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Thank you today for SMS Pommern, introduced (in 2018): "Another one of my articles on German battleships, this one was the only battleship of any type on either side to be sunk at the Battle of Jutland - her loss accounted for about a third of German deaths in the battle. I wrote the article and it passed a Milhist A-class review several years ago, but recently revamped it with new sources"! - Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda! Parsecboy (talk) 12:47, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy birthday, Gabriel Dessauer - enjoy music he played, Dance Toccata. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:24, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

More music, Guy Morançon, playing Mendelssohn on a great instrument, illustrated with historic images. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:25, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

It was the first time that I was involved (a bit) in a pictured ITN blurb. More pics of buildings by him on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

That was a fascinating article - I didn't know anything about Gehry, though I've been to a couple of his buildings. Nice job helping to bring his article up to snuff for the news! Parsecboy (talk) 13:36, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! I didn't know much either, and also have been to some buildings, Bilbao (I thought right after opening but looking closer it was in 2005), the Paris one several times (there's an annual conference), Berlin, Hanover, and Herford because a relative lives there who appeared on its stage ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:34, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

ps: today's story continues the Dessauer birthday with the image Colin Mawby's lead pic is taken from. A composer who had most of the piece ready a year before the premiere, unheard elsewhere. As the Guggenheim Bilbao ready both on time and on budget. Did you look into the videos? Two again today, one where you see him conducting his work, and one that we like to sing for fun (usually for Easter). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:39, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Sadly, not yet - I've been bogged down most of the day doing year-end performance reviews. The joys of being a manager! I'll have to find some time to check them out. Parsecboy (talk) 21:24, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Understand! - Laughter for Christmas - enjoy the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:26, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda, you as well! Parsecboy (talk) 11:39, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, happening ;) - Thank you today for the 2009 Moltke class battlecruiser! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:20, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda! I finally got around to making significant improvements earlier this year using a book that's been on my shelf since 2014 or so! Parsecboy (talk) 11:50, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

I've got a guy who's insisting on changing the Ships paragraph for a bunch of RN capital ship classes to Ships in Class. Dunno if he's done it to any of yours, but I'm on my second round of reverts so far. He's also complicating the infoboxes for Dreadnought and the Invincible-class BCs by adding the relationship between them, which is better saved for the main body, IMO.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:29, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I saw them do it to Iron Duke-class battleship, but that's the only one in my watchlist. I don't care all that much about it, but edits like this are definitely not an improvement. Parsecboy (talk) 23:35, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Agreed, but I'd have probably been willing to let the others slide if he hadn't capitalized "Class". That was just offensive.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:42, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Huh, they didn't do that to the Iron Duke article. Parsecboy (talk) 14:29, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

It was Flognar editing logged out. See User talk:Flognar#"Ships" or "ships in class" headings in ship class articles.-- Toddy1 (talk) 13:07, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw them pop up on my watchlist on a few of the articles they edited. I don't know that the section titles matters all that much, though the internal links issue you mentioned on their talk page is a valid one. Parsecboy (talk) 16:17, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Hoi Parsecboy, I noted you've modified the infobox ship in some articles, introducing sections. I see a bot has modified likewise some of the articles I'm expanding. When i open the editor of a ship infobox, i get now only one field for each section, where i can edit the source of the sub-infoboxes. I'm struggling a bit with this change, i'm usually not editing source. Could you give some more context about this introduction of sections or redirect me to some explanation page ? Klutserke (talk) 20:48, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Hey Klutserke - there have been discussions going back to 2022 about "correcting" the ship infobox ecosystem, since they're not actually infoboxes, they're actually just tables. For example, there's this recent discussion, and then this one currently on WT:SHIPS about the implementation of the conversion.

I started converting articles in my watchlist in part because I knew the bot was eventually coming and it's annoying when your list explodes because a bot just updated one or two thousand articles (so I figured if I got ahead of it, it'd minimize the disruption) - but also because I wanted to figure out exactly how the templates worked and what would mess them up (and I have a pretty good sense of it now). I only ever edit in source, since that's how I started editing almost 20 years ago (which feels wild to say!), so I don't know how it looks in the visual editor. Parsecboy (talk) 16:16, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Thx for giving this context. Let's go with the flow then, and start editing in source mode. It will make me feel either 20 years younger or either 20 years older :) Klutserke (talk) 17:24, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Haha, I make no promises on feeling younger! Parsecboy (talk) 17:35, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

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300 years ago, a Bach cantata was born: happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:56, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Happy new year, Gerda! Parsecboy (talk) 00:44, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

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) 20:42, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

20 January is the 100th birthday of David Tudor (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13, if we go by date instead of occasion as he would have thought, so see my story for last Sunday, and celebrate ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:30, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Congrats on another OTD, and another interesting read! I haven't done much writing lately - have been busy helping to clear some maintenance categories relating to the conversion of {{infobox ship}}. But soon, I'll get back to it! Parsecboy (talk) 13:04, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

The High Seas Fleet gets a little taller whenever you work on it. Thanks! Bigturtle (talk) 02:12, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! It's a little wild to think I've been working on these articles since 2007 - and there's still a ways to go! Parsecboy (talk) 12:51, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Parsecboy!

Happy New Year! Parsecboy, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. GGOTCC 00:00, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages. GGOTCC 00:00, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

And the same to you, GGOTCC! Let's look forward to another productive year writing and reviewing content! Parsecboy (talk) 00:44, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Happy new year Parsecboy, and congrats on 200 reviews at GAN! A note on this milestone has been left in this edition of the Wikipedia:Good Article Gazette. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | edits) 02:42, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, and happy new year to you as well! I've been trying to reduce the imbalance I racked up over the years - at 200 reviews and 737 GAs, so a little better than 4 to 1 now! Parsecboy (talk) 12:51, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello, back in 2019, you deleted this page to make way for a page move. Would you mind considering undeletion *just* the very earliest edit (the one with content), so the page history is complete? It's listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge/13 (last updated in 2018), but in this case the history merge now just involves undeleting that edit. I know from this script that the edit in question was made by the same person and I know from the percentage of text changed in the history merge report that it's the same text, but it's just ... the principle of the thing for me and I think timestamps should be preserved as much as possible. I know not everyone would do a history merge in this situation and I'm particularly extreme about doing them in cases where there's a single author, but if I could, I'd definitely do the undeleetion. But since you're the deleting admin, I'll let you decide what to do. Thanks for your consideration. Graham87 (talk) 12:43, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Sure, I can do that. I don't know that there's a lot of point in merging it in, since it was the original edit in a cut-and-paste move, but it also doesn't hurt anything. Parsecboy (talk) 13:00, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

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For the record, I wrote "we are a generalist encyclopedia, not specialist literature" before actually reading your earlier post... :-) Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 17:23, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Ha, it seems they do think alike! I didn't even read the initial post closely enough to notice it was AI - I had already seen the editor pop up on several articles edit-warring over it, so knew what it was about. Had I seen their 3rd argument in their original post, I'd have said things that are unfit for print. Parsecboy (talk) 17:26, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

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		I hereby award you the Coast Guard Star for your editing of the infoboxes in Wikipedia articles of many U.S. Coast Guard cutters as well as those of other naval ships. For your efforts, I award you the Coast Guard Star. This is only the thirteenth time this award has been made. Thank you and Semper Paratus! Cuprum17 (talk) 20:02, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Cuprum! It was a bit of a job, but we got it done. I appreciate joining a very elite club! Parsecboy (talk) 21:18, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Back in December, I remember you mentioned that you were busy with IRL stuff. It's good to see you nominate more articles for GA! I hope everything is well. GGOTCC 05:16, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! It was really only around the holidays - I've actually still been on wiki (but got busy helping cleaning up after the ships infobox conversion that started late last year). 4,000-some odd edits later, I'm back to content work! Parsecboy (talk) 11:26, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

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Instead of going to the talk page of every article you undid my edits on, I'm going to spare us both the headache of having the same conversation in twelve places by just tackling it all here. Why did you undo every single one of my edits when all of my points are visible on photographs of the ships in question? EdDarkTrooper (talk) 15:09, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

@EdDarkTrooper: We rely on reliable sources that can verify the content in articles. It's one of Wikipedia's core content policies that we are all bound to follow. If you can provide a citation along with your changes, that would go a long way to getting the edits to stick.

Relatedly-ish, a change like this would imply that Friedman's book is supporting the newly changed information; changing that information would also need to address the existing citation's placement to maintain text-source integrity. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 15:23, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Alright, just for clarity, how would one cite for example, a photograph showing off, that for instance, the South Carolina-class battleships were reduced to 12 anti-torpedo boat guns at the end of their careers? EdDarkTrooper (talk) 15:35, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

We don't cite photographs, we have to use reliable, secondary sources as I linked in the edit summaries where I reverted your edits. Parsecboy (talk) 21:14, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

that seems counterintuitive as a picture of a warship provides information that is more accurate than any secondary source, but oh well EdDarkTrooper (talk) 21:23, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

The reader and the editor cannot be trusted to properly identify the item in question. It needs an authoritative source that states that the item was on the ship.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 22:11, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

The number of times I have seen photos wildly misidentified by official sources are too numerous to count, so as Sturm said, simply looking at a photo that purports to be a certain thing is not a feasible approach. Moreover, it constitutes original research, which our policy prohibits. Parsecboy (talk) 23:10, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

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