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You are asking me, “Why did I cite a video game as a reference?” I did so when talking about the national anthem of Martinique. OMGShay 92 (talk) 16:27, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Where did you cite a video game on wikipedia? voorts (talk/contributions) 16:30, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you today for Cora Agnes Benneson, introduced: "Cora Agnes Benneson was a late-19th and early-20th century American attorney. She was one of the first women to open her own law practice in New England, a member of several organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an accomplished writer and lecturer. Benneson was also a complicated figure; she held nativist beliefs and her feminism saw marriage and raising children as natural for women (although she herself never married nor had children)."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:03, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Continuing from her talk, because it's not just that article. In encyclopedias, written or web, I am used to seeing four things right at the beginning of a biogaphy: when and where born, when and where died. Look at the German Wikipedia, for example de:Mozart. In the English Wikipedia, however, these facts are expected to be in the infobox, and therefore the places of birth and death can be omitted from the lead, look at Mozart. Can we agree so far? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:11, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure that the average reader of Wikipedia expects there to be an infobox or certain facts to be in it. To figure that out, I think we'd have to look at something like what percentage of the most-visited articles have infoboxes. Both the German and English Mozart articles look fine to me; it's just a different way of presenting the same information. voorts (talk/contributions) 22:46, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I wasn't clear, - English is not my first language. I believe German and English have different concepts, German has the info (DOB, POB, DOD, POD) in the first sentence, English has it in the infobox. The English MoS seems to rely on an infobox, and can thus do without the places in the prose. I believe that an article without infobox should have this information in the first sentence, like the Germans (and Italians ...) do. I also believe that the English system is better, freeing the prose from clutter and offering the facts on the side (only) for those who care. - Did you know that the infobox for Mozart was the result of several RfCs over a decade, the last closed in 2023. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Yesterday I listened in concert to Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, with Sabine Meyer: a delight (yt with same people). - Today's story is about Ruth Hesse, with a pic in the article only, sadly. I found it difficult to point at a YouTube sample, because yes, her signature roles - the Nurse and Brangäne - exist in great full-length operas with great casts, but hard to find her. - Talking of YouTube: today I was pointed at Elijah by a friend who performed in the concert of the Dessoff Choirs in their centenary year, and I'm quite impressed by samples (beginning and No. 32 where I linked it) - enjoy! --(forgot to sign)
 * Congrats to another GA! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:34, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for improving article quality in July! - 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. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:18, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Costello's
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Your GA nomination of Costello's
The article Costello's you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Costello's for comments about the article, and Talk:Costello's/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 Rollinginhisgrave -- Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 21:24, 19 July 2024 (UTC)