Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always.

Missing RexxS (on my talk as on yours). Today is the birthday of Chopin and Ricardo Kanji, see my stories of today and yesterday, with dream music by the first and Bach played by the other. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:08, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Gerda. Struggling to find the time to do lots of writing, but still doing bits and bobs around the place. Yes, I miss RexxS too. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:09, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know you around! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:55, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today: Carmen turns 150, as the main page and my story tell you. I chose a 1962 concert of the Habanera, - enjoy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:32, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today I could have written five stories off the main page, and chose Sofia Gubaidulina. I find the TFA also interesting, and two DYK, and a birthday OTD. How about you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:24, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today: an opera, 100 years old OTD, on Bach's birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:22, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today, 300 years of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1! We sang works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel, Johann Christoph Bach, Kuhnau/Bach, Gounod and Rheinberger! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:03, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited to participate in The European Destubathon in April. Almost $3000 in Amazon voucher prizes, including prizes for 5 different entities of the UK and Ireland, which can be used to buy books for content, though it can also be treated as an editathon if you're not interested in competing! Minimum content to be added to each article just to ensure that they're over a stub, though longer expansions also welcome. Entries at the end of the contest will be tipped into the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge and European Challenge/20,000 Challenge for UK and Ireland entries. Previous contests were really enjoyable and I'm hoping this one will be too! Sign up if interested. Thanks! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:59, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Would be great to have you on board working on English/London stubs Ritchie, you were fantastic in a few I ran. £400 main prize for most destubs. Would be good to do a London contest sometime don't you think? Perhaps WMUK would support it. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:43, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Only thing I'll do with Amazon vouchers is burn them. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:14, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In light of your concerns and those of another editor that some people don't like wealthy American companies, I've decided to make it more more flexible. Whatever the prize preference the emphasis is on buying books to contribute to Wikipedia.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:40, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can technically win the contest by just doing London/UK destubs if you wanted to! £400 top prize. If you don't want Amazon vouchers that's fine, whatever your preference. The idea though of course is that people use the prize to help buy books for more content. I much appreciated your participation in previous contests, you particularly made the West Coast contest worthwhile to run, and this is a good chance to get some things done and make it more enjoyable, but understand if you aren't feeling up to it or are too busy in RL in April. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:39, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you find anything more on Royal Lancaster Hotel? Cool that the Beatles held their Yellow Submarine party at the hotel! Can't believe it was missing! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:37, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I plan to add a name for a particular letter casing that I've not found a name for, what would be the standard statement that gets put along side it? For example the "(needs citation)" thing that I find from time to time, I want to convey that it would need replacing/correcting if an existing name does in fact exist. --Original-zxuiji (talk) 09:19, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Which article are you planning to edit? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:32, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case

I plan to add horsecase to describe sentences/function names where ONLY the 1st letter is in uppercase. This includes names, nouns, etc that are strangely given uppercase 1st letters in the middle of a sentence.

So instead of:

`The phone was answered by Joey`

It would be:

`The phone was answered by joey`

I did try looking for an actual name for the style of letter casing but was unable to find one, so I chose to just name it myself. I chose the name horsecase in reference to how the sentence would look similar to a horse (if you squash it width ways). I welcome a correct name if one exists, I just needed A name to go with. Original-zxuiji (talk) 10:16, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) Please do not add things to Wikipedia that you invented. If you want to add this, you will need to also add a citation to a reliable source showing that this is something that people actually use in the real world, and why this letter case might be used instead of regular sentence case. If you don't know what it's properly called and need to invent a name for it yourself, then it's probably something you shouldn't write about on Wikipedia. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 13:45, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought of a case where it's definitely used, instant messaging. That said I'm not going to dig up people's personal messages to provide a citation Original-zxuiji (talk) 14:58, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As Ivanvector said, Wikipedia is not for things you made up one day. You need something established which numerous existing source material has covered. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 13:08, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blah de blah de blah de blah de templately waffly bollocks etc etc ..... DatBot (talk) 00:31, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recognise this article. I see it was originally created as a redirect (so per WP:ATD-R, a PROD is not recommended and I advise Qinifer to read the deletion policy carefully) then potentially tried as an article. Why on earth I would have done this at the time, I've no idea as I was clearly in the midst of expanding and improving Faversham. It must have been due to some sort of helpdesk response. Anyway, I've got no views on what happens to it. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:38, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was surprised with your close here - I thought there was a clear consensus not to have a page at this location. Why did you come to a no consensus close? SportingFlyer T·C 11:39, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Simply put, I think "Redirect" would have been an ideal compromise that would have probably been okay, given there are serious concerns at the AfD over its verifiability and suitability of source material. However, there wasn't enough "pull" in that direction because of your suggestion to delete the article entirely, with other editors picked up on. In any case, there wasn't a firm decision towards deleting instead of redirecting or merging (or outright keeping, as suggested by the first week in the debate) so I had to conclude there was no consensus as how to proceed. I'll change the close result to "Views are split between keeping, deleting and redirecting" which reflects the participants a little better.

As I said at the AfD, my recommendation would be to try a selective merge of the content that is verifable and demonstrably true into the parent Zaire at the 1984 Summer Olympics article. Or, if nobody does anything to the article, file a new AfD (I realise this will be the third nomination, but that's okay from a NC close). Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:46, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I don't think this was correct - there was a clear consensus this shouldn't have been a stand-alone page as redirect and delete are both "not keep" - so I've decided to open a DRV. SportingFlyer T·C 12:08, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think that was a bit premature. I see that Fortuna imperatrix mundi has picked up my suggestion at the AfD of doing a selective merge. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:17, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There was no merge, though. It was just a redirect. SportingFlyer T·C 12:19, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Ritchie. Excellent close, by the way, nicely nuanced, and allows for alternatives to deletion. Insisting on deleting an African olympist when it could be otherwise dealt with is a rather sledgehammer approach. Cheers, Fortuna, Imperatrix Mundi 12:24, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion reminds me of Chitty. (For context - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chitty (cricketer)) Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:13, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please explain why you deleted my reversion on Frank Welker filmography. Thank you. YborCityJohn (talk) 19:19, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I don't think movieposters.ha.com and www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk are suitable sources for verifying that an established actor starred in an X rated film early in his career. As WP:BLPSOURCES states, "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced should be removed immediately and without discussion. This applies whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable and whether it is in a biography or in some other article." Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 19:23, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok so what about Mr. Welker's official website under his filmography (Click Here) under the year 1976 that would be a reliable source, this was also previously discussed with another Wikipedian who conceded that the current references were notable. Look forward to hearing back with your comments. YborCityJohn (talk) 19:29, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That only cites the name of the film, the year of release and the character played. So I'm happy for those basic details to be added per the source, but that's it. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 19:32, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing then I'll leave you alone :0) I see that you in Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism you did block User:67.63.61.242 but there is still the similar report for User:67.63.61.245 which as I stated feel that it is an anonymizer service, so shouldn't that be blocked also since the edits are similar? Thanks again for your assistance and clarifications. YborCityJohn (talk) 19:40, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I blocked the first IP for being an obnoxious jerk; the second IP I assume is now stale and blocking won't have any effect. The revert per BLPSOURCES (and subsequent tidying up of the article and sourcing) is sort of incidental to that. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 19:45, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! How do I add a source/reference? Apologies if this is a stupid question --KorrinOfValla (talk) 09:06, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The best place to start is Help:Referencing for beginners which gives you a comprehensive guide on what to do. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:38, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We are considering an unblock at UTRS appeal #101414 with a TBAN for Eastern Europe broadly construed. What thoughts do you have? -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 20:12, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per the userpage - "Admins, if you think an administrative action (including, but not limited to protecting or deleting a page, or blocking a user) is not an improvement, just undo it". As a completely uninvolved admin who just blocked in response to a report, I don't really have any strong views one way or the other on this. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:15, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Just wanted to let you know. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 10:02, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So I saw that you ECP'd Jimmy Carter for a second, but then downgraded it back to semi because of "misread activity of sleeper socks, autoconfirmed suffices for now". Jimmy Carter and Africa were both targeted by America1257. Since the LTA sock got blocked ("misread activity of sleeper socks, autoconfirmed suffices for now"), do you think we should also downgrade to semi for Africa just like Jimmy Carter? 24.55.33.220 (talk) 23:06, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just an uninvolved admin trying to work out what consensus is on this. If you're happy we can grab these vandals with a block before they reach autoconfirmed status and start vandalising, great. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 09:14, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ritchie, just asking for advice about this user, who is persistently disrupting articles under the "In use" tag, ignoring warnings and refusing to engage. At what point should this go to ANI? Thanks, Tony. Tony Holkham (Talk) 10:50, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Based on their contributions, I would say this is a classic case of WP:THEYCANTHEARYOU and they're not likely to respond to messages. Given that, I've indefinitely blocked them from editing Kleinburg. This might sound like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but in this instance, since I've seen countless cases of editors that can't respond to a messages, unfortunately it means only a block will get their attention. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:58, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that. We'll see if they will respond. Cheers, T. Tony Holkham (Talk) 11:03, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, the same is happening at Jane and Finch. Tony Holkham (Talk) 11:08, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

<sigh> Okay, they're now site-wide indeffed. I've spelled out that the block is to get them to discuss, and not a banhammer tool. What'll happen next is one of the following: a) disappears forever, b) creates a new account and gets completely hosed c) angrily protests the block as "cyber bullying" (which just gets appeals declined) or d) understands the issues, has a discussion and gets unblocked. I'm hoping for d).

Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:12, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your rapid response. I hope for (d), too. Cheers, T. Tony Holkham (Talk) 11:17, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In this case, the user is editing with Visual Editor, not a mobile app, so they really don't have the excuse that's available to mobile app editors of not even being able to see the notifications. I'm sure the Visual Editor desktop experience makes new messages and notifications obvious, but I'm not 100% definitely aware of everything as I don't use it myself, nor do most longtime editors. The only highly experienced editor I know who uses Visual Editor all the time is Megalibrarygirl, maybe there's something on the VE desktop side I'm just not aware of. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:21, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I understand (I think!). Tony Holkham (Talk) 11:37, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ritchee. An article that was created by me titled Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home High School, Rahara was deleted by you today. I request it to be undeleted because it is a well-known school, far more notable than other articles on schools like Taki Ramakrishna Mission High School, Ramakrishna Mission Siksha Mandir, Sarisha. It has won the Best School Award from the Government of West Bengal in 2019, 2021 and 2024 respectively. Therefore, I strongly believe that the page should be undeleted, and kept as a stub, until it's updation. Indian English Literature (talk) 13:53, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, that's not possible, as there was already a discussion to delete the article (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home High School, Rahara), where Spartaz found consensus to delete it. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 13:57, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ritchie333 Can the deletion be contested? Indian English Literature (talk) 14:14, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You need to go to Wikipedia:Deletion review and state your case there. I will state that the latest revision of the article, as deleted, only cited one source to a website apparently associated with the school. To ensure a successful challenge of a deletion, you would ideally need to supply as much appropriate source material as possible. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:01, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've poured cold water over the drive-by nomination for PR, but I wonder if you think two old London hands might perhaps bring the article up to FA level? Pray ponder. Tim riley talk 18:51, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, not had much success with FAC. The last one I tried, Marshlink line failed because half the books I'd got from the library to write the article pre-COVID had disappeared when I went back afterwards, making it impossible to quote from the source directly. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 08:40, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. Tim riley talk 10:30, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]