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Stub categories - yet more things I didn't know, and thank you for that[edit]
Hi Jarrah Tree,
We've both been around a long time, but here you pointed out something I was quite unaware of.
Thank you again.
(For people who may have this watchlisted, Jarrah Tree was the first user to welcome me when I had pretty much no idea what Wikipedia was about back in 2007. This sort of collegial work is what makes me stay here.)
09:40, 25 March 2024 (UTC) Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 09:40, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, I notice that you have been updating a lot of Wikiproject banners, which included removing the Military History quality assessment rating. However, the Military History project asked to keep a separate rating to the centralised rating used by other projects. I don't believe there has been consensus to adopt the central rating, so you need to retain the Military History rating, even if it matches the central rating. From Hill To Shore (talk) 15:52, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I certainly used the ADB page for my updates of the Leonard Mann page but thought I'd shifted things around enough to be abe to get by, but their edit bots must have hit a limit in terms of the copied phrases. I'll work around it.
I'm not discouraged by this. It's more the endless back-and-for arguments with disruptive editors that get nowhere that used to wear me down. But I'm retired now and have more time to work on stuff. Stay tuned. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 20:43, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The newsletter will not be returning to a monthly format (mainly because the author is busy failing every exam imaginable) and is on a bimonthly schedule for the foreseeable future.
The second round of the WikiCup was very competitive, requiring the highest points total to advance since 2014. Two TOL editors, AryKun and Fritzmann2002, advanced to the third round.
The March edition of our monthly rolling contest was won by simongraham, who amassed 118 points from 21 articles on various species of jumping spider; in second place was Quetzal1964 with 109 points from 53 articles on marine ray-finned fish.
Quetzal1964 and simongraham were also the top two in the April edition, although Quetzal was ahead this time, with 68 points to simongraham's 48. In the annual leaderboard, Quetzal and simongraham are in first and second place respectively, with 291 and 246 points; in third place is Snotoleks, with 76 points.
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@JarrahTree Hi. Out of curiosity, how does one verify Indigenous identity in an Australian context? In the US and Canada, there are things like tribal rolls, tribal citizenship, etc that can be used to verify whether a person is of Indigenous heritage or not. I've seen news articles about people pretending to be Aboriginal; that's rampant in North America. What criteria determines Indigeneity in Australia, aside from self-identification? Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 13:05, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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