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	I come here kind of converted (after I reverted you many times) and ask for your help in creating an infobox template. I managed to use an existing one in ] and got help for the pic cropping ;) Now I would like to have one for the Bach cantatas (about 200) and started, after the model choir, ]. One problem I see: the page name (example ]: ''Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes'', BWV 40) is not the wanted name, only the text portion of it, the BWV # should go separately. Where to place Johann Sebastian Bach? Please feel free to change and advise, perhaps right there, I'll watch, --] (]) 23:05, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
	:You have separate {{para\|name}} and {{para\|title}} parameters; is that deliberate, or is one redundant? {{para\|name}} will default to using the page's title, if you don't enter a value, but if you enter, say {{para\|name\|Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes}} that will display. Do all the cantatas have German names; and should we also include an English translation? Are there cantatas by other composers, for whom this infobox could also be used? I've moved the template to {{Tl\|Infobox Bach cantata}} and made some tweaks, and will do more once you've answer this. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 12:40, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
	::Thank you! (I didn't know enough to tell the difference between title and name, nor about the default, learning.) I thought about it some more and think we might expand it to Bach compositions in general, then we might use the BWV number for the title and have the (longish) German title in smaller print. I am not enthusiastic about a translation, because there are always several, none of them is a title, only attempts, not even the German ones are titles, they are known by the first line of text, - some make sense, others not. I also thought about more parameters like key, number of movements, number of chorales. Actually, then every chorale might get a year/poet/composer. The German WP has always the same picture of old Bach, but that is way too old for 95% of his compositions. I would rather use one for the first location of performance. - After polishing a bit more we should discuss it with project Classical, of course ;) --] (]) 22:10, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::I shall look forward to that. Are you happy to proceed with the changes you suggest, or do you need help from me? Shout if and when you do. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 22:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::I will sing when I need help, more likely tomorrow. (watching here) - As I complete surprise, I heard ] yesterday! --] (]) 22:29, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

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	I changed a bit, started {{Tl\|Infobox Bach composition}}, and ], (keeping the other in case 2 are wanted). If "composition", the variables for voices would be optional. Assuming we wanted several variables for each chorale (title, poet, year, composer), how would that look? --] (]) 11:17, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

	I added "type", and followed the date example in BWV 36 and 152. Could you please start the documentation? It looks like it's there to stay ;) - Where can we define the abbreviations for scoring? At present they are in the ], linked for cantatas but not other works, --] (]) 09:01, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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	{{od}}Done. I've moved the scoring to the end, under a linked sub-heading. Note the markup in the example, which is different from that in the live article. Please copy it back there if or when you're happy with it. Do you think, for example, that <nowiki>{{abbr\|Cemb\|cembalo}}</nowiki>, which renders as {{abbr\|Cemb\|cembalo}}, would be better if it was entered as <nowiki>{{abbr\|Cemb\|harpsichord}}</nowiki> and rendered as {{abbr\|Cemb\|harpsichord}}? (You may get a pop-up "tool-tip", if you hover your mouse over those, depending on which browser you use). We could create a template for each, such as <nowiki>{{harpsichord}}</nowiki>, to make data entry more intuitive; but not all the desired names may be available.

			Hi there. You reverted my deletion from ]. In the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System source, I can see she says 'Good afternoon everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh?', but where does she continue 'Well here we are after a lapse of nearly seven years ready to start again and of course we are all terribly excited and thrilled.'? ] (]) 12:57, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
	Also, I note that you have "{{abbr\|A\|alto}}{{abbr\|T\|tenor}}{{abbr\|B\|bass}}" (no spaces) but "{{abbr\|S\|soprano}} {{abbr\|A\|alto}} {{abbr\|T\|tenor}} {{abbr\|B\|bass}}" (with spaces). Perhaps both should be rendered as a list, using {{Tl\|flatlist}}? For example:

			:As I said in my edit summary; in the citation: . <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 13:30, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
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	Finally (for now!) can {{Tl\|Infobox Bach cantata}} be redirected to {{Tl\|Infobox Bach composition}}, or deleted? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 11:46, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
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	:Thanks for your ideas! Beginning in the end: the questions (one or two templates, if one which name) should be answered by (slow) Classical music, let's perhaps redirect cantata for now. Its A T B for the soloists because they almost always sing one after the other, ] because they sing almost always together, both consistent with the infobox in German. SATB is so common an abbreviation that I would hesitate to spell it out. The abbr for instruments are not quite as common, but well known among musicians, - for the others: it's all there in prose in the article. Let's keep thinking. ] (]) 12:06, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	::I'll do the redirect shortly. Abbreviations need to be marked up as shown, even if they are explained elsewhere in the article. You could use, say, <nowiki>{{abbr\|SATB\|soprano, alto, tenor and bass}}</nowiki>. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 12:14, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::To write "soprano, alto, tenor and bass" is like writing "Doctor" instead of "Dr.", "International Business Machines" instead of "IBM", would you? SATB even has an article, --] (]) 12:22, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::For the latter, probably not, as "IBM" is, I believe, now the formal name of the company. For "doctor", certainly - and that is far more widely understood by the general public than "SATB". If ] exists, then it should be a link in the infobox. <nowiki>]</nowiki> should do it; it renders as ]. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 12:37, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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	Did you see my question on Classical about {{Tl\|Infobox musical composition}}? ] (]) 12:06, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
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	:I've added {{para\|Key}}, {{para\|Movements}] and {{para\|Related}}. I'll happily do the rest, if you can be a little more specific. Do you want all the text and scoring parameters from {{tl\|Infobox Bach composition}}? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 12:32, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
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	:::Feel free to draw up a list once you've one that, and I'll implement it for you. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 12:49, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	::(ec) I started ], scoring could just say string orchestra (as here), wind quintet, large orchestra, piano trio, without specifying instruments for the moment. --] (]) 12:51, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	::next ] (remember, written ]): I think room for a pic would be good, could be composer or score - or nothing, --] (]) 13:18, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::There's {{para\|Cover}} for images. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 13:50, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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	Which infobox do you recommend for ]? (birthday tomorrow, would be a nice gift) --] (]) 12:06, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
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	Thanks, helped, - how about composers? --] (]) 12:33, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	:{{tl\|Infobox person}} or {{tl\|Infobox musical artist}} (the latter particularly for performing composers, like Michael Nyman) . {{tl\|Infobox composer}} exits, but is a hamstrung version of the former, designed only to prevent its features being used, and with no benefits. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 12:46, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	::I tried the performer on ], a start. I can see why the project isn't happy with the infobox ;) I don't need the heading "background" - what else? For a European person, I would prefer ddmmyyyy format for the birthday. I would like to mention where he studied, teachers, notable works. --] (]) 14:23, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::Some members of that project are not happy with any infobox. I've fixed the date display for you, using {{para\|df\|y}} in the date template. You can, of course, propose changing or removing the heading, on the infobox's talk page. Or just switch to {{tl\|Infobox person}}, which also has the additional fields you desire. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 14:43, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::Thanks for help and precision ;) Good comment on Cosima! I will look at Person again, I must have missed parameters, --] (]) 14:49, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::Specifically, {{para\|education}} and {{para\|alma_mata}}for studying. And thank you for your kind words; its a pleasure to work with you. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 14:59, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::::Shared pleasure! I found education and added works, including my ]. I miss - for a composer - publisher and label. Getting closer to presenting to the project ;) --] (]) 15:22, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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	I was challenged about Bach and thought about him ;) - He was active at distinct times in different locations, different types of works those locations. Is there a way to show that in an infobox? He's probably not the only one. - Cosima: of course all these FAs don't have an infobox because they are mostly composers, - what a surprise; --] (]) 20:35, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
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	:If Bach's periods of activity are distinct and named, you could have a {{para\|period}} parameter. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 20:44, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
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	::Not there yet in "person", right? any other, with example? --] (]) 20:55, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
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	:::Sorry; misunderstood. You could perhaps use Infobox person's {{para\|style}}, {{para\|movement}}, or {{para\|years_active}}, entering multiple values using {{Tl\|Plainlist}}. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 20:59, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
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	::::Let me understand: so far I avoided "style" as too narrow, "movement" showed as political, - I would like to list concertos in Köthen (certain time), cantatas in Leipzig (later), simple approach, --] (]) 21:16, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
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	{{od}} Something like the adjacent, perhaps <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 21:22, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::Looks good! Then perhaps add times/places to works for the connection? --] (]) 21:48, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::::Sure. I've done some work on ], BTW. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 22:14, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::::::Seen ;) - could use a lot of work, many more compositions should be linked, today I found a cantata with the wrong BWV # ... - but I'm still working on a cantata for New Year's Day ;) - watch my ] for the composer, next year --] (]) 22:24, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

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	Thanks Andy,
			Latest ''']''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. ] are available.

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	Re: Fanie de Jager.
			* The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See ] for more details and a timeline.

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	We would like to replace the top photo from BW to the colour one, as we now have a colour photo available to use.
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	:Have you uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 18:48, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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	Andy, sorry I cannot remember. Could you perhaps give us the link?
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	== Kole Imports Wikiepedia Page _ Any help greatly appreciated. ==
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			== ''The Signpost'': 15 January 2025 ==
	Dear Andy,

			<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div style="column-count:2;"> {{Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2025-01-15}} </div><!--Volume 21, Issue 1--> <div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * ''']''' * ] * ] * ] (]) 07:55, 15 January 2025 (UTC) <!-- Sent via script (]) --></div></div>
	Regarding the Kole Imports[REDACTED] page: I put up as many articles I could find that have a url - the rest are in print and I don't know how it would work to scan/send over. The articles were written by 3rd party sources about us in industry publications but they are being deemed as Marketing Spam or "Crap".
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	Is there any way the page can be stripped to just show name, founding date, basic history, and 1 line stating what our business does and where we import from?

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	We have been around for over 30 years and have helped the dollar industry become what it is today, we were one of the first importers of dollar goods from China and partnered with 99 Cent Only Stores to make them what they are today. I feel that people should at least be able to look up our history because it has helped shape/change things. Even before getting this job, I looked at the Kole Imports[REDACTED] page to get insight into and facts about the company.

	I definitely see the way it is now as being slightly spammy and there is much that should be taken down. What if it only had this up until we could find notable sources, "According to the Better Business Bureau, the company was founded in 1985 by brothers Rob and Danny Kole." ? Could that work?

	Please, let me know. Any help is greatly appreciated!!

	Best,
	April Rae <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 20:11, 18 December 2012 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

	== Joint biography and WP:CAT ==

	Hi. At ] you added remark "+1" about putting redirects in categories.

	I am not ready to make any category, redirect or merge suggestions and this isn't about Authority control or its template so let me reply here.

	Concerning my own example joint biography, ]:
	: Now i see that 21 February 2012‎ Pichpich has put the two Ahlberg redirects in appropriate categories, and removed substantial article, per ].
	: How painful. Thus visitors to the biography see no cats but those deemed appropriate for the joint article alone rather than the redirects.
	: That doesn't work for readers or editors. No surprise, the Ahlberg joint biography is back in all of its February categories, and more (in four June/July edits, the last two by me). --] (]) 20:40, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

	== Info-boxes ==

	Andy, (so sorry about my idiotic confusion about your username ''chez'' Solti the other day) as you are keen on info-boxes may I ask for your help on an info-box question? When I began upgrading the article on ], there were two clashing info-boxes, one on politics and one on cricket, – different widths and it all looked ghastly and messed the layout up something shocking. I couldn't find a way of making the latter merge with the former, and took a chance and left the cricket box out. It would be good to have it back (I am strongly pro userboxes for cricket articles, as they are clearly helpful to the reader) and if you have any suggestions for merging it with the existing box it will be esteemed a favour. Regards. – ] (]) 23:16, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
	:It's always a little awkward where we have two infoboxes about on subject in an article, but there are so few instances it's probably not worth the effort to develop a technical fix for all cases. Were {{Tl\|Infobox officeholder}} based on {{Tl\|Infobox}}, it may be possible with some changes to it, to use the cricketer infobox as a module (a sub-template). but since it;s not (yet), that would require conversion, first. that would require discussion on {{Tl\|Infobox officeholder}}'s talk page. Otherwise, I'm ambivalent about whether or not there should be a second, separate, cricketer, infobox in this article, but a reasonable approach would be to canvass opinions on its talk page. I know what you man about Infoboxes' helpfulness to the reader; that's why the Solti box should be restored. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 19:46, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
	::Thank you very much for that, Andy. I think I may have raised the point in passing at PR or FAC on the Home article, but I'll certainly follow your advice and raise it now on the article talk page. (I have a fleeting memory of seeing somewhere something about combining info-boxes, and with luck someone may steer me in that direction from the talk page.) With best wishes, and grateful thanks for your colleaguely response. ] (]) 20:09, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

	== Template_talk:Infobox_officeholder#Formatting of name & honorifcs ==

	I've got a bot ready to remove <nowiki><br></nowiki> tags at the end of parameters in infoboxes and before honorific-suffix. I have prior approval to fix ] problems and this is covered under .

	Magiolidits did most of the work. However he is going to be busy for awhile and asked me to do it.

	Before I do it, I thought I'd ask an expert about it. Is it ok to run? Should I wait until approval is granted to remove the <nowiki>small</nowiki> tag? Anything else you can think of? ] (]) 03:11, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
	:I guess one run is better than two; but what approval is needed, to remove the <nowiki>small</nowiki> tag? Oh, and don't forget to add a space, if necessary, when removing the <nowiki><br></nowiki>. Thank you. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 20:32, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
	::I like to get all my ducks in a row before doing something. In this case, it is a "drastic" change that will anger a few people, so I really want things to be kosher. I'll start doing some test runs today and if everything looks fine, start the bot tomorrow. I'll tell you when everything starts up. ] (]) 21:53, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::I've started the bot and it is off and running. I did about 500 test cases. The only problem found is if the br tag is before a small tag at the end... <nowiki>honorific-suffix=<small>Jane Doe<br></small></nowiki>. Bot will remove small tags, but not the br. This can be remedied at the next database dump in 12 days.
	:::The edit summary message I'm leaving is: Remove br/small tags from honorifics in Infobox per ]. br tags now in infobox code. Line spacing will be altered in infobox code once tags are gone.
	:::Oi vey, I have a feeling alot of complaints will be coming to my talk page. ] (]) 18:58, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
	::::I suggest you refer any such comments to the template talk page. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 11:06, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

	The initial run of 8,500 names is complete. This run contained any article whose honorific began with <nowiki><small> and/or <br></nowiki> tags. There is a ] error that contains any parameter in an infobox that ends with <nowiki><br></nowiki>. There are 24,000 articles than fall under this error and the majority are not biographies. The bot will run on these cases next. This should handle any honorific that ends with <nowiki><br>, but did not begin with <br> or <small></nowiki>. So, any adjusting you need to make to the line spacing can be done. Man it is sure is ugly with no space between the lines. ] (]) 07:44, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
	:Thank you. Once we've got the markup crud out of the way, I hope we can have a sensible, centralised, discussion about how honorifics should be formatted, across all, our biographical infoboxes. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 11:04, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

	== Re: Fanie de Jager ==

	Hallo Andy,

	I have changed the main photo from BW to colour.

	There is a file name above the image. Could you please remove it for us.

	Many thanks.

	Martin <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 20:53, 19 December 2012 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

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	Hey, I'm not able to see the OTRS ticket for this, mind giving a little background? I don't need excessive detail or anything. Thanks! Peace, ] <small>]</small> 02:27, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
	:Actually, never mind, someone else already helped me figure it out, it's gone. Peace, ] <small>]</small> 02:43, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

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	Why, thank you. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 19:49, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

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	about a recent edit of yours at ]. You appear to me to have added a category, "Date of death missing" but the date is in the article and as a category. Or am I missing something? Einar aka ] (]) 18:39, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
			* - This tool can show you candidate matches of Wikidata Items to files on Commons and Flickr. ()
	:We have the year, but not the ''date'' (e.g. 23 April). <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 18:50, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
	Ah ha. Since this is an article of interest to me, I shall go looking. ] (]) 18:57, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
	:I see you've found them; but please cite your sources. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 23:22, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
	::I've added the source, but I must say that you have your work cut out for you if you are going to request sources for all birth dates. I suggest that you try ] next. ] (]) 18:51, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
	:::It's a core ]. As for BO; see ]. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 18:54, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
	That would be "The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material,"? Sorry to bring up BO, I just an skeptical that many biographies include references for birth/death dates. However I will check and have no problem being wrong. ] (]) 19:18, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hi there. You reverted my deletion from BBC Television. In the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System source, I can see she says 'Good afternoon everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh?', but where does she continue 'Well here we are after a lapse of nearly seven years ready to start again and of course we are all terribly excited and thrilled.'? Masato.harada (talk) 12:57, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

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- Wikidata module for the Hidden Figures CURE - The newly published Wikidata module for the Hidden Figures CURE teaches undergraduates to use Wikidata for uncovering and highlighting the contributions of hidden figures in natural history, such as women, people of color, and Indigenous peoples.
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- Public domain visibility on Wikidata (in Catalan). The article discusses how Wikidata is being used to enhance the visibility of public domain works by integrating copyright information and making it easily accessible.
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Presentations: Wikibase e Wikidata per lo studio dell'epigrafia greca (in Italian, i.e. Wikibase and Wikidata for the study of Greek epigraphy), presentation at SAEG (Advanced Seminar of Greek Epigraphy) IX in Rome, 10 January 2025, by Pietro Ortimini, Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini, Epìdosis - slides

Tool of the week

Dungeon Of Knowledge - is a roguelike game with Items generated from Wikidata that lets you crawl through the Dungeon of Knowledge in a classic ASCII interface. (toot) (blog)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

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- About box (Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software))
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
- World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
- DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
- number of shading units (number of shading units in a graphics processing unit)
- Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
- presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI ()
- Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
- Accused of (Crime or other misdeed a person has been accused of, but ''not proven or convicted'')
- hat gespendet (Amount of money donated to a person or organization)
- name starts with (The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.)
- духовный сан (formal styles of address used for members of the clergy)
- A2B2 user ID (User ID on a2b2.org)
- Source language (headword languge of dictionary)
- Entry height (Height of the entrance above ground level for boarding public transport vehicles.)
- location code (the location code of the location item. Should be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which location code system being used.)
- DIF historia player ID (Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site))
- number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), Lyricfind artist ID, HonestGamers game ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, Identifiant Cimetières de France, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Russian Football National League player ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, UAF match ID, Identifiant d'un(e) journaliste sur Francetvinfo, identifiant Pappers d'un dirigeant, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Rijksmuseum ID, SOIUSA code, MetalTabs.com track ID, MUBI Festival ID, rutracker.org page ID, Park Merwestein Bomenwijzer ID, RPG Maker game ID, RateMyProfessors ID, PubMed author ID, BodyMeasurements.org ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn, Kvikmyndavefurinn person ID, Bluepages article ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn company ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) info ID, A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID, Wikishia item ID, EHIS educational institution ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, A Dictionary of Sociology entry ID, A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology entry ID, A Dictionary of Geography entry ID, DGLAi ID, Jeune Afrique person ID, norskeflyplasser.no-ID, taz topic ID, Euronews topic ID (English), Euronews topic ID (French), Euronews topic ID (Spanish), Euronews topic ID (Arabic), Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online ID, Unine thesis id, Enpedia ID, Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy Serial Number, Finnish Olympic Committee ID, Team Norway profile ID (new), NOC of Belarus champion ID (new), JOC profile ID (new), Répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Québec

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- Search for Items where description begins with capitalised letters, filter by language, country of citizenship and occupation
- Wikidata Items using the 'smells of' property
Newest WikiProjects: Writing Systems aims to standardize and enhance Misplaced Pages's coverage of writing systems and related subjects.
Newest database reports: Some statistics about sitelinks
Showcase Items: The Night Watch (Q219831) - 1642 painting by Rembrandt
Showcase Lexemes: дополнение (L107276) - Rusian noun (dopólnenie) that can mean "addition", "supplement" or an "an object"

Development

Wikidata Query Service UI: We fixed a long-standing issue with missing edge labels in graph visualisations (phab:T317702)
Wikibase REST API: We implemented a proof of concept for a search endpoint you can try out.
EntitySchemas: We’re working on language fallback for the heading on EntitySchema pages (phab:T228423)
Language codes: We cleaned up language codes in WikibaseLexeme after moving some of them to CLDR (phab:T352922)

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Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
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Govdirectory weekly focus country: Greenland
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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Tech News: 2025-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Misplaced Pages, English Misplaced Pages, English Wikivoyage, French Misplaced Pages, Hungarian Misplaced Pages, Nepali Misplaced Pages, Turkish Misplaced Pages, Chinese Misplaced Pages)
One new wiki has been created: a Misplaced Pages in Tigre (w:tig:)
View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.

Meetings and events

The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:40, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 January 2025

From the editors: Looking back, looking forward

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024

In the media: Will you be targeted?

Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last

Essay: Meet the Canadian who holds the longest editing streak on Misplaced Pages

Opinion: Reflections one score hence

News and notes: It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me... and I'm feeling free

Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next

Op-ed: Elon Musk and the right on Misplaced Pages

In focus: Twenty years of The Signpost: What did it take?

Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics

Humour: How to make friends on Misplaced Pages

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Wikidata weekly summary #663

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-01-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #662

Discussions

Open request for adminship: Xezbeth - RfP scheduled to end after 26 January 2025 09:17 (UTC).

Events

Upcoming:
- Edit-A-Thon for Black History Month: 12 February 1300 - 1500 MST (UTC+7) is an onsite event at the University of Colorado Boulder, with a theme to add or expand items on Black and African-American comics creators.
- Data Reuse Days 2025 is from February 18 to 27, 2025! This is an online event focusing on how people and organizations use Wikidata's data to build interesting applications and tools. Don't forget to register so we can know you are coming.
Past: Missed the Q1 Wikidata+Wikibase office hour? You can catch up by reading the session log here: 2025-01-15 (Q1 2025)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs: Cleaning up legacy Misplaced Pages links in Open Library: The blog post discusses cleaning up outdated Misplaced Pages links to improve article accuracy and navigation, while highlighting the importance of integrating Wikidata for better data management.
Papers
- Tiziana Possemato, Recording Gender in the Person Entity: An Ongoing Discussion: it compares the practices of gender-registration of person-type entities in LCNAF and ISNI with the use of P21 in Wikidata. By Ray Berger
- Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs and Search Engines - A Crossroads for Answering Users' Questions: this paper seeks to establish a taxonomy of user information needs to help establish a roadmap of future research for finding synergies between LLM's, Search engines and Knowledge graphs. By Hogan et al., (2025)
Videos
- Replacing deprecated Misplaced Pages links with Wikidata items in Open Library
- Tracking Looted Art with Wikidata Queries - As part of Art History Loves Wiki 25, Laurel Zuckerman will show how Wikidata SPARQL queries can aid provenance researchers and historians find, identify and track looted art.
- OpenStreetMap and Wikidata in Disaster Times: Ormat Murat Yilmaz will speak on how Wikidata and OSM play a role in coordinating relief efforts by providing a collaborative platform for providing data about affected areas. Part of WM CEE meeting 2024 Istanbul.
- Serbian Novels on Wikidata: Presented by Filip Maljkovič on the progress and process of adding Serbian literature into Wikidata, using OCR methods to map pages and assign Properties.
- (german)Wikidata for NGOs: Use and network open data sensibly: Johan Hoelderle discusses how nonprofits can benefit from the largest free knowledge base and show what potential open data offers for non-profit projects.
- Data partnerships and Libraries combating misinformation: WMDE's Alan Ang delivers a speech on how GLAM institutions can help prevent the spread of dis- and misinformation whether hallucinatory AI or malicious, part of the Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025.

Tool of the week

Wikidata file candidates📱 - This tool can show you candidate matches of Wikidata Items to files on Commons and Flickr. (original blog)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

OpenRefine 3.9-beta1 was released
Product Manager: Wikibase Suite: Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a PM to lead Wikibase Suite, empowering institutions like GLAMs and research groups to build customizable linked knowledge bases and contribute to the world’s largest open data graph.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
- organisation tax status (jurisdiction specific tax status of organisations like non-profits)
- entry height (height of the entrance above ground level for boarding vehicles)
Newest External identifiers: Singapore Unique Entity Number, AniSearch character ID, Three Decks conflict ID, Berlinische Galerie object ID, ThePWHL.com player ID, Play:Right genre ID, Resistance in Belgium ID, Paris Match ID, Kyiv Independent topic, Newmark Albanian-English Dictionary ID, Wellcome Collection concept ID, Amsterdam Monumentenstad ID, VG247 game ID, DNCI label ID, National Football Teams.com stadium ID, Kamus Pelajar ID, Dictionary of Norwegian Translators ID, MACM artist ID, Lutris company ID, hockey1946.ru player ID, DOSBoxWiki article, NBA G League player ID, World Women's Snooker player ID, footballdatabase.eu match ID, GERS ID, Comprehensive Historical Dictionary of Ladino entry ID, SBOID, Game Vortex software ID, Syrian Memory Institution person ID, Mishramilan catalog ID, myCast work ID, Hessian Biography person (GND) ID, Beaux-Arts ID, Gaia ID, Franceinfo journalist ID, Hankook Ilbo tag ID, Cinema Belgica person ID, Cinema Belgica venue ID, Ukrainian Association of Football match ID, Rijksmuseum ID, Cinema Belgica film ID, Danbooru tag, Russian Football National League player ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- About box (Screenshot of the About Box of the respective software (contains important information such as authors, license, version number and year(s) and is included in almost every software))
- nomenclatural type of (taxon item of which this item is the taxonomic type (name-bearing type), e.g. the family for which this genus is the type, the genus for which this species is the type, the taxon for which this type specimen is the type, ect...)
- World Heritage type (Propriety of World heritage site : the Type (Cultural, Natural, Mixed))
- DVD region code (DVD release is restricted to region code)
- number of shading units (number of shading units in a graphics processing unit)
- Archaeological National Register code (identifier of elements of the National archaeological register of Moldova)
- presented works (works of art performed, displayed or presented at a given event)
- identifiant REGAFI ()
- Maximum beam energy (Maximum beam energy of a particle accelerator)
- hat gespendet (Amount of money donated to a person or organization)
- name starts with (The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.)
- духовный сан (formal styles of address used for members of the clergy)
- A2B2 user ID (User ID on a2b2.org)
- Source language (headword languge of dictionary)
- location code (the location code of the location item. Should be used with qualifier property {{Q|P459}} to specify which location code system being used.)
- DIF historia player ID (Identifier for a sportsperson connected to Djurgårdens IF on difhistoria.se (official site))
- number of texture mapping units (number of texture mapping units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of render output units (number of render output units in a graphics processing unit)
- number of ray tracing cores (number of ray tracing cores in a graphics processing unit)
- Bibliography for subject (Wikidata property on this item providing a link to a bibliography about the subject that is a good starting point.)
- likes / dislikes (''(no English description proposed yet)'')
- number of goals scored in penalty shootouts (total number of goals scored by a team in a penalty shootout)
- broadcasting days and time (days of the week in which a TV or radio program is broadcasted)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Algeria Press Service tag ID (French), Algeria Press Service tag ID (English), Algeria Press Service tag ID (Arabic), HonestGamers game ID, Identifiant d'un(e) auteurice sur le site Mille ans de littérature d'oc, Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga, identifiant Registre national des gels, Ech-Chaab tag ID, Shamela Algeria person ID, enterprise number (Germany), Ohio University ArchivesSpace Subject ID, Progetto Euploos ID, Nafziger Order of Battle ID, DataGov dataset, ERR keyword ID, Ohio University ArchivesSpace Agent ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage site ID, Inventory of Natural Heritage tree ID, Spanish-German Dictionary ID, identifiant Pappers d'un dirigeant, Database of Canada's Early Women Writers ID, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory ID, SearchCulture.gr ID, Cinema Belgica company ID, Cinema Belgica censorship ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) ID, SOIUSA code, MetalTabs.com track ID, MUBI Festival ID, rutracker.org page ID, Park Merwestein Bomenwijzer ID, RPG Maker game ID, RateMyProfessors ID, PubMed author ID, BodyMeasurements.org ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn, Kvikmyndavefurinn person ID, Bluepages article ID, Kvikmyndavefurinn company ID, Archaeological Cadastre (Greece) info ID, A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences entry ID, Wikishia item ID, EHIS educational institution ID, Bertsolaritzaren Datu Basea ID, A Dictionary of Sociology entry ID, A Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology entry ID, A Dictionary of Geography entry ID, DGLAi ID, Jeune Afrique person ID, norskeflyplasser.no-ID, taz topic ID, Euronews topic ID (English), Euronews topic ID (French), Euronews topic ID (Spanish), Euronews topic ID (Arabic), Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online ID, Unine thesis id, Enpedia ID, Dizionario Biografico della Calabria Contemporanea ID, Bahamut Animation Crazy Serial Number, Finnish Olympic Committee ID, Team Norway profile ID (new), NOC of Belarus champion ID (new), JOC profile ID (new), Répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Québec, RFI topic ID (French), RFI topic ID (English), RFI topic ID (Spanish), EJU profile ID, University of Pécs teachers identifier, ROAR id, CPB profile ID, TERMCAT term ID, Handle prefix, U.S. Soccer player ID, Celfic FC player ID, WSGF game ID, Sutian entry ID, wikiHow article ID, Graceful17 ID, IATI Organisation Identifier, Suno artist ID, VAi Archiefhub Agent ID, Soccerbase season ID, PlaymakerStats season ID, ESPN.com football match ID, Eurosport person ID, Newsweek topic ID, New York Post topic ID, RaiPlay Sound IDs, Chinese Church and Organization Dictionary Identifier, DDLC entry ID, Fluorophores.org substance ID

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Query examples:
- Most common eponyms (a name or noun formed after a person)
- Number of Lexemes including recordings from Lingua Libre by language
- Boiling point of alkanes (source)
- Train station in Germany without image (source)
Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject IIT aims to describe current and former IIT faculty members. The following property schema is based on a similar schema found at WikiProject IUPUI University Library
WikiProject Highlights: Sum of all paintings/Historic collections - keep track of historic collections as part of the provenance of paintings
Newest database reports: Links per language
Showcase Items: 4 Vesta (Q3030) - second largest asteroid of the main asteroid belt
Showcase Lexemes: L347296 - Tamil noun that can mean "priest", "teacher" or "preceptor"

Development

mul language code: The "mul" language code for labels, descriptions and aliases will be fully enabled on #Wikidata starting 28th Jan!
Constraint violations:
- We’re making good progress on checking format constraints more efficiently and with fewer errors (T380751)
- We’re working on making distinct-values constraint checks works with the split Query Service (T369079)
EntitySchemas: We’re working on making the heading on EntitySchema pages apply language fallback (T228423)
Search: We’ve started working on the new search UI component which will let you search for additional entity types from the main search bar and not just Items anymore (T338483)
Wikibase REST API: We're working on adding search to the API (T383209)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
Govdirectory weekly focus country: United States of America
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2025-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address.
On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Misplaced Pages, Kabyle Misplaced Pages, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki.
The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

2025

story · music · places

2025 opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had). Today I had a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who just became GA, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) - How are you? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:09, 21 January 2025 (UTC)