February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
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Citation Barnstar | |
This award is given in recognition to Ghosts of Europa for collecting more than 5 points 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) 17:56, 8 March 2024 (UTC) |
Thanks for engaging in Book of Mormon articlespace articletalkspace
Your presence in those spaces is greatly appreciated. I wish more people would join. jps (talk) 16:53, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! I appreciate you highlighting these issues and pushing back against poor sourcing, even if we disagree a bit on where the line is.
- These discussions have also encouraged me to examine our coverage of non-LDS Christianity, Greek myths, etc for comparisons, and I've found a ton of other things we should clean up. Honestly, I think a lot of Greek myths are in worse shape than LDS topics. So much content is sourced to, like, Ovid. Definitely not the same situation (I doubt many believers in Zeus are involved!), but I might tackle that as a future project. Ghosts of Europa (talk) 18:17, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
In appreciation
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The Reviewers Award | |
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable review you recently carried out at FAC. This work is much appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:46, 25 March 2024 (UTC) |
A barnstar for you
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The Good Heart Barnstar | |
For your evenhandedness and curiosity, especially when approaching unfamiliar topics, in those times our paths have crossed. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 13:50, 29 March 2024 (UTC) |
DYK for The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
On 9 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a story titled "The Adventures of Mr. Stupidhead in Russia" may have influenced the Soviet silent comedy film The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks), 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.
Gatoclass 00:02, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Minor Barnstar | |
Thank you for participating in the March 2024 backlog drive. Your contribution (5.5 points total) helped reduce the backlog by more than 250 articles! Here's a token of our appreciation. —Ganesha811 (talk) 16:11, 10 April 2024 (UTC) |
Notification
You are involved in a recently filed request for clarification or amendment from the Arbitration Committee. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment#Clarification request: Noleander and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the Wikipedia:Arbitration guide may be of use.
Thanks, Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 16:46, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to the DCWC!
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Welcome to the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest, Ghosts of Europa! The contest is now open for submissions. List your work at your submissions page to earn points. If you haven't done so already, please review the following:
- Got open nominations? List them at review requests.
- Looking for a topic to work on? Check out suggested articles and eligible reviews.
- Not sure if your article qualifies? See the guidelines for more information or contact a coordinator for verification.
- New to Wikipedia? Many experienced editors are part of this contest and willing to help; feel free to ask questions about the contest on the talk page.
- Know someone else who might be interested? Sign-ups remain open until 15 July, so don't hesitate to invite other editors!
On behalf of the coordinators, we hope you enjoy participating and wish you good luck! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Ixtal (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:27, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Clarification request closed
The Noleander clarification request, in which you were listed as an involved editor, has been closed and archived. The request was related to that case's principle 9, which states:
Editors are expected to refrain from making unnecessary references to the actual or perceived racial, religious, or ethnic background of fellow editors. Such references should be made only if they clearly serve a legitimate purpose. In the context of a noticeboard discussion or dispute resolution, it will rarely serve a valid purpose to seek to classify the participants in the discussion on this basis.
Among the participating Arbitrators, there was a rough consensus that this principle remains true with current policies and guidelines and that there is not an exemption from this principle for asserting that an editor has a conflict of interest. For the Arbitration Committee, SilverLocust 💬 05:36, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
DCWC August update
The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for a month, and we've already seen some momentous improvement in the quality of many articles about underrepresented subjects! So far, our top-scoring participants are:
Magentic Manifestations (submissions) – 338 points, mainly from nine good articles. He's a contender for the "most submissions for a single country" specialty award, with nine submissions for India.
Arconning (submissions) – 305 points, including from six seasonally-appropriate Olympics-related good articles.
Generalissima (submissions) – 290 points, the bulk from her featured article about Greenlandic interpreter Qalaherriaq and two China-related good articles.
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) – 245 points, mostly from the achievement of bringing Genghis Khan to featured status.
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) – 144 points from three good articles, including two about Kiribati elections, and four reviews of good article nominees.
Looking for ways to climb up the leaderboard yourself? Help out your fellow participants by answering a few review requests, particularly the older entries. Several more nominations needing attention are listed at eligible reviews, and highlighed entries receive a 1.5× multiplier! The coordinators would like to extend a special thanks to Thebiguglyalien (submissions) for his commitment to keeping these review pages up to date.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Ixtal (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 14:24, 1 August 2024 (UTC)