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 * Find a page, click "edit". There are a lot of instructions at Help:Introduction. —Kusma (talk) 10:46, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

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Battle of the Atlantic
Just a note to say that I was mistaken in reverting your edit to Talk:Battle of the Atlantic. Under any sort of military history heading I feel I would have been correct (the Battle of the Atlantic went on for the whole war, was the key enabler for D-Day, etc., etc., - as per article). What I had not spotted that your edit referred to Germany articles. (Working too late!) ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 07:26, 16 June 2021 (UTC)


 * @ThoughtIdRetired: No problem at all. My first edit summary didn't clarify the context very well. (I totally agree that this is a key battle, but "Germany" is a vast topic area). —Kusma (talk) 08:13, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Inspiration pages
Hi Kusma! Thanks for your support on Discord the other day for the idea of identifying companion good/featured articles for less-developed pages. I created Inspiration page to follow up on it, and I'll make a bot request to see if it's possible to get it populated on some pages. Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 02:22, 18 June 2021 (UTC)


 * @Sdkb: Thanks for letting me know! Do you think there might be a way to request inspirations? I'm not totally sold on Yet Another Talk Page Banner (there's already too little discussion and too many banners on most talk pages), but I'm happy to see this started at least as an experiment. —Kusma (talk) 08:11, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm not fully sold either on a banner being the best form for it, but it was the thing I could make. I'd also be interested in seeing it made as a tool; the question would then just be how the tool would be activated. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 16:32, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @Sdkb, my favourite would be something like a sibling of User:SuggestBot, see User:SuggestBot/Requests. You could put a request on, say, an article talk page and the bot would come up with inspire suggestions. —Kusma (talk) 17:08, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * That's a really good thought! &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 19:32, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for Fermat's Last Tango
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Thank you for an exquisite DYK, and for reaching the 25 DYK threshold! I'd give you a medal but don't like its design, so please take some impressions of places, flowers and music instead. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:28, 24 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I'm planning to work on some improvements next, so it may be some time until I get a lot more DYKs, but we'll see whether my plans change again (they always do). As for medals, I just put all of mine into a drawer that I only open to put new ones in, so the design doesn't matter too much to me :) —Kusma (talk) 15:32, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
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 * That's a great shot of Kloster Eberbach, hope you had a good time! —Kusma (talk) 19:31, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Samuel Engel
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Request Marie Therese Forster (Q94755192)
Hello Kusma, Could you also write / translate the article about Marie Therese Forster (Q94755192) for the EN wikipedia? That would be appreciated. Boss-well63 (talk) 14:24, 25 June 2021 (UTC)


 * @Boss-well63 (Link: Q94755192). Yes, I'd be happy to do that. I'll probably write a new article using the same sources (and will look through my pile of Georg Forster biographies as well). Getting Therese Huber to GA status is on my long term wish list, maybe learning more about the daughter will help :) Just curious: What made you think of me as a potential writer for this? —Kusma (talk) 14:42, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @User:Kusma because of your liking Georg Forster of course. Boss-well63 (talk) 14:48, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I really need to fix some issues with that article so it deserves its star better. —Kusma (talk) 15:34, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @Boss-well63, please have a look at Therese Forster. Thank you for the suggestion to write this article! I need to sleep now, but will soon add more on her works (and think about incoming links). —Kusma (talk) 23:28, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
 * And do you know more about Lettres d’Emilie à son père? —Kusma (talk) 23:36, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
 * @User:Kusma Thank you very much. You can also add Henriette L'Hardy. According to the introduction in the Oeuvres complètes of Charrière the novel of Therese was written as pedagogic project. First writing in French, than translating in German. At last comparing it with the translation of her stepfather. You have to wait till december 2021 when all the letters both from and to Isabelle de Charrière will come online in modern French with all new finds. See https://charriere.huygens.knaw.nl/ After that translations in Dutch and English will come. Boss-well63 (talk) 10:01, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
 * @Boss-well63, I could only get a snippet view of this in the Oeuvres complètes, but hope to read the whole text eventually. That database of letters is an amazing resource! —Kusma (talk) 22:10, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

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Disambiguation link notification for July 15
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited A Voyage Round the World, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page South Georgia.

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Request for recreation of Fiji Chief of Justice Kamal Kumar
Hello Mr/Ms Kusma, I want to create Kamal Kumar, Chief of Justice Fiji incumbent. You have already deleted it, I've seen the notification when trying to create it; that it's had been deleted by you. So i want to let you know that I'm going to create it if its ok and wouldn't be a problem for recreating it. Nigerlite (talk) 09:18, 30 July 2021 (UTC)


 * @Nigerlite, the page I deleted was connected to Draft:Kamal Kumar, a (deleted) page about a Nepali journalist who appears to share the same name. I see absolutely no problem with creating a page about a current Chief Justice of Fiji at this title. Happy editing, —Kusma (talk) 09:29, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Alright, thanks. Nigerlite (talk) 11:11, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary
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 * @Gerda Arendt, thank you! Seems like we've been here for a while now. 🙂 —Kusma (talk) 08:10, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Therese Forster
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A Voyage Round the World in paperback? Hardback?
Hey there. I was reading through your wonderful work on Georg Forster's report A Voyage Round the World. It has left me wondering if there are any (affordable) editions of the work to pick up. Do you have a copy on your shelf? The only one I've been able to find is around ~CA$75 per volume (~US$60), which is a bit much for a work in the public domain. Cheers.  Tkbrett  (✉) 12:29, 26 August 2021 (UTC)


 * @Tkbrett, glad you like the article! I'm waiting for a copyedit, then I'll have another look at everything and finally nominate it for FA. To answer your question: As far as I know, there are no paperback versions of the 1968 and 2000 editions (I own both of these, bought used through AbeBooks for about £20-25 (CA$35-45) plus shipping each). The 2000 two-volume edition is on The Wikipedia Library here, so you can at least see the contents. On Abebooks, I can see a lot of print-on-demand softcover versions (essentially photocopies of the 1777 original) but nothing too enticing. Not nearly as nice as the 2007 German edition (I also own that). BTW I visited my parents recently and talked my dad into giving me his copy of the German translation of In His Own Write. I still have to check whether there's anything from the translator's note in the book worth adding to the article. Happy editing, —Kusma (talk) 14:40, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

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