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Apologies for double ping!

Hi Ealdgyth. I think I may have double pinged you (and the other co-noms) yesterday. Apologies for that! I appreciate you allowing me to open another FAC. I do have a second FAC open (Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2020 Tour Championship/archive1), which is also pretty close (just need to wrap up the final reviewers). Any idea if I should wait, or open up another FAC on this one as well?

No, let's not overwhelm things. Wait for one to be settled (I hope to make passes today... assuming the weather doesn't bork my satellite internet). --Ealdgyth (talk) 13:56, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
No issues. Thought I'd ask :). The weather has been pretty good here - so that usually means rain is incoming. Hope you are well. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 16:02, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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"Medieval" vs "medieval"

Ealdgyth, I figured with all your work on the Middle Ages you might have some insight. I'm working on List of Medieval composers and recently capitalized Medieval in the title but I notice that many Medieval lists (e.g. List of medieval bestiaries, List of medieval Gaue, List of medieval European scientists etc.) are all lowercase. My reason for moving the composer list was because of lists like List of Renaissance composers, List of Renaissance structures, List of Renaissance figures. Shouldn't the other Medieval lists be capitalized? Best - Aza24 (talk) 07:54, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

I'm going to just @SMcCandlish: to explain this one...heh. --Ealdgyth (talk) 12:13, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
It's a reasonable position that "medieval" is right for the straight time period, but "Medieval" appropriate for styles/movements in the arts. I'm not sure how sound SMcCandlish is on this - perhaps we'll see. Johnbod (talk) 12:18, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Frankly, WP is simply inconsistent on this stuff. Arts (including music) "movements" – and there's no clear definition of that – have been treated as capitalizable, i.e. as somehow exempt from MOS:GENRE, simply because the editors who dominate those topics prefer to capitalize them, and the rest of the editorial pool has not cared enough to debate it with them in any detail. It's a lot like how vernacular names of bird species were capitalized on Wikipedia for about a decade. The argument in favor of "Medieval" and "Classical" and "Romantic" and "Art Nouveau" in the humanities is that most reliable sources on the topic capitalize them. But this is likely true of most genres as well (the entertainment press routinely capitalize film/TV, fiction, and popular music genres and styles). So, it's the same WP:Specialized-style fallacy. And it produces some absurdities, like Art Deco and Art Nouveau, which are French terms and not capitalized in French. Next, "medieval" is a time period even in the arts; it is not an arts movement. The concept of an arts movement did not even exist until much later.

All that said, I don't think now is good time to propose a change or a sweeping conformity move; our editors have been cooped up for a long time and everyone is short-tempered, and more apt that usual to (especially given degradation of off-site public discourse) engage in protracted and uncivil battlegrounding over nitpicks, all the more so if they feel something "traditional" is at stake vs. arguments that something (especially something that pertains primarily to European history) is being "privileged" in a biased manner over other topics. It's probably the best idea to continue following "micro-consistencies", of capitalizing all the supposed arts movements, including Medieval, and to lower-case general time periods otherwise, including medieval.

However, even that distinction is not very consistently applied. We're routinely capitalizing "Industrial Revolution" despite it not being a revolution in the usual sense (it's a metaphor not a description). Off-site sources are all over the map on things like this (e.g. some will capitalize "Antiquity" and "Ancient Rome" and even "Pre-History", while others more sensibly will provide "antiquity" and "ancient Rome" and "pre-history"). There seems to be a vague "I know it when I see it" sense that a short historical time period with major impact on humanity (something that can be thought of as kind of a extended event, on a broad enough timeline) should be capitalized. But we're not programmatic about it. E.g.: Norman conquest of England, but the Renaissance, and cf. all the debate about the African-American civil rights movement. An extra bit of confusion is that bio-geological and anthropological epochs are capitalized by near-universal convention: Cenozoic, Neolithic. This is due to actual scientific standards (it's a bit like Genusname speciesname format – italics plus a capitalized genus – in binomial nomenclature). Regardless of all these concerns, it's clear that the medieval period a.k.a. the middle ages, constitutes a very broad time period, and it very often not capitalized in sources, so it should not be capitalized on Wikipedia outside the context of arts "movements", otherwise people are going to want to start capitalizing everything semi-comparable to it (Victorian Era, Ancient Greece, Pharaonic Age – and if you search for pharaonic in our articles, you'll find that whether it's capitalized or not is veering around from article to article already).

So do your best to exercise good judgment. If nothing else, just make sure usage is consistent within the same article. WP:THEREISNODEADLINE, and most of these inter-article and inter-category inconsistencies have been here for years.

PS: If you're certain that you wan to try moving some articles around, I would strongly suggest starting one at a time, or just a few that are all of a like sort. I (and other WP:RM regulars like Dicklyon) have learned the hard way that if you just take a whole bunch of arguably over-capitalized articles and nominate them for lower-casing, the mass-move nomination is likely to fail because this editor will have an objection to some particular article you've included, and that editor will object to another for a different reason, and a third will have an issue with yet another member of the list, eroding support for the moves as a group, even if none of those editors agree with each other about their particular peccadilloes.
 — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  00:20, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

So not very sound then.... If you don't capitalize some art terms like impressionist and modern you quickly create genuine ambiguities or mistakes in meaning. "Medieval music" is treated as a distinct movement/period in a way that "medieval art" or "medieval architecture" aren't (if only because they have Romanesque, Gothic & so on, which aren't generally applied to music). That "The concept of an arts movement did not even exist until much later" is entirely and totally beside the point. "Middle Ages" is almost always capitalized in sources on all subjects - but medieval generally isn't. I think "Medieval music" is fine, but (rather illogically) I'd probably go with List of medieval composers myself. There is also an ENGVAR issue in edge cases, with BE having a stronger preference for caps. Johnbod (talk) 02:48, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
It is true that Medieval music is actually a somewhat specifically defined movement, rather than a general period. What I mean is it's not as simple as any music produced during the Middle Ages, fortunately or not. Any suggestion of that is more or less OR, since all of the Medieval music books I have are called "Medieval music" but only discuss (Western) European Medieval music (You'll find this online too if you just search "Medieval music"), so in this sense Medieval music is the first era/movement of Western classical/art music, not a term for describing music during the Middle ages. In fact, Eastern European music (Byzantine music) is also excluded – something which I originally thought was systematic bias, but is really because there are almost no parallels in notation, style or theory (and there's also the fact of Eastern church vs Catholic/Protestant). I'm actually working on a List of Byzantine composers because I had to seperate it from the List of Medieval composers, since they're two separate entities entirely. Byzantine music, Islamic music, even something like Song Dynasty music aren't Medieval music in the normal use of the term, since they remained virtually completely separate in style during and after the "Middle ages time period" – Machaut is a predecessor to Dufay in a way that John of Damascus isn't. Aza24 (talk) 05:16, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

FAC

I have two questions... besides the image review (which is ongoing) for Vicente, do I need to get any additional reviews? Also, would it be okay for me to nominate another article? NoahTalk 21:20, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Indeed, I have two FACs which just need source/image reviews (and the sources are no-brainers), both have at least three supports. Can I nominate another? The Rambling Man (Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 21:31, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
LEt's not go into more than two noms ... I'm going to try to find time to do some source reviews myself in the next week - but this is the busy time for my RL work so ... its hard to get the time together. --Ealdgyth (talk) 21:57, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
Well one's my own nom and one's a co-nom. Both have at last three supports. The Rambling Man (Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 21:59, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
In my case, both the current nom and the one I am currently requesting permission for are solo articles. NoahTalk 22:13, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

et al

Ealdgyth and Nikkimaria, is it OK to use et al in a short-form citation when there are only two authors or must they both be listed? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:57, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

It's fine if you do it consistently and if the work being cited can be clearly identified (ie don't use Smith et al for both Smith & Wood and Smith & Green). Personally I'm not sure why you'd want to do that, but you can. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:46, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Thx, Nikki! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:13, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

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William Cragh scheduled for TFA

On October 23, 2020... When you do the blurb, feel free to change the image if you think another is better Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:45, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you today for Ealdred, an "archbishop in England during the end of Edward the Confessor's reign and the start of William the Conquerors. Ealdred crowned Billy Boy, as well as being one of the more well traveled bishops of his time, having visited Germany, Hungary, France, Rome and Jerusalem. Not a terribly religious man, he's another on of those "Bad-boy bishops" although not nearly so bad as Stigand."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:59, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Withdrawn FAC

Hi Ealdgyth. A nominator is asking for a FAC to be closed as "withdrawn" . Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/The_Who_by_Numbers_Tour/archive1. All the best. Graham Beards (talk) 21:05, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Actioned, tks Graham. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:29, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Question

Hi Ealdgyth ~ hope you are well (and still currently active!). I'm just looking for a second set of eyes to ensure i'm not doing the wrong thing, if you don't mind. This user ~ 87.4.59.27 ~ has recently been taking a great interest in people's birthnames, bolding them in places other than the lead paragraph, which i believe is not correct. I have reverted them quite a few times, but i'm beginning to second guess myself. If you have time, would you mind taking a brief look at their contributions and seeing if i'm entirely wrong and they are actually helpful? Thanks; happy days, LindsayHello 15:02, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

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Harthacnut

Why should I take it to the talk page? Beside that unfortunate mix-up Godwin(earl of Wessex) house of Wessex, there is nothing really objectively wrong with the line of historicity in the passage I wrote. There has in the the obstruction by the three editors been nothing but dismissals and no constructive progress. So why should I as a editor strive to add encyclopaedic content? Ip says: Work Better yes. (talk) 01:19, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

because discussion of content that has been reverted by three different editors should take place on the article talk page. --Ealdgyth (talk) 02:21, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Just a note...

I'm tired, under a severe time crunch, and about sick of the behavior at FAC where it seems that it's more fun to "battle" than to actually discuss like adults. I'm about sick of being involved with FAC which seems to eat ALL my wiki time and only cause me ulcers. If you want a mommy for FAC.. find someone else. --Ealdgyth (talk) 17:23, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for those two talk page posts. I hope they work. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:44, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
I hate to see this - might it be worth just closing the discussion (as it is now clearly veered from the original topic, and more into a full argument over the benefits of FAC going forward). Right now, we aren't helping anyone. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talkcontribs) 17:59, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
They worked, but only after I saw Georgia had slyly completely changed the meaning of her posts without apology. The Rambling Man (Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 18:04, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

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