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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

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Welcome to the 2023 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2023 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Soman!

Happy New Year!

Soman,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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DYK for North-Western Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

On 8 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article North-Western Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the North-Western Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) ran an underground network to distribute literature to German soldiers in occupied areas? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/North-Western Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, North-Western Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)), 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.

BorgQueen (talk) 12:02, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Kudos to you again! Have a fruitful and happy new year! warshy (¥¥) 16:23, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
:)! --Soman (talk) 19:18, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Aleksandr Trusov

On 9 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Aleksandr Trusov, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that one of the districts in the city of Astrakhan is named after Bolshevik leader Aleksandr Trusov? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aleksandr Trusov. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Aleksandr Trusov), 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.

BorgQueen (talk) 00:03, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

I know you create a lot of content. But these also prove that the content you create is of the highest quality! Keep up the amazing work! warshy (¥¥) 17:12, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
many thanks Warshy, much appreciated. -- Soman (talk) 22:12, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 16 January 2023

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DYK for Innokenty Fedenev

On 17 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Innokenty Fedenev, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Innokenty Fedenev inspired one of the characters in the novel How the Steel Was Tempered, a work he helped to get published? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Innokenty Fedenev. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Innokenty Fedenev), 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.

BorgQueen (talk) 12:02, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Interesting! I was looking through your page again, and I realized that you don't brag about the many languages you must be fluent in, as many other Wikipedians do with those Babel templates. But I had to conclude that you must be completely conversant in German and Russian at least, and at least able to read a variety of Asian alphabets to do the amazing work you do here. Many kudos to you again! warshy (¥¥) 16:32, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
As always, much appreciated feedback Warshy. I must admit that my language skills aren't that extensive, but over the years I think I've learn techniques of extracting factoids from book references in a number of languages. I work extensively with google translate for some languages, manually copy-pasting sentence by sentence from snippet views across entire pages to construe translatable material. --Soman (talk) 19:05, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Wow! That is really a lot of very careful, detailed work! But the results are all here for everyone to see. As I've been saying a couple of times already (sorry for the repetition), some amazing work of detailed research over many different languages and cultures. Thank you so much for all you do here! And many kudos again. warshy (¥¥) 21:38, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Opposition)

On 18 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Opposition), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Communist Opposition was the most popular slate in the 1931 Czechoslovak municipal election in Unhošť? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Opposition). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Opposition)), 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.

-- RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Outstanding! But also, look at the wealth of reliable original local/East European sources used. I don't think there are many other WP editors that can produce this kind of work. Look, the list of DYK's on your page says it all, and I am very late to start noticing all these hundreds of articles of your that were used for DYK's. The list is overwhelming, amazing. So again, I am pretty late in recognizing all this, and my apologies for that. But my greated congratulations are in order. Thank you! warshy (¥¥) 00:40, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Many thanks Warshy. This article presented some specific challenges, as the subject was ill-treated in Cold War Era Czechoslovak histography + having been largely a Sudeten German phenomenon (esp. in its latter period). Robert J. Alexander's work on the Right Opposition talks briefly about how the group suffered as Sudeten German Party rose to prominence, but I don't consider Alexander as WP:RS (for example, Alexander doesn't make the connection Brunn=Brno, he reproduces a typo for MVS as 'LAV' etc.). I think there could be more from the Lovestoneites press from 1935-1938 to add material about the latter phase of the group but unfortunately I didn't have time to revise more at this stage. --Soman (talk) 22:44, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
I think all this is a great display of truly encyclopedic knowledge! Since this seems to be material that you also like, I hope you get some time later to come back and make it even more comprehensive than it already is. Congratulations! warshy (¥¥) 21:07, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Obliskomzap

On 23 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Obliskomzap, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Obliskomzap People's Commissar for Public Charity V. L. Mukha resigned in protest over the dispersing of the First All-Belarusian Congress? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Obliskomzap. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Obliskomzap), 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.

-- RoySmith (talk) 12:02, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Beautiful! I learned a lot again, since this is an area which I once studied in detail some of aspects of its history, particularly in the 19th century. And the sources! Very nice indeed. Congratulations Soman! warshy (¥¥) 17:58, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Request to join discussion

Hi @Soman:, I request you to join the AfD discussion about the article named "Alliances formed by left-wing parties in the states of India". Thank you. SharadSHRD7 (talk) 12:13, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi SharadSHRD7, I already gave my opinion there --Soman (talk) 14:36, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. SharadSHRD7 (talk) 15:15, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
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