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Good article reassessment for Treats!

Treats! has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 22:45, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Io Saturnalia!

		Io, Saturnalia!
		Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. Ealdgyth (talk) 15:19, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Enjoy the holidays. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:13, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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nomination

I have nominated History of Christianity - again - please take a look and criticize at will. Here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of Christianity/archive2 Jenhawk777 (talk) 23:46, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!

	A very happy Christmas and New Year to you!
	Have a great Christmas, and may 2025 bring you joy, happiness – and no trolls or vandals! Cheers SchroCat (talk) 08:30, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks -- and the same to you! Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:23, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of Gerald Durrell

Congratulations, Mike Christie! The article you nominated, Gerald Durrell, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:06, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Hello Mike Christie: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, —Ganesha811 (talk) 12:55, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I also wanted to add that Gerald Durrell is one of my favorite authors - thank you for your work on his article. It's a great read now and gives the full measure of the man. —Ganesha811 (talk) 12:56, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Thanks! I hope you have a great holiday season too. And thanks for the compliment about the Durrell article; it was a pleasure to write about an author I have been reading for so many decades. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:11, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I read his books first as a child - and then, as I grew older, learned (as you do with parents) how much more complex the man behind the stories was than the stories themselves, and how much was left out or simply fictionalized for the sake of a good yarn. Oddly, it didn't decrease my enjoyment of his books at all. It made him, with all his flaws, even more admirable for being just another human being, not a fairy child blessed with an enchanted childhood, but someone who set out to reshape the world around him, and succeeded. —Ganesha811 (talk) 13:16, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd agree with all of that. For me, one of the best things about writing for Wikipedia is that you learn more, even about topics you thought you knew well. I had read Durrell's biography some time ago, but having to reread it more carefully for the article gave me a more complete picture of him. I read and reread his books when I first encountered them, in the 1970s and 1980s, and I still have some of those paperbacks, now tattered and falling apart. A big influence on me. I hope to bring James Thurber to FAC some time next year -- there's another figure with a larger-than-life reputation who was a flawed human being; I read Thurber when I was young, too, and look forward to integrating the material in the biographies with my own sense of the human being behind the words. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:49, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've never read anything by Thurber - I'll see what the library has in stock! —Ganesha811 (talk) 15:18, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I recommend starting with My Life and Hard Times; it's a short collection of reminiscences, all originally published in The New Yorker, and if you discover you don't laugh at "The Night the Ghost Got In" or "The Night the Bed Fell on Father" you'll know you're not a Thurber fan. He was at one point more famous for his cartoons than his writing; you can get a flavour of his New Yorker cartoons from this, though the writer of that blog is quite wrong about Thurber's drawing ability -- Thurber could draw realistically when he wanted to. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:25, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings of the season

~ ~ ~ Greetings of the season ~ ~ ~

Hello Mike Christie: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Spread the love; use {{subst:User:Dustfreeworld/Xmas3}} to send this message.
--Dustfreeworld (talk) 07:14, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Season's Greetings and a request

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2025!

Hello Mike Christie, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025.
Happy editing,
Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:45, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Also, was wondering if you were interested in giving Licancabur a look-over. I'd like to send it to FAC but SandyGeorgia noted that the prose might need some maintenance first. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:45, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. Might be a couple of days before I can get to it, but I'm sure I can do it within a week. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:59, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wishes

@Mike Christie Wishing you a Happy New Year in advance and hope that you are enjoying this festive season. Thanks for responding to my queries at FAC. Hopefully I will get an FAC next year (I am still too young for that). Looking forward to any potential collaborations in the future. Regards. MSincccc (talk) 17:58, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and I hope you're enjoying the holidays! Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:00, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]