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Music


Been thinking recently about how much Wikipedia ''does'' act as a social network, and how valuable that can be. Articles aren't social media, of course, but Wikipedia is an encyclopedia ''and'' a community, and healthy volunteer communities need to foster forms of communication that aren't strictly "talking shop". In that spirit, how about some music talk. Might just be me sharing, but who knows.

What I'm listening to


Occasionally sharing songs/albums that I find myself listening to repeatedly. Starting this at the end of 2022, so here's what I've been listening to this year. And yeah, it's all over the place.

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=February 2026=



What I should be listening to (and what you're listening to)


Open to anyone.

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:If you're still looking for things, a unique rendition of ''The Lion Sleeps Tonight'' ↗ RoySmith (talk) ↗ 00:24, 21 August 2025 (UTC)
::Always. Thanks {{u|RoySmith}}. Can't get over how absolutely straight faced everyone is while making crazy animal sounds. Maybe endless practice beats that out of you. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 03:31, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
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More please

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Well congrats! This ↗ proves that you are just as certifiable as the rest of us! {{smiley|:D}} And I thought that ''I'' was nerdy when I saw that one article had a totally needless fair use image ↗ and another one had a really crappy image ↗. So I spent some quality camera time with my old LP collection and made new Commons:Categories for these two rather uninteresting and rarely viewed subjects. (<small>No, I don't stalk your edits, and I rarely visit Twitter now, but when TFG gets indicted you have to take a look at what the site makes of it. ;-) Just in time for your announcement there.</small>) <em style="font-family:Verdana;color:DarkBlue">cart</em><small>'''<em style="font-family:Verdana;color:DarkBlue">-Talk</em>'''</small> 21:28, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
:{{tq|And I thought that ''I'' was nerdy}} - No argument from me. :) Nice job illustrating cataloging systems there! Regarding SatanCon ↗, I was more excited than I'd like to admit when I realized the milestone was coming and found a fitting topic. Woke up early (before my alarm, even), and wound up refreshing {{tl|numberofarticles}} for ... a while, before publishing. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 22:53, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Younger generations



I was thinking of something you said when we talked last? An idea has kind of been bouncing around my head the past few days... maybe I could go around interviewing people around my age and seeing what we have in common and what we don't. Asking questions like
I think the cumulative effect of asking these questions might be useful. What do you think? <span style="color:darkorchid">Clovermoss</span><span style="color:green">🍀</span> (talk) 19:11, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
:{{ping|Clovermoss}} - {{tq|cumulative effect of asking these questions might be useful}} - Could be. Something I've found interesting is how wikiphilosophies seem to evolve with each "generation" of Wikipedians. If we think of Wikipedia's 22 years as being four generations, I guess I'm in the second generation. When I got here, my take on things like deletion, blocking, immediatism, etc. was a bit different from some of the old timers. These days I find that the newer generations make me feel like one of those old-timers (and I guess I am?). To reduce what I mean to a single example, back in 2013 I was most often called a deletionist. These days, though I don't feel like my take on deletion has changed that much, I find myself lumped in more often with the inclusionists (to the extent those sides even exist at all, of course). To your questions, there's one in there about Wiki Ed, which sure seems like it's intended for me, but I don't think I'd be included in the "people around my age" that you started with. :) Happy to answer if it would be helpful, though. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 17:54, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
::Yeah, the WikiEd question was directed at you :) Since I've never really interacted with that side of the community, I was curious about the similarities and differences we face. Ever since you said something about how people can struggle even with a ton of resources at their disposal... I just went on to this whole train of thought full of ideas. Is it possible that you might have some idea of how I could connect with some students working with WikiEd? I really think it'd be insightful to interview some if they're open to that but I have no idea where to start. I like to plan things out a bit before I actually go about doing things. <span style="color:darkorchid">Clovermoss</span><span style="color:green">🍀</span> (talk) 00:52, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
:::It's okay if you don't really know if that's possible, though. Even if you could point me in the direction of someone who might be able to that'd be useful. Regardless, it was nice to meet you and I appreciate everything we've talked about. <span style="color:darkorchid">Clovermoss</span><span style="color:green">🍀</span> (talk) 01:49, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Clovermoss}} Late reply, sorry.
::::{{tq|Is it possible that you might have some idea of how I could connect with some students working with WikiEd?}} - You can always head over to dashboard.wikiedu.org, where you can find all the classes active in a given semester (and all of the courses Wiki Ed has supported since ~2015). You might have more luck reaching out to the professors, though, who can then connect you with interested students.
::::Some brief other answers:
::::When did you start editing Wikipedia? - 2007. A professor had us edit Wikipedia. I was fascinating by how much of a garbage fire it wasn't, and set out to study it. Highly active editing came a few years later.
::::If you could go back in time, what do you think would've helped you be a better editor? - I don't think I'd change anything, now that I think about it. There were times that I had different ideas of "what a Good Wikipedia ought to do" but in hindsight that's mostly nonsense. I did exactly what I wanted to do on Wikipedia at each stage, I suppose. If the question were "what advice would I give myself" it would probably be to think about anonymity a little more.
::::Did you have help as a new editor? What worked and what didn't? - I was an atypical newbie in that I spent a long time reading and researching before diving into editing, so I didn't need too much help. I learned from some veterans when I was researching, and when I solicited feedback on my first article. The names FT2, Dana Boomer, Wikid77, and DGG come to mind as early, helpful interactions (sadly now one is deceased, one long-inactive, and one banned).
::::Do you think you'll keep editing for the foreseeable future? - Yes. There have been a few discussions and trends over the past few years that I've found discouraging/demotivating, but there's just too much that I like about this place.
::::Were you involved with WikiEd? If so, what was that like? - It was overall a very positive experience. I was already teaching with Wikipedia and they needed an interim program manager shortly after my last semester teaching... then I stuck around for five years. Generally positive. It reframed my relationship to Wikipedia a bit as it meant I was no longer purely a volunteer (even if I separated my work and volunteer accounts), but I didn't let it affect my editing all that much. There were a bunch of layoffs early in the pandemic, which included me. The upside is it gave me time to finish my dissertation. :)
::::Have you ever edited on mobile? Why or why not? - Almost never. It's just too hard with a tiny screen. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 18:50, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
:::::I don't mind the late reply. Thanks for your input :) I will check out the dashboard. Do you mind if I mention your answers to my interview questions in a userspace essay? <span style="color:darkorchid">Clovermoss</span><span style="color:green">🍀</span> (talk) 19:42, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
::::::{{ping|Clovermoss}} {{thumbsup}} No I don't mind (thanks for asking). &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 20:01, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
:::::::And thank you for humouring me with the answers. :) If you want to check out the future progress of all this, it's at User:Clovermoss/Editor reflections. <span style="color:darkorchid">Clovermoss</span><span style="color:green">🍀</span> (talk) 20:31, 28 November 2023 (UTC)




A barnstar for you!



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Statement draft



Wikipedia owes its existence to the dedication of volunteers who contribute encyclopedic content according to fundamental principles ↗, often with as much commitment as one would give a full time job. These volunteers make personal sacrifices to ensure that what the world sees when it visits Wikipedia is as comprehensive and reliable as possible. These individuals are not paid for their work, but driven by the conviction that free access to knowledge has the power to improve lives.

Unfortunately, as we've become more popular, we have attracted not just those who want to influence Wikipedia for personal gain, but those who see our editorial policies as a threat to their own power. That means the labor we donate to pursue ideals like neutral point of view ↗ comes with vulnerabilities. The anonymity or pseudonymity of many contributors is essential to maintaining our integrity and diversity of voices. But it is fragile. Sometimes, members of our community find themselves navigating complex, hostile political and legal landscapes just for the audacity of upholding our policies. Protecting volunteers like these is not merely an act of gratitude; it is ''absolutely necessary'' for the future of our project.

Many people, companies, and governments look at articles that meet our standards for neutrality and sourcing and want to replace them with their own preferred narratives. If they can effectively use their money, influence, and power to pierce anonymity and threaten, intimidate, sue, or arrest volunteers simply for making edits in accordance with our basic policies, it threatens the neutrality and accuracy of those articles. More importantly, it signals that these are effective strategies for silencing voices one doesn't like and creates a pernicious chilling effect for all contributors.

For an anonymous or pseudonymous contributor here, there is exactly one organization with the capacity--and the responsibility--to defend Wikipedians against powerful entities: the Wikimedia Foundation. We, the undersigned, appreciate the complexities of international legal disputes over release of personally identifying information and commend the foundation for both routinely resisting disclosure and assisting editors who find themselves in legal jeopardy. However, in light of cases around the world whereby powerful people seek to influence Wikipedia by attacking its users, we call upon the foundation to:

(1) prioritize the safety and well-being of volunteers even if it comes with a risk of legal action against the foundation;<br/>
(2) create a dedicated team of staff and advisors ''focused'' on procedural, technical, and legal assessment, strategies, and tools to preserve the pseudonymity or anonymity of contributors who need it. While this statement comes during a high-profile case, these are principles which apply broadly, and this team should be prepared to address censorship threats both in places where they exist now and where they may arise in the future as political landscapes evolve.

We, the volunteers, must be able to contribute with the assurity that the Wikimedia Foundation will defend those of us whose guilt is in upholding our shared principles, and will hold that defense even if it comes at a cost. Because the cost of failing is even greater. The choice to stand firm for our most vulnerable contributors in the face of censorship is an ethical one--it's existential. It is a fundamental decision to preserve the independence, credibility, and mission of the world's largest free encyclopedia.

[putting this here because it's a very rough draft and I don't want to dump more text over at VPW] &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 04:54, 6 November 2024 (UTC)
:Just a quick note to say that I hope you don't feel that I stepped on your toes here, Rhododendrites. I saw a consensus emerging for a concise letter and was encouraged by Ipigott (albeit based on what turned out to be an incorrect assumption) to write a shorter draft, and felt like time was pressing. Regards, Espresso Addict <small>(talk)</small> 02:48, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
::No, no worries at all. I'm not worried about credit, if that's what you mean. As I just wrote at VPW, I'm just not sure I want to sign on to something that's explicitly about one ongoing case rather than a broader statement of principles. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 14:25, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
:::Thanks, Rhododendrites, and obviously everyone can only support whatever wording they feel personally works for them. We're all on the same page here. I'd encourage you to work up a broader general statement of principles that doesn't mention the case to collect signatures in parallel, because in the current (US) climate, it is clear that this is just going to be the tip of a very big iceberg, and I'd like more clarity from WMF about what they are going to do about it. Cheers, Espresso Addict <small>(talk)</small> 00:52, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!


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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Nice job crafting Wikipedia:2024 open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation ↗. It's well-written, concise, and presents a balanced perspective. Cheers, <span style="border:3px outset;border-radius:8pt 0;padding:1px 5px;background:linear-gradient(6rad,#86c,#2b9)"><span style="color:#FFF;text-decoration:inherit;font:1em Lucida Sans">Sdkb</span></span> <sup>'''talk'''</sup> 16:17, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
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:Thanks, {{u|Sdkb}}, although I had floated a [decidedly less concise] version ↗ that didn't name the ANI case and was written more broadly to apply to future situations, too. I commend Espresso Addict and Airshipjungleman for cutting through the wall of text to actually get something concrete started, but I haven't signed the current letter (and haven't made up my mind whether I will). i.e. this ↗. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 16:24, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Happy New Year to you, Rhododendrites!



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Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blister ↗s.<br><br>Wil540 art (talk) 14:55, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
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hello



{{You've got mail}}
@Rhododendrites Thank you so much for your time! Have a great weekend =) Phoebezz22 (talk) 12:31, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Quick Thank You



You've been a great editor for a very long time and have really made some pages I care about much better, but I just realised what a talented contributor you are over at Commons as well. You are a real asset to this community, and I don't think that is said often enough. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 16:09, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

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Congratulations! - Thank you for coming to my talk, and happy new year 2025, which opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had)! Near the end of the month, I have vacation pics to offer and the story of Werner Bardenhewer ↗. I took the pic, and it was my DYK on his 90th birthday, in both English and German. He spent the day in Africa, and after his return said - chatting after a mass of thanks he celebrated at Mariä Heimsuchung ↗ - that we'd have to talk about these articles. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:54, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|Gerda Arendt}} You're always working on interesting music content. With those photos, I have to ask (if you don't mind), do you work in music? I seem to recall learning you were a musician some time ago, but can't recall. No problem if you'd prefer not to say, of course! &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 18:17, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
:: Check out the infobox on my user page ;) - just returning from a trip, so brief, - I will be back --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:18, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

February music


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On the main page today, 300 years after its first performance, Bach's cantata BWV 125 ↗, - a lovely very intimate piece, with peace and joy in the title. Enjoy listening with score - I discovered that only now! - Today is also the birthday of James Joyce ↗, who has an article by many authors. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:47, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Today's story is about Edith Mathis ↗, who portrayed young women by Mozart ↗. The video of a 1993 interview has videos of her performances. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:13, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

I point at a composer today, as the main page does. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:44, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|Gerda Arendt}} Thanks -- November Steps was the soundtrack to my afternoon the other day -- enjoyed it! &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 20:22, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

Your GA ↗ nomination of Rockwood & Company ↗


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Your GA ↗ nomination of 2024 New York Proposal 1 ↗


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:Thanks for the review, {{u|Jon698}}! I'm curious what you think of the big results table at the bottom (apart from the GA review). It's a big block on the page, but at the same time I like being able to sort the numbers. Couldn't come up with a cleaner way to do so. Maybe a collapsed table somewhere, but I don't know. In looking around, I found some other articles that include full results like that, and some that don't. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 15:39, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
::The results table is fine and is a common for pages like this. Jon698 (talk) 16:17, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
:::Thanks, {{u|Jon698}}. Also, I only just realized the numbers in that table changed and no longer reflect the numbers at the official elections site ↗. Where did those come from? &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 18:53, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Jon698}} Just bumping this -- could you tell me where you got the different vote counts? &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 19:14, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
::::I got those numbers from the Proposition 1 page of the official elections site ↗. Blank votes are not valid and should not be factored into the final result percentages. Jon698 (talk) 21:45, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
:::::Oh, that's the discrepancy, then. Blank votes are valid -- invalid votes are counted separately. Blanks are a quantification of confusion, ambivalence, lack of information, etc. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 01:29, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

March music


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On Ravel ↗'s birthday, we also think of a conductor and five more composers ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:27, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Today I could have written five stories off the main page ↗, and chose Sofia Gubaidulina ↗. I find the TFA also interesting, and two DYK, and a birthday OTD. How about you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:23, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Still Ravel: today his opera, 100 years old OTD, on Bach's birthday, - I saw it, see music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:58, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Today, 300 years of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1 ↗! We sang ↗ works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel ↗, Johann Christoph Bach ↗, Kuhnau ↗/Bach ↗, Gounod ↗ and Rheinberger ↗! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:38, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/New York City's skyline ↗


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Heads up about your edit on the misinformation related to abortion page.



Hi there. You recently made some edits to this page: Misinformation related to abortion ↗. I wanted to let you know, that I personally agree with you. I personally believe that it should be presented as fact, as you did in your edit that "it is not possible for the fetus to experience pain before 24 weeks of gestation" instead of "The prevailing viewpoint among most medical organizations..." I also agree with you that we should not be including a minority viewpoint most present in the Linacre Quarterly - a Catholic Medical journal.

Unfortunately, there is an anti-abortion advocate who's extremely active on the talk page and trying to come to consensus on certain things has made things clunky. The way the section is phrased now is what was begrudgingly agreed to on the talk page. So, unfortunately, I have tentatively reverted your edit in favor of the one that was technically reached by consensus since that just happened today.

That being said, if you feel strongly, and prepared to wade into the talk page of that article, feel free to keep the conversation going as to why that part should potentially be changed. (I definitely would be in favor of that paragraph being more definitive toward the current medical literature.) InquisitiveWikipedian (talk) 01:31, 7 April 2025 (UTC)
:Doesn't seem ideal when the best sources don't appear to equivocate. Posted over at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Misinformation_related_to_abortion_could_use_some_additional_eyes_from_this_project ↗ to get additional opinions. Looks like the talk page was mostly a back-and-forth between the two of you. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 03:14, 7 April 2025 (UTC)
::Agreed. Thank you for saying so. And yeah, it's mainly me and him and I think two other editors have chimed in now and again on some of the topics. I'm trying to be as collaborative as possible without completely threatening the integrity of the page. So, I appreciate you trying to get more people in the conversation. Thank you InquisitiveWikipedian (talk) 03:25, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

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I'm currently writing the article for the Official White House Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama ↗ that were comissioned by the White House Historical Association. I've previously written the official portraits of the Reagans ↗, the Clintons ↗ and the Bushes ↗. Your incredible research of Michelle's portrait would be vital to and most welcome in the article - would you like to add it once I have launched the article or could I interpolate it and main article a link on the Sharon Sprung ↗ page? I'm not sure how to proceed! Regards No Swan So Fine (talk) 22:25, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

:Hi {{u|No Swan So Fine}} - glad you'll be working on that article. Probably what makes sense is to expand the summary in the Sprung article and add a {{tl|main}} template, and add a brief summary of Sprung to the article you're working on? I'm pretty overwhelmed with real-life projects at the moment, but happy to take a look at the article when it's available. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 20:19, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

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It was lovely to see "your" bird yesterday! - see my talk for music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:55, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
:Thanks {{u|Gerda Arendt}}. Listening to Bach now. I know little about Bach, and this makes me recall a question I have. Maybe you can help. :) About 20 years ago I was interviewing an indie rock musician, John Vanderslice ↗, for my little radio program. At some point he went on a tear, getting ''very'' nerdy about music, and got me way out of my depth. At one point he said he was exploring "Bachic dissonance". I just smiled and acted like I knew what I was talking about, because I was not a good interviewer. :) But I remember it because afterwards I went to my friend outside the studio and said something like "what am I supposed to say about 'Bachic dissonance'??" Does that mean anything to you? Perhaps you can help me now, two decades later! &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 22:36, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
:: I don't know what he meant but Bach is known for using dissonance - more than others - to express tension, sadness, suffering ... Perhaps listen to this Crucifixus. - I had to sing a funeral service for a friend today, but the music chosen was intentionally on the uplifting side and for consolation, which Bach could do also better than others. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:50, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

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Understandability guideline workshop



Hello there. I was wondering if you had time to give feedback ↗ on the workshop text ↗ for the understandability guideline (comparison with the existing text ↗). Always tough to write guidelines for a wide variety of topic areas, and would love to hear if the new text works for articles related to law. The goal is to make the understandability guideline more useable and concrete. If we could get an example in from the field, that would be even better :). More general feedback is also very welcome. I'm happy to trade for a review at GAN if you'd like! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 09:04, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
:Hi {{u|Femke}} and thanks for the invitation. I have to say, I don't think I've ever seen that guideline before! Before I give it a review, to be clear are you looking for feedback on the ''new guideline'' or on the ''changes''? Also, I should say I'm not a lawyer and don't have much legal expertise. I get a little bit into tech policy as an internet researcher, so wound up with a couple law articles at GAN, but I don't know if I'd be much help on best practices for presenting the technical side of the law. Regardless, happy to review with or without a GAN review (at some point I'll probably have to trade someone in order to get United Nations Convention on Cybercrime ↗ up to GA before it's in the news for the signing ceremony in October -- if the American Privacy Rights Act ↗ article is any indication, the UN article won't likely get reviewed in 2025 :/ :/ -- I presume my kvetching about that in Discord is what led to this invitation). &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 22:29, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
::I looked at the open GANs and FACs to try and get at least one person per major technical topic area to look at it before it's RfC time. In terms of familiarity, the guideline's most-cited part is probably WP:EXPLAINLEAD ↗. It's an undervalued part of our P&Gs, possibly because it's not that practical?
::I'm mostly interested in feedback on changes, even though I'm also keen on hearing if there's stuff unnecessary or missing. One of the interesting bits I found in the research for the rewrite: assuming prior knowledge starts when you become familiar with a topic, not when you're an expert. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 06:26, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
:::Hi {{u|Femke}} - catching up on my various wiki tasks I fell behind on over the past several months. Just making sure this is still current and would still be useful before I jump into this in the next day or two. :) &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 03:35, 18 January 2026 (UTC)
::::It is still useful! The proposal failed in the first instance, and I'm keen to bring it over the line, not quite sure when however. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 19:26, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

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:{{ping|OldPalChummus}} Please review the documentation about A7. Credible claim of significance is satisfied by citations to reliable sources discussing the subject. You're welcome to take it to AfD if you wish. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 18:08, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
::@Rhododendrites: Thank you. Please refer to the AfD discussion ↗. OldPalChummus (talk) 18:56, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

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American oystercatcher


Hi. We would normally have a 'portrait' as the infobox image. What do you think is best here? Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:54, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
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Reverting my edit



You recently reverted my edit. I believe that the Manhattan Institute is a trustworthy source as it respected based on being part of the Global go to Think Tank index from UPenn ↗. If their is another issue with it please let me know. Nameofuser1 (talk) 14:56, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
:Hi {{u|Nameofuser1}}. As far as I know, you can rank highly on that index purely by visibility, impact, collaborations, etc., even if the quality of your reports isn't good. Think tanks in general are tricky in that they self-publish their reports (WP:SPS ↗), and -- in cases of think tanks with a partisan alignment like Manhattan -- only run studies or publish results that conform to predetermined values. I would put Manhattan as higher quality than some others in that index, but it's still not a great source for a contentious claim. More to the point, though, when we're citing high quality sources like peer reviewed scholarship, a "However..." sentence tacked onto the end of a paragraph, supported by a lower quality source is always kind of a neutrality ↗ red flag. Better to actually dig into the studies, summarize what they claim, attribute the findings to them in the text, etc. than just reference "other studies". I would not be surprised if you could find some peer reviewed work about conservative self-censorship. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 15:36, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

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MR - involved vs uninvolved



I just discovered {{diff|Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2024 July|prev|1240622509|this point}}. Currently WP:MRCOMMENT ↗ says {{tq|Commenters should identify whether or not they were involved or uninvolved in the RM discussion under review}}, so literally, "uninvolved" was correct. However, I agree that it could be seen as misleading, so with hindsight, it would have been reasonable to put {{tq|(uninvolved in this RM; involved in a related earlier RM)}}. Too late to correct it this time around; I don't think that editing the archived page qualifies under the exceptions ↗.

For the record, both I (and probably most?) of the people working on the WP:GENOCIDE ↗ draft have also been heavily involved in mass-atrocity articles. The more uninvolved people (from a mix of biases and backgrounds) who take a look, the better. Boud (talk) 11:31, 31 December 2025 (UTC) ''(fix link Boud (talk) 11:37, 31 December 2025 (UTC))''

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Hi Rhododendrites, your lengthy reply to the Signpost Special Report was well written contained a lot of good points, thought I might reply/inquire here as that page has devolved. I made a very similar point on the great divergence framing when this was discussed in Discord, although I focused more on the different expectations regarding what "being online" means when for so many people it means having a phone with Facebook and WhatsApp apps etc. However, you have a different impression of the community's response than I do. I feel the community has responded very slowly to the topic of llms. Rather than instinctively respond to the topic like an allergy, it did very little. The few llm-related policies and guidelines we have were produced after extremely slow and very contested procedures. We have a backlog of llm article text that is becoming just another forever-filled maintenance category. Reactions on ANI tend to be stronger, but that is usually because the AI exacerbates communication issues. (And away from en.wiki I have definitely not seen an allergy in some other projects or in WMF/meta, but this may be off-topic to your post.) I am thus curious as to the factors that brought you towards a very different impression. Best, CMD (talk) 00:45, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
:Hi {{u|Chipmunkdavis}}. My impression is that while we be a little slow to formally implement concrete policies and guidelines, the reality on the ground is that any use of LLMs for writing articles, talk page messages, or just about anything brings quite strong pushback. I agree that other projects, and especially Meta and in-person events, have seen a lot more interest in LLM experimentation. But to actually implement any of those on enwp seems like a fool's errand. I remember that time there was some sort of ... game, maybe? ... that the WMF promoted using an image that a bunch of English Wikipedians were ''certain'' was AI-generated, leading to much fury until it was revealed that no, it was created by a human. That's just to say I see a lot of skepticism and cynicism towards any generative AI use, but especially on talk/project pages and especially associated with the WMF.
:I'm surprised that there's a backlog of LLM article text, though. When there's no doubt about it being LLM-generated, is it controversial to just undo/remove it? Or is the challenge that it's suspected LLM-generated text that needs to be more carefully scrutinized? &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 16:25, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
::Thanks. I would say while on the ground there is sometimes very strong pushback, it tends to be inconsistent. A lot of the WMF-associated furor is likely backlash due to the simple article summary experiment and its being revealed as scheduled deployment. I don't know if similar experiments were tried on other projects. (I remember that AI-image incident, and to my knowledge the final conclusion was that it was probably AI-generated but we don't actually know as the WMF staff in charge of the game was not the creator.){{pb}}We do have a lot of AI-written content scattered around and repeated opposition to even tagging it. There are challenges both to undoing/removing (eg. 'should be assessed on merit') and as to whether it is llm text or not, the second one being a particular effective way of bogging everything down. We have very recently become much more effective as a community at deleting fully AI-generated articles, but that came after a few years of inaction and disputes, and other edits remain harder to manage and assess. CMD (talk) 02:23, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Chipmunkdavis}} late reply, sorry: {{tq|and repeated opposition to even tagging it}} - This is, again, really surprising. What is the objection to tagging? Like it is disputed because "no, it's not LLM-generated" or because "LLM-generated content is ok"? What about the use of detection systems? I know they're imperfect, and I think I was initially skeptical, but let's say I'm coming around. :) It looked like Wiki Ed ↗ had some success with Pangram. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 03:59, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
::::No problem. Both of those objections have been raised in various discussions. The first one can be resolved by community discussion and usually by editing the text in question if specific problems are identified. The second one is trickier, as there are different community feelings on the less obviously problematic LLM-written text. The Wikipedia:The World Destubathon ↗ for example, was won using an LLM to generate articles. Another objection I've seen not uncommonly raised is that the tag is vague and doesn't point to specific textual problems that can be fixed. The tag has had <code>|reason</code> and <code>|partial</code> parameters added in recent months to help make the tag more useful in this respect.{{pb}}That said, the tag does exist and is used. Detection systems on the other hand seem to lack any positive consensus; every time they are raised it is common for "detection systems aren't perfect" to pop up almost immediately, sometimes accompanied by "the irony of using an LLM to accuse someone else of using an LLM" or similar. In typical en.wiki fashion, it is community consensus over whether something is llm-written that seems to shift most threads on specific examples (especially on AN/I). I personally found the WikiEd claimed false positive rate of 0.00 very surprising; I expected a small number, but 0.00 is a not only a 0 but a very specific 0. I'd like to see that replicated somehow. CMD (talk) 04:58, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

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Thanks



A note to say thanks for the common sense you've been posting at the WMF VP. I also saw some sensible comments from Sohom. Having enwiki as customers must be nightmarish for the WMF developers, and I assume the liaisons that are forced to engage with us quickly realize they have to discount a great deal of what they hear from us, without having a good way to tell what part to discount. I am embarrassed almost every time I look at the way WMF staff get treated. I have the WMF VP page on my watchlist but I don't have the stomach to read all of it and comment, though I've intermittently done so in other venues in the past. Seeing your comments there is a relief. I appreciate your fairhanded approach (I certainly don't think the WMF can't improve) and I hope you have the stamina to continue there. Thank you. Mike Christie (talk ↗ - contribs ↗ - library) 17:52, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
:Thanks for the note, {{u|Mike Christie}}. I was thinking about this a bit as I sat in on one of my local community board meetings (in NYC, community boards advise various lawmakers and agencies on a range of issues like land use, permits, development deals, zoning, etc.). The meetings are open to the public, and follow a format along the lines of: (1) updates from local representatives; (2) updates on past official business, (3) new official business, (4) the airing of grievances. Frequently, much of the crowd shows up because of a desire to participate (either as a speaker or an audience member) in the last part. Last time this was about a bike lane that some people felt very strongly about. It occurred to me it must be difficult for the board to sit there, seeing the same crowd that shows up anytime things change, and having to assess to what extent attendees represent the neighborhood. There must be a term for the phenomenon in political science or sociology. Let's call it an "intensity bias" subset of selection bias or something -- people who feel the strongest are more likely to self-select and coordinate and are thus overrepresented in any public forum. And when we're talking about discussion of governance structures themselves, as we do with the WMF on that village pump, it's just not realistic to think there's anyone who feels as strongly in a positive direction as all those who feel strongly in a negative direction, so it skews negative. I'd like to see some sort of structure where they look at everyone with more than 5k-10k edits who have been active in the last month, reach out to random N users from that list, and form a discussion involving just them, but then you do lose out on the deep knowledge of the already self-selected. What a hassle! &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 17:59, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

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Free Wood Post



Just want to say I understand your concerns with this being my sixth nomination of the same topic, and I feel like I've done my best to address any concerns of the sort. See also my comments on the talk page before my TBAN was relaxed, and in my appeal to the TBAN.

Between my behavior at the last AFDs and the fact that the article has done nothing but gather dust since, Free Wood Post has been on my mind. Its last AFD was ''eleven'' years ago, and literally nothing in the article has changed. I'd like to think that I've changed, any participant still editing has changed (you included), and our guidelines have changed (as evidenced by policies on op-eds and use of Breitbart that don't seem to have been in place in 2013). I wanted to show newfound ability to acknowledge and mitigate past mistakes, and keep my cool in scenarios where I'd previously lashed out. But at the same time, I want to be open about any concerns regarding my partial return to XFD space. <span style="color:green">'''Ten Pound Hammer'''</span> • <sup>(What did I screw up now?)</sup> 19:19, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

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A full and unreserved apology



My 24 hour block has expired and I've been able to sleep now which has cleared my head, and it's very clear to me that my comments on the ANI thread did not go far enough and that you are at a fundamental level owed a full and unreserved apology for my comment yesterday. As you correctly stated at the ANI thread, I fundamentally misunderstood and misconstrued, and thus misstated, your relationship WikiEdu and that you had no authority to oversee students and that I had no idea what your salary was, and so that my comment was to a large degree factually baseless. Regardless if it was true or not, the comment was an egregious, irrelevant personal attack that had absolutely nothing to do with the discussion topic at hand, and for that the 24 hour block was entirely justified. I don't hold any ill will against you over this incident which was entirely based on fundamentally wrong actions on my part. I hope you enjoy your weekend. Kind regards. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:36, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
:{{ping|Hemiauchenia}} I genuinely appreciate that, thanks. I don't hold any ill will about this either.<br/>I'm generally happy to talk about the work I did with WikiEdu back then if you have questions (although it's pretty well documented in various places). While I never oversaw student work, I don't want to mislead you to think I never had anything to do with the student program. Before WikiEdu existed I experimented with teaching with Wikipedia on my own with decent results, which is why, for the first few months of 2015, they asked me to fill in for someone on leave, interfacing with instructors and helping to develop and enforce best practices for assignment design (no English majors editing medical articles please, no grading based on what "sticks" in an article, no giant classes, no requiring community labor-intensive processes like GAN, remember Wikipedians are not your TAs, etc.). Then I stayed on and, for the rest of the time, I became the guy who ran the smaller/experimental programs, the most significant of which was starting a program to teach subject-matter experts/professors to contribute to their areas of expertise via various academic associations. And before that was the modest visiting scholars program ↗, other "community engagement" types of programs, occasional blog writing, etc. Anyway, I know you're not a big fan of WikiEdu, and I'm not trying to persuade you -- just want the record to be straight. Thanks again for this message. &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 00:25, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 5



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Wikicurious: WNC Women's History Month Edit-a-thon ↗ will be a hybrid event held at the Pack Memorial Library ↗ in Asheville on Tuesday, March 24, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. This event is focused on amplifying the stories and figures of under-represented Appalachian artists, writers, and other creators, particularly women in honor of Women's History Month, as well as people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and other disenfranchised communities. Get the full details and register on the meetup page ↗.

Wikicurious: Country Music's Mythology ↗ will be an in-person event held at the historic Love House in downtown Chapel Hill on Wednesday, March 25, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. At the event, you'll have a chance to improve Wikipedia's coverage of emerging and underrepresented country musicians, see an exhibit of photos and fan culture from the Grand Ole Opry, and hear from special guest Rissi Palmer ↗, singer-songwriter and host of the podcast ''Color Me Country''. Get the full details and register on the meetup page ↗.

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''The Signpost'': 31 March 2026



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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 6



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Robert B. Silvers ↗


Hello, Rhododendrites. I'm following up on the previous discussion at this article (with respect to which, you may recall, I have a family COI). No one has suggested any specific POV or other neutrality issues affecting the article since that last discussion, and therefore, would you kindly remove the tag at the top of the article (or else initiate some process that could lead to its removal)? All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:24, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

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Wiki-Play Friday tomorrow, plus April 16 CUNY Archives Editathon and April 29 WikiWednesday Salon



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''This Month in GLAM'': March 2026



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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 7



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''The Signpost'': 21 April 2026



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April 29: WikiWednesday NYC Salon



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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC ↗ community for our '''WikiWednesday Salon ↗''' at Prime Produce ↗ in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan ↗, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 8



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''This Month in GLAM'': April 2026



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May 27: WikiWednesday NYC Salon, focus on wiki+law school and wiki+ai



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''This Month in GLAM'': May 2026



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Dinosaur bird size



Off-topic for AN as you mention, so thought I'd clarify here. The portion of Dinosaur size ↗ I quote is confusing not because it mentions birds as dinosaurs, but because the first sentence defines the topic as an aspect of "dinosaur paleontology", which the study of bee hummingbirds is definitely not. This sort of mishmash makes the article read as if different topics are being crowbarred together. There is a 2022 cleanup tag and the talkpage does mention that the article "obviously needs a major overhaul", so perhaps that early contradiction is just one symptom of wider article issues. CMD (talk) 16:57, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

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June 24: WikiWednesday NYC Salon, Pride Month Edition



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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11



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July 10: Free Culture Friday / Wiki Loves Fútbol Watch Party



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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12



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Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment



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Wikipedia:WWNYC ↗


Hello, Rhododendrites,

This page is showing up as a broken redirect on :Category:Wikipedia soft redirects to nonexistent targets ↗ but that is not the way it appears to me as an editor. Most of all I don't want to tamper with this page if it's been working in the past for decades. But if it keeps on showing up as an error, I think at some point it will just be deleted from an admin who wants to clear this category so maybe your or Pharos can review the Wiki code and find a way to edit it so it won't set off red flags. I'm not sure what happened today that caused it to appear as an error, maybe some editing at the target page. But I thought I'd let you and Pharos know. Good luck on your summer events! I really wish I could be there despite the humid NYC weather. <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">'''''L'''''iz</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">'''''Read!''''' ↗ '''''Talk!'''''</sup> 23:27, 9 July 2026 (UTC)
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:Hi {{u|Liz}}. It does sort of make sense that it would show up in that category. Technically <nowiki>Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}</nowiki> doesn't exist, and maybe there's no other magic word-in-a-soft-redirect-template out there. It is at least ''functional'', so I guess I have that to argue for if it's deleted. :) I guess I forgot that you were no longer in the area -- are you headed to Edmonton for Wikicon this year? &mdash; <samp><span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span> <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk ↗</sup></samp> \\ 00:39, 10 July 2026 (UTC)