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Season's Greetings

Hello there! 7&6=thirteen (☎) wishes you & yours the very best of the season!

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa,
Festivus (for the rest of us!) or even the Saturnalia,
here's hoping your holiday time is wonderful and
- especially -
that the New Year will be an improvement on the old.
CHEERS!

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(Sent: 17:47, 24 December 2023 (UTC))

Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:47, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Awwwwww...thankseverso. Shearonink (talk) 18:02, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Christmas greetings

Maria Gloriosa

May the bells of Christmas ring for freedom!

May peace be upon us.

And have a happy and prosperous New Year. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:42, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

2024

Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy New Year

2024

Like 2019, remember? - Enjoy your break. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:52, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda. Shearonink (talk) 01:39, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Yesterday was a friend's birthday, with related music. - I'm on vacation - see places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:14, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Benjamin Franklin Graves (soldier)

Hi, per [1], I'm well aware there are differing style approaches for number ranges external to Wikipedia (and is documented in the article you linked), but as I'm sure you know, for the English Wikipedia, we have a manual of style that governs these things here. The change I made was done according to that. The source's title may well show a hyphen in a number range, but nevertheless we style it to an en dash per MOS:RANGE, MOS:DATERANGE ("For ranges between numbers, dates, or times, use an en dash") and MOS:CONFORM, MOS:TITLECONFORM ("Formatting and other purely typographical elements of quoted text [also applies to titles of works] should be adapted to English Wikipedia's conventions without comment, provided that doing so will not change or obscure meaning or intent of the text"). There is no other consideration I can see for the titles of works to let them keep their hyphens in cases like these (i.e. "Do not change hyphens to dashes" in MOS:RANGE doesn't mention titles of works). If you can find any guideline that backs up keeping the hyphen, I will be happy to consider it. Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 05:24, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm an editor who always retains what the source states. If one changes the hyphen to an n- or m-dash and one looks up the source by the title given as the title given...will it work? probably yes but maybe not. I will always choose to retain the source as it is written and regardless of what is written down now as Wikipedia guidelines/policies they aren't necessarily encased in stone. Maybe hyphens will make a comeback since they are common usage almost everywhere else. In any case, do what you will. I'll continue to disagree in my little editing heart of hearts but change it back - it's fine. Shearonink (talk) 15:09, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

I understand your point of view. I don't always feel total agreement with guidelines. But I think here is Wikipedia's effort for the work that is Wikipedia to have a common appearance for the reader. The key here is they do have limitations on the restyling so searching on the titles or quotes will ordinarily work. Also, per AGF I don't mind that for the efficiency of editors' GTD (gettin' things done), they do more or less direct copying of title or quote appearance. That's what correcting gnomes like me are for. :) Stefen Tower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 16:46, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!

Thanks to you and the Birthday Committee!!! Shearonink (talk) 02:46, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Lincoln

I replied to you on my Talk page. I'm not sure whether you are sent an email informing you of that, but I think that you will be sent an email informing you of this comment. Maurice Magnus (talk) 20:39, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

I replied on my Talk page again. Are you alerted to that? I just want to get straight how this works. Thanks.

SPI

Regarding your comment here, I've been working down the list from the oldest and those that don't really need to be reviewed by a Clerk, and am currently on NickJr Fanon2021. Yours is only about 5 cases past that, so I should be able to get to it this afternoon. Don't give up on us yet :)-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 16:25, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Oh Ponyo you're a shining star around here, I didn't want to cast aspersions on anyone with my comments at Talk:SPI, we're *all* volunteers and this is all a labor of love and/or lunacy. I've just never seen it take so long and the state of SPI right now worries me. It's an indication of a serious underlying situation, like a canary in the coal mine... Shearonink (talk) 18:20, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

No, it's right to be concerned. SPI is a bit of a mess at the moment and your canary in the coal mine analogy is apt.-- Ponyo^{bons mots} 18:50, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Interstate 440 (North Carolina)

Interstate 440 (North Carolina) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 01:15, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

NoobThreePointOh - There was an edit conflict when I was replying to this at the reassessment page so I'm replying here. I see that User:Imzadi1979 agreed with me that this GAR seemed a little hasty. Just because an article has a single more citations needed template doesn't mean it should lose its GA status ("If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.") That major template at the top of the article was placed in error, apparently because of a single "citations needed" template within the article. The article has plenty of cites/references, look like it simply needed some updating, maybe local/NC news stories about I440 like this WRAL article about work not being finished until 2025 etc. THanks for the notice though... Shearonink (talk) 02:25, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Yup, that reassessment was all my fault. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 02:40, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Indian massacre of 1622

I put some change on the article just to let people know a simillar case of massacre of colonists happening to other place than America. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gasybeaugosse2020 (talk • contribs) 09:19, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Gasybeaugosse2020 A couple of things:

• The proper place to have responded would have been on the actual article talk page.
• Your post was unsigned.
• You posted on a subpage of my User page, any communication between editors is done on the User talk pages. You have one too. That's where I posted the Talkback. It's User talk:Gasybeaugosse2020.

Any further discussion about this issue belongs on the article talk page ->>> Talk:Indian massacre of 1622 at the section with the title Recent edit adding a 'See also'. Shearonink (talk) 21:32, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

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September music

story · music · places

Thank you for offering to be pinged! - Recommended reading today: Frye Fire, by sadly missed Vami_IV. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:25, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Happy because my story today is about a Czech mezzo soprano who is mentioned on the Main page on her birthday. - Best wises for countering the stress! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:45, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Today is Schoenberg's 150th birthday! On display, portrayed by Egon Schiele, with music from Moses und Aron, and with two DYK hooks, one from 2010 and another from 2014; the latter, about his 40th birthday, appeared on his 140th birthday, which made me happy then and now again. - See places for a stunning sunrise, on the day Bruckner's 200th birthday was celebrated (just a few days late). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:32, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

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October music

story · music · places

You may remember Maryvonne Le Dizès, my story today as on 28 August. Some September music was unusual: last compositions and eternal light, with Ligeti mentioned in story and music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:39, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

I made Leif Segerstam my big story today. Perhaps you'll like the image of the last of three youtube. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:58, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world richer. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic of assorted Cucurbita in 2016. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:09, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder & the original award. Six years! Tempus fugit eh?... - Shearonink (talk) 14:32, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

About a conversation a little over a year ago

Greetings, back in late 2023 I and you had a conversation on SandyGeorgia's talk page about our article Rupperswil murder case (which I see is now back to posting the full name of the perpetrator), where you mentioned that articles on such crimes tend to draw particular people. I just read back on that conversation and remembered that Scott Erskine has a rather detailed description of the crime scene, is that what you meant? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 12:54, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Well... articles about murders, serial killers, and other violent crimes tend to often attract fans of such crimes and fans of the perpetrators. Sometimes these folks seem to luxuriate in the details, they linger over the timeline and the acts... I am only interested in the humanity involved, that we not forget that the victims and the survivors were and are real people, someone's neighbor, relative, loved one. I couldn't care less about the known/proven perpetrators - they did the crime, they can rot in the ash heap of history for all I care. It's sad we know the perpetrators' names and not the victims... As to the details...when one wades through the information on a crime - my personal example is Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, it can be overwhelming, and emotionally wearing. The bare information about the event is terrible - all those dead children, the brave teachers, the timeline of the acts - and then to have to deal with the POV-pushers, the Alex Jones cultists? that is another layer of ick. If one deals with such an article, I think it is possibel to get a type of secondary PTSD, so it's good to take a break, it's good to be careful with one's self.

I haven't read the Scott Erskine article and I don't want to, but if the information has appeared in a reliable source and it's verifiable/factual well then, Wikipedia is not censored and all that. Would I include all the details if I were crafting that article? Maybe not, it would seem somewhat lurid to me but it's not up to me, it's up to the editorial consensus of the people working on that article.

Hope I answered your question. - Shearonink (talk) 14:28, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Currently, the lurid details aren't referenced or so it seems like. I guess that court news or the judgment might have that information, but I am not overly keen to go and check. JoJo Eumerus mobile (main talk) 16:21, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Yeah...more recent crimes tend to have a lot of details that sometimes I just don't want to know. I know that reading some of the details could affect my state of mind...I have to protect myself. When editing one doesn't have to include *everything* on a subject. It's ok to not go hunting for all the events on the timeline, like autopsies and crime photos etc. I remember years ago seeing (claimed) photos or very detailed pencil drawings of JFK's autopsy on some TV show...quite unsettling & horrifying. - Shearonink (talk) 17:07, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Some of the references are broken. I did look at the court judgment after all and it has some of that lurid information, though. In Switzerland, we don't publish primary court rulings so that information wouldn't be public here. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:28, 14 January 2025 (UTC)