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Happy editing! --Ipigott (talk) 16:30, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your fast helpful response. I have a lot to learn including how to respond to friendly people! Ipigott Balance person (talk) 08:48, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Ipigott,

I hope you are well. I know it is a long time since you wished me happy editing ...since then I have done about 4 articles as I am a slow worker! But I have been working on another biography page. It is at User: Balance person/The Pinwill Sisters. I wonder if you or someone else from the Women in red project group might take a look and see if it is okay? The Pinwill Sisters have never been 'women in red' but they were pretty fantastic so I think they should be in Wikipedia. If the page is accepted, I will work on figuring out how to add some photos of their amazing work to the article. Balance person (talk) 16:22, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ipigott, I hope you are doing fine. I have had a go at a new woman in red. Her name is Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly, a ceramicist this time. I wonder if you would have time to look at the draft and see what you think? It's not very long but it might be a possible? Balance person (talk) 09:11, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ipigott, I hope you are doing fine. I have had a go at a new woman in red. Her name is Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly, a ceramicist this time. I wonder if you would have time to look at the draft and see what you think? It's not very long but it might be a possible? Balance person (talk) 09:12, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, Balance person, and welcome to Women in Red. Before creating your first article, you might like to gain some basic experience in editing with The Wikipedia Adventure. The easiest way to develop a new article is to create a draft in your user space. In your case it could be user:Balance person/article title where you replace article title by the name of the person you want to write about, e.g. user:Balance person/Jane Roe. You can then keep editing the draft until you think it might be ready for article space when I could look at it and provide feedback. You might also find it useful to read through our Ten Simple Rules. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 16:47, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Balance person! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

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-- 20:37, Sunday, February 20, 2022 (UTC)

I have taken a woman in red name of Carol Van Strum from the wikipedia page The People vs Agent Orange and have drafted a biography page for her in my sandbox. I hesitate to ask you to look at it as I am very new to this and probably have made lots of errors. Plus I can see from all the mentions on your page that you are truly a wiki star! I have watched/read lots of advice too though. Any chance? Ipigott Balance person (talk) 10:19, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

From your edit summary of your userpage, I gathered that you wanted your userbox to show properly, but were struggling to make it happen. I edited the page to fix this for you, since I thought that would be much easier than explaining it. Normally editors don't edit each other's userpages though, which is why I'm also mentioning here that I've done that. Feel free to undo those changes if you disapprove - it's your space. And welcome to wikipedia! -- asilvering (asilvering) 01:30, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

asilveringasilvering It is really good of you to have helped me make my page look SO much better. Thank you very much! It is going to take me ages to learn all this. But I like learning! Balance person (talk) 09:01, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Balance person

Following my comment at the Teahouse, I'm happy to walk you through the DYK process. I don't write many new articles but when I do I try to follow them up with a DYK as this drives literally thousands of readers on the day it hits the main page. The idea is that you choose an interesting fact from Carol Van Strum as a "hook" that people should find interesting. New articles have to be nominated within one week of being accepted. Looking at the current version, you could choose "DYK .... that Carol Van Strum is an environmental activist whose work led to the cancellation of all 2,4,5-T registrations by the EPA?" You could trigger the nomination by following the instructions at WP:DYKNOM and clicking on the "Nominate an article" button, filling what it asks for (you can preview the page to check you are doing it right). Alternatively, it is perfectly acceptable for me or anyone else to do the nomination but if we take that route we need to agree the "hook" you want to use. I'll look out for your reply here if you want to do that. asilvering (talk 20:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

asilvering (talk If you really wouldn't mind doing the nomination, that would be a great thing. I could learn about it vicariously as a start. It probably seems so easy and standard for someone with experience but I am learning absolutely everything at the moment from what a tilde is to why use how many colons!! I would be happy with the hook you suggested or else something like DYK that CVS is an environmental activist who kept 200,000 pages of documentation revealing corporate and government cover-ups in her barn. I would be happy to go with whatever your experience tells you would work. But if you feel this is an imposition on your time, please just say.

Balance person (talk) 22:06, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

asilvering (talk Have I got into a muddle I wonder. Was it you who offered to help with DYK via the teahouse or was it someone called Michael D Turnbull? I do apologise if I have answered the wrong personBalance person (talk) 22:20, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It was me (Mike Turnbull), as you could check by looking at the "View History" tab for this page. DYK can have multiple suggested hooks, so I'll now nominate using both suggestions. The reviewers who approve the hook actually used will discuss which they think is best. Mike Turnbull (talk) 22:27, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah ha! Thank you! I expect we will get alerted if it is successful. Balance person (talk) 22:37, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The nomination is in and can be read on Talk:Carol Van Strum, where there is a link to allow you to review or comment. As you'll already have that page on your watch list (I assume!) you'll be able to follow progress. Note that DYKs have very strict rules about sourcing. At present, I couldn't find a source that said "200,000 pages of documents", only one that said "more than 20,000 documents" (which could of course mean 200,000 actual pages). Hence I used that. 200,000 would be more impactful but you'll need to add a citation to the article itself that says exactly that before modifying its hook. Mike Turnbull (talk) 23:00, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, I put a ^{[citation needed]} template on the sentence that claims that phenoxy herbicides have a two-billion year half-life. That figure seems very unlikely and needs a reliable source! Make sure that such a source is for the herbicides themselves and not 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin. That number is IMO a gross exaggeration even for that worst of all impurities. Mike Turnbull (talk) 23:24, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mike Turnbull (talk)

Thank you for putting in the nomination and for your care in the matter of numbers. I think I have edited the page again to respond to that. I could not see any cn template so I may have missed being able to remove that. I will go back to doing minor edits on other people's pages now for a bit!Balance person (talk) 09:31, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. just a procedural note for your response to the DYK discussion. You replied on the Talk Page of the article at Talk:Carol Van Strum but did so in a way that only put your comment on that page, not into the main thread (that lurks in the bowels of the DYK system). You need instead to hit the "review or comment" link just under the header of the section so that your response will go into the right place (or edit the page directly here within a template). Note that you can suggest an updated hook, by calling it ALT2 and using the same format as ALT1. Sorry this is so complicated but appearing on the Main Page eventually is a big deal! Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:21, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for your help, Mike. I knew I didn't know what I was doing! I will try to amend it now! Balance person (talk) 13:54, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Balance person! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Polite query for someone in the women in red project group to read and advise on a draft page on US environmentalist, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still read the archived discussion. If you have follow-up questions, please create a new thread. See also the help page about the archival process. The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} on top of the current page (your user talk page). Muninnbot (talk) 19:00, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User:Ipigott (talk) Please forgive my getting in touch again but....I came across a woman's biography page that is not a woman in red but is a stub. I have done some work on the page and wonder if you or someone connected to the work on the gender gap in wikipedia might take a look at it. As you know, I am just beginning as an editor here so.... I may have upset the original maker of the page by changing so much. Then, I want to get rid of the reference to wordpress as I now understand it is not accepted as a reputable source. Not sure how to do that. Also I have no idea if I have put too many reading references in and also am not sure if I have managed to edit the original citations list properly either. In short, I may have made a pickle! I also have no idea if it is still a stub or not. If not, I have no idea how to change its status. Final question, should I have done this in my sandbox instead of on the page itself? I am assuming sandbox is for brand new drafts.Balance person (talk) 11:04, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Ipigott: Just wanted to make sure you saw this. Thriley (talk) 03:35, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Thriley, for bringing my attention to this. In the meantime, Sylvia Ashton-Warner has progressed and Balance person has gained more experience.--Ipigott (talk) 05:41, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Ipigott Thanks for alerting me to a message from Thriley which was about Sylvia Ashton-Warner. I am looking everywhere but can't find it. Have I done something wrong?

~~~ Balance person (talk) 07:26, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah! I think I understand. Thriley found an old message from me to you (probably written in the wrong place) and you have let him know that things have progressed and all is okay?

~~~ Balance person (talk) 07:35, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks. I have deleted the citation involving Kindle from the main text. I do not know how to delete it from the ref list. Balance person (talk) 07:45, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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On 11 April 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carol Van Strum, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Carol Van Strum, an environmental activist who wrote the book A Bitter Fog, accumulated 20,000 documents across 40 years that revealed corporate and government cover-ups? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carol Van Strum. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Carol Van Strum), 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.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 11 April 2022 (UTC) [reply]

April songs

Thank you for the important article, and for your patience on its way to the Main page. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:14, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely my pleasure, Gerda. Thanks for all your help to a beginner! ~~~ Balance person (talk) 09:27, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well done, Balance person, I hope this success will encourage you to develop other articles in the same way. Don't forget to check in a couple of days just how many people will have clicked through and read about CVR as a result of doing the DYK: you'll be amazed.... Mike Turnbull (talk) 10:25, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Mike, Thanks so much for educating me on the matter of DYK. I didn't even know it existed before you put CVS in for it! I am indeed much encouraged! ~~~ Balance person (talk) 10:31, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Balance person! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Polite request for eyes on new stub/page on the Martin Luther King Fund and Foundation, UKk, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still read the archived discussion. If you have follow-up questions, please create a new thread. See also the help page about the archival process. The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} on top of the current page (your user talk page). Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Balance person! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Anybody else working on this?, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still read the archived discussion. If you have follow-up questions, please create a new thread. See also the help page about the archival process. The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} on top of the current page (your user talk page). Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I know you are busy in real life so this isn't a quick request or one I expect you could fulfill until you return but I am curious to read the conversation that was had on the Teahouse where the suggestion was made that Gerlin Bean was not notable. As a host on the Teahouse I like to follow up on questions to make sure I am giving out sound responses to questions and I'd like to review the conversation you had there as its obvious the subject is notable. We should always be trying to improve the way we interact with other editors and I find it a little concerning, though not unprecedented, that we missed one. I assure you there will be no finger pointing (I don't do that) and I won't even discuss it but I am curious for my own benefit and for education purposes. --ARoseWolf 18:00, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! Just a quicky before I really DO sign off! I had gone to the Teahouse to understand how I could find out if someone else was already working on a person I was interested in. I found out how to do that. And in the mix I was advised to check the notability criteria for the two people I was interested in before I started working on them. I thought that was good advice. And of the two it was suggested that GB might have more sources to reference. As a beginner with only one or two pages created so far, I took from that the understanding that, really, notability was the thing you needed to check first. And that there may be some doubts about having enough resources to produce a good page. I really don't think anybody was trying to put me off starting a page on GB or the other person I queried , but just to be sure before I did a lot of work that notability or sources were not a problem.

I have no idea if this is possible but maybe you can access the archived transcript of the Teahouse chat somehow to see what was said. I am a beginner here so just trying to understand what is important and how to do things. Next time I have a query about a biography of a woman I will anyway go to Wiki red. But I went to the Teahouse cos I wanted to ask about how to find out if someone was already working on something. It was a more technical query.

Thanks for your interest ARosewolf. I hope I have set your mind at rest that nobody is at fault. And if I have caused any problems I apologise. Now I really DO have to sign off and wish you, wherever you may, be a super June! Balance person (talk) 18:24, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I took the liberty to find that discussion prior to writing here. I didn't see anyone directly telling you that the subject was not notable but I could see how that discussion could lead someone to think that was the way the needle was pointing but I wanted to confirm with you that was, in fact the discussion had. As a host, we try to visualize the impact of our responses on new editors before or as we are responding but I think we can take away some constructive thoughts to ponder here. I know I will. Sometimes in our responses we can overemphasize links to policy or guidelines and we don't immediately understand the gravity effect that can have on a new editor. Like you said, looking at it now, you can see that the commenter was not telling you that it was a waste of time to start an article on GB because she is not notable but there is truth in the way the comment made you feel, it's a legitimate feeling you had, borne out in your expression at User talk:SusunW/Gerlin Bean, and part of continually improving our interaction with others in the community is realizing these things and the way our words can affect the trajectory of new editors. I am glad, in this case, that you pushed on and didn't allow that to deter you to the point you gave up on the article. I am equally as glad that you found Susun. You caused no problem, in fact, this was extremely helpful. I wish you so much success in your adventures. Keep Singing! --ARoseWolf 18:47, 3 June 2022 (UTC) --edited 18:49, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I ran across this article for Rita Miljo while looking for a woman to expand for Women in Green's editathon this month. Obviously, she wasn't a climatologist, but there were numerous tags on it that I felt were easily rectifiable. In that regard, I've written it, but need someone to "Britishise" the text since she spent most of her life in South Africa. Would you be able to do that for me? SusunW (talk) 17:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I would be very happy to help. Is it the article that I reach by simply clicking on the blue Rita Miljo name in your Help? message above? And can you give me a day or two? Balance person (talk) 18:24, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, just press on the blue link above. And thank you so much. When you get around to it is fine. I just need to nominate it sometime in July. I genuinely appreciate the help! SusunW (talk) 18:53, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Have had a go. I found very little to change so just made minor edits. Change them back of course if you would like to! Balance person (talk) 08:45, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Always prefer to have someone look an article over before I nominate it, especially because people on here are really persnickety about BE/AE. Very much appreciate your time. SusunW (talk) 21:08, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure. Any time you want someone to look, just say. Balance person (talk) 08:19, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 19 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gerlin Bean, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that activist Gerlin Bean co-founded the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in 1978, an event described as "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gerlin Bean. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Gerlin Bean), 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.

— Maile (talk) 12:02, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Pinwill sisters 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) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Edwardx (talk) 23:37, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see Victuallers has been contributing to the article, adding great illustrations. Perhaps he can help you along with some of the queries raised in connection with the DYK. The process is not always easy to manage but I would prefer not to take part myself.--Ipigott (talk) 10:41, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I quite understand and I know you are busy enough! Thank you for the super help thus far. I think I have dealt with the DYK queries now both on the DYK nominations page and on Edward X talk page. If I have not done so correctly, I will certainly ask both Edwardx and Victuallers to help me out. Thanks for your concern and for the wise lead. Balance person (talk) 10:46, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 1 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pinwill sisters, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the woodcarver Violet Pinwill of the Pinwill sisters was still working on a life-size figure of Saint Peter days before her death in 1957, aged 82? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pinwill sisters. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Pinwill sisters), 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.

— Maile (talk) 12:03, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oooh! Great! Thank you! Balance person (talk) 12:16, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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	Your articles are fine. Use the "Move" option to get an article out of your sandbox. You should then choose "article space" and make sure the title is correct... and then "Do It". Be Bold. You will need to add some categories to tidy it up and then add a talk page. Your article on the Pinwill Sisters was by a very good editor - that must be YOU. Victuallers (talk) 14:49, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That has really put a smile on my face.Thank you! Balance person (talk) 14:53, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Balance person: I've left a few comments on the talk page. scope_creep^Talk 10:30, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for all your work and comments. I will gradually get to them all! Thanks again. Balance person (talk) 12:08, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Its looking a better and there is more substance there for the reader. scope_creep^Talk 12:09, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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On 19 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Patricia Davies (cryptographer), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Patricia Davies and Jean Argles, two sisters who signed the Official Secrets Act as World War II codebreakers, did not find out about each other's top-secret work until the 1960s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Patricia Davies (cryptographer). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Patricia Davies (cryptographer)), 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.

—Kusma (talk) 00:02, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just for the record, Patricia Davies (cryptographer) attracted 4,431 page views before it was moved to Patricia Davies (codebreaker).--Ipigott (talk) 11:22, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That is really great! And I am happy we have come to a satisfactory conclusion. Thanks for everything! Balance person (talk) 11:45, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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		In recognition of your creation of numerous biographical articles addressing systemic bias, please accept this barnstar. I've enjoyed reading your contributions and appreciate your efforts. Keep it up! If you ever need help with anything technical or otherwise, let me know. 🫶 gobonobo + c 11:40, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh this is making my day! Thank you gobonobo! It also made me look up barnstars to see what they are, where they came from, who can give them, which ones exist etc. And I am delighted that the Systemic Bias one exists. Great.

Great too is your offer of technical help which I will surely need at some point! Balance person (talk) 13:26, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the barnstars are a fun Wiki tradition. I'm curious how you go about finding subjects to create articles for. When I started the Jesusita Aragón article last year, I remember thinking that we probably should have an article for Fran Leeper Buss, so thank you for creating it. gobonobo ^{+ c} 19:26, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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	Loading fair use images to Wikipedia is a "non trivial" procedure. I have to tell you that you can no longer claim to have little expertise it this area. Brilliant work at following tricky stuff. Well done Victuallers (talk) 11:21, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh honestly! You guys!!!! Balance person (talk) 11:26, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And thank you very much! Balance person (talk) 16:58, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mary Jane Patterson you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Mike Christie -- Mike Christie (talk) 18:43, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mike Christie (talk)! Thanks for letting me know. I am delighted and look forward to reading your comments and to learning about the GA process. Balance person (talk) 19:51, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi -- take a look at Talk:Mary Jane Patterson/GA1, which is where the review will happen. I have some questions about sources; some of these (perhaps all) are reliable sources, but I have questions about them -- let's resolve those first and then I'll go on with the rest of the review. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:40, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article Mary Jane Patterson you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mary Jane Patterson for comments about the article, and Talk:Mary Jane Patterson/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 Mike Christie -- Mike Christie (talk) 16:22, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mike Christie (talk)

Thank you very much, Mike. I have learned a lot and not just about Patterson! I will check out the DYK business once I have stopped fanning myself. Balance person (talk) 17:31, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I hope to see more of your work at GAN! We always need good writers. When you've got one or two more under your belt, please consider doing some GA reviews too -- good writers make the best reviewers, and we're always short of reviewers. Congratulations again! Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:37, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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		Thank you so much for contributing to Women in Green's sixth editathon, with your successful GA nomination of Mary Jane Patterson. Excellent work! Best wishes --Grnrchst (talk) 08:24, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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--Lajmmoore (talk 19:56, 25 July 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Hello Balance person,

A friend of mine, Catherine Ward Bishir, wrote about Henry Patterson, the father of MJP, in her article in North Carolina Architects & Builders, https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000659. She asked me to correct what she sees as errors in the MJP article. Rather than just jumping in and overwriting what you've been working on, I thought it best to point out her concerns and ask for your comment and perhaps correction if you see fit. Catharine documents (1) that Henry Patterson was free. (2) That Henry's wife Emmeline gained her freedom in 1840. (3) Mary Jane was born in 1843 or more likely 1844 according to her age of 15 in the 1860 Census (after her mother was freed, which means she was not born to slave parents). Please check this out and let me know what you think. All best regards, Norwoodplace (talk) 01:22, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Norwoodplace (talk) 01:11, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Norwoodplace and thank you for your message. I can't find your user page so I have answered here. I will certainly take a look at your friend's article. If it contains back up for the facts that you note in your message, and in the form of independent, verifiable, reliable sources noted in a reference section for example, I can then change the information in the wikipedia page. If there are no such sources in the reference section of your friend's article, and your friend doesn't point to any or send you any for me to read, then I can still mention the contents of your friend's article in some way. I will get to it when I can, which should be in a day or two. And do send me any reliable sources that your friend knows of, so that I can double check your friend's version. As a fellow wikipedia editor, you will know that I have to cite a clear reference for every fact mentioned. Thanks for getting in touch. I look forward to learning more about MJP. Balance person (talk) 08:02, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Balance Person,

My friend is delighted at what you have done. She's an editor too and writes, partially in answer to the question about the spelling of Emeline:

Dear Richard and Wiki friend:

The new version is MUCH better.

I’ve checked through it and found a few things we still need to fix.

--The caption under Mary Jane Patterson’s photo still has the erroneous 1840 birthdate, and should be 1844.

--It should be Emeline (or Emmeline) in all instances. Most records including censuses use Emeline.

--Restate: . . . he petitioned to emancipate her in 1838 and again in 1840…

--Restate: The couple waited to have children until after Emeline was freed in 1840 or 1841; their eldest child, Mary Jane Patterson, was born in 1844.

Restate: I think the Pattersons moved to Oberlin in 1852, which is when Henry’s brother James said they’d moved. (Henry’s daughter Emeline is listed in 1860 census as aged 7 and born in Ohio.)

Oberlin had a large community of black families, including freeborn and emancipated people and some fugitive slaves.

In 1857 Mary Jane (b. 1844) was not 17. Not sure which number is correct. Maybe omit her age.

Death: She did die in 1894 but was not 54 (again, 1840 birth date implied but not correct). Just provide death date

As noted before, all these wrong dates come from the wide range of erroneous secondary sources. Sigh. I have no idea how that got started. Thanks millions for correcting. I may have missed some. Norwoodplace (talk) 13:29, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. Thanks for the notes. Corrections made. I realise this discussion we have had on my and your talk pages, probably should have taken place on the talk page of MJP herself but....... no matter..... as anybody wanting to see it can just follow our contributions, I should think. I have a lot to learn about Wiki etiquette! Balance person (talk) 18:08, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Mary Jane Patterson 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) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Z1720 (talk) 00:54, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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		The Native American Barnstar is given to the users who contribute cited and balanced content toward articles regarding the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Thank you for your contributions in creating articles of women, like Shawna Baker, from the Cherokee Nation. --ARoseWolf 13:31, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

--ARoseWolf I am truly delighted to get this barnstar! Thank you very much. And thanks to you and to SusunW too for educating me. I have a lot to learn! Balance person (talk) 15:00, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Susun is a gem. She is kindred of my soul. I think we all could take lessons from Susun on writing Wikipedia articles, and for that matter from Ian (Ipigott) too. Ian will always hold a special place in my heart, welcoming me in my mothers tongue when I joined Wikipedia and to WiR. I am a relative nobody who is just one voice, one Song, in a sea of many. Yet I was welcomed. Often I feel drowned out in my own head. That is the difficulty with having ears to hear others, we often forget about ourselves. There are so many here that have had an impact on my life, directly, more than probably than they will ever know, way more than I have ever been for them. We all have a lot to learn still. --ARoseWolf 15:42, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Balance person:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2024!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2024, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

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On 13 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mary Jane Patterson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mary Jane Patterson, whose mother was an African-American slave, gained a BA degree in 1862 having taken a "gentleman's course"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Jane Patterson. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mary Jane Patterson), 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.

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