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January 2023

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Hello, I'm Cassiopeia. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Quehué, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Cassiopeia talk 01:12, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Cassiopeia. I translated this page from the Spanish wikipedia article (which is also light on citations). Is it better to not translate a page if there aren't citations? Or to translate and just include the note that it's pulled from Spanish wikipedia? Thanks! SilkPyjamas (talk) 01:14, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]


HI Silk Pyjamas, Good day. Every Wikipedia sister projects (different languages) has its own guidelines and policies. In English Wikipedia, all content added or changed needs to be supported by independent, reliable source such as from the books or newspaper and the editor who performs the edit bear the burden to add the source for verification. Pls see the welcome message for some basic Wikipedia guidelines and if you want to learn more pls complete the WP:TWA program (45 mins) to familiar with the basic editing guidelines. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 01:26, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, SilkPyjamas. Thank you for your work on Skagafjörður Folk Museum. Ingratis, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Thank you for this article - an interesting subject and a nice translation! Thank you in particulr for including the link and attribution to the original article among your edit summaries - not everyone remembers to do this but it is important.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Ingratis}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.) Best wishes, Ingratis (talk) 05:04, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I love translating and I've been working on the translations from Icelandic with my tutor as a learning exercise. I appreciate the note :-) SilkPyjamas (talk) 05:08, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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June 2024 GOCE blitz awards

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The Barnstar of Diligence
This barnstar is awarded to SilkPyjamas for copy edits totaling over 30,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:45, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The Copy Editor's 10K Star
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Roller printing on fabrics is a textile printing process patented by Thomas Bell of Scotland in 1783 in an attempt to reduce the cost of the earlier copperplate printing. This method was used in Lancashire fabric mills to produce cotton dress fabrics from the 1790s, most often reproducing small monochrome patterns characterized by striped motifs and tiny dotted patterns called "machine grounds". Improvements in the technology resulted in more elaborate roller prints in bright, rich colours from the 1820s; Turkey red and chrome yellow were particularly popular.

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The India naming dispute in 1947 refers to the argument over the use of the name India during and after the partition of British Raj, between the countries of Pakistan and the Republic of India. This dispute involved key figures such as Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British Raj, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of the Muslim League and a founder of Pakistan. By 1947, the British Raj was going to be divided into two new nation states – Hindustan and Pakistan. Jinnah was initially convinced that Hindustan would not use the term India, since it lacked indigenous pedigree, etymologically and historically India meant the Indus Valley (modern-Pakistan). He also opposed the use of the name India as it would cause confusion regarding history. The disagreement had significant implications for national identity and international recognition.

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Adumu, is a type of dance that the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania practice. Young Maasai warriors generally perform the energetic and acrobatic dance at ceremonial occasions including weddings, religious rites, and other significant cultural events. The Adumu dance is characterized by a sequence of jumps performed by the dancers, who stand in a circle and alternately jump while keeping their bodies as straight and upright as possible. In addition to wearing vividly colored shúkàs (clothes) and beaded jewelry, the dancers are typically clad in traditional Maasai costume. Traditional Maasai songs and chants are also performed during the dance.

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The Rathaus-Glockenspiel is a large mechanical clock located in Marienplatz Square, in the heart of Munich, Germany. Famous for its life-size characters, the clock twice daily re-enacts scenes from Munich's history. First is the story of the marriage of Duke Wilhelm V to Renata of Lorraine in 1568, followed by the story of the Schäfflerstanz, also known as the coopers' dance.

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The Nederlandsche Cocaïnefabriek (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈneːdərlɑntsə koːkaːˈinəfaːˌbrik]; English: Dutch Cocaine Factory) or NCF was an Amsterdam-based company producing cocaine for medical purposes in the 20th century. It imported its raw materials mainly from the Dutch East Indies and sold its products across Europe, making good profits especially in the early years of World War I. The NCF produced morphine, heroin and ephedrine as well.

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July 2024 GOCE drive awards

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The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to SilkPyjamas for copy edits totaling over 8,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 01:05, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 5th Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to SilkPyjamas for copyediting 4 old articles during the GOCE July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 01:05, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Suffrage drama (also known as suffrage plays or suffrage theatre) is a form of dramatic literature that emerged during the British women's suffrage movement in the early twentieth century. Suffrage performances lasted approximately from 1907-1914. Many suffrage plays called for a predominant or all female cast. Suffrage plays served to reveal issues behind the suffrage movement.

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In the Australian Aboriginal mythology of the Aboriginal people of south-eastern Australian state of Victoria, the Karatgurk were seven sisters who represented the constellation known in western astronomy as the Pleiades.

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B1 is a medical-based Paralympic classification for blind sport. Athletes in this classification are totally or almost totally blind. It is used by a number of blind sports including blind tennis, para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, blind cricket, blind golf, five-a-side football, goalball and judo. Some other sports, including adaptive rowing, athletics and swimming, have equivalents to this class.

The B1 classification was first created by the IBSA in the 1970s, and has largely remained unchanged since despite an effort by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to move towards a more functional and evidence-based classification system. Classification is often handled on the international level by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) but it sometimes handled by national sport federations. There are exceptions for sports like athletics and cycling, where classification is handled by their own governing bodies.

Equipment utilized by competitors in this class may differ from sport to sport, and may include sighted guides, guide rails, beeping balls and clapsticks. There may be some modifications related to equipment and rules to specifically address needs of competitors in this class to allow them to compete in specific sports. Some sports specifically do not allow a guide, whereas cycling and skiing require one.

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Erzi (Russian: Эрзи; Ingush: Аьрзи, romanized: Ärzi, lit. 'Eagle') is a medieval village (aul) in the Dzheyrakhsky District of Ingushetia. It is part of the rural settlement (administrative center) of Olgeti. The entire territory of the settlement is included in the Dzheyrakh-Assa State Historical-Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve and is under state protection.

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The Cappadocian calendar was a solar calendar that was derived from the Persian Zoroastrian calendar. It is named after the historic region Cappadocia in present-day Turkey, where it was used. The calendar, which had 12 months of 30 days each and five epagomenal days, originated between 550 and 330 BC, when Cappadocia was part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. The Cappadocian calendar was identical to the Zoroastrian calendar; this can be seen in its structure, in the Avestan names and in the order of the months. The Cappadocian calendar reflects the Iranian cultural influence in the region.

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Hi there, SilkPyjamas, and thank you for all your informative articles about Iceland and Mexican writers. Those about Iceland represent a significant improvement of the country's coverage in the English Wikipedia. After discovering so few of your creations had been assessed, I decided to spend some time on rating them myself. You can see the result on your Itools page here. Your translations from Icelandic and Spanish are of a particularly high standard. Keep up the good work!--Ipigott (talk) 10:05, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I've been working with my Icelandic teacher on the Icelandic translations and got myself on a mission to fill in all the articles about Skagafjörður. I do the Spanish to English translations by myself, but my Spanish teacher will still be proud to hear about this :-) SilkPyjamas (talk) 14:57, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Independence Day (Albanian: Dita e Pavarësisë) is a public holiday in Albania observed on 28 November. It commemorates the Albanian Declaration of Independence (from the Ottoman Empire), which was ratified by the All-Albanian Congress on 28 November 1912, establishing the state of Albania.

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The wildlife of the archipelago of Bahrain, is more varied than might be expected of this small group of islands in the Persian Gulf. Apart from a strip of the north and west of the main island, where crops are grown with irrigation, the land is arid. With a very hot dry summer, a mild winter, and brackish groundwater, the plants need adaptations in order to survive. Nevertheless, 196 species of higher plant have been recorded here, as well as about seventeen species of terrestrial mammals, many birds and reptiles, and many migratory birds visit the islands in autumn and spring.

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September 2024 GOCE drive awards

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The Barnstar of Diligence
This barnstar is awarded to SilkPyjamas for copy edits totaling over 60,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 08:30, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! SilkPyjamas (talk) 21:19, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 3rd Place
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 5th Place
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The little Danes experiment was a 1951 Danish operation where 22 Greenlandic Inuit children were sent to Danish foster families in an attempt to re-educate them as "little Danes". While the children were all supposed to be orphans, most were not. Six children were adopted while in Denmark, and sixteen returned to Greenland, only to be placed in Danish-speaking orphanages and never live with their families again. Half of the children experienced mental health disturbances, and half of them died in young adulthood. The government of Denmark officially apologised in 2020, after several years of demands from Greenlandic officials.

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Kharayeb (Arabic: الخرايب) is a historic town in the Sidon District in the South Governorate, Lebanon. The town is 77 km (48 mi) south of Beirut, and stands at an average altitude of 190 m (620 ft) above sea level. The town boasts a rich historical legacy, with archaeological excavations revealing a complex settlement history spanning from Prehistory to the Ottoman period. Notably, Kharayeb's origins can be traced back to the Persian period (539–330 BC), when it played a pivotal role in the region's agricultural and economic landscape, culminating in the construction of its Phoenician temple around the 6th century BC.

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Christmas horror is a fiction genre and film genre that incorporates horror elements into a seasonal setting. It is popular in multiple countries.

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Placenta cake is a dish from ancient Greece and Rome consisting of many dough layers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves, baked and then covered in honey. The dessert is mentioned in classical texts such as the Greek poems of Archestratos and Antiphanes, as well as the De agri cultura of Cato the Elder. It is often seen as the predecessor of baklava and börek.

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Hi SilkPyjamas, thanks for your copy-editing work at the Guild. You may be unaware the Requests page is automatically archived by a bot, so any messages you leave on that page will be removed after about 24 hours. If a message is intended for a requester, please post on their talk page; and if a message is intended for copy-editors, you may post at the Requests talk page (REQ talk). Also, formatting such as asterisks (*) and lists using multiple colons (:) prevent the bot from archiving the request, although it doesn't seem to mind normal threading. I'll copy your message here to the requester's talk page and I may need to remove the formatting at REQ. I hope this doesn't put you off copy-editing articles. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 08:34, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Message copied here (permalink). Cheers, Baffle☿gab 08:47, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I was unaware of the formatting issue. I put my notes on the article's talk page too, but you're right it doesn't really make sense to add it all on the request page where it will disappear quickly. Thanks for the reminder. SilkPyjamas (talk) 14:05, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that and no worries, I usually copy relevant comments and conversations to REQ talk but I decided the requester's talk was a more-appropriate venue in this case. Just one more ask; could you please use {{done}} rather than {{completed}} at the requests page? The bot doesn't respond to the completed template. Thanks again and cheers, Baffle☿gab 00:53, 7 November 2024 (UTC).[reply]
@Baffle gab1978 oh no problem. sorry for doing it wrong! SilkPyjamas (talk) 01:40, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Trisomy 16 is a chromosomal abnormality in which there are 3 copies of chromosome 16 rather than two. It is the most common trisomy leading to miscarriage and the second most common chromosomal cause of it, closely following X-chromosome monosomy. About 6% of miscarriages have trisomy 16.

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