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:User Eddie891 is a stalwart of Wikipedia. In four years of activity he has achieved; 17 GA's, 2 unusually difficult and thorough FAs, and 85 GAN's reviewed...all typical of how they have selflessly contributed so much to the project. A meticulous but flexible reviewer at higher levels. (A difficult trick to pull off.) Somehow they squeeze in a stack of Wikignoming, most of which I suspect no one notices and which Eddie makes no effort to publicise. For example, each month ''The Signpost'' publishes a list of all Featured Articles, Featured Lists and Featured Topics; each with a 100-200 word description. (Think about that for a moment - it is a ''lot'' of work.) That's Eddie. He gets that done...on time! Along the way Eddie has become an administrator, where they specialise in page deletion; a necessary, but time consuming and oft contentious area. Did I mention their contributions to Women in Red? Space does not allow me to do them justice. And how can you not like someone who quotes Walt Whitman on their user page? |
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Fabian Ware scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that Fabian Ware has been scheduled as WP:TFA for 11 November 2020. Please check that the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 11, 2020. Thanks! Ealdgyth (talk) 14:22, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you today for the article, introduced: "Fabian Ware was fascinating. He went through three careers, first as a high level colonial educator, then editor of The Morning Post and finally as the founder and de facto CEO of the Imperial War Graves Commission. Gibson & Ward (1989) write that "There are many human beings who have made their mark in history, but none other has left such a profound and lasting memorial to mankind's sacrifice on behalf of democracy as has this remarkable Englishman"."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:58, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, Gerda! Eddie891 Talk Work 12:12, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
- look for bright memories --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for article work in November! Look today at BB music, a little crusade of mine ;) - his birthday on St Cecilia's day, patron saint of music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:54, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
Featured lists in the Signpost featured content report
Think next month we should try to link image to list a bit more explicitly. It's a little hard to figure out which list some of them go to, especially as they're not in the same order. We should have more time next month, at least, I'd hope (should we push back the cutoff to November 10th or so, to give more lead time? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 19:38, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
- Whatever works for you, Adam. Agreed about the images, I'll try to have them captioned before the day before publication so I have time to think about it. Let me know what works best and I'll try to keep up. Cheers, Eddie891 Talk Work 19:43, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
- I've started it up to the end of October. I think if we try to get it done as early as possible, we have time to rearrange things until it makes the most sense. For example, we could probably have rearranged featured articles to put a more regular number of articles without images after each one with an image (determined by whether we had a good image for that article; always going to be some with much less relevant images), and the same can be done in featured lists if few enough have an image. But polish takes time.Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 21:36, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
- Just to warn, if you want to join in, you might want to do so soon. I've been racing through the report. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 07:02, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
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Non-war deaths marked by CWGC gravestones
I just left a note on the Fabian Ware talk page (thanks for moving what I said here to there). It was only a brief holding reply to what you said there. I am popping back here because I have just realised that Fabian Ware is an example of a non-war death marked by a CWGC gravestone or other memorial (or in some cases burial in a CWGC cemetery). There are two other instances I am aware of. The first I only found recently: Claude Auchinleck (Second World War, Indian Army) who is buried in Ben M'Sik European Cemetery. I wasn't sure if his gravestone was a CWGC design, but from the pictures here it looks like it is. And the epitaph is, would you believe it, a quote from Chaucer! "He never yet no vileinye ne sayde [...] He was a verray parfit gentil knight". Or maybe that quote is one used more often on gravestones than I was aware of. Frustratingly, I can't find a source to add it to the article! The second example is actually only the scattering of ashes, see this plaque. I am going to have to see if there are other examples now! Carcharoth (talk) 04:46, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
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October 2020 GAN Backlog drive
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Since you have not given one to yourself, I hope this is not out of line for a participant. Also, thank you for coordinating the drive! — The Most Comfortable Chair 16:42, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
New, simpler RfC to define trust levels for WikiLoop DoubleCheck
HI Eddie891,
I'm writing to let you know we have simplified the RfC on trust levels for the tool WikiLoop DoubleCheck. Please join and share your thoughts about this feature! We made this change after hearing users' comments on the first RfC being too complicated. I hope that you can participate this time around, giving your feedback on this new feature for WikiLoop DoubleCheck users.
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Eddie891, good work closing WP:Articles for deletion/Somaya Ramadan. Have a cup of coffee on me 
. JGHowes talk 19:14, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, JGHowes! Glad to hear I'm getting some things right
! Thanks for all the work you do, particularly that cup of coffee. Cheers, Eddie891 Talk Work 22:43, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
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Deletion of Equistone Partners Europe page on 7 October 2020 (UTC)
Eddie891, as the user responsible for deleting the "Equistone Partners Europe" article, I am getting in touch to request that you recreate the article. I wish to declare that I am an Equistone employee. I believe the company should be on Wikipedia as it is a significant private equity firm that invests hundreds of millions of euros annually in mid-market companies in the UK and Continental Europe. Its investments and divestments are frequenly report in the media and its senor executives are regular participants in conferences and other financial services events. According to Private Equity International, a leading media outlet covering the private equity industry globally, Equistone ranks in the top 300 largest private equity firms by capital. There is a lot of information on the company which can be sourced from reliable sources. As a starting point, please note that there is already a German language page for "Equistone Partners Europe", Titled Equistone. This page briefly but accurately gives an overview of the company, using reliable sources as references, there is also a WikiCorporate page about the company, titled "Equistone LLP". This page also references reliable sources with information about Equistone Partners Europe. In addition, Equistone Partners Europe is referenced on the list of "private equity firms" Wikipedia article. The first is also referenced in the following Wikipedia articles about the businesses that Equistone previously owned: AstroTurf, Audley Travel, The Mill, Global Blue, Novares Group, Long Tall Sally, Spectris, Travel Counsellors, Allied Glass, Easynet, Coventya, Albingia.
There is plenty of significant coverage from reliable sources with in-depth information on Equistone Partners Europe, meaning the article on the company will not fail WP:GNG due to lack of WP:SIGCOV. Therefore, I kindly request that you reconsider recreating the Equistone Partners Europe page.
I am happy to share more information on the companies Equistone has invested in if that is helpful as well as external links to references? Please do let me know if you have any concerns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BarbaraHand
- Hi, Barbara. I'm afraid that I won't be restoring this directly to the mainspace, as it was deleted after a deletion discussion, where the consensus was that it does not meet our general notability guideline or the specific guideline for corporations. I'm willing to consider giving my informal permission to recreate the article through articles for creation as a draft, where it can be reviewed before being moved into the mainspace. While you don't need my permission, it is really the best way to go about things. For your first step, I'd appreciate seeing what reliable sources provide significant coverage of the company, establishing notability. Then I'll be able to better advise you on how to move forward. However, you need to be sure that at all times you follow our guidelines (carefully) about managing conflicts of interest (see also: the plain and simple conflict of interest guide, WP:DISCLOSE and WP:PAID (if you are being paid as an employee)) and also keep in mind that as a directly connected contributor, you probably aren't the best person to write this article. Thanks, Eddie891 Talk Work 23:46, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
December with Women in Red
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A Barnstar for you!
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| Thank you for tackling the redlinks in List of memoirs by First Ladies of the United States. With your contributions, the redlinks has almost been reduced by half! Keep up the great work :) MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:21, 27 November 2020 (UTC) |
- Thank you very much, MrLinkinPark333! It's turned into a pretty rewarding project. Eddie891 Talk Work 13:12, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
DYK nomination of This I Remember
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DYK for O Captain! My Captain!
On 29 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article O Captain! My Captain!, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that although "O Captain! My Captain!", written on the death of Abraham Lincoln, was one of Walt Whitman's most popular poems, he grew to be "almost sorry" he wrote it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/O Captain! My Captain!. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, O Captain! My Captain!), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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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Jakiw Palij
Greetings. Why do you believe that the criterion for "referencing and citation" for the article Jakiw Palij is not met? No part of the text is unsupported by references and citations. -The Gnome (talk) 23:02, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
- Hi, The Gnome, the article currently cites Bild, which per WP:RSP is not a reliable source. Cheers, Eddie891 Talk Work 23:05, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Pacific Salmon War
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Not sure if this is out-of-process or not, but ...
Could you handle my WP:RFPP request for Landis's Missouri Battery? It's on the main page, it's getting vandalized the heck out of it, and rfpp is getting backlogged. I'm at work today, do I can't really effectively monitor it myself. Hog Farm Bacon 21:09, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
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Four Awards
Hi Eddie891, I couldn't help but notice that you passed all the pending Four Award nominations apart from mine and wondered whether this was because there is some sort of problem with it. Best regards --Ykraps (talk) 18:58, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
- Ykraps: no, nothing wrong with it, I just didn't get around to it on that sweep-- processing four awards takes an absurd amount of time (at least for me). There are silly rules about articles created from redirects and how you have to write the first encyclopedic content on the topic that are kinda complicated, which is why I didn't review yours of the open nominations. Sorry about that, and I hope it's not too upsetting. So I'm not aware of any problems with yours. Do feel free to reach out to one of the reviewers listed here if you want a prompt review, otherwise I (or someone else) will be sure to get it on the next pass through. Cheers, Eddie891 Talk Work 20:38, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello
You reverted my edit adding of an external links section and some templates; I put the section in, as it was my understanding templates should go in an external links section; and I put the templates in because I was adding the page to them. Which I have now done. Do you object to my replacing the section? Xyl 54 (talk) 23:28, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
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In appreciation
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- Thanks, Gog! It's nice to hear that my reviews don't go entirely to waste (sometimes I imagine collective groans when I embark to review someone's article :P) I've only recently decided I'm competent to semi-regularly review content at a level higher than GA, so you should be seeing more of me around the FA-sphere. Hope all is well with you — stay safe and healthy and enjoy whatever holidays you may celebrate (no matter how strange the news may get!). All the best, Eddie891 Talk Work 21:15, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- Eddie891, the mind boggles! Your reviews are good Eddie. More of them at FAC would be most welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:18, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, Gog! It's nice to hear that my reviews don't go entirely to waste (sometimes I imagine collective groans when I embark to review someone's article :P) I've only recently decided I'm competent to semi-regularly review content at a level higher than GA, so you should be seeing more of me around the FA-sphere. Hope all is well with you — stay safe and healthy and enjoy whatever holidays you may celebrate (no matter how strange the news may get!). All the best, Eddie891 Talk Work 21:15, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject Newcomer and Historian of the Year awards now open
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New Page Patrol December Newsletter
Hello Eddie891,
- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
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| 1 | DannyS712 bot III (talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Rosguill (talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | John B123 (talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
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- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
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18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Recollections of Full Years
On 12 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Recollections of Full Years, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Recollections of Full Years by Helen Taft was the first memoir published by a first lady of the United States? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Recollections of Full Years. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Recollections of Full Years), and it may be added to the statistics page if it received over 400 views per hour. 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.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Editor of the Week
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| Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your high level of difficult editing. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project) |
User:Gog the Mild submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
- User Eddie891 is a stalwart of Wikipedia. In four years of activity he has achieved; 17 GA's, 2 unusually difficult and thorough FAs, and 85 GAN's reviewed...all typical of how they have selflessly contributed so much to the project. A meticulous but flexible reviewer at higher levels. (A difficult trick to pull off.) Somehow they squeeze in a stack of Wikignoming, most of which I suspect no one notices and which Eddie makes no effort to publicise. For example, each month The Signpost publishes a list of all Featured Articles, Featured Lists and Featured Topics; each with a 100-200 word description. (Think about that for a moment - it is a lot of work.) That's Eddie. He gets that done...on time! Along the way Eddie has become an administrator, where they specialise in page deletion; a necessary, but time consuming and oft contentious area. Did I mention their contributions to Women in Red? Space does not allow me to do them justice. And how can you not like someone who quotes Walt Whitman on their user page?
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Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 17:22, 12 December 2020 (UTC)