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On 20 March 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Barbara Newman, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that scholar Barbara Newman suggests that the multiple female figures in medieval Christianity were "distinctive creations of the Christian imagination" that deepened the medieval vision of God? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Barbara Newman. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

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muget ir nu wunder hœren sagen
Thank you, user interested in medieval mysticism and translation studies on a scientific basis, for quality articles such as Barbara Newman, for introducing recent scholarship and exquisite edit summaries, for quoting "muget ir nu wunder hœren sagen", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Thank you Altenmaeren for your help and constructive feedback concerning Mark Dooley's page. AlexandraSl — Preceding undated comment added 11:32, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Five years ago, you were recipient no. 1178 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:26, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

...still reads like a resume. I'm pruning it some. Drmies (talk) 20:02, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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On 2 December 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Odyssey Opera, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in the past three years, Odyssey Opera has performed the Boston premieres of Korngold's Die tote Stadt and Massenet's El Cid? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Odyssey Opera. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

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Hey Altenmaeren, I said "a" date of composition because the very notion of "composition" with a date on it is just a difficult/different notion in OE poetry, or indeed in any oral poetry. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 19:07, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, sorry Drmies, I think I hastily misread how that phrasing went - my apologies! Altenmaeren (talk) 19:16, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No no, don't go changing it back or something like that--rather, help me figure out how we can say this better. Obviously my phrasing didn't work for you, so it may need tweaking. And in a single sentence...not an easy thing to do. If I were in class (and I just got done teaching Beowulf ten minutes ago) I would use air quotes for "composition". Drmies (talk) 19:18, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there and thanks for your work on the Avital Ronell entry! I wanted to give you a head's up that edits should only be marked "minor" if they could never be the subject of a dispute. So, fixing typos, italicizing a book title if someone forgot, that sort of thing. Otherwise err on the side of leaving them as regular ("major") edits--the reason it matters is that some editors filter their watchlist to exclude minor edits, trusting that a change marked minor requires no review. So it's an important point of community trust. Thanks much. Innisfree987 (talk) 18:01, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! That's a really good point, and I'll definitely err towards leaving things non-minor in the future. My bad! Altenmaeren (talk) 18:03, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I have reverted your revision from yesterday (6 October 2019) as the old version, which said the manuscript "was produced between 975 and 1025" was correct based on the reference to Colin Chase's The dating of Beowulf (1997). [1] If you want to add information from another source you need to add a reference. TSventon (talk) 08:33, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Altenmaeren. Thank you for your work on Morris Eaves. Moriwen, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

It doesn't seem obvious to me that this passes the notability guideline for academics, especially with an obituary as the major source. The Blake Archive seems like his best claim to notability; I'm not sure it's sufficient, but more focus on that certainly wouldn't hurt.

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@Moriwen::Thanks! I'll look for more sources to make the notability more clear. I was under the impression, perhaps from long ago, that full professorship at a research university was itself sufficient notability -- that is to say, because the tenure and promotion process establishes the importance of scholarship even in areas that may seem niche to an outsider, wikipedians ought to trust the judgment of the university committees that granted promoted him to tenure and to Full. Is my memory on this mistaken? Thanks for taking a look! Altenmaeren (talk) 17:41, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't seem like a crazy argument but I don't think I see it reflected in WP:PROF, so I'm gonna guess it's one of those things that's changed over time.

(BTW, (a) thanks for being the nicest person I've interacted with on new page review, (b) love your work on medieval mysticism!)— Moriwen (talk) 18:00, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Moriwen: Ah, these things of course aren't set in stone - I should keep up with them a bit better I think! Thank goodness the endowed chair made the task easier (and always nice to celebrate a donor, I guess). Oh wow, thank you, I suppose it's always easier to be grumpy online as opposed to in person. Trying to assume good faith as regularly as I can! and super glad to hope that you find the various mystic pages I've worked on the most look a bit better than they did when I first came across them! Altenmaeren (talk) 19:35, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]