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Women in Red December 2023
Women in Red December 2023, Vol 9, Iss 12, Nos 251, 252, 290, 291, 292
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Dr. Blofeld 19:13, 18 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Oh another distraction to your evil plan! Have a good one!
Victuallers (
talk) 19:35, 18 December 2023 (UTC)reply
A barnstar for you!
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
A run of 365 biographies in incredible! In utter awe of you!
Lajmmoore (
talk) 21:01, 20 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Thanks Lucy, your barnstar will be published, if funds allow get a Greater Bear! I have an idea for a National Trust project ...
Victuallers (
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Seasons Greetings
Merry Christmas, Victuallers! Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity.
Onel5969TT me 15:40, 24 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Thank you. I just had a go at calculating my cache of articles and I think I have now written ~2,400 womens biogs. The Aussie ones are interesting as they create new lives frequently in a new country.
Victuallers (
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Victuallers, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (
talk) 20:13, 31 December 2023 (UTC)reply
thanks Abishe. See you on my watch page ...
Victuallers (
talk) 11:18, 1 January 2024 (UTC)reply
A barnstar for you!
The Barnstar of Diligence
I award this barnstar to the stupendously committed "Victuallers, the Goal Setter" who wrote on the
WiR talkpage on 20 Dec 2023: "So today's the day. This time last year I thought I wonder if I could write a new women's biog every day for a year. I'd tried before and messed it up at #360. So I started in December last year so I could officially start a full year this January. Well its complete and Wikipedia even records the names and dates here. During the year, I completed my 8 year run of notable ODNB women and ran out of missing ODNB Women in Red. I had to turn to Aussie women on the ADB. All of the 365 articles have fed into one of the WIR editathons." For this, you inspire me and countless others. So with appreciation and thanks, this barnstar is for you.
Rosiestep (
talk) 20:09, 3 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks Rosie, I will warm my tootsies on your kind greeting. Ive been thrilled to see WIR Tee shirts in Ghana - not sure whos idea but I'm feeling quite smug.
Victuallers (
talk) 23:03, 3 January 2024 (UTC)reply
A barnstar for you!
The Writer's Barnstar
For all the articles you create, especially the biographics of women! Thank you.
Kj cheetham (
talk) 11:43, 6 January 2024 (UTC)reply
... and they "magically" improve .... thank you for your forbearance and many many improvements
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Nice work on your new article, Victuallers. In my opinion, it would benefit from being added to relevant Wikiprojects. Good job!
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Hello,
Victuallers. Would you please see the discussion at
Talk:Wiltshire County Council, in particular my last post there, and give us some thoughts from the point of view of an Admin? Kind regards,
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I had a look. I can see that it appears to have got into a tricky place but everyone seems to have an entrenched position. I don't think anyone intended to create this but now its there. Is it impossible to create a compromise? I'm not sure that discussing what would be ideal will help as surely it may be necessary to target a new position which is not optimal.
Victuallers (
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Thanks for the thanks
I'm guessing you stumbled across that article somehow? I was working through the list of
Cat A buildings in Moray, trying to tick off any that didn't have articles (a job I've yet to finish, but I made some headway), and I came across her while researching
Aberlour House. I was intrigued, and started digging, and just kept getting more intrigued. I still can't believe her story isn't more widely known.
GirthSummit (blether) 16:00, 27 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Women in Red February 2024
Women in Red| February 2024, Volume 10, Issue 2, Numbers 293, 294, 297, 298
Hi there, I just noticed you'd been using
WP:FEB24 in some edit summaries; you know that drive hasn't started yet? It's good work adding sources nonetheless though! -
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talk) 19:31, 29 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Its something I do all the time to keep down the unreferenced women. I saw an advert for the drive and thought I may as well add the tag - (why would I wait?). I think Ive done abt 60.. I'm not too fussed about points - but keen to inspire others to rid us of unreferenced articles. Oh and thank for all your corrections and enhancements to "my?" articles.
Victuallers (
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I'm sure the tag will help advertise it and get others involved. I'm happy to help - I'm very much a
WP:GNOME at times. :-) -
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Victuallers (
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There are four refs on the ru:wiki. 1 is an interview, 2 is a 404 error, 3 is one that is already cited and the fourth is not in readable text. There are about 6 million articles on the en:wiki that could be improved. I don't understand the purpose or adding a tag that calls this one for special attention. Can you explain please?
Victuallers (
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A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar
Thanks very much for your excellent work on WikiProject Women in Red, stay safe and stay healthy!!
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February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
Citation Barnstar
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Hi! Hope you are well. I created an article today on
Elizabeth Anne Lewis, British temperance activist. She has an ODNB entry, which I can't access but I linked to it in the ELS. The article is fine without it -- just figured I'd let you know it exists.
Rosiestep (
talk) 04:13, 29 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks Rosie, Happy Easter, you're right the ODNB doesnt add much but there was an interesting libel case that she won that I've added.
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Your thanks for my edit on Talk:Tredegar Medical Aid Society
Thank you Victuallers. I am extremely pleased to learn of your continuing interest in the subject of the article.
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I think it should be a top priority maybe. It was this facility that led to the UK being tradegarised. I'm not sure of the accurate figure but isnt about 5-10% of the UK employees are now working for the expanded version (now called the NHS) and another 1% are on the waiting list to use it:) My partner is in Tredegar tonight so that what made me notice it. :)
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Hi and hello from Los Angeles! I was surprised to come across an article you wrote in the in the new pages feed. Shouldn't you automatically have autopatrol? Forgive me if I'm missing something -- just leaving a message in case it's some kind of glitch that you are not aware of. (I know, grammar, it's early-ish here.)
Hope you are well! Julie
JSFarman (
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Well I agree, but after a bit of stalking/following/TBA there was a debate and it was decided that I needed to allow the community to oversee my new articles. The stalking/following/TBA was fixed and I was left with this minor issue. I'm OK (it doesn't waste my time) and its OK to have corrections and additions. Thanks for your interest Julie. Roger in Scotland aka
Victuallers (
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I should have known -- there is always more to the story around here. But yeah, not a big deal (although I am flabbergasted)!
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Dear Victuallers, Hello! I am trying to learn how to add images to a page. I have done my first one at
Chiqui Vicioso . A long time ago in Edinburgh you said you might help/check my first one or two. If you have time, that would be great! I am concerned that I haven't cited any photographer and wouldn't know how to.
Balance person (
talk) 10:44, 30 April 2024 (UTC)reply
That looks fine BP. If you find the image on commons then in 99.9% of cases the image will have an adequate license and the photographer if known will be cited. The photographer in this case is acknowdedged - if a reader clicks on the image and that is usually how it works. We don't normally explicitly mention the photographer in the image caption but you could if you wanted or if it was particularly relevant (e.g. photo taken by another notable person). Hope that helps. Roger aka
Victuallers (
talk) 11:03, 30 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks Roger (if I may), that is very helpful. Another query. If I take a photo myself of the front cover of the last issue of
Women's Report, which contains cartooning by someone I am not in contact with ..not even sure who did it, I suppose that I cannot upload that to Commons....right? Unless I can find out who cartooned it and get their permission?
Balance person (
talk) 08:41, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Thats correct, I find that getting permission from people for a single photo is not really worth it (if they have 1,000s then diff story). The explanation of what and why permission is required defies most people's patience. Usually quicker to take a new photo of yourself of the obkect or person if possible. .... However for
Women's Report you could take a photo of the front of a magazine and then reduce the image size to 300x 300 and then I can tell you how to load that under a special copyright clause called "fair use". Roger aka
Victuallers (
talk) 14:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi! I have taken a photo of the front cover of the last issue of Women's Report and have cropped it and saved it on my pc. I logged in, went to the WR page, clicked edit, put cursor in sensible place, clicked Insert, selected the file with my photo in it, described the photo and gave it a name. It wants me to fill in the 'Category' box on this 'Media Settings' page. Am I in the right place? If so, what do I put in the box and how do I do the fair use thing? If I am in the wrong place, maybe I should start again?! Tech is not my strong point. Alternatively I could send you the photo!!! But it would be good to learn the right way.
Balance person (
talk) 12:23, 2 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Oh! well say sorry if anyone complains. Edit the picture and save it when it is less than 300 x 300 pixels in size. You need to load it
here as "a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use".. You find this link in Wikipedia when you are looking at a Wikipedia article and on the left hand side it says "Upload file". Basically you are doing something that is "just" legal. "Choose Upload a non-free file" You are using an image that belongs to someone else, but the law allows this IF you explain that you are not going to use it at full res. You will be asked to find the file and then it will ask you various questions. Give honest answers and remember you are loading "a non-free file" and it is "official cover art of a work" and its "a low res version". With luck that might get you through it. or
try this linkVictuallers (
talk) 15:03, 2 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Well I hope I have done it right! Thanks for your detailed advice. I will now go and lie down in a darkened room.
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Jennifer Uchendu
Hi, Vittlers! I'm trying to understand what's going on at
Jennifer Uchendu. It looks as if you made 10 edits to the article, and then, after it was
speedily deleted by
Deb under
WP:G4/
WP:G11, you
undeleted one revision (complete with speedy-deletion template, and with the rationale "seems to have been deleted in error or at least with no rationale"). Were you not at that time already
involved to the point that you should have taken no further admin action? Was the rationale given by Deb not clear to you? Did you contact her before (imperfectly) undoing her deletion? Perhaps I've misread the history entirely, of course. Regards,
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk) 21:10, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
I think I did imperfectly try to undelete it. No I did not see the rationale I'll look for it. I may have been over enthusiastic
Victuallers (
talk) 21:16, 1 May 2024 (UTC) Still cannot see it, all I see is "draftify and clean up a bit" in the edit history. Nyttend seems to have fixed it.
Victuallers (
talk) 21:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)reply
You're both correct in the sense that I moved the article to draft space, partly because of the dubious edit history. I never leave a redirect when I draftify, so I guess that's where the impression came from that I deleted it. Victuallers, I can see you've done a lot of work on Women in Red, so I assume you got the idea of creating the article from the red list. It came to my attention because of the report on
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dotun55, the user who had created
Jennifer Olachi Uchendu, which was deleted in February by
User:Rosguill. You may not have been aware of this. I can see why you feel she's notable, but I wondered why you moved the article out of draft without waiting for an independent review, though obviously your changes made a big improvement to it and I think it would have passed.
Deb (
talk) 07:38, 2 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Hi Deb, thanks for the explanation. My goal was to give a biography to her as a notable Nigerian and I was half way through it before I discovered there was a deleted version and a draft. My approach is always to create an article rather than working on drafts as they don't add so much to the project. WIR creates main space articles and trains others to also do that. It wasn't clear why it was there although it had some failings - its not the
worst BLP article on wiki by a long way. This was not the deleted version but a new version. I could see that I could easily move it to be a start article and others would be able to improve the article in main space - which they have. IMO its eyes that improves articles. I could then get on with other work.... as it is I'm seeing a link to her deleted in another article - which seems odd but Ive restored it as it moves her towards being an orphan article. Anyway thx for your work.
Victuallers (
talk) 08:52, 2 May 2024 (UTC)reply
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Thanks - but it is a work in progress. Another editor has fixed it ad been thanked. Cheers
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Hello Victuallers
I just noticed that in the
Diana Salazar Méndez the reference to her impeachments was deleted.
I would appreciate understanding why it should be deleted instead of kept.
Hello @
HarveyPrototype: - I see four impeachments mentioned, one I added, in new detail?? You are free to edit the article
Victuallers (
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