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September

I like today's Main page, with the TFA (thank you for help with the blurb) on the anniversary day (of both dedication and our concert), a DYK, and a great photographer who didn't make it soon enough, Jürgen Schadeberg, - more on my talk, mostly about the tribute to Brian who shared his sources. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:49, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gerda. - Dank (push to talk) 21:03, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In contrast: matching colours music to the Dahlias, "brute loud and secretly quiet". - The music (specifically "Meermenschen") was given to me for my birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:17, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Blurb

Thanks for the new template Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:03, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing ... Art was looking for some way to know whether the blurb had already been written. - Dank (push to talk) 13:00, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Terminology

You were working on glossary of terminology? Is it an idea to link terms to this page: Zoophily? Would/could you do that? There's some fancy syntax to do it. I just added a bunch of stuff, thought it might be nice. Cheers, Leo Breman (talk) 21:33, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to help. Do you want me to link to terms at Zoophily from the glossary that already appear on both pages? Or, you can give me a list of specific terms from Zoophily, and I can add them to the glossary. - Dank (push to talk) 21:39, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Hmm. Uhh, links from the glossary =yes. But there's also something fancy where ... uhh, I'm not sure. Okay, I'll make a list: melittophily, psychophily, phalaenophily, myophily, sapromyophily, cantharophily and therophily. And then there's ornithophily and entomophily which have their own article. Chiropterophily apparently leads back to the article on pollination syndromes, I don't know about that -I'll ask the bat people (person). A further complication is that all these terms have three versions. Melittophily is the process, the plant is a melittophile, melittophilous is the adjective. Hey, there are more links already. Complicated! Leo Breman (talk) 22:07, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Great, I'll tackle this as soon as I'm done formatting the glossary. Thanks Leo. - Dank (push to talk) 00:46, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, Leo, I promised to ping you above about WP:FLC and then I forgot. List of descriptive plant epithets (I–Z) has already been promoted to Featured List. List of descriptive plant epithets (A–H) is still there (link) ... it's got 3 supports and a source review, which is usually what's needed for promotion, but feel free to weigh in. - Dank (push to talk) 09:00, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Right, I'll have a looksee in a bit. I was thinking further on how to rationalise the links above. Two go back to the article on pollination syndrome: that's wrong in my opinion: that article should only explain the characteristics by which plants can be judged as being pollinated by a certain animal, as well as a critique and history of the theory. To wit, it is completely possible to have a plant pollinated by bees which superficially has the pollination syndrome of butterflies. But I'm a bit stuck with what to do with entomophily: do I chop it up, or merge it, or expand it by chopping up zoophily? I've left some messages at the relevant WikiProjects... nothing yet. Think give it a bit, ask around more, wait till what I think is best crystallises. I see numerous options here. I thought of some more to add to zoophily I could easily add a page or two on weird botany and consequences for evolutionary theory. In the meantime I'm working on some EU legislation stuff. Leo Breman (talk) 13:31, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The EU legislation sounds interesting. Note that the list at FLC tries (when possible) to come up with one or two meanings that include the Latin or Greek meanings from 2000 years ago, so there's some compromise and lack of precision in the process ... our taxonomic lists will be more precise. - Dank (push to talk) 14:58, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Finished with the glossary captions. If I understand right, we're waiting to get some responses to your questions before I add anything to the glossary? - Dank (push to talk) 22:55, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

TFA question

Hello, I’m reaching out to you in search of guidance as to whether a TFA nomination would be advisable. On 25 March 2021, the city of Venice in Italy will commemorate its sixteen-hundred-year anniversary, having been founded, according to legend, on 25 March 401. For that day, I would like to nominate the Biblioteca Marciana for TFA since it is the only institution of the Venetian government that survives and continues to function. My concern, frankly, is the elevated risk of vandalism that plagues the FA on the home page of Wikipedia. The Marciana belongs to the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and is an official institution of the Italian government. So naturally the derogatory, misleading, promotional, or vulgar edits that are routinely made to the TFA are of concern. My understanding is that semi-protection was once possible for the TFA. But I would like to know what Wikipedia’s current policy is. Any advice of guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards.Venicescapes (talk) 15:30, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reaching out. Pinging Wehwalt, who's slated to schedule TFA for that month. - Dank (push to talk) 15:34, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Our policy is that it shouldn't be protected without cause. In practice, there is rarely objection when a TFA is protected because of vandalizing or such edits. I would suggest reminding us of your concerns closer to the time, perhaps when you nominate at WP:TFA/R..--Wehwalt (talk) 17:14, 10 October 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Dank, Wehwalt, Thank you for your guidance. I included the concerns on the nomination.Venicescapes (talk) 14:08, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dank, Wehwalt, Hello, you may recall that I am planning on nominating the article on the Biblioteca Marciana for TFA on 25 March 2021. However, I noticed a recent edit to the page by TFA Protector Bot which has protected the article until 11 January 2021 as an upcoming TFA. This seems to be independent of my request for 25 March. Can you provide any information or clarification? Thank you.Venicescapes (talk) 09:42, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Venicescapes, it looks like Jimfbleak, the coordinator who is scheduling January, wants to schedule it for January 10.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:31, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dank, Wehwalt, does this preclude the 25th of March, which is date specific for the anniversary of Venice's legendary foundation?Venicescapes (talk) 10:41, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Venicescapes, you can ask Jimfbleak to schedule something else for January 10.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:46, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wehwalt, will do. Thank you.Venicescapes (talk) 10:47, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Most Played Juke Box Folk Records number ones of 1945/archive1

Hi Dank, hope you are keeping well. As you have been kind enough to review some of my past FLCs, I was wondering if you might swing by and take a look at this one if you have a spare few minutes? Not to worry if not. All the best, ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:16, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, happy to. List of plant genus names (L–Q) will be my next FLC ... if you get some time, let me know if anything seems problematic so far. It already complies with comments from reviewers for the two previous lists (I think). - Dank (push to talk) 19:19, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing, will take a look before the end of the weekend -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:28, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Now List of plant genus names (L–P). - Dank (push to talk) 21:32, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

October harvest

Thank you for article work! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:25, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You too! - Dank (push to talk) 21:31, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Beautiful Main page today, don't miss the pic by a banned user (of a 2013 play critical of refugee politics), nor a related video, interviews in German, but music and scene. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:54, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]