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User:Montanabw has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Montanabw's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Montanabw! Peace, Rlevse 01:39, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply] A record of your Day will always be kept here.

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Awww, gee! That was really super nice! Thank you! Montanabw^(talk) 04:47, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

'tis the season

Louisa Venable Kyle wrote a children's book on The Witch of Pungo --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:50, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Precious translates to the PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:03, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ten years ago! - Did you know that few users still have that on their current talk, only the brave ;) - I miss PumpkinSky. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges 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) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

Nice to see action on your talk ;) - Gabriela Grillo died, - I plan to translate, could you please watch and correct where I don't know the language of the field? - I'm sad that the old discussions have not died out, see Rossini (birthday tomorrow) and Rinaldo (opera). I'm sadder that people die, subjects and in real life, promising project member Vami_IV, - that was a shock. - Today's story, however, celebrates a woman's birthday. She sat right in front of me when I took the picture at a lovely concert, celebrating her son's 60th. I thought she was 90 today, - no, 91 already. You can listen, starting at the piece he dedicated to her, Op. 1. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:58, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

more music and flowers on Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:35, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Latigo leather is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Thanks for taking a hard stab at Trait du Maine; it gave me the courage/confidence to go through the whole article and copy edit the poor translation.

There are many horse breed articles that have been translated (often quite poorly) from French wiki to English by a group of paid editors (OKA). According to their guidelines their organization wants them to translate large quantities without too much attention to quality (because some other wiki editor will come along and fix it). They use an auto-translation tool called Deepl, and they create articles directly without going through Articles for Creation process (they do a Draft, then move to mainspace).[1] They are supposed to read the auto-translation and make edits into good English, but I doubt a single one of them are native English speakers. I have been unable to guide or train any of these OKA editors to do a better job, so I gave up and resorted to simply tagging the articles for cleanup. If they were required to go through AFC, then their monstrosities could stay in Draft until they clean them up better. (That's a thought, I could just move them to Draft... but I suppose they'd just move them back to mainspace.)

I liked your machete approach. I had quit when I read "A prototype of perfection has been defined to characterize the ideal Trait du Maine"; you simply deleted it. Definitely a good start.

If I make a list of some of these affected horse breed articles, maybe we could do a "one-two punch" and get some of them cleaned up.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 02:18, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in March! - I uploaded Madeira vacation pics (from back home, at least the first day) and remember Aribert Reimann. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:53, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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