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Happy holidays and a prosperous 2025!

I was skimming Psychology to find a good picture to put here, and then I got distracted by the illustration of the Stroop effect. Brains are so cool!

Mason, it has been a pleasure to work with you over this past year. Your dedication maintaining the plethora of category header templates, your responsiveness to requests to implement various discussions (regardless of how much work it might take to do them!), and your creativity in coming up with ways to repurpose categories are noticed and appreciated :) Thank you for everything this year, and here's to another productive year improving what could reasonably be called humanity's greatest collection of knowledge – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Wishing all the best to you and yours in 2025, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 03:21, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That is so thoughtful of you! Thank you so much for the kind words and appreciation!!!!! ^SMason_Garrison 03:35, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, Mason :) Best, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 03:47, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Women in psychology

Hiya. Read your userpage. Do you mayhaps have ideas on how to improve the Women in psychology section on the Psychology article? I know very little about this topic. At some point some questionable additions were removed, which kinda left a gap. Would you be so kind to take a look? Thank you! Polygnotus (talk) 05:08, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reaching out! I think that it's a good start. Maybe add in some more non-American psychologists? ^SMason_Garrison 23:17, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I was kinda hoping you'd be willing to give it a try? I know very little and nothing about psychology. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 00:01, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You might try reaching out to some of the relevant WikiProjects, like Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red,Wikipedia:WikiProject Women Scientists. I don't have the bandwidth to do actual research to flesh out the article. ^SMason_Garrison 00:05, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

Hello, Mason,

In case you haven't noticed, Lost in Quebec was recently indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet of longtime blocked editor WilliamJE. A lot of their unused category creations were speedy deleted CSD G5'd yesterday, I'm not sure if you helped out on emptying them. Looking at their User talk page today, it looks like you had a fair share of run-ins with LIQ over the past year so I thought I'd leave you a note. If you see an editor with similar behavior in the future, you might consider reporting them at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WilliamJE.

I don't think we've chatted lately so I just wanted to wish you a good summer! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:40, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'll definitely keep an eye out if LIQ/WJE pops back up. I did notice a day or so ago, but I mostly just restored categories to the status quo. Summer's going well! I hope your summer is going well as well! I'm putting together my tenure dossier for submission at the end of the summer, and I'm feeling good about it. :) ^SMason_Garrison 23:15, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Best of luck with your tenure dossier :) House Blaster (talk • he/they) 00:09, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! ^SMason_Garrison 00:11, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2025).

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Viceroyalty of Peru was not part of New Spain

The Viceroyalty of Peru was not part of New Spain. New Spain was a combination of various mainland areas, corresponding to Central America, Mexico and parts of the US today, the Spanish West Indies, the Spanish East Indies and maybe for a brief period what is now Colombia and Venezuela. The Viceroyalty of Peru was a seperate and distinct Spanish controlled area with a different government and not in any way, shape, means or form part of New Spain.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:58, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

- Reading further in the article on New Spain, I see no mention of the text of Panama or any mainland areas further south being under the control of New Spain, so it was clearly limited to areas in North America or in Asia, nothing in South America at all.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:23, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  That's good to know. What do you suggest we do then about how to parent the Viceroyalty of Peru? I think its important to have a way that's relatively easy for non-experts to navigate to related categories. ^SMason_Garrison 22:32, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  - We have Category:Spanish Empire and Category:People from the Spanish Empire that are the logical parents to Viceroyalty of Peru, New Spain and in later times Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata and Viceroyalty of New Granada. As well as some other places not under that structure.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:10, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hmmm, that's interesting. I guess I had been conflating the Spanish Empire with New Spain. Thanks for letting me know! ^SMason_Garrison 21:01, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question, please

Hi there! I'm reaching out to you because I see you've previously edited a page I will be editing and I'm seeking just a bit of guidance. I have been asked to edit Helen Pickett's page by Ms. Pickett. She has given me updated information with all the proper citations. There are some items she would like removed and she also wishes to change the image in the infobox/person. The image is her property but I am not able to figure out how to upload it to the Wikipedia Commons. May you please advise? Thank you in advance for your help and kindness. - Jackie Jackiespina777 (talk) 00:49, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So I occasionally get asked to edit pages by people connected to pages. In these cases, I encourage them to open an account and make a request on the talk page. If that feels too daunting, I'd suggest that they just post as an IP on the talk page. That way there's a record of the request. ^SMason_Garrison 00:52, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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A kitten for you!

Happy to see your name again. Hope all goes well :)

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Thanks! And likewise! I hope so as well. For what it's worth, I think that this new RFA election process is a *much* less intimidating, and has the benefit of giving people a deadline. ^SMason_Garrison 01:14, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your efforts in the question & discussion phase of AELECT2025

I'm certain many others feel the same way. I appreciate your putting yourself forward, answering questions (including mine) with candor, and demonstrating BOLD while still maintaining AGF. Thank you, and good luck to you in the next phase. We've certainly learned more about all the candidates during the last few days. BusterD (talk) 22:52, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! ^SMason_Garrison 22:57, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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It's nice to have someone with CFD background in the race so thanks for running. You have my vote and best of luck! - RevelationDirect (talk) 03:53, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Fingers crossed that enough others feel the same. ^SMason_Garrison 04:25, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

“You have my bow!” Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 12:32, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!!! ^SMason_Garrison 13:47, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

teach me to hack

can you teach me how to become being hacker 119.93.234.125 (talk) 01:47, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I won't. But you can read about ethical hacking on this page: White hat (computer security) ^SMason_Garrison 01:55, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 July 23 § Fijian medical doctors

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Unused template subpages

Do you still need these two pages? They are showing up on an unused template report. If you don't need them, and you can take a moment to tag them with {{db-author}}, that would be helpful. Thanks. (And thanks for your tireless category work.)– Jonesey95 (talk) 14:35, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for asking! No I don't need them. I'll tag them. ^SMason_Garrison 22:00, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 July 27 § Category:American criminals

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Category loop

Hi, please amend Template:Women painters by nationality and century category header so that it doesn't put Category:21st-century Afghan women artists inside itself. Thank you. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:50, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to fix it. But I think the problem is that the template is still using the painters template. ^SMason_Garrison 16:51, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Let me be the first to congratulate you on your new mop. Andre🚐 18:52, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

thanks!!!! ^SMason_Garrison 20:59, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Indigenous LGBTQ people

In reference to this edit. Anna Lambe is Inuk (Inuit) and isn't First Nations. Listing her as FN may be insulting. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 20:24, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know! ^SMason_Garrison 20:58, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You did it

Congrats on the mop; you made it through. Enjoy mopping; user:Qwerfjkl/scripts/CFDlister is super helpful for closing discussions. The "list discussions" button posts to WT:CFDW rather than WP:CFDW, so you have to click "edit discussions" and copy/paste them manually into CFD. (It was designed that way because my dear friend Qwerfjkl has yet to turn this link blue.) If you need any help, let me know. You've got this—I am certain you will be fantastic. House Blaster (talk • he/they) 21:43, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 ^SMason_Garrison 21:46, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations Smasongarrison! I am pretty sure that you'll become a great administrator. Cheers! Fade258 (talk) 00:52, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]