User talk:Smirkybec/Archives/2018/October

Women in Red September monthly achievements
Congratulations, Smirkybec, on being the editor who created most new biographies under our September monthly achievements initiative. Please feel free to add:

to your user page. Well done!--Ipigott (talk) 08:29, 1 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Well done you!   &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 09:04, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I will add that now :) Smirkybec (talk) 09:09, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Results from global Wikimedia survey 2018 are published
Hello! A few months ago the Wikimedia Foundation invited you to take a survey about your experiences on Wikipedia. You signed up to receive the results. The report is now published on Meta-Wiki! We asked contributors 170 questions across many different topics like diversity, harassment, paid editing, Wikimedia events and many others.

Read the report or watch the presentation, which is available only in English. Add your thoughts and comments to the report talk page. Feel free to share the report on Wikipedia/Wikimedia or on your favorite social media. Thanks!

-- EGalvez (WMF) 19:25, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Article named Mary O'Donovan Rossa. Suggestion to move to Mary Jane O'Donovan Rossa.
Help! This woman is always known as Mary Jane. I did not realize this article existed(it is recent) and I created a page called Mary Jane O'Donovan Rossa.Then I saw this and left a suggestion on the talk page for renaming the article. I then blanked my own article and someone then redirected it to the above. I would love to see this article renamed, but I am not confident enough to move it and am worried that the redirect complicates things. Please note that ALL OF THE SOURCES USED REFER TO HER AS MARY JANE. Her gravestone says Mary Jane. In her home town she is always called Mary Jane (Irwin). Can you help?Aineireland (talk) 11:44, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
 * As a redirect is in place I can't move the article in the usual way. I have requested a move here: Requested moves/Technical requests. Smirkybec (talk) 11:26, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for responding. Sam Sailor seems to have sorted it. Best wishes.Aineireland (talk) 12:36, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Get ready for November with Women in Red!
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