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DYK for Cora Agnes Benneson

On 24 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cora Agnes Benneson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Cora Agnes Benneson (pictured), one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cora Agnes Benneson. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cora Agnes Benneson), 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.

theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), Schwede66, and Kusma (talk) 00:02, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red March 2024

Women in Red | March 2024, Volume 10, Issue 3, Numbers 293, 294, 299, 300, 301 Online events: New: Alphabet run Q & R | Art+Feminism | Find Her Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcements Celebrate Women – All content gender gap events, in every language Wikipedia, in March 2024 Francophone Women★ Writers Fortnight 2024 Feminism and Folklore 2024 Writing Contest Tip of the month: When creating a new article, check various spellings, including birth name, married names and pseudonyms, to be sure an article doesn't already exist. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Your GA nomination of Well he would, wouldn't he?

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Well he would, wouldn't he? you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:22, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Well he would, wouldn't he?

The article Well he would, wouldn't he? you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Well he would, wouldn't he? for comments about the article, and Talk:Well he would, wouldn't he?/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:23, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

That’s my grandpa😣

I’m not even joking I literally edited my grandpas I can call him. 2601:1C2:4C00:4690:60CD:78EB:CBD0:3068 (talk) 01:18, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure who you're referring to, but you cannot edit the pages of your family members as that is a conflict of interest. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:20, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Rollback granted

Hi Voorts. After reviewing your request, I have enabled rollback on your account. Please keep the following things in mind while using rollback:

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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) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

MRDA GAN

Afternoon. Sorry I nabbed your review: was mindful of the time in the US being much further behind the UK and went for it assuming you had more important things to deal with in the morning. Hope I didn't steal any of your fun, if you enjoy that sort of thing. Saw that the brunt of the comments, like the OCLC for Irving 1964, was to do with me and was my duty to fix: the rest were simple queries or minor style issues that I could complete in a few minutes. Hope that's OK with you, and apologies if you were looking forward to dealing with the GAN yourself. Cheers, — Tim O'Doherty (talk) 23:53, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

It was a co-nom, and you did half the work, so I was happy to have you deal with it. Looks like the article's in pretty good shape. I want to see if Chiswick has any comments for us before we nominate for FA, if that's okay. voorts (talk/contributions) 00:08, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

@Tim O'Doherty: Well we could nominate for FA, couldn't we? voorts (talk/contributions) 22:58, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Is suppose we could, if we're OK with the background sections and the info on Ward. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 23:05, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Do you think more needs to be added? Happy to hold off if you want to expand those sections. No rush. voorts (talk/contributions) 23:07, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Not in particular. Can always be fleshed out if FAC says so. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 23:12, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Cool, then I will nominate it. voorts (talk/contributions) 23:13, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

One thing is that we call Ward the scapegoat in the lead, but that needs to be substantiated in the background section. voorts (talk/contributions) 23:46, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

What about:

After Profumo revealed that he had lied, the police began to investigate Ward, who was arrested and charged with living "wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution". The police based their case on allegations that Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davies, a Welsh showgirl and model, had been paid for sex and had subsequently given money to Ward. Rice-Davies was briefly jailed in HMP Holloway until she agreed to testify against Ward. Writing in The Guardian in 2014, the barrister Geoffrey Robertson stated that the Macmillan government had her arrested to coerce her testimony. Robertson also considers Ward a scapegoat for the affair and is described as such by his biographer, Richard Davenport-Hines.

Sources

Bowcott, Owen (2 December 2013). "Profumo affair scapegoat's wrongful conviction down to top judges, says QC". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 5 December 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2024. Davenport-Hines, Richard (2013). "Ward, Stephen Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40839. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Irving, Clive; Hall, Ron; Wallington, Jeremy (1964). Scandal '63: The Profumo Sensation: Complete. London: William Heinemann. OCLC 989401716. Robertson, Geoffrey (19 December 2014). "Mandy Rice-Davies: fabled player in a very British scandal". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 August 2023. Retrieved 2024-01-14.

? Tim O'Doherty (talk) 00:24, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Looks great. I think we'll also need to change the lead to attribute "scapegoat", unless we can find a bunch more really good RSes from people with less bias in the matter who call it that. voorts (talk/contributions) 00:27, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Agreed. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 00:28, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

One other thing that might come up is the relatively short "Legacy" section; do we have anything more we want to add? Should it be turned into a subsection of Analysis? Stay as is? Tim O'Doherty (talk) 16:27, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

@Tim O'Doherty I think it's okay for now; if there's dislike of it, I think it could be folded into the politics section voorts (talk/contributions) 16:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

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