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Women in Green's "Around the World in 31 Days" GA Editathon – October 2024

Hello TechnoSquirrel69:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2024!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2024, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

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DYK for The Snow Queen (Kernaghan novel)

On 12 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Snow Queen (Kernaghan novel), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a contemporary adaptation of "The Snow Queen" contains feminist elements and, according to one scholar, violates gender expectations? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Snow Queen (Kernaghan novel). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Snow Queen (Kernaghan novel)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Kusma (talk) 00:03, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

TFA

Thank you today foryour share of Worlds (Porter Robinson album), introduced: "After becoming popular as an electronic dance music artist, Porter Robinson eventually grew weary of the style, writing his debut album Worlds in an attempt to break the conventions of the culture. The album used a novel blend of influences to evoke a sense of grandeur and nostalgia over the pounding bass music of Robinson's discography prior." — I have a FAC open, different kind of music ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:16, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch, Gerda! I've been in a mood to do some reviewing lately, so I'll give your FAC a read through and likely leave some comments in the process. TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 13:40, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
That's lovely, thank you! - On 13 August, Bach's cantata was 300 years old, and the image one. The cantata is an extraordinary piece, using the chorale's text and famous melody more than others in the cycle. It's nice to have not only a recent death, but also this "birthday" on the Main page. And a rainbow in my places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:52, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Precious

castle in the sky

Thank you for quality articles such as Worlds (Porter Robinson album), Castle in the Sky, List of accolades received by The Boy and the Heron, Nurture (album) and The Snow Queen (Kernaghan novel), for writing in collaboration, for quality reviewing, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2949 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:21, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Gerda; I'm honored! On the point of "quality reviewing", I hadn't originally planned to keep you waiting for this long — the source review is on its way, I promise! :) TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 14:46, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for reviewing! I'll respond more tomorrow. - Sunday story about another of Bach's chorale cantatas, listen, as I listened to two impressive very different choral concerts, - music by 16 composers. In the latest cloudy pictures: a hidden deer, a cat and a blaze of a sunset. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:08, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Help? My story today is about a woman, nominated for RD but needing support as I write this. A composer died whose article is long and mostly unreferenced, which will keep me busy, - sorry about no more responses in the FAC. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:45, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
No worries about the FAC, Gerda; it's all on your own time. However, as I've mentioned before, directly asking for support in open consensus-forming discussions is not appropriate and difficult to interpret as anything other than canvassing. I will have to refrain from commenting on the ITN nomination as a result. TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 05:03, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
I see it a bit differently: I rarely ask for help, but had to go out, with the decision if another woman would be overlooked pending. (It happened before, Márta Kurtág, and I didn't want that to happen again.) WP:ITNN is not the typical "consensus" discussions, but support and oppose follow strict factual rules: enough coverage and enough referencing. In many cases one support was enough (which was there when I asked) for familiar admins but they all seemed to have the day off, and those unfamiliar would want to be safe and see a few more, like three. - I hope it will not happen again that I get in emergency mode. But if would "needs attention" be neutral enough? - She "made it" just before I went to bed. Goehr work still needed is detailed on the article talk. - Interesting animal pictured if you click on places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:21, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Yes, "needs attention" should be fine. The issue I was raising was not that you were bringing attention to your nomination — far from it — but the direct demand for support in the discussion, which is the crux of what the canvassing guideline disallows. TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:26, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
story · music · places
I see that my grammar is wrong. For me "she needs support" is just short for "in order to appear she would need more support", which is not a demand to supply that support, and "Help?" can be answered by yes or no, which would be a "support", an "oppose" or simply doing nothing. I have been lectured about my grammar mistake with enforcement, so be it. I learned to say "review" next time but hope there will be no next time of a woman musician being ignored. - Recommended reading today: Frye Fire, by sadly missed Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:59, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
Happy because my story today is about a Czech mezzo soprano who is mentioned on the Main page on her birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:50, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for the Good article on the Main page today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the thanks! That was a fun one to write — it surprised me how much I stayed interested in the topic, as I had only intended to make it a quick creation for Women in Red. After I'm done with a couple of projects I have on my plate, FAC is up next! TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 15:33, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
You are welcome! - Today is Schoenberg's 150th birthday! On display, portrayed by Egon Schiele, with music from Moses und Aron, and with two DYK hooks, one from 2010 and another from 2014; the latter, about his 40th birthday, appeared on his 140th birthday, which made me happy then and now again. - See places for a stunning sunrise, on the day Bruckner's 200th birthday was celebrated (just a few days late). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:37, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for improving article quality in September! - Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114, is one of the pieces in my topic of this year. --

Note

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Roshanyadav7

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thala7

(same pattern) 93.143.153.28 (talk) 17:44, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Hey there, I presume you're implying that the second user is a sockpuppet of the first, but I'm not an administrator or a checkuser, so I can't take any action here. I'd recommend filing a case at sockpuppet investigations and presenting your evidence. Let me know if you have any questions. TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 20:34, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Tobermory Lifeboat Station

Hi TechnoSquirrel69

Firstly, thankyou for the typo fixes. Doesn't matter how often you re-read, always something...

But secondly, just for your reference really, lifeboat numbers, like 54-07, do not have endash, they are hyphens, so they will be reverted. I guess you use some Wiki assistant to spot these, but what I never understand, is that it only finds some. There are nine such numbers on that page, but you only changed three??

No worries. Keep up the good work. Martin Ojsyork (talk) 04:31, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your message and for creating the Tobermory Lifeboat Station article, Ojsyork! I was indeed trying out the AutoWikiBrowser tool for the first time today when I was checking that article, so I appreciate you giving me feedback on it; I'll be watching out in the future for numbers that they need MOS:DASH fixes but really don't. In this case, my guess is that the software interpreted something like "17-39" as a number range and inserted an em dash to comply with MOS:DASH. The ones that didn't appear that way, like "1042" and "44-016", were left as is. TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 04:48, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
Hello, TechnoSquirrel69. You have new messages at Template:Did you know nominations/JerAx.
Message added 05:50, 17 September 2024 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

It would have been better if you had tried to resolve the sourcing concerns you had on the nomination page first before rejecting it. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 05:50, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

A quick update re GA/Opawa

I'll be back on September 21–22 with secondary sources, which will replace the current Christchurch City Council "Dwelling and Setting" citations. I've made the lede more concise (hopefully the readability is better now). Looking foward to additional review comments. Talk soon! Alexeyevitch(talk) 11:34, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the update, Alexeyevitch! Ping me when you've completed your work and I'll be back with the final round of prose comments. TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 15:49, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Please read

WP:NC-SHIPS before making any more page moves concerning ships. Thank you. Llammakey (talk) 12:13, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Acknowledged, Llammakey — thanks for the heads-up! TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 13:42, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Orphan article The Indian Listener

Greetings, Today I de-orphaned this article by adding a link at All India Radio article, See also section.

Cheers, JoeNMLC (talk) 16:13, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

DYK for List of accolades received by Joe Hisaishi

On 26 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article List of accolades received by Joe Hisaishi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the composer Joe Hisaishi has been awarded eight Japan Academy Film Prizes and nominated for eight more? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/List of accolades received by Joe Hisaishi. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, List of accolades received by Joe Hisaishi), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:03, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Short stories by Greg Egan

Hello! I just came back to answer you to see that I came a few minutes too late. As already written in the previous message, I agree deleting pages not meeting notability. I've copied the content of "Transition Dreams", "Induction" and "The Moat" (currently in draftspace, but I find nothing more to add to the article, so it can as well be deleted) this morning (and also deleted links from the article about Greg Egan as well as the template I created for his work) just in case there might be some changes to the current state in the future and I agree to have all three of them deleted.

However, I really don't agree with "The Safe-Deposit Box". Serving as inspiration for the pretty famous movie Your Name, it is among the most important stories in Egan's bibliography and should stay. I've expanded a review and added another one to support notability. With three reviews when two are required, that should be fulfilled now. I also intend to expand the article as unlike the other three, there might still be more to add as I've not yet searched through everything. Can I therefore revert your edit on the article? Samuel Adrian Antz (talk) 23:45, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

While I can see the logical behind establishing an article's notability for inclusion in this encyclopedia, I think it a bit premature to delete the article immediately without giving editors time to make the required changes. A simple flag on the page questioning the notability allows editors the opportunity to edit it over time if required.
I think, in this case, it would be better to re-instate the original article, add a "notability flag" and then check back again in a few weeks' time to see if the page has been updated as requested. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 23:55, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
@Samuel Adrian Antz: Well, it's convenient, then, that blanking and redirecting can be easily reverted! As I mentioned in my edit summary, I'm open to allowing the article to develop if the subject's notability can be established, so I've made the revert. TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 02:40, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

How To Add Myself To The Ghibli Taskforce

Hiya! I'm the person who you might remember from the Ghibli Wiki discord who made her first edit. You recommended me to check out the Studio Ghibli Task Force, which I found interesting. The page said that I could add myself to the task force, but I have no clue on how to do it and the instructions seem very unclear. Could you maybe help me out with it, it would be so much appreciated! QueenLucita (talk) 17:16, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Hey Danielle, glad to see that you're interested in contributing to the project! You'll need to insert a template with your name to join the task force; you can identify templates because they use curly brackets ({{) in the source code. Hit the edit button on § Participants and add this line at the bottom:
# {{User|QueenLucita}}
I want to let you know that the Ghibli task force has been dormant for several years, so you can reach out if you need help and I'll do my best — there are also links to lots of resources on your talk page. If you prefer talking to people on Discord, there is a fairly active Wikimedia Community server with lots of experienced editors as well. Let me know if you have any questions! TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 19:03, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Jyocho

On 28 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jyocho, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the music of math rock band Jyocho has been alternatively described as akin to "madness" or "contemplative and melancholy"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jyocho. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jyocho), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 00:04, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Final comments

Hi. I appreciate your review, it wasn't discouraging at all and I'm happy with the progress so far and will attempt to nominate it again when I implement your suggestions into the article. It is fortunate for me that I now have plenty of time to include the suggestions.

I've seen FAs and GAs list the distances between schools, shops, notable places, etc. A lot of this detail could be omitted. I also think listing bus services, local businesses, repeated detail is unencyclopedic, and should be removed to make the article less tiresome. Listing some information about local sporting clubs is OK and I know that Opawa does have some noted sporting connections. Ultimately, I will attempt to remove needless/unnecessary information which is unhelpful (and possibly boring to readers.)

One comment I was slightly confused about was about trams? I'd also like to note that this potentially could be removed because it's not really a notable topic unlike the railway.

Close paraphrasing and prose fixes will also need be resolved. I can now understand why using Christchurch City Council sources is not good and using reliable secondary sources are overwhelming preferred and will help it in GAN. Once again, thanks for the review and suggestions. Alexeyevitch(talk) 10:13, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

@Alexeyevitch: I'm glad to see that you're taking the criticism constructively! I want to note that I was attempting to use examples in my comments that were illustrative of the issues I was seeing throughout the article, so while the things I mentioned definitely need to be addressed, try to keep your eyes open for where they might be cropping up elsewhere. On the trams, maybe I misjudged how important they are to the locality of Opawa in particular, but I mentioned it, again, just as an example of something that seemed to get very little mention when it had much more sourcing, while other things received entire paragraphs. Let me know if you have any other questions! TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 15:39, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

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