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If you like Brahms, I recommend the streaming of yesterday's concert. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:06, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alas it's not available in my country. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 21:36, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about that, I heard the same about Australia. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:12, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Today is Bastille Day, commemorated by a DYK as my "story" and a visit to the Bastille Opera in "music". I like the interview coming with the story, on the day before the big event, but for pomp and circumstance, the affair with 600 singing children and orchestra, and the singer dressed in the national flag, was also captured on videos, much slower. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:49, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Check out places for a great smile, - he had just stepped in to play Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, successfully! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:00, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning, RD and DYK, - see my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:44, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Three of "my" recent deaths bios are on the main page right now, one my story today, Gary Karr, and I loved to find his breakthrough concert in 1962 as a video. In my music today I match it with 9 other double bassists, 7 conducted by a person who's birthday is today - coincidence ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:52, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Béatrice Uria-Monzon and her story, Julia Hagen and her no story --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:01, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
On Bach's day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory of his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:01, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Jahrhundertring remembered, with the picture of a woman who can't believe what she has to see - I used that once for an argument, pleading, for Götterdämmerung. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:03, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Deletion review for Mohammad Shahjahan (footballer)

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Transgender healthcare and people arbitration case opened

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 14

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maryanne Oketch (2nd nomination)

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Was the closure of 2nd AFD nomination on Maryanne Oketch correct? I didn't notify the members of related WikiProjects, which might have led to the "no consensus" outcome. Well, the evidence to counter the BLP1E/BIO1E assertions has been presented, but I'm unsure whether it's enough to balance the claims out. Well, the bots of the WikiProjects list the article under Article Alerts, but I dunno whether the vistors of the WikiProjects can browse through long list of articles and other pages in the Article Alert pages/sections. George Ho (talk) 03:05, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As I hate to admit, (dunno why) the AFD turnout was very low, considering visitors from other pages (WikiNav), internal (like Survivor 42 and parent article about the series itself) or external. (WikiNav is unable to count visits to the 2nd AFD nomination.) --George Ho (talk) 04:08, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@George Ho do you have evidence of inappropriate canvassing? Because a bot notifying a project and/or a page appearing in a project's article alert list is not canvassing, else we wouldn't be permitting bots (and deletion sorting tags) to do those functions automatically. Absent evidence of inappropriate canvassing, I am left with the actual participation in the AFD. Often at such AFDs BLP1E/BIO1E weighting will mean that even in an AfD divided as Oketch was that there be will be a delete/redirect consensus. However, in this case the participants favoring keep gave policy based reasoning, with sources, to dispute the criteria of that which is how I ended with a no consensus outcome. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 14:26, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rahul Garg

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Once this SPI is closed, would it be possible for you to reconsider your no consensus close? Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 20:30, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jeraxmoira I am happy to reconsider it when that SPI is closed. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 21:32, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's closed now. Please check when you get the time. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 12:05, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeraxmoira are you prepared to do the merge? If yes I'll close that way, if not I'll close as redirect while noting merge - I find merges coming from AFD often sit forever unless there's someone who has agreedt to do it (which is what normally happens in a normal merge discussion). Barkeep49 (talk) 16:12, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have never actually merged an article during my time here, so I think the latter option is better. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 16:51, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

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The Admin Elections barnstar
Thank you very much for being a backup scrutineer at WP:AELECT2. We did end up using one of the backup scrutineers, so this is an important role. Thanks for stepping up! –Novem Linguae (talk) 13:01, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note

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Please look at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems for July 26, 2005. Krok6kola (talk) 18:59, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Krok6kola are you referring to the thread about the user page (which was eventually deleted) and 1989's conduct? If so thanks, it is evidence we're thinking about. If something else can you link me more directly? Barkeep49 (talk) 20:16, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is related to 1989's conduct. A.Savin called her a bitch in Russian and posted that image on his user page, she said. It was discussed on Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems. As I recall, she was not blamed for her behavior. The image was deleted. 1989 has semi-retired, so may not have seen your post. Krok6kola (talk) 20:05, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for confirming that we knew about this. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:28, 6 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2025).

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  • Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
  • Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

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Arbitration

  • The arbitration case Indian military history has been closed.
    • South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
    • The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
    • The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
  • The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
  • The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.

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The Signpost: 9 August 2025

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challenges with editor engagement

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Regarding your comments on community feedback for development proposals: I appreciate your voicing the same concerns I have. I worded my comments as open-ended questions as I didn't want to be unduly negative towards initiatives that ideally would be helpful. But I think expectations have to be tempered about the quality of feedback that can be received from a self-selected group. isaacl (talk) 03:33, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think I've been around you enough that I could interpret the thinking behind the questions, because I had little doubt of your stance on it all. I agree the ideas are good. What I don't think they do is combine to deliver the results desired to the problem identified. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 03:37, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

August music

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story · music · places

The last four stories were about Bach's Mass in B minor (because I heard it), and about three who died, including two women. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:36, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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