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Your GA nomination of Rosalie Edge

The article Rosalie Edge you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Rosalie Edge for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Mike Christie -- Mike Christie (talk) 03:41, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Awesome! Thanks a lot Mike! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 03:45, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Great work, FFF! I hadn't even heard of Rosalie Edge and now I'm very glad that I have. Generalrelative (talk) 17:24, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks GR! Shout out to the folks at Women in Green. I wouldn't have learned about her if they hadn't suggested that article for improvement. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 17:27, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Public Religion Research Institute

Wow. really hates PRRI. See Talk:Public Religion Research Institute#Bad source. I see that PRRI is used quite a bit in mainstream media. Their edits look like massive edit warring with a very weak case. I've just given them a gender DS alert and hope this behaviour stops. I did ask about it at Talk:LGBT rights in Wyoming but that was before I discovered they've been going to all or most of the articles using PRRI and deleting. Doug Weller talk 16:08, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Accidental revert on RSN

Gah - I hit the wrong link and reverted your edit on RSN. My revert has been reverted and the appropriate people have been sacked. Ravensfire (talk) 15:05, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

I'd be happy to forgive you or become your wiki-nemesis. Let me know which you prefer! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 15:18, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Edit warring

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive
On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive. Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Sign up here!
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Books & Bytes – Issue 52

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Books & Bytes
Issue 52, July – August 2022

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Question from Clean & Pristine (12:45, 3 October 2022)

Clean & Pristine is an American based company and we are just browsing Misplaced Pages to see if we are able to get our business info and stats on Misplaced Pages, is this possible? not entirely sure how the process works. --Clean & Pristine (talk) 12:45, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Clean & Pristine. The first thing you're going to run into is that we have a policy against company names as user names. You may be temporarily blocked and asked to change your name. Instructions on how to do so are at WP:RENAME. Let me know when you're renamed and back around! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:45, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Article that may be of interest to you

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/03/jameela-jamil-pronouns-non-binary-twitter/

Uakari (talk) 18:17, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Oooooof. That sucks. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 18:33, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Apologies

Sorry, I made a mess for the Copyrights in the Shroud of Turin page. I got it. My first modification. Can I send another attempt (better written) after you clean-up? Am I blacklisted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prismak (talk • contribs) 21:17, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Prismak. No, you're not blacklisted from anything. Instead of re-adding a non-plagiarized summary of the content, I encourage you to post at Talk:Shroud of Turin and see if others will support your proposed text. One editor already objected to it on non-copyvio grounds. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 01:25, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Yoga

Thank you, for sharing your comments. Hope it helps. I am not an expert in this topic, but I know enough to see the issues. For now this is all I think I can do. Is there a Wikiproject pseudosceince? I cant find it if it exits. Any other suggestions you have for me to raise this or my headsup note on WP:MED is enough? Venkat TL (talk) 17:00, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi VTL. Thank you for bringing up the issue! I think your post at WT:MED is good enough for now. If a few days of discussion can't push the article in a better direction, there are other dispute resolution options available. While I have you, I encourage you to be a bit more collegial with Chiswick Chap. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 17:04, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestions. I was doubly shocked, first with the state of the article with GA tag and then with the pushback by C. Chap. Will keep your advice in my mind. Venkat TL (talk) 17:08, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

September drive bling

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Firefangledfeathers for copyediting 1 long article during the GOCE September 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:06, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Firefangledfeathers for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:06, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

So blingy! Thank you for coordinating the drive! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 19:10, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Rosalie Edge

On 7 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rosalie Edge, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that American environmentalist Rosalie Edge (pictured) was called "the only honest, unselfish, indomitable hellcat in the history of conservation"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rosalie Edge. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Rosalie Edge), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 12,405 views (516.9 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of October 2022 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 06:24, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

One picture speaks a thousand words, mostly obscene & over most millennials' heads

Smg85051 (talk) 00:27, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Question

Hey Firefangledfeathers, how are you doing? I got an email saying you are my new mentor. I don’t know what a mentor is or that I even had a mentor before this. Can you tell me what a mentor is and how having one affects me? Thanks.

-Aliooopqq Aliooopqq (talk) 12:53, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Aliooopqq. My role as your mentor is just to answer any questions you have about editing Misplaced Pages. For you, having a mentor doesn't affect you very much. If you need me, I'm here! If not, you're welcome to start completing some of the suggested edits you see when you sign in or pick an article that interests you and make some improvements. Let me know if I can help! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:22, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much for clearing things up! Aliooopqq (talk) 13:23, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Gratuitously...

...attempting to pile on by brightening your day with some Cheez Whiz :P Generalrelative (talk) 18:13, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Golly gee! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 18:23, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

H.D.

Just noticed this was kept!! :) Absolutely great work, and apologies I left you with so much heavy lifting. Best Ceoil (talk) 16:16, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Wooohooo! It was a joy to work on her article, and I didn't mind any of the lifting. Thank you for all the excellent content added. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:21, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

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re your reversion of chevalier d'eon article

firstly the "consensus" you refer to decided to violate the wikipedia guidelines regarding correct gendering of trans women with absolutely no justification besides some lazy transphobic stereotypes, secondly when I tried to start a disscussion on the talk page everything I posted was deleted. given this is the case how am I supposed to remove the trasphobia from this article so that it conforms with wikipedia guidelines? 65.92.127.4 (talk) 14:53, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

I encourage you to post a comment at the talk page that includes no comment on other editors. Maybe something like "I think the article should use she/her pronouns, because X, Y, and Z. There are high-quality sources that do so, including Sources 1, 2, and 3." Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:58, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

I did and got deleted. Any more advice? 65.92.127.4 (talk) 15:01, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Assuming you're also IP 70.30.30.243, it looks like all of your comments so far have included personal attacks or incivility. My advice is to avoid that and focus your comments entirely on the content and sources. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 15:05, 19 October 2022 (UTC)