en User talk:Megalibrarygirl Archives 2018 November

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DYK for Women in brewing

On 3 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Women in brewing, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that women brewsters were the primary producers of beer before commercialization of the industry? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Women in brewing. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Women in brewing), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

I think this calls for a pint. Have you got any Shepherd Neame Master Brew? Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 00:09, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Cheers, Ritchie333! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:33, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Catherine Kerrison

On 6 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Catherine Kerrison, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that historian Catherine Kerrison (pictured) thinks beauty is still important for any woman in the public eye? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Catherine Kerrison. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Catherine Kerrison), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Nobody Is Above the Law

Hello! I know you're taking a break from Trump-related content, and rightly so, but on the off-chance you're interested, I am currently trying to track down cities hosting Nobody Is Above the Law demonstrations. If you care to add cities/sources to the article or talk page, you're more than welcome! Either way, hope you are well and happy editing. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 23:31, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

@Another Believer: I'm ready to rejoin! I'll look into it. There should be one happening in El Paso, for example. (I wish I was able to go today.) I'll look into it. Thanks for pinging me. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 00:52, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

AfroCine: The Months of African Cinema Continues….

Greetings!

Thank you very much for signing up to participate in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 200 articles created in over seven (7) languages! The figures soars to up to a thousand, if Wikidata entries are included. Furthermore, there have been about 5 in-person gatherings of Wikipedians in different countries across the world to create articles about African(a) cinema!

We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

Article suggestions can be found here. You can also add to this list.
Some notable reliable sources for African cinema can be found here. Again, this list needs expansion.
Interested in Wikidata translation? check out the Occupation Drive, which is being led by Wiki Loves Women, in support of the contest and the project!
Please remember to list articles you have created or improved in the Article Achievements section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked.

Thank you once again for being part of this global event!

Kind regards.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

TheFamousPeople.com as a source

Hi Megalibrarygirl. I noticed that you used thefamouspeople.com as a source in Annie Jump Cannon [1]. Please note that there is general consensus that thefamouspeople.com does not meet the reliable sourcing criteria for such information. (Discussions here and here). If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks. --Ronz (talk) 21:47, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Nah, I'm cool with that, Ronz. I make mistakes sometimes! :) Does the article need a new source? I have better database access these days. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 00:43, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

I didn't look closely, but http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/index.php/history/annie-cannon is used five times in the article and redirects to a page saying their content is down and will be avilable in the future as an archive of some sort. --Ronz (talk) 02:16, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Ronz. I think her article needs more improvment in general. I've checked out some books from my library that may help as well. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:35, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Greetings from the Arbcom Recruitment Kittens!

We've got some former arbs in the mix for WP:ACE2018, but we need more ~~fresh blood~~ bright-eyed and bushy-tailed first-time candidates! I mean, I wouldn't want to distract you from doing actual work, but you'd be great! Opabinia regalis (talk) 06:52, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

+1 ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 02:22, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Opabinia regalis and Atsme. Please consider me again in the future, but right now my personal life is making it difficult for me to even be able to edit as often as I like. :( Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:37, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Megalibrarygirl/Archives/2018,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)}18:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Women in agriculture in Japan (etc)

Hello. I am currently translating the article you initiated, Women in agriculture in Japan, (see translation ca:Dones a l'agricultura al Japó) and I thought that you might add more information to it by this journal article:

Narayan, Saarang. "Women in Meiji Japan: Exploring the Underclass of Japanese Industrialization." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse 8.02 (2016). url

Happy Asian Month!--Hienafant (talk) 17:53, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Coolness, Hienafant! I'll look into it. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:32, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Yep, another one: there are some references that can be used to add more information to your initiated article Korean Women's Associations United. Take a look at ca:Associació de Dones Coreanes's references (recent news plus a chapter).--Hienafant (talk) 14:16, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi, I think you might be interested in this article I have seriously created in the Catalan Wikipedia (ca:Avortament al Kazakhstan). It's not a translation of Abortion in Kazakhstan. All sources are, by now, written in English. You can translate my content with the help of Google Translate. If you are interested, I would gladly offer you my help.--Hienafant (talk) 00:07, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Hienafant. I'll look into that, too. I'm going to try to wrap up some of the articles I've been working on about women and computing. Btw, are you aware of any history of women in other countries besides US and Canada involved in computing history? Thanks! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:53, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

A quick search using Spanish terms retrieved the following names:

Mujeres en tecnología: una ambiciosa minoría absoluta - Roya Mahboob, founder of Software Co. (Afghanistan company); María Alegre (Spanish; founder of Chartboost) also from Spain: María Esteve, Mar Alarcón, Carlota Pi, Celia Sánchez-Ramos
El Confidencial article (mostly all the names you find in the article are Spanish women related in a way or another to informatics
European Union's roaming killed by a group of women
es:Arantza Illarramendi
(in English) Nature journal --Hienafant (talk) 16:23, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Hienafant! I'm now working my way through these. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 02:02, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Wear stretchy pants tomorrow...

Want more yams? No thanks, I'm stuffed.	Wishing You A Happy Turkey Day!
	Thanksgiving chuckles... What smells best at a Thanksgiving dinner? Your nose. What did the turkey say to the computer? Google, google, google. 😊🦃 ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 19:21, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

@Atsme:! Enjoy your Thanksgiving, too! :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:46, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

French and German resources on Wikipedia

Hello, Megalibrarygirl, I am looking for information on Lily Ehrenfried. I've already gotten what I need from the internet. My next step is to write the LOC to see if they have any French or German bibliographic encyclopedias, but I wanted to check with you first to see if Wikipedia has those available anywhere (I just saw the Wikipedia library - WOW!!). Thanks, Aurornisxui (talk) 14:42, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Found them Aurornisxui (talk) 18:50, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Cool! Glad you found them, Aurornisxui! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:48, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Megalibrarygirl. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

I voted. (Stolen from Rosiestep). Let's all vote! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:45, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

OMG, Atsme! This is awesome! You made me LOL. :D Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:32, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

I voted on the 20th! Love the sticker :) I'm stealing it. SusunW (talk) 17:39, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

I've got a very nice photo of Megalibrarygirl coming out of the polling station with a huge grin and an "I voted" sticker, but as it's not own work I can't upload it here (plus it's nice to ask people before you plaster photos of them in a public place anyway). Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 22:39, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Voting rules, Ritchie333 and SusunW. :) My momma taught me right. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 02:33, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Requesting article re-assessment

Hi - I'm not sure where to direct this question, so I'm going to start with you. Earlier this year, I did some work to de-stubbify the article on Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. Is there a place I should go or a tag I should add to have it re-assessed? I'm hoping that I've gotten it past stub. WikiProject Women's History has it rated as a high-importance stub. Any advice on either procedure for getting it reclassified or ideas about other ways to improve the article would be most welcome. Thanks! - Kenirwin/(talk) 14:16, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Kenirwin! As far as I can tell, you are free to reclassify an article on your own if you think it's changed significantly. I'm always a bit fuzzy about certain categories myself, but looking at your improved article (It looks really good!), I'd probably go ahead and change it to "C class." I'll go and do that for you right now. :) BTW, here is a cheat sheet for figuring out article class: Template:Grading scheme Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:58, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I've been reluctant to re-class articles that I've worked on out of concern for being insufficiently objective about it. Thank you for doing that. Do you know if there's a more formal process to go through? Thank you! - Kenirwin/(talk) 18:05, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Not that I know of, Kenirwin. I think most Wikipedians would actually be glad that you are updating the status of the articles. While I understand where you are coming from (I also don't like classing my own articles), the rubric is pretty clear for article classes. I think we should all probably get more comfortable classing our own work in order to save time for others. But for a different perspective you may want to ask around on the Teahouse or some WikiProject talk pages. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 02:01, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Kenirwin: I have recently installed ORES, an assessment tool which automatically estimates the class of any Wikipedia article. For example, it gives at rating of C class (3.26) to your Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. Although in my opinion it tends to be over-optimistic in its GA and FA assessments, I have found it particularly useful for grading both my own articles and those of others. You will find useful info and installation instructions at User_talk:Rosiestep#ORES.--Ipigott (talk) 08:38, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Ipigott Thanks so much for this info! :D Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:31, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Ipigott that's super awesome -- thank you! - Kenirwin/(talk) 15:18, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

December 2018 at Women in Red

The WiR December editathons provide something for everyone.

New: Photography Laureates Countries beginning with 'I'

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

Latest headlines, news, and views on the Women in Red talkpage (Join the conversation!):

BBC 100 Women 2018

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--Rosiestep (talk) 13:55, 27 November 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Preparations for December

I was wondering whether you could liaise with Rosiestep on what to include for December. I remember you said a few days ago that you would be preparing the editathon pages but I can't see anything for #101, #102 or #103. Let me know if you need any help.--Ipigott (talk) 10:39, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I can't assist at this time as I'm leaving for WikiCite this morning. Are there others we could tap for this ask as both of you have already done so much in previous months? Perhaps pagestalkers on the WiR talkpage would be interested if they knew? --Rosiestep (talk) 15:20, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Rosiestep: If we could have a clear idea of the priority topics, I could easily put things together. It still all seems rather vague and I don't want to superimpose my own preferences.--Ipigott (talk) 17:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

@Ipigott and Rosiestep: I'm happy to put them together. I was just waiting for the go-ahead. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 23:35, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Same here, @Ipigott and Megalibrarygirl:... I don't want to superimpose my preferences. :) --Rosiestep (talk) 01:20, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

@Ipigott and Rosiestep: editathon pages done! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 02:47, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Megalibrarygirl! If you/@Ipigott: would like me to MassMessage them, let me know and I can do so tonight or tomorrow night. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:54, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Megalibrarygirl: Thanks for putting it all together. The geofocus on "I" provides huge scope. India and Indonesia alone represent more than a quarter of the world's population. It will be interesting to see how it evolves. Rosiestep: During the day, I'll complete the preparatory work during the day, including the invitations. I'll ping you when everything is ready.--Ipigott (talk) 07:53, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Everything seems to be ready now. Rosiestep: Unless you want to add any new items to the invitation, I think it is ready to be sent out. Thanks for you help and enjoy your next trip.--Ipigott (talk) 08:41, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Done. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:56, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Research help

Hey, Megalibrarygirl! I've got an article from The Times of London, Leaked CCTV of nude blogger ‘is data breach’ by Mark Tighe September 2 2018, that is behind a paywall. Can you help? I've applied to get newspaperarchives from the whatchamacallit place (lol) but it hasn't come through yet so all the newspapers I can access are US. Thanks for any assistance!valereee (talk) 16:09, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

@Valereee: I found it. I can send it to your email address. Email me and I'll send it your way. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 23:12, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

email is in the wind, and thank you so much! valereee (talk) 23:40, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Valereee, I've sent you the full text. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:28, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you so much, got it! valereee (talk) 19:50, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

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