User talk:Midnightblueowl/Archive 13

Happy Kalends of January

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		Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free and may Janus light your way. Ealdgyth (talk) 13:56, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Midnightblueowl!

Happy New Year!

Midnightblueowl,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Tom Waits

I just wandered from the Rickie Lee Jones article to the one on Tom Waits and was struck by its remarkable quality. I looked to see if one editor was largely responsible and it seems to have been you. I wanted to thank you for that particular article, but realized from your User page that you're one of the most prolific contributors to Wikipedia. I applaud you for your wide-ranging and important efforts. Activist (talk) 20:56, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Activist. I appreciate your message. I'm not as active on Wikipedia as I used to be, but I still try to improve things where I can. Midnightblueowl (talk) 10:37, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Angela Lansbury/archive1

I've left some comments for the aforementioned nomination. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 03:59, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats on this being promoted to FA! SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 15:39, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@SNUGGUMS: Thank you! Midnightblueowl (talk) 10:16, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This came much later than expected, but you're quite welcome :) SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 11:22, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@SNUGGUMS: My apologies for the (rather lengthy) delay in thanking you. This is the first time that I've been back on Wikipedia since February. I'm not able to commit as much time to the project as I used to be able to, which is a shame. Anyway, once again - thank you for reviewing the article. Nice to see it finally reach FA status. 21:01, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, do what you can. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 21:52, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Possible Shinto revisions

Hello. I have an idea that involves bringing back the edits on Shinto I made that you removed. Find better sources that go into them in more detail, and then expand what I made so it's actually worth being on Wikipedia. GoutComplex (talk) 19:47, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I do appreciate that your edits here were well-intentioned, GoutComplex, but I'm not sure that the added information was all strictly true. Stating that "Modern Shintoism generally avoids preconceptions of earlier Japanese religious thought of a supreme god or gods" does not strike me as being an accurate statement about Japanese religious history. Moreover, we do not need citations added to the lead when the information is already appropriately cited in the main body of the article. Midnightblueowl (talk) 09:34, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of Angela Lansbury

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Well done! Will be great to see a woman on the main page!! Mujinga (talk) 11:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2018): "This article is about a Kentish folk custom performed at Christmas time during the nineteenth century. It involved a troupe of young men dressing up, one of them as the "hooden horse" in a hobby horse costume, and knocking at people's doors, prancing around and requesting payment. The original custom died out in the early twentieth century, although hooden horses have since been incorporated into newly devised forms of Kentish folk culture, such as various Kentish May Day parades and Morris dances."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:20, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of Wisdom of the Gnomes for deletion

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Good Article reviews

Thanks for reviewing The Holocaust article when it was up for GAN ten years ago. FYI it is back at GAN, hopefully with a better chance of passing. (t · c) buidhe 07:01, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Heathenry

Hello.

I am confused. Why do you insist on inserting false in formation in the Heathenry article on death and the Norse gods? Yes, Baldr does die, but he also continues to exist. Bluebeetle (talk) 17:35, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:25, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2016): "This article is about a prominent Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, and folklorist, known for being one of the earliest female scholars in her subject matter and for establishing the controversial witch-cult theory."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:19, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Urn image to Commons?

Hi. I would like to transfer this image of an ern, Snape urn.jpg, to Commons. A bot has already suggested it. I'm still not clear on how copyright works with this sort of thing, though. My impression is that if this is a photo that you, yourself, took and uploaded, then you have power over the copyright. But I can't verify, from what is included in the description, if this is the case or not. Is there some way that more details can be added to the summary or maybe you can just go ahead and transfer the image to Commons if it meets all of the qualifications? Thanks so much. Redheadkelly (talk) 04:24, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think I took the photograph in question, and then edited it to add a black background. Midnightblueowl (talk) 13:52, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Sources

Hi, great work on the Korean shamanism article! I see around January you added refs to an "Im N. 2013" and "Kim J. 1974" source, but the full info for those sources aren't present in the article. Could you add them onto the source list on the bottom? Thanks for your contributions btw, they're super good! toobigtokale (talk) 04:51, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello toobigtokale, and thank you both for your kind words and for your recent efforts in formatting the Korean shamanism article. The two particular citations that you mention were not actually added by me, so I'm really not sure what they are referencing. We should probably just delete them. Midnightblueowl (talk) 08:52, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Benedicaria

This has been proposed for deletion. It strikes me as up your street... The article's in very poor shape, but maybe there is something worth saving. If it's not of interest or you don't have time, please ignore me! Josh Milburn (talk) 14:18, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It does look interesting, so thank you for bringing the article to my attention, Josh. I'm not sure if there are the RS out there at present around which to construct such an article, but I'll try to get to it if I can find the time. Hope that you are keeping well. Midnightblueowl (talk) 08:40, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lenin’s lead section

@Midnightblueowl Regardless of the outcome of the RfC discussions, I wanted to add a minor word to the last sentence of the lead section. Specifically, I just wanted to add the word “anti-colonial activism” or “anti-imperialism” into the sentence about his support of socialism. These are a few words and also highlight a key area of his support in the contemporary world. WikiUser4020 (talk) 07:59, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiUser4020: Thanks for your message. Best to raise the issue over at the article Talk Page, rather than here. That way you can judge whether there is wider support for your proposed addition. Midnightblueowl (talk) 14:27, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Midnightblueowl I understand that substantial additions should require input from wider editors. However, it it really necessary to open an RfC discussion or sub section for the addition of a single word?, this may lead to fatigue and lack of engagement given the amount of existing discussions. WikiUser4020 (talk) 14:57, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Shepperton Henge

Hi @Midnightblueowl:
I am planning to add some information on pre-history to the Shepperton article over the next few weeks. I came across the Shepperton Henge article that you created four years or so ago and wondered if it would be a good idea to combine it with the article on the village. Doing so would place the henge in the wider context of the prehistoric human activity in the area. The Shepperton Henge article is a very short stub and appears to be an orphan.
Would you be supportive of a proposal to merge the Shepperton Henge article into the main Shepperton page please?
Thanks and best wishes, Mertbiol (talk) 10:50, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mertbiol. I would rather see the Shepperton Henge article retained, as it will be of specific interest to archaeologists in a way that a general Shepperton article might not be, but I wish you well with your expansion of the latter. I really need to get around to fleshing the Shepperton Henge article out. Midnightblueowl (talk) 21:14, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Midnightblueowl: Would you be happy to change it to a redirect for the time being and then when you do have time to expand, we could go back to a stand-alone article? I think any professional archaeologist is going to look at the excavation report and they would not bother looking at Wikipedia stub. Best wishes Mertbiol (talk) 21:26, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, for now I suppose that would be fine. But I must get around to expanding it! Midnightblueowl (talk) 21:27, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Midnightblueowl: I'm planning to add to the Shepperton article over the weekend, so I'll turn the Shepperton Henge article into a redirect when I'm done. Best wishes Mertbiol (talk) 21:29, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Barnstar

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		Thank you for your considerable contributions to English Defence League. It has very much survived the test of time and remains a relevant and good article to this day. CommunityNotesContributor (talk) 23:00, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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