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Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy New Year

2024

Be it filled with music! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:22, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Happy new year to you too I like the card! DanCherek (talk) 00:32, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you! - The 2023 picture is from the Abel Fest in Köthen, celebrating the tercentenary of Carl Friedrich Abel, a viol virtuoso, composer and concert organiser in London (together with Bach's youngest son), born on 22 December 1723 in Köthen, where the new catalogue of his works was introduced, - my story today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:30, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Could you perhaps help to lilypond for Joy to the World? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:32, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Not really sure at the moment how to add separate lyrics for the tenor/bass around measure 13... DanCherek (talk) 02:20, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you so much! We sang from it yesterday. How would I omit the third stanza? I remember the note as extra-long, such as a measure longer ;) - I made a small correction to "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen" which would also lead to different placement of syllables, for soprano and alto, but think that we altos are flexible enough to adapt ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:37, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Third stanza now omitted above. Do you mean the note in the 7th measure ("King"), held for an extra two beats? That's how I've often heard it too. DanCherek (talk) 13:16, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, exactly. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:37, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Added that too. DanCherek (talk) 14:13, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you taken, - please add to article! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:17, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hey Gerda, I took a look but am not sure about where to put it or what to do with the existing Lyrics section, and am a bit too busy elsewhere to delve into this. Feel free to use the lilypond yourself if you'd like, no credit needed for the transcription. DanCherek (talk) 00:56, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Check out today's story for where I used Joy to the world! - I have a DYK on the Main page, but my story would be different, about Figaro, - this Figaro. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:13, 12 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Awesome! If you ever need help with transcribing some of the other songs on that subpage just let me know. DanCherek (talk) 23:13, 12 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Next year ;) - thank you for the offer! - On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:00, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Looking at the amount of warnings this user has received, and the fact that they have now created an attack page, I think an indef block may be in order. Patient Zero^talk 00:05, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yep, I was taking a closer look when I got this message and will be applying an indef momentarily. Thanks, DanCherek (talk) 00:06, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Isabelle Belato has beat me to it! DanCherek (talk) 00:06, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Just saw that too! Thank you both for your help today. :-) Patient Zero^talk 00:07, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I was really scared to death by a message from a spam account... The content is on your account, I'm just here to give you a heads up. That kind of scary talk is really unsettling and uncomfortable, if you understand Chinese.

Please remove those spam messages, thank you. ئىشلەتكۈچى_مۇنازىرىسى:DanCherek Ansony89 (talk) 01:06, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello Ansony89, thank you for letting me know. I have removed those messages from my talk page on ugwiki. My guess is it's because I blocked that vandal here on the English Wikipedia a few days ago. DanCherek (talk) 02:58, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, this edit popped up on recent changes & I saw you'd reverted them prior for copyright violations - is this new edit potentially WP:CLOP? I'm not too sure, so I figured I'd bring it to your attention. Schrödinger's jellyfish ✉ 03:19, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. In my opinion, yes, still a bit too closely paraphrased, with lots of phrases still copied over, and I've reverted the edit. DanCherek (talk) 03:28, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

January 17 2024

Hello Mr. Cherek:

Question: last year I created a wikipedia page, which was deleted for non notabliity. But it seems to have popped up on Everybodywiki. How can we delete the page from Everybodywiki? I would like to do that for personal privacy ID reasons.

Sincerely, Xavier Serif --Xavier Serif (talk) 15:08, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Xavier Serif, I am actually not too sure because unfortunately, Everybodywiki takes a very liberal approach to copying stuff from Wikipedia whether or not they should. I looked at their FAQ at en.everybodywiki.com/Everybodywiki:FAQ , and they have a section titled "How to delete an article?" where they indicate that you can contact them if you have privacy conerns related to the subject of the article. I recommend reading that section and then scrolling to the bottom (click the blue square to get their contact info). DanCherek (talk) 02:37, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Dan,

I've been updating the International Diabetes Federation Wikipedia page. I noticed today that you had deleted all the edits made.

Could you tell me why so that I can avoid this happening again?

Thank you in advance for your feedback.

Justine DiaAdvo (talk) 10:53, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi DiaAdvo, here are a few different issues here. If you are employed by the International Diabetes Federation, you'll need to provide the proper disclosure according to WP:COIDISCLOSEPAY — that means disclosing the relationship on your user page, on the talk page of the article, or in your edit summaries. This disclosure is required by the Terms of Use. Be sure to read the policies and guidelines on paid editing and conflicts of interest.

Most of your additions were copied from the IDF's website. Previously published content may be released by the copyright owner into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license by following the instructions at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. I will point out, however, that Wikipedia is primarily interested in what reliable sources have to say about a particular subject, not what it says about itself, and articles should be based on reliable, independent, secondary sources. Most of the content that you added to the article was promotionally written and not neutral enough for an encyclopedic article.

Once you have reviewed the conflict of interest guidelines, I recommend suggesting any future edits that you'd like to make on the talk page of the article, using edit requests. You may find the Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard helpful. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 13:27, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@DanCherek

Thank you for these precisions. I work for the IDF and have repurposed the content from the IDF website.

Thank you for pointing out these conflicts of interest and the procedures to follow. I will take into account your suggestions for future editing. DiaAdvo (talk) 15:28, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

How to make page I want to make page about Kalila finch AminDaBied (talk) 05:44, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi AminDaBied, Wikipedia generally requires that people or things have several reliable, independent sources containing significant coverage of them before an article can be created. Is this the case? DanCherek (talk) 15:13, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi! Thanks for blocking User:StokeCityOnTheMarch as a sock - you beat me to the report I made here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/AttackTheMoonNow. Could you please close it?

Thanks and have a great rest of your day! Staraction (talk | contribs) 16:08, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Never mind - it's been closed now. Thanks again! Staraction (talk | contribs) 16:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

No problem, and thanks for reporting. DanCherek (talk) 16:28, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Dan Thank you for your message and the clarification regarding your editing. That's very useful and I actually looked how I could contact you personally to discuss this. I am the author of these contents and the paper is an open access material where (I believe) the copyrights are still with me (the author) as suggested by the "(c) The Authors" mentioned on the first page of the article. Would that be enough to be acceptable or what else need to be done. I am writing these lines in this Wikipedia page as a way to inform people - I don't have any other agenda. I also noticed you removed my previous input (from Nov). this is the same case. I am the author of these words and here again the original article is an open access material, with again (c)The Authors mentioned on the first page. Looking forward to hearing from you Ch Bene PS this IP is not a shared address 213.136.18.174 (talk) 11:40, 17 January 2024 (UTC) 196.189.58.113 (talk) 15:37, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, thanks for the message and for your interest in contributing to Wikipedia. There are several issues here. First, there is a standard process to verify that previously published content is being released by the copyright owner into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. This process is outlined at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials § Granting us permission to copy material already online.

However, even if the text is verified and released, there are some other things to note. Since you are adding information from and citing your own work, this constitutes a conflict of interest – as defined by our guideline on that – and so it would be best to disclose that on your user page (if you create an account), on the talk page of the article, or in your edit summaries; or to propose your edits on the talk page using an edit request. I would also say that parts of your previous edits, as directly copied from the publication, were not really appropriate for the Wikipedia article. For instance, we don't use first-person, and I think the proposed section is too long for the subject, since it's important to maintain a balanced approach to overview articles like that one. DanCherek (talk) 15:55, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I've been working on a page for the past few days relating to a project I'm a part of, I would just like a overall review over it, I still have to review it with the group also and see if I need to add more so its likely unfinished. --ZethyHere (talk) 20:54, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi ZethyHere, happy to help. I took a look at your draft and here are some thoughts:

• The most important consideration for any potential Wikipedia article is the amount of significant coverage that the topic has received in reliable, independent sources. This is how we determine what goes into the article, and even whether it should be an article at all. At present, the draft doesn't really establish the notability of the EM2024 project because the only citations (based on the Further Reading section) are to the project's own website or affiliated (NASA / Sonoma State) websites.
• The "References" section is rather unconventional for a couple reasons. We don't use first-person voice in Wikipedia, and usually references refer to citations to the sources that directly support the statements given in an article. So for instance you might write The idea of the project was created in 2011, by Hugh Hudson from the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. and then include a citation that links to the website that verifies that.

DanCherek (talk) 00:03, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks, I did the references rather quickly and I'll probably properly source them in the next few days and remove the first person. ZethyHere (talk) 04:09, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello Dan, I recently updated my references to have proper citations. I have also added a few more independent sources. I do think as the day of the event gets closer more independents will cover it. Can you do a quick review of the references and further reading? I am assuming I will likely have to use other sources in the references as all of it comes from the projects website. ZethyHere (talk) 17:29, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Looking better. Yeah, I agree that eventually more independent sources would be really helpful in terms of establishing notability. Also, I notice there is a lot of additional information being presented in the citation itself, which is not how articles are typically formatted (for example, look at the references section of today's featured article, Space Invaders). If it is actually relevant information, it probably belongs in the article body; otherwise, just the citation information (website, publisher, date, etc.) is fine. DanCherek (talk) 23:20, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]