User talk:Ser Amantio di Nicolao/Archive 35

Hello. Maggie Brown has performed with a trio of excellent young musicians called LANCE (the Band). As of 07-11-2018 they are all 16 years of age or younger and they performed together at the international meeting of mayors for climate change in Chicago, IL. This summer 2018, they will be performing together at outdoor events in Chicago parks.

LANCE has a cd and individual tracks available on iTunes and Amazon music entitled "Under the tracks" comprised of original jazz, funk and popular music pieces. They also have numerous YouTube uploads and a Facebook page

Happy New Year, Ser Amantio di Nicolao!

Happy New Year!

Ser Amantio di Nicolao,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Happy New Year! Peyton Montgomery (talk) 06:14, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Is there an easy way to flesh out the NY to VA portions of Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route? Happy New Year! --evrik ^(talk) 19:30, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Query

Why did you remove Ajamu Baraka‎ and Cheri Honkala‎ from Category:Green Party (United States) vice presidential nominees? Me-123567-Me (talk) 17:30, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

I understand now. Thank you. Me-123567-Me (talk) 17:38, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

your edit

Anyway, please make your edit again. I was incorrect in touching it. I had experienced a case of vandalism a while back and was not sure about the protocol. You are far more well versed in this than I am. Thank you so much again for your help!!

My apologies,

Nick Fowler — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickfowler67 (talk • contribs) 15:31, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

your excellent edit

Also, I would revert to your changes myself but I am nowhere near as expert in Wiki as you are and I don't want to mess your work up further. Thanks! So sorry again for the confusion. Again, I really appreciate your time and consideration!

Best,

Nick

Singers should not be categorized as "musicians" unless they professionally play an instrument as well

Hi Ser, I noticed that you are currently categorizing singers as "musicians", but that should not be done unless the singer also plays an instrument professionally, as that is what the category "musician" refers to -- instrumentalists. Could you please revert those additions you made? Thanks. Softlavender (talk) 03:58, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

That's correct, as far as categories go, but we singers feel offended when people say "the singers and musicians" ;) - See also the question on my talk which I therefore could not answer, also because of professional vs. "for the love of music", - look for "musician". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:39, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Okay, this seems to have been going on for some time...Per my response at Talk:Shana (singer), I am flummoxed at how Wikipedia came to the conclusion that singers are not musicians. Is a larger discussion needed, or has one already occurred on this matter? Chubbles (talk) 04:59, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure the category system already covers this. For example Category:American_country_singers is a subcategory of Category:American country musicians by instrument and Category:American rock musicians by instrument also includes Rock singers - so wikipedia has concluded that those singers are musicians. ϢereSpielChequers 14:13, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Category:20th-century women politicians has been nominated for discussion

Category:20th-century women politicians and Category:21st-century women politicians, which you did many many edits to populate, have been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:28, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

@BrownHairedGirl: I have also informed members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red, as we are in the middle of a large-scale discussion of categorization there. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 03:46, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Happy Pongal, Makar Sankranti, Lohri and Bihu to you!

Happy Thai Pongal, Makar Sankranti, Lohri and Bihu to you!

May all your endeavours have a fruitful beginning and prosperous ending!  — Ssven2 ^{Looking at you, kid} 10:03, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Nathan's Garden for deletion

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Vandalism on Emma Young page

It appears that some high school students have made some joke edits in the top section since your last edit.

35.3.21.53 (talk) 16:36, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Fixed, but FWIW, you can remove the vandalism yourself since it's not a protected page. APK whisper in my ear 17:02, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

José Avelino Bettencourt

Hi, dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you? Happy New Year!!!

I've opened this little stub, and I ask, please, 5 minutes of your time to read it and correct my mistakes, my poor mistakes!!! Thanks a lot for your precious help and see you soon.

Rei Momo (talk) 08:10, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Belated best wishes for a happy 2018

^{The Fox Hunt (1893) by Winslow Homer, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.}

Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place.

== BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:03, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Fame

I enjoyed your interview. Thank you for your terrific work. Don't let all the fame and fortune go to your head. FloridaArmy (talk) 16:34, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

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Another cat

St. Thomas School, Leipzig or Thomasschule is one of the most notable schools in the world, yet I don't find a cat for alumni/students and teachers. Help? I remember the short name much better than the long construction ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:12, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

May I ask again? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:44, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Your signature

I am restoring a discussion thread that was archived with no action.

Please be aware that your signature uses deprecated <font> tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors.

You are encouraged to change

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to

--<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT">[[User:Ser Amantio di Nicolao|Ser Amantio di Nicolao]]</span><sup>[[User_talk:Ser Amantio di Nicolao|''Che dicono a Signa?'']]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/Ser Amantio di Nicolao|'''Lo dicono a Signa.''']]</sub> → --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.}

But that won't work, because it exceeds the character limit by 9 characters. My computer is running Windows 7 and doesn't have Old English Text MT, or any similar font for that matter, so your name displays in an ordinary serif font. This would work ...

--<span style="font-family:Serif">[[User:Ser Amantio di Nicolao|Ser Amantio di Nicolao]]</span><sup>[[User_talk:Ser Amantio di Nicolao|''Che dicono a Signa?'']]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/Ser Amantio di Nicolao|'''Lo dicono a Signa.''']]</sub> → --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.}

... with 5 characters below the limit, so you could choose any font that can be named in 10 characters or less. What do you think?

Respectfully, Anomalocaris (talk) 19:44, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

You can save five more characters by changing Contributions to Contribs. That will allow any font that can be named in 15 characters or less. You could save one more character by changing the two hyphens to an en dash (–). Ser Amantio di Nicolao, most users are cooperating. I hope we can count on your cooperation too. —Anomalocaris (talk) 00:13, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Ser Amantio di Nicolao, you work so hard to improve Wikipedia, so won't you please deal with this? This signature has 253 characters, two below the limit:

--<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT">[[User:Ser Amantio di Nicolao|Ser Amantio di Nicolao]]</span><sup>[[User_talk:Ser Amantio di Nicolao|''Che dicono a Signa?'']]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contribs/Ser Amantio di Nicolao|Lo dicono a Signa.]]</sub> → --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.}

—Anomalocaris (talk) 10:34, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for updating your signature! —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:40, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Feburary 2018 at Women in Red

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Please avoid edits that don't change the rendered text

Could you please consider NOT doing edits such as the ones happening here?

One: You are removing asterisks from before calls to the "FM station data" and "AM station data" templates. These templates provide their own asterisks (for list items). But removing the asterisk does not change the rendered text. So your edit does not affect what users see.

Two: Similarly, you removed trailing spaces from the last sentences in paragraphs. But these spaces do not make any difference in the rendered text. (The extra space is even removed during the rendering. Check the end of this paragraph vs. the previous one. The rendered text doesn't have a trailing space in either case, but there's one here in the wikitext.)

Edits that do not affect the rendered text do not help the encyclopedia. On the contrary, you are adding clutter to the articles' edit histories and to editors' watchlists. This wastes other editors' time, as they check up on the edits.

All for edits that do not change the reader's experience in the slightest - let alone improve it.

Please consider these points in your future efforts. Thank you. Jeh (talk) 05:03, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Jeh (talk · contribs) The spacing issue is something AWB does automatically; it can be easily turned off. I tend not to turn off automatic fixes when I do AWB edits, but I don't think it matters that much either way, and I have no objection to doing so in future.

For the removing of asterisks - the edit does affect what users see. At least me. See this diff - when I look at the list of links at the bottom, there's an extra bullet with blank space next to it. The template provides its own asterisk, but adding an asterisk before it creates another blank line, with a bullet point in front of it; my edit is removing those. Now, I'm not sure if it's an issue unique to Firefox, but I don't think it is.

It's a problem I've run into in quite a few other templates over the years, not just the radio ones. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:15, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

First, thank you for your nice response. :)

Your comment about the asterisk on the radio station template is very thought-provoking. Given your description of "extra bullet with blank space next to it", I can certainly understand why you'd make those fixes.

But I don't see that in Firefox. This is 64-bit Win10, Firefox version 58.0 (64-bit). Nor do I see it IE 11.850.15063.0, Chrome 63.0.3239.132 (64-bit), or Edge 40.15063.674.0. (All on 64-bit Win10.)

I have no doubt that you're seeing it, and I don't know why I'm not seeing it... then again I haven't looked at the template code (and I'm not skilled in the template metalanguage). Maybe there is some fix that can be done in the template code that isn't working on the particular Firefox version you're using. Definitely a head-scratcher! Jeh (talk) 09:14, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

@Jeh: De nada. :-)

Curiouser and curiouser. Here's a screenshot I took showing the issue at the article on WETA-FM - note the two empty bullets with blank space next to them. But it's from a different computer, and it's not using Firefox - it's on my work computer, and it's done using Internet Explorer. I wonder...let me try backing out of my account and viewing the article as an IP, and see if that makes any difference.

I have the same problem you do; I don't know the first thing about template metalanguage, and that's why I've avoided working the issue from that end.

I'll hold off on doing any more for now, until we can figure out a way of getting this resolved. But now I'm curious...I wonder where the discrepancy is happening? And I wonder how many other editors are seeing the one vs. the other? More to the point - which one of us is seeing the default? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:37, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Well what do you know...I viewed the same page as an IP, and the issue disappeared. Guess it has something to do with the skin I'm using.

Thanks for pointing it out to me - I don't think I'd ever have found out about it otherwise! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:39, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Wow. A useful discovery indeed! In that case I'd say a note to whoever maintains that skin would be in order. Cheers! Jeh (talk) 21:15, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

@Jeh: OK, I'll send 'em a note. Also - given that there are so few other skins - I might drop a note to other creators to let them know to take a look. Best to get rid of it all at once, if so. Of course, now I'm wondering...what else am I missing? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:20, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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Congrats!

I know you're swamped right now, but I was touched by the Troyanos anecdote, and I couldn't help thinking of kindly advice from you, sir, on an occasion when it was just the ticket. I had no idea you were so prolific, and yet you take the time to help with the little, tedious problems we have along that learning curve. Thank you, Ser Amantio, for all you do, and even more, for what you represent. rags (talk) 22:22, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Do you sing,as well? rags (talk) 06:42, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

These days, only in the shower, if no one else is home. I received a bit of training in my youth, when dinosaurs roamed, but my recent requests have been confined to "Far, Far Away!"

I never read 'The Signpost,' and find it somewhat remarkable that I happened to spot your name.

Funny you should mention DC. I have a friend of many years who lives there, and it has come to my attention that he is now authoring and publishing books! I'll find specifics and add them. Brett Busang is his name, and he has painted and written about painting on occasion in NYC/Richmond/DC for several years. I believe his novel is Who Shot Bruce, (first fictional effort), and a subsequent collection of short stories about growing up in the South. We have discussed my Wikipedia efforts, I encouraging him to soldier on in learning to edit, but he is hesitant. He has the skills, and once even helped in the publication of a local weekly, but he is basically a shy person. My guess is that he became discouraged after early efforts were reverted.rags (talk) 08:39, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

CORRECTION: novel is entitled I Shot Bruce. I haven't read it yet. He can certainly put together a story, but, as I said, first effort, so I don't know how readable it will be. Reviewers on one site averaged four stars.

No category for University of the West Indies faculty

How can this possibly be? Oh, right, it's only the Caribbean o.0 and has only been in existence for 70 years, so surely in that brief amount of time there are no faculty of note. (smirk) Can you wave the magic wand and fix it for me? SusunW (talk) 17:47, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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Probably knew this, but I'm just making sure that A) you got it, and B) you didn't miss it. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 23:46, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Cool! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:50, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Please

I understand that your main concern is creating and adding your categories, though again, I don't understand why they have to be generic and not narrower (like, I can't see why you would add "20th-century male writers" and "Romanian male writers" instead of just creating a "20th-century Romanian male writers"). But would you please try and find the categories a proper place in the queue? You can see the categories arranged in some order, then you just add yours, always and always at the bottom: as here, but also in about 1,000 places where you just leave them. Dahn (talk) 21:10, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

I won't tell you not to use automated tools, as I do see a point to making this task more manageable. I can however point out that creating the narrower categories from the start would significantly reduce the issue. For one, if you replace a category, rather than add a category it seems to take its place in the queue (i.e. the slot of the old category). So if you were to replace "20th-century writers" and "Romanian male writers" with a crossover "20th-century Romanian male writers", the new cat will just replace one of the two (whichever is the one that's on top, I think). So actually planning ahead to where you want these categories to lead, and starting from there, would save us both time and effort. Dahn (talk) 21:22, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

To begin with, I find it strange that you are not sure about the acceptance of "male categories" after you personally contributed massively to the creation of a "male X" tree of categories. So that's not a valid reason, IMHO: if we have the whole tree, then we better make it rational. It makes sense that the next step would be to establish categories for profession, gender, and period together -- I mean, if there is any point to gender categories, then the only way in which it can help readers is to give them quick access to "men writers of the 20th-century in Romania" or "Thai women academics of the 21st-century". Otherwise, simply having "these are all the men who ever wrote stuff in the 20th century, put together", or "these are all the Romanian writers, of whatever gender, in the 20th century put together" isn't of any use, it just survives as a testimony to the ideological point it originally made ("that having categories just for women is discriminatory etc."). Have a look through Category:French male writers and try and imagine anyone thinking "Gee, I'm sure happy we have these 3,300 articles put together, all the penises in one basket." Dahn (talk) 21:38, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

I am agnostic on whether the tree has a point or not. An incomplete tree that only creates piles of thousands of articles is however very useless. We can both see a point to the narrower categories, presumably: if we are to have "male X" categories, then they are useful only when they can provide context -- the most context you get is "male writers from the 20th-century". There is however nobody served by the existence of "20th-century male writers", which inevitably leads to categories that have thousands of entries. Have you ever found an use for any category with thousands of members, instead of a category with tens of subcategories? Dahn (talk) 21:50, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

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Cease and desist!

Your constant category changes and additions are misinformed, unnecessary, and in most cases harm the article. I urge you to use discretion when doing category edits. Any more of this kind of careless bot-work will henceforth be considered vandalism. SamJohn2013 (talk) 18:22, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Resilient Barnstar
	Great job :)  M A A Z   T A L K  10:40, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	Grandmaster Editor
	I award you this barnstar on achieving this splendid milestone.  M A A Z   T A L K  20:19, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Stag light for deletion

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Taxonbar placement

Thank you for adding taxonbars to relevant articles. Taxonbars shouldn't follow stub templates. They should be added just before categories (and preceding DEFAULTSORT and authority control if these elements are present). See Template:Taxonbar#Position. Plantdrew (talk) 20:30, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

A Diet Coke for you

	A Diet Coke for you
	Just read the Ozy.com article [1] featuring your story. Keep up the good work, you are an inspiration. SamHolt6 (talk) 17:38, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

What a nerd! Spending so much time editing Wikipe—oh, wait   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  18:30, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Earthh. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Earthh (talk) 00:01, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Short Documentary Interest

Hello!

I hope this message finds you well! My name is Mor and I am a short documentary producer for an online magazine in Los Angeles called MEL Films. I recently came across a story about how amazingly involved you are in the wikipedia community as an editor and admin. Wikipedia is such an important internet source, and my team and I think there can be a great short documentary made about your work.

Our film team has done some amazing creative work. To get a better idea of our work, you can check out some of our most recent films here: www.melfilms.com We have had our work shared on a variety of major media outlets such as the Atlantic, Huffington Post, Washington Post, and Conde Naste and many others, and have won numerous awards.

Let me know if this is something you'd be interested. I'd love to talk to you about it in more detail.

All the very best, Mor 76.81.55.2 (talk) 02:31, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Certainly - I'd be happy to discuss it further. You can e-mail me using the e-mail link on this page. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:34, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Not so involved as an admin though LOL, sorry had to be said!♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:21, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

unsure how to email.... ^^

this is going to sound silly... but i'm not sure how to email you haha. Let me know and I'll send you a message right away!

Thanks, Mor MEL Mor (talk) 03:17, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Don't worry about it - I received a notice in my e-mail a few minutes ago; I'll respond either tonight or tomorrow afternoon sometime. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 03:18, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Precious six years!

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:17, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Duplicate taxonbars

Your seem to sometimes add taxonbars to articles where they are already present, as here and here. William Avery (talk) 14:41, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

William Avery, I've been thinking about this too. Will start a scan today & post it to WT:TREE if excessively large.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:58, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@William Avery: and @Tom.Reding: Apologies - those are from the first batch, when I was relying on a manual scan to ensure the template wasn't there and sometimes missed seeing it. I'm 99.999% certain the issue has been fixed in my recent batches done with the module; every test I have run indicates that to be the case. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:13, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

No big deal. I make quite a lot of edits myself, and understand how this kind of thing happens. :-) William Avery (talk) 15:26, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding: You've got a method to search for articles with multiple instances of a particular template? I'd love to know about it. Taxobox had 255,700 transclusions at the start of this month, but was used on 255,688 pages. I'm not sure if that count is only article space (taxobox documentation pages legitimately have multiple taxoboxes), but if there are 12 articles with multiple taxoboxes, I'd like to find them and fix them. (sorry/not sorry for hijacking Ser Amantio di Nicolao's talk page, since you two already hijacked mine)<smile>. Plantdrew (talk) 17:16, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@Plantdrew: What're you talking about? Nobody named Jack here...high or otherwise. To put it bluntly.--Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@Plantdrew: Sure, I'm just using AWB to look for instances of \{\{\s*(?:Taxon?bar|Taxon[ _-]+bar|TaxonIds)[\d\D]*\{\{\s*(?:Taxon?bar|Taxon[ _-]+bar|TaxonIds) on all {{Taxonbar}} pages (only ~30 found so far btw and I'm ~60% done). If the # of transclusions were relatively stable (i.e. from the last WP dump), I'd opt to use AWB's database scanner to perform the same search. There *might* even be a way to Quarry it, but I'm not sure, and I certainly don't know enough SQL to even try. Want me to run it for {{Taxobox}}es?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 

@Tom.Reding: Please run it for taxoboxes. My regex skills aren't very strong and I don't use AWB. I've stumbled across a couple articles with multiple taxoboxes on my own, but it's been stable at 12 extra transclusions for months now. Plantdrew (talk) 18:21, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@Plantdrew: Using the regex \{\{\s*(?:Template:|Wikipedia:)?(?:Infobox[ _]+(?:bacteria|microorganism|Taxobox|virus)|Taxobox|TAXO|TX)(?=\s*\|)[\d\D]*\{\{\s*(?:Template:|Wikipedia:)?(?:Infobox[ _]+(?:bacteria|microorganism|Taxobox|virus)|Taxobox|TAXO|TX)(?=\s*\|) on the Feb 3 dump, I found 38 pages. The first 14 below look weird to me, the remainder appear a bit more 'normal'. Otherwise, in no particular order:

38 pages with multiple {{Taxobox}}es

1. Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre, Pinjore
2. Little cherry disease
3. Acystopteris
4. Cystoathyrium
5. Drynarioideae
6. Mohria
7. Platyzoma
8. Doodia media
9. Doodia
10. Sinopteris
11. Rhizoctonia solani
12. Mycobacterium avium complex
13. SMEDI
14. Glanville fritillary
15. Cheilanthoideae
16. Didymoglossum
17. Rhachidosoraceae
18. Diplaziopsidaceae
19. Hemidictyum
20. Blotiella
21. Lonchitis
22. Metaxya
23. Matoniaceae
24. Jamesonia
25. Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss
26. Ulvella
27. Lindsaeaceae
28. Saccoloma
29. Lastreopsis
30. Arachniodes
31. Hymenophyllaceae
32. Polystichum
33. Onoclea
34. Dryopteridaceae
35. Sceptridium
36. Botrychium
37. Lupinus
38. Equisetum

Also, the # of transclusions I thought was the # of pages - where did you get those differing #s? Perhaps the 255,688 number only included mainspace transclusions?

Also also, I found 86 multiple {{Taxonbar}}s, which I'll sift through today.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:31, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding: Thanks, this is exactly what I wanted. Most of these are false positives incorporating the rarely used {{tx}} to format binomials. But I think it's caught all the instances of multiple taxoboxes. These instances were pretty much what I was expecting: a fungus with taxoboxes for both anamorph and teleomorph (Rhizoctonia solani), a disease with multiple causal agents (SMEDI), and a species complex (Mycobacterium avium complex). I've copied this list over to my workspace now. I got the 255,688 number here. Plantdrew (talk) 16:22, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Plantdrew, glad I could help :)

Ah, TemplateParam.php does seem like it's capable of counting multiple transclusions per page.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:37, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you for sorting out the mess I got into. Question: as an example should not the categories "Death from dementia" be moved to "People with dementia". Also Alzheimers should be moved to "People with Alzheimers disease‎" (no apostrophe). Death is impossible by these methods the killer is always something else. Same goes with HIV or AIDS. Regards --BeckenhamBear (talk) 21:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

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Please stop your editing and address the issues before continuing the edits (which should probably be done by bot if they are wanted). Fram (talk) 15:24, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Any reason you have again made 1000 or so of these edits in rapid succession? Please stop these edits until it is clear whether the "from" should be added immediately, and whether they should be made by bot (well, the question on the second part is almost certainly "yes"). And making thousands of "test" edits is just sloppy in any case. Fram (talk) 08:35, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

"Well, I've had further discussion with the WikiProject in question. They have no problem with the ANI edits being done until a bot is coded. I'll ease up for the day. " Not exactly clear what you mean with "being done", done as in "finished, stopped until the bot is coded" or "being made by you until the bot is coded". In any case, a project doesn't get to decide who can or can't violate our policies. The edits have been complained about (by the IP, who should have come here), and it looks that if the project gets what they want, all these articles need to be edited again by the bot to add the "from" parameter anyway, so it seems much better to simply wait until the issue is settled and the bot approved, and then do it right in one go. Fram (talk) 13:43, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

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there is currently a big red script error at the foot of Phalonia yuccatana. Frietjes (talk) 16:49, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

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Photo directions

Planning on spending Saturday getting photos up your way: PW and Fairfax counties, and Fairfax/Manassas/MP cities. I note that a bunch of sites are in parks, and I wondered if you could share experiences as to which ones are easy to get and which ones I really shouldn't bother attempting in the first place? For example, the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Bridge Piers would be nice to get, but I don't feel like discovering that there's no real access to this portion of Bull Run Regional Park. And aside from spots that the county lists say are on military bases, are there any restricted-access sites? I know not to bother with sites listed as being on Fort Belvoir or USMC Quantico, or Fort Myer in Arlington County, but I'm not clear exactly which sites are on bases. Nyttend (talk) 23:06, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: The Orange and Alexandria Railroad Bridge Piers would be a wonderful get - they're on my list as well - but I've never been able to figure out a way to get there without going on the water. I think you'd have to rent a boat to get to them.

Other thoughts:

- Fort Belvoir is off-limits, but you might just be able to see the Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse from Route 1 as you drive across the base. You used to be able to, but since they've rerouted the road I'm not sure you can any more. That said, it's an active site, still, so if you're curious you can always call and ask how parishioners get there.

- Woodlawn and Mount Vernon are accessible if you pay a fee; the fee for Woodlawn would also cover the Pope-Leighey House. I don't believe you can see any of the three from the road.

- Lexington we've discussed before. My impression from the discussion I had with the ranger at Mason Neck State Park is, basically, it's there, they acknowledge that, but they won't tell you where it is, and if you want to look for it more power to you. Give me a sec and I'll see if I can't find a picture of the ruins you'd be looking for; as I recall there's the remains of a wine cellar there.

- for some reason, the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway that's listed is actually the George Washington Memorial Parkway. I mention this only because there's another Mount Vernon Memorial Highway that as far as I know isn't Register-listed. I made that mistake many years ago.

Also, if you're interested in sites that have been removed from the Register, the site of Moorefield in Vienna is easily accessible; I can tell you how to get there if you wish. It's even marked by the city.

Fairfax proper is fairly straightforward. Same with Manassas and Manassas Park.

Prince William County I don't really know, but I'd check on advisories for the Prince William Forest Park before heading out this way. As I recall it received a lot of wind damage in the storm earlier this month, and they closed it for a few days...whether or not it's open again I don't know. And Corey Stewart currently owns Bel Air, so I'd bear that in mind if you're passing by. Otherwise, apart from the sites on Quantico I don't think anything in particular is hard to find. May take some walking, but that's it.

Also, for some reason there are hardly any Burger Kings left in the county now, so be warned. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:35, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Hmmm. Best I could find about Lexington was this. Might be worth the $20 to go and get some pictures, I wonder... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:41, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the input. Given your reminder, I think I'll avoid PWFP and other parks entirely this trip...enough sites in the region that I can get without worrying about wind damage effects. And I'll definitely skip the O&A bridge. I'm wondering if you could park at the Hemlock Overlook park, find a little spot to cross Popes Head Creek, and continue up Bull Run to the site, but that would require a good deal of effort and time: not what I want to be doing when I have a three-hour drive each way, especially since I don't know if it would work. I've had enough wasted time in the past with first-off attempts to find places like the Thornton gravestone, or Battery Rock; one little missed trailhead, and I spent maybe an hour wandering around in the rain before giving up (the photo in the article dates from a later visit) and wasn't able to get all the sites I planned for that day. Nyttend (talk) 01:22, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

PS, they haven't mailed me coupons in a long time. (Maybe this is related to the demise of one local BK; formerly located in a Wal-Mart, it's now been replaced by an ordinary merchandise display) I was figuring on finding something else to eat :-) Nyttend (talk) 01:23, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Any time. Though for what it's worth most of the wind damage, at least that I can see in Fairfax County, has been cleaned up. As to the bridge...well, I live in the same county, and I'm waiting on better weather to plan an entire day around trying to get up there, when I have some time to get a bit lost. I've had my own share of wasted first efforts...and second efforts...and third efforts...

I wonder if Burger King's on its last legs. The last couple of times I've visited I haven't been as pleased as I used to be. Looking back over past conversations, I see you like Wendy's or Arby's as alternates. As to the latter...I think there may be one around. But it's actually pretty close to Green Spring Gardens Park, so you might be in luck. There are more Wendy's franchises around. I'd only avoid this one on Loisdale Road because the parking lot makes no sense whatsoever.

By the by, I'd love to meet for lunch, like last time, but unfortunately I haven't been feeling too well, and I think I'm going to have my feet up for most of the weekend. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:34, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Good to hear; not like a couple of weeks ago when I was getting some photos around Crozet, when all the roads were clear, but chainsawed limbs and branches were sitting along a lot of roads, including the highways. Someone from my church took a Greyhound trip with friends to NYC around the time of the storm; last week after church he noted that they were planning to stop in Philadelphia, but the bus skipped the stop because all the roads they could have taken to the station were blocked! If I were you, I'd try to get the bridge some summer day when it's droughty, simply because I can't guess from satellite view whether there's a convenient place where you can cross the creek dryshod. Meanwhile...I was up in DC three separate times over the summer for day-long photo trips, all after the time we met. If I make any such trips this summer, I'll try to remember to ask you about meeting somewhere; it would be quite enjoyable. Nyttend (talk) 02:52, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: I have an adventurous friend who might be willing to join me in renting a boat and going up the river to view the piers from the water, too. Regardless, it'll be a few months at the earliest.

My office was actually closed the Friday of the storm due to high winds. I stepped out for lunch and saw the power lines down along Route 1. (I snapped this video at the same time.) I follow a local blog about the south county area, and it mentioned a handful of other locations where the power was out. Most of them had been cleared out within a day. By the time I went into DC for choir rehearsal on Tuesday, the only evidence of the storm I could find was the chainsawed remains of a couple of trees along the GW Parkway and a handful of road signs that were missing panels. I commute into Springfield for work, and don't recall seeing any particular wind damage on my usual route.

Meeting up would indeed be great fun. Let me know the next time you're in the area...I'd be happy to introduce you to what passes for the unknown, exotic Fairfax County. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 03:05, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

:-) Basically all I've seen of Fairfax County is I-66 and US 29 between Arlington County/the District and farther-out suburbs, plus the areas around the Original DC Boundary Markers; this trip should be the first time exploring the county more. Not exactly looking forward to it (I hate suburban photography: lots of traffic, nowhere to park, and no sidewalks), but I want to get as close as I can to comprehensive photography here in Virginia (excluding last week in Newport News/Hampton and a recent jaunt through part of Albemarle County, I've photographed 68% of sites statewide), so I'm going to have to do the NoVA suburbs at some point or give up that goal. As far as weather, we had a bit of wind, but it definitely wasn't as bad down here. Nyttend (talk) 03:27, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Having grown up in Fairfax County, I will admit...it has its charms. Lots of problems with traffic and sprawl, and poor civic planning, but there are some very pleasant neighborhoods. And there's an increasing awareness of the local history that I find refreshing. Couple of years ago they introduced a county-wide historic marker project, which I enjoy. And I've begun poking around in some of the old cemetery records online - there are quite a few old family cemeteries still lurking around in the area. Many of them are hiding in plain sight, too; I actually discovered one today on the way to work that I must have passed a hundred times, going in each direction. But today I looked in just the right place. Unfortunately it's on federal land, so I doubt I'll be able to get much closer for a look.

And western Fairfax is another world entirely, sometimes. If you go looking for the Clifton Historic District, for instance, I guarantee you'll get a shock - it doesn't feel as if you're within a half-hour of downtown DC at all. Wish I could afford the neighborhood. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:20, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

No complaints about this area in particular; I know it has its interesting spots, as do plenty of other suburban areas to which my comments apply. Suburban Dayton OH, suburban Cleveland, suburban Pittsburgh, suburban Louisville: all of these are messy for photography, despite having lots of interesting locations that I've enjoyed seeing. File:Leslie V. Abbott House.jpg, appearing on National Register of Historic Places listings in The Highlands, Louisville, Kentucky, typifies suburban photography — I tried two or three times to get a photo of this house, but the best I could do was this partial shot because I never could slow down very much thanks to traffic behind me. And I've never been able to get a good image of Rosedale for the same reason. Nyttend (talk) 11:31, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: I doubt you'll have that kind of problem around here...I can't think of any sites that are on heavily-trafficked roads, save maybe the few that are set so far back from the road that you can't see them in the first place. Tauxemont and Hollin Hills should be pretty easy, for instance. And I've managed to photograph stuff to illustrate a few of the local CDPs pretty easily. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:02, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Well, although I've only looked at a few sites in detail so far, Bloomfield looks like it will be this kind of problem. I'm thinking of trying to park at the adjacent tavern park and taking advantage of my zoom lens. Nyttend (talk) 17:51, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Possible, I suppose - I've been by there, but I'd forgotten that there's a path up to road level from the tavern parking. Alternatively, if you want to try your luck from one of the side residential streets I think it's likely you won't attract much attention on a Saturday. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:25, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Funny we were talking about no BKs...I was planning to stop at the BK-inside-a-gas-station in Ruckersville, as I normally do when I come to DCland, but to my surprise the complex is totally gone. No BK, no gas station, no construction zone that I could see (it was before sunrise), so I had to wait until Culpeper :-( Now sitting inside the Wendy's on Lee Highway near Glebe Road. At least Bloomfield was easy, being reachable from the tavern's parking lot. If only I'd been able to get Sully, which was closed. Nyttend (talk) 15:50, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Looks like it's going to become a market/deli instead. Pity..they're dropping like flies all over the place. There used to be at least one not too far from my house, in a little public enclave on Fort Belvoir. Skeevy-looking place, but it's been closed for some years now.

Sully is another one of those places I've been meaning to visit, but never got around to. That's the part of the county where I don't spend a whole lot of time, and I really need to start rectifying that. Glad you were able to get Bloomfield. Given that the trees are denuded right now, you may have more luck on such matters than otherwise. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:06, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Actually, the only plants obstructing it were tall grasses (if I remember rightly); it was easily visible from the road. I also picked up some Arlington sites I'd missed before; when I got to SW Boundary Stone #8, I had to wait because two other people were photographing it when I got there; they told me that they were visiting as many as possible :-) Ended up getting almost fifty sites (many more than I would have guessed from all the traffic), including everything in Manassas, Manassas Park, and Fairfax. I wouldn't have come had I known what the weather would be; back on Wednesday or Thursday the DC forecast for Saturday was 60°s and sunny (when I got up this morning, I was counting on taking off my sweatshirt and going t-shirt only, but I never took off my jacket), and I couldn't possibly have imagined encountering more-than-flurries in Vienna. And now that I'm done with photos and eating in Manassas, the sun comes out for the first time since I was preparing to start :-\ But at least I'm done with all accessible Arlington sites aside from the national cemetery, and most of the northwestern Fairfax; next time I'm in the area and not doing DC, I'll hit sites down your way. By the way, when I was in Clifton, Popes Head Creek was really small; unless it gets a good deal bigger downstream, it should be easy to find a place to cross it if you can get time to go out to the Hemlock Overlook. Nyttend (talk) 22:44, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for butting in, but the Wendy's is closer to George Mason Drive. :-P Largoplazo (talk) 22:52, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

So it is, but I'd been driving on Glebe Road and turned west on Lee Highway until I reached the Wendy's. I didn't know there was a George Mason Drive :-) Nyttend (talk) 02:43, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

@Largoplazo:, @Nyttend: Think I've found it: this the place? Not a part of the county with which I'm overly familiar. (For all that I've lived here going on thirty years, now, there's still a lot left for me to explore.)

The weather for the past couple of days has been...interesting, let's say (I actually saw snow flurries when I woke up on Friday morning. Literally...sat up in bed and saw the flakes swirling outside the window. I may or may not have said something choice under my breath in response.) We went to the Kennedy Center tonight - I was feeling well enough to honor the tickets we'd bought - and it was 35 out when we came home, just after 11. Congratulations on getting so many of the sites on your list. Southeast Fairfax should be a breeze, for the most part - have you ever hit Huntley? Somewhere around here I have a handful of photographs from before the restoration I need to upload. A few are corrupted, but some are not.

And thanks for the tip on Popes Head Creek. Something to look into when the weather's warmer. Speaking of which, I've about decided to plump for the Lexington visit in a couple of weeks. Won't have a chance like that often. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:50, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes, that's the location. Remember that you know the area a ton better than I do :-) Never been to Huntley; before yesterday the only Fairfax County sites I had were boundary markers (the southernmost being the southern cornerstone at Jones Point), and the southeasternmost site I got yesterday was Green Spring. You're welcome, and enjoy Lexington. Nyttend (talk) 11:43, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend: Green Spring's nice. That's another one I'd never visited, and then I went a couple of years ago. Been back a couple of times since. Fairfax County has a couple of very pleasant county parks like that. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:03, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

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Winnie Mandela (film) catagory change

Just letting you know that I've reverted your recent category change on this article because the subject is not American. As you used an automated tool to do the same change on many articles it's probably a good idea to verify that other similar errors have not occurred on other articles too. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:20, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Colombia

Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao, to see if you can please take part in this discussion in the Colombia article i added the tourism section and put better images in the article and the user User:JShark has reverted my editions ten times, I appreciate that you help solve this.--ILoveCaracas (talk) 23:28, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

I want a concensus. The other user just told me that he didn't care about the opinions of the other users. --JShark (talk) 23:55, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

See the following message from the user ILoveCaracas (talk

https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Colombia&diff=831508383&oldid=831508165 Revision as of 23:10, 20 March 2018 (edit) (undo) (thank) ILoveCaracas (talk | contribs) (i dont care if portugal is a featuring artcile, try to delete that images there before that block you)

Please use Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. As a first step, I suggest Wikipedia:Third opinion. --JShark (talk) 00:01, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

I added a new section in the talk page of the Colombia article explaining what happened and showing what I want and what JShark wants, to see if you could help--ILoveCaracas (talk) 00:08, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

21st-century women politicians

Please be careful about presuming a person's gender based on an unusual name that might sound female to you. Joelie Kaernerk, whom you added to Category:21st-century women politicians, is male and the article even explicitly says so. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 17:11, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Jesse Waugh AfD

Hi, I’m writing to ask if you might be willing to contribute a vote on the Articles for Deletion page for Jesse Waugh. The vote already took place based on the article’s current sources, but certain people seem to be determined to get it deleted. Thanks either way. 81.44.32.50 (talk) 07:03, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

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Mayra Muhammad-kyzy article name

i take your point about the other languages. however, the nytimes and washpost english language sources use the other name. with the redirect it matters less. Marthadandridge (talk) 17:46, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Charleston Light

Why remove the link to Commons photos of Charleston Light? It is very common to include such links. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 18:40, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

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Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia

Mayhaps I am blind, but for the life of me, I can find neither alumni or faculty categories for the Mexican National School of Anthropology and History. Surely, there are many entries for both? Can you wave your magic wand and find it for me? SusunW (talk) 23:27, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

@SusunW: Can't find them, so I went ahead and created both. I used National School of Anthropology and History as the name as that's the title of the article in English. Did a little bit of populating, too, but not a whole lot. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! Because Beatriz Barba fits both categories :) SusunW (talk) 01:11, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@SusunW: So much the better. :-) Happy to be of help. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:12, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Cetra Records

You added category "1957 disestablishments in Italy" to Cetra Records. The article itself speaks of continuing activity in the 1960s. This is completely unsourced, however. What caused you to make that edit? Reason I'm asking is if you have a source with which I can improve the article. Thanks! 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 16:07, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@78.26: I added it only because it's in the category Category:Record labels disestablished in 1957. I see what you're talking about, describing continued activity into the 60's. It's not quite clear to me that it's the same label, exactly. By the same token, it's also quite possible that the category in question was incorrect. I might end up removing both categories unless and until something more definitive could be found. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I think both categories should be removed, and I'll do so. Thanks for all the hard work you continue to do. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 16:40, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@78.26: My pleasure - thank you for the kind words. Happy editing!

Incidentally, you're making me want to raid my father's record collection this evening...I'm sure he's got a fair number of those early 50's Verdi recordings on the shelf. I wonder from which label? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:42, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

You should! I'd be interested to know the results. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 16:44, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@78.26: I'll try to remember. That's always the trick...remembering between here and there. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:47, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Well understood. I've always liked Cetra records, and have several dozen. I've always wondered how they made such high-quality recordings in the middle of the second world war. I could probably write an article on American Cetra-Soria based on Billboard articles, but finding information on the Italian company is more difficult for me. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 16:51, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

I have a feeling it was easy enough if one had access to radio station technology. Somewhere at home I have a remastered CD of The Merry Wives of Windsor taken from a radio broadcast performance recorded in 1943. (I'm pretty sure, if memory serves, that it's the Preiser listed under "Recordings" in the article.) Even making allowances for the fact that the recording was remastered for CD, the sound is pretty danged good for the time.

Hrmm...more to chew over. I know Dad also has a bunch of obscure Donizetti things that were released in the early 50's; I should have a look at those labels, too. I wonder who was responsible for them. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:00, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Well, I know Cetra was founded by Italian National Radio (its not in the article), so there was no question about quality equipment. It just seems that logistically getting together an all-star cast of opera singers, plus a symphony orchestra, would be difficult when you're being bombed in 1943. And who was buying enough records during the war to make it economically feasible? Probably the recordings were made as much for morale and propaganda purposes as for economic gain, but in any case I'm glad they did, they are meritorious recordings uniquely documenting an era. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 17:15, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@78.26: Oh, sure - I think there was a lot of morale-boosting involved. I doubt it was that economically-feasible, really. But you're right, they are nice to have as a document. Not just of the era, but of a lot of voices that were soon to disappear. It's fascinating, some of the people you can turn up on those old albums.--Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:36, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Oops, I wasn't as clear as I intended. By "era" I meant an era of operatic performance (the era of Italian opera directly succeeding the "Golden Age" of Caruso, Anselmi, Zenatello etc.), not the political age. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 18:56, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@78.26: Speaking of - are you familiar with this site? I could swear it used to have recorded performances as well. Been meaning to use it as fodder for some articles, but I somehow never seem to get around to it... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:03, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes I am. I wish it weren't on blogspot, I wouldn't mind having it declared a reliable source, it seems well researched. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 19:16, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@78.26: If nothing else, it's a useful starting point. Trouble is, there's so little information available about any opera singer who wasn't a superstar from those days. I've managed to write a few articles over the years, but scraping together sources becomes difficult. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:08, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Usually I have to piece something together from old newspaper articles. It was easier back when Google had a newspaper archive. Now Archive.org fills that role, but I find it a bit more difficult to navigate. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 20:15, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

@78.26: Same here, if I'm lucky. Google Books sometimes has useful stuff for older singers, too. Still, it's amazing the dearth of information on some of these people. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:19, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Category:Lutheran churches in Frankfurt

Category:Lutheran churches in Frankfurt: this is a strange category. Since the Union in 1817, there is no Lutheran church in Hesse-Nassau. The Paulskirche is not even a church (any more). How about Category:Protestant churches in Frankfurt, in addition or better instead? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:58, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: That's a question that I think would better be directed to Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion or one of its children, to be honest. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:03, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bangladesh#Placename changes and Wikipedia policy

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bangladesh#Placename changes and Wikipedia policy . Worldbruce (talk) 02:55, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Taxonbar for extinct taxa

I don't think there's much point in adding {{Taxonbar}} to extinct species (of plants, anyway) – like the Acer species you recently processed – because the taxonomic databases that display in a taxonbar don't cover extinct species, so no taxonbar appears. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:27, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead: Thanks for the tip. I'm still feeling my way around some of this taxonbar stuff. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 10:31, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes, we're all still assessing when and how to use taxonbar. I should have slightly qualified what I said above – EoL sometimes has entries for extinct taxa, but they are usually empty (and anyway EoL entries are only of any value if marked as "Trusted"). Peter coxhead (talk) 10:50, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure how far it can be automated, but when a page gets put into Category:Taxonbar template pages without Wikidata taxon IDs it's a strong indicator that the taxonbar may not be of any use, as there are no links to taxonomic databases in Wikidata. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:52, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead: Well, my understanding is that can always change as Wikidata changes. Which is likely one of the tricky things about Wikidata, but that's a matter for another discussion. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:32, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

True. The possible changes at Wikidata are why we decided that we would add |from= to taxonbars. The folk over there have a habit of moving the links to Wikipedia articles from one item to the other when there are synonyms. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:11, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead: That bit I didn't know. I don't hang out at Wikidata that much...for a variety of reasons.

Anyhow. I'm searching for more species articles that might require the box, but for now it looks like just about everything that needs one has had it added. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:39, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

There's an example of the value of adding the from parameter at Hermippus (spider). When you added the taxonbar template, the Wikidata item Hermippe (Q298363) incorrectly linked to our article. When the correct |from=Q2026283 is added, the article is put into an error tracking category for articles de-sync'ed from Wikidata, which flags up the need for a correction. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:47, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead: Thanks for the example. Helps me get a better idea of the whole process. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:55, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Peter, given this situation we're in,^{(special mention goes to Ser Amantio)} it looks like {{Taxonbar}} pages are far from following any strict transclusion inclusion/exclusion criteria, even before he started adding them much-less-discriminantly than Tom.Bot Task 3. Now there are only a relative few # of taxo-infobox pages without a {{Taxonbar}}, and most of them (~75%) have at least 1 of EOL/GBIF/TPL taxon IDs, but none of the others. While not-very-reliable, I'm guessing showing 1+ of those 3 databases is better than not showing anything (the other ~25% wouldn't show their taxonbar). So... I think I'm just going to finish filling in that 75% gap (which is easier than cutting everything out more carefully), and if Ser Amantio can cross his heart and promise on a diet coke not to add any more, then we'll be safe to say that those remaining 25% of pages will stay untouched by the {{Taxonbar}} cabal... (!?)   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  23:27, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead: and @Tom.Reding: You have my word, I won't add it to any more. Sorry if I've caused any undue trouble. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:36, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	I noticed all your work with AWB! Bobherry Talk Edits 13:41, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

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Joel Agee

Hello Ser Amantio, I see that you recently did an edit for the article I created for Joel Agee. The page still has the notice that there are not enough references, although I added some after it first appeared. As I have not made many contributions to Wikipedia, and I believe the one on Joel Agee is the first entire entry I have created, I just wonder if the notice will ever be removed...or if Wikipedia would perhaps prefer I add even more references? I see it's possible to manually remove the notice, but I would be reluctant to do that if I thought I would be overreaching my level of expertise. Possibly you are an editor of a sufficient level to know what if anything I should do next? Thanks for your help, Panicale (talk) 16:08, 21 April 2018 (UTC)Panicale

Joel Agee

Thanks for your encouragement Ser Amantio. I spiffed up the entry a bit. I moved two of the refs to the end of the paragraph so that readers will not think that the final sentence was not included in the material to be referenced. And I added some material to his career, and referenced it. Maybe this will lift the cautionary veil...by whomever makes those decisions! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Panicale (talk • contribs) 18:13, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Michael Grimm (politician)

Can you please add the protection to that article again. It is starting again, that some random useres without account are taking out content, which was agreed upon. Thanks --FideKoeln (talk) 21:18, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

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"authority control".

Please stop adding this to paintings - Wikidata is nowhere near good enough yet. I just checked two WD entries - Arnolfini Portrait was absolutely riddled with errors, including calling it a painting of the Holy Trinity. The Castello Roganzuolo Altarpiece (Q27899250) was described as a male human! Unbelievable. Johnbod (talk) 03:32, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

A kitten for you! You deserve it!

Krafko (talk) 13:15, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi, dear Ser Amantio di Nicolao, thank you for the work on the article of Donald Martiny, meanwhile i learned that the reference comes after the comma. Thanks for your help!!! Kind regards, --Gyanda (talk) 13:58, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

You might like this

I've been on a semi-wikibreak, begun without choice by 5 days without power and 8 days without Internet in March. You might like the article I started yesterday. Best == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 23:38, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I knew about the portrait's descent thru the Brooke family, and that The Speaker's House in Trappe was under restoration (my sister & brother-in-law live a 1/2 mile away). But when I found out about the rediscovery of the pendant portrait, I knew I had to write something. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 03:28, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Recent photos of The Speaker's House:[2] The house museum is not open yet, but they have a major fund-raiser tomorrow (Sunday) night (where I suspect the pendant portrait will be on display).[3] Last year Trappe celebrated the 300th anniversary of its founding. It's 3+ hours from D.C. under ideal conditions. About 45 minutes from me.

I've been to the Wonder Books in Hagerstown, but not the museum. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 04:21, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

I rather like long drives. I find them relaxing as long as there isn't major traffic. I emailed my sister to see if they're going to tonight's fund-raiser. If they are, I'll probably join them. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 11:49, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

I once drove to Boston to see a play written by a friend. Left mid-morning and got there late afternoon. Saw the play and was out by 11:00 pm. I thought I might find a cheaper motel near Hartford, so I got back on the road. Wasn't tired by Hartford, so I kept going. Wasn't tired by Beacon, NY (where I-84 crosses the Hudson), so I kept going. Wasn't tired by Fort Lee, NJ, so I got on the NJ Turnpike. WAS tired when I exited at Cranbury, but it seemed foolish to stop when I was only just over an hour from home. So 600 miles in 18 hours (and a play). == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 18:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

That sounds like a fun trip. You seem to be a master planner. I didn't make it to tonight's fund-raiser (my sister and brother-in-law already had plans). He grew up in Trappe, so he's been familiar with the Muhlenberg family history his whole life. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 02:43, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

I suspect there'll be an article in the local newspaper, and maybe in the Philadelphia Inquirer if they can milk the pendant portrait story. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 02:51, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

The author of the new article in Antiques & Fine Art is Lisa Minardi.[4] She was the one who picked up the clues about the pendant portrait and contacted the Blake family. Formerly a curator at the art museum of Ursinus College, she's now executive director of The Speaker's House. 'Night. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 03:07, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

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Your AWB edit rate

Can you slow down on your AWB edits please? I see you violated the AWB edit rate yet again a couple times in the last week. If you are going to edit that fast and with that number of articles you should request a bot do it. 2601:5CC:101:5DEB:95BA:D5C3:683C:12E (talk) 00:23, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

On this subject, you should probably take a look at Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Violation_of_edit_rate_by_Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao. SQL^{Query me!} 01:08, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: I'm writing to also ask that you slow town or take a break from your AWB edits. Your rapid series of edits to my new article about Mary Parker Converse, and your immediate corrections to mistakes that you made with your own edits have been causing a significant problem for me because I am still working on this article. (Normally, I would be happy for your help, but my new article had only been posted for 3 minutes before you began your edits, which was very premature editing in my opinion. On top of this, you then rapidly made seven edits during this timeframe, adding categories to the article while I was trying to add categories myself as the article's creator. You then quickly reversed two of those edits, which further disrupted my editing process. In addition, you compounded the problem by selecting incorrect categories for this biographical subject.) I'm sure that your disruptions of my editing were unintentional on your part, but your actions have interfered with my work as the creator of the original article, forcing me to stop my own editing to double check your work and revert several of your incorrect edits. These disruptions have also delayed my ability to get photos of the biographical subject and other supporting materials posted. So, I'm asking that you take a break from further edits to this article for the remainder of today so that I can finish my work on this article. Thank you for your cooperation. 47thPennVols (talk) 22:15, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Food

Curd Rice

Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 02:40, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Catetinho Palace

Hi,. dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you? Me fine...

I've opened this short page, and I ask 3 minutes of your tine, please, to read and correct it.

Grazie mille for your precious help!!!

Rei Momo (talk) 08:39, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

You're the G.O.A.T.

That's crazy, the #1 most active Wikipedian of all time. You deserve this goat.

―YoloMaxi ☎ ^(contribs) 21:03, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Building an African library

Hello Amantio. So about that library of sources... After your suggestion I compiled a small list of sources for WikiProject DRC, something I should have done a long time ago. So, any good ideas? -Indy beetle (talk) 20:36, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

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Syntax help request for reference note

    Thanks for fixing my incorrect format at,

https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Biff_Blumfumgagnge&type=revision&diff=824229797&oldid=824229583

At - https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Almanac_Singers, I want to change 'Peter Hawes' and '(John) Peter Hawes' to 'John "Peter" Hawes', with the same syntax as 'Baldwin "Butch" Hawes', because "Peter" is John's nickname according to the book.

    Neither brother yet have their own Wikipedia page so I have no place to add a Bibliography entry for the following book's 62 line biography of Butch Hawes.  Both were born in Cambridge, MA.  Butch was born September 21, 1919, but the book does not say when John was born.  Butch played guitar, banjo, and fiddle and sang, and was a songwriter and a commercial artist, but the book does not say what instrument(s) John played.  Butch and John's photo can be found at, http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/28/folk-singer-activistpeteseegerdiesinny.html - so John played the guitar.  Per https://folkways-media.si.edu/liner_notes/smithsonian_folkways/SFW40021.pdf - Butch and Bess were married in 1942 and John was born in 1917 and died in 1973, month & day of his birth/death are unknown.  Also, https://alchetron.com/Almanac-Singers - has several photos of the Almanac Singers but the individuals in each photo are not identified.

    I can't figure out how to fit together all the above pieces into the required proper <ref> syntax.  There are errors in the "Preview of references" that I don't know how to fix?  Can you help?  Thank you.

Doug Henkle - henkle@pobox.com - Wikipedia username: Henkle

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Socotra, the wrong informations

Dear sir, There is an information about the administration of socotra island in yemen. It says {United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates (de facto)}

United arab emirates try to take advantage to take through the time of yemen war with hoothi. Yemeni government will not allow this behavior from UAE. It will kick them out from the island soon.

Your information make some peoples beleive that UAE rule and own the island. So could you please remove this line from socotra wiki page {United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates (de facto)}.

Thanks verymuch.

Eng. Mohammed Alhilaly Yemen. Alhilaly@msn.com

Socotra, the wrong informations

Dear sir, There is an information about the administration of socotra island in yemen. It says {United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates (de facto)}

United arab emirates try to take advantage to take through the time of yemen war with hoothi. Yemeni government will not allow this behavior from UAE. It will kick them out from the island soon.

Your information make some peoples beleive that UAE rule and own the island. So could you please remove this line from socotra wiki page {United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates (de facto)}.

Thanks verymuch.

Eng. Mohammed Alhilaly Yemen. Alhilaly@msn.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.35.229.83 (talk) 04:46, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

brrrr

ta for your gianyar help - was just in Bali - and got home and found the state of many articles is pre-wikivoyage messy - tanks for your help JarrahTree 23:12, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Hey could you do another refill on List of programs broadcast by Disney Junior?

Hey,

Could you do a refill on List of programs broadcast by Disney Junior because I reverted an unsourced addition to the article? Thanks so much! --IanDBeacon (talk) 16:06, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

@IanDBeacon: Done. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:09, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm TheLongTone. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, The Mystery of the Sintra Road, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

TheLongTone (talk) 13:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

A bit of fat finger syndrome here, I thought I was marking it as reviewed.TheLongTone (talk) 10:59, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Please advise about malicious attacks on our wikipage

Hi, you were the last person we know of on a page we monitor. There is a user that is maliciously editing the page and posting totally untrue statements as fact. Can you please help us? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.107.176.74 (talk) 13:33, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

If you have concerns with edits being made to a page, it is best to discuss them with the editor making the edits. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:36, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

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Some obsessions never die

The woman seated at far left gives an idea of the oversized scale of the architectural elements.

Carptrash, Smallbones, 7&6=thirteen,
Okay, so I've had a low-level obsession about the Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) since 1984, when my favorite professor in college gave a lecture about it. It's one of Frank Furness's great residential works, and the best-preserved of his 1880s houses. Yesterday, the owners held an open house as a fund-raiser for the local women's club. I stood in line with more than 1,000 people to get a good look at the interior. (Actually, I arrived about 2:00 when the line was at its longest, left to do some errands, sat by a shady creek and read the Sunday paper, did the puzzles, and finally got in line about 4:40. I still didn't make it inside until 5:55.)

It was well worth it. The spaces are taller than they appear in photographs, and the architectural elements are oversized and exaggerated (like Post-Modern architecture and 1980s furniture). This was the closest Furness got to Single Style, but he missed (or rebelled against) its horizontality. In George Brooke (Edward II's father) he had an ideal client, extremely rich, architecture obsessed, whose son was engaged to the granddaughter of the uncle who had raised George and his brother (after they were orphaned in the 1820s). George Brooke had hired Furness in the early 1880s to expand Birdsboro's Episcopal church, and it's likely that the mansion was Furness's own design (not just his office's).

The entrance and hall are dark, but sumptuously decorated. The future Mrs. Edward Brooke II loved flowers, and they abound in leaded glass, wrought iron, cast iron, carved stone and carved oak. The windows of the 1st floor are large and let in a surprising amount of light (considering how thick the walls are). The 2nd floor windows are of the same scale, although 3 of the 4 bedrooms were cut down in size, for bathrooms and a hallway. The 3rd floor landing has a frosted glass ceiling (about 8' x 16') once lighted by a now-blocked skylight. It and the back stairs must have been drenched in light.

The upkeep of the exterior has been neglected. The building was restored in the 1990s as a commercial property (wedding/event location and B&B), but it's been on and off the market for more than a decade. The owners are approaching retirement (and probably exhausted). The mansion's contents are being sold at auction in September, with the mansion itself as a separate sale (likely with a healthy reserve).

So my curiosity was satisfied, and I took lots of pix, a couple dozen posted so far. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:51, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

@BoringHistoryGuy: "Some obsessions never die" - isn't that the motto of Wikipedia? :-)

Nice shots. You going to try to make the auction, do you think? (For that matter, are there any original fittings that appear to be on offer?) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:04, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

My guess is that the main point of the auction is to empty the mansion. I doubt that original fitting will be offered. (Yet? Let's hope not.) == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:09, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

@BoringHistoryGuy: Well...perhaps "items original to the house" would have been a better way of framing it. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:17, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Viva La Obsession! (after tripping over Ser Amantio di Nicolao]) I'm off to check the pictures now. Carptrash (talk) 16:18, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

The Brooke family held an auction of the mansion's contents in 1944. My guess is none of the current furniture is original. The Frederick Muhlenberg portrait once hung on the parlor. The library once had one of Thomas Affleck's Penn chairs. (It's now at the Houston Museum of Art.) == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:32, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

@Carptrash: I guess we've all got it. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:33, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

@BoringHistoryGuy: I figured it might be something like that. Still...getting something that once was in the house might be better than nothing. (Least it would be to me, if I had room to put it anywhere. Which I don't, but that's another matter.)

I noticed the bit about the Muhlenberg portrait, too. Reminds me that I need to get down to the Portrait Gallery to have a look at some of their new exhibits...it's been a few months since I was there.

@Carptrash: I think if we didn't have it, we wouldn't be here...but that's a thought for another day/week/lifetime. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:38, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Looks good. Did you get a photo of the furnace? Smallbones_(smalltalk) 16:47, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

The cellar was not on the tour. And not a single one of the guides (1 per room or two) pronounced Furness's name correctly. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:53, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

They should have just gone with "Frank." Carptrash (talk) 17:47, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

@Carptrash: Well, frankly, who has time to figure out how to pronounce "Furness" these days?

@BoringHistoryGuy: I had my own bit of fun a couple of months ago. I've known about Lexington plantation off and on over the years, and had an opportunity at the end of March to visit the site with a local nature group. Took the chance to get some nice photographs of whatever's left. Uploaded a few of them, but I have some more on my other camera. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:12, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Very good. Yesterday was a bit of a challenge, trying to take photos without dozens of people in the shots. I stayed late and got some okay ones, but should have reshot more of the early full-room photos. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 19:24, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

@Smallbones: This was the house I was telling you about on the way back from Gettysburg. Yeah, I probably will go to the September auction, maybe just to get more pix. But, having examined it closely, the house is no longer a mystery to me, which brings an odd sense of closure. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:53, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

@BoringHistoryGuy: You talk about a place being no longer a mystery...that's what I often find when I drive around parts of Fairfax County. There are roads and communities that I've known about for years, but haven't known anything about their histories. And of late I've been just...driving through suburbia, looking at historic markers and other things, and getting a sense of this county, and I've lived here now for almost 30 years. People tend to blow by these places on the way to the office without stopping to thing how they relate to one another, or how they relate to the broader local history. And it's fascinating to see that interrelationship - I understand so much more about this area than I used to. (My favorite example: Newington. Everyone treats it as part of Springfield, or as a name on a business sign here or there, but it has its own history apart from that.) It's such fun. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:37, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

I have a theory that within 10 miles of any point in the United States one can find something really interesting. The Greater Phoenix Metro area is proving to be a bit of a challenge in that respect since it is so new but I am not willing to disregard my hypothesis yet. Carptrash (talk) 17:50, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

It's a shame few of us seem to have the interest when we're young. My home town was a major stop on the Underground Railroad, and the British marched thru it in an attempt to surround Lafayette. I vaguely knew about both, but never had the facts at my fingertips. Thanks to Wikipedia, we now do! == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 17:57, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

I know a couple of people who grew up, or who now live in, Rose Hill - there was a Civil War raid there. I've also done some work on Franconia lately, and intend to get to some of the other parts of the county sooner or later. I have to say, too, there's been a good waymarking effort by the county historical society over the years. Very useful for sourcing. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:00, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

That sounds very good. Our local historical society seems to be waking from the doldrums because of a highway encroaching on Abolition Hall. But its online presence is negligible—I couldn't even find a complete list of the structures in its historic district. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 18:13, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

@BoringHistoryGuy: Our state society is pretty good, for the most part. Local can be hit or miss - there are actually a couple of smaller-than-county historical societies in the county, and some of them do interesting work. Once, years ago, I found a list of buildings in the Alexandria Historic District which I hoped would be useful (through which I learned that we once upon a time had a Ford plant designed by Albert Kahn), but alas I seem to have lost track of it. Maybe it'll turn up again one of these days. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:19, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Spoofing

Hello, again.

I have a question for you. I have just discovered that I have received credit for some edits that I DID NOT MAKE! In fact, you may have reverted some of them. I don't have time to research this right now (real life calls!) but I found this in the article Ed Herrmann, which you seem to have been editing concurrently, or watching. (Mar10? May 10? I think March.)

I am not a baseball fan. I don't dislike the sport, I just don't have much interest. When I do my wiki-gnoming, I generally work on an article I came to read. Also, the edits which were made are edits I MYSELF would revert, if I ran across them. I'm mystified.

I have used public computers for editing recently, but my practice is to turn the computer OFF when exiting, which I would think (first I log off) would be extra insurance against someone using my login.

Where should I report this? I can change password, of course, but do you think that is enough? I know techie friends have told me about discovering key-logging devices on their personal machines. I sure don't want to see a lot of bad edits credited to my username. What do you think? rags (talk) 13:09, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

@Ragityman: Definitely change your password, I'd say. I'd ask over at the Village Pump for other advice, too. Any idea how many edits there were - was it a one-off, does it look like, or is it something more long-term? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:22, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

I'll go thru my history in detail when I have time. Only one edit on that page. rags (talk) 00:53, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

@Ragityman: Good luck. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:27, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

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In edit summaries, the what is usually obvious, but the why isn't

As in https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Rachel_Held_Evans&curid=27592583&diff=843848650&oldid=821941138, what you did, and you recapitulated in the edit summary, was obvious, but why it was done was not apparent. Was the category removed? Is is a parent category to another that was left on the page? Something else? Knowing why is usually preferred. Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:43, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

I second this concern. Why the mass-purge from the American women writers category? Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 21:53, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

@Walter Görlitz: and @Xenophrenic: - everything I removed from the parent category is in one of the child categories (i.e., Category:20th-century American women writers) that does not diffuse to it. As to edit summaries, they are autogenerated by the tool I use - nothing I can do to change them, although it might be worth seeing if they can be customized. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 21:58, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

I was certain that I had checked for child categories in the few examples I noticed, but now I see that I missed them. Sorry about that, and thanks for the prompt reply. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 13:51, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

@Xenophrenic: No trouble at all. Happy to respond, and happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:15, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Barcelona, Aruba

The article Barcelona, Aruba has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I can't find any reliable sources to indicate that there is any place named Barcelona on Aruba. I've checked Google, GBooks, GNews, GScholar and found nothing, not even a trivial mention. Neither Aruba nor the Netherlands in general puts out an official gazetteer or atlas that I can tell, so I'm unable to verify on any government-issued source. Even the technically unreliable but usually useful Google Maps doesn't show this name anywhere on the island. Since we cannot verify this information, it must be deleted.

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Proposed deletion of Calabas

The article Calabas has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I can't find any reliable sources to indicate that there is any place named Calabas on Aruba. I've checked Google, GBooks, GNews, GScholar and found nothing, not even a trivial mention. Neither Aruba nor the Netherlands in general puts out an official gazetteer or atlas that I can tell, so I'm unable to verify on any government-issued source. Even the technically unreliable but usually useful Google Maps doesn't show this name anywhere on the island.

I have found mentions of a dive spot named Calabas, but that's on the nearby island of Bonaire and is unrelated.

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Proposed deletion of Cas di Paloma

The article Cas di Paloma has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Per the Encyclopedie Van de Nederlandse Antillen, this is merely a "part of the south coast of Aruba halfway between Oranjestad-Spaans Lagoen." (see [5]) There is no other information available about this location. I checked Google, GBooks, GMap, GNews. There is no official atlas/gazetteer for Aruba or the Netherlands. Per WP:GEOFEAT, merely having a name is not enough for a standalone article on a named geographic feature. If there was an appropriate target to redirect to, I would, but there isn't one that I can think of.

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Proposed deletion of Catashi

The article Catashi has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I can't find any reliable sources to indicate that there is any populated place named Catashi on Aruba. I've checked Google, GBooks, GNews, GScholar and found nothing, not even a trivial mention of this as a populated place. Neither Aruba nor the Netherlands in general puts out an official gazetteer or atlas that I can tell, so I'm unable to verify on any government-issued source. Even the technically unreliable but usually useful Google Maps doesn't show this name anywhere on the island. Since we cannot verify this information, it must be deleted.

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Proposed deletion of Catiri

The article Catiri has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Based on the sources I have found on Google Books, Catiri appears to be a street, not a village or independent populated place. All mentions of Catiri are within addresses in business or tourist listings, there are no mentions of it as its own place. No in-depth discussions of it as a notable street either, so no reason to keep on that basis.

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Proposed deletion of Cobo Lodo

The article Cobo Lodo has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The only source I can find about this place ([6]) merely mentions it by name when giving directions elsewhere. Speaking of names, its proper name appears to be "Coba Lodo", not "Cobo Lodo"; I searched under both. I am unable to locate any more information about this location. I checked Google, GBooks, GMap, GNews. There is no official atlas/gazetteer for Aruba or the Netherlands. Per WP:GEOFEAT, merely having a name is not enough for a standalone article on a named geographic feature. If there was an appropriate target to redirect to, I would, but there isn't one that I can think of.

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Proposed deletion of Maria Mai

The article Maria Mai has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I can't find any reliable sources to indicate that there is any place named Maria Mai on Aruba. I've checked Google, GBooks, GNews, GScholar and found nothing, not even a trivial mention in an address or something. Neither Aruba nor the Netherlands in general puts out an official gazetteer or atlas that I can tell, so I'm unable to verify on any government-issued source. Even the technically unreliable but usually useful Google Maps doesn't show this name anywhere on the island. Since we cannot verify this information, it must be deleted.

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Proposed deletion of Parkietenbos

The article Parkietenbos has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

It's a landfill, not a village.

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Proposed deletion of Rooi Prikichi

The article Rooi Prikichi has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

As far as I can tell, this appears to be a street, and not a village or even a neighborhood. I checked Google, GBooks, GNews, GScholar, and can't find any mentions of this place at all. I tried "Rooi Prikichi", "rooi aruba", and "Prikichi Aruba" and didn't find anything at all. GMaps shows it as a street, but that's not enough to maintain a standalone article or really even a redirect. Based on the sources I have found on Google Books, Catiri appears to be a street, not a village or independent populated place. All mentions of Catiri are within addresses in business or tourist listings, there are no mentions of it as its own place. No in-depth discussions of it as a notable street either, so no reason to keep on that basis.

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Proposed deletion of Shabiruri

The article Shabiruri has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I can't find any reliable sources to indicate that there is any place named Shabiruri on Aruba. I've checked Google, GBooks, GNews, GScholar and found nothing, not even a trivial mention in an address or something. Neither Aruba nor the Netherlands in general puts out an official gazetteer or atlas that I can tell, so I'm unable to verify on any government-issued source. Even the technically unreliable but usually useful Google Maps doesn't show this name anywhere on the island.

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Nomination of Parkietenbos for deletion

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Question, isn't Al Giordano a US political activist?

Al Giordano is on my watchlist. He is a journalist but also a past and current political activist, for example organizing workshops on political activism. Can you please restore Amierican activist tag you removed from his bio or else explain, here or there, why you think it should be removed? HouseOfChange (talk) 22:54, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

@HouseOfChange: The article was in the subcategory Category:Activists from New York (state); I moved it into the category Category:Activists from New York City. These are both subcategories of the broader category Category:American activists. That's why I removed it. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 23:54, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation and for improvements to the article. HouseOfChange (talk) 11:44, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

@HouseOfChange: Any time. Happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:16, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Charles Martin Smith

Why is Charles Martin Smith not an American director? You deleted from that category in his article.Eschoryii (talk) 02:08, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

@Eschoryii: He is in the subcategory Category:Film directors from California. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:26, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Women nurses

Hi! I noticed quite a few nurses on my watchlist moving from American nurses to American women nurses, so thought I would touch base. It does seem a bit odd to me (as an ex-nurse, and current man) that these categories exist. I see they're non-diffusing, but given the relative paucity of Wikipedia-notable nurses who are men, especially when subdivided by nationality, it does seem rather unnecessary. For that matter, men in the profession usually work pretty hard to avoid getting labelled "male nurse".

Is "women nurses" even grammatical? Cheers, Basie (talk) 22:02, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

@Basie: As to the grammatical point, my understanding is that "women" is generally the preferred adjectival form for categories. (Viz: Category:Women writers, Category:Women artists, etc.) I know we have a few "female" categories, but I think "women" is becoming the preferred nomenclature.

To your other point...I do take your point, and personally I'm not sure "women nurses" of any stripe is a category I'd have created myself. But as it does exist - and I really don't have strong feelings either way, should it be brought before CfD or some other authority - I feel that it should be properly populated. (I'm not the category creator myself.)

Regarding the usage of "male nurse": in the past, I've seen an attitude that Wikipedia uses terminology chosen internally, regardless of the feeling of members of the profession. For what it's worth, Category:Male nurses does exist. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:27, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, sadly the nursing wikiproject is nearly inactive, but maybe I'll ping it and see if I can stir up a general consensus. Someone in medical might have a few thoughts too. Basie (talk) 01:53, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Might want to ping Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red as well. We've had the odd category discussion over the years, but I don't know if nursing has come up, specifically. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:55, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, will do. Basie (talk) 02:07, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Nursing#Gendered_nursing_categories. Basie (talk) 03:38, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Bruno Mars

Hello

Why did you remove the singer from the American songwriters' category? MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 10:17, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

@MarioSoulTruthFan: Because he is in the child category Category:American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:40, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Since he doesn't have an official genre of music he sticks to shouldn't he be in a more broad category? MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 19:21, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

@MarioSoulTruthFan: I should think that he wouldn't need to be in the child category, then. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:46, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

I will remove it from there and add him to the main one. Thanks for helping out. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 19:21, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

@MarioSoulTruthFan: Any time. Happy to be of help. Happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:25, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm TeriEmbrey. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Hanson Edward Ely, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

TeriEmbrey (talk) 18:56, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Pedro Ignacio Wolcan Olano

Hi, dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you?

I just opened this short page, and I ask you 3,4... or 5 minutes :-) to read it and correct my mistakes, please.

Thanks a lot for your precious help

Rei Momo (talk) 06:21, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in study

Hello,

I am E. Whittaker, an intern at Wikimedia with the Scoring Team to create a labeled dataset, and potentially a tool, to help editors deal with incivility when they encounter it on talk pages. A full write-up of the study can be found here: m:Research:Civil_Behavior_Interviews. We are currently recruiting editors to be interviewed about their experiences with incivility on talk pages. Would you be interested in being interviewed? I am contacting you because of your involvement in Wikipedia’s Women in Red project. The interviews should take ~1 hour, and will be conducted over BlueJeans (which does allow interviews to be recorded). If, so, please email me at ewhit@umich.edu in order to schedule an interview.

Thank you Ewitch51 (talk) 20:26, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi

Hello Ser Amantio di Nicolao. I'm compiling an e-mail list of participants from the GLAM-Wiki/Leadership Boot Camp last weekend. On Sunday we made a list of e-mails, and I didn't see yours on the list. I'm not sure if that's because you weren't there, or if you simply didn't want to be included in the e-mail list. If you'd like to join it, please e-mail me your e-mail address ("email this user" should be available from the left sidebar on my userpage). Thanks! Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 21:32, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Dufek, Norman category change

Hi there - I see you made a change to George J. Dufek recently. The edit says "(Removing from Category:American aviators using Cat-a-lot)" Dufek was in fact an aviator (it say so right in the opening sentence of the article) so I wondered why you removed this category? Thanks Bookgrrl ^holler/lookee here 14:19, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Also, same question regarding your change to Dorothy Norman "(Removing from Category:American women writers using Cat-a-lot)"

@Bookgrrl: They're both in child categories of the parent. George J. Dufek is in Category:Aviators from Illinois and Dorothy Norman is in Category:20th-century American women writers. No need for them to be in the parent category as well. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:25, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Ah, I get it. OK, thanks! Bookgrrl ^holler/lookee here 20:16, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Film/tv

I noticed that there are no tabs for film and tv for Kevin Costner. I know you just edited the page but who would I talk to about this missing info on him? 207.44.21.18 (talk) 22:10, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

You can do it yourself - no need to talk to anyone else. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:34, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Photo trips

Hm. Since mid-March, I've just not uploaded much of anything; I'm finishing preparing a book for peer review, and I've just not taken the time to upload pictures. I've made several trips with not-yet-uploaded photos: Newport News and James City County in early March, western Goochland County (just Belvidere, Second Union School, Tinsley Tavern, and Elk Hill) a few days later, Fairfax County and city later in March, Greensboro NC in early April, isolated spots in western Maryland in mid-April, central WV in mid-May, isolated spots in Indiana in early June, northeastern NC two weekends ago, and DC last weekend. This weekend I'm looking to finish Mecklenburg County and Brunswick County, and before long I hope to get Page County partly or mostly done.

I'd say just go ahead and ignore what I've done (except for western Goochland County), and I'll eventually catch up. I'm going to get back into the swing of things before too long; I'm almost ¾ done with the last main stage of work on the book, and then it will just be error-checking before I submit things to them. Email me if you want more details. Nyttend (talk) 04:07, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello Ser, why was the category 'Ghanaian politician' removed from the page Ambrose Dery'?TereseB (talk) 10:01, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

@TereseB: He is already in the subcategory Category:Cabinet Ministers of Ghana. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:07, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Lib Peck for deletion

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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lib Peck until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Some baklava for you!

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Happy Adminship

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A kitten for you!

Sending you a kitten, as a reminder of the good work you do.

Also, a quick note about the Utopia, Limited quotation: since it's dialogue, perhaps each line should be on its own line? Up to you, my friend: it is your page, after all.

Anyway, carry on with your great work!

—Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 03:18, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

@Javert2113: Kittens are lovely, thanks. I'll take a look at the quote - I didn't recall the formatting issue, and I'm surprised at myself for letting it through. Thanks for catching it.

Thanks for your help - the offending issue has been reported. I half-thought about keeping it up here as a badge of honor, but that might be a tad imprudent.

Ah, well. Happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 03:27, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

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Your talk page, while completely within your rights to have it your way, is somewhat difficult to look at. For me, anyway. Both on Firefox and Chrome. I see the Contents box on the right hand side. On the left, I see the archives scattered down the left-hand side page, And below that, the first couple of threads visually overlapping on the left hand side and scrambled. Maybe this is the way you want it. I've never seen the archives listed in the Contents box before.

But ... if you happen to be looking for a more condensed way of handling the archive box, please have a look at how it is on my talk page. I use the Template:Archive box collapsible, and it wraps it up really neat. I forget who I stole the idea from, somebody really notorious famous on Wikipedia. Just a thought. Your devoted fan. — Maile (talk) 00:26, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

@Maile66: Thanks for the tip - I'll give it some thought in the next couple of days. I'm about due to archive things anyhow. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:33, 30 June 2018 (UTC)