User talk:CactiStaccingCrane/Archive 3

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Archive 3

Question from Blaze Ndebele (16:32, 4 June 2023)

Hello,I wanted to post an article but it wasn't published,what was the problem --Blaze Ndebele (talk) 16:32, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Blaze Ndebele: Maybe because you haven't have enough edits/days on Wikipedia yet. You might want to see this guide for more info: Help:Your first article. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 16:35, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Question from Blaze Ndebele (18:55, 4 June 2023)

Hello,how many days or edits do I need to post an article --Blaze Ndebele (talk) 18:55, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

@Blaze Ndebele I don't know to be honest. Maybe try using the WP:Article wizard. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 01:41, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Climate change

Please discuss further changes into the lead of this article in the talk page. The current version is the result of lengthy discussions in talk page (you can see talk page history). Bogazicili (talk) 20:41, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Tetragon Financial Group updates & changes

CactiStaccingCrane, I am the declared COI editor for Tetragon Financial Group. Back in April, I posted an edit request to update and change the article for accuracy and clarity. I noticed you are an active editor, particularly WP:FINANCE, and that you have made constructive contributions on similar company pages. Would you mind taking a look and helping out with these changes? Thank you, CC for Tetragon (talk) 08:17, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Mars in fiction at WP:FAC

Hi! You commented at the WP:Peer review for Mars in fiction (WP:Peer review/Mars in fiction/archive1). The article is now at WP:FAC, see WP:Featured article candidates/Mars in fiction/archive1, and that process has slowed down considerably in the last few weeks. If you are interested in weighing in on the FAC, your input would be appreciated. TompaDompa (talk) 21:06, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

June thanks

Thank you for improving articles in June! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:28, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

The Core Contest winners announced

The winners of the 2023 The Core Contest are announced 🎉. We had an amazing set of improvements this year, and the judges (Femke, Aza24 and Casliber) would like to thank everybody who joined and congratulate the winners.

First place goes to Buidhe for improving The Holocaust; very core, highly relevant; their work on bringing geographical balance to the article puts the topic in a whole different light. We also commend improvements to sourcing and prose
A close second place goes to Phlsph7 for improving Education from an unstructured jumble into a well-sourced piece of instruction
Third prize goes to Johnbod for improving Donatello, a near five-fold expansion with great sourcing and fantastic imagery
A tie for fourth place goes to Thebiguglyalien for improving Crime, for a strong improvement in sourcing
A tie for fifth place goes to Sammielh for International law, improved by converting contextless listicles into a proper sourced prose

If you wish to start or stop receiving news about The Core Contest, please add or remove yourself from the delivery list. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 20:07, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello Can you write a page for website "swagpur"

Its customize products online retailer which has more than a million customers Betadigitalservices (talk) 07:21, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 July newsletter

The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

Thebiguglyalien, with 919 points from a featured article on Frances Cleveland as well as five good articles and many reviews,
Unlimitedlead, with 862 points from a high-scoring featured articles on Henry II of England and numerous reviews,
Iazyges, with 560 points from a high-scoring featured article on Tiberius III.

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

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Question from Sc.intelligent (15:33, 9 July 2023)

hello, how can i post on wikipedia --Sc.intelligent (talk) 15:33, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Question from Lutgardedf (16:27, 10 July 2023)

kledij ridders tijdens kruistochten. --Lutgardedf (talk) 16:27, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Question from HTNME (13:51, 12 July 2023)

Hi I’m trying to find out if our insurance policy is still in effect, the Group Name: State of Washington State Employees Group Number: 12373-1-0001 Final Action Date: 06/10/94, The reason I’m asking is because I’m now retired and trying to find out what happens to our policy --HTNME (talk) 13:51, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

? CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 17:07, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

July thanks

On today's Main page, you can find a cantata that Bach first performed 300 years ago (thanks to you!), and an iconic saxophonist from East Germany. Also: a bit about the history of QAI on my talk. Thank you for being part of it! A new member designed a user box that I adopted. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:08, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Question from Haodtr2 (12:33, 20 July 2023)

كيف أصبح هكر --Haodtr2 (talk) 12:33, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Question from Haodtr2 on User talk:Haodtr2 (12:40, 20 July 2023)

كيف اهكر حساب فيسبوك؟ --Haodtr2 (talk) 12:40, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

You aren't a very good mentor

Really,you aren't. CernerFe (talk) 14:51, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

What a terrible thing to say to someone whether you think it's true or not. You have had no interaction with this user under this current account and you have made no edit to the mainspace of the encyclopedia. Is this your first account? --ARose Wolf 14:58, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Would like to add that I am thankful for editors like @CactiSTaccingCrane who voluntarily offer their time to mentor new and old editors alike. --ARose Wolf 15:03, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Fair enough. I haven't responded to these questions in my talk page quick enough. I'm currently contributing to OpenStreetMap and I don't really visit Wikipedia as frequently as I've used to. But you're right about that. I could've been more responsive about my reply. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:18, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I know this is a banned user, but I do understand how frustrating to not get your answers replied in <2 days, and I'm trying to not repeat that mistake again. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:19, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Being frustrated about a slow response is fine but coming to another editor's, whether they are your mentor or not, talk page to simply insult them is not okay. I do not believe slow responses from mentors is reason enough. Wikipedia isn't going anywhere. There is nothing urgent about this project except potential chronic and intractable behavior issues or in the case of trying to stop blatant vandalism. We are all volunteers, including yourself. You should not be shamed for having a life outside Wikipedia nor should you feel forced to devote every waking moment to the project just to be considered to be a good mentor. --ARose Wolf 16:49, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Question from Prozac Brat (10:41, 18 July 2023)

Hi there! I really like doing this and I was wondering if it counts as volunteer work for a resume. Not clocking hours or anything but just mentioning my participation since I’m in the writing editing field. --Prozac Brat (talk) 10:41, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

If you want to. Your choice. But do remember that most people here are editing Wikipedia just because they want to do so, and not for making a good resume. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:55, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Prozac Brat, if I may join in. Of course it's fine to mention on your resume but, and a major but, please actually edit the encyclopedia before you begin bragging about it. You have few edits so far, so do at least 500 or a thousand (or more) and get used to the project, contribute well to it, and by the time you need it for a resume mention you can really feel good about using it and will be proud to be a Wikipedian. And, of course, welcome to the project, check out the cafeteria. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:04, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

@Randy Kryn Nicely said. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:08, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. I wonder if future employers would mind hiring someone named Prozac Brat, so the user may want to change his user name before planning to use it as a resume item (said in all good faith PB, maybe choose a name which will look very good on a resume, ya think?). Randy Kryn (talk) 15:18, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you both! I couldn't see myself incorporating it into a resume both because anonymity helps Wikipedia to thrive and just because it isn't skill intensive work. I was honestly just curious as a new user. What do you think makes volunteers stay and not stray to different hobbies or interests? Prozac Brat (talk) 02:28, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

In short, because that is their hobby. I think that most people would edit Wikipedia from time to time, but to have real dedication to edit everyday, that requires a lot of passion. Personally you should forget about putting Wikipedia editing to the resume and instead focus on editing articles that you truly care about. For me, I edited articles about spaceflight because I often reference facts from these articles a lot.

Don't force yourself to edit on Wikipedia too much though or else you will be burned out; pick up the pace that felt the most optimal for you. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 05:57, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Tool to find low resolution images

Hi there! I noticed your message on the village pump: “Is there a way to find low res images in an article list?”. Maybe I have what you were looking for.

I am currently working on a tool to monitor the visual content of Wikiprojects, but it also accepts lists of articles. It is called Visual Content Assessment Tool and can detect low resolution images to improve, which seems exactly what you were looking for.

The tool is made of two parts: an extraction tool, and a dashboard to explore the data. I can extract the data for you if you provide me with the list, or you can follow the instructions here and do it yourself. Then you can load the data file in the dashboard here and explore it to find low resolution images. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MingoBerlingo (talk • contribs) 14:50, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

@MingoBerlingo Dude you are insane. Well done! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:29, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

This is the tool that I've dreamed of for years. Please do work on it more! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:30, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

I'm really happy you liked it. If there's something yuo think i could improve tell me, I appreciate new proposals MingoBerlingo (talk) 15:37, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

I think that you should focus on getting the queries from Quarry, rather than asking users to install a script. At the very least, you should package the script in a way that is easy for non-IT savvy people to use and can be run on all platforms (Windows, MacOS, Linux). CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:39, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Did you try to use the extraction tool? did you find it difficult to use? That's the hard part of the project, I am trying to make it as easy as possible to be used. MingoBerlingo (talk) 16:10, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

I couldn't because I am on MacOS... That's why I said the last sentence. But I used the example data in JOSM and it works great! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 16:19, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

August 2023 Good Article Nominations backlog drive

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Question from WikiHunt12 (00:20, 1 August 2023)

How do you add a section to a table? --WikiHunt12 (talk) 00:20, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Feedingcrowsmedia (17:13, 1 August 2023)

Hi I am new to editing on Wikipedia and I’d appreciate any help you can offer. Look forward to hearing from you. Thanks --Feedingcrowsmedia (talk) 17:13, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Scruffy kitty1 (01:10, 11 August 2023)

Hello, how do I start adding edits?? --Scruffy kitty1 (talk) 01:10, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from HeartStater90 (06:04, 12 August 2023)

Hi - I’m new to doing all of this - what’s the best way to be objective in articles? I’m attempting to simply summarise multiple views fairly and not address debate without facts --HeartStater90 (talk) 06:04, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Generative AI and Wikipedia research

Hi CactiStaccingCrane,

My name is Dr. Tim Koskie and I am a researcher at the Centre for Media Transition (CMT) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). We are conducting a study on the implications of content-generating AI systems such as ChatGPT for knowledge integrity on Wikipedia, and are approaching you because you have participated in discussions on this topic on Wikimedia pages.

If you are interested, we would like to invite you to participate in our study. It would involve joining either a focus group discussion or an interview (around 1 hour), in person at Wikimania in Singapore if you are going to be there, or online at a future date. At these sessions we would ask you questions about how you think generative AI will impact Wikipedia, as well as about the kinds of work you do on Wikipedia.

The project is funded by the Wikimedia Research Fund grant programme. You can find out more about the project here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Implications_of_ChatGPT_for_knowledge_integrity_on_Wikipedia If you are interested, let me know and I will forward you some more detailed information on the project. Tbkoskie (talk) 01:37, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

August thanks

Thank you for improving articles in August! - Today, my focus is on Renata Scotto, after days of updating. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:58, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Today is Debussy's birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:41, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

"English bias" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect English bias has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 August 30 § English bias until a consensus is reached. Fork99 (talk) 17:20, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Acceleration

I reverted your edit to the page on acceleration because I think the old image shows the concept better. I made a comment about this in the edit log. 96.227.223.203 (talk) 21:21, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

I think the old image is better because it shows a longer period of acceleration building compared to the one you added, giving more focus to the process of acceleration, rather than impact.96.227.223.203 (talk) 21:24, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

New message from Jo-Jo Eumerus

Hello, CactiStaccingCrane. You have new messages at Talk:TRAPPIST-1.
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September thanks

September songs
my story today

Thank you for improving articles in September! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:50, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

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October thanks

October songs
my story today

Thank you for improving articles in October! - Today, it's a place that inspired me, musings if you have time. My corner for memory and music has today a juxtaposition of what our local church choirs offer. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:17, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

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Diacritics in Vietnamese-language titles

Hey—I just wanted to let you know that WP:UE advises against diacritics as you've been moving Vietnamese-language-related articles to. I do understand that Vietnamese is a tonal language—the orthography of most languages is important to a comparable degree, but generally I think the policy is correct, as much as it sometimes pains me with Chinese.
Cheers! — Remsense聊 19:39, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2023 November newsletter

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
Epicgenius with 1518 points
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BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
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BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
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Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
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Italy by night

fwiw, I think that the night shot of Italy is much nicer. Unfortunately it falls foul of MOS:IMAGE which in summary says that pics are to illustrate not to decorate. It also would invite perpetual nationalistic image swapping. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 13:47, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Agree on that, but I'm honestly struggling to find an image of the whole Earth with a similar quality. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 13:48, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Edit to Collatz conjecture

I undid your edit to the 'Unsolved problem' box. Though it simplified technical terms (which are explained in the article), making it more understandable for the general masses, your one-sentence formulation of the conjecture was incomplete and, as far as I'm concerned, less elegant. Ramanujaner (talk) 17:48, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Supergenus

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November thanks

November songs
my story today

Thank you for improving article quality in November! - Vacation pictures offered if you click on songs, and my story today is a DYK hook from 13 years ago OTD: about the great music at one of my churches. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:42, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

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December 2023

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@Equalwidth, I am not very happy by automatic revert/templating without a further explanation. The Manual of Style does not say anything about prohibiting lists in the lead. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 06:55, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

But bullet points look odd in lead sections. Equal width (C) 06:56, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

"Looks odd" does not mean it does not conform with the Manual of Style. In this case, a list is appropriate because it makes the information more organized and spaced out for the reader. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 06:59, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

It looks inconsistent in lead sections too… Equal width (C) 07:00, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Popping in to reiterate that those reasons are unacceptable in themselves for instant reverting. If you disagree with a big edit of this kind, do not just act like it violates a guideline if it doesn't, discuss it with the editor on the talk page first. i know you are relatively new here, so it is helpful to know this is a huge component of how wikipedia works in practice. Remsense留 07:02, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Content dispute at Talk:SpaceX Starship

Hello,

The content dispute on whether or not to classify the recent test flights as successes, partial failures or failures is continuing to persist despite the recent RfC which was closed by you. In this RfC, for the third time, consensus had emerged to classify the test flights as failures. Earlier today, a new discussion section was opened disputing the outcome of the recent RfC, which I responded to shortly before posting this message on your talk page. I'm still a rather unexperienced Wikipedia editor, so I wanted to ask you for your opinion on what to do next. Personally, I think that this should this be taken to a venue like the dispute resolution noticeboard as I think that this content dispute will continue to persist without comment from a third party. What do you think?

Best regards, Yasslaywikia (talk) 16:35, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Sure I guess, but I won't be involved in it. I'm just too tired with Wikipedia right now. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 16:41, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

December 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, articles should not be moved, as you did to Starvation (crime), without good reason. They should have a name that is both accurate and intuitive. Wikipedia has some guidelines in place to help with this. Generally, a page should only be moved to a new title if the current name doesn't follow these guidelines. Also, if a page move is being discussed, consensus needs to be reached before anybody moves the page. If you would like to experiment with page titles and moving, please use the test Wikipedia. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are going to do undiscussed moves you'd better be right about them. Especially, you'd better not move the page to a target that you could learn is clearly incorrect just from reading the first sentence of the article. (t · c) buidhe 15:19, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Edit warring

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Ok, got it. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 10:44, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

December greetings

December: story · music · places

Thank you for what you do and stand for! I wish you a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:41, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Hello CactiStaccingCrane: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, —Ganesha811 (talk) 06:58, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much @Ganesha811! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 06:59, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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January 2024 no unreferenced articles challenge

Hey CSC, happy new year! I love this idea of getting January 2024 at zero and keeping it there for the entire month. It's going to take WORK but I am very enthusiastic about it. I already went through and cleared out some of the biology articles. It's currently at 33. I'll try to get it under 15 by the end of the day and see how it goes. Kazamzam (talk) 16:44, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm gonna work backwards, starting from Dec 2023 backlogs. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 02:09, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Chamayam

i add sources for Chamayam (1993 film) by --Sunuraju (talk) 15:22, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for doing so :) I found this article at Category:Articles lacking sources from January 2024 and I am running through the backlog. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:24, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Perfection

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Your message

Hello. I have read the message you placed on my talk page.

Unfortunately, when that article was first created back in 2004, inline citations were generally not required. The article is more than 500 words long. It might take a considerable length of time to add inline citations for the entire text. I will try to add inline citations to as much of the text as possible, if and when I have time, but I cannot say exactly when I will be able to do that. James500 (talk) 16:31, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Hey, don't worry! I can help you with that. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 16:32, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Your large changes...

...is fine, but expect to be reverted when you attempt to make major changes in the leads or other text of long-time articles. The reverts come with the territory. You often make good edits, and also often make large scale edits which do not improve the pages. Edit warring when something is reverted does not come with the territory that you seem to like to work in. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:21, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

(Context for archives: [1]) I hope I did not give an impression of me engaging in edit wars. I do fully expect that my edits are going to be reverted and I try to adhere to 3RR as much as possible. It is part of my editing philosophy: if it sticks, great. If it does not, then move on or discuss about the issue. - CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:54, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

You're right, apologizes if I gave the impression that you were edit warring. It was just one revert of a chart, not unusual when an editor really feels that they are doing the correct thing. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:57, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Wanted to assure you I'm not following you (per the several reverts over the last few days), just overlaps on my Watch list. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:51, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for saying so. Just saying, I've deleted the gallery at Harvard because it is way too big and clunky. Next time I will be trying to trim down the gallery to about 10 images, each representing the most accomplished alumni in a field. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:02, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

The gallery seems fine, but of course both of our takes on it are subjective. My opinion of having a good size gallery like this (which isn't really that big in the overall number of notable graduates of the University) is it gives readers a nice overview and easy links to some of the notables associated with the institution. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:12, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

That's a fair opinion as well. Let's keep it as is for now. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:13, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I can say I went to Harvard (ahem, well, at least walked the grounds during the 2019 North American WikiConference), and it was interesting visiting some of the famous sites. One of the museums has these amazing flowers/plants made from glass, that was pretty much my priority for taking the subway there (and to see the John Harvard statue). Just rambling (we Harvard men like to do that). Randy Kryn (talk) 16:00, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Is it the Blaschka Glass Models of Plants? Damn, it looks like a really cool place! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 16:02, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Yes, we have it at Glass Flowers (although everything there isn't based on a flower). Worth visiting. The museum also has Glass sea creatures by the same people, and a nice rock and mineral collection. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:11, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Alternative solution/a massive backlog drive

Hey, hope you're doing well. January 2024 is looking really good compared to where other categories usually are by the middle of the month.

I appreciate the ping but there's so much that's been said about the proposed policy change (which I disagree with) and the backlog drive (which I've been advocating for 3000 years, or so it seems) that I'm not sure what more to add. I totally disagree with Levivich's comments that articles that are unsourced for years are because they're one of the least important articles on Wikipedia but that's not really the point. I see the points of both 'there is no deadline' and 'the deadline is now', but, not to be a broken record advocating the slow and steady, the best way to get through the backlog is to just, in the words of Fabolous, do the damn thang rather than reinventing/revising the deletion policy. I appreciate everyone's consideration on topic but with that many people spending however much time on that RfC/proposal, we could have referenced easily over 100 articles.

That being said!!! Backlog drive - when! How! I don't know how to do this but I am almost foaming at the mouth at the idea. It's a new year and it's time for it. Happy to help (co)lead and spread awareness about it but I don't know how to get it off the ground. Would you want to help organize this with me?

P.S. here is the link to the oversized Google Sheets tracking document I have been maintaining - feel free to check it out. Cheers, Kazamzam (talk) 17:06, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Well, as they always say, there're more talkers than doers. I'm thinking that based on the current rate of article improvement, we could do a drive for the December 2009 category, which is absurdly big and should be gone ASAP. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 23:50, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Or we can deal with backlogs in 2023 and get a better feeling of motivation. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 00:31, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024

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Deprodding of Pokémon: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon

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Thanks a lot for the notification @Brainulator9! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:26, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome! Bear in mind that I don't have any particular thoughts on whether the article should remain an article, just whether deletion is the best option. (I also found a single source on the article, but no references list, haha.) -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 20:34, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

@Brainulator9, I found this article while patrolling Category:Articles lacking sources from January 2024, so forgive me if I rushed the PROD. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 06:17, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

You're fine. -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 17:55, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Image placement

Please put images on their own line in the wikitext. Looking at the dif of this edit, the quick-glance appearance is that you changed the whole intro paragraph, when all you actually did is move the image. And be sure to use an edit-summary regardless. Thanks! DMacks (talk) 18:42, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

I would blame VE for that. But still, yes, I should've done better communicating my edits. My apologies. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 00:17, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

No worries. DMacks (talk) 03:49, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024

I reverted your revision on Teahouse, because I don't think your edit was particularly helpful/useful. 20 upper (talk) 16:35, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Well, I guess that good work should not be appreciated then. Sorry to be rude, but to say that what you are doing leave me a sour taste in my mouth is an understatement. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 16:36, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

What exactly are you doing, and why? 20 upper (talk) 17:12, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Unreferenced articles February 2024 backlog drive

WikiProject Unreferenced articles | February 2024 Backlog Drive

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Big improvement!

The drive page is looking so much better already!! There's already 14 people signed up (not counting me and the usual suspects from the URA), this is FANTASTIC! Have you already reached out to the Signpost? I am so excited at how this is going to turn out - and to smoke some of these newbie editors with my incredible citing skillz (half-kidding). Thank you so much for all the amazing work. Kazamzam (talk) 18:05, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm currently writing the general citation guidelines. After that, I'll get in contact with the editor-in-chief of the Signpost (JPxG) and hopefully get more help from active Wikiprojects, namely WP:SPORTS, WP:INDIA, WP:USA, etc. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 18:09, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Somewhat urgent - the signup button doesn't go to the correct section anymore. Kazamzam (talk) 18:15, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Done. That's because "&section=" take in section numbers from top to bottom, and we recently reordered the sections. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 18:17, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Short descriptions of mathematics articles

Hi there! I noticed the edits you've made to some mathematics articles, changing their short descriptions into examples:

I realise that there's already been some response to this in various places (in edit comments, on Talk:Nth root), but I thought it might be helpful to put discussion somewhere more central rather than on individual articles, and this seemed like a good place.

I agree with the idea of making short descriptions more specific than (for instance) "Mathematical operation", but I don't think a bare example is the right way to do this. The difficulty is in balancing the different aims, requirements, and purposes of a short description. "Mathematical operation" is fine for disambiguation, but isn't descriptive. An example is descriptive, but it may be too specific: it might only make sense to someone already familiar with the topic, and/or it might not suit the topic past a certain level (similar to the objection to describing trigonometric functions as relating to right triangles). A description plus an example may be too long. And so on.

I like the guidance at WP:SDEXAMPLES: start with a descriptive sentence like "<topic> is a…", and see what fits afterwards. I think this shows up the trouble with both the existing ones ("Exponentiation is a mathematical operation"—yeah, so are lots of things!) and the bare examples ("A logarithm is, for example, log₂(8) = 3"—no use if I don't already know what logarithms are). I wonder whether a combination would work, something like "Mathematical operation, e.g. 3 + 2 = 5"? Or would this be an instance of a compromise that makes everyone unhappy?

Ideally there would be some way to describe the operation or function that's both accurate and brief. But I'm not sure such a thing is achievable! If you describe subtraction as, say, "reducing the value", it's really only accurate at an elementary level. But how can we encapsulate all the nuance of subtraction in a short description? I suppose the answer is "we don't"; we should keep in mind that a short description isn't a summary of the article, it's a pointer to help people know whether the article is what they're after.

Actually, I didn't mind the previous short description for subtraction: "One of the four basic arithmetic operations". What is it that you think is lacking there?

(I'm also pinging Jacobolus, who has already had some involvement in these edits and may wish to weigh in.)

-- Perey (talk) 04:59, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Yeah... That's not easy to balance. I don't really know what's the most ideal solution here... CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 06:03, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Resilient Barnstar
	For being the driving force in Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Backlog drives/February 2024! Kj cheetham (talk) 19:49, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks a lot User:Kj cheetham. It's gonna be a long month... CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 09:54, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

I second the barnstar and am pleased to see you have already attracted a considerable number of participants.--Ipigott (talk) 11:44, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

+1 -- Love seeing so much interest in this collaboration ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:24, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

This is probably on its way to become the biggest drive in Wikipedia history once it meet 200 members mark. That's just insane. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:25, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

I planned to write a customized welcome message to everybody but I'm just burned out right now... give me a couple days and everybody will get one. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:26, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

January music

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Thank you for improving articles in January! I remember Ewa Podleś on the Main page, and had - believe it or not - two musical DYK today. Shalom chaverim. On vacation, with something for your sweet tooth -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:07, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Today: the performance of Anna Nekhames --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:25, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Today a friend's birthday, with related music and a few new vacation pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:53, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Untagged but with general references/external links

Hey! Very excited about tomorrow's start, I'm really excited to see what 200+ participants can do with this drive. Something we might want to iron out, if last minute, is how to address articles that are tagged as unreferenced but do have general references or external links. The unreferenced tag can be swapped for an inline tag but I wouldn't award any points because it's not doing the work of adding an inline citation. Do you think it's worth making that clear or is this nitpicking on my part? It's something I have seen a fair bit but that might be just my experience. Kazamzam (talk) 23:43, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, this is kinda obvious and we should make it clear that points will only be awarded if one citation is added. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 00:33, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Drive welcomes

I created a template in my sandbox as a welcome template to use in JWB, I can send it out to everyone who has not been welcomed if you would like. Geardona (talk to me?) 01:05, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Done

Done with welcomes. Let me know if/when you need re-run. Geardona (talk to me?) 23:03, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

I would suggest next time, make it more obvious which drive it is. :-) As I've got 3 I'm taking part in this quarter. Also it does seem a bit overkill given there were personalised welcomes already done, but I assume this was to ensure everyone received something. Thanks. -Kj cheetham (talk) 15:42, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

And also, don't re-use the section title - I now have two "Welcome to the drive!" sections, so found the old one when trying to read the new one. But I'm enjoying the drive, pity about all the RL stuff which is awaiting my attention ... ! PamD 15:51, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

P.S. Also, wouldn't using WP:MMS have been better than using JWP for sending, as the latter seems more WP:MEATBOT-like? (I don't know if there was bot approval and I'm not overly familar with the rules for that.) -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:32, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

I don't think I need BRFA, the edits were not huge in terms of pages (or changes). Mass message was brought up, but not fully considered btw. Geardona (talk to me?) 17:05, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

You might want to double check about BRFA for next time, given it's potentially a couple of 100 user talk pages, and bots posting messages on user talk pages can be controversial. -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:31, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

I suppose it would be helpful. Geardona (talk to me?) 18:46, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Hmm it should have skipped those, must have screwed something up with skip settings., let me figure it out. Geardona (talk to me?) 17:03, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Confirmed, skip settings broke, REGEX unchecked.

Very sorry Geardona (talk to me?) 17:20, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

“Troll tag”

I have no idea why you thought it suitable to remove a valid tag and make a personal attack at the same time. Putting an opinion in WP’s voice is bad writing, which is why I added the tag. Your deletion of it was poor and the personal attack unwarranted. - SchroCat (talk) 14:29, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

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Finally! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:31, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2024 February newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:57, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

February thanks

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Thank you for improving quality articles in February. - The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:59, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: I miss Vami a lot. Thanks for the flowers, vami loves to wear flowers on his head. He wears it everyday. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 09:52, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2024 March newsletter

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Vital articles

Sad to see Special:Diff/1210640290. Trying to get VA to focus more on article improvement than, as you put it, useless article shuffling, is something I mentioned in Q15 at my recent RfA, so there is still a desire there. But I think structural changes of some sort, rather than just a statement on the project page, will be needed to achieve it. Best, Sdkb ^talk 16:46, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

@Sdkb The reason why I say so is that despite my multiple efforts to tell people to stop the useless shuffling and actually pay effort to improve these articles, nothing changes. There is a cabal of editors who find joy doing these things and it seems that this couldn't be stopped for whatever the reason. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 11:38, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Photo captions

Labeling a picture of Charon as New Horizons is wrong. Do you have any reason to think that this is done anywhere else on Wikipedia? Dan Bloch (talk) 16:37, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

The purpose of photo captions is not to "label" an image or even to describe an image. I've seen way too many awkward attempts at describing notable feature on astronomical objects and ended up with a very long and unwieldy caption. Instead, I attempt to standardize these captions and make them as short as possible, which also means I am omitting name of these bodies because that should be obvious. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 16:40, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

No, the purpose of a photo caption is exactly to label an image. I notice that you didn't answer my question about whether this done anywhere else on Wikipedia. Please stop doing this. Dan Bloch (talk) 16:45, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Is there some policy I'm missing? Otherwise I see you've made this change to fifty or so pages, so I guess this discussion needs to move to a project page. Dan Bloch (talk) 17:34, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Or another option would be to prepend "Photo by" or "Source:" to the captions. Dan Bloch (talk) 20:21, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

To clarify what I meant above, it's true that a photo caption doesn't have to label an image. But when it does label an image, it has to label it correctly, which is why labeling an image of Charon as New Horizons is wrong. Dan Bloch (talk) 05:06, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Danbloch, I've reverted some of these but there are a lot of truncated captions which need reverts and I don't have tools to do so. Cacti is a well-meaning drastic-change editor who gets things wrong on occasion and doubles down on continuing even though some of the earlier edits had been reverted (Sun, Moon). It seems all the captions may have been better before and I've reverted the huge changes to the feature page Earth (Cacti also may not always be aware that opening image captions and feature article texts which have stood the test of time are probably the better choice). Randy Kryn (talk) 11:33, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Danbloch, how about adding the body's name to the caption? CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 11:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I'm happy with "<Object> captured by ..." or "<Object> imaged by ...". I see that you or others have been working on this and a lot of the captions read this way now. I'll see what's left.

This doesn't address Randy Kryn's concern that other information ("true color image", "such-and-such appears in the lower left") is no longer in the captions, but the value of this across all of these articles is by and large outside the scope of my knowledge. Dan Bloch (talk) 22:25, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Looks like they've all been changed one way or another. Dan Bloch (talk) 23:28, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

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Earth

Hi @CactiStaccingCrane: I've had a few health issues, most of them likely to be resolved by the end of this month (planned surgery). I'll try to properly review your proposal for the lede before then, but no guarantees. It would be worth pinging the other editors involved in the previous discussion to get a broader response. Mikenorton (talk) 17:14, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mars Society

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Your GA nomination of Mars Society

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Overly shortened captions

Hello, I've noticed that recently you've been embarking on an effort to standardize the captions of Solar System object infoboxes. While standardization of such a highly-visible part of an article is certainly beneficial, I must point out that you've been shortening them to the point where they are nearly obsolete. As someone else pointed out to me, one of the primary purposes of a caption in an infobox is to give a description of the image if the image fails to load; beyond this, it also intends to supplement the image itself, giving clarity as to what the lay reader is looking at. As such, I would say it's reductive to shorten captions to simply stating the object's name, the imaging spacecraft, and the date of the image. ArkHyena (talk) 03:34, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

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Thank you so much! @DreamRimmer sorry if I haven't been able to participate in the drive as much as I've wanted to, real life really gets in the way. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 03:04, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mars Society

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Hoax

The hoax is that you merged any content at all to private spaceflight. See WP:Deletion by redirection. You could start with Billionaire space race#Background. Neither Peter Diamandis nor Students for the Exploration and Development of Space are mentioned in the private spaceflight article; they probably should be. wbm1058 (talk) 14:40, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Any addition of information to the private spaceflight page should not be a reason to delete (a redirect by any other name) the Billionaire space race page. CactiStaccingCrane has a good faith habit of extremely bold moves which often, if not usually, get reverted, and I would ask that they certainly not begin merging and/or deleting articles such as in this case. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:01, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

An answer to you Edit conflicted before the discussion was closed, thanks

Seems Musk and SpaceX have done more to push humanity towards exploring Mars (both in tech and human missions) than any other entities or societal forms such as science fiction (god bless Burroughs, Heinlein, Bradbury, Bova, and the rest). The achievement of landing an Earthling on Mars (making them temporary Martians) is both a noble and achievable cause which Musk has dreamed of as he gained his billions. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:56, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Since this is on a talk page I can mention I was the first to show Bova a photograph of the planet Mars after the 1976 landing (and knew Bradbury, Heinlein, and did historical work on Burroughs, to namedrop a few). When Bova saw it (a newspaper front page) his first words were "Looks like New Jersey". Randy Kryn (talk) 12:59, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

I think that SpaceX Mars effort is more notable than Mars One and such because it is actually a realistic plan with strong financial backing. In response, Rocket Lab has announced they want to do some stuff on Venus and Relativity Space has announced they want to do some stuff on Mars. I think this article do need to trim down a lot and personally I'm still somewhat skeptical that SpaceX will land stuff on Mars, but even if the plan fails, this is still a notable topic, and it looks like this is another case where Wikipedia is documenting history. Sorry for being so hot-headed earlier. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 13:03, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Musk may not be giving Wikipedia a billion (I'm still counting on him to give us 100 million) but hopefully his successes keep piling up. NASA certainly isn't realistically aiming for a Mars landing with adequate funding. Hotheaded? I seriously didn't notice that, and have always enjoyed our discussions and back-and-forths. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:06, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

You might be interested in my work at Mars Society. I have spent a lot of time researching about the new Mars resurgence and I felt that this is the right time to write about them. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 13:09, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Will check it out more fully, thanks. Thought I'd clarify my interactions with you, the deletions and all. We're both trying to make the pages as good as they can be, just have a different point of view at times. I regard your work on space articles as commendable and exceptional, especially given your overall contributions to Wikipedia. People interested enough in these topics to actually edit the pages for others seem to be a rare breed, and I honor and applaud you and all of them (even though most of us are wild horses who will not accept the saddle, which luckily comes with the territory). Randy Kryn (talk) 13:31, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

March thanks

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in March! - I uploaded Madeira vacation pics (from back home, at least the first day) and remember Aribert Reimann. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:13, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Checking in

Hey, how are you? Haven't spoke in a while. Was curious if you've ever seen Wikipedia:Broad-concept article or Category:Broad-concept articles? Rather bizzares examples in the cat, and I'm not exactly sure what the point of the guideline is. Aza24 (talk) 01:43, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

"I'ma Chargin Mah Lazer" listed at Redirects for discussion

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello CactiStaccingCrane,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

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"Trang Chính" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Trang Chính

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DYK for Mars Society

On 4 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mars Society, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Mars Society's founding conference included a rancorous debate about the ethics of terraforming? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mars Society. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mars Society), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

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Billionaire space race

Hello CactiStaccingCrane,

I see you created Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Billionaire space race (saw it when browsing the List of Hoaxes talk page). If you disagree with the result of the AFD, then it seems like writing a short essay in user space on why the article is SYNTH or inaccurate would be more useful. Even if you think it is a hoax (I can see calling it SYNTH, but not really a hoax?), the hoax museum is for hoaxes the community actually deleted, which clearly didn't happen here. Would you be willing to just tag it with Template:db-author ? SnowFire (talk) 23:42, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

I've filed Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Billionaire space race, if you want to chime in. SnowFire (talk) 20:16, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Sorry @SnowFire, I was stupid. Speedy deleting it, you're right. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 23:17, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Million year

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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

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"Mental gymnastics" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Castncoot

Mind digging up the ANI you created about the above user a while back? I'm having trouble locating it. I remember there being incredulous reactions from all involved, so I'm wondering how they would look upon the biting of a new user and this one, which wasn't much better. Seasider53 (talk) 00:01, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Never mind; found it. Seasider53 (talk) 00:05, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Coarse language

Kindly watch your use of obscenities in the edit comments.[3] Thank you. Praemonitus (talk) 14:03, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

@Praemonitus Sorry, I would be more mindful of my language in the future. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 09:21, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 May newsletter

The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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Untagged unreferenced articles

Good morning! I was looking up poetic terms and found Syzygy (poetry) which was utterly unreferenced but not tagged as such. This is an area of great concern to me - the known unknown quantity of articles that have no references but have never been identified and are flying under the radar. Do you have any ideas on how we could search for them? There's the search for mistagged articles (super useful) but not in the opposite direction. Do you think it would be possible to create something like this? Hopefully it would be a relatively small number but I think these represent a hole in our efforts to improve Wikipedia as most of those articles probably quite old and don't see daylight, metaphorically speaking, very often. Kazamzam (talk) 11:37, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

@Kazamzam IMO the best way is to ask for a WP:Query for all articles that don't have <ref> or {{sfn}} tags and go from there. Some ideas about how to deal with this also were also thrown about at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Cite_more_articles_faster_and_with_better_quality_sources as well. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 13:32, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) No need for a query; start here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:40, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@Jonesey95 @CactiStaccingCrane - the search using the No footnotes template is not useful at all as every link that I checked had at least some references, if only as a general references page, generic bibliography, further reading section, etc. What I'm referring to are articles that have no footnotes, no references, no bib, no external links, nothing. The lack of <ref> or {{sfn}} tags do not necessarily indicate that those meet the criteria of what I'm looking for. Kazamzam (talk) 15:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

How about using the Unreferenced tag then? That's 138,000 articles, and the template instructions say: You should only add this template to articles that contain no citations or references of any kind. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:18, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

That may be the theory but every article I've checked with that tag - admittedly only a small random selection - has references in some form. Ingratis (talk) 13:05, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

TFA

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Today's TFA, Felix M. Warburg House, was written by Vami_IV and Epicgenius, introduced: "This article is about another of the great houses that once lined Fifth Avenue in New York. Specifically, this is the mansion of Felix M. Warburg, a Jewish financier who ignored fears of anti-Semitic reprisal to his decided to build himself a big Gothic manor in the middle of New York City. Although the Warburgs no longer remain, their legacy does: the museum is now the home of the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) and the building largely survives as they left it. It's a beautiful building and I hope you will all enjoy it."! - in memory -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:48, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Sun FAR

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WikiCup 2024 July newsletter

The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:

Generalissima (submissions) with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
Skyshifter (submissions) with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
AryKun (submissions) with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

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WikiCup 2024 August newsletter

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
Arconning (submissions) with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews;
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on Genghis Khan and 2 good articles; and
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Susanna Hoffs, 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:11, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

"Lucca oil" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Lucca oil has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 19 § Lucca oil until a consensus is reached. Hey man im josh (talk) 20:51, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Unreferenced articles November 2024 backlog drive

WikiProject Unreferenced articles | November 2024 Backlog Drive

There is a substantial backlog of unsourced articles on Wikipedia, and we need your help! The purpose of this drive is to add sources to these unsourced articles and make a meaningful impact.

Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles cited.
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WikiCup 2024 November newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, BeanieFan11 (submissions), who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, Generalissima (submissions) scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: Sammi Brie (submissions) with 879 points, Hey man im josh (submissions) with 533 points, BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 432 points, Arconning (submissions) with 244 points, and AryKun (submissions) with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 7 FAs, 9 FLs, 94 GAs, 73 FAC reviews, and 79 GAN reviews and peer reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

Generalissima (submissions) wins the featured article prize for 3 FAs in round 4, and 7 FAs overall.
Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize for 23 FLs overall.
MaranoFan (submissions) wins the featured topic prize for 9 articles in featured topics in round 1.
Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize for 110 FA/FL reviews overall.
BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize for 58 GAs in round 5, and 70 GAs overall.
Fritzmann (submissions) wins the good topic prize for 6 articles in good topics in round 2.
Sammi Brie (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize for 45 GA reviews in round 2, and 78 GA reviews overall.
BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 131 Did you know articles overall.
Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 15 In the news articles in round 1, and 36 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2025 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 1 November 2024 (UTC)