User talk:Reidgreg/Archive 8

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These are the user's talk archives from 2023.

An article that been involved with (Waterloo Road (TV series)) has content that is proposed to be removed and moved to another article (Waterloo Road (2013 TV series)). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. _MB190417_ (talk) 18:45, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

		The Third Opinion Award
		Reidgreg, this award is for your dedicated service at Wikipedia:Third opinion. Your 83 edits and multiple third opinions provided are appreciated. Thank you for being wise and breaking ties! — Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 07:23, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

@Firefangledfeathers: Thanks so much for this and for listing me on the service award page! I've found 3O to be a great place to learn about policy and dispute resolution, and it's been quite satisfying to find solutions that work for both parties. (According to xTools I have 111 edits to the page with 70 answers/responses, if my edit summaries are reliable.) Surprising that I'm the only one to be added in seven years – about the time I created this account – will rectify that shortly. – Reidgreg (talk) 01:03, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

111 indeed! I think I got number blindness from reviewing the xTools page. I'm also surprised to see so few awards in recent years, but it makes me very grateful for the still-active old-timers. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 01:52, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

That Talk:R. Duane Ireland#Infobox 3O was spectacular. Nice work! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:53, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I tried to cover all the bases and kept adding to it – glad that nobody else answered while I was writing it up! –  Reidgreg (talk) 19:50, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:33, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE February 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 15:03, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 00:52, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:21, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 8,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 14:19, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:35, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

On 1 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Canadian Conspiracy, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that celebrities who were interviewed in The Canadian Conspiracy were paid US$500? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Canadian Conspiracy. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Canadian Conspiracy), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

		The 25 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
		Thank you for all your hard work!--evrik (talk) 14:47, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank-you very much! – Reidgreg (talk) 23:37, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

I missed Main page history, and saw that you did at least one manually. The bot resumed on 10 July, but several are still missing. Do you have an idea to get those also? I'd look myself but have first to do some things with a deadline. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:20, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

I promised an FAC review and have a lot of personal stuff piling up. It'd be easier if I knew how the bot did it (see my problem with columns for 1 July). I left some notes at User:Reidgreg/Tasks § Main Page archives if you want to give it a try. Reidgreg (talk) 23:05, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Saints Star Award

		The Saint's Star Award
		Thanks for the help with the All things dealing with Saint James' Day andDYK on 25 July, 2023

--evrik (talk) 05:55, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

		The Galicia Barnstar of National Merit
		Thanks for the help with the All things dealing with Saint James' Day andDYK on 25 July, 2023
		this WikiAward was given to Reidgreg by --evrik (talk) on 05:55, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

--evrik ^(talk) 05:55, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

On 25 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Holy Door (Santiago de Compostela), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a year when the Feast of Saint James falls on a Sunday is designated a Jacobean Holy Year, and the Holy Door (pictured) at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is unblocked for all to enter? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Holy door (Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Holy Door (Santiago de Compostela)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

On 25 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Feast of Saint James, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a year when the Feast of Saint James falls on a Sunday is designated a Jacobean Holy Year, and the Holy Door (pictured) at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is unblocked for all to enter? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Holy door (Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Feast of Saint James), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

On 25 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jacobean Holy Year, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a year when the Feast of Saint James falls on a Sunday is designated a Jacobean Holy Year, and the Holy Door (pictured) at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is unblocked for all to enter? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Holy door (Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jacobean Holy Year), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

July songs

my story today

Thank you three times for highlighting Santiago on his day, - I did my modest share with my story today, describing what I just experienced, pictured. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:36, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

		The Modest Barnstar
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		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE August 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 22:48, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

		The Minor Barnstar
		We really appreciate your efforts to review GANs. During the drive, the backlog of unreviewed nominations reduced by 440 articles, an astonishing 69 percent.

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		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:15, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE October 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:04, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Precious

Five years!

supporting the barnstars ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:50, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

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Leaving some notes here in case this is pursued further. I would have liked to merge this small dab page into a parent article, as Wilhelm Alexander redirects with a hatnote to William Alexander (disambiguation) but there is no equivalent parent dab page for the feminine form. Which is a shame, because there are an awful lot of variations on the form (Vilhelmina, Vilma, Wilma, and many variations on Alexander) which could be easily misspelled, and which are borderline for individual dab pages (as here) but could easily populate a combined dab page. Perhaps I should try to do something like I did for the dab page Diana Frances which includes variations of Diane and Francis? Anyways, the prod nom/seconder or anyone else can add to this if they have thoughts besides 2-Dab. – Reidgreg (talk) 19:23, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't noticed this as you were only replying to a bot. I have started an AfD instead as Wilhelmina Alexander (disambiguation) is still WP:ONEOTHER now. NmWTfs85lXusaybq (talk) 02:19, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

@NmWTfs85lXusaybq: It's cool, I've replied at the centralized discussion. – Reidgreg (talk) 03:53, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hi Reidgreg :) I'm looking to interview people here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 13:11, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:22, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE December 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 02:28, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

~ ~ ~ Merry Christmas! ~ ~ ~

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CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:23, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Reidgreg,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:21, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

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