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DYK nomination of Emelia Quinn

Hello! Your submission of Emelia Quinn 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) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Llewee (talk) 13:35, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Vegan scholars

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)

I think I'd support something like that. But there's an ambiguity; are we talking about 'scholars of vegan studies', 'scholars whose work addresses veganism' (which will include lots of critics of veganism!), 'Scholars who advocate veganism in their scholarly work' or 'scholars who happen to be vegan'? The last wouldn't be useful; the first would be potentially quite narrow (but may be a valuable subcategory of the larger category). But yes, broadly, I'm supportive. Josh Milburn (talk) 12:02, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
@Psychologist Guy: Sorry, forgot to ping you. Josh Milburn (talk) 12:03, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
You raise valid points. Having thought about for this a long time, I have created Scholars of veganism for academics and scholars who have written about veganism or vegan studies. Those in the category do not have to be vegan themselves, just written about the topic from an academic perspective. I noticed there is an issue with the category veganism activists [1] because some people on that list are not activists they have just written about the topic. I believe this category was needed for the separation for scholars and activists. This is now similar to how we have separate categories for animal rights or welfare scholars and the other for activists. Psychologist Guy (talk) 18:39, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
@Psychologist Guy: Great; no objection from me. I've added it to a few articles, and will try to remember to use it. Hopefully this will also be helpful in getting around the 'are they aren't they vegan' thing we've talked about before, as what matters is whether they write about veganism, not their own practices. Josh Milburn (talk) 19:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

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DYK for Emelia Quinn

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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Begotten

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)

@Paleface Jack: I'm not surprised that the nomination was archived, but full respect to you for remaining committed to getting the article where it needs to be. I'll aim to finish my review. If the sourcing issues are resolved, it might 'just' be a case of getting the writing up to scratch. I don't think Merhige's interview style should be too much of an issue. It's just about presenting the information we do have as clearly as possible. (Also, I'd love to see a FA on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!) Josh Milburn (talk) 11:38, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
I am notoriously stubborn as you can tell with the other FA nominations and me continuing to that. I do agree wording and presenting thew info is important, and it is more of a challenge considering how Merhige presents the information in interviews (I honestly would have loved more information on the costume/special effects in addition to some cast interviews but have never found anything on that sadly). I had my own ideas on certain issues with the article and how to fix them up.
In terms of getting The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to FA, I found a version of the article on the Russian Wikipiedia that is Featured status so I have been transfering that into a userspace draft while adding sources with updates to the citation style (Sadly the current state of the article on the English Wikipiedia is has a citation style that is all over the place). I also plan on getting back to my work on the Leatherface article so it eventually gets FA status though that would require collaboration and time. Paleface Jack (talk) 19:48, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

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Just a heads up

@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)

Sorry; no view on this. Josh Milburn (talk) 22:55, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

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Begotten: Costume Design

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: I confess that this is the first I've heard about it. What about the article do you think is inaccurate? Josh Milburn (talk) 22:28, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
@Psychologist Guy: I've lightly updated the article; I see you're right that the YouTube channel and Instagram page aren't using the 'Avant-Garde Vegan' title any more. But I don't know if we need to get into any 'is he vegan' questions. If some decent sources come up further down the line which discuss a move away from veganism, perhaps we could revisit? Josh Milburn (talk) 01:06, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
The article is accurate per sourcing but obviously not accurate per real life. We have to go by sourcing so we cannot insert WP:OR but I do believe in the future when we have referencing it should be updated. A wait and see approach is probably the best thing to do here. A lot of plant-based diet influencers are not vegan (I know some are but the majority are not). I created a plant-based template [2]. Gaz can probably be added to it in the future when we have more references since he has dropped veganism. I am in contact with a lot of vegans and they tell me Gaz has been consuming eggs for a long time.
Based on what I have seen Gaz Oakley has unfortunately received abuse from militant vegans on social media who have sent him a lot of harassment. If you check his video [3] it has nearly 4000 comments and a lot of abusive messages from vegans there, some of which are being removed. People have reached out to Gaz on social media and he has denied identifying as vegan. He doesn't use that term anymore and has changed to just using his name. Psychologist Guy (talk) 01:40, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
The only recent source on Gaz Oakley is a podcast intervieIw done about 2 months ago, it describes him as a plant-based chef and Gaz doesn't mention vegan throughout the entire interview [4], only "plant-based" is used. When there are more sources we can update the article. Psychologist Guy (talk) 01:57, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
@Psychologist Guy: Understood, but I fear I'm missing something. Again: What in the article do you think is inaccurate 'per real life'? Josh Milburn (talk) 02:18, 3 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)

Sorry I didn't realize you had updated the Gaz article and changed it to former. I agree the article is accurate for now. Hopefully we get more sourcing this year. Thanks for creating the Gregory Tague article, I will add some of his papers to other articles. A brave book I recently came across that was published is called the imperfect vegan by Cat White [5]. She unfortunately will not qualify for a Wikipedia article but if sources do develop I will create it in the future. Psychologist Guy (talk) 02:22, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

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Begotten & Beyond

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)

@Paleface Jack: I'm really sorry for the sluggish reply; I'll try to make some time to look at this properly over the weekend! Josh Milburn (talk) 09:35, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
No worries mate, you have a book to promote and other life things to keep you busy. Take your time. Paleface Jack (talk) 18:38, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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Karen Bradshaw

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)

@Psychologist Guy: I'm certainly not opposed to an article on animal property rights; when I created the redirect, Hadley was 'the' animal property rights guy. In addition to Karen Bradshaw, Hadley, and I, Connor Kianpour has a paper in Politics & Animals. There'll be other stuff out there. And yes, an article on Bradshaw would be excellent. A fun fact is that her book was included in 2022 Grammy gift bag. Josh Milburn (talk) 17:40, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
I will have a go at creating Bradshaw's article, but the article on animal property rights might need more of an expert such as yourself or the user throughthemind. It's hard to find older writers who have touched upon animal property rights. As you say Hadley seems to have been the main guy promoting it. Stephen St. C. Bostock touched upon it very briefly on the topic of zoos. There's a book I purchased called "Respecting Animals" by David S. Favre, he's pretty much against animal rights as he sits in the welfare camp but he came up with the idea of animal living property. He is a Professor of Law. I will probably create his article as well. Psychologist Guy (talk) 22:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
@Psychologist Guy: Yes, I'm aware of Favre's work, though I don't think he's really doing the same sort of thing. I think the 'trouble' with animal property rights is that there's oodles of work on animals as property (the property vs. personhood debate is very much entrenched in animal law); the novelty of the animal property rights approach is thinking of animals as owners of property. There's the occasional nod to it in older literature, but mostly (as far as I've seen) just acknowleding it as an interesting philosophical possibility. Josh Milburn (talk) 10:32, 19 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)

WikiCup 2024 March newsletter

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

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Women in Red April 2024

Women in Red | April 2024, Volume 10, Issue 4, Numbers 293, 294, 302, 303, 304


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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter

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.

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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.

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Women in Red May 2024

Women in Red | May 2024, Volume 10, Issue 5, Numbers 293, 294, 305, 306, 307


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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter

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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Deletion review for Ed Winters

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Ed Winters. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Gottagotospace (talk) 14:39, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red June 2024

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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WikiCup 2024 July newsletter

The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July 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 for a good article, featured content, or anything 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) 21:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red August 2024

Women in Red | July 2024, Volume 10, Issue 7, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 312, 313


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Women in Red August 2024

Women in Red | August 2024, Volume 10, Issue 8, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 313, 314, 315


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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 13 October 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 13, 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/October 2024. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. – SchroCat (talk) 14:07, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

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September 2024 at Women in Red

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WikiCup 2024 August newsletter

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September 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. 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 for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

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) 03:12, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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  • A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

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Women in Red October 2024

Women in Red | October 2024, Volume 10, Issue 10, Numbers 293, 294, 318, 319, 320


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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. plicit 14:56, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

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TFA

Thank you today for The Riddle of the Sphinx (Inside No. 9), introduced (in 2018): "This is a half-hour (very, very black) comedy about cryptic crosswords. I've never attempted a cryptic crossword, and I didn't find the episode particularly funny. Nonetheless, I think it might be my favourite ever episode of my favourite ever TV programme. It is brilliant, and I spot something new every time I rewatch it."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:43, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

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