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DYK nomination of Filiberto Avogadro di Collobiano
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Editing news 2021 #2
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John Early (educator) scheduled for TFA
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We suggest that you watchlist Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:42, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you today for John Early (educator), "about a man who was instrumental in the early years of 3 Jesuit colleges in the United States, one of which he founded."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:49, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks,, hope you found it an interesting read.  Ergo Sum  14:04, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Many thanks, . I hope it proves interesting.  Ergo Sum  19:06, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Filiberto Avogadro di Collobiano
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Discretionary sanctions alert - gender and sexuality
02:58, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Got it. Thanks .  Ergo Sum  03:00, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
 * No problem! A quick plug for Template:ds/aware if you want to skip later alerts. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 03:02, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

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ArchiveSent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:26, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

FAC
Hi Ergo Sum, I presume you're still occupied with navigating J. Havens Richards through the FAC process (good luck with this going forward, by the way). I've recently nominated an article on another educator myself (L. D. Reynolds) and I was wondering whether you'd like to offer some thoughts at FAC. I'd very much value your feedback. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 22:23, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll give it a look in the coming days.  Ergo Sum  13:13, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Do you have a few minutes?
There’s an edit war going on in the article Kadir Mısıroğlu again. My concerns are not being addressed and ignored. Thanks for your time. 786wave (talk)|

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TFA
Thank you today for Giovanni Antonio Grassi, introduced: "Unlike many of the other articles about Jesuits I've nominated here, this Jesuit had a very active life in Europe, not just in the United States. He was an astronomer turned missionary turned educator turned royal advisor."! - Sharing the Main page with Leo Kestenberg, created by LouisAlain (who is discussed on WP:AN). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Niccolò Paccanari
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James A. Doonan scheduled for TFA
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Nomination for deletion of Template:OTD-userpage
Template:OTD-userpage has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 21:21, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

james a. doonan
hello, Ergo Sum! i had a couple of questions regarding this article and the associated blurb. dying (talk) 16:45, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
 * did georgetown receive more than one federal charter? the article states that, in 1882, doonan was the first to distribute diplomas under the new federal charter.  however, i believe georgetown received a congressional charter in 1815, under president grassi, and its first commencement under the 1815 charter was held in 1817, according to this source.  i believe i have reproduced below the relevant passage from the source cited in the doonan article.  "The next day was the sixty-fifth annual Commencement of Georgetown College. It dates modestly only from the first authorized by the charter granted by the Government of the United States."  i am admittedly unfamiliar with how to interpret "dates modestly only from", but i did notice that, if the first commencement was held in 1817, then if a commencement has been held every year since then (with the exception of 1828, as noted here), the commencement in 1882 would have been the sixty-fifth commencement since the 1815 charter was granted.
 * Yes, it received a several charter, though I do not believe any have superseded the original. See here. Thank you for pointing me to that sentence in the article, though. Upon re-reading the source, it seems that I misinterpreted it. I think it is trying to say that the commencement was only a few years off from the issuance of the 1844 charter, even though that was several decades prior.  Ergo Sum  11:58, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * interesting. i was aware that georgetown had more than one charter, but now i see that the 1844 corporate charter was technically also a federal charter.  thanks for pointing this out to me.  dying (talk) 19:56, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
 * also, do you happen to know how the two cannons arrived in america? (i am currently assuming that the cannons were not constructed in america.)  the blurb states that they were "carried aboard Lord Baltimore's 1634 expeditionary voyage to Maryland", while the article states that although "[i]t was believed that they were brought to America aboard the Ark", this was apparently not the case.  as the article on lord baltimore appears to state that ark and dove were the only two ships of the 1634 voyage, this leads me to conclude that the cannons were brought aboard dove.  however, if this was actually known to be the case, it seems unusual to omit this from the article.  the source cited in the article states that "[t]he cannons were a part of Lord Baltimore's expedition to St. Mary's County in 1634 [and] were not a part of the armament of the Ark and the Dove", which seems consistent with them being aboard either or both if they were transported as cargo, and "the armament" was interpreted to mean the weaponry and associated equipment considered to belong to the ships.

I have clarified the language in the article; it was a little hazy. One of the new citations I added explains the origins of the cannons in greater depth than I think is warranted to be added to this biographical article.  Ergo Sum  14:45, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * looks good, Ergo Sum. thanks for addressing these issues!  dying (talk) 19:56, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Donan
Thank you today for James A. Doonan, "about a Jesuit from the Southern US who taught at several Jesuit colleges and led Georgetown University, where he saw the completion of its flagship building"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:16, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, . What a beautiful picture.  Ergo Sum  12:38, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
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DYK for Pankratius Pfeiffer
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Merry Christmas!
Hello Ergo Sum, I wanted to wish you and your loved ones a merry Christmas! I really enjoyed reviewing some of your articles on Georgetown presidents this year. I hope you'll have a blessed holiday period! All the best, Modussiccandi (talk) 09:52, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
 * A very merry Christmas to you and yours, !  Ergo Sum  14:56, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Timeline Georgetown University presidents
Template:Timeline Georgetown University presidents has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 16:59, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

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Patrick Francis Healy scheduled for TFA
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Your GA nomination of 1838 Jesuit slave sale
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Your GA nomination of 1838 Jesuit slave sale
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Promotion of Francis Neale
Congrats! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 09:14, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you!  Ergo Sum  12:40, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Robert W. Brady
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Featured article review for Georgetown University
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Your GA nomination of Robert W. Brady
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DYK for Robert W. Brady
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Your GA nomination of James Clark (Jesuit)
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TFA
Thank you today for Patrick Francis Healy, who "led a remarkable and fascinating life. He achieved many firsts for black Americans, yet never considered himself one. The historiography of this fact is most interesting and discussed in this article. He also transformed Georgetown University into a modern institution along the way." -- See my talk for efforts to expand and translate Prayer for Ukraine, please. -Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:06, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Good to hear from you, . Ukraine needs the world's prayers now more than ever. Thank you for your work.  Ergo Sum  15:02, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of James Clark (Jesuit)
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Your GA nomination of Robert W. Brady
The article Robert W. Brady you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Robert W. Brady 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 I'ma editor2022 -- I'ma editor2022 (talk) 22:41, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
 * A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

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 * The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.
 * Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022.
 * The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.

Arbitration
 * Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
 * Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
 * The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Your GA nomination of James Clark (Jesuit)
The article James Clark (Jesuit) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:James Clark (Jesuit) 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 An anonymous username, not my real name -- An anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 21:41, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Pending featured article delisting of Georgetown University
Hi Ergo Sum! The featured article review for Georgetown University has been progressing along with very little engagement. With the caveat that your choice of articles to edit is of course entirely up to you, I have to say that I'm surprised you have not shown more interest in saving the article from delisting. You've been steadily putting in a phenomenal amount of effort working toward making Georgetown presidents a featured topic, and Georgetown University is clearly the central theme in much of your other work, so it certainly would seem to fit within your wheelhouse (or car barn, if you'd prefer ). Correcting the issues would absolutely be a significant task, but not an unmanageable one. Is there a reason you haven't taken it on? Having Georgetown University delisted would be a major blow to the overall quality of the Georgetown topic area, given that |List_of_presidents_of_Georgetown_University|John_Carroll_(archbishop_of_Baltimore)|Samuel_Mulledy|Francis_Neale it's where most of its pageviews are, and as our last remaining FA on a research university, it'd really be a blow to the entire higher education topic area. That outcome is unfortunately all but guaranteed at this point unless someone steps up to save it. Is there any possibility of that? &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 07:10, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your note. You're right that I'd love to save it as a FA. The reason I haven't really engaged is because it would be a huge amount of work and I just don't know if I have that kind of time to give. I'm going to try to give it a go this week but it would really be a task that I think needs at least two people.  Ergo Sum  16:23, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner logo.jpeg
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DYK for James Clark (Jesuit)
 Schwede 66  12:02, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:10, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Seems like yesterday.  Ergo Sum  23:29, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ad Orientem
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast



Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news
 * Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the  and   rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators.
 * When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present.

Arbitration
 * has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
 * A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
 * A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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