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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 2px solid lightgray" |Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as [[WP:Editor of the Week|Editor of the Week]] in recognition of {{{briefreason}}}. Thank you for the great contributions! <span style="color:#a0a2a5">(courtesy of the [[WP:WER|<span style="color:#80c0ff">Wikipedia Editor Retention Project</span>]])</span>
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[[User:{{{nominator}}}]] submitted the following nomination for [[WP:Editor of the Week|Editor of the Week]]:
[[User:Theleekycauldron]], [[User:Juxlos]], [[User:Eviolite]] and [[User:Novem Linguae]] submitted the following nomination for [[WP:Editor of the Week|Editor of the Week]]:
:JPxG has made nearly 50,000 edits (over half to mainspace). They have written over 100 informative articles about island territories in the United States which have made for a couple dozen ridiculously interesting DYKs. Impressing with a ""chefs kiss" of information about tiny islands is their niche and they do it well. They have also written quality articles such as [[Simp]], [[1-pentadecanol]], and [[Extremely Online]].Great software work with [[WP:OFD|the Oracle for Deletion]] and [https://github.com/jp-x-g/PressPass PressPass] as well. JPxG has taken ownership of some technical newsletters and is helping to revive them. Between their newsletter work and their signpost work, which both have themes of documenting and reporting Wikipedia activities, they have become a bit of a wiki "historian".
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The Dumbarton Rail Bridge in San Francisco Bay, July 2021. Canon EOS 650D. 1/125, ISO 100, f/6.3




Your GA nomination of Atlas Tract

The article Atlas Tract you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Atlas Tract for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Bryanrutherford0 -- Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 17:41, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Brewer Island

The article Brewer Island you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Brewer Island for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eviolite -- Eviolite (talk) 06:21, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Russ Island

The article Russ Island you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Russ Island for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hog Farm -- Hog Farm (talk) 19:01, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

mail

Hello, JPxG. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

—usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 15:14, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

—usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 20:40, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I hope you are doing well. I am not sure if you received my mail or not. Replying to the mail is not mandatory, but a confirmation of receiving it would be appreciated a lot. Sorry if I offended you in the email. Kindly accept my apology. See you around :-) PS: a few weeks ago, I had gotten you confused with JFG. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 16:39, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Bull Island (California)

The article Bull Island (California) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Bull Island (California) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AryKun -- AryKun (talk) 08:41, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Joice Island

The article Joice Island you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Joice Island for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AryKun -- AryKun (talk) 08:41, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Chain Island

The article Chain Island you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Chain Island for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kavyansh.Singh -- Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 11:01, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Kimball Island

The article Kimball Island you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Kimball Island for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eviolite -- Eviolite (talk) 03:40, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discretionary sanctions topic area changes

In a process that began last year with WP:DS2021, the Arbitration Committee is evaluating Discretionary Sanctions (DS) in order to improve it. A larger package of reforms is slated for sometime this year. From the work done so far, it became clear a number of areas may no longer need DS or that some DS areas may be overly broad.

The topics proposed for revocation are:

  • Senkaku islands
  • Waldorf education
  • Ancient Egyptian race controversy
  • Scientology
  • Landmark worldwide

The topics proposed for a rewording of what is covered under DS are:

  • India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
  • Armenia/Azerbaijan

Additionally any Article probation topics not already revoked are proposed for revocation.

Community feedback is invited and welcome at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions. --Barkeep49 (talk) 16:59, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discretionary sanctions topic area changes

In a process that began last year with WP:DS2021, the Arbitration Committee is evaluating Discretionary Sanctions (DS) in order to improve it. A larger package of reforms is slated for sometime this year. From the work done so far, it became clear a number of areas may no longer need DS or that some DS areas may be overly broad.

The topics proposed for revocation are:

  • Senkaku islands
  • Waldorf education
  • Ancient Egyptian race controversy
  • Scientology
  • Landmark worldwide

The topics proposed for a rewording of what is covered under DS are:

  • India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
  • Armenia/Azerbaijan

Additionally any Article probation topics not already revoked are proposed for revocation.

Community feedback is invited and welcome at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions. --Barkeep49 (talk) 04:36, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No deletion report in the next issue of the Signpost?

Hi JPxG,

I was wondering if you were planning to publish another Deletion Report column in the Signpost in January. I really enjoy reading those, as an occasional contributor to AfD. Thank you for your great work on the Oracle by the way: I use it to comment on uncommented AfDs once in a while. Cheers, Pilaz (talk) 05:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I've learned to wait until the last day for those. Whenever I try to be diligent and get it done ahead of time, I end up having to re-write half of the feature anyway! I'm glad you are enjoying them -- you'll have something good this month. jp×g 05:35, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 January 2022

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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Page mover granted

Hello, JPxG. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving a redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

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If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! Primefac (talk) 19:48, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Bots Newsletter, January 2022
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

Overall
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with Dark red X symbolN2 8 denied, Blue question mark? 2 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

January 2020

A python
A python
A python
0.4 pythons
Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.

February 2020

Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, Listeria went wild in February

March 2020

April 2020

Listeria being examined

Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Wikipedia could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator or GitHub (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise anonymity) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.

May 2020

We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots

June 2020

A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos

Conclusion

  • What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?
  • Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?
  • What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles?
  • Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki?
  • What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I hate to break it to you, but lots of these dates say 2020? :D ·addshore· talk to me! 23:30, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oh my, wait, this is intended! this is indeed news from 2020! Wow! :) ·addshore· talk to me! 23:32, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Addshore: Yeah, there wasn't a newsletter for a few years. There should only be a couple more of these before we're up to the present day, and then it'll be back to breaking news ;) jp×g 23:35, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I just saw the bot newsletter on another user talk page and wanted to come over to say it certainly caught my attention! I can't say whether the idea of doing several historical installments of the "news"letter is a great idea or a dumb idea but it's definitely got spunk :).[FBDB] Cheers! KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 07:45, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I quite enjoyed this entry "Cydebot, an adminbot operated by Cyde since 2006, was blocked after going berserk on categories" ·addshore· talk to me! 15:50, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your comment

Re systemic bias and what you said here. After some reflection, I could beef up that para into a contribution with a title like "Upstream and downstream: AfD and impact". For me downstream includes Wikidata and the machine audience, but that would be at most an aside about SNG. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:28, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

reFill

Hi JP. Good to meet you. Firstly, thanks for all that you do for Wikipedia! It would be great to have some help with reFill. Perhaps if I start with the background to my involvement. When I became an AfC reviewer I started to use reFill daily as a means to clean up the refs in a draft and quickly identify those which might meet WP:THREE and those which are unlikely to as being self-published, from non-RS etc. ReFill went through a period when it was getting stuck frequently, and attempts to contact the maintainer (the original author) went unanswered. I began to report these outages on Phabricator, and messaged the WMF cloud team on IRC, talking directly to engineers that could access the production environment, inspect logs and restart it. Eventually, the maintainer reappeared briefly (like, for a day), fixed the underlying issue and deployed it. At that time I was able to contact him and we agreed that I should have access to the prod environment. We didn't actually have any handover, and having followed the instructions for the numerous steps to get access to the toolforge environment and eventually in October the GitHub repo, the focus then switched to getting the dev stack installed. I found that most dependencies were to out of date versions and when I tried to use the current versions of those I got into a tangle of breaking changes and incompatibilities. I was getting error after error and increasingly frustrated. It was not helped that my technical background is Windows and .NET, not Linux, and while I like to keep my hand in, I've not been a professional developer since 2012. Initially I tried setting up a VM, then using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and then User:TheresNoTime offered to help and she wrote these instructions for how to set up a dev environment on Windows. The real blocker to progress on reFill comes down to:

  • Me not having a working dev/test environment
  • When logged into Putty, it is evident that the production environment is a mess with numerous versions and it is unclear what is what
  • Lack of a staging environment where anything deemed potentially ready for prod could be tested by multiple users

So while people could push their fixes to the repo, there's currently no way to test them and safely deploy them. Triaging the issues reported in GitHub (most of which are actually enhancement ideas rather than bug fixes) and doing the same on Phabricator and Talk:ReFill has not been the priority given the inability to do much about the issues. I can see you have Python and JS skills so you may be the perfect person I had hoped would come along. Do you also know Vue, Celery, and Docker by any luck? It would be great to work together on this, perhaps with you leading on the dev side and I can do more on the community side. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 10:25, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Curb Safe Charmer: I am a Lunix nerd (I've used it as my primary operating system since 2016 and have set up/run a variety of servers on it since). I've written some stuff in Python and JavaScript, and am currently in the process of figuring out some more front-end stuff (like Vue, React, etc) as well as some web development/deployment stuff (like Docker). I have no idea what Celery is (looks like some sort of task queue/load balancer thing). I'm about to go to bed tonight, but I am going to start trying to look through this stuff tomorrow. I think we should probably set up a page somewhere where we (and maybe other people, if any want to) can mess around and try to figure stuff out -- my talk page is going to get flooded with a bunch of random crap. Do you have any notes, diagrams, et cetera about the way the program is set up? When I write complicated software, I often have a .txt (or a piece of graph paper) with a bunch of boxes and lines on it and random stuff that helps me think about the way it's structured. jp×g 11:06, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds great. An interest in 'figuring out stuff' and the tenacity to keep going will be useful. When the user submits a request to expand the references in an article, either via the front end or through the API, those requests are queued in the backend as tasks in Celery.
So far, there's stuff at User:TheresNoTime/ReFill, User talk:TheresNoTime/ReFill and older stuff at User:Curb Safe Charmer/Refilldev in addition to the user manual and readme. No diagrams though! I suggest we continue at Wikipedia:Refill/technical discussion which I've created for the purpose if we want to keep things on-wiki. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:09, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@JPxG: How are you getting on with this? Any progress? Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:41, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Good Humor
" I'm a bizarre nerd now, and I was also a bizarre nerd when I was 15." - Not only did your post crack me up, but I can totally relate. (And you sprinkle good humour about Wikipedia, not just this one comment.) Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) [he/him] 17:31, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Books & Bytes – Issue 48

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Comment measurement tool for The Signpost

You made this

These are great metrics for understanding The Signpost. Do you have ideas for where and how in documentation for The Signpost we can share this link? Is it already there somewhere? If you have no ideas, I will try to find a place. Thanks. Bluerasberry (talk) 17:40, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Orcale

Hey, first: thanks for your great work on Oracle. I'm digging into some old conversations and it's immensely helpful. Fantastic work.

I noticed that December 2008 is missing, the history indicates there was an error which was blanked but not replaced. Did you encounter problems that would take too much time to be worth solving, or do you have plans to populate December too? /Julle (talk) 08:33, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think there is a small bug with Oracle; it doesn't count the !vote of the nominator when determining percentage and number of votes. BilledMammal (talk) 19:16, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User:JPxG/bigindex

Hi JpxG! Could you please make the necessary tweaks to prevent User:JPxG/bigindex from being included in article categories? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 21:45, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@GoingBatty: I've got no clue why the hell that page is showing up in the article categories, although figuring it out seems like a difficult task (it's a transclusion of all my userspace drafts and sandbice). If you can figure it out, you have my permission to go to whatever page is triggering it and fix that -- which article category are you talking about? It should be possible to use PETscan or something to figure out which other userspace pages I hajve that are in the category. jp×g 21:55, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Scrolling to the bottom of the page, it shows it is in Category:Neural network software and Category:Language modeling. GoingBatty (talk) 22:02, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
PetScan only shows User:JPxG/bigindex. However, Special:ExpandTemplates leads me to think that it's because User:JPxG/bigindex includes User:JPxG/Draft21, which redirects to Wu Dao. GoingBatty (talk) 22:16, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I fixed the issue by adding {{main other}} around the categories in Wu Dao. If you want to change your user pages, you can revert this edit. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:24, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I figured it might have been something with the userspace drafts that redirect to mainspace articles being transcluded -- that works excellently. I will just blank the redirect since I don't really need it. jp×g 02:12, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-06

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Tom Brier (February 8)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:
This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
 The comment the reviewer left was:
not seeing any indepth coverage in the sources just passing mentions and listings.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Theroadislong (talk) 07:23, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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In case you missed the ping

Talk:Kimball Island/GA1 is still waiting. eviolite (talk) 18:19, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-07

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  • AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
  • The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

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Your GA nomination of Kimball Island

The article Kimball Island you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Kimball Island for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eviolite -- Eviolite (talk) 18:01, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2022-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [5]
  • At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [6]
  • You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [7]
  • There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [8][9]
  • Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [10]
  • Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Skepticism and coordinated editing proposed decision posted

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Your GA nomination of Atlas Tract

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Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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Editor of the Week

Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of {{{briefreason}}}. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Theleekycauldron, User:Juxlos, User:Eviolite and User:Novem Linguae submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

JPxG has made nearly 50,000 edits (over half to mainspace). They have written over 100 informative articles about island territories in the United States which have made for a couple dozen ridiculously interesting DYKs. Impressing with a ""chefs kiss" of information about tiny islands is their niche and they do it well. They have also written quality articles such as Simp, 1-pentadecanol, and Extremely Online.Great software work with the Oracle for Deletion and PressPass as well. JPxG has taken ownership of some technical newsletters and is helping to revive them. Between their newsletter work and their signpost work, which both have themes of documenting and reporting Wikipedia activities, they have become a bit of a wiki "historian".

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week: 

{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}

Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 17:09, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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