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The Signpost: 17 December 2025

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November 2025 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

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Citation Barnstar

This award is given in recognition to Abasteraster for collecting more than 7 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV25 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 6,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 15:28, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Devil's food cake thanks

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Hi Abasteraster, thankyou for your work on this page, I'm very impressed with how you went about cleaning it up, and the picture of the cake from a 1928 pamphlet is a very welcome addition. Hope to see you some time if you find the time or energy to return. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | edits) 16:23, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Aw, thanks for the kind words! Life is keeping me very busy at the moment, but I do intend to return to Wikipedia when I find the time.  abasteraster ✮ t c  20:29, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
That's great. I've added some material to devil's food cake and I'll keep tweaking, but I'm about to nominate for GAN if you want to treat it as a co-nom. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | edits) 08:05, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I'd be delighted to be a co-nom for the article! I'll do some more work on the article over the next week or so--I'm never quite satisfied with my own prose lol, so it'll mostly be copyediting--and will be available to work on the reviewer's suggestions once it gets picked up.  abasteraster ✮ t c  08:36, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thankyou thankyou, I've mangled some of your prose unfortunately while integrating new information so a copyedit would be very welcome. I am having some second thoughts on the VTech source, I see in its authorship attribution: This exhibit was created by Samantha Burgess, student intern, in Spring 2024, as the final project for a Food Studies Program/Special Collections and University Archives internship. Hardly scholarly rigor, may need a cull of much of the description section :/ Rollinginhisgrave (talk | edits) 09:18, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Uh oh. You're right, that probably isn't a reliable source. Thank you for catching that. I'll search for better sources for the section immediately; hopefully I can salvage some of what was written there.  abasteraster ✮ t c  09:27, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 January 2026

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Your nomination of Devil's food cake has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article Devil's food cake 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. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of MSincccc -- MSincccc (talk) 11:02, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 January 2026

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The Signpost: 17 February 2026

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  • Disinformation report: Epstein's obsessions
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The Signpost: 10 March 2026

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