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DYK for William Pinckney

On 15 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William Pinckney, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that William Pinckney was only the second Black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the highest decoration for valor in combat after the Medal of Honor? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William Pinckney. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, William Pinckney), 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 10,537 views (439.0 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of August 2022 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 03:34, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Great work researching, writing, and saving Will Cook (writer) from deletion! Always happy to see your username pop up--a sure mark of quality work. Cheers, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 21:51, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for both the barnstar and the kind words!--SouthernNights (talk) 19:02, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	I'll call rescuing Tensei Kono a successful defense operation. Cheers! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus\| reply here} 06:46, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks! SouthernNights (talk) 12:44, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In appreciation

		The Good Article Rescue Barnstar
		This is presented to you by the GAR process in recognition of your sterling work in helping Clare Winger Harris retain its Good Article status. Please feel free to display the GA icon on your userpage. Keep up the good work! ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 04:15, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello SouthernNights - I'd like your assistance in evaluating whether Asim Ijaz Khwaja meets the WP:N for WP:NPROF and whether Akmal Lewane meets the WP:N for WP:NPOET. Your input on their WP:N based on the relevant criteria would be appreciated. — Saqib (talk) 11:02, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have only limited connectivity at the moment due to being on vacation in a rural area. When I get back in a few days I'll check the articles out. SouthernNights (talk) 14:40, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure - also please Rasul Bakhsh Rais. — Saqib (talk I contribs) 13:31, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It appears all three articles may not meet our notability standards. SouthernNights (talk) 13:28, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK Thanks for your input. I've draftified two recently created bios, instead of taking them to AfD. This will give anyone interested a chance to help establish their WP:N. The third BLP was created long ago so might not be suitable for draftification so will be taken to AfD. — Saqib (talk I contribs) 13:50, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did more digging and it's possible Akmal Lewane meets our notability guidelines. Part of the problem here is there are so few reliable citations in English. But it's likely there are more in other languages. SouthernNights (talk) 15:09, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Maybe you would like to see this. @Fokket, the creator of Rasul Bakhsh Rais, said . SouthernNights assessment is totally wrong. I also agree with your assessment hence I draftified it, but they reverted my draftification. By the way, there is nothing significant or in-depth in local RS. I can vouch for this. — Saqib (talk I contribs) 15:16, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My apology for messing up the analysis on Asim Ijaz Khwaja. I'm better at analyzing the potential notability of poets and writers than doing the same with academics. SouthernNights (talk) 18:53, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No issue. I thought you might have expertise in academic-related bios as well, which I must confess I struggle with. Anyway, may I ask on what basis you believe Akmal Lewane meets NPOET? — Saqib (talk I contribs) 06:27, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remove or reduce protection of Shakespeare authorship question

The page has quite low levels of traffic to get ECP. Remedy 1 is now gone making it now longer a contentious topic according to the ArbCom (correct me if I'm wrong) and most other pages in the area don’t even have semi. I think protection should at least be reduced to PC but semi would be fine too and you could also remove protection if you'd like. ArbCom might get in the way a bit though. CharlieEdited (talk) 02:28, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fine with me. I ended most of the article's protection. SouthernNights (talk) 11:13, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I've been doing a pretty thorough overhaul of this article to try to save the GA status; I hope I'm not stepping on your toes with this. Hog Farm _Talk 02:58, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The updates look really good. Thanks for doing them. SouthernNights (talk) 12:45, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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A note...

Hello! It's been more than a year since I was unblocked. I have mostly moved away from hot-headed editing of articles and would like to participate in the Russia-Ukraine topic again. Could the topic ban be lifted? Thanks! Summer ^talk 15:29, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll respond on your talk page. SouthernNights (talk) 16:05, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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