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DYK for Science Fiction Awards Database

On 10 October 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Science Fiction Awards Database, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Science Fiction Awards Database also covers fantasy and horror? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Science Fiction Awards Database. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Science Fiction Awards Database), 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) 00:02, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

DYK for An Informal History of the Hugos

On 17 October 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article An Informal History of the Hugos, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jo Walton's An Informal History of the Hugos, which opines that the Hugo Award has a 69-percent success rate, was itself nominated for a Hugo? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/An Informal History of the Hugos. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, An Informal History of the Hugos), 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Carl Freedman (writer)

On 28 October 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carl Freedman (writer), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Carl Freedman viewed science fiction as the most sound genre for academic study? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carl Freedman (writer). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Carl Freedman (writer)), 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

Just wanted to express my gratitude for your fantastic work on The Farseer Trilogy article. One of my favourite book series and the article is very comprehensive and well-written. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 00:46, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

@Chocmilk03: Thanks for the kind words! I'm planning to work on the sequels as well. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 10:44, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

DYK for The Farseer Trilogy

On 25 November 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Farseer Trilogy, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Farseer Trilogy was written under an androgynous pen name, Robin Hobb (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Farseer Trilogy. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Farseer Trilogy), 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Sorry

… for not telling you I'd brought the userspace draft live. Didn't mean to make you do it twice. Thanks a lot for your help with this—it's very much appreciated. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 06:27, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for working on the draft! Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 06:32, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!

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Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Children's Fantasy Literature

Hello! Your submission 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 as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Bruxton (talk) 03:11, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

I think you are doing good work, and you are making great contributions to the project. I made some comments at the DYK and decided to leave the nomination to someone else. Best to you! Bruxton (talk) 17:02, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Vaticidalprophet -- Vaticidalprophet (talk) 22:21, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

The article Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Vaticidalprophet -- Vaticidalprophet (talk) 23:01, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Just a passing note that that article needs a lot of help :) Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:09, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

The article Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Vaticidalprophet -- Vaticidalprophet (talk) 03:41, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Farseer Trilogy

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Farseer Trilogy you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of David Fuchs -- David Fuchs (talk) 19:20, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Rowling FLC

Huge thanks for mentioning my name on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of awards and nominations received by J. K. Rowling/archive1. I really don't deserve it though, far less than others. Can you remove? Thanks. Also, looking up your page, so cool to see you're working on the Farseer trilogy. It's on my stack of books to re-read. Actually all my Hobbs books are (the stack is actually a bookshelf). Best. Victoria (tk) 22:05, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Victoriaearle, sure; trimmed. I wasn't sure what the usual convention is (re. mentioning people's names). And it's nice to meet a fellow Hobb fan! Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 22:30, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
O-D, a reviewer had you remove all serial commas, but someone tells me serial commas are British English ? I’m not sure, just saying, in case it pops up, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:14, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
I thought that too, but serial comma says it's more American than British. Weird. Thanks for checking. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 02:31, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
I wasn’t sure myself … British English is Greek to me! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:35, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Farseer Trilogy

The article The Farseer Trilogy you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:The Farseer Trilogy for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of David Fuchs -- David Fuchs (talk) 16:20, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks

for Special:Diff/1065554137. I had been avoiding that. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 04:15, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

No problem; I had one of my refs to fix, and thought I might as well do the rest. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 04:51, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

I have started a draft on the section on race at User:AleatoryPonderings/sandbox. I'm not satisfied with it and I think I have given Gupta too much weight—he does make a very provocative argument though. When I sat down to read Barratt I was disappointed; she makes a lot of comparisons between Voldemort and Hitler that I find facile. doi:10.1353/uni.0.0488 was also kind of a bust. I'm sure there are other essays about the blood purity stuff in particular and I want to find them because this criticism leaves much to be desired. I hope Dark Fantastic is better. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 04:35, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Added some to mainspace in Special:Diff/1066274475. Turned out not to be so much about race as about the blood purity idea. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 16:06, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
@AleatoryPonderings: I finally got around to adding some material on this – not sure if that's what you had in mind, but I found it surprisingly well covered in sources. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 08:48, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I didn't have anything particular in mind and I did see some discussion of the house elf issue when I looked, but it seems I didn't look deep enough. As you may have noticed, I've not been editing much lately—a combination of increased real life obligations and wiki-fatigue. My sense is that not much more content remains to be written but if it does I will probably not be the one writing it. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 14:33, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Writer's Barnstar
Thanks for your stellar literature articles! It is incredibly valuable work, that many, many readers no doubt have benefitted from, and no doubt many more will in the future. Eddie891 Talk Work 00:11, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
@Eddie891: Thank you for the nice words and the barnstar. Very much appreciated! Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 02:31, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Farseer Trilogy

The article The Farseer Trilogy you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Farseer Trilogy for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of David Fuchs -- David Fuchs (talk) 20:21, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Congratulations, Olivaw-Daneel! The list you nominated, List of awards and nominations received by J. K. Rowling, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Congrats on a fine job! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:51, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Thanks! Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 01:11, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
  • Christmas Island AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
  • Philadelphia GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
  • SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
  • United Nations Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. 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.

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WikiCup 2022 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
  • Christmas Island AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
  • Philadelphia GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
  • SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
  • United Nations Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. 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.

Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction

On 4 March 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Children's Fantasy Literature is the first work to address the genre's 500-year history in depth? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction), 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Make Way for Ducklings FAR

I have nominated Make Way for Ducklings for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. O-D, hoping you might have a look and enter opinions. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:57, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Writer's Barnstar
Olivaw-Daneel, you've more than earned this barnstar for your amazing work on J.K. Rowling. Splitting out and rewriting sections from the very beginning, working hard on the new literary analysis section, copyediting, contributing to the talk page discussions throughout, helping everywhere, generally being extremely impressive! It's a great achievement. Congrats! Victoria (tk) 23:09, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
Thank you Victoriaearle; appreciate the lovely note. I enjoyed the collaboration and am glad we were able to retain the star. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 07:38, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Million award for J. K. Rowling

The Million Award
For your contributions to bring J. K. Rowling (estimated annual readership: 3,305,284) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:49, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

What an amazing collaboration; kudos! Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:49, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you SG, especially for bringing it over the finish line over the last few weeks. I enjoyed the group effort and it's great that it ended well. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 07:51, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 May newsletter

The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

  1. New York (state) Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path.
  2. Christmas Island AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews.
  3. Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs.
  4. Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs.
  5. Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews.
  6. United States Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources.
  7. England Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews.

The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. 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. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
For reviewing at least 7 points worth of articles during the January 2022 GAN Backlog Drive, I hereby present you with this barnstar in my capacity as coordinator. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 03:48, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

June 2022 Good Article Nominations backlog drive

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Featured Article Save Award

On behalf of the FAR coordinators, thank you, Olivaw-Daneel! Your work on J. K. Rowling has allowed the article to retain its featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. I hereby award you this Featured Article Save Award, or FASA. You may display this FA star upon your userpage. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 18:46, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Kidnapping of Peter Weinberger/GA1

Hello

I note that you promoted this article to GA status, when you had not conducted the review. The review process was still open and awaiting matters raised in the review. I will assume good faith that you were exploring Novem Linguae's script and that you reverted your action. Please take care with this tool, in future. --Whiteguru (talk) 21:01, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

@Whiteguru: Hello, yes it was an ipad misclick! Apologies for the trouble. I did not realize that the script would load on GANs where I was not the reviewer, and a stray finger on a touchscreen put it into action. I reverted myself immediately, so I trust everything’s ok now. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 22:27, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Women in Green - July GA Editathon

Hello Olivaw-Daneel:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Editathon event in July 2022!

Running from July 1 to 31, 2022, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) editathon event focused on the topic of women and the environment. Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works during the event period (with an emphasis on environmental links and topics). GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to receive a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Alanna the Brave (talk) 13:31, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 July newsletter

The third round of the 2022 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 180 points, which is a lower figure than last year when 294 points were needed to progress to round 4. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  • Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose, with 746 points, a tally built both on snooker and other sports topics, and on more general subjects.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, with 683 points, garnered mostly from "In the news" items and related DYKs.
  • Sammi Brie, with 527, from a variety of submissions related to radio and television stations.

Between them contestants achieved 5 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 51 good articles, 149 DYK entries, 68 ITN entries, and 109 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article nomination, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. 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. WikiCup judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:51, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Religious debates over the Harry Potter series Featured article review

I have nominated Religious debates over the Harry Potter series for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:59, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 51

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You know what is the reward for a job well done... :P Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:53, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Sure, I'm working on it. Seems sad for that alone to be a redirect. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 05:50, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of This Census-Taker

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Your GA nomination of This Census-Taker

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