User talk:Sammi Brie


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Your version was about 25 characters too long. I took another swing at it and it is now 15 characters short of the maximum. Feel free to play with it with that in mind. Wehwalt (talk) 17:43, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @Wehwalt; I think it's important to put how badly their news was rating post-NBC switch. It basically drove the entire arc of station history for half a decade and occupies substantial space in the article. The revamped blurb looks good. Sammi Brie (she/her • tc) 17:47, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
For your review of Abdominal angina. I know medical pages can be tricky but you did so good on the review that I wanted to give you a barnstar! IntentionallyDense (talk) 20:04, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The 2024 WikiCup

Awarded to Sammi Brie for being one of the eight finalists in the 2024 WikiCup.
The good article reviewer prize, awarded to Sammi Brie for reviewing the most GA nominations in the 2024 WikiCup, with 45 GA reviews in round 2, and 78 GA reviews overall.

Congratulations! Epicgenius (talk) 16:54, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for WOGX

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A barnstar for you!

The Premium Reviewer Barnstar
Thank you for participating in the October 2024 GA backlog drive. Your commendable contribution (23 points total) helped reduce the backlog considerably! Here's a token of our appreciation. —Ganesha811 (talk) 00:01, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TFA

story · music · places

Thank you today for KARE (TV), introduced: "If I have a type, it's major-market, often network-affiliated TV stations with unusual histories. After a radio detour, I'm back at it, and channel 11 in Minneapolis is one of them. You'll get: the story of two stations on one channel, consolidated by Consolidated; how the Minnesota Twins came along to save the station after it lost its network affiliation; how then-WTCN-TV went from successful independent to NBC affiliate with a disastrous "new news" that the ratings showed to be "about as popular as the measles" (not my words); and how Gannett took the station apart and rebuilt it to viewer acclaim in the 1980s and 1990s."! - My story today is about a concert I sang, on the conductor's birthday (story) in memory of a dear friend (music). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:02, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story comes from a DYK about a concert that fascinated me, and you can listen! For my taste, the hook has too little music - I miss the unusual scoring and the specific dedication - but it comes instead with a name good for viewcount. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:51, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the Main page today Jean Sibelius on his birthday. Listening to Beethoven's Fifth from the opening of Notre-Dame de Paris. We sang in choirs today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:06, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to the (new) Perplexities after Escher. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:19, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen today to Beethoven's 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the 2020 DYK set when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with Antônio Meneses, because he was on my sad list this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:03, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I come to fix the cellist's name, with a 10-years-old DYK and new pics - look for red birds --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:11, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Seasons Greetings!

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Can you check my GA review?

This is my first time doing a GA review. Anyways, I'm done reviewing Saint Peter's Church and was wondering if you could check my review to see if I miss anything out? Thanks! Imbluey2. Please ping me so that I get notified of your response 00:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Help with article "KBSV"

I recently edited the article KBSV, which is a television station based in California for the Assyrian community there. I added some sources to the article and made a few edits, but they were reversed by a user @Mvcg66b3r because they thought that it fell under "Conflict on interest" and that I had a connection to the TV station's owner or other people in the article.

The article previously had issues of notability as well as citations, and the ones I added were those that mentioned the TV channel at all. I don't know if there was anything inherently promotional about my edits, but could you please take a look and see which edits are good to stay/which ones aren't appropriate for the article? Surayeproject3 (talk) 22:55, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Surayeproject3 I think @Mvcg66b3r has badly misread your intentions. I get why. He is an antivandal fighter above all, and this is not a normal TV station. But that's exactly why the article was so bare: it needed more than anything an Assyrian community topic specialist. That's you. The material you've added is useful and comes from places I would not have known to look (I found the original newspaper clipping for the 2003 article that misspelled it "KSBV"). Sammi Brie (she/her • tc) 05:16, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sammi Brie Thank you very much for your help, I appreciate it and if you'd be able to incorporate that 2003 newspaper into the article if possible, it'd be a huge help if it provides more information. Surayeproject3 (talk) 15:20, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

Hello Sammi Brie, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025.
Happy editing,

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Nomination of XHTOL-FM for deletion

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Infoboxes

Can you do Template:Infobox television station dual as a fork of {{Infobox television station}}? Some stations that could use this are WTTV/WTTK, KDVR/KFCT, KHBS/KHOG, WPBN/WTOM, KOLN/KGIN, etc. Also pinging @Nathan Obral:. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 20:23, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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