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Books & Bytes – Issue 47
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Issue 47, September – October 2021 
 * On-wiki Wikipedia Library notification rolling out
 * Search tool deployed
 * New My Library design improvements

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December 2021 GOCE Newsletter
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Books & Bytes – Issue 48
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Issue 48, November – December 2021 
 * 1Lib1Ref 2022
 * Wikipedia Library notifications deployed

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Taxonomic plant categories
Hi, please see WikiProject Plants/Categorization. There should be at least 10 articles before creating a new taxonomic category. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:11, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Peter, thanks for that heads-up. It all seems a bit bureacratic, though. Maias (talk) 13:14, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, I guess guidelines, like the enormous WP:Manual of Style, are the price we sometimes have to pay for consistency, even if they can seem somewhat bureaucratic. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:58, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter – 018



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Books & Bytes – Issue 49
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Issue 49, January – February 2022 
 * New library collections
 * Blog post published detailing technical improvements

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Nomination of Birds Australia Northern NSW for deletion
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WikiProject Tree of Life/Newsletter/019



 * March 2022&mdash;Issue 019


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GOCE April 2022 newsletter
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Onychophorans of Australia


A tag has been placed on Category:Onychophorans of Australia indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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DEFAULTSORT
Inoticed you removing the Defaultsort function out of bird species. Are you removing them from all species, even common ones? I can help you as I am working on adding tax authors to categories and can also remove them as I go along....Pvmoutside (talk) 14:29, 27 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Pvmoutside - I would be happy to remove the defsort template from all bird species. I find it unhelpful and distracting, when simply adding a key to particular categories when necessary would be less obtrusive. Thanks for any help you can give. Cheers, Maias (talk) 14:51, 27 April 2022 (UTC).


 * I agree with you Maias...I've begun to delete some... I also posted a note on the Bitdtalk page since it involves a ton of pages....Pvmoutside (talk) 18:23, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I have even found oz birds with no oz biota or oz project tags on the talk page... inneresting... JarrahTree 01:19, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah - there seem to be a few neglected species hiding in the woodwork... Maias (talk) 01:36, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * even ants, spiders and other insects that have never been tagged for oz biota, intriguing... JarrahTree 07:42, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I'll keep my eyes open for such. Maias (talk) 07:49, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter – 020



 * April 2022&mdash;Issue 020


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Defaultsort
I've noticed the editor Curios22 re-adding the default sort category to pages that it previously was deleted from. For example, Northern rough-winged swallow was Re-added January 2022 before I deleted it again today.. Thought you'd like to know....Pvmoutside (talk) 23:34, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. Maias (talk) 23:38, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Gongylophis


A tag has been placed on Category:Gongylophis indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 03:15, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 50
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Issue 50, March – April 2022 
 * New library partner - SPIE
 * 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

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Books & Bytes – Issue 51
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Issue 51, May – June 2022 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * New library partners
 * SAGE Journals
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 * University of Chicago Press
 * Information Processing Society of Japan
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 * 1Lib1Ref May 2022

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Board of Trustees election
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Books & Bytes – Issue 52
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Issue 52, July – August 2022 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * New instant-access collections:
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Guild of Copy Editors' October 2022 newsletter
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Malay peninsula categories
Hi Maias, I noticed you have been setting up some Malay peninsula categories as a subset of the Malaysia categories. Biogeographically this makes sense, however the title does not quite fit within Malaysia, as the peninsula goes up to the Kra Isthmus. Is this category tree intended to be this expansive, or only to serve as a Malaysia subcat? Best, CMD (talk) 02:48, 2 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for reminding me. I have been thinking of the Malay Peninsula as meaning West Malaysia, but of course it includes bits of Thailand, Burma and (I would think) Singapore as well. I have been focusing on biogeographical entities (especially Borneo at the moment). I will henceforth be more careful about the differences between these categories. Maias (talk) 03:00, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I would think Singapore too, but many don't seem to. At any rate, if you want to just continue with your current work and distinguish it without much effort, "Peninsular Malaysia" is a semantically similar option. CMD (talk) 03:39, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 53
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Issue 53, September – October 2022 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * New collections:
 * Edward Elgar
 * E-Yearbook
 * Corriere della Serra
 * Wikilala
 * Collections moved to Library Bundle:
 * Ancestry
 * New feature: Outage notification
 * Spotlight: Collections indexed in EDS

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Amphibians described in 1772


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Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:27, 9 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Gerda. Maias (talk) 11:25, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Molluscs described in 1787


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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter error
The GOCE December 2022 newsletter, as sent on 9 December, contains an erroneous start date for our December Blitz. The Blitz will start on 11 December rather than on 17 December, as stated in the newsletter. I'm sorry for the mistake and for disrupting your talk page; thanks for your understanding. Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Maias!
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Happy New Year! Maias, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

— Moops  ⋠ T ⋡ 04:32, 2 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for your kind greetings, Moops! Much appreciated - and all the best to you too. Cheers. Maias (talk) 06:05, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Taxa named by Johannes Zorn


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Books & Bytes – Issue 54
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Issue 54, November – December 2022 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * New collections:
 * British Newspaper Archive
 * Findmypast
 * University of Michigan Press
 * ACLS
 * Duke University Press
 * 1Lib1Ref 2023
 * Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report
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A feather for your cap!

 * Thanks for that - much appreciated! Cheers, Maias (talk) 00:43, 7 March 2023 (UTC)