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I'm Balsam Cottonwood, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge.
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There are many ways you can contribute to Wikipedia. Here are a few ideas:
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Sincerely, 🌳 Balsam Cottonwood (talk) ✝ (Leave me a message) 20:31, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Recent edit reversion
In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.
I provided a brief summary of the problem in the edit summary, which should be visible just below my name. You can also click on the "view history" tab in the article to see the recent history of the article. This should be an edit with my name, and a parenthetical comment explaining why your edit was reverted. If that information is not sufficient to explain the situation, please ask.
I do occasionally make mistakes. We get hundreds of reports of potential copyright violations every week, and sometimes there are false positives, for a variety of reasons. (Perhaps the material was moved from another Wikipedia article, or the material was properly licensed but the license information was not obvious, or the material is in the public domain but I didn't realize it was public domain, and there can be other situations generating a report to our Copy Patrol tool that turn out not to be actual copyright violations.) If you think my edit was mistaken, please politely let me know and I will investigate. ~~~~ S Philbrick(Talk) 22:12, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Barnstar!
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| For your significant contributions in updating the University of Chicago page. SSR07 (talk) 23:19, 12 May 2025 (UTC) |
Your GA nomination of University of Chicago
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July 2025
- Thanks for the information, I've fixed my edit to maintain the same word count as the article had before—let me know if there are still any issues. Charter6281 (talk) 06:19, 6 July 2025 (UTC)
Chicago Edit-a-thon for September 18
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DYK nomination of University of Chicago
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Chicago Meetup for November 22
Hello! This is Luiysia again. This will be our final meetup for the year! Here are the details for our November bimonthly meetup.
We will be hosting this month's meetup at Cafe Jumping Bean in Pilsen, starting at 3 pm. Here is the official meetup page, where you can add yourself as an attendee.
Additionally: Here is our proposed slate of 2026 meetups! We hope to do some more ambitious and frequent programming in 2026 including editathons, photowalks, and more; please add any comments on the timeline under "Discussion and feedback."
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A barnstar for you!
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| I see you got University of Chicago to good article status. Not many people have achieved that feat (in fact, there are even admins without any good articles to their name). This is a rare accomplishment indeed. Massive congratulations! The next challenge is keeping it there. There is actually a great slideshow specifically about university articles and their constant creep away from WP:FA status. WP:ENDURE touches on these points nicely. But again, thank you and congratulations! |
HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 04:06, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
- Ack I forgot to link to the slide deck: File:Averting Ozymandias’s featured article.pdf :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 05:53, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
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"and eight Olympic medalists"
The above phrase is not sourced in the University of Chicago article. Please fix ASAP as the article needs to be fully sourced to feature at DYK - thanks, Gatoclass (talk) 02:17, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
- Good catch, I just fixed: the real number is actually six, according to the University of Chicago website. Hopefully it's good to go now. Charter6281 (talk) 23:58, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks, but that is just a link to the university's homepage. Don't you have a link to the actual article? Gatoclass (talk) 00:28, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
- Whoops, should be fixed now. Charter6281 (talk) 00:51, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks, but that is just a link to the university's homepage. Don't you have a link to the actual article? Gatoclass (talk) 00:28, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
DYK for University of Chicago
On 17 December 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article University of Chicago, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that scientists at the University of Chicago achieved a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction under the stands of a football stadium? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/University of Chicago. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, University of Chicago), 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.
Wikipedia 25: Celebrate Wikipedia Day 2026 in Chicago
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Chicago Women's History Month Edit-a-thon
Hello! This is Luiysia again. It was amazing seeing so many people come out for Wikipedia Day in January. For March, we will be hosting an edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month supporting Chicago woman writers.
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The edit-a-thon will be lasting all of March online, during which time you can contribute via the program's dashboard. On March 24th, we will be meeting in-person at Skunk Cabbage Books, in the Logan Square neighborhood, at 6:30 PM.
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