User talk:SilkTork

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WMF 2021 Audit Report

Welcome!!! Pull up a chair, let's have a nice chat. I'm glad you called. I'll put the kettle on.
SilkTork

I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. Barack Obama

Our text should arise as a summary of the reliable sources, rather than editors first deciding what they want to say and then looking for sources. Agricolae

I am open to recall, using Whpq's wording from their RfA:
"if editors I trust and respect are telling me I should not be an admin, then I would voluntarily resign as an administrator."

June music

Stravinsky pictured on his birthday + Vienna pics - but too many who died --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:46, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

While you are of course invited to check out my recommendations any day, today offers unusually a great writer of novels, music with light and a place with exquisite food. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:18, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious about Gertrud Leutenegger, but her books do not appear to be translated into English. Perhaps that is something you could do? SilkTork (talk) 15:49, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

July music

No, literary translation isn't what I could do. - If you like Brahms, I recommend the streaming of yesterday's concert. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:08, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today is Bastille Day, commemorated by a DYK as my "story" and a visit to the Bastille Opera in "music". I like the interview coming with the story, on the day before the big event, but for pomp and circumstance, the affair with 600 singing children and orchestra, and the singer dressed in the national flag, was also captured on videos, much slower. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:06, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning, RD and DYK, - see my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:33, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Three of "my" recent deaths bios are on the main page right now, one my story today, Gary Karr, and I loved to find his breakthrough concert in 1962 as a video. In my music today I match it with 9 other double bassists, 7 conducted by a person who's birthday is today - coincidence ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:34, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

August music

The last four stories were about Bach's Mass in B minor (because I heard it), and about three who died, including two women. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:38, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On Bach's day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory of his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:05, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

pics of the feast of the Mass in B minor --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:12, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story - short version: ten years ago we had a DYK about a soprano who sang in concerts with me in the choir, - longer: I found today a youtube of an aria she sang with us then, recorded the same year, - if you still have time: our performances were the weekend before the Iraq war ultimatum, and we sang Dona nobis pacem (and the drummer drummed!) as if they could hear us in Washington. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:00, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Check out my talk for an Independence day, or: the pic of Oksana Lyniv was taken on 24 August. There's listening and reading in today's story, and I like both. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:55, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On top of my talk: birthday of a great violinist and Requiem for a great friend. We sang Paradisi gloria from the Stabat Mater in the end. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:49, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September music

story · music · places

John Rutter 80 today! I sang his major choral works with four choirs, and many of his uplifting anthems, 13 DYK? I watched him explain his Magnificat in person in 1998, and now see it on Youtube: he wore the same outfit. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:50, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You have a rich and expressive life, Gerda. And you are the kindest, most thoughtful person on Wikipedia. SilkTork (talk) 08:04, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, blushing a bit. This week, listening to seven concerts with dear company, sometimes two in a row: I feel blessed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:15, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My story today is about the principal violin of the Concentus Musicus; she would have been 95 OTD. I felt connected when the second oboist of our recent concert, of Haydn's Stabat Mater, said that he built an English horn for his performance of the work with the Concentus Musicus. - Concert weekend pictured in "places". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:33, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Survey

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Late apology

I looked back at my (somewhat weak) support comment in Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/EggRoll97 2. (I can't say why I did that in this case but I do wander back to some of my old edits occasionally.) My comment was on the last day for voting. It went to a crat chat, as I noted was likely and the crats could decide on what seemed like a close call. The RfA was closed later the same day. It was closed about three hours after your well considered comment and request for further explanation. I was not online between the time you posted your comment and the time the RfA was closed. I may have had enough time to reply to CMD, whose question was posted several hours earlier but I apparently did not see that in time nonetheless. I have much belatedly apologized to CMD, gave an explanation, such as it was, and noted that my comment was flawed and I should have known better. At that point a comment, even a moral support type comment, in an RfA bound to go to a crat chat, was superfluous in any event.

I look at my comment and now and think that it was not the best judgment for someone who has been editing for many years and who had participated in may RfAs to rely on a promise which the candidate could not really be held to comply with. By the time of my quite late comment there were other good reasons not to support the candidacy, though perhaps a close call. I now think I should have let it go. The obvious coming close in a crat chat was not an outcome on which to cast a support, which was effectively a moral support vote. I should have replied promptly here on your user talk page since the Rfa page had been closed before I looked at CMD's and your question. On the other hand, I now have a clearer view of the matter. I think it ended in the right result. I am reasonably confident that I usually do better work and make better comments. In any event, this time I did not and I post this belated comment to apologize for my oversight in not replying to your comment, question and proper analysis. 01:52, 10 October 2025 (UTC) Donner60 (talk) 01:52, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comment. SilkTork (talk) 08:49, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 19:14, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Responded. SilkTork (talk) 11:45, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

International Criminal Court

Hello, I saw that you published the report on the reassessment of the International Criminal Court article.

This was over a decade ago now, so sorry if I'm bothering you with something you've long forgotten about. To the point: I am trying to improve this article to the best of my abilities (I was surprised there were so few editors working on this article considering its, I would think, high importance).

I was wondering if you still have a bullet list of things that can be improved about the article. I would also appreciate it very much if you could take a look at the article to comment on its improvement since the assessment. I understand of course if you are busy/not interested. I would like to at one point renominate the article anyways, but I would first like to get a feel for how far off we are currently, to get some pointers where we* can improve it, before nominating/requesting an assessment.

Is there a way within WP to request what I would call "a critical set of fresh eyes"? (I guess this is essentially a form of proofreading, but for an already-published article and more broad. (not about commas and semicolons but more to identify and summarise overarching issues)) I tend to be quite decent at this, but never with anything I write myself, (or have contributed to) especially in English. If someone would do this for the ICC article, I would also gladly do so for another article.

*I say "we" because I hope many others will join the few editors who occasionally look at the artile, but so far the number of edits per day on the article is minimal.

PS: how did you make that message on top of the topic box when I'm drafting the topic?

Sorry if I'm bothering you with this. Thanks for your time,

Slomo666 (talk) 00:14, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've not studied it closely, just gave it a quick glance. It looks OK. Some challengeable statements need citing, but on the whole it looks richly cited. I've not tested any of the cites. I don't have much time for Wikipedia these days, so I'll pass on getting involved in reviewing the article. But I do wish you well. Be bold is the key!

By "message on top of the topic box" I assume you mean the edit notice welcome. See Wikipedia:Editnotice. And have fun creating your own! SilkTork (talk) 12:27, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I saw you also edited a bit on the article itself, an edit I had not even thought to do. I am, however a bit confused why you removed the archive template from the talk page? Your edit statement said “redundant” but why would it be redundant? Do archives not have to always be available? Slomo666 (talk) 12:53, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The archives are still available and searchable - see the box at the top of the page: Talk:International Criminal Court. There is no need to have two boxes doing exactly the same thing. SilkTork (talk) 18:24, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh my bad I did not see it. Slomo666 (talk) 18:27, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Whatever comes out of that unblock discussion will be good. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:20, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I hope so. And thanks for the star. SilkTork (talk) 07:13, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November music

story · music · places

Look, today's image, - she "portrayed" herself with her husband at the end of the table, - would have been good for Thanksgiving ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:08, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]