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DYK for Effective accelerationism

On 3 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Effective accelerationism, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that adherents of effective accelerationism believe that unrestricted technological progress would be a solution for poverty and war? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Effective accelerationism. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Effective accelerationism), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

—Kusma (talk) 12:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

March 2024 GAN backlog drive

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(t · c) buidhe 02:40, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

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Updated Canadian constitution article

Hi WatkynBassett, thought you might be interested in an article I recently expanded: Preamble to the Constitution Act, 1867. I don’t see any potential there for DYK, but might try for GA at some point. Hope all’s well. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 05:48, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi! I really admire your work on the Constitution Act! One day we will hopefully have a Wikipedia where you can access such high quality information on all the provisions of the constitutions of the world! Keep up the great work! WatkynBassett (talk) 12:32, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

And a new article on a constitutional court case: Attorney General of Ontario v Mercer. Subject matter rather dry (does an escheat go to the federal govt or the provincial govt?), but there’s some human interest in the underlying facts. Hope all’s well Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:11, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:32, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I appreciate the kind gesture, Gerda_Arendt. I hope you are well! WatkynBassett (talk) 09:19, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, see my talk for what's going on. Hope you are also well? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:24, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Better than a few month ago :) . As I have no knowledge of music, your talk page is a foreign land for me, but I am always awed by the depth of your appreciation of music. Best, WatkynBassett (talk) 07:44, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for On the German Republic

On 5 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article On the German Republic, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Thomas Mann insisted on omitting a passage on homoeroticism in the English translation of his work "On the German Republic"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/On the German Republic. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, On the German Republic), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Excellent article! I really enjoy your work. I learn a lot from you. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 11:33, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words! Its inspiring to know that someone cares about these rather obscure articles. WatkynBassett (talk) 13:12, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Learning about how Germany and Germans responded to WWI and Weimar is important! Not something that was covered at any point in my anglo-centric education. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 14:06, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Thank you for the article. It's also featured on Portal:Germany. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:05, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

today's story has a pic of a woman holding her cat, a DYK of 5 years ago - the recent pics show 2 orange tip butterflies --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:25, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:51, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

I gave it a listen, thanks for your kind words. I appreciate them! WatkynBassett (talk) 06:14, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Barnstar for Great Genna Martyrdom

		The Original Barnstar
		Thanks for creating this page; it was a good read and I learned a bit about Christianity in Japan. I know it's not much, but I wanted to make sure this good work got recognized somehow. ThaesOfereode (talk) 15:52, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

@ThaesOfereode: Thanks a lot! I really appreciate the barnstar and your skillful copy-edit of the article. WatkynBassett (talk) 19:10, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Great Genna Martyrdom

On 9 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Great Genna Martyrdom, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that all 55 people killed during the Great Genna Martyrdom in 1622 were beatified by Pope Pius IX more than two hundred years later? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Great Genna Martyrdom. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Great Genna Martyrdom), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Great Martyrdom of Edo

On 20 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Great Martyrdom of Edo, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Japanese samurai was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI, nearly 400 years after his execution during the Great Martyrdom of Edo? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Great Martyrdom of Edo. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Great Martyrdom of Edo), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:02, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 15,040 views (626.6 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of June 2024 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

I had to make a change to your otherwise very good Great Martyrdom of Edo article; rounding the coordinates. Google has taken to providing 16-digit coordinates in what is believed to be a copyright trap scheme. That level of precision is in the 1/100th of a micrometre range. WP:OPCOORD calls for always rounding or truncating coordinates (tldr: use DD°MM'SS" or D.dddd° for everything). Also, MOS:ORDER wants the Coord template placed just above the Categories on the bottom of pages. This is because if the Coord template is at the top it causes a glitch in the rendering of the article on certain mobile phones. Abductive (reasoning) 05:36, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

@Abductive: Many thanks for your advice regarding coordinates. I did not know any of this and will keep this in mind in the future. Happy editing! WatkynBassett (talk) 06:12, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Query re Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954)

Hi Watkyn, I’ve got a question for you. I was noodling around and came across this article: Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954), the bad boy of former German princely families. It mentioned that he was seeking a retrial of his conviction for aggravated assault on a fellow in Kenya, but it didn’t say anything more than that. I found some sources that said the retrial was held in 2009, and added that update, but I can’t find out what happened! I’ve not found an English source with the outcome. Would you be interested in poking around to see if you can find out what happened? A source in German would work for the cite. Hope your summer is going well. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:54, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Mr Serjeant Buzfuz! Germany Wikipedia was very helpful in getting a grip on the procedural history of this long trial. I added the relevant outcome to the article. Please feel free to improve it further. If you are interested in this case you can find all the different decisions in this case here: https://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Gericht=OLG%20Celle&Datum=28.04.2011&Aktenzeichen=31%20Ss%207%2F11 (in German ...). I hope this helps & I appreciate you reaching out. Hope you are doing well! WatkynBassett (talk) 20:19, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I knew you would come through. Looks good. I've found one bit that I will add, about the jurisdiction of the German courts. (I'm surviving a hot summer here.) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:19, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Timurnama

On 28 August 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Timurnama, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that according to Charles Melville, poet Hatefi implied that Timur was another Alexander the Great by making Timur the subject of the fourth poem of a quintet? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Timurnama. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Timurnama), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

BorgQueen (talk) 00:02, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Council Working Parties

I see you've got a fascinating one in the DYK Prep Area. As always with your work, I found it an interesting read. I was thinking of reviewing it for a QPQ, but got distracted and someone else snagged it. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:37, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate your kind words, my friend. My reasoning for the article was that a better coverage of the arcane legislative process of the EU would be great. So I thought of doing my part by beginning with one new article. What did you create last? Anything you would recommend for me? I always enjoy reading your law work. WatkynBassett (talk) 07:16, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Nothing new on the law front. Took a bit of a wiki break. I do have a completely different DYK coming up (5X expansion). Looks like it will run on Oct 5: Blue Mountain Pottery. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 12:14, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

I will give it a read! Something different is always nice ... :-) WatkynBassett (talk) 18:39, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Council Working Party

On 2 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Council Working Party, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while Council Working Parties only formally prepare decisions of the Council of the European Union, they de facto shape the majority of those decisions? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Council Working Party. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Council Working Party), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Farnese Artemis

On 9 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Farnese Artemis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that while the objects on the Farnese Artemis (pictured) had initially been identified as female breasts, the museum housing the statue now claims that they depict bull scrotums? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Farnese Artemis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Farnese Artemis), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Fascinating! No German law issue, so I didn't realise it was your work! And along those lines, I too had an art DYK this week, but not so flamboyant: the Blue Mountain Pottery one: October 7 archive. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:14, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

PS - I've added a query to the Error page: Can we use "claim" in a hook on the Main Page, which is not permitted in articles? Not a critique of your excellent article; I'm genuinely perplexed whether that aspect of the MOS applies to hooks. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:16, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

And a query: how did you come across this mysterious ceramic ware? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:18, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

@Mr Serjeant Buzfuz: I actually totally forgot about WP:CLAIM, so I am grateful to you for catching this. A lot of coincidences let to this article: Something happening in real life informed me about the existence of the statue, I searched for it on Wikipedia and found nothing. Then I saw that this statue regularly attracts a lot of interest from social media (see for example: on reddit). That got me researching, which was surprisingly hard, but I somehow got a small (and very hookable) article out of it. Quite nice that we both got DYKs with pictures within a few days from each other on the main page! All the best to you! WatkynBassett (talk) 19:24, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Institutes (Gaius)

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Your GA nomination of Institutes (Gaius)

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Your GA nomination of Institutes (Gaius)

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Overlinking

Only the first of these three links to Institutes (Gaius) is needed. If you were linking externally to the specific passage quoted, then that would be fine (in my opinion), but not to the same article in such proximity.

See WP:REPEATLINK. Thanks for your work on this topic. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:44, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

@Cynwolfe I appreciate your intervention and will not revert. But the specific policy you mentioned explicitly exempts citations/references ("Citations stand alone in their usage, so there is no problem with repeating the same link in many citations within an article"). WatkynBassett (talk) 17:01, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

I didn't undo the linking. I just think it's unnecessary even in the notes to provide multiple links to the same article if the notes are close together and if the section is referencing Gaius multiple times and naming him in the body, as Roman law articles are likely to. However, it could be argued that a direct link to the individual passage cited might be of help in such cases – though I don't usually do that because it seems unwise to rely too much on external links. No big deal. I've been chastised for linking a second time to the same article in the body even though the two links were so widely separated that it seemed quite justified to me on the grounds that one might read one section and not the other. So I'm just interested in the question of what's enough or too much. Cynwolfe (talk) 15:47, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

@Cynwolfe: I must apologize for being rash and simply assuming you undid the linking, sorry. In my opinion every footnote stands for itself: If I want to check the referenced content, I look at the specific footnote and do not take other footnotes into consideration, therefore I always default to linking everything in every footnote. Genererally, I think WP:SEAOFBLUE is sometimes taken too literal. I think your assumption that a second wlink for a seperate section was helpful for the reader was probably entirely correct. Thanks for all your very valuable work on Wikipedia! In a few deacades we will have covered the classics adequately ... WatkynBassett (talk) 19:47, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

No apology is needed, but I appreciate your kind words. I've not had as much time to spend on WP as I would enjoy lately, and on Saturdays (half-watching Premier League matches) I tend to wander around Commons, looking at what we have to offer there and doing some categorization. I've been sandboxing an article for over a year that I really want to pull together but got sidetracked on a minor topic that was nonetheless very educational for me. Best wishes to you, Cynwolfe (talk) 22:41, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Lesser sign of the cross

On 6 November 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lesser sign of the cross, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the practice of some Christians of making the lesser sign of the cross has been traced back to the 11th century? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lesser sign of the cross. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lesser sign of the cross), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 18,566 views (773.6 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of November 2024 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

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