User talk:MeegsC/Archive 5

Your GA nomination of Black-cowled oriole
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Your GA nomination of Black-cowled oriole
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Imperial Triple Crown
Congrats on the Imperial Triple Crown! You might be interested in a userbox I made, :

— Bilorv ( talk ) 17:40, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! I shall display it with great pride. MeegsC (talk) 17:42, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Trinidad euphonia
~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 00:02, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for Mountain blackeye
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Your GA nomination of Preening
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Your GA nomination of Preening
The article Preening you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Preening 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 CaptainEek -- CaptainEek (talk) 00:42, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Black-sided flowerpecker
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 March newsletter
Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
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 * 🇷🇼 Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
 * Flag of the United Nations.svg Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
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These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.

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Extirpation vs local extinction
MeegsC:

I pinged you on a discussion you may be interested in. See Talk: Local extinction..Pvmoutside (talk) 16:06, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Trinidad euphonia
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Trinidad euphonia 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 Legobot, on behalf of Starsandwhales -- Starsandwhales (talk) 01:20, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Black-chinned sparrow
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Mothercraft Training Society
Hi MeegsC

I agree the source is confusing, but in 1930 when the annex was opened the current Queen's title was Princess Elizabeth of York - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_and_honours_of_Elizabeth_II

The title of the Queen Mother at the time she opened the annex was the Duchess of York. What would be more appropriate for a maternity care centre than to name its new building after a four year old princess? People were very fussy about titles and names then and if the intention was to call it after the Duchess of York they would have done so. They were so deferential then, that I suspect the board of the centre would have asked the Palace if the Duchess would like the new annex to be named in honour of the Duchess (who was a patron of the Mothercraft Training Society) and she suggested that it should be named after her child, Princess Elizabeth.

Simon — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simon Edwards Esq (talk • contribs) 11:29, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Mothercraft Training Society
It would make no sense at all, and in fact it would have been a slight to the Duchess, to have called it the Princess Elizabeth Hostel, if the intention was to have named it after the Duchess. After all she opened it, and if it was to have been called after her why wouldn't it have been called after her title at the time of opening - The Duchess of York Hostel? Why would she want it called after an old title of hers? Remember that at that time she had no idea that her four year old daughter, Princess Elizabeth of York, would become queen - indeed it was very unlikely. I don't have a source to confirm, I'm afraid, so don't worry about DYK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simon Edwards Esq (talk • contribs) 11:59, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Pings
Hi there, what triggers a notification is using any of the notification templates AND a signature with the same edit. If you forget to sign, it does not work. I’m sure Gertrude has the nomination page on her watchlist and she’ll thus see it anyway.  Schwede 66  19:06, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * – yep. Unfortunately, I forgot to sign. D'oh! I was hoping one (or both) of you would be watching. MeegsC (talk) 19:10, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * So what you do in future is two further edits. Step one: remove notification templates and save. Step 2: paste templates back in, sign and save. That fixes it. If you’ve signed but had forgotten the template (or messed it up), it’s easier. Add / fix template, change the time in the signature time stamp, and save.  Schwede 66  19:17, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Mothercraft Training Society
MeegsC thanks for working at this one. Moonraker is brilliant and has come to my rescue again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simon Edwards Esq (talk • contribs) 20:51, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Trinidad euphonia
The article Trinidad euphonia you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Trinidad euphonia 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 Starsandwhales -- Starsandwhales (talk) 20:21, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Prep sets
Thank you for your work on building prep sets. Prep 2, which I have just moved into the queue, seems a nicely balanced set. Before you finish with a set, you should remove any unused at the foot, which is only there to provide an example of the credit format for nominations I suppose. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:36, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * - sure! Sorry to have forgotten. I've enjoyed learning the process; time-consuming but interesting. Glad to do my bit! MeegsC (talk) 07:15, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

hi again
Just curious about 2nd image on infobox, but Purple-throated cotinga and Ring Ouzel has it.
 * If you look, there is no other picture of a female purple-throated cotinga on that article's page. Same thing on the ring ouzel page. However, there is a picture of a female/nonbreeding male elsewhere on the black-chinned sparrow page – with additional information in the caption. MeegsC (talk) 09:23, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, so only male bird can get multiple images. I'm trying to get a quality image on Flickr on every GA or becoming GA bird article soon, but thanks for the info. 180.194.141.59 (talk) 09:41, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * No, you mistake me. For one thing, females and nonbreeding males look the same, so trying to make it a male/female thing is ridiculous. Right now, on the black-chinned sparrow page, we have one clear male, one female/nonbreeding male/youngster, and one back view. No repeated images. Perhaps on other pages, there are repeated images. In my view, there shouldn't be. Each picture should illustrate something different. Yes, I could move the nonbreeding bird picture into the infobox, but that would mean losing the caption, which has some good information in it. I see no reason to do that. And as for "quality images", are you saying you think there's an issue with the pictures already in the article? With which one? MeegsC (talk) 09:52, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * There's no Issue, I mean I tend to find good quality image on flickr on Every GA article without a real-life photo of a bird with only illustation image on infobox like Blyth's kingfishe‎r (which I changed). 180.194.141.59 (talk) 10:02, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah! I understand. That's great! The project can always use more good pictures of birds. Like I said before, if you're adding multiple images, try to get birds of different ages, or in different plumages, or within their habitat, or engaged in interesting behaviours. In general, I think it's better to put multiple images in the text of the article rather than putting multiples in the infobox. For one thing, the infobox constrains them (because of the parameters set there) where putting them in the article doesn't. And it's good to fill in the "alt text" parameter for anything you add too, so that our unsighted visitors can understand what's being shown. MeegsC (talk) 10:08, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok, noted. I don't do alt text, cause I don't have knowledge of describing anything (I just did it on Chestnut-capped piha on attempting to help the guy on GA). If I saw you aiming the bird article into GA, I'll do my best to request a good image on flickr, thank you. 180.194.141.59 (talk) 10:20, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Hunterdon Art Museum, Dunham's Mill
MeegsC, will you be returning to this nomination to respond, or should I find a new reviewer to consider the issues you raised that the nominator has pinged you about. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:53, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reminder . I've been meaning to ask the community for thoughts. MeegsC (talk) 09:10, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

MeegsC: Looks great! Thanks, Zeete (talk) 19:11, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for moving one of the politician hooks. I was going to move it myself after I noticed my mistake, but I admit that I got distracted with other things. SL93 (talk) 21:07, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * No worries, . You've been a real workhorse at DYK – I think you build more preps than the rest of us put together! MeegsC (talk) 21:09, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I try my best. I review a set of nominations before promoting them one by one - I have been wondering if doing it that way is an issue because I remember Yoninah wondering why I don't save the prep as one edit. Knowing me, I would likely mess up the formatting that way. Anyway, I think you do a great job building preps. SL93 (talk) 21:14, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! That's high praise, coming from a long-timer like you. :) I'm enjoying it; it gives me an excuse to read lots of articles I probably wouldn't have seen otherwise. It takes an absolute age though! MeegsC (talk) 07:58, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm glad that there are other prep builders. I was building them mostly by myself after Yoninah died and then I just decided to give up unless more help arrived. I'm so glad that it did. SL93 (talk) 18:26, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Whitehead's trogon
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Imperial Napoleonic Triple Crown
Congrats on the Triple Crown(s)! You might be interested in a userbox I made, :

— Bilorv ( talk ) 20:33, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! MeegsC (talk) 10:15, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Building sets
The sets that you build are great, but set builders really should be working from the oldest to the newest to build balanced preps. There are still multiple nominators who have been waiting since last month. SL93 (talk) 11:28, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * , I do start each set looking at the oldest hooks. But I think that building interesting, varied sets is more important than just starting with the oldest. As one whose recent DYK hook waited well over a month to run, I understand the frustration with waiting, believe me! ;) MeegsC (talk) 11:31, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I guess we just have different ways of going for interesting sets. I was mostly confused because there are currently around 126 hooks to choose from in the approved list and a hook from April 23 was promoted. SL93 (talk) 11:37, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't just start from the oldest. I start from the oldest to build a varied set and I don't think too hard into what I find most interesting because obviously someone has found all of the approved hooks interesting. An example is prep 2 which I recently finished - none of the topics are the same as each other although it could be argued that The Dream of Ossian and Ethel Becher are slightly related because of the war angle, but I believe that the first hook is more related to art and the latter hook is more related to nursing. SL93 (talk) 12:17, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm just letting you know that I didn't mean anything bad by this. I did bring it up on the DYK talk page to innocently see what others thought, but someone thought that I was targeting them despite me not naming anyone or even paying much attention to who filled the prep area. It was very upsetting to me. SL93 (talk) 15:01, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * That's okay . We have different ways of doing things, which is fine. The world would be a very boring place if everybody was the same! MeegsC (talk) 17:18, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I did think that not naming anyone and not paying attention to who promoted those hooks would be a good way to get people's two cents. Now I'm even questioning myself when it comes to even bringing up actual technical errors in hooks. I respect Yoninah and Cwm-however the username is spelled and I just learned off of them. I don't think getting opinions should mean that I'm targeting someone. SL93 (talk) 17:42, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, it seems to me that prep building is going nicely at the moment, with several sets regularly being filled and ready for moving into the queue. I promote a few hooks occasionally, but normally restrict myself to no more than two per set, so as not to disqualify myself from moving the set into the queue if necessary. When I do promote hooks, I mainly choose older ones, or ones that SL93 has created or approved, otherwise such hooks may get stuck. DYK seems to be running smoothly. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:55, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

AcademiaNet
Hi, thank you for your comment on AcademiaNet. I try to follow your directions and also talked to my colleagues about it. We found some more independent sources and also try to rewrite the article partially. Would still be happy, if you have a look on it, ones I'm done with the editing. Et Cité (talk) I now editet Draft:AcademiaNet by adding three addtional sources and changing several things. Can you check on it, if it is more suitable for publication and give me further advices, if it still seems unready? Thanks, Et Cité (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:05, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I approved the article. Now all that it is needed is for categories to be added. SL93 (talk) 21:04, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 May newsletter
The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:


 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
 * Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
 * Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
 * Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
 * Flag of the United Nations.svg Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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Editing DYK
Just wanted to let you know that changing holds to houses is perfectly good by me and definitely a needed clarification. I'd also like to add you might want to link to the Dijon Cathedral on the line about the abbey, as that's where it's located. Deku link (talk) 20:18, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Black-chinned sparrow
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Black-chinned sparrow 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 Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 18:40, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Black-chinned sparrow
The article Black-chinned sparrow you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Black-chinned sparrow for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 10:40, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Black-chinned sparrow
The article Black-chinned sparrow you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Black-chinned sparrow 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 The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 15:01, 4 May 2021 (UTC)


 * This was in my watchlist since it appeared on DYK. Congrats MeegsC on GA! It is an enjoyable reading.-- Chanaka L ( talk ) 15:27, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! Glad you like it; it was fun to work on. MeegsC (talk) 16:38, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

The Duke
Thank you for promoting Britten's Jubilate. Only now do I see that it mentions the Duke's birthdays which would make much sense on 10 June, which would have been his centenary. What do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:44, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to move it to the special events area if you prefer. I tweaked the hook wording a bit to make it a bit more "English" (e.g. "at the request" instead of "on the request"). I was just going to drop you a note and ask you if the changes looked okay. Let me know! MeegsC (talk) 11:47, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the offer, and the tweak in the hook, and the copy-editing of the article, and yes, if not too much work, put it to special occasions. I like hooks on a person's birthday, and now 100 ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:50, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Sounds good! I'll do that now. MeegsC (talk) 11:52, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Casque (anatomy)
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Preening scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for May 8, 2021. Please check that the article needs no amendments. A coordinator will draft a blurb - based on your draft if the TFA came via TFA requests, or for Featured Articles promoted recently from an existing blurb on the FAC talk page. Feel free to comment on this.

We suggest that you watchlist Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:36, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you today for the article about "a behaviour that all birds use to keep their feathers in good shape. It's a behaviour that most of us have probably witnessed at some point, as birds spend quite a bit of time each day preening — up to 15% of their day, in some species. I've enjoyed researching this one; though I've been birding nearly my whole life, even I didn't know some of this before I worked on the article!"! --
 * Thanks ! It was a fun one to work on. MeegsC (talk) 08:57, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

dyk
Hey, MeegsC! I wonder if you'd be willing to move the Meredith Clark hook back to approved noms? It's an American hook and because of two-a-days that set is due to run in the US night, and I'm hoping whoever promotes it will think it's a good image; I know you'd already put an image into that set. Also it was only nominated a week ago, so there are dozens of hooks ahead of it in line. People already think regulars at dyk get some sort of special treatment. :D —valereee (talk) 13:38, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Sure, I can do that, . I was trying to find some US hooks to balance all the European ones! MeegsC (talk) 13:48, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * That's an interesting point...we generally do have more US hooks than anything else, so how to balance that during two-a-days? Hm. —valereee (talk) 15:11, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

For work at WP:DYK

 * Thanks CMD! MeegsC (talk) 08:43, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Martin Rundkvist
Hi there, thanks again for your review of this article. I've been thinking about nominating this at FAC, and wondered if you had any thoughts or suggestions? I'm pretty confident the article is at, or close to, the best possible version of itself—my general barometer for when an article should be a featured article—but would appreciate your input, as someone who has already looked at the article in depth. Thanks, --Usernameunique (talk) 16:37, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mountain blackeye
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mountain blackeye 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 Legobot, on behalf of CaptainEek -- CaptainEek (talk) 21:20, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Museums prep
This was really impressive! Great work! —valereee (talk) 01:32, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! We had a lot of help. :) MeegsC (talk) 06:50, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

TFL notification
Hi, MeegsC. I'm just posting to let you know that List of endemic birds of Borneo – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for June 11. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008  ( Talk ) 02:22, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mountain blackeye
The article Mountain blackeye you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mountain blackeye 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 CaptainEek -- CaptainEek (talk) 18:22, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for May 30
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Cyrtophora_citricola
Hi. I was looking over some old GANs and noticed that Talk:Cyrtophora citricola/GA1 has been waiting for input from you for a while. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:00, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:32, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! It's nice to be noticed. Particularly by an editor as prolific as you! :) MeegsC (talk) 09:02, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Cicinnurus
You should probably be aware of this reversion of a redirect you made on Cicinnurus - it's not my subject! Le Deluge (talk) 12:18, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

DYK nomination for Keihäsmatkat
Hello MeegsC,

As you requested at Template:Did you know nominations/Keihäsmatkat, I have now found references for the unreferenced paragraphs at Keihäsmatkat. Is the article OK now? J I P &#124; Talk 09:59, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Cyrtophora citricola/GA1
MeegsC, just a reminder that it's been over a month since you last posted to this review, and you indicated that there was more to come. Do you think you'll be able to return to your review here soon? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:39, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reminder . I'll try to wrap that up tomorrow. MeegsC (talk) 21:22, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Red-billed pied tanager
MeegsC, please return to this nomination as soon as possible to let us know whether your concerns have been addressed. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:07, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
 * , I thought I had made clear on the nomination that the changes had made were fine and fixed my concern. I've repeated that again. Hopefully that's enough? MeegsC (talk) 20:48, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
 * MeegsC, you have the most recently placed icon, the slash. If your issues have been addressed and the nomination has met the DYK criteria, then it's up to you to supersede your slash icon by placing a tick with a subsequent comment; the article can't be moved to the Approved page by the bot while the latest icon says there are issues. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:53, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah. Okay. Thanks . I'll be sure to do that in the future. MeegsC (talk) 20:56, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Black-legged seriema
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

GAN Backlog Drive - July 2021
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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:


 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
 * Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
 * Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
 * ICS Zulu.svg BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Hooded visorbearer
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 23 June 2021 (UTC) Thank you for several more good ones! - Sigh, I hoped for the Hebbel-Theater to be pictured, both by uniqueness of the structure and substance of the article, on top of relevance. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:04, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

I'm facing problem in wikiproject bird
Hi I'm ashy prinai. I was helping in cleanup at wikiproject bird today, when I finished my editing in love bird's. I noticed a user named"User talk:FudgeMobile" was removing my Edit's without any reason. So, help me

Thanking you 😊 Ashy prinai (talk) 13:34, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Cyrtophora citricola/GA1 redux
MeegsC, it's been over a month since you last posted to this review, and over four months since you opened it. Please try to prioritize this so it can be concluded in a timely fashion. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:39, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
 * It's been over another month, and you haven't been around much, and not at all in the last three weeks. If you haven't returned by the nomination by the end of August, the nomination will have to be considered abandoned; it's been open for over five months. Should that happen, I'll try to find a new reviewer for it. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:46, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski,  BennyOnTheLoose, 🇷🇼 Amakuru and  Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Whenever yer ready......
I reckon Physcia caesia is within striking distance of FA-hood. Ping me if/when you decide to nominate and I can hang around looking useful help out Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:09, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is, who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:


 * 1) with 5072 points
 * 2) with 3276 points
 * 3) with 3197 points
 * 4) with 1611 points
 * 5) with 1571 points
 * 6) with 1420 points
 * 7) with 1043 points
 * 8) with 528 points

All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.


 * wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
 * wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
 * wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
 * wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
 * wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
 * wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject Invitation
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GAN Backlog Drive – January 2022
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject Good articles at 21:18, 31 December 2021 (UTC).

Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: and. Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:37, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: and. Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Haematomma ochroleucum
Regarding your comment on WT:DYK this article was lifted from my sandbox with nary a mention of my work in the revision history of the article. This is the second time that this user has done this with my work and it's really not on!, I note this was done by an IP user and it was their only edit. What was the other occasion?  Schwede 66  22:52, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm assuming it's the same anonymous user who lifted my rufous-brown solitaire article (sandbox copy) a few years ago. Also without attribution, also without asking first. MeegsC (talk) 08:56, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * The first one was in April 2021 by a user in the Philippines. That user gave attribution in their edit summary (but obviously it’s not ok to ask first). The second one was a user in Japan. What I don’t understand about the first case is why you would start an article in draft space for something that’s been in maintenance forever? Or am I missing something?  Schwede 66  09:24, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * , I often write large expansions for existing articles in my own sandbox, and then transfer those sections into the live article at some later point — particularly if I'm trying to get to 5x expansion, in order to submit it to DYK. (As you can see from my sandboxes, it often takes me a very long time to get a 5x expansion. I have too many RL commitments to be able to work on WP every day. Or even every week!) As for whether I think it's the same person, someone from the Philippines and I had multiple conversations (over several months and multiple IP addresses) where he made it clear he was watching all of my sandboxes and article upgrades. He also admitted he was the one who'd moved the first article. He became a helpful asset, helping to find photos from CC-compliant sites to support articles I was working on. I'm pretty sure it's the same person who wished me a happy Christmas (using still another Philippine-based IP) at the end of last year. The fact that he comments there that it appears I'm no longer active and then days later one of my sandboxes is cloned? Possibly coincidence, possibly not. I'm not inclined to think a second person is randomly watching my sandboxes, if we're honest. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe my writing efforts are more popular than I think! ;-) MeegsC (talk) 13:49, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, I think it might help to add here that is not unusual for editors to do that (what else is the sandbox for?) but also there are other reasons why there are unpublished articles in many userspaces on WP, which appear to be almost or even completely ready for publication. I currently have one like that, which looks complete, but is actually not neutral, relying as it does on old sources which were not written from a 21st-century pc perspective. I have bought a book which will make a great source for balancing the article, but I have not yet read it fully, or worked out how to apply it as a source. Some of us don't do short, drive-by article creations; some of us want to do it properly first time out. Another very good reason for not publishing an apparently finished article is that it contains major errors and/or doubtful sources, or due to a recent event it has become out of date. Sometimes there are some perfect sources out there, but the editor is waiting to be able to afford to subscribe, i.e. get back beyond the source paywall again, so as to double-check the source. This may happen to students who have institutional access to sources, then after leaving their academic institution they have to wait until they can get access to sources again. Some editors retire from paid work, and find that they must cancel all or some of their many subscriptions to academic sources. WP library is very useful, but it is limited, and is no substitute for certain sources on niche subjects. Those of us who create articles are very lucky that (although there will always be creeps who want to overlook our userfied work-up articles) WP at least officially does let us alone to get on with it, without hassling us as to how, why and when. Some years ago, I was working up an article which became huge and was split into several articles. I became anxious because an old-fashioned attitude that I grew up with was fighting with the very laudable modern attitude, which was fighting with the academic necessity of proving by third-party citation only. It took me some years to dare to publish it. Since then that work has spawned two building listings by National Heritage, and two blue plaques, plus some newspaper articles. I am shortly to lecture on the subject of those articles, by invitation of a city's civic society. So sometimes it is worthwhile waiting to get it right. My apologies for such a long comment, but I think it had to be said. Storye book (talk) 14:26, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I see. Thanks for the thorough explanation.  Schwede 66  16:53, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

My edit (now deleted) on the above article talk page
MeegsC, please accept my apologies for an editing error that you saw in my comment (due to my failing eyesight), which was actually intended to support your complaint. I was attempting to correct it to say that you started it in 2017 and the thief pretended to start it in 2021, when that page was deleted. The initial error was due to me attempting to add more information into my comment, and I added it into the wrong place, which swapped over the identities and dates. Really sorry. Storye book (talk) 11:02, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * , I figured that was what you'd intended, but wanted to make it crystal clear to anyone else who didn't bother to check the sandbox logs themselves. Thanks for your support there! I'll try to finish the article up and get it into mainspace soon, but RL is pretty crazy at the moment. MeegsC (talk) 13:21, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Good luck and all the best. Storye book (talk) 14:30, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Coming back to your original question what can be done about it, MeegsC. Nothing at the IP user end if there are random IPs involved. So the only approach is to delete work from mainspace taken without attribution.  66  16:53, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Are you sure that that is the only option? MeegsC has said that it could be kept in mainspace if it could be attributed to them, as the true original creator. Now, I have heard that an administrator can merge mainspace article histories with userspace workup histories in cases where the article has been copied and pasted into mainspace instead of being moved. I have not followed that up, but if it were possible, that would give original credit to MeegsC. I don't know whether MeegsC would want it done that way, but should they want that - is it not worth finding out whether it is feasible, and then giving MeegsC the last word on the decision? Storye book (talk) 17:53, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Indeed, a history merge can also be done. That’s easy enough; I could do that if it’s desired.  Schwede 66  18:01, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Excellent! I look forward to hearing what MeegsC has to say, then. Storye book (talk) 18:35, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 May newsletter
The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:


 * 1) Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path.
 * 2) 🇨🇽 AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews.
 * 3) Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs.
 * 4) Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs.
 * 5) Vexilloid of the Roman Empire.svg Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews.
 * 6) Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources.
 * 7) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews.

The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. 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. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
 * 🇨🇽 AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
 * Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
 * GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
 * 🇺🇳 Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
 * Flag of Provo, Utah (1989–2015).svg SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
 * 🇺🇳 Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. 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.

Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
 * 🇨🇽 AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
 * Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
 * GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
 * 🇺🇳 Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
 * Flag of Provo, Utah (1989–2015).svg SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
 * 🇺🇳 Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. 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.

Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Hydrobatidae list header
Template:Hydrobatidae list header has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nigej (talk) 11:07, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Pelecanidae list header
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Phaethontidae list header
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Podicipedidae list header
Template:Podicipedidae list header has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nigej (talk) 11:10, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:51, 31 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Awww... Thanks . The recognition is much appreciated! :) MeegsC (talk) 09:33, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

You're invited! Wiki Loves Pride in Indianapolis
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WikiCup 2022 July newsletter
The third round of the 2022 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 180 points, which is a lower figure than last year when 294 points were needed to progress to round 4. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * ICS Zulu.svg BennyOnTheLoose, with 746 points, a tally built both on snooker and other sports topics, and on more general subjects.
 * Bloom6132, with 683 points, garnered mostly from "In the news" items and related DYKs.
 * Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie, with 527, from a variety of submissions related to radio and television stations.

Between them contestants achieved 5 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 51 good articles, 149 DYK entries, 68 ITN entries, and 109 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article nomination, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. 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. WikiCup judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:51, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

July 28: You're invited! Food Deserts & Food Policy in Indianapolis editathon
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Lichen task force members


A tag has been placed on Category:Lichen task force members 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! 01:05, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for July 31
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Outline of lichens, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Metus.

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List building tool: SearchSuite
You might find SearchSuite helpful for finding relevant topics to add to your lists in the Outline of lichens. It provides toggles in the side menu to enhance search results, including the ability to strip entries down to one line each, alphabetize the entries, present the entries in wiki list format (for ease of copying/pasting directly into articles such as outlines), and more.

It is even more powerful when used with the following "tip-of-the-day": Tip of the day/March 18 - Breaking the 500 limit applied to search results. This can be used with WP search results to list up to 5,000 (10,000 for admins).

Please let me know if you find these useful, and feel free to ask questions. &mdash; The Transhumanist  14:25, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Red warbler
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Outline of lichens
Please do not feel intimidated by my edits, which are made in the spirit of assistance. Feel free to undo or change anything as you see fit. After all, you have expertise in the subject, while I have none. I defer to your judgement. Your work on the outline shows that you truly enjoy the topic, and helping others to learn about it. I can hardly wait to see what you come up with next. Have fun,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   15:14, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Nice outline. Have you considered using annotated link for the taxonomic groups? Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 15:10, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks ! I'm afraid most of the annotations would be fairly uninformative. For instance, all 8 classes would say "class of fungi" (which is already pretty apparent from the section header) and the 38 orders would all say "order of fungi". I can try to make the short descriptions more specific (i.e. "order of fungi in class foo"), but I find they typically get changed back to the very simplest of descriptions. MeegsC (talk) 15:22, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately some of our editors do not consider the alternative uses for short descriptions and are fixated on an arbitrary and unofficial length limit. I agree if this is common, they would not be very useful. Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 16:03, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Userbox
Hello. FYI, I've had a userbox created for me, and I thought it might be of interest since you were involved with the WikiProject Novels/Crime task force. It says "This user reads Hard-boiled detective fiction" and the code to implement it is:. (Add double braces to the red text: ). Pete Best Beatles (talk) 22:14, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, . I'll have a look. MeegsC (talk) 06:02, 23 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, the code seems to have a typo, causing it to appear incorrectly. Here is the fixed code that you can copy and paste.

-- KomradeKalashnikov (talk) 01:14, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 September newsletter
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TFA
Thank you today for Red warbler, introduced (in 2018): "This article is about a cute little bird from Central America - so far birds from outside anglophone areas are a tad underrepresented, so here goes."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:33, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ! Glad you enjoyed it. It's certainly a gorgeous little bird! MeegsC (talk) 09:01, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Usnea
Hi Meegs, I saw you working on Usnea ... I have several secondary sources that would be quite good for expanding this article; if you're interested, let me know and I'll figure out a way to send them to you. Esculenta (talk) 20:44, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * , sure – that would be great! I do have access to a lot through the WP:Library (and some of my own memberships), but I'm always game for more sources! MeegsC (talk) 20:46, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I absolutely don't mind help on this one either. I basically picked it because it's one of our more widely-read articles, and could use a lot of work! MeegsC (talk) 20:51, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'll sort out my literature here, and take cellphone images of the good stuff. Not clear on the best way to get it to you; are you familiar with Sharedrop P2P file transfer website? Apparently I can drag and drop files onto it, send you the address, then you can take the files from there. Esculenta (talk) 20:59, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Or you could just email them to me using the Wikipedia email feature. MeegsC (talk) 21:01, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure, that works too (function wasn't showing up for me before because one needs to have an email setup in preferences); I'll email by tomorrow. Esculenta (talk) 21:05, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, email only seems to work with plain text (can't attach files), unless there's something I don't know about? Esculenta (talk) 21:13, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks like you're right. Check your emails though, ; I've sent you a message. MeegsC (talk) 21:49, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, I've sent info from 4 sources ... let me know if you received ok. Esculenta (talk) 16:00, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Got 'em! Thanks . MeegsC (talk) 17:24, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Felipes
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DYK for Haematomma ochroleucum
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DYK for Piccolia
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Flavocetraria
Hi MeegsC, the Flavocetraria -> Nephromopsis synonymy is one of many that was rejected by Lücking (2019). The other instances in the Parmeliaceae are Cetrariopsis, Flavocetrariella, Kaernefeltia, Masonhalea, Nesolechia, Raesaenenia, Tuckermanella, Tuckermanopsis, Usnocetraria, and Vulpicida. Esculenta (talk) 21:23, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks for letting me know I'm going by the info on Index Fungorum, so that's probably something you want to tell Paul to fix. (I started looking there when I couldn't find anything on the Catalogue of Life.) MeegsC (talk) 21:27, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 November newsletter
The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is
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List of birds of Tuvalu FLC
Hey, MeegsC, maybe you forgot about this, but I replied to the comments you made on the List of birds of Tuvalu FLC over three weeks ago, and have pinged you multiple times since. Could you please go over my replies and tell me if their satisfactory soon? AryKun (talk) 09:22, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

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Newsletter question
Hi Meegs, happy new year! Thanks for the shoutout on the lichen newsletter. I was wondering if I could pick your brain on the making and sending of newsletters - my main work is with the Unreferenced Articles project (redheaded stepchild of WP, or so it seems) and I'm trying to drum up activity with current and potential volunteers. I really like the layout of the lichen newsletter and was wondering if you have a template for making it, adding pertinent news, the archive, sending it automatically to talk pages, etc. This project is near and dear to my heart and I'm trying to revitalize it as best I can. Thanks for any help. Kazamzam (talk) 15:06, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi . Happy New Year to you too! I don't have a template; I just clear out the previous month's info, change the header color and picture to one of several options and type in any new material. It's pretty easy to do! I'm happy to help tweak anything you're not sure how to do. I still want to make a few additions (like adding previous issue/next issue buttons). With such a small task force, I just hand "deliver" the newsletter. But when I used to do one for the WP:BIRDS project (which is much bigger), I used one of the many newsletter delivering bots which have been programmed. They're easy to find. MeegsC (talk) 22:21, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Amazonotrema
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October lichen task force newsletter
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Your GA nomination of Lichen growth forms
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Your GA nomination of Lichen growth forms
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Your GA nomination of Lichen growth forms
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February lichen task force newsletter
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WikiCup 2023 March newsletter
So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
 * Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
 * 🇩🇪 FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
 * 🇺🇸 TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
 * Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.

The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included LunaEatsTuna,  Thebiguglyalien,  Sammi Brie,  Trainsandotherthings,  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, 🇮🇩 Juxlos,  Unexpectedlydian,  SounderBruce, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kosack,  BennyOnTheLoose and  PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. 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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A kitten for you!
Thank you for your work on lichen pages!

Benre45 (talk) 03:55, 31 March 2023 (UTC)  Thanks, ! If you're interested, please feel free to join us at the lichen task force. There's plenty to do! ;) MeegsC (talk) 13:14, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

May 2023 lichen task force newsletter
MeegsC (talk) 09:22, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 May newsletter
The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:


 * Iazyges (1040) with three FAs on Byzantine emperors, and lots of bonus points.
 * Unlimitedlead (847), with three FAs on ancient history, one GA and nine reviews.
 * Epicgenius (636), a WikiCup veteran, with one FA on the New Amsterdam Theatre, four GAs and eleven DYKs
 * BennyOnTheLoose (553), a seasoned competitor, with one FA on snooker, six GAs and seven reviews.
 * 🇩🇪 FrB.TG (525), with one FA, a Lady Gaga song and a mass of bonus points.

Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie,  Thebiguglyalien,  MyCatIsAChonk,  PCN02WPS, and  AirshipJungleman29.

So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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‘Lyken’ v incorrect ‘Litchen’
Dear MeegsC Re. your reversion of my edit on the Lichen page with the comment to the effect that ‘Just because you don’t pronounce it ‘litchen’ doesn’t make it incorrect!’ I maintain it IS incorrect because it doesn’t properly reflect the derivation from Greek which you and your fellow lichen fans have made plain on the page. I’m not generally a fan of American English, but in this instance I support wholeheartedly the American pronunciation ‘lyken’ as the only correct one. Flobbadob (talk) 10:32, 2 May 2023 (UTC)Flobbadob
 * And yet,, the Cambridge dictionary clearly shows that "litchen" is an acceptable pronunciation. We at Wikipedia are not arbitrators. If reliable sources say something, we report it neutrally. We don't proclaim it is "incorrect". I myself pronounce it 'lyken' – not that it really matters... MeegsC (talk) 10:39, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

And yet,, I can’t help feeling that the Cambridge dictionary should know better…although, as you say, quite rightly, it counts as a reliable source. I know it doesn’t matter in any world-shaking sense : it’s just symptomatic of the inevitable evolution of language. I just don’t happen to like many of the ways in which English is evolving - the simplification (Americans would say ‘dumbing-down’), the loss of subtlety and nuance, the relentless Americanising of our mother tongue. I won’t bang on any further to the point of becoming even more of a bore. Good luck with your lichen research ( or as most people now insist on saying ‘RE-search’…)Flobbadob (talk) 13:06, 2 May 2023 (UTC) Just listened to the voice file on your Cambridge dictionary link. So ‘litchen’ is now the OFFICIAL U.K. pronunciation of the word, no less. God help us…Flobbadob (talk) 13:15, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
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The Core Contest winners announced
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WikiCup 2023 July newsletter
The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * Thebiguglyalien, with 919 points from a featured article on Frances Cleveland as well as five good articles and many reviews,
 * Unlimitedlead, with 862 points from a high-scoring featured articles on Henry II of England and numerous reviews,
 * Iazyges, with 560 points from a high-scoring featured article on Tiberius III.

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Spheniscidae list header
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Outline of lichens, and more
Hi Meegs,

Featured what?
Something interesting popped up in September in the article alerts section at the WikiProject Outlines page.


 * What happened with this: Featured list candidates/Outline of lichens/archive1?


 * Is it supposed to be an archive page?
 * Is its candidacy still active?

WikiProject page
By the way, I've been updating/upgrading the WikiProject page. Feel free to take a look and make improvements.

Feedback requested
A user posted Wikipedia talk:Outlines, requesting feedback on whether or not he should make a proposal to get rid of outlines. You are obviously in tune with outlines, and perhaps you could explain there why they should or should not exist.

Could you check these out?
Now that you have some perspective on what a featured list outline should look like, I've been wondering if you would be willing to take a look at these, and, if you think they would make good candidates for FL status, maybe you could talk to the main editor about them?


 * Outline of underwater diving


 * Outline of underwater divers

Thank you
Due to the efforts of editors like you, there are over 900 outlines now, though not all of them are titled "Outline of", and not all of them are listed at Contents/Outlines (yet).

Keep up the good work, and keep in touch. &mdash; The Transhumanist  14:48, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi . Yes, the FL for Outline of lichens is still live. I've been in the field for a month, so still have a few loose ends to tie up. I'm not sure it has enough reviews to pass the process though, so not sure what will happen next. But, regardless, it's always good to get a few more eyeballs on something! Once I start to get caught up on some "real world" paperwork (buried and way behind at the moment), I'll try to take a look at the outlines you've linked to in order to give my feedback. I looked at them when setting up the lichens outline, and was impressed. The big issue I can see right off the bat is the complete lack of references. That would currently make them a nonstarter in the FL process, but I imagine the has access to most of the references he'd need to fix that. MeegsC (talk) 16:10, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

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Promotion of Outline of lichens

 * Congrats!  &mdash; The Transhumanist   08:35, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Outline of lichens
MeegsC,

I'm impressed. Very nice outline. Excellently done.

I've added a link to the outline at:
 * Category:Lichens
 * 1) Lichenology
 * 2) Fungus
 * 3) Mycology
 * 4) Glossary of lichen terms
 * 5) Glossary of mycology
 * 6) Portal:Fungi
 * 7) Template:Fungus
 * 8) Community portal
 * 9) WikiProject Outlines
 * 10) WikiProject Outlines
 * 11) Wikipedia talk:Outlines
 * 12) Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines

I also checked to make sure that there are links here:
 * 1) Outline of fungi
 * 2) Contents/Outlines
 * 3) Lichen
 * 4) Featured lists
 * 5) Template:Lichens (no lichen templates)

You are invited to join WikiProject Outlines.

There's more info on outlines available at Outlines.

We also have a template for creating outlines, called Template:Outline generator, which helps get outlines started. The first argument is the subject uncapitalized, and the second argument is the subject capitalized. If provided, those are inserted into the outline automatically. The syntax looks like this:

It is best to avoid Draft space, because any draft that goes 6 months with no editing becomes subject to deletion.

Keep up the good work. I look forward to reading any future outlines you create.

Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   08:35, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

November lichen task force newsletter
Delivered by MeegsC (talk) 09:22, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter
The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-


 * BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
 * Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
 * Epicgenius with 1518 points
 * MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
 * BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
 * AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
 * Sammi Brie with 520 points
 * Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.


 * Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
 * BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
 * Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
 * LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
 * Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
 * 🇺🇦 Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

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Kudos
And you have been added to the Outline WikiProject's Hall of Recognition  &mdash; The Transhumanist   09:45, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay
Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics.  Schwede 66  09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Cephalodium
Nice work on improving this important article! I hope you are planning on expanding it even more, perhaps to GA? Let me know if you'd like at some point to have a look at my own sources to see if there's more stuff that could be added. I'm working on a similar expansion to isidium; it's in my sandbox here, but it's still in a fairly crappy state. Perhaps you'd be amenable to peer-reviewing it later when it's ready before a GA submission? Esculenta (talk) 18:18, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Absolutely! I'm working on improving the lichen morphology article (see my sandbox here) and didn't want to be linking to stubs. I looked around to see what I could find relating to cephalodia and found all sorts of cool things. I'm hoping to get it to GA at some point, and will probably then move on to work on our cyanolichen article. And I'd be happy to peer-review isidium (which was next on my list!) if you wouldn't mind doing the same for cephalodia. ;) MeegsC (talk) 18:23, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

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December lichen task force newsletter
Delivered by MeegsC (talk) 09:49, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Family
Hi Meegs, just wanted to let you know that "The Examplaceae are ..." is as correct as saying "Examplaceae is ...". The -aceae ending implies a plural form and so it's ok to use it like a plural in a sentence. There was a discussion about this in ToL talk some years ago (I've read all the archived talk at some point); I could try to hunt it down if you're not convinced. Found it here, and discussed here: WP:PLANTS/TAXONNUMBER Esculenta (talk) 00:00, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay! Just sounds weird to me – since it's basically saying "the family are" – but if it's agreed upon, I guess that's fine. MeegsC (talk) 09:55, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

 * Why thank you ! Same to you! And a very happy new year... MeegsC (talk) 14:55, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are:, , and. 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) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Idea for lichen/air pollution article revision
Hey Meegs, happy new year! Hope you're doing well and having a blast out in the field. I was looking at the lichen and air pollution draft and was thinking of rearranging/renaming it to "lichens as bioindicators", because that's what the vast majority of articles about lichens and air pollution are really focused on. We can focus on different topics such as lichens as indicators for air pollution, heavy metal pollution (i.e. copper), phosphate, etc. so the air pollution and climate change would be sections, until/unless they get big enough to be spun off on their own. I can get the draft started and send it over. Cheers! Kazamzam (talk) 23:10, 16 January 2024 (UTC)