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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:41, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Re-draftification of Mount Tamana
Hi. I saw you draftified Mount Tamana - I might have done the same but for the fact that it has previously been draftified, and articles can't be moved to draftspace twice per WP:DRAFTOBJECT. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:37, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
 * this is a slightly unusual case in that there's an editor who's been making large numbers of moves from draft space to main space, with seemingly little regard for the state of the article. A few were legitimately ready, but most are being reverted and the user is now blocked from draft space. See Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents for the whole saga. If you still feel I've done the wrong thing, I'll happily self-revert, or you can feel free to move it back yourself and we take it from there. Cheers  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 17:33, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
 * No, that's fine, I was a little surprised by the move, but I don't follow ANI and so I didn't realise the history. I see they've just been blocked. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:36, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Am puzzled about a newly-created category
I noticed you're an admin who has posted on Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion and I am puzzled about a newly-created category that has popped-up on my radar, I admit, I know hardly anything about categories and how to create them...but this one just doesn't make sense to me. Could you maybe take a look at Category:Assassinated subnational legislators and tell me if it is a viable category? For instance, I am not sure either Abraham Lincoln or James A Garfield belong in it. Yes, they were at one time members of state legislatures but at the time of their deaths they weren't. Same with Anton Cermak...yes, he was a past member of the Illinois House of Representatives but he was Mayor of Chicago when he was killed and so on. I would have posted about this on an actual Categories talk page somewhere but I couldn't figure out where to post about it so here I am. Thanks in advance for any help on this - Shearonink (talk) 01:53, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

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Van Nuys
Hey, I'd like to apologize for what seems to be a misunderstanding. I did not have the intention of renaming the page when I did. I assumed it was the same fella who renamed the categories. It was renaming of the categories that I objected to since it made it inconsistant with the other categories of Los Angeles neighborhoods.

I'm only renaming one category now, the one about "People from Van Nuys" to make it consistant with the others about people particular neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Just wanted to give you a heads-up. -- Omnis Scientia (talk) 04:58, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

October music
Today, it's a place that inspired me, musings if you have time. My corner for memory and music has today a juxtaposition of what our local church choirs offer. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:36, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

A Romanian woman composer is today's topic. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:57, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * RIP to her... And good to learn about her work. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 22:26, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you! A French woman today with a small body and a great voice whose portrayal of a role with different aspects I enjoyed! And another interesting composer. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:57, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

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Operation Gideon (2020) Move request draft
In case you don't get the ping (I don't trust those thingies :) Talk:Operation Gideon (2020). Sandy Georgia (Talk)  15:46, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

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FAR for Rwanda
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Admin
Hi Amakuru, I'm thinking about, after more than 15 years on Wikipedia, of applying for the admin bit. Given this, I've decided to start closing RM discussions as to date I've been limiting mostly to responding to technical requests. If you have time, would you be able to have a think if there is anything that might prevent a successful bid in my editing and is there anything you think I should be working on? I'm not planning on running in the near future, but let's say within a year or so...also, when the time comes would you consider nominating me. Other admins that might also know me well include and. Best wishes Polyamorph (talk) 08:58, 29 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Based on our interactions to date, I think you should pursue this! Unfortunately you've caught me in a very tumultuous off-wiki time so I can't commit to doing a more thorough investigation of your edits to check for any problems or otherwise promise much support, and thus should not be the a formal co-nominator. signed,Rosguill talk 16:01, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * agree with what Rosguill says here, I've seen nothing but good stuff from you so far, and thanks for coming to me for support - it means a lot when editors accord me with this sort of respected status, as indeed did earlier in the year with her RFA (regrettably I was unable to put in the time to nominate on that occasion, but was still very happy to be asked and to endorse the RfA). My time on-wiki is choppy, but as you say there's no deadline so I will endeavour to do some thorough searches for any gotchas over the next few months and hopefully be able to be a co-nom when the time comes. Cheers  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 16:13, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks both, I think the first thing that I'll do is submit a request at Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll, which should pick up any areas that I need to work on. And in the meantime I'll start preparing my case, to make sure I'm prepared. Cheers, Polyamorph (talk) 06:44, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I am pretty negative on ORCP and the feedback offered as I write this is why: both people are saying you should run and yet the're making this harder by giving you problems - that might not even be problems - for you to solve. Creates unnecessary barriers for someone who already has admin in mind. You didn't list me as a potential nom but if you'd be interested in me being one I am happy to do my deep dive into you. I have one other editor up first that I need to get to. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:10, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah I agree with Barkeep49 - an ORCP really isn't necessarily and can sometimes hurt you. If feedback is needed it's usually better to get it privately from your (potential) nominators. Galobtter (talk) 16:14, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I tend to see ORCP as a sort of sanity check. It was very useful for me, not because the advice was that on point (they raised several issues that never came up in my actual RFA, and the overall assessment was more cautious than the eventual result suggested) but simply because if running for admin is a completely absurd idea, or there's some massive skeleton in your cupboard that will floor you immediately, then those guys will flush it out for you. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 16:16, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I didn't put you down because you hadn't replied by the time I submitted the ORCP. But I'd be very happy for your co-nom. The ORCP gives me an idea of the kind of scrutiny I'm going to receive, I'd rather go in to an RfA knowing what to expect :) Polyamorph (talk) 17:18, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Well Amakuru and, the RfA candidate poll is pretty positive, so that's encouraged me further to do this. In terms of timing, it's very difficult to find a "spare" week to commit to an RfA. I am thinking the christmas holiday period might be best, if that works. Or if that's too soon, some time in the New Year, although I know I will have a lot of work on then! I will focus my nomination on Requested Moves, since there is a perpetual backlog there and I've started closing discussions there in addition to technical requests. AfD could also be an area I can contribute and is very quiet these days! RfD is also an area I have some experience in, which could comment on, although I note in their comment above that they can't commit to a co-nom.  Anti-vandalism is an area I've worked in the past, in the Huggle heydays, although to be honest the bots take care of that to a large extent now. Finally, the comment about NPP, I spent a good few years with that user-right and contributed a substantial number of page reviews. I stepped away from it because I wanted to focus more on editing, and I've done more than my fair share. With the admin bit, there is nothing stopping me stepping in to review articles again, although personally I think the solution to the NPP backlog is going to require more automation, with advances in machine learning this might not be such an issue in the future. Cheers Polyamorph (talk) 10:06, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's too soon and you wouldn't be the first person for whom that is the best week. I hope to spend some real time vetting RfA candidates this week and you're #2 on the list. Barkeep49 (talk) 00:55, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Coventry City 2–2 Bristol City (1977)
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 26 December 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Today's featured article/December 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/December 2023. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Main Page/Errors from two days before the article appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 19:17, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks, that will be a nice present for me on Boxing Day! &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 16:17, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive
 Hello Amakuru:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!

The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

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Merge history
I see that you have closed a WP:MOVEREQ discussion recently. Could you please merge the edit history of both the Allegations of war crimes against Israel and Israeli war crimes, if that's possible? 39.34.146.93 (talk) 04:35, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, per your request here I've restored the revisions from 25 March 2022 to 4 August 2023 back into the history, which were initially deleted during my recent rename. Hopefully this is non-controversial, as the revisions were all visible prior to the rename and were only deleted for housekeeping reasons. Also pinging, who removed some content within those earlier revisions for arbitration enforcement reasons, in case I've missed something here. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 19:58, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's fine by me. Thanks.  --  Tamzin  &#91;cetacean needed&#93; (they&#124;xe&#124;she) 20:32, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Request to delete the "Orang Amerika Malaysia" Wikipedia page
Hi Amakuru. I would like to make a request to delete the "Orang Amerika Malaysia" Wikipedia page. This is because the page is an error. The title and name of the page should be named "Orang Malaysia Amerika" instead of "Orang Amerika Malaysia".

Thank you. Belle vieu (talk) 18:00, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi I assume you're referring to the page ms:Orang Amerika Malaysia on the Malaysian Wikipedia? If so, it's worth noting that the Malaysian Wikipedia is actually a separate project from this one where we're talking now, which is the English Wikipedia. The policies and guidelines at that project may be very different from those we have here on the English project. That said, it looks like moving a page is fairly straightforward on the Malaysian wiki. If you follow this link here:  that should take you to the page where you can choose a new name and then move the page. I don't speak Malaysian and I have no authority on the Malaysian wiki so this is just advice, I have no idea if the proposed move is correct or not! Cheers  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 19:50, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter
The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-


 * BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
 * Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
 * Epicgenius with 1518 points
 * MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
 * BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
 * AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
 * Sammi Brie with 520 points
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Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.


 * Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
 * BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
 * Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
 * LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
 * Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
 * 🇺🇦 Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

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Move revert
I was the page mover who performed the page move at University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering. I am not getting why you reversed that move. There are over a dozen WP:RS that mention the University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, excluding the official website. Let me know if I am missing something. Pasting some source below. Maliner (talk) 11:23, 6 November 2023 (UTC)


 * https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/bangalore-university-orders-uvce-students-to-vacate-jnana-bharathi-campus-hostels-by-may-1/article66790048.ece


 * https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/uvce-students-from-bengaluru-fear-fee-hike-protest-govts-financial-apathy/articleshow/99128402.cms


 * https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/fee-hike-shocker-for-uvce-students/article67312809.ece
 * https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/uvce-seats-will-be-filled-through-cet-and-jee-with-7525-ratio/article66699559.ece/amp/


 * https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2023/sep/18/karnataka-uvce-students-to-protest-fee-hike-campus-shift-2615916.html


 * https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2023/mar/31/uvce-staff-salaries-in-doubt-students-protest-2561146.html


 * https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2023/mar/20/educationists-hit-out-at-karnataka-govts-plan-for-financial-autonomy-for-uvce-colleges-2557627.html


 * https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2023/apr/30/vacate-your-hostel-uvce-bu-tussle-leaves-students-in-the-lurch-2570740.html


 * fine, thanks for the above. Given that sources seem to be split, it's fair enough we'll go with the version on their website and I've redone the move. It's only that we see far too many cases where editors assume that a change of WP:OFFICIALNAME means an automatic move of the page, without considering the other stipulations of WP:NAMECHANGES. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 11:03, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

ACE 2023
There are too few strong content contributors on ArbCom; give it a thought? Sandy Georgia (Talk)  20:02, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * ahhh.... actually you're now the second person to suggest this to me - I think recommended I have a go a few years ago. And it really is a great honour for such great Wikipedians as yourself and Tony to consider that I might be worthy of such a position. Whether the community-at-large would think so, I have no idea - I sometimes feel like I'm becoming a bit tetchy or argumentative with people here these days for not very good reasons, which might count against me, but perhaps that's no more than anyone else! And yes, I do consider myself a content contributor first-and-foremost, although I've really not been able to do as much as I'd like lately and with Featured article review/Rwanda/archive2 on the horizon and not enough time to do much about it, I think I'm going to be down on FAs this year for the first time. 😔
 * Anyway, to answer the actual question you asked - unfortunately right now I don't think I can commit anything like the sort of time that would be required for someone on the arbitration committee. And realistically I'd probably need to ramp up my activity at the drama-boardz™️ for some time before running, just to convince people I had the nous and experience in such area. But in principle I really would like to run, I think it would be a good experience for me. And also I'd be glad to represent the more content-focused people like yourself - which is not to say I think the project is actually divided into binary groups with some being content editors and others purely administrative, most senior editors do some of both - but I can definitely see the value of balance on the committee. So in short, I definitely see myself having a serious look at this in a few years' time, when real life commitments hopefully should be less onerous than right now and sorry I can't give you a better answer than that this year! Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 22:27, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Next year then :) The need to restore some content focus to ArbCom is urgent; there are changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes, that just make no sense.  I keep meaning to tune in at Rwanda, but one shiny distraction after another, the current shiny distraction being my concern about said trends. Sandy Georgia  (Talk)  22:38, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You'd be a great candidate; the content focus, unimpeachable activity as an admin, and the commitment to the project for over a decade would add a needed voice to the committee (by quick scan is the only current arb who checks all those boxes.) That being said as someone once said, there are more important things in life than Wikipedia, and there are certainly more important things in life than being an arb or functionary. You'd be great at either would have my vote, and I share a lot of the overall concerns of, but at this point, I'm hardly one to ask someone to take one for the team . Real life and things you enjoy come first. Hope you're doing well and thanks for the happy ping. TonyBallioni (talk) 06:06, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * ooh, thanks for the response and the positive thoughts, and good to see you here briefly following my ping! Life's all good thanks, I'm enjoying things, just insanely busy with a fairly intense work project, the demands of family life and also other real-life activities - a far cry from 2021 when most of life was suspended and my work load was fairly light, enabling me to generate enough content to gain third place in the WikiCup! I feel like it will all calm down again in a few years though, after which time I will hopefully become much more active here again. Anyway, wishing you all the best once again with whatever's keeping you busy offsite, and hope we will also see you back in a fuller capacity whenever you're free to do so. Cheers  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 10:42, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * "I'd probably need to ramp up my activity at the drama-boardz™️". No, not at all. A really good Committee is one made up of a range of voices and experiences. All the Committees I've been on have been rich with Arbs who have full experience and knowledge of the drama boards. As such, it is always of value to have the views of someone who is not interested in the drama boards, so has a different view, not one perhaps tinged with prejudice because they are already familiar with User:X from the amount of times they have appeared on the drama boards. I have little interest in or experience of the drama boards, yet I have served on three Committees, and one of the things that other Arbs have said they valued most from my involvement was my different perspective on issues. We don't want a Committee made up of like-minded individuals all with the same experiences and prejudices. I'd say you would be of greater value to the Committee by not getting involved, and so retaining a fresh, untarnished viewpoint. SilkTork (talk) 12:17, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

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thanks
Thanks for the bludgeoning check at Talk:May 1992 Yugoslavian parliamentary election. You did ping me there so I did still respond, but I tried to add value as well :) --Joy (talk) 09:46, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
 * that's quite alright, and thanks for the note. I know how it feels when you feel passionately that something is being misunderstood and are trying unsuccessfully to get the point across - I've been there before! In this case I can sort of vaguely see where you're coming from, but in the end IMHO WP:COMMONNAME is what should rule the roost. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were regarded as separate entities by the UN, but in common parlance and sourcing, they were both simply called Yugoslavia. I suppose this is similar to the Republic of China (1912–1949) and the People's Republic of China are seen as separate discontinuous states, but they're both called China within the period of time they existed. CHeers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 10:29, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
 * That's fine, and the point I'm trying to make it wasn't as common as it seems. That's why I posted the ngrams link, it shows that there were ample references to the other common name, S&M, too, before and after the '99 events that were widely publicized, and that the use of Yugoslavia dropped off instantly after that (despite the fact it took them a few years to go to S&M formally). After all, that's the underpinning of why the FRY article has been merged with the S&M article for years now with no discernible detriment to the average reader. --Joy (talk) 10:41, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

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November music
Vacation pictures offered if you click on songs, and my story today is a DYK hook from 13 years ago OTD: about the great music at one of my churches. Mozart's Requiem to come on Sunday, coupled with Arvo Pärt's Da pacem Domine, - I guess you might come if it was a bit closer. Perhaps watch the video of our last production, our first on yt, ever. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:16, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

... and it was good, User Talk:Gerda Arendt --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:37, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks for the above pics, and I will definitely check out the video... I've never been to Ibiza actually (only Mallorca from those islands), seems like it's got lots of beautiful scenery. People here just regard Ibiza as a place to go clubbing but obviously great apart from that. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 23:15, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes! - in memoriam Jerome Kohl who said (In Freundschaft): "and I hope that they have met again in the beyond and are making joyous music together" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:39, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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December music
Today's story is about Maria Callas, on her centenary. - Aaron Copland died OTD, and Jerome Kohl said something wise on his talk. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:04, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

A new church year began, - a new era? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:56, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * that's nice, happy new year to you and happy new era! I enjoyed listening to that hymn... I spent the night in the Ramsgate tunnels this weekend. Very interesting place and I will perhaps come back with more stories and pictures about this anon... &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 17:59, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * That sounds interesting! - Today, I managed to get the pics to snow (on 28 Nov), and heard a lovely concert, after listening to a miracle of meditative dreaming on 6 December (or just click on music). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:47, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ... and today, to Paris (29 Nov) with a visit to the Palais Garnier, - to match the story of Medea Amiranashvili, - don't miss listening to her expressive voice. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:40, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
 * My story today is about Michael Robinson, - it's an honour to have known him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:39, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for what you do and stand for! I wish you a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:51, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:27, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks for sharing, and on this note I'm sorry I wasn't able to action this for you yesterday, it would have been nice to have it on the anniversary, but readers will still get to learn about him shortly anyway. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 11:21, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Today I just want to celebrate. Some other day, I would like to find out what I did wrong, - push too little, push too much? - I confess that it was a bit disappointing not to see ALT2 on the English Main page, - it seemed so close when I went to bed. But at least it's on the German one, and the composer in the English OTD (which - as I learned in the process which started when the article was made a redirect in June as not sourced enough, and I thought: fine, then we can wait for his birthday ... - doesn't do blurbs for birthdays.). Today I just want to celebrate. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you today for Coventry City 2–2 Bristol City (1977), "about a dramatic football match which took place at the end of the 1976-77 season in English football's top division. Both of the two teams were in danger of being relegated down to the second division, along with Sunderland, who were playing a simultaneous match up at Everton. Well, almost simultaneous... due to traffic congestion the Coventry game started late, which meant it ended up finishing five minutes later that the Sunderland game. And because Sunderland lost their game (a result the Coventry chairman displayed prominently on the scoreboard for the players to see), Coventry and Bristol both knew that the 2-2 draw was enough for them both to survive. So they spent the last five minutes in a "good-natured kickabout", leaving Sunderland relegated. And their fans are still livid about it 44 years later!" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:26, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I saw you active on ITN (and nobody else I know): could you please check the nom for Rebekka Habermas, 21 December, late nom due to Christmas? - The best obit dates from 25 December, but I'd rather not move her. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:09, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your quick efficient response! - Similarly today: Heike Matthiesen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:26, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you again! - Remember C. F. Abel whose image didn't make it to the English Main page on his tercentenary? Now the DYK crew thinks the hook should run without image. Sigh. - On a more cheerful note: I uploaded more pics, with Christmas trees and related artworks, and I have two women on the Main page (for a sad reason). Our Christmas singing (of my user's infobox music "singen, singen") was pictured! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:44, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * no problems, glad to help. And sorry it's not working out re the image hook... it's true that in general we don't accommodate requests because obviously everyone wants the image slot if they can get it. Quite annoying if it's a rare one though. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 22:11, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * If anybody learned that image thingy it's me, - long time on DYK, most hooks, very few such requests, - I still remember how my first image request (in a nom) was not taken, a castle, and instead a grape was shown (in 2010). But this one is seriously of a different kind on many levels, as I tried to explain, - I seem to fail language-wise because otherwise I believe that the promoter would have understood, instead of telling me to go to the DYK talk (where I'm don't feel welcome anyway) or make the composer a GA. - Per my request, at least the hook was improved, but it has no indication of the composer also being a player of the viol - which the image would show. Mozart (as a boy) copied one of his symphonies, and it was regarded as a Mozart work and got a K. number ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:59, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

George Daniel
I just noticed that there appears to be some history for the page at George Bedford Daniel - any chance you could histmerge that as well? Laun chba ller 11:14, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * that's interesting - it looks like that version only existed from 7–8 August 2015, but that actually is a time when the main article was redirecting... so I probably could merge in some of the versions. I have no idea if any of the content is usable, but I suppose it makes sense to have it all in one place. Will have a look at that in the next day or two. Cheres &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 18:02, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * well, that's very nice, thank you muchly! And wishing you and yours a very pleasant Christmas and new year season as well. Looking forward to another year at the coalface, and for me I hope it's a more productive one - I've barely had time to write any new content this year unfortunately... Perhaps a new destubathon could be in the offing too?! Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 19:51, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * @93.143.89.189 - I do agree with you that it should be redirected, but the decision needs to be made through a proper consensus, we can't just make it unilaterally... probably listing it at WP:AFD might be the best way forward. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 11:25, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Block evasion, canvassing and POV-pushing by the IP. The Banner  talk</i> 11:57, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

GB & Ireland <-> British Isles moves
Hi Amakuru, I made the series of moves following splitting out List of natural disasters in Ireland from List of natural disasters in the British Isles, where I noticed on the latter that there more articles using "British Isles" than there were using "Great Britain and Ireland", so for the sake of WP:CONSISTENCY, I moved some of the "20xx GB and Ireland heatwave" pages to their "20xx British Isles heatwave" equivalent. I don't believe it's controversial, but obviously you disagree. Would you be open to a single, centralised RM debate on moving them? (Note, some of the entries in that list article are pointing at redirects, still, rather than directly to the actual page). <span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif">Bastun Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 00:11, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

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Same location pictured as 2019. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:36, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

The 2023 picture is from the Abel Fest in Köthen, celebrating the tercentenary of Carl Friedrich Abel, a viol virtuoso, composer and concert organiser in London (together with Bach's youngest son), born on 22 December 1723 in Köthen, where the new catalogue of his works was introduced, - my story today. - Thank you for everlasting fireworks! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:26, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:58, 16 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Yesterday was a friend's birthday, with related music. - I'm on vacation - see places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:22, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
 * thank you for the info, and enjoy your holiday. I am very jealous, it would be lovely to have a break in the sunshine at this time of year when the winter seems to be really dragging on! And that fish platter looks absolutely amazing. I must add La Palma to my bucket list of places to visit. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 17:27, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

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Battle of Shiloh
I disagree with your recent edit for the Battle of Shiloh. (No, I did not revert it.) The sentence prior to the edited sentence states that the battle "was a major battle in the American Civil War". Tennessee had already seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy. Wouldn't it be logical for "Tennessee" to link to Tennessee in the American Civil War instead of today's state of the Tennessee that is part of the USA? It might be a little extreme in this example, but does your logic mean that a writing about a battle involving the Roman Empire should link to Italy instead of the Roman Empire? TwoScars (talk) 18:43, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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TNA Wrestling move
It's clear the consensus was to use the fully spelled out Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. The non-admin closure needs to be ignored and proper full title used. Please move the article to the full title. Thanks. oknazevad (talk) 18:36, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * oknazevad - there was no evidence presented in the RM that the WP:COMMONNAME in sources is "Total Nonstop Action Wrestling", news sources such as and the others I've seen do not mention that spelled out name at all. The proposal was to move to "TNA Wrestling" and the close was in line with the article titling policy. There is little to no justification for using an WP:OFFICIALNAME which even the organization itself doesn't use on its front page. Per WP:NOTAVOTE, decisions are made through the lens of policy. Cheers  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 19:12, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * The policy is WP:CONSENSUS. More specifically, the guideline MOS:ACROTITLE calls for spelling out acronyms in titles in most cases. The article for the NFL is at National Football League despite being called the NFL far more often and rarely spelled out in news articles. Same with other major pro sports leagues and pro wrestling promotions. Spelling out "Total Nonstop Action" would be consistent with those titles and with the consensus in the move discussion (where the spell-out vs abbreviation question was explicitly discussed and spelling out was clearly favored). I'll take the issue to WP:MR if I must. As it stands, your move comes off as a super vote. oknazevad (talk) 19:29, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * oknazevad - I don't understand why you're insisting on this. The name that's been moved to is overwhelmingly the common used name and the one readers will recognise. You supported it initially, as did other contributors, until the unevidenced alternative was proposed, and there is absolutely no reason why that alternative little used name was proposed instead of the one initially proposed. National Football League is not a good comparison because that name is used in at least some sources, and it's also just a single title - the inclusion of Wrestling makes this markedly different. It's like FA Cup or PGA Tour or any number of other acronym based proper names which aren't spelled out because common names don't do so. If both the organisation itself and sources call it TNA Sports, then of course do must we, this is fairly obvious. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 19:52, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Also oknazevad, you mention ACROTITLE but the first paragraph of that guideline says "Acronyms should be used in a page name if the subject is known primarily by its abbreviation and that abbreviation is primarily associated with the subject". Well we can debate whether TNA Wrestling even counts as an acronym, given that it has two words, but in any case TNA Wrestling clearly satisfies both the "subject is known primarily by its abbreviation" and the "primarily associated with the subject" clause, so that guideline is amply met here, alongside the WP:COMMONNAME policy. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 19:59, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Anyway, you can insist on a move review if you like, but I'm still baffled why you don't think this title is the preferable one. Perhaps a relist is another option, so we can flesh out the debate. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 20:08, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Few thoughts. Firstly, the TNA abbreviation on its own is not primarily associated with the wrestling promotion, that's why it's not a redirect. Secondly, in constructs like FA Cup and PGA Tour, the acronym part is an adjectival use referencing the parent entity.
 * But I guess what really bothers me is that the issue was specifically discussed, and consensus was pretty clear. Even the person who proposed the move ultimately agreed the long form should be used based on the comments of the editors who brought it up. If the supporters of a move all agree on one form of the title and the closer just ignores that in favor of another title, I don't see how that closer can be respecting consensus of the participants. oknazevad (talk) 20:49, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * To help clear things up, being one of the many editors involved in the requested move from "Impact Wrestling" to the company's current branding, which is indeed "Total Nonstop Action Wrestling"...
 * As oknazevad pointed out, despite the editor who launched the RM (Vjmlhds) initially requesting the article be moved from "Impact Wrestling" to "TNA Wrestling", like the vote cast by myself, the overwhelming majority of Support votes in the RM for changing the article's name were indeed for the FULL name, NOT the shortened form. While news article references may use "TNA" or "TNA Wrestling", from what I'm aware of, the policy for titling Wikipedia articles is, when possible, the company/brand's full name is used.
 * And, to address Amakuru's position, I direct attention to another Wikipedia policy, one that I've actually used only once so far on here: WP:IGNORE. ClarkKentWannabe (talk) 03:00, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * , an editor has asked for a move review of TNA Wrestling. I believe, you might want to participate in the move review. Warm Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 07:14, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Paul Nadar
Made a few tweaks, mainly adding a bit more from the main Nadar article. Think the spinoff's a good call. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.7% of all FPs. 23:44, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

2024 administrative elections proposal – could use some feedback
I've been workshopping an RfA reform proposal, but i think it might need a tune-up. If you have concerns, or ideas on how to improve it, I'm all ears :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 02:18, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

TNA Wrestling
Hello, Amakuru. I have seen you moved the article Impact Wrestling to TNA Wrestling. I'm just curious, you said (the full name saw more support, but the article was moved to TNA Wrestling, no Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Is there any reason for the move? --HHH Pedrigree (talk) 19:51, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

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RE:Move of College soccer and the associated talk pages
Would you please restore the portion of the old Talk:College soccer page that had its edit history wiped as a result of this move? I thought it might have been moved to Talk:College soccer in the United States but I cannot find those old edits anywhere. Jay eyem (talk) 16:27, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * apologies, I had moved that page to Talk:College soccer/Archive 1, but forgot to link to it from anywhere else so it got orphaned. I have now put a talk page header at Talk:College soccer, which includes links to that archive page. Unlike an article it isn't possible to history merge it, since the talk pages have different comments on them and we ideally want to retain both versions. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 17:23, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok that looks perfect actually, just glad that we have it maintained. Thank you! Jay eyem (talk) 17:32, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

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February
You made my day by restoring the Bayreuth Festival to the tenor, - thank you. Back home, but slowly updating images, hope you see it as sharing, not trying to make you jealous. It's an island I returned to twice, and still don't feel I saw all its beauties, this time discovered the Cascadas de los Colores on 27 Jan (birthday of Mozart and our conductor) ;) - It's a steep, rough, vulcanic place with extremely windy roads which needs to be considered before going, but off the beaten track which I like. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:18, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * thanks for the note, and it sounds like you had a fantastic time out there... Of course I'm a little bit jealous, particularly at this time of year when being in a warm sunny place seems such a distant memory! (and every year I think I might go and spend Christmas in east Africa, only to find the plane fares are impossibly high)... But I definitely view it as just sharing, much like sending someone a postcard, so keep them coming - I'm fascinated to see what different areas of the world look like. And it's not like I never go anywhere myself... I think I promised you some views from our trip to the Balkans last year, which I still haven't got around to uploading. On the Bayreuth Festival issue, I'm glad I could help. I try not to tread on too many toes at DYK, as there are no doubt good reasons for some of the ways things are done there, and their goal is ultimately the same as ours, to promote good encyclopedic content on the main page. But if I see a quick win like that one, where the original version seems better and more informative than the edited version, or the Max Glatt issue today, I consider that I've improved things. Cheers, and enjoy your Wednesday. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 08:50, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you on all accounts! (I remember having typed a long response but nevermind.) - When I made today's story I was sure Alfred Grosser would appear on RD today, which may happen or not but I go to bed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:12, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks to Seiji Ozawa. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:36, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * ... and today a woman and her views --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:59, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:39, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Listen to music from Ukraine if you like, - I heard it in 2022, and the November concert (at a different church) raised a truckload of winter clothes. My story today is also from my life: I heard the singer in 3 of the 4 mentioned musical items. I sang in yesterday's. - Rinaldo (opera) premiered OTD, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:59, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Today's story celebrates a woman's birthday. She sat right in front of me when I took the picture at a lovely concert, celebrating her son's 60th. I thought she was 90 today, - no, 91 already. You can listen, starting at the piece he dedicated to her, Op. 1. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:34, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * more music and flowers on Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:33, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * thanks Gerda! &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 22:06, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * (I told you about Vami above, on 20 Feb, no?) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:08, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * indeed, so you did. I saw your message but didn't follow the link, and I didn't read it carefully enough to realise that Vami was included alongside your dear family member as RIP. Very sad losses all around. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 13:11, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Noman (novel)
Hi, I wanted to check in on this revert of my redirect. You mention the topic could be notable. Does that mean you found sources for it? If so I’d be glad if you added them. I searched and found nothing. Innisfree987 (talk) 11:36, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * when I searched I thought I was seeing some sources, but on further inspection you're right, it's just fan sites and sales things, so that's fine - I've self-reverted back to the redirect. If anyone chooses to actually challenge this, then it would have to go through a full AFD I think, as the page had been around for a while, but for now this is just a PROD-style situation so no issues. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:37, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for putting another eye on it! Much appreciated. Innisfree987 (talk) 12:42, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

USFL draft caps
Re moves like this, is there still reason to think my moves to lowercase were controversial? Should I re-do them, or will you? Dicklyon (talk) 11:26, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I have no objection myself, and I'd say on balance, given the RFC close, this should not now be regarded as controversial. If anyone challenges again it I guess we can discuss further, but it shouldn't be seen as a conduct issue on your part at this stage. As an aside, as much as I think it's probably a good idea to make draft sentence case, and you started the RFC in good faith, I'm not entirely content with the outcome, as it implies that we can circumvent the usual RM processes to try to get a different result, even though RM has been tried and tested as the venue of choice for article title decisions for many years. But it is what it is, and hopefully it will be seen as an exceptional case and not as a precedent for this kind of thing. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:26, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * If I'm remembering correctly. I'm the fellow who asked that those pages be returned to "Draft" & then an RM be opened for them, 'if' someone thought they should be moved to "draft". PS - I too am concerned, the recently closed-RFC is being used to bypass the RM route. GoodDay (talk) 17:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Amakuru: My view is that these are entirely unique and different leagues and that coverage of them may vary. It may very well turn out that some of the shorter lasting or smaller leagues have established that their drafts are proper names. We can't use the closure of that discussion to dictate whether "draft" should be capitalized elsewhere.
 * To be clear to @Dicklyon, these do not appear to be uncontroversial moves based on feedback I've seen across a number of locations. Per WP:PCM, a RM should be started based on an expectation that someone could disagree with this move. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:34, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * As per the closing admin, the NFL Draft discussion has no effect on other leagues. BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:25, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you all, I stand corrected then, the moves aren't to be undertaken by Dick without an RM. It does make me wonder, if the "RFC" in question was intended only to solve the very narrow question of how NFL drafts are titled, not even drafts more generally, why it couldn't have been a regular RM. It seems like it effectively was just an RM, just without the usual headers and with half the discussion dominated by its legitimacy. I'm on the fence about whether I like the outcome itself, but I think we ought to determine not to allow this sort of venue hopping in the future. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 17:50, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * It wasn't handled as an RM because there just was an RM at Talk:2024 NFL Draft a few months ago that rejected the moves, and opening another one so soon would be seen as clearly disruptive. There's a reason the RFC was met with so many saying it was inappropriate. It clearly comes of as an attempt to end-around a recent RM. oknazevad (talk) 18:36, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * To be clear, that move request resulted in "no consensus". It was not "rejected", which per WP:THREEOUTCOMES would have been either closed as "not moved" or "consensus not to move". —Bagumba (talk) 18:54, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * An admin (I forget which one) told me some years ago that the difference between "no consensus" and "consensus not to move" is largely cosmetic, and I actually think that's largely true. If the discussion is poorly attended that's one thing, but if a good number of editors contribute to a dicussion and there's fundamental disagreement without clear policy evidence one way or the other, then that's the outcome. And our guidelines say that such cases default to the status quo, which is functionally the same as if there's a consensus not to move. I don't think no consensus should be taken as a sign that further discussion is necessary to establish consensus, or that a change of venue is warranted, if all the relevant issues have already been aired. Rather, the matter should be left alone for a while and the "losers" should WP:DROPTHESTICK for a time as they would in any other situation. This was a rare case (as I realised after my initial comment at the RFC) where the raw numbers from ngrams didn't tell the whole story, there was decent evidence that capping could have been appropriate which was amply presented in last year's discussion, and without casting any bad faith on any actors here, I do agree with Oknazevad that IMHO this decision to go behind the back of the RM participants is a poor one. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 19:14, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

I went ahead and downcased the main one to USFL draft. The only conceivable reason to object to that would be to spite me, as it's overwhelmingly lowercase in sources, and the only reason Amakuru had re-capped it before was because of the ongoing NFL draft discussion. If someone objects or reverts, sure, we'll do an RM and waste another whole lot of editors' time. Dicklyon (talk) 22:34, 8 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I have reverted the move, as it was very clearly not uncontroversial. Another user asked you to start an RM instead and, based on WP:PCM, a discussion should have been started instead of just moving the article. Though you have no obligation to adhere to my request, I also not to make draft moves without a discussion. I even specifically included the diff where you asked if you could move these pages. Hey man im josh (talk) 00:22, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Well, so much for the RM route being taken. Once again, the page-in-question has been lower-cased, unilaterally. GoodDay (talk) 23:22, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * That's pretty standard for uncontroversial case fixes. If someone objects and makes it into a controversy for some reason, we'll go to RM. Dicklyon (talk) 23:39, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * This is the 'second time' you've unilaterally moved that page to 'lowercase', bypassing an RM. I could again, request an administrator to revert the page move. But, I'll leave that call to others to make. GoodDay (talk) 23:50, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @GoodDay: I have reverted the move, as multiple people asked Dicklyon not to move the page before he did so. Per WP:PCM, he is expected to start an RM before moving the page based on this. Hey man im josh (talk) 00:23, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Are you kidding me? smh BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:30, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The USFL pages or NFL Draft pages cannot be moved without an RM, per WP:RFCNOT, and anything else is a WP:IAR that nobody is reverting. Randy Kryn (talk) 07:51, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * thank you muchly for the barnstar... As I was saying to Floq a few months ago, it's all too easy for me and probably others to get sucked into a trap of arguing over trivialities, to the extent the joy of editing is sapped completely and replaced by endless stress. I'm glad the debate over the job titles turned out reasonably amicably in the end anyway. Wishing you a pleasant Sunday &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 11:09, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Trivial in itself, but it takes a lot of us volunteering on these trivial things to getting things looking half-way decent. But yeah, don't let it lead to stress. Your arguments got me to thinking that ITN is probably one of the rare places on WP that might have multiple items referring to modified job titles, with the risk of some ending up capitalized and others not.  Funny, the few times I have brought something up at MOS, the response was that it doesnt happen often enough to merit making MOS bigger.  Perhaps we consider circling back at ITN for a local standard, if this mix happens enough. Best. —Bagumba (talk) 11:23, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 February newsletter
The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer, who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:


 * , with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
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 * , with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
 * , with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
 * , with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
 * and, both with one FA and one DYK each.

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Your close of RM for 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
Hello. Six days ago, you closed the move request for 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel as "Not moved". I (uninvolved) disagree with your close and its rationale. While the majority of the participants were against the move, consensus is not determined by the number of votes for a particular side of the issue but, per WP:DETCON, ascertained by the quality of the arguments given on the various sides of an issue, as viewed through the lens of Wikipedia policy. Not only had the proponents of the move shown evidences that "7 October attack(s)" is a WP:COMMONNAME, the opposers did not actually provide close to enough evidence for their assertions that the current title is a better one according the policies at Article titles. They did not provide evidence that the current title is natural or recognizable, which is supposed to be determined by prevalence in English RS. Their only arguments with supporting evidence are the ones regarding precision and consistency, which are less important than, per Article titles, how reliable English-language sources refer to the article's subject. So, since the proponents provided more evidence, this should at least be closed as "no consensus" so that a user willing to do an exhaustive survey of English-language RS for the WP:COMMONNAME (like myself) could have a chance to reopen the discussion and participate with better evidence rather than "not moved" which precludes further discussion on the matter for at least a few months. StellarHalo (talk) 00:37, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

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UTRS appeal #84399
feels hollow. Should I decline or restore TPA for appeal at WP:AN? Thanks &#45;- Deepfriedokra (talk) 00:51, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Joga RM
Hey, do you mind having another look at this matter, which is now at Move review/Log/2024 February? I forgot to send an explicit ping the last time around, and ten days later it was closed without getting closure :) TIA. --Joy (talk) 15:27, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Impressionism
I drive-by noticed the thread at Randy Kryn's talk page. Due to recent testy disputation, I don't think he wants to hear from me right now, so I'll just post here instead).

For probably the first time in a while, I'm in agreement with RK, at least as to moves of this sort being controversial and needing full RM process. We've been capitalizing most of the major arts movements for so long that I'm certain lower-casing any of them would be a disputatious RM matter, Heck, we even had a lot of pushback about some film, music, and lit genres (I remember "western" in the US frontier sense being contentious; people seemed to confuse it with the capital-W "Western" of Western culture, despite a huge gulf in meaning. I also note that MOS:MUSIC refers to classical music with a lower-case c, but it is quite frequently rendered "Classical" in various articles here. There seems to be a lot of disagreement (even if it's presently just showing up in subtopical practice and not in debate).

Unless my thinkmeat is finally failing, I'm certain we formerly (somewhere in MoS, probably at MOS:CAPS) had a provision that major arts movements were to be capitalized. I'm not sure when that went away (must have been in one of my mostly-away periods), but it would explain (along with usual MOS:SIGCAPS issues) why there's so much arts-movement capitalization on here. Such an idea to capitalize arts movements across the board would be problematic for multiple reasons, including being an unexplained categorical exception to the lead principle of MOS:CAPS, conflicting more directly with MOS:MOVEMENT (covering movements of all kinds, generally), and being incompatible especially with MOS:GENRE, in that the distinction between an arts movement and an arts genre is often illusory at best, and primilary a matter of personal viewpoint (e.g. practitioners versus critics), or of rather random convention that varies by medium, and sometimes by age of the movement/genre, and/or by whether it is widespread or (at the artist notability level) primarily confined to a limited number of famous practictioners/adherents. There's also weirdness like Art Nouveau which is a French term and in French is rendered art nouveau; the capitalization in English is just habit formed by writing things like Romanticism and Impressionism. An especial goof up is that at Art Deco we have "Arts Décoratifs", wrongly imposing English capitalization on the original French phrase.

The only thing with echos of that old MoS material I can find is (without its own shortcut) Manual of Style/Visual arts, but – aside from somehow wanting to see "Impressionism" in particular (why was that singled out??) – it is perhaps surprisingly noncomittal and even somewhat evidence-based, though the evidence is old (in the case of the block quote apparently obsolete), of unclear authority (why do we care what "zeal.com" says?), and in the block quote somewhat nonsensical, in that the examples are wild mixture of things that are movements, or general arts periods, or general periods of history that are typically given proper-name treatment (yet it lower-cases some of them!), or misc. adjectival proper names like Gothic and Islamic; and it inconsistently treats prefixes like pre-, among other issues (like the double-extra nonsense of wanting "Middle Ages" but "medieval" when these are synonymous). I can see why the source publication removed this material, and I don't know why we're still quoting it. Surely just a factor of no one doing any work on that page in a long time. I'm about to at least improve cross-referencing to other MoS sections of pertinence. I think a talk page discussion over there about overhauling that section is probably in order.

, the main point is you should expect a bunch of debate when it comes to things like lower-casing Impressionism. After all the drama about sports [d|D]rafts, ultimately fired up by someone's manual moving, I would urge caution. And Impressionism in particular is iffy, because this section at MOS:ART says to capitalize, though on the basis of what consensus of  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:40, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

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Change of Darbhanga–New Delhi Amrit Bharat Express
I see that you have made the change of Anand Vihar Terminal to New Delhi in the title page. First and foremost, I'm not crying out loud, and I've made the change w.r.t the operational train running in the North and I'm working under the DRM of Northern Railways as an assistant. So revert back your entry and change to Darbhanga-Anand Vihar Terminal. For reference, do check out this:- Sanjeev4125 (talk) 13:12, 26 February 2024 (UTC)


 * @Amakuru,
 * Why are you changing from Anand Vihar Terminal to New Delhi repeatedly and making the same mistake again? Have you seen it arriving at New Delhi instead of Anand Vihar Terminal? It's clearly mentioned that it arrives at Anand Vihar Terminal and yet you are changing to New Delhi. You get this clearly in your mind and change it to Anand Vihar Terminal. Sanjeev4125 (talk) 14:01, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * thanks for your note and for the explanation of why this is correct. There have been large numbers of disruptive moves lately on some Indian transport articles, and I had thought this was one of them. I didn't realise that the Anand Vihar Terminal Amrit Bharat Express is actually not in New Delhi... I have moved the article as you requested. Thanks &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 15:16, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Amakuru,
 * Thanks for making the change and if in doubt, check out in Google and if found correct, then make the changes. Thank you once again. Sanjeev4125 (talk) 15:55, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Frederick William IV of Prussia
You closed the RM of Talk:Frederick William IV of Prussia against massive opposition. Given your comments on similar move requests at Amadeo I of Spain, Charles XI of Sweden Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Mantua, etc. do you really consider yourself an "uninvolved editor" to undertake such a closure? Walrasiad (talk) 21:02, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 March newsletter
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 * , who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
 * , who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
 * , who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

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Frederick William IV closure
Hi, Amakuru. I just noticed your closure at the RM for Frederick William IV of Prussia. I was surprised because I know you've recently weighed in in other RMs on this question (the removal of the country from the titles of articles on sovereigns) and have indicated that you hold a very clear position on this matter. Instances I'm aware of where we both commented are Francis Phoebus of Navarre, Charles XI of Sweden , and George X of Kartli. In fact in the Phoebus RM you wrote, "The juggernaut is rolling on this one and, despite efforts to halt it, it will continue to roll." This doesn't suggest impartiality on this matter. As such, I'd like to ask that you please revert your closure and allow the Frederick William RM to be closed by an impartial and uninvolved editor. Thanks very much. ╠╣uw [ talk ] 02:08, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * thanks both for your notes here on my talk page, and I'm responding to both of them here, as they say much the same thing. First of all, I disagree with you that there is anything at all controversial about this, or that there is any legitimate way to close this other than as moved. The guideline at WP:NCROY is crystal clear on this, with wording "Only use a territorial designation (e.g. country) when disambiguation is needed" and this was based on the result of the recent RFC at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility). Furthermore, it was widely acknolwedged that the previous wording of NCROY, mandating of Prussia etc. was in contradiction to wider policies including WP:CONCISE and WP:COMMONNAME. If you have issues with the wording of the guideline, or with the close of the aforementioned RFC, then you should take that up at the talk page of that guideline, or discuss with the RFC closer. To oppose its implementation at individual RFCs, with a rationale essentially disputing the whole premise of the guideline, however, is not a valid viewpoint and the established WP:CONSENSUS-building process at WP, and in particular WP:NOTAVOTE, rightly downplays such opposition. Anyway, having said all that, you've both asserted that I'm too WP:INVOLVED in the matter to make a close, having previously !voted to support such moves and I'll defer to that opinion, even though I don't necessarily think there's much controversy here. I've reopened the discussion and reformulated my close rationale as a support !vote instead. Cheers and happy editing &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 14:05, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Your close does not address the primary topic concerns raised in the RM. I do not think it can be taken as given that opposers accepted that necessary element of the NCROY-based argument for moving. Srnec (talk) 14:14, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * with the exception of the Frederick William II case, the primary topic question is already settled. Frederick William III and Frederick William IV already redirect to those relevant pages, and have done for aeons. So there's no case to answer there, at least unless a move discussion is held at the relevant disambiguation pages (and it seems highly unlikely that any of the minor dukes listed at Frederick William III (disambiguation) would usurp the Prussian monarch from the PTOPIC spot). &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 14:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Abellion London/Transport UK London Bus rename
Recalling your reversion of the page move of Abellio London, there's articles now coming out stating Abellio London will be formally renamed "Transport UK London Bus" from 2 March 2024. Is now a good time to move the page back to what it was moved from, or should we ideally wait until 2 March for the formal change to take effect? Also, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "agreed at an RM", so if you could link me to that discussion, I'd gladly appreciate it. Hullian111 (talk) 16:25, 29 February 2024 (UTC) Hullian111 (talk) 16:25, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * thanks for the note. It sounds like probably this name change will take hold permanently and in all sources, so I'd suggest making the move tomorrow when it kicks in. CHeers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 13:41, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

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Boss (2011 film)
We always use the year instead of language in the article title, right? Then why did you change it? Or have the rules changed without my knowledge? <b style="color: black;">Kailash29792</b> (talk)  13:33, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * firstly, I'm not sure what rules you're talking about, and secondly, the only God I worship in this regard is WP:AT, the article titling policy, and in particular its reader-centric wording which tells us to use names which will be recognizable to readers. Disambiguating the various Boss films according to the language they are released in, clearly a fundamental feature of the film which everyone will know when searching, should be much much clearer to readers than using the year, which means you expect readers to know whether the film was released in 2006, 2011, 2013 or also 2013. Can you honestly tell me your move is a good one for readers? &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 13:40, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I went with what WP:PFILM suggests: "If one film is the primary topic, name its article after the film's title without any means of disambiguation. For the other films (or all the films, if none of them are the primary topic), add the year of its first verifiable release (including film festival screenings)". <b style="color: black;">Kailash29792</b> (talk)  13:45, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Well fine, if that makes you feel happy then so be it. The year convention is good for most cases, e.g. when there are two American films of the same name, as a clear and obvious disambiguator... but when you have a series of films released within a short timeframe, indeed two of them were actually in the same year of 2013, with the key recognizable difference between the four being the language of release, it is clearly far more logical to use that language as the disambiguator. The pillars of Wikipedia instruct as that "The principles and spirit matter more than literal wording, and sometimes improving Wikipedia requires making exceptions", and I'm struggling to see how your reversion of my "absurd" move is in any way beneficial. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 14:07, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

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"Visa" or "Travel" requirements?
Dear Amakuru, I just saw that you contested my proposal of moving Travel requirements for Polish citizens to Visa requirements for Polish citizens for legitimate reasons. Would you like to contribute to the discussion about moving Visa requirements for German citizens to Travel requirements for German citizens to help us reach a consensus? I would be very grateful to you, Kind regards, Thearones (talk) 21:36, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

New York
Its interesting Talk:New York quite obviously had a consensus among the limited participation due to the early close against the move but I wander if it hadn't been withdrawn if it would have resulted in a strong consensus against the move which would have made it a User:Born2cycle/Yogurt Principle.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 22:13, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 * yes, well I would have labelled it a yogurt principle long before the 2017 move even took place, so I don't need any more proof here. The main point is that it's somewhat hard to get the move done in the first place, people are stuck in their ways about the status quo, but once it's done, there's simply no way you'd even consider reversing it. It's taken seven years for another RM to emerge, and that's only because seemingly the OP doesn't fully understand how primary topics work. Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton was another one. I know the yogurt principle is deeply controversial, partly because some people don't like its author, but it isn't a guideline or instruction, it's just a description of something that happens naturally quite often. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 22:23, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Its indeed very telling there there surprisingly hasn't been any RMs since 2017. New York is at User:Crouch, Swale/Yogurt which I created back in 2018. I personally think the yogurt principal is useful despite as you says its controversial unfortunately because some people have a problem with its author. As a similar point of note if I was and admin today without restrictions I wander what the chances of me getting restrictions or even loosing my admin tools? I think if I was an admin today with not restrictions its quite possible that there may be a new niggles with my use of admin tools or article creation but I doubt there would be consensus to topic ban me or even revoke my admin tools. I feel this is a similar principal, someone inexperienced gets into trouble and later learns but the community hold it against them and make it 10 times more difficult. I've heard people talk about the poverty trap or people getting involved in crime not being able to get out of it namely due to their crimes they can't get a job so end up committing more crimes. I think this kind of problem is more common on Wikipedia than in real life and is harmful to the project and especially the user.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 23:16, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

March music
in memory of the birthday of a friend who showed me art such as this -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:46, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Rossini's Petite messe solennelle was premiered on 14 March 1864, - when I listen to the desolate Agnus Dei I think of Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:05, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Vacation pics uploaded, at least the first day, - and Aribert Reimann remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:37, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Next day, around Porto da Cruz, on Bach's birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:53, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Some days later, a calf in the mist and chocolate cake, and a story of collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:08, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for admin help with the conductor. - I listen to Bach's St John Passion today, - 300 years after it was first performed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:37, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Uyghur genocide
When is a genocide not a genocide? Anyway, your talk page is not the place to debate that - WP:RS are the place where genocide scholars should debate that, based on evidence, preferably in OA articles that are straightforward to use in Wikipedia.Please have a check on Talk:Persecution of Uyghurs in China/FAQ, which I think you either didn't notice or forgot about. I just did a minimal update in order for the FAQ answer to be more or less valid, but probably the wording could be improved. I think it's important that people reading that Q+A can easily find the "Logs and discussion" yellow box below that for the full list of discussions - it should be possible to insert the equivalent of an html id= tag to make that clickable, though I don't remember the current Wikipedia template or Mediawiki syntax to use. The content of /FAQ appears automatically on the talk page, near the top, through FAQ. Boud (talk) 19:55, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Automated messages by Twinkle
Thank you for your intervention at the talk page of User:BrownHairedGirl, but that leaves the underlying problem unsolved. Namely, there is no mechanism in WP:TWINKLE to check whether the creator of the page has been blocked. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:29, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * right, yes... that's understandable. I have no idea who develops Twinkle, but it sounds like that's something that should be added to the request list. I have no idea if BHG still has notifications set up for her talk page, but it must be pretty annoying if so, there's quite a steady stream of such notices coming through, because she was responsible for so much material during her time on the project! We also wouldn't want to protect her page completely though, because some editors might want to leave genuine messages there. It's a tough one. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 08:44, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
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Persecution of Uyghurs in China - Detention Photo Misinformation
I just want to bring your attention to a photo on the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China labeled as "Detainees listening to speeches in a camp in Lop County, Xinjiang, April 2017". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China#/media/File:Xinjiang_Re-education_Camp_Lop_County.jpg This photo is an anti-drug campaign and has been used to spread misinformation by removing the other part out as seen here: https://twitter.com/Johncodemode/status/1768910946054148096. To date there has been no evidence linking this photo to a detention camp in Xinjiang. Merryca (talk) 17:36, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

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Need some help
and had some unpleasant interactions. Would you be so kind to take a look? Thanks in advance, Polygnotus (talk) 10:00, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

I have asked both to stop interacting. I don't know what happened. If you are busy elsewhere let me know and I will ask another administrator. Polygnotus (talk) 10:04, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * as you know, I have blocked Melvin Hudson per WP:NOTHERE. Cheers &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 10:31, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! And sorry to bother you with such unpleasantness. Polygnotus (talk) 10:32, 20 March 2024 (UTC)


 * thanks! To be honest I don't do that many blocks, so I wanted to make sure I was ticking all the boxes and giving watertight reasons... &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 10:42, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * It's probably an LTA; looked like at first. But, based on the information available, you couldn't have done a better job. It was such a relief to see you come to the same conclusions, that I was sweating about having to make a case for with diffs. And I was probably investigating well before you got the call.<span id="Usedtobecool:1710933742001:User_talkFTTCLNAmakuru" class="FTTCmt"> — Usedtobecool ☎️ 11:22, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

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Page move (or not) process
Hi, I'm new to the entire business of contested page moves—I expected changing Computer Peripherals to a less misleading title to be straightforward and completely uncontroversial, since the subject is so obviously at odds with what a reader would expect. I'm unclear what I should do at this point, if anything. Do I need to start something on the article's talk page, or back off and let the discussion on the requested moves page take its course, or what? I don't want to inadvertently mess the process up on top of the existing mess of the page names. Basically I just think the obvious meaning of an article's title should be the same as its subject. Musiconeologist (talk) 18:22, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * hi, thanks for your message. To be honest it's quite annoying that your move of that page was reverted, because I do think having a disambiguation page for the title-case page Computer Peripherals and a redirect for the sentence-case page is the best outcome here. But given that your move was contested, the next step is to start a formal move request for it. If you go to WP:RM, you can see the instructions there for how to start such a request. I'll support such a move once the request is opened. Cheers  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 18:28, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help and the support. I'll do that, and let you know when I have.
 * Given that my original request is now redundant and the discussion is now about the company article, do I simply delete the request and the replies, or is that for someone else to do? In any case I'm trying to refrain from replying there any further for now.
 * Regarding the article title, I'm unsure whether to request a move to Computer Peripherals (company) or to the earlier title, which I think was Computer Peripherals, Inc. The first one seems more in keeping with other disambiguated titles and WP:AT. Musiconeologist (talk) 17:43, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK changes
I would have appreciated a ping when you made these changes to the hook I nominated, which I only noticed now. I see you were responding to WP:ERRORS here, but the same issue had been raised here, and discussion should have been centralized there; I considered it resolved when there were no further comments from @Remsense or others there.

To address the other stuff besides script vs. language, yes, it is a documentary, so it is depicting an attempt that actually occurred (which I could have clarified had I been notified). And "secret" was widely used in reliable sources writing about the script/film, so if notified it would have been trivial to add it and the hook would not have had to have been weakened. <span style="border:3px outset;border-radius:8pt 0;padding:1px 5px;background:linear-gradient(6rad,#86c,#2b9)"> Sdkb  talk 20:52, 28 March 2024 (UTC)


 * My bad for not communicating to the maximal extent I could have. Remsense  诉  20:57, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

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@Amakuru Wikipedianomar9 (talk) 12:22, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Lee's Family Foru


A tag has been placed on Lee's Family Foru requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a recently created redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. --Ahecht (<span style="color:#FFF;background:#04A;display:inline-block;padding:1px;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK PAGE ) 21:20, 2 April 2024 (UTC)