User talk:Another Believer

Kobe the Italian Greyhound
(2010–2023)

Portland, Oregon, 2020; Seattle, 2022
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You made the comment on Draft:WTF!: Wrestling's Trashiest Fighters: This submission is part of a larger effort to get articles about RuPaul's Drag Race episodes restored to the main space. This episode has received in-depth reviews by multiple independent and reliable sources (I've included a few in the table below) and the article is long enough to justify a fork from the season page. What is the history? In particular, were these episodes previously in article space, and when? Also, has there been discussion at the season article talk pages? Robert McClenon (talk) 17:24, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon There have been several discussions at various venues, including here on my user talk page above, but I think these would offer the most helpful context:

• February 2024: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television/Archive_39#RuPaul's_Drag_Race,_season_7_episodes
• November 2025: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television/Archive_41#RuPaul's_Drag_Race_franchise_episodes_and_notability
• November 2025: User_talk:Another_Believer/Archive_57#AfD
• January 2026: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television/Archive_41#Drag_Race_episodes._Again.

Yes, many articles were previously in the main space, but I moved them into the draft space voluntarily at the request of others for further development. I have been going through the process of expanding and resubmitting the drafts at AfC. Since November, all ~40 submitted drafts were accepted by uninvolved editors. I'll say little else and let you and others review the discussions and form your own conclusions. I hope these offer helpful context but let me know if you have other questions. Thanks and Happy New Year! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:39, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Followup Questions

Thank you for responding. I saw a discussion at WikiProject Television and tried to respond to it, and I think that at least one editor didn't understand what I was trying to say, and I think that I was incorrectly criticized. I had been looking for what was the consensus at the WikiProject about the RuPaul's Drag Race drafts, and I see that there isn't and won't be a consensus. Unless you ask me to wait, I am about to start accepting the episode drafts, and will let the community decide which of them they think pass episode notability. I was waiting for you to reply at WikiProject Television, but it appears that you are, probably wisely, avoiding involvement in that discussion. Should I go ahead and start accepting the drafts? Robert McClenon (talk) 18:07, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon: I do not think it is appropriate for me to have an opinion re: how the drafts should be reviewed, or who should review them. I've made it clear I am going to continue submitting drafts at AfC because I am confident there are many notable episodes, despite a couple other editors saying otherwise ad nauseam and as evidenced by the 40+ drafts accepted thus far. In my opinion, all of these episode entries could be improved to resemble "And the Rest Is Drag". I don't understand the determination to prevent this from happening. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:47, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

My opinion, as I have stated at WikiProject Television, is that the project is divided, so that there is no local consensus, and I would prefer to see the decision about notability made by the community rather than by the lack of a local consensus. As you can see, I have accepted 7 drafts. One is under review by another reviewer. I am not aware of any other episode drafts that are currently waiting for review. If you call my attention to any of them, I will review them. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:32, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

You write: I don't understand the determination to prevent this from happening.. I think I understand it well enough to know what I am disagreeing with. First, I think that some editors don't like drag. They generally won't say so. Second, I can see that some editors think that we have too many low quality articles. I don't think that this category includes the drafts in question, but they may think so. Third, I think that some editors think that episode articles should be a rare exception. We can and do disagree, but I think that is why they are opposed. If they want to know what the community thinks , that is what a consensus process such as AFD is for. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:32, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon Thanks for being among the 20 editors who have accepted one or more Drag Race episode drafts. I am pleased to see so many entries restored and I am going to continue expanding and submitting drafts for review. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:00, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 16

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on August 15. Please help translate.

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Future of Community Wishlist

Highlights

• Simplifying account creation: The Special:CreateAccount page has been simplified as part of ongoing work to modernize the account creation experience. Multiple account creation experiments show that a simpler form helps newcomers complete registration.
• Movement Ecosystem strategy: Deadline to provide feedback on the first version of the proposal are extended until Sep 30 to allow more time for community feedback and discussion.
• New format for the Community Wishlist: You can read the proposed ideas on Meta. This new process plans to improve how wishes are triaged, voted on, and prioritized in a way that is transparent and balanced across project families and language editions. Please let us know what you think will work well or if there are ways to make this proposal stronger. This consultation is open for two weeks.

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• Improving page performance: In order to improve page performance, images now load when they are viewed. This means images that are lower down within an article will not load if a reader never scrolls to that part of the page, which may affect some image-related metrics.
• Android Reading list updates: Some of the recent Android releases include updates to the Saved feature. This first round of changes on the Android app include redesigning the "Saved" tab to include an "All articles" view, and remove the user-facing default "Saved" reading list.
• Reading list on desktop: Reading lists has been released on Chinese, Bengali, Czech, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. The feature is now available for logged-in users on those wikis.
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• Call for Projects and Mentors for Outreachy: Wikimedia is participating in Round 33 of the Outreachy program that runs from December 2026 through March 2027. The deadline to submit projects on Phabricator is Sept 4 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be finalized by Sep 11.
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• Wikimedia Endowment: Updates from the July 2026 Wikimedia Endowment Board Meeting.

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• Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
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Annual Goals Progress on Reach
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• Collaboration: UNESCO and Wikimedia Movement deepen their partnership at Wikimania 2026.
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Nicky Doll

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Thanks for the note, and fair enough on reverting — I take the point that this follows the drag-performer convention outlined at WP:MOS:GENDERID (see the Conchita Wurst example). I wasn't trying to relitigate the he/she distinction itself, my concern is closer to WP:ASTONISH: a reader unfamiliar with drag-biography conventions can hit "she" a paragraph after "he" with no signpost and assume it's an error or vandalism. Would you be open to a short clarifying clause near the top of the Career section — something like "As is standard in Wikipedia's style for drag performers, he/him is used for Sanchez and she/her for the Nicky Doll persona" — rather than changing the pronoun usage itself? Happy to draft the wording if that's agreeable. — TheUltimateGenealogy--TheUltimateGenealogy (talk) 20:11, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

@TheUltimateGenealogy: The biography doesn't need to get into Wikipedia's standards. Generally speaking, articles about drag performers use 'she/her' for text about the drag persona (which usually means the Career section) and preferred gender pronouns for text about the subject out of drag (which usually means the Early life / education and Personal life sections). Good examples include Chi Chi DeVayne, DiDa Ritz, India Ferrah, and Jaidynn Diore Fierce. Thanks ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:17, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

I will bring forward this idea of an adjustment for the mainstream readers in the relevant discussion pages then.

Frequently asked question

Why does this article use "she/her" for Nicky Doll but "he/him" for Karl Sanchez?

This follows MOS:GENDERID, which specifies that drag performers may use different pronouns for their in-character persona than for their real-life identity. This is standard practice across drag performer biographies on Wikipedia (see also Conchita Wurst).

--TheUltimateGenealogy (talk) 20:30, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback --TheUltimateGenealogy (talk) 20:45, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2026)

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@Sulfurboy Thank you! --Another Believer _(Talk) 04:25, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Queen Mama's Kitchen

Your submission at Articles for creation: Queen Mama's Kitchen has been accepted

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@HazelAlbertSheriff Thank you! --Another Believer _(Talk) 13:57, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

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Queen Mama's Kitchen

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Your submission at Articles for creation: International Workers' Day in Portland, Oregon (September 8)

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Draft declined

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Your draft submission to Articles for creation has been reviewed but not accepted at this time.

Feedback

The reviewer, FeralOink, left the following feedback:

This draft provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject.

Submission is suitable for a Wikipedia article but requires several improvements prior to resubmission.

First, break out into subheadings of the major portion by year. It is one large block currently, which is difficult to read.
Second, don't use same source, same day where latter contains contents of first source in second one (e.g. from The Oregonian) as two separate sources. There is plenty of suitable 2nd and 3rd party source material available.

More importantly, and the non-cosmetic reason for requiring resubmission: Provide more context than solely recent events. Include more history e.g. reference by George H.W. Bush presidential administration to Portland Int'l Workers Day (it isn't defamatory and isn't pejorative to GHW Bush nor to Portland organized labor). Include comments by mayor in 2017 event.
Whenever mention is made of counter-protestors is made, try if possible to indicate who these were. Was it pro-business like Pinkertons? Probably not, not in late 2010s and early 2020s. So try to find out who would possibly be against the majority, i.e. workforce of Portland and/or workforce of America in general.
Finally, please indicate if Int'l Workers Day is an official city or state of Oregon holiday. If yes, it should be included in Portland Public Holidays template.

I realize that this article was written by same editor and deleted in the past. I read the deletion discussion and I think that there was bias because that editor had written a clump of articles with similar themes (Portland, not organized labor). As a reviewer for AfC, I consider the topic of this article to be sufficiently notable in its own right to be suitable for a Wikipedia article.--FeralOink

Sorry for this horrid templating! I tried to excise some of the excesses so it doesn't deface your user talk page!--FeralOink (talk) 21:41, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2026

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This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue VIII, August 2026 Headlines From the team: Hot August/Cold August Brazil report: Wiki Love Monuments and new phase of Museu Paulista collaboration Catalan areas report: The Catalan public domain: An application to identify Catalan works in public domain Colombia report: Explore the Colombian public domain app: Browse works an authors in the public domain Czech Republic report: Wikimedia CR introduces new members of GLAM/partnership team Egypt report: Egypt’s GLAM Team Brings Egyptian Postal History and Public Libraries to Wikimedia Italy report: The Musical Heritage of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory New Zealand report: New Zealand Thesis Project Update and the upcoming TDWG 2026 conference North Macedonia report: Connecting Culture and Free Knowledge - Wikimedia MKD’s GLAM Partnerships Serbia report: August in Wikimedia Serbia Switzerland report: Summer, Follow-up in Aarau, CoCreation UK report: Wikimedia gets Gazetted + Islamic Calligraphy on English Wikipedia Ukraine report: OpenGLAM Summer 2026 in Ukraine USA report: GLAM USA Report (Past & Upcoming) Biodiversity Heritage Library report: Updates on work by BHL-Wiki working Group members Memory of the World report: Ghana national register Wikimedia Commons report: Media loading change affects Commons Impact Metrics and GLAM analytics Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Guild of Copy Editors – September 2026 Newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors – September 2026 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed TNM101 to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as lead coordinator, and Miniapolis, Mox Eden and GoldRomean return as coordinators. We said goodbye to Wikieditor662 and thank them for their service. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Reviewing system: The Guild is adopting a new system of scoring copy edit reviews. A point will be given for each review, and barnstars for reviewing will be awarded. These changes will take effect from this month's drive, and we encourage experienced copy editors to sign up for reviewing. For more details, see here. June 2026 blitz: 18 of the 20 editors who signed up for the June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 69,606 words comprising 30 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. July 2026 drive: 30 of the 44 editors who signed up for the July 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited a total of 531,346 words comprising 252 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. August 2026 Blitz: 13 of the 16 editors who signed up for the August 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 192,712 words comprising 64 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. September 2026 Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 23:47, 13 September 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 207 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,511 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2026)

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Hello, Another Believer. The article for improvement of the week is: Vancouver International Airport Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: One-form (differential geometry) • Archipelago Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 September 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Mirisata

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@Baffle gab1978 Thank you! --Another Believer _(Talk) 12:07, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Super Queen Grand Finale has been accepted

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Sulfurboy (talk) 08:13, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

@Sulfurboy Thank you! --Another Believer _(Talk) 12:08, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Nomination of Statue of Charlie Kirk (McCann) for deletion

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2026

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2026).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criteria G15 has been renamed from "LLM-generated pages without human review" to "Unambiguously LLM-generated pages" and has an additional sign of detection added to it following a RfC.

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• The September 2026 New Pages Patrol backlog drive is ongoing. Help tackle the 30,000+ article backlog!
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 17

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Baseline Neutral Point of View policy is now being introduced.

Highlights

• Data center switch: All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 23 at 14:00 UTC as part of a scheduled switchover to allow for essential maintenance and improvements. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes in advance.
• Baseline NPOV Policy: The public conversation regarding the proposed baseline NPOV policy for Wikipedias that do not yet have one has been concluded. Read the summary report and the updated baseline NPOV policy text and enforcement guidance here.
• Save the date. Wikimania 2027 will be taking place in Santiago, Chile, and online from August 18 to 21, with the theme "The Internet we want". See the Wikimania 2026 coverage highlights and a brief update on what's ahead.
• Chart extension is now beginner-friendly: Creating graphs and charts previously required manual JSON editing. In response to a Community wish to make the Charts extension more user-friendly, a new Visual mode for adding values has been introduced.

Annual Goals Progress on Engage
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TextMatch: A paste from an LLM triggering a Suggestion.

• Introducing TextMatch: Communities are shaping Suggestion Mode with TextMatch to create custom suggestions that are tailored to their own policies and writing conventions. Share your feedback.
• Visual editor becoming default: Design work on the user experience for visual editing for newcomers is underway. This follows visual editor becoming default on English Wikipedia following a community discussion.
• Community Wishlist 2027 consultation: The consultation on the proposed new Wishlist process is closing this week. This year's cycle plans for wish submissions in late October/early November, triage completed by late November, and voting in early to mid January. Share feedback in any language on the talk page.
• Improved Add a Link feature: Add a Link has been upgraded for English Wikipedia users with improved detection of links that have different capitalization. This will help reduce ambiguous suggestions caused by differences in capitalization in article titles, including articles about cultural goods.
• Wikipedia Android app: Latest release includes updates to the Saved feature, bringing the app’s saving experience closer to iOS and Web. The update redesigns the Saved tab with an “All articles” view, removes the default “Saved” reading list, renames reading lists to “Collections,” and modernizes the article-saving experience.
• Domain change for thumbnails: The domain of URLs for thumbnails is changing from upload.wikimedia.org to thumb.wikimedia.org. The old URLs will continue to work but MediaWiki will advertise the new domain instead. Original files, videos, and transcodes will still be served from upload.wikimedia.org.
• Reading lists rollout continues on desktop: Following the initial deployment to Bengali, Chinese, Czech, and Vietnamese Wikipedias, reading lists went live on Arabic, French, and Indonesian Wikipedias and will go live on English Wikipedia on Sep 14, with all remaining wikis following on Sep 28.
• New features of Pageviews Analysis: Several new features have been added to the Pageviews Analysis tool which allows users to compare pageviews across multiple pages. They include WikiNav which provides insights into how readers of Wikipedia explore the content, editing stats in Siteviews, the ability to lookup articles belonging to a WikiProject, and support for dark mode.
• Article guidance: As part of an A/B experiment, Article guidance is now available in Turkish and Simple English.
• Latest experiments: A current experiment for logged-out mobile readers on Bengali, Czech, English, Farsi, and Polish Wikipedias is testing whether simplifying the Minerva navigation bar improves reader retention. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
• Wikifunctions status updates: Thanks to all contributors, Wikifunctions has now reached 5,000 functions.
• Latest highlights from Tech News: Weeks 36 and 37 of Tech News include the Article guidance feature is now enabled by default for editors with less than 100 edits on Simple English and Turkish Wikipedia.

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• Affiliates and grant funding: Have your say on proposals establishing (1) a new model and set of expectations for movement affiliates; (2) new, connected requirements to determine eligibility for receiving Community Fund grants from the Wikimedia Foundation; and (3) updated criteria for affiliate recognition processes.
• Community Fund reflections: Read the reflections on the fiscal year 2025–2026 of the Rapid Fund and General Support Fund, covering $17.73 million across 427 grants in 90 countries, with 56.2% distributed outside North America and Northern & Western Europe.

Annual Goals Progress on Reach
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• World of Wikipedia launches: The World of Wikipedia game has been released. It is an online collectible card game where players sort fact from fiction across Wikipedia articles to build their card library. The game is the latest experiment in reaching younger audiences through familiar formats, following Wikispeedia on Roblox and Which Came First? on the Wikipedia app.

Other updates
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• Celebrate Women 2026: Read the impact of Celebrate Women 2026 as the campaign concluded with 112 events, 238,222 unreverted content edits and 2,499,773,577 bytes added.
• US staff union vote: On Sep 3, eligible Wikimedia Foundation staff in the United States voted in favor of union representation in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election.

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The Signpost: 16 September 2026

• News and notes: The Balance of Power
  Wikimedia employees unionize, officer departs, The Signpost gains sister on Wiktionary

• In the media: Shocking photos may be changed on Wikipedia
  The image gallery anyone can edit.

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Banana bread for you!

	Banana Bread
	For getting Mirisata to GA status, take some (probably) vegan banana bread! Congrats on the speedy GA! Dragonhawk12 (talk) (Guestbook) (Wikicats) 03:03, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

@Dragonhawk12 Thank you! --Another Believer _(Talk) 03:04, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

New Cascadia Traditional

Your nomination of New Cascadia Traditional is under review

New Cascadia Traditional

Your good article nomination of the article New Cascadia Traditional is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Icepinner -- Icepinner (talk) 08:47, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of New Cascadia Traditional has passed

Your good article nomination of the article New Cascadia Traditional has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. 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. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Icepinner -- Icepinner (talk) 02:06, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

@Icepinner Thank you! --Another Believer _(Talk) 02:08, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

No problem. Keep up the good work! Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 05:43, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

Like --Another Believer _(Talk) 00:15, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Snatch Game (RuPaul's Drag Race season 3) has been accepted

The Snatch Game (RuPaul's Drag Race season 3), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been accepted!

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DYK for Dolly Parton as a gay icon

On 17 September 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dolly Parton as a gay icon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Dolly Parton was a gay icon? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dolly Parton as a gay icon. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (Dolly Parton as a gay icon), 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 nominate it.

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Hey there, thanks for the really great work on this article. I check out the latest DYK most nights when I get home from work, and love finding things like this. CAVincent (talk) 05:34, 17 September 2026 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: How's Your Headliner? has been accepted

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A cup of Arabic coffee for you!

	A nice cup of joe
	For getting Queen Mama's Kitchen to GA status, take a nice cup of Arabic coffee! You must be tired after all that work. Also, thanks for the fast responses and all your work in the Portland restaurant niche on Wikipedia. Dragonhawk12 (talk) (Guestbook) (Wikicats) 03:04, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

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Women in Green's October 2026 Edit-a-thon

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WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2026!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2026, 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. Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films or organizations created by women) during the event period — and this time, we are extending our focus to encourage more Did You Know (DYK) submissions spotlighting new GA articles about women and women's works. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by the event's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

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October 2026 meetup in Portland, Oregon

Northwest Library

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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2026)

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