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Your GA nomination of Monique Ryan

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Monique Ryan you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of JML1148 -- JML1148 (talk) 03:22, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Monique Ryan

The article Monique Ryan you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Monique Ryan and Talk:Monique Ryan/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of JML1148 -- JML1148 (talk) 04:03, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red

Hi there, GraziePrego, and welcome to Women in Red. I see you have been an active participant at Women in Green since last October and have managed to bring the biographies of two Australian politicians up to GA. With Monique Ryan, it looks as if there will soon be one more. Now that you have joined us on Women in Red, you might be interested in creating new biographies in addition to improving existing articles. If so, you should find it useful to look through our Primer. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 11:23, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red January 2024

Women in Red | January 2024, Volume 10, Issue 1, Numbers 291, 293, 294, 295, 296 Online events: New: Education (year-long initiative) | Alphabet run M & N | Temperance women Continuing: #1day1woman | Women who died in 2023 Announcement In 2024 Women in Red also has a one biography a week challenge as part of the #1day1woman initiative! Tip of the month: Check out the new navigation on our Women in Red Project home page. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Ipigott (talk) 11:23, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Monique Ryan

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A barnstar for you!

		Short Description Barnstar
		Congrats on completing the work adding short descriptions to all 50,000 level-5 vital articles. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 02:06, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted

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Women in Red February 2024

Women in Red | February 2024, Volume 10, Issue 2, Numbers 293, 294, 297, 298 Online events: New: Alphabet run O & P | Black women Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcement Please let other wikiprojects know about our February Black women event. Tip of the month: AllAfrica can now be searched on the ProQuest tab at the WP Library. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome GraziePrego! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:51, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

January 2024 GOCE drive awards

		The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to GraziePrego for copy edits totaling over 40,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:58, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to GraziePrego for copyediting 4 long articles during the GOCE January 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:58, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to GraziePrego for copyediting 10 old articles during the GOCE January 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:58, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

January 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award

		The Reviewer Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to GraziePrego for collecting more than 50 points during the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 22:37, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

January 2024 NPP backlog drive – Streak award

		Worm Gear Award
		This award is given in recognition to GraziePrego for collecting at least 7 points during each week of the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 23:03, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Monique Ryan

On 16 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Monique Ryan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Monique Ryan ran for election to the Parliament of Australia after seeing an advertisement in the newspaper calling for an independent candidate? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Monique Ryan. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Monique Ryan), 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.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

February blitz bling

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to GraziePrego for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE February 2024 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 21:01, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Asking for a favour

Hello, I was wondering if you would be able to to help in a splitting discussion by closing it and determining consensus as you are an uninvolved editor in the discussion. (Talk:Premier of Victoria#Splitting proposal). I am happy to perform the actual split, but if you could determine the consensus that would be appreciated as i am trying to bring the article upto FA/ FL status. GMH Melbourne (talk) 02:03, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

I will happily have a look! :) GraziePrego (talk) 02:04, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! GMH Melbourne (talk) 02:13, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Done! Closed and determined consensus was to split. Happy splitting. GraziePrego (talk) 02:22, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for that! Very very helpful! GMH Melbourne (talk) 02:23, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

S. Walter Englander

Hello, I've made iterative edits - mostly grammar and structure - to the S. Walter Englander article. I noticed you placed the copyedit tag last month. Can you let me know if it looks any better, or what you would suggest/recommend? Thank you greatly.

Women in Red March 2024

Women in Red | March 2024, Volume 10, Issue 3, Numbers 293, 294, 299, 300, 301 Online events: New: Alphabet run Q & R | Art Feminism | Find Her Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements Celebrate Women – All content gender gap events, in every language Wikipedia, in March 2024 Francophone Women★ Writers Fortnight 2024 Feminism and Folklore 2024 Writing Contest Tip of the month: When creating a new article, check various spellings, including birth name, married names and pseudonyms, to be sure an article doesn't already exist. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Concern regarding Draft:Banker Schools scandal

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Anniversaries

Hey,

It seems like neither of us either got our barnstar from Heart. She hasn't edited in a while, so I'll just give it to you instead!

I hereby award this barnstar to GraziePrego for work on Selected Anniversaries and for waiting very patiently for this barnstar. I can do stuff! (talk)

Thanks for your contributions, I can do stuff! (talk) 00:48, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to GraziePrego for collecting more than 1 point during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:37, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Anna Burke

Hi GraziePrego, I've partly reorganized the article; I rearranged the lede, partly rewritten it and organized it into chronological order. I've also moved the third para of "Early life", which is about Burke's early career, to "Career"; and the fourth, which is about her marriage and home life, to "Personal life". I've re-titled that section "Early life and education" because it includes both. I've also moved a {{quotebox}} to the talk page; the quotation didn't seem important enough to include, and the WP:MOS counsels against using pullquotes in articles (I consider quoteboxes to be a type of pullquote). The quotation could probably be integrated into the text or paraphrased. Anyway, good luck with the article. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 03:14, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Amazing, thank you very much! GraziePrego (talk) 05:09, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Introduction Membership news, obituary and election results Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page Closing words – Your Guild coordinators: Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Tagging pages for speedy deletion, CSD G6

Hello, GraziePrego,

If you want to move an article from Draft space to take a page that is held by a main space Redirect, please, using Twinkle, select CSD>G6 Move and in the field, put the name of the draft article you want moved. This will create a live link so that patrolling admins can easily check it out and see whether or not it should be moved and the page deleted. I think your requests will get a faster response. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:21, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Liz, that is what I did- has it not worked properly? This is my first time doing this specific manoeuvre :) GraziePrego (talk) 01:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Monique Ryan

Hi GraziePrego, I've added a footnotes section to accommodate text that's germane but a bit off-topic here; that text being the definition of "teal independent". I also note the lede section fails to fully summarize the article's main points so I've marked it with {{Lede too short}}. Good luck with the article and cheers, Baffle☿gab 14:41, 23 March 2024 (UTC).

Thank you very much! GraziePrego (talk) 23:09, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red April 2024

Women in Red | April 2024, Volume 10, Issue 4, Numbers 293, 294, 302, 303, 304 Online events: New: Alphabet run S & T | Gender studies | Health Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements The second round of "One biography a week" begins in April as part of #1day1woman. Tip of the month: If you run into technical problems, you might find help on our Tools and technical support page Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello GraziePrego,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000 reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000 reviews), 6 Silver (2000 ), 8 Bronze (1000 ), 30 Iron (360 ) and 70 more for the 100 barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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March 2024 GOCE drive award

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to GraziePrego for copy edits totaling over 8,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 07:33, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Speedy deletion nomination of Alex Bhathal

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Nomination of Alex Bhathal for deletion

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New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

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April 2024 GOCE blitz award

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to GraziePrego for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:24, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Lock's Quest

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Lock's Quest you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Vrxces -- Vrxces (talk) 07:42, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red May 2024

Women in Red | May 2024, Volume 10, Issue 5, Numbers 293, 294, 305, 306, 307 Online events: New: Press women | Alphabet run U, V & W | Central and Eastern Europe Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities Wikimedia CEE Spring 2024 - contest with certificates of participation and prizes The Wikipedia Library: #1Lib1Ref - May 15th to June 5th Tip of the month: Use open-access references wherever possible, but a paywalled reliable source is better than none, particularly for biographies of living people. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Woman Real Estate CEO BLP

Hi GraziePrego, I noticed that you are actively engaged in articles for WP:Women in Red. Would you please look at my article draft for MaryAnne Gilmartin, an NYC real estate developer and CEO and, if you agree that she is notable, moving the draft to main space? I am not publishing the article myself because of my COI. Thank you very much! AK for MAG (talk) 14:40, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, I've had a look at the article and I don't think she is notable. Per WP:BASIC, there's a lack of sources supporting her notability that are independent, reliable, and in-depth. Some fulfil one or two of those criteria, but I don't think any fulfil all of those criteria simultaneously. If there are, you'd need 3 or more of such sources to meet WP:SIGCOV. GraziePrego (talk) 02:28, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. I'll look into this! AK for MAG (talk) 18:38, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Lock's Quest

The article Lock's Quest you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lock's Quest for comments about the article, and Talk:Lock's Quest/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Vrxces -- Vrxces (talk) 02:03, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Women in Green GA Editathon June 2024 - Going Back in Time

Hello GraziePrego:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in June 2024!

Running from June 1 to 30, 2024, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Going Back in Time! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 20 centuries by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

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Women in Red June 2024

Women in Red | June 2024, Volume 10, Issue 6, Numbers 293, 294, 308, 309, 310 Online events: New: LGBTQ women | Wiki Loves Pride | Women in Music | Alphabet run X, Y & Z Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities Women in Green Good Article Edit-a-thon June 2024 - Going Back in Time The Wikipedia Library: #1Lib1Ref - May 15th to June 5th Tip of the month: Find a Grave is NOT a reliable source (as it is user-generated content). It can be used to look for biographical clues. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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RfA candidate poll

Regarding the RfA candidate poll you started: note as per the instructions for this poll, it's intended for those seeking to request administrative privileges in the near future. Historically there have been two primary reasons: to avoid speculation on the candidate's contributions between the poll and the request, and to narrow the scope of the poll to keep the workload manageable for responders. That being said, the current set of responders are typically quite flexible in their willingness to provide feedback. You might consider, though, looking at some of the editors who have nominated candidates in the past few years, and asking them directly for advice. isaacl (talk) 22:10, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice :) GraziePrego (talk) 00:53, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Lock's Quest

On 31 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lock's Quest, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Lock's Quest was said to feature "some of the best original music in a DS game"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lock's Quest. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lock's Quest), 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.

Z1720 (talk) 00:04, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Zali Steggall

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May 2024 GOCE drive award

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to GraziePrego for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 07:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

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• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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May 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to GraziePrego for accumulating at least 25 points during the May 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 14,452 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:52, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

May 2024 NPP backlog drive – Streak award

		Worm Gear Award
		This award is given in recognition to GraziePrego for accumulating at least 7 points during each week of the May 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 14,452 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:19, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in WP:GARC

Hello GraziePrego, I noticed you have an article listed at WP:GAN. I recently started a project, Good Article Review Circles, and thought you might be interested. This initiative helps articles get reviewed more quickly through collaborative efforts. By joining, you'll review others' articles and get your own reviewed in return. Check out the page for more details! — GMH Melbourne (talk) 14:38, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Ged Kearney

Thank you very much, @Baffle gab1978! GraziePrego (talk) 05:13, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. Drive: 58 editors signed up for our May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz will begin on 16 June and finish on 22 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	You solved a tricky language problem on a contested page today. To you I say, danke schon GraziePrego MatthewDalhousie (talk) 07:52, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much! GraziePrego (talk) 10:32, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red August 2024

Women in Red | July 2024, Volume 10, Issue 7, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 312, 313 Online events: New: Translation contest 2024 | Science Fiction and Fantasy | Women in Sports Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities Wiki Loves Sport 2024 22 July - 22 September Tip of the month: A foreign language biography does not guarantee notability for English Wikipedia. Check the guidelines before you start. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Your GA nomination of Zali Steggall

The article Zali Steggall you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Zali Steggall for comments about the article, and Talk:Zali Steggall/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of SusunW -- SusunW (talk) 05:02, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Discussion on Persian script on Fatima Payman infobox

Hello, I am pinging editors that have had an interest in the Fatima Payman article. A discussion is taking place on the article's talk page as to whether the Persian script should remain in the infobox, feel free to contribute if you would like! Thanks, DeadlyRampage26 (talk) 11:45, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

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• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

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Reward board inquiry

Good evening @GraziePrego,

After reading your reward board post from January, I decided to expand the article for senator Marie Breen (before, for reference) with the intention of nominating it for GA. Not that I'm asking for a copyedit or anything like that, but since you're presumably far more knowledgeable on Australian politics than I am, I was hoping you would be able to give it a quick look and give me any feedback you may have before I nominate it. Thank you either way! Kimikel (talk) 02:06, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Amazing work! I will very happily give it a look :) GraziePrego (talk) 02:13, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

@Kimikel you have done a fantastic job with the page! I have made a few minor changes but overall it looks excellent. Such a great thing seeing the contrast between the before and after. Good luck with the GA review! GraziePrego (talk) 02:25, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

thank you that's very heartening to hear! sorry for the typos and errors i made; I really appreciate your help. Will be nominating for GA now; if approved, I'll be back for my barnstar :) Kimikel (talk) 02:28, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

You don't have to apologise in the slightest! :) I will be very pleased to give you your barnstar :) GraziePrego (talk) 02:29, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Good news @GraziePrego! Kimikel (talk) 22:09, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for participating in the June 2024 backlog drive! You scored 179 points while adding citations to articles during WikiProject Reliability's first {{citation needed}} backlog drive, earning you this cleanup barnstar. Thanks for helping out!

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Your GA nomination of Sophie Scamps

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Sophie Scamps you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of BennyOnTheLoose -- BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 12:01, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Could you evaluate my edit request to "Fatima Payman"?

Thank you for the thanks regarding my edits to that article :). Could you take a look at my edit request Talk:Fatima_Payman#Edit_request_(area_belonging_to_"contentious_topics")? (I am not yet extended-confirmed.) Y. Dongchen (talk) 07:10, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Welcome ...

story · music · places

... to WP:QAI and thank you for improving article quality in July! - Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:26, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Zali Steggall

On 22 July 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Zali Steggall, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Zali Steggall, an independent member of the Parliament of Australia, is the country's most successful skier? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Zali Steggall. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Zali Steggall), 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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Women in Red August 2024

Women in Red | August 2024, Volume 10, Issue 8, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 313, 314, 315 Online events: New: | Women in film and stage | Indigenous women Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) | Translation contest 2024 (July, August, September) | Women in Sports (July, August) Announcements from other communities TBD Tip of the month: Check your athlete's notability before researching and creating her bio. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you so much for your improvement of Alison Hargreaves! Heart (talk) 14:03, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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August thanks

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Thank you for improving article quality in August! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:41, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

New pages patrol | September 2024 Backlog Drive
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September 2024 at Women in Red

Women in Red | September 2024, Volume 10, Issue 9, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 316, 317 Online events: New: Women writers & their works | Geofocus: Islands A - H Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) | Translation contest 2024 (Jul, Aug, Sep) Announcements from other communities August 30 is the tenth anniversary of WikiProject Women writers! Tip of the month: Try her pen name when searching for sources, and remember to add her to any of these that apply: List of pen names, List of literary initials, and Category:Pseudonymous women writers. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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parkrun

Not a good image???? --Pete (talk) 06:32, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

In my opinion, yes. None of the people were smiling, no one was running, the people pictured are staring awkwardly at the camera, etc. The picture I replaced it with was 1. The longstanding previous picture 2. A picture of the first and most popular parkrun location in the world 3. Pictures people running. I have a very strong preference for this picture over the one I described as poor. GraziePrego (talk) 08:21, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

You've replaced a picture where no one was smiling with one where no one was smiling. Oh-kay. Consider that the image you prefer is shown in a thumbnail and very few details are visible.

One of the main selling points of parkrun is that it is an event where people of all ages, shapes and sizes participate. It is not a race. Shown as a thumbnail, my image shows clearly a wide variety participating, they are dressed in running gear, they are just normal people taking part in an activity. Granted, one person, an obvious parkrun tourist, is looking at the camera. This adds interest and draws the eye in.

I've taken tens of thousands of parkrun photographs and I wouldn't say that anybody in the Bushy Park shot is running. Jogging, sure but if that pack was moving at a running pace, I would expect to see several in the classic "flying feet" position.

Why should Bushy Park be featured anywhere but in the "History" section? There seems to be no good reason for putting it in the infobox.

I don't accept your comments as having much validity, apart from your stated personal preference. --Pete (talk) 05:45, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm really unsure why you're being so snarky, rude and condescending about this. I understand it's your image and so you're taking this as a criticism of your photography or something? Coming to my talk page to be so rude is a bit upsetting honestly, especially when you're just mad I took your personal photograph away. At least you typed out a full message this time instead of just saying "not a good image????".

Putting aside the tone, I see zero reason to change my opinion that the image was poor. The image there now was a longstanding image, shows the most popular parkrun in the world, shows people in movement, no awkward staring at the camera or odd facial expressions, a prettier looking course, etc etc. Take it to the talk page of parkrun if you wish; you've been here for 20 years so I know you know that's proper process. GraziePrego (talk) 05:58, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

No offence meant. As a parkrun photographer, I was wondering if there were any valid reasons behind your comment. Speaking of offence, you were the one saying it was not a good image. How did you think I'd feel about that? --Pete (talk) 09:08, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

On offence, I was commenting on your image, rather than on you personally as an editor. I’m sure you’re an excellent editor, I just disagree with you about what image should be in the info box on parkrun. You suggested that I was editing with improper motivations and was removing things based on just not liking them. It’s quite different to criticise someone’s edit than to attack the editor making it. GraziePrego (talk) 12:02, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I've commenced a discussion on the article talk page here where you are welcome to contribute to improving our encyclopaedia. --Pete (talk) 10:36, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Your GA nomination of Sophie Scamps

The article Sophie Scamps you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Sophie Scamps for comments about the article, and Talk:Sophie Scamps/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of BennyOnTheLoose -- BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 09:22, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Banker Schools scandal

Hello, GraziePrego. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Banker Schools scandal".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:18, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Alicia Mabasa (21:33, 9 September 2024)

How do I let my account be visible --Alicia Mabasa (talk) 21:33, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia! I’m not sure what you mean by be visible? I can see your user page and you are free to edit wherever you like if that’s what you mean. GraziePrego (talk) 23:07, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Women in Green's "Around the World in 31 Days" GA Editathon – October 2024

Hello GraziePrego:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2024!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2024, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

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Question from BaZooKa7 (08:30, 22 September 2024)

How to put a color behind the words and put an image --BaZooKa7 (talk) 08:30, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm guessing you mean putting colour behind words in tables? You have to set the "style" for each specific cell, you can do that in source mode. Best way to do that is find a table on a different article that has the colour you want, go into source mode and pick out what line is causing that, and copypaste it into the article you want to edit.

For adding an image, you can add one by going to the top of the editing window and clicking "Insert" and then "Images and Media". Hope that helps! GraziePrego (talk) 08:35, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

September thanks

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in September! - Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114, is one of the pieces in my topic of this year. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:28, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Jewish Council of Australia - I don't understand your perspective of what belongs, especially in quotes

I don't understand why you are putting "left leaning" in quotes in the intro, when the words left leaning to not appear. The words "far left" appear in the source. Furthermore it isn't ECAJ who is describing the JCA as "far left", it is the words of the journalist. But I really don't understand why you would want to put "left leaning" in quotes when those words don't appear, but be against "far left" when those words to appear written by the journalists.

I also don't understand why you think "It has been described as" in the intro is wikispeak, but then using the same 'It has been described as" to say that the name is deceptive is not wikispeak?

I want to do some more edits to flesh things out, but I don't want to edit war, so I am trying to reach out to get on the same page. Seraphya (talk) 05:48, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for reaching out. The source applied to that sentence does not use the phrase “far-left” anywhere; it says the supporters of the JCA “align with the left” and in the diagram, gives their leaning as just “left”. I will restore this wording as it fits with the source (and as it is the ante bellum wording) we should discuss further on the talk page if there’s more to change for it.

The reasoning behind the other wording is word choice. Saying something has been described as something is better suited to less controversial descriptors. If we say, as the wording I removed did, that they have been “noted” as being deceptive, then we are explicitly saying in wikivoice that it’s unequivocally factual that they’re being deceptive. We can’t say that, we can certainly say they have been described as such but also give the context that’s found later in the article that they explicitly don’t claim to be representative and so they don’t consider themselves to be carrying out deception. GraziePrego (talk) 06:56, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

I realized I got my sources confused, they were from the same site. I think it is better if we use the article that describers the organization as well as the one that describes the supporters.

Doesn't the neutrality of wikipedia mean that we should not trust the self description of people and organization over their description of others? Of course someone in general wouldn't admit to deception, but I think it is pretty clear that both for the AJA and the JCA that the names were chosen specifically to appear to the unwitting public as representative. Seraphya (talk) 07:50, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Sophie Scamps

On 27 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sophie Scamps, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sophie Scamps decided to enter politics after a survey from her local member of Parliament failed to mention climate change? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sophie Scamps. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sophie Scamps), 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Phaxman (21:13, 28 September 2024)

Hello, GraziePrego!

I am a complete neophyte writing Wikipedia articles, but nevertheless have been trying to clean up, correct, and add to the article on CBS Laboratories, where I worked for several years. I have been adding to it bit by bit, but have just now been informed by a bot, apparently, about significant issues in my last changes.

After following all of the change pages, I now feel that I have understood what I am being asked to change, and why - hopefully you will agree.

Please let me know if I have missed any important items!

Appreciatively, Richard Johnson

Women in Red October 2024

Women in Red | October 2024, Volume 10, Issue 10, Numbers 293, 294, 318, 319, 320 Online events: New: Women in STEM | Geofocus: Islands I-P | Women in archaeology Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements from other communities October is Women in Green's "Around the World in 31 Days" Good Article Edit-a-thon Tip of the month: Unsure how to expand a stub article? Take a look at this guidance Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

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Question from AJLeary on Wikipedia:Contents (21:19, 30 September 2024)

Hi. How do I go about creating a page for myself? --AJLeary (talk) 21:19, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi there! If you mean creating a User page for yourself, then you can just click on your username and begin editing. If you mean creating an article about yourself, then that is not generally advised. Have a look at WP:COI. GraziePrego (talk) 01:30, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Whomantha on Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists (00:41, 1 October 2024)

How do I link citation? I know how to site my sources, but I'd like to have a button that will just link it to everything and everywhere. --Whomantha (talk) 00:41, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi Whomantha, I'm not sure what you mean by linking a citation? You can use the cite button to create a citation to place at the end of a sentence, if that's what you mean. GraziePrego (talk) 01:15, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Blevitz05 (15:57, 1 October 2024)

Hi! Can you tell me what is my fastest way to become an auto-confirmed user? --Blevitz05 (talk) 15:57, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, becoming auto-confirmed is just a thing that will naturally happen if you edit Wikipedia for a bit of time. You shouldn't be focusing on looking for a quick way to get there, if you just have fun editing Wikipedia and making good edits then you will become autoconfirmed in a short time. Happy editing! GraziePrego (talk) 01:12, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Peigan Min on Failed back syndrome (09:09, 2 October 2024)

Hi I don't understand the context of the translator I understand 2 languages Russian and Ukrainian --Peigan Min (talk) 09:10, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
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Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

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• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

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Reward board

Hello again, I've recently upgraded the page for the oroblanco, a citrus hybrid, to GA after seeing your reward board post. Kimikel (talk) 00:12, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

How delightful! I had no idea anyone would take me up on that so I'm very happy. Fantastic work! Would you like the Bio-Star or the Food and Drink Star? :) GraziePrego (talk) 00:34, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much, I'm glad I could take you up on it! I have zero clue what either one looks like, so please pick whichever one you think looks nicer. Kimikel (talk) 11:27, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mahdiye amjadi (15:05, 4 October 2024)

Hello dear Mentor I am a fan of an artist and I created a draft for him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Armin_Rajaei but it says it takes 2 months or more to confirm my draft! it's so long I added tags I created a topic in the biography section but still I'm worried what should I do? --Mahdiye amjadi (talk) 15:05, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

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• I have removed this tag as a political party being founded by an incumbent Senator with parliamentary representation is a credible claim of significance. AusLondonder (talk) 03:45, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you @AusLondonder, I wholeheartedly agree that this page is obviously notable. It’s a party with federal representation, it’s unequivocally notable. GraziePrego (talk) 03:49, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

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story · music · places

Thank you for improving articles on October! - My story today is a cantata 300 years old, based on a hymn 200 years old when the cantata was composed, based on a psalm some thousand years old, - so said the 2015 DYK hook. I had forgotten the discussion on the talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:48, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Lidia Thorpe

You based your demolition of the separate "Controversies" section in the article on Lidia Thorpe on the premises of WP:CSECTION. However, that is a section of an essay, namely WP:NOCRIT, not a guideline or a policy, and, equally importantly, a section that is currently under discussion. Please revert your change until at least the discussion on that essay is resolved. -The Gnome (talk) 10:44, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi. It may not be established policy, however I still believe that my edit was an improvement as lumping controversies into a specific section is a pretty poor way of avoiding NPOV. I've moved them into the "member of parliament" section which is where they fit better in my opinion, readers who read that section can make their own judgement about Thorpe's time in parliament without being explicitly told that what they are about to read is controversial. GraziePrego (talk) 10:51, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Howdydo234 (12:05, 24 October 2024)

Hello, how are you today. I was just wondering, how do I make an article? --Howdydo234 (talk) 12:05, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Sharath220896 (06:40, 26 October 2024)

Hello I'm trying to publish an article for a film, and needed your guidance in adding reference --Sharath220896 (talk) 06:41, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, what is the name of this article? If you link it to me perhaps I can have a look and help with the references. GraziePrego (talk) 07:08, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Thomas Sewell (neo-Nazi)

I've just nominated Thomas Sewell (neo-Nazi) for a GA. I've never done this before so I'd appreciate any assistance. If I get this through I might think about more figures on the far-right in AUS that have the articles currently at B class or better. TarnishedPath^talk 14:24, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi TarnishedPath, always good to see you :) I will very happily take a look and see if I can make some helpful changes or guidance. Happy editing! GAs are good fun to do. GraziePrego (talk) 07:09, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Ta TarnishedPath^talk 08:51, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Citrus articles

Hi, thanks for your Reward Board idea. As you seem to know, I've brought Orange to GA already; Lemon and Citrus are either there or in GAN now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:57, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

All three articles have now made it through to GA, if your *** offer is still open! Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:39, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

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Fix a random page lacking sources

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Question from Editrider (09:33, 3 November 2024)

I am editing one page with authentic information but someone is again deleting the edits. What I found that information given in that page was not specific and correct so I corrected it but why it's being deleted by someone else again and again. Can u pls guide --Editrider (talk) 09:33, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi there :) Your edits need citations to support the information you're trying to add. Also, it's not usually practice to add children to biography pages unless the children are also notable. GraziePrego (talk) 09:59, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

One child which I mentioned is a renowned ceo of a startup in USA and had been a top fund raiser also. So do I need to add refrence website where it was published? Editrider (talk) 10:30, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

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Hi 👋 how can I change my username --Ivory Ivish (talk) 20:51, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

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HellOOOOOOO Grazie, First of all Thank you for the help you provide with this site! Obviously this is my first time here and that was because I did a Google search for Chevy Truck/PU information and wound up here. So my purpose here is not to edit but to source information which by the way what little bit I was in here I'm very impressed. So that being said, I am NOT by any stretch techy so I stumble and fumble my way around. After creating my account I intended to go back to where I was and of course I don't even know where to start and was hoping you might lend a hand if something like this is within your Job Description. If it's something you able to assist with I was in what I'm thinking might have been a talk option concerning Chevy C10 Pickup trucks. Please let me know if you can help or direct me in the right direction. Not necessary to respond tonite as I'm headed for bed.

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WP:GAN

I've nominated both Nick McKenzie and Moira Deeming. If/when they come up for review any assistance will be completely appreciated. TarnishedPath^talk 12:05, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Very happy to have a look and give any assistance I can. :) GraziePrego (talk) 02:45, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Joseph.magnifsarel on DD Form 214 (22:51, 25 November 2024)

Hello, I want to fill out the form, Request pertaining to military records. --Joseph.magnifsarel (talk) 22:51, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

https://www.archives.gov/veterans/ may help? GraziePrego (talk) 22:59, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating Pre-election pendulum for the 2025 Australian federal election.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Hi Grazie, thanks for the new article. Can you add some secondary sources. I imagine you'd be able to get them from the Mackerras pendulum article.

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Totally fair! I will have a look tomorrow. I just wanted to smash out the table in one go as it’s a lot of data entry grunt work. GraziePrego (talk) 11:53, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

I can completely understand that. TarnishedPath^talk 13:50, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you very much! :) GraziePrego (talk) 23:46, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Are you Italian? "GraziePrego". JacktheBrown (talk) 23:56, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

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I need to be a member of the great associates --Scientist AJ (talk) 09:28, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Lesbianagrande (02:42, 10 December 2024)

Hello! I’d love to know more about your approach to editing short descriptions. How do you decide what to include or exclude when writing a concise summary for a Wikipedia page? What are some common challenges you face in this process? --Lesbianagrande (talk) 02:42, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi there :) When writing short descriptions, it's important to think about the context in which they'll be seen. They will always pop up underneath the main title of the article either on mobile view or in some limited situations on the desktop version. For a person, you usually pick out their nationality, profession, and then years alive, so like "Australian politician (1920-2000)". For articles not about people, it can be a bit harder- the best guidelines are to look at WP:SDPURPOSE and WP:SDCONTENT. Hope that helps and happy editing! GraziePrego (talk) 02:53, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

I generally just look at the first sentence of the lead to get an idea. Noting that if the article title would be the same as the short description we shouldn't add a short description (happens a lot for articles which are not about people). TarnishedPath^talk 03:00, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Vitlayer (18:17, 11 December 2024)

Hello, first of all thank you for your time, I have a problem, that other colleagues of yours have not yet been able to answer me. The problem is: Wikipedia has contested two of my images in my first article, because they could be under Copyright, I pointed out that they are two photos taken by me of a video game of my property. I also pointed out that the same article presented in English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_(video_game), has two photos very similar to mine, even the photo of the box is much sharper than mine, but it did not have my problems. How is this possible?

Best regrads Vit --Vitlayer (talk) 18:18, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

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Definition of Consensus

Hi, I recently made an edit of Boris Savinkov's Wikipedia article mentioning his appearance in Kaiserreich, a mod for the game Hearts of Iron IV, and you undid it, noting that there needed to be a consensus on its inclusion in the article. I was wondering what you meant by it, as I feel that since Kaiserreich is prominent enough to garner its own Wikipedia page, I feel that Savinkov's mention within Kaiserreich is notable enough to be included, especially concerning how unknown he is outside of Kaiserreich. RealSlimmy (talk) 23:50, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, sorry for not explaining further- mentions of Kaiserreich on Savinkov's page have been removed in the past, so there currently appears to be editor consensus against including it. You've done the right thing by starting a discussion on the talk page, and we'll see what other people think. GraziePrego (talk) 00:14, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, I appreciate the response. I apologize if my message seemed combative or aggressive in any way, it was not meant to be so. RealSlimmy (talk) 01:35, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Not at all! :) No worries GraziePrego (talk) 01:36, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

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Question from BarriGZ (22:48, 19 December 2024)

I likely did it wrong but I added the topic My Favorite Things to The Sound of Music Synopsis. I did not have an account at the time. I wanted to align it with me so I could follow the page. How can I do that? --BarriGZ (talk) 22:48, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Now that you have an account, you can click on the Star symbol at the top right of the page- this will add the page to your Watchlist. Your Watchlist shows you whenever a page is edited :) GraziePrego (talk) 00:05, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

December thanks

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Thank you today for improving article quality in December, and the Women in Green contribution! - Today is a woman poet's centenary. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:22, 20 December 2024 (UTC)