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Testing[edit]

I created you a personal sandbox MMS List, it is at User:Innisfree987/SandboxMMS - feel free to change it anyway you want. I usually use something like this before sending any MMS's out (especially to BIG lists) to make sure it has a good timestamp and no formatting errors on delivery. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 10:03, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, Xaosflux, for helping me get set up and for the good idea to use this demo habitually to test messages before the big list goes out! Much appreciated. Innisfree987 (talk) 19:26, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Spencer Ackerman article[edit]

Hi Innisfree987, I just wanted to ping you once again and let you know that I found some time last week to implement the previously discussed changes to the Spencer Ackerman article. I've removed of the material that relied entirely on primary sources and brought in as many secondary sources as I could find. WRD2030 (talk) 20:56, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@WRD2030, thanks for this head’s up! I saw your ping that you were planning on it but missed the edits. Look forward to reading. Innisfree987 (talk) 23:15, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Innisfree987, I just saw your latest changes. Are interviews with the subject (such as the 2009 CJR piece) not usable for a biography? WRD2030 (talk) 18:35, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@WRD2030, per WP:BLP, such primary-sourced (ie not fact-checked) claims should not be used when they are "unduly self-serving", as is very much the case with Ackerman describing his own work as ‘a new approach’ and ‘detailed and innovative coverage’. I’ll add the overall promotionalism of the entry continues to concern me. I’ll continue editing as I have bandwidth. Innisfree987 (talk) 18:47, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Innisfree987, I see. Thank you for clarifying. WRD2030 (talk) 19:46, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Innisfree987![edit]

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Thank you Abishe! Likewise to you! Innisfree987 (talk) 02:00, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year![edit]

Happy New Year Innisfree987! Hope you are doing well. Wishing the new year brings along with it all the joy and happiness you can wish for. Ktin (talk) 02:09, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This is so kind. Thank you @Ktin, and all the same wishes for you as well! Innisfree987 (talk) 03:11, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Epiphany[edit]

January songs

in friendship

Happy new year, in friendship! - Epiphany seems like a good day to say so, after a Bavarian peasants' mass (sorry, on the train home, no recent pics of that - just keep watching), and two DYK, even with a pic I took. I enjoyed meetings with friends in real life, and wish you many of those. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:56, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy new year to you as well my friend @Gerda Arendt! The sparklingly sunlight on fresh snow seems like a very auspicious way to start the year—thank you! Innisfree987 (talk) Innisfree987 (talk) 21:38, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks you! 2022 began happily with vacation. I uploaded images but stopped at 22 January - click on songs. 30 January means 10 years of Precious. It's also the birthday of a friend, - I'm so happy I mentioned his DYK on his 90th birthday when he was still alive. I have a great singer on DYK whom I heard, Elena Guseva, and wait for a Recent death appearance of Georg Christoph Biller whom I saw in action. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:37, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Lani Guinier[edit]

On 9 January 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Lani Guinier, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 11:58, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for André Leon Talley[edit]

On 20 January 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article André Leon Talley, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 09:00, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Take the Lead contest 2021[edit]

Thank you for participating in the Take the Lead contest. You are one of the winners and to sort out the prize could you email me at karla.marte@wikimedia.org.uk to coordinate. Karla Marte(WMUK) (talk) 11:56, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

100 DC Women[edit]

	100 DC Women
	Jessamyn has given everyone a New Year's present by creating this amazing award for last year's participants. Thank you for your work and hope to see you at this year's contest in May. Gamaliel (talk) 19:55, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

February songs[edit]

February songs

frozen

Today is a feast day for which Bach wrote several cantatas including Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, which was on DYK 10 years ago and TFA 4 years ago. I'm less happy that Georg Christoph Biller had to wait days for a Main page appearance under recent deaths, and then stayed not even for a full day. It would have been so meaningful today, with the man in the cantata saying he can depart in joy and peace. - The February pic was taken in memory last year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:00, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I like my talk today (keeping Biller a bit longer, and even explaining how it works), and managed to picture two more vacation days --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:46, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I’m happy Biller had a little longer moment; it’s so difficult when RDs are given short shrift. And thank you for these shimmering images, @Gerda Arendt! Innisfree987 (talk) 01:17, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Today, I decorated my talk with a Bach cantata. I heard it last year when missing RexxS began, and "not letting go" was a theme. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:36, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

my joy - more on my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:57, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt, congratulations!! Wow, TFA. Perhaps one day, for me… Innisfree987 (talk) 20:35, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

thank you, and why not? ... let me know if I can help, - I'm proud that several recent first FAs began on my talk. Valentine's Day edition, with spring flowers and plenty of music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:39, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

stand and sing --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:11, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I took the pic in 2009 that was on the German MP yesterday, with the song from 1885, in English Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:14, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt, thank you so much for sharing these good wishes. How much we can all use them right now. And thank you also for the offer to help me with a TFA! I hope to take you up on that sometime—as you can probably tell from my scant wiki presence, I am quite overextended at the moment but I hope for a time that allows that project! Thank you again. Innisfree987 (talk) 18:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March songs[edit]

March songs

Understand - listening to the charity concert mentioned here. I created the articles of the composer and the soprano. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:55, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Now, you can also listen on YouTube, and more music, the piece by Anna Korsun begins after about one hour, and the voices call "Freiheit!" (freedom, instead of "Freude", joy). Music every day, pictured in songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:38, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

St. Patrick's Day, more music and today's sunset --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:54, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

on Bach's birthday: the places where I sang his Dona nobis pacem --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:31, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Prayer is on the Main page, finally + new flowers --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:05, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, beautifully done @Gerda Arendt. Thank you for that (along with so many other beautiful things.) Innisfree987 (talk) 23:18, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

thank you! - Bach's No. 1 today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:01, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sunday flowers and sounds, don't miss the extraordinary marriage of the beginnings of the theme of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, and Prayer for Ukraine - here! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:58, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Would appreciate your help[edit]

Hello Innisfree,

I trust you're well. This article contains a voice recording of the subject's name. I have tried to replicate it on another article but don't seem to know how it was done.

Can you help me with an explanation or a resource I could read. I'd be most grateful.

Thanks --OtuNwachinemere (talk) 16:35, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@OtuNwachinemere, I’m afraid I don’t know! You could ask at the WP:Help desk or WP:The Teahouse. Happy editing, Innisfree987 (talk) 20:33, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Adding product images to Ormonde Jayne wiki page[edit]

Hello Innisfree,

I hope you are well. I have tried to add relevant images before to this article but they were removed due to licensing issues.

The images creator (johneselby) has signed up to Wiki Commons and has uploaded the relevant images to be uploaded so that they can be freely used under the Wiki Commons license. The images are:

Man-Woman

Signature-Packs

Ormonde_Jayne_Perfumes_Packaging

Would you be able to advise the next steps for these to be uploaded to the Ormonde Jayne page?

Also, can you advise of the process to get the logo to be licensed so that this can also be used on the Wiki page?

Many Thanks for your help!

Jerryrayjoseph (talk) 10:49, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Jerryrayjoseph, I’m going to reply at the entry’s talk page. Innisfree987 (talk) 18:15, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Hugo Torres Jiménez[edit]

On 13 February 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Hugo Torres Jiménez, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 11:07, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AFC Helper News[edit]

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

• AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
• The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 February 2022[edit]

Your draft article, Draft:Florence Weber[edit]

Hello, Innisfree987. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Florence Weber".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:59, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

April Editathons from Women in Red[edit]

Women in Red Apr 2022, Vol 8, Issue 4, Nos 214, 217, 226, 227, 228 Online events: New: Gender studies | French overseas territories New Contest (Apr/May/Jun): Translation contest Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of our main page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:45, 22 March 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

The Signpost: 27 March 2022[edit]

The Signpost: 24 April 2022[edit]

AfroCine: 2021 Months of African Cinema Contest Winners[edit]

Greetings! After successfully completing the 2021 Months of African Cinema Global Contest on 30 November 2021, we are happy to announce the winners in the contest! Over 4,000 articles were created across 17 language Wikipedias, surpassing all expectations and placing the contest firmly as one of the most successful article-writing contests on Wikipedia. A big thank you to you and every single person who created articles during the period of the contest for making this happen! All our winners have now been announced and you can check the complete list here. We'd still be contacting everyone who has won something separately to send over their prizes. Thank you so much for being part of this global event! –Jamie Tubers (talk) 21:31, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

blue and yellow[edit]

April songs

Ukraine day today: Maks Levin DYK, expanding Kyiv Symphony Orchestra (have tickets), and creating Anthony Robin Schneider, the bass who could be heard opening the singing in Beethoven's Ninth twice on 10 March 2022, live in Frankfurt, Germany, and recorded in Auckland, New Zealand, singing "Freiheit!" (freedom) instead of "Freude" (joy), in a tradition started after the Fall of the Wall. In case of interest. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:26, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve just gotten a chance to listen—thank you so much for sharing @Gerda Arendt. Gorgeous and very moving—I did not know about the rewritten tradition. And a beautiful collection for Ukraine day! My goodness, how special to have tickets for the Kyiv Symphony. I hope it’s a wonderful outing. Innisfree987 (talk) 02:29, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

... and now you can listen: Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Luigi Gaggero & Diana Tishchenko (violin) / Kulturpalast Dresden (25 April 2022 on YouTube (that's 25 April in Dresden, a different violinist, but the same program) - ours pictured here --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:54, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

May Women in Red events[edit]

Women in Red May 2022, Vol 8, Issue 5, Nos 214, 217, 227, 229, 230 Online events: New: Women in the Ancient World | British Overseas Territories Contest (Apr/May/Jun): Translation contest (second month) Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman See also: Wikimedia District of Columbia: 100 DC Women contest The Wikipedia Library: #1Lib1Ref Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:53, 30 April 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

DYK for Edith Prentiss[edit]

On 8 May 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Edith Prentiss, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that disability-rights activist Edith Prentiss objected to the title of a documentary about her, Edith Prentiss: Hell on Wheels, for being too mild? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Edith Prentiss. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Edith Prentiss), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 8 May 2022 (UTC) [reply]

May songs

Thank you! - I have a spring song on the same page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:02, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And it’s a round! Such a weakness of mine. Thank you for this smile @Gerda Arendt! Innisfree987 (talk) 01:12, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

.. and it's the round of rounds because it matches so many others, and the first line hits my motto of the year, and I think of a woman whose memory is worse than mine but songs she knows, and we sang it together, four-part, and three of them were together last weekend - see songs --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:31, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

today performances in Ukraine - for Ukraine - for peace, at the bottom an imaginary set of eight DYK - and more May pics--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:18, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination[edit]

I nominated the article on Nina Jankowicz at WP:DYKN. I was going to do this a couple days ago but I forgot -- anyway, I named you as a co-writer since, well, you wrote a bunch of it. I figure it'd be something nice to hang on the ol' userpage (if you don't want to be on it, let me know and I'll take you off). Cheers! jp×g 18:32, 8 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that’s generous of you! And thanks for letting me know. I’ll try to add some more about the books and maybe expand the lede a little before it hits the big show; I think that could improve due weight. Innisfree987 (talk) 00:24, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]