A special award for your excellent work in weaving together elegant biological patches for the fabric of wikipedia! The articles on crop plants and crop relatives that you've been making have been a sad deficiency of the wiki because few editors know enough about biology and have the determination to work on pages that will be so very noticeable. Wonderful work! Sminthopsis84 (talk) 14:09, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
WOW. So many thanks to you, Sminth! This means sooo much to me and I GREATLY appreciate it. HalfGigtalk 14:26, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
It's rather late for Hallowe'en, but here's some pie for you
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To you and all. HalfGigtalk 12:37, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Congratulations HalfGig! Bringing Cucurbita to FA would, I think, never have happened without your determination, although a lot of people helped to bring your vision to fruition. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 02:21, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Why thank you so much! Not just for the award, but for all your superb help along the way. I certainly did not do it alone. I started Aug 26, 2013, so it took 1 year, 6 months, and 2 days. I THINK this is first non-monotypic genus-level article to make it to FA. It's a good wiki day for us! HalfGigtalk 02:26, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Congratulations! When do you want that to appear on the Main page. The PumpkinSky project at your service ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:10, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Oh. thank you very much! Pumpkins on the main page is an appealing thought. Well, there's Canadian and American Thanksgiving. Then because of "The Great Pumpkin" from Peanuts, there's Halloween. I lean to one of the Thanksgiving dates, I think. Any other suggestions? HalfGigtalk 12:17, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
I would also lean toward thanksgiving, - as not scary ;) - will ask. If not they could go any other day in the fall, right? (Hint, hint: views will be limited on Thanksgiving.) You may have seen that I listed it as "any date" in the project planning. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:49, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
No, I hadn't noticed that. I'll have to think on this. HalfGigtalk 12:53, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
A couple months ago I discovered "sfn" referencing. I did a couple articles in "sfn" and changed Asa Gray, which I'm still working on, to "sfn". I prefer it because it's easier to read the article when you're editing it. I'll probably change Cucurbita to sfn one day. HalfGigtalk 12:57, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Agree, learned it from PumpkinSky (look!) when we worked on Kafka, my second FA. - references were improved in my first, Messiah (Handel), but not to the liking of its main authors, unfortunately, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:14, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
I first saw "sfn" usage when I was reading the Botany article. HalfGigtalk 13:17, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
The Natural History Shield for Service to Wikipedia
That pumpkin was a long time a-ripenin'! Prizewinner, though! Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:40, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Oh my, thank you very much. I truly appreciate this! HalfGigtalk 12:44, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
I'd like to add my congratulations, HalfGig. You worked very hard on this for a long time. Great work, and I look forward to seeing it on the main page. CorinneSD (talk) 16:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. And thank YOU as your copy editing was key to a successful FA. HalfGigtalk 17:00, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
