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On 2 February 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Taur Ikhbeineh, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Taur Ikhbeineh. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Taur Ikhbeineh), 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.

charlotte ^👸♥ 00:23, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 3 February 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ard-al-Moharbeen necropolis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Roman-era Ard-al-Moharbeen necropolis is the largest cemetery discovered in Gaza? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ard-al-Moharbeen necropolis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ard-al-Moharbeen necropolis), 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.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Excavations at Ard-al-Moharbeen necropolis, July 2023.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 12:02, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Destruction of cultural heritage during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. — Anonymous 01:50, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) - have left a comment at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Destruction of cultural heritage during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip/1. It's not clear to me that the requirements for initiating a review have been met. KJP1 (talk) 09:49, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Richard. I see castles is one of your domains of expertise. My memory doesn't help here: have I asked in the past for your opinion on the matter of castellology articles created by Bermicourt? He has translated dozens of them from German. My problem is with the terminology: German has a very peculiar approach to naming things by using specially created combined words and thus producing very precise and narrow terms for everything and anything, which makes German an extremely precise, rich, but also demanding language to use. English is fundamentally different. Nothing new there. Our friend though has "forced" German terms & concepts into English, and although I've done my fair share of reading about castles in both languages (and never came across any of his typical German-terms-turned-English), I don't know if English-language academic castellology allows for that. There is also the fact that the German typology is partly different from the British one, which means either that German terms are adopted, in German, for typically German types of castles, or that those terms are maybe sometimes literally translated into English. But what about the common types and features?

I don't have my notes handy, so I just looked a bit through his edit list and found a good example at Hill castle. All terms are based on German terminology. Maybe that's genius and enriching English castellology with knowledge from a far more sophisticated, Central European twin school, but is it? How was English castellology managing before him? Maybe there are established English terms already and using the literally translated German ones is an unneeded artifice? I'll stay forever curious about it.

Thank you. Arminden (talk) 10:42, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]