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Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST

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You're invited! NYC Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon! April 22nd!

Sure We Can and the Environment of New York City Task Force invite you to join us for:

This Edit-a-Thon is part of a larger Earth Day celebration, hosted by Brooklyn based recycling and community center Sure We Can, that runs from 1PM-7PM and is open to the public! See this flyer for more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGr4FyuqEa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

-- Environment of New York City Task Force

How adverse is DYK...

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Moved to Template:Did you know nominations/David Yong

STEM at FAC

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I was reminded of your comment at the Morris Park Aerodrome FAC about the need for more STEM articles at FAC when I recently came across Rules of inference. Although shorter than History of penicillin, I found it particularly engaging, especially as I am currently studying related topics such as propositional logic and Boolean algebra at school. I thought you might also like to take a look, at your leisure.

Today also marks two years since the publication of part one of your essay “The long road of a featured article candidate”. It helped me understand the FAC process more clearly and later inspired this reflection on my own experience. Thank you. MSincccc (talk) 09:20, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I looked briefly at Rules of inference, but didn't read it in detail. I'll take another look. RoySmith (talk) 12:59, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
A reviewer (ErnestKrause) has raised a few concerns at the article's FAC and suggested that it might be useful to wait to hear from another editor or two as to what they think of this article. My first thought was to ping you, but I felt it more appropriate to approach you here. Thank you. MSincccc (talk) 14:53, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

FAC

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story · music · places

Thank you today for Louis Abramson, "about... Louis Abramson, one of New York City's prominent architects of the 20th Century, with a career spanning over 50 years. Abramson is perhaps best known for the Daughters of Jacob home in the Bronx. Not only is the building distinctively shaped with eight radial spokes but the street it sits on is also oddly shaped, following the path of the backstretch of the old Fleetwood Park Racetrack, which was my first FAC."! - Happy Wikipedia birthday, and thank you for contributing to the happiness! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:49, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 January 2026

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DYK for Julian P. Thomas

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On 16 January 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Julian P. Thomas, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that between 1906 and 1914 Julian P. Thomas claimed to have set ballooning records, crashed a wind wagon, sold mislabeled bread, and was arrested for providing fraudulent medical advice? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Julian P. Thomas. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Julian P. Thomas), 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.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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On Misti...

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Greetings, I was wondering if you'd be up for some off-FAC work on Misti since you did have concerns about the prose in its second (and the first?) FAC. I'd like to bring it up to FA status at some point but evidently it needs more work. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 13:03, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the note, but I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to devote the time to that. RoySmith (talk) 14:48, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Query re. The Signpost

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What is the procedure for getting an essay published in The Signpost? I ask as you have had an essay published there in the past. I look forward to your response. Thank you. MSincccc (talk) 13:11, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

WP:POST/SUBMIT RoySmith (talk) 13:14, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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