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Lance Martin
Please read my page about working on jazz articles. I request that users avoid creating orphans or barely sourced articles that are unlikely to be expanded. Thanks. Vmavanti (talk) 01:07, 16 December 2020 (UTC) Vmavanti (talk) 20:59, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * That's an incredibly useful resource, thanks for directing me towards it. I only noted this person because of the obits, I'll pay more attention next time. Jessamyn (talk) 01:28, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the compliment. Some people get angry when I direct them to my page.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Goldendale Sentinel (December 22)
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News On Wiki check-in
Hi there! Thank you for your interest in our campaign to improve the public's knowledge about local newspapers. Time has flown since we got going in September, and our six month campaign ends in just a month! We'd like to check in with you about work you have done, or any articles you'd like to write or edit to do before we wrap up.

We published a mid-campaign report, highlighting strong work from several Wikipedia editors (both new wiki folks and veterans); contributions from Kristy Roschke's journalism course at Arizona State University; and strong engagement from groups like AfroCROWD and Wikimedians of the Caribbean.

As we begin our final push, we would love to learn what you have been working on, or help you with any challenges. We're hosting several informal video conference sessions in the next week. (If that format is no good for you, just let us know.) We'd love to hear what newspapers have caught your interest, any articles you've already written, and also any kind of support you could use in writing up newspapers that lack Wikipedia entries. We'll focus especially on newspapers of the Caribbean in our final month, as we continue to work on Black-owned U.S. newspapers, and newspapers of Washington State. Please register for one of these Zoom meetings. If these times don't work for you, or if you hate Zoom, etc., just reply to this email, and we'll find another way to connect with you.
 * Saturday Jan. 30, 2pm Pacific / 5 PM Eastern (with Pete)
 * Tuesday Feb. 2, 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern (with Pete)
 * Wednesday Feb. 3, 12:30pm Pacific / 3:30 PM Eastern (with Sherry)
 * Thursday Feb. 4, 12:30pm Pacific / 3:30 PM Eastern (with Sherry)

We hope to hear from you soon! -Pete Forsyth (talk) 00:49, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Pete -- this wiki post says "Just reply to this email" so I guess I'll use native wiki replying. I made a lot of articles and did a lot of re-orging, I didn't see other people really plugging in with the re-orged pages tho (I left a "more info here" note in a Wikidata section in December, since I know nothing about Wikidata, and no one added/completed). I tried to remember to use the hashtag. One challenge I found was that there was no way for me to "take over" someone else's draft without sending it through the articles-for-review process (which I don't have to do since my account is auto-patrolled) and so I maybe didn't do as much draft-finalizing as I might have otherwise. You saw the adjustments I did on the NOW pages. I also created these articles:

Good luck with the wrap up! Jessamyn (talk) 01:26, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Milwaukee Courier
 * New England Informer
 * The Neighborhood Leader
 * Metro Herald (Virginia)
 * The Triibe
 * Black Lens News


 * Oh geez, yes, I copy-pasted from an emailed version and didn't update that part. Thanks for replying here, this is super useful stuff. I'll follow up in the next few days. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 01:43, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * And, thanks to your quick feedback I was able to fix it on other people's talk pages...hopefully soon enough to avoid similar confusion. Thanks much for the heads up, and for your excellent work. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 01:56, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Stadium organists
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Precious anniversary
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David Marchant
I've been watching the PBS NOVA program on bias and sexual harassment in the workplace, in particular in science and academia. It's splendid. I'll post it to the article in External Sources. Thanks so much for creating the Marchant article. I expect it will get many well-deserved views. I sent the URL for the NOVA program to many women friends and colleagues who have undoubtedly had similar experiences in their lives. Activist (talk) 05:26, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for adding that link, I saw the movie before it was on TV, it's been nice to see a little flurry of activity on that page (not all as positive as yours). Jessamyn (talk) 03:35, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks again, and happy editing! Gamaliel ( talk ) 22:19, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Minna P. Gill
Nice work on this article. Funny story - I was just reading about her father the other night while leafing through a book on DC artists. He's somewhere on my list of articles to create for the local art scene...not at the top, but somewhere down the middle. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 21:04, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Bernard Gotfryd images
I notice you've been uploading https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PD-Gotfryd images. Which is great! I can't do it all. But I have made a contact with the Library of Congress person in charge of the collection (Hanna ... Soltys - I think?), and she seems interested in correcting errors, which do show up time to time. For example, File:Sandy_Hill_GMA.jpg, which their file has named Cindy Hill; there are others, I don't think they got very good documentation of each image with the donation. I know I sent a few corrections with evidence and she seemed grateful, and made the changes (they can take a week or two to take effect). Would you like me to put you in touch? Or you can write them without my introduction, of course, I'm no one special, I just seem to have started the Commons uploading from there. --GRuban (talk) 23:11, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh hey that is great. I saw the copyright template thing you made for the images (I had not known how to do that and now I do) because I was making one at the same time. And I also noticed the Sandy/Cindy thing. I had another person I had written to in the past at LOC about issues with some of the C. M. Bell images but I'd love another contact. If you wouldn't mind putting me in touch, my email is just my username at gmail. This has been a fun project to mess around with. Thanks for reaching out Jessamyn (talk) 03:16, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Like this guy. Not just an author, he founded the ACLU!

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Citing membership in professional organizations?
What, if anything, would you suggest be done to note membership in professional organizations like the Kansas Press Association (KPA) and Local Independent Online News (LION) for newspapers like The Beacon (Kansas City) and the Shawnee Mission Post?

I know both are members of the KPA and The Beacon is a member of LION but neither article says that. The article for The Beacon says it won an award from LION but doesn't say it's a member.

I'm writing you, because you were very helpful when I created the article on The Beacon ten months ago. Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 14:16, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello. I think really the best thing to do will be to track this information down in an online source. When I have to find a citation for a fact I'll often backtrack and just see if I can find news or other mention of both of those things in one place. Like KPA has an online directory and I think that would count since it's a non-controversial fact about the newspaper. Jessamyn (talk) 15:54, 19 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I found a similar source for LION.
 * Is there a space in an infobox / Wikidata item for such? DavidMCEddy (talk) 16:00, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Good question, I am not really good with Wikidata so my guess is that the answer is yes but I don't know more than that. I would assume "Has membership in" must be some sort of entity relationship but I'm not super good with Wikidata and if an infobox doesn't already have a slot for it, I'd leave it out. Jessamyn (talk) 00:57, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Ernestine H. Stevens


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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 23:54, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Biographies of women
Hi there, Jessamyn, and thanks for all the women's biographies you've been creating this year. I saw you had left a message on Rosie's page and decided to see what you had been doing, now that you are a member of Women in Red. At a rough count, it looks as if over 50 of the 80 articles you have started this year have been about women. That's just the kind of input we need to reduce the gender gap. It's great to see that with all your other duties you are still able to fit in so much editing time on Wikipedia. Keep up the good work.--Ipigott (talk) 13:37, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Hiya -- thank you. Yeah I really decided I wanted to help get more articles about historical notable women into Wikipedia. The DC/MD/VA/DE contest helped me focus on some fun biographies. I'm spending this month mostly working on the patrol backlog. I really want to be a Wikipedian who knows how to do a lot of different tasks but my heart always remains with the Women in Red project. Jessamyn (talk) 17:13, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your participation in the November 2021 New Pages Patrol drive
Thank you for reviewing or re-reviewing 106 articles, which helped contribute to an overall 1276-article reduction in the backlog during the drive. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  12:29, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

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I Love Librarians
I would like to mention that I love librarians. They have helped me considerably in creating 500 Did You Know articles. I have used Ask A Librarian service from many libraries across the United States and around the world for the development of articles. My favorite one has been the Ask A Librarian service of the Library of Congress. They would give me hints about hard copy books in their answer to a specific question. From those hints I would order ILL books, which is called MeL here in Michigan. All these pictures in the MeL article are mine of books I obtained from time to time through the Michigan ILL system. It so happens that Michigan is really big on education, so has many excellent University libraries that I borrow books from. It's like having access to the Library of Congress, except the books are delivered to my local library (across the street from where I live). Sometimes I actually do get some books from the Library of Congress. I believe actual hard copy books make the best references. Not all books are online, as some think. It turns out that 97% of all the articles I have created in my 15 year Wikipedia "career" have become Did You Know articles.

From my list of Did You Know articles you can see I did several multiple article Did You Know hooks. One was a 16 article hook and another was a 32 article hook - both of which were records at the time. The Library of Congress was very useful in helping me being able to do these records. Here are a couple of other Did You Know records I made as explained in the captions of the images. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:39, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Hey that's really neat. I know MeL, as I've been to Michigan many times to speak to librarians there. So glad they have been helping you with all those cool DYK articles Jessamyn (talk) 16:52, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Ponchitta Pierce has been accepted
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