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Congratulations, Wehwalt! The article you nominated, Morgan Bulkeley, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, FrB.TG (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:05, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Congratulations! And thank you for scheduling March! - Today I am happy about a singer on the Main page (at least for the first hours), after TFA the same day last year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:19, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to Seiji Ozawa. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:19, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'm very sorry for his passing. Wehwalt (talk) 23:04, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Improving that article was tough - too much emotion. Missing Vami IV is tougher. - Thank you today for Quarter sovereign, about "the smallest coin in the sovereign range. It doesn't have as long a history as the others, but there's still something to be said about its history, both in the 19th century and more recently." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:37, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I was very sorry to hear about Vami. Wehwalt (talk) 19:31, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! - More music and flowers on Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:55, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Or, to Gilbert & Sullivan fans, it is Frederic's 42nd birthday. Wehwalt (talk) 16:03, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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	Hello, I did not want to crowd up errors with more words, but I just wanted to say, thank you for being friendly, despite my inexperience in the TFA space!  Thank you very much! Geardona (talk to me?) 15:22, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Don't be discouraged. If you see something, let us know. Wehwalt (talk) 15:51, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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thank you for the encouragement! - today in memory of the birthday of a friend who showed me art such as this, and of Vami - I nominated his article Ludwigsburg Palace for TFA rerun on 1 June, but later saw that his most recent one, Boundary Fire (2017), matches the same day, - none of them is closely related to the date, - schedule as variety considerations make it look best. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:12, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Philadelphia Athletics 18, Cleveland Indians 17 (1932), about "one of the most peculiar but exciting games in Major League Baseball history. You'd expect a pitcher who gave up 14 runs and 29 hits to lose the game, or at least not be the winning pitcher wouldn't you? But on the afternoon of July 10, 1932, Eddie Rommel did win that game, coming in as a relief pitcher and pitching 17 innings, and thereby lies a tale ..."! - listen to my story today, thinking of Vami_IV - and the composer is pictured on the Main page, and the discussion on the talk leaves much to be desired ... dona nobis pacem. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:15, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded vacation pics (from back home), at least the first day, - and remember Aribert Reimann. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:27, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some days later, a calf in the mist and chocolate cake, and a story of collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:26, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Royal Maundy, introduced (in 2010): "Royal Maundy is one of those quirky British ceremonies which fascinate everyone else. I believe it has survived as is because of the enthusiasm of the Queen, and something would be lost if her successors do not keep it up. In my opinion, this may well be the best resource on the ceremony out there, as the two books I'm aware of on the ceremony are a bit dated. Thanks to Malleus for looking over, and to Fasach Nua for giving a preliminary check on the images." - those were the times. How fitting today! - I tried to remember Bach's St John Passion on Good Friday, 300 years after the first performance, and was told no it has to be on 7 April, because that was the date of the first performance, - teh rulez. - The Passion on White Sunday, however, doesn't work for me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:08, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you today for Morgan Bulkeley, about "a Gilded Age politician like many another, except that he's in the Baseball Hall of Fame because in 1876, when yet another baseball league was being organized, he was asked to be president, and this happened to be "the league that lasted", as one book about it puts it, the National League. He also had the guts to oppose Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft over the infamous Brownsville Affair, and he spent almost half a century as president of Aetna Life. What more can you ask?" -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:34, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I like to see Appalachian Spring on the Main page today (not by me, just interested and reviewed), and I also made it my story. - How do you like the statue (look up places)? - I was undecided so show three versions ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:24, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The statue is of Hildegard of Bingen, and as it happens, her Physica is on the Main page today, and Marian Anderson as my top story (by NBC, 1939), and below (on my talk) three people with raised arms, - and the place is the cherry blossom in Frauenstein. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:45, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alas, having moved to Florida, I no longer get the cherry blossoms. Still, we have flowers enough. Wehwalt (talk) 19:47, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Surprise! I have good memories of that area, having travelled with friends who lived in Miama. - Thank you today for Kurt Vonnegut, a 2015 collaboration "about the late author Kurt Vonnegut. Always sardonic, and always funny"! - Can you perhaps help me copy-editing Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, with further explanatory prose in the related DYK nomination (on the article talk)? - I have - as you see on my user page - five RD articles to take care of (two on the Main page, one to be nominated today, one soon, one to look at today - Dr. Blofeld made the start), so sadly little time, on top of my language deficiencies. On a brighter note: the music pictured on my talk, and don't miss my story ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:54, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations to another FA (seen below)! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

update: the copy-edit tag on the orchestra is gone, one sorrow less --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:12, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

relief: the last of six RD articles in one week is now on the Main page - yesterday I went to a great recital with many anti-war songs by Jewish composers whose music was banned by the Nazis. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:03, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Wehwalt! The article you nominated, 1912 suspension of Ty Cobb, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Wehwalt. I always hate doing this, but since my FAC for David J. Brewer continues to languish without reviewers, I was wondering if you'd be willing to take a look? There's a cameo from Joseph B. Foraker and a thirty-something William Howard Taft—two Wehwalt FAs in one sentence! Hope you're well. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:34, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Looking forward. Wehwalt (talk) 06:27, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Wehwalt, apologies for this approach, but would you mind reviewing this article (Aston Martin DB9) at FAC? Source review and image review have passed, so I'm extremely enthusiastic, as we have only five FAs on automobiles. Best, and don't feel obliged,  750h+ | Talk  09:06, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will try to get to it but I can't guarantee I will.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:02, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks for the swift response.  750h+ | Talk  13:24, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]