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Question from Altay74 (08:56, 30 May 2023)

Hi! just wanted to ask how many edits or any other requirements need to be filled before you can create new articles --Altay74 (talk) 08:56, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

You need to have 10 edits (you have 11) and you need to have a 4-day old account (yours is almost a month old).

You should be able to create one by now, though I would recommend using the Article Wizard Tool to begin with. Juxlos (talk) 03:37, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

New message from IanDBeacon

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Wagner Group rebellion § Socportal. IanDBeacon (talk) 16:44, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

DYK

Thanks. As requested, am pinging you as the qpq is now completed at Save America. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:B5EA:651C:E560:16BB (talk) 15:52, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2023 July newsletter

The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Thebiguglyalien, with 919 points from a featured article on Frances Cleveland as well as five good articles and many reviews,
• Unlimitedlead, with 862 points from a high-scoring featured articles on Henry II of England and numerous reviews,
• Iazyges, with 560 points from a high-scoring featured article on Tiberius III.

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Misplaced Pages policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:18, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Question from QoLxer (07:23, 15 July 2023)

Hello hello! I am longtime novice wikipedia editor and too-much-experience organizer as User:DrMel As part of my community work, I’m going through the current New User experience so I can guide others we are bringing in. Learning about the New User experience with my new QoLxer account

very grateful to see this mentor matching feature. Thank you for making your time available to help others - so inportant for helping people get started!! 

Tomorrow i am helping a friend who is notable enough to have a wikipedia page try to get the errors corrected (again) and we could definitely use experienced editors to navigate the crazy obstacle course. We have him now with his own account and he is quite capavle of making simple edits and posting suggestions to Talk Page about factual errors and new information.

Still, as you know, the massive COI of going anywhere near articles about yourself (or a friend) means we need experienced editor guidance. 

His name is Dan Ariely, user:Dariely67 Could you take a quick look at his current user page and the article about him? The errors are significant and the quality could be dramamtically inproved quickly. Any suggestions are welcome! Can we contact you with Qs? --QoLxer (talk) 07:23, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

I would not say I am an experienced enough editor in the sphere of US academics to make judgement calls on my own. You would need to provide WP:RS which back the "new" statements, or otherwise prove that either the current sources are unreliable, or that the article has misinterpreted sources cited. Juxlos (talk) 01:06, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Silas Papare

Silas Papare was member of a rescue operation of an American air crew that crashed in the region near kampung Baru on 27 July 1944. A Dutch-Australian-US team led by 2Lt Louis Rapmund (said to be a friend of Papare) was dropped of by a Catalina Flying boat and in a two week mission, brought the four man crew back to Biak. I've extensively researched this rescue operation and the live of Louis Rapmund and would like to know more about Papare. I see in the Misplaced Pages article on him, that there is a diary written by him. I've added this rescue operation to the Wiki about Papare. I have some pictures of Papare working together with Rapmund in August and September 1944, but don't know how to add these to Misplaced Pages. Baska1962 (talk) 19:58, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

To add pictures, use Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/Main_Page). Are these pictures from a book or an external publication, or personal archives? Juxlos (talk) 01:02, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

The pictures I have were taken by the rescue team leader, Louis Rapmund, who died in Cianjur on 17 October 1945 (10 NICA and RAPWI personel were taken prisoner and later killed). I have to ask his family for permission to use the pictures on Misplaced Pages, making them CC pictures as I read it in the article you pointed to. Might you be able to help me with other related research? Maybe we can communicate in another way (email)? Baska1962 (talk) 13:51, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

There is an "email this user" option in the sidebar, but the email I use for this account is a throwaway email and I don't check it often. Here would be fine, unless you have non-public domain files to send. Juxlos (talk) 07:55, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

There's non public domain pictures you might be interested in that I'd like to share. I'll send you an email through "email this user" so you know there's something in that mailbox. Baska1962 (talk) 08:30, 19 July 2023 (UTC)