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A good story today, about a mezzo as a thinking person, DYK? - see also video. Thank you for the DYK review! I didn't see her, but the Carmen production at the Bastille Opéra that she was in last. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:51, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday, Margaret Medlyn! (I found the article - not by me - when searching for someone whose birthday is today.) - I took a cat pic, presented by Rosiestep today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:16, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 50th birthday, Alain Altinoglu!) - I let the video begin with a closeup of the octobass ;) Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:18, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My latest: Roberta Alexander, - listen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:40, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for the review! I appreciate the apology for the quick-reject, but you were entirely justified—those paragraphs without citations were ones that I mostly left alone when rewriting the article. I've gone back and added citations to statements that I could find sources for, and I've rewritten the Flash System section to contain verifiable and cited statements. Thanks for the feedback! :) Serebit (talk) 13:34, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, thanks for your lightning talk at WCNA! Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-11-28/Op-Ed is the text I mentioned when we chatted, which at least partially overlaps with the topic of your lightning talk. /Julle (talk) 02:18, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/November 10 § Edmund Fitzgerald photo etc.... Would welcome your thoughts whatever they might be. Also, see User talk:Ikhouvanjou14#Your OTD "refresh" for November 10th. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 03:58, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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do you think you could make a article about the most popular christmas songs and add Star of Wonder in there somewhere? ~2025-31421-40 (talk) 23:03, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how "most popular" would be measured. I don't think I'm interested in helping with this idea. Z1720 (talk) 04:17, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Z, you do good work with identifying problematic GAs for reasssessment, but I would ask that you don't open any more MILHIST GARs for the rest of November. There are three open right now (Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (level-4 vital), Battle of Borodino (level-5 vital), and Battle of Long Island) which all cover particularly significant topics and MILHIST is running Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/November 2025 Article Improvement Drive right now, so the amount of attention that will be available for GARs is going to be lower for a bit. Hog Farm _Talk 00:13, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @Hog Farm: Thanks for letting me know. I try to open MilHist GARs on a variety of topics (ie different wars, different geographic places, different time periods) so that a single editor's interest isn't being overwhelmed. Sometimes I get it wrong, like opening Nelson at the same time as Borodino, which are both Napoleonic War-centred. I wasn't planning on opening any more MILHIST GARs while these were open (except maybe a military ship, but most of the ship articles are in excellent shape) and I'll hold off nominating MilHist articles until some of the ones that are open right now are closed. Hopefully, after this improvement drive, MilHist editors will be inspired to review their favourite GA topics to ensure the articles still meet the criteria. Z1720 (talk) 00:36, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I think this G&M article is mentioning you, for your work on Mackenzie? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board#c-Mr_Serjeant_Buzfuz-20251123183100-Globe_&_Mail_article_on_two_Canadian_wikipedians! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:04, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @Mr Serjeant Buzfuz: Yep, that's me! The G&M also did a follow-up podcast episode link here. Z1720 (talk) 01:27, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Interesting! Nice to meet you and hear you speaking! What I came to say was: thank you for your OTD efforts! - Look, today's image, - she "portrayed" herself with her husband at the end of the table, - would have been good for Thanksgiving ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:21, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll reference Helmut Lachenmann more, and will do more tomorrow, only: tomorrow I will not be able to change the selection. - It's a featured article in German. The articles to cite will appear on his birthday, I'm afraid. English subtitles - I'll add from this now (instead of going outside, improving Jean-Claude Éloy, uploading more photos ...) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:08, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @Gerda Arendt: Ping me or post on my talk page once this is completed, and I'll take a look. For the future, it is easier if suggestions are posted several days ahead of time so that problems can be identified and fixed early. Opera is a great category at OTD births/deaths because it is underrepresented (most entries are politicians or modern-day pop culture) so I'm hoping that more opera articles can be deemed eligible. Z1720 (talk) 16:19, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I will. This month, recent deaths have been overwhelming, and they become ineligible after a week. Sorry that long-time planning suffered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:30, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Please check again. The best list of his works seems to be IRCAM, and each work has it's own page, - there could be much more but only a bit more today. Please let me know. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:35, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to personally thank you for reviewing the Andreas Papandreou article. I know that it must have been daunting process. Your comments and changes were of great help. Happy editing! A.Cython (talk) 04:12, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Two days ago, I went to see Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Paris where Guy Morançon worked, quite a place. On his birthday, my story is about the organist (although I have two entries on the main page, Lorenz Weinrich and Sequenza III, who will have to wait for another day). - If you have little time just listen - with documentation images - to his pioneering recording on one of the most important organs of the composer's period, in Rouen. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:28, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today's 1715 Advent Bach cantata translates to "Prepare the ways", - listen to quite stunning music if you haven't ;) - "places" take you to Copenhagen". - I restored the Christmas cantata OTD 25 December, thinking that we can't get a better item for the occasion this year than its 300 years. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:46, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Laughter for Christmas - enjoy the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the compromise for the 1 January set! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:26, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, thanks for the reassessment note for Henry, I haven't taken a look at his article for a few years. I am slower these days but should be able to the necessary patching up. Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 14:26, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @Amitchell125: Thanks for the heads up. I suggest posting on the GAR letting editors know that you are interested in fixing up the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:01, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • The refs are coming along - other than the issue with citations, are there other things you see need to be addressed? Amitchell125 (talk) 10:29, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• @Amitchell125: I think the refs are the only thing. If I find other concerns I'll post in the GAR. Z1720 (talk) 14:56, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:52, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do you still have more GAs about mathematics before GAR? I forgot, so I ask you to remind me about the list. Dedhert.Jr (talk) 09:43, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @Dedhert.Jr: WP:SWEEPS2023 and WP:SWEEPS2025 have lots of math and physics articles identified as having uncited statements. Since the script cannot differentiate between uncited statements and WP:CALC, we need editors to manually check them. I have noticed Representation theory of the Lorentz group and Newton's theorem of revolving orbits. Z1720 (talk) 15:00, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Z1720 Speaking of SWEEPS2025, I have talked to David Eppstein regarding three mathematical articles that have been cleaned up, avoiding GAR, and I have guaranteed that they meet the criteria under WP:GACR. Since I received the message that the information is outdated, would you mind rechecking the whole data in SWEEPS2025? Sincerely. Dedhert.Jr (talk) 12:16, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  And one more thing. Newton's theorem of revolving orbits is not part of mathematics. It is physics. I suggest you to ask this problem in WP:PHYS. Dedhert.Jr (talk) 12:35, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @Dedhert.Jr: Thanks for moving those articles to "kept": it seems to have been moved correctly. I won't be checking the individual articles at this time: I want to complete the SWEEPS projects before going back and double-checking the "kept with no GAR needed" articles. SWEEPS will probably take a couple of years to complete. I'm not sure what is meant by "the information is outdated": do the articles need updating to reflect more recent academic literature and sources? I mentioned physics articles because there is some crossover: some editors monitor both categories and CALC is prevalent in both. I'll try to reach out to some physics editors in the coming weeks. Thanks again and happy editing. Z1720 (talk) 15:54, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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User:The Banner's been around for a while, seemingly very difficult to communicate with, and acting very antagonistically to User:Grufo. For example, there's User talk:Grufo#c-The_Banner-20251221210800-Grufo-20251221205900 and User talk:The Banner/Archives/2025/December#c-The_Banner-20251213083400-Notice_of_edit_warring_noticeboard_discussion. He often assigns special weight to Grufo being the creator of templates in discussions when the latter is arguing the template's utility, as seen at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2025 December 21#c-The_Banner-20251229185000-Grufo-20251229183100 and Talk:Catullus 3#c-The_Banner-20251221180000-Grufo-20251221175700. Most egregious IMO is the pointless edit war when Banner reverts Grufo three times to add a newline to a TfD notice, documented at User talk:Grufo#Template:Minusplus, seemingly arguing that Grufo should stand down because Twinkle has a bug while Grufo quotes the instructions for adding a TfD notice. Banner seems to have a habit of talking past and dismissing certain people.

I'm using the "just want an admin" button instead of ANI because 1. I've had bad experiences with Banner at Talk:BiglyBT (where I'd say he's doing outright IDHT like some of the threads) 2. It looks like Banner very much can collaborate constructively, as seen at Talk:United Ireland#Short description & active arbitration remedies. 3. This doesn't look good for Grufo either even though I think a lot of his actions are reasonable but rule-breaking actions. The last link is shortly followed by Grufo involving himself to edit war against Banner for the inclusion of the word "that", apparently in an attempt to hound Banner back. Banner has also given Grufo warnings for edit summaries like "I know your goal is removing templates, especially when I am the author, but your edits are disruptive". 4. I am of ill health right now to draft an opening statement for ANI, something I've never done before. Plus, it feel weird to do this during the Twelve Days of Christmas (Happy Holidays).

(Previously posted this to another admin who has not edited since; should I ping them?) Sorry for this mini–wall of text, and thanks for any help in advance. Aaron Liu (talk) 23:27, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(watching) Did you see that Z1720 is on vacation for 4 more days? Aaron Liu, best wishes for your health. I try to avoid the Great Dismal Swamp, quite generally. - Z1720, did you see that I work on a composition from 1720? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:44, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you see that Z1720 is on vacation for 4 more days?

I did not... agghghh should not have posted this.

best wishes for your health

Just a flu and fever lol, but thanks! Aaron Liu (talk) 00:41, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @Aaron Liu: Hey, sorry that I didn't see this until now. Since I'm on vacation I can't dedicate the appropriate amount of time to this, and it might take a while to find an admin who is willing to take a look at this. I suggest that, when feeling better, you can look at their recent actions and decide if you want to escalate this to the appropriate noticeboard. I know ANI can be scary, but it might be the best option if the disruption continues. Feel free to post on here again if you have any questions. Z1720 (talk) 14:23, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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300 years ago, a Bach cantata was born: happy new year! - Lets get more culture to OTD, - I like that! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:51, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

... inviting you to check out "my" story (fun listen today, full of surprises), music (and memory), and places (pictured by me: the latest uploads) any day! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:04, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Mozart music for today! - I'm not sure that you got what I wanted to express by the Bach example: that the music that is performed in religious services is nothing newspapers (journals, thesises, ...) write much about, but it's the key thing church groups give to the world. I could just cut the uncited paragraphs but that would leave the concerts alone, with undue weight. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:15, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• @Gerda Arendt: I think sources, especially those on classical religious compositions, will comment on what occasion the composition was created for. As for where it is performed: I don't think Wikipedia needs specific mention when a random church in California performs the piece, but if it is part of a major event mentioned by newspapers, it can be included in the article. Is there a specific example that we could take a look at to help clarify? Z1720 (talk) 19:19, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  We don't talk about an article about a musical piece, but about a church, not only its architecture, but also its people - congregation - choirs ..., that form it and give it character. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:24, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Gerda Arendt: Sorry about that: I was thinking of the wrong article! For church articles, especially those that don't receive significant coverage, there might be less text about their activities because secondary sources do not consider them notable. Information about the congregation or parish might be published by the Catholic eparchy, and church architecture might be published in various sources about local buildings or region churches. Since Wikipedians are not considered reliable sources, we can only rely upon what reliable sources have said. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Moscow) might be a good article to look at how one church article cites events at the church. I hope this helps! Z1720 (talk) 19:34, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

    There are sources about the architecture, there are sources about the organ, there are sources about the concerts, - there are no sources about the music in the services, and this has been like that for centuries as I tried to say by the Bach example. One mentioning of a cantata, while he wrote about 200, and that one not saying anything specific about the music. Back to the question: I could just cut the uncited paragraphs but that would leave the concerts alone, with undue weight. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:42, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Homerpalooza 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. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 17:22, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

(GAR page)

I think the GAR may be quick-failed per criterion 3, but being involved, I'd like to seek a second (third, if necessary) opinion before I become determined to close it by myself

Thoughts? Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 13:45, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Good morning @Z1720, please can you help me create a Wikipedia Article about "Benjamin Angeles"? He is known as a Filipino Singer-songwriter on Google Search. Please help us. Thank You! ~2026-25403 (talk) 02:43, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Please review our notability policy and our policy mandating the use of reliable sources.

Do also note the policy on conflicts of interest (and declare it if you have one) and, as you used "us" in that message, our prohibition on "role accounts", or accounts shared by multiple people. Thank you. Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 12:47, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there,

I've never asked for help before, despite being an editor since 2008, so I'm sorry if this is not the proper place or way to do this, but after reading around, I was directed that this is the best course of action for this situation.

There is a user attempting to edit war with me, frequently reverting my edits which I am making in good faith and I believe to be worthy additions to an article. This user has continued to revert my edits despite the fact that I have tried backing my edits with the appropriate policies and guidelines offered by Wikipedia.

The user has then taken it upon themself to bring this into my talk page and leave me a message saying I could potentially get blocked and banned for edit warring... when it is this user who has begun this situation in the first place.

I removed their message from my talk page, and the user reverted that back too. Aren't I allowed to have complete freedom and control over what goes onto my talk page? Is this harrassment? How do I get this behavior to stop, and were my edits to the article in question okay?

Article in question: Adam the Woo

User in question: User:Magical Golden Whip

I have also noticed other people complaining on this user's talk page of other disruptive and unhelpful edits and reverts to their edits as well.

Thank you so much for your help and I appreciate your time, and if this is not the appropriate avenue to resolve this, than I apologize and would appreciate further guidance on how to resolve this the correct way. Devann (talk) 02:19, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Devann: Commenting without looking into the situation at the article in question: My suggestion is to outline why you think the information should be in the article on the article's talk page. This will allow the other editor to explain why they have reverted your edits. Do not add the information back into the article until there is consensus to do so. If you need help getting consensus, WP:3O or WP:DRN might help to get additional editor opinions.

Yes, you are allowed to remove whatever you want from your talk page, but that means you cannot add the inforamtion back into the article without getting consensus to do so: you'll probably need to engage with this editor to get that consensus. If you do not want the editor to comment on your talk page, kindly request that they stop (or ask them to direct comments about the article to the article's talk page instead.) Z1720 (talk) 02:26, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I stopped reverting the changes and engaged in discussion as to why the edits were valid on the talk page of the article in question. They were still refuting my claims with no good reason or proof that what I was adding wasn't worth adding. Despite the fact I stopped editing the article and moved discussion to the article's talk page, they persist to edit my personal talk page. Devann (talk) 02:30, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• @Devann: I see in your talk page history that they haven't re-added a message for several minutes. If they do it again, I suggest keeping the message up for a little bit, but respond below it that they should post on the article talk page instead and that they should stop posting on your talk page. While you may disagree with their reason, it is valid to say that information should not be supported by a YouTube link: it just depends on whether the video is a reliable source. At the end of the day, it is a content dispute and if you think the information should be added, I suggest opening a discussion on DRN to try to find a resolution. Yes, this will take some time but it is better than edit warring and getting topic banned from the page. Another solution is to WP:DROPTHESTICK and move on to editing another article on the site. Z1720 (talk) 02:47, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  The content that was being posted to my Talk page was some sort of warning about edit warring and being blocked from editing for doing so, which I believe would not be appropriate to be placed on an article's talk page.

  So the information that was added was done originally by another user. The information in question is the following:

  "Justin Scarred, a close friend, publicly honored Williams’s life and work, describing him as a significant creative presence."

  The source for this statement was a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXnBzjuGSBw) of Justin Scarred talking about Adam the Woo.

  So I'm confused. Does a video uploaded by the person who himself described Adam as an influence to his work not count as an authoritative source?

  Additionally, as I said, there were other people complaining on this user's talk page of this user doing the same thing to other people who were also making good faith edits to other articles. Devann (talk) 02:58, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• @Devann: In my opinion, I don't think that information should be added to the article. I think it's too much information and a non-notable (by Wikipedia's standards) friend's opinion is not really noteworthy for an article, regardless of where the source came from. As for the user's talk page: if the user is being disruptive over multiple pages, you can file a case at WP:ANI but be warned: your behaviour on the article page will also be scrutinized, and in my opinion there is evidence that you were edit warning on that page. Z1720 (talk) 03:03, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  Understood. Thank you very much for the info. You were very helpful! Devann (talk) 03:08, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Z. I've been feeling like I'll hurl the past few hours, so I don't think I'll be able to make it to the event tomorrow. I'd appreciate if you sent my regards to everyone. I desperately want to be there but I know in my heart that it's not the best choice to make. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 04:22, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• @Clovermoss: I'm sorry that you aren't feeling well. I will send everyone your regards. Feel better soon! Z1720 (talk) 04:27, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  I slept until almost 3 pm today, so I think I made the right call last night. Hopefully everyone is having fun. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 21:00, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]