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Invitation to participate in study

Hello,

I am E. Whittaker, an intern at Wikimedia with the Scoring Team to create a labeled dataset, and potentially a tool, to help editors deal with incivility when they encounter it on talk pages. We are currently recruiting editors to be interviewed about their experiences with incivility on talk pages. Would you be interested in being interviewed? I am contacting you because of your involvement in Wikipedia’s Women in Red project. The interviews should take ~1 hour, and will be conducted over BlueJeans (which does allow interviews to be recorded). If, so, please email me at ewhit@umich.edu in order to schedule an interview.

Thank you Ewitch51 (talk) 20:26, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Joy Damousi

I've nominated this article that you accepted for deletion. It is a blatant piece of advertising that deserved to be deleted for G11 rather than being accepted. -- » Shadowowl | talk 18:00, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

User:Primefac deleted the unsourced text and the puff pieces, and I don't think there is a need for deletion anymore, so I speedy closed it as keep. -- » Shadowowl | talk 18:28, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

use refill instead of linkrot

If you look at the documentation for the template Linkrot, you'll find in the section "How to use"

Before adding this template, please head over to toollabs:refill, paste into the text box the name of the page with bare references, then click the "Fix page" button.

https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill/ fixes all the problems automatically, so better to do that than post a pointless tag. Dream Focus 12:05, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello TJMSmith, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

  • As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
  • Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: 100 review coin, 250 review coin, 500 review coin, 1000 review certificate.
  • Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Spinning Bees has been accepted

Spinning Bees, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Bkissin (talk) 23:24, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Sarah Morey has been accepted

Sarah Morey, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

Bkissin (talk) 23:25, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Barbara Ruszczyc edit

Hi Ths,

I understand what you are saying about the flag. Some senior editors have removed it when I have included a flag, some have said its ok. I got the idea from other biographies, and I enjoy a bit of color in the infobox. Not the best reason for having it!

The nationality issue, I am a bit confused. Most senior editors I know use Nationality in their infoboxes, even when they can determine place of birth. That is why I started including it. It is redundant information in my biographies, as I list nationality in the first sentence. It makes sense to not include it in future infoboxes. thanks for the input. MauraWen (talk) 21:15, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Request on 10:05:37, 24 June 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by Trivenishankar



Trivenishankar 10:05, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello, My article on Anasuya Shankar keeps getting reverted back to its original, when actually we've included much more information. She passed away in 1963 so we have used everything there is now. We have her late husband's original documents detailing her life, as well as some books that we have referred to that are not on the internet. We have included comprehensive information and original photos, which were in his documents. Could you please let us know what else to fix so that it stops getting reverted back to it's older form?

Thank you.

Trivenishankar 10:05, 24 June 2018 (UTC)TrivenishankarTrivenishankar 10:05, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

July 2018 at Women in Red

Hello again from Women in Red!


July 2018 worldwide online editathons:
New: Sub-Saharan Africa Film + stage 20th-century Women Rock
Continuing: Notable women, broadly-construed!


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Ways to improve List of people from the Northern Mariana Islands

Hi, I'm Boleyn. Thsmi002, thanks for creating List of people from the Northern Mariana Islands!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Please add sources per WP:SourceList.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Boleyn (talk) 13:47, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Trevor Engelson

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You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Trevor Engelson, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, such as at Articles for deletion. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Natureium (talk) 18:54, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Ashani Weeraratna) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Ashani Weeraratna, Thsmi002!

Wikipedia editor Cwmhiraeth just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

An interesting and worthwhile article.

To reply, leave a comment on Cwmhiraeth's talk page.

Learn more about page curation.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:39, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you!

I love that you come around and help with categories. I find them frustrating and never named what I would look for, i.e. Naturalized American citizens of Cuban descent, Naturalized Cuban-Americans...throws hands up and hopes someone comes along to fix it ;). I really do appreciate the help and think that sometimes these gnoming tasks go unnoticed. I recognize them and am grateful. SusunW (talk) 19:56, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

SusunW, Thank you :) I appreciate the message! I love reading the articles you write and enjoy doing anything I can to help. They are always so well written and thorough. Thsmi002 (talk) 22:07, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! I don't start writing until I have figured out if I can find enough sources to write a fairly good comprehensive biography. In the case of Cosme, there was an Oxford Bio on her, so I started out thinking it would be easy. Unfortunately, it had a bunch of gaps in the data. Imagine my surprise at learning of her archive and then being so lucky to have had a scholar or three actually go through them. She was pretty amazing! I really do enjoy learning about the people I write about ;) SusunW (talk) 22:18, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

August 2018 at Women in Red

An exciting new month for Women in Red!


August 2018 worldwide online editathons:
New: Indigenous women Women of marginalized populations Women writers Geofocus: Bottom 10
Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative
Notable women, broadly-construed!


For the first time, this month we are trying out our Monthly achievement initiative

  • All creators of new biographies can keep track of their progress and earn virtual awards.
  • It can be used in conjunction with the above editathons or for any women's biography created in August.
  • Try it out when you create your first biography of the month.

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

Hello TJMSmith, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules
  • New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
  • Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
  • Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.
Editathons
  • Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.
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Please Create Pages for Goucher Alumni Paula Stern & Bradford Shellhammer

Hi Thsmi002,

Fellow Goucher alumnus here. I noticed that you've done a really excellent job creating comprehensive Wiki pages for numerous individuals associated with Goucher. I hope you will consider applying your talents to create pages for notable Goucher alumni Paula Stern (former chair of the U.S. International Trade Commission) and Bradford Shellhammer (founder of a well-known venture called Fab.com which was once valued at several hundred million). Neither of these deserving (I believe both satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines) individuals have their own Wiki pages as of yet.

Thank you, and if you are willing to take this on, please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikieditor19920 (talk • contribs) 00:04, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

@Wikieditor19920: Hi there. Thanks for the message, it's nice to see another Goucher person on here. I wrote an article on Bradford Shellhammer! He has had a very interesting career! Thsmi002 (talk) 18:44, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Nancy Marcus


I'm moving the discussion to your page, so that if/when you need to find this discussion, it will be in your archives. (I have searched for the discussion on my first GA and cannot find it, so I am guessing it was on someone else's page--frustrating ;) )

I have looked the article over and think that it could be expanded for GA if you can find sourcing. I will be honest, scientists are very difficult to do. Most of the articles one finds in free space are by them, not about them. Typically, I find the best sourcing is in an obit for their discipline. I'm going to advise you as I was advised and trust me, I needed a lot of encouragement and handholding, so if there is something you are confused about or seems overwhelming just let me know and I'll try to help. It may also help to read this review Ferrari as many of the points made here are relevant.

Dr. Blofeld and Montanabw were my mentors in GA. They said the article should be at about 15,000 bytes of text before final editing. That seemed really daunting to me. But the goal is to make the article as comprehensive as possible. In this case, there are a lot of places to expand.

  • 1) Lede is too short, should be a summary of all material in the body. No more than 3-4 paragraphs.
  • 2) Combine Early life and education into one section.
  • 3) She was at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for 9 years. You have two sentences here. What did she research, who did she work with? Where was her fieldwork conducted? What was the significance of her work? [1], [2], [3]
  • 4) She was president of ASLO, what did she accomplish during her term? This can be used as a potential expansion point to give you ideas but since it is by her, it is not a RS.[4] Did ASLO or Oceanography publish an obit for her? As professional orgs/journals, they might have more detail on her career accomplishments.
  • 5) Much of her career has been in administration, i.e. director of Florida State University Marine Laboratory, coordinator of the University's National Sea Grant, Council of Graduate Schools Board of Directors, Dean of the Graduate School, what policies did she implement? What were her areas of focus? There are a lot of little tid-bits I find, but you'd need to find better sourcing for some of them.[5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]
  • 6) If you can get it in the neighborhood of 15,000 bytes, ping someone you trust to edit it. GOCE prose is often choppy and not smooth flowing, IMO. I used to have Dr. Blofeld do the edits, now I mostly ask Ian.
  • 7) Be sure that all of your citations are as complete as possible and that you have confirmed that they are RS. You can use a few primary sources but the bulk should be from independent, curated/edited sources.
  • 8) They will want photos. Be sure they are properly licensed. I am a failure at visuals and often have to ask for help. You can also ask for help or collaborators at Women in Green.

I hope I have not overwhelmed you (that is definitely the feeling I had when Dr. B and Montanabw suggested I take an article to GA status the first time). SusunW (talk) 18:07, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

@SusunW:Thank you so much for your thoughtful and detailed response. I apologize for the delay in replying. I finally got around to working on the article! I'm still not sure if it quite reaches GA but I think it may be close. I know everyone is busy but I am wondering if you or maybe @Megalibrarygirl: and @Ipigott: could give it a look over/ce. Thank you! Thsmi002 (talk) 17:09, 28 September 2018 (UTC)


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Michael Hendricks

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Review Comment

Hi the Draft:Susan_Mikula has been in the review stage for almost two weeks. Is that normal??? How long until the review is over?? Thank you.JC7V-constructive zone 20:57, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Courtesy ping to Chrissymad, who marked it as under review. Primefac (talk) 22:33, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

September 2018 at Women in Red

September is an exciting new month for Women in Red's worldwide online editathons!



New: Women currently in academics Women + Law Geofocus: Hispanic countries

Continuing: #1day1woman Global Initiative

Check it out: Monthly achievement initiative

  • All creators of new biographies can keep track of their progress and earn virtual awards.
  • It can be used in conjunction with the above editathons or for any women's biography created in September.
  • Try it out when you create your first biography of the month.

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Hey, I just wanted to thank you for your edits on the Goucher College page and putting together Bradford Shellhammer. Keep it coming! Wikieditor19920 (talk) 00:46, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Lily Mabura has been accepted

Lily Mabura, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

Thsmi002 (talk) 22:23, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello TJMSmith, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news
As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
Other
Moving to Draft and Page Mover
  • Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
  • If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
  • Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
  • The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
  • The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
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Otto Kraushaar

I just created a page for Otto Kraushaar, Goucher's 7th president. He's also a doctorate-holder: would you be able to provide sourced information about his thesis and/or doctoral advisor, as you did on Marvin Banks Perry Jr.? Thanks! Wikieditor19920 (talk) 01:12, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

@Wikieditor19920: Hello! I added the title of his dissertation, but the record is not online, so I couldn't see who his advisor was. Thsmi002 (talk) 02:11, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Otto Kraushaar (disambiguation)

Hey there! I noticed you had created Otto Kraushaar (disambiguation). I just thought I would let you know that the disambiguation is likely unnecessary, per WP:Disambiguation#Deciding to disambiguate; in particular, the line The page at Michael Dobbs is about the primary topic, and there is only one other use. The other use is linked directly using a hatnote; no disambiguation page is needed., which is the case here. There is currently only one other use for Otto Kraushaar, which is the musician. Therefore, there's no reason to have a disambiguation page - all you would have to do is replace {{Other people}} with {{for|the musician|Otto Kraushaar (musician)}} on the Otto Kraushaar page and {{for|the academic|Otto Kraushaar}} on the musician's page. I just thought I would send you a personal message, rather than go straight to the PROD. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 14:59, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

@SkyGazer 512: Thank you for the explanation! I switched over to the {{for}} template. Thsmi002 (talk) 15:14, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Mint (album)

Hi, earlier I tagged you in an edit summary on Mint (album) when I retargeted it to Mint as I felt it was too generic a title as there have been other albums titled Mint in music history. To paraphrase, I said "please make sure the information is listed in the article you're pointing the redirect to". Afterwards, I saw you actually did add information relating to the album on Alice Merton's article, but pointed the redirect specifically to the Discography section, where the only mention was next to the single "Why So Serious". I just felt it would have been more helpful to list it at the top of the discography section (as all albums take precedence before all other types of releases). Ss112 08:56, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

@Ss112: I appreciate the advice! Thsmi002 (talk) 11:45, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
For starting the page on Helena Chmura Kraemer. Sagecandor (talk) 19:58, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

@Sagecandor: Thank you! :) Thsmi002 (talk) 23:43, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

{WIR-91} template

Thank you for today restoring the {WIR-91} template to Talk:Christine Blasey Ford, with your edit summary, "I have been editing this page." On Sept. 17, you first added that template with the edit summary, "rate, {WIR-91}"—which I found inscrutable. I then deleted it with the edit summary, "Remove {WIR-91} template, which creates false impression this article was created or improved as part of edit-a-thon hosted by Women in Red project, and by inexperienced editors. Correlation ≠ causation."

I am relieved to find that you are not one of the new editors about whom the template cautions, having been editing Wikipedia since Oct. 2017. I commend your contributions, and in particular your 16 edits (4.35% of the total) on Christine Blasey Ford.

Please permit me, however, to offer a suggestion. When first adding the {WIR-91} template to an article's talk page, it might reassure other editors to know (via your edit summary) that you are not claiming the article for Women in Red as if it were a group effort by project members, and that you are not a new editor.

Thanks for this opportunity to express my opinion. KalHolmann (talk) 04:05, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for you assistance in the approval of the Anna Wong (artist) page!

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October 2018 at Women in Red

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

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

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Deletion sorting

Thank you again. For deletion sorting there is the clever script User:Enterprisey/delsort, which I warmly recommend. Any questions, just WP:PING me. Best, Sam Sailor 16:57, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

@Sam Sailor: Hi! Thanks for the message. I've never used a script before and am a little unsure how to paste it correctly. I got the message "Warning: Unrecoverable syntax error. (NaN% scanned)." Not sure what that means. Any thoughts? Thank you! Thsmi002 (talk) 17:06, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
YW. I can't recall why MediaWiki (the software) returns that warning, just say "Ignore" and save. Sam Sailor 17:09, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
Ah! Remove the colon in :importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); // Backlink: User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js .... ah, sorted already! :-) No : in front of importScript. Sam Sailor 17:12, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
@Sam Sailor: Ok! This is what I see: importScript( 'User:EnterpriseyBot/delsort.js' ); // Backlink: [[User:EnterpriseyBot/delsort.js]] Can't tell how to use it though. Thsmi002 (talk) 17:15, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
As with anything procedural on Wikipedia, it seems very confusing at first. User:Enterprisey/delsort really gives you the overview. We sort AFD discussions in (a) broad categories, see Category:AfD debates and (b) more specific lists, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Flat. Sam Sailor 17:25, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
But do not feel obliged to sort, it was only because I saw you delsorted a discussion manually. :-) Sam Sailor 17:29, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

@Sam Sailor: fantastic! I just used it once and it worked great :) this will make it much easier! Thsmi002 (talk) 17:34, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

(If you find that indentation gets too deep, use {{outdent}}. Have a look in edit mode. I just substituted {{od|::::}} for your single colon.) On topic: TBO, I didn't even know we had a list of Discrimination-related deletion discussions that you sorted into in Special:Diff/865392684. There's always something to learn here! :-) Sam Sailor 18:10, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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A cup of coffee for you!

It was nice to meet you at meta:WikiConference North America/2018.

We have several overlapping interests but among them, I and some others are looking ahead to 2021 to write a history of LGBT+ engagement in Wikipedia. Some related projects which we do regularly are some World AIDS Day events around this time of year (for 1 December) and a summer Wiki Loves Pride push.

Unrelated to that - you said that you had some familiarity with a database of grants or sponsorship related to research. If you have a small sample dataset then I would like to see it. I and some others are building out wiki-integration for connecting Wikipedia to research institutes, to their researchers, to their publications, to the research projects in those publications, to the sponsors. The base of this project is in meta:WikiCite but matching research to biographies is an entirely Wikipedia thing to do. If you have a lead on data then I would appreciate whatever you can share. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:03, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

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

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Hey, congrats on your first GA: Nancy Marcus! I hope you have more articles to nominate in the future. Enjoy the barnstar, you deserve it. MX (✉ • ✎) 04:55, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
+1 -- Congrats! ---Another Believer (Talk) 05:00, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
+2 Congratulations. You really did a very nice job on it. Thanks for all your work to improve articles on women. SusunW (talk) 06:24, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks much for everyone's support, it takes a village! :) I appreciate it! Thsmi002 (talk) 14:17, 24 November 2018 (UTC)