User talk:Dank/Archive 88

February music

story · music · places

Thank you for thinking about April with music in mind! - I thanked him Seiji Ozawa, and have the story of Helga Paris today, a photographer of houses and faces. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:18, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for scheduling! By chance I looked at Wikipedia:Today's featured article, and find the three listed TFAs confusing, - do you see the same? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:50, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

We've listed the current and next two TFAs at the bottom of WP:TFA forever; I imagine people would have complained by now if they didn't like it, but I don't know. - Dank (push to talk) 15:23, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Nothing wrong with that, but they seem misnamed, - the so-called "current" is the one of two days ago, "tomorrow" is yesterday's, and "in two days finally" is the current. - I don't dare to fix because I don't understand the template syntax for the dates. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:01, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

I can't help with technical stuff. I also saw a two-day-old TFA, but when I purged the page, it fixed it (at least for me). But that's the extent of my technical knowledge. - Dank (push to talk) 16:08, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Purging might be an idea, thank you! - The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:54, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

WP:FLC Query

Hi Dank, Josh sent me this way since I had a query about Plant Featured Lists. Just wondering if you could take a quick look at foliosum to let me know if it seems like its format could work at FLC. I'm not familiar with the space but want to try to get something to FLC this year. If I were to finish filling out the list from the databases present, would it have merit there? Further, what information could be included in the lead that would be useful and help to flesh it out? Thank you for any guidance you can provide! If this works out I'm hoping to make this a series that I can keep working on in the future. Fritzmann (message me) 13:21, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Fritzmann, thanks for working on this. The answer is: I never know. The best route is to ask at some point (probably at WT:PLANTS) what they'd recommend ... they might want to include foliosus and foliosa, or not include marine animals, or not include synonyms, or draw on additional sources for plant names ... I never know what people think is the "right" way to construct the list. If you'd rather just take a shot at WP:FLC and see what happens without asking, I have no objection, but I wouldn't personally feel comfortable supporting until other WP:Plants people weigh in. - Dank (push to talk) 13:41, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Great, I'll post something there. It's always difficult to work on something new without the established guideposts. It will be good to establish consensus for this kind of article, which I think is a good type to start making! Fritzmann (message me) 16:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

TFA

story · music · places

Thank you today bringing Appalachian Spring to the Main page today, - I also made it my story. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:02, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Beautiful pictures of sites in Darmstadt and along the Rhine. I've check out the links, so I'll archive this now. - Dank (push to talk) 16:20, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikiproject Forestry

Hello @Dank I hope you can keep the Forestry project semi-active and perhaps recruit other editors. According to Template:WikiProject status#Usage: Inactive projects you need to add yourself as a member.

As there seem to be no other members of the project at the moment, next week could you possibly comment on a new merge I just proposed at Talk:Agroforestry

Hope you enjoy your weekend

Chidgk1 (talk) 13:49, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm not interested in that, thanks anyway. At the moment, I'm working on tree inventories. - Dank (push to talk) 13:53, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Image permissions for H. sechmenii

Hey Dank, thanks for working with me on TFAR. I actually got a response back from an author for the first time, and it's incredibly positive. Not only did Okan Sezer give permission to use the image I wanted (with attribution), but he also sent three more that I've never seen and said those could be used as well! We had correspondence over ResearchGate, but my name and personal info are tied to the profile I messaged with, so I don't really want to link the message chain. Do you happen to know how I should go about affirming the attribution and permission? I'm very excited to put these images in the article, and one of them will be perfect for a front page run. Fritzmann (message me) 21:15, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Ah, very nice. I'll ask around. - Dank (push to talk) 21:18, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm told: ask at the WP:TEAHOUSE. - Dank (push to talk) 21:27, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

TFA for July 2

Hey Dank, I'm confused to why Thomas Cranmer was bumped to July 3. I saw that maple syrup was at TFAP for July 2 before I nominated Cranmer, but the reason was because of Canada Day. However, Canada Day is on July 1 and there is already a TFAP option of Flag of Canada for July 1, so I thought it would be better to hold maple syrup until next year. Also, I nominated Cranmer for July 2 because that's his birthday. If Cranmer can't run on July 2, I'd prefer to hold it until 2029 or another significant date as I prefer TFAs to run on the date of significance. Thoughts? Z1720 (talk) 23:40, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

I have no problem giving you your preferred date for Cranmer. Although "specific hourly usage data [for the English Wikipedia] isn't publicly available due to privacy policies", I remember back when the servers would get very slow in the evening (US) hours, so I'm guessing it's still true that we get more North American readers in the evening hours (local time) ... and July 1 for those readers is July 2 for the server, so they're actually going to see the Cranmer article on July 1 ... hopefully they'll figure out why. (This is why when I have two articles competing for the same day, pushing one to the next day is an option.) Nikkimaria, you suggested Canada Day for the maple syrup article almost a year ago, and you've been keeping an eye on it ... I didn't want you to have to wait another year, but it's your call, do you prefer July 3 this year or July 1 next year? - Dank (push to talk) 01:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I have no preference. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Okay ... July 3 it is. - Dank (push to talk) 02:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)