User talk:Proscribe/Archive 2

African Women biographies
Hello ! You are in the top 10 of participants to the African Women section of the The Africa Destubathon. Whilst you did not make it to the top 3, I would like to thank you for the numerous improvements to African Women biographies and thus for reducing the gap. Anthere
 * It's a pleasure - thanks for noticing! — Proscribe
 * Hi there, Anthere. Just saw that the new article on Molara Wood seems to have been left off the women leaderboard list. Proscribe (talk) 13:07, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 1979. Sigh. Ok... Anthere (talk) 17:13, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hop Hop Hop. Fixed !!! A good piece. Would be unfortunate to miss it. Anthere (talk)

Reference errors on 30 December
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Connie Mark
Hi, noticed Connie Mark was created this week. xx Eartha78 (talk) 19:08, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Many thanks, Edwardx – much appreciated! Proscribe (talk) 13:27, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Mohammed Mohiedin Anis
Mifter (talk) 00:03, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Attention: WikiProject African diaspora participants
Hello fellow project participants. Not sure how many users are still active as normal Wikipedia editors but felt the need to attempt to get a gauge on who can be called on for help with articles falling under the umbrella of the African diaspora project. According to the project's article table there are over six thousand articles related to the African diaspora; there's not a hundred at FA/GA grade and there's over twelve hundred that are unassessed. With Wikipedia being one of the major information reference points in the world today we should consider this unacceptable. Much work needs to be done on the rating of the importance of articles as well. With more communication amongst participants and a dedication to addressing the articles on the to-do list I believe we can make this WikiProject one of the most well organized and thorough on the site. If you are interested in collaborative work with some of your fellow project members, have certain expertise on any particular subjects, ideals on/about the WikiProject, etc. simply drop your name under the "Project revision" section I've created on the project's talk page and state your intentions and main points of interest in our WikiProject and we can attempt to move forward from there. Hoping to hear from everyone soon! WikiGuy86 (talk) 04:16, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Many thanks for your appreciation, MassiveEartha. Kudos to you too for all you are doing. Proscribe (talk) 21:57, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted
Hi Proscribe, I just wanted to let you know that I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&page=User%3AProscribe added] the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! — xaosflux  Talk 01:37, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Many thanks! Does it work retrospectively i.e. for articles created before today that remain unassessed and noindexed? Proscribe (talk) 15:59, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi! It is not retrospective but I have been meaning to go in and check off the ones I have expertise necessary to review, so that should help you get through the queue soon! Thanks for all your great work. Innisfree987 (talk) 04:22, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for sparing the time, Innisfree987! – Proscribe (talk) 09:56, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest
Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. The articles done may also count towards the ongoing challenge. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles please add them to the sub lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:50, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

TheFamousPeople.com as a source
Hi Proscribe. I've been looking over the use of thefamouspeople.com as a source or link in Wikipedia. There have been concerns of it being spammed, and doesn't appear to be a reliable source per Help_desk/Archives/2017_May_29. I noticed that you've added it, and wanted to let you know why I removed it. If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks. --Ronz (talk) 03:28, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks - have replaced it with other sources. Proscribe (talk) 10:02, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

E. Howard Hunt
You are invited to join the discussion of Hunt's writing on the Talk Page: Talk:E. Howard Hunt Your input would be greatly appreciated. BuffaloBob (talk) 12:58, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Why not join Women in Red?
--Ipigott (talk) 11:38, 5 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for joining up so quickly. If you run into any problems, please let me know.--Ipigott (talk) 14:54, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Ways to improve List of Zimbabwean women writers
Hi, I'm Ongmianli. Proscribe, thanks for creating List of Zimbabwean women writers!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Hey, thanks for making this page! What you want to do, though, is to turn this list into a category. Check out Help:Category on help to turn this list into a Category. Nice attempt!

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Ongmianli (talk) 01:49, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

New Year's resolution: Write more articles for Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:13, 27 December 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Wiki Loves Food
Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's  going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 20:56, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Oakley Street, Chelsea
Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Women in Red June Editathons
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:15, 29 May 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Invitation to participate in study
Hello,

I am E. Whittaker, an intern at Wikimedia with the Scoring Team to create a labeled dataset, and potentially a tool, to help editors deal with incivility when they encounter it on talk pages. A full write-up of the study can be found here: m:Research:Civil_Behavior_Interviews. We are currently recruiting editors to be interviewed about their experiences with incivility on talk pages. Would you be interested in being interviewed? I am contacting you because of your involvement in Wikipedia’s Women in Red project. The interviews should take ~1 hour, and will be conducted over BlueJeans (which does allow interviews to be recorded). If, so, please email me at ewhit@umich.edu in order to schedule an interview.

Thank you Ewitch51 (talk) 21:20, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Buzz Johnson
I greatly appreciate your biographic work here in an under-covered area that badly needs it. I do have some comments that might improve some of the articles. Unless a person is world-famous, inclusion of minor material usually makes an article weaker, not stronger. The basic policy for this is WP:NOT MEMORIAL. I therefore removed some material from this article, to make it  less like a memorial: WP does not usually reprint personal  tributes from people who know the individual unless published in significant reliable sources, nor do we draw conclusions about a person's influences. For a person notable as Johnson, the facts speak adequately for themselves. (and we do not include a list of books or authors published by a publishe, except for particularly famous books).

You might want to look to see if you can similarly strengthen other biographies.  DGG ( talk ) 16:34, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments, DGG - will do my best! Proscribe (talk) 09:02, 31 August 2018 (UTC)