User talk:MerielGJones/Archive 2
 | This is an archive of past discussions about User:MerielGJones. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
| Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 |
DYK for Dilys Price
On 2 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dilys Price, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Dilys Price, the world's oldest female solo parachute jumper, made more than 1,130 solo jumps before selling her parachute at age 86? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dilys Price. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Dilys Price), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Precious
flowers and remembrance
Thank you for quality contributions in the world of botany, for unsung heroes in the field, for Dilys Price, and your diligence and focus on content writing – you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2466 of Precious, a prize of QAI. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:12, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Ana Hulea
Hello, MerielGJones. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Ana Hulea".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 16:19, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
|
The Original Barnstar |
| For work done to improve the Val Curtis article. Kj cheetham (talk) 10:42, 10 November 2020 (UTC) |
Disambiguation link notification for November 13
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited H. W. Harkness, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Pelham.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:28, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
Women in Red
Hi there, MerielGJones, and welcome to Women in Red. I'm really glad to see you finally decided to become a member. Your experience and enthusiasm will be an asset to the project. If you haven't already done so, you might find it useful to look through our Ten Simple Rules and our Primer for creating women's biographies. I'm afraid I can help out very much with Wikipedia's arcane abbreviations except to point you to Wikipedia:Glossary. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing.--Ipigott (talk) 11:28, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message
 | Hello! Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2020 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add |
Speedy deletion nomination of Caroline Mason (finance)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Caroline Mason (finance), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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. Ruqayya ansari (talk) 12:18, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
December with Women in Red
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:42, 26 November 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Nomination of Caroline Mason (finance) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Caroline Mason (finance) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Caroline Mason (finance) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. DGG ( talk ) 05:53, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
Hallo Meriel, I became interested in the college after seeing a mention of it in the ODNB article on Hannah Cohen (philanthropist), an article I created for WiR Philanthropists. I've found a few useful refs and now see that you've started a draft. Would you mind if I moved your draft to main space and expanded it? You'd still be there in the page history as the creating editor, of course.
I found a scholarly article about the college (Opitz, Donald L. “‘A Triumph of Brains over Brute’: Women and Science at the Horticultural College, Swanley, 1890–1910.” Isis, vol. 104, no. 1, 2013, pp. 30–62. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/669882 ), and also https://www.hadlow.ac.uk/about-us/history-of-the-college and https://www.hextable-heritage.co.uk/Remarkable%20women.pdf , which seem quite enough for a good start to the article - and it's already linked from 6 articles. I'm trying to have a partial wikibreak, but need to drop back in again for the satisfying activity of editing Wikipedia as compared to the stresses of real life, pandemic, Christmas, etc. PamD 19:11, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- PamD PamD Dear Pam, I would be totally delighted if you did that. I've got distracted by other things, and also have not stumbled across a suitable source of information. The draft looks at me reproachfully occasionally. You have the information and enthusiasm (and also know about moving drafts to main space). Please go ahead with my gratitude and thanks.--MerielGJones (talk) 20:28, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- PamD PamD I've added wikilinks to the article. It definitely won't be an orphan; there are masses of mentions of the college because of people who studied or worked there.--MerielGJones (talk) 23:17, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- @MerielGJones: I think I've done enough on it for now (and spent some time on Wye College#Agricola Club too after finding a reference to a college history in its journal... such is the time sink of Wikipedia, and I ought to be sorting through boxes of junk while trying to combine two houses' contents into one, but allowed myself the self-indulgence of a few hours of Wikipedia after getting painful fingers defrosting the freezer at its most ridiculously full time of year... With a brief break to concoct a Christmas wreath for the front door to enter the village horticultural society's "send-us-a-photo-of-your-wreath covid-safe competition! Oh the joys of rural retired life in lockdown). PamD 15:50, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
- @PamD: Thank you! It's now a really interesting article. The idea of saying it was OK to start a college on someone else's land!! Also, thanks for explaining how two organisations say they developed from it - I could not understand that before. I hope your Christmas wreath gives you and others pleasure. I've seen many on doors this year and they are mostly different and all attractive.MerielGJones (talk) 22:51, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
A New Year With Women in Red!
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:02, 29 December 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Disambiguation link notification for December 30
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Severo Ochoa, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Otto Warburg.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:09, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
Help with Review of Biologist
I see you are a member of the WikiProject Women in Red. I’ve made a number of proposals that I think improve the article about Martha G. Welch, a Professor of Psychiatry in Pediatrics and in Pathology & Cell Biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. I can’t implement these myself since I have a conflict of interest. Would you mind looking at these proposals and providing feedback?
Thank you very much.KnollLane55901 (talk) 21:09, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Short Descriptions
Please limit your short descriptions of articles as Air Combat Command units to units that are actually assigned to Air Combat Command. --Lineagegeek (talk) 00:03, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
February 2021 at Women in Red
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Nomination of Tom Rees (airman) for deletion
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Rees (airman) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
Lettlerhello • contribs 02:10, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
March 2021 at Women in Red
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 18:48, 26 February 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Disambiguation link notification for March 9
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Scottish Association for Marine Science, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Millport.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:04, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Josh 'Ron' Kirby
Dear MerielGJones. Could you help please. My most recent book was published in November. It is referenced no 23 on my Wiki entry, and mentioned in the last paragraph. It contains a chapter on Josh Kirby and several illustrations of his work. He is quoted and mentioned throughout the book, and he was a significant artist. I cannot add a reference to my book as the Wiki Police will cite self promotion or COI. I wonder if you could take the time to add this reference to your original article? My reference is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Larkin - thank you Colin Larkin (talk) 13:56, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Colin Larkin: Thanks for telling me about this book. Once my local library is available again I will look at it and see what is useful to add.--MerielGJones (talk) 09:39, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
April editathons from Women in Red
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:16, 22 March 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Your submission at Articles for creation: Psyche Altham (April 5)
- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Psyche Altham and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
- If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Psyche Altham, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
- If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
- If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.
|
Hello, MerielGJones!
Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! MurielMary (talk) 10:42, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
|
May 2021 at Women in Red
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 21:36, 28 April 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Disambiguation link notification for April 30
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Robert Metzenberg, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Assimilation.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 05:54, 30 April 2021 (UTC)
a barnstar for you!
|
Women in Red Women in Europe contest |
| MerielGJones Thank you for your additions April 2021 WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:48, 1 May 2021 (UTC) |
June 2021 at Women in Red
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 18:50, 28 May 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Nice work!
Feel free to ignore or tweak...
Nothing more required on your part Meriel, but feel free to wade in or pay forward by nominating another at some time. Cheers (on a Sunday!) Victuallers (talk) 12:34, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
a barnstar for you!
|
|
Women in Red Women in Europe contest |
| MerielGJones Thank you for your additions May 2021 WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:47, 1 June 2021 (UTC) |
Disambiguation link notification for June 3
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Coventry UK City of Culture 2021, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page George Elliot.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:01, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
DYK for Eve Pitts
On 15 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Eve Pitts, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Eve Pitts, one of the Church of England's "fiercest critics", is also their first black woman vicar? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eve Pitts. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Eve Pitts), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
— Maile (talk) 00:03, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Women in Europe contest now with centenarians
Hi there, MerielGJones, and thanks for participating in the contest. You might be interested in covering one or more of the centenarians in Peaceray's detailed redlist. We have decided to target them for the remainder of the contest as all but one are from Europe. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 12:25, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
- Peaceray's list is very organised and helpful. I will certainly have a go. Thanks for telling me about this Ipigott.--MerielGJones (talk) 16:04, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
July 2021 at Women in Red
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 16:05, 22 June 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
a barnstar for you!
|
|
Women in Red Women in Europe contest |
| MerielGJones Thank you for your additions June 2021 WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:41, 1 July 2021 (UTC) |
a barnstar for you!
|
|
Women in Red Women in Europe contest |
| MerielGJones Thank you for your additions June 2021 WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:41, 1 July 2021 (UTC) |
August Editathons from Women in Red
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:26, 23 July 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
September 2021 at Women in Red
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 22:30, 26 August 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Opera singers
Thank you for the opera singer! I happen to have one on the Main page right now, Margarita Gritskova, and perhaps look at it for some general ideas, - a wikilink to the voice type perhaps, and adding composers to opera titles. Nice to meet you! -- Gerda Arendt(talk) 21:56, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Glad you approve. I was surprised at the number of pages her name appeared on, as I added wikilinks. And thanks for the suggestions. Great ideas.--MerielGJones (talk) 22:09, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you! - Can we work on your article step by step? I formatted how we usually present an opera for Boris Godunov, - can you do the others the same, please?
- no link to the composer when piece has an article
- just composer's last name when famous
- no explanation of what it is, because that's boring for those who know, and the others can follow the link
- no Easter egg linking, so the opera only to the opera, not including description (but well, no description anyway)
- enough? more to come, headers: no short paragraphs, too many quotations, Career should have history, not voice description. - If the article gets long enough in 7 days from creation, and follows editing standards, she can be highlighted on the Main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:19, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: OK. I have to do other stuff now, but will do more later today. But moderate size paragraphs, please - I can add more of the various roles taken in each category to most of the existing starter paragraphs? I find solid text difficult to read. Surely some mention of why her voice (and stage presence) is so appreciation is appropriate since her career is built on it, and you mentioned earlier about including her voice type? --MerielGJones (talk) 09:19, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you, and take your time. Do the one step first, and then we'll talk in detail about the later ones. Voice description is wonderful, but please not at the beginning of career, - extra section, or within the reviewers' comments, or in the lead (introduction, with a source). You'll have to see how to compromise your wish for clarity with Wikipedia's standard that one-sentence paragraphs are to be avoided. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:25, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: So I've made some changes and additions following your suggestions. I think it is getting to look rather like a list rather than an interesting read. I've looked at pages about some other living opera singers. Some have much more interesting information evaluating performances, some have lists of productions the singer was in, lists of recordings ... I've looked for a picture of her on Wikimedia Commons, but no. Please can you advise on what would be a good inclusion, anything to take out ... MerielGJones (talk) 20:24, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you, and I'll look when I have time, busy weekend ahead, + I nominated someone for RD (Recent death) whose article is not ready, + for another I got a new ref that should be used. You decide what to include, - I only talked about standards in formatting, sequence and length of paragraphs. My model is Jessye Norman. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:30, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- ps: The magician for finding images is GRuban --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:32, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: So I've made some changes and additions following your suggestions. I think it is getting to look rather like a list rather than an interesting read. I've looked at pages about some other living opera singers. Some have much more interesting information evaluating performances, some have lists of productions the singer was in, lists of recordings ... I've looked for a picture of her on Wikimedia Commons, but no. Please can you advise on what would be a good inclusion, anything to take out ... MerielGJones (talk) 20:24, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you, and take your time. Do the one step first, and then we'll talk in detail about the later ones. Voice description is wonderful, but please not at the beginning of career, - extra section, or within the reviewers' comments, or in the lead (introduction, with a source). You'll have to see how to compromise your wish for clarity with Wikipedia's standard that one-sentence paragraphs are to be avoided. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:25, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: OK. I have to do other stuff now, but will do more later today. But moderate size paragraphs, please - I can add more of the various roles taken in each category to most of the existing starter paragraphs? I find solid text difficult to read. Surely some mention of why her voice (and stage presence) is so appreciation is appropriate since her career is built on it, and you mentioned earlier about including her voice type? --MerielGJones (talk) 09:19, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you! - Can we work on your article step by step? I formatted how we usually present an opera for Boris Godunov, - can you do the others the same, please?
Hello, heard my name mentioned (er... linked to!). I'm afraid my magical qualities aren't tremendously reliable; I do manage to find a fair number of free images in general, but for images of specific people, my success rate is only 10-20%. I'm guessing this is about Susan Bickley? I did some searches of the usual places (Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, .gov sites), and couldn't find free images of her. However, I found a large number of images of British opera singers in one place at https://www.roh.org.uk/ and their Flickr account at https://www.flickr.com/photos/royaloperahouse/. It might be worth emailing them to ask whether they would be so kind as to mark them with a license we can use, such as https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; if they do, we get images not for just this singer but presumably many others. If you happen to personally know someone at the Royal Opera House that would be best, but if not, if you like, I can try it - my success rate for such emails is maybe 20%, so not great, but not 0. --GRuban (talk) 20:55, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Thanks for replying so swiftly! There is no rush, and suggesting a good example (Jesse Norman) is very helpful. GRuban Very many thanks for doing a more knowledgeable search for a suitable picture of Susan Bickley. Sadly I don't know anyone at the Royal Opera House, or anyone who might know someone there. Maybe the organisation could be persuaded that it fits with their public outreach activities to attract the widest range of people and also inspire children into opera? I have no experience of asking people to licence photos to be suitable for Wikipedia. Can I say - would you be prepared to have a go? As you mention, if you were successful, that could be great for many pages, and if they said 'no', well that's no change. Sorry - that is the easy choice for me and the difficult one for you. MerielGJones (talk) 22:13, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- I wonder if Adam Cuerden would know better. Or ask project opera? (link on my user page) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:29, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- I see no response at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Opera#Royal_Opera_House_contact, so wrote them on their form at https://www.roh.org.uk/contact. To set expectations properly, my experience asking this sort of thing is about 60% no response, and 25% respond but say "no", but that does leave some number of successes. --GRuban (talk) 12:12, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
- GRuban Many thanks for doing this. It is kind of you to make the effort to contact ROH. I know it is difficult to get pictures appropriately licenced for Wikipedia so I will not be surprised if the result is no change. @Gerda Arendt: MerielGJones (talk) 16:32, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
- I looked at the article and was impressed, - thank you for the additions. I copy-edited what's there. I'd add Cassandra in Troyens, to give her a bit more weight. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:26, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
- GRuban Many thanks for doing this. It is kind of you to make the effort to contact ROH. I know it is difficult to get pictures appropriately licenced for Wikipedia so I will not be surprised if the result is no change. @Gerda Arendt: MerielGJones (talk) 16:32, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
- I see no response at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Opera#Royal_Opera_House_contact, so wrote them on their form at https://www.roh.org.uk/contact. To set expectations properly, my experience asking this sort of thing is about 60% no response, and 25% respond but say "no", but that does leave some number of successes. --GRuban (talk) 12:12, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
- I wonder if Adam Cuerden would know better. Or ask project opera? (link on my user page) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:29, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- And the ROH answer is: no.
Fri, Sep 3, 2021 Hi George,
Thanks for your email. I’m afraid we can’t release the images below under a free license as we have a strict policy on image usage. I’m sorry I couldn’t help more with this, have a lovely weekend!
L[...] Interim Image Coordinator Audiences and Media Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
- GRuban Oh, well. Thank you for being willing to make the effort to ask. Very kind of you.MerielGJones (talk) 19:52, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for September 18
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Angela Milner, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page University of Newcastle.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 05:59, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
October 2021 at Women in Red
Special event:
|
--Rosiestep (talk) 01:36, 29 September 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Disambiguation link notification for October 13
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited The Life Scientific, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Jim and Sue Black.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 05:57, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
November 2021 at Women in Red
|
--Innisfree987 (talk) 21:30, 24 October 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Precious anniversary
| |
| One year! |
|---|
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:41, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message
| Hello! Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 6 December 2021. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2021 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add |
Nomination of Charles William Ledbetter for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Charles William Ledbetter, an article that that you have contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles William Ledbetter until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Patapsco913 (talk) 02:44, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
December 2021 at Women in Red
|
--Innisfree987 (talk) 00:12, 27 November 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
January 2022 with Women in Red
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:03, 28 December 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Disambiguation link notification for January 1
An automated process has detected that you recently added links to disambiguation pages.
- Rudolf Leuckart
- added a link pointing to William Patten
- William Morton Wheeler
- added a link pointing to William Patten
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:03, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
February with Women in Red
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
ITN recognition for Beryl Vertue
On 14 February 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Beryl Vertue, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 05:02, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for February 23
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited The Life Scientific, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Julia Shaw.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:02, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
March editathons
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:38, 27 February 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Possible merge
Hi! Could you check if M. L. J. Abercrombie should be merged into Minnie Abercrombie and, if so, merge them? Thank you very much in advance! --Epìdosis 07:32, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, they are indeed the same person. Also has 2 entries in Wikidata (Minnie Abercrombie (Q15994255) - with most of the data refs and also pages with this name in 4 other language Wikipedias; M. L. J. Abercrombie (Q6712823) with less info and just the M L J Abercrombie page listed). I will merge into the Minnie Abercrombie page since that exists in other Wikipedias as well. Please could someone else sort out Wikidata since I do not understand how to deal with duplicate entries in it? Thank you. MerielGJones (talk) 09:05, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
@Epìdosis: FYI, I've tried the Wikidata merge myself, got an error message and hope the Help page can help do it. --MerielGJones (talk) 12:49, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
Done merge on Wikidata. Thanks again! --Epìdosis 12:54, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
April Editathons from Women in Red
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:45, 22 March 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
May Women in Red events
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:53, 30 April 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Autopatrolled
Hi MerielGJones, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. However, you should consider adding relevant wikiproject talk-page templates, stub-tags and categories to new articles that you create if you aren't already in the habit of doing so, since your articles will no longer be systematically checked by other editors (User:Evad37/rater and User:SD0001/StubSorter.js are useful scripts which can help). Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! – Joe (talk) 12:38, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
June events from Women in Red
|
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 09:21, 31 May 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red in July 2022
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 15:48, 27 June 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Disambiguation link notification for July 23
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Dalbergia odorifera, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Vulnerable.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:16, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red August 2022
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 10:59, 29 July 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Invitation
 |
I've noticed your edits on pages relating to Gastropods; perhaps you'd be interested in joining WikiProject Gastropods? If you would like more information, please visit the project page or the project talk page. |
JoJan (talk) 12:50, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you very much @JoJan for your invitation, but I do not think I can contribute regularly about gastropods. I know nothing about them. My interest lies in plants and microbes, rather than animals. However, I also occasionally check if topics in the news that I think are interesting are covered in Wikipedia. Babakina anadoni was so pretty that I thought it should be included. Thank you for adding a taxonbar to the page about it; I've not noticed this command before and it is something I can use in future. We've been in contact before, in 2020 about a page on the British Phycological Society. MerielGJones (talk) 16:52, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
Lichens
Hi Meriel: I notice that you recently added a couple of articles relating to lichens. A small group of us have just started a lichen task force. If you're interested, please consider joining us! We could use all the help we can get. ;) MeegsC (talk) 21:34, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you very much @MeegsC for your invitation to join the lichen task force. I can see that some pages I've worked on recently have popped up in your listings. I would be pleased to join.--MerielGJones (talk) 09:14, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red in September 2022
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 15:36, 31 August 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
James D. Lawrey
Nice job on the James D. Lawrey article; it's off to a great (and nicely referenced) start! MeegsC (talk) 21:03, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks! MerielGJones (talk) 21:21, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for September 11
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Cotula coronopifolia, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Neophyte.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:08, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red October 2022
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 15:00, 29 September 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Disambiguation link notification for October 1
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Christian Leuckert, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Morphology.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:06, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Regensburg Botanical Society
Hello! Your submission of Regensburg Botanical Society at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! WJ94 (talk) 13:56, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red November 2022
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 17:34, 26 October 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
DYK for Regensburg Botanical Society
On 26 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Regensburg Botanical Society, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Regensburg Botanical Society, founded on 14 May 1790, is the world's oldest extant botanical society? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Regensburg Botanical Society. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Regensburg Botanical Society), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
 |
Thank you for a good one! Excellent work around the history of botany! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:38, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
| |
| Two years! |
|---|
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:23, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
November lichen task force newsletter
 A look at what we've accomplished, working together | ||
|
As a subset of WP:FUNGI, the lichen task force is working to improve coverage of the world's lichens – unique organisms composed of one or more fungal partners with one or more photosynthetic partners. Want to learn more? Join us! |
.jpg) New GA articles:
 DYK appearances:
| |
Our efforts to improve the coverage of lichens and lichenology on Wikipedia continue. Among this month's accomplishments:
| ||
 If you're looking for a reason to get an article onto Wikipedia's main page, look no further than this screenshot. It shows the views for the three project articles that were featured in the DYK section in October. Of particular interest is the corresponding spike in views of our lichen article (shown by the blue line), as people clicked through to learn more. We're educating the general public, a few thousand people at a time! | ||
| Got a suggestion? A correction? Something you'd like to see included in a future issue? Drop a note at the Tip Line with your ideas! | ||
MeegsC (talk) 13:55, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red in December 2022
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:55, 26 November 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message
Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:27, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
December newsletter
.JPG) A look at what we've accomplished, working together | |
|
Happy holidays! Regardless of which holidays you choose to celebrate, here's hoping they're enjoyable. As we reach the end of our first six months, we can be proud of the progress we've made to date – particularly considering the tiny size of our task force. We now have more than 4,100 articles, categories, templates and redirects under our watch. We've created a sizeable glossary (with more entries being added every day), whittled down the project's cleanup listing, and added biographies about a number of prominent lichenologists. To date, we have one Featured Article and 23 Good Articles. Clearly, there's plenty more to do, but we're off to a solid start. Here's to a productive new year! |
DYK appearances:
|
Editors have been busy over the past month:
| |
A sentence in our Cladonia squamosa article was challenged back in 2014(!!) when a reader discovered that the supplied source did not corroborate the information. The editor who finds a valid source for the sentence (or corrects the information as necessary) and, in addition, replaces any redlinks with appropriate links to our new glossary of lichen terms will get public kudos in the next newsletter. | |
| Got a suggestion? A correction? Something you'd like to see included in a future issue? Drop a note at the Tip Line with your ideas! | |
MeegsC (talk) 22:44, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
DYK for Rebecca Yahr
On 6 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rebecca Yahr, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rebecca Yahr. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Rebecca Yahr), 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.
~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 00:03, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red January 2023
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 18:02, 27 December 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
January newsletter
 A look at what we've accomplished, working together | ||
|
Happy new year! We head into 2023 with plenty of work to do. We're missing articles on a handful of lichen families, scores of lichen genera and thousands of lichen species. Dozens of important lichenologists are "missing" too. We need to check or update the taxonomy of hundreds of existing taxa articles. Many articles about basic lichen structures and functions are either tiny stubs or badly in need of referencing or updating. There's certainly enough to keep us busy for a good long while! Here's to a productive year ahead. |
 | |
| ||
Kazamzam met last month's challenge and provided an updated reference for the Cladonia squamosa article – which indicated a significantly larger world range for the species than had been previously listed. Nice job! This month, we're looking for someone to replace the dead reference in Ramalina fraxinea (defunct since April 2018!) with one (or more) which corroborates the information that the old reference did. The editor who meets this challenge will get public kudos in the next newsletter. | ||
| Got a suggestion? A correction? Something you'd like to see included in a future issue? Drop a note at the Tip Line with your ideas! | ||
MeegsC (talk) 18:50, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red in February 2023
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 07:28, 30 January 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
February lichen task force newsletter
The February edition of the lichen task force newsletter is now available. MeegsC (talk) 20:26, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red March 2023
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 12:54, 26 February 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red April 2023
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:53, 27 March 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red May 2023
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 18:28, 27 April 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
May 2023 lichen task force newsletter available
The May edition of the lichen task force newsletter is now available. MeegsC (talk) 09:29, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for May 16
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Yr Amgueddfa, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Nia Roberts.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:10, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red - June 2023
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 09:16, 28 May 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red July 2023
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 07:43, 27 June 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red 8th Anniversary
|
|
Women in Red 8th Anniversary |
| In July 2015 around 15.5% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. As of July 2023, 19.61% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women. That's a lot of biographies created in the effort to close the gender gap. Happy 8th Anniversary! Join us for some virtual cake and add comments or memories and please keep on editing to close the gap! |
--Lajmmoore (talk) 11:01, 18 July 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red August 2023
See also:
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 19:25, 28 July 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
September 2023 at Women in Red
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Victuallers (talk) 16:54, 25 August 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
The article Llinos Medi Huws has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Proposed deletion: This is in a minority of council leaders who have an article, Ynys Mon/Anglesey is not a major population centre or major council, there is very little information here worthy of an encyclopedia page and now the individual in question is running for parliament (as of Sept 2023) I fear it will become a propaganda tool. There are AFAIK well established precendents for not having pages on candidates unless they are already noteworthy and IMO being a council leader of a small council (even though it is a principle authority) does not meet that bar
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.
This bot DID NOT nominate any of your contributions for deletion; please refer to the history of each individual page for details. Thanks, FastilyBot (talk) 10:00, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red October 2023
See also
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 10:53, 29 September 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Women in Red - November 2023
See also Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 08:22, 26 October 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
November lichen task force newsletter...
...is available here. MeegsC (talk) 09:31, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
| |
| Three years! |
|---|
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:45, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
November 2023
Hello, I'm Pigsonthewing. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you unlinked one or more redlinks from Margaret E. Bradshaw. Redlinks are useful and can often be helpful, so we don't remove them just because they are red. They help improve Wikipedia by attracting editors to create needed articles.
In addition, clicking on the "What links here" link (in the tools listed at the left in desktop view) on a missing article shows how many—and which—articles depend on that article being created. This can help prioritize article creation. Please only remove a redlink if you are pretty sure that it is to a non-notable topic and not likely ever to be created. Thanks! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:14, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for November 5
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Mary Beard.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:10, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red December 2023
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:24, 27 November 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message
Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:44, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
December lichen task force newsletter
The December issue is available here. Delivered by MeegsC (talk) 09:54, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Copyright issues at Haageocereus bylesianus
Hi, this is about your contributions to theHaageocereus bylesianus article. Thank you so much for translating the original article over to enWiki, but, unfortunately, merely stating that you've translated the material from a different wiki isn't a sufficient attribution. You have to provide a link- similarly to what I did in this diff here when fixing the Haageocereus article. You can read more at Help:Translation. Please let me know if you have any questions, or you disagree with what I've done. (Or if I made a mistake when linking to the deWiki original!) Happy holidays! GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 01:01, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
- OK, I will do something about adding sources and about de Wikipedia, but not today! Merry Christmas. MerielGJones (talk) 09:04, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
- You've already added links to the German article. Thank you for doing that. MerielGJones (talk) 07:38, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Women in Red January 2024
Announcement
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk) 20:17, 28 December 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging
January lichen task force newsletter
The January issue of the lichen task force newsletter is available here. Delivered by MeegsC (talk) 03:08, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
CS1 error on William Mudd
Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page William Mudd, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:
- A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)
Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 23:44, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red February 2024
Announcement
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
|
--Lajmmoore (talk 20:09, 28 January 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging