User talk:Normal Name

A belated welcome!

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Protolanguages

Hi,

I saw your question about protolanguages. For any language that doesn't have an ISO-639-1 or 3 code, you can use the three letter code "mis". I use "transl" if it doesn't use Latin letters and "lang" for those that use Latin letters. Thanks for your help with the Moss project.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 00:41, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Ira Leviton! And thank you for your work on Moss as well. – Normal Name (talk) 02:58, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

edit summaries

Just noticed this and wanted to compliment you. I have multiple times told newer editors that the edit summary is as important as the edit, and that a good edit summary might be longer than the actual edit. This is a great example. —valereee (talk) 00:12, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the compliment! I agree that a good edit summary is important and I try my best to give edit summaries that will help other editors if they are looking at the edit history of an article. – Normal Name (talk) 17:40, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Marriage Value

Thanks for your cleaning up the presentation on "Marriage Value", my knowledge is of the subject rather then Wikipedia editing so appreciated. 78.149.212.92 (talk) 09:57, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to clean it up, thank you for using your knowledge to improve Wikipedia. – Normal Name (talk) 17:40, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ReferenceExpander

Just a friendly heads-up in case you weren't already aware, since it's installed on your common.js: Careless use of ReferenceExpander has caused serious problems. It's currently at MFD, and a large cleanup project is underway to repair the citations damaged by the script. I and several other users have !voted that the script be deleted or disabled, and I wouldn't recommend using it at all unless you thoroughly check every reference it modifies against the previous revision. If you're interested in a more detailed explanation of the script's issues, Folly Mox has provided an excellent summary at the MFD. — SamX [talk · contribs] 05:13, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Women in Red June 2025

Women in Red | June 2025, Vol 11, Issue 6, Nos. 326, 327, 339, 340

Online events:

New: LGBTQ+ | Alphabet run K & L
Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music

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Who are the most overlooked and interesting Women in Red? We've no idea,
but we're putting together our list of the 100 most interesting ex-Women in Red.
We are creating the list to celebrate 10 years of Women in Red and we hope to present it at Wikimania.
We are ignoring the obvious, so do you have a name or subject we should consider?
Can you suggest a DYK style hook?
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The World Destubathon, 16 June - 13 July, 2025

Progress ("moving the needle"):

Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,492 articles during this period!

19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women)
21 Apr 2025: 20.090% (2,061,363 bios; 414,126 women)

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