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July thanks

July songs

Thank you for improving articles in July. Did you know that we had 2 FAs by Wehwalt this month, Apollo 4 today and History of Chincoteague, Virginia two days ago? - I was away, for hiking in the Swiss Alps and a funeral, more on my talk. Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:47, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Foundation stock moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Foundation stock, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Atsme 💬 📧 16:48, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Montanabw,
I hope you are well these days. Draftification is only supposed to be used for recently created articles (3-6 months old) and this article is 14 years old so I have moved it back to main space. Of course, you are welcome to continue to improve it as, as you know, any article can be subject to an AFD deletion discussion. Thank you and happy autumn! Liz Read! Talk! 21:26, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

@Liz: I didn't move it, someone else did. I'm fixing the sourcing a bit now. Montanabw(talk) 21:35, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

October thanks

October songs

Thank you for improving articles in October! - Look for mine: two favourite concerts were on DYK, and too many on RD (three yesterday). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:58, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

who shall separate us? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:02, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

leaving the month with reformation and a cat treat --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:14, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanksgiving

November songs

Happy Thanksgiving - Bach said it in music for peace. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:48, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

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Thoroughbred

Just wanted to let you know that I opened a discussion at Talk:Thoroughbred#Infobox_Image if you would like to participate. Cheers ‡ El cid, el campeador talk 18:32, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Montanabw! Enjoy some hot chocolate :)

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Season's wishes, with thanks

December songs
happy new year

Thank you for improving article quality in December! Best wishes for a joyful season! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:13, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Today, pictured, the soprano of our choral concert of the year. More in the context: User talk:Gerda Arendt#DYK for Talia Or, in case of interest. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:18, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Montanabw!

Happy New Year!

Montanabw,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Credit where credit is due

FYI your 2014 edit to Cow tipping here was specifically called out as Annie Rauwerda's (Depths of Wikipedia) favorite caption on Wikipedia (go to minute 4:00 at this interview). You can even buy Depths of Wikipedia merch with the image and caption. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:01, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Oh, that’s awesome! Thanks for letting me know! Montanabw(talk) 00:49, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

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February stories

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my daily stories

How are you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:08, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Doing well, thanks! I appreciate your monthly posts and kind words! Montanabw(talk) 17:32, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:36, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:57, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

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Good day! I was wondering if you'd be willing and able to perhaps provide a bit of mentorship and guidance with my first FA nomination. Back when I put the Perry County, Tennessee article up for GA status, a reviewer suggested it was potentially nearing FA status. Comparing it to the only US county article with FA status (Warren County, Indiana), I feel like it's pretty much there. However, I've been working on evolving at this article for so long now that I might be looking at it through rose-colored glasses, and would appreciate any feedback or advice in getting it across the finish line. I've started off by submitting it for peer review, since the last review was done over a year ago for the GA nomination. Thanks! nf utvol (talk) nf utvol (talk) 15:31, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

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On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:07, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving articles in January! I remember Ewa Podleś on the Main page, and have - believe it or not - two musical DYK. Shalom chaverim. On vacation, with something for your sweet tooth --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:44, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Today: the performance of Anna Nekhames --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:50, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Today a friend's birthday, with related music and a few new vacation pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:08, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

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Flaxen and sooty article titles

Hi Montana, hope you're doing well.

I'm thinking of making another attempt to move the flaxen and sooty articles, as it's still bothering me that the titles are not technically correct. I was wondering if you had input about what they should be moved to? I'm thinking based on how other horse coat color articles are disambiguated, maybe Flaxen gene -> Flaxen horse (the first sentence could easily be changed to "A flaxen horse is one with...") and similarly Sooty (gene) -> Sooty horse.

I'm also happy to explain what exactly is not technically correct, if you would like.

Best, Iamnotabunny (talk) 22:59, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Let’s discuss. There are no horses named “Flaxen,” for one thing…nor are they a breed. Chestnut (horse color) worked.Montanabw(talk) 04:10, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red March 2024

Women in Red | March 2024, Volume 10, Issue 3, Numbers 293, 294, 299, 300, 301


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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.

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Equestrian

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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)

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

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Thank you

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)

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March thanks

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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)

Bach music, - happy Easter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:22, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Montanabw,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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