User talk:TheMadDesperado

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Introduction Membership news, obituary and election results Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page Closing words – Your Guild coordinators: Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Message sent by Baffle gab1978 (talk) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:54, 11 September 2024 (UTC) The Signpost: 26 September 2024 In the media: Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws" Community view: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections? Gallery: Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia? Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 26 September 2024 (UTC) The Signpost: 19 October 2024 News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins! Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night Book review: The Editors Humour: The Newspaper Editors Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:16, 19 October 2024 (UTC) Categories Hi, I'd suggest a read of Help:Categories before creating any new ones. FYI, when creating a category such as Category:Pisolithus (a fine choice for a new category), then when adding this cat to the species pages, the parent cats should be removed from those species pages (in this case, these would be Category:Boletales and Category:Sclerodermataceae. Also, FYI, there's no need (and is actively discouraged) to create categories that will likely remain small (i.e under a dozen or so), such as, for example, monotypic genera. Cheers, Esculenta (talk) 17:29, 1 November 2024 (UTC) Thanks for your help! I just did all the Pisolithus species, so I'll remove the parent categories from those. TheMadDesperado (talk) 18:05, 1 November 2024 (UTC) Also, I created categories for Chlorogaster, Favillea, and Horakiella before I realized that there are no articles for species in these genera. So I think these should be deleted, right? TheMadDesperado (talk) 18:09, 1 November 2024 (UTC) Yes they should be, but if all articles are removed from the category someone will come along and delete it automatically. Esculenta (talk) 18:31, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Favillea

A tag has been placed on Category:Favillea indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:28, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

It will remain empty - please delete! TheMadDesperado (talk) 19:47, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Horakiella

A tag has been placed on Category:Horakiella indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:28, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

This category will remain empty - please delete! TheMadDesperado (talk) 19:47, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Chlorogaster

A tag has been placed on Category:Chlorogaster indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:29, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

This category will remain empty - please delete! TheMadDesperado (talk) 19:47, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, TheMadDesperado. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:04, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

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