I've created a new thread in the talk page for the community to discuss what style to use so please feel free to add any input you'd like over there.

Appreciate all the work you've put into lists/articles such as these Vami!

--White Shadows ^{New and improved!}

Ohhhhhh shit, I thought I blanked my sandbox for it! –Vami_IV✠ 23:35, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Happens to the best of us. I wanted to also apologize if citation issues is what caused you to back out of editing this list. I hope one day you'll come back to edit the list...and regardless of what citation method is chosen for the list, if you don't prefer that method I would be willing to redo any work you may do in your sandbox to conform with the article's standards (let me know if that makes sense...explaining things like this over text is difficult at best).--White Shadows ^{New and improved!}

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Women in Red's Monthly achievement initiative

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Welcome ...

... to the cabal of the outcasts ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:00, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

I did notice a number of WPQAI members are indefinitely blocked. Doubtless, others have likely given up. –Vami_IV✠ 12:27, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

The term was coined in 2013, by Eric Corbett. Many gave up, Alakzi - such a great helper! - in 2014, and some from 2018 are remembered in the desert box on my user talk. 2 missed ones are remembered in my edit notice. But you are there, thank you! Flowers to come. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:35, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Well, I said flowers, in all previous months there were flowers, but here we go for rocky terrain - thank you for improving article quality in July! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:48, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

... and in August, now with flowers! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:39, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

... and in October! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:32, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

... and in November! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:57, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

ps: I laid something at a grave. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:00, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I don't follow. Whose grave? –♠Vami_IV†♠ 23:05, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Christianity vs Lutheranism

Hey Vami, I see you're changing some project classifications of some church pages that I made from Christianity to Lutheranism. I'm totally fine with that, but I thought I'd let you know I put them as Christianity because they all used to be Catholic churches during the Middle Ages. It's a small thing but I thought I'd let you know my way of reasoning. Stay well, Yakikaki (talk) 15:00, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Ah. Should I revert to /re-add WP:CHRIST or add WP:CATHOLIC to them? –Vami_IV✠ 16:25, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

(watching:) Many churches in Germany started Catholic, became Lutheran, and are now United. Christianity would be safe, unless a building is particularly Lutheran, or Reformed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:39, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

ps: Why are the building categories still "Roman Catholic" when the article was moved to Catholic Church? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:44, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

If a church was moved to the Catholic Church and I tagged it "13th-century Roman Catholic church buildings," then oops. –Vami_IV✠ 16:46, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Gerda, does United mean that they are used by both Protestants and Catholics? I find that an inspiring thought, if so. Yakikaki (talk) 16:50, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Vami, as I wrote I don't think it's a major problem putting them in the Lutheran box, they've been there for a few hundred years by now. But as Gerda pointed out, maybe Christianity is the safest bet. Yakikaki (talk) 16:52, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

No, United means that Reformed and Lutherans worship together, united, called Evangelisch = Protestant (not Evangelical). The other is Simultaneous, but then Catholics and Protestants use the same building, but at different times. The former is normal in Germany! The first such union was in 1817 in the town where I live, and its main church is named after it. An example for the other is Altenberger Dom, simultaneous since the 19th century! - I don't think we have a category, - perhaps make one? - I recently had a church simultaneous for Reformed and Lutheran first, Luisenkirche, Charlottenburg. - Another thing are ecumenical services when Protestants and Cathlics worship together, - we have that twice a year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:02, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

I have been using Category:13th-century churches in Germany for German churches. –Vami_IV✠ 17:06, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ludwigsburg Palace

The article Ludwigsburg Palace you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ludwigsburg Palace for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Farang Rak Tham -- Farang Rak Tham (talk) 09:41, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Vami, that's great, good for the mountain of FAC. I suggest you first go to WP:PR. Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:06, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Help I broke something at my DYK nomination –Vami_IV✠ 12:59, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

I fixed a few things, but pqp (should be qpq) ;) - may review when I need one. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:21, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	I want to thank you for working with me throughout the GA process and helping get May 1, 2015 Jalisco attacks to GA status. I don't like to celebrate prematurely, but your work so far has been incredible and I couldn't resist myself from giving you this as a token of appreciation. MX (✉ • ✎) 18:58, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Any time, my guy. Shoutout to Catrìona for undertaking a review for such a huge article. –Vami_IV† 19:11, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

• Yes. Catrìona will have a special barnstar once this whole thing is done. 19:23, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Ludwigsburg Palace

On 23 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ludwigsburg Palace, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ludwigsburg Palace (pictured), the "Versailles of Swabia", was home to four of Württemberg's rulers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ludwigsburg Palace. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ludwigsburg Palace), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Excellent, thank you! Today would be the perfect day to go for FAC ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Indeed. Perhaps you'd like to post your questions to the Peer Review you advised me to make? –Vami_IV† 08:55, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory

Since you abandoned the article months ago, with only one reference, your undiscussed conversion to the sfn style, not previously present at all, breaches WP:CITEVAR. Please raise things like this on talk first. Johnbod (talk) 18:05, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Hm. My apologies, then. Fully intended on coming back to the article in due time. –Vami_IV† 18:08, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

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Oh, uhmmm... Thank you? –Vami_IV† 11:13, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

FAC for Bratislava Working Group

Hello Vami, thank you so much for the very thorough GA review that you did for this article. I was thinking of taking it to the next level with a FAC, but the most relevant wikiprojects don't have an active peer review process. Do you think that I could just put it up for FAC, or if not, what steps do I need to take to get it there? Catrìona (talk) 02:13, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

I'm not actually familiar with FAC as a reviewee myself (in fact I recently made my first FAC nomination), but I would post a notice about it to relevant WikiProject Talk pages or on talk pages of editors you trust will be interested and give good feedback. You might try a Peer Review, but to be honest I think it'd be better to proceed directly to FAC because whatever criticism or suggestions appear on a PR will appear in an FAC. –Vami_IV† 07:55, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

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Stefania Turkewich

Hello Vami IV, Could you review this new article of mine, like you did the Irena Turkevycz-Martynec article, if this message reaches you before its reviewed by anyone else? Its been up for most of the week without being looked at. Thank you. Nicola Mitchell (talk) 12:11, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

I certainly can. C-Class, good work. –Vami_IV† 13:09, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Hey

What a nice surprise! Muchas gracias, oder, Vielen Dank (I see you are part of the German and Austrian WikiProjects, so assume you at least understand some German). Keep up the good work, I will link the template from now on on the Talk pages of the articles I create. Have a good weekend, Tisquesusa (talk) 00:47, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

It was an act of God to have stumbled into you. I only created the template today, so don't feel bad about not using it earlier! God keep you. –Vami_IV† 01:08, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

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DYK for Ludwigsburg porcelain

On 16 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ludwigsburg porcelain, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that some Ludwigsburg porcelain figures from the 1760s (example pictured) show the lighter dance costumes pioneered by the ballet master Jean-Georges Noverre? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ludwigsburg porcelain. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ludwigsburg porcelain), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

List-defined references

Hi, Vami IV. Hope all is well. I took your suggestion of using list-defined references formatting for a newly created article of mine: Raúl Meza Torres. Did I do it correctly? I'm also wondering if this can be done for footnotes, too. Thanks for your help, MX (✉ • ✎) 03:24, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @MX: Yes, that was done correctly. You can do something similar for efn-style notes, but only if the notes don't include footnoted references. Catrìona (talk) 04:42, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

It is as Catrìona said. Yes, you can do something similar for Template:Efn - check out Jagdgeschwader 52 for an example. –Vami_IV† 12:03, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, guys. I'll be using this format moving forward. I thought I was going to take longer to source the article, but it wasn't too bad. Cheers, MX (✉ • ✎) 13:32, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Well, I discovered something today. I installed script User:Cumbril/Reference Organizer and was able to format references at the bottom all at once. Had no idea this existed but figured it was out there. I did Raúl Meza Torres manually..., but I'm glad I found a workaround. Cheers, MX (✉ • ✎) 16:26, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Nice, I'll check it out. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 16:46, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you ...

... for improving article quality in September! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:02, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Meridian Mall

I addressed your concerns at Talk:Meridian Mall/GA1, and also fixed a couple bare URL references I had failed to notice earlier. Look forward to you also reviewing Lansing Mall. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 22:15, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

• And likewise with Talk:Lansing Mall/GA1. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:21, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thanks a lot for the fast and detailed review at Talk:German torpedo boat Albatros/GA1! I've just nominated it for DYK, would you like to take a look? L293D (☎ • ✎) 02:06, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Question

I was curious about why you removed this content, as you didn't leave an edit summary. Thanks - wolf 03:28, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Schloss Köthen

What do you think about expanding Köthen Castle together? Thiking of a DYK for 1 January, complementing the Bach cantata IF it comes as TFA, and mentioning it if not. We could do a 5* expansion, then not before mid-November, or head for GA which is safer, because the other would need quite some length. We could also simply improve it and take some red link for a DYK ;) - Thank you for thoughful comments for the cantata. Do you know about image licenses? - I don't. As much as I love the Bach-Saal image, it may not survive iin the cantata article if the license isn't good enough. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:41, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

I would gladly edit Schloss Köthen with you, like with St. Catherine's in Frankfurt. As for the Bachsaal image, I had a similar problem with every interior shot of Ludwigsburg Palace. I asked Nikkimaria what tags to use after the first FAC closed (new one started btw), and was advised to use the tags I did here. I'm a complete novice about licensing, but that should cover copyright, since Schloss Köthen is owned by a functionary of the Saxony-Anhalt State government. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 09:16, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, will check, but not today ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:38, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:@WPGERMANY

Template:@WPGERMANY has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. User456541 (talk) 18:08, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Missed users

Thanks for your good idea to miss DB. Two problems: He was missed before, and I hesitate to repeat (some come and go a lot, and I don't like to follow every whim, - once when he was gone I took care of all the DYK that came afterwars, a lot!), also he might cry being missed by that cabal ;) - Think about it, and either revert, or move it up to the missed, alpha sort please. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:37, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I probably shouldn't have done that but I had remembered that Blofeld's entry hadn't been updated (I had stumbled on the page a while ago previously). Pretty selfish of me. I've moved him up to "Missed users." –♠Vami_IV†♠ 10:47, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Fine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:51, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

reqphoto

I think it may be more fruitful to tag your reqphoto requests with the county rather than England. You're more likely to get the attention of someone local. Just my 2¢. Cabayi (talk) 19:05, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

I've done this before, but only to find that a category for that reqphoto did not exist for the County I tagged it with. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 03:44, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Warsaw Ghetto photograph

Hello Vami, thanks again for reviewing my article. It looks like you might have forgotten to list it at Good Articles/History, although I might be missing something. Catrìona (talk) 07:06, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Re:Migrant caravans

Thank you for your imput in the Central American migrant caravans article. Your work is very much appreciated.--EdgarCabreraFariña (talk) 20:17, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

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GAN for Lagrange-class submarine

Hello! Would you be interested in reviewing my GAN at Lagrange-class submarine? I know its not related to Germany, but I had a great experience with you at German torpedo boat Albatros and it would be nice we could do it again. Cheers, L293D (☎ • ✎) 15:11, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, I can review it for you when you've finished. Just keep in mind that it would probably be a good idea to let sit for two or three days so I can tick off on "Stability". –♠Vami_IV†♠ 11:19, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Never mind, its still missing a lot of info in the Sevice History section and I can't access more at this moment. I might be GANing Requin-class submarine soon though. L293D (☎ • ✎) 02:40, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

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Xmas

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Congratulations on the FA promotion!

If you would like to make any comments on my FAC (for Working Group), it would be much appreciated. Happy New Year's! Catrìona (talk) 01:23, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Great work! Is there any specific day on which it should appear as Today's featured article, or just any? - Schloss Köthen will be mentioned on 1 January, did you know? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:03, 27 December 2018 (UTC)