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Thanks for...

...all of your work on "Siegfried Lederer's escape from Auschwitz" and congratulations on it being the featured article of the day. —  AjaxSmack  00:40, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

wild garlic

Yes, thank you for the article about "'one of the most bizarre escapes' of World War II, involved an SS guard who risked (and ultimately lost) his life to help a Jewish Auschwitz prisoner escape. The escapee, Siegfried Lederer, went on to smuggle weapons into the Theresienstadt Ghetto."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:16, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Incorrect English?

I am a native English speaker and I am pretty sure your revert here is incorrect. The correct grammar is lest a "catastrophe" befalls not lest a "catastrophe" befall ConnorMcGregggor (talk) 19:42, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

@ConnorMcGregggor lest is usually followed by a subjunctive. 𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 19:57, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
ConnorMcGregggor, That's correct, subjunctive is a thing. (t · c) buidhe 20:16, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
OK, looks like I was wrong. Thanks. ConnorMcGregggor (talk) 20:39, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

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Courtesy note

Realized no one pinged you, so just alerting you that people are trying to forum-shop in your name at WT:RM. Vaticidalprophet 09:44, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, good to know. (t · c) buidhe 09:55, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Bugles

Hello. When you closed the RM at Bugles, were you aware of the RM at Talk:Bugle_(disambiguation)#Requested_move_22_March_2021 that had been closed against exactly the same move just 17 minutes before the Bugles RM was filed? At least 2 of the 3 supporters were aware of it because they had participated there. It doesn't seem proper to open an RM on a different talk page immediately after a discussion on the same move was closed on the first page. Station1 (talk) 06:22, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

I was not aware of this discussion but I don't consider it relevant because move requests for multiple pages tend to yield inconclusive results, whereas those for just one page are more likely to have a clear outcome. (t · c) buidhe 07:46, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
I assumed you were not aware of it, but now that you know that three editors specifically opposed the precise move that you carried out, citing guidelines, statistics and logical problems with the nom, while three editors supported it, including two who participated in both discussions, won't you consider reverting your move and closing as 'no consensus'? Or at the very least reverting and reopening the second RM, so I can point out these facts to another closer? Otherwise, this one must go to WP:MR (I've never done that before, and don't do it lightly) because, although I appreciate your close was done completely in good faith, it's such a blatant case of forum-shopping on the nom's part, and because I believe one non-admin should not overturn the close of another non-admin one week later. Station1 (talk) 16:11, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
I don't agree that it's forum shopping to follow up an unsuccessful move request for multiple pages with a more tailored one for an individual page. For example, multiple AfD's often are unsuccessful if one page is shown to be notable, but in that case you can renominate individually to determine if a single page is notable. It would have been preferable if someone in the discussion had pinged participants in the earlier move, but I don't see that as necessary. (t · c) buidhe 19:21, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Wouldn't a reasonable compromise be to redirect Bugles to Bugle (disambiguation) since as noted there are other uses than just the snack and instrument. That seems like a reasonable compromise per WP:NOPRIMARY. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:53, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
Crouch, Swale, I suggest that you try WP:RfD if you think there would be consensus for that. At the discussion, there were more people preferring primary redirect. (t · c) buidhe 19:11, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
Well I was suggesting that over reverting the move as a compromise but otherwise I'll leave it if the move isn't being reopened. In response to Station1's point I'd point out that neither you or anyone else addressed the long-term significance point for the plural though no one addressed the usage point in the 2nd RM. Also one of the users who opposed the move of the instrument supported moving the snack even if there wasn't a consensus in the 1st RM to move the snack. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:16, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

American left/Left

I don't think that there was sufficient editor involvement to close the discussion and move the article. One editor proposed a move, one opposed and one was a sock. TFD (talk) 14:02, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

The most common usage is to capitalize the Left and the Right. See for example, The Chicago Manual of Style: "the Left; members of the left wing; left-winger(s); on the left the Right; members of the right wing..."[1] The American Library Association recommends "the Left."[2] The Encyclopedia of the American Left uses capitalization. There have been discussions on this issue in other articles and in general editors have agreed to use capitalization.
The one editor who did respond said they wanted to see more input from editors. I suggest we re-open the request, so I saw that as opposed, at least until other editors had responded.
TFD (talk) 23:40, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
The Four Deuces, Look at the NGRAM results.[3] I'll reopen if you insist, but consider that MOS:CAPS requires that it be "consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources". (t · c) buidhe 00:59, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
That ngrams query tells the wrong story, because in the upper case version, Left is clearly a noun, whereas in the lower case version, it could be any number of parts of speech ("the American left| the room/ in a hurry/ to pick up her husband /some on his plate..."). As it turns out, the top 10 words in trigrams starting "American left" are: and, flank, in, the, was, has, is, to, wing, and on. But that still doesn't tell us how it compares with "American Left", although we can assume that the latter is always, or nearly always a noun phrase. However, if you restrict both of them to noun phrases only, then you get a very different picture than the one you came up with, with the jump in "American Left" taking place exactly where one would expect it, and the caps noun phrase roundly defeating the other. I don't have an opinion how the RM should be decided, but if you're going to rely on data to help decide it, let's start with the right data. Mathglot (talk) 10:02, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
The ngram shows that since 1987 there are more hits for "American Left" than "American left." Bear in mind that the terms left and right only came to be applied to political ideology early in the 20th century, which is where the first examples of capitalization are found. The 19th century sources used the term "the American left" to refer to the left flank of U.S. army formations.
A quick perusal of Google books hits shows that capitalization is more frequent, especially in higher quality sources. On the first page of a Google book search for "american left" seems to show fairly consistent capitalization. Only David Horowitz's book used lower case, although I could not access all the books listed.[4] His book would not meet rs.
So I think it is probably best to re-open the discussion.
TFD (talk) 18:44, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

This Is a Robbery: The World's Greatest Art Heist

Thank you for your help with This Is a Robbery: The World's Greatest Art Heist. I recreated the article so quickly because I was concerned the user that moved it to draft space was considering recreating the article themselves. I have seen it happen before. I guess I should have waited 60 more seconds! Best, Thriley (talk) 03:29, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

You're welcome! (t · c) buidhe 03:32, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for Demographic engineering

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DYK

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Great famine in Greece

I've corrected the 150,000 estimation you provided since this number is limited to 1941 and not the entire period of Nazi occupation.Alexikoua (talk) 09:31, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

List of genocides by death toll

Somebody put the Foibe massacres as a genocide on the page but the main page has no sources that say it is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_toll

Thanks for William Lyon Mackenzie

Thanks for your help with the William Lyon Mackenzie article in March, specifically for your comments at the second PR. I have nominated the article for featured article status and I hope you will comment on the nomination here. Thanks again for your help preparing this article. Z1720 (talk) 17:16, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Page move

Hey there Buidhe, How are you? I hope you are having a great time!

What I wanted to talk about is this[5] page move. I believe this move was closed prematurely, as many other editors were yet to comment there. So, yesterday I proposed a new request for move[6] which was closed by Joshua, citing WP:MR, which I wasn't aware of before. WP:MR suggest to use closer's talk page to resolve the issue. So it is my humble request to please reopen the disussion that you had closed.

Regards. LearnIndology (talk) 04:28, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

LearnIndology, Thanks for commenting here. The move was open for a full 7 days and there was a clear consensus against it. Opposing editors cited policy-based rationales such as I admit that "Vedism" is certainly in use among specialists but it is by no means a COMMONNAME. See the Google ngram viewer. I can't stop you from going to Move review, but I doubt you would get a different outcome. (t · c) buidhe 04:34, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
Yes I agree it was open for 7 days, but given the nature of the topic, it required more time. Many editors commented after the discussion was closed[7], views of some editors changed at the last moment[8]. I am just asking for some more time. Regards. LearnIndology (talk) 04:54, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Template:Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Shouldn't the discussion have been relisted since all of the comments there were from WP:RMT and it was there for a few days so many people will probably have missed it and thus not participated. Crouch, Swale (talk) 07:47, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Ayşe Gül Altınay

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Varna move

Hi Buidhe, I keep edit-conflicting with you in cleaning up after the Varna requested move; since you seem to be completing the tidying up, I will leave the remainder to you. Please do let me know if there is anything I can do to assist. Thanks, --Jack Frost (talk) 06:46, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Sarup & Sons

At Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 311#Sarup & Sons you said that Sarup & Sons, publishers, should be deprecated. Do you intend to set up an RfC?

I noticed that the definition of National conservatism in its book the Dictionary of Public Administration (2007)[9] is identical to the first two paragraphs of the Wikipedia article version as at 12:18, 5 August 2006.[10] An editor added the source after I nominated the article for deletion in 2010.[11]

TFD (talk) 20:09, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

  • TFD Thanks for posting. Does it really need a RfC, though? If you see the source being cited you can just remove it and refer to the prior discussions. (t · c) buidhe 20:22, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
Alright, I will do that. TFD (talk) 20:27, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

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Frederick the Great

Thanks again, Buidhe, for the edits on Frederick the Great. I think you did great work that I'm less comfortable doing. I appreciate it. I wanted to ask, however, when you ported over references to a new article when splitting them, you mentioned you used scipt(s). Could you possibly point me toward them, so I can make my own work a bit easier when I have to move references across articles? Thanks! Wtfiv (talk) 07:37, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! Wtfiv (talk) 15:23, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Laughing Cavalier
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DYK review for TU Delft Library

Hi Buidhe, I've addressed your comments on Template:Did you know nominations/TU Delft Library and done the QPQ review. Whenever you have a chance to have a look. Thanks. --Alan Islas (talk) 13:39, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for ASİMKK

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Portugal and the holocaust

Hello: a regular editor with whom I have worked with a few times on the military history boards was asking for some assistance in relation to this article (copy edit and NPOV) and you came to mind. The article is Portugal and the Holocaust. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 18:36, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Coordinate error in template

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Tibesti thanks

Hey, I just wanted to leave a quick note of thanks here re the Tibesti Mountains FAC. The fact that you were the deciding jurist on its archiving is irrelevant. I think you were objectively fair and I respect that. I imagine that it's an enormous amount of work performing source/image reviews, etc. (not to mention the other work I noticed on your user page), and frankly that's cool as hell. Cheers from the middle of nowhere. Brycehughes (talk) 10:40, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

  • I don't think frustrating is the word. I gave it my best shot and I'm honestly pretty happy with it. I also think I cheated a bit because I got free peer reviews... I didn't know PR existed before this facepalm. I'll likely let it sit for another 10 years, though I doubt my writing style will ever be very amenable to FAC. Thanks again for all your work. Brycehughes (talk) 10:52, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

LGBT ideology

What happened to the article? I've been doing a lit review recently and the topic seems notable. Although it might have not been a year ago, it is now (I found several academic sources in Polish, published in 2020, discussing this). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:39, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

{{FApages (reader facing)}}

I noticed you recently created {{FApages (reader facing)}} - are you intending to use it anywhere? Elli (talk | contribs) 12:35, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

March 2021 GAN Backlog drive

The Invisible Barnstar
Thank you for completing 2 reviews in the March 2021 backlog drive. Your work helped us reduce the backlog by over 52%. Best, Eddie891 Talk Work 13:19, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
The Good Article Reviewer's Medal of Merit
Thank you as well for your service as co-ordinator of the drive. Your work is invaluable and greatly appreciated. Eddie891 Talk Work 13:19, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Otto von Bismarck

Hi. I have reverted an edit of yours on this article, and would like to remind you about WP:BRD. When your Bold edit has been Reverted by another editor, the recommended next step, if you continue to think the edit is necessary, is to Discuss the dispute on the article talk page with other editors, but not to re-revert it, which is the first step to edit warring, a disruptive activity which is not allowed. Discussion on the talk page is the only way we have of reaching consensus, which is central to resolving editing disputes in an amicable and collegial manner, which is why communicating your concerns to your fellow editors is essential. While the discussion is going on, the article generally should remain in the status quo ante until the consensus as to what to do is reached (see WP:STATUSQUO). Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:45, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

You can post your comments here. Please do not edit war. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:53, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Coldest Winter (song) for deletion

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DYK for Assassination of Talat Pasha

On 23 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Assassination of Talat Pasha, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the assassination of Talat Pasha to avenge the Armenian Genocide resulted in "one of the most spectacular trials of the twentieth century"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Assassination of Talat Pasha. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Assassination of Talat Pasha), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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(talk page stalker) FTFY  :) ——Serial 15:31, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
LOL! 😂😂🤣🤣 You just made my day, Serial Number 54129! (t · c) buidhe 16:00, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Failed round-robin move

Hello, Buidhe. It looks like you recently tried to carry out a move involving Karemlash and Karamlash, but you left them as redirects to each other and there does not appear to be a valid version in the history of either page. I hope you can figure out what went wrong and recover the content of the article. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:55, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Never mind; I found it at Karamlesh. However, this page-swapping script seems to be generating a lot of errors; it would be appreciated if you would double-check the results every time you use it, both for articles and for their talk pages. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 18:00, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
I apologize, I must not have double checked that one as indeed I should do every time. Thanks for fixing it. (t · c) buidhe 01:06, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Armenian Genocide denial

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Your GA nomination of Assassination of Talat Pasha

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Armenian Genocide

Thank you for your contributions to the Armenian Genocide related articles.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 19:17, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Information icon Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Armenian Genocide. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Look, I appreciate your intentions, but you are completely wrong on this matter and the sources you present are not credible. It is a bit frustrating when a user who neither knows Swedish nor Swedish politics insist on inserting factual errors. You are completely wrong on this, unfortunately Jeppiz (talk) 19:47, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Enforcement for 1RR

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DYK for Turkey and the Holocaust

On 15 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Turkey and the Holocaust, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2014, Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu claimed that "there is no trace of genocide in our history" – thus denying the Armenian Genocide? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Turkey and the Holocaust. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Turkey and the Holocaust), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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List advice

Howdie,

Over the last few weeks you have provided some sound advise on lists, I was wondering if I could get your input again? I had a little mess around with List of British brigades of the Second World War yesterday, to see if it could be whipped into shape akin to the division list. A few tables, sources, and a brief amount of detail ballooned the list. Doing the same for the main portion (which is missing a lot of brigades) is going to surely send it over the recommend page limit. Any advice on making this a useful list (leaving it along, carrying, splitting into numerous lists?)?EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 22:29, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

hi buidhe, Thank you for that feedback on the Knowledge of the Holocaust page! I'm actually editing this page as part of a university subject and I've made the mistake of uploading my edits too early. So after my tutor checks it and whatnot, I'll reupload my edits and have the page references as well. So if you find the page is reverted back, that's the reasoning behind it. The edits you've seen plus more will be uploaded in the next few weeks. Kind regards May12278899

May122789 (talk) 05:48, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Removing the talk page postings of others

Please don't do this. If you think the postings are irrelevant, reply to them and say why (or collapse them). Thanks, Black Kite (talk)

Million Award for Armenian Genocide

The Million Award
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Congratulations from the Military History Project

 The Military history A-Class medal 
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Thank you for your work on The Thankful Poor FAC

Hello Buidhe, thank you for your invaluable work on image review / source checking as well as peer review suggestions. FA promotion would not have been possible without you. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 15:16, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Clarify RfC consensus: LAPD

Could you clarify whether the RfC consensus at the LAPD page is NOT for saying the LAPD "has been criticized for its history of police brutality, corruption, and discriminatory policing" but for the LAPD "has a history of police brutality, corruption, and discriminatory policing." An editor is claiming that the RfC is for the attributed pov[12], which is something that the RfC was not about and which no one who commented asked for. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 23:48, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

This edit[13] also entails rewording the RfC language in a way that softens the language. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 23:49, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
I think that's a bad close. The implications are that RfC creators must now ask whether verbatim language has approval or not, because any lack of specificity will be misused by tendentious editors to claim that no consensus exists for any specific language. This has the impact of making RfCs useless at finding consensus on pages where tendentious editors try to block any and all changes. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 00:14, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
I just don't think that the RfC participants settled on any specific language or phrasing. (t · c) buidhe 00:15, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
This was a good and fair close, Buidhe. Thanks. Snooganssnoogans' accusations of tendentiousness are improper. I will take the high road regarding their editing on the page. Crossroads -talk- 01:11, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
I believe you should retract the closure per WP:BADNAC: "The outcome is a close call (especially where there are several valid outcomes) or likely to be controversial. Such closes are better left to an administrator." The outcome of that RfC cannot be that it was unclear whether the LAPD misconduct was WP:YESPOV or should be stated in WP:WIKIVOICE when (1) The RfC question said nothing about attributed opinions, (2) There were countless peer-reviewed sources that covered the misconduct as systemic and extended, and (3) There was a clear consensus for inclusion of the content asked about in the RfC question. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 02:34, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) I believe you should run RfA, so people will stop showing up on your talk page when you make high-quality, well-reasoned closes they disagree with to dispute NAC technicalities. Looking forward to supporting 🙂 Vaticidalprophet 13:07, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Jewish cemetery of Salonica

On 29 April 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jewish cemetery of Salonica, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that many tombstones from the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki were used by the city and the Greek Orthodox Church for construction projects? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jewish cemetery of Salonica. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jewish cemetery of Salonica), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Order of Suvorov

What exactly made you decide to say that the Order of Suvorov is "nondefining"? ~7000 (counting all classes of the award) were issued. When a regimental commander received it, their unit got officially renamed to include the Order of Suvorov name in it just like the guards designation. When Yevdokiya Bershanskaya (the only woman ever awarded it) got it, it was HUGE. Sure, it wasn't defining for the high-ranking generals like Zhukov who had a bazillion medals, but for those people, even their gold stars (literally highest medal) were't the defining moment of their careers - for most recipients, it was very defining. Please don't nominate Soviet and Russian categories for deletion just because they look sparse, Russian and Soviet history topics like biographies are incredibly lacking in enwiki and as such articles on those topics are usually of poor quality lacking good detail. This is not the first time stuff like this has happened. In the past, the category for one of the biggest (if not biggest) cemeteries in Tatarstan was nominated for deleted because it didn't have enough people in it and no english article (of course, Russian wiki had an article and it's category there was huge, but of course, enwiki nominator didn't bother looking there.) Please withdraw your nomination - good editors trying to improve coverage of Soviet history topics are absolutely SICK of the category deletion wars and having to defend every relevant category created.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 18:52, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Categories

I've looked at just how many categories you are pushing for deletion and they ALL have the same thing in common - they LOOK like the award is non-defining if you ONLY look at the people who have english wikipedia articles (since enwiki is the most notable fraction of recipients due to foreign language translation deficiency) and only if you think an award needs a paragraph of eleboration to be "defining". Guess what? Soviet awards are different. The non-defining awards almost never mentioned. If it's defining, it gets mentioned, even briefly. If you knew ANYTHING about those awards you'd know they're worth categorizing by, nothing to scoff at like the jubilee medals or other nothing medals. It is TIRING to have to monitor categories to stop deletions so as not to have to re-create them and re-categorize everyone just because of users like you who have your heart set on purging Soviet award categories before even 10% of people from the eastern bloc notable enough for wikipedia articles get them in order to fill up the categories. Please, please STOP. Stuff like this DRIVES AWAY EDITORS by wasting time in nonsense deletion arguments instead of producing mainspace edits like creating articles to help FILL those very categories so that people like you don't have such a warped idea of who they were awarded to in the first place. It's fine to go after awards that were used as jubilee medals/given out like candy, like the Order of the Patriotic War category, but the Order of Lenin and Order of Suvorov really just looks like trolling. You are wasting everyone's time, because this wiki will NOT go without those categories, because I have written and edited biographies of people defined by those awards, and many more on my to-do lists, and I will NOT let some run-of-the-mill spree-deleter wipe those important categories away and put a damper on ability to categorize my biography articles in the future. So knock it off PLEASE.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 20:57, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

I looked at ruwiki and it doesn't look any different. Maybe try WP:AGF? (t · c) buidhe 20:59, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
You obviously didn't look very hard and have a very extreme starndard for "defining" that is clearly problematic. You should notice that biographies ALWAYS mention when a person is awarded Order of Suvorov among their top awards, even stubs have it in the ribbon rack. The non-defining awards like medal for Courage, medal for battle merit, campaign and jubilee medals, usually don't get mentioned AT ALL. Most HSU articles don't have a paragraph for the details of how someone got the Order of Suvorov, because rarely does it drone on in excessive detail (often HSU biographies are very short, bland and simple, compiled and copied from official soviet biographies with little personal detail), but it is NEVER ommitted from lists of awards that people received because it is a big deal to have the order of suvorov. To call it a non-defining award puts this rare and truely defining award (if you had it, you were an officer at some point) in the same level of unworthiness of categorization as the trivial jubilee medals. How about you show some respect for the people that are the backbone of wikipedia - the miniscule number of editors producing the bulk of article content throught tireless and thankless translation and research work (not research as in original research, but research as in i-finally-found-that-book) only for it to get nitpicked by the hordes of users who want to start fights about categories? I'm not going to create more articles if I can't even put them in the categories that define them well by the high awards they received! Why is getting rid of such benign categories so important to you in the first place? How would you feel if you worked hard on producing articles only for the bulk of edits to the article to be made by bots removing significant categories that defined the subject just because an ill-informed user with a stick up their ass and the world's narrowest definition of "defining" wanted those categories gone? This isn't tolerable. No other wiki has ever even CONSIDERED deleting the categories for the Order of Suvorov and Order of Lenin recipients, it is universally understood that they are key awards - enwiki would be a loner as the only major wiki without those categories (while dozens of smaller wikis have it) - all because of an over-zealous deletionist spreading disinformation about the importance and "definingness" of the awards. So STOP. NOW. Withdraw the deletion nomination. Frankly, an award given ONLY to the most distinguished officers is inherently defining. We can end the discussion the easy way by you saving face and withdrawing it now, or you can waste my time more preventing more important articles from being created by making me divert my time to this nonsense instead - but the end result for the category will be the same, because there's no way in hell those cats are going away. Just a matter of how much you are willing to bother more productive users.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 21:07, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Frederick the Scrubbed

King Frederick II, by Anna Dorothea Therbusch, 1772

Hi Buidhe.

I see that you've been coming back to clean up Frederick, especially the images. I appreciate your aesthetic eye. I think putting a "completed" version of the only work he sat for is a great move, though it'll be interesting to see if the watchers want to put back the "iconic" image. What I'd like to request, however, is that you left the image of the actual, unfinished work by Ziesenis on the site, so we have duplicate pictures. I'll leave it to you whether we should delete that one or replace with the "iconic" (which doesn't align with his age, like the Ziesenis one currently does.)

Also, I can see why you deleted the painting by Anna Dorothea Therbusch. It's not exactly the heroic, great picture, and as you stated, I think I get what you mean by image sandwiching. Surface-wise, I can see the reason for removing it. However, I do think that whoever the editor who put it in was, that editor did a great move:

  • She's of Polish ancestry, which is an ironic commentary on the partition
  • It's great to see a female artist getting presented and have readers tempted to click on her name to learn more about her. Women, even Madame Châtelet gets short shrift in masculinized history. And, in the arts, this is particularly severe.
  • The painting captures a side of Frederick that doesn't mesh with the he-man image. There's a kind of sensitivity to it- apparently, or perhaps ironically, almost clumsy- which seems to humanize Frederick.

Is there any chance you'd be willing to reconsider and place it better in the article. Yes, it is a bit of a clash, but it is has a bit of positive subversion to it, which I think, reflects well on Frederick via its depiction of his human side. If you are open to it, could you fix these two issues: cleaning up Ziesenis and reconsidering and the role of Therbusch's portrait in the article? Wtfiv (talk) 06:22, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

  • Wtfiv I'm not really an expert on eighteenth century art, so I didn't really appreciate the value. Anyway, I put back the Therbusch painting. Sorry for the jargon: "sandwiching" is what's going on with the images in this talk page section and it's not desirable (see MOS:IMAGELOC) because it causes display issues on some devices and often goes along with unencyclopedic overuse of images. (t · c) buidhe 06:36, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
Very cool! Thanks. I don't know if you can tell, but I'm fairly minimal on changes, particularly deletions. Not because I don't think changes are important, Mainly, my focus is citation/claim alignment with the added focus on trying to find interesting, publicly accessible sources. So, I appreciate your active approach to editing and cleaning the article to make it Wikipedia "healthy". I'm less comfortable with cutting the work of other editors. But, so far the multitudinous Frederick watchers seem okay with the "bold" changes you've made. I'm certainly good with it, as long as the open-access references find a home, which they have.
Would you be able to find an alternative to the other Ziesenis picture in Austrian Succession section? Pure deletion is a possible response, substitution is better, or maybe better, substitution in the appropriate location. As previously mentioned, the aesthetics of images is something you have a good eye for. (Can you tell, I think still think that addition of the poster was a great move? I suspect other watchers thought so too! It too has a subtle subversiveness to it and serves as a kind of capstone.) Wtfiv (talk) 07:32, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Assassination of Talat Pasha

Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Assassination of Talat Pasha has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

I add a "clarification" tag in the Trial section. Multiple referfences are made to a Gollnick in the article, but I could find no mention of their first name. Best of luck with the FA when you get to it. Otherwise, I had no issues or questions.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:07, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

This is a great article. I really enjoyed reading it - learnt a lot. (And topical!) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:35, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Anti-gender movement

In reply to your question: The Independent quotes the Pope: "'Let's think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a few instants a very high number of human beings,' he was quoted as saying. 'Let's think also of genetic manipulation, of the manipulation of life, or of the gender theory, that does not recognise the order of creation. With this attitude, man commits a new sin, that against God the Creator. The true custody of creation does not have anything to do with the ideologies that consider man like an accident, like a problem to eliminate. God has placed man and woman and the summit of creation and has entrusted them with the earth. The design of the Creator is written in nature.'" The headline writer transformed this into the click-bait: "Pope Francis compares arguments for transgender rights to nuclear arms race". That's a comical attempt at stirring controversy: there was no clear comparison made between those things. Mentioning two things in short succession doesn't mean that they're being compared (and the source doesn't even tell us if they were side by side, given the "he was quoted..." break). I lack the desire to correct these misrepresentations (even when they're against consensus, such as using headlines as sources) in this sort of topic, so if you think it's an accurate and fair summary of what was said, leave it as is. I won't intervene further. EddieHugh (talk) 21:07, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

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Greek case scheduled for TFA

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Thank you today for the article, "about a little-known episode in the late 1960s, in which Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands ganged up on Greece intervened on behalf of Greeks who were wrongfully detained, tortured, or victimized by other human rights abuses under the Greek junta. The damning findings of the European Commission of Human Rights exposed the junta's brutal methods and led to its exit from the Council of Europe, the only country to leave to date despite threats of a Ruxit."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:27, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Third Battle of Winchester

@Buidhe: Thank you for looking at Third Battle of Winchester. I combined some of the sections, but perhaps I am still missing something. I combined some of the major "==" sections, and I see two more that possibly could be combined. Are the "===" and "====" sections the real problem? The one "====" section could go without the header, and some of the "===" sections too—provided I rename some sections. TwoScars (talk) 16:17, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

  • TwoScars Yes, I was mostly referring to the === headings. The == headings look good. Basically, regardless of what level the heading is at, I try to aim for 2-4 paragraphs enclosed (if there are no lower-level subsections). Too long sections with no subheads breaking them up can also be difficult to read, usually I'm needling people to insert more subheads! (t · c) buidhe 16:38, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

GA Review - Devins

During the discussion regarding the "integrity" of the reviews such as Talk:Stjepan Vukčić Kosača/GA1, my quick failed review for the article Murder of Bianca Devins, by the same reviewer and with the same template, was mentioned. On the GA2 page, I requested a clarification on the article's 'instability' to no avail. I understand Talk:Stjepan Vukčić Kosača/GA1 has been redacted by you. Should a similar occurrence happen for this one? DMT biscuit (talk) 22:16, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Open Wounds

On 2 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Open Wounds, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in Open Wounds, Vicken Cheterian argues that "by censoring the Armenian Genocide, its impact, traces and consequences do not simply disappear. It continues in various forms"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Open Wounds. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Open Wounds), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Cheers for GAR!

I really appreciate you taking the time and trouble to do all these GARs! It's no fun un-promoting formerly good content, but it's necessary to keep the process honest. Cheers! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 03:33, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

FYI

Hello B. I hope you are well. You should be aware of this Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Vandalism_by_biased_user_"buidhe"_on_Turkish_War_of_Independence since the SPA who opened it is unlikely to let you know. Regards. MarnetteD|Talk 06:26, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for The Making of Modern Turkey

On 4 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Making of Modern Turkey, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in his book, Uğur Ümit Üngör argues that the Armenian Genocide contributed to The Making of Modern Turkey? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Making of Modern Turkey. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Making of Modern Turkey), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 12:02, 4 May 2021 (UTC)