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Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:11, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: apologies I missed your message until just now. I’ve been dealing with some family matters and have been vey distracted in recent weeks. Best wishes to you for 2025. Mccapra (talk) 23:12, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

birthday of Erik Satie - can we get his article to GA for his centenary of death? - Your name is one of many in the history. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:09, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

all Verdi today: tenor Luigi Alva and the premiere OTD of his Requiem, see my talk - remember that early in the thread there was a link to a performance? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:07, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Brixton meetup next Monday 28 April

Hello @Mccapra! Letting you know there's another Brixton meetup at Brixton Library next Monday 28th April at 6pm-8pm if you're nearby and free. We're going to look at #wmuk mini edits, music articles (and London music venues) and translating articles too - as well as anything else you might want to edit/learn/discuss with fellow wikimedians! Colette Lambeth (talk) 14:41, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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Page review

Hi could you please review East Sheen Lodge, I’ve added a few more sources. Quetzal (talk) 15:36, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

done thank you. Mccapra (talk) 15:40, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Academic notability of Zaynab El Bernoussi

Hi @Mccapra I have looked again at the academic notability guidelines. This article meets the criteria. Having been awarded by the highest academic body in the field of subject, having written a well-cited article on dignity which has won awards, is an editor of leading journal, appointed as the interim chair of a department in a research instutution. I removed references with trivial mention of subject. I've added a reference with substantial coverage. Please review. Twicebefore (talk) 01:48, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

page review

Hi @Mccapra Please can you can review The Africa Institute. It was tagged as orphan. I have added links related to it. Twicebefore (talk) 01:52, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

done thanks Mccapra (talk) 22:14, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Twicebefore (talk) 01:15, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for Creation backlog drive

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Zaynab El Bernoussi new page academic notability

Hi @Mccapra you tagged this article with academic notability issues.

Zaynab El Bernoussi is a Chair of Humanities Department at The Africa Institute ;

Has been awarded for her academic research work on the concept of dignity in the political science lexicon

Has been awarded by the International Political Science Association (IPSA) for the Global South award 2024 and will be delivering award lecture at theIPSA Congress in Seoul by July.

. Please help me understand how academic notability applies. Thank you Twicebefore (talk) 05:37, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

hi the basic criteria are at WP:NPROF and as an assistant prof she pretty certainly doesn’t qualify. She may qualify under WP:NAUTHOR if you can find enough independent reviews of her writing. Mccapra (talk) 05:45, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help.

I still perplexed how this qualification applies because the word professor informally refers to the collective academic ranks of assoiate, assistant professor or professor in the United States. Twicebefore (talk) 06:56, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No professor of any type is automatically notable, but an assistant professor is furthest away from reaching the bar. Mccapra (talk) 12:40, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]