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Thank you for your support and wishes, for all you do for TFA, especially scheduling Falstaff for the New Year, a tribute to Verdi's ultimate wisdom and to Viva-Verdi, - thanks with my review, and the peace bell by Yunshui! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:18, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
Precious again, your " writer famous for one novel (her first), Cold Comfort Farm (1932), a delightful parody which mocks the pretensions of the then fashionable 'loam and lovechild' genre of fiction"! - Will try to have a cantata for Easter, for your planning. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:43, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Brian! Rather than clog up this page I have sent you an email with some thoughts on a possible modus operandi for our joint expedition to climb Mount Shaw. If, by any chance, the email doesn't arrive, perhaps you'd alert me here or on my talk page. I forgot to mention in the email that as the present refs are a complete pig's breakfast we'll need to clean them up, and though (for sheer ignorance) I have adopted a manual, interface-with-Linear-B, format in my work-in-progress, I'm perfectly happy to attempt templates if you prefer. I daresay I'll have to learn sooner or later. Tim riley talk 13:36, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
If you have some time now that you are mostly free of the Cambodian princeling (or so I hope), could you run your eye over William McKinley presidential campaign, 1896? Very little travel was involved. Many thanks.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 00:22, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Brian, I've been working for a spell on Isabella Beeton, who is now at PR for comments and consideration. If you could add me to the end of your review list I'd be much obliged. Cheers – SchroCat ( talk) 19:52, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
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-- Ipigott ( talk) 16:48, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
I've found the original Gramophone review (November 1941, p. 95) which confirms that Koussevitzky's was the first recording. The reviewer, W R Anderson, offered explanatory notes on the piece, and I was enchanted to be told that the second half of Kije's name is from "the Russian expletive 'je' (untranslatable in any English word, but similar in position and meaning to the Latin quidem)." I trust you will include this verbatim in your article: your readers will find it most helpful. I found no recordings issued between Koussevitzky's and Boult's, other than those mentioned in the para on my talk page the other day. Tim riley talk 13:43, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Dear Brian, Many thanks for your recent comments on the Albert Ketèlbey peer review. The article is now at FAC for further comment, should you wish to make any. Many thanks – SchroCat ( talk) 17:08, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
TFA 15 Jan: Dead links
Simon (the nominator) is traipsing around Guatemala for the next week or so. I've invited him to work on the summary, so this one may take a while, but I'll keep an eye on it. - Dank ( push to talk) 01:33, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
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Heaven knows where I found the mentions of the Desormière and Kurtz versions, but here are the details from The Gramophone:
I see you mention a New York ballet version in 1942 ("the usual Fokine rubbish", to quote Alan Bennett); there was a London version too in the same year, by the "Russian Ballet" company (run by Jay Pomeroy) in June of the same year, with choreography by Catherine Devillier, formerly prima ballerina of the Théâtre Impérial de Moscou, and conducted by Anatole Fistoulari. See The Times, 10 June 1942, p. 6 and – rather a find – J P Wearing's The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Tim riley talk 13:22, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
Many thanks for your comments at the recent PR for Isabella Beeton. I have dropped the good lady into FAC for comments and thoughts. If you have time for any, I'd be delighted to hear with them. Cheers – SchroCat ( talk) 15:05, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
This table analyses all featured articles that were potential TFAs as at 14 January 2016, by age since promotion. Excluded are a dozen articles which have been red-tagged as needing reparative work, and a few adjustment that have occurred since I compiled the table.
Subject area | Total | Promoted 2004–2010 | Promoted 2011 | Promoted 2012 | Promoted 2013 | Promoted 2014 | Promoted 2015 |
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MilHist | 223 | 86 | 20 | 23 | 39 | 18 | 37 |
Biology | 154 | 49 | 24 | 16 | 19 | 16 | 30 |
Sports | 121 | 71 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 15 |
Media (films, tv etc) | 108 | 46 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 16 | 21 |
Music (all) | 89 | 47 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 12 |
History and Politics | 79 | 28 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 22 |
Video gaming | 67 | 35 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 8 |
Lit & theatre incl Lang | 60 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 19 |
Transport | 55 | 26 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 3 |
Meteorology | 50 | 33 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
Geography & Geol | 36 | 27 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Art, arch. & archaeology | 33 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 17 |
Royalty and nobility | 25 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
Business & economics (inc. coins) | 25 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
Physics & astronomy | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
Religion etc | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Law | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Culture and society (miscellany) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Sundries (Health, Ed, Eng, Chem) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Totals | 1168 | 486 | 101 | 90 | 143 | 130 | 218 |
Percent | 100 | 41.6 | 8.6 | 7.7 | 12.2 | 11.1 | 18.6 |
This shows that just over 40 percent of all the available FAs are more than 6 years old, although there are considerable variations within particular subject areas. Thus, 75% of the Geography articles predate 2011, as do 66% of the Meteorology and 59% of the Sports articles. Conversely, none of the Business-related articles are older than 2011, as are only 6% of Art and Architecture and 23% of the Literature and Theatre stock. The lack of movement in some of the older stocks is a slight concern, but if the exercise began last year by Sandy & co whereby all the older FAs are checked and brought up to standard is successful, it should be safer to select older FAs for the TFA spot. Brianboulton ( talk) 21:27, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello Brian, a certain old thespian is currently waiting in the wings here for any comments or criticisms. I would be much appreciative for any thoughts offered, if you have the time. Many thanks. Cassianto Talk 00:24, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Now, I'm not so good at reading the entrails of Wikipedia but did you really schedule December 1969 nor'easter for today's featured article back on 7 January? If so that was extraordinarily prescient of you. Or maybe the long-range weather forecasts are much better in the US than here in the UK. Either way, I hope you won't be taken before Arbcom for violating WP:CRYSTALBALL and very best wishes to everyone over there! Thincat ( talk) 17:32, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
I've now started a front porch campaign for its promotion to FA. Though under the circumstances, the front porch will be strictly virtual. I'd be grateful for any comments.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 11:23, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments about the quality of the prose at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Bristol. The article Bristol has since kindly been copy edited by User:Corinne (and others) on behalf of the GOCE. Do you think this has resolved the issues or are there still outstanding problems? Do you think it is worth renominating at TFA requests or shall I just forget it?— Rod talk 20:29, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
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