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New Challenge for Oceania and Australia

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC) reply

January 2017 at Women in Red


January 2017

Women Philosophers & Women in Education online editathons
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February 2017 at Women in Red


February 2017

Black Women & Women Anthropologists online editathons
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March 2017

Copyright problem icon Your addition to Margaret Butler (sculptor) has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. It's not the first article where you've copied DNZB text to articles. That was back in 2015 and I hope that you are now aware of copyright issues. Schwede 66 19:52, 11 March 2017 (UTC) reply

My response on Schwede66's talk page. - Thank you for your polite and helpful note on my talk page bringing to my attention the reverting of my edit to the Margaret Butler (sculptor) article. Unfortunately I am unable to recall the circumstances of my contribution. However I hasten to reassure you that any infringement of copyright was unintended and not done maliciously. I will endeavour not to repeat this error. Should you discover any other edits where I have inadvertently infringed copyright please do not hesitate to revert the same. I appreciate the work you do policing Wikipedia. Sincerely
Hi there, well, it was pretty much a straight copy of the DNZB text. I needed a hand the other day from Diannaa, who is much more of an export with copyviolations, with fixing up the Georgina Burne Hetley. Both these happened in March 2015. That was only a few months after you joined and Wikipedia has too vast a rulebook to immediately know all the dos and don'ts. Maybe what you should do is look through your early contributions and ensure that text is suitably paraphrased and not just copied (unless the source explicitly allows for this). And if you find further instances of this, please point me or Diannaa to it by using {{ping|Schwede66}} or {{ping|Diannaa}} when posting here. Schwede 66 02:35, 12 March 2017 (UTC) reply

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DYK for Marie Darby

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Feburary 2018 at Women in Red

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A barnstar for you!

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I've just been going through the genus Eudonia and I've noticed that all the species from New Zealand have nicely put together, well referenced stubs. Thank you and keep up the good work.   SchreiberBike | ⌨  00:41, 5 March 2018 (UTC) reply

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Taxoboxes

Hi! I've noticed that you've been making quite a few pages about species of moths. I just thought I'd let you know (to save some time) that there is an automatic taxobox system that doesn't require you to key in each parent taxon. I've been changing the ones that I see pass by Special:NewPagesFeed as I see them, but figured you might not be aware the system exists. Might save some time, and honestly thanks for your contributions, they're all really well-written :) < RetroCraft314 talk/> 20:48, 6 June 2018 (UTC) reply

@ RetroCraft314: Thanks RetroCraft314 for that info. I've been coping the taxobox markup from similar species articles when starting to draft a new article (checking with the New Zealand Organisms register as I go) but will attempt to remember to use the species automatic taxobox system. Sorry in advance if I forget. I appreciate the help and you letting me know and thanks for the complement re my contributions. Ambrosia10 ( talk) 22:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC) reply

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