This is a Wikipediauser talk page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user whom this page is about may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original talk page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Storye_book.
Researching historical women writers who used pseudonyms requires careful investigation across multiple sources, as many women adopted pen names to avoid gender bias and judgment (e.g., being labeled a bluestocking) and, ultimately, to get published.
Nomination for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!
Nominations for the upcoming Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:03, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The lead pic for Rodion Shchedrin was changed. The previous one is a crop of one with his wife, which had a brighter version at a time but that was reverted. I would prefer that one, restored or as an alternative. - My story today, pictured on the main page, is about the best concert I sang (on 1 September 2019), and references for the article were collected by Brian Boulton. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:04, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have cropped the Ambriz image. As it's a Flickr image, the additional cropped version requires a review, so I've tagged it on its filepage. I'm expecting it to have a positive review, but you may wish to watch the new filepage, just in case: File:Lourdes Ambriz Márquez - cropped.jpg.
I cannot find on Commons a better image of Shchedrin. If you still want the current image replaced, please give me a link to the preferred image?. Thanks. Storye book (talk) 07:23, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the crop. As for the other, I don't want a different image, I like it, - that's about as I saw the two back then. There was a crop of his face which was brighter, and that was in the article until yesterday when it was replaced, edit summary "better image", by one from Putin's office. I believe the 2009 pic is better, better facial expression and more detail, but who am I? We had the pic of the couple brighter, by Materialscientist, for years, but recently the original uploader reverted that, and there were edits afterwards so I couldn't undo that. I'd like the brighter version, as alternative if not replacing. - Different question: can you with your magic eye give some date to the pic of Klaus Thunemann? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:34, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thunemann is aged around 50–60 years in his ID pic, which would be around 1987–1997. Because the picture is so small, I cannot see whether he has wrinkled skin. If his skin is still smooth, he is around 50 and he is going grey early. If his skin is wrinkled he is around 60. If you can track down a larger version of the picture, you will be able to make a better guess. Storye book (talk) 11:17, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much, but I was still not clear: I'd like a lighter image of the two ;) - see my story, but also for the article. One portrait of him there is enough. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:32, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A soprano pictured on DYK, a soprano and a composer and a bassoonist on RD, and a composer with the pic of the day: a good day for classical music! - Lutz-Michael Harder pic? - the tenor for Bach and Mozart of my student days (he once was Ferrando on Saturday and the Evangelist in "our" St John Passion on Sunday), - you can listen to some Bach in yesterday's story, and what a closing chorale! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Done. I had great fun with the Lehms alt. Thank you for that opportunity! In the other one, I have used the word, "lozenge" because that is the term used for JMW Turner's sort-of-lozenge-ish-shaped patches of light in the sky, which are sometimes interpreted as religious motifs (see this one)..Storye book (talk) 09:14, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I thought you'd enjoy doing Lehms ;) - You may enjoy also that the Bach cantata I chose for today (Trinity 12) is also with text by Lehms. It would have been my story, but a miracle happened: I enjoy a DYK that pictures a person together with achievements in art, - and more: religious art on a Sunday, another miracle in surroundings that seriously proposed to run the Easter Oratorio on 1 April because that was the day of the premiere. - That may be te correct WF. Yesterday's concert, Mahler's Fifth conducted from memory by Daniele Gatti, was the closing of the festival he helped founding. It was great! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:19, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I looked for a pic of the singer of Canto General in Chile in 1993. Here she is, but in 1972. Well, that informs that she had a long history singing his works, and shows him at about creation time! Could you make a crop of the two? There are plenty of pics of her labelled 2013, but I wonder if that is the uploading date. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:14, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. His sister is my friend, and her sister and her daughter wrote the article which I entered with her assistance sitting outside, - more to come, after sorting out sourcing problems. Probably no DYK - too much is referenced just by his own writing. - Today is the birthday of the 16th Thomaskantor after Bach, remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:24, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for pic, alt, and saying that. GA or not GA, that is my question (to self)? I began the tenor article today who sang that Tannhäuser about whom DYK had no more to say than that he was gay ;) - Interesting interviews on youtube (deep East German background) but all in German. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:47, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Pidoux done. You are brave, doing GAs. I have only ever done one GA, and since then the article has had editors doing long, complex edits, changing the facts, when they cannot see the citations. Then when you try to correct the article to fit the citations, they revert your edits. So no more GAs for me. Storye book (talk) 11:26, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For me, just the opposite: it works or not, nothing to fear. Dr. Blofeld created the article for his son, perhaps you could nominate that for DYK, mentioning the father ;) - needs a citation for DOB, - they don't bother with small stuff like that on the German wiki. The Dr. and I are a bit DYK-burnt-out, as you know. Next festival begins today, guest arrived, little time ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:15, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Bartusz done. Sorry I currently have intermittent internet. 7 different engineers were sent *y the provider, with no solution found. The last engineer dropped my key*oard, which now does not have the letter *etween a and c in the alpha*et. Yes I copied and pasted the man's name. Sigh. Storye book (talk) 10:38, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I replaced Grundheber's free image with a non-free image, because the free image did not perform an ID function at all - that photo does not show his face, because it is mostly turned away. Storye book (talk) 17:32, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That's good news! Thank you for another pic full of life! - Today I could have told many stories, - St. Michael's Day (The Company of Heaven and Bach cantatas) and the anniversary of our performance of the Mass in B minor in 2013. I picked the composition (and its author) that was on DYK in the morning, and you can listen. I also show a collection of DYK around people called Michael on my user page ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:05, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Re the Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110 ID image:
* Pro = The title page is an ID appropriate for an infobox.
* Con = Page 10 or the existing pretty pic of a bird are OK for us or the great unwashed, but they are not infobox-type IDs.
At the moment you can leave the infobox as it is and get away with it. If you change it, you open the door to discussion. Up to you, really. Of course I prefer the score, and no doubt you do, but we are in the minority, here. So it's up to you. Storye book (talk) 16:41, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I intended the infobox to stay as it is, but could use page 10 for the first movement ('cause the lilypond shows only the voices, more laughter in the instruments) and page one for the publications. 'bird' - do you mean the angel? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:19, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis, usually on a Tuesday.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.
To the football and rugby editors who have done sterling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.
Great!
Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...
Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!
Delivered September 2025 by MediaWiki message delivery.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage.
20:13, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Walter Fink (1a).jpg
⚠
Thanks for uploading File:Walter Fink (1a).jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of non-free use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
On 13 September 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mary Fisher (mayor), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an English mayor once brought a gold medallist home to his village in a Rolls-Royce? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Fisher (mayor). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mary Fisher (mayor)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Sister wikiproject Women in Green October 2025 Good Article Edit-a-thon focuses on What Women Do
Tip of the Month:
Notable does not always mean admirable; you don't have to like an article's subject to make the article a useful contribution to Wikipedia.
Progress ("moving the needle"):
Statistics available via various tools: previously, Humaniki tool; currently, QLever. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 6,283 articles during this period:
19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women)
24 September 2025: 20.20% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,088,533 biographies; 421,901 women)
Thank you for another nice one! - My story today is about a woman and her husband who played Bach's Sonatina for us (Rheingau Musik Festival, long ago) on an upright piano, and it made me cry, and I still remember. Can you believe that this was a real DYK, in 2019? - not saying what she did at age four, or how many times she played some piece, or what she did before turning to the piano ;) - But - bzzt - a mezzo soprano hook (not by me) made it to prep without problems and discussions, - miracles still happen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:48, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I knew you would ;) - planning to write an article on Fiordiligi (Dorabella has one), counting on you to make it palatable to the DYK team. Today's story is about a baritone who had his DYK years ago, - today all they'd accept would be that he performed his 2000th stage appearance, and even saying on the stage where he started, or the year, or in his 40th year on stage, or which role, would be trimmed. I looked into Wozzeck (100 this year, performed yesterday (in concert with Simon Rattle, HP8 Gasteig - and funny enough I wrote yesterday's article about a piece premiered there, in the small hall though, before I listened in) and was impressed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:00, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Wiki Loves Monuments
Thanks to all who took part in the annual Wiki Loves Monuments to get some photographs of listed buildings. There was 67 photographs of Yorkshire submitted during the month. North Yorkshire had the most at 34, followed by West Yorkshire with 32, South Yorshire manage just 1 while the East Riding of Yorkshire did not submit any photographs.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The October 2025 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis, usually on a Tuesday.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.
To the football and rugby editors who have done sterling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.
Great!
Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...
Would you like to write the next newsletter for WP:YORKS? Please nominate yourself at WT:YORKS! New editors are always welcome!
Delivered October 2025 by MediaWiki message delivery.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage.
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}