User talk:Megalibrarygirl/Archives/2018/July

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Innisfree987 (talk) 21:57, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ...mystery solved: a bug introduced while WMF was making updates to that feed accidentally put all autopatrolled creations back into it. They’re working on a fix that should roll out within a couple days. Enjoyed reading your entry all the same! Innisfree987 (talk) 15:57, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you, ! :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:20, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Cherie Gil
Hi Sue, long time no see, I'm sorry to drop a gunnysack on your talk page this afternoon but I've just broken up a silly edit-war on this article. The prose seems to have been written by non-native English speakers and could do with some spit and polish. Can you (or your talk page stalkers) help? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  13:23, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi! Yes, I can help, though it may not happen till tomorrow depending on how much I get done today. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:08, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

MVM, Inc.
I think I correctly re-added your edits after cleaning up a COI-whitewashing mess in that article. Sorry if it blew up your watchlist or alerts! DMacks (talk) 20:20, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me, ! Thanks for your hard work on this! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:06, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Notability question
I was watching the Ken Burns series The Vietnam War and was intrigued by one of people it covers- Army veteran Michael Heaney. In your opinion, do you think Heaney would meet general notability requirements? Here are the sources I've found (some are not independent but useful to fill in details)... Thank you :) Thsmi002 (talk) 18:59, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I think so. He's covered over time and the articles from Newspapers.com are especially good. It doesn't matter why someone is covered, just that they are... plus he was a mayor. BTW, I love his 'stache! :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:49, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Haha! Thanks for the second opinion :) That is what I was leaning towards also! Thsmi002 (talk) 21:36, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Anytime, ! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:07, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you, ! I enjoy sourcing articles, so I'm always happy to help. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:51, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

helping create redlists
Hey there, I saw someone mention that you are good at creating redlists and wondered if that was from the editorial effort of turning a list of names into a wikipedia list of links or the (from my perspective) more difficult creation of a list of names by stint of digging out long lists of names.  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 08:45, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The crowdsourced redlists I create I do by digging around the internet or in books on various topics. I check to see if the person is already covered on Wikipedia and if not, if they seem notable. Because I've checked a few sites or books to find the name and to see if they may be notable, I'll normally add the links to the crowdsourced list, too. It's a bit of a tedious process, but also rewarding because it turns up names that Wikidata may not find and provides people looking at the list an idea of where to start researching. Anyone can add to the lists and some people have different methods of finding their names. often adds to these lists with excellent sources provided. :) I hope that answers your question. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:41, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * A lot of times when I am writing an article, I run across tons of names of people. I always google them and if I can find sources indicating they are notable I redlink them. I try really hard to remember to put them on the redlists as well. Sometimes it depends on how much allocated editing time I have. More time, I do a better job of getting notables on red lists. If I am trying to get an article finished because I don't have a lot of time, I fail to put them on a list. Much easier to do if you already know about them than to search for them specifically to create a list. Rarely have we turned a list or book indices into lists, typically we search names individually when a topic is proposed. Yes, it is tedious, but necessary, IMO. SusunW (talk) 20:09, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * It's especially important to discover names in areas that are undercovered. Like smaller countries for example, they're not likely to be on a Wikidata list. We have to discover them ourselves. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:09, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Exactly, Sue. I work the Caribbean a lot. Very few lists in the area though there more than 30 countries/overseas territories/departments there. Wikidata generally has very limited coverage and I have never once found an encyclopedic type reference that was freely accessible on line for the region either. SusunW (talk) 22:31, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * That does answer it. Thank you - I mostly try to remember to put the names I find on my own page and possibly on an missing names page (though not all the time). Usually the source I found them in indicated some level of notability but again, usually I have not done anything like a full search of the name before putting in on my personal page as a TO DO. If I don't remember to put them somewhere else (usually I am looking at Irish writers when I find actual lists which I try to put here- WikiProject Women writers/Missing articles). I may actually forget to put other names somewhere if I'm not sure where they go. I wasn't sure if, when you talked of creating a redlist, it was the enormous effort of finding names or, once found the simpler task of checking if it's red or blue and actually listing it somewhere...Which leads to a second question of how to put these names into wikidata - or if to do so and whether there is some bulk method or if it must be done one item at a time. I'm an engineer - I deal in process improvement so I guess my thing is working out how to do a task as simply and if repetitive, as automatedly as possible.  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 21:43, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

Zheng Pingru
Hi Megalibrarygirl, thanks for creating Zheng Pingru! I had been planning to write the article for years, but never got around to do it. I've expanded the article a bit and nominated it for DYK. Please feel free to propose alt hooks or add your comments. Cheers, -Zanhe (talk) 23:15, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Cool! She was very interesting, ! I really like what you did with the article. It looks so much better now! :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 23:35, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Disability in Zambia
Hi, I found a source that discusses the disability NGO sector and their advocacy. http://www.osisa.org/law/zambia/dealing-disability

I unfortunately don't have much free time over the next few days to deal with it, so if you're interested please go ahead. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 06:25, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info! I'll add it. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:24, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Article Rescue thank you
Thank you for agreeing to help work on my draft of Susan Mikula. I have been doing work on unsourced BLPs recently so it is good to see someone at least try to rescue one of my drafts. JC7V7DC5768 (talk) 04:16, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem, ! I like helping if I'm able. :) I'll take another look at it today. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:03, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Signpost
Greetings! I saw your offer to help out with the Signpost. Did you say and mean that you would help out with the 'Gallery' article? If so, I can set an article template up for you and you can find the images you think should be highlighted. I have been doing it and it seems like fun to me. And if you only want to do it once or a few times, that still is a good thing. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉  19:14, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
 * no, I just mean that if people need pictures for their articles, I don't mind hunting them up. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:24, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying that for me. At this time, I am looking for some humourous images about Professional Wrestling. I have found some but I sure there are more funny images. Thank you, Barbara ✐ ✉  13:58, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * how many do you need? Is this Professional Wrestling from the modern era? Thanks! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:43, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Meetups #87, #88, #89, #90
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:32, 19 July 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging


 * Hi Sue, I didn't receive this August invite. As I didn't receive it, I wonder who else didn't? --Rosiestep (talk) 15:51, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I also did not receive this message. Thsmi002 (talk) 17:05, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * that's very strange. I wonder what happened? I'll see if others didn't get the message. Thank you for the heads' up. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:26, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Waves hands, me neither. SusunW (talk) 19:27, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't receive it. — Maile (talk) 19:32, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Nor me. Pam  D  21:47, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I did - just in case this makes it look like no one got it - it apparently did arrive appropriately in some places.  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 22:43, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I received it on July 19th.WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:22, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Sue, will you be re-sending it via MassMessage, or would you recommend that we paste a copy of what's on your talkpage onto our talkpage? --Rosiestep (talk) 02:01, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, Subsequent to a message that left on my talkpage regarding which list was used, I've MassMessaged the August invite. --Rosiestep (talk) 11:24, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * My message has now arrived, thanks! Pam  D  11:25, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * thank you so much! I don't know how I did that. I'll be more careful next time! Thanks for the help also, Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:29, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * No worries, . We're in it together; we're a team. :) --Rosiestep (talk) 15:12, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

August 2018 at Women in Red

 * I dumped some names over the the Women of marginalized populations page. I don't know if they will work out as notable and I haven't put references there yet. Please delete the names if I either shouldn't have done that or you want to review them first. It was just a thought.  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 11:54, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I am so glad you did that! It's been hard for me to find names, to be honest. I appreciate your help so much!!!! :D Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:52, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * You are welcome - if I get a chance and any thoughts I'll look for more. Not certain of the notability of all of them. Basically with this group I just looked for women working for travellers and from them. If I think of other groups I'll try get more names.  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 17:07, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for cleaning up the Susan Mikula draft. Even if its not accepted you did a good job. JC7V7DC5768 (talk) 18:34, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * It's still pending, ? I'm surprised. I was going to move it into article space, but I saw it was waiting for approval, so I didn't want to step on any toes. I think she's notable. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:36, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Woman in Blue
Nieca Goldberg is up for deletion. If your opinion is 'keep,' you might want to state that at the AfD discussion. My own opinion, stated there, is that she is noteworthy for actions in women's health, versus science journal publishing. I have been removing parts of the article in attempt to leave behind a supportable core of statements and citations. David notMD (talk) 22:52, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I just started working on improving the references. I'm glad you're working on improving the article, too. I usually like to fix the issues and then !vote one way or the other. Working on the article gives me a good sense of what's going on. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 00:05, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The original editor created this back in 2017 - and a few other articles about New York people. Denied COI or PAID. Has not done any editing on anything since April 2018. I got involved because the person who in the end initiated the AfD was very cranky complaining at TeaHouse about how he was an academic cardiologist, and by cardiologists, Goldberg was nothing special. David notMD (talk) 00:50, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

You are awesome!

 * It's my pleasure, . Were you able to upload it? :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:12, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, lots of issues with the upload, but there were very helpful people at the help desk who assisted. :) SusunW (talk) 18:14, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm glad, . :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:50, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

article request - Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art
Hi ! would you be able to get me a copy of "The Founding and Design of "William Merritt Chase’s Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art and the Art Village" by Cynthia V. A. Schaffner and Lori Zabar in the Winterthur Portfolio, Volume 44, Number 4 | Winter 2010? No rush, I would like to use it as a reference for a short wiki article. Thanks for checking. Best, WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:15, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, ! I'll look! If I find it, I'll email you. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:33, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * A cookie for you !


 * Hi Closing the loop - the article Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art is up. Thanks again WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:35, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Anytime, ! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:32, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
 * June backlog drive


 * New technology, new rules
 * New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
 * Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
 * Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.


 * Editathons
 * Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  00:00, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The Signpost
 * The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.