User talk:Grnrchst

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@Grnrchst It's been quite some time since you reviewed my DYK nomination for a hook related to the above article. Well, I did ping the DYK admins but its still not been sent to the Preparation Area for appearing on the Main Page. Meanwhile, I have replaced the phrase you suggested with "was" as per your advice. Hoping to hear from you soon. Regards MSincccc (talk) 03:14, 27 March 2024 (UTC)


 * @MSincccc: Thanks for changing it. As for it getting into prep, just be patient. The admins have a lot of nominations to sort through, they'll get to yours (and mine) eventually. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:23, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Grnrchst It's been nearly two weeks since the article's hook was nominated for DYK. Apart from pinging the DYK admins, is there anything else we can do, or do we simply have to continue waiting? My concern isn't just about the time elapsed, but also the possibility of the nomination being overlooked. Looking forward to knowing from you. Regards MSincccc (talk) 08:02, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @MSincccc: The nomination is currently in the approved section, so it's not been overlooked. If you check the section, you'll see the admins have a lot of nominations to go through and your nomination hasn't been waiting that long in the grand scheme of things. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:00, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Joseph Déjacque
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Joseph Déjacque 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 ChristieBot, on behalf of Asilvering -- Asilvering (talk) 22:03, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red April 2024
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DYK for Alexander Atabekian
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Gren's weekly update (5 April 2024)
Hey there everyone. Thought it might be interesting to try my hand at doing weekly updates about my work here, so I can better keep track of my progress and so anyone that's interested can read what I've worked on.

As Monday was April Fool's Day, I decided to make a fool of myself and put far too much time into researching the subject of killing baby Hitler. I remembered this public debate taking off some years back and was surprised to see just how much ethical and theoretical discussion it has generated, not only in public-facing websites and magazines, but in scholarly books and journals as well. I might make this an annual tradition going forward, depending on how many silly subjects have received significant coverage.

On Tuesday, I expanded the article on Gustave Lefrançais, whose short stub article had come to my attention due to an ongoing GA review on Joseph Déjacque. He was quite the interesting figure in early anarchist and socialist history.

On Wednesday, as part of Women in Red's S & T alphabet run: I wrote an article about Armenian academic Seta Kabranian-Melkonian, who I knew about tangentially from my past research on the First Nagorno-Karabakh War; I also wrote about Soledad Real, a Catalan communist that was active throughout the Francoist dictatorship, even after they had her imprisoned.

On Thursday, I expanded the article on José Pellicer Gandía, one of the leaders of the famous Iron Column that fought the Spanish Nationalists from Valencia to Aragon. It was rather sad to read about the way he died, having actually received clemency but without the authorities caring to enact it. An awful recurrent event during the Francoist regime.

On Friday, I wrote an article about Nelly Trumel, also for WiR's S & T run. Trumel managed to liberate herself from an abusive domesticity to become an active participant in France's feminist movement, both in her work for anarchist radio and as a painter, which symbolised her philosophy. She also liked potatoes, so she's in my good books for that alone.

Throughout the week, I've also been working through the above-mentioned review on Joseph Déjacque, I completed my own review of "Zombie" by The Cranberries (one of my favourite Grunge songs) and I have just opened a review on Iveta Radičová, Slovakia's first woman prime minister. Next week I'll be doing more work on writing articles about women, trying to tighten up some of my B-class articles that are close to GA and compiling sources for an upcoming major rework of the article on Voltairine de Cleyre.

All the best to you, both this week and the next, dear reader. See you next Friday. <3 --Grnrchst (talk) 15:26, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Rosa Laviña
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DYK for Camilo Cienfuegos
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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:


 * with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
 * with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
 * with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
 * with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
 * with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

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Gren's weekly update (12 April 2024)
This week I was very focused on improving our coverage of people that have been the Secretary General of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, which is work I will probably continue into the near future.

On Monday, for International Romani Day, I expanded our articles on: Helios Gómez, a Calé artist that designed many of the CNT's famous propaganda posters; and Mariano R. Vázquez, who led the CNT through the Spanish Civil War. It was interesting to read about these figures, how they influenced and were influenced by the events of their time, and how their Romani identity affected how they were seen and presented themselves. Unfortunately, I was unsurprised to see that some of Vázquez's closest colleagues treated him with such racist hostility. I hope to do more work on Romani revolutionary figures in the future, I'll put a pin in my calendar for next year!

On Tuesday and Wednesday, I spent a lot of time finding images of the various secretaries general of the CNT and filling out the list a bit more so we have a place to build our information base. I also expanded the article on Manuel Andreu from stub, so now we have a decent amount more info on the CNT's second sec-gen. It was fascinating to read about how the CNT was affected by and reorganised after its time in clandestinity, as well as how Andreu shifted over time from syndicalism to Catalan nationalism.

On Thursday, I wrote an article about Manuel Adame, who was apparently the sec-gen of the CNT in 1923 (will need to find more sources about this to confirm for certain). As with a lot of people that ended up in the Communist Party of Spain, his story was one of a spectacular rise and a dramatic fall; he was purged after he broke the party line. Throughout his life, he maintained a persistent dedication to trade unionism, in spite of any changes in his ideology or political party.

On Friday, I wrote an article about the Ush Zhuz, a very interesting Kazakh political party that blended Pan-Turkism and Pan-Islamism together with anarchism and socialism. I hadn't been exposed to a left-wing spin on Pan-Turkism before, but this party promoted it as a means to resist nationalism and unite Central Asia across ethnic lines. Their vision of a federal Central Asian republic didn't go as they appear to have hoped, as Stalin's nationalities commissariat divided the region up with borders that persist until this day and many of its members were killed during the Great Purge. I also continued my work on articles about Mariano Vázquez and Carlo Cafiero, which I nominate for GA soon.

Throughout the week I've also been continuing my reviews of GA articles and improving my GA nom of Joseph Déjacque, which I hope will be finished soon. Next week I'll be working on the article about Voltairine de Cleyre, probably doing more about the CNT sec-gens and attempting to contribute more to this month's Women in Red creations. Take care dear reader, have a wonderful weekend. --Grnrchst (talk) 15:47, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Killing baby Hitler
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The Core Contest has now begun!
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Gren's weekly update (19 April 2024)
Hello everyone, hope you're all doing well. This week my work has been a bit all o'er the place, so I'll be doing a topic-by-topic breakdown instead of a day-by-day one.

This week I began my work expanding the article on Voltairine de Cleyre. For some reason I researching things non-linearly, so I've started with her early and later life and am moving inwards from there. I also came across a lot of information about her family and friends, so expect new or expanded articles on them too over the coming month. This week, as I was looking at her early life, I ended up creating articles about her father Hector De Claire, mother Harriet De Claire and sister Adelaide D. Thayer. I'm looking forward to researching more about her, although I have to see, reading her biography has made me quite sad. De Cleyre was a troubled person that went through so much, both physically and emotionally. I hope I'll be able to communicate the full extent of her life well in the article as it expands.

Continuing on this months' Women in Red edit-a-thon, I have written an article about Dení Prieto Stock, a revolutionary woman who died fighting for the FLN during the Mexican dirty war. I also translated the Spanish Wikipedia articles on Sara Socas and Erika Dos Santos, originally authored by Zapipedia. I recently had the pleasure of seeing these two play live in concert, so I was more than happy to get articles about them both up on the English wiki. If you ever get the chance, do check out their music, I highly recommend it.

Returning to my work on the Spanish anarchists, this week I've come close to completing the article on Mariano R. Vázquez, which I think will be ready for GA with a bit of copy editing and after checking some other sources for more information. I also expanded the article about Ricardo Sanz García from stub, which was interesting, as I know so much about the Durruti Column and the Aragon front in broad strokes, but still know little about the finer details. I will probably expand this article more in the future, so stay tuned for more info on the man.

I also finally brought the article on Joseph Déjacque to good article status, thanks to the kind and helpful review by asilvering. There's a lot to be found in the biography of the founder of political libertarianism, and I hope I've done a good job communicating that. That's another vital article at GA status, go team! Next week, I plan to continue my work in each of these subject areas, working more on De Cleyre's biography, maybe expanding another article about a CNT leader and I'll be looking to write a series of articles about the Subbotina sisters. Best wishes to you this weekend, as always, dear reader. --Grnrchst (talk) 14:48, 19 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Congrats on the GA! I enjoyed reviewing it. -- asilvering (talk) 15:09, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Gren's weekly update (26 April 2024)
I decided to do some themed days this week, in order to branch out some of my focus and write about areas I may not have otherwise.

Monday was Earth Day, so I decided to return to some previous work I had done on the article about green anarchism. I expanded it a bit more, here and there, writing about the different tendencies, its development over time and its overarching principles. It was rather interesting to read about, although I wish so many of these histories I was reading weren't quite so US-centric. In any case, the article is improving at a decent rate, I hope I can find some time to improve it even more soon.

Tuesday was St. George's Day, a national holiday in England and Catalonia, which the latter celebrates by distributing books. I thought what better way to cover all three of these themes than writing about Homage to Catalonia. I actually kinda dislike this book, or rather, I mostly dislike the way it gets put on a pedestal in anglophone circles as the be-all, end-all of Spanish Civil War histories. So I was very relieved to read how many historians agree with me on this, who think that the book works fine as an individual account, but shouldn't be taken as representative of the war as a whole. Another article I may have to revisit at some point, because I found the history of its reevaluation very interesting to read about.

Wednesday was Armenian genocide remembrance day. I wanted to write about something contextual for this, so I ended up writing about Christapor Mikaelian, the founder of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation who sought revenge for the Hamidian massacres by attempting to assassinate the Ottoman Sultan. He was quite the fascinating figure to read about, and his influence goes far beyond his name. In reading about him, I came across at least half a dozen people that lost their life in the genocide, or who would go on to seek revenge for it afterwards. It was an important reminder that no event exists in isolation, it always has years, even decades that lead up to it.

Thursday was liberation day in both Italy and Portugal, which both celebrated their overthrowing of fascism in each of their countries. I took the opportunity to write about an Italian and a Portuguese anti-fascist, respectively: Pietro Bruzzi, a partisan who was killed by the Nazis while fighting the fascists in his home region of Lombardy; and Mário Castelhano, a leader of the CGT that led a bunch of uprisings against the Estado Novo and was a vocal supporter of anti-colonialism and anti-racism (quite the exception during the 1920s/1930s!). After reading about these people that gave their lives struggling against dictatorship, I ended up watching the people of Porto singing Grândola, in a moving tribute to the anti-fascist revolution of 50 years ago. (You can watch it here)

Today I mostly did clean-up, as I discovered I have for months (possibly a year or two) been citing the wrong edition of a book in a bunch of different articles. It's not a terrible mistake, but it's nevertheless one I sought to correct, as it could have caused some embarrassing problems with verifying stuff that wasn't in its first edition. I also pushed a change onto the anarchy article, which had been sitting in my drafts for a while but which I never got around to adding. And I just wrote an article about Teresa Torrelles, who fits this month's Women in Red themes of T letters and women in health. I've now also begun preparations for a back-in-time-themed Women in Green edit-a-thon, which I'm excited to be a part of in the future. --Grnrchst (talk) 15:55, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red May 2024
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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter
The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
 * with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
 * with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
 * with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
 * with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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Gren's weekly update (3 May 2024)
This has been quite the week. Aside from my ongoing work to improve articles about Gaetano Bresci and Homage to Catalonia, I've been focused on three main themes this week.

For Women in Red's S&T edit-a-thon, which led into an Eastern Europe-focused event, I focused on creating new articles about the Subbotins, a revolutionary family of women who were involved in the Narodnik movement of the 1870s. The matriarch Sofya Subbotina must have had quite the influence on her daughters, Evgeniia, Maria and Nadezhda, because each of them were leading figures in various areas of the Narodnik movement and all of them were tried in the mass trials of Narodnik women.

After some research, as an article did not yet exist about him in either the Spanish or Catalan Wikipedias, I wrote an article about Francesc Arín, who was secretary general of the CNT during the fall of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship and rise of the Second Spanish Republic. I'd only read little about the treintistas before this, and usually from sources that were decidedly unsympathetic to them, so it was interesting to see how his trajectory developed over time. This is certainly one of the more overlooked members of the CNT, relative to how influential he ended up being.

While continuing my work on Voltairine de Cleyre, I ended up writing a biography about one of her lovers, Thomas Hamilton Garside. This was quite a fun research expedition, as the British and American sources on him are almost entirely disconnected: the American sources tend to act like he vanished off the face of the earth, the moment he left the United States; while the British sources almost entirely ignore his involvement in the labour movement, instead focusing on his later work as a liberal reformer. I'm not sure where else to look for other sources on him, as I think I exhausted most of my avenues, but hopefully I can dig more up about his activities with the ILP during the 1890s and 1900s.

I made sure to take 1 May off, as International Workers' Day is a public holiday where I live. It's always good to take a moment to appreciate myself as a worker and recognise the value I create in what I do. Next week, I'll probably end up writing a bit about Dyer Lum and more on Voltairine de Cleyre, while also trying to put the final touches on the Bresci article for its peer review. All the best to you, dear reader. :) --Grnrchst (talk) 15:20, 3 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Oh, thank you for writing those narodnik articles! The Fritschi circle has been on my to-do list for a while, and now I can at least blue-link the Subbotina sisters! (Now, if you wanted to take this draft off my hands... I've moved it to draftspace just now.) -- asilvering (talk) 17:42, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd have to look more into it first! I only got a tangential view of the circle from reading about the sisters, as Porter doesn't go too deep into it. Grnrchst (talk) 17:56, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * But of course! Even just tossing in half-finished sentences and notes about what sources might be useful is a step forward, since there's barely anything in the draft at this point. -- asilvering (talk) 19:27, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Drafted barnstar for WiG editathon
Hi Grnrchst! Normally, I go to WomenArtistUpdates for updated barnstar graphics (they do excellent graphic design work for both WiG and WiR), but it turns out that WAU is on an extended wikibreak right now -- so I've attempted to make a barnstar myself. What do you think? Could this work? Best, Alanna the Brave (talk) 22:45, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Wow! This looks amazing, thanks so much Alanna :D --Grnrchst (talk) 09:16, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Excellent! Glad to help. :-) Alanna the Brave (talk) 16:50, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Alanna the Brave: When do you think would be the best time for me to start sending out invites? I can start whenever, I just want to find the a balance for keeping it fresh in people's minds while also giving them enough prep time. --Grnrchst (talk) 08:50, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Maybe early next week? I'd say definitely give invitees 2-3 weeks notice. If you'd like to do this by requesting a mass-mailout to the WiG mailing list, you'll need to (1) update the WiG mailing list with any new members who have joined since last October, (2) paste the new editathon invitation contents to a new section on the mailing list talk page, and (3) request a mass message mail-out. One note: make sure the invite is error-free before any mail-out request (I've learned through painful experience!). Let me know if you'd like me to check/assist with anything. Alanna the Brave (talk) 18:04, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

The Core Contest is halfway through!
Hello Core Contest participants, we've officially hit the halfway mark! With just over three weeks remaining until the May 31 deadline (23:59 UTC), it's time to ramp up our efforts. Remember, Wikipedia wants to be edited!

Now is a good time to set goals for your article: What section needs the most improvement? Which sources remain unused? How can you best spend your time? Good luck and happy editing! Cheers from the judges, Femke, Casliber, Aza24. –  Aza24  (talk)   02:28, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

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Gren's weekly update (10 May 2024)
I've been trying to relax a bit this week, but I still think I got a good amount done.

On the de Cleyre front, I've gotten another section of her biography written, along with articles about her son Harry de Cleyre and his father James B. Elliott. I also rewrote the article on Dyer Lum, which I felt obliged to do seeing as I'm responsible for it losing its GA rating. Lum was quite the interesting character to look into, as someone that ended up being related to a tonne of different movements throughout his life. I'll still need to add more information about his role in the Haymarket affair before I renominate it. The further along I get with de Cleyre herself, the more I'm realising I'll need to make some big cuts once I get closer to the finished product. There's just so much to write about her and her prose is so well written it's hard to get it down to summary style.

For Women in Red's Eastern Europe drive, I translated the article on Esther Porter, authored by Mikelzubi, from the Spanish Wikipedia. I also got a starter article about Ksenia Ge written, although I haven't gone too far into the sources that give a deeper look at her life. These are two women in history that I've mostly heard of in relation to their male relatives, so I was happy to read more about them and their involvement in Patagonia Rebelde and the Russian Civil War respectively. I hope to look more into both of them at some point.

I've also been trying to help out with the Anarchism WikiProject's cleanup drive, which has so far involved the unglamorous work of seeing to the dreaded "citation needed" tags. Next week, I'll continue my work on de Cleyre and her associates, and hopefully do some upkeep on a couple ideology/movement articles I've had my eye on. Have a lovely weekend everyone. :) --Grnrchst (talk) 14:35, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Joseph Déjacque
RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Your WikiCup submission: Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Déjacque
Hi Grnrchst, thanks for participating in the WikiCup. You recently submitted Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Déjacque for DYK points, but unfortunately it is not eligible for DYK points because it was nominated to DYK as a newly promoted GA. I know this can be disappointing, but WikiCup/Scoring states that only newly created or expanded DYKs are eligible for DYK points. The rules specifically exclude DYK submissions from receiving points if their appearance on DYK is solely because the article was a newly promoted GA. Epicgenius (talk) 00:17, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the note about anarchism
This is from User:Carptrash. I have been cut out (not blocked) from signing on as me so am reduced to doing this. It seems to involve my computer because I can sign on elsewhere, so it is not my account. My last year has been fraught with medical issues, for example I am just back from a several hour chemo session, so, after almost 20 years of editing, wikipedia has slipped down my list of "to dos." But I do appreciate hearing from you, I discovered anarchism when I wrote a high school term paper on it in 1967 and found myself thinking, "that's me" and pretty much still feel the same way, though my days of taking to the streets are over. If you feel like responding please do so at carptrash. Einar aka carptrash aka 2600:8800:590F:8600:4D1D:C7F2:CD1F:76E5 (talk) 22:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note and I am taking as good care as is possible. carptrash aka 2600:8800:590F:8600:4D1D:C7F2:CD1F:76E5 (talk) 13:37, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Well now you have me reading various anarchist articles and I discovered that I'd posted the tombstone picture for Voltairine de Cleyre, taken during the 100th anniversary of Haymarket. Surprise! 2600:8800:590F:8600:4D1D:C7F2:CD1F:76E5 (talk) 15:06, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

June GAs
Dear Gren, I would like to learn more about good articles as I have no experience with them and am not very experienced generally. Also I actually have limited time in June so you may rather that I was not involved! But if you don't mind me using the bit of time I have to learn about GAs, then I would like to have a look at Mary Jane Patterson, American educator, unless someone else has got to her first? But also happy to work with someone else if they wanted to share her. I am in the WiR project normally. Balance person (talk) 07:45, 20 May 2024 (UTC)


 * @Balance person: Hey! This is no problem at all, we´d be delighted to have you on board! If you want any notes once you have worked on the article and want to know if it´s ready for GA, feel free to ask someone at WiG to take a look! We could give you a 20-minute-review for it. I look forward to seeing your work on Patterson! --Grnrchst (talk) 15:02, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the warm welcome! Balance person (talk) 17:25, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Dear Gren,
 * I have had a go at Mary Jane Patterson and hope that I have improved the page a little. I do not think it is ready for GA yet though. Partly because of her era, sex, colour, there is just not that much hard info that I can find to fill out the story. Most sources that I have checked just repeat the same stuff. And I am not sure how much I could go into historical context of Black American educational lack of opportunity etc without getting way off her as an individual. So I would be grateful if you could take a look and suggest how I might proceed? Only if/when you have time of course! Thanks if you can! Balance person (talk) 10:13, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Balance person: Hey. When looking for sources, I think Google Scholar is an invaluable resource for finding them. On searching for "Mary Jane Patterson" "educator", it turned up many sources, some about the history of African American women in education, others about Patterson herself. I'd highly recommend looking through some of the sources listed here. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:14, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * That is a great tip, thanks Gren! And I hope your next week is a lot better than your past one. Balance person (talk) 11:22, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Dear Gren,
 * I have been working on Mary Jane Patterson. I am away the first week of June. So, whenever it is convenient, I would be grateful if someone in WiG could let me know what would need to be done to get it a little farther on. Thanks so much for your Google Scholar idea. I will be using that from now on on everything I edit! My research skills are still developing, as you can see! But I am very happy to learn. Balance person (talk) 08:32, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Balance person: Feel free to submit it for a 20-minute assessment. There's three experienced reviewers there that would be happy to point to where you can improve things further. Personally, I don't think it's quite there yet, as there are still a couple sections that aren't cited. The quotation in the early life section also strikes me as confusing, as it's not made clear what or who is being quoted here. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:15, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Gren. I will put it in and then work on it again on my return! Balance person (talk) 07:55, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello Gren,
 * I have worked on Mary Jane Patterson again after receiving a very useful 20 minute assessment. I am now trying to learn how to submit it for a Good Article review. I hope I do it correctly! Balance person (talk) 15:12, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello Gren, I have put Mary Jane Patterson in for GA nomination. Do I need to add her name to any editathon list or anything or do I just now wait and see what befalls her? Balance person (talk) 09:33, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Balance person: Hey! That's great to hear. Yes, feel free to add it to the nominations list and I'll get it put on the timeline. Hopefully someone will take a look at it soon. (One thing I'll mention is that there are a few reference errors that you should sort out, like the bare url reference for Chalkboard Champions) --Grnrchst (talk) 10:10, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reminder re the reference errors! I think I have caught them now. Have added MJP to the nominations list. Balance person (talk) 13:22, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello again, Gren. It's been a while since I put Mary Jane Patterson on the GA nominations list. I am just wondering if this is a kind of normal length of waiting time? Is it acceptable to ask someone to look at the article or shall I just get on with something else for a while? Just wondering! Balance person (talk) 20:40, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Balance person: This is normal. In fact, it's unfortunately quite common for GA nominations to go months without a review. On the Women in Green project talk page you'll see that there's a backlog of unreviewed nominations dating back almost a year. This can only be fixed by more people reviewing articles. You could ask someone to review, I don't think there's any rules against it, but I can't guarantee that they will. So I'd suggest getting around to other things while you wait. --Grnrchst (talk) 08:22, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Gren. Will do! Balance person (talk) 09:01, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Gren. Good news. Mary Jane Patterson has been passed as a good article. The review process was interesting and I learned a lot so thanks for being the catalyst! Balance person (talk) 17:34, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * @Balance person: That's wonderful to hear! Congratulations and excellent work on that article :D --Grnrchst (talk) 18:08, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red June 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk 07:04, 23 May 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Gren's weekly(ish) update (24 May 2024)
It's not been a good couple weeks for me, so I have very little to report. A couple weeks ago I and a couple other editors worked on a new article about the Constitution Protection Region of Southern Fujian, which was a fascinating statelet of the Warlord Era during the Third Chinese Revolution. More recently I ended up rewriting the article about the Frisian freedom in order to clean up some major problems I had introduced to the article back when I was still new to writing Wikipedia articles. It still has a lot of room for improvement, but I'm at least confident that it's not a problem article anymore.

On the personal side, this past fortnight has been very taxing for me. On top of sorting out moving flats, which has been very stress-inducing, my work computer took some physical damage that has put it completely out of commission and in need of repairs. All of my research documents, drafts and other work related stuff are now sitting in a repair shop and I don't know when it'll be ready to go again... I managed to temporarily fill in with a substitute computer, but that one also had issues that I needed to get repaired today. Needless to say, this has been an exhausting and expensive couple weeks for me, and I hope this comes to an end soon so I can get back to Wiki writing. At the very least I hope my work computer will be fixed in time for the Women in Green event starting next Saturday.

We all have difficult spots I suppose, but may your weekend be full of relief and joy, dear reader. --Grnrchst (talk) 17:21, 24 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I now realise there are other articles I did some work on last week (Maria Orsetti, Samuel H. Gordon, Anarchist-Communist Federation of Occitania, Anti-statism, Hanka Grothendieck, Nathan Navro, Life and Labor Commune and more on de Cleyre), but I'm honestly too drained to even think about what to say about them. --Grnrchst (talk) 17:26, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Evgeniia Subbotina
Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Gren's rapid-fire weekly update (31 May 2024)
Got laptop back, took way too long and cost way too much to fix. Did a bunch of stuff on Voltairine de Cleyre before the core contest ended, still got more to do there as it's not 100% yet, but I'm happy on the progress made so far. Wrote article about Sophie Kropotkin, partner was surprised that one didn't exist but a lot of male historians almost exclusively refer to her as "Kropotkin's wife/widow" and downplay her own accomplishments. Still stressed and financially strained from the move. Gotta prepare for coordinating a month-long edit-a-thon now. Good night. --Grnrchst (talk) 15:55, 31 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Speaking of downplayed women in Kropotkin's sphere, there's Olga Levashova. To hear Kropotkin tell it, she was more important than anyone else in the Geneva exile scene. To hear the historians... crickets. It didn't help my search that Левашова has virtually the same birth and death years, but Kropotkin's own bare "Madame Olga" wasn't a great help either. -- asilvering (talk) 18:27, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Asilvering: Oof that's frustrating. Caroline Cahm's Kropotkin: And the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872-1886 points to her being mentioned in Jan Marinus Meijer's Knowledge and Revolution pp. 79, 101, but that's all I could find in English that you haven't already got down :/ I just tried looking to see if there was anything on her in Деятели революционного движения в России but couldn't find anything. Would have to look more into Russian sources to see if there's anything else. --Grnrchst (talk) 14:24, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 * It's so aggravating that even the men who did acknowledge the importance of women in these movements didn't write much of anything about them! Thanks for the tip. -- asilvering (talk) 04:30, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of María Pacheco
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Women in Green GA Editathon June 2024 - Going Back in Time
I've added something here: WikiProject Women in Green/20-Minute Article Assessments. --evrik (talk) 16:23, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I took the next step, Talk:Queen Lupa/GA1. --evrik (talk) 23:03, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Evrik: Great! Add it to the nominations list on the project page using the comment formatting, and I'll be happy to add it back to the timeline. --Grnrchst (talk) 08:44, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of María Pacheco
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Gren's weekly update (7 June 2024)
First week of the Women in Green edit-a-thon is going along swimmingly! I started off by researching María Pacheco, a figure of the comuneros revolt that I knew about only on the surface level. It was very interesting to see where she came from, how her family clashed with the monarchy and even opposed the Inquisition, and the background that shaped her resistance to Rey Carlos. Thanks to Sawyer777 for reviewing that article, I very much enjoyed this wee research dive.

For Women in Red, as it's the X-Z month, I took a look at some women whose names start with those letters. Alongside the Spanish libertarian youth leader Julia Romera Yáñez and the Swedish solidarity activist Eva X Moberg, I spent a lot of time focusing on Mochizuki Yuriko and Wong Sau Ying. Researching first-wave feminists is always fascinating, as you get to see just how much times have changed in the past century. I was astounded to find out how controversial the bob cut was back in their day, especially in Wong's case, as it even caused a panic among the British colonial authorities! I ended up going through (as far as I know) all the English language sources about Wong, so I ended up nominating her article for Women in Green too. I'd like to know more about Mochizuki, especially her time in Manchuria, but I would need to get access to a certain source for that to happen.

I was also caught by the news of the 2024 Nigerian general strike, so just had to make an article about it when I heard about their demands and that they managed to shut down airports and the national grid. Negotiations with the government are ongoing, so we'll see if it escalates or receives an amicable result some time next week. Finally I've capped things off by researching Cécile Fatiman, the Vodou priestess that incited the Haitian Revolution. I only ever heard about her as a footnote in the wider story, so it was good to read more about her, even if some information about her was frustratingly contradictory and lacking. I hope to do more work on that article next week and see about nominating it for GA. All the best to you this weekend dear reader. --Grnrchst (talk) 15:23, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Wong Sau Ying
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Your GA nomination of Cécile Fatiman
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Dragons


Any ideas on how I can access this? --evrik (talk) 06:35, 13 June 2024 (UTC)


 * @Evrik: Might be worth asking at the resource request noticeboard. --Grnrchst (talk) 08:31, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

I never knew that resource existed. Thanks! --evrik (talk) 13:43, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Gren's weekly update (14 June 2024)
I've had a relatively relaxed week this week, in part because I got so much done last week that I was left a bit confused as to what to do next. Mostly I've been responding to reviews of my own good article nominations and reviewing other nominations for the Women in Green event, which is coming along quite nicely. For Women in Red, I wrote an article about Evgeniia Zavadskaia, another of the narodnik women that was tried in the Trial of the 193. It's left me wondering how many more of the 193 are left to write about, I could probably put together a red list for it. I also took to expanding the article on the SAC Syndikalisterna from stub. For a few months, I've wanted to learn more about their participation in the Swedish welfare system, so it was interesting to write more a bit about that.

I've capped the week off by preparing some of next week's coming GA nominations for the WiG event. I wrote a bit about Quilago, as I was attracted to this story of a queen regnant resisting an expanding empire. I wasn't expecting to read about how big a role she has had in Ecuadorian national mythology and the controversy surrounding that! I will have to dig further into Spanish language sources, as there wasn't too much in the English sources, but I'm enjoying the process so far. I also expanded the article on Sophie Kropotkin some more, after I remembered that Woodcock's book wrote some about her. It definitely resulted in some good additional information to fill out the article, and I'll need to check some other biographies before nominating. I'm sure there's more to learn about the botanical princess!

To whoever's reading this, I hope you have a fine weekend. Next week will be the last one of spring here in the northern hemisphere, I can already feel that sumer is icumen in. --Grnrchst (talk) 14:07, 14 June 2024 (UTC)


 * There's a list of all 193 and their lawyers at ru:Процесс ста девяноста трёх, if you want somewhere to start from. I assume there isn't much to say about most of the defendants, but there's probably at least enough for an interesting list article you could use as a jumping-point for the more fully documented members. -- asilvering (talk) 18:16, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Asilvering: Thanks for sharing this with me! It seems as though 49 of the defendants were notable enough to at least have a ru-wiki article, 14 of whom were women, so that's a good place to start. --Grnrchst (talk) 14:06, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Wong Sau Ying
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Gren's weekly update (21 June 2024)
This has been a difficult week for me, as I find myself on the edge of burnout with wiki work and as life is weighing heavily on me again. I haven't gotten as much done as I would have liked to this week; I had a splitting headache on Monday and was sleep-deprived on Tuesday. Still, I managed to take on a couple articles for review: @Reidgreg's article on Dorothy Dworkin and @Thebiguglyalien's article on Kahina Bahloul were fascinating reads, I very much enjoyed learning about these two amazing women and their effect on their communities. The highest of compliments to these two editors, who I think are clearly talented researchers and writers.

On my own end, I've tried to do further improvements to the articles on Wong Sau Ying and Cécile Fatiman, per the comments on their respective reviews. I've also done more work on Quilago with some Spanish sources I found, which provided even more information about her life and legacy. For Juneteenth I also gave a go at expanding the article on black anarchism, which had previously been rather short and lacking in detail. Thankfully the sources I worked from provided a very interesting look at the tendency's development, and how it distinguished itself from both the authoritarian tendencies within the black power movement and the racist tendencies of the white American anarchist movement. I hope to look more into this in the future in order to further improve our collective understanding of the movement.

Next week is the last week of the Women in Green edit-a-thon, so I hope I can recover somewhat over the weekend and can see it through to its conclusion. I'm very proud of what we've managed to accomplish so far, with about one new nomination each day. Events like these, where I can work closely together with others, have been among my best experiences on this platform. I'm so happy to have been a part of this. --Grnrchst (talk) 14:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Quilago
Excellent work! Feel free to put up your articles on WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge or any of the relevant regional challenges! Keep up the good work!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:09, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

GAN María Pacheco
I have reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/María Pacheco and proposed an alternative hook based on the first hook you listed. I'd like to ask you if there are any issues with the ALT4 hook suggestion before I pass it. – Editør (talk) 10:49, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Wong Sau Ying
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Your GA nomination of Quilago
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Gren's weekly update (28 June 2024) "I'm tired, boss"
This week, I found myself completely burnt out. With the exception of working on opened GAN reviews and a few small edits here and there, I haven't been able to do much else. I'm lacking in the energy, motivation and inspiration needed to do a lot of this work, and the stresses of my life are piling up as well. On top of that, I've become increasingly demoralised by seeing how our work is viewed, discussed and used off-wiki, whether it's constant complaints about perceived wrongs with articles or the project as a whole, or Content Creators profiting off our labour without so much as mentioning the platform. The scale of what we're aiming to accomplish here sometimes frightens me as well, given how under-staffed many of our projects often feel. Although I've never been more proud of the work I'm contributing to here, it's getting more and more difficult to see the positive benefits of what I'm doing when compared with how much time and labour I'm expending on it. I'm just so tired.

Over the past few months of research, I've come across three historical figures (Peter Kropotkin, Voltairine de Cleyre and Fernand Pelloutier) whose health was damaged by overwork, even contributing directly to at least one of their deaths. So, I think my books might be trying to tell me that I need a break. I'm happy to see through the remaining GANs that I have nominated and close out the WiG event in a few days, but I don't know how much more I can do than that. Larger projects and efforts that I'm in the middle of will need to wait. I need some time off. All the best to anyone reading this. Take care. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:45, 28 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Take care, Grnrchst! We all need to look after ourselves, and you've done so much great work this year. Sometimes it's best to get away from the internet for a while. Alanna the Brave (talk) 11:59, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Take care, and rest well. Wikipedia will still be here when you get back, and the subjects you write on will be just as dead two weeks, two months, or two years from now. As for the complainers, well. Tell them to step up or shut up. -- asilvering (talk) 22:35, 10 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Gren, thank you so much for the WiG message you sent me! I had no idea how you felt. You are your boss, and you deserve a break. Perhaps read a bit more than feeling that you have to edit. I turned to writing my little stories, such as today's connecting to a 9-year-old DYK, but at the same time to the birthday of a friend whose birthday is today and who heard the piece with me singing in choir. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:32, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia, (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:22, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
 * My story today is - because of the anniversary of the premiere OTD in 1782 - about Die Entführung aus dem Serail, opera by Mozart, while yesterday's was - because of the TFA - about Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera by Offenbach, - so 3 times Mozart if you click on "music" ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:00, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:26, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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

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


 * with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
 * with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
 * with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
 * with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

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

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (,, and ) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red August 2024
--Lajmmoore (talk 14:27, 30 June 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Your GA nomination of Quilago
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DYK for María Pacheco
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