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Papua New Guinea

Hi Femke, I was wondering since you spent time reviewing Papua New Guinea for the Core contest, if you had any thoughts on the article that might still be in your mind. I know Good articles have been taken into consideration when assessing the impact of the Core contest, so if you think it's in decent shape I'd be comfortable submitting it given the extensive rework. Best, CMD (talk) 09:08, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll put some thoughts on the article talk :). I think it's close, but some sections can do with being more easy to understand. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:33, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I had very similar vibes about some of the text, which was one of the things that came up when I was digging into the article after I signed up and realising it was an even bigger cleanup job than I'd first thought. I'm not even sure I've fixed all of it to my satisfaction, but I've never been great at writing Culture sections anyway. CMD (talk) 10:02, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Femke, update on this for Core contest results, it got over the line after quite a thorough source formatting check. Thanks again for your message at WT:COUNTRIES which combined with the downgrading of the article to C-Class prompted me to take it on. CMD (talk) 12:10, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Impressive amount of work, for a country where sources are a challenge. I meant to continue giving feedback, but I either don't remember my feedback around mtau for the economics section or you've resolved them in the meantime.

@Generalissima, we're you hinting you'd like to see a future FA run with those formatting suggestions? If you go for it, CMD, I'd be happy to review at PR or FAC. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 16:38, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the offer. I'm not unwilling to try for FA, but I do think it's a process where FAC mentorship might make it more efficient for everyone than me striking out on my own. CMD (talk) 14:43, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Air pollution

The article Air pollution you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Air pollution for comments about the article, and Talk:Air pollution/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 14:44, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections | Discussion phase

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help with speedy

Hello. I saw your comment a few hours ago, and it reminded me once I had helped (a little) to a new admin to delete a page. But I cant recall who that admin was. The only two things I remember are: that admin was new with the tools, 2: I was sure that admin wouldn't take my help the wrong way. Was that admin you? —usernamekiran (talk) 17:04, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so, but possibly. I rarely speedy things, and then mostly G6s, when I mess up something myself. That said, I'm sure I could have used help in the early days with speedies (and probably still in the details)! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:21, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

found it. It was Valereee, but it wasn't speedy. It was unprotecting, and then protecting the same page again. —usernamekiran (talk) 10:59, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections | Voting phase

Administrator Elections | Voting phase

The voting phase of the July 2025 administrator elections has started and continues until July 29 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

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July 30–c. Aug 3 – Scrutineering phase

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Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for approximately four days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:36, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spidey sense?

Do you get the impression there's some block evasion going on at WT:MED ? Bon courage (talk) 20:07, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, have started a conversation with @Tamzin at User_talk:Tamzin#More_loutsocking_from_Dustfreeworld?, as they previously blocked DFW. Explains the knowledge of P&G abbreviations in combination with, let's say, odd interpretation of them. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 20:10, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Potrok Aike

Greetings, was wondering if you could take a look at Potrok Aike and see if there is any work that need to be done before a hypothetical future FAC nomination. Seeing as some problems are better solved before the actual FAC. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:54, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jo-Jo Eumerus: Unfortunately, I'm a bit overcommitted at the moment, as I've also promised to help with pre-FAC comments for Papua New Guinea, and would like to make progress on improving the understandability of our understandability guideline, and have two content projects I'd like to make progress on. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 06:42, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Air pollution

On 1 August 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Air pollution, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that air pollution (example pictured) increases the risk of miscarriages, strokes and dementia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Air pollution. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Air pollution), 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.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It didn’t work…

… because you needed to substitute the uw template (subst:), I mean the auto signing, I tried doing it for you but there appear to be a {{REVISIONUSER}} in that template I guess, forcing my signature to appear instead of yours. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 07:21, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Will make sure to subst next time. I should know how to do this by now.. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 07:42, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted myself though, so it is still not substituted. I think it requires you, the OP, to substitute it, lol. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 08:28, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Battlefortheconscience (talk) 06:34, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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LEADCITE

Hi Femke, thanks for reviewing my review of a review! You actually responded to my mentorship request when I started which was so helpful to me at the time, so it's ironic in a good way that we are in this situation!

I thought I would split this thread from the GA page to avoid cluttering the review, but I'm interested in your take on WP:LEADCITE. I believe the relevant sentence is "editors should balance the desire to avoid redundant citations in the lead with the desire to aid readers in locating sources for challengeable material", which I always interpreted to mean most uncontroversial statements, such as the ones in Kızılırmak Delta shouldn't have citations. I think this is the interpretation common at GAN, but I'm struggling to find evidence either way. IAWW (talk) 22:17, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Leadcite can definitely do with a bit of a rewrite. The following sentence is more explicit "Although the presence of citations in the lead is neither required in every article nor prohibited in any article, there is no exception to citation requirements specific to leads.". At FAC, you see more people asking for citations to be dropped, but even then, it's not a must, and people successfully argue against it, even in uncontroversial articles. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 06:53, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. I'll bear this in mind going forward. Thanks for your input. IAWW (talk) 07:58, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Signature query

Hi @Femke! You left a message on my talk page regarding the contrast of my username signature. I did respond there however I wanted to make sure the new hex I've chosen meets the requirements. This isn't something I have any knowledge of whatsoever, I only wanted to have a earthy colour! I understand you are busy so it is fine if you don't respond, just wanted to know if this new colour is all good! 11WB (talk) 08:09, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @11wallisb: this looks much more clear, thanks :). —Femke 🐦 (talk) 08:13, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! Thank you for letting me know about this! 11WB (talk) 08:45, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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