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For your (almost) 7000 word count in the Guild of Copy editors' November Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you and happy editing! pluma Ø 02:37, 2 December 2011 (UTC) |
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Awarded to Wilhelmina Will for copyediting the most articles (7) during the first day of the Guild of Copy Editors' November 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Well done! – Dianna ( talk) |
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This barnstar is awarded to Wilhelmina Will for copy editing articles totalling over 4,000 words in the Guild of Copy Editors' November 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Dianna ( talk) 19:12, 3 December 2011 (UTC) |
Hi Wilhelmina, A bot has tagged this photo and Iwant to correct it, but I'm not sure how small I need to make it. You had helped me before on Monjett Graham's page. Thank you! Thisandthem ( talk) 22:19, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
I want to start a wikiversity course called "Controversies in Science" for a university course I teach at Mount Royal University in Calgary Canada. I would be starting in January 2011. I've taught this course since Fall 2008, but this coming January will be the first time I will be using Wikiversity, although I have asked my current students to try it out last week (two did).
Here's a link to the wikiversity course so far: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Controversies_in_Science
It's a course that looks at two sides of 13 different controversies, from scientists perspective.
I'm contacting 5 potential mentors that seem to have a broad interest including science that might be interested in helping my students and I.
Would you be interested?
If so, reply here or on my talk page. I would be happy to explain and discuss more. Areil314 ( talk) 22:42, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, after having a look at your edits, I feel there is a need for you to improve your wikification. I have spotted evidence of neglect in some of the articles, one of which is Alberton Cemetery South Australia -- it needs to be retitled to "Alberton Cemetery (South Australia)", copyedited ie "On 17th November 1847", "granted 4 acres" and "The Anglican Diocesan of Adelaide Archives". Another article is 1996 New York Underground Film Festival, which needs to have a {{Stub}} and its Wikify banner removed. Marián Aguilera, Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, Alavi Bohra . Schroeder Audio, Inc. could be copy-editted to comply with MoS (I'm really surprised that you, as a copy-editor, didn't picked up the problems). As for Access Control Service, I see a glaring copyright violation, and that the article is lacking {{Refimprove|date=December 2011}}. I have also noticed that you haven't addressed the issue raised above by DPL bot. All in all, I think your wikification could vastly be improved.
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Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 backlog elimination drive report
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We would like to thank all who participated in this drive. Here is the end-of-drive report.
There were 48 editors who signed-up for this drive, of which 35 participated. Thank you to everyone who helped reduce the size of the backlog!
During the drive, we reduced the backlog by 232 articles, or by about 6%. This is a two percent increase from our September drive, when we copy edited 4% of the backlog. We were successful in our primary goal of clearing the oldest three months—March, April, and May 2010—from the queue. Thanks to all who helped copy edit these difficult articles. Thus far we have reduced the copy edit backlog by 5086 articles, or by about 61%. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here.
The term of our second tranche of coordinators has run out, and we will be accepting nominations from December 5, 00:01 UTC to December 15, 23:59 UTC. If you or any other member of the Guild of Copy Editors wishes to be a coordinator, add your name to this page along with a statement describing why you believe you should be a coordinator for the Guild. You must be able to commit to a six month term. Thanks! Once again, thank you for participating in the Guild's November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Our next drive will be in January, and we hope to see you there! Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters |
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Thanks for Endotricha melanchroa, on behalf of all the snouth moths, who so rarely get to speak for themselves. Drmies ( talk) 08:38, 22 December 2011 (UTC) |
Hello Wilhelmina! Thumbs up for all the work you are doing. I am trying to keep up and add info to the pages you create. Could you do me a favour and use funet as a ref for the Endotricha genus, instead of the usual database? The funet page seems to be 90% better in this case. See: http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pyraloidea/pyralidae/pyralinae/endotricha/index.html Thanks! Ruigeroeland ( talk) 09:08, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
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The Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar | ||
For wikifying a full 95 pages during the drive, and coming into fourth place on the leaderboard, Wilhelmina Will. Great work! – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 08:34, 22 January 2012 (UTC) |
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Since 95 is over 90 by 5 (In scholastic terms, this would probably be an A+++++!) (^____^) I hereby award you the Gold Wikification Barnstar! Well done & Thank YOU! – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 08:34, 22 January 2012 (UTC) |
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For going above and beyond the call of duty...ahh, who am I kidding. For saving my tail and volunteering where no others did, this barnstar is given to Wilhelmina Will for helping WWF out and dishing out barnstars, late as they might have been. Thank you! Nolelover Talk· Contribs 15:52, 24 January 2012 (UTC) |
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Is there any chance you could help clear some of the backlog you have created at Category:Missing taxobox? -- Stemonitis ( talk) 18:45, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
For the record, anything above zero is a backlog; the category should be empty as far as possible, and it usually is. Perhaps the point here is that if you can't place the taxon properly, then creating a sub-stub just to turn a link blue in an article like 2012 in paleontology really isn't helpful. The amount of work involved in creating stubs the way you have been doing is much less than the effort needed to clean them up afterwards (and negligible compared to the effort of making decent, informative articles). That is, you create more work for other people than you carry out yourself, which equates to a net loss. That seems irresponsible to me. Thanks for fixing the Galaxias species, though; I look forward to seeing the remaining articles cleaned up, too. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 04:21, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
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I dont know which source you used to create the last batch of genera (perhaps the list of Pyralidae genera?), but these contains about 50% synonyms. I suggest not using this list until all genera from the world database and funet have been added to wikipedia. If these are all done, only the valid genera which are not found on the world database and funet would remain, since I always add the synonyms. Thanks! Ruigeroeland ( talk) 12:20, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
On 30 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article UAE Five, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Amnesty International recruited writers to lobby at the Edinburgh Festival for the release of the UAE Five, imprisoned in 2011 for insulting political figures of the United Arab Emirates? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/UAE Five. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010. Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is Grapple X ( submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at good article candidates. Second place is currently held by Ruby2010 ( submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is Jivesh boodhun ( submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!
The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.
A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.
We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.
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This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Wilhelmina Will for copy editing 34 articles during the January 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your hard work. -- Dianna ( talk) 22:46, 3 February 2012 (UTC) |
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This barnstar is awarded to Wilhelmina Will for copy editing articles totalling 12000 words during the January 2012 GOCE drive. Thank you for all you do for the Guild. Dianna ( talk) 22:46, 3 February 2012 (UTC) |
On 4 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Salix alaxensis, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that in some areas of northern Alaska, the willow species Salix alaxensis (twig pictured) constitutes over 95% of winter food for moose? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Salix alaxensis. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Hi, you need to check your copy/pasting. You're stating that species in Hyperparachma are in Hypargia. Ladyof Shalott 03:55, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hello! Your submission of Gregory P. McGuckin at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah ( talk) 14:51, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Wilhelmina Will! As you may know, the Wikipedia Education Program has instilled a new set of standards that courses must meet to officially join the program for the semester. As you can see, one of the requirements is that at least one ambassador or professor is a Wikipedian, as this should give students more access to helpful information about contributing to Wikipedia and creating good content. You are listed on the Online Ambassador page; are you still interested in remaining active this semester? Some of these classes will have to remove themselves from the program should they fail to meet these standards, but we would like to ensure that new students are receiving proper support during the editing process. Please let me know if you are still interested in mentoring these students this semester and/or visit the Online Ambassador talk page to select a course that still needs an Online Ambassador. Thank you! JMathewson (WMF) ( talk) 20:00, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
If you make Tortricidae species articles, could you please add the authorities from the genus pages, they are all there so it is not hard to find them? Furthermore, it is very easy to find all synonyms (at http://www.tortricidae.com/), it would be a great help if you would add them. Ruigeroeland ( talk) 11:21, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
On 9 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Freedom Neruda, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that journalist Freedom Neruda was imprisoned in 1996 for satirizing the Ivorian President, but was named one of the "50 World Press Freedom Heroes" in 2000? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Freedom Neruda. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Orlady ( talk) 10:08, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
In Craspedites you use period, when the Berriasian is an age, you place the Misthodotes in the Permian era, when it is a period, etc., etc. with a lot of articles you created.
If you preview, then click on the geological time name, you can find out in the first sentence whether it is a period or age. If you're not willing to do this, since you are just creating one line stubs, you can just say Berriasian, rather than Berriasian Period. Getting the information wrong is worse than no information. Pseudofusulina ( talk) 16:34, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Note It appears you created a lot of articles with the wrong names for the times. I have posted at a Wikiproject to find editors to correct the articles. I don't know how many paleontology stubs you have created and the scope of the problem. I suggest you just leave off the epoch/period/etc. for future new articles, as you link the name in the articles, and that will tell the interested reader the information. Pseudofusulina ( talk) 17:03, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
On 10 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Eugene Eisenmann, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Eugene Eisenmann worked as a lawyer before writing The Species of Middle American Birds for the Linnaean Society of New York? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eugene Eisenmann. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 09:23, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, as you're creating a lot of articles, I thought that you might like to know about Template:Automatic taxobox, which could save you a lot of typing! Martin ( Smith609 – Talk) 14:05, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 backlog elimination drive
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January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation 45 people signed up for this drive this time; of these, 35 participated. This is similar to the number of editors who helped out in November. Thanks to all who participated! Barnstars will be distributed in the near future. Progress report Recent drives have been focusing on the oldest three months in the backlog. During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—July, August, and September 2010—from the queue, and there are less than 300 articles remaining from 2010. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy editing at this time for other reasons. The {{ GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the January 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy edit drive will be in March. Your drive coordinators – The Utahraptor talk, S Masters ( talk), Diannaa ( Talk), Stfg ( Talk), Sp33dyphil ( talk), and Dank ( talk) |
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On 13 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Aegisuchus, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the flat-headed crocodilian relative Aegisuchus had a circular projection on top of its skull that may have served as an eyespot in mating displays? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aegisuchus.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Thanks! I love cookies! And happy valentines day to you too! Ruigeroeland ( talk) 10:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for them yummy cookies, and happy Valentine's Day to you too! benzband ( talk) 15:53, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
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The Most Excellent Wikification Award is hereby granted to Wilhelmina Will, for their achievement in appearing on the WikiProject Wikify drives' leaderboard the most times (6) in 2011. Thank you for your noble service! Kerowyn Leave a note 19:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC) |
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The Most Excellent Wikification Award is hereby granted to Wilhelmina Will , for their service in participating in all of WikiProject Wikify's drives in 2011. Thank you for your noble service! Kerowyn Leave a note 19:54, 16 February 2012 (UTC) |
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The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their March 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate the remaining 2010 articles from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, Stfg, and Coordinator emeritus SMasters. 19:58, 20 February 2012 (UTC) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. |
Hi Wilhelmina.. I was afraid you might produce short stubs on the Saturniidae species, since I made the genus articles. Could I ask you not to do that though? Most of these species generally have quite some info available, and at the rate you are making these articles I cannot keep up expanding them. If I leave them as you made them, there is a big chance they will be turned into redirects, since you include no info at all. If you like to make articles on these species, please find some info online. There is a lot available since these are the most conspicuous moth species in the world. Ruigeroeland ( talk) 12:18, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
On 23 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gregory P. McGuckin, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that New Jersey Assemblyman Gregory P. McGuckin is the son of the first directly elected mayor of Brick Township, New Jersey? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gregory P. McGuckin. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 08:02, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I see you are preparing to review my GAN at Talk:Gordon P. Saville/GA2. We are both WikiCup competitors, and I noticed that you are standing at about #40 in points. The top 64 competitors will be promoted to round #2 and I think you will make the cut with your present total. However, if you want to get the review out of the way before the end of February, you can get another couple of points as insurance. On the other hand, if you wait until round #2 in March when everybody's points are reset to zero, the points will be put to good use there. It's up to you! You can wait a week or you can do the review sooner. Binksternet ( talk) 05:07, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
I notice you have recently created articles for another two fossil crustacean genera, and they are both largely untrue. To claim that Coleia occurred (only) in the Sinemurian is simply false; for instance, Garassino et al. (2012; doi: 10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0209) show that the genus continued until at least the Early Cretaceous. Similarly, the authority is not "Schweigert & Ernst, 2012", but "Broderip, 1835". Your article, mentioning only one of c. 30 species, is so skewed and unrepresentative that I think it would be better to delete it than to allow it to misinform readers. Goniodromites is a similar case. That genus was erected by Reuss in 1858, not "Starzyk, Krzemiska & Krzemiski, 2012", and contains more than a dozen species, of which G. kubai is probably the least important. The presence of a red link in articles like 2012 in paleontology are not a bad thing; misleading readers, however, is. This is not the first time I have brought this kind of thing up, and I have explained before the amount of effort needed to clean up such articles to a state worthy of retention. If you cannot write accurate, insightful articles, then I think it would be better if you found other ways to contribute to Wikipedia. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 07:29, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
a subconcious act. I am used to creating new genera articles. Wilhelmina Will ( talk) 07:57, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
I have fixed the two crustacean articles Stemonitis has pointed out, as I said I would. If you would like, I'll periodically go through the other 2012 extinct taxon articles I've made, that have similar problems, and fix those. There is no valid reason to delete articles that can simply be improved, as are these. Also, for the record:
On 24 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jennifer Worth, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that British midwife and bestselling author Jennifer Worth criticized Mike Leigh's 2004 film Vera Drake for depicting an "invariably fatal" method of abortion as quick and painless for women? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jennifer Worth. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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For your excellent contributions to the project! Keep up the great work! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:57, 24 February 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Wilhelmina - just letting you know fyi that the project tag you added to Talk:Picavus, a fossil bird genus, was for the Lepidoptera project. I have noticed you doing this a couple of times previously. I guess that if you create a lot of lepidoptera articles it is momentary absentmindedness and not a major problem; I have done the same thing myself occasionally. I have fixed the ones I have noticed. Cheers. Maias ( talk) 01:12, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
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I'm sorry, I have had to remove all of the DYK articles for which you have claimed, as none of them featured significant work from you. Drive-by nominations are not eligible for points. I'm sorry to do this at this late stage in the round, meaning that you will now be eliminated, but this has always been the rule in the WikiCup, and is made quite clear on at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and in regular communications. I'm sure you can appreciate why this is the case- this is a content creation competition, not a content finding competition, and if drive-by nominations were permitted, someone who watches the new page log all day would almost be certain to win. If you have any questions, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks, J Milburn ( talk) 20:56, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was Grapple X ( submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was Tigerboy1966 ( submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were Ruby2010 ( submissions), Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), Miyagawa ( submissions) and Casliber ( submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from Ruby2010 ( submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.
The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.
The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which would otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 00:12, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
— Bagumba ( talk) 02:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
If you're going to fix the articles you have created, it might be polite if you did so before I implemented my own solution, rather than wasting my time by undoing all my edits, purely to recreate short and largely uninformative articles. The taxoboxes for Strigulla, Cucullistriga, Rasstriga and Scutistriga are still incomplete and misleading, because they do not contain the authorities for the genera, and do not deal with monotypic taxa appropriately. It is also inconsistent to treat these four genera in such a way, while leaving the other genera in the family mergerd into the family article. Moreover, what little information you have added could have been easily accommodated in the family article I created; indeed, it would be more useful for the reader to present it in that way. It is entirely unclear to me why you insist on all these genera having separate articles, when they could so easily be merged, and when that merger had already been carried out. Unless you can fix these problems rapidly, I will have to re-merge the genera into a single, much more useful family article. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 07:37, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey guys!
I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the initial documentation about the project and also the engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyeswikimedia.org.
It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 02:06, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
On 4 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chuck Berry House, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the Chuck Berry House is an unusual inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, in that it is associated with a living person? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chuck Berry House. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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