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On 20 December 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Emelia Quinn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Emelia Quinn argues that "monstrous vegans" have recurred in literature since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Emelia Quinn. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Emelia Quinn), 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.
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Hello JM, just wanted to let you know that Begotten failed its FA nomination for the third time. Oddly the review seems archived too soon, but that is not the point. Just trying to figure out how to properly get this through cause prose seems to be the issue now. I find it difficult to do that considering Merhige is frustratingly cryptic in all his interviews, leaving out details that FA reviewers have commented on. If you have any suggestions as to how to get this article to finally pass and find a balance of prose I would appreciate it. I am currently alternating between this article and expanding the article on the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre film by pulling information from the Russian Featured Article version (into my separate userspace drafts as per usual). Anyways, I know you are busy and if you are unable to help I completely understand. Paleface Jack ( talk) 18:18, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
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@ J Milburn: afternoon. There is currently a vote going on at Talk:Lucy Letby#RFC on Lead sentence about whether to exclude calling her a serial killer. Because you've edited similar pages before I thought you may be interested in voting? 213.31.202.10 ( talk) 15:53, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello my friend, just wanted you to know I have been making more improvements to the article little by little. I found a credit that I found interesting, costumes for the film were designed by Celia Bryant who also worked in The Producers (1967), Shaft (1971), and Ganja & Hess (1973). The only source I have found so far that gives her this credit (apart from IMDb) is the film itself, so I am stumped on what to do. Anyways I will keep editing fine-tuning the prose till I deem it worthy of your fine eye. Paleface Jack ( talk) 03:40, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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Gaz has given up veganism. There was a big backlash in the vegan community on social media against him from vegans. He has deleted mention of "Avant-Garde Vegan" on all of his social media and changed accounts. I left some comments on the talk-page. The issue is that I doubt any WP:RS exist documenting this, unfortunately it means we will be left with an inaccurate article until we have good sources. You may know more about this issue. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 02:19, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
@ Psychologist Guy: On an unrelated note, I've just created an article for Gregory Tague, which may be worth adding to some navboxes. Also tagging Throughthemind, as you may be interested to learn about a couple of animal-y journals he founded that you may not have heard of. Josh Milburn ( talk) 17:14, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
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Just to let you know, next week I will create Karen Bradshaw's Wikipedia article. I noticed you mentioned her in one of your papers on animal property rights [6], I see you mention the work of John Hadley [7]
There isn't a Wikipedia article for animal property rights it redirects to Hadley. Do you think it is worth creating a small article on it? Psychologist Guy ( talk) 03:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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I was looking at the categories vegan activists, do you think it is worth me creating a category for vegan scholars? Or is it just easier to keep all under activists? Psychologist Guy ( talk) 21:37, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello JM, just wanted to let you know that Begotten failed its FA nomination for the third time. Oddly the review seems archived too soon, but that is not the point. Just trying to figure out how to properly get this through cause prose seems to be the issue now. I find it difficult to do that considering Merhige is frustratingly cryptic in all his interviews, leaving out details that FA reviewers have commented on. If you have any suggestions as to how to get this article to finally pass and find a balance of prose I would appreciate it. I am currently alternating between this article and expanding the article on the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre film by pulling information from the Russian Featured Article version (into my separate userspace drafts as per usual). Anyways, I know you are busy and if you are unable to help I completely understand. Paleface Jack ( talk) 18:18, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
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@ J Milburn: afternoon. There is currently a vote going on at Talk:Lucy Letby#RFC on Lead sentence about whether to exclude calling her a serial killer. Because you've edited similar pages before I thought you may be interested in voting? 213.31.202.10 ( talk) 15:53, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello my friend, just wanted you to know I have been making more improvements to the article little by little. I found a credit that I found interesting, costumes for the film were designed by Celia Bryant who also worked in The Producers (1967), Shaft (1971), and Ganja & Hess (1973). The only source I have found so far that gives her this credit (apart from IMDb) is the film itself, so I am stumped on what to do. Anyways I will keep editing fine-tuning the prose till I deem it worthy of your fine eye. Paleface Jack ( talk) 03:40, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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Gaz has given up veganism. There was a big backlash in the vegan community on social media against him from vegans. He has deleted mention of "Avant-Garde Vegan" on all of his social media and changed accounts. I left some comments on the talk-page. The issue is that I doubt any WP:RS exist documenting this, unfortunately it means we will be left with an inaccurate article until we have good sources. You may know more about this issue. Psychologist Guy ( talk) 02:19, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
@ Psychologist Guy: On an unrelated note, I've just created an article for Gregory Tague, which may be worth adding to some navboxes. Also tagging Throughthemind, as you may be interested to learn about a couple of animal-y journals he founded that you may not have heard of. Josh Milburn ( talk) 17:14, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hello my friend, just wanted to give you a heads up. A lot of edits have been going on at the Begotten article. I don't know if you have the time to review it in a private capacity to see if there are any issues I still need to work on. I am also trying to figure out how to correctly go about successful edits on any article ti get them to Featured Status without much issue. Any advice, since you are on the FA mentorship Prog? Paleface Jack ( talk) 20:26, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
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The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.
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John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges ( Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs), Epicgenius ( talk · contribs), and Frostly ( talk · contribs)) 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) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
Just to let you know, next week I will create Karen Bradshaw's Wikipedia article. I noticed you mentioned her in one of your papers on animal property rights [6], I see you mention the work of John Hadley [7]
There isn't a Wikipedia article for animal property rights it redirects to Hadley. Do you think it is worth creating a small article on it? Psychologist Guy ( talk) 03:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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Thank you today for Last Gasp (Inside No. 9), introduced (in 2015) as "the fourth episode of the first series of Inside No. 9, and is a free-standing, half-hour comedy about a terminally-ill little girl's birthday. Critics generally agreed that this was a weak episode of a strong series, but one journalist went so far as to describe it as "not funny ... not clever and ... so utterly, irredeemably, naffly silly that it ends up being incredibly irritating and nothing else". Personally, I thought it very funny, but without the depth/originality which characterised the other episodes of the series (it also stars a number of faces which will be familiar to fans of British television)." -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:56, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
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:
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to
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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
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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)
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On 12 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chris Armstrong (political theorist), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the British political theorist Chris Armstrong has called for a "blue new deal" to secure ecological resilience for the ocean and a just blue economy? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chris Armstrong (political theorist). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Chris Armstrong (political theorist)), 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.
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The April issue of the lichen task force newsletter is available here. Delivered by MeegsC ( talk) 21:14, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
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We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Our current top scorers are as follows:
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges ( Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs), Epicgenius ( talk · contribs), and Frostly ( talk · contribs)) 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) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.
The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). 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 would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges ( Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs), Epicgenius ( talk · contribs), and Frostly ( talk · contribs)) 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) 13:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
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