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Hi Ritchie333 , just a quick note to say I found the John Earle wiki entry which i believe you set up and wanted to thank you. The subject was my Father and i've been trying to get a wiki page for him off the ground for some time. If you dont mind i would like to contribute more to this page as I know of events / sources that can be referenced as I've been collecting material towards committing his life to print. If you have any problems or questions I'll be happy to talk further. Keep up the good work ! Regards Ibe1972 ( talk) 15:38, 16 August 2016 (UTC) ibe1972
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G'day from Oz; I have no opinion of the situation that MartinEvans123 currently finds himself in, I have spent the last 10-20 minutes reading a bit about it. I recall him in a vague way as a good editor, and he is definitely not on my mental list of Wikipedia fuck-knuckles. Anyway, I just wanted to draw your attention to this, which is what prompted my recent interest. Cheers YSSYguy ( talk) 05:19, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
DYK Hook help needed. I'd like to use the headline of this review, which is in German. First problem is the translation. It's short for (in the article) "Wie wuchtig diese junge, irische Braut, auf dem Wege nach Cornwall, um dort von Tristan an König Marke ausgeliefert zu werden, ihre Verzweiflung herausschleudert!" which Google renders as "How important these young Syrian Bride, on the way to Cornwall to be there shipped from Tristan to King Marke, their desperation flings!" How they get from Irish to Syrian is some mystery to me (irisch vs. syrisch shouldn't be too much of a problem). Why, with bride a singular, they use plural pronouns, another. I learned "extradite" as probably the closest to "ausgeliefert" here. Problem key words: "wuchtig", which is something at the same time with weight and with force, and "herausschleudern", a sportive word used as a metapher. I said (so far) "powerful" and "catapulted", - improvements welcome, also a potential hook here. EEng, am I right that you would use "ejaculated"? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:19, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
For comparison, same piece, same author whose article Dr. Blofeld started today, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:31, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
Your close has a red link which should go here, - the next request would be III. Did you see who wrote "Is all this grief and drama necessary?"? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:36, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
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Is it okay to restore everything through the section titled "Proponents" in the text EEng removed while we discuss that section? LavaBaron ( talk) 09:29, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
On 17 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article L.A. Woman, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jim Morrison recorded some vocals for the Doors' L.A. Woman in the bathroom doorway? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/L.A. Woman. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, L.A. Woman), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile ( talk) 00:06, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
On 18 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kelly's of Cornwall, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kelly's of Cornwall produced the first advertisement shown on national British television to feature the Cornish language? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kelly's of Cornwall. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Kelly's of Cornwall), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile ( talk) 12:13, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
By an ice creamy coincidence, that appears to have been my 99th DYK. Yum... Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:52, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
I thought we had a pleasant discussion above, and I'm sorry if I said something to make it seem like I was WP:DEADHORSEing. I won't post on your Talk page further, but I did want to take a quick moment to express my regret if my conversation was unwelcome. Best - LavaBaron ( talk) 11:22, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Hey Ritchie, can you move Untitled tenth Metallica studio album to Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, since Metallica recently announced the title. Thanks.-- Retrohead ( talk) 20:00, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
LazyFox980 is a new user and has created Japoodle; I PROD'd it as not notable (see, I was trying to be nice by not saying: "Huh, another 'breed' someone just made up"). The edit summary when the PROD was removed says s/he is doing a class course. My inclination is to take it straight to AfD ('cos I'm narky like that) but what do you think? The three refs used at present are: only about Poodles; a forum; and a Mail article that is actually castigating 'designer dogs' with no mention of a "Japoodle". On a quick search I am finding absolutely zilch except "breeders" trying to sell pups ... ... SagaciousPhil - Chat 14:16, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
Sorry for the accidental rollback of things on your talkpage. Was on my phone, and accidentally clicked on rollback. Joseph 2302 07:56, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I see that you contribute to music articles so if you've got time and interest, please consider leaving comments for PR of Ms Swift regarding its prose which I don't feel is under a very good condition. FrB.TG ( talk) 21:25, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
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Your IP experiment makes me more conscious and careful of what should I do when reverting edits! Please accept my apology for giving you these tasty fresh strawberries. Thank you! NgYShung huh? 08:38, 21 August 2016 (UTC) |
Hi Ritchie333,
I am writing in regards to the deletion of the 18Birdies article. When it was originally flagged for speedy deletion yesterday, I pointed out to the editor that a similar competitor, GolfNow, was granted a page, so I wanted to know what the difference was. She let me know they were given a page because they received media coverage in mainstream outlets (Forbes, Business Insider) and advised to wait until 18Birdies received similar coverage. However, I want to let you know that within the golf industry, the biggest golf publication has under one million unique visitors a month. 18Birdies has been covered and interviewed by major publications such as The Examiner (2.5 million unique visitors a month), Dujour Magazine (47K+ unique visitors a month), GolfNewsNet (55k+ unique visitors a month), ESPN Radio, CBS Radio, Golf Channel Sirius FM and Golf Channel (video). These are major hits within the golf industry, but they aren't going to be covered by the Huffington Post/Forbes. The Huffington Post also mostly covers the professional game and lacks golf technology coverage.
Lastly, I wanted to mention that a majority of the coverage that GolfNow received from major publications (Forbes/GolfWeek - no longer active/Business Insider) was about either their competition with a slight mention to GolfNow or acquisition by Comcast. They have no coverage other than that in major publications. Their Forbes piece was focused on EZLinks and had some mentions of GolfNow being a competitor.
Comcast Buying GolfNow.com: http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/3/comcast-buying-golfnow-com Booking Golf Tee Times Gradually Shifting To Online Marketplace (focused on EZLinks): http://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenheitner/2013/06/15/booking-golf-tee-times-gradually-shifting-to-online-marketplace/#cbbf061646e1
I'm hoping to discuss this further, and I would be happy to jump on the phone and explain this further. Let me know if you need any further info.
Thanks Sbjumper21 ( talk) 16:26, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
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We had an edit conflict at Bournemouth Winter Gardens. It was to prevent such an eventuality that I put the "inuse" tag on the article before I started on it. I have finished now if you want to work more on it. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 11:26, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
I've had a play; seems to be working in Bing, but Google is pointing to the Gulf of Guinea. My method: extract coordinates from your XML file, order by longitude, plug them into a copy of Template:Attached KML/M4 motorway, save at Template:Attached KML/A303 road, wring out several dumb user errors. I'm not seeing what's tripping google right now. I'll look in again later. Feel free to play / delete my attempt as you like. -- Tagishsimon (talk) 14:37, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
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Gatoclass ( talk) 09:48, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
The post on RfA was critical of NeilN - that's why he reverted it. He didn't give a reason - just a cryptic comment between two asterisks. Whatever he's getting at, it might be an idea to look at the poster's previous edit, particularly paragraph 265 which discusses him. He doesn't want the voting to be fair - if he tampers with it again report him to the bureaucrats. 79.68.143.255 ( talk) 14:37, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
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@ NeilN: Okay, this is related to the complaint the IP raised on the RfA today. I backtracked and it seems a root cause was this edit (only admins can see this) marked as "serious BLP violations", which the policy says "includes slurs, smears, and grossly offensive material of little or no encyclopedic value, but not mere factual statement". The content was cited to IMDB, which as you know is a problem, and it is correct per WP:BLP to remove the content, but it was information that is believable and as the edit also puts a happy ending on the negative event in the person's life, it could be suitable to be retained if there was a better source. A revdel of the edit also prevents non-admins from looking at the diff through the history to help try and search for the claim in better sources. Therefore this does not strike me as being a correct application of RD2.
Anyway, the new user, who we must assume does not know any policies or guidelines, asks quite reasonably why he can't cite IMDB if this other article over here cites it. At this point I would explain that IMDB allows anyone to say anything so we shouldn't use it as a source, but with 5 million articles we can't possibly be consistent everywhere. As the user was angry and upset, I would seek to calm them down and hope they could be a productive editor elsewhere. Instead, you blocked the user per NLT with no other comment and have tried to censor criticism of the block. But WP:NLT says "A legal complainant may be genuinely hurt or upset. Blocking admins should encourage the user to identify factual errors in any article at issue. The user should be shown how to communicate with Wikipedia to correct errors", and an angry user saying "I'm going to sue you" in the heat of the moment is not a credible legal threat. A genuine legal threat requiring an NLT block starts with an email to legal@wmf, in my view. The user also complained that a claim of a relationship in the infobox was inaccurate or out of date; as this claim was unsourced I have completely removed it per BLP.
Reading the UTRS, I see the user has given up on Wikipedia and has told his friends and colleagues they should never edit here as it is too cliquey and impossible to do anything as an outsider. This is an extremely damaging thing to have done; not only do we have a reduced workforce, we are working against more people who hate us. I am usually a nice guy and accommodating to anyone who wants to help, and if I ever shout or get aggressive with people, it is always established editors who are punching above their station seemingly without realising. Let me reiterate : your actions cost us 4-5 editors.
You mention "do not feed the troll" - and in my view that means you let their comments stand and ignore them without drawing attention to yourself. By reverting them and getting cross, you are feeding the troll and playing into their hands.
I'm sorry this is quite a long-winded message, but if I don't come out and explain my concerns right now, it's going to end up worse. Now, you have a choice. You can take in what I say and understand where I'm coming from. Or you can refute everything I've said (either with a few words or many, either is the same). It's up to you. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 20:10, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
Stop trying to argue that everyone else is wrong and you are right. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:20, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
I remember the nice translation help for the Bayreuth Isolde, - here's another, from Der 100: Psalm.
The sooner the better, want to nominate nominated for GA while the German one enjoys mainpage attention ;) --
Gerda Arendt (
talk) 11:39, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
As I didn't wait, please make improvements directly in the article, Der 100. Psalm. Yngvadottir, can I interest you again? Searching for a good way to say "verklungen", - "fade away" seems wrong for one of the grandest endings I know. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:44, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
User:XPanettaa has asked for a deletion review of Kris Kross Amsterdam. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. — Cryptic 20:54, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Ritchie333 , just a quick note to say I found the John Earle wiki entry which i believe you set up and wanted to thank you. The subject was my Father and i've been trying to get a wiki page for him off the ground for some time. If you dont mind i would like to contribute more to this page as I know of events / sources that can be referenced as I've been collecting material towards committing his life to print. If you have any problems or questions I'll be happy to talk further. Keep up the good work ! Regards Ibe1972 ( talk) 15:38, 16 August 2016 (UTC) ibe1972
The article
Fenchurch Street railway station you nominated as a
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G'day from Oz; I have no opinion of the situation that MartinEvans123 currently finds himself in, I have spent the last 10-20 minutes reading a bit about it. I recall him in a vague way as a good editor, and he is definitely not on my mental list of Wikipedia fuck-knuckles. Anyway, I just wanted to draw your attention to this, which is what prompted my recent interest. Cheers YSSYguy ( talk) 05:19, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
DYK Hook help needed. I'd like to use the headline of this review, which is in German. First problem is the translation. It's short for (in the article) "Wie wuchtig diese junge, irische Braut, auf dem Wege nach Cornwall, um dort von Tristan an König Marke ausgeliefert zu werden, ihre Verzweiflung herausschleudert!" which Google renders as "How important these young Syrian Bride, on the way to Cornwall to be there shipped from Tristan to King Marke, their desperation flings!" How they get from Irish to Syrian is some mystery to me (irisch vs. syrisch shouldn't be too much of a problem). Why, with bride a singular, they use plural pronouns, another. I learned "extradite" as probably the closest to "ausgeliefert" here. Problem key words: "wuchtig", which is something at the same time with weight and with force, and "herausschleudern", a sportive word used as a metapher. I said (so far) "powerful" and "catapulted", - improvements welcome, also a potential hook here. EEng, am I right that you would use "ejaculated"? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:19, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
For comparison, same piece, same author whose article Dr. Blofeld started today, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:31, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
Your close has a red link which should go here, - the next request would be III. Did you see who wrote "Is all this grief and drama necessary?"? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:36, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
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Is it okay to restore everything through the section titled "Proponents" in the text EEng removed while we discuss that section? LavaBaron ( talk) 09:29, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
On 17 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article L.A. Woman, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jim Morrison recorded some vocals for the Doors' L.A. Woman in the bathroom doorway? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/L.A. Woman. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, L.A. Woman), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile ( talk) 00:06, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
On 18 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kelly's of Cornwall, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kelly's of Cornwall produced the first advertisement shown on national British television to feature the Cornish language? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kelly's of Cornwall. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Kelly's of Cornwall), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile ( talk) 12:13, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
By an ice creamy coincidence, that appears to have been my 99th DYK. Yum... Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:52, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
I thought we had a pleasant discussion above, and I'm sorry if I said something to make it seem like I was WP:DEADHORSEing. I won't post on your Talk page further, but I did want to take a quick moment to express my regret if my conversation was unwelcome. Best - LavaBaron ( talk) 11:22, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Hey Ritchie, can you move Untitled tenth Metallica studio album to Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, since Metallica recently announced the title. Thanks.-- Retrohead ( talk) 20:00, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
LazyFox980 is a new user and has created Japoodle; I PROD'd it as not notable (see, I was trying to be nice by not saying: "Huh, another 'breed' someone just made up"). The edit summary when the PROD was removed says s/he is doing a class course. My inclination is to take it straight to AfD ('cos I'm narky like that) but what do you think? The three refs used at present are: only about Poodles; a forum; and a Mail article that is actually castigating 'designer dogs' with no mention of a "Japoodle". On a quick search I am finding absolutely zilch except "breeders" trying to sell pups ... ... SagaciousPhil - Chat 14:16, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
Sorry for the accidental rollback of things on your talkpage. Was on my phone, and accidentally clicked on rollback. Joseph 2302 07:56, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello, I see that you contribute to music articles so if you've got time and interest, please consider leaving comments for PR of Ms Swift regarding its prose which I don't feel is under a very good condition. FrB.TG ( talk) 21:25, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
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Your IP experiment makes me more conscious and careful of what should I do when reverting edits! Please accept my apology for giving you these tasty fresh strawberries. Thank you! NgYShung huh? 08:38, 21 August 2016 (UTC) |
Hi Ritchie333,
I am writing in regards to the deletion of the 18Birdies article. When it was originally flagged for speedy deletion yesterday, I pointed out to the editor that a similar competitor, GolfNow, was granted a page, so I wanted to know what the difference was. She let me know they were given a page because they received media coverage in mainstream outlets (Forbes, Business Insider) and advised to wait until 18Birdies received similar coverage. However, I want to let you know that within the golf industry, the biggest golf publication has under one million unique visitors a month. 18Birdies has been covered and interviewed by major publications such as The Examiner (2.5 million unique visitors a month), Dujour Magazine (47K+ unique visitors a month), GolfNewsNet (55k+ unique visitors a month), ESPN Radio, CBS Radio, Golf Channel Sirius FM and Golf Channel (video). These are major hits within the golf industry, but they aren't going to be covered by the Huffington Post/Forbes. The Huffington Post also mostly covers the professional game and lacks golf technology coverage.
Lastly, I wanted to mention that a majority of the coverage that GolfNow received from major publications (Forbes/GolfWeek - no longer active/Business Insider) was about either their competition with a slight mention to GolfNow or acquisition by Comcast. They have no coverage other than that in major publications. Their Forbes piece was focused on EZLinks and had some mentions of GolfNow being a competitor.
Comcast Buying GolfNow.com: http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/3/comcast-buying-golfnow-com Booking Golf Tee Times Gradually Shifting To Online Marketplace (focused on EZLinks): http://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenheitner/2013/06/15/booking-golf-tee-times-gradually-shifting-to-online-marketplace/#cbbf061646e1
I'm hoping to discuss this further, and I would be happy to jump on the phone and explain this further. Let me know if you need any further info.
Thanks Sbjumper21 ( talk) 16:26, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
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Speak 2 me 10:19, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
We had an edit conflict at Bournemouth Winter Gardens. It was to prevent such an eventuality that I put the "inuse" tag on the article before I started on it. I have finished now if you want to work more on it. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 11:26, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
I've had a play; seems to be working in Bing, but Google is pointing to the Gulf of Guinea. My method: extract coordinates from your XML file, order by longitude, plug them into a copy of Template:Attached KML/M4 motorway, save at Template:Attached KML/A303 road, wring out several dumb user errors. I'm not seeing what's tripping google right now. I'll look in again later. Feel free to play / delete my attempt as you like. -- Tagishsimon (talk) 14:37, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
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On 25 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tamar Bridge, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a group of people removed their boobs pending a walk over the Tamar Bridge to highlight breast cancer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tamar Bridge. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Tamar Bridge), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass ( talk) 09:48, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
The post on RfA was critical of NeilN - that's why he reverted it. He didn't give a reason - just a cryptic comment between two asterisks. Whatever he's getting at, it might be an idea to look at the poster's previous edit, particularly paragraph 265 which discusses him. He doesn't want the voting to be fair - if he tampers with it again report him to the bureaucrats. 79.68.143.255 ( talk) 14:37, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
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@ NeilN: Okay, this is related to the complaint the IP raised on the RfA today. I backtracked and it seems a root cause was this edit (only admins can see this) marked as "serious BLP violations", which the policy says "includes slurs, smears, and grossly offensive material of little or no encyclopedic value, but not mere factual statement". The content was cited to IMDB, which as you know is a problem, and it is correct per WP:BLP to remove the content, but it was information that is believable and as the edit also puts a happy ending on the negative event in the person's life, it could be suitable to be retained if there was a better source. A revdel of the edit also prevents non-admins from looking at the diff through the history to help try and search for the claim in better sources. Therefore this does not strike me as being a correct application of RD2.
Anyway, the new user, who we must assume does not know any policies or guidelines, asks quite reasonably why he can't cite IMDB if this other article over here cites it. At this point I would explain that IMDB allows anyone to say anything so we shouldn't use it as a source, but with 5 million articles we can't possibly be consistent everywhere. As the user was angry and upset, I would seek to calm them down and hope they could be a productive editor elsewhere. Instead, you blocked the user per NLT with no other comment and have tried to censor criticism of the block. But WP:NLT says "A legal complainant may be genuinely hurt or upset. Blocking admins should encourage the user to identify factual errors in any article at issue. The user should be shown how to communicate with Wikipedia to correct errors", and an angry user saying "I'm going to sue you" in the heat of the moment is not a credible legal threat. A genuine legal threat requiring an NLT block starts with an email to legal@wmf, in my view. The user also complained that a claim of a relationship in the infobox was inaccurate or out of date; as this claim was unsourced I have completely removed it per BLP.
Reading the UTRS, I see the user has given up on Wikipedia and has told his friends and colleagues they should never edit here as it is too cliquey and impossible to do anything as an outsider. This is an extremely damaging thing to have done; not only do we have a reduced workforce, we are working against more people who hate us. I am usually a nice guy and accommodating to anyone who wants to help, and if I ever shout or get aggressive with people, it is always established editors who are punching above their station seemingly without realising. Let me reiterate : your actions cost us 4-5 editors.
You mention "do not feed the troll" - and in my view that means you let their comments stand and ignore them without drawing attention to yourself. By reverting them and getting cross, you are feeding the troll and playing into their hands.
I'm sorry this is quite a long-winded message, but if I don't come out and explain my concerns right now, it's going to end up worse. Now, you have a choice. You can take in what I say and understand where I'm coming from. Or you can refute everything I've said (either with a few words or many, either is the same). It's up to you. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 20:10, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
Stop trying to argue that everyone else is wrong and you are right. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:20, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
I remember the nice translation help for the Bayreuth Isolde, - here's another, from Der 100: Psalm.
The sooner the better, want to nominate nominated for GA while the German one enjoys mainpage attention ;) --
Gerda Arendt (
talk) 11:39, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
As I didn't wait, please make improvements directly in the article, Der 100. Psalm. Yngvadottir, can I interest you again? Searching for a good way to say "verklungen", - "fade away" seems wrong for one of the grandest endings I know. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:44, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
User:XPanettaa has asked for a deletion review of Kris Kross Amsterdam. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. — Cryptic 20:54, 27 August 2016 (UTC)