User talk:Sbbarker19

Women's Health Cochrane Reviews
Thanks for the message. I was just noticing the excellent work that you did on the page to organize the HIV/AIDS reviews. I really appreciate you taking the time to do this. I have also been plugging away at a few different categories. Where would you like to put the women's health Cochrane Reviews? In a subheading (like you did with HIV/AIDS), or on a separate page? Thanks again for the message! JenOttawa (talk) 02:43, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

- thank you! It may be better for me to post them to a different location so I can link specific wikiprojects to them, but I don't mind also organizing that page, either! Sbbarker19 (talk) 17:32, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back to me. For me, it is a little easier keeping them on the same project page (and not having duplicates). Otherwise, we will have to update them in two places. Do you mind doing the same as you did for HIV/AIDS? I have been plugging away at this as well on a few different topics. I am open to suggestions and I am excited about this collaborative effort! Thanks again, JenOttawa (talk) 17:37, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That makes complete sense. I will get on that right away. I'll keep them on the same page. Thanks so much JenOttawa

Category:Kentucky women by occupation has been nominated for discussion
Category:Kentucky women by occupation, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. SFB 20:25, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned talk pages
I saw you created a number of talkpages the other day for articles that don't exist. These generally get deleted unless there's an article to go along with them. If you're planning on expanding the articles eventually, you can make them as drafts in your userspace (g.g., USer:Sbbarker19/Belinda Mason beforehand. ~ Amory  (u • t • c) 10:26, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Meetups #87, #88, #89, #90
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Manual of Style
Great work on the additional info and sources at Cancer in cats. However, I had to patch up a lot of that because it wasn't compliant with our WP:Manual of Style. It's a long set of documents, but it's good to start getting familiar with it. I did most of the cleanup one bit at a time, so if you start here and keep clicking "Next edit →", you'll see the reasons for each tweak in the edit summaries. The most common issue was doing things like. The correct markup is  (or, at the beginning of a sentence,  ). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  03:45, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks the heads up and advice :) I used the visual editor to add the wikilinks! I didn't know it messes up the style. Now I know B) Sbbarker19 (talk) 18:39, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Argh! That damned VE.  I thought they would have fixed it by now.  Well, that explains a lot.  Honestly, this wiki is very difficult to edit with VE, because our markup is so complex (and we have a barge full o' rules and regs).  It would probably work pretty well at a social/fandom wiki over at Wikia or something.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  19:10, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Well {{ping}SMcCandlish}}, looks like its time for me to start source editing again. It's been a minute since I've practiced 😜. I really like visual editing for longer bits of text and quick edits like links. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

Invitation to participate in study
Hello,

I am E. Whittaker, I am working with Wikimedia’s 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) 20:23, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Cochrane Review List
Hello, Thank you again for all your help sorting the reviews on the Cochrane project page. I just spent a couple of hours trying to continue to clean up the page. I added headings/subheadings to align the organization with how Cochrane organizes their Review Groups: https://www.cochrane.org/about-us/our-global-community/review-group-networks. I have quite a few holes (cardiac, stroke is only half done, health policy has not been done, anxiety, plus many many more). If you are interested in puttering at this, I would greatly appreciate it! I too will continue to "putter" :). I removed the large list of "unsorted reviews" and put them on their own page. The 3000+ list was getting a little overwhelming to scroll through in addition to all the sorted ones. As always, I am open to feedback and suggestions!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Cochrane/Cochrane_Review_List Thank you again,

Jenny

JenOttawa (talk) 15:20, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey! Of course I'll fiddle with it more. By the way, I finished the stroke organization but there is a conflict edit. I don't want to publish over you and mess stuff up, so I will leave whatI sorted here and afterwards we can figure out if it still serves a purpose! :)


 * Sorry about the edit conflict. I am all done now! It is kind of an addictive activity. I finished the CF. Would you mind also removing the reviews from the "unsorted list" when you add them to categories? This way we can slowly work through the unsorted list. Don't go back and re-do all your work though! I did it just now in two windows (copy and pasting) and then saved both edits and it worked very well. Thanks again so much!!! I will add your reviews now and then definitely done for the evening. Jenny JenOttawa (talk) 01:45, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

appeal to blocking
hey, I am unsure hat "those" is referring to or how to disable them. May I have some more information, please? Sbbarker19 (talk) 07:32, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * You will need to stop using LogicWeb as a proxy. --Yamla (talk) 10:56, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry.. I'm a bit clueless about this. I don't know what Logic web is or how to stop using it. Sbbarker19 (talk) 18:39, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
 * You'll need to contact your tech support then, I'm afraid. We can't help you with that. --Yamla (talk) 19:06, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Ghana library stubs


A tag has been placed on Category:Ghana library stubs requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more 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 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. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. – Fayenatic  L ondon 11:00, 21 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Likewise Category:Fayette County, Kentucky Registered Historic Place stubs. – Fayenatic  L ondon 13:02, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Templates not working?
There were some strange invisible characters on some of the stub templates and categories that you created, which were preventing the master templates from displaying properly. I checked by pasting your text into MS Word, and the problem characters were non-breaking spaces.

If you draft templates on a word-processor, paste them into Wikipedia and notice that they don't display normally, try manually editing out all the spaces and retyping them with normal spaces, as I did e.g. here.

For info, I also noticed a bot edit which recorded that it was replacing left-to-right marks. I think that's a separate problem, not related to a word-processor, but from copying category names in Wikipedia and pasting them – I have had this problem myself in the past. – Fayenatic  L ondon 13:03, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination
Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/ Charles Philipon at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with db-g7, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 14:24, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Sbbarker19, just to let you know that the nomination template is being put up for speedy deletion. The article was not expanded fivefold when you nominated it, and wouldn't have been eligible for that reason, and the issues raised by the template at the top of the article would have needed to be addressed even if it had been expanded sufficiently. I hope you'll give DYK another try in the future, but articles must have been expanded by five times within the past seven days in order to be eligible (or be new or newly approved GAs), which can be difficult to achieve on preexisting articles that have some size. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:12, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky Women


Hello, Sbbarker19. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky Women".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 08:55, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve Alejandrina Ávila Ortiz
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Nomination of Alejandrina Ávila Ortiz for deletion
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Zoia Horn
Hi, I like your organizational edits to Zoia Horn's work, but the intro to Activism section ends with a broken quote. Unfortunately, I don't have her bio on hand so I can't finish it. Could you grab the bio and finish the quote/citation? Thanks! Ruthbrarian (talk) 20:02, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi! Thank you! Yes, I can finish it. I'll swing by the library and grab it as soon as I can :) Sbbarker19 (talk) 20:20, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

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Category:Kentucky women basketball players has been nominated for discussion
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New stub category
I noticed you created a new stub category/template for 1990s-American-country-song-stub. New stub proposals should go through the stub sorting process at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. Also, since I would think most country songs with articles are by American artists, I wonder if all the American songs were moved from Category:1990s country song stubs to Category:1990s American country song stubs, how many articles would still be left? What do you think of following the precedent of what was done with 1980s-country-song-stub in 2016 in this proposal which subdivided that by year (e.g. 1981-country-song-stub, 1989-country-song-stub, etc.). Thanks. Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 21:13, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
 * sorry! thats perfect; i was trying to help clean it up. that sounds much more efficient :) Sbbarker19 (talk) 21:20, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Women in Red April Events
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May 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter

 * May 2019&mdash;Issue 002


 * Tree of Life


 * Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

On 23 May, user created a talk page post, "Revamp of Wikiproject Biology--Who is In?". In the days since, WP:BIOL has been bustling with activity, with over a dozen editors weighing in on this discussion, as well as several others that have subsequently spawned. An undercurrent of thought is that WP:BIOL has too many subprojects, preventing editors from easily interacting and stopping a "critical mass" of collaboration and engagement. Many mergers and consolidations of subprojects have been tentatively listed, with a consolidation of WikiProjects Genetics + Molecular and Cell Biology + Computational Biology + Biophysics currently in discussion. Other ideas being aired include updating old participants lists, redesigning project pages to make them more user-friendly, and clearly identifying long- and short-term goals.
 * Fundamental changes being discussed at WikiProject Biology

Editors and  had a very fruitful month, collaborating to bring two dinosaur articles to GA and then nominating them both for FA. They graciously decided to answer some questions for the first ToL Editor Spotlight, giving insight to their successful collaborations, explaining why you should collaborate with them, and also sharing some tidbits about their lives off-Wikipedia.
 * Editor Spotlight: These editors want you to write about dinosaurs

1) Enwebb: How long have you two been collaborating on articles? 2) Enwebb: Why dinosaurs? 3) Enwebb: Why should other editors join you in writing articles related to paleontology? Are you looking to attract new editors, or draw in experienced editors from other areas of Wikipedia?
 * Jens Lallensack: I started in the German Wikipedia in 2005 but switched to the English Wikipedia because of its very active dinosaur project. My first major collaboration with FunkMonk was on Heterodontosaurus in 2015.
 * FunkMonk: Yeah, we had interacted already on talk pages and through reviewing each other's articles, and at some point I was thinking of expanding Heterodontosaurus, and realised Jens had already written the German Wikipedia version, so it seemed natural to work together on the English one. Our latest collaboration was Spinophorosaurus, where by another coincidence, I had wanted to work on that article for the WP:Four Award, and it turned out that Jens had a German book about the expedition that found the dinosaur, which I wouldn't have been able to utilise with my meagre German skills. Between those, we also worked on Brachiosaurus, a wider Dinosaur Project collaboration between several editors.
 * JL: Because of the huge public interest in them. But dinosaurs are also highly interesting from a scientific point of view: key evolutionary innovations emerged within this group, such as warm-bloodedness, gigantism, and flight. Dinosaur research is, together with the study of fossil human remains, the most active field in paleontology. New scientific techniques and approaches tend to get developed within this field. Dinosaur research became increasingly interdisciplinary, and now does not only rely on various fields of biology and geology, but also on chemistry and physics, among others. Dinosaurs are therefore ideal to convey scientific methodology to the general public.
 * FM: As outlined above, dinosaurs have been described as a "gateway to science"; if you learn about dinosaurs, you will most likely also learn about a lot of scientific fields you would not necessarily be exposed to otherwise. On a more personal level, having grown up with and being influenced by various dinosaur media, it feels pretty cool to help spread knowledge about these animals, closest we can get to keeping them alive.
 * JL: Because we are a small but active and helpful community. Our Dinosaur collaboration, one of the very few active open collaborations in Wikipedia, makes high-level writing on important articles easier and more fun. Our collaboration is especially open to editors without prior experience in high-level writing. But we do not only write articles: several WikiProject Dinosaur participants are artists who do a great job illustrating the articles, and maintain an extensive and very active image review system. In fact, a number of later authors started with contributing images.
 * FM: Anyone who is interested in palaeontology is welcome to try writing articles, and we would be more than willing to help. I find that the more people that work on articles simultaneously with me, the more motivation I get to write myself. I am also one of those editors who started out contributing dinosaur illustrations and making minor edits, and only began writing after some years. But when I got to it, it wasn't as intimidating as I had feared, and I've learned a lot in the process. For example anatomy; if you know dinosaur anatomy, you have a very good framework for understanding the anatomy of other tetrapod animals, including humans.

4) Enwebb: Between the two of you, you have over 300 GA reviews. FunkMonk, you have over 250 of those. What keeps you coming back to review more articles?
 * FM: One of the main reasons I review GANs is to learn more about subjects that seem interesting (or which I would perhaps not come across otherwise). There are of course also more practical reasons, such as helping an article on its way towards FAC, to reduce the GAN backlog, and to "pay back" when I have a nomination up myself. It feels like a win-win situation where I can be entertained by interesting info, while also helping other editors get their nominations in shape, and we'll end up with an article that hopefully serves to educate a lot of people (the greater good).
 * JL: Because I enjoy reading Wikipedia articles and like to learn new things. In addition, reviews give me the opportunity to have direct contact with the authors, and help them to make their articles even better. This is quite rewarding for me personally. But I also review because I consider our GA and FA system to be of fundamental importance for Wikipedia. When I started editing Wikipedia (the German version), the article promotion reviews motivated me and improved my writing skills a lot. Submitting an article for review requires one to get serious and take additional steps to bring the article to the best quality possible. GAs and FAs are also a good starting point for readers, and may motivate them to become authors themselves.

5) Enwebb: What are your editing preferences? Any scripts or gadgets you find invaluable? 6) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-wiki?
 * FM: One script that everyone should know about is the duplink highlight tool. It will show duplinks within the intro and body of a given article separately, and it seems a lot of people still don't know about it, though they are happy when introduced to it. I really liked the citationbot too (since citation consistency is a boring chore to me), but it seems to be blocked at the moment due to some technical issues.
 * JL: I often review using the Wikipedia Beta app on my smartphone, as it allows me to read without needing to sit in front of the PC. For writing, I find the reference management software Zotero invaluable, as it generates citation templates automatically, saving a lot of time.
 * Editor's note: I downloaded Zotero and tried it for the first time and think it is a very useful tool. More here.
 * FM: Perhaps that I have no background in natural history/science, but work with animation and games. But fascination with and knowledge of nature and animals is actually very helpful when designing and animating characters and creatures, so it isn't that far off, and I can actually use some of the things I learn while writing here for my work (when I wrote the Dromaeosauroides article, it was partially to learn more about the animal for a design-school project).
 * JL: That I am actually doing research on dinosaurs. Though I avoid writing about topics I publish research on, my Wikipedia work helps me to keep a good general overview over the field, and quite regularly I can use what I learned while writing for Wikipedia for my research.

Get in touch with these editors regarding collaboration at WikiProject Dinosaurs!
 * Marine life continues to dominate ToL DYKs

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Ways to improve AaaI
Hello, Sbbarker19,

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Ways to improve Temnothorax lictensteini
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Ways to improve The Demons of Eden
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&#x222F; WBG converse 08:57, 15 June 2019 (UTC) } Hi, it's nice to meet you. I am still working on translating the Spanish article. The english article is very new, not even two weeks, and my Spanish is not great so it will take more time to grow it. I would appreciate it if you could hold off merging until I have time to develop it further. Thank you for the recommendations and attention to my contributions. Sbbarker19 (talk) 20:09, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

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June 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter

 * June 2019&mdash;Issue 003


 * Tree of Life


 * Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!


 * Spineless editors overwhelmed by stubs

Within the Tree of Life and its many subprojects, there is an abundance of stubs. Welcome to Wikipedia, what's new, right? However, based on all wikiprojects listed (just over two thousand), the Tree of Life project is worse off in average article quality than most. Based on the concept of relative WikiWork (the average number of "steps" needed to have a project consisting of all featured articles (FAs), where stub status → FA consists of six steps), only seven projects within the ToL have an average rating of "start class" or better. Many projects, particularly those involving invertebrates, hover at an average article quality slightly better than a stub. With relative WikiWorks of 5.98 each, WikiProject Lepidoptera and WikiProject Beetles have the highest relative WikiWork of any project. Given that invertebrates are incredibly speciose, it may not surprise you that many articles about them are lower quality. WikiProject Beetles, for example, has over 20 times more articles than WikiProject Cats. Wikipedia will always be incomplete, so we should take our relatively low WikiWork as motivation to write more articles that are also better in quality.

We're joined for this month's Editor Spotlight by, a long-time contributor who lists themselves as a member of WikiProject Fungus, WikiProject Algae, and WikiProject Cephalopods.
 * Editor Spotlight: Showing love to misfit taxa

1) Enwebb: How did you come to edit articles about organisms and taxonomic groups?
 * Nessie: The main force, then and now, driving me to create or edit articles is thinking "Why isn't there an article on that on Wikipedia?" Either I'll read about some rarely-sighted creature in the deep sea or find something new on iNaturalist and want to learn more.  First stop (surprise!) is Wikipedia, and many times there is just a stub or no page at all.  Sometimes I just add the source that got me to the article, not sometimes I go deep and try to get everything from the library or online journals and put it all in an article.  The nice thing about taxa is the strong precedent that all accepted extant taxa are notable, so one does not need to really worry about doing a ton of research and having the page get removed.  I was super worried about this as a new editor:  I still really dislike conflict so if I can avoid it I do.  Anyway, the most important part is stitching an article in to the rest of Wikipedia:  Linking all the jargon, taxonomers, pollinators, etc., adding categories, and putting in the correct WikiProjects.  Recently I have been doing more of the stitching-in stuff with extant articles.  The last deep-dive article I made was Karuka at the end of last year, which is a bit of a break for me.  I guess it's easier to do all the other stuff on my tablet while watching TV.

2) Enwebb: Many editors in the ToL are highly specialized on a group of taxa. A look at your recently created articles includes much diversity, though, with viruses, bacteria, algae, and cnidarians all represented&mdash;are there any commonalities for the articles you work on? Would you say you're particularly interested in certain groups?
 * Nessie: I was a nerd from a time when that would get you beat up, so I like odd things and underdogs. I also avoid butting heads, so not only do I find siphonophores and seaweeds fascinating I don't have to worry about stepping on anyone's toes.  I go down rabbitholes where I start writing an article like Mastocarpus papillatus because I found some growing on some rocks, then in my research I see it is parasitized by Pythium porphyrae, which has no article, and how can that be for an oomycete that oddly lives in the ocean and also attacks my tasty nori.  So then I wrote that article and that got me blowing off the dust on other Oomycota articles, encouraged by the pull of propagating automatic taxoboxes.  Once you've done the taxonomy template for the genus, well then you might as well do all the species now that the template is taken care of for them too. and so on until I get sucked in somewhere else. I think it's good to advocate for some of these 'oddball' taxa as it makes it easier for editors to expand their range from say plants to the pathogenic microorganisms of their favorite plant.


 * My favorite clades though, It's hard to pick for a dilettante like me. I like working on virus taxonomy, but I can't think of a specific virus species that I am awed by.  Maybe Tulip breaking virus  for teaching us economics or Variola virus for having so many, one of which was popularly sung about by Desi Arnaz and then inspired the name of a cartoon character who was then misremembered and then turned into a nickname for Howard Stern's producer Gary Dell'Abate.  Sorry, really had to share that  chain, but for a species that's not a staple food it probably has the most deities.  But anyway, for having the most species that wow me, I love a good fungus or algae, but that often is led by my stomach.  Also why I seem to research so many plant articles.  You can't eat siphonophores, at least I don't, but they are fascinating with their federalist colonies of zooids.  Bats are all amazing, but the task force seems to have done so much I feel the oomycetes and slime moulds need more love.  Same thing with dinosaurs (I'm team Therizinosaurus though).  But honestly, every species has that one moment in the research where you just go, wow, that's so interesting.  For instance, I loved discovering that the picture-winged fly (Delphinia picta) has a mating dance that involves blowing bubbles.  Now I keep expecting them to show me when they land on my arm, but no such luck yet.

3) Enwebb: I noticed that many of your recent edits utilize the script Rater, which aids in quickly reassessing the quality and importance of an article. Why is it important to update talk page assessments of articles? I also noticed that the quality rating you assign often aligns with ORES, a script that uses machine-learning to predict article quality. Coincidence?
 * Nessie: I initially started focusing on WikiProject talk page templates because they seem to be the key to data collecting and maintenance for articles, much more so than categories. This is where you note of an article needs an image, or audio, or a range map.  It's how the cleanup listing bot sorts articles, and how  does his automated taxobox usage stats.  The latter inspired me to look for [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&ns%5B0%5D=1&ns%5B118%5D=1&templates_any=Virusbox%0D%0ATaxonbar%0D%0ATaxobox%0D%0ASubspeciesbox%0D%0ASpeciesbox%0D%0AParaphyletic%20group%0D%0AOobox%0D%0AMissing-taxobox%0D%0AInfraspeciesbox%0D%0AIchnobox%0D%0AHybridbox%2Flua%0D%0AHybridbox%0D%0ABiota%20infobox%0D%0AAutomatic%20taxobox&templates_no=rodents%0D%0Afishproject%0D%0AWikiProject%20Viruses%0D%0AWikiProject%20Turtles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Spiders%0D%0AWikiProject%20Sharks%0D%0AWikiProject%20Rodents%0D%0AWikiProject%20Reptiles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Primates%0D%0AWikiProject%20Poultry%0D%0AWikiProject%20Plants%0D%0AWikiProject%20Paleontology%0D%0AWikiProject%20Palaeontology%0D%0AWikiProject%20Microbiology%0D%0AWikiProject%20Micro%0D%0AWikiProject%20Marine%20life%0D%0AWikiProject%20Marine%20Life%0D%0AWikiProject%20Mantodea%0D%0AWikiProject%20Mammals%2FBats%20Task%20Force%0D%0AWikiProject%20Mammals%0D%0AWikiProject%20Lepidoptera%0D%0AWikiProject%20Insects%0D%0AWikiProject%20Hypericaceae%0D%0AWikiProject%20Gastropods%0D%0AWikiProject%20Fungi%0D%0AWikiProject%20Fishes%0D%0AWikiProject%20Equine%0D%0AWikiProject%20Dogs%0D%0AWikiProject%20Dinosaurs%0D%0AWikiProject%20Cetaceans%0D%0AWikiProject%20Cephalopods%0D%0AWikiProject%20Cats%0D%0AWikiProject%20Carnivorous%20plants%0D%0AWikiProject%20Bivalves%0D%0AWikiProject%20Birds%0D%0AWikiProject%20Beetles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Banksia%0D%0AWikiProject%20Arthropods%0D%0AWikiProject%20Animals%0D%0AWikiProject%20Amphibians%20and%20Reptiles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Algae%0D%0AWPSpiders%0D%0AWP%20Spiders%0D%0ASquirrels%0D%0ARodent%0D%0AMammal%0D%0ALepidopteraTalk%0D%0ABirdTalk%0D%0AAARTalk&templates_use_talk_no=on&search_max_results=500&sortby=title&sortorder=descending&add_image=on&interface_language=en&active_tab=tab_templates_n_links&doit= articles on organisms that are not assigned to any ToL WikiProjects] which initially was in the thousands.  I got it down to zero with just copypasta so you can imagine I was excited when I saw the rater tool.  Back then I rated everything stub/low because it was faster:  I couldn't check every article for the items on the B-class checklists.  Plus each project has their own nuances to rating scales and I thought the editors in the individual projects would take it from there.  I also thought all species were important, so how can I choose a favorite?  Now it is much easier with the rater tool and the apparent consensus with 's method of rating by the pageviews (0-9 views/day is low, 10-99 is med, 100-999 is high...).  For the quality I generally go by the ORES rating, you caught me.  It sometimes is thrown off by a long list of species or something, but it's generally good for stub to C: above that needs formal investigation and procedures I am still learning about.  It seems that in the ToL projects we don't focus so much on getting articles to GA/FA so it's been harder to pick up.  It was a little culture shock when I went on the Discord server and it seemed everyone was obsessed with getting articles up in quality.  I think ToL is focusing on all the missing taxa and (re)organizing it all, which when you already have articles on every anime series or whatever you can focus on bulking the articles up more.  In any event, on my growing to-do list is trying to get an article up to FA or GA and learn the process that way so I can better do the quality ratings and not just kick the can down the road.

4) Enwebb: What, if anything, can ToL and its subprojects do to better support collaboration and coordination among editors? How can we improve?
 * Nessie: I mentioned earlier that the projects are the main way maintenance is done. And it is good that we have a bunch of subprojects that let those tasks get broken up into manageable pieces.  Frankly I'm amazed anything gets done with WikiProject Plants with how huge its scope is.  Yet this not only parcels out the work but the discussion as well.  A few editors like  and  keep an eye on many of the subprojects and spread the word, but it's still easy for newer editors to get a little lost.  There should be balance between the lumping and splitting.  The newsletter helps by crossing over all the WikiProjects, and if the discord channel picked up that would help too.  Possibly the big Enwiki talk page changes will help as well.

5) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-Wikipedia?
 * Nessie: I'm not sure anything would be surprising. I focus on nature offline too, foraging for mushrooms or wild plants and trying to avoid ticks and mosquitos.  I have started going magnet fishing lately, more to help clean up the environment than in the hopes of finding anything valuable.  But it would be fun to find a weapon and help solve a cold case or something.


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Chelsea Green
Instead of tagging her article, find sources instead. Tagging it is lazy. Mr. C.C. Hey yo!I didn't do it! 08:33, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * unfortunately, there is no way i could be able to fix every article i see (i have a lot of work to do outside of wikipedia). i am currently using the time i do have here on a specific task, assessment. but while im checking out articles, im tagging them (and adding authority control) so others who have the time and interest can quickly find them and take care of them.
 * its easier to find articles to fix up if they are tagged based on what they need (like from here) or just seeing the message in the header. also, doing a lot of smaller and pressure-free tasks like these can build up editing confidence in newer editors and helped me when i first started by exposing me to all kinds of different articles. so having a collection of articles that need refs, sections, grammar cleanup, etc is nice for some people.
 * this was a rude message to send, but assuming good faith i understand you want to improve this encyclopedia and that perhaps you didnt and maybe wont see the benefits of tagging. thats okay. i hope you have a nice day regardless. Sbbarker19 (talk) 12:32, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Actor & filmmaker biographies
Hi Sbbarker19, just an FYI... the scope of WikiProject Film does not cover actors or filmmakers, if you're adding project banners to biography articles can you instead add them to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers by using the appropriate parameter in the WikiProject Biography banner? Cheers! PC78 (talk) 17:56, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * oops! i am so sorry. now i know :) thank you for being kind about my mistake. have a nice day! Sbbarker19 (talk) 22:03, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 * No worries! :) PC78 (talk) 23:03, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

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A belated welcome!


Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Sbbarker19. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
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Again, welcome! LovelyLillith (talk) 08:28, 3 October 2019 (UTC) Thank you for your diligence in assessing articles, and your graciousness with other editors that may have been less than welcoming. We really do appreciate your efforts, and it’s always nice to meet another member of Women in Red! LovelyLillith (talk) 08:28, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
 * hello and thank you!! This is super nice to receive :) sorry about not signing on talk pages! I use the rater tool which I didn't realize doesn't sign my name :( Is it hard to see that it was me who rated pages? And thank you so much again!! Sbbarker19 (talk) 21:35, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
 * No worries - I didn’t even know there was a rater tool, and the whodunnit of edits are visible in the history. My motivation for the belated welcome was not to point out issues but simply to spread a little Wikilove and admiration for your diligence and upbeat attitude. We need more like you around! LovelyLillith (talk) 02:39, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
 * thank you so much!! You're so nice :) Sbbarker19 (talk) 23:41, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

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October 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter



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{| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; background:#b6ecd0;" By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured:
 * Alphabet Soup: Explaining DYK, GA, FA, and More

Did You Know (DYK)
What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article

How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines: The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page)
 * To be eligible, article is either new (newly created or moved to mainspace), a 5x expansion, or passed a GA review. Its creation, expansion, or promotion to GA must have been in the past 7 days.
 * Article must be long enough, with more than 1,500 characters of prose (this doesn't include embedded lists)
 * I find Shubinator's DYKcheck script useful in determining whether an article is eligible for nomination.

Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK.

Good Article (GA)
What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets a set of criteria. This adds a symbol to the top of the article. About 1 in 200 articles on Wikipedia is a GA.

How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article&mdash;you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article!

Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you.

Featured Article (FA)
What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the criteria. This adds a to the top of the article. About 1 in 1,000 articles on Wikipedia is a FA.

How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted.

Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC.

Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)
What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA.

How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT.

Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life (5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA.
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Category:Kentucky women in religion has been nominated for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:1990s American country song stubs


A tag has been placed on Category:1990s American country song stubs indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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Category:Kentucky women singers has been nominated for merging
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 * yes, oh my gosh, that is so embarrassing! Sbbarker19 (talk) 02:55, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject military history - autoclass as SE Asian?
Hello,

I'm unfamiliar with these bots (and this edit came after yours), but any idea why it autoclassed a Civil War veteran as SE Asian in this edit? --Engineerchange (talk) 11:21, 31 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I have no idea! I must have accidentally pressed it. My apologies!! Sbbarker19 (talk) 23:29, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @Engineerchange forgot to reply! Sbbarker19 (talk) 23:31, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, thought I missed something. I just removed that param. Cheers, --Engineerchange (talk) 01:32, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red
Hi there, Sbbarker19. I just noticed you have added the Women in Red template to your user page and would like to welcome you to the project. You might also like to sign up under "New registrations" on WikiProject Women in Red/New members where others will be able to see your interest. On the basis of all the women's biographies you've been creating over the past five years, it looks as if you'll be a useful contributor to our project. If you haven't already done so, you might find it useful to look at some of our essays, perhaps starting with the Primer. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 09:21, 24 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the warm welcome, @Ipigott! I've been to a few Women+Art edit-a-thons and have worked on some of the monthly events at WOR, yet I never registered for the WikiProject. I just signed up, thanks to your help. Hopefully I can contribute more in the future! Sbbarker19 (talk) 22:28, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

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Category:Kentucky women dancers has been nominated for splitting
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Category:Kentucky women accountants has been nominated for merging
Category:Kentucky women accountants has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 21:58, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women homemakers has been nominated for deletion
Category:Kentucky women homemakers has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 19:05, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women aviators has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women aviators has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 19:08, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women artists has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women artists has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 19:09, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky businesswomen has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky businesswomen has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 19:10, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women contract bridge players has been nominated for merging
Category:Kentucky women contract bridge players has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 19:13, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women directors has been nominated for merging
Category:Kentucky women directors has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 19:15, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women track and field athletes has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women track and field athletes has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 19:17, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Sportswomen from Kentucky has been nominated for splitting
Category:Sportswomen from Kentucky has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 19:19, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Timeline of United States and Native American relations


The article Timeline of United States and Native American relations has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "I feel that this article is barebones, and restates most of the things said in other articles. Therefore, it seems this article has no use on its own. I could consider a merger with another candidate article as well, or put the sources into a different article."

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Nomination of Timeline of United States and Native American relations for deletion
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Category:Kentucky women entrepreneurs has been nominated for merging
Category:Kentucky women entrepreneurs has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 14:28, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women television personalities has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women television personalities has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 23:45, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women in equestrian field has been nominated for merging
Category:Kentucky women in equestrian field has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 23:57, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women horse trainers has been nominated for merging
Category:Kentucky women horse trainers has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 00:01, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women historians has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women historians has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:16, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women military personnel has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women military personnel has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:16, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women philanthropists has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women philanthropists has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:17, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women librarians has been nominated for renaming
Category:Kentucky women librarians has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:23, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women scientists has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women scientists has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 03:25, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women anthropologists has been nominated for merging
Category:Kentucky women anthropologists has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 03:26, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women biologists has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women biologists has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 03:27, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red December 2023
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Category:Kentucky women engineers has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women engineers has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:42, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women chemists has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women chemists has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:44, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women mathematicians has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women mathematicians has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:44, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women sociologists has been nominated for merging
Category:Kentucky women sociologists has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:45, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women botanists has been nominated for merging
Category:Kentucky women botanists has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:49, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women in agriculture has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women in agriculture has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:53, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women psychologists has been nominated for merging
Category:Kentucky women psychologists has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 05:53, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 24



 * November 2023&mdash;Issue 024


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Category:Kentucky women health professionals has been nominated for merging
Category:Kentucky women health professionals has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 20:19, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women in education has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women in education has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 20:21, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Category:Kentucky women in law has been nominated for splitting
Category:Kentucky women in law has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 20:24, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red January 2024
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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 25



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Pahoa Mahagafanau moved to draftspace
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Women in Red February 2024
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Nomination of Survived and Punished for deletion
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Women in Red March 2024
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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 26



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Women in Red April 2024
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Women in Red May 2024
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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 27



 * March and April 2024&mdash;Issue 027


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Women in Red June 2024
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CfD nomination at
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Concern regarding Draft:Pahoa Mahagafanau
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Women in Red August 2024
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Your draft article, Draft:Pahoa Mahagafanau


Hello, Sbbarker19. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Pahoa Mahagafanau".

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