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Saffron Henderson

I mentioned this in passing, but the article does need a bit of a spruce up. If you could fix that on your way out, that would be cool, and if you could get us some biscuits and a fresh tub of ice cream on your way back from the shops, that would be F.A.B. ..... Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:58, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Jacuzzi - 30423569055 - 2012-11-28

:Ritchie333 I'll put it on my list. You made me imagined a "tub" of ice cream for a moment... I must be hungry! :P Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:29, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Writer's Barnstar
I swear - you can take any unreferenced stub on Wikipedia, find a ton of reliable sources, significantly expand it to become a good article. Thank you very much for your work here - I wish my content creation skills were a tenth as good as yours! SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 16:11, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you so much, SkyGazer 512! I really enjoy sourcing articles and I appreciate the barnstar. It helps to have access to databases, since a lot of info is buried behind paywalls. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:22, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

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Martha Montoya

Is it the same Martha Montoya (the bio you just created for WP:US50) who is president of National Association of Hispanic Publications? ☆ Bri (talk) 22:20, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

I don't think so, Bri. She seems to be focused on cartooning and agribusiness. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:25, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Just found this list of activities. It does appear to be the same individual. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:28, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Ooh! Good find! I was mostly searching for her in conjunction with the keyword "Los Kitos" attached to her common name. Thanks for the link, Bri! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:30, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Here is a image of her on a California.gov website [1]; I'm not sure if that makes it free use or not like it works for the Federal Gov't. Thsmi002 (talk) 22:42, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
@Thsmi002: State pictures are usually, but I think not always, under some type of copyright. But I'll do some digging! Thank you so much! :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 23:32, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

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DYK for Charro outfit

On 9 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charro outfit, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1985, someone made a charro outfit out of pull tabs from 2,500 aluminum cans? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charro outfit. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Charro outfit), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Accessing a JSTOR review

Hello Megalibrarygirl, for the article on "Sylvia Kantaris", I wonder if you have access to: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44335014 ? (I've already used up my "six free articles per month")! I'd like to see if it provides useful material for fleshing out the evaluative part of the article. MLDH (talk) 14:56, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

@MLDH: I've obtained access. I've sent you an email. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:02, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
@Megalibrarygirl: Thank you! I've replied to your email.

Churchill Archive

Hello, I'm currently drafting an article for WiR about Grace Hamblin, and I'm trying to get access to items related to her from the Churchill Archive, specifically "Winston Churchill’s testimonial for his private secretary, Grace Hamblin, 20 September 1937". If your MegaLibrary powers can assist, it would be much appreciated. Here is the link to the archive and the document I'm looking for. Thanks, LovelyLillith (talk) 17:56, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

@LovelyLillith: I'll certainly try! I'm going to contact them and see if they'll do a favor for another librarian. Alternatively, maybe one of the colleges nearby me has a subscription for access which seems to be related to Bloomsbury. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:07, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
@LovelyLillith: I've contacted them twice and no luck. I'm sorry. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:41, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
No worries, thank you so much for at least giving it a try! LovelyLillith (talk) 17:47, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

request for article on Lucy Lee-Robbins

Hi MLG, Can you obtain a copy for me of "Not above Reproach": The Career of Lucy Lee-Robbin by Brandon Brame Fortune via University of Chicago Journals? Thanks for looking into this. Best, WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 23:03, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

I've got it, WomenArtistUpdates! Send me an email, so I can give you access. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 23:08, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for sending me the article Megalibrarygirl! Lucy Lee-Robbins has a great start now. Best. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:38, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Megalibrarygirl/Archives/2018, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

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As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
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Moving to Draft and Page Mover
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Requesting for advices on Email

I have sent you an email requesting for suggestions on Wikipedia:Women in Red project. Please feel free to send me the suggestions over email. I have added my email address on the email. --Gopala Krishna A (talk) 08:41, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Gopala Krishna A! I've written you back! :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:34, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
@Megalibrarygirl: Thank you.:) --Gopala Krishna A (talk) 07:12, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Women in brewing

Ritchie333 reviewed and passed the GA. I am hip deep working on another one. Would you be interested in nominating this one for DYK? If not, no worries. SusunW (talk) 19:29, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

SusunW I can give it a go. :) I'm a bit behind on a lot of things (starting a new job has taken up a lot of my brainspace), but I'll ask Ritchie333 if he can help me with the DYK process. It always manages to flummox me. :P It's really cool that it became a GA! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:35, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! We do good work on these anchor articles ;) but it had never occurred to me to nominate it. A little push, a little clean up and Ritchie's review and poof! SusunW (talk) 15:40, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Right, nomination is up at Template:Did you know nominations/Women in brewing. Feel free to add more interesting hooks. Or get MjolnirPants to think up a couple. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:56, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Awesome! Thank you, Ritchie333! You rule! And I really do enjoy working on these anchors. There's probably tons more out there, SusunW. When we come across them, I always enjoy working with you! :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:24, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Did you know that young men scrambling to get women drunk is a relatively new phenomenon and that it used to be the other way around? Did you know that there may be some truth to the claim that finding a woman gives a man a beer gut? I could go on, but there's a fine line between mocking sexist tropes and being a dick, and I'd rather not edge too close to it. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 17:01, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
MjolnirPants, comedy is a dangerous, dangerous sword! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:40, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
It's not like we're going to get a repeat of this, is it? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 17:43, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
@Ritchie333: whoa! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:01, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, there were calls for indef blocks and desysops over that, as I recall. And they say you can't go wrong by punching up. Apparently, many editors felt otherwise. Or else they felt like poor ole Trump is more oppressed than most. Hell, he only got to be president; I guess that proves there's a glass ceiling for rich old white men, doesn't it? ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 18:34, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Life has been very unfair to Mr. Trump, MjolnirPants! I read his Twitter feed. I know what's going on! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:41, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Don't I know it. Even a simple index fund, invested with the "small loan" Trump started his "empire" with would be valued at twice his net worth. When you add to that all those people calling him racist and sexist every time he says something racist or sexist, and all those people calling him an idiot every time he says something idiotic, it's a wonder he has the strength to get out of bed in the morning. I don't know how he handles all that oppression. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 18:52, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

I can't believe people didn't drop him like a stone after "Pussygate". If Trump ever "tried" anything with any of my female friends, and I was in the vicinity, his next speech would be delivered with a bald head and a soprano voice. Just sayin'. Anyway, I knew Trump Street DYK was going to raise the odd eyebrow, but not to the level of extreme overreaction that actually happened. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 18:57, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Personally, I think it'd be best to just go ahead and assume he's going to try something and beat the tar out of him preemptively. I never would have said this with any previous administration, but I'm quite sure the SS has a reasonable "look the other way for five minutes" price with this guy. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 12:37, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
There's a nice scene in Endeavour (Megalibrarygirl, if we end up chilled out on my sofa drinking Free Hugs Pale Ale, I'll put this on) where Inspector Tuesday asks the young Morse to go out and get his tobacco from his car. After five minutes searching, he goes back into the garage, to find that the owner has just spontaneously had a nasty nosebleed, but he's suddenly remembered a lot of information he needed to confess about a murder, and the tobacco was actually in Tuesday's pocket all along. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:12, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
Here in America, it's a well-known phenomenon that men who abuse women and children have a history of smacking their heads quite hard on the roof of the police cruiser when being placed in the back seat. Usually with enough force to require stitches. And this despite the warnings of police and the helpful hand on the side of their head trying to prevent just such an occurrence. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 14:21, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Source access

Hi, MLG,

Greetings:-)

I've came across you, in some AfDs and WiR articles, as someone who can access a lot of sources and utilize that quite efficiently. Given that, can you kindly help me as to the second request over this RX thread, which is the most comprehensive and authoritative source on an article I'm writing about.I managed to access the other chapters by various methods but will need those four, for a more comprehensive write-up.

The article probably lies outside your domain-of-interest but some help, as to gathering the source, will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, in advance:-)∯WBGconverse 04:45, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

@Winged Blades of Godric:! I'm happy to help. :) Is it this reference you need full access to?
  • Ahmed, Imtiaz; Dasgupta, Abhijit; Kathinka, Kathinka (2004). State, society, and displaced people in South Asia. University Press. ISBN 9789840517237.

Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:18, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

I ought to have been more clearer:-) As I said, it was the second request that I was the most concerned with:-

The chapters that I mentioned over the thread (or the entire book, if possible) will be immensely helpful. Thanks, in advance and for looking into it. ∯WBGconverse 17:21, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

No worries, Winged Blades of Godric! So far, I'm only finding reviews of the work. Let me reach out to people who have access to other databases. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:31, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
Four of the six chapters of concern, have been retrieved:-) ∯WBGconverse 12:03, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
@Winged Blades of Godric: that's awesome! I'm still waiting on my contact at UTEP to see if she has access. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:01, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
For all the work you put into assessing claims to notability, sourcing, and improving paltry articles on significant topics that land at AfD. E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:20, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you, E.M.Gregory! To be honest, I'm always happy to see you at AfD because I know you're working super hard on these articles, too. Never give up, never surrender! :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:56, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

October 2018 at Women in Red

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