User talk:Dudley Miles

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Mentoring for FAC

Hi, I'm contacting you because I noticed your username is listed at WP:FAM and I am interested in nominating a FAC but have never done so in the past. I'm contacting several people listed as FA mentors so if you are busy that is okay. The article is Neurocysticercosis, a parasitic brain disease. I have started a peer review for the article which can be found at Wikipedia:Peer review/Neurocysticercosis/archive1. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration! IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 21:52, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

This is way outside my area, but I will try to comment on the PR. Dudley Miles (talk) 22:15, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, I really appreciate any input I can get! IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 22:22, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

If you have time...

Can you try to get through to the editor at Adam de Port (d. c. 1133) that they aren't editing helpfully nor have the slightest clue how to edit well? @Agricolae: and @Paramandyr: who have also had some dealings with them. I don't have lots of time for wiki right now but it's so discouraging dealing with this sort of unhelpful editing. Ealdgyth (talk) 19:40, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't know about Dudley or Agricolae, but I have tried to explain reliable sourcing and proper citations, all for naught I'm afraid. And, judging from Ealdgyth's exhaustive attempts to reach Pipera, I'm wondering if this is a case of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT? --Paramandyr (talk) 20:30, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

I have reverted the latest edits and it is now on my watchlist. Unless someone wants to try to get sanctions imposed I think the only thing is to keep reverting until the editor gives up. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:54, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Io Saturnalia!

		Io, Saturnalia!
		Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. Ealdgyth (talk) 15:05, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks Ealdgyth. Happy holidays and good luck to you. Dudley Miles (talk) 15:35, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

	A very happy Christmas and New Year to you!
	Have a great Christmas, and may 2025 bring you joy, happiness – and no trolls or vandals! Cheers SchroCat (talk) 08:26, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks SchroCat. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:04, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

TFA

story · music · places

Thank you today for Cyfeilliog, "a bishop in south-east Wales in the time of Alfred the Great. He is best known for having been captured by the Vikings and ransomed by Alfred's son Edward the Elder for the large amount of forty pounds of silver."! - Happy new year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:26, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda. Happy new year. Dudley Miles (talk) 13:31, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! - Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, my story today 300 years after the first performance, is up for GAN. Dada Masilo will be my story tomorrow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:11, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

... and today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:44, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Today, between many who just died, Tobias Kratzer on his 45th birthday who was good for an unusual DYK mentioning a Verdi opera in 2018, - you can see his work in the trailer of another one that I saw, and my talk page has a third (but by a different director). 2025 pics, finally. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:29, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Today I have a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who became GA yesterday, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:02, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Æthelbald, King of Wessex

you reverted my edit: why “the bequest to the 2^nd, 4^th & 5^th son” only, and not “to the 3^rd son” as well? Jan Hejkrlík (talk) 18:54, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

That is not known but historians assume that Æthelberht was provided for separately in Kent. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:52, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

how could he have been overlooked? that makes no sense: he was the second one in line of succession and, at the end of the day, he succeeded his father; is there any act, deed or charter, in which the 2^nd, 4^th & 5^th sons are named and the 3^rd one is expressly omitted? Jan Hejkrlík (talk) 19:09, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Yes. It is a provision in Æthelwulf's will, as recorded in the premable to Alfred's will. We have to go by that whether or not you think it makes sense. Dudley Miles (talk) 19:37, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

TFA blurb?

Hi Dudley. Edward the Martyr is up for TFA in March. Do you fancy having a go at a draft blurb? Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:43, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

OK. Thanks Gog. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:24, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Edward the Martyr

his is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 18 March 2025. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which will be available once written at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 2025, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/March 2025. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before the article appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work! Wehwalt (talk) 15:35, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Mentoring for FAC

Hello. I plan to nominate Mother Solomon for FAC soon. She was a Native American woman forced into Kansas by the Indian Removal Act. Eventually though, she resettled in Ohio and lived out as a nanny and cultural activist. You were listed on WP:FAM, and I wondered if you would be interested in helping with preparation. If you aren't, no worries! Averageuntitleduser (talk) 17:24, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

I suggest that you nominate the article for peer review and ping me. Then other people as well as me can comment. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:38, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

I've nominated it. Thanks. Averageuntitleduser (talk) 18:22, 13 February 2025 (UTC)