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Alison Frantz at Smith

I have a present for you! While I was poking around in the Internet Archive, I came across the Smith College yearbook for 1924, Frantz's senior year. Her name is mentioned several times: not surprisingly, she was a member of both the Greek and Latin Clubs, as well as other student organizations. But the real treat is that it contains two photos of young Mary Alison, age 20: a standard yearbook head shot, and a wonderful group portrait of the All-Smith Hockey Team, with Frantz's distinctive features immediately recognizable in the lower left corner. I've uploaded both images to the Commons; you can find them at c:Category:Alison Frantz. I hope this will take some of the sting out of the additional comment I am just about to add to the FAC page, in which I point out some serious problems with the first two images in the article. (But don't worry, I have a solution, which I think you will probably agree is much better than what you have now.) Cheers, Choliamb (talk) 16:25, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Magnificent: thank you. I shall await the sting and trust in your solution! UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 16:34, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Sujskelkekke28 (15:46, 10 March 2025)

My family lives in Worthinster, Wiltshire, southwest England. Earl's family has always kept a low profile, but now I hope they can let more people know and become an open family. If possible, I would like to ask you to go there to find them and convey this message. You tell them that it was expressed by Frederick Cedric Fauntleroy. I would appreciate it if you could help me. --Sujskelkekke28 (talk) 15:46, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from IntegrityParamount (10:40, 16 March 2025)

Hey! What are three tips you think a beginner at editing Wikipedia pages should know? :) --IntegrityParamount (talk) 10:40, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Bigi smoll (15:13, 16 March 2025)

Hello mentor, how are you doing, I hope everything is excellent.

I started editing Wiki because of the dire state of pages related to the Serbian medieval conflicts, mostly really bare-bone List of wars involving Serbia in the Middle Ages.

I believe I did a good job overhauling it, using only academic sources and trying to stay as objective as possible. However, when I checked the talk section of the List, it was of low-importance across the board. Is there any way I could improve this rating?

Also, it got B-class status because it didn't meet Coverage and accuracy criteria, which is strange to me because it is one of the more detailed lists and well-referenced, there is 0 original research, and every piece of information from academic works. How do I improve this? --Bigi smoll (talk) 15:13, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello -- welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy it here!

An article's importance is unrelated to its quality -- importance is a measure of the subject's prominence in e.g. general histories of the topic. For example, an encyclopaedia on Britain could hardly do without an article on London, so it will have a very high importance in WikiProject Britain, though it could have lower importance in another project where other areas are more central. Improving an article doesn't improve its quality, and the overwhelming majority of articles should be rated as "low" importance in most WikiProjects.
The rating on that article was done by a bot: I don't know exactly how it gets to its judgements, but would suggest that the presence of uncited statements was probably a concern: every bullet-point should, in theory, have a citation. For more specific feedback, you could consider putting the article up for Peer Review, perhaps with an eye on an A-class review at WikiProject Military History.

UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 17:48, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 67

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Promotion of Alison Frantz

Congratulations, UndercoverClassicist! The article you nominated, Alison Frantz, 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) 00:05, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! - Today, 300 years of (one of mine) Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1! - We sang works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel, Johann Christoph Bach, Kuhnau/Bach, Gounod and Rheinberger! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:07, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Nicole Slaughter (14:16, 24 March 2025)

Hello! I have been trying to get a new article for the TV show "Swab Stories" approved for months, but it has now been rejected twice. Is there a way that I can have someone with more experience take over this page? It's very confusing and I'm unsure why it keeps getting rejected. Thank you! --Nicole Slaughter (talk) 14:16, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello -- have you tried asking SafariScribe, who passed the most recent judgement on the draft? Without wishing to speak for them, it sounds as though they have concerns about the article's sourcing and the subject's notability. The general rule, as set out at the top of the draft, is that an article's subject needs to be discussed at length in multiple independent, reliable sources. From a non-expert view, it would seem as though the Washington Post, NYT and New York Daily News (which is generally considered to cross the bar) articles meet that threshold, though there may be other considerations at play here. Of course, AfC is ultimately a voluntary process -- you're more than welcome to simply go ahead and write the article in mainspace. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 14:33, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from DigitalSunil-SEO (10:47, 2 April 2025)

how can edit? --DigitalSunil-SEO (talk) 10:47, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]