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- Thank you for your fast helpful response. I have a lot to learn including how to respond to friendly people! Ipigott Balance person ( talk) 08:48, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hello Ipigott,
- I hope you are well. I know it is a long time since you wished me happy editing ...since then I have done about 4 articles as I am a slow worker! But I have been working on another biography page. It is at User: Balance person/The Pinwill Sisters. I wonder if you or someone else from the Women in red project group might take a look and see if it is okay? The Pinwill Sisters have never been 'women in red' but they were pretty fantastic so I think they should be in Wikipedia. If the page is accepted, I will work on figuring out how to add some photos of their amazing work to the article. Balance person ( talk) 16:22, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
- Dear Ipigott, I hope you are doing fine. I have had a go at a new woman in red. Her name is Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly, a ceramicist this time. I wonder if you would have time to look at the draft and see what you think? It's not very long but it might be a possible? Balance person ( talk) 09:11, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
- Dear Ipigott, I hope you are doing fine. I have had a go at a new woman in red. Her name is Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly, a ceramicist this time. I wonder if you would have time to look at the draft and see what you think? It's not very long but it might be a possible? Balance person ( talk) 09:12, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
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- I have taken a woman in red name of Carol Van Strum from the wikipedia page The People vs Agent Orange and have drafted a biography page for her in my sandbox. I hesitate to ask you to look at it as I am very new to this and probably have made lots of errors. Plus I can see from all the mentions on your page that you are truly a wiki star! I have watched/read lots of advice too though. Any chance? Ipigott Balance person ( talk) 10:19, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
From your edit summary of your userpage, I gathered that you wanted your userbox to show properly, but were struggling to make it happen. I edited the page to fix this for you, since I thought that would be much easier than explaining it. Normally editors don't edit each other's userpages though, which is why I'm also mentioning here that I've done that. Feel free to undo those changes if you disapprove - it's your space. And welcome to wikipedia! -- asilvering ( asilvering) 01:30, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- asilvering asilvering It is really good of you to have helped me make my page look SO much better. Thank you very much! It is going to take me ages to learn all this. But I like learning! Balance person ( talk) 09:01, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Balance person
Following my comment at the Teahouse, I'm happy to walk you through the DYK process. I don't write many new articles but when I do I try to follow them up with a DYK as this drives literally thousands of readers on the day it hits the main page. The idea is that you choose an interesting fact from Carol Van Strum as a "hook" that people should find interesting. New articles have to be nominated within one week of being accepted. Looking at the current version, you could choose "DYK .... that Carol Van Strum is an environmental activist whose work led to the cancellation of all 2,4,5-T registrations by the EPA?" You could trigger the nomination by following the instructions at WP:DYKNOM and clicking on the "Nominate an article" button, filling what it asks for (you can preview the page to check you are doing it right). Alternatively, it is perfectly acceptable for me or anyone else to do the nomination but if we take that route we need to agree the "hook" you want to use. I'll look out for your reply here if you want to do that. asilvering ( talk 20:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- asilvering ( talk If you really wouldn't mind doing the nomination, that would be a great thing. I could learn about it vicariously as a start. It probably seems so easy and standard for someone with experience but I am learning absolutely everything at the moment from what a tilde is to why use how many colons!! I would be happy with the hook you suggested or else something like DYK that CVS is an environmental activist who kept 200,000 pages of documentation revealing corporate and government cover-ups in her barn. I would be happy to go with whatever your experience tells you would work. But if you feel this is an imposition on your time, please just say.
Balance person ( talk) 22:06, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
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asilvering (
talk Have I got into a muddle I wonder. Was it you who offered to help with DYK via the teahouse or was it someone called Michael D Turnbull? I do apologise if I have answered the wrong person
Balance person (
talk) 22:20, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- It was me (Mike Turnbull), as you could check by looking at the "View History" tab for this page. DYK can have multiple suggested hooks, so I'll now nominate using both suggestions. The reviewers who approve the hook actually used will discuss which they think is best.
Mike Turnbull (
talk) 22:27, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- Ah ha! Thank you! I expect we will get alerted if it is successful. Balance person ( talk) 22:37, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- The nomination is in and can be read on
Talk:Carol Van Strum, where there is a link to allow you to review or comment. As you'll already have that page on your watch list (I assume!) you'll be able to follow progress. Note that DYKs have very strict rules about sourcing. At present, I couldn't find a source that said "200,000 pages of documents", only one that said "more than 20,000 documents" (which could of course mean 200,000 actual pages). Hence I used that. 200,000 would be more impactful but you'll need to add a citation to the article itself that says exactly that before modifying its hook.
Mike Turnbull (
talk) 23:00, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- Incidentally, I put a citation needed template on the sentence that claims that phenoxy herbicides have a two-billion year half-life. That figure seems very unlikely and needs a reliable source! Make sure that such a source is for the herbicides themselves and not 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin. That number is IMO a gross exaggeration even for that worst of all impurities. Mike Turnbull ( talk) 23:24, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- It was me (Mike Turnbull), as you could check by looking at the "View History" tab for this page. DYK can have multiple suggested hooks, so I'll now nominate using both suggestions. The reviewers who approve the hook actually used will discuss which they think is best.
Mike Turnbull (
talk) 22:27, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
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asilvering (
talk Have I got into a muddle I wonder. Was it you who offered to help with DYK via the teahouse or was it someone called Michael D Turnbull? I do apologise if I have answered the wrong person
Balance person (
talk) 22:20, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for putting in the nomination and for your care in the matter of numbers. I think I have edited the page again to respond to that. I could not see any cn template so I may have missed being able to remove that. I will go back to doing minor edits on other people's pages now for a bit! Balance person ( talk) 09:31, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hi again. just a procedural note for your response to the DYK discussion. You replied on the Talk Page of the article at
Talk:Carol Van Strum but did so in a way that only put your comment on that page, not into the main thread (that lurks in the bowels of the DYK system). You need instead to hit the "review or comment" link just under the header of the section so that your response will go into the right place (or edit the page directly
here within a template). Note that you can suggest an updated hook, by calling it ALT2 and using the same format as ALT1. Sorry this is so complicated but appearing on the Main Page eventually is a big deal!
Mike Turnbull (
talk) 10:21, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks very much for your help, Mike. I knew I didn't know what I was doing! I will try to amend it now! Balance person ( talk) 13:54, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
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User:Ipigott (talk) Please forgive my getting in touch again but....I came across a woman's biography page that is not a woman in red but is a stub. I have done some work on the page and wonder if you or someone connected to the work on the gender gap in wikipedia might take a look at it. As you know, I am just beginning as an editor here so.... I may have upset the original maker of the page by changing so much. Then, I want to get rid of the reference to wordpress as I now understand it is not accepted as a reputable source. Not sure how to do that. Also I have no idea if I have put too many reading references in and also am not sure if I have managed to edit the original citations list properly either. In short, I may have made a pickle! I also have no idea if it is still a stub or not. If not, I have no idea how to change its status. Final question, should I have done this in my sandbox instead of on the page itself? I am assuming sandbox is for brand new drafts. Balance person ( talk) 11:04, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
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- Thanks,
Thriley, for bringing my attention to this. In the meantime,
Sylvia Ashton-Warner has progressed and
Balance person has gained more experience.--
Ipigott (
talk) 05:41, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hello Ipigott Thanks for alerting me to a message from Thriley which was about Sylvia Ashton-Warner. I am looking everywhere but can't find it. Have I done something wrong?
- ~~~ Balance person ( talk) 07:26, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Ah! I think I understand. Thriley found an old message from me to you (probably written in the wrong place) and you have let him know that things have progressed and all is okay?
- ~~~ Balance person ( talk) 07:35, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks,
Thriley, for bringing my attention to this. In the meantime,
Sylvia Ashton-Warner has progressed and
Balance person has gained more experience.--
Ipigott (
talk) 05:41, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
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On 11 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carol Van Strum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Carol Van Strum, an environmental activist who wrote the book A Bitter Fog, accumulated 20,000 documents across 40 years that revealed corporate and government cover-ups? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carol Van Strum. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Carol Van Strum), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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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Thank you for the important article, and for your patience on its way to the Main page. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:14, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Absolutely my pleasure, Gerda. Thanks for all your help to a beginner! ~~~
Balance person (
talk) 09:27, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Well done, Balance person, I hope this success will encourage you to develop other articles in the same way. Don't forget to check in a couple of days just how many people will have clicked through and read about CVR as a result of doing the DYK: you'll be amazed....
Mike Turnbull (
talk) 10:25, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Dear Mike, Thanks so much for educating me on the matter of DYK. I didn't even know it existed before you put CVS in for it! I am indeed much encouraged! ~~~ Balance person ( talk) 10:31, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Well done, Balance person, I hope this success will encourage you to develop other articles in the same way. Don't forget to check in a couple of days just how many people will have clicked through and read about CVR as a result of doing the DYK: you'll be amazed....
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I know you are busy in real life so this isn't a quick request or one I expect you could fulfill until you return but I am curious to read the conversation that was had on the Teahouse where the suggestion was made that Gerlin Bean was not notable. As a host on the Teahouse I like to follow up on questions to make sure I am giving out sound responses to questions and I'd like to review the conversation you had there as its obvious the subject is notable. We should always be trying to improve the way we interact with other editors and I find it a little concerning, though not unprecedented, that we missed one. I assure you there will be no finger pointing (I don't do that) and I won't even discuss it but I am curious for my own benefit and for education purposes. -- ARose Wolf 18:00, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hi there! Just a quicky before I really DO sign off! I had gone to the Teahouse to understand how I could find out if someone else was already working on a person I was interested in. I found out how to do that. And in the mix I was advised to check the notability criteria for the two people I was interested in before I started working on them. I thought that was good advice. And of the two it was suggested that GB might have more sources to reference. As a beginner with only one or two pages created so far, I took from that the understanding that, really, notability was the thing you needed to check first. And that there may be some doubts about having enough resources to produce a good page. I really don't think anybody was trying to put me off starting a page on GB or the other person I queried , but just to be sure before I did a lot of work that notability or sources were not a problem.
- I have no idea if this is possible but maybe you can access the archived transcript of the Teahouse chat somehow to see what was said. I am a beginner here so just trying to understand what is important and how to do things. Next time I have a query about a biography of a woman I will anyway go to Wiki red. But I went to the Teahouse cos I wanted to ask about how to find out if someone was already working on something. It was a more technical query.
- Thanks for your interest ARosewolf. I hope I have set your mind at rest that nobody is at fault. And if I have caused any problems I apologise. Now I really DO have to sign off and wish you, wherever you may, be a super June!
Balance person (
talk) 18:24, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- I took the liberty to find that discussion prior to writing here. I didn't see anyone directly telling you that the subject was not notable but I could see how that discussion could lead someone to think that was the way the needle was pointing but I wanted to confirm with you that was, in fact the discussion had. As a host, we try to visualize the impact of our responses on new editors before or as we are responding but I think we can take away some constructive thoughts to ponder here. I know I will. Sometimes in our responses we can overemphasize links to policy or guidelines and we don't immediately understand the gravity effect that can have on a new editor. Like you said, looking at it now, you can see that the commenter was not telling you that it was a waste of time to start an article on GB because she is not notable but there is truth in the way the comment made you feel, it's a legitimate feeling you had, borne out in your expression at User talk:SusunW/Gerlin Bean, and part of continually improving our interaction with others in the community is realizing these things and the way our words can affect the trajectory of new editors. I am glad, in this case, that you pushed on and didn't allow that to deter you to the point you gave up on the article. I am equally as glad that you found Susun. You caused no problem, in fact, this was extremely helpful. I wish you so much success in your adventures. Keep Singing! -- ARose Wolf 18:47, 3 June 2022 (UTC) --edited 18:49, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
I ran across this article for Rita Miljo while looking for a woman to expand for Women in Green's editathon this month. Obviously, she wasn't a climatologist, but there were numerous tags on it that I felt were easily rectifiable. In that regard, I've written it, but need someone to "Britishise" the text since she spent most of her life in South Africa. Would you be able to do that for me? SusunW ( talk) 17:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- I would be very happy to help. Is it the article that I reach by simply clicking on the blue Rita Miljo name in your Help? message above? And can you give me a day or two?
Balance person (
talk) 18:24, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- Yep, just press on the blue link above. And thank you so much. When you get around to it is fine. I just need to nominate it sometime in July. I genuinely appreciate the help!
SusunW (
talk) 18:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- Have had a go. I found very little to change so just made minor edits. Change them back of course if you would like to!
Balance person (
talk) 08:45, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. Always prefer to have someone look an article over before I nominate it, especially because people on here are really persnickety about BE/AE. Very much appreciate your time.
SusunW (
talk) 21:08, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
- My pleasure. Any time you want someone to look, just say. Balance person ( talk) 08:19, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. Always prefer to have someone look an article over before I nominate it, especially because people on here are really persnickety about BE/AE. Very much appreciate your time.
SusunW (
talk) 21:08, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
- Have had a go. I found very little to change so just made minor edits. Change them back of course if you would like to!
Balance person (
talk) 08:45, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
- Yep, just press on the blue link above. And thank you so much. When you get around to it is fine. I just need to nominate it sometime in July. I genuinely appreciate the help!
SusunW (
talk) 18:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
On 19 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gerlin Bean, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that activist Gerlin Bean co-founded the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in 1978, an event described as "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gerlin Bean. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Gerlin Bean), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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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- I see
Victuallers has been contributing to the article, adding great illustrations. Perhaps he can help you along with some of the queries raised in connection with the DYK. The process is not always easy to manage but I would prefer not to take part myself.--
Ipigott (
talk) 10:41, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
- I quite understand and I know you are busy enough! Thank you for the super help thus far. I think I have dealt with the DYK queries now both on the DYK nominations page and on Edward X talk page. If I have not done so correctly, I will certainly ask both Edwardx and Victuallers to help me out. Thanks for your concern and for the wise lead. Balance person ( talk) 10:46, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
On 1 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pinwill sisters, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the woodcarver Violet Pinwill of the Pinwill sisters was still working on a life-size figure of Saint Peter days before her death in 1957, aged 82? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pinwill sisters. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Pinwill sisters), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
— Maile ( talk) 12:03, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
- Oooh! Great! Thank you! Balance person ( talk) 12:16, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
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- Many thanks for all your work and comments. I will gradually get to them all! Thanks again.
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- Its looking a better and there is more substance there for the reader. scope_creep Talk 12:09, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
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On 19 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Patricia Davies (cryptographer), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Patricia Davies and Jean Argles, two sisters who signed the Official Secrets Act as World War II codebreakers, did not find out about each other's top-secret work until the 1960s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Patricia Davies (cryptographer). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Patricia Davies (cryptographer)), 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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- That is really great! And I am happy we have come to a satisfactory conclusion. Thanks for everything! Balance person ( talk) 11:45, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
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- Thank you for your fast helpful response. I have a lot to learn including how to respond to friendly people! Ipigott Balance person ( talk) 08:48, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
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- I hope you are well. I know it is a long time since you wished me happy editing ...since then I have done about 4 articles as I am a slow worker! But I have been working on another biography page. It is at User: Balance person/The Pinwill Sisters. I wonder if you or someone else from the Women in red project group might take a look and see if it is okay? The Pinwill Sisters have never been 'women in red' but they were pretty fantastic so I think they should be in Wikipedia. If the page is accepted, I will work on figuring out how to add some photos of their amazing work to the article. Balance person ( talk) 16:22, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
- Dear Ipigott, I hope you are doing fine. I have had a go at a new woman in red. Her name is Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly, a ceramicist this time. I wonder if you would have time to look at the draft and see what you think? It's not very long but it might be a possible? Balance person ( talk) 09:11, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
- Dear Ipigott, I hope you are doing fine. I have had a go at a new woman in red. Her name is Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly, a ceramicist this time. I wonder if you would have time to look at the draft and see what you think? It's not very long but it might be a possible? Balance person ( talk) 09:12, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
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- I have taken a woman in red name of Carol Van Strum from the wikipedia page The People vs Agent Orange and have drafted a biography page for her in my sandbox. I hesitate to ask you to look at it as I am very new to this and probably have made lots of errors. Plus I can see from all the mentions on your page that you are truly a wiki star! I have watched/read lots of advice too though. Any chance? Ipigott Balance person ( talk) 10:19, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
From your edit summary of your userpage, I gathered that you wanted your userbox to show properly, but were struggling to make it happen. I edited the page to fix this for you, since I thought that would be much easier than explaining it. Normally editors don't edit each other's userpages though, which is why I'm also mentioning here that I've done that. Feel free to undo those changes if you disapprove - it's your space. And welcome to wikipedia! -- asilvering ( asilvering) 01:30, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- asilvering asilvering It is really good of you to have helped me make my page look SO much better. Thank you very much! It is going to take me ages to learn all this. But I like learning! Balance person ( talk) 09:01, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Balance person
Following my comment at the Teahouse, I'm happy to walk you through the DYK process. I don't write many new articles but when I do I try to follow them up with a DYK as this drives literally thousands of readers on the day it hits the main page. The idea is that you choose an interesting fact from Carol Van Strum as a "hook" that people should find interesting. New articles have to be nominated within one week of being accepted. Looking at the current version, you could choose "DYK .... that Carol Van Strum is an environmental activist whose work led to the cancellation of all 2,4,5-T registrations by the EPA?" You could trigger the nomination by following the instructions at WP:DYKNOM and clicking on the "Nominate an article" button, filling what it asks for (you can preview the page to check you are doing it right). Alternatively, it is perfectly acceptable for me or anyone else to do the nomination but if we take that route we need to agree the "hook" you want to use. I'll look out for your reply here if you want to do that. asilvering ( talk 20:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- asilvering ( talk If you really wouldn't mind doing the nomination, that would be a great thing. I could learn about it vicariously as a start. It probably seems so easy and standard for someone with experience but I am learning absolutely everything at the moment from what a tilde is to why use how many colons!! I would be happy with the hook you suggested or else something like DYK that CVS is an environmental activist who kept 200,000 pages of documentation revealing corporate and government cover-ups in her barn. I would be happy to go with whatever your experience tells you would work. But if you feel this is an imposition on your time, please just say.
Balance person ( talk) 22:06, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
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asilvering (
talk Have I got into a muddle I wonder. Was it you who offered to help with DYK via the teahouse or was it someone called Michael D Turnbull? I do apologise if I have answered the wrong person
Balance person (
talk) 22:20, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- It was me (Mike Turnbull), as you could check by looking at the "View History" tab for this page. DYK can have multiple suggested hooks, so I'll now nominate using both suggestions. The reviewers who approve the hook actually used will discuss which they think is best.
Mike Turnbull (
talk) 22:27, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- Ah ha! Thank you! I expect we will get alerted if it is successful. Balance person ( talk) 22:37, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- The nomination is in and can be read on
Talk:Carol Van Strum, where there is a link to allow you to review or comment. As you'll already have that page on your watch list (I assume!) you'll be able to follow progress. Note that DYKs have very strict rules about sourcing. At present, I couldn't find a source that said "200,000 pages of documents", only one that said "more than 20,000 documents" (which could of course mean 200,000 actual pages). Hence I used that. 200,000 would be more impactful but you'll need to add a citation to the article itself that says exactly that before modifying its hook.
Mike Turnbull (
talk) 23:00, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- Incidentally, I put a citation needed template on the sentence that claims that phenoxy herbicides have a two-billion year half-life. That figure seems very unlikely and needs a reliable source! Make sure that such a source is for the herbicides themselves and not 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin. That number is IMO a gross exaggeration even for that worst of all impurities. Mike Turnbull ( talk) 23:24, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- It was me (Mike Turnbull), as you could check by looking at the "View History" tab for this page. DYK can have multiple suggested hooks, so I'll now nominate using both suggestions. The reviewers who approve the hook actually used will discuss which they think is best.
Mike Turnbull (
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asilvering (
talk Have I got into a muddle I wonder. Was it you who offered to help with DYK via the teahouse or was it someone called Michael D Turnbull? I do apologise if I have answered the wrong person
Balance person (
talk) 22:20, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for putting in the nomination and for your care in the matter of numbers. I think I have edited the page again to respond to that. I could not see any cn template so I may have missed being able to remove that. I will go back to doing minor edits on other people's pages now for a bit! Balance person ( talk) 09:31, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hi again. just a procedural note for your response to the DYK discussion. You replied on the Talk Page of the article at
Talk:Carol Van Strum but did so in a way that only put your comment on that page, not into the main thread (that lurks in the bowels of the DYK system). You need instead to hit the "review or comment" link just under the header of the section so that your response will go into the right place (or edit the page directly
here within a template). Note that you can suggest an updated hook, by calling it ALT2 and using the same format as ALT1. Sorry this is so complicated but appearing on the Main Page eventually is a big deal!
Mike Turnbull (
talk) 10:21, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks very much for your help, Mike. I knew I didn't know what I was doing! I will try to amend it now! Balance person ( talk) 13:54, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
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User:Ipigott (talk) Please forgive my getting in touch again but....I came across a woman's biography page that is not a woman in red but is a stub. I have done some work on the page and wonder if you or someone connected to the work on the gender gap in wikipedia might take a look at it. As you know, I am just beginning as an editor here so.... I may have upset the original maker of the page by changing so much. Then, I want to get rid of the reference to wordpress as I now understand it is not accepted as a reputable source. Not sure how to do that. Also I have no idea if I have put too many reading references in and also am not sure if I have managed to edit the original citations list properly either. In short, I may have made a pickle! I also have no idea if it is still a stub or not. If not, I have no idea how to change its status. Final question, should I have done this in my sandbox instead of on the page itself? I am assuming sandbox is for brand new drafts. Balance person ( talk) 11:04, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
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- Thanks,
Thriley, for bringing my attention to this. In the meantime,
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Balance person has gained more experience.--
Ipigott (
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- Hello Ipigott Thanks for alerting me to a message from Thriley which was about Sylvia Ashton-Warner. I am looking everywhere but can't find it. Have I done something wrong?
- ~~~ Balance person ( talk) 07:26, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Ah! I think I understand. Thriley found an old message from me to you (probably written in the wrong place) and you have let him know that things have progressed and all is okay?
- ~~~ Balance person ( talk) 07:35, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks,
Thriley, for bringing my attention to this. In the meantime,
Sylvia Ashton-Warner has progressed and
Balance person has gained more experience.--
Ipigott (
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On 11 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carol Van Strum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Carol Van Strum, an environmental activist who wrote the book A Bitter Fog, accumulated 20,000 documents across 40 years that revealed corporate and government cover-ups? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carol Van Strum. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Carol Van Strum), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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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- Absolutely my pleasure, Gerda. Thanks for all your help to a beginner! ~~~
Balance person (
talk) 09:27, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Well done, Balance person, I hope this success will encourage you to develop other articles in the same way. Don't forget to check in a couple of days just how many people will have clicked through and read about CVR as a result of doing the DYK: you'll be amazed....
Mike Turnbull (
talk) 10:25, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Dear Mike, Thanks so much for educating me on the matter of DYK. I didn't even know it existed before you put CVS in for it! I am indeed much encouraged! ~~~ Balance person ( talk) 10:31, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- Well done, Balance person, I hope this success will encourage you to develop other articles in the same way. Don't forget to check in a couple of days just how many people will have clicked through and read about CVR as a result of doing the DYK: you'll be amazed....
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I know you are busy in real life so this isn't a quick request or one I expect you could fulfill until you return but I am curious to read the conversation that was had on the Teahouse where the suggestion was made that Gerlin Bean was not notable. As a host on the Teahouse I like to follow up on questions to make sure I am giving out sound responses to questions and I'd like to review the conversation you had there as its obvious the subject is notable. We should always be trying to improve the way we interact with other editors and I find it a little concerning, though not unprecedented, that we missed one. I assure you there will be no finger pointing (I don't do that) and I won't even discuss it but I am curious for my own benefit and for education purposes. -- ARose Wolf 18:00, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hi there! Just a quicky before I really DO sign off! I had gone to the Teahouse to understand how I could find out if someone else was already working on a person I was interested in. I found out how to do that. And in the mix I was advised to check the notability criteria for the two people I was interested in before I started working on them. I thought that was good advice. And of the two it was suggested that GB might have more sources to reference. As a beginner with only one or two pages created so far, I took from that the understanding that, really, notability was the thing you needed to check first. And that there may be some doubts about having enough resources to produce a good page. I really don't think anybody was trying to put me off starting a page on GB or the other person I queried , but just to be sure before I did a lot of work that notability or sources were not a problem.
- I have no idea if this is possible but maybe you can access the archived transcript of the Teahouse chat somehow to see what was said. I am a beginner here so just trying to understand what is important and how to do things. Next time I have a query about a biography of a woman I will anyway go to Wiki red. But I went to the Teahouse cos I wanted to ask about how to find out if someone was already working on something. It was a more technical query.
- Thanks for your interest ARosewolf. I hope I have set your mind at rest that nobody is at fault. And if I have caused any problems I apologise. Now I really DO have to sign off and wish you, wherever you may, be a super June!
Balance person (
talk) 18:24, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- I took the liberty to find that discussion prior to writing here. I didn't see anyone directly telling you that the subject was not notable but I could see how that discussion could lead someone to think that was the way the needle was pointing but I wanted to confirm with you that was, in fact the discussion had. As a host, we try to visualize the impact of our responses on new editors before or as we are responding but I think we can take away some constructive thoughts to ponder here. I know I will. Sometimes in our responses we can overemphasize links to policy or guidelines and we don't immediately understand the gravity effect that can have on a new editor. Like you said, looking at it now, you can see that the commenter was not telling you that it was a waste of time to start an article on GB because she is not notable but there is truth in the way the comment made you feel, it's a legitimate feeling you had, borne out in your expression at User talk:SusunW/Gerlin Bean, and part of continually improving our interaction with others in the community is realizing these things and the way our words can affect the trajectory of new editors. I am glad, in this case, that you pushed on and didn't allow that to deter you to the point you gave up on the article. I am equally as glad that you found Susun. You caused no problem, in fact, this was extremely helpful. I wish you so much success in your adventures. Keep Singing! -- ARose Wolf 18:47, 3 June 2022 (UTC) --edited 18:49, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
I ran across this article for Rita Miljo while looking for a woman to expand for Women in Green's editathon this month. Obviously, she wasn't a climatologist, but there were numerous tags on it that I felt were easily rectifiable. In that regard, I've written it, but need someone to "Britishise" the text since she spent most of her life in South Africa. Would you be able to do that for me? SusunW ( talk) 17:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- I would be very happy to help. Is it the article that I reach by simply clicking on the blue Rita Miljo name in your Help? message above? And can you give me a day or two?
Balance person (
talk) 18:24, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- Yep, just press on the blue link above. And thank you so much. When you get around to it is fine. I just need to nominate it sometime in July. I genuinely appreciate the help!
SusunW (
talk) 18:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- Have had a go. I found very little to change so just made minor edits. Change them back of course if you would like to!
Balance person (
talk) 08:45, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. Always prefer to have someone look an article over before I nominate it, especially because people on here are really persnickety about BE/AE. Very much appreciate your time.
SusunW (
talk) 21:08, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
- My pleasure. Any time you want someone to look, just say. Balance person ( talk) 08:19, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you. Always prefer to have someone look an article over before I nominate it, especially because people on here are really persnickety about BE/AE. Very much appreciate your time.
SusunW (
talk) 21:08, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
- Have had a go. I found very little to change so just made minor edits. Change them back of course if you would like to!
Balance person (
talk) 08:45, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
- Yep, just press on the blue link above. And thank you so much. When you get around to it is fine. I just need to nominate it sometime in July. I genuinely appreciate the help!
SusunW (
talk) 18:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
On 19 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gerlin Bean, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that activist Gerlin Bean co-founded the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in 1978, an event described as "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gerlin Bean. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Gerlin Bean), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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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- I see
Victuallers has been contributing to the article, adding great illustrations. Perhaps he can help you along with some of the queries raised in connection with the DYK. The process is not always easy to manage but I would prefer not to take part myself.--
Ipigott (
talk) 10:41, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
- I quite understand and I know you are busy enough! Thank you for the super help thus far. I think I have dealt with the DYK queries now both on the DYK nominations page and on Edward X talk page. If I have not done so correctly, I will certainly ask both Edwardx and Victuallers to help me out. Thanks for your concern and for the wise lead. Balance person ( talk) 10:46, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
On 1 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pinwill sisters, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the woodcarver Violet Pinwill of the Pinwill sisters was still working on a life-size figure of Saint Peter days before her death in 1957, aged 82? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pinwill sisters. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Pinwill sisters), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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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- Oooh! Great! Thank you! Balance person ( talk) 12:16, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
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- Many thanks for all your work and comments. I will gradually get to them all! Thanks again.
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- Its looking a better and there is more substance there for the reader. scope_creep Talk 12:09, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
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On 19 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Patricia Davies (cryptographer), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Patricia Davies and Jean Argles, two sisters who signed the Official Secrets Act as World War II codebreakers, did not find out about each other's top-secret work until the 1960s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Patricia Davies (cryptographer). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Patricia Davies (cryptographer)), 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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- That is really great! And I am happy we have come to a satisfactory conclusion. Thanks for everything! Balance person ( talk) 11:45, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
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Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities to understand
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