User talk:Dreamyshade

Question from IQEES (13:14, 2 January 2026)

@dreamyshade I submitted my article for publication and it was declined due to conflict of interest. I had previously noted my conflict of interest on my page and shared that I am only paid by the organization when the summer program I was hired to work with runs. How do I get my article published? --IQEES (talk) 13:14, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Question from CAlexvi (03:08, 9 January 2026)

hi! @Dreamyshade, hows my editings? and, how to cite and like create a graph again? (scope, class, row. i believe) --CAlexvi (talk) 03:08, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

List of royalty by net worth

Hello, @Dreamyshade... I hope that you are well.

I was wondering why you removed the reference to the Olugbo of Ugbo from the page above. If memory serves, the reference that stated that he was worth $300 million was a Forbes one. Isn't that usually considered reliable for such purposes?

O.ominirabluejack (talk) 20:22, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

@O.ominirabluejack Hi, thanks for asking! See WP:FORBESCON: "Most content on Forbes.com is written by contributors or 'Senior Contributors' with minimal editorial oversight, and is generally unreliable. Editors show consensus for treating Forbes.com contributor articles as self-published sources, unless the article was written by a subject-matter expert. Forbes.com contributor articles should never be used for third-party claims about living persons." In the cited Forbes article, the byline is "Mfonobong Nsehe, Former Contributor", so my understanding is that we should treat it as a self-published source, not reliable enough to use a citation for statements about living people.

Related changes I made:

• Redirected Africa's Richest Kings to Monarchies in Africa because it was largely based on that Forbes article.
• Updated Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan to remove material cited to that Forbes article.
• Merged verifiable material from the article at Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom into Ugbo Kingdom.

Not directly related, but mentioning since I ran into this while working on those articles: the table at List of rulers of Ife is quite confusing. I'm hoping somebody can improve it! Dreamyshade (talk) 21:27, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. I guess that we'll have to hope that someone comes out with a more reliable citation... Thanks also for the heads up regarding the Ife list. I'll take a look at it.

O.ominirabluejack (talk) 22:15, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Question from IQEES (16:17, 23 February 2026)

Hi, I received a decline to another article that stated "Please remove all inline external links from body text, these are not allowed; convert to inline citations where relevant.

Make sure that every material statement, anything potentially contentious, and all private personal details are clearly supported by inline citations to reliable published sources or else removed". I went to the linked cite and I am not getting what I need to be doing. Can you help me figure this out? Thank you. --IQEES (talk) 16:17, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

I think I figured out the footnote citations and updated appropriately. I will resubmit after I hear from you! --IQEES (talk) 17:31, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Dreamyshade! I'm glad that you are joining the March 2026 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 07:28, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

GA review

Thanks again for such a detailed GA review on Logan Express! It's really satisfying to feel like an article has come out of the review significantly stronger than it went in. I hope you enjoyed the process and decide to do it again (and nominate some of your own!) If you do more reviews, I highly recommend User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/GANReviewTool which makes some of the closing tasks very simple. Best, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:25, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535 You're welcome, that was fun! I nominated one (sailor tattoos), so I figured I should help with the backlog and get more familiar with the criteria. I'll use the script next time, easy to miss steps. Dreamyshade (talk) 03:16, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Bumpus Cove contamination

I actually haven't seen much evidence that the mining has caused significant environmental issues in recent times. Where is the source for this? The landfill certainly has. Kingsmasher678 (talk) 17:11, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Outside of that one quibble, thank you for the copyedits! Kingsmasher678 (talk) 17:16, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

@Kingsmasher678 Good point! I was reading in "Environmental Impact of Hazardous Waste in East Tennessee Karst": "Mine tailings were not removed and were used in place of soil as a fill cover." and "The presence of supergene mineralization and the mining operations in the cove have contributed to high background levels of iron, lead, zinc, and manganese." But looking at the other materials, it doesn't seem to have been a significant factor, so I just cut that bit that I added. Dreamyshade (talk) 17:54, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

@Kingsmasher678 Looks like there are a few papers that might be interesting: Using Spatial Regression to Model Potentially Toxic Metal (PTM) Mobility Based on Physicochemical Soil Properties ("Abandoned and un-reclaimed metalliferous mines of Bumpus Cove, TN, have led to accumulation of PTMs in the surrounding soils over the last 65+ years."); Evaluating Spatial Regression-Informed Cokriging of Metals in Soils near Abandoned Mines in Bumpus Cove, Tennessee, USA; Predicting Hot Spots for Heavy Metal Contamination in Bumpus Cove, Northeastern Tennessee. Dreamyshade (talk) 17:58, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

I will definitely include these when I finish the GA push. Thanks!

Kingsmasher678 (talk) 02:35, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of Sailor tattoos is under review

Your good article nomination of the article Sailor tattoos 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 Pi.1415926535 -- Pi.1415926535 (talk) 05:25, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535 Thank you for picking this up! I can send copies of some source materials for convenience; feel free to mail me to let me know a preferred way. Dreamyshade (talk) 16:43, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Question from BrookePenn5 (19:15, 10 April 2026)

Hi, how do I add the "In-source location" in a citation? I see it in some references (I mostly just modify or base my edit on other citations), but this one I'm currently editing doesn't have it --BrookePenn5 (talk) 19:15, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of Sailor tattoos has passed

Your good article nomination of the article Sailor tattoos 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 Pi.1415926535 -- Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:45, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

@Pi.1415926535 Wonderful, thanks for a solid review! Added a link to William Bligh. Great to both improve the article and get more familiar with the good article process. Dreamyshade (talk) 18:16, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

March 2026 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

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		This award is given in recognition to Dreamyshade for collecting more than 29 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's March 2026 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 8362 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer ■ 16:36, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

DYK for Roy Waldo Miner

On 2 May 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Roy Waldo Miner, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Roy Waldo Miner extracted about forty tons of coral from the Andros Barrier Reef to build a museum diorama? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Roy Waldo Miner. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Roy Waldo Miner), 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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DYK for Sailor tattoo

On 14 May 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sailor tattoo, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that sailors in Britain and its colonies used gunpowder to ink their sailor tattoos? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sailor tattoos. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sailor tattoo), 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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Editor of the Week

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User:Ganesha811 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Dreamyshade to be Editor of the Week for 25 years of contributions. Dreamyshade joined the project in October 2001, only a few short months after Wikipedia was launched. The first edit to her talk page was by Larry Sanger. In early days, she created some foundational articles (Los Angeles, Code of Hammurabi, and Pablo Neruda among them). She's supported and documented Wikipedia offline, taken photos of local landmarks, and run numerous edit-a-thons. Through her edit-a-thons, scores of new editors have joined or contributed to the project. On-site, she has mentored yet more newbies, written DYKs, and added countless sources to verify unverified sentences. She is an exemplar of the best of Wikipedians, contributing steadily for well over two decades. She truly deserves the honor of being Editor of the Week.

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Dreamyshade

Editor of the Week for the week beginning May 17, 2026

Dreamyshade joined the project in October 2001, only a few short months after Wikipedia was launched. The first edit to her talk page was by Larry Sanger. In early days, she created some foundational articles (Los Angeles, Code of Hammurabi, and Pablo Neruda among them). She's supported and documented Wikipedia offline, taken photos of local landmarks, and run numerous edit-a-thons. Through her edit-a-thons, scores of new editors have joined or contributed to the project. On-site, she has mentored yet more newbies, written DYKs, and added countless sources to verify unverified sentences. She is an exemplar of the best of Wikipedians, contributing steadily for well over two decades. She truly deserves the honor of being Editor of the Week.

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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 13:41, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

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Cielquiparle (talk) 00:03, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Happy Foot Sad Foot sign

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@Lullabying Thank you! I responded there; please feel free to let me know if you have further questions or suggested edits. Dreamyshade (talk) 17:21, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

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Khailany

do you know of Dr. Asad Khailany? I saw your Kurdish interests. WhaleFarm (talk) 15:10, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

One of five?

Hi, Dreamyshade. I think you're bitten by the data bug as I am, right? If so, you may be interested in this retention graph, which I'd never seen before. I think your longevity is a data point somewhere near the bottom right corner of the graph. Both axes are years, with x=month+year of first edit, and y=some later month+year where users had at least ten edits. (You can switch from ten edits to one edit below the graph.) With difficulty, you can hover the bottom right corner pixel (or close to it), which generates a pop-up label that says, '1 user who had their first edit in 01/2002 [not you; I know] edited in 01/2006'. If you click anywhere in the colored part, you get a 'cross section' graph top right, showing how many people are still editing N months after their starting point, and you can hover that one as well and get pop-up labels specifying how many users are in the first-edit-in-mm/yy-that-also-had-ten-edits-in-mm/yy cohort. The color-slider control becomes useful for the cross-section graph.

I couldn't find a pixel in the lower-right corner of the main graph that has a starting edit any earlier than '01/2002', but if you find that one and click it, then you get a very skinny 'cross section' graph top right, and hovering that one, you can find a pixel (a vertical line, actually) where you get a pop-up label that says, '2 users that had their first edit in 10/2001 edited in 10/2025'. The graph is newer than that, probably Jan. 2026, as you can see by hovering anywhere on the right edge, but since that cross-section is the 288-month longevity cross-section, they started later than you (in 01/2002). All of these stats in the default graph are for users that had >= 10 edits in the month in question (you had 13 in your first month, so you meet the threshold for the default graph) but if you want to see how you compare to users with >= 1 edit in their start (and later) months, click the '1' in the 'versions' line below the graph.

By selecting '1', and the middle triangle control (vertical section), and then clicking the main graph on the right edge, the top right graph becomes 'Users that edited in 01/2026'. (Recommended: use the color slider so you see vertical color bars in the top graph; it doesn't affect the numbers, but at least you don't have a completely blank graph to look at.) Hovering that graph, you can find a pixel that pops up '5 users that had their first edit in 10/2001 edited in 01/2026'. So, you are one of only five editors in your start cohort still going as of this January. (I wonder who the others are; do you know any of your 'freshman class' fellows?) And, okay, yes, I am a wikiholic! Where's my 12-step program? Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 18:31, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Very nice work, this is a fascinating chart!!! Would be cool to integrate into Wikipedia:Wikipedians somehow, and I bet MW:Talk:Growth would be interested to see it. That early pandemic cohort is very interesting. I wondered what was happening in July 2013, and it looks like that was when mobile editing became widely available, and global fundraising banners were running? There's an informal list of editors who started in 2001, and a similar list here. Found this earlier effort while poking around as well: Wikipedia:Editing frequency. Dreamyshade (talk) 19:02, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

DYK for Happy Foot Sad Foot sign

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Opus Dei and politics: possible merge?

Hi. I was wondering if in your opinion this sub-article might be better off merged into the parent article. The controversy section would fit neatly with the controversy section of the parent article, while the previous sections likely would better serve as part of the Opus Dei#History, which is currently particularly lacking in the coverage of the political history of the prelature. — ♠ Ixtal ^{( T / C )} ⁂ Non nobis solum ♠ 01:19, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

I’d support a proposal to merge. This sub-topic article has a lot of poorly-sourced and essay-like material, and merging the relevant and sourced material would strengthen the main article. This article isn’t fulfilling its stated scope as-is; there’s reliable secondary source material about Opus Dei and the current Trump administration that is not in this article. Dreamyshade (talk) 01:35, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

LLM PRODs

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If desired, a page may instead be moved to userspace to allow for more time for review. The tag may be removed during this time, so long as WP:LLMPRVOBJ is followed before the page is moved back into mainspace. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 11:51, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Appreciate that folks userfied these two articles for me. I'd read the instructions in "Reversing removal of content", but they didn't clearly indicate to me that an editor has to do a full review and rework before removing the LLM PROD tag. I'll suggest clarifying this over on the talk page. Dreamyshade (talk) 18:08, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for you work on carrier telephony

The article is better for your efforts, I'm really glad you liked the subject as well. WhaleFarm (talk) 18:17, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks!

Just wanted to drop a quick note to say thanks for the thoughtful discussion. We may disagree about including the controversies in the Opus Dei lead, but I really appreciate the way you've approached the conversation. Coffeeurbanite (talk) 21:42, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you also for being up for trying to work toward consensus. This article is an interesting and worthwhile challenge! Dreamyshade (talk) 23:36, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Re: Miscellaneous positive updates

Thank you! Despite being a relatively tenured editor, this is my first good article, so it is exciting nonetheless. And I was at the Depths of Wikipedia show where you got a shoutout! It is a very small world. Brandon (talk) 06:40, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Ha, that was a fun show! I appreciate that you took on a topic where representatives of the subject have campaigned against media coverage and advocated on the talk page; I believe Wikipedia is at its best when we provide clear, balanced summaries from an independent perspective. You might be interested in AFRINIC, which has involved defamation cases; I nominated it for GA, and it's waiting for a reviewer. :D Dreamyshade (talk) 16:31, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Opus Dei

@dreamyshade You reverted the part on secrecy on the Opus Dei lemma. Reference 13 refers to a Time article. I have a background in working with and studying human factors in large organizations. When investigating the Time article I found the following: In 1982 a new document repudiated "secrecy or clandestine activity," and Bohlin, the U.S. vicar, claims that the continuing impression is a misunderstanding based again on decentralization. "People [get Opus training] and go back to where they were," he says. "So we never march in a parade as a group because we don't form a group. And when people don't see us marching, they say, 'They must be secret.'"-- What struck me was the theme of decentralization, I do think this should have a place in the article to be honest, unless discussing accusations of secrecy is a matter of cherry picking. I'm not a fervent Wikipedia editor, so in case this is not the place or right way to discuss things, I do apologize. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deomglor (talk • contribs) 20:13, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

• @Deomglor: Thanks for reaching out in a friendly way! FYI, I moved your comment to the bottom of this page (don't worry about it, just typical practice). I'll reply over on your talk page. Dreamyshade (talk) 04:25, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Engyodontium aranearum

When a new species name is accepted by science, it is proper to move the article (if it was using the scientific name as its title) and to rewrite it from the perspective of the new name, not just put a single sentence in that says what the new name is. I've gone and done that for E. aranearum. Please take a look for future changes. - In solidarity, UtherSRG (talk) 13:59, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! I figured it needed a more experienced eye, which is why I posted it on WikiProject Fungi. :) It was a little ambiguous to me what the correct approach was, since other pages like the NCBI Taxonomy Browser seemed to list Engyodontium aranearum as the primary key for the item, and I saw other articles like this one with different proposals for naming. The article seems like it'd benefit from a link to entomopathogenic fungus for context for curious non-expert readers (like me!), but I'm also not sure if that's correct. Dreamyshade (talk) 14:30, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Ah, I'm not a member of that project, but I have my thumb in taxonomy articles as a whole. Yeah, this article probably needs more work, but at least it's now internally consistent. Probably the next step would be to remove the link from the old genus article (you can indicate in the article that the taxon was moved from the old genus to the new) and ensure it exists on the new genus article as well. - In solidarity, UtherSRG (talk) 14:39, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

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A barnstar for you!

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	Thank you for being a great person during the Show and Tell event today! Ur presentation for Sailor tattoo was amazing, too! Dragonhawk12 (talk) (Guestbook) (Wikicats) 05:36, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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An original barnstar for you!

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		Thank you for all you have added to the Wikimedia projects. -Wil540 art (talk) 15:22, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

I’m a Signpost contributor and I’m editing an article: Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2026! Here is the current draft, open for copy editing: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/News from Diff The words are direct from the WMF copy but I added links and pictures to add more information to everyone’s story. Just wanted to bounce it off you incase you have any edit suggestions or comments. Congratulations again! - Wil540 art (talk) 18:43, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

@Wil540 art Thank you, that's great! I like the additions of links and photos. I adjusted a few of the links to go to more fun and interesting places. Dreamyshade (talk) 21:27, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Congrats, Laureate!

Just watched (remotely, from San Francisco) you accept the Wikimedian of the Year Laureate award, and I took the photo of you that was on the screen at the ceremony! Congratulations! Funcrunch (talk) 15:29, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

+1 congratulations! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:45, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

Congratulations! — L'embellie @ 16:28, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

Congratulations! Obinna Tony (talk) 20:33, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you all so much! I'm grateful to have the opportunity to be a little bit of an of ambassador for the value of welcoming and supporting younger contributors. @Funcrunch Delighted to be one of the many, many people in your collection of great photos! Dreamyshade (talk) 09:20, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Indeed, congratulations! Because of the announcement, I've just imported two edits of yours from 7 and 9 December 2001, to the pages Wikipedia:Historical Wikipedia pages/Larrys Wedding Card and Personal attackPersonal attack, respectively, from the Nostalgia Wikipedia, just so that your daily editing streaks can show results from before 10 December 2001. The January–February 2002 editing streaks shown by that tool are particularly interesting to me because, as you may well remember, many edits from that time are shown as being from 25 February due to a database glitch that Brooke Vibber once memorably called the great oops. Graham87 (talk) 10:28, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Projo on mobile

Hi. Your Projo tool you shown today on Wikimania seems interesting. Not sure were to report this so trying here, would you mind adding a mobile support? Seems like this should be enough:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />

Most other things seem to scale nicely to mobile. So just add that to head of all HTML pages/views. Nux (talk) 12:19, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, good idea! I'll get that in. Dreamyshade (talk) 19:16, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Added! Thanks to @Audiodude for merging and deploying this. Dreamyshade (talk) 17:34, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

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Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Dreamyshade! I'm glad that you are joining the August 2026 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 21:38, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from CorsacFoxWiki (14:31, 6 August 2026)

Hi Dreamyshade, I see the powers that be have assigned you as my mentor. I think I'm doing well (but I'm quite prepared to see other perspectives... beams and motes...) Do you have any feedback on how I am editing? --CorsacFoxWiki (talk) 14:31, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Just a reminder. Two weeks ago I asked you Dreamyshade, my appointed Mentor, for feedback on how I am editing. Someone somewhere must think I need some mentorship, otherwise why would a mentor be appointed? I think I am doing well, but I might be unaware of areas I could improve. CorsacFoxWiki (talk) 14:00, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for asking and reminding me! I wrote a comment on your talk page. Dreamyshade (talk) 07:58, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Your a good editor, so a kitty for you!

HelloImYourNeighbor (talk) 00:09, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

August 2026

Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Template:Bengali films. When you were adding content to the page, you added duplicate arguments to a template which can cause issues with how the template is rendered. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find these errors as they will display in yellow at the top of the page. You can also install the userscript found here to help find and eliminate these errors. Thanks. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:58, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

Good catch, and thanks for the pointer to the script! Dreamyshade (talk) 19:00, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

Of course! Hope it helps. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:40, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of AFRINIC has passed

Your good article nomination of the article AFRINIC 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 16dvnk -- 16dvnk (talk) 14:01, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

Congrats! Kuddos for coaching me mid-way and giving valuable advice. Thank you for improving Wikipedia by adding an additional Good Article!

Sincerely,

16dvnk (talk) 14:19, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for helping me strengthen the article! I like the GA process because both the nominator and the reviewer learn about writing better articles. I hope you’ll do more reviews! Dreamyshade (talk) 18:02, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

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The Barnstar of Good Humor

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		My new friend, you deserve this Barnstar. very few editors who work with the dedication and quality that you do. Along with good knowledge, you have a very good nature towards other Wikipedians. Keep up the great work! 𝓖𝓲𝓻𝓭𝓲➃➄ ✍️ (talk) 17:11, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

you are wrong, she has a hostile nature towards other wikipedians Kennerth28 (talk) 22:24, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

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--Kennerth28 (talk) 22:22, 18 August 2026 (UTC)Kennerth28 I have decied to retire, if you will delete all my articles, please spare Paul John Potts, and Frances Kray

New page reviewer granted

Hi Dreamyshade, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the new page reviewer user right to your account. This means you now have access to the page curation tools and can start patrolling pages from the new pages feed. If you asked for this at requests for permissions, please check back there to see if your access is time-limited or if there are other comments.

This is a good time to re-acquaint yourself with the guidance at Wikipedia:New pages patrol. Before you get started, please take the time to:

• Add Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers to your watchlist to follow NPP-related discussions
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AfC August Backlog Drive: Only ten days left!

Our pending drafts!

Hi Dreamyshade, thanks for participating in the Articles for Creation August Backlog Drive! We've done amazing work so far, dropping the backlog by more than 3000 drafts already. We have around 1300 drafts outstanding, and we need your help to get that down to zero in the next 10 days. We can do this, but we need all hands on deck to help make it happen – if everyone who signed up to the drive reviewed just 1–2 drafts a day for the next ten days, we'd be down to zero in no time! A list of the pending drafts can be found at WP:AFCSORT, where you can select submissions in your area of interest, or you can find a random submission here. Thank you so much for your work so far, and happy reviewing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:20, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

Page mover granted

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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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• Wikipedia:Requested moves
• Category:Requested moves, for article renaming requests awaiting action.

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! Kj cheetham (talk) 15:05, 23 August 2026 (UTC)

Request

Could you make something like Wikipedia:WikiProject Books/Unreviewed articles but for Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography? Though, it might be harder to do it for crime. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:22, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Sure! I put a few options on Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography/Unreviewed articles, based on different subcategories roughly aligned with task forces. The results in each subcategory seem pretty similar though. Do any of the more specific ones seem useful? There are some miscellaneous off-topic items because of nested subcategories, but if there are major irrelevant categories, let me know and I can add them to the query to rule them out. You can also edit the source and adjust the number of items, remove sections, etc. Dreamyshade (talk) 05:28, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Yeah, the organized crime and terrorism categories are unfortunately rather mixed up, so I don't think it's going to be clean enough to be useful to separate those. But it looks good, thank you. PARAKANYAA (talk) 05:43, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Makes sense. This is just Template:Database report, so it’s easy to adjust once you get the hang of it. Feel free to list the page in the WikiProject materials and post about it to others! Dreamyshade (talk) 05:59, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

New pages patrol September 2026 Backlog drive

September 2026 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
On 1 September 2026, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin at a particularly important time for NPP. The backlog has now passed 30,000 unreviewed articles, a level that has been described in current NPP discussions as exceptionally high and potentially difficult to overcome through normal reviewing alone. Backlog drives are one of the few measures that have historically produced a noticeable reduction in the backlog, so the participation of as many active patrollers as possible will matter this month. If you can review during September, please make articles your priority. Every article that is reviewed is a meaningful reduction in the backlog. With the queue at its current size, even a relatively small increase in the number of articles each patroller reviews can add up to a substantial difference over the course of the month. This is a hybrid drive, so redirect reviewing is still included. Redirects can be a useful way for newer patrollers to get comfortable with NPP and can help people build up to reviewing articles. However, the main goal of this drive is to tackle the article backlog, and experienced patrollers are particularly encouraged to spend as much of their available reviewing time on articles as they can. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Each article review will earn 1 point, while each redirect review will earn 0.2 points. Streak awards will be given out based on consistently hitting point thresholds for each week of the drive. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. If you have been thinking about doing more NPP, this is an especially good month to jump in. Whether you can review a few pages or hundreds, every review helps. And if you are already an active patroller, please consider whether you can put in some additional time during September to help bring the backlog back under control. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Autopatrolled granted

Hi Dreamyshade, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled user right to your account. This means that pages you create will automatically be marked as 'reviewed', and no longer appear in the new pages feed. Autopatrolled is assigned to prolific creators of articles, where those articles do not require further review, and may have been requested on your behalf by someone else. It doesn't affect how you edit; it is used only to manage the workload of new page patrollers.

Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevant WikiProject templates, stub tags, categories, and incoming links to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such as Rater and StubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia's core content policies, you might also consider volunteering to become a new page patroller yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.

Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! -Kj cheetham (talk) 09:47, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from Magashy (06:51, 10 September 2026)

Hallo. How do I view a citation on a draft page? --Magashy (talk) 06:51, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

@Magashy Hi! Which draft page are you looking at? Usually there's a list of citations at the bottom of a draft article, similar to a "mainspace" article. Dreamyshade (talk) 04:19, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

Hyperselectivity

Hiya Dreamyshade. I've been working on the NPP backlog and I came across an article you tagged for LLM back in April. The original author shows no signs of coming back to clean it up. How confident are you about the LLM diagnosis? If you are fairly sure, I will stubbify it and mark as reviewed. If not we could just review it and leave tags on. The history section strikes me as quite LLMy too, but I'm no expert.Boynamedsue (talk) 16:11, 11 September 2026 (UTC)

@Boynamedsue Thanks for asking. See Talk:Hyperselectivity - several of the citations I checked didn't verify the statements. But some of the citations seem fine. Pangram says 34% AI. It's a valid topic, and I don't know what to do with it other than clean up the unverifiable material (I just did some, but it needs more combing). Dreamyshade (talk) 00:45, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

Yes, there are lots of nasty little linguistic tells in there too that I'm not comfortable with. Research has provided insight on several Asian American groups.. I will have a look too when I get some time.Boynamedsue (talk) 04:09, 12 September 2026 (UTC)

Upcoming expiry of your patroller right

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Could you help me access a law360 article?

Hello! I was wondering if you could help me access a law360 article? I asked at Resource Request and WP:Law but I have not received a response. You added a law360 article to Monster Energy v. Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc. (now merged into Bang Energy) a few days ago, so hopefully you still have access to the service?

The article in question is:

• Donahue, Bill (3 March 2015). "Kimberly-Clark Settles Trade Dress Fight Over Pee Pads". www.law360.com. Law360. Retrieved 9 August 2026.

I'm hoping to use the content of the article to improve Goodnites.

If possible, could you email me the text of that article? JordyGrey _talk🧸 11:14, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

@JordyGrey Sure, emailed you! Dreamyshade (talk) 22:36, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Ironically this morning I was able to get access on my own. But still, I really appreciate you being the only user to actually respond to my request!

Cheers, JordyGrey _talk🧸 01:36, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted

Hi Dreamyshade, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the new page reviewer user right to your account. This means you now have access to the page curation tools and can start patrolling pages from the new pages feed. If you asked for this at requests for permissions, please check back there to see if your access is time-limited or if there are other comments.

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• Add Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers to your watchlist to follow NPP-related discussions
• If you use Twinkle, configure it to log your CSDs and PRODs
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Question about COI and the appropriate way to contribute

Hello Dreamyshade,

I’m reaching out because you recently removed an edit I made to Drug paraphernalia due to Undisclosed advertising concern. I’m not contacting you to dispute the removal. I’d simply like to better understand how I should participate in this topic appropriately under Wikipedia’s policies.

For transparency, I am affiliated with the team developing EZ-UP Aurora. I understand that this creates a conflict of interest when I contribute to topics related to Aurora or the technology behind it, even if my intention is to write neutrally.

The reason I became interested in contributing to Wikipedia is that Aurora uses electronically controlled combustion of dry herbs rather than vaporization. From our perspective, this represents a technical distinction from conventional dry-herb vaporizers and traditional manually operated smoking devices, and we believe there may be a broader category of automated combustion devices worth documenting.

At the same time, I understand that our own view is not enough to establish such a category on Wikipedia. Whether this distinction belongs in an existing article, a new section, or a separate article should depend on reliable independent sources and the judgment of uninvolved editors.

Could you advise me on the appropriate way to contribute going forward? If we believe this broader technical category deserves coverage, what would be the appropriate way to propose it for independent review?

My goal is simply to understand the proper process and contribute useful, verifiable information without creating further COI concerns.

Thank you for your time and guidance. Edward Collins 123 (talk) 18:03, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for asking! Please read the message I left on your talk page (User talk:Edward Collins 123), which has links to specific guidelines and procedures. There is also a simplified version at Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Please also read Wikipedia:Large language models#Communicating. Dreamyshade (talk) 18:18, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

NPP vs mobile editing

Hi. Just a heads up: As a user heavily engaged in research to improve NPP and address its monumental backlog, you my wish to subscribe to this thread or even add your thoughts to it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:56, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

August 2026 AfC backlog drive award

		The Invisible Barnstar
		This is awarded to Dreamyshade for accumulating more than 52.5 points during the August 2026 AfC backlog drive. Thank you for sharing your time, knowledge and dedication; together, we reviewed over 12,700 drafts during the drive and brought the 3+ month backlog down to just a single week, which we couldn't have done it without you. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 12:42, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

DYK for AFRINIC

On 20 September 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article AFRINIC, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that one company has tried to dissolve AFRINIC, which is part of Africa's Internet infrastructure? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/AFRINIC. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (AFRINIC), 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.

Dclemens1971 (talk) 00:04, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

Oleg Burlakov Biography

Hi. I noticed that you edited Oleg Burlakov not so long ago, therefore, I am hoping you might like to have a look at an edit request I posted here: Talk:Oleg Burlakov#Biography section edit request. An editor engaged with me and asked for further information, which I supplied, but that editor has not been active on Wikipedia for the past few weeks, so I am now turning to you. Many thanks. MarcusEllington90 (talk) 08:31, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

August 2026 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Dreamyshade for collecting more than 9 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's August 2026 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 7781 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! Max (talk) 15:34, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

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Source request

Hi there! Thanks for the sources that you added to the StankDawg AfD. I was able to access both of the books, but the opinion piece is behind a login that I couldn't manage. Could you please send a copy of the relevant section to me? Thanks! --Elonka 19:12, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

Sure, emailing you a copy! It's also available via Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library, if you have that. Dreamyshade (talk) 17:59, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

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Great meeting in person

We have gotten OWID to improve their interactive graph.

Will work on updating ours :-) Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:41, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

I imagine caching etc is updating and thus it is not working well currently. Works well on Commons. So hopefully it comes around in a bit. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:48, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, glad they were up for changing this! I'm also seeing that the embedded version is not quite working as expected yet - showing the image first when clicked, instead of the interactive experience - but that's ok, still helpful for the reader in the meantime. Dreamyshade (talk) 22:00, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Fixed it somewhat Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:15, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Yes! Works better in AFRINIC now as well. Thank you! Nice to have this context for readers. Dreamyshade (talk) 16:29, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Appears to all be working now. Let me know if you notice any errors. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:27, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

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Invitation to join the Twenty-Five Year Society

Dear Dreamyshade,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Twenty-Five Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for twenty-five years or more. IIRC you might have mentioned somewhere that you were from the July 2001 cohort. Apologies for the delayed invitation!

—ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email) 04:52, 6 October 2026 (UTC)

Quick email follow-up

Hi Dreamyshade! We sent you an email recently from Jonathan Parker about our potential documentary project and just wanted to check that it reached you. No rush at all, just making sure it didn’t disappear into spam. Thanks! Schisandraa (talk) 17:42, 6 October 2026 (UTC)

need help with edit request

Hi Dreamyshade, feel very free to say No to this.

An embarrassing number of months ago I reverted Icinga to remove LLM text. The maintainers of Icinga very reasonably wrote to me and asked me to make a whole lot of COI changes to it, as the reversion version was badly out of date (and also, just bad). I made a poke at it and found it intractable with my skill set. You can see the gory details at User talk:M kuhner#Icinga article. As a result I have just been procrastinating endlessly.

Is it possible you could look at this? I think it's closer to your area of expertise than it is to mine.

I'd be happy to do a favor in return if you happen to have one on tap. M kuhner (talk) 20:04, 6 October 2026 (UTC)

October 2026 Administrator Elections – Discussion Phase

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