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Precious anniversary

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Three years ago ...
 
facts supported by evidence
... you were recipient
no. 702 of Precious,
a prize of QAI!

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Voting for the Military history WikiProject Historian and Newcomer of the Year is ending soon!

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The Bugle: Issue CXXIX, January 2017

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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

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The Bugle: Issue CXXX, February 2017

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09:40, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Please help

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The west end freo cat issue has raised its ugly head again - your comments would be appreciated - thanks JarrahTree 12:19, 19 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

March Madness 2017

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G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:

  • tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
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  • creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.

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Fair Use in Australia discussion

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXI, March 2017

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17:02, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIII, May 2017

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DYK nomination of Lillian Dean

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  Hello! Your submission of Lillian Dean at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 02:05, 9 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

  • thanks for the heads up I have pinged the primary author and a project leader to the the DYK page, noting this was created during an outreach project Gnangarra 04:06, 9 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Adam Armstrong (settler)

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Could you take a look at Adam Armstrong (settler) which you accepted here [23] User:Nedvol is very angry and accusing me of deleting his article, but he appears to have moved it back to draft space here Draft:Adam Armstrong for some reason? Can you help at all? Theroadislong (talk) 07:17, 10 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

15:19, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:The project (TV show) set.jpg

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Orphaned non-free image File:The Project(TV program) cast 2015.jpg

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A kitten for you!

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hi Gnangarra, a big thankyou for your explanation at Talk:Education in Western Australia 

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File:The project (TV show) set.jpg listed for discussion

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File:The Project(TV program) cast 2015.jpg listed for discussion

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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017

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08:41, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXV, July 2017

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16:43, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVI, August 2017

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About a range you unblocked

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In case you don't get the ping, I asked you a question on my user talk page about a range you unblocked. This was raised by an IP editor who noticed it has immediately begun vandalizing. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:49, 11 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVII, September 2017

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Invitation to Admin confidence survey

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2017 Military history WikiProject Coordinator election

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17:10, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVIII, October 2017

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Caladenia paludosa?

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Hello Gnangarra,

Some years ago you uploaded an image of an orchid you labelled as Caladenia paludosa (Caladenia 01 gnangarra 2.jpg). I am certain that this is actually an image of Caladenia arenicola. The two species are similar and both occur in the Perth area but Andrew Brown notes in his most recent book "The species [Caladenia paludosa] is distinguished from the related carousel spider orchid (Caladenia arenicola) by its more broadly-clubbed lateral sepals, forward projecting labellum, glossy-red apex and shorter, thickened fringe segments." I hope you will not mind if I replace your image with a photo I took of Caladenia paludosa about a week ago in the Jandakot Regional Park. Gderrin (talk) 10:39, 9 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Go for it especially as you have a more definitive id Gnangarra 11:15, 9 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

is this a joke

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I have looked through the instructions of this competition is this really intending to create 100,000 stub articles and then abandon them. On top specifically reward someone for creating what will be one horrible mess. How is notability going to be establish, who is going to verify the all 100,000 articles, who is going to check for copyright violations, who is going to ensure that all 100,000 meet WP:BLP and continue to meet it into the future. Sorry to put a dampener on the whole concept do really need to create a contest that ignores all the basic policies. 0.75 kb of prose would never pass through article creation which require 1.5k of prose why should we expect more from new comers than we do from ourselves. Gnangarra 13:43, 15 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Gnangarra I moved the conversation here as I took it as a personal attack. You've totally got the wrong end of the stick, yes, 100,000 is a long term challenge and not part of the contest (I still don't know if we're going to do the challenge), and I still haven't decided on minimum length, previous contests were minimum 1.5 kb. But given that it's a world contest sometimes there is a problem with finding decent material for developing world countries. I hope WMF will fund contests for women to improve quality later, but for now we're doing this. Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon allowed creation for women bios and was a massive success (aside from the deleted ones created by a blocked creator) which saw an enormous improvement in general quality. I hope to do something like that for women bios soon enough. I'm giving $250 of prizes to people who take the time to review articles. copyedit, ensure they comply with guidelines etc. Sorry you think so poorly of it, but the idea is NOT to dump lots of stubs but to produce a lot of decent new starter articles on women globally and try to get us towards 20% women bios. Articles which are poorly sourced/written/formatted or non notable etc won't be approved.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:53, 15 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Dr. BlofeldIt is not a personal attack I question the validation process of the contest noting that we set a higher standard for new editors, please kindly restore my comments. I'm well aware of the problems facing not just women but Indigenous communities in colonial countries in getting sufficient content for articles but firstly the subject must achieve notability that alone should provide sufficient material for 1.5k. Gnangarra 16:10, 15 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

I've run several very successful contests already which have greatly improved general quality, Wikipedia:Awaken the Dragon was another one, look at the articles done for that, was that a mess? Just show a little more good faith please. You have a valid point on minimum length, I've made it 1KB. It ought to really be 1.5 KB but during the African Destubathon I remember trying to find info on Djibouti or Eritrea athletes etc and really finding it hard to get even 1 kB, and some were Olympic competitors. They were notable but it's a big challenge finding material for many world countries. I lowered the requirement not because I want to see a dump of crappy stubs but a greater diversity of content and countries not discriminated against because of the unevenness in sourcing issue. I'd rather see a 1-1.2 kb length new articles than no article on subjects like that rather than having to be bloated out to reach 1.5 kb. I don't agree that notable women for really poor developing world countries will always easily have 1.5 kb. I warmly welcome constructive inout, but just not in the tone of your original message. If you have some ideas on how to ensure that quality articles are produced and the contest is better run I'd be happy to hear it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:16, 15 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Firstly please restore my comment on the talk page, whether you like being criticised or not is irrelevant my observation and concerns relate solely to this event. I again repeat how can we as community run an event where we accept less from ourselves than those who are trying to participate in the first place. I ask how will Notability be assured, how will copyright violations be identified, how will BLP be maintained. We can create bots to make creations of articles on Olympic athletes as barrier for inclusion is just selection to participate. Gnangarra 16:30, 15 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

How is notability assured, copyvios identified and BLP maintained generally? We manage it. There's $250 prizes towards editors who take care of monitoring and running it. The bot will just check length and sourcing. People who only mass generate sports bios won't be eligible for prizes. One of the reasons I approached WmAus was because I wanted some further prizes to go towards quality entries. Something to support ADB entries and a focus on quality but if you don't want to support this it's up to you.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:57, 16 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Dr. Blofeld nothing to do with WMAU, my comment are mine, I resigned as President and was replace a couple of weeks ago Gnangarra 09:28, 16 October 2017 (UTC)Reply