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Women in Red | January 2024, Volume 10, Issue 1, Numbers 291, 293, 294, 295, 296 Online events: New: Education (year-long initiative) | Alphabet run M & N | Temperance women Continuing: #1day1woman | Women who died in 2023 Announcement In 2024 Women in Red also has a one biography a week challenge as part of the #1day1woman initiative! Tip of the month: Check out the new navigation on our Women in Red Project home page. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

Hi Eddie, a while back you were involved in the deletion of a page about the Letterheads. While not a formal organisation, this movement is an international phenomenon approaching its 50th year in 2025, and of significance within the sign painting and lettering community.

With one of the founders, we are trying to write a detailed history and overview of what the Letterheads are, and would like to include this on Wikipedia. There are various citations that we can provide to published materials, for example Signs of the Times in 1985, and more recently in my own print and online magazine.

As a newcomer here, I would like to know what the conventions are for reinstating a page in this manner, and what guidance you can offer in terms of how we prepare and structure our submission for the entry?

Many thanks, Sam Strebormas (talk) 19:56, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @Sam. The main thing we consider is: has the topic received significant coverage in multiple reliable sources independent of the subject. Specifically, this topic should meet our guideline on organization notability. Is this the case with the group? Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 20:49, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

We can certainly demonstrate coverage in respected national and international trade and design press; my collaborator and I will gather this evidence together. Some of it is in the form of online articles, whereas some are saved PDFs and scans from print publications. Can we present those to you via dropbox or similar?

The particular challenge with this 'organisation' is that it is less an organisation, and more of a 'movement'. (MeToo and Black Lives Matter could be comparable 'movement'-based entries on Wikipedia, although the Letterheads is not directed towards social justice, rather at keeping the craft of sign painting alive through inter-generational sharing of knowledge and skills.)

Under the Letterheads banner, there have been hundreds of events hosted around the world over the last five decades, but there has never been a central organising committee or identified/nominated leader. It is what I describe as an 'anarchic organisation' and its existence is only maintained through the voluntary efforts of people around the world. While there are volunteer-run websites, none of these are 'official', and there is no formal means of 'joining' the Letterheads, other than saying you are one, and participating in an event.

I know this is quite an anomaly, and sits outside of traditional organisational structures, but I hope the above conveys some sense of what the 'organisation' consists of. We will continue to gather our evidence/references, but here are some links to get things started, each from respected secondary sources:

Monocle Magazine on the Amsterdam event in 2016

Eye Magazine on the Oslo event in 2017

Print Magazine on the London event in 2018

Eye Magazine on the Tokyo event in 2019

And, while this magazine site is my own, I have covered numerous events, including those I haven't attended/hosted, see https://bl.ag/tag/letterheads/ Strebormas (talk) 06:08, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yeah, that all makes sense. Since you have somewhat of a conflict of interest, if you decide to go ahead with writing the article, you should go about drafting the article as a draft through WP:AFC so editors can independently review it. The best option for pdf scans if you want me to look over them might be to send scans/links to me over email-- we want to respect copyright, so uploading a link that anyone can view might be a bad idea. Another thought: Does the organization get mentioned in any books about sign painting?
Anyways, the old deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Letterheads was where the consensus to delete was actually found-- but if, as you say, there is a lot of in-depth coverage of the movement, notability may still be found. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 01:40, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

OK, thank you, will try to navigate the draft approach. Does this mean starting a new article from scratch, or are we able to use the deleted entry as a basis for improvement? 37.135.83.95 (talk) 09:38, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm reluctant to restore the deleted entry, because there is no content there sourced to reliable independent sources. In my experience, it's easier to write new sourced content than trying to find sourcing for old content. But if you disagree, I could restore the article as a draft. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 12:52, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I would keep in mind requirements for notability: be sure there is in-depth coverage. Two aspects of the guideline that I would highlight are that sources indicative of notability should be in sourcing with a substantial audience and not be of trivial happenings (the difference between in-depth profiles of the organization as a whole and standard announcements of happenings). Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 12:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

OK, Monocle and Eye Magazine referenced above are both international publications, and we will have more when we compile our final body of evidence. Happy to work on a new draft, will try to figure out how to open it. Strebormas (talk) 13:55, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have gathered about 30 articles and some films and wondered if I could share them with you via email for an initial assessment of their validity in making the claim of notability for the Letterheads. I do this with a link to a dropbox or google drive according to your preference, but will obviously need your email address Strebormas (talk) 10:05, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

if you go to my userpage, you can click the button that says 'email user', or click this link Special:EmailUser/Eddie891, where you could send a google drive link (might be best). Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 16:57, 29 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Hucksters.net. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Foweirp (talk) 19:34, 12 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks. I was actually able to find some more about the geology of the area, which I am going to work on today. In general, is this the kind of thing where I ought to just withdraw the nomination and resubmit later when I've made the improvements, or what? jp×g🗯️ 20:54, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@JPxG, it depends on how long you think you will take to make the changes. If it’s a few days, no point in withdrawing, but if more on the timeframe of weeks I would withdraw and renom later. If you’re thinking of making more substantive changes, a withdrawal might be more appropriate as well. Either way, please ping me when done, I look forward to giving a full review. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:53, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

story · music · places

Thank you for improving articles in January! I remember Ewa Podleś on the Main page, and had - believe it or not - two musical DYK today. Shalom chaverim. On vacation, with something for your sweet tooth -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:54, 25 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Today: the performance of Anna Nekhames --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:27, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Today a friend's birthday, with related music and a few new vacation pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:57, 30 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Women in Red | February 2024, Volume 10, Issue 2, Numbers 293, 294, 297, 298 Online events: New: Alphabet run O & P | Black women Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative) Announcement Please let other wikiprojects know about our February Black women event. Tip of the month: AllAfrica can now be searched on the ProQuest tab at the WP Library. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with ((Unreferenced)). You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Eddie891! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

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Hello Is it possible to upload a resume and have the information compared for my home page use? --Drafter707 (talk) 17:43, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, @Drafter707, that is not really the purpose of Wikipedia. Wikipedia articles are intended to provide independent sources of information on notable topics. You'd want to use a different website for what you're asking about. Let me know if I can help you with editing at all! Best, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 17:57, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank You, I'm trying too create the Information on my home page. thank You again. Drafter707 (talk) 18:01, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I think we talked about this one for April 14 at TFA? Anyway, I've got it listed on the calendar. No need to do anything. Let me know if there's anything I can do. - Dank (push to talk) 00:31, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks, yeah April 14 sounds good to me! I will make some time to tweak things a bit, but I think this one should be roughly good to go. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 02:51, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
• Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
• MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
• Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
• voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]