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For contributing biographies of women every single day and for always responding to calls for assistance. It's always a pleasure to monitor your activities.--Ipigott (talk) 14:15, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Hope you're doing well. I remember telling you my aspiration to reach 2,500 women's biographies by the end of the year. If I push it, I might make 2,400, but 2,500 will have to wait for 2025. I think you're way past that achievement, right? Anyway, hope you and the fam have a fantastic holiday season. It was such a pleasure that we could meet up in England over the summer; I won't forget it. -- Rosiestep (talk) 19:34, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well I was planning to see you again in Nairobi, so I have been polishing up my CV to try and get a wikigrant to get there. So I calculated it last month and it was 2,750 women biogs. So I'm thinking ~2,400 plus ~2,750 makes more that 5,000! So there are only 400,000 wikibiogs about women. Between the two of us we have written much more than 1% of them and "our wikiproject" has been running for ten years and it will soon go from 15% to 20%. So over the ten years we have seen an increase of 5%. 1 in 4 of all biogs about women have been written since I told you that "the door is open". Victuallers (talk) 20:00, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I hope so much that we both get scholarships to Nairobi!!! I submitted my app over the weekend. SO MUCH has been accomplished in the last 9.5 years; it will be time to celebrate BIG TIME. In the meantime, I term off the WMF Bd on Dec 11 and need to decompress, plus fam time and the holidays. Let's talk in early Jan and sort out the other awesome ideas you mentioned elsewhere. Glad I stepped through the door, Roger, --Rosiestep (talk) 20:59, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello there, 'tis the season again, believe it or not, the years pass so quickly now! A big thank you for all of your contributions to Wikipedia in 2024! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a happy and productive 2025! ♦ Dr. Blofeld08:44, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hope you're doing well. I noticed that you’ve written over 3,600 articles about women on Wikipedia, which is truly an incredible achievement. However, I also observed that your articles are still being reviewed by New Page Patrollers. I believe that Autopatrolled rights would be more suitable for you. If you permit, I’d be happy to nominate you for these rights. Thank you! also, Happy 20%. Baqi:) (talk) 15:21, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello Victuallers, 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, Abishe (talk) 23:23, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for starting this biography. To expand, it would of course be helpful to have some biographical information from before 2014. Notability as a national-level politician.
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It may have sub optimal renditions of the sources but the article says nothing as offensive imo as "major ableist/inspiration porn vibes". Now that is a phrase I would really caution against if I was looking for collegiatality. (You may end up woth less people with disabilities being included on the project.) Can I suggest that you delete your comment on my page and have another go? Victuallers (talk) 08:41, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As a disabled person, I stand by my statement that starting an article with the following is problematic:
"Dilorom Yuldasheva (born ) is an Uzbek woman who overcame disability. She lost her legs in an accident with a combine harvester. She overcame her disability to become a businesswoman employing 40 others."
Overcoming a disability gives off ableist vibes and falls into the classic troupe of inspiration porn. There are better ways to write about disabled people. I suggest reviewing WP:SUFFER and Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability/Style advice. (For the record, I didn't releaize that my comment was going to the page creator, I thought it was going to go into the page explanation for the tag. Regardless, raising concerns about how disabled people are written about lacks collegiatality, doesn't lead to less representaiton of disabled people. It leads to more representative representation. SMasonGarrison12:42, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't doubt your deep feelings on this matter. However I assumed that you might be trying to gain some assistance, change peoples approach to disability? or (even) gain some collegiatality? You have succeeded at convincing me of your feelings. (It was fairly obvious from the offensive words). I can only encourage you to consider (y)our objective here. At the moment you have spotted a place for improvement, offended someone, and then reassured me that it was not by mistake. Was this your intention?. Victuallers (talk) 12:59, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
(I've restored the comment that might have been an edit conflict) My initial intention was to add a comment that would go into the page explanation for the tag, not to another user. I am sorry for using language you found offensive and for being gruffer than I intended. However, I stand by my assessment that there are better ways to write about disabled people. It's clear that by creating the page you also care about disability, so I do hope you read the Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability/Style advice. SMasonGarrison13:10, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello Victuallers! I have a query. Margaretta (Rita) Williams has a page on the Welsh Wikipedia and she is in the dictionary of Welsh biography. I would like to try a page on her but my question is....what is the absolute minimum of references /citations you need for a biography page? I can only find about two for her! Thanks! Balance person (talk) 19:10, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
One is fine! (zero is no longer acceptable) Obviously it has to be a solid reference, but the Welsh biog is very good and IMO establishes notability too. AND there is a photo by Geoff Charles which is a third ref AND the photo is free to use. Victuallers (talk) 09:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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