User talk:Voorts/Archive 30
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RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:
- Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
- Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
- Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
- Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
- Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
- Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
- Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
- Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed
See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
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Carabus mariettii (marietti) stefaniruspolii
You reverted my edit--what I thought was a correction--moving the article from "marietti" to "mariettii." You said "marietti" is the corrct spelling, according to the source. I was just going by the other subspecies. Does this mean that all of those subspecies--and the species itself--need to be moved? Uporządnicki (talk) 13:25, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- I hadn't noticed that there were other subspecies and that the species name is spelled the way you that you had changed the title to. I think the one "i" is correct based on the RS cited and a brief search of Google/Google scholar, but I'm not a species-naming expert, so perhaps a WP:RMPM discussion should be started at Carabus mariettii for the species and all of the subspecies. voorts (talk/contributions) 14:19, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- OK, if I get to it, I'll open a discussion. But it'll probably be at a project page, rather than one species or genus article--which might not be seen. Uporządnicki (talk) 18:36, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
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DYK for Addie Viola Smith
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Regarding your comment in the MoS discussion: I also once "voted" per someone else, but in general I recommend to provide your own thoughts rather than only referring to those of others. I supported the view that Voceditenore detailed for Mozart:
- "Infoboxes are an integral part of editing and more importantly of the reader experience. They allow us to cater both to the reader who is looking only for the basic facts concerning the person quickly and easily presented and to those who want a lengthy and more detailed artcle. The "repetition" argument is simply a canard. The Encyclopædia Britannica doesn't have a problem with "repetition" via infoboxes [1]. Nor does the Australian Dictionary of Biography [2].
- The other "oppose" reasons are equally weak.
- They contain "unimportant factoids"?? The dates and places of birth and death, the subject's primary occupation are not factoids, they are highly salient and essential facts of a biography ...
- There is no evidence for the assertion that vandalism is harder to detect in infoboxes than in the article text ...
- The notion that an infobox attracts less valuable editors and its absence will somehow make them edit the article text instead is equally preposterous and patronizing ..."
Please read it full length, and tell me here - and better all in the discussion - what you think? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- On the bicentenary of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, I remember our recent uplifting choral concert in pictures, on my user page and in my concerts (leading to the two at the church's article). The closest was in the paper. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:48, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Today is the Feast of the Ascension for which Bach composed his oratorio, - perhaps watch a bit how the closing movement was performed in Bach's church. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:17, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, Gerda. I've not given Bach's vocal works as much attention as I ought to; I tend to stick with what I know and love from Bach (the Casals recording of the Cello Suites). voorts (talk/contributions) 00:27, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Voorts, I don't like "ought to" ;) - Did you listen a bit? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:30, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- I have now. A lovely performance. voorts (talk/contributions) 22:12, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
- thank you! - today's story has a pic of a woman holding her cat, a DYK of 5 years ago - the recent pics show 2 orange tip butterflies --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:24, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- I have now. A lovely performance. voorts (talk/contributions) 22:12, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
- Voorts, I don't like "ought to" ;) - Did you listen a bit? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:30, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, Gerda. I've not given Bach's vocal works as much attention as I ought to; I tend to stick with what I know and love from Bach (the Casals recording of the Cello Suites). voorts (talk/contributions) 00:27, 10 May 2024 (UTC)