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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) 19:03, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On Ravel's birthday, we also think of a conductor and five more composers ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:05, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Five pounds (British gold coin), about "another in the sovereign series of British gold coins, this one the largest, in fact one of the largest gold coins actually struck for circulation."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:06, 14 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) 22:39, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My birthday recently passed with more of a feeling of accomplishment than celebration. Wehwalt (talk) 22:43, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

congratulations to feeling you accomplished something! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:55, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today: an opera, 100 years old OTD, on Bach's birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:07, 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) 12:44, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

Administrator changes

• Jarry1250
• Lethe

CheckUser changes

• AmandaNP
• Drmies

Oversighter changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
• A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
• A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.

Technical news

• A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378

Miscellaneous

• The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.

Hi Wehwalt; From your edits at James Madison a year or two ago, the "Jr" appellation has returned now after the TFA earlier this week. Could you look at this? ErnestKrause (talk) 16:23, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please see this edit and either adjust or please let me know that you are satisfied to leave it alone. All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:20, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you have previously worked on articles in the Royalty, Nobility, and Heraldry section. I have also contributed to multiple GAs in this category. The article Royal Foundation has been nominated for GA by Keivan.f and me, and I thought you might like to take a look if it is convenient for you. I look forward to your response. Regards. MSincccc (talk) 14:02, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I will look at it when I can. Wehwalt (talk) 14:11, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

can i select an article for today's featured article as an ip address? 91.234.25.26 (talk) 18:12, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can nominate an article at WP:TFA/R and follow the instructions. Remember, the article has to be featured (WP:FA) and not have run as TFA more than once, and if it has run once, it must be at least five years before the date you are seeking to nominate it for. Wehwalt (talk) 18:30, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I see that your name is listed on Wikipedia:Mentoring for FAC and am wondering if you would be willing to mentor me on getting Tom Scott (YouTuber) to FA. If not that is okay. History6042😊 (Contact me) 13:42, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately due to real life, I can't take the time for it. I will review it when it gets to FAC though. Wehwalt (talk) 14:29, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you anyway :) . History6042😊 (Contact me) 14:37, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Wehwalt, I noticed that you created a TFA blurb proposal for Rockstar North earlier today. Is that something that it is done regularly with no particular impulse? I was sort of saving this up for a special date (the release day of Grand Theft Auto VI later this year), plus I tend to write blurbs a bit different from my leads. Would it be possible not to put forth a TFA nomination at this time? If there is a TFA shortage, I could nominated Teardown in its place. IceWelder [✉] 16:50, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gog the Mild, who schedules May, proposes to run it on May 21. The blurb of course can be used at any time. But I would discuss it with him. Wehwalt (talk) 17:11, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IceWelder, yes: most TFAs are chosen by a coordinator, with giving balance to the month as a whole the only consideration. I'll pull Rockstar North from May. If you list whenever your special date is here it should prevent a reoccurrence. Thanks for letting me know. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:21, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info, @Gog the Mild! Is it possible to lodge such a request if the exact day isn't known yet? The release date still has to be announced, but the game is scheduled for "Fall 2025". Otherwise, I would wait and open the nomination once the date is revealed. IceWelder [✉] 20:42, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, tricksy one. Sorry IceWelder but no. Get it on the list as soon as the exact date is known. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:45, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, IceWelder, I gather you didn't like the blurb. I would suggest you edit it in advance of need because the talk page of the article's FAC is where we put blurbs. Remember there is a hard limit of 1,025 characters, including the TFAFULL template. Wehwalt (talk) 20:49, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's not that I don't like it, I just tend to write them a bit differently from the actual article. I will propose a different blurb when I find the time -- granted, there are still months to go. IceWelder [✉] 18:21, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

hey there, i saw your revert of my edit on william seward's page. you might not know this, but you can actually edit image pages too! since the tag was the issue, editing the image page to give it the proper tag would have been the appropriate response, instead of reverting my edit. especially since it was a simple resolution update for the previous image. PequodOnStationAtLZ (talk) 22:26, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think we can agree to disagree here. If you are editing a Featured Article, it's a good idea to keep standards up which means adding properly licensed images. Thanks for the advice though. Wehwalt (talk) 22:31, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]