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"Luxemborg" in John W. Beschter

Hi there, Ergo Sum. I don't think I have had the pleasure of communicating with you before. With a user name like yours, I would certainly have remembered. Thank you for your interesting article on Beschter. You have obviously spent a lot of time and effort researching it. I was a little surprised to see that you had changed the spelling of Luxembourg back to Luxemborg, especially as you had maintained the correct spelling of Luxembourg in all your edits until 11 March when you removed the "u" to "standardize spelling". I think perhaps you intended to remove the "o" to bring the spelling in line with you source where it is indeed spelled "Luxemburg". Luxemburg is in fact the German spelling and has been used as an alternate in English but today the accepted spelling is Luxembourg. Your "Luxemborg" is sometimes used in Danish and other Scandinavian languages but never in English. I would therefore suggest that you now correct the spelling back to Luxembourg. (By the way, when you changed the spelling to Luxemborg, you said it was for consistency throughout the article but as far as I can see, this is the only occurance.) Perhaps I should also ping DePiep who checked for typos. I look forward to seeing the article on DYK shortly and hope it soon makes the grade to GA.--Ipigott (talk) 14:44, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

John W. Beschter currently does not error by WP:AWB/T (AWB typo checks; it does not detect so not check for 'Luxemburg'). Glancing at article Luxembourg, it seems that -burg is German only and so not English. Maybe there are WP:ENGVAR ties. I only can do automated typo checks, so here ends my contribution. -DePiep (talk) 14:53, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

@Ipigott: Thanks for your message. I had in mind the "ou"/"u" distinction, and was trying to keep it consistent with the Duchy of Luxemburg spelling. I now notice that I had misspelled the word altogether as Luxemborg in the instance in question. I also didn't realize that the conventional English spelling is with the "ou." I'll go ahead and correct the spelling accordingly. Thanks for pointing this out. Ergo Sum 15:07, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

I thought that must have been your intention. Thanks for changing it back, together with Duchy of Luxembourg. While I'm here, I should perhaps also inform you that there is no such person as a Luxembourgian (mentioned in your DYK discussion). The correct term is a Luxembourger, rhyming with Hamburger. When we need a qualifier for a person from Luxembourg, we simply use Luxembourg. (In the same way as you would say a New Zealand politician, we would say a Luxembourg politician.) As far as I can see, Luxembourgian as a qualifier is a Wikipedia (Wikipedian??) invention although it is occasionally used as a synonym for the language Luxembourgish. For that reason, I changed the DYK hook. It must be difficult for an American to become familiar with all these European idiosyncrasies.--Ipigott (talk) 16:11, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Okay, good to know. The states of the former HRE are by no means my speciality, so guidance from others is always appreciated. Ergo Sum 20:09, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

@Ipigott: On a separate note, I have a question and you might be the person who knows the answer. While most sources say that Beschter was born in Luxembourg, I have one reliable source that says he was born in "Limbourg, Luxemburg." I'm not sure how to reconcile this, because what research I have done has told me that Limbourg was never part of the Duchy of Luxembourg. So, I'm wondering if "Luxemburg" does not refer to the duchy, but to some other entity with duchy, county or some other status. Frankly, without undertaking a thorough history of the region, I'm not sure what to make of this claim. Ergo Sum 20:51, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

I can understand the confusion. At the time of Beschter's birth, both Limburg and Luxembourg formed parts of the Austrian Netherlands. In 1763, Limburg bordered on Luxembourg. If Beschter came from the north of Luxembourg or the south of Limburg, it might not be clear if he was born a Limburger or a Luxembourger. In either case, he would probably have been simply an Austrian. This article shows the geographical boundaries at the time. I would guess, by the way, that the original spelling of his name was Bechter which is a common name in Austria and Germany. It was probably changed to Beschter on his arrival in America.--Ipigott (talk) 08:32, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Wait, what century is _this_?

It is my unfortunate fate that the long overlooked just pops out and pokes me in the eye. I never know why other people don't notice.

In the second paragraph of William_Matthews_(priest)#Death_and_legacy it says

... enabling the construction of a larger school on G Street in 1857. The school endured into the nineteenth century, ...

introduced by this edit Feb 2018

Now I did check carefully (WP!) that the current century is the 21st, and the 19th century covered all the 1800's but one. Further I peeked at Google which showed me a LoCongress picture of the place from 1901. So I'm'a thinking you meant "into the twentieth century"?

Hey, it shows I read all the way to the end. Must be a good article! :-) Shenme (talk) 04:56, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

@Shenme: I'm not quite sure what you mean by your reference to the 21st century, but in my view, to say it endured into the 20th century, when it closed down in 1901 is a bit misleading. I've rephrased the sentence to read "through the nineteenth century," which I suspect you would agree is clearer. Ergo Sum 05:32, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Ah, good. I'd thought I'd seen a mention through 1910 but that could have been a year range of photographs. The 21st century was because I always have to think "is it plus one or minus one", which may be _why_ I took a second look at the phrase to begin with. Shenme (talk) 18:06, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

TFA

March

... with thanks from QAI

Thank you for the Georgetown Car Barn, "a historic building in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. that once served as a hub station and storage facility for the city's trolley cars. Construction of the building required excavation of a massive amount of earth, leading to the construction of the Exorcist steps. Gradually, it was converted into office space, housing the International Police Academy, and is now used by Georgetown University. Today, it is one of the most prominent buildings of the Georgetown skyline."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:46, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Gerda Arendt, for your kind words. Ergo Sum 14:12, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

DYK for John W. Beschter

On 2 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John W. Beschter, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that John W. Beschter, a Luxembourgish Jesuit who ministered throughout rural Pennsylvania, became the President of Georgetown University in 1829? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John W. Beschter. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, John W. Beschter), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

DYKUpdateBot (talk) 00:01, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Luxembourgish is a language

Today's hook reads "John W. Beschter, a Luxembourgish Jesuit". Luxembourgish cannot be used to describe people. It should read "John W. Beschter, a Luxembourg Jesuit".--Ipigott (talk) 06:31, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

@Ipigott: I did not make that change, but I will mention this on the Main Page errors page. Ergo Sum 12:21, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Potential collab

Would you be interested in working on John J. DeGioia at some point later this year? Or maybe another Georgetown-related article? ceranthor 22:45, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

@Ceranthor: I have a big backlog of Georgetown-related articles that I'm working my way through. For example, I intend to create an article for each president and, ideally promote it to FA (ambitious, I know). I've compiled a weighty trove of sources for almost all of the presidents and am now just working my way through it. My main constraint is real-life commitments. I also have a number of Georgetown articles pending at GAN, which have been there for a few months (if you happen to be interested in reviewing some, that would be fantastic). Since DeGioia will fall outside my corpus of sources that I've collected, I don't know if I'd be a huge help at the moment, but if you want to take the lead, I can certainly do some support work. Ergo Sum 00:34, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

An idea, I've been meaning to get around to promoting Healy Hall to FA. Is that something you'd be interested in working on? Ergo Sum 00:35, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Potentially. I'll let you know - when it comes to non-scientific articles, I tend to prefer writing biographies, but that could be an interesting challenge. ceranthor 00:48, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Making a note of it on my todo list on my userpage. Definitely give me a heads up when you're planning to tackle Healy Hall or have some time to start that project. ceranthor 15:56, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

@Ceranthor: Sounds good. I probably won't be able to give it a good look for another month or so. Ergo Sum 20:07, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

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I nominate Ergo Sum to be Editor of the Week for his outstanding contributions to WikiProject Catholicism, National Register of Historic Places WikiProject, and WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases. In less than four years, this editor has promoted 5 articles to GA, 2 to FA, and has received 2 Four Awards. Ergo Sum has over 25 contributions at DYK, and this is where this editor caught my attention. The first article Ergo Sum created that I read was Angelo De Donatis, which appeared at DYK. This is when I became a fan of his work and began reading more of his articles. My favorite article Ergo Sum wrote is William Matthews, which achieved the following milestones: Did You Know, On This Day, Good Article, and now Featured status. He works in an underrepresented area of Wikipedia and has great attention to detail. We haven't worked together before, but I hope I cross paths with him in the near future. I'd definitely learn a lot from him.

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Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 13:55, 11 May 2019 (UTC)