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Nicholas of Worcester scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 28 May 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Today's featured article/May 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/May 2024. 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 it appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 19:32, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks . The blurb looks fine to me. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:57, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of Edmund Ætheling
Congratulations, and thank you today for Nicholas of Worcester, introduced: "Nicholas was Prior of Worcester in the early twelfth century. He was the leading follower of Saint Wulfstan of Worcester and fought for the rights of monks in the church in a period when they were despised by the Norman bishops. He was a source of information for historians such as William of Malmesbury and Eadmer, who held him in great respect. He was of unknown but "exalted" descent, and may have been a son of King Harold Godwinson."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:45, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about Samuel Kummer, one of five items on the Main page - more musing on my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:57, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Today's story is about the TFA, by sadly missed Vami_IV. You supported it in 2018, thank you! For more related thoughts and music, look on my talk for 1 June. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:38, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Franz Kafka died 100 years ago OTD, hence the story. I uploaded a few pics from the visit of Graham87. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:30, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

New pics of food and flowers come with the story of Noye's Fludde (premiered on 18 June), written by Brian Boulton. I nominated Éric Tappy because he died, and it needs support today! I nominated another women for GA in the Women in Green June run, - review welcome, and more noms planned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:24, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

History of Christianity
Does your interest in history extend to this? I am hoping you would be willing to give this, especially the Middle Ages sections, a look over with a view toward achieving FA quality. Please help if you can. Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:17, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I have done some reading on this, but it only goes up to around 1000 AD. it is of course an enormous subject, and congratulations for taking it on. The article is nearly 13,000 words and WP:Size recommends that if it is over 10,000 then aspects should be split off into separate articles. I suggest that you hive off to get it down below 10,000 words, put it up for Peer review and then ping me again. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:35, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Tiger FAC
Hello. Could you review tiger for FAC? Thank you. LittleJerry (talk) 23:37, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Kensington and Bayswater
Re your revert. If you look at the bottom of the Statement of Persons Nominated, it says "Dated Friday 7 June 2024 Maxine Holdsworth Acting Returning Officer Printed and published by the Acting Returning Officer, The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London, W8 7N" Therefore, Maxine Holdsworth, as the Acting Returning Officer, is both author and publisher. Why are you expunging that important information? The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea website hosts the document, but is not named on the doc and is not the publisher of the doc either. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 10:04, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I do not see that it is useful information and so far as I know it has not been given for any other constituency. However, if given it should be correct as author and publisher, not "via", so I have edited accordingly. Dudley Miles (talk) 10:55, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

History of Anglo-Saxon England
Hi. I have been looking at your update for The History of Anglo-Saxon England article, which I think you are doing a pretty good job on. IMO the section that has caused the most controversy is the discussion between the migration model, namely the conventional versus the more recent coexistance model. Heinrich Härke in his paper about "Early Anglo-Saxon social structure" argues the case for coexistance, so I would recommend that you keep it in. I remembered I put it in myself, some time ago, after demands for "quotes" etc.. Best wishes. Wilfridselsey (talk) 09:21, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. I must admit that very little of the draft is my work as so far I have mainly concentrated on getting rid of the text based on unreliable sources. I have not yet looked at Harke, but I do have a copy. I think that all this earlier discussion will probably need to be revised in the light of the latest genetic results in the Gretzinger paper at . Dudley Miles (talk) 17:37, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi
Hi, I see you have an interest in subjects that are Medieval-related, so perhaps you can check this narwhal FAC? The Medieval-related part of this article is in the Relationship with humans section. Thanks for your time, Wolverine XI   ( talk to me ) 09:08, 5 July 2024 (UTC)