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Happy New Year from Women in Red | January 2023, Volume 9, Issue 1, Nos 250, 251, 252, 253, 254
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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2023 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 14:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
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Happy new year! We head into 2023 with plenty of work to do. We're missing articles on a handful of lichen families, scores of lichen genera and thousands of lichen species. Dozens of important lichenologists are "missing" too. We need to check or update the taxonomy of hundreds of existing taxa articles. Many articles about basic lichen structures and functions are either tiny stubs or badly in need of referencing or updating. There's certainly enough to keep us busy for a good long while! Here's to a productive year ahead. |
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Kazamzam met last month's challenge and provided an updated reference for the Cladonia squamosa article – which indicated a significantly larger world range for the species than had been previously listed. Nice job! This month, we're looking for someone to replace the dead reference in Ramalina fraxinea (defunct since April 2018!) with one (or more) which corroborates the information that the old reference did. The editor who meets this challenge will get public kudos in the next newsletter. | ||
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The February edition of the lichen task force newsletter is now available. MeegsC ( talk) 20:24, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Greetings. More than a decade ago, you had placed an indefinite page editing protection block on the article Nathan Lewis (chemist) on 26 May 2012 because User:Chaanakya chiraag nataraj ( talk | contribs) had some weird professorial fetish at that time by vandalizing the article. Do you think that enough time has passed that this protection can be lifted from this article? If so, would you be able to handle this (or at least tell me how I should communicate this to the correct persons who can make this happen)? Thank you in advance. -- 96.64.134.61 ( talk) 18:25, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
The redirect TSZ has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 February 18 § TSZ until a consensus is reached. Veverve ( talk) 21:48, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
Hannah Arendt has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. - car chasm ( talk) 02:55, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi. What do think about these deletions? Ali Pirhayati ( talk) 13:06, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello again. Apologies for this random message. I hope you are doing well. I wanted to reach out to you after I started working on rewriting the Kes (Star Trek), possibly for a FAC and primarily to just improve the article in general. I hope I am not the only editor who cringes when they look back on their old work on here. Anyway, I just thought of you since you helped a great deal with the GAN review, and I wanted to drop in and see how you were doing. I hope you are having a great start to your week! Aoba47 ( talk) 22:59, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
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So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, Trainsandotherthings, Lee Vilenski, Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, SounderBruce, Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
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Category:Latvian black metal musical groups has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Estopedist1 ( talk) 13:05, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day! Hi J Milburn! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 04:01, 10 March 2023 (UTC) |
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Why did you revert the edits? I improved the lede. I fixed typos. I got rid of redundant information--I am not sure why you want to tell us who published Pierce's books three times but once is enough.
I separated the dates and places of employment from her philosophy because this is an encyclopedia, not a chronistic biography. Anyone trying to research Pierce for her beliefs should be able to pinpoint what her beliefs are without reading through a rambling paragraph about where she worked, when, what books were published by what company, etc. Sagsbasel ( talk) 09:28, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red Apr 2023, Vol 9, Iss 4, Nos 251, 252, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266
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The May edition of the lichen task force newsletter is now available. MeegsC ( talk) 09:42, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:
Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie, Thebiguglyalien, MyCatIsAChonk, PCN02WPS, and AirshipJungleman29.
So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
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Nice work on Helen Cowie (historian). Girth Summit (blether) 09:42, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
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Category:Italian ethicists has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. - car chasm ( talk) 03:05, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Axis of Advance albums indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
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The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.
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Women in Red 8th Anniversary | |
In July 2015 around 15.5% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. As of July 2023, 19.61% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women. That's a lot of biographies created in the effort to close the gender gap. Happy 8th Anniversary! Join us for some virtual cake and add comments or memories and please keep on editing to close the gap! |
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Hi, I'm thinking of creating an article for this book, but I'm not sure if it meets sufficient notability yet because I've only managed to find one formal review: https://philpapers.org/rec/BOBCFA
Do you know of any other sources that would help demonstrate sufficient notability for an article? Throughthemind ( talk) 10:20, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello Josh! Thank you for reviewing my DYK nomination so quickly. I can confirm I don't need to review another DYK nom as this is my first nomination, so that hopefully means we're good to go. Best wishes, A.D.Hope ( talk) 18:48, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi, do you know if Siobhan O'Sullivan was an animal rights advocate or was she was animal welfare? There are a couple of confused articles, I would like to sort them out so that they have the correct categories and template. She is currently on the animal rights template. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 21:05, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
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I'm a bit confused by your recent edit there. Nintendo Life isn't directly related to Nintendo, Game Freak or PETA, they're a secondary source in the same network as Eurogamer. Am I misunderstanding something? Kung Fu Man ( talk) 21:17, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
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On 26 August 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jonathan Birch (philosopher), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a report by the philosopher Jonathan Birch and colleagues led to cephalopods and decapods being recognised as sentient under the UK's Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jonathan Birch (philosopher). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Jonathan Birch (philosopher)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
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There seems to be some speculation online that Sue Donaldson is the mother of MrBeast. I believe this is false information (it's a different Donaldson) but people have said the photographs of the mother match. I don't believe it I think it is just a coincidence as the ladies look a bit similar, but maybe you know more about this. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 11:14, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
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The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
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If it is okay with everyone, since we are discussing content now, I want to move this discussion to the article's talk page just in case anyone else wants to chime in. Does that seem appropriate to everyone? Jenhawk777 ( talk) 20:57, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
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The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
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