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Anna Blackburne scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 8 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) 22:17, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Always precious
Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. - Congratulations to the latest FA, a woman's biography! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you today for Anna Blackburne, "about one of the earliest woman naturalists in England, a notable collector of specimens who corresponded with Linnaeus and Pennant, among others."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:35, 8 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Remsense 诉  05:42, 8 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Today's TFA, Felix M. Warburg House, was written by Vami_IV and Epicgenius, introduced: "This article is about another of the great houses that once lined Fifth Avenue in New York. Specifically, this is the mansion of Felix M. Warburg, a Jewish financier who ignored fears of anti-Semitic reprisal to his decided to build himself a big Gothic manor in the middle of New York City. Although the Warburgs no longer remain, their legacy does: the museum is now the home of the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) and the building largely survives as they left it. It's a beautiful building and I hope you will all enjoy it."! - in memory --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:16, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:


 * with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
 * with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
 * with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
 * with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
 * with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

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Intervention request by an Administrator, please
Hi, @Kusma. I'm contacting you after visiting and. I'm having a problem with users @TylerBurden (abusing his Wikipedia rights) and @Borgenland, who are deleting my editions in the conflictive page Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 December 2023 – present). Specifically, they're deleting a properly sourced edition by me, with a highly relevant deposition by NATO's supreme commander on April 10, here and here. Then, @Tylerburden also came to my talk page to try and intimidate me, and has also erased the content in the main page about the war Russian invasion of Ukraine, here. Sorry for bothering you, but I'd need help to learn how to proceed. Best regards, MaeseLeon (talk) 18:37, 13 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I had explained to them in my edit summary as to why and have made a more detailed explanation in their talk page, but instead complainant above has made wild accusations and bad faith assumptions. Borgenland (talk) 18:57, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
 * This does not appear to be an admin matter at this point. Not everything that is sourced must be included. If you wish to explain why you think the content should be included, the best place is on the relevant talk page. —Kusma (talk) 19:25, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Arnold II of Isenburg
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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter
The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
 * with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
 * with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
 * with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
 * with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
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Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C

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Your GA nomination of Arnold II of Isenburg
The article Arnold II of Isenburg you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Arnold II of Isenburg for comments about the article, and Talk:Arnold II of Isenburg/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Yakikaki -- Yakikaki (talk) 16:23, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

傳維基璽！

 * 非常感謝！ Currently it is a bit more like a really thorough peer review than like a usual GA review, but whatever it is, I think it seems to be improving the article. I hope to get through this bit of the source review over the weekend so I can look at your overall changes (and then take stock how much still needs to be done). —Kusma (talk) 21:14, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Hello @Kusma, thank you for leaving a comment on the FA review for Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. I was wondering if you would be interested in supporting the nomination? Llewee (talk) 13:21, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Test pages
Thank you for removing the speedy on Move test page 1; would it be possible for you to also restore Move test page 2? I need multiple pages to fully test functionality. BilledMammal (talk) 13:26, 15 May 2024 (UTC)


 * @BilledMammal: sure, I only deleted that one because you had re-added the db-g2 tag. —Kusma (talk) 13:27, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you - I re-added it after remembering that the creator of a page wasn't supposed to remove the tag. BilledMammal (talk) 15:03, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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I use this as a guide. You are correct that our instructions are contradictory and unclear. Nikki said to discuss it on the page but my experience is policy discussions rarely go anywhere on WP. Hope all is well with you and that this helps. SusunW (talk) 17:48, 21 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you, this looks much better than our guide. I guess what we need is someone who rewrites our guide, not a long discussion on what colour the bikeshed should be. —Kusma (talk) 18:57, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * My thoughts exactly. If someone starts a discussion over there, I'll put in an appearance, but not likely to stick around if it is beating a dead horse. We really should fix the guide, but my experiences tell me it isn't likely. SusunW (talk) 22:44, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I have added a link to your guide and started a discussion section at that page, but as I am not volunteering to do the rewrite (having no real clue about accessibility, I can offer only goodwill, not expertise) this may lead to nothing. —Kusma (talk) 09:07, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
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Greeting from Gother.com
Hi Kusma,

I'm Sun from Gother.com, we are the online travel agency platform which operates in Thailand for a few years, and also we are partner with the large financial institutions in Thailand, you can get more detail about me from these news https://www.phocuswire.com/thailand-ota-traveligo-gets-25m-rebrands-to-gother and https://skift.com/2023/11/03/gother-raises-25-million-for-asian-online-travel-agency-startup-funding-roundup/. By the way, could you please let me know how can I revise the page to be passed the review before I submitted again. Saranonk (talk) 10:08, 28 May 2024 (UTC)


 * @Saranonk, please do not write about your own company. If you do, you need to follow everything said at Conflict of interest; Wikipedia is not a platform for advertising or promotion. —Kusma (talk) 10:51, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Kusma I understand your point, however let me clarify my intention a bit. My intention is not to advertise the company(I already advertise it in other platforms) but to give the information like who are we and what do we do, to people who is interested in the company, it's the same case as Traveloka or Agoda do. I'm very new for the Wikipedia so I would very appreciate if you suggest me how to revise content to be acceptable as the policy. Saranonk (talk) 04:47, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Statements like "The heart of Gother's branding is encapsulated in the concept Open-Ended Destination with Gother, the platform where travel means more than just destinations" are clearly advertising (and empty phrases). As at Agoda, a Wikipedia article is written using reliable, independent secondary sources (which must include any important negative content as per WP:NPOV). To qualify for an article, the sourcing must be good enough to pass the notability guidelines. —Kusma (talk) 10:37, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
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WP:GARC: Invitation to review Michael Dillon
Hello Kusma, You have been paired at good article review circles to review Michael Dillon. At the same time, another user will be reviewing the article you nominated. Please wait 24 hours or until all users have accepted their nomination before starting your review in case a user in your circle decides to decline their invite.

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Your GA nomination of Margaret Carroux
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File:Oil portrait of Alexander Buchan, before 1769.png listed for discussion
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Your GA nomination of Margaret Carroux
The article Margaret Carroux you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Margaret Carroux for comments about the article, and Talk:Margaret Carroux/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:44, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations! - Nice to see Ulf Merbold on the Main page, next to a centenarian (documentation about it by Percy Adlon); Gerhard Klingenberg had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:38, 20 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know, I had not noticed that Merbold was on OTD. Good to see the Klingenberg AFD was closed quickly. —Kusma (talk) 22:21, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * What do you think about Klingenberg's DYK nom? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Not sure what is best to do. I don't think the story about his stage name is too bad. Another angle to use is perhaps leaving the Berliner Ensemble after the wall was built? —Kusma (talk) 16:14, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Luise Duttenhofer
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Your GA nomination of Luise Duttenhofer
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Danke Kusma
Danke vielmals, dass du dich für den Artikel Benjamin Schlein eingesetzt hast. Für mich war von Anfang an klar, dass Schlein relevant ist. Ich schreibe hauptsächlich auf der deutschen Wikipedia über Mathematik de:Benutzer:Tensorproduct (170 Artikel über Mathematik). Ich hatte am Ende einfach keine Lust mehr, mit Leuten zu schreiben, bei denen ich den Eindruck hatte, sie wollten gar nicht, dass der Artikel veröffentlicht wird. Vor allem habe ich fast 40 Mathematik-Artikel in der englischen Wikipedia geschrieben, der User:Ldm1954 hat nicht 1en mathematischen Artikel geschrieben. Er beschäftigt sich ja auch mit Chemie, warum soll er wissen, wer relevant in der Mathematik ist und wer nicht. Danke vielmals für die Hilfe.--Tensorproduct (talk) 21:05, 21 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Ich verstehe deine Frustration. Leider funktionieren viele Dinge (insbesondere Neuanlage von Artikeln) hier nicht mehr so einfach wie vor 10-15 Jahren, da allgemein sowohl die Qualitätsansprüche als auch das Mißtrauen stark gestiegen sind. Viele Prozesse (gerade der Umgang mit "Draft space" ist da ein Beispiel) sind eher adversarial als kollaborativ. Es gibt natürlich gute Gründe für diese Entwicklung, insbesondere das enorme Vertrauen in die Wikipedia, das Außenstehende haben, und die daraus resultierende Macht. —Kusma (talk) 21:24, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 July newsletter
The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:


 * with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
 * with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
 * with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
 * with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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DYK for Margaret Carroux
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for another good one! - Libuše Domanínská would have turned 100 today, but I missed that ;) - Overnight, Tamara Milashkina became GA. --
 * Congrats! Carroux was actually my first new article this year, but I have a few fun projects coming up, so I hope there will be two or three more this month. —Kusma (talk) 13:08, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! - Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia, (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:27, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I didn't know we had an article on the Grand Tour! I wrote about the Mozarts' visit to the British Museum at Andrew Planta a while ago. —Kusma (talk) 11:22, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Interesting! - My story today is - because of the anniversary of the premiere OTD in 1782 - about Die Entführung aus dem Serail, opera by Mozart, while yesterday's was - because of the TFA - about Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera by Offenbach, - so 3 times Mozart again if you click on "music" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:04, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. (DYK nom open for hook suggestion or review.) If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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Sorry to say this so suddenly
Sorry to say this so suddenly, but I am going to have to cancel this GA nomination; I am having a busy week and would like to cancel this to relieve stress. Thanks. Bennett1203 (talk) 02:46, 6 July 2024 (UTC)


 * @Bennett1203, no problem. I have deleted the review page. If you want to cancel the nomination, just remove the from the talk page. —Kusma (talk) 05:05, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
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Not everyone
For User:Kusma/Beware of the Leopard, I thought you might be interested in knowing that 83% of extended-confirmed editors have never posted anything at any Village pump. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:29, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, added. I've been wondering whether to add examples where people violated WP:LEOPARD and it all became a big mess, but I am afraid Vogon-shaming could detract from the message. —Kusma (talk) 06:22, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * If you are asking my advice, then I advise against it. There's the risk that someone might decide that this one example wasn't that big of a mess, so they can probably get away with not notifying people/groups expected to object (this is exactly when it will blow up in their faces), or that they'll find counterexamples, in which things were done poorly and didn't become a big mess after all (probably because the proposal was so sensible or so unimportant that nobody would have objected even if they had been notified.  What ultimately matters is that the proposal works for people, not that you squeaked it through an official process), and so talk themselves into making the wrong choice for a less obviously acceptable proposal.  I think it is better to let them see the principle.
 * Also, shorter messages are more likely to get read, which is another reason not to add a list of examples. WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:34, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice. My original reason for not making a list was laziness. Now I am going to pretend it was wisdom :) —Kusma (talk) 08:16, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * A win–win! WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:25, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

AfD CSD G
Hi. Why you removed speedy deletion tag? I was wrong probably and violated AfD policy sorry Indiana&#39;s Football (talk) 09:10, 8 July 2024 (UTC)


 * I removed the speedy tag because it was visible on the main AfD log for the day, making it look as if it was up for speedy deletion. Other people edited the page, so I decided to close the AFD as withdrawn instead of deleting the AFD page. —Kusma (talk) 09:11, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * OK, understood Indiana&#39;s Football (talk) 09:13, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Johann Joseph Dömling
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