Alfred Worden died in his sleep last night ( per his Twitter). I'll probably spend some time on the article, just letting you know in case you can make time to help get it ready for recent deaths. Kees08 (Talk) 16:38, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt,
When I think "coins" I think Wehwalt. I have no idea whether this is something you know a lot about or not (your coin FA's seem to be U.S. coins, so probably not), but there's a coinage-related question at Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors#Tomorrow's POTD (although it might be at Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors#Today's_POTD by the time you read this. I've guessed the best I can, based on Thaler#Later German thalers. If you have any insight to add, it would be appreciated. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 22:29, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
I don't believe we've interacted before, Wehwalt, (forgive me if I don't recall) but I just happened on your userpage. I thought I should let you know how impressive your FA contributions are! Kudos and thank you. Ergo Sum 04:46, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
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Ah, I see where I was confused as to what was being said. Although I question why this is relevant. It's a fact simply because it takes the dates, which are otherwise not relevant, in order to make it a fact. I certainly don't see why it's important enough for the lede. Lexicon (talk) 21:50, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
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The Big Maple Leaf (BML) is a set of six $1 million ( CAD) gold coins each weighing 100 kilograms (220 lb) (3,215 troy ounces). They were produced by the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) in 2007, at their Ottawa facility where the first BML produced remains in storage. As of March 2017 [update], the market value of a single Big Maple Leaf had reached approximately $4 million ( USD). On 27 March 2017, one of the coins was stolen from a Berlin museum. ( Full article...)
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The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge half dollar is a fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1936 as a commemorative coin. One of many commemoratives issued that year, it was designed by Jacques Schnier and honors the opening of the Bay Bridge that November. One side of the coin depicts a grizzly bear, a symbol of California, and the other shows the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, with the Ferry Building. Congress passed authorizing legislation for the coin in 1936. Schnier's models were approved and the coins were struck at the San Francisco Mint. Just over 70,000 coins were sold, by mail, in person, and from booths at the Bay Bridge's approaches, making it the first commemorative coin to be sold on a drive-in basis. The coins were taken off sale in February 1937, with the unsold remainder returned to the Mint for redemption and melting. The Bay Bridge half dollar catalogs in the low hundreds of dollars, depending on condition. ( Full article...)
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As you wish. Keep in mind we have a donor ready willing and able to cure such deficiencies. At this point, we'll just wait to hear from you via email then, though I may proceed with some uploads under the 2015 license.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 12:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Sphilbrick Any views on that? Or any update? We seem to be getting bogged down.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 08:00, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Sphilbrick, the donor says he hasn't gotten the email based on what Kees08 said. He did get your earlier email but I told him to await this one.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 15:17, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Not sourced in the body or the lede: maybe U're right . . but the Statue's role as icon of this tradition is probably the most important single point about it.
At the moment, any (eg) Indian or African reader wanting to follow up on a mention of the Statue, would be likely to give up reading having learned nothing except tht it's big, it's French, it's in New York, and (what s/he already knew) there seems to be tremendous fuss about it (but not why).
The omission makes u wonder why there isn't a section on the Statue's cultural significance / role in popular culture, alongside all the art history and engineering (!) - until u realise how hard it would be to even know where to start on writing one!
In the earlier discussion about this Smallbones suggested some sources . . U clearly have a good grasp of the article . . Do U fancy seeing what U can do? - not, I mean, writing a whole section (unless U want to tackle that!): but an add-on, with source(s), to somewhere appropriate in the body, tht can then be picked up where it's most needed, in the lede?
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I want to beecome an editor and review pages, but how do I go about it, seems complicated, please help me. TheEpistle
I just saw tomorrow's TFA. What a fantastic article. I know more people worked on it, but kudos (and thanks) to you and Kees08. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 21:49, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
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Today, I remembered the precious one who lit the torch, and used the sunrise template, for an editor who did great things, annoyed some people, including an unnamed one, so did more great things under a different name. You know how that ends. Not without irony, the unnamed one was also blocked, for the same "crime". If I was an admin I'd probably unceremoniously unblock the principal editor of Nocturnes (Debussy). So good that I am not ;) - Different question: will you schedule March TFAs? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:07, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you today for your part of Apollo 9, about "one of the more forgotten of the Apollo missions, but still an important stepping stone on the way to the Moon"! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:35, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
Thank you today for Bridgeport, Connecticut, Centennial half dollar, about "a coin with P.T. Barnum on its face, which given the troubled commemorative coin market of the 1930s has led to the obvious description of buyers of this and other issues as suckers, born every minute. Given the scarcity of coin collectors these days, the "born every minute" is probably not accurate, anyway"! - I have Günter Kehr on the same page, on his centenary.-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:43, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hello! I've read about the White House Gift Shop's series of commemorative coins. The shop is privately owned and has sold a series of coins during Trump's administration, many of which have received at least a little press coverage. You might only be interested in "official" coinage, but I thought I'd put this radar in case you enjoyed writing a blurb about the memorial coin series. Either way, keep up the great work, and stay safe, --- Another Believer ( Talk) 13:20, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Wehwalt, this FAC has been quite well patronised but I was hoping to see a review from someone outside the MilHist group (although not averse to military articles) -- do you think you'd have time soon-ish? Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 22:48, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Many years ago you told me that an article I had spent 2 years writing, which I didn't find at all easy to even understand, which I took to FAC was an attempt of me to "[run] it up the flagpole to see who saluted, and rather got a piano dropped on you". 12 years later, your words still sting. After what you wrote there, I gave up entirely worrying about FAC. Just so you know. - Chris.sherlock ( talk) 13:20, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt! Hope all is well! Been idle for couple years and hunkering down gave me time to trim down and work on sourcing (which was the issue at the last FAC). Not much has changed on prose and content. Your inputs have been valuable during PR and the last FAC. Trying my hand on bringing it back to FAC. Not sure if you're still around these days, but if you have the luxury of time, would appreciate your inputs at the FAC. Cheers! Pseud 14 ( talk) 23:20, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at the Space Shuttle page and letting me know if you think it's ready to be nominated as a FAC. It was recently promoted to Good Article-status, and I'm hoping to continue its improvement. This would be my first FAC nomination, so I'm hoping to get some feedback from an experienced FA author. Thanks in advance! Balon Greyjoy ( talk) 08:06, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, two years ago you took a photo (uploaded later into the Commons as: Eruv_recall_the_mayor.jpg). After including this illustration in the article on pl:wiki ( Szabat) I got from the reader a question which one wire rope is the "eruv" element? Are they run with these white tubes on a pole (and then horizontally)? Jacek555 ( talk) 09:53, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt,
To continue the conversation started on @ Montanabw:'s talk page, the article I created is Cornwall Electric. It's about one of Canada's oldest electric companies and it's one of my first articles. There is a book that was commissioned in 1987 for its 100-year anniversary that I would like to consult before declaring the article done, but so far because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been unable to reach the local library to see if they have it. I hope you enjoy reading the article, I thank you for your kind offer, and I look forward to your feedback! WILDSTAR talk 00:29, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for article improvements in May! - DYK our list of people for whose life I'm thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:23, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Wetwalt. I think I addressed all of your comments. Please let me know if there is something I missed -- Guerillero | Parlez Moi 02:15, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the History of the British farthing article has been scheduled as today's featured article for July 10, 2020... Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:39, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
Believe it or not, I was already planning to do it this afternoon! Not many periodicals come through FAC and I figured I should give it a shot and having just put up another FAC I need to get some more reviews done. Should be today some time. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 19:30, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
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It's a Good Article and a current Featured Article nominee. It's been reviewed and edited significantly and three editors told me to look for other editors to review it. Here's the featured article page: Laura Harrier FAC. Please help. Thanks. Factfanatic1 ( talk) 07:21, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Wehwalt, I hope you are keeping well. I'm reviewing the above at FAC. Do you happen to know if there's an accepted citation template for UK, as opposed to US, legal cases? As you'd expect with an article on a law lord, there are quite a few legal cases referenced but not in a standardised and consistent way. It would be helpful if I could point the first-time nominator, who's produced a grand piece of work, to a single template but having looked, I can only find the US style one. All the best. KJP1 ( talk) 05:25, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Apologies for the revert on Woodes Rogers, I wasn't sure what the offending article was in question. Eastfarthingan ( talk) 18:38, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
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Operation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War. The first phase was run from early 1940 by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) under the title Unternehmen Andreas (Operation Andreas, Operation Andrew). The unit successfully duplicated the rag paper used by the British, produced near-identical engraving blocks and deduced the algorithm used to create the alpha-numeric serial code on each note. The unit closed in early 1942 after its head, Alfred Naujocks, fell out of favour with his superior officer, Reinhard Heydrich.
The operation was revived later in the year; the aim was changed to forging money to finance German intelligence operations. Instead of a specialist unit within the SD, prisoners from Nazi concentration camps were selected and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp to work under SS Major Bernhard Krüger. The unit produced British notes until mid-1945; estimates vary of the number and value of notes printed, from £132.6 million up to £300 million. By the time the unit ceased production, they had perfected the artwork for US dollars, although the paper and serial numbers were still being analysed. The counterfeit money was laundered in exchange for money and other assets. Counterfeit notes from the operation were used to pay the Turkish agent Elyesa Bazna—code named Cicero—for his work in obtaining British secrets from the British ambassador in Ankara, and £100,000 from Operation Bernhard was used to obtain information that helped to free the Italian leader Benito Mussolini in the Gran Sasso raid in September 1943.
In early 1945 the unit was moved to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria, then to the Redl-Zipf series of tunnels and finally to Ebensee concentration camp. Because of an overly precise interpretation of a German order, the prisoners were not executed on their arrival; they were liberated shortly afterwards by the American Army. Much of the output of the unit was dumped into the Toplitz and Grundlsee lakes at the end of the war, but enough went into general circulation that the Bank of England stopped releasing new notes and issued a new design after the war. The operation has been dramatised in a comedy-drama miniseries Private Schulz by the BBC and in a 2007 film, The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher). ( Full article...)
The Hudson Sesquicentennial half dollar is a fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1935 as a commemorative coin. The coin was designed by Chester Beach. Its obverse depicts the Half Moon, flagship of Henry Hudson, after whom the city of Hudson is named. In addition to showing the ship, the coin displays a version of the Hudson city seal, with Neptune riding a whale, a design that has drawn commentary. Although the city of Hudson was a relatively small municipality, legislation to issue a coin in honor of its 150th anniversary went through Congress without opposition and was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, becoming the Act of May 2, 1935. Most of the coins were likely bought by coin dealers, leaving few for collectors, with the result that prices spiked from the $1 cost at the time of issue. This caused collector anger, but did not lower the coin's value, which has continued to increase in the 80-plus years since it was struck. ( Full article...)
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Just stubbed, in case you're interested; I saw one of his ads on the back of an old pulp magazine and found enough about him in Google Books to lead me to think he was notable. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 20:33, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving articles in July! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:13, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
A good day in August: today, Monteverdi's operas became a featured topic! ... exactly 10 years after both Brian and I were declared awesome ;) - the list to appear as TFL on 21 Aug. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:20, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt, I've noticed your monumental contributions to WP and your great username for a while now and was wondering if you would considering mentoring me for my hopefully first FAC. The article I've been working on is Cai Lun and at the moment it's up for GAN so we would have to probably wait until someone picked it up before pursuing the FAC – or perhaps I should just withdraw the nomination, not sure. Anyways, I noticed this lengthy discussion on WT:FAC about diversity and I wasn't sure how to feel about it other than just try to "do my part". I had already expanded Cai Lun quite a bit and was not necessarily planning for FAC but this motivated me to in a weird sort of way. Anyways, there's many things about the article I'm uncertain about since information on Cai Lun's life is so sketchy and the sources I found (other than a single biography) were mostly encyclopedic entries or entries in the beginnings of books about the origins of paper. If you would be interested in assisting I would greatly appreciate it, and if not then I completely understand, we all have our own (self imposed I suppose) obligations/plans here and I wouldn't want to get in the way of yours. Best - Aza24 ( talk) 08:57, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for the article about "a Los Angeles newspaper with a colorful history"! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:25, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Ssilvers and Wehwalt: I have responded to the WP:Edit war accusation at The King and I's Talk page. -- Osnapitzjv ( talk) 22:29, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
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This (all seriousness aside). -- Brogo13 ( talk) 21:09, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt, we've never bumped up against each other, although we seem to be interested in similar articles, based on you popping up on lots of the articles I have on my watchlist. :) I'm working on an article and hope to bring it to good article status, but I've no idea what the process is. With all your plus marks and gold stars, I thought you might be the person to ask. Would you be willing to take a look at it and give me comments? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz ( talk) 00:56, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
IanRoweNWE ( talk) 16:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC) Hi,
Hoping you can help and appreciate the back and forth so far.
As I am new I am wondering what is the best way to align on the 1868 death penalty rational/John A Macdonald article. It seems like edits back and forth maybe isn't it? Should I post more detail on the John A talk page?
I wrote a bunch of points I was hoping to get your help with but maybe cause of length Wikipedia wouldn't let me post. Not trying to start a thing, trying to learn wikipedia and gain alignment.
Hi,
I've seen on the page Adopt an astronaut that you would work to make James Irwin a Featured Article but you haven't edited it at all. Have you given up ?
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I hope you are doing well in these strange times. I have started a PR for Yuri Gagarin. I hope to get him through FAC before the 60th anniversary of his flight, 12 April. Please comment at Wikipedia:Peer review/Yuri Gagarin/archive1. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 22:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving articles in August! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:36, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
A first for me today: a featured list (= a featured topic in this case) on the Main page, see Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 August 21, an initiative by Aza24 in memory of Brian. Also, thank you for scheduling! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:39, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you today for California Pacific International Exposition half dollar, about "a coin whose high mintage proved to be its undoing as relatively few sold. Unusually, the sponsors went back to Congress and got a second year of striking, but again, most wound up melted. Still, it's a beautiful design."! - Nice Main page today, - I have a chapel pictured under DYK, + 2 of the hooks I approved ;) - the chapel is one of the places I was "given" for my birthday, DYK? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
DYK: Rhythm Is It! - I expanded that stub on my dad's birthday because we saw the film together back then, and were impressed. As a ref said: every educator should see it. Don't miss the trailer, for a starter. - A welcome chance to present yet another article by Brian on the Main page, Le Sacre du printemps. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:07, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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I haven't had much time for Wikipedia in the last few months, so I've decided to stop posting the WikiProject Numismatics newsletter until things die down. Would you please remove my MMS user group? I have no use for it now. - ZLEA T\ C 14:42, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt. I wanted to offer a suggestion regarding your content surrounding U.S. presidents and African Americans. You might want to consult Jones, Stephen A.; Freedman, Eric (2012). Presidents and Black America: A Documentary History. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781608710089. Consider it as a starting point for related content. Mitchumch ( talk) 03:24, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
The removal of the content is unjustified , please take a look at the talk page of the article , or add the information to a more relevant place, if you think that is necessary . However it's complete removal would be unnecessary censorship . What do you think ? Meethamonkey ( talk) 07:32, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the Florin (British coin) article has been scheduled as today's featured article for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 8, 2020...! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:58, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
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I like today's Main page, with the TFA (thank you for your FAC comments, and scheduling!) on the anniversary day (of both dedication and our concert), a DYK, and a great photographer who didn't make it soon enough, Jürgen Schadeberg, - more on my talk, mostly about the tribute to Brian who shared his sources. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:45, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for The Bread-Winners, about "a rather dated book by John Hay, subject of my last nomination. Controversial as it presented a hostile view of organized labor, Hay prudently published the book anonymously, which led to quite a guessing game that is now entirely forgotten, but that was one of the literary events of 1883."
From tribute to tribute, now with loads of thanks to Jerome Kohl. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:24, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear Wehwalt/Archive 22,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.
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Wehwalt,
Thanks again for your copy editing, comments and sources you've found. I had delayed putting some of the information in the article since it begun a GA (and just recently finished). Looking ahead, I think I'm going to put it to the side for the moment, I'm not feeling super motivated to work on it further since I think I'm going to need to find some Chinese sources at some point...! That being said I think I'm going to take Portrait of a Musician to FAC soon since I have been working on it for a while and had assistance from quite a few users. I hope this message doesn't come off as awkward, I just wanted to let you know if case you see Portrait of a Musician at FAC and get confused why I didn't nominate Cai Lun first. When I do inevitably return to Cai, if you would be available again I would likely return for your guidance. Best, Aza24 ( talk) 21:45, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
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I've got a quick alternate history question about the Philippines for you: What do you think would have happened to the Philippines over the last 125 years had the Spanish-American War never actually occurred? For instance, do you believe that there would have eventually been a Spanish-Japanese war over the Philippines in such a scenario?
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Hi Wehwalt, I saw you removed my concern but it doesn't seem to have been addressed. Can I now assume FAs are eligible which contain no media at all? The Rambling Man ( Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 14:49, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
My apologies for requesting TFA for the Biblioteca Marciana too early. I later found the appropriate page ... I think. Venicescapes ( talk) 15:18, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
If you don't mind, I've got another question for you, if you don't mind: Which US Presidents (and their presidencies) other than William McKinley do you know a lot about?
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Futurist110 ( talk) 23:14, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
If, as you wrote, "Rv, seems unnecessary, especially when he wrote other book(s)," why don't you just add other books and so increase knowledge, rather than delete the one book I found and decrease knowledge? - Aboudaqn ( talk) 01:24, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
William Henry Harrison 1840 presidential campaign - blah, blah, running election day.. blah, blah... -- Ealdgyth ( talk) 19:00, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you today for Florin (British coin), "a coin that was introduced as part of a decimal scheme and appropriately enough lived on the longest under decimal currency"! - Happy to see it together with Organ Symphony No. 3 (Vierne), the composer pictured on his 150th birthday. His biography is not yet where I want it, but much better than a week ago. It was played at one of my churches this summer, in the first concert there after the break. Organists can enjoy to be naturally "at a distance". The organ is pictured among "my places", - click on October, - we have thanksgiving first Sunday of that month, DYK? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:52, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Wehwalt, hope all is well. I'm not sure if you remember me-- we interacted a bit, and I found your comments and suggestions very helpful when I was starting out here several years ago. I've progressed quite a bit since then, but I seem to have hit a wall with my prose with O Captain! My Captain!. I was wondering if you could comment on the peer review I've opened up, with an eye towards a possible FAC. I'm at quite a loss for how to move the prose forward here. If time or interest doesn't allow, no worries. All the best, Eddie891 Talk Work 00:28, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
I really appreciate the helpful comments you provided on the John Neal (writer) FAN. If you have more of that energy to spare, I request your participation in the active peer review of an article I recently created for one of Neal's friends from Baltimore. It's much shorter than Neal's article, but I think it could go to GAN next. I just need more eyes to point out things that don't make sense, obvious gaps, etc. Coincidentally, Eddie891 just contributed to this review! Thanks in advance for your help. -- Dugan Murphy ( talk) 22:17, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
Well done on the TFA for the Sovereign. I notice there are no photographs of the current coin. Would a front and reverse photo of the 2020 coin be of use for the article? If so I can arrange some but would need to know it was of use before making arrangements. Thanks. LordHarris 11:45, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
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There are a couple of blurbs in the first half of the month I'd like to make some edits to, if that's okay. - Dank ( push to talk) 14:19, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
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Wehwalt, since you FA'd Babe Ruth, I was wondering if you might join the effort to salvage Sandy Koufax ... there's a list at article talk. He's 84 years old, so I think we should keep the article up to snuff, and it doesn't need too much work ... looks fairly decent for an FA last reviewed in 2007. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:25, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
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I am trying my hand at a DYK review and don't want to mess it up. I am doing this one Template:Did you know nominations/St. Michael, Kaubenheim. I was wondering if you had any advice on how to handle or whether I am doing it wrong. Remember ( talk) 14:36, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
On Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 26, 2021... Jimfbleak - talk to me? 17:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
Wehwalt, it has been a long time since I have worked with you but you were always a big help on issues so I thought I would reach out again.
I created the article Ruth Williams Cupp. I am trying to get the article up to DYK status to be posted on December 16. I have a conflict of interest on the article though since I knew the subject and her family. I don't know if you have ever dealt with COI issues before but was just hoping to have all the issues cleaned up before the DYK date. If you have any advice or suggestions regarding the article, I would love to hear them. Remember ( talk) 17:59, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
Do you think you can remove the COI tag? I don't know if it can be removed once another editor has reviewed the material. I have a posting on the Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard but there has been no response. I'm not sure what else to do. Remember ( talk) 21:35, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
If you don't mind, I've got another couple of alternate history questions for you:
1. If Charles Evans Hughes wins the US Presidency in 1916, do you think that he is going to insist on the abolition of the German and Austro-Hungarian monarchies just like Woodrow Wilson did in real life? Also, do you think that Hughes would have handled any aspect of World War I and/or its aftermath any differently in comparison to Wilson?
2. Do you think that FDR runs again for a third term in 1940 if the Fall of France doesn't actually occur--at least not in 1940?
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I'm not sure it would work that way. After all, by this time the US is important enough to the world economy that if it has a recession, there is probably economic problems in Europe too, which would encourage emigration to America, where the streets are paved with gold and all that.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 20:18, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
I was going to correct "travelling" to "traveling" at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 14, 2020 and 1789 Virginia's 5th congressional district election, until I noticed you went out of your way to spell it that way. Do you know something I don't? Wiktionary:traveling#Alternative forms says "travelling (Commonwealth)", Google Ngrams confirms that "traveling" is the usual U.S. spelling, and the U.S. was independent in 1789. Art LaPella ( talk) 05:31, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, Wehwalt! Thank you again for your work on the John Neal (writer) FAN. I have initiated a move request to John Neal and it could use more input. Could you check it out if you have time? I thought I would ask given your familiarity with the article from the nomination process. -- Dugan Murphy ( talk) 18:49, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy ( talk) 15:00, 26 December 2020 (UTC) Oneupsmanship: This painting turned the friendly rivalry between Edward Redfield and Elmer Schofield into a feud. Schofield was a frequent houseguest at Redfield's farm, upstream from New Hope, Pennsylvania, and the two would go out painting together, competing to capture the better view. Redfield served on the jury for the 1904 Annual Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute; at which, despite Redfield's opposition, Across the River was awarded the Gold Medal and $1,500 prize. It was not until a 1963 interview that the 93-year-old Redfield revealed the painting as the cause of the 40-year feud between them. Schofield may have painted it in England, but a blindsided Redfield knew that it was a view of the Delaware River, from his own front yard! |
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Hi Wehwalt, hope all is well. As you were kind enough to comment on my Peer Review, I was wondering if I could interest you in commenting at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/O Captain! My Captain!/archive1. I'm loathe to request favors, but it seems that nobody is very interested in giving it a review and the co-ords have suggested that it may be in danger of getting archived. Hope your holidays are pleasant and I wish you and yours all the best as we enter a new year. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:16, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving article quality in December, and good wishes for a time of transition. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:29, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Have a good new year 2021! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:17, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for closing that. It started with patently false accusations and went downhill into some secret rabbit hole which wasn't useful at all. The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:28, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
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I don't understand the problem with the sentence I added to Horace Greeley. You write, "prev 01:29, 9 January 2021 Wehwalt talk contribs 73,141 bytes −198 Partial rv, would rather have that from a secondary source undothank What is "rv"? You would rather have what from a secondary source? Maurice Magnus ( talk) 18:43, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your explanation, with which I agree. I had read that authorship has been attributed to Greeley, but I can't find where I read that. That is why I wrote that Greeley "published," rather than "wrote," the campaign biography. Though literally true, I can see that that is misleading, because readers will assume that he wrote it. What I have done, therefore, is to put back what I'd written, but I added the sentence "The biography does not identify its author." I own the biography, so I know that to be the case. My contribution now reads: "In 1856, Greeley published a campaign biography for the first Republican presidential candidate, John Charles Frémont.[51] The biography does not identify its author." I hope that is satisfactory. In the Fremont article, I added a comparable footnote to the listing of the biography under "Primary Sources." Maurice Magnus ( talk) 00:42, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Replacing "The biography does not identify its author" with "anonymously-authored" is a good edit; thank you. In the U.S., we do not use a hyphen in a double modifier where the adverb ends in "ly." (We also don't use it where the adverb is "very," as in "very good boy.") This is because, in these instances, no possibility of ambiguity exists. But I think that in England they might use the hyphen, so I will leave it alone, but feel free to delete it. Maurice Magnus ( talk) 12:39, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests has Apollo 14 as a pending item for Feb 5... do you have another date in mind? Ealdgyth ( talk) 14:34, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Had Henry Clay won the US Presidency in 1844, do you think that both the US annexation of Texas and the US conquest of the Mexican Cession would have been completely prevented or merely delayed until another Democrat would have won the US Presidency? Futurist110 ( talk) 04:15, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I just nominated Willie Mays for a peer review. During its recent featured article nomination, User:SandyGeorgia suggested it needed more work on the prose and mentioned that such a review could use the help of an experienced baseball editor like yourself. If you have time to take a look at it, your input would be greatly appreciated! Sanfranciscogiants17 ( talk) 13:32, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Wehwalt, I am currently trying to promote Huey Long to featured status - it's been through GA, a peer review, and a failed FAN. I noticed that you have done some work on similar subjects and would really appreciate if you give it a look-over. The guild of ce is about to look at the grammar, so I'm more concerned about the article's detail, cohesiveness, weight, etc. No worries if you're too busy - have a nice day! ~ HAL 333
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I tried to give 2021 a good start by updating the QAI project topics. Please check and correct, - did you know that you belong to project's few members from the beginning who are still active? For moar private "happy new year" see here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:13, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
Still ipad typing with post-surgery, trying to track maindates for URFA, I think Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 5, 2021 is wrong? The TFA the day before is the tour, not the group? Sorry for brevity, may be errors elsewhere? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:46, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Doing my usual talk page cleanup to make articlehistory fixes on upcoming TFAs, I found several did not have maindates yet ... pinged you, but holding off on further articlehistory checks 'til you let me know if those are set ? Bst, SandyGeorgia ( Talk)
According to WP:WBFAN, the promotion of Columbia, South Carolina, Sesquicentennial half dollar marks your 200th successful FAC nomination. What an incredible body of work you have contributed to the encyclopaedia, ranging from coins to elections, from biographies to space missions, and presidential campaigns to novels. Thank you for all your efforts. Warm regards, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 22:42, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Wehwalt, if you have the time, I was wondering if you could comment on the Suzanne Lenglen FAC? Specifically, some concerns were brought up about the overall length of the article. I tried to justify the length by comparing it to the Babe Ruth article that you wrote, which is much longer. I was wondering if you thought the overall length of the article was justified? Thanks! Sportsfan77777 ( talk) 19:05, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
I think he's right about the date. The source that we cite is dated Feb.1, but the report within it was dated Jan.31 and says "last night", so Jan. 30. All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 03:05, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you today for Apollo 14, about "an Apollo mission perhaps most famous for featuring the second flight of Alan Shepard, and for Shepard sending two golf balls into flight. Yet much else went on, from a frustrated Stu Roosa trying again and again to dock two spacecraft to Ed Mitchell's ESP experiments."! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:25, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
... and today for Grant Memorial coinage, about "two coins, the last commemoratives we have to deal with from the 1920s. The usual legacy of (relative) beauty and doubt about whether the money went to a good cause"! - Would you please take a look at BWV 1, where I think most concerns have been dealt with by now, so should be easy? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:39, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt, new TFA user; I was wondering where these other article that don't appear on WP:TFAR come from? I saw that 1080° Snowboarding is going to appear in late February, but I didn't see it appear on TFAR. P anini 🥪 02:04, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
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You reverted my changes to make the language neutral but without even a hint as to the reason. I've put it back and am reaching out to see if we can settle our differences here rather than via an edit war. Exactly which of my changes do you object to and why? Cutelyaware ( talk) 08:18, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for selecting the Biblioteca Marciana as TFA on 25 March. Since the library is an official institution of the Italian government, I asked in the nomination if there could be additional protection or heightened vigilance to prevent vandalic edits that are misleading, promotional, or vulgar. Do you know yet if that will be possible? Venicescapes ( talk) 07:10, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
... at least about the first part. [2]. IJS :-) — Ched ( talk) 12:00, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
Hey there Wehwalt, thought I'd drop a line and see if you might have any interest in taking a look at this article, which is
currently at FAC; it's just passed three weeks without a full review, hence the reaching out. He's a lot more interesting of a subject than merely a lawyer who wrote an article on sanitary legislation, I promise hope! But by all means, no worries if you're tied up (or disagree with my assessment of interestingness). Cheers, --
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Hi,
I made this request last year, and would like to express my appreciation for the most excellent compromise you came up with last month. Would you mind applying the same format to Andrew Jackson's hats? :)
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This is to let you know that the Old Spanish Trail half dollar article has been scheduled as today's featured article for April 5, 2021... Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:44, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
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I was thinking of nominating Ruth Cupp for a Featured Article and wanted to get your thoughts on that before I did it in case you think there is anything I should do before I nominate it. The article recently got awarded good article status. Remember ( talk) 16:16, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Would you be willing to drop by Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Lisa Nowak/archive1 and provide an opinion on the lead sentence and WP:ROLEBIO? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:57, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for scheduling Carmen for today, with Bizet's music " expressing the emotions and suffering of his characters" as Brian worded it. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:08, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
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Warren G. Harding, about "one of the least regarded American presidents. Yet, a look at Harding's career indicates that there was a bit more there beyond the president who managed his cabinet with slack reins, allowing Teapot Dome and other scandals to occur"! - Carmen enjoyed around 35k views. This time, it had an infobox, while for the first run, Brian was reluctant to expose the then new feature on the Main page. Soon after, he used it himself, first for
L'Arianna. - Will anybody be "uninvolved" enough to close the Fleming RfC? I looked at the archive, and found
this treasure, - why didn't they just listen then? I miss him much, and used your phrase again on my talk "and those who have just given up", -
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... and today for Lewis and Clark Exposition dollar, about "a fairly obscure gold commemorative, the only "two-headed" US coin, and about the preparation for which not much is known, due to lack of surviving records. Still, it's an interesting tale, featuring Farran Zerbe, numismatic promoter, who's mostly remembered positively these days but who was controversial in his time"! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:02, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for reviewing Bach's cantata composed for today, - perhaps listen. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:30, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
What do you think of this?: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=South_Pacific_%28musical%29&type=revision&diff=1014598494&oldid=1013694515 -- Ssilvers ( talk) 01:44, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello! I don't believe we've interacted much before, but I wanted to ask about the process for blurbs at TFA. The instructions at WP:TFAR state that there should be a blurb on the FAC nom's talk page (still not clear to me whether this is the talk page of the FAC discussion or the article's talk page itself). After looking over a couple active TFARs, it seems most likely to me that this is just referring to the "about this article" blurb nominators add to the top of FAC noms. Am I correct in this thinking? I recently got Ted Kaczynski through FAC as my first nom and I'm eager to put it up at TFAR. I'm assuming that if I do this, I would be the one writing the blurb? Thanks! AviationFreak 💬 15:00, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for that! Thank you today for Old Spanish Trail half dollar, about "yet another coin, probably the highlight in the saga of L.W. Hoffecker, whose efforts to get control of a commemorative coin in 1930 had sparked a presidential veto. Here he is successful, and even designed the coin, about which there are certainly mixed reviews."! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:31, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
Memories on the Main page today, Psalm 115 thinking of Yoninah, Christa Ludwig and Milva, - voices that made the Earth a better place. Sad that the psalm hook didn't appear on Earth Day as planned, but better pictured and late than going unnoticed ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:19, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for May 15, 2021. Please check that the article needs no amendments. A coordinator will draft a blurb - based on your draft if the TFA came via TFA requests, or for Featured Articles promoted recently from an existing blurb on the FAC talk page. Feel free to comment on this. We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild ( talk) 13:32, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, I have recently created an article " George H. W. Bush 1992 presidential campaign". Since you have created articles of similar kind, which are featured articles, can you please tell whether the article created by me complies with the criteria of a good article, or it needs more information to be added. If possible, kindly help me in improving the article. I have already requested it to be copy-edited. Thankyou! Kavyansh.Singh ( talk) 15:54, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt, I hope you've been really well. Last year we briefly discussed that June 3, the fiftieth anniversary of the release of " Watching the River Flow", would be a nice day to have it appear as TFA. I think you mentioned I could send you a reminder as that date approaches. Thank you, Moisejp ( talk) 05:59, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hey there. Given your work on Canadian history, I thought you may be interested in a new page I've made for J. L. Granatstein's 1998 book, Who Killed Canadian History?. I'm going to try to get it to GA status eventually, but given its controversial status I wanted to have some that are more experienced in Canadian history than I to have a quick look at it first. Cheers. Tkbrett (✉) 19:48, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
Alfred Worden died in his sleep last night ( per his Twitter). I'll probably spend some time on the article, just letting you know in case you can make time to help get it ready for recent deaths. Kees08 (Talk) 16:38, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt,
When I think "coins" I think Wehwalt. I have no idea whether this is something you know a lot about or not (your coin FA's seem to be U.S. coins, so probably not), but there's a coinage-related question at Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors#Tomorrow's POTD (although it might be at Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors#Today's_POTD by the time you read this. I've guessed the best I can, based on Thaler#Later German thalers. If you have any insight to add, it would be appreciated. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 22:29, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
I don't believe we've interacted before, Wehwalt, (forgive me if I don't recall) but I just happened on your userpage. I thought I should let you know how impressive your FA contributions are! Kudos and thank you. Ergo Sum 04:46, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
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Ah, I see where I was confused as to what was being said. Although I question why this is relevant. It's a fact simply because it takes the dates, which are otherwise not relevant, in order to make it a fact. I certainly don't see why it's important enough for the lede. Lexicon (talk) 21:50, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
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The Big Maple Leaf (BML) is a set of six $1 million ( CAD) gold coins each weighing 100 kilograms (220 lb) (3,215 troy ounces). They were produced by the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) in 2007, at their Ottawa facility where the first BML produced remains in storage. As of March 2017 [update], the market value of a single Big Maple Leaf had reached approximately $4 million ( USD). On 27 March 2017, one of the coins was stolen from a Berlin museum. ( Full article...)
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The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge half dollar is a fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1936 as a commemorative coin. One of many commemoratives issued that year, it was designed by Jacques Schnier and honors the opening of the Bay Bridge that November. One side of the coin depicts a grizzly bear, a symbol of California, and the other shows the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, with the Ferry Building. Congress passed authorizing legislation for the coin in 1936. Schnier's models were approved and the coins were struck at the San Francisco Mint. Just over 70,000 coins were sold, by mail, in person, and from booths at the Bay Bridge's approaches, making it the first commemorative coin to be sold on a drive-in basis. The coins were taken off sale in February 1937, with the unsold remainder returned to the Mint for redemption and melting. The Bay Bridge half dollar catalogs in the low hundreds of dollars, depending on condition. ( Full article...)
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As you wish. Keep in mind we have a donor ready willing and able to cure such deficiencies. At this point, we'll just wait to hear from you via email then, though I may proceed with some uploads under the 2015 license.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 12:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Sphilbrick Any views on that? Or any update? We seem to be getting bogged down.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 08:00, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Sphilbrick, the donor says he hasn't gotten the email based on what Kees08 said. He did get your earlier email but I told him to await this one.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 15:17, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Not sourced in the body or the lede: maybe U're right . . but the Statue's role as icon of this tradition is probably the most important single point about it.
At the moment, any (eg) Indian or African reader wanting to follow up on a mention of the Statue, would be likely to give up reading having learned nothing except tht it's big, it's French, it's in New York, and (what s/he already knew) there seems to be tremendous fuss about it (but not why).
The omission makes u wonder why there isn't a section on the Statue's cultural significance / role in popular culture, alongside all the art history and engineering (!) - until u realise how hard it would be to even know where to start on writing one!
In the earlier discussion about this Smallbones suggested some sources . . U clearly have a good grasp of the article . . Do U fancy seeing what U can do? - not, I mean, writing a whole section (unless U want to tackle that!): but an add-on, with source(s), to somewhere appropriate in the body, tht can then be picked up where it's most needed, in the lede?
-- SquisherDa ( talk) 16:18, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
I want to beecome an editor and review pages, but how do I go about it, seems complicated, please help me. TheEpistle
I just saw tomorrow's TFA. What a fantastic article. I know more people worked on it, but kudos (and thanks) to you and Kees08. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 21:49, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
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Today, I remembered the precious one who lit the torch, and used the sunrise template, for an editor who did great things, annoyed some people, including an unnamed one, so did more great things under a different name. You know how that ends. Not without irony, the unnamed one was also blocked, for the same "crime". If I was an admin I'd probably unceremoniously unblock the principal editor of Nocturnes (Debussy). So good that I am not ;) - Different question: will you schedule March TFAs? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:07, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you today for your part of Apollo 9, about "one of the more forgotten of the Apollo missions, but still an important stepping stone on the way to the Moon"! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:35, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
Thank you today for Bridgeport, Connecticut, Centennial half dollar, about "a coin with P.T. Barnum on its face, which given the troubled commemorative coin market of the 1930s has led to the obvious description of buyers of this and other issues as suckers, born every minute. Given the scarcity of coin collectors these days, the "born every minute" is probably not accurate, anyway"! - I have Günter Kehr on the same page, on his centenary.-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:43, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hello! I've read about the White House Gift Shop's series of commemorative coins. The shop is privately owned and has sold a series of coins during Trump's administration, many of which have received at least a little press coverage. You might only be interested in "official" coinage, but I thought I'd put this radar in case you enjoyed writing a blurb about the memorial coin series. Either way, keep up the great work, and stay safe, --- Another Believer ( Talk) 13:20, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Wehwalt, this FAC has been quite well patronised but I was hoping to see a review from someone outside the MilHist group (although not averse to military articles) -- do you think you'd have time soon-ish? Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 22:48, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
Many years ago you told me that an article I had spent 2 years writing, which I didn't find at all easy to even understand, which I took to FAC was an attempt of me to "[run] it up the flagpole to see who saluted, and rather got a piano dropped on you". 12 years later, your words still sting. After what you wrote there, I gave up entirely worrying about FAC. Just so you know. - Chris.sherlock ( talk) 13:20, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt! Hope all is well! Been idle for couple years and hunkering down gave me time to trim down and work on sourcing (which was the issue at the last FAC). Not much has changed on prose and content. Your inputs have been valuable during PR and the last FAC. Trying my hand on bringing it back to FAC. Not sure if you're still around these days, but if you have the luxury of time, would appreciate your inputs at the FAC. Cheers! Pseud 14 ( talk) 23:20, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello! I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at the Space Shuttle page and letting me know if you think it's ready to be nominated as a FAC. It was recently promoted to Good Article-status, and I'm hoping to continue its improvement. This would be my first FAC nomination, so I'm hoping to get some feedback from an experienced FA author. Thanks in advance! Balon Greyjoy ( talk) 08:06, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, two years ago you took a photo (uploaded later into the Commons as: Eruv_recall_the_mayor.jpg). After including this illustration in the article on pl:wiki ( Szabat) I got from the reader a question which one wire rope is the "eruv" element? Are they run with these white tubes on a pole (and then horizontally)? Jacek555 ( talk) 09:53, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt,
To continue the conversation started on @ Montanabw:'s talk page, the article I created is Cornwall Electric. It's about one of Canada's oldest electric companies and it's one of my first articles. There is a book that was commissioned in 1987 for its 100-year anniversary that I would like to consult before declaring the article done, but so far because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been unable to reach the local library to see if they have it. I hope you enjoy reading the article, I thank you for your kind offer, and I look forward to your feedback! WILDSTAR talk 00:29, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for article improvements in May! - DYK our list of people for whose life I'm thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:23, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
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Believe it or not, I was already planning to do it this afternoon! Not many periodicals come through FAC and I figured I should give it a shot and having just put up another FAC I need to get some more reviews done. Should be today some time. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 19:30, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
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It's a Good Article and a current Featured Article nominee. It's been reviewed and edited significantly and three editors told me to look for other editors to review it. Here's the featured article page: Laura Harrier FAC. Please help. Thanks. Factfanatic1 ( talk) 07:21, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Wehwalt, I hope you are keeping well. I'm reviewing the above at FAC. Do you happen to know if there's an accepted citation template for UK, as opposed to US, legal cases? As you'd expect with an article on a law lord, there are quite a few legal cases referenced but not in a standardised and consistent way. It would be helpful if I could point the first-time nominator, who's produced a grand piece of work, to a single template but having looked, I can only find the US style one. All the best. KJP1 ( talk) 05:25, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Apologies for the revert on Woodes Rogers, I wasn't sure what the offending article was in question. Eastfarthingan ( talk) 18:38, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
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Operation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes. The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War. The first phase was run from early 1940 by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) under the title Unternehmen Andreas (Operation Andreas, Operation Andrew). The unit successfully duplicated the rag paper used by the British, produced near-identical engraving blocks and deduced the algorithm used to create the alpha-numeric serial code on each note. The unit closed in early 1942 after its head, Alfred Naujocks, fell out of favour with his superior officer, Reinhard Heydrich.
The operation was revived later in the year; the aim was changed to forging money to finance German intelligence operations. Instead of a specialist unit within the SD, prisoners from Nazi concentration camps were selected and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp to work under SS Major Bernhard Krüger. The unit produced British notes until mid-1945; estimates vary of the number and value of notes printed, from £132.6 million up to £300 million. By the time the unit ceased production, they had perfected the artwork for US dollars, although the paper and serial numbers were still being analysed. The counterfeit money was laundered in exchange for money and other assets. Counterfeit notes from the operation were used to pay the Turkish agent Elyesa Bazna—code named Cicero—for his work in obtaining British secrets from the British ambassador in Ankara, and £100,000 from Operation Bernhard was used to obtain information that helped to free the Italian leader Benito Mussolini in the Gran Sasso raid in September 1943.
In early 1945 the unit was moved to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria, then to the Redl-Zipf series of tunnels and finally to Ebensee concentration camp. Because of an overly precise interpretation of a German order, the prisoners were not executed on their arrival; they were liberated shortly afterwards by the American Army. Much of the output of the unit was dumped into the Toplitz and Grundlsee lakes at the end of the war, but enough went into general circulation that the Bank of England stopped releasing new notes and issued a new design after the war. The operation has been dramatised in a comedy-drama miniseries Private Schulz by the BBC and in a 2007 film, The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher). ( Full article...)
The Hudson Sesquicentennial half dollar is a fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1935 as a commemorative coin. The coin was designed by Chester Beach. Its obverse depicts the Half Moon, flagship of Henry Hudson, after whom the city of Hudson is named. In addition to showing the ship, the coin displays a version of the Hudson city seal, with Neptune riding a whale, a design that has drawn commentary. Although the city of Hudson was a relatively small municipality, legislation to issue a coin in honor of its 150th anniversary went through Congress without opposition and was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, becoming the Act of May 2, 1935. Most of the coins were likely bought by coin dealers, leaving few for collectors, with the result that prices spiked from the $1 cost at the time of issue. This caused collector anger, but did not lower the coin's value, which has continued to increase in the 80-plus years since it was struck. ( Full article...)
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Just stubbed, in case you're interested; I saw one of his ads on the back of an old pulp magazine and found enough about him in Google Books to lead me to think he was notable. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 20:33, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you today for History of the British farthing, about "a coin small in value but still a source of interest today"! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:02, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving articles in July! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:13, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
A good day in August: today, Monteverdi's operas became a featured topic! ... exactly 10 years after both Brian and I were declared awesome ;) - the list to appear as TFL on 21 Aug. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:20, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt, I've noticed your monumental contributions to WP and your great username for a while now and was wondering if you would considering mentoring me for my hopefully first FAC. The article I've been working on is Cai Lun and at the moment it's up for GAN so we would have to probably wait until someone picked it up before pursuing the FAC – or perhaps I should just withdraw the nomination, not sure. Anyways, I noticed this lengthy discussion on WT:FAC about diversity and I wasn't sure how to feel about it other than just try to "do my part". I had already expanded Cai Lun quite a bit and was not necessarily planning for FAC but this motivated me to in a weird sort of way. Anyways, there's many things about the article I'm uncertain about since information on Cai Lun's life is so sketchy and the sources I found (other than a single biography) were mostly encyclopedic entries or entries in the beginnings of books about the origins of paper. If you would be interested in assisting I would greatly appreciate it, and if not then I completely understand, we all have our own (self imposed I suppose) obligations/plans here and I wouldn't want to get in the way of yours. Best - Aza24 ( talk) 08:57, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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Ssilvers and Wehwalt: I have responded to the WP:Edit war accusation at The King and I's Talk page. -- Osnapitzjv ( talk) 22:29, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
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This (all seriousness aside). -- Brogo13 ( talk) 21:09, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt, we've never bumped up against each other, although we seem to be interested in similar articles, based on you popping up on lots of the articles I have on my watchlist. :) I'm working on an article and hope to bring it to good article status, but I've no idea what the process is. With all your plus marks and gold stars, I thought you might be the person to ask. Would you be willing to take a look at it and give me comments? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz ( talk) 00:56, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
IanRoweNWE ( talk) 16:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC) Hi,
Hoping you can help and appreciate the back and forth so far.
As I am new I am wondering what is the best way to align on the 1868 death penalty rational/John A Macdonald article. It seems like edits back and forth maybe isn't it? Should I post more detail on the John A talk page?
I wrote a bunch of points I was hoping to get your help with but maybe cause of length Wikipedia wouldn't let me post. Not trying to start a thing, trying to learn wikipedia and gain alignment.
Hi,
I've seen on the page Adopt an astronaut that you would work to make James Irwin a Featured Article but you haven't edited it at all. Have you given up ?
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Calvinsky ( talk) 20:49, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
I hope you are doing well in these strange times. I have started a PR for Yuri Gagarin. I hope to get him through FAC before the 60th anniversary of his flight, 12 April. Please comment at Wikipedia:Peer review/Yuri Gagarin/archive1. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 22:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving articles in August! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:36, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
A first for me today: a featured list (= a featured topic in this case) on the Main page, see Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 August 21, an initiative by Aza24 in memory of Brian. Also, thank you for scheduling! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:39, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you today for California Pacific International Exposition half dollar, about "a coin whose high mintage proved to be its undoing as relatively few sold. Unusually, the sponsors went back to Congress and got a second year of striking, but again, most wound up melted. Still, it's a beautiful design."! - Nice Main page today, - I have a chapel pictured under DYK, + 2 of the hooks I approved ;) - the chapel is one of the places I was "given" for my birthday, DYK? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
DYK: Rhythm Is It! - I expanded that stub on my dad's birthday because we saw the film together back then, and were impressed. As a ref said: every educator should see it. Don't miss the trailer, for a starter. - A welcome chance to present yet another article by Brian on the Main page, Le Sacre du printemps. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 14:07, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
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I haven't had much time for Wikipedia in the last few months, so I've decided to stop posting the WikiProject Numismatics newsletter until things die down. Would you please remove my MMS user group? I have no use for it now. - ZLEA T\ C 14:42, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt. I wanted to offer a suggestion regarding your content surrounding U.S. presidents and African Americans. You might want to consult Jones, Stephen A.; Freedman, Eric (2012). Presidents and Black America: A Documentary History. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781608710089. Consider it as a starting point for related content. Mitchumch ( talk) 03:24, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
The removal of the content is unjustified , please take a look at the talk page of the article , or add the information to a more relevant place, if you think that is necessary . However it's complete removal would be unnecessary censorship . What do you think ? Meethamonkey ( talk) 07:32, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the Florin (British coin) article has been scheduled as today's featured article for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 8, 2020...! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:58, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
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I like today's Main page, with the TFA (thank you for your FAC comments, and scheduling!) on the anniversary day (of both dedication and our concert), a DYK, and a great photographer who didn't make it soon enough, Jürgen Schadeberg, - more on my talk, mostly about the tribute to Brian who shared his sources. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:45, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for The Bread-Winners, about "a rather dated book by John Hay, subject of my last nomination. Controversial as it presented a hostile view of organized labor, Hay prudently published the book anonymously, which led to quite a guessing game that is now entirely forgotten, but that was one of the literary events of 1883."
From tribute to tribute, now with loads of thanks to Jerome Kohl. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:24, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear Wehwalt/Archive 22,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.
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Wehwalt,
Thanks again for your copy editing, comments and sources you've found. I had delayed putting some of the information in the article since it begun a GA (and just recently finished). Looking ahead, I think I'm going to put it to the side for the moment, I'm not feeling super motivated to work on it further since I think I'm going to need to find some Chinese sources at some point...! That being said I think I'm going to take Portrait of a Musician to FAC soon since I have been working on it for a while and had assistance from quite a few users. I hope this message doesn't come off as awkward, I just wanted to let you know if case you see Portrait of a Musician at FAC and get confused why I didn't nominate Cai Lun first. When I do inevitably return to Cai, if you would be available again I would likely return for your guidance. Best, Aza24 ( talk) 21:45, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
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I've got a quick alternate history question about the Philippines for you: What do you think would have happened to the Philippines over the last 125 years had the Spanish-American War never actually occurred? For instance, do you believe that there would have eventually been a Spanish-Japanese war over the Philippines in such a scenario?
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Hi Wehwalt, I saw you removed my concern but it doesn't seem to have been addressed. Can I now assume FAs are eligible which contain no media at all? The Rambling Man ( Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 14:49, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
My apologies for requesting TFA for the Biblioteca Marciana too early. I later found the appropriate page ... I think. Venicescapes ( talk) 15:18, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi,
If you don't mind, I've got another question for you, if you don't mind: Which US Presidents (and their presidencies) other than William McKinley do you know a lot about?
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Futurist110 ( talk) 23:14, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
If, as you wrote, "Rv, seems unnecessary, especially when he wrote other book(s)," why don't you just add other books and so increase knowledge, rather than delete the one book I found and decrease knowledge? - Aboudaqn ( talk) 01:24, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
William Henry Harrison 1840 presidential campaign - blah, blah, running election day.. blah, blah... -- Ealdgyth ( talk) 19:00, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
Sovereign (British coin) on Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 17, 2020 -- Ealdgyth ( talk) 14:51, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you today for Florin (British coin), "a coin that was introduced as part of a decimal scheme and appropriately enough lived on the longest under decimal currency"! - Happy to see it together with Organ Symphony No. 3 (Vierne), the composer pictured on his 150th birthday. His biography is not yet where I want it, but much better than a week ago. It was played at one of my churches this summer, in the first concert there after the break. Organists can enjoy to be naturally "at a distance". The organ is pictured among "my places", - click on October, - we have thanksgiving first Sunday of that month, DYK? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:52, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Wehwalt, hope all is well. I'm not sure if you remember me-- we interacted a bit, and I found your comments and suggestions very helpful when I was starting out here several years ago. I've progressed quite a bit since then, but I seem to have hit a wall with my prose with O Captain! My Captain!. I was wondering if you could comment on the peer review I've opened up, with an eye towards a possible FAC. I'm at quite a loss for how to move the prose forward here. If time or interest doesn't allow, no worries. All the best, Eddie891 Talk Work 00:28, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
I really appreciate the helpful comments you provided on the John Neal (writer) FAN. If you have more of that energy to spare, I request your participation in the active peer review of an article I recently created for one of Neal's friends from Baltimore. It's much shorter than Neal's article, but I think it could go to GAN next. I just need more eyes to point out things that don't make sense, obvious gaps, etc. Coincidentally, Eddie891 just contributed to this review! Thanks in advance for your help. -- Dugan Murphy ( talk) 22:17, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
Well done on the TFA for the Sovereign. I notice there are no photographs of the current coin. Would a front and reverse photo of the 2020 coin be of use for the article? If so I can arrange some but would need to know it was of use before making arrangements. Thanks. LordHarris 11:45, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
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There are a couple of blurbs in the first half of the month I'd like to make some edits to, if that's okay. - Dank ( push to talk) 14:19, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
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Wehwalt, since you FA'd Babe Ruth, I was wondering if you might join the effort to salvage Sandy Koufax ... there's a list at article talk. He's 84 years old, so I think we should keep the article up to snuff, and it doesn't need too much work ... looks fairly decent for an FA last reviewed in 2007. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:25, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
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I am trying my hand at a DYK review and don't want to mess it up. I am doing this one Template:Did you know nominations/St. Michael, Kaubenheim. I was wondering if you had any advice on how to handle or whether I am doing it wrong. Remember ( talk) 14:36, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
On Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 26, 2021... Jimfbleak - talk to me? 17:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
Wehwalt, it has been a long time since I have worked with you but you were always a big help on issues so I thought I would reach out again.
I created the article Ruth Williams Cupp. I am trying to get the article up to DYK status to be posted on December 16. I have a conflict of interest on the article though since I knew the subject and her family. I don't know if you have ever dealt with COI issues before but was just hoping to have all the issues cleaned up before the DYK date. If you have any advice or suggestions regarding the article, I would love to hear them. Remember ( talk) 17:59, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
Do you think you can remove the COI tag? I don't know if it can be removed once another editor has reviewed the material. I have a posting on the Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard but there has been no response. I'm not sure what else to do. Remember ( talk) 21:35, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
If you don't mind, I've got another couple of alternate history questions for you:
1. If Charles Evans Hughes wins the US Presidency in 1916, do you think that he is going to insist on the abolition of the German and Austro-Hungarian monarchies just like Woodrow Wilson did in real life? Also, do you think that Hughes would have handled any aspect of World War I and/or its aftermath any differently in comparison to Wilson?
2. Do you think that FDR runs again for a third term in 1940 if the Fall of France doesn't actually occur--at least not in 1940?
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Futurist110 ( talk) 07:34, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
I'm not sure it would work that way. After all, by this time the US is important enough to the world economy that if it has a recession, there is probably economic problems in Europe too, which would encourage emigration to America, where the streets are paved with gold and all that.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 20:18, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
I was going to correct "travelling" to "traveling" at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 14, 2020 and 1789 Virginia's 5th congressional district election, until I noticed you went out of your way to spell it that way. Do you know something I don't? Wiktionary:traveling#Alternative forms says "travelling (Commonwealth)", Google Ngrams confirms that "traveling" is the usual U.S. spelling, and the U.S. was independent in 1789. Art LaPella ( talk) 05:31, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for going the extra distance to get both Introduction to viruses and immune system re-scheduled and re-featured at Today's featured article, to keep the main page featured content relevant to important worldwide issues! SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 19:11, 15 December 2020 (UTC) |
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The birthday display! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:27, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Wehwalt! Thank you again for your work on the John Neal (writer) FAN. I have initiated a move request to John Neal and it could use more input. Could you check it out if you have time? I thought I would ask given your familiarity with the article from the nomination process. -- Dugan Murphy ( talk) 18:49, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
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Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Adoration of the Magi (Jan Mostaert) is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod ( talk) 12:11, 25 December 2020 (UTC) |
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Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. Ealdgyth ( talk) 15:29, 25 December 2020 (UTC) |
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Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy ( talk) 15:00, 26 December 2020 (UTC) Oneupsmanship: This painting turned the friendly rivalry between Edward Redfield and Elmer Schofield into a feud. Schofield was a frequent houseguest at Redfield's farm, upstream from New Hope, Pennsylvania, and the two would go out painting together, competing to capture the better view. Redfield served on the jury for the 1904 Annual Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute; at which, despite Redfield's opposition, Across the River was awarded the Gold Medal and $1,500 prize. It was not until a 1963 interview that the 93-year-old Redfield revealed the painting as the cause of the 40-year feud between them. Schofield may have painted it in England, but a blindsided Redfield knew that it was a view of the Delaware River, from his own front yard! |
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Seasons greetings. Hope you and yours are safe and well during this rather bleak period, though I think we will get through it. Best Ceoil ( talk) 02:43, 28 December 2020 (UTC) |
Hi Wehwalt, hope all is well. As you were kind enough to comment on my Peer Review, I was wondering if I could interest you in commenting at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/O Captain! My Captain!/archive1. I'm loathe to request favors, but it seems that nobody is very interested in giving it a review and the co-ords have suggested that it may be in danger of getting archived. Hope your holidays are pleasant and I wish you and yours all the best as we enter a new year. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:16, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving article quality in December, and good wishes for a time of transition. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:29, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Have a good new year 2021! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:17, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for closing that. It started with patently false accusations and went downhill into some secret rabbit hole which wasn't useful at all. The Rambling Man ( Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 09:28, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
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I don't understand the problem with the sentence I added to Horace Greeley. You write, "prev 01:29, 9 January 2021 Wehwalt talk contribs 73,141 bytes −198 Partial rv, would rather have that from a secondary source undothank What is "rv"? You would rather have what from a secondary source? Maurice Magnus ( talk) 18:43, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your explanation, with which I agree. I had read that authorship has been attributed to Greeley, but I can't find where I read that. That is why I wrote that Greeley "published," rather than "wrote," the campaign biography. Though literally true, I can see that that is misleading, because readers will assume that he wrote it. What I have done, therefore, is to put back what I'd written, but I added the sentence "The biography does not identify its author." I own the biography, so I know that to be the case. My contribution now reads: "In 1856, Greeley published a campaign biography for the first Republican presidential candidate, John Charles Frémont.[51] The biography does not identify its author." I hope that is satisfactory. In the Fremont article, I added a comparable footnote to the listing of the biography under "Primary Sources." Maurice Magnus ( talk) 00:42, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Replacing "The biography does not identify its author" with "anonymously-authored" is a good edit; thank you. In the U.S., we do not use a hyphen in a double modifier where the adverb ends in "ly." (We also don't use it where the adverb is "very," as in "very good boy.") This is because, in these instances, no possibility of ambiguity exists. But I think that in England they might use the hyphen, so I will leave it alone, but feel free to delete it. Maurice Magnus ( talk) 12:39, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests has Apollo 14 as a pending item for Feb 5... do you have another date in mind? Ealdgyth ( talk) 14:34, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
Had Henry Clay won the US Presidency in 1844, do you think that both the US annexation of Texas and the US conquest of the Mexican Cession would have been completely prevented or merely delayed until another Democrat would have won the US Presidency? Futurist110 ( talk) 04:15, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi! I just nominated Willie Mays for a peer review. During its recent featured article nomination, User:SandyGeorgia suggested it needed more work on the prose and mentioned that such a review could use the help of an experienced baseball editor like yourself. If you have time to take a look at it, your input would be greatly appreciated! Sanfranciscogiants17 ( talk) 13:32, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Wehwalt, I am currently trying to promote Huey Long to featured status - it's been through GA, a peer review, and a failed FAN. I noticed that you have done some work on similar subjects and would really appreciate if you give it a look-over. The guild of ce is about to look at the grammar, so I'm more concerned about the article's detail, cohesiveness, weight, etc. No worries if you're too busy - have a nice day! ~ HAL 333
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I tried to give 2021 a good start by updating the QAI project topics. Please check and correct, - did you know that you belong to project's few members from the beginning who are still active? For moar private "happy new year" see here. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:13, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
Still ipad typing with post-surgery, trying to track maindates for URFA, I think Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 5, 2021 is wrong? The TFA the day before is the tour, not the group? Sorry for brevity, may be errors elsewhere? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:46, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Doing my usual talk page cleanup to make articlehistory fixes on upcoming TFAs, I found several did not have maindates yet ... pinged you, but holding off on further articlehistory checks 'til you let me know if those are set ? Bst, SandyGeorgia ( Talk)
According to WP:WBFAN, the promotion of Columbia, South Carolina, Sesquicentennial half dollar marks your 200th successful FAC nomination. What an incredible body of work you have contributed to the encyclopaedia, ranging from coins to elections, from biographies to space missions, and presidential campaigns to novels. Thank you for all your efforts. Warm regards, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 22:42, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Wehwalt, if you have the time, I was wondering if you could comment on the Suzanne Lenglen FAC? Specifically, some concerns were brought up about the overall length of the article. I tried to justify the length by comparing it to the Babe Ruth article that you wrote, which is much longer. I was wondering if you thought the overall length of the article was justified? Thanks! Sportsfan77777 ( talk) 19:05, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
I think he's right about the date. The source that we cite is dated Feb.1, but the report within it was dated Jan.31 and says "last night", so Jan. 30. All the best, -- Ssilvers ( talk) 03:05, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you today for Apollo 14, about "an Apollo mission perhaps most famous for featuring the second flight of Alan Shepard, and for Shepard sending two golf balls into flight. Yet much else went on, from a frustrated Stu Roosa trying again and again to dock two spacecraft to Ed Mitchell's ESP experiments."! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:25, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
... and today for Grant Memorial coinage, about "two coins, the last commemoratives we have to deal with from the 1920s. The usual legacy of (relative) beauty and doubt about whether the money went to a good cause"! - Would you please take a look at BWV 1, where I think most concerns have been dealt with by now, so should be easy? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:39, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt, new TFA user; I was wondering where these other article that don't appear on WP:TFAR come from? I saw that 1080° Snowboarding is going to appear in late February, but I didn't see it appear on TFAR. P anini 🥪 02:04, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:25, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
You reverted my changes to make the language neutral but without even a hint as to the reason. I've put it back and am reaching out to see if we can settle our differences here rather than via an edit war. Exactly which of my changes do you object to and why? Cutelyaware ( talk) 08:18, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for selecting the Biblioteca Marciana as TFA on 25 March. Since the library is an official institution of the Italian government, I asked in the nomination if there could be additional protection or heightened vigilance to prevent vandalic edits that are misleading, promotional, or vulgar. Do you know yet if that will be possible? Venicescapes ( talk) 07:10, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
... at least about the first part. [2]. IJS :-) — Ched ( talk) 12:00, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
Hey there Wehwalt, thought I'd drop a line and see if you might have any interest in taking a look at this article, which is
currently at FAC; it's just passed three weeks without a full review, hence the reaching out. He's a lot more interesting of a subject than merely a lawyer who wrote an article on sanitary legislation, I promise hope! But by all means, no worries if you're tied up (or disagree with my assessment of interestingness). Cheers, --
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Hi,
I made this request last year, and would like to express my appreciation for the most excellent compromise you came up with last month. Would you mind applying the same format to Andrew Jackson's hats? :)
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This is to let you know that the Old Spanish Trail half dollar article has been scheduled as today's featured article for April 5, 2021... Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:44, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
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Here's a barnstar for your terrific work. This project is indebted to contributors like yourself. ~ HAL 333 02:55, 15 March 2021 (UTC) |
I was thinking of nominating Ruth Cupp for a Featured Article and wanted to get your thoughts on that before I did it in case you think there is anything I should do before I nominate it. The article recently got awarded good article status. Remember ( talk) 16:16, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Would you be willing to drop by Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Lisa Nowak/archive1 and provide an opinion on the lead sentence and WP:ROLEBIO? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:57, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for scheduling Carmen for today, with Bizet's music " expressing the emotions and suffering of his characters" as Brian worded it. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:08, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
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Warren G. Harding, about "one of the least regarded American presidents. Yet, a look at Harding's career indicates that there was a bit more there beyond the president who managed his cabinet with slack reins, allowing Teapot Dome and other scandals to occur"! - Carmen enjoyed around 35k views. This time, it had an infobox, while for the first run, Brian was reluctant to expose the then new feature on the Main page. Soon after, he used it himself, first for
L'Arianna. - Will anybody be "uninvolved" enough to close the Fleming RfC? I looked at the archive, and found
this treasure, - why didn't they just listen then? I miss him much, and used your phrase again on my talk "and those who have just given up", -
emotions pictured in icicles. --
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... and today for Lewis and Clark Exposition dollar, about "a fairly obscure gold commemorative, the only "two-headed" US coin, and about the preparation for which not much is known, due to lack of surviving records. Still, it's an interesting tale, featuring Farran Zerbe, numismatic promoter, who's mostly remembered positively these days but who was controversial in his time"! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:02, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for reviewing Bach's cantata composed for today, - perhaps listen. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:30, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
What do you think of this?: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=South_Pacific_%28musical%29&type=revision&diff=1014598494&oldid=1013694515 -- Ssilvers ( talk) 01:44, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello! I don't believe we've interacted much before, but I wanted to ask about the process for blurbs at TFA. The instructions at WP:TFAR state that there should be a blurb on the FAC nom's talk page (still not clear to me whether this is the talk page of the FAC discussion or the article's talk page itself). After looking over a couple active TFARs, it seems most likely to me that this is just referring to the "about this article" blurb nominators add to the top of FAC noms. Am I correct in this thinking? I recently got Ted Kaczynski through FAC as my first nom and I'm eager to put it up at TFAR. I'm assuming that if I do this, I would be the one writing the blurb? Thanks! AviationFreak 💬 15:00, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
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... for improving articles in April! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:28, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for that! Thank you today for Old Spanish Trail half dollar, about "yet another coin, probably the highlight in the saga of L.W. Hoffecker, whose efforts to get control of a commemorative coin in 1930 had sparked a presidential veto. Here he is successful, and even designed the coin, about which there are certainly mixed reviews."! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:31, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
Memories on the Main page today, Psalm 115 thinking of Yoninah, Christa Ludwig and Milva, - voices that made the Earth a better place. Sad that the psalm hook didn't appear on Earth Day as planned, but better pictured and late than going unnoticed ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:19, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for May 15, 2021. Please check that the article needs no amendments. A coordinator will draft a blurb - based on your draft if the TFA came via TFA requests, or for Featured Articles promoted recently from an existing blurb on the FAC talk page. Feel free to comment on this. We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild ( talk) 13:32, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for May 16, 2021. Please check that the article needs no amendments. A coordinator will draft a blurb - based on your draft if the TFA came via TFA requests, or for Featured Articles promoted recently from an existing blurb on the FAC talk page. Feel free to comment on this. We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild ( talk) 13:32, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I have recently created an article " George H. W. Bush 1992 presidential campaign". Since you have created articles of similar kind, which are featured articles, can you please tell whether the article created by me complies with the criteria of a good article, or it needs more information to be added. If possible, kindly help me in improving the article. I have already requested it to be copy-edited. Thankyou! Kavyansh.Singh ( talk) 15:54, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Wehwalt, I hope you've been really well. Last year we briefly discussed that June 3, the fiftieth anniversary of the release of " Watching the River Flow", would be a nice day to have it appear as TFA. I think you mentioned I could send you a reminder as that date approaches. Thank you, Moisejp ( talk) 05:59, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hey there. Given your work on Canadian history, I thought you may be interested in a new page I've made for J. L. Granatstein's 1998 book, Who Killed Canadian History?. I'm going to try to get it to GA status eventually, but given its controversial status I wanted to have some that are more experienced in Canadian history than I to have a quick look at it first. Cheers. Tkbrett (✉) 19:48, 9 May 2021 (UTC)