User talk:Wehwalt

This page has archives. Sections older than 14 days may be automatically archived by when more than 10 sections are present.

Please Note: This page is watched by talk page stalkers who may answer questions when I am not around.

TFA

Thank you for The Founding Ceremony of the Nation, introduced (in 2017): about "a very well known painting (in certain parts of the world) with a fascinating history. Few paintings have been buffeted so often or so dramatically by the winds of political change while in the final analysis, remaining more or less the same."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:33, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You may remember Maryvonne Le Dizès, my story today as on 28 August. Some September music was unusual: last compositions and eternal light, with Ligeti mentioned in story and music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:54, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About scheduling: I have this idea of a Bach cantata as FA for Christmas Day, which would be the 300th anniversary of the premiere, but it's not even GA yet. I'll see how it goes, - perhaps OTD instead as a backup. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:33, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep me posted. Wehwalt (talk) 13:35, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I made Leif Segerstam my big story today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:07, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for improving articles on October! - My story today is a cantata 300 years old, based on a hymn 200 years old when the cantata was composed, based on a psalm some thousand years old, - so said the 2015 DYK hook. I had forgotten the discussion on the talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:04, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world richer. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic of assorted Cucurbita in 2016. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:03, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TFA (2)

Hi Wehwalt, I am honored that you have selected A Very Trainor Christmas for the coveted Christmas spot. However, the 10-year anniversary of the artist's debut studio album, which is a much more successful album and has a more important attachment specifically to the upcoming year, is coming up on January 9. I think that would reasonably be considered more important.—N Ø 22:24, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, SchroCat I believe will be scheduling January, let's see if they think it would be too soon. It's the best Christmas-related article that hasn't run once and I'm trying to avoid further repeats.--Wehwalt (talk) 22:38, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At the moment Title is the only album that's been put forward and I wouldn't have a problem running it even if she has the Christmas slot too. (There are a few other music slots that have been/are being booked, so I don't think there could be any more Trainor articles put forward in January - that would be the only thing that would endanger the 9 Jan slot. Just make sure you get it into TFAR as soon as you can. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 13:28, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, MaranoFan, unless you have an objection, I'd like to keep the Christmas album for December 25. Wehwalt (talk) 23:00, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

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

Administrator changes

Crisco 1492

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:22, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New message from Jo-Jo Eumerus

Hello, Wehwalt. You have new messages at Jo-Jo Eumerus's talk page.
Message added 09:05, 4 November 2024 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:05, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 65

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 65, September – October 2024

Hindu Tamil Thisai joins The Wikipedia Library
Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 report
Tech tip: Mass downloads

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --12:49, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder to participate in Wikipedia research

Hello,

I recently invited you to take a survey about administration on Wikipedia. If you haven’t yet had a chance, there is still time to participate– we’d truly appreciate your feedback. The survey is anonymous and should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement.

Take the survey here.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC) [reply]

ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:06, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

November thanks

Thank you for improving articles in November! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:33, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pete Hegseth

There is some fighting about the Pete Hegseth article. I think this article needs some good editors monitoring it and ensuring that people are allowing notable cited information in the article and not playing games. I have been out of the game for awhile so not exactly sure how best to get people to look at this article. Thought I would bring this to your attention in case you know the best way forward. Remember (talk) 19:42, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am trying to avoid present day politics due to the fraught nature of the discussions, but I will look it over when I can. Welcome back. Wehwalt (talk) 13:25, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like a smart position. No need for you to get involved if you don't want to be involved. I just forgot how to flag this to the appropriate people. The main issues have died down now since it doesn't appear that other editors will be able to keep off notable well cited allegations that were being deleted or misdescribed. Remember (talk) 14:31, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The main issue appears to be the editor User:FMSky. He has a history of just mass deleting sections and information. It makes me suspect of his editing. Not sure who to tell. See the following: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

OK, I've watchlisted it and will contribute where I can. I don't have time for writing, and it's hard to do much with present day politics given the contentiousness and the fact that many sources are off limits for one reason or another.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:20, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help! If you don't want to get involved, happy just to get anyone involved to watch this since there seems to be an effort to delete information with no discussion. Tried to discuss this on the talk page. See [8]. Remember (talk) 16:49, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Flower Drum Song (film)

Hello, Wehwalt. What do you think of this edit? Is this the right thing to do, when only a small part of the film is in Cantonese? I see that there is also a cat listed there for 1960s Cantonese-language films. -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:09, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]