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December music

Today's story comes from a DYK about a concert that fascinated me, and you can listen! For my taste, the hook has too little music - I miss the unusual scoring and the specific dedication - but it comes instead with a name good for viewcount. - Could you perhaps help with sources for Huang Zhun (composer)? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:08, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today, listen to Sequenza XIV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:42, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. We sang in choirs today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:04, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:15, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to Beethoven's 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the 2020 DYK set when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with Antônio Meneses, because he was on my sad list this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:59, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I come to fix the cellist's name, with a 10-years-old DYK and new pics - look for red birds --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:05, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for improving article quality in December! - Today is a woman poet's centenary. --(forgot to sign)

Today it's another great woman, soprano Sigrid Kehl, and I found a 1963 Christmas Oratorio detail. 10 years earlier than that cycle, Bach wrote seven cantatas for the 1724 season, based on seven songs, - my focus this year. Expect three stories for the three days they celebrated in Leipzig ;) - Enjoy the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:39, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Animations

I'm wondering if there is a simple solution to runaway animations. Could an article display a linked static image? When a use clicks it, the Commons animated file opens. [File] doesn't seem to have any parameters to control animations. I'm out if my depth with video. Humpster (talk) 05:25, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Another review, maybe?

Hello, I'd be pleased if you again review the article Shang dynasty religious practitioners for me after the success of our last work. Thanks in advance! Strongman13072007 (talk) 11:39, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Religion and ethnicity

OK. I’m actually going to talk about this here about Finnish Americans and Swedish Canadians. Is a key fact that are Traditionally Lutheran? And if yes or no, tell me the reason please Servite et contribuere (talk) 16:27, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, here is one key fact about religion nonetheless, Christianity is at an all time low. In other words, We are moving into an increasingly non religious world. And many people just don’t care anymore about religion, so for many people, it is unnecessary information. In the early 1900s, religion and ethnicity would have been talked about way more often. I should just remind myself that those days are long gone (Although I am only 17 years old). Christianity has declined in comparison to 20 (And even 10) years ago. In the western world, it is likely to continue declining. Thus, for much of society, religion is no longer a key fact about people. Seriously, is world changing quickly. (Sorry for the long reply) Servite et contribuere (talk) 16:40, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Abolition of monarchy: interwiki external links

I edited in v:Should the monarchy in the UK be abolished? twice, and you reverted twice. I'm not going to do it a third time for at least 72 hours—probably longer. However your summary,

"Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article. In other words, the site should not merely repeat information that is already or should be in the article. Presumably this article would contain a much better cited presentation of such arguments."

would, IMO, exclude a lot of interwiki links, such as Wikiquote or Wiktionary. The information might be the same, or mostly the same, but one's formatted as an article, the other as a debate; nor is the article a featured article. Besides where does it say, that what you say, are the rules? DMBFFF (talk) 03:22, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, we wouldn't include dictionary material inline because Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Moreover—I ultimately think there is precisely zero value for the reader in linking a totally uncited opinion listicle generated by a Wikiversity user, and it really does not make the rest of the article and other content it links to look good. Remsense ‥ 论 03:27, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Then why has this article, Help:Interwiki linking, exist, or has existed for over 20 years; or that WP makes such links easy?

Yes, Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but it doesn't (explicitly) ban links to such. The rest of your reply seems to be your opinion, IMO, and so far you have cited no backing by link and relevant quotes. For the benefit of us editors, please do. DMBFFF (talk) 03:40, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki linking a useful feature and it's usefully complete. I'm just making clear that this resource in particular is clearly pretty useless. Look at it. We have standards for content we include in articles and EL are not exempt from those standards. Thanks. Remsense ‥ 论 03:41, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What would it take for it to pass your standards?—I say "your" as you haven't given me a link and relevant quote of what WP bars and allows.

What if I put it in this article: Republicanism in the United Kingdom? DMBFFF (talk) 03:56, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It would need to be something other than what it fundamentally is—i.e. uncited bullet points of the anonymous author's opinions, I guess. There's not much to say about it because there's not much there to begin with. It's not useful on any page because it's not a useful document, apologies to the author. In general, since the most direct purpose would be improving the articles themselves, the onus would generally be on you to justify the worthiness of a resource's inclusion in terms of what the article already has and doesn't have, rather than the article being the mere medium through which we express our fixation to maximally interconnect the various projects. Remsense ‥ 论 03:58, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Like WP, WV is a collaborative effort. There is no single author of that page. Please use the appropriate genitive: "Author-s'".
Aside from Wikicommons and Wikisource, can you relatively easily cite 3 Wikipedia articles that have IW ELs whose inclusion you approve of?

DMBFFF (talk) 04:12, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not right now, no. Hopefully you get my point that we're an encyclopedia and have standards about EL in terms of their content as much as with the content of the article itself. Cheers! Remsense ‥ 论 04:13, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not right now?

Then when can you? I'm prepared to wait a reasonable time—72 hours, or 10 days, or perhaps up to 1 calendar month: before I start to revert again. DMBFFF (talk) 04:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DMBFFF, a page being reachable through interwiki link syntax doesn't make it automatically appropriate for linking in mainspace. E.g.: mw:Help:CirrusSearch, meta:Community Wishlist/Focus areas/Article Creation Guidance, wikitech:Machine Learning/LiftWing, xtools:ec/en.wikipedia.org/DMBFFF, phab:T11790.

d:, c:, and wikt: are sometimes used inline; s: and q: sometimes in ==External links==, and I've once or twice seen cases where b: and I think voy: were appropriate somewhere, but not most of the Wikimedia ecosystem. Folly Mox (talk) 14:11, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Module:Lang-zh

Hi Remsense, a year ago we discussed about allowing specifying the t variant as zh-Hant-HK vs zh-Hant-TW. I have implemented this over Module:Lang-zh/sandbox. {{zh|t_hk=返}} should render <span lang="zh-Hant-HK">返</span> and likewise for TW. Please feel free to take a look. Northern Moonlight 05:00, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have read the above message. I will reply when I have a moment. If I don't promptly, please ping me again, as I can be scatterbrained. Remsense ‥ 论 07:31, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You might be also interested in my new {{kCantonese}} template. Northern Moonlight 00:13, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Winston Churchill

I do not understand why you want only 4 children, when he clearly has 5. Can you please explain? Bduke (talk) 07:29, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It plainly states 5. Remsense ‥ 论 07:30, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Page deletion

Hi, if you're interested could you please initiate a request to delete the page Il Risorgimento (newspaper)? It has no sources and doesn't appear to be noteworthy. I'm not very familiar with deletion requests.
Thanks in advance. JacktheBrown (talk) 14:01, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JacktheBrown, I was doing a check, and I found a few references in books I have during discussions of Garibaldi. I am not convinced it is notable, but there are at least a few mentions in historical scholarship. Remsense ‥ 论 23:06, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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January music

Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page has). - I saw a lovely opera by Rimsky-Korsakov, - see here. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:07, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, my story today 300 years after the first performance, is up for GAN. Dada Masilo will be my story tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:52, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:17, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

British Armed Forces

Hi @Remsense.

Thank you for your edit on British Armed Forces, however I strongly disagree with your decision to remove "The force is alternatively referred to as His Majesty's Armed Forces." for "Not unique (would theoretically apply to monarchies in general)". for the following reasons

HM Armed Forces is an Official name used by both the UK Government and other official sources to refer to the British Armed Forces.
This would not apply to all monarchies, Danish Defence is not referred to as His Majesty's Danish Defence nor is the Royal Thai Armed Forces for example referred to as His Majesty's Thai Armed Forces neither is Japan's defence force referred to as His Imperial Majesty's Defence Force etc etc

It is my intention to resolve this dispute and add the line back in. If you have any further questions relating to this please feel free to ask. Knowledgework69 (talk) 20:39, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Request for Assistance

You are an experienced editor that I respect, @Remsense. If possible, I would value your contribution to the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Palestinian political violence (3rd nomination). It would mean a lot to have your third-party, neutral, and experienced perspective. Firecat93 (talk) 20:06, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

State of Palestine religious data

Hello. I'm confused as to why you reverted my changes to the State of Palestine article. I updated the data to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics 2017 census data (via MNR, since that was the most up-to-date and credible source I could find at the time, that didn't count illegal settlements). Is there other data I should have used, or is PCBS considered unreliable. Also, I'm confused as to why you removed the Palestinian Baháʼís. I added it since the Palestinian Jews article was focused on Mandatory Palestine, which is beyond the scope of the article (the polity declared by the Palestinian declaration of independence), and I felt it inappropriate to only include Muslims and Christians, since there are other minorities, and I found the Palestinain Baháʼís page while searching through categories and the Samaritans in Palestine don't yet have their own page. Should I use the [1]https://www.thearda.com/world-religion/national-profiles?u=114c#S_2 source mentioned by Iskandar323, while excluding the Jewish settler population instead? Thank you. 2018rebel 04:01, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Remsense Oh, I see what you mean. My changes do kinda look like I'm trying to make Palestine look less diverse. Sorry, I was trying to follow Wikipedia:Verifiability to a tee after I mentioned it on the talk page, which probably suggested an anti-Palestine POV. Is there anyway the changes could get restored (at least the data), because I genuinely did not intend to do that? 2018rebel 04:10, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Remsense, I restored some of the changes, including updating the religious data to the latest census (2017) and removed the claims of the Druze population, since they are not currently sourced. I also added the Bah'ai religious minority. I also removed the hatnote to a redirect. However, I did not restore the other changes, because it seems that they are more controversial, and rather than removing them over relevance and verifiability concerns, I believe I should have asked for consensus or waited until other editors found sources. If your concerns were actually about the reliability of the PCBS, please let me know; however, I felt it necessary to update the data, because the 2014 data was partially unsourced (and could not verify the 2014 date) and I could not confirm it through my own searches. Thank you. 2018rebel 00:53, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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