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Anti-Racism and WMUG

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Hi Susan,

I would like to discuss this with you off wiki. DM me at @voxpopulare and I will give you my email address so we can communicate in more detail in a more private manner before communicating publicly.

RachelWex

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ITN recognition for Audrey Flack

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On 5 July 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Audrey Flack, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 00:51, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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File:John Sebastian-Welcome-1976.ogg listed for discussion

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A file that you uploaded or altered, File:John Sebastian-Welcome-1976.ogg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. George Ho (talk) 19:19, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Editor experience invitation

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Hi SusanLesch :) I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 15:21, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Congrats!!!

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!!!! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 01:47, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you kindly, FFF! My writing teacher told us we each get five lifetime exclamation points. We both hit our quota today. 😃 -SusanLesch (talk) 20:54, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Featured Article Save Award

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On behalf of the FAR coordinators, thank you, SusanLesch! Your work on Redwood National and State Parks has allowed the article to retain its featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. I hereby award you this Featured Article Save Award, or FASA. You may display this FA star upon your userpage. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 14:43, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Nikkimaria. Very happy we were able to save this one. -SusanLesch (talk) 23:36, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Uff Da! Editing the Wikipedia for Absolute Beginners

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Wiki UFF DA! - Editing the Wikipedia for Absolute Beginners
Oh, you know, if it isn't just the most basic workshop ever needed, "Wikipedia Editing for Absolute Beginners" for those who haven't had the pleasure of diving into that simple process quite yet. Bless their hearts, they're just starting out, so we thought, why not put something together? Because, you know, it's not like it's rocket science or anything, but hey, we're always happy to lend a hand where we can. And just a little bit of Minnesota Nice to help along the way. 'Uff da!' you say? Well editing the Wikipedia is not hard at all!

Join us at one of our three FREE workshops in Minnesota, where you can learn how to edit Wikipedia and add Minnesota's local history in a relaxed and supportive setting. Work alongside others and discover how easy editing Wikipedia can be. The workshops aim to enhance the ability of communities in Greater and rural Minnesota to edit Wikipedia and comprehend it's editing culture and guidelines, as well as to expand Wikipedia's coverage of Minnesota's history.

Already good at editing the Wikipedia? You're welcome to come and work on local history Minnesota Wikipedia articles alongside others.
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Registration is required to be included for lunch.

Event 1 @ Morris, MN

  • Date & time: Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 11 am to 4 pm CDT
  • Location: West Central Minnesota Historical Center, McGinnis Room, Briggs Library, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, Minnesota

Event 2 @ Chisholm, MN

  • Date & time: Thursday, November 14, 2024, 11 am to 4 pm CDT
  • Location: MN Discovery Center, 1005 Discovery Drive, Chisholm, Minnesota

Event 3 @ Mankato, MN

  • Date & time: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 11 am to 4 pm CDT
  • Location: Room 2057, 601 Maywood Ave, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota

Facilitator: Myotus | Joe Hoover

These workshops are put on by the Minnesota Historical Society as part of their commitment to the Minnesota local history community and are led by Local History Services.

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November 2024 Minnesota User Group Meeting

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In the area? You're invited to the November 2024 Minnesota User Group Meeting
The organizer of this soiree is Joe Hoover aka Myotus feel free to drop him a message.

Okay its been a while since the Wikipedia Minnesota User Group has meet. Since the last time we meet there has been social upheaval, plague, etc... - no small thing to be sure. There has been some sad lonely discussions on the Minnesota Meetup page on getting together but little action. So here it is. Come and be seen. Talk about future the Minnesota User Group and see what nefarious plans we can hatch.

Date: Sunday, November 3, 2024
Time: 1 to 3:30 pm (reminder - Daylight Saving Time ends)
Place: Wild Mind Ales'
6031 Pillsbury Ave, Minneapolis, MN

Look forward to seeing folks!
Myotus (talk) 01:31, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Minneapolis

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This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 31 December 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/December 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before the article appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 17:57, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just to let you know I've reverted your edits to the blurb for the TFA day. We have no room to add anything. We have a limit of 1025 characters, it was at 1023 before you edited, and you added 130 characters. You can edit the blurb, I hope you do, but we can't make it longer. Well, not more than two characters longer. Sorry I didn't notice this before. Wehwalt (talk) 21:23, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thankyou for your work on Donald Trump

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Hey Susan, I'm sure you know how appreciative I am of your work over on Donald Trump. I have very high hopes for where we can get this article, and having editors like you with experience working in featured content processes provides extraordinarily valuable insights. I read an essay once where it said you should not be able to extrapolate an editors opinions from their edits. I agreed with that, and I really admire how you are one of the few on the page to whom I can say that applies given your commitment to NPOV. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 16:47, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! From one Marion Nestle fan to another, we've got our hands full. -SusanLesch (talk) 19:44, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, I saw your comment on avoiding the lede. I'm also trying to avoid the lede. I've noticed tone creeping into your comments: definitely don't write messages other editors will read as calling them immature. I'm partly telling myself this as well; I have stepped back a bit shortly to the chocolate pages because I don't like what contentious topics apparently do to my heart. I'm sure you'll be able to take this message in good faith, that as far as Wikipedia 'needs' you on that page, you have a life outside. If this part of the hobby is not bringing you peace and satisfaction but irritation, I don't think it's worth it and there are plenty of articles on redwoods to write. Apart from all that, being short will also make editors feel you are against them and less inclined to take on your argumentation. Hope you're well. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 21:28, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Right you are. I will slow down and skip Trump talk for a while to cool off. Thanks for saying something.
Incidentally, Internet Archive lost their lawsuit (which will affect a number of books available for free). -SusanLesch (talk) 15:59, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Tangent

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This is a thought inspired by Talk:Donald Trump#Childhood: Since it sounds like you have some decent books on hand, I hope you will replace some of the non-book sources, especially the WP:PRIMARYNEWS sources and the sources that are only used once, with better sources.

I feel like I'm explaining this badly, so to give an example, if the sentence says "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.<ref>Today's news headline</ref>", it would IMO be helpful even if you only replaced the refs with a {{sfn}} to a good book that gets re-used many times, even if you didn't touch any of the content. It would be better for the article to have 800 sfns to a couple of decent books than to have 800 refs to newspaper articles. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:38, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for a roadmap I can use. Can you think of Wikipedia policy I can point to that as reliable sources, books are preferable to newspaper articles? -SusanLesch (talk) 20:28, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My main concern is WP:PEIS limits, and 800 small templates are less likely to break than than 800 huge templates (as measured in processing cost, not size displayed on the page), but to answer your question, I'd start with these two points:
  • Scholarly sources are preferred over non-scholarly sources per WP:RS ("When available, academic and peer-reviewed publications, scholarly monographs, and textbooks are usually the most reliable sources").
  • Primary sources, including WP:PRIMARYNEWS, should be used sparingly per WP:NOR ("Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources, and to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources and primary sources").
A book, especially if it is written by an academic or published by a university press, could fall under both of those points. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:50, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Right! I am concerned about PEIS, though I don't understand it well, and my proposals to deal with it got poor reception. Cf. the edit notice on my user page.
Wikipedia's bibliography of Donald Trump: About Trump gives me about 5 (out of 100) recognizably academic publishers (Texas A&M University: Jennifer Mercieca 2020, Oxford: Dan P McAdams 2020, Uni Chicago: Daniel W. Drezner 2020, Uni Virginia: Michael Nelson 2018, and maybe Brookings Institution: Hal Brands 2018). They aren't necessarily written with a neutral point of view. I picked two Pultizer winners (D'Antonio and Haberman) to start and I hope they help. -SusanLesch (talk) 23:09, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That sounds like a good plan. In my experience, editors are usually concerned primarily about the text of the article, and if you don't touch that, they mostly won't object to replacing a one-off news article with a book that's already been cited repeatedly in the article. That article's a bit weird (e.g., a couple of months ago, we had editors defending a blatant violation of BLPPRIMARY), but I would think that replacing a lot of the single-use sources would be feasible. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:47, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 Minnesota User Group Meeting and 2025 Wikipedia Day Celebration

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In the area? You're invited to the 2025 Minnesota User Group Wikipedia Day Celebration
The organizer of this feed is Joe Hoover aka Myotus feel free to drop him a message.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 is Wikipedia Day and the Minnesota User Group is meeting to celebrate the day with a Tater Tot Hotdish Dinner!

  • When: Wednesday, January 15, 2025, from 6 to 7:30 pm CDT
  • Where: Rondo Community Library, Meeting Room B
    461 Dale Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota

To ensure that a helping of Tater Tot Hotdish is waiting for you at the meeting please RVSP on the event page.

Transit

  • Metro Green Line | Dale St Station
  • Bus 65
Look forward to seeing folks! Wear yer mittens!
Myotus (talk) 23:55, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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