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Ælfwynn, wife of Æthelstan Half-King scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for February 16, 2026. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 2026, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/February 2026. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there by user:JennyOz, who assists the coordinators by reviewing the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 11:55, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
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Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2022) as "an important figure in tenth-century England, but as with almost all women in this period, very little is known about her"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:58, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks Gerda. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:41, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
- Today something new: a 100th birthday of someone alive, György Kurtág! In 2004 I was there when he and his wife played for the Rheingau Musik Festival where he was the featured composer. They played as the 2019 DYK said, on an upright piano, - listen, the last piece was the same. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:44, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
Featured Article mentorship
Hello,
I saw your name on the list of FA mentors. Of those who are on the list, your interests seem to be the closest to the topic I have in mind. I originated the page for technical geography in 2022, and am responsible for the majority of the content (stats), so more eyes on it is always appreciated. One of my goals for the Summer is to get it from GA to FA status so I can nominate it for the Wikipedia:Four Award (Want the swag for my user page). It had a peer review in 2024, and the GA review was a bit chaotic and time consuming (the initial reviewer was banned before it could be completed (first nomination), so it needed to be restarted (second nomination)), so I'm approaching this cautiously. It passed GA in 2025, and featured in DIY shortly after. I believe the review was comprehensive enough that it should be approaching the quality needed for FA. Let me know if you're interested, if not I'll look for someone else. If you are open to looking at it, I could open up a 2nd peer-reviews and ping you to look at it before bringing it to nomination. Again, no rush, my goal is to have this nominated by either May or June, and hopefully completed by July. GeogSage (⚔Chat?⚔) 23:02, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
- I am not sure how much I can help on this. My comments would be mainly on statements which I do not understand, and it is probably very difficult to make the subject comprehensible to an uninformed layman. I suggest that you look through the history of the article for editors who have made edits which indicate understanding of the subject, and ping them for comments on peer review. Perhaps you could also ask academic colleagues if any are willing to help. You could then ping me and I could have a go. Dudley Miles (talk) 08:29, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply! I'm mostly concerned about the pedantic formatting and base requirements an article needs to get to FA, but there are some improvements noted for content I can still make from the GA reviews that I plan to make soon. The process itself is daunting, so I'm hoping to have the article in more or less ready shape before submitting it. Reading about how to submit, it suggested I should get a mentor from the list, and there are only two who seem to even be in the same realm as this topic. Unfortunately, I'm author of 93.6% of the article text, and citation bot is the 2nd ranked author, so there aren't many editors who I can request help from. My academic colleagues are not particularly interested in Wikipedia, I think most of them who know about my hobby believe it is a waste of time. This topic is so high level in the discipline a lot of people in it don't know about it as they identify more with the sub-disciplines. In the U.S., the most common use of the term today is to describe the content of academic programs within geography departments; most people doing the work will refer to themselves as quantitative geographers, GIScientists, cartographers, or something to that effect. I've tried to recruit help on Wikipedia, with very limited success. Once I give it a once over and elaborate where that seems necessary, I'll open a peer-review and ping you to see if you're interested. GeogSage (⚔Chat?⚔) 01:11, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
- A few quick comments. 1. The lead is usually an unreferenced summary of the referenced main text. 2. You sometimes put citations before the end of the comment, particularly for quotes. They should always be at the end. 3. You are inconsistent whether to give retrieved dates for citations. They are only required for web pages which are subject to change. 4. I would delete the 'External links' heading. It is for sources external to Wikimedia. 5. I have trouble understanding autocorrelation. Is it similar to the sigma confidence level, as in the Higgs boson is 5-sigma? A practical example may help. Dudley Miles (talk) 08:21, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply! I'm mostly concerned about the pedantic formatting and base requirements an article needs to get to FA, but there are some improvements noted for content I can still make from the GA reviews that I plan to make soon. The process itself is daunting, so I'm hoping to have the article in more or less ready shape before submitting it. Reading about how to submit, it suggested I should get a mentor from the list, and there are only two who seem to even be in the same realm as this topic. Unfortunately, I'm author of 93.6% of the article text, and citation bot is the 2nd ranked author, so there aren't many editors who I can request help from. My academic colleagues are not particularly interested in Wikipedia, I think most of them who know about my hobby believe it is a waste of time. This topic is so high level in the discipline a lot of people in it don't know about it as they identify more with the sub-disciplines. In the U.S., the most common use of the term today is to describe the content of academic programs within geography departments; most people doing the work will refer to themselves as quantitative geographers, GIScientists, cartographers, or something to that effect. I've tried to recruit help on Wikipedia, with very limited success. Once I give it a once over and elaborate where that seems necessary, I'll open a peer-review and ping you to see if you're interested. GeogSage (⚔Chat?⚔) 01:11, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
Æthelred the Unready
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 4 June 2026. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 2026, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/June 2026. 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) 17:07, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
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Thank you today for the article, introduced: "This is the latest in my nominations of later Anglo-Saxon kings, and the largest in terms of sources, with three academic biographies published in the twenty-first century. Æthelred the Unready is not a highly regarded king, as his nickname implies, and his reign ended in catastrophe with the country on the verge of Danish conquest. but historians have partly rehabilitated his reputation over the past fifty years."! - and the next TFA around the corner ;) - I have a FAC open, in case of interest. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:12, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
update: Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43 is now a FA. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:02, 10 June 2026 (UTC)
Gunhilde, possibly daughter of judith of Flanders, allegedly married to Wilfred the Hairy
I have moved this discussion to Talk:Judith of Flanders so that other people can contribute. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:22, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
Meurig ab Arthfael scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that Meurig ab Arthfael has been scheduled as today's featured article for 11 July 2026. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 2026, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/July 2026. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be posted there. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Z1720 (talk) 15:58, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks Z1720. The blurb looks fine to me. Dudley Miles (talk) 17:20, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
Nomination of Thundersley Great Common for merging to Thundersley
The article is being discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thundersley Great Common until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the AfD notice from the article until the discussion is closed.Davidstewartharvey (talk) 11:49, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
FA review of Well-being
Hello Dudley Miles and congratulations on getting Æthelred the Unready to FA status a while back! I was wondering whether you may be interested in reviewing the article Well-being at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Well-being/archive1 since the article hasn't received enough reviews so far. Thank you for taking a look and please feel under no obligation if now is not a good time. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:07, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
Regarding Vikings - maturity vs majority
Apologies if my edit misinterpreted the cited material as I had presumed it to be a typo. While I couldn't find a way to access Makalösa kvinnor: könsöverskridare i myt och verklighet (nor can I read Swedish), I made the edit regardless as I couldn't think of any way the term "majority" would actually make any sense in this context.
If the original wording is indeed correct though, of which I'll defer to you on the matter, may I ask what reaching a "legal majority" means & if there's a clearer way to convey this meaning to the reader? Butterscotch Beluga (talk) 20:59, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
- Legal maturity means the date at which a bond matures and becomes due for repayment, so it is wrong here. Legal majority is a very obscure term which means the age at which someone becomes an adult according to the law of a jurisdiction. It would be much better to say age of majority. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:11, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you for clarifying that for me as previously, I'd only heard the idea referred to as the "age of maturity". The sentence makes much more sense now though. Butterscotch Beluga (talk) 21:20, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Brochfael ap Meurig scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that Brochfael ap Meurig has been scheduled as today's featured article for 24 August 2026. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 2026, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/August 2026. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be posted there. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Z1720 (talk) 15:23, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks Z1720. The blurb, which is a copy of the article lead, looks OK to me. Dudley Miles (talk) 12:34, 28 June 2026 (UTC)