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A cupcake for you!

Welcome to the Wiki Portals project! Serenesage (talk) 17:32, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Precious

Women Disobey

Thank you for quality articles such as Women Disobey, Pasha Patriki, VELD Music Festival, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, for tireless gnomish work such as adding the date format to hundreds of articles, for saving for posterity – user with a delicious name, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:52, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Women Disobey

I decorated my talk, thank you for the inspiration. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:59, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

It is an awesome photo, isn't it? I knew when I read the words Women Disobey that I must create that page. It is sad that the story of the protests was eclipsed by the senseless shooting at The Capital Gazette. I am having trouble expanding it with Reactions and Aftermath. Two days later, there was another much bigger protest, Families Belong Together (you will love the main infobox photo). That got a lot more coverage. I also started that page and Jmaxfield18 just ran with it (great work!). Jmaxfield18 seems very shy to engage but follows advise, without responding or reverting. A great example of why not to pre-judge an SPA.

Hey, would you be interested in a colloboration project. I have many draft ideas at User:Coffeeandcrumbs/Drafts that I am think of developing. Any of those peak your interest? Or can you suggest something? I have always believe I learn so much when I work side-by-side with someone. It gives me a chance to ask why someone makes certain editing decisions and challenge my own thoughts.--- Coffeeandcrumbs 14:23, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

I love collaboration, but am not familiar with the topics and their sources. I will happily look shortly before you want to move a draft, - how is that? I have my routine of writing an article a day, and am 'booked' for weeks to come. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:47, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

I made it one of my examples, Template:User QAIbox/doc#women disobey, feel free to share. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:55, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

A year ago, you were recipient no. 1980 of Precious, a prize of QAI! - Moon, moon, moon, - excellent landing job! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:29, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt, WOW! What a nice coincidence! Thanks for keeping in touch! --- Coffeeandcrumbs 11:09, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Million award

	The Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Yuri Gagarin (estimated annual readership: 1,080,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Kees08 (Talk) 16:55, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

	The Quarter Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Mae Jemison (estimated annual readership: 250,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Kees08 (Talk) 16:55, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Double the award! Congratulations. Feel free to add Gagarin to the WP:Million Award page as well. Kees08 (Talk) 16:55, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Visionary Barnstar
	Dear Coffeeandcrumbs, I just want to be the first to congratulate you for your vision and your perseverance to create the first all-space DYK set for July 21. In fact, the whole appearance of the Main Page is a credit to your pioneering vision. It just went live! Enjoy basking in the glow of your stellar achievement! Best, Yoninah (talk) 00:12, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Yoninah, thank you for my first barnstar ever! And thank you for your patient and diligent assistance in getting this going. I should say that just as much credit should go to User:Kees08 without whom this would never have been possible. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 15:22, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

And a special thanks to Cwmhiraeth. Your act of bravery did not go unnoticed!!! --- Coffeeandcrumbs 17:42, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Fannie Lou Hamer

D'ye think ye'd like to have a go at helping me renominate her? I'm worried that if my explanation didn't push it through the first time, it might not this time either. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.8% of all FPs} 03:26, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Adam Cuerden, I will give it a go on Tuesday. Weekend is not a good time to start a nomination I have noticed. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 05:15, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

No problem! Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.8% of all FPs} 20:10, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

It's not on a schedule, but could you let me know when this is done? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.8% of all FPs} 03:20, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Adam Cuerden, I will let you know. I first have to integrate her into 1964 Democratic National Convention#Mississippi controversy and add the photo there. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 04:03, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Any progress? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.9% of all FPs} 08:00, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Adam Cuerden, I am sorry but coordinating WP:OTD has taken all my time. I don't think a nomination would be successful at this times without including the photo in 1964 Democratic National Convention#Mississippi controversy. I have not had time to do that. I am really sorry if I held you up. Perhaps you can ask WP:WOMEN to help fix the convention page because I believe most of the EV of the photo is in that article. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 08:26, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Main page compliment

Hi, it appeared to me like you did a lot of the work in planning how to recognize the Apollo 11 anniversary this week, and I wanted to make sure you saw a compliment from a reader on WP:VPM. (I would have mentioned it where the discussions were but seems like there were many in different places.) Schazjmd (talk) 16:41, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

• I agree completely. Great job with the Main page coverage of the 50th anniversary. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 17:28, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

21 July 2019

... with thanks from QAI

• Joining the chorus: quality job on that project! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:55, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
• Well done, it was a great way to celebrate the anniversary. Stephen 23:00, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

Thanks for your support in my recent, albeit unsuccessful, RfA. Especially since you never voted in an RfA before. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:36, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Thank you for your help! Mazewaxie (talk • contribs) 09:31, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		Military history reviewers' award
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Milhist reviewing award (1 stripe) for participating in 1 review between July and September 2019. Hawkeye7 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 01:15, 5 October 2019 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

You have been made a hero of Wikipedia labour!

	For your service to the motherland
	For creating Soviet space engineer Konstantin Bushuyev, you have been awarded a Hero of Wikipedia Labour! Now both you and Bushuyev can have matching awards. Captain Eek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 00:19, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

CaptainEek, this is the best. Thanks! Our coverage of the soviet space programme needs so much improvement. You should join us at Alexei Leonov as we work towards GA. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 00:23, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Thanks for picking up the volunteer task I put at ITNC about the Herman Boone page citations. —Bagumba (talk) 07:27, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	Rosguill (talk)	47,395	Patrol Page Curation
2	Onel5969 (talk)	41,883	Patrol Page Curation
3	JTtheOG (talk)	11,493	Patrol Page Curation
4	Arthistorian1977 (talk)	5,562	Patrol Page Curation
5	DannyS712 (talk)	4,866	Patrol Page Curation
6	CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk)	3,995	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	3,812	Patrol Page Curation
8	Boleyn (talk)	3,655	Patrol Page Curation
9	Ymblanter (talk)	3,553	Patrol Page Curation
10	Cwmhiraeth (talk)	3,522	Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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Happy Holidays

Hello Coffeeandcrumbs: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, DBigXrayᗙ Happy Holidays! 15:33, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

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January 2020 at Women in Red

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Good luck

豊かな十年へようこそ/WELCOME TO THE D20s

Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune.
このミラPはCoffeeandcrumbsたちのメリークリスマスも新年も変革と幸運の豊かな十年をおめでとうございます！
フレフレ、みんなの未来！/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE!
ミラP 04:59, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

May interest you

Hi Coffeeandcrumbs, given your FAC review of David Hillhouse Buel (priest), I thought you might be interested to know that I've nominated Samuel Mulledy, another Jesuit and president of Georgetown University for FAC (link). If you're so inclined, your comments would be appreciated. Ergo Sum 03:14, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Quarter Million Award for Valentina Tereshkova

	The Quarter Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Valentina Tereshkova (estimated annual readership: 370,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 15:31, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your work promoting this vital article! – Reidgreg (talk) 15:31, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

December

December thoughts

missing Brian ...

I wonder if you might look at WP:ITNN where RD after RD is nominated, with almost no comments. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:39, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Valereee, let's take a break from The Times to help ITN/C. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 22:41, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Start from the oldest nomination and work up. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 22:41, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Almost as soon as Schreier (finally) made it to the Main page, Harry Kupfer died. No words. I am sooooo glad we just updated his article while he was still alive. With more support and a brave admin, this could go up while really "recent"! - For turn to 2020 see my talk, - dark blue as DYK aptly prescribes, but click through to images music calendar if you like! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:15, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Should give you January, but little time ;) - Could check out my ITNN nom for Gudrun Pausewang, please, and perhaps pass credits for Franz Mazura? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:23, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Question

Why haven't you done this? --valereee (talk) 13:22, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Valereee, I'm working up the courage. I need more experience at AfD. Definitely going to pull the trigger sometime in the next 6 months. I recently got OTRS access. It is so fascinating. As soon as I get comfortable with OTRS and get more familiar with AfD, I will have the self-esteem for RfA. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 13:47, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Well, to me personally, requiring AfD experience just seems so random. It's just one of dozens if not hundreds of places we need admin attention. I know some people do want to see that, but I find it puzzling. I need to go ask one of those people why. Much more important to me is temperament (check), willingness to help in underserved areas (check), and willingness to help other editors become better editors (double-check). You should go start a WP:ORCP. NM, just saw recent advice from someone whose opinion I respect saying do NOT do this lol --valereee (talk) 13:59, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 1

I'm at LGBT History Month and wondering if it's fixable. It clearly started out as an article about the UK event, and then there was an attempt to globalize it, and while I've been able to remove the major tags, the article is so all over the place that I'm not sure it could work as an OTD for Feb 1 as is. What do you think? --valereee (talk) 01:30, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Valereee, I think you should focus on sourcing for now. Style, and organization are a secondary concern for me. As long as everything is sourced, I am personally willing to forgive these issues.

However, I think that Canada not having a section is unforgivable since it is mentioned in the infobox and lead. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 01:41, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Coffeeandcrumbs!

Happy New Year!

Coffeeandcrumbs,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Happy New Year! ᗙ DBigXrayᗙ 21:29, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

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"Unsourced"?

Is what what the problem was? Drmies (talk) 00:05, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

@Drmies: Can you please elaborate on your concern? I did not understand your question. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 00:16, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Well, if this gibberish, "Kendra lust is Pankaj believer and Pankaj is the guru of gurunanak , sai Baba, Jesus, etc. Pankaj is the friend of Uday Bhatia aka Jerry", were somehow sourced, would it be acceptable? Drmies (talk) 00:21, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Drmies, of course not. I wanted to get it off the page as soon as possible and used the most AGF reason I could think of quickly. In actuality, I only read the first five words and decided to revert. Perhaps, I should not have given a reason at all and just hit undo and publish. I only noticed the users history after you said something. This article and many of the pornstar articles on my watchlist get lots of such edits. My primary goal is getting them off the page as quick as possible. I have requested RPP and the page is now pending changes protected. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 00:32, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

The Times need a few more of your seconds

Over the next ... ? Shenme (talk) 04:07, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

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Coffeeandcrumbs,
Have a great 2020 and thanks for your continued contributions to Wikipedia.

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Welcome to the 2020 WikiCup!

Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. 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. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup 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. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Page mover granted

Hello, Coffeeandcrumbs. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

Useful links:

• Wikipedia:Requested moves
• Category:Articles to be moved, for article renaming requests awaiting action.

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! Primefac (talk) 03:33, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Congrats. Welcome to the team. DBigXrayᗙ 15:16, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Picture of the day

For your information, I have created a banknote slot Template:POTD/2020-01-24 for Picture of the day for 24 January. There are nine notes in the series and I will create nine templates for them in the next day or two, similar to your coin series, and then you can do your magic and get them to rotate. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:32, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth, sure thing. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 12:38, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

I have now created nine templates, one at Template:POTD/2020-01-24 and the others at /2, /3 etc. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:16, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth, all done, I think. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 20:23, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I have studied the steps you took, and next time I will try to do it myself. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:37, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of American Heritage School (Florida)

Hello! Your submission of American Heritage School (Florida) 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 08:16, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

WP:JOBTITLES

My apologies - I thought that was still your firm current position. Won't do it again. The Drover's Wife (talk) 19:00, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Barnstar for you

		The Socratic Barnstar
		For good and thoughtful comments during a RM discussion. NickCT (talk) 02:57, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Hey bud, quick note to let you know I was impressed by the move discussion you raised here. It's sorta fascinating how controversial "Death of..." article title moves can be, even when the logic seems obvious. Perhaps all the controversy that surrounds these talks reflects the emotion that surrounds the subject of death and dying. Don't get discouraged if the RM doesn't work. Emotion often trumps reason over the short term. But in the end, the truth will out. NickCT (talk) 02:57, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

NickCT, I thank you for the kind words. These discussions are difficult but I believe they are important. It is crucial that we question our own preconceptions; objectivity and NPOV are paramount. I always ask myself, what would an alien species who speak perfect English but have no emotions give as the title of this subject? I like to say that we are all biased and we must actively fight that bias. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 06:24, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

January 2020

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Block of User:MikaelaArsenault on Terry Jones. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:22, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

February with Women in Red

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The WikiCup

Feature article reviews have been introduced to the WikiCup for the first time this year. There was some reluctance by the FAC community about permitting this as they did not want the quality of FAC reviews to be lowered. As a result we adopted this rule, mentioned on the WikiCup scoring page. "You must mention in your review that you are planning to claim WikiCup points for the review." So please add such a statement to your review of Donald Forrester Brown, and any other reviews of FACs in the future for which you wish to claim WikiCup points. Thanks.

On a completely different matter, I created Template:POTD/2020-02-07 today and wondered if the format was acceptable - have I got the title, texttitle and first sentence right? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:45, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth, where can we verify the claim "he shows its bleak aspect in November, with grey clouds overhead and the wheat long since harvested." --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 15:59, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

The November is documented, he painted the harvest in September and the rest is visual inspection of the picture. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:42, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

AnomieBOT II

AnomieBOT II creates pages such as Template:TFA title/February 2, 2020 by grabbing the first link it finds. Links in captions are bad, because AnomieBOT used to grab those. (Whether it's been improved in the meantime, I don't know.) - Dank (push to talk) 16:37, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Dank, since Template:TFA title/February 5, 2020 has already been created, I don't think there will be an issue. I will keep an eye on it. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 16:48, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

I don't know the answer to that. Thanks for keeping an eye on it. - Dank (push to talk) 17:26, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Peter Serkin

Sad that Peter Serkin died. I wouldn't mind ITN credit as long as he's on the Main page ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:38, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt, no problem. Please return the favor with Jim Lehrer. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 15:15, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Congrats to the Still POTD - sorry I missed adding sources, but it looks great! - Was busy all day expanding Nello Santi who couldn't fulfil his 2020 contract ... - could you support the itnnom? Made such a silly mistake ... --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:05, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Links in TFA blurb image captions

Good idea, just ... pick any other blurb, please. Hopefully I'll be back in the morning ... the power's out here in North Carolina and the water level is rising, literally. - Dank (push to talk) 03:47, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Dank, let's try it with Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 24, 2020. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 22:25, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Sure, not a problem. - Dank (push to talk) 22:31, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Dank, AnomiBOT had no difficulty creating Template:TFA title/March 12, 2020. I will double check when Template:TFA title/March 24, 2020 is created but there appears to be no false identification of the TFA title. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 09:44, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks much for testing ... the other TFA coords will want to know, so: @WP:TFA coordinators . It appears that the bots aren't confused now when you put a link in the caption. - Dank (push to talk) 14:13, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Dank, thanks Coffeeandcrumbs Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:01, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

AfD note

Howdy hello! I see you recently closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goatse.cx (6th nomination) as speedy keep. As a kind note, you should probably read WP:SK#NOT, which boils down to: a SNOW close is never a speedy close. CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 20:18, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

CaptainEek, sorry. I always forget that. Fixed. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 20:23, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Apollo 11 DYK set

Hi C&C, thanks for the thanks you gave me the other day ... I wondered at first why I'd been thanked for an edit from last July, but I see from the credits that you had a hand in all of the hooks that day. Good effort! Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 21:50, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Amakuru, yeah, I was going down memories lane and realized I never thanked you. It was a gutsy move and the final piece of the puzzle. The moment you loaded that queue was the moment a whole years work by a lot of people came to fruition. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 22:00, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

You're welcome, happy to have played a small part in it. I think it's really amazing when we celebrate the really major anniversaries like that with a bit of a showcase and I loved the way the main page looked that day.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:14, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Coffeeandcrumbs,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

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Discussions and Resources

• There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
• A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
• A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
• A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

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Rain

The sequence, from my reading, is creation, footnotes tag, blanking...original page slowly built up as each statement is individually cited back to the original list of references. Frankly I'm impressed that you went out of your way afterwards and put in such reading and work. Ceoil (talk) 20:17, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Ceoil, "We are here to serve." --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 20:26, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

haha. The one proverb, or whatever, from that list I can guarantee that wont be true on wiki is..."May your journey be free of incident". Anyway, to put on my Vulcan hat, live long; I wish you no specific harm or demise in the future. Ceoil (talk) 20:28, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks ...

for all your work on the blurb images. - Dank (push to talk) 04:30, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

NPPSCHOOL reminder

Hey, just wanted to remind you have some NPPSCHOOL questions waiting for you. You've done an excellent job so far, so unless you wanted to do additional practice on specific tasks I'm essentially ready to consider you to have graduated the course. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 22:52, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Elizabeth Willing Powel has begun

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Elizabeth Willing Powel 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 Legobot, on behalf of Ergo Sum -- Ergo Sum (talk) 15:01, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

ITN recognition for North East Delhi riots

On 26 February 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article North East Delhi riots, 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. --⋙–DBigXrayᗙ 10:46, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Would not have been possible without your helping hand to update this.--⋙–DBigXrayᗙ 10:46, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Date stamps in refs

Hi. I saw that you changed the dates in the references in Draft:Shahid Buttar from /yyyy-mm-dd/ to /dd month yyyy/, which is of course totally fine, but am I right in understanding that, according to MOS:Dateformat, you can also use yyyy-mm-dd as long as it's "Gregorian dates from 1583 onward"? I'm quite a newcomer to Wikipedia so sorry for asking stupid questions, but if you are actually allowed to use yyyy-mm-dd, how come you changed it? Not that it's a problem at all, I was just wondering. --LinguineFusilli (talk) 09:50, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

LinguineFusilli, I am sorry. I did not notice that was your preferred format. You are indeed correct. I have undone my change and made it consistent across the board. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 13:49, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Hey again. Thanks for clarifying! Again, your changes were absolutely fine and entitled, I was simply confused, being a newcomer to Wiki:) Also, thanks for all your help on Draft:Shahid Buttar in general, I hope that it might soon be approved. Cheers! --LinguineFusilli (talk) 15:04, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

LinguineFusilli, if I may offer some advise. You should completely avoid all primary sources until it is accepted. You should avoid any and all sources created or influenced by the subject or organizations he is directly associated. Only use secondary sources like newspapers and magazines even if that means you give an incomplete biography at this time. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 18:29, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Date of photo

Regarding your edit summary ("date of photo is irrelevant"), I just wanted to point out that in Christchurch, these things are relevant, as most buildings changed significantly (or even vanished) in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. But I accept that for the homepage, it's of less relevance. Schwede66 23:19, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Schwede66, usually, I think dates in captions on the Main Page are irrelevant unless the photo may mislead the reader to think the photo is taken in the period referenced in the hook. In this case, that seems very unlikely since it is a color photo. But I see what you mean about the earthquake. Is the house still standing? --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 23:25, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

@Schwede66:, self-reverted. I see it was damaged and renovated. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 23:29, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Elizabeth Willing Powel is on hold

The article Elizabeth Willing Powel you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Elizabeth Willing Powel for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ergo Sum -- Ergo Sum (talk) 04:41, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Elizabeth Willing Powel has passed

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WikiCup 2020 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
• Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
• Raymie was in third place with 419 points, garnered from one good article and an impressive 34 DYKs on radio and TV stations in the United States.
• Harrias came next at 414, with a featured article and three good articles, an English civil war battle specialist.
• CaptainEek was in fifth place with 405 points, mostly garnered from bringing Cactus wren to featured article status.
• The top ten contestants at the end of Round 1 all scored over 200 points; they also included L293D, Kingsif, Enwebb, Lee Vilenski and CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Seven of the top ten contestants in Round 1 are new to the WikiCup.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. 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.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup newsletter correction

There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Picture of the day

I have chosen a set of images to be the "Picture of the day" on 10 March. There are four images of the interior of St Augustine's, Kilburn in the set and I have created four templates, one at the regular place and three as /2, /3 and /4. Can you do your usual wizardry? With such a large backlog of featured pictured, I feel it is better to promote them in sets whenever that seems an appropriate solution. There's another set coming up on March 23rd, but I haven't yet created all the extra templates. Thanks. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:27, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

It's OK, I have managed to sort it out. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:56, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth, looks alright. I have always believed we should group images more often. Sorry I have been busy IRL. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 21:03, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

FP nom

Hi C&C, about this FP nom, I think his infobox image has a better chance. It is sharper and it has more pixels. Cheers. Bammesk (talk) 15:17, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Who Killed Malcolm X?.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:32, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

User page

Is there a specific reason you don't have a user page? Is that a style choice? Best, Flalf^Talk 18:41, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Flalf, many reasons. For one, history pages are easier to read. The alternating blue/red is easier to read for me. I also want to break the perception that blue linked editors are "good" and red link editors are "bad". --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 19:02, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

@Coffeeandcrumbs: Sounds good to me, was just curious. Flalf^Talk 12:06, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Picture of the day again

I have chosen a set of images to be the "Picture of the day" on 23 March. There are ten images of NASA space-flown Gemini medallions in the set and I created ten templates, one at the regular place and the rest as /4, /5, and /6 etc to coincide with the number of the Gemini flight. But then I really mucked up and when I moved the original template to /3, I suppressed the redirect but allowed renaming of the subpages, which resulted in my /4 becoming /3/4 etc. I'm really not very good on templates! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:06, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth, I will fix it up today. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 19:10, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth,  Done. You should avoid using custom numbering. Always use /1, /2, /3... because that is how the randomizer is designed to work. As always, thank you for doing this and I am always happy to help. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 22:05, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

OK, thanks for fixing it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:52, 16 March 2020 (UTC)