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Walking Liberty half dollar scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the Walking Liberty half dollar article has been scheduled as today's featured article for January 9, 2019. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/January 9, 2019, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.

We also suggest that you watchlist Misplaced Pages:Main Page/Errors on the day before and the day of this TFA. Thanks!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Wehwalt, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, Walk Like an Egyptian (talk) 06:29, 25 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

How are you?

Hello Wehwalt! How are you doing? Its been a long time. I hope everything is going well! I just had a small request, could you kindly grant me the Edit filter helper user right because I regularly find sock puppets and file reports at SPI, so this user right will be helpful to me in various ways when I'm working in these areas. Thanks! TheGeneralUser (talk) 02:15, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi, TGU, long time no see, hope you are doing well too. I'm looking at the procedure and as I read it, an admin can only grant it through the noticeboard (except for when there is a self-request to remove edit filter manager). I'm not terribly familiar with these things. What do you think? Just trying to avoid someone causing you trouble and showing up on my page in lecturing mode. Which has happened before.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:11, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

I do understand your concern Wehwalt, but I'm not asking for the edit filter manager user right (which is used to edit filters) because I don't need that right now. I'm actually asking for the edit filter helper user right which allows non-admins to view the edit filters marked as private, but not to edit any filters. Also, as per the policy, Misplaced Pages:Edit_filter_helper#Granting_the_right, in the 3rd point it is mentioned there that any admin can grant this user-right to trusted users (as it says, By any administrator following a self-request from an editor in good standing to reduce the editor's access from edit-filter manager). So, your granting of this user-right will clearly be in accordance with the policy. Thanks. TheGeneralUser (talk) 19:06, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

I'm reading that as saying that if someone gives up the edit filter manager userright, an admin can make him an edit filter helper. I have no problem doing it, I just want to make sure I'm doing the policy right. Is there a user with experience in these things we can ask?--Wehwalt (talk) 19:17, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Sure, I can understand that. As for whom to ask, any other edit filter helper/manager or admin will do. TheGeneralUser (talk) 19:39, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

See my inquiry at User talk:Xaosflux. If you ask at the noticeboard, I will happily endorse you.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:14, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Okay, no problem. I'll request it some other time. TheGeneralUser (talk) 22:07, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

2019

Thank you for your project help last year, including review of the TFA! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:35, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for all your work, and Happy New Year to you.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:06, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you today for Walking Liberty half dollar, "Undoubtedly beautiful, but it caused the Mint a lot of grief for thirty years. This turned out to be one of the articles where an unexpected person runs away with the article, in this case Philadelphia Mint Superintendent Adam M. Joyce, who did not like all the new coins, and they were a terrible pain to produce, but he went to bat to have the new coin struck as close to the artist's conception as possible. I hope you enjoy it. It is a beautiful coin and the "heads" side has graced the American Silver Eagle for the past quarter century. Second nom posted with permission of Ucucha. A special thank you to BrandonBigheart for the beautiful infobox images."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:56, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Yes, that was a long time ago. Thank you.--Wehwalt (talk) 22:43, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Please check out "Happy" once more, for a smile, and sharing (a Nobel Peace Prize), and resolutions. I wanted that for 1 January, but then wasn't sad about having our music pictured instead. Not too late for resolutions, New Year or not. DYK that he probably kept me on Misplaced Pages, back in 2012? By the line (which brought him to my attention, and earned the first precious in br'erly style) that I added to my editnotice, in fond memory? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:58, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

January

January

Lanzarote
... with thanks from QAI

Thank you for improving articles! Did you know that Precious began 7 years ago? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:31, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, and thanks for the reminder.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:41, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

2018 Year in Review

		The Biography Barnstar
		For you work on Simon Hatley you are hereby awarded The Biography Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 19:23, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, that was a fun one to do.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:32, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Question About Cuba

Hello,

I saw your response to my question about Cuba on the Humanities Reference Desk and I was hoping to ask you another question about this same topic:

Do you think that there was ever a realistic chance of the U.S. acquiring and annexing Cuba--either in 1898 (in the absence of the Teller Amendment) or sometime earlier?

I'm curious about this because Cuba strikes me as a great location for additional living space for the U.S. I mean, Florida has done an excellent job serving as living space for Americans, but it would have been even better if the U.S. would have also had Cuba as living space. Plus, the Cubans themselves would have strongly benefited from this by having a much higher standard of living (in regards to their economic prosperity). Futurist110 (talk) 21:51, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Best regards,

Futurist110 (talk) 21:50, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I think it unlikely after the Civil War. No one wanted a large island crammed with brown and black Catholics, who might eventually have to be given citizenship/statehood. Plus Cuban sugar would pose a threat to domestic producers. I think the argument over recognizing the revolutionary government was cover for a desire to dominate economically and politically. After all, you have to treat with a recognized government. You can't as easily run roughshod economically, grab off Gitmo, etc. Before the Civil War, maybe at some point when there was good feelings, but once intersectional tensions grew, the South lacked enough strength to get a treaty through the Senate. Florida was mostly empty before air conditioning, not true of Cuba.--Wehwalt (talk) 22:01, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

The US did acquire Puerto Rico and gave all of its inhabitants US citizenship in 1917 in spite of the fact that Puerto Rico had a lot of non-Whites, though. BTW, good point about Florida being more empty than Cuba was.

Also, out of curiosity--do you think that the US would have still went to war with Spain in 1898 if it wasn't for the USS Maine sinking (as in, if this sinking would have never occurred)?

In addition to this, had McKinley lived, what do you think that his last 3.5 years in office would have looked like?

Finally, do you think that the US would have still proposed the Open Door Policy for China and been as involved in Chinese affairs (for instance, participating in the crushing of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900) if it wasn't for the US victory in the Spanish-American War and the subsequent US acquisition of the Philippines? Futurist110 (talk) 04:37, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		Military history reviewers' award
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Milhist reviewing award (2 stripes) for October to December 2018 reviews. MilHistBot (talk) 01:06, 8 January 2019 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

Apollo 15 postal covers incident

I was a little baffled where to put it, so I've put it in the "Culture and society" section on the FA page. If you think there's a better place, feel free to move it there. Sarastro (talk) 23:52, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

I'll look it over. Thanks.--Wehwalt (talk) 06:44, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

FACR

I take your point, and won't revert, but I think it would be OK to leave it since it's a writing guide, not an FA guide. Unless Tony loses interest in that aspect of Misplaced Pages, which seems unlikely, there's no reason for him to remove it or make it less useful. If he should change the content in a way that makes it unsuitable as a link, we could remove the link then. But it's not a big deal -- I think most people who read it are directed there from a link in conversation, not because it's on that page. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:45, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

We could copy it from userspace to somewhere else, or link to a past edition from before all this unpleasantness? I agree the skies will not fall either way, but either removes it from his control should he decide to delete it in a huff. Which, you must admit, is entirely possible, since he is encouraging people not to be a part of the FA process.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:49, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

And there's an extent to which we don't want a person openly stating they are trying to sabotage our project yet we keep endorsing their writing guide. The two things, admittedly, should be separate but I'm not convinced they are.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:53, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar as TFA...

You know the drill - Dank'll have the blurb at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/February 13, 2019. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:12, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Nixon -- legacy section

Hey, Wehwalt -- just a heads up that I plan to propose a significant expansion of the 'Legacy' section of the Richard Nixon article. Nixon's legacy remains so overarching and so vast today, the section could use a bit more juice. The content may even manifest itself into an entirely new article, depending on how much information I can pull together. Hope to work collaboratively with you in the process. Best, Happyme22 (talk) 06:00, 4 February 2019 (UTC)