User talk:Aza24
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Your draft article, Draft:Pamela Madsen
Hello, Aza24. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Pamela Madsen".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When 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.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 23:38, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
January music
happy new year! - inviting you to check out "my" story (fun listen today, full of surprises), music (and memory), and places (pictured by me: the latest uploads) any day! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:32, 10 January 2026 (UTC)
Women in Green reviewing drive
Hello Aza24:
This month, February 2026, WikiProject Women in Green is participating in the February 2026 GAN Backlog Drive, in which we're aiming to review as many outstanding Good Article (GA) nominations about women and women's works as possible. If you want to help out, you can check out the project talk page for a list of nominations in need of review (including some WiG originals). If you haven't reviewed a GA nomination before, be sure to check out the reviewing instructions and guidelines and feel free to ask for a mentor to check your work.
We are also working together with a wikithon hosted on 5 February by Wikimedia UK, which will focus on writing and improving articles about women involved in sustainable development. If you want to join the event, feel free to sign up at the eventbrite page; or if you would be interested in providing a 20-minute assessment and/or a full GA review of the submitted articles in the weeks following, put your name down on the project talk page for updates as the event progresses.
We hope to see you there!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
February music
From vacation, so missed some interesting stories, such as about Jubilant Sykes. Today about Richie Beirach, jazz pianist. Which of his music samples would you have chosen? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:35, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
Tamás Vásáry today, who began his career with a Mozart concerto at age 8. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:11, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
Today something new: a 100th birthday of someone alive, György Kurtág! In 2004 I was there when he and his wife played for the Rheingau Musik Festival where he was the featured composer. They played as the 2019 DYK said, on an upright piano, - listen, the last piece was the same. - More pics uploaded, enjoy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:27, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt I was quite scared when I saw all of the sudden activity on Kurtág's page (I thought he had died!). Glad to see he is well, and has apparently even begun learning Chinese! Aza24 (talk) 00:39, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Every time I saw activity on his page I felt that, and once last year, someone actually added a date of death, but I was happy to find no source. When his wife died I tried to get her to Recent deaths, but by the time she had an article, with all the Hungarian and French sources, it was too late to be recent. I then put some energy into changing the rules (not by day of death but by nomination accepted), and was persistent enough. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:18, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Today's main page features four biographies I helped to bring there, two women and two men, three opera singers (one pictured) and an actor, - a record for me, I believe ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:54, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
Template:RPM
Couple of questions about this template: why is it a soft redirect, and why was it created (and/or where is it meant to be used)? Primefac (talk) 12:04, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
- Hey @Primefac, hmm not sure exactly why, this was two years ago. I feel like it was something like I kept searching "Template:RPM" ("requested page move") in the search bar instead of "RM" so simply created this as a reminder. I don't know why it is a soft redirect, probably my misunderstanding of the protocol for making redirects in non-article spaces.
- Feel free to delete it if you don't think it's worthwhile. Aza24 (talk) 19:14, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
March music
Of the four topics I helped to bring to the main page, I'm most proud of a woman's work, so made it my story. As it happens, last year's story OTD was about the woman. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:34, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
on Bach's birthday, a story about my joy --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:48, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
- The best day! Aza24 (talk) 21:32, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- thank you ;) - more Bach in story and music, imagine: four Easter cantatas in today's concert, and more places in Cyprus! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:03, 29 March 2026 (UTC)
The Core Contest returns
The Core Contest—Wikipedia's most exciting contest—returns again this year from April 15 to May 31. The goal: to improve vital or other core articles, with a focus on those in the worst state of disrepair. Editing can be done individually, but in the past groups have also successfully competed. There is £300 of prize money divided among editors who provide the "best additive encyclopedic value". Signups are open now. Cheers from the judges, Femke, Casliber, Aza24.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:20, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
Good Topic
Hello, the bot promoted the MCU phase three topic, but for some reason it didn't close/archive the nomination or remove the nomination templates from any of the articles' talk pages when it did promote it. I can manually remove them, but just letting you know for near future promotions that the bot isn't doing all of the normal stuff for some reason. -- ZooBlazer 19:50, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- @ZooBlazer thanks for catching this, I've gone ahead and manually finished the process. Courtesy ping to @Novem Linguae. Aza24 (talk) 20:54, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- Courtesy link: Wikipedia:Good topics/Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Three films. I don't see that in the bot's log at User:NovemBot/Task1Log. But NovemBot created the page Wikipedia:Good topics/Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Three films. Really weird. According to the bot's error logs, which aren't timestamped for some reason (bad ToolForge/PHP), there's some HTTP errors in there which might be from this run. If so, that suggests that Wikipedia was down at the time the bot tried to edit, which would explain why this run didn't make it into the Task1Log at all.
- That's unlucky. The bot actually does a "dry run" of reading pages and generating what it would submit but not submitting it first. So Wikipedia was probably up for the dry run, then went down during the real run.
- I guess the fix would be to add some retry logic when an HTTP Error is encountered. But probably not worth the engineering time unless this happens more frequently. I'll create a ticket and leave it in the backlog I guess. –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:47, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
- https://github.com/NovemLinguae/NovemBot/issues/100 –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:52, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
April music
Happy Easter! - his oratorio for TFA -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:19, 5 April 2026 (UTC)
Did you know that the article became FA because I was sooo frustrated that neither DYK nor OTD accepted it for Easter last year, the 300th anniversary, and you helpd in the process - thank you! I have a FAC open, in case of interest, 300 on 14 May. There's little hope for a TFA that day (something else pending that is ready and has a 75th anniversary), but I would like it in best shape by then. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:03, 8 April 2026 (UTC)