User:Alafarge/archive3

ARCHIVE 2016

This is an archive of 2016 posts to my Talk page, to help keep the Talk page decluttered. For archived Talk page posts from 2011-2014, see Archive 2011-2014. Talk posts from 2015 can be found in Archive 2015.

DYK for Rachel Henderlite

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for starting the article on Naomi Royde-Smith

that is just perfect for me! I am working on my cousin Sebastian Shaw's memoirs and he mentions that he toured some Philadelphia art galleries with her. She gives an account of him as S. Shaw, art critic and historian, in one of her travel books. Now I can see which one. Cheers! ixo (talk) 19:18, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

It's always good to know these pages are useful to someone. I hope something in your research ends up as an improvement to NR-S's page. And thanks for the pointer to Shaw's page—what an interesting and long career he had.Alafarge (talk) 16:08, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to a virtual editathon on Women in Music

Women in Music
	10 to 31 January 2016 Please join us in the worldwide virtual edit-a-thon hosted by Women in Red.

--Ipigott (talk) 10:59, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Joseph Mason (artist)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

A page you started (Mary Dickenson-Auner) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Mary Dickenson-Auner, Alafarge!

Wikipedia editor Blythwood just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Don't know what happened with the first version of this! Anyway, just been Google Books-browsing and Cooper's bio of Bartok and this book say it was the premiere, not just the Viennese premiere, so that might be worth a look! All the best.

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• Great, thanks. Linked the article to the dewiki article now too. Blythwood (talk) 22:36, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to an online editathon on Black Women's History

Invitation
	Black Women's History online edit-a-thon 1 to 15 February 2016 Hosted by Women in Red Sponsored by AfroCrowd Supporting Black WikiHistory Month

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Hi Alafarge,

I am an American University student/Washington DC, I am doing a blog about Wikiproject-Feminism, and I would like to know more about your experience, and why you were interested in being involved in this section.

Sy1744a (talk) 21:09, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply

Thanks a lot for the reply.

My name is Shirin, and this is my email: sy1744a@student.american.edu

I am interested to know why you decided to be a member of the feminism wikiproject (why are you interested in this topic). How often do you make contribution? What do you usually edit or contribute? When did you start on this mission? I thank you again for your help, and if you wanted to add anything to these questions (and answer it too) I appreciate it, and if I think of something else I will tell you. Regards Sy1744a (talk) 10:05, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Barnstar for your contributions

Barnstar for your active paricipation in the Women in Music edit-a-thon
	January 2016 More than 250 articles were created Hosted by Women in Red (... check out our next event)

--Ipigott (talk) 08:01, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

A page you started (Catherine Allen Latimer) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Catherine Allen Latimer, Alafarge!

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Nice page.

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Beatrice Ravenel

"Beatrice Witte was born in Charleston, SC, on Aug. 24, 1956..." That looks to have been her death date instead of her birthdate? LadyofShalott 18:59, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for catching this typo.Alafarge (talk) 15:00, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for your contributions

Thank you for participating in the Black Women's History edit-a-thon
	February 2016 More than 170 articles were created Hosted by Women in Red (... check out our next event)

--Ipigott (talk) 14:10, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon

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	Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red Sponsor: Art+Feminism 1 to 31 March 2016

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Clara McDonald Williamson

Hello, I added a banner for WP World's Oldest People so I assume the ArbCom notice appears as a supplement to it as a template for it is not apparent.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 17:00, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Wik-Ed Women Session #5

Wik-Ed Women Session #5

Dear fellow Wikipedian, I would like to personally invite you to the March edition of the Wik-Ed Women meetup, which will take place on March 15, from 6-10 in the evening. It will occur at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 2245 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90021 (downtown LA -- map). The building has a pink top with old signage for American Accessories, Inc. dba Princess Accessories (Photos [PDF]). There is on-site parking in the back, which also has an entrance. If you cannot attend in person, you are more than willing to work remotely, as we appreciate all help that you can provide. Finally, here is a link to the Facebook event, in case you want to invite friends, as we are always looking for new editors to help expand coverage of women on Wikipedia! I hope to see you there! Cosmicphantom (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:54, 15 March 2016 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

LJG article

I had a lot of fun adding in the citations into this! Is Lilian Jane Gould necessarily the best title though? All the sources I see from her lifetime use Veley, and she married the year after she graduated so I doubt she published much under that name. Blythwood (talk) 00:45, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Heh, I was still working on expanding the citations when I noticed you had found a bunch more! Re the name: I went back and forth on this one. I usually put women scientists under the name they most used for publications, but I also found a lot of references to Lilian Gould and Lilian Jane Gould; Creese (the best single source) uses Lilian Gould. So in the end I chose Lilian Jane Gould as less liable to later conflicts (there is an actor named Lilian Gould) and created a redirect for Lilian J. Veley, her authorship name. However, if you feel differently, by all means change it up.Alafarge (talk) 00:52, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

OK. The Japanese temple cat story is the most Victorian British thing ever, especially the highly plausible excuse. "So here's an ancient Japanese temple, and here are the sacred cats that by tradition guard it." "OK, let's nick one. For science! But mostly for my personal collection that I'm not going to tell anyone about in its lifetime. Let's just blame some Chinese servant for taking it and say we thought it would be too awkward to give it back anyway." Re name, thanks. I hadn't noticed the redirect. Blythwood (talk) 01:04, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

LOL, no kidding. I also noticed how a lot of sources desperately want to credit Gould and her brother for bringing the very first EVER Siamese cats to Britain, but it appears they had already turned up a good decade earlier. Because myths are so much more fun than facts!Alafarge (talk) 01:19, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to our April event

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	Women Writers worldwide online edit-a-thon Hosts: Women in Red, Women writers April 2016 #wikiwomeninred

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Adelaide Claxton

Thanks for creating this article! I just linked it to its Wikidata item. Sometimes it can take up to 2 months for this to happen. Because we would like to use Wikidata to count new article creations in the Womenin Red Project, it would be helpful if article creators would do this themselves. It is not hard to do at all. Just search on Wikidata for the article title, and then when you have the right item, scroll all the way to the bottom and select Wikipedia. Then choose en for enwiki or English Wikipedia and type or paste your article title and click save. For artists, this will enable the authority control template to be populated. Again thanks, and I hope I may have tempted you to check your past article creations. Jane (talk) 08:40, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Many thanks for this information, I had no idea it was something ordinary editors might do.Alafarge (talk) 23:19, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

From one ordinary editor to another - yes, it is just a wiki like Commons or any other language Wikipedia. In fact, before starting biographical articles, I use the "Prepare biography tool" called PrepBio for this now. It pulls all the relevant information from Wikidata and gives me a headstart on the article. Since I do a lot trying to track down artworks by women, I have created and populated most of these Wikidata items myself anyway. See for example this Wikidata item Q23063489 which recently resulted in this Wikipedia article: Blanche Paymal-Amouroux. Happy editing, Jane (talk) 08:32, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Fascinating, I had no idea this tool existed. Alafarge (talk) 22:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

April Fools? Nope! Welcome to the Women Scientists worldwide online edit-a-thon during Year of Science

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A barnstar to thank you for your enthusiatic support

A Barnstar to thank you for your contributions Over 800 new articles were created in connection with Art and Feminism
	Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red Sponsor: Art+Feminism March 2016 (check out our next event Women writers worldwide online edit-a-thon)

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Ruth Gentry

Wow, I just looked at your User page. You have really contributed a lot to Wikipedia. I also like writing about women, but nothing like you! I cant believe I was able to write about a woman that you didn't get around to writing about yet. Pure luck! Thanks for any help in improving the article I began. I probably wont go back to edit it, but its fun to watch it grow with the work of other editors. Kind of like watching a child begin to grow all on his own. Thanks for the improvements you made to my "baby."HugSnugBugRug (talk) 07:46, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I feel the same way—enormously gratified when someone takes an interest in adding to one of my pages. And I've noticed there are a lot of women mathematicians still to be done—I've only done a couple because it's not a field I'm familiar with, so I'm glad you started on it.Alafarge (talk) 15:38, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Shhh! Invitation to Women in Espionage

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	Women in Espionage worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red Supporting: University of Edinburgh - Women in Espionage and Spy Fiction 13-20 April 2016

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Barnstar

Thank you very much - you are too kind, and I too undeserving. :-)

Keep up the good work, and happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:08, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

And now

		The Original Barnstar
		Nice job on the Martha Strudwick Young article!HappyValleyEditor (talk) 21:10, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Photography

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Women artists of Middle East / North Africa... a WiR & Guggenheim collaboration

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An award for your contributions

The Mary Wollstonecraft award for all your contributions on Women Writers Almost 400 new articles were created
	Women Writers worldwide online edit-a-thon Hosts: Women in Red, Women writers April 2016 (check out our next event Women in Photography worldwide online edit-a-thon)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Presented to Alafarge for writing and editing of high quality for articles on significant women in a wide range of disciplines JamesMcArdle 23:15, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Wow, thanks! Alafarge (talk) 16:09, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Spotlight on women entertainers!

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A barnstar for your strong focus

A barnstar for your many contributions 120 new articles were created
	Women in Photography worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red May 2016 Starting now: Women in Entertainment and Women in Jewish History

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Celebrating Pride @ Women in Red

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	LGBTQ worldwide online edit-a-thon Hosts: Women in Red, Wiki Loves Pride 2016 16 to 30 June 2016 #wikiwomeninred

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A page you started (Ethel B. Power) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Ethel B. Power, Alafarge!

Wikipedia editor East Anglian Regional just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

If you need help, always feel free to ask on my talk page! :)

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DYK for Hannah Chaplin

On 17 June 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hannah Chaplin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hannah Chaplin. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hannah Chaplin), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

— Maile (talk) 13:54, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to the Hall of Fame!

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Thank you for supporting our editathons

	Thank you for contributing to our June 2016 editathons There were over 350 articles on Women in Entertainment, 55 on Jewish Women's History and 50 on Women in LGBTQ Host: Women in Red June 2016 #wikiwomeninred Our next event: Women in Halls of Fame

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Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project

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	Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project A Women in Red worldwide, online editathon - 12 July till 12 August 2016 - #wikiwomeninred

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Indigenous women & Polar women editathons

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Autopatrolled granted

Hi Alafarge, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Widr (talk) 22:20, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Re "Andrew"

His name was Kevin. :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 18:54, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for catching that & letting me know I mistyped (though I have no idea why). Alafarge (talk) 00:19, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

• • No worries. I mistyped "heading" for "ready" today—no idea where that came from either! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 05:13, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming editathons: Women in Nursing & Women Labor Activists

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Hello back

Your list of articles is amazing. I'm bookmarking it for inspiration. MopTop (talk) 16:24, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons

October 2016
	Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons Faciliated by Women in Red

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An invitation to November's events

November 2016
	Announcing two exciting online editathons Women in Food and Drink and Women Writers as well as our strong support for articles on women in connection with Wikipedia Asian Month Faciliated by Women in Red

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Alafarge. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

December 2016 at Women in Red

December 2016
	Two new topics for our online editathons Women in Aviation and Women in the Military Our geographical topic of the month is Caribbean Women During the period of 21 Nov - 8 Dec, we are also supporting BBC 100 Women Women in Red

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