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DYK nomination

Hi - Please do me a favor and ping me if your DYK nom for "Nevertheless, she persisted" succeeds. I took the photo :-) Funcrunch (talk) 22:53, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I will. I liked especially the lively stance of your subject. Cheers! Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 22:55, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! I had another good photo of her, but didn't upload that one to Commons because the text on her shirt was too obscured. (Unfortunately, in the one I did upload where the text is visible, her face is mostly obscured!) Funcrunch (talk) 22:59, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Funcrunch, the article has been approved for DYK, here. I had trouble adding the request to include the picture, but fingers crossed it may be included. Thanks again! — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 16:15, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Funcrunch, The DYK is now loaded in Prep area 5, and will probably be on the front page on April 31/May 1 (depending on your time zone). Thanks again for the two excellent images you contributed, as well as the Wikimedia category! — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 19:17, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

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Hi! I'm trying to connect with Wikipedians in Eugene

Hi! I'm trying to connect with Wikipedians in Eugene, but do you know of anyone else or a group of Wikipedians in the Eugene area? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80atUO (talk • contribs) 19:20, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the message! I'm working on editing, connecting and at the special collections & university archives as a Wikipedian and part of my job is to connect the library to the wiki community here in Eugene so it would be great if we can connect. I will most likely be done with this job mid-June when I graduate, but someone new probably will be taking my place maybe September or October. Would it be easier to communicate via email? 80atUO (talk) 22:16, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi again--

I notice on your user page your preference not to be contacted by e-mail, but I think you can still use the "Email user" option on my home page, which is either on the left column menu or the top menu bar under "User" if you have installed Twinkle. When you contact me that way, your email address will be visible to me, and I think there is still a fairly stern warning that I will be able to see your address if you do that. No worries, I'm mostly harmless.

So I'm remembering that there were at least two UO librarians who participated in the Art+ Feminism Editathon last year, but I only remember one: she's User:LindaJLong. I think she has responsibilities for writing the official descriptions of archival entries and she may be a good contact for you. Hope to hear from you soon. Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 02:45, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ PNCA Library (April 29, 2017)

You are invited to the upcoming Art+Feminism edit-athon, which will be held at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) Library at 511 NW Broadway on Saturday, April 29, 2017, from 11am to 4pm. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Hope to see you there! -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:32, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Nevertheless, she persisted

On 1 May 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nevertheless, she persisted, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after Mitch McConnell said, "Nevertheless, she persisted" in reference to Elizabeth Warren's silencing during a U.S. Senate debate, more than 100 women in Minneapolis got tattoos (example pictured) of that meme? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Nevertheless, she persisted), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Mifter (talk) 01:26, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliments! ~ Quacks Like a Duck (talk) 19:37, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Congratulations! Your hook made the all-time list with 27,948 views! Yoninah (talk) 00:22, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Great job writing Nevertheless, she persisted. I could tell this was a difficult article to write. Cheers! ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 14:04, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	For your team work on Nevertheless, she persisted. Bearian (talk) 00:32, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Re: Thanks!

I very much appreciate this edit to the lead of the article Nevertheless, she persisted. It was brilliant! Thanks for contributing to improve the clarity of the most-often read part of any article. Cheers! — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 17:14, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words. -- MC — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.131.2.3 (talk) 15:32, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Meetup Invitation

You are invited to the upcoming Asian Pacific American Heritage month edit-athon.

This will be held on the first floor of the Knight library at the University of Oregon.

For more information please see: Wikipedia:Meetup/Eugene/WikiAPA, a Facebook event link is also available on the Meetup page.

• Date: Friday, May 26, 2017
• Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
• Location: Edminston Classroom, Knight Library, Room 144
• Address:1501 Kincaid Street, Eugene, Oregon, 97403-1299

Hope to see you there!

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Re: Democrat2016

Hi, I do not think "Democrat2016" is legit. Each one of their edits has been what looks like raw vandalism, stuff like this https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mr._Smith_Goes_to_Washington&diff=prev&oldid=779060042

They are also inserting that very weird capitalization. Do you know the best place to report it? Morty C-137 (talk) 16:36, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Morty C-137, thanks for your note. I did see the other warnings on Democrat2016's talk page, and noted that mine was the second warning this month. I agree this editor's behavior warrants watching, but to report it, please see the Guide to administrator intervention against vandalism. Cheers! — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 17:12, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2017

You are invited to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects throughout the month of June as part of the fourth annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign. Feel free to add new and expanded content on the project's Results page. Happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:55, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation question

Hello! I've been poking around and it's great to see all the new articles on local history topics! I want your opinion on one thing before I bring it to a larger audience--I noticed that Frederick S. Dunn (Klansman) has been qualified using the word "Klansman". I think before the recent controversy over the renaming of Dunn Hall to Unthank Hall, if anybody thought of Mr. Dunn at all, it would have been as "Frederick S. Dunn (obscure old dead white guy/classical scholar)". I certainly don't wish to sweep the Klan history that has been brought to light under the rug, but I'm not sure being a Klansman was his defining characteristic. This article (note the spelling "Frederic"), while not minimizing the Klan history, seems to show he was better known for being a classics scholar. I always thought of him as some sort of civic leader (and namesake for my now-defunct elementary school), but it turns out that was Frederick Francis B. Dunn. This guy. Francis Berrian aka "F.B." Dunn, Frederick's father. As you can see from the Archives West bio, the Klan association was omitted. Do you think he should be disambiguated for what he has been most known in the past, or what he is most known for now? He probably wouldn't have ever merited an article until we really ran out of old dead white guys, unlike his father, who served as mayor of Eugene, but now he has become notable at least for his current notoriety. But notability is not temporary. I really don't know, but the qualifier bugs me somehow. It's possible I'm being fragile... Anyway, what do you think? Valfontis (talk) 23:00, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

I agree completely, and almost moved the page to Frederic Stanley Dunn after I came across this bio. I think his middle name and birth/death dates make better disambiguating elements than the label "Klansman." Does it need a talk page discussion, since he is currently persona non grata? Some may want him to permanently wear the scarlet letter. --Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 00:08, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

"Scarlet letter". Exactly! I think we should open it to a wider discussion, but I realized from your reply that what it is that bugs me is that the qualifier is like this punishment we are meting out in retrospect, and thus seems pointy. Our job isn't necessarily to point out that the guy might have been a racist (and most certainly anti-Catholic, judging by the time and place) creep in the page title. His (well-cited) history can speak for itself. Valfontis (talk) 01:14, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

As the original creator of the article, I agree with the above and have moved the article. I originally used "Klansman" because I couldn't find out what his "S." stood for, and the other Dunn was also an academic. Regards.  Sandstein  19:06, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

I've added a bit, maybe not enough about the Klan. Feel free to chime in! --Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 02:34, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

wikiThanks

- Thank you for your improvement of the page, Hannah Logasa. I am enjoying your additions and learning about her. Smmurphy^(Talk) 22:09, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Nice work adding the PD image from the 1914 newspaper! I, too, am enjoying learning about her life--especially her gumption researching soy beans for Israel and sending a report to Ben Gurion. I love details like that! — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 23:28, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

You're welcome

You're welcome. It's telling that a man was later able to read the whole thing. Sagecandor (talk) 18:22, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Sagecandor --Right? Ironic. Cheers! --Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 23:25, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Now finally retired

User:Leprof_7272 is finally fully retired from WP. You were very kind, early, to me when I was still a named user (from which I had to retreat, after being trolled/outed). In the final manifestation, I had, ultimately, no greater success, in persuading others of the need to give our readers clear statements of the quality/state of articles. After a closing topic ban—which was not a topic ban at all, but rather a topic ban applied to the use of tags—I have finally given up. Already disheartened by the solidification of the Medicine wikiproject around continuing to allow first-time-to-appear, self-published photos, Xrays, ultrasounds, and other images, this failure, and the ban from using tags leaves me without hope, here. We have active research going on WP, and with it will come exposure of things, but for now, the commitment to urge change, from the inside, and from the bottom up, is at an end. Cheers, hope we might someday meet in the real world. Le Prof. 50.232.9.194 (talk) 22:19, 17 June 2017 (UTC)