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QAI

I tried to give 2021 a good start by updating the QAI project topics. Please check and correct. For moar private "happy new year" see here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:41, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Wikipedia 20, - proud of a little bit on the Main page today, and 5 years ago, and 10 years ago, look: create a new style - revive - complete! I sang in the revival mentioned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:41, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Proud today of a pic I took. - On the church article's talk, there's a request for Dreikönigskirche, Dresden, - should we? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:14, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: We should. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 07:29, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's more detail than I know the English terms for, but at least a start. I'll plan for Sunday ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:51, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done, but needs much more to make any sense ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:02, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! We'll have to sort out the many names (Epiphany, Altendresden). I'll get to it again later. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:14, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thinking today of Jerome Kohl, remembered in friendship --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:38, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I nominated the church - last possible day - but it needs more sourcing, and perhaps some details could go for the moment? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:59, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome, and can do. It will would significantly if you could point me to any reliable sources I could use for the article, though. The City of Dresden's website is as good a starting place as any, so I'll start there for now. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 03:11, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I wish I could, but have no access to the many further readings (that look good). I have a FAC open, and ~~need~~ want to improve Wilhelm Knabe, that's on today first, actually first the ecologist ;) - We have time now that the nom is done. I almost missed the deadline, but something - no idea how such things work in my brain - told me a few minutes before the day was over that there was something missing ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:55, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

January 2021

Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. Thanks! Elizium23 (talk) 07:15, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki World Heritage UG board election Reminder

Hello Vami IV,

We would like to inform you that after the self nomination period, we are now voting for the board members and we count on your participation to take part of this first important election.

According to the agreed agenda the voting period deadline is the 29th of January 2021 (Midnight UTC).

You can vote for one or more candidate on this meta page.

Thanks --
Yamen (talk) 23:33, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
On behalf of the founding members.

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A barnstar for you!

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		Thank you for your edit at CCI. Your help is much appreciated. I hope to see you around CCI more often! Keep up the great work. :) MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:19, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Dreikönigskirche, Dresden

On 10 February 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dreikönigskirche, Dresden, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden, a Baroque church completed in 1739, was bombed in 1945, not restored until 1984, and served as the seat of the state parliament from 1990? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dreikönigskirche, Dresden. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Dreikönigskirche, Dresden), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That was a good one, could not have done it without you! Can I interest in Marienkirche, Prenzlau? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:41, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You can certainly interest me in the Marienkirche in Prenzlau. I'll have a look tonight or tomorrow. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 23:06, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Editing alert

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Template:Z33 Barkeep49 (talk) 02:00, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you ...

... for improving articles in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:56, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Today, we have a DYK about Wilhelm Knabe, who stood up for future with the striking school children when he was in his 90s, - a model, - see here. - Further down on the page, there are conversations about the current arb case request - I feel I have to stay away - in a nutshell: "... will not improve kindness, nor any article". - Yesterday, I made sure on a hike that the flowers are actually blooming ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:49, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maulbronn

Why did you revert the entire sourced list of abbots of Maulbronn? Edit summary simply says 'no'. I spent quite a while tracking that list down and then improving it to the standards of User:Francis Schonken as part of an ongoing effort to add rulers for all Imperial Abbeys on English wikipedia (on .de 73 out of 95 abbeys have lists, on .en 23 out of 95 had them, I've brought it up to 26 so far).

I was about to add a list for Wettenhausen Abbey today after another lengthy search and noticed Maulbronn was missing; I'm holding off for now but I will probably resume in a few weeks if there is no further arbitration needed.

65.175.175.141 (talk) 21:17, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I removed that list, as I have for other articles on German monasteries that I have worked on, because it's cruft. The abbots are just not notable, and they take up space better used discussing history and architecture. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 22:25, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki World Heritage UG Minutes of the Meeting 02-13-2021

Hello!

The first meeting of the Board of Wiki World Heritage User Group (WWH UG) was held last February 13, 2021. Board members discussed several topics including the dispatching of roles inside the board. You can find the minutes of the meeting via the following link [1].

Also, the board discussed the importance of capacity building for the group members and we would like to invite all the members to fill the following form [2] in order to help define the learning priorities.

Furthermore, the board discussed some ideas for the 2021 annual program but we would like to hear also from the members in case they would like to propose some activities. We would like to invite you to update this page and add any potential activities[3].

A meeting will be held in the first week of March in order to finalize the program and you can find below [4] a doodle link to choose the date and time that suits you.

You are also invited to join us on WWH mailing list and WWH Telegram group.
Thank you !

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_World_Heritage_User_Group/Meeting_minutes_20210213
[2] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSde6BsB8v9WwbLtE0_n5kT0TmZoYXsaFQN2ijP-XZFsJcWmcw/viewform
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_World_Heritage_User_Group/Calendar2021
[4] https://doodle.com/poll/4qmstzpwaxu45pwr

Imelda Brazal (Talk)
Members Liaison, Wiki World Heritage User Group — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brazal.dang (talk • contribs) 10:57, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Triple Crown

Hi Vami IV. Just wanted to clarify your triple crown nomination. Are you aware you're only eligible for Triple Crowns if you have the same number of nominations in all three categories? For example, if you only have one piece of featured content, there's no point in listing 10 or even 500 DYKs. You're only eligible for one triple crown as there's only 1 piece of featured content to accompany your DYKs. So unless you're adding another 9 pieces of featured content, please remove the superfluous DYKs and GANs. Otherwise can you explain what's going on at your nomination? Thanks. Damien Linnane (talk) 07:09, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I am aware that I need only list DYKs/GANs/FxCs on a 1:1 basis; I am hoping to marry at least each GAN to an FA/FLC. I didn't think anybody would notice the bloat in my nomination so quickly, to be honest. Let me go scrub it down to two DYKs/GANs to await a future FAC. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 18:21, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for explaining. Are you planning on adding the future FAC in the next day or so? Nobody has ever listed an incomplete nomination before. Typically complete nominations only stay on the page for a day or two before myself or one of the other volunteers process them. At the risk of sounding pedantic I'm not comfortable with setting a new trend of encouraging people to list incomplete nominations as placeholders for undisclosed points weeks, months or years in the future. I was going to ask if you'd like the standard Triple Crown now, though I see you've already been awarded that. Damien Linnane (talk) 22:39, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I intended this nomination to be incomplete, but since I'm keeping track on a subpage now, I'll delete it. But I'll be back! –♠Vami _IV†♠ 22:53, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Harry F. Sinclair House

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Harry F. Sinclair House you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eddie891 -- Eddie891 (talk) 02:01, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Harry F. Sinclair House

The article Harry F. Sinclair House you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Harry F. Sinclair House for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eddie891 -- Eddie891 (talk) 01:01, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Harry F. Sinclair House

The article Harry F. Sinclair House you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Harry F. Sinclair House for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eddie891 -- Eddie891 (talk) 01:22, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Schlosspark

I wonder if we could have something like de:Schlosspark, and how it would be called, - possibly just the German word? --17:41, 11 March 2021 (UTC)Gerda Arendt (talk)

(talk page stalker) Surely it would be best translated, to something like "palace garden", as these also occur in non-German areas, ex. Garden at Buckingham Palace. (t · c) buidhe 18:12, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
See, that's exactly why I'm asking. Never heard "Palace garden", but "garden of abc palace", and am afraid it might a Germanism. In German, we differentiate Park and Garten, and here? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:29, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

see also: Palace Gardens --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:30, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

At Ludwigsburg Palace, I did as Buidhe suggests above, though I was added there by the gardens having a formal name (Blühendes Barock; Blooming Baroque). –♠Vami _IV†♠ 20:28, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The particular park I began, is called Brühler Schlosspark by the state that takes care of the nature preservation, while the official name of the UNESCO site is de:Schlösser Augustusburg und Falkenlust, which they translated to Castles, - will they ever ever learn? Our article is better in that respect, Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl. My idea is - garden being my theme - to treat the garden to individual treatment, possibly DYK. Unless you tell me you want to translate the whole thing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:41, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Page mover granted

Hello, Vami IV. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

Useful links:

Wikipedia:Requested moves
Category:Requested moves, for article renaming requests awaiting action.

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! — Wug·a·po·des 01:25, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Going through your move log, I saw some instances where suppressredirect might be helpful, so hopefully you find it useful and it reduces the admin CSD workload If you don't want it just let me know and I'll remove it. — Wug·a·po·des 01:25, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you ...

... for improving articles in March! On Bach's birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:14, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

... and today: Bach's cantata composed for today, - perhaps listen. All the best for the Maulbronn project! And some day perhaps Eberbach Abbey? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:01, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ahah, I will gladly listen to this when I return to Germany. And I certainly do plan on taking my show to Eberbach one day! –♠Vami _IV†♠ 01:15, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for what you said on Yoninah's talk, - see also Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-03-28/Obituary! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:27, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I read it. Tried guessing who was who in the Signpost just by reading their comment. She will be missed. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 16:40, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Newellton High School

I have some good news about the AFD we are participating in. I think I found some sources from counties that may be far away from the school. One of them is from Mississippi. I would love to know if this changes your opinion. I was going to ping you, but I felt that the page was getting too cluttered. Thank you for your time. Scorpions13256 (talk) 15:57, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to post them here, then, while the AfD's still in the air. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 18:50, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

They have already been posted. Scorpions13256 (talk) 19:50, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not a CCI problem but a big ????

Found some copyvio, deleted previously thanks to a copyvio notice placed on the page. I found the range of copyvio for revdelling, then I realized that the source itself is a copyvio. It wasn't cited, but I'm still a bit confused on if I need to do anything else. Thanks in advance --Sennecaster (talk) 03:42, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Purge it. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 03:49, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Danke! Sennecaster (talk) 03:57, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar

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April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive

Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:26, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Gerda's April corner

Thank you for what you do for buildings with a history! With the Dreikönigskirche pictured again on the Main page, I made a redirect to Barfüßerkirche, Frankfurt, but that really deserved an article, based on the German de:Barfüßerkloster (Frankfurt am Main). Do you agree? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:44, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Now that is an actually impressive de.wiki article! I do agree. Would be nice to return to Germany after so much recent work in the US. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 09:00, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Waiting for better times. Frankfurt on the Main page today, which made me want to give an impression of where Telemann worked, and Paulskirche just isn't it, only the same location. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:59, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your GA reivew

About a year ago, you did a GA review for me. That was one of the first GA submissions I had done. Now that I've done a few more, and a few reviews myself, I have a better appreciation for just what poor shape the article was in when I submitted it, and for how much effort you put into helping me improve it. Thanks for your help.

You are most welcome, and thank you. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 21:28, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Notifications/CCI

Hi, Vami IV, and a big thank you for working on this massive time-sink – every bit helps! Just to save you a little time, there's no need for notifications such as this – once a CCI is opened, there's no further need to notify the user of any action you're taking to clean it up (and that one is anyway site-banned). Thank you again, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:02, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just an FYI, to be a little careful about checking to see how much copyvio is actually in an article in its current version before you slap the tag on it. I restored Alice Greenough Orr, which had been significantly rewritten since the original violation. I went ahead and did another reworking on it just in an abundance of caution, but toolforge found only a 16% probability of copyvio, and I manually spotted perhaps one sentence that looked like it was too close to paraphrase from the original. There was some other paraphrasing that was in a gray area but I went ahead and reworked. I know that it is important to not violate copyright, particularly the copyright of the New York Times, but this was an article where the original sitebanned user’s work had long ago been absorbed. Montanabw^(talk) 17:17, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You misunderstand; absorption of Billy Hathorn's work is not a good thing. His case has been a thorny one for over a decade, and CCI's approach to it for the last two years has been "kill on sight". We have taken that approach, despite being unable to verify his earliest work (here is an example), because we have demonstrable evidence that the vast majority of his other work is absolutely chock-full of copyright violations. I have been thorough in my inspection of his articles; some I spared from WP:CP, most I didn't. Please review his case file, and do not remove the copyvio template without an admin's - and especially a copyright admin's - permission. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 19:24, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I want to note here now, though, that I admire your ripping out Hathorn's disgusting, God-awful work and saving that article from CP. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 19:38, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. I went through a period of helping at CCI, notably on the ItsLassieTime mess. It’s a real dilemma to try and salvage articles versus WP:TNT where there have been many intervening edits. I pinged JLAN on the rewrite in the temp page, and I’ve probably done all I can do, so hope you will pop the new version back in. Montanabw^(talk) 22:34, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Could you kindly review the rewrite at Talk:Alice Greenough Orr/Temp and see if we’ve got it fixed now? Thanks.Montanabw^(talk) 15:14, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Copyright Inquisitor's Sword

	A second sword
	This khanda is bestowed upon Vami IV for his tireless devastation of the persevering blights of copyright violations on this eternal land. Please accept this extension of your arm and wield it in the name of the inquisition against the most heinous stains on the Encyclopedia. Sennecaster (What now?) 03:33, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You asked for it

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

Sennecaster (What now?) 23:45, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Harry F. Sinclair House

On 11 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Harry F. Sinclair House, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the "fairy-tale palace" Harry F. Sinclair House (pictured), once home to magnates Isaac D. Fletcher and Harry F. Sinclair, later contained the Ukrainian American Institute? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Harry F. Sinclair House. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Harry F. Sinclair House), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

—valereee (talk) 12:01, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discontent Content Issue 1

Discontent Content Issue #1

Welcome, subscribers, to the inaugural Discontent Content newsletter! Discontent Content is a newsletter aiming to collate and improve Wikipedia articles in need of more eyes and hands to get them in shape. Its unique trimodal structure allows editors to work where they feel comfortable -- with stubs and starts needing to be brought to standard, mid-quality articles with Good or Featured potential, or quality-assessed articles needing help to maintain their status.

Category 1

Articles in this category are those that need to be brought up to a minimum quality standard. Some will be stubs; others will be longer articles that nonetheless have significant concerns putting them far below B- or C-class adequacy.

This issue's Category 1 articles are:

Community Outreach Academy Elementary: A recent AfD survivor, this is one of those entertaining exceptions to the 'primary schools aren't notable' rule. How many primary schools do you know of that host Cossack militias and are endorsed by foreign embassies? Sadly, the article itself is far from representative of the school's wealth of eccentric coverage. The AfD may provide a jumping-off point for an interested writer to cover a 'run-of-the-mill' topic that's anything but.
Holy Diver (song): One of the signatures of metal legend Ronnie James Dio, this start-class article barely touches on almost forty years of history, analysis, and veneration. With literally hundreds of interviews, pages upon pages of Google Books hits, and more than a few cover versions, there's enough sourcing to cover an article many times this one's size and status.
Character class: One of the most fundamental aspects of role-playing games, this is a sad case of "Start class/Top importance". A big topic with a big history, this article is just begging for some dedicated writers to sit down and shape it into something beautiful. According to the article's talk page, this is also mirrored on at least one Fandom wiki, so getting it into shape will have broader consequences outside Wikipedia alone.

Category 2

Articles in this category, while in better current shape than Category 1, are still missing something. They have the potential to be truly high-quality content, and may have been at one point. With work, they can be brought up to dizzying heights.

This issue's Category 2 articles are:

Border Collie: This article for one of the world's most popular dog breeds is a Million Award candidate. Now at B-class, it's had a few separate issues raised on the talk page throughout its history regarding various sorts of inter-owner drama. There's a good skeleton here, and some meat on its bones would make a comprehensive reference work.
Cool World: A former GA delisted just last month, Nathan Rabin's spectacular piece for The A.V. Club back in 2007 (quite the source in its own right) comments that Wikipedia has a great entry on this, and it can again. The story of this film's failure, notorious in animation circles, is chronicled in depth in as many sources as a curious writer looking to bring this article back to glory could want. Quarter Million-tier yearly pageviews sweeten the deal.
American poetry: This big topic was an early FA -- could you make it one again? Now stymied by unsourced and dated additions, this article deserves the same artistic virtue as the works it describes.

Category 3

Articles in this category have been assessed through a content review process in the past, but may require work to be brought up to current GA/FA standard. Editors can help bring them to a level where the star or plus near their names can once again shine.

This issue's Category 3 articles are:

Python (programming language): This 2007 GA (swept in 2009) has been recommended for reassessment, although no GAR has been opened. With over two and a half million views a year, the readers of this widely read article deserve the best they can get.
Grunge: The sound of the 1990s is an FA currently undergoing review. The FAR discusses overquoting, prose, cite formatting, and length as issues -- all matters a knowledgeable editor can help with. This important article has had a star since 2005, and deserves help to keep it.
Icelandic Naming Committee: A short GA on an oddball topic with outstanding maintenance tags, in need of updating and perhaps expansion. Editors interested in going into a unique subject are encouraged to get this one back up to standard.

Letter from the Editor

Hello, wonderful people, and welcome to the very first Discontent Content! I'm glad you're here, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do. In future issues, I hope to use this section to brag about the achievements of subscribers -- so why not go do something worth bragging about?

Article improvement initiatives have a long and storied history on this project, and I'm honoured to add myself to the list of people trying to find one that works. My perhaps quixotic goal here is to unify a few different issues -- the maintenance of old quality-assessed articles (GAs in particular) and the sheer length of the long left tail -- in one fell swoop. I'd be happy if this ended in something like another GA sweep; I'd be happier if it ended in another GA sweep where those GAs got kept. I'd be even happier than that if this resulted in the improvement of our worst articles, not just our best. I believe in the project, and I believe in what we can be.

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Precious anniversary

Precious
Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:13, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Man. Four years already? –♠Vami _IV†♠ 03:40, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. (And I'm a woman ;) ) - Memories on the Main page today, Psalm 115 thinking of Yoninah, Christa Ludwig and Milva, - voices that made the Earth a better place. Sad that the psalm hook didn't appear on Earth Day as planned, but better pictured and late than going unnoticed ;) - Do you think you could help me translating more of Schloss Türnich. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:18, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Er, that was an accident of speech. Going "Man," is... slang? It's a common way to start a sentence. Like, "Man, are we really going back to the morning shift?" Or "Man, what a view." –♠Vami _IV†♠ 21:09, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oooh, what a nice palace. I've gone ahead and translated most of the lead. I say "most of", because that last paragraph is architectural details I would leave out of a lead. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 21:09, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much. Today would be the last day for a DYK, needing further expansion by 6,000 chars. I suggest I rather write a separate article on the park alone, and take that to DYK, mentioning the building, of course. Unless you want to expand today ;) - I won't do the park today but soon. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:44, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Mosques completed in 1301

A tag has been placed on Category:Mosques completed in 1301 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 13:52, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz and Nedim Ardoğa: Oh, whoops, sorry about that, guys. At the time I made that category, I did not know what a madrasa was exactly. I did learn the night I made that category, but completely forgot about cat:mosques completed in 1301. I will not contest the deletion. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 20:39, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discontent Content Issue 2

Discontent Content Issue #2

Welcome, subscribers, to the second Discontent Content newsletter! Discontent Content is a newsletter aiming to collate and improve Wikipedia articles in need of more eyes and hands to get them in shape. Its unique trimodal structure allows editors to work where they feel comfortable -- with stubs and starts needing to be brought to standard, mid-quality articles with Good or Featured potential, or quality-assessed articles needing help to maintain their status.

Category 1

This issue's Category 1 articles are:

Michael Krasnow: A recent AfD survivor, this article is currently a single-paragraph stub, but has substantial expansion potential in online, print, and archival sources alike. This piece is a particularly useful starting point for such a unique article.
Injury: A start-class Vital Article with the common problem of medical articles of list-formatted content that'd work better as prose.
Fetish Con: This eccentric topic that I absolutely do not apologise for placing right under "Injury" survived AfD in March. Though currently in poor stub-and-table shape, the AfD made it clear substantial expansion potential exists.

Category 2

This issue's Category 2 articles are:

Home: Another start-class Vital Article, this one is at level 2, making it one of the 100 core topics. It's also...I think it's a Million Award candidate? Honestly, man, I don't know, I checked three years and they all had frankly weird charts. This one has good bones, but the internal sections are all in need of expansion. Someone able to work on them could certainly take this to GA.
Tea: The world's most popular drink (inb4 water) was an FA back in the Brilliant Prose era, but no longer. Attempts since to bring it back to standard have failed. Will you succeed?
Mazes and Monsters: Tom Hanks' first leading role, an early DYK, and an unusual quirky topic, this article bears real potential for expansion.

Category 3

This issue's Category 3 articles are:

Death Cab for Cutie: This GA is up for GAR primarily due to uncited text. A motivated editor could save this article's plus sign by hunting down verification.
Doctor Who missing episodes: An FA at FAR and in danger of moving to FARC without engagement. This significant chunk of television history has tons written on it, and yet a number of the sources in the article are subpar. Can you save it?
Windows RT: Though this GA has been recommended for GAR since last September, it hasn't been brought to the process. No reasons are given on the talk, but the lead looks in need of a trim to bring its information to the body, and there's more than a bit of WP:OVERCITE.

Letter from the Editor

Updates on articles from last issue:

Grunge has been delisted following an unsuccessful FAR. Anyone who wants to get this important article back to FAC is strongly encouraged.

Reader suggestion:
BOZ, a founding member of the new WikiProject Cemeteries, has an additional suggestion for anyone looking for further inspiration:

Bohemian National Cemetery (Chicago): A Czech cemetery in Chicago and the first I've heard of with an area dedicated specifically to fans of a given baseball team, this cemetery has ties to outsider art, historical shipwrecks, and one of the city's founding ethnic communities.

Thank you all, once again, for your subscription and your work on Wikipedia!
Vaticidalprophet 18:33, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:40, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks

Many thanks for seconding the nomination as editor of the week! Much appreciated!--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 15:39, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:52, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 43

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021

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Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:12, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Texas history question

I've been working on expanding an article about a minor ACW article on the Texas coast, and one of the sources mentions Sabine City, Texas. Based on our article for Sabine Pass, Port Arthur, Texas, it may well be a historical name for that place, but I'm not sure. I know you're interested in Texas history, and thought you might have some knowledge of what Sabine City would be known as. Hog Farm _Talk 05:45, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Hog Farm: I've been a little bit of digging into this and haven't found anything yet. This "Sabine, Texas, on the Texas State Historical Association's website was founded in 1878 and is a ghost town now. Given the proximity, I have to think this is what your source meant. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 08:08, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for researching this! I'll leave it as a redlink for now, given the confusion and the fact that we don't seem to have a Sabine, Texas at the moment. So many similar names. Hog Farm _Talk 22:29, 15 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discontent Content Issue 3

Discontent Content Issue #3

Welcome, subscribers, to the third Discontent Content newsletter! Discontent Content is a newsletter aiming to collate and improve Wikipedia articles in need of more eyes and hands to get them in shape. Its unique trimodal structure allows editors to work where they feel comfortable -- with stubs and starts needing to be brought to standard, mid-quality articles with Good or Featured potential, or quality-assessed articles needing help to maintain their status.

Category 1

This issue's Category 1 articles are:

Gambling in Nevada: An unusual move -- a redirect? But if you look at the history, you'll see why. This sweeping and expansive topic about the home of Reno and Las Vegas was recently converted to a redirect due to its almost complete lack of useful content. Nonetheless, this subject is bursting with potential and can have a full article written about it.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Original Theme Highlights: This recent AfD survivor was the first soundtrack written for the popular series. More unorthodox, for a children's animation album, it features songs by Pantera and Ween and was given a vinyl re-release in 2016 for the...ironic market? Certainly some market. There's a fair amount of coverage here to write a solid article on.
Death by misadventure: A surprisingly major topic to be a one-paragraph stub, this is a legal and colloquial term both. The article is currently sourced in whole to a single page in a single book!

Category 2

This issue's Category 2 articles are:

Rope (film): Hitchcock's classic attempt to shoot an entire film in a single shot, Rope is both a significant note in cinematic history and, in recent years, conceptualized as an important piece of Hays Code-era gay cinema. It's a good watch, and the article should be just as solid. Currently it's a C-class with some unsourced content and an overreliance on block quotes.
Rachel Pollack: One of the major occult writers of the 20th and 21st centuries (a book of hers is prominently involved in my quixotic "bring the Major Arcana to FT" plan), not to mention a significant fiction and comics writer collaborating with names such as Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison, Pollack's article has quite a bit of room for improvement to quality-assessed levels. Though her article's lead is short and the work as a whole underreferenced, plenty of opportunities exist to improve it.
Narrative paradigm: Despite this article's High or Top importance across multiple wikiprojects, it's in a sorry state. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was subjected to a WikiEd course some time back. Significant potential lies within the idea that all human communication is narrative; the article must be accordingly strong.

Category 3

This issue's Category 3 articles are:

Jaime King: This GA on a famous model of the 1990s has been recommended for GAR. Unreferenced sections and low-quality references are a problem for this BLP.
Dartmouth College: This FA is at FARC and on the brink of delisting, but the issues mentioned -- accessibility, WP:LEADCITE compliance, and overreliance on primary sources -- are far from insurmountable, and an editor could certainly polish off this star.
Tamil language: Another FARC, this is the native language of 75 million people (including my own stepmother) and the language of one of the world's great classical traditions. It's afflicted by a lack of sourcing and particularly issues with inline citations.

Letter from the Editor

This issue's subscriber suggestion, again from BOZ, is:

Dice: This former GA was delisted in 2009. It's a big topic to a lot of different subjects, and deserves a top-quality article.

This is ridiculously late, and I apologise -- I've been writing articles :) I've also, excitingly, landed a couple 'real publishing' writing gigs, which I'll be plenty excited to talk about when they're published. Due to the current increased amount of writing I have to do on a regular basis both on- and off-wiki, I'm planning to drop this down to monthly so I can spread out my responsibilities a bit.
Vaticidalprophet 09:08, 15 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of Fort Concho

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

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:05, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Can I help with TFA nom, perhaps? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:34, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, if you'd like: Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Fort Concho. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 07:50, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

congrats, Vami! Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 12:42, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, for this occasion and for your review of my article at GAN. I'm so pleased to once again add an FA to my name. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 07:50, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Imperial Triple Crown

Congrats on the Triple Crown(s)! You might be interested in a userbox I made, {{User crown|Imperial}}:

This user has been awarded an Imperial Triple Crown.

— Bilorv (talk) 23:58, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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 ::Thank you, for this occasion and for your review of my article at GAN. I'm so pleased to once again add an FA to my name. &ndash;[[User:Vami_IV|<span style="background:crimson; color:white; padding:2px;">♠Vami</span>]][[User talk:Vami_IV|<span style="background:#e2e2e2; color:crimson; padding:2px;">_IV†♠</span>]] 07:50, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
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+[[File:Imperialcrownjewels.jpg|center|thumb|I'm very pleased to present the '''[[WP:Triple Crown|Imperial Triple Crown]] Jewels''' to {{u|Vami_IV}}, for your work on "Did you know?" and the good and featured article processes! — [[User:Bilorv|Bilorv]] ('''[[User talk:Bilorv|<span style="color:purple">talk</span>]]''') 23:58, 22 May 2021 (UTC)]]
+Congrats on the Triple Crown(s)! You might be interested in a userbox I made, <code><nowiki>{{User crown|Imperial}}</nowiki></code>: {{User crown|Imperial}} {{clear}}
+— [[User:Bilorv|Bilorv]] ('''[[User talk:Bilorv|<span style="color:purple">talk</span>]]''') 23:58, 22 May 2021 (UTC)