Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Precious archive

This is an archive of WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Precious on 1 July 2022.

This list shows the recipients of Precious, a prize of WP:QAI for precious support, also known as the PumpkinSky Prize.

The list below it, under section "Before", shows the recipients of earlier awards. All recipients, beginning in 2007, have been called an awesome Wikipedian.

Models

 * User precious

== Precious anniversary ==
 * User precious anniversary

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 * It's simple: you copy the code and change "Six" to the correct number of years. For ten, see talk.


 * Precious topicon -> puts a topicon on user's page
 * Alternative precious topicon -> A different topicon for userpage.
 * User precious box -> a user box format

For older models see the talk page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:50, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

History
Precious was inspired by the historic Awesome Wikipedian
 * started by
 * Phaedriel: Today's Wikipedian (T) in 2007
 * continued by
 * Rlevse: Peace (R) 2008–2010
 * Bibliomaniac15: Awesome Wikipedian (B) 2009
 * Dylan620: Today's Wikipedians (D) 2009
 * Neutralhomer: Today's Wikipedians (N) 2010–2011

Picking up the idea of recognizing and appreciating merits, I don't go by day but enter as they come to my attention. The prize is titled "Precious", with the picture of a rare Yogo sapphire, in honor of its author PumpkinSky, my model for this, who (as Rlevse) said "Peace" and "Awesome Wikipedian" several hundred times.

Feel free to pass it on! If you don't want to do it yourself, you can use this talk page for suggestions.

On 30 June 2012, Yogo sapphire appeared as TFA. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:42, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

The list was hosted until 30 January 2014 at User:Bibliomaniac15/Today/Archive where you can see the history. The first "Precious" was given to PumpkinSky, then missing as now, on 30 January 2012. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:43, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

After also a few hundred entries aimed at a daily recipient, I'll add when I see someone precious but not search every day, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:39, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

New templates were added on 30 November 2015, the archive moved to the more general name Precious on 1 December 2015. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:23, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

On April 26 2016, Sainsf joined passing awards. Everybody is welcome to do that!

On 10 July 2017, Grace Sherwood appeared as TFA, and PumpkinSky took care of it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

On 23 January 2020, the English Wikipedia reached six million articles, with an article about a woman by a woman, who happens to be precious recipient no. 1, Rosiestep.

On 21 January 2021, the ninth year of Precious began, in the 21st year of Wikipedia. Reminders - with a template kindly created by RexxS - will not be sent to users who were not active during the last year, who are restricted for good reasons, and who have expressed the wish not to receive a reminder. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:45, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

On 21 January 2022, the tenth year began, and the special reminder for ten years is supposed to be the last. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:42, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

January to April 2012
During the first months, the prize was given irregularly, sometimes several a day, sometimes not one. The recipients can be sorted by date. Other than PumpkinSky, people appear in the sequence that I met them and they helped. The details of help are usually found following the link to the Precious award. During the second year, I applied consecutive numbers, but made mistakes ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:25, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Passed by Ched

Passed by PumpkinSky

Before
