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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2025

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13:33, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

November article improvement drive

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Starting on 1 November, the month-long 2025 Article Improvement Drive will target a number of content improvement areas and backlogs. Participating editors will be in line for barnstars and other awards; articles from all aspects of the project will be eligible so there will be something for everybody. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up now! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:18, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November music

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story · music · places

Eike Wilm Schulte pic? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:16, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enric Miralles done. Apologies for delay. Storye book (talk) 11:33, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Schulte done. Storye book (talk) 11:49, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
quite rosy ;) - thank you! - Jean Bonhomme pic? tenor on the main page, not by me, with a DYK hook that claims he was an international opera star, - by what definition I wonder. But still on vacation, so will let it go. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:16, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Bonhomme done. Storye book (talk)
Thank you, great! - Stanislaus Kennedy pic? (Sister Stan) - baritone just went to main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:16, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
trailer of the Munich Meistersinger with Schulte caressing a giant trophy (but not singing). Too bad I missed it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:20, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
several here, - I like top best. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:34, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
or this younger one? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:00, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Kennedy done. Yes, I preferred the top/colour one, but her eyes are almost closed, so it is not a complete ID pic. But the younger one is lovely too, so no problem. Storye book (talk) 12:02, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Due to current broadband issues, I am having trouble resolving the tag on File:Jean Bonhomme (1a).jpg. We need either a proper source for the image, or a different image. Do you know anyone who can help with this? I shall keep trying, but am liable to fail due to severely limited access to the internet. I expect (or hope) to finally have full broadband access next week. Thanks. Storye book (talk) 12:27, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Good luck, take your time, - he's off the main page. I didn't see much choice for other pics. Still expanding the "rosy" one. I saw him as the Offenbach villains, and probably in Rienzi, but less sure. Köhler dug up unusual repertoire. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:36, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
About the rosy one: today I remember a singer who impressed me on stage. - You are invited to a peer review after FAC, - perhaps just look at the four open questions, and if you have almost no time, just at the source question (#3). In a poll below, you could simply mark yes or no. It's an experiment. The piece has its 300th anniversary on Christmas Day, and should be as good as possible by then. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:41, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I had a quick look at the peer review, and if I get enough broadband time, I'll take another look. Meanwhile I must first check my watchlists for today, to deal with anything urgent - if I get broadband time. Storye book (talk) 09:32, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Fine. - Armand Avril pic? like this? - My story today is about a friend who would have turned 110. His son (my conductor) wanted me to enter his death to Wikipedia, - my first such thing. You can watch us singing from Brahms Requiem. Once our concert (different piece, forgot what) was the day before his birthday, and at the reception they wanted to wait until midnight to sing him a round, but - seeing how tired he and his wife were already - I rescued them by saying that elsewhere in the world it was already his bday ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:03, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
(Edit conflict). I have managed to add below the peer review, a paragraph from Bacharach, which is notable for its out-of-date attitude to the piece, which in itself is all part of the story. Bach went out of fashion after he died, came back into fashion, and then politics happened in the 20th century. I was instructed to read that book by Bacharach when at age 16 I took my GCE course in music (with no access to a piano, and little experience in writing and reading music). I had to learn to hear a score, and compose in four parts, in my head. I passed the exam, but was the teacher pleased? No. She was angry with me for being different from the other kids, who all had Grade 8 piano, and she banned me from taking the A-level exam. Sigh. Storye book (talk) 11:07, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Avril done. There was another edit conflict. I hope I didn't lose any of the new edits, but please check. Cheers. Storye book (talk) 11:45, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for all, and what a terrible "teacher". - Sister Stan today, with a docu by RTÉ worth watching. She had a lovely speaking voice! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:29, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, Sister Stan was a Kerryman, and you can tell. The interviewer has a strong Dublin accent (like Bob Geldof) - quite different. She spoke quite clearly for a Kerryman - I suppose she had to. I used to have a neighbour who was a Kerryman, and it was difficult to understand him. She was a great beauty when young, wasn't she - similar to Jacqueline Kennedy, don't you think? Storye book (talk) 11:05, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yess to all! We should make that article a bit longer (per the interview perhaps) to be ready for DYK. I tried last night but got too tired ... - Just saw on watchllst that Kurt Horres has no pic yet. Perhaps there was no one, - sorry for not remembering. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:50, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I managed that expansion, last night. Next: Gisela Bock, perhaps this? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:53, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Horres done. And I think my broadband issues may now be resolved. Fingers crossed. Storye book (talk) 09:00, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Bock done. Storye book (talk) 09:19, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for 2! - Willi Gundlach pic? Perhaps brightening the one from the obit a bit? One of my conductors (once a year for a while), and I still don't have a good pic of him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:46, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Several more died, sadly. Stefka Evstatieva pic? Haven't seen one yet. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:29, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gundlach done. Thank you for directing me to the obit. I could find no other images of him. Storye book (talk) 09:14, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Evstatieva done. I love this pic. There are several good pics of her out there, but this one shows her individual features most clearly. Storye book (talk) 09:31, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
yes! - Thomas Daniel Schlee pic? --(forgot to sign)
Schlee done. Storye book (talk) 10:57, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, nominated and got first support, - only one more day. Nobody looked at the women's historian, - last day today. - Turning to an opera singer again, Donald McIntyre, - pic? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:29, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
McIntyre done. Storye book (talk) 10:07, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, great! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:07, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The soprano's image was by something with a dubious license, please history of Stefka Evstatieva, - I'll revert it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:41, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No problem with this one. The non-free one had been replaced by a (nice) free one, so that is fine. Storye book (talk) 09:25, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I preferred the other, but well. I put the heavy-make-up one in my story. - She sang the role at the house one time ;) - How do you like the video? Alongside the husband of another singer of the same role about whom we wrote earlier. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:07, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And they say "Schlee" is Messiaen, not Schlee. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:35, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Schlee re-done. Sorry about the error. Storye book (talk) 09:51, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Good, - he's on the main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:07, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Research

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Hello I'm a student from LUISS university in Rome and I'm working on a presentation based on wikipedia's crowdsourcing process and one part of the work is to put myself in the shoes of a wikipedia contributor and find out some feeling he receives when editing or writing pages. The questions I would like to receive answers on are the following:

1 What does the editor think and feel:

2 What does the editor say and do:

3 What does the editor hear and see:

4 What are is pains:

5 What are is gains (what does make him feel good when contributing):

thanks to whoever will participate in this survey :) Tartaluca (talk) 16:15, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I responded on your talk page. Storye book (talk) 10:12, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Stefka Evstatieva (1a).jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Stefka Evstatieva (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).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Veggies (talk) 17:20, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This image has now been replaced on its article by a free use image. Please delete this one. Storye book (talk) 09:22, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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