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2024


Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy New Year

2024

Same location pictured as 2019.

Thank you for the hook suggestion for the coloratura. Good idea, and constructive, for a welcome change. I'm busy this weekend, house full of guests, so can't research. La Grand Macabre Schott is something I found before, but haven't read it all.

Generally: when I mention role, it's never arbitrary but about the singer's strengths. Some "one of the hardest" should not be in the singers' articles, but the one about the opera. I think the acrobatic coloratura from ALT2a serves the purpose. There are few singers who can tackle the role, not only because the anti-anti-opera is so rarely performed. I wrote about Sara Bershkowitz who took the "aria" for a "caricature" of Donald Trump as part of a Dutch open-air concert, - too bad that the video is no longer online, - it was hilarious. Back to cleaning. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:17, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Miniature research: "Gepopo" yields seven finds on Wikipedia: Coloratura soprano, the opera, and a few singers, - never heard the names of the three others. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:22, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
I had no time for the singer but was pinged to an ALT just now. I wonder how to achieve respect for opera singers not just doing their job, but creating something outstanding and unique ;) - did Beethoven just do his job when he wrote his cello sonatas? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:56, 10 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Well, we're getting beyond my knowledge base. :) I do want to emphasize that my motivation here is to get readers to the article. My opinion, which I know doesn't align perfectly with yours, is that in absence of a hook that both includes their doing something outstanding in their field and also is hooky, second best is hooky, as at minimum it'll expose readers to the article subject. Valereee (talk) 17:51, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I wasn't clear, - I wasn't speaking about this particular one, but the leading guidance: an opera singer performing a role at some house is just doing her job, not noteworthy. No, I say. - But my time goes to those who recently died, - no problems with hooks and wordings, just a name, and a four-five digit number will read. Chris Karrer right now. Ryland Davies attracted more readers by just his name on RD than yesterday's DYK. Mozart's opera got more clicks than he did, and that's what I like! - However, I wish Ms. Nekhames a long life, - DYK is all I can do for her ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I have a DYK on the Main page, but my story would be different, about Figaro, - this Figaro. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:22, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
 * On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:54, 16 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your help with the nom for Anna Nekhames! Getting Ewa Podleś to the Main page, for several days, was soooo much easier ;) - on vacation - check places, so little time for this --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:07, 26 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Yeah, RD is relatively straightforward. Is the article in good shape? Post. If not, get it in good shape and ask again. Valereee (talk) 13:05, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, exactly, and I love it, and opera singers get 5-digit views. And then you go to DYK and despair ;) - Taking tons of pictures, 23 chosen for 23 Jan, 6 uploaded, too tired for more - on my talk you see that it's the birthday of Mozart and our conductor ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:09, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Today a friend's birthday, with related music and a few new vacation pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:27, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024
Hello. Some of your recent genre changes have conflicted with our neutral point of view and/or verifiability policies. While we invite all users to contribute constructively to Wikipedia, we urge all editors to provide reliable sources for edits made. When others disagree, we recommend you seek consensus for certain edits by discussing the matter on the article's talk page. Thank you. Conversation has obviously still been ongoing, and we don't "Vote" for consensus as you had done at WP:CON. Andrzejbanas (talk) 13:14, 29 January 2024 (UTC)


 * @Andrzejbanas, I suggest you revert yourself at Horror film. You are demonstrating extremely disruptive behavior there. Valereee (talk) 13:16, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd really appreciate it if you were following Civility when making further edits. Comments like this here are not constructive. If you want to make the content on the article work, great. Let's do it. If you are just trying to attack me and ignore suggestions, but let it be known, I've made several attempts to apologize and move forward which is the push of that. Andrzejbanas (talk) 00:52, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Not cool is about as mild as it gets, especially in response to canvassing. Templating an editor involved in an ANI thread examining your behavior at an article about that article is also not cool. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 00:58, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * , I didn't template them about that, I templated them going ahead of a conversation that I believe was made out of the blue. This editor has been going out of there way to make sure my character is the case of argument about prose. I'm happy to dig out the examples. Andrzejbanas (talk) 01:05, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Please dig out the examples, @Andrzejbanas. Valereee (talk) 22:37, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Well just below I've asked what I can do to appeal to you. I've never received a response the few times I've done it and I can't really show that with diffs. But even here you said that me suggesting of even attempting something new on the talk page was ownership of the article. I asked how? You did not respond. I want to work with you, and have not been getting responses when I ask what I can do to make it work. You are not obligated to do so, but I'm not sure at all where suggesting an edit on a talk page is claiming ownership. You've also removed your own edits which you've stated in your own notes they could be interpreted as antagonizing. You've edited your own responses here as you are being very careful to feel like you aren't antagonizing me. But a big ":D" did not feel like you were joking. I wonder what you meant, and your free to explain or whatever. Anyways. I'd love an actual response to points made. Andrzejbanas (talk) 23:12, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, point by point. At your first above diff, even with your own handpicked editor's offer to write something -- which both GI60 and I were saying we wanted to see -- you were still saying you would write it. To me, as many of your earlier edits that I've detailed twice in 15 diffs, that looks like you are insisting on your own version. To me that is ownership. That big smiley emoji did indeed strike me as unhelpful sarcasm, which is why I removed it literally seconds later. What I meant with the edit (and the laughter) was exactly what I said...you'd accused me of ignoring you, when I'd literally written a 15-part post detailing all the ways you were demonstrating problematic behavior in the discussion, and you never responded to it. I believe this responds to all the points you've made in your above post. Valereee (talk) 08:06, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
 * As for the canvasing, I did initially find little worth in the citations. Since then, we have found more. I shouldn't have phrased it like that. I apologize, what more do you want from me? Andrzejbanas (talk) 01:09, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

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Need urgent admin Intervention
Hi,

I've encountered an issue with another Wikipedia user regarding my recent edits to the page 'List of highest-grossing Malayalam films.' The dispute unfolded on my talk page. Initially, I added a proper reference with a slight delay, and the user expressed dissatisfaction. Today, when I added multiple references, one was deemed unreliable without my awareness, despite the other reference being reliable and previously used by the user. The matter has been reported to the administrator's noticeboard for incidents. I believe no mistake occurred on my part. Can you please intervene and help find a resolution?

Thanks Tusk001 (talk) 18:30, 3 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Content disputes aren't actually urgent unless they involve WP:BLP or WP:MEDRS. It looks like you're WP:Admin shopping; you should go respond at ANI. Valereee (talk) 18:52, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Tusk001 I am not Valereee but your remedy is to start a discussion on the article's talk page and invite the other editor there. Based on the edit summaries, it appears they have an issue with the sources are you are using.  See WP:BRD for additional information about handling content disputes.  S0091 (talk) 18:52, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks, DN. That's very kind of you. Would you be willing to talk again about your user name? I'll try to keep it very low-key this time. Valereee (talk) 10:12, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

John Koetsier Page
I am trying to retrieve an article about John Koetsier, who is a BLPs. The article had citations from Adweek, Forbes, and MarTech, Inc. I'd like to know why the article was deleted. I spent a lot of time collecting and formatting what I believed to be an authentic representation of this journalist and his work. JoeK2033 (talk) 19:03, 8 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hey, @JoeK2033, I see nothing in the sources that supports a claim to notability for John Koetsier. Which three of those 70 citations shows wp:sigcov of the article subject in wp:reliable sources that are wp:independent of the article subject? That's our minimum requirement. Valereee (talk) 19:39, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * You might want to look at this article Olivia Dalton as there is less than five. JoeK2033 (talk) 19:47, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * It doesn't really matter to the article about Koetsier whether there are other articles that are just as bad, but I've now tagged that one for multiple issues. Valereee (talk) 19:52, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, forgot to ping @JoeK2033. Valereee (talk) 19:56, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Valereee, That's fair. Let me know if you want me to give you more questionable articles. Enjoy your day! JoeK2033 (talk) 20:00, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @JoeK2033, you can just tag them yourself. The easiest way is to use Twinkle, which you can enable at Preferences>Gadgets>Twinkle. Valereee (talk) 20:30, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

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Today I am happy about a singer on the Main page (at least for the first hours - after almost-despair), following TFA the same day last year. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:14, 7 February 2024 (UTC)


 * How sad that he had to retire so soon after one of his triumphs. Valereee (talk) 16:51, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes. - Thanks to Seiji Ozawa. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:17, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

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The hoax (continued)

 * Courtesy links: User talk:Valereee/Archive 56
 * Special:Permalink/1182002259 (removed by Bbb23)

Good morning. The above and Future Perfect at Sunrise, who has just done the same to User talk:Nassis13 appear to be the Naughty Boys. They could refresh their knowledge of policy by reading WP:TPO. Both have had their tools removed, but Future Perfect at Sunrise likes to hide criticism of himself (blocking the reporter) against WP:INVOLVED. Here's what he removed yesterday:

"My source is newer than yours, ergo my source is reliable and yours isn't"

Piffle! The nearer in time a source is to the events it describes the more reliable it is likely to be. Chris Bennett (now deceased) was nearly blocked for touting this nonsense. Future Perfect at Sunrise has been de-sysopped.

Bennett insisted that a 1967 theory that before Caesar's reform February had 28 days and 23 or 24 in leap year was correct, and contemporary writers who confirmed that it had 23 days in leap year and was followed by an "intercalary" month of 28 days were wrong. Bennett claimed that the "intercalary" month they were referring to was February! There is no evidence that in leap year the festival of 24 February was celebrated on that day and not together with all the other festivals of the last five days of February, which in leap year were observed on the last five days of the intercalary month (the date ante diem whatever kalendas martias) remained the same. If you're wondering about the "intercalary month" it was inserted for the same reason that Easter jumps about. See. 86.6.5.96 (talk) 11:41, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

"Forever and ever and ever" Amen - Favonian

I'm taking over from 80.43.82.69 as Favonian has cut her talk page access. I'm copying her comments here and adding some of my own. The 17:13, 4 August 2023 comment goes under TheDragonFire300's comment of 10:12, 4 August in the ANI discussion headed "Future Perfect at Sunrise." The remainder goes at the end. Please take this opportunity, as if you don't we will only be back at ANI (or perhaps ArbCom) next time FP@S riles somebody.

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 * Wow!  Perform an advanced search in "Wikipedia" and "Wikipedia talk" against "Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents Future Perfect at Sunrise".   There are 943 hits.   No. 6 is Requests for arbitration/Macedonia 2.   No. 7 is Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1025 of December, 2019,the last serious attempt to deal with this problem.   Skimming the edit summaries, I see things like


 * long-term abuse (12:26, 11 July 2022) removing a complaint that an administrator had inserted the words Testicle, Scrotum, Edible testicle and Test icle" into articles

and checking the content, things like baiting a Bulgarian editor by describing Bulgaria as "a banana republic." I'll come back to this as this page is under attack.@SouthernResidentOrca: 80.43.82.69 (talk) 17:13, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

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Some more importunate edit summaries:


 * Can we please stop the idiotic ethnic coatracking here? (22:24, 10 January 2020)
 * more absurd ethnic WP:COATRACK removed (09:48, 11 January 2020)
 * copy edit and tone-down the source doesn't allege tracing it to the Turkish government (09:25, 30 January 2020).  What the source actually refers to is "a state-backed cyber espionage operation."
 * keep your tedious politicizing out (11:07, 17 March 2020)
 * What are you talking about? (11:58, 16 September 2021)
 * Really, people, the pettiness of it all is breathtaking (18:50, 4 November 2021)
 * Seriously, people, start writing proper English before you edit-war over adjectives (13:35, 16 May 2020)
 * how often do you need to be told? (17:09, 19 December 2021)
 * talk pages are for talking to a user, not about a user.  If you don't have anything constructive to say, stay out. (18:57, 19 December 2021)
 * complete nonsense (21:31, 10 March 2022)
 * no patience (15:49, 19 March 2022)
 * nonsense (20:06, 27 August 2022)
 * irrelevant rubbish (20:07, 27 August 2022)
 * rv, obnoxious POV coat-racking and quite irrelevant here (09:39, 22 November 2022)
 * how often do you need to be told (16:25, 25 February 2023)
 * rv, that was still a posting by banned user VXfC, don't reinstate (09:33, 29 May 2023)  Contravenes WP:ADMINACCT and WP:BRV.   Zip Orlando claims I am this person but likewise offers no evidence.
 * stop pestering us (05:42, 22 June 2023)

Still looking.

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Please copy the above over to the ANI discussion. I can't because I've been blocked by the administrator who added the dick words to the articles.@SouthernResidentOrca: 80.43.82.69 (talk) 18:08, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * rv, that was a banned user posting (08:28, 10 June 2021)  .   Pinging also JPxG as this concerns you.   Material for the Signpost here?
 * rm, banned pest (17:42, 18 July 2021)  It's actually a graphic description of Future Perfect's modus operandi .   Pinging also The Rambling Man as this concerns you.@JPxG: @SouthernResidentOrca: @The Rambling Man: 80.43.82.69 (talk) 18:59, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

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Still looking.80.43.82.69 (talk) 19:02, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * rm garbage (08:40, 28 April 2020)
 * wouldn't it be nice if people who don't know any English just crept back under the rock they came from, rather than butchering our articles. (13:15, 16 May 2020)
 * when will some people learn... (08:17, 26 May 2020)
 * and North Macedonia, when the latter changed its name to North Macedonia"?! How absurd can bad writing get? (20:49, 4 June 2020)
 * rm, banned user (14:02, 9 June 2020) FP@S apparently took umbrage at the quote, which was:

Lakehouse will not tolerate acts of unlawful discrimination, derogatory, racist or sexist remarks, innuendoes [sic] or racial and sexual harassment towards anyone. If proven, the individual will be permanently removed from site.

A question: Couldn't find a mention of "you are allowed to reinstate them only if you are prepared to take full ownership of them - i.e. be treated as if every single word of the posted material had been written originally by you" at WP:BANREVERT, rather I found "this does not mean that edits must be reverted just because they were made by a banned editor. Did I get it mistaken? The stress killed him weeks later. FP@S has blood on his hands. After a gruelling six-month trial a defendant is acquitted by the jury. The judge says "You are free to go." Then just as the defendant reaches the door of the court the judge says "Stop! I've changed my mind. Life imprisonment! Take her down!
 * out (08:37, 16 June 2020)
 * Let's wrap this so we can go watch Royal Ascot: banned (12:52, 19 June 2020) Unhat the comment to reveal all. This was 2 minutes after he described an editor as an "idiot" on his talk page. Now, where's my copy of the Terms of Use?
 * rv, naive nonsense (15:08, 17 July 2020)
 * actually, sources are contradictory about whether he was actually killed that way or whether he was regularly strangled after he put up a fight during which somebody caught him by his balls. Unnecessary anyway. (07:18, 9 August 2020) No comment.
 * seriously (15:41, 28 August 2020) When FP@S uses this word it's a threat to terrorise an editor (in this case Aditya) by abusing his admin powers. Read the diff to discover the comments which he so assiduously revision deleted over and over again later in the year.
 * Protected User talk:Aditya Kabir (21:12, 2 September 2020) Aditya had told him:
 * What are you talking about? (16:21, 8 September 2020)
 * groan, not again (10:57, 18 September 2020)
 * (11:48, 10 October 2020) Removing a defence submission from a case page. The submission read (in part):
 * banned user (13:22, 19 November 2020) The quote is highly relevant.
 * seriously, back off, Bugs. If you're too lazy to engage with the OP's question, just shut the f**k up and stop parading your ignorance. Removing disruptive posting. (22:26, 16 January 2021) [No asterisks in original].
 * who keeps bringing this nonsense back in? (08:50, 6 March 2021)

Distribution:@JPxG: @Jack Sebastian: @SouthernResidentOrca: @TheDragonFire300: @The Rambling Man: 92.8.149.85 (talk) 13:29, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

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While I'm here, the Archbishop of Athens in April 1924 published a circular in the newspaper SKRIP confirming that the Greek Orthodox Church and the government had switched to the Revised Julian calendar, the Church from the Julian and the government from Barnaba Oriani's 1785 calendar introducing the system of dropping 7 leap years every 900 years. The fact was duly referenced. Future Perfect at Sunrise screamed "How dare you say that Greece isn't using the Gregorian calendar!  I'm removing the rubbish reference and replacing it with a statement by the U S social security minister (who doesn't speak a word of Greek) that Greece uses the Gregorian calendar!   And because you dared to challenge me I'm protecting the articles Adoption of the Gregorian calendar, Gregorian calendar and Julian calendar forever and banning you forever as well! 86.6.5.96 (talk) 12:30, 12 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Favonian's behaviour is deteriorating.  At what point may it be referred to ArbCom for Level 1 or Level 2 de-sysop?   He has just reverted seven edits with summary (rv WP:LTA/VXFC per WP:BMB) and blocked for a year with no supporting evidence.   Although he says he's reverted the "LTA" page he hasn't edited it at all.   Moreover, the seven edits are all constructive:

(1) Enquiry about the meaning of an inn sign (2) Comment about Biblical names (3) A comment on the history of timekeeping (4) (5) (6) Placing anno domini (in the year of Our Lord) before the year so it makes sense (7) Update of a BLP with the subject's marriage

I've also looked at recent editing on the "LTA" page. It was untouched for exactly five months until The Wordsmith added an IPv6 range exactly one month ago alleging sockpuppetry. No reasoning was given. There are six edits spread over two days:

(1) A comment that countries adjust their time zone to enjoy lighter evenings (2) A comment about forms of address (3) (4) Reformatting a disjointed discussion (5) (6) These two comments made to an administrator prove that the IPv6 is NOT "VXfC" but that didn't stop The Wordsmith making the allegation (without evidence) and it didn't stop Ivanvector blocking for three months (again without providing any evidence). The "LTA" page appears to be an incipient disaster for the Foundation - it was deliberately published in defiance of policy, the allegations are unsupported by diffs, and after his string of allegations was proven false User talk:Superpes15 the administrator responsible has done a bunk.

Although I say Favonian's behaviour is deteriorating, I see from the original report under this section that Future Perfect at Sunrise carefully hid (on 11 July 2022) a report about him inserting obscene content into articles. 92.12.76.64 (talk) 17:45, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Editors have already begun reverting Favonian's reverts. 92.12.76.64 (talk) 18:09, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2024 March newsletter
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:


 * , who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
 * , who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
 * , who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
 * , 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

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to, who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. 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 it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)