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September 5

Mikaela Ruef

I want to report that Mikaela Ruef have 2 born date: 15 January 1990 and 20 October 1990. Which one is exact? 151.49.138.194 (talk) 16:15, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for flagging this up. Reference 1 of the article states 15 January 1990. Of the other 8 references, several links do not work correctly, and none that did gave any birth date. I will therefore use reference 1 to amend and cite the January date in the infobox.

I will leave merging the now doubled reference (which I did not expect to happen), and repairing the non-working references, to someone else more competent. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 17:27, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That happens due to copying a reference in its entirety. Instead, you add a name to the first occurrence (I named it "birth"), and refer to it by its name the second time. Explained at WP:REPEATCITE. Card Zero (talk) 17:23, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Card Zero. If/when the situation recurs, I'll try that, but I was pressed for time and didn't want to commit to research of unknown duration to find the correct method. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 22:28, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 11

Runtime of 'Princess Mononoke'

Most of source, including BBFC, shows the running time of Princess Mononoke is 133 or 134 minutes. But I find a source from Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan [jp] shows it's 137 minutes. I can not find any other 137 minutes source. Is it just a mistake? Steven Sun (talk) 05:45, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 12

4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

According to news reports, 4000 holes were found in Blackburn, Lancashire. They had to be counted one by one despite their small size. So far so good. But this supposedly revealed how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall, which is in London, nowhere near Blackburn. What am I missing here? Is there a connection? Thanks. 2601:644:8581:75B0:F277:2B70:F196:80DB (talk) 20:30, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have always assumed that preceding news reports, on which this one is partially based, had calculated the combined volume of the potholes to be comparable to that of the Albert Hall. Frankly, having visited that august location (the Albert Hall, not Blackburn), I am inclined to doubt this: the Auditorium is reported to have a volume of 100,000 cubic metres, which would suggest an average pothole volume of 25 cubic metres, which seems unlikely even for Lancashire. The volume of the maximum audience capacity of the Hall also seems not to match any plausible calculation.

However, the linked article on that oft-quoted report contains the suggestion that the original reports had made no such comparison, and that the journalist responsible had used the term "fill" as, as it were, a stop-gap for want of a more accurate comparison to the size of the Hall, mention of which was presumably required for reasons of euphony. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 01:04, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I always figured it was Lennon commenting on the typical audience at the Hall. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:02, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Groan, yeah. I'd expect road holes are measured by area rather than volume though, so maybe the calculation still works. 2601:644:8581:75B0:F277:2B70:F196:80DB (talk) 04:08, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ac-tually, that does give a more plausible result. A back-of-the-envelope calculation (once I could find an envelope) assuming an auditorium diameter of 200 ft (it's not, in fact, exactly round) suggests an average hole area of about 7.8 ft², which sounds closer to the mark, particularly as a pothole repair typically requires a larger area of fresh tarmac than that of the initial hole. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195)} 94.1.98.196 (talk) 13:00, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It also works reasonably well if you just count. The Hall holds 5,272, so an audience of 4,000 would not be a capacity crowd, but would be a decent showing. Matt Deres (talk) 14:05, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The issue is discussed in the section A Day in the Life § "4,000 holes". ‑‑Lambiam 12:15, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

August is not the best time to visit Blackburn. The holes get much worse in September. Let those good tofu-eating wokerati readers of The Guardian have their say! Martinevans123 (talk) 12:24, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here in Hertfordshire, we have proper holes in our roads. Rather fewer required to fill the Albert Hall I suspect. Alansplodge (talk) 17:08, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the Albert Hall could fit inside one of yours? Martinevans123 (talk) 14:08, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 13

Music ID

[1] Any idea? It's well known, I sort of almost recognize it. It starts somewhat earlier in the video but it's louder and more familiar here. (It's being used as background audio for a video game). Thanks. 2601:644:8581:75B0:F277:2B70:F196:80DB (talk) 04:07, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, like so:[2] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 08:49, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Very nice. 2601:644:8581:75B0:51D7:F808:F780:4327 (talk) 19:12, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In Rage against the machine's song "Wake up", who is "Wilson"?

"Wit' poetry, my mind I flex
Flip like Wilson, vocals never lackin' dat finesse"[3]
from Wake Up (Rage Against the Machine song). -- Jeandré (talk) 2025-09-13 14:23z

Flip Wilson --Viennese Waltz 14:26, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 15

Harry and Walter song

I didn't see the movie Harry and Walter Go to New York but I'm pretty sure it had a duet song that got a fair amount of airplay, that went:

I'm Harry, I'm Walter,
It's wonderful to be here,
We guarantee to put a smile on every face we see here...

Oddly, I can't find this song through web search or on youtube. Any idea? Thanks.

Added: google search found the lyrics in a DVD subtitle dump[4]. I had originally tried duckduckgo which didn't find anything. But it's weird that I can't find anything more. I had hoped for an audio recording. The movie apparently flopped, but the song was popular and I heard it years after the movie came out. 2601:644:8581:75B0:E3B5:40D6:7A06:A27C (talk) 20:30, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If it helps your search, IMDb gives the title as "I'm Harry, I'm Walter" and has:

Music by David Shire
Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Performed by James Caan and Elliott Gould

‑‑Lambiam 02:40, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Listen here. ‑‑Lambiam 02:49, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thanks! It's weird I didn't find that on youtube. I guess the song is very obscure these days though. 2601:644:8581:75B0:F3AC:C797:60DE:A367 (talk) 16:21, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 17

Sports questions

Why most English football logos are not in Wikimedia Commons, unlike in some other countries? Can they be used in league tables?
Are there any soccer leagues in the United States that are played in winter? Southern US's climate permits playing in winter, so are there any winter leagues in the US?
Why so many international sports organizations were founded in France, and so few in UK? If basketball was invented in Canada, volleyball in US and football in UK, so why then FIBA, FIVB and FIFA were all founded in France?
Why handball is not popular in Anglophone countries?
Why has England won so few international trophies? England never played in FIFA Confederations Cup during its 25- year existence, despite having founded football. It also didn't play in any of the first three World Cups.
Why motorsport is not in Olympics?
Are there any sports leagues in the US and Canada with promotion and relegation?
Why FIFA has not excluded Belarus in addition to Russia, unlike many other sports? Are there any sports where Russia has not been excluded? And why Ukraine, the location of war, has not been excluded, only matches are not played there?

--40bus (talk) 18:00, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Why so many international sports organizations were founded in France"? I suspect that when people travelled mostly by rail, it was much easier to assemble national representatives on the Continent. Added to that, French was still the main lingua franca in the early 20th century. Alansplodge (talk) 18:15, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2. To my knowledge, no major one.

3. Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, was French. The French were big on making sports competitions international, hence Jules Rimet (the instigator of the FIFA World Cup) and others. The British tended to have the opposite attitude, thinking other countries were not worthy of facing them (hence they did not play in said World Cup until 1950). By the way, James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, may have been Canadian, but he invented the game in the U.S. Xuxl (talk) 13:53, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

4. Basketball, an American invention, became the prime winter sports game played in gyms and indoor arenas in the U.S., not handball, which was a European invention. Xuxl (talk) 13:53, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

5. As mentioned under question 3, England did not consider other nations worthy of competing against its football team, figuring that since they invented the game, they were better at it than anyone else. Similar to the Canadians attitude about ice hockey, until they realized the USSR had caught up with them in 1972 - the difference being that Canada was happy to crush all comers in Olympic hockey from 1920 to the 1960s, without even putting together a proper national team (that was only done in 1972). Xuxl (talk) 13:53, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Caught up? Not that time they didn't (thanks be to Paul Henderson). Clarityfiend (talk) 07:28, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The American team won the 1960 Winter Olympics gold medal. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:03, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

7. The new league being made by the USL.

8. FIFA politics decided that the victim can play, since it's not it's fault.

(for more answers wait, this isn't a very good list of answers) Brickguy276 (talk) 18:19, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

6. Six reasons why F1 and other motorsports will never be at the Olympics HiLo48 (talk) 23:54, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

8. Russia is banned from international competitions in part due state-sponsored flouting of the anti-doping rules. Individual Russians are still allowed in some sports. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:06, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 19