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September 2021 at Women in Red
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Bkissin (talk) 20:24, 8 September 2021 (UTC)Mir/Japan side tour
Since your Userpage mentions Wikiproject Japan, I thought you might be interested in looking into the East Asia travels of Mir Yeshiva (Brooklyn) during the World War II years. Thanks for your push re improving Flatbush Jewish Journal. Pi314m (talk) 15:55, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
@Pi314m: thanks for the tip, I'll check it out! Kazamzam (talk) 16:14, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
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Bada Kaji (talk • श्रीमान् गम्भीर) 10:28, 18 September 2021 (UTC)Your submission at Articles for creation: Antonia Lloyd-Jones has been accepted
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scope_creepTalk 21:29, 20 September 2021 (UTC)October 2021 at Women in Red
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The Living love talk 12:09, 2 October 2021 (UTC)AfC notification: Draft:Sora Kim-Russell has a new comment
Hello, Kazamzam (talk) I have removed the content which was copied. Please let me know if there is any other mistake.Allenweiber (talk) 14:35, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Kazamzam (talk) Sir, I have removed: (https://kitschmix.com/first-woman-come-publicly-egypt-faces-death-threats-says-no-regrets/). Let me know please how to fix so the notice can be removed. Thank You.Allenweiber (talk) 17:44, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
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Greenman (talk) 12:04, 13 October 2021 (UTC)November 2021 at Women in Red
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December 2021 at Women in Red
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a barnstar for you!
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Women in Red Women in Oceania contest |
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January 2022 with Women in Red
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February with Women in Red
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Wikipedia Asian Month 2021 Postcard
Dear Participants,
Congratulations!
It's Wikipedia Asian Month's honor to have you all participated in Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, the seventh Wikipedia Asian Month. Your achievements were fabulous, and all the articles you created make the world can know more about Asia in different languages! Here we, the Wikipedia Asian Month International team, would like to say thank you for your contribution also cheer for you that you are eligible for the postcard of Wikipedia Asian Month 2021. Please kindly fill the form, let the postcard can send to you asap!
- This form will be closed at March 15.
Cheers!
Thank you and best regards,
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Your draft article, Draft:Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO)
Hello, Kazamzam. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology".
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 22:47, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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| You are making great progress on Category:Articles lacking sources from December 2006! Keep it up Meanderingbartender (talk) 17:36, 16 March 2022 (UTC) |
April Editathons from Women in Red
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Concern regarding Draft:Alison Strayer
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:35, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Mitja Čander
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 16:26, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Alison Strayer
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 20:35, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
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Your draft article, Draft:Ina Rousseau
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 15:47, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
May Women in Red events
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Ref barnstar
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June 2022
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.– The Grid (talk) 01:52, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
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Unreferenced article project
Hi Kazamzam,
You left an invite to the unreferenced article project on my page, thanks. How can I help? Chagropango (talk) 05:59, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @Chagropango:! Thanks so much for responding! Basically the URA is trying to get through the backlog of completely unreferenced articles that dates back to February 2007, roughly 141,500 articles. The backlog is divided into categories by month (February 2007, March 2007, and so on) that were categorized by a bot with the date they were tagged as unreferenced. The bot also tagged +100,000 articles in December 2009 so that category is HUGE - you can definitely find a topic you are interested in to cite to your heart's content.
- The project page has a how-to guide for finding sources and the format for including them in an article so I won't bore you by repeating all that. I will stress that it's imperative that our citations be relevant, reliable, and verifiable, almost more so than other editors, because poor sources attached to this project undermine our credibility. Google Scholar/Books and JSTOR are definitely your friends and if you are ever having trouble finding sources, feel free to ask me as I have some extra library accesses through my own connections.
- The other big thing is to be sure to remove the unreferenced tag, for tracking purposes, and I use this edit summary to drum up awareness for the project: "Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles; you can help!". I like to put at least 2, ideally 3+, references on a given article. If you are unable to find more, the 'more citations' tag is helpful. Also some of these older articles don't have any WikiProject linked to their talk page so adding those, based on subject/area/other criteria, can be a good way to alert the relevant people that it is in need of rescue.
- If you're still interested, we'd be very happy to have you! Best, Kazamzam (talk) 13:57, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
- Wow, that is a lot. I'm not sure how much I could help, but I could definitely do some.
- So all I would need to do is go to the unreferenced article category and select a page? Chagropango (talk) 07:05, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Chagropango, pretty much! Any article tagged as unreferenced falls under our purview. The main concern is having high quality sources but if you have something good, let it rip. Kazamzam (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Alright, thanks. What do you mean by "something good" though? I would think if a source is not high quality it would not be good. Chagropango (talk) 15:06, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Oh also I just saw on your page you have a translation contest for women's biographies, is it too late to get in on that? Chagropango (talk) 15:08, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Chagropango the translation contest is open, go for it!
- As for reliable sources, this is a great how-to guide with information on Wikipedia's reliable source policy. Basically making sure we're not getting info from uncited Wordpress/Blogspot blogs that are full of personal opinions and no facts. So the New York Times, Cochrane reviews, JAMA, the Lancet, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, etc. would all be considered reliable sources. The other big thing is to make sure that we're not citing sources that are citing Wikipedia as their source. There is also the Wikipedia Reference Search which is a modified version of Google that only returns results from sites (some) editors consider generally reliable. Does that make sense? Kazamzam (talk) 15:33, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, got it. Chagropango (talk) 15:46, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Chagropango, pretty much! Any article tagged as unreferenced falls under our purview. The main concern is having high quality sources but if you have something good, let it rip. Kazamzam (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Please look at the AfD
Hi. Apart from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muthurua Farm please look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Makere ya Gwano also. The user MIDI is really tricky as I found this. Regards - Signed by NeverTry4Me Talk 03:07, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Help request
@Kazamzam: can you please help me with the Draft:Sajid Mir and Draft:G Bidai. Notability is widely established and I am confident of NOTABILITY. Regards - Signed by NeverTry4Me Talk 07:06, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @NeverTry4Me - I will try to get to these but I'm working on the Kenya stubs so I'm not sure I can. My suggestions would be to polish the language more so than the references, i.e. removing terms like 'a.k.a.', cleaning up some grammar points, etc. I'm not an AfC reviewer but I think these probably meet notability criteria so just try to be patient! It will happen! Kazamzam (talk) 14:06, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
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Edit
Why did you revert an edit I was stil working one and uploading more images? SULNOUR (talk) 18:22, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
- Because the photo you tried to upload did not actually appear as an imagine on the page, just a box of dead pixels. Try uploading it to Wikimedia and then using the visual editor to add it to the page. Kazamzam (talk) 18:26, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
The Warriors 2
No objection to your PROD on this album, but just for info, and in reference to the question you posed in your PROD summary... the answer is yes: https://www.discogs.com/release/13622775-Black-Presenta-The-Warriors. Richard3120 (talk) 15:52, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red August 2022
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Please look at the AfD
@Kazamzam: please look at these AfD too Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D. B. S. Jeyaraj, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aashir Wajahat, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wajahat Rauf, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shazia Wajahat (2nd nomination) also. - Signed by NeverTry4Me Talk 03:41, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
DYK for Wagner Natural Area
On 31 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wagner Natural Area, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that half a square mile (130 ha) in Alberta contains an estimated 6,000 arthropod species and is one of the most biodiverse areas in the province for its size? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wagner Natural Area. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Wagner Natural Area), 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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Unreferenced article
Hi, in this edit you added a reference to "Edmundson 1911" but did not define the reference. This makes the article appear in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors, and means it is impossible for anyone to look the reference up. If you could fix this that would be great. DuncanHill (talk) 22:05, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
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October lichen task force newsletter
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As a subset of WP:FUNGI, the lichen task force is working to improve coverage of the world's lichens – unique organisms composed of one or more fungal partners with one or more photosynthetic partners. A growing body of evidence suggests that some of the roughly 1000 secondary metabolites produced by various lichens may prove instrumental in our ongoing battle against harmful pathogens. Want to learn more? Join us! |
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Buryatia
Buryatia's men are exterminated by Russia. If it is not history, it may be politics, demography and many others. Why don't you cooperate but impose your opinions. There is the Talk:Buryatia page to discuss. Xx236 (talk) 06:17, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
• You are the one imposing your opinions. None of the people on the talk page have agreed with the edits you are making, some of which have been reverted. My edits are directly relevant as part of the imperial and Soviet history of Buryatia. Comments about the effects of the war on the Buryat people would like be better on Buryats. Alternatively, make a separate page of, for example, Buryats in the Russo-Ukrainian War. There is a lot of information that needs to be collected and sorted, but it does not belong in the history of the Republic of Buryatia section. Do not attempt to scold me about this again. Kazamzam (talk) 11:54, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
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As a subset of WP:FUNGI, the lichen task force is working to improve coverage of the world's lichens – unique organisms composed of one or more fungal partners with one or more photosynthetic partners. A growing body of evidence suggests that some of the roughly 1000 secondary metabolites produced by various lichens may prove instrumental in our ongoing battle against harmful pathogens. Want to learn more? Join us! |
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Buryatia
Buryatia's men are exterminated by Russia. If it is not history, it may be politics, demography and many others. Why don't you cooperate but impose your opinions. There is the Talk:Buryatia page to discuss. Xx236 (talk) 06:17, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
• You are the one imposing your opinions. None of the people on the talk page have agreed with the edits you are making, some of which have been reverted. My edits are directly relevant as part of the imperial and Soviet history of Buryatia. Comments about the effects of the war on the Buryat people would like be better on Buryats. Alternatively, make a separate page of, for example, Buryats in the Russo-Ukrainian War. There is a lot of information that needs to be collected and sorted, but it does not belong in the history of the Republic of Buryatia section. Do not attempt to scold me about this again. Kazamzam (talk) 11:54, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
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Happy holidays! Regardless of which holidays you choose to celebrate, here's hoping they're enjoyable. As we reach the end of our first six months, we can be proud of the progress we've made to date – particularly considering the tiny size of our task force. We now have more than 4,100 articles, categories, templates and redirects under our watch. We've created a sizeable glossary (with more entries being added every day), whittled down the project's cleanup listing, and added biographies about a number of prominent lichenologists. To date, we have one Featured Article and 23 Good Articles. Clearly, there's plenty more to do, but we're off to a solid start. Here's to a productive new year! |
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A sentence in our Cladonia squamosa article was challenged back in 2014(!!) when a reader discovered that the supplied source did not corroborate the information. The editor who finds a valid source for the sentence (or corrects the information as necessary) and, in addition, replaces any redlinks with appropriate links to our new glossary of lichen terms will get public kudos in the next newsletter. | |
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- Hey @Meegs:! Hope you are doing well. Can you confirm the note about the Cladonia squamosa article - the article wasn't created until 2021 so I'm a little confused how anything could have been challenged in 2014. Nevertheless I did update the location with improve sources so a plus all around. Kazamzam (talk) 21:14, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
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Happy new year! We head into 2023 with plenty of work to do. We're missing articles on a handful of lichen families, scores of lichen genera and thousands of lichen species. Dozens of important lichenologists are "missing" too. We need to check or update the taxonomy of hundreds of existing taxa articles. Many articles about basic lichen structures and functions are either tiny stubs or badly in need of referencing or updating. There's certainly enough to keep us busy for a good long while! Here's to a productive year ahead. |
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list of Asteraceae genera
Thank you! I'm not done yet (in the S-es, going backwards), but I'm getting there! :) Thank you for noticing. It will still need citations until I get finished, and I'm up in the air about keeping the common names that are already in there. Cited some of them, and if they are kept, will have to cite the rest. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 03:34, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Translation tool - not so slick, or is it me?
Dear Kazamzam! Thanks so much for your helpful intervention on the page I started, Jewish Association for Protection of Girls and Women. Using the translation tool in he:en presumably will handle the reference citations (of which there are many in English!) and images, but numerous chaotic attempts failed to produce the desired results while I concentrated on producing chunks of text and section headings. Admittedly I only glanced over the tool's FAQ and relied on my general skill set. The "Under construction" template you added is the one I sought and hadn't found, so I'll add it to my tool kit for future use. Much appreciated! Cheers -- Deborahjay (talk) 14:42, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
- Oh, the translation tool is awful. You're doing great, just keep going. You can translate some of the Hebrew references and add it to the en-page if you want to incorporate that into the citation but strictly speaking using non-English language references without translation is fine (if a little frustrating to readers). Happy to help if you need a hand! @Gilabrand and @Gidonb recently helped out with rescuing Yoel Drubin and might have more experience navigating Hebrew sources than me and might be good resources if you get stuck in the future. All the best! - Kazamzam (talk) 15:02, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
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Question about Template - Backlog progress bar
While working on Category:Articles lacking sources from August 2007 I saw your progress update (09:36, 4 September 2023). Question: how to find number for "Initial"? Before asking here, I did read the template docs and searched at WP:VPT, without finding an answer. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 23:11, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi! There's two answers to the this question. If you check out the edit history, you'll see that most of those categories, including August 2007, didn't have a progress bar before I started on them back in July 2022. That's not the "initial" number as in the number of articles ever tagged as unreferenced in August 2007 but it's the number the tracking began at.
- The better answer, and probably the one I should have used but didn't know about when I made it, is the historical count data from here that was scraped from Wayback Machine captures by @Altamel. That tracking started in August 2009, so it's also not totally accurate. However because they are much earlier, numbers are closer to the true number that each category started with and much larger than what we had in July 2022 (August 2007 was 3061, for example). Really shows how much progress has been made even though there's so much left. Let me know if you have any other questions or would like any help. Best, Kazamzam (talk) 23:38, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
- Indeed, and I am very pleased to see that somebody has found my tracking to be useful. The WayBack Machine captures only have useable data as far back as August 2009. I have been updating the numbers on February 11 of each year for the past nine years, so that, even though the initial counts have been lost to the sands of time, we still have a pretty accurate understanding of the year-by-year decrease since 2015. Altamel (talk) 01:50, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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Greetings @Kazamzam, I apologize for the "revert/ rollback" edit that took place @Afro house ,https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Afro_house&action=history.I just realized that when I am switching from visual to source edit and vice versa espcially to navigate to the talk page which , I was intending on doing at that time, when I hit 'cancel' or refresh the browser it seems to backtrack somehow - as I had no reasons to rollback your edits and I honestly don't even know how to, your edits were also obvious improvements. ToosieJoosie (talk) 21:48, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
- P.S..Thank you for actually writing this in the edit summary because I had no idea this was happening or even how and of course this could be a major problem on other pages or for other editors, which I am/genuinely not even aware of or intentionally, doing. ToosieJoosie (talk) 21:50, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @ToosieJoosie - thank you for your message and for clarifying. Since you're new, I wanted to let you know two things. One, when you add a reference to an article that is tagged as "unreferenced", please be sure that there is a reference section, and if not to please create one. You can use the template reflist by typing {{reflist}} in the source editor, or by clicking 'Insert Template' in the visual editor. The references section should go between (if these are present in the article) 'See also' and 'External links', per the Wikipedia Manual of Style (MOS). Two, when you add a reference, please be sure to remove the "unreferenced" tag, usually at the top of the page for tracking purposes. If you have only added one source, it's usually best to add the "refimprove" template so that readers and other editors know that the article has uncited information. The majority of my work is in WikiProject Unreferenced articles so I see a lot of these articles and I wanted to let you know before it becomes an editing habit. Thank you for your work and please keep it up! Just be sure that whatever source you are adding is reliable/independent/verifiable and truly confirms whatever is being stated in the article. A bad reference is worse than no references.
- If you have any questions about citing, finding sources, or anything else, please let me know. Best, Kazamzam (talk) 15:12, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hebia cinerea
Could you please explain why you reverted the edit of this page, and give a respected citation to back your edit up? Simuliid talk 08:20, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Simuliid - The reference you cited says that Hebia is a monotypic genus; if that's the case, then Hebia cinerea should be deleted. Delete it, redirect it, PROD it, put it up for AfD, but how you have left the article doesn't cut it for me. It's not even a complete sentence. I'm
putting it up for AfD myselfPRODing it now now, please feel free to comment on the deletion discussion there. Kazamzam (talk) 12:13, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College References
Can you please explain why the references for the president and the academics were removed when these were references from the college itself? I am referring to the page here. I am somewhat confused as primary sources can be reliable and this website is the most accurate on the president and degrees offered, as it is the college itself. I'm just wondering why you seen it as an unreliable source
Please see "Primary" does not mean "bad" SkylarArte (talk) 13:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for your comment. I'm more okay with primary sources for topics related to biology/chemistry, i.e. the first reporting of a new species. While I agree that primary does not mean bad, this is not an independent source. Given that this is a community college, there are other, independent/third-party sources that I think can provide similar information of equal quality without the inherently promotional nature that comes from citing a subject's own website. I would have been fine including the websites you referenced in the external links section and we could use the inline citations tag as a happy middle ground.
- Examples of sources I found from a quick search for information about the president of the college (for example) are here, here, and here. I'm happy to help with referencing - just please be sure to remove the 'unreferenced article' tag from whatever page you are providing sources for. Best, Kazamzam (talk) 14:18, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, that is understandable to have an independent source that has similar information. However, there should be a reference to the degrees that the college is offering too. While it may be easy to find the president through news sources, I have been unable to find one listing out the degrees that are offered at this college.
- I was unaware that I should have removed the 'unreferenced article' though, so I appreciate the reminder. Thanks, SkylarArte (talk) 14:46, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Delirium Books Citations for Books Published
Hello, thank you for your comments on the requirements for secondary sources on the Delirium Books article. I am looking at all of the other books in the article, and none of them have third-party citations either. The links to the respective years in literature go to other articles on Wikipedia that do not actually list the title referenced. So, I am trying to figure out what you're looking for here that the other books have, but my additions did not.
Thanks in advance for your help. Wordgrinder89 (talk) 19:42, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Wordgrinder89 - thank you for your message. The way I see it, there are two major issues with this article.
- 1) Lack of sources establishing the notability of the subject as a publishing company per the notability guidelines for organizations and companies. These need to be (I'm summarizing the guidelines here) multiple, reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject and provide significant coverage. So a review of a book that they published with the single clause 'published by Delirium Books' does not cut it; this is also why something from the founder (not independent) or the publisher's website itself (very not independent) doesn't work either. I was hopeful that I might find articles about the Bram Stoker Award from the HWA or the Shocker Award for Small Press of the Year, but I haven't come up with anything yet.
- 2) The list of books themselves should, in my opinion, be deleted or significantly revamped. First, per WP:NOTCATALOG, a Wikipedia article is not an indiscriminate catalog of products unless there is an independent source and encyclopedic significance of the mention (from mainstream media sources, books that provide commentary on these details) - just product reviews do not cut it. Second, per the guidelines on stand-alone lists, this catalog of books is not an appropriate topic for its own list article.
- So to clarify, it's not what the other books have that your additions did not; it's that I think most, if not all, of these books should be removed as well, and your edit alerted me to this and I did not want the catalog to get any bigger. The real task now is to determine what about the publisher is notable with sources that meet the above criteria and which, if any, of these books should be included on the article. If you look at other, massive articles like Lady Gaga, you can see that there's a link to the Lady Gaga discography article, but a curated selection of her albums. I think what would be best is to establish notability for the publishing house and then find the most notable books and include them with appropriate sourcing.
- If there are no sources to be found that meet these criteria, the article will likely be deleted. I really don't want this to happen as I'm a big fan of small presses but I hope my explanation clarifies why the article is not up to the WP standards in its current form. I'm very happy to work on this with you further and hopefully we can get it into decent shape! If you have any questions, please let me know. Best, Kazamzam (talk) 20:06, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, thank you so much for the explanation. I was hoping to provide a list of publications for collectors, but I reviewed the WP:NOTCATALOG guidelines and see your point. I am new to editing Wikipedia articles, so this helps a lot. (I suspect there are many articles in violation of this, but I understand we can't possibly catch them all. Humans! :-) I will see what I can find when I have some more time to work on it. I feel certain I can find reference to the Stoker Award at least, since the results were usually published in Locus SF magazine. Wordgrinder89 (talk) 20:42, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
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Why so many Hollywood types in that list?!?
I’ve been going through that list and I see what you mean about the number of ex-pats that are included, in the films and theatre industries, who left Quebec in their teens or twenties, never to return. Weird. At any rate, I’m working my way through the list. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:31, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Kazamzam: I'm thinking that the easiest thing to do might be to start a collaboration page from the task force project pages. That way, we could all contribute and then move the article to live space once it's got a decent start. (I prefer not to put it in draft space – otherwise we need to wait for someone to "approve" it before it can be moved.) What do you think about making "Lichens and climate change" our first collab? MeegsC (talk) 15:19, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, I've added a collaboration page here. Once we've chosen a nomination, we can get stuck in! MeegsC (talk) 16:18, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
- @MeegsC - you’re a superstar! I’ll start looking for references for climate change and air pollution. Just a note that we don’t need someone to approve the draft, we can do it ourselves as long as we’re not putting it through the AfC process. Let me know what you think of the draft idea - I haven’t used a collaboration page but it sounds fun!
- I see a potential trio of articles are feed into each other: climate change, air pollution, and conservation (this could be the broadest one and touch on conservative status but also topics like conservation efforts, i.e. something like adaptive coral breeding for warmer temperature, if such a thing is happening). I can peruse some of the larger journals to get ideas for other topics that are broadly aligned with these but I think it’s a great start! Kazamzam (talk) 17:14, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
- I think we should probably pick one article to start with. I don't know about you, but I have a crazy few months coming up IRL; I'll be in the field with little/no access to the internet for much of Jan/Feb, for example, and have a serious pile of paperwork to finish sorting before I go. Have a look at the nomination page and vote for what you'd like to start with. Or feel free to nominate something else! ;) It'll help me focus my efforts. MeegsC (talk) 18:03, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
- Looks like nobody else has much to say about a collaboration. Do you have a preference for the first one? I'm going to be a bit hit and miss with my contributions over the next few months, so it'll be your baby to get started! :) MeegsC (talk) 22:06, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
- @MeegsC - I hope you have a fun ("fun") time in the field in Jan/Feb and take lots of pictures. I think the air pollution/lichen topic is more specific so I'm inclined to start there. I made a draft in my sandbox and poked at it a little already. My concern is how to organize the article; we could divide the body of the article by pollutant, by area, by historical statistics of the effects of air pollution on lichens and move into the present, we could give notable examples of how certain lichen populations in specific/heavily polluted areas have been impacted, etc. I think a note on how lichens in and around super polluted cities such as New Delhi, Ulaanbaatar, and Mexico City have been affected would be FASCINATING but I'm just not sure. I'll look at some other articles on [blank] and air pollution and see how they're structured. How does this sound to you? Kazamzam (talk) 00:06, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Sounds great! Would you mind moving your draft to a "Draft" space (call it "Lichens and air pollution"), so that we can all work on it? (I realise we could also do that in your sandbox, but I always feel weird monkeying around in someone else's "space".) Once you've done that, I'll add a link to the draft on the collaboration page, so people know where to look if they want to help. BTW, there's a new book on urban lichens in eastern North America that I'm asking for for Christmas, even though I don't live there. It will almost certainly have information about air pollution! MeegsC (talk) 09:43, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Draft created! Can you tell me the title of the book? I'd like to have it for my personal reference (I'm trying to drum up lichen interest in my local park group because we get some unusual flora/fauna as we have one of the few remaining salt marshes in the area) and I can probably find it from my institutional library. If I can get a PDF of it, would you like a copy? Thanks! Kazamzam (talk) 17:23, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- It's called Urban Lichens (see info here). Published by Yale University Press. It does throw shade on the whole "Erasmus Darwin as first recorder of lichens as air pollution indicators" though. He was apparently talking about the effects of Java's poison tree! MeegsC (talk) 22:40, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Draft created! Can you tell me the title of the book? I'd like to have it for my personal reference (I'm trying to drum up lichen interest in my local park group because we get some unusual flora/fauna as we have one of the few remaining salt marshes in the area) and I can probably find it from my institutional library. If I can get a PDF of it, would you like a copy? Thanks! Kazamzam (talk) 17:23, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Sounds great! Would you mind moving your draft to a "Draft" space (call it "Lichens and air pollution"), so that we can all work on it? (I realise we could also do that in your sandbox, but I always feel weird monkeying around in someone else's "space".) Once you've done that, I'll add a link to the draft on the collaboration page, so people know where to look if they want to help. BTW, there's a new book on urban lichens in eastern North America that I'm asking for for Christmas, even though I don't live there. It will almost certainly have information about air pollution! MeegsC (talk) 09:43, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- @MeegsC - I hope you have a fun ("fun") time in the field in Jan/Feb and take lots of pictures. I think the air pollution/lichen topic is more specific so I'm inclined to start there. I made a draft in my sandbox and poked at it a little already. My concern is how to organize the article; we could divide the body of the article by pollutant, by area, by historical statistics of the effects of air pollution on lichens and move into the present, we could give notable examples of how certain lichen populations in specific/heavily polluted areas have been impacted, etc. I think a note on how lichens in and around super polluted cities such as New Delhi, Ulaanbaatar, and Mexico City have been affected would be FASCINATING but I'm just not sure. I'll look at some other articles on [blank] and air pollution and see how they're structured. How does this sound to you? Kazamzam (talk) 00:06, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Looks like nobody else has much to say about a collaboration. Do you have a preference for the first one? I'm going to be a bit hit and miss with my contributions over the next few months, so it'll be your baby to get started! :) MeegsC (talk) 22:06, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
- I think we should probably pick one article to start with. I don't know about you, but I have a crazy few months coming up IRL; I'll be in the field with little/no access to the internet for much of Jan/Feb, for example, and have a serious pile of paperwork to finish sorting before I go. Have a look at the nomination page and vote for what you'd like to start with. Or feel free to nominate something else! ;) It'll help me focus my efforts. MeegsC (talk) 18:03, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
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Cerebellum (talk) 11:37, 9 December 2023 (UTC)- Hi Kazamzam, I just read your article. Fascinating! Have you considered submitting it to Did You Know? I think it would be a good candidate, as the first known labour strike. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:36, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Mr Serjeant Buzfuz - thank you so much! It's such a big topic with so much material that I wanted the feedback of the AfC process and getting it to a B-class right out the gate is very satisfying. I had a bit of a kerfuffle with a reviewer for my last DYK submission so I will put that to rest and then submit this one. Thank you so much for the feedback and the encouragement! Kazamzam (talk) 00:47, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Happy Holidays
Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, people's rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension. Happy Holidays to you and yours. ―Buster7 ☎
This Month in GLAM: November 2023
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Invitation
- Hello Kazamzam/Archives, we need experienced volunteers.
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Thu Jan 4: Hacking Night + Wikipedia Day soon
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DYK nomination of Die Kuranten
Hello! Your submission of Die Kuranten 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! Z1720 (talk) 18:36, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 December 2023
- Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
- News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
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Women in Red January 2024
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January lichen task force newsletter
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Happy New Year! The colour-coded list to the right shows the status of the project as of the end of 2023; compare it with the list in last January's newsletter to see how far we've come. It's clearly an improvement, but equally, it shows how much we still have to do. There are scores of articles about lichen genera still to write, thousands of lichen species are missing, and there are reams of information still to add about the effects of climate change, air pollution and more on lichen diversity and survival. It's more than enough to keep us occupied for decades to come. Here's to a productive year! |
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Esculenta accepted last month's challenge and updated the Malmidea article with 14 additional species now recognised by Species Fungorum as being in the genus. This month, we're looking for someone to update the Gassicurtia article, last updated in January of 2021. According to Species Fungorum, there are now four additional species in the genus. The editor who updates the article will receive public kudos in the next newsletter. | |
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A barnstar for you!
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- @Levivich - that is so sweet and very much appreciated! Thank you! Kazamzam (talk) 23:19, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Access to Google Sheets
Hey, could you share this timeline of the backlog (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dhRLbTt5ByAiaqThKZ7uATXR53BE6bmPTgRkLUQDCmA) for everybody to see? Many thanks, CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 13:47, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you so much! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- @CactiStaccingCrane - hey! Glad to see you poking around the spreadsheet, hope it is useful :) I'd rather not share it with everyone/give editing access to everyone because I have put a ton of work into it and don't want it to get messed up. Do you think making it accessible as a "commentator" would be useful? Kazamzam (talk) 14:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- I think I will probably make a more accessible version of the spreadsheet in my account. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:19, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- @CactiStaccingCrane - hey! Glad to see you poking around the spreadsheet, hope it is useful :) I'd rather not share it with everyone/give editing access to everyone because I have put a ton of work into it and don't want it to get messed up. Do you think making it accessible as a "commentator" would be useful? Kazamzam (talk) 14:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 January 2024
- From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
- Special report: Public Domain Day 2024
- Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
- News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!
- WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
- Obituary: Anthony Bradbury
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- Comix: Conflict resolution
This Month in GLAM: December 2023
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Unreferenced articles February 2024 backlog drive
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- Look at Category:Articles lacking sources, we are under 113k! There's a very small chance, but still a chance, that this drive would make that category smaller than 100k. Just hoping that there's enough people joining the effort... CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:45, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red February 2024
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The Signpost: 31 January 2024
- News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
- Opinion: Until it happens to you
- Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
- Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
- Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
Welcome to the drive!
Welcome, welcome, welcome Kazamzam! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.
CactiStaccingCrane (talk)15:38, 2 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)
Thu Feb 8 NYC Hacking Night + Feb 21 WikiWednesday
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archaeology of the Holocaust
Hi @Kazamzam, Courtesy ping as since the AfD process was started, the article has been significantly changed. Shazback (talk) 19:57, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: January 2024
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The Signpost: 13 February 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
- Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
- Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
- Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
- Crossword: Our crossword to bear
- Comix: Strongly
Women in Red March 2024
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What's after FEB24
Hey, what should we do after the FEB24 drive has ended? How could we sustain the momentum and make people engaged in the goal? CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:54, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- @CactiStaccingCrane - good question. I was thinking of something similar to what Women in Red (see the above post) do with online events, monthly themes, tips, etc. Getting a newsletter post out monthly to all FEB24 participants would be a great way to sustain engagement (we could aim for a March 15th deadline for tallying and releasing the metrics from FEB24) that spotlights certain areas that might be neglected, partnering with other WikiProjects as a reciprocal cleanup service for exposure (we'll reference articles related to your project in exchange for visibility), etc. There are a lot of options - I think the monthly newsletter is probably the best one just to keep the URA on editors' minds. What do you think? Kazamzam (talk) 15:03, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- I think we should do all of these at some point in the future, and also FYI, there's a mailing list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Mailing list. For now, I've also outlined some of the stuff that we should do at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Unreferenced_articles#Awarding_the_barnstars. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 15:06, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Tue March 5: Wiki Gala NYC
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A citation barnstar for you
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The Signpost: 2 March 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
- Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
- In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
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February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
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WikiNYC: 3/14 Hacking Night + 3/16 Queens Name Explorer
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This Month in GLAM: February 2024
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