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Joan Crawford as Venus de Milo

Accidentally came across a reference to this in a review in the TLS and immediately thought of you. Cheers, Choliamb (talk) 14:45, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Choliamb – what a fascinating article. It's hard to imagine a celebrity magazine today running such a feature! Their numbers are also just completely bizarre. I'd have to check Pasquier when I get home for the chest and hip measurements, but the supposed height of 5'4" for the Venus de Milo is just completely divorced from reality – she's fifteen inches taller than they claim. I also have no idea how they calculated her weight – clearly the actual marble statue does not weigh 135 lbs Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 12:33, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Ha, I see that over the last couple of months that photo has worked its insidious magic on you, so much so that it finally made its way into the article. When I saw the edit summary on my watchlist, I knew without looking that "20th-century reception of the statue" must be code for Joan Crawford. Good edit! – Choliamb (talk) 23:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

It's just such a good image! (And most of the 20th Century artistic reception is still in copyright, so harder to justify using) Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 18:37, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Ngrams

N-grams for Horn Dance and Addobt Bromley Horn Dance, thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:50, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Signups open for The Core Contest 2024

The Core Contest—Wikipedia's most exciting contest—returns again this year from April 15 to May 31. The goal: to improve vital or other core articles, with a focus on those in the worst state of disrepair. Editing can be done individually, but in the past groups have also successfully competed. There is £300 of prize money divided among editors who provide the "best additive encyclopedic value". Signups are open now. Cheers from the judges, Femke, Casliber, Aza24. – Aza24 (talk) 02:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Sappho: A New Translation

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Your GA nomination of Venus de Milo

The article Venus de Milo you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Venus de Milo for comments about the article, and Talk:Venus de Milo/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! 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. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Ppt91 -- Ppt91 (talk) 00:03, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Mentor for editing of Jex Blackmore article

Hi. You replied to my inquiry at GA Talk, "If you aren't feeling brave enough to nominate this for GA right away (at a very cursory glance there are no major red flags!) I'm happy to take a look at the article and give you some feedback – looks interesting!"

Sounds great, your feedback would be welcome. My rough plan would be to take ~3 months to improve the article, starting after May 22nd. Would that timing work for you and would you be willing to possibly go through more than one iteration of guidance? If so, I'm curious about how we might communicate -- for example, could I create a g-doc version and receive your feedback through the comments function? Or is there a WP policy to not utilize such outside apps? Thanks again, ProfGray (talk) 17:16, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

@ProfGray: Hi – no, there are no rules against using some sort of outside-of-wikipedia system to communicate, and I'm happy to use Google Docs if that's what you prefer. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 14:51, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I emailed you a link to the g-doc. Cheers, ProfGray (talk) 15:16, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Women in Green GA Editathon June 2024 - Going Back in Time

Hello Caeciliusinhorto:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in June 2024!

Running from June 1 to 30, 2024, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Going Back in Time! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 20 centuries by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:12, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Hey Caeciliusinhorto! I'm reaching out to some editors just to make sure we have a 20-minute assessment team in place for the June WiG editathon, and I remembered you had expressed an interest in tackling some assessments going forward. Can I put your name down? There's no minimum requirement for how many requests you respond to -- just jump in whenever you have time/capacity. (Also, thanks for jumping in and answering that talk page question re: assessments!) Alanna the Brave (talk) 18:44, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

@Alanna the Brave: Yes, of course! I'm watching the event page so I will keep an eye out Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 18:55, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Fabulous! Thank you. :-) If you like, you can also watchlist the full 20-minute assessments page, just to make new requests easier to spot. Alanna the Brave (talk) 19:04, 22 May 2024 (UTC)