Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Accepted nominations

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This is the queue of accepted nominations. Clerks will add new accepted nominations at the bottom. The next Editor of the Week is taken from the top of the list.

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Note: Nominations that have been placed on hold can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Accepted nominations/Hold.

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#555

I nominate YorkshireExpat (talk · contribs · count · logs) for the Editor of the Week award. A dedicated editor with thousands of edits over the last four years. They form part of the backbone of Wikipedia's collection of taxon articles. They regularly tweak, improve, categorise, and maintain taxon articles, manage our vast system of taxonomy templates for species boxes, create redirects, and move pages. One of our most valuable tree of life editors – at least, in my opinion. Cremastra (talk) 19:14, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

#556

I nominate LaundryPizza03 (talk · contribs · count · logs) to be Editor of the Week as he is a great asset to the categories for discussion team. Having accumulated almost 50,000 edits since 2017, 4,000 of which are to categories, he has closed some 2,100 XfDs and has the fifth most edits to Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Working. He has also written several articles in areas ranging from chemistry, astronomy, and even a media company! His dedication in often-neglected areas of the project is much appreciated and deserves recognition. Queen of Hearts (talk) 01:16, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

+1 I am biased, but anyone who steps up to help at CFD is awesome. Phenomenal contributor. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:36, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

#557

With the American Presidential election right around the corner, the current American political scene is as contentious ever. Articles about the 2024 Presidential campaign and/or anything Trump related are contentious as well. As editors push agendas left and right, article management and protection is extremely important to maintain any chance of correct editor decorum. Trump articles are invariably long and lengthy with hundreds of references. Editors can sometimes misrepresent facts. Editors can be innocently wrong. Two editors, Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk · contribs · count · logs) and Mandruss (talk · contribs · count · logs), have established a working relationship built on mutual trust and a desire to improve the editing environment. They constantly safeguard the articles(s) for reliance on the truth and Reliable Sources. Both wisely take the time to use the edit summary to explain complicated changes and provide an example of better editing for better results. Without someone (in this case two someones) the article would be a constant mess. "Fixed" is a common refrain for these two. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 09:40, 29 August 2024 (UTC) ! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 19:43, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

#558

Pppery (talk · contribs · count · logs) is the definition of a strong back-end contributor. You have probably seen some of his work without realizing it; a few highlights include expanding the functionality of Template:XFD backlog to cover all XfDs, improving Module:Bad title suggestion, modernizing The Wikipedia Adventure, and a significant rewrite of Module:Authority control. He frequently steps up to the plate to take care of tasks nobody else is doing, including single-handedly keeping down the backlog at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and for many months he was the only one processing the endless requests for assistance at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Working. They recently handed in the mop, and I think I speak for many people by saying I hope you find editing without the tools rejuvenating, and I look forward to when you pick it back up . Your work is sincerely appreciated, Pppery. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:34, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

+1 –Novem Linguae (talk) 01:38, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Support! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 02:01, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Support: Talk about a no brainer. Hey man im josh (talk) 02:16, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Wanted to nom him myself! Queen of Hearts (talk) 04:17, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

+1 Sohom (talk) 00:58, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

+1 theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:24, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

#559

I nominate UndercoverClassicist (talk · contribs · count · logs) to be Editor of the Week for two reasons: first, for writing top-flight articles on Ancient Greek archaeology and its archaeologists – articles that sail effortlessly through Featured Article Candidacy – and secondly, for astoundingly thorough and helpful contributions to other editors' FAC pages. UndercoverClassist certainly puts you through your paces at FAC good and proper but the end result is always a much improved article. And personally I always value the gracious manner in which UC takes the occasional bolshie riposte from me. This is an editor who understands what it is to be a colleague, and one who can write FAs with clarity and elegance. UC has been on Wikipedia for less than two years; I have been here for eighteen. I doubt if I'll be around to celebrate UC's eighteenth anniversary here, but I feel the future of Wikipedia is in safe hands. Tim riley talk 20:27, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

• Eloquently put by Tim, and heartily endorsed by me. UC has carried out more than 100 FAC reviews, with an impressive mix of firmness and tact. As Tim opines, with classy editors like UC coming through, accounts of Wikipedia's demise will continue to be much exaggerated. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:08, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
• Also chiming in here with my support here for UC: an absolute gem of an editor whose actions should be noted and flagged up. - SchroCat (talk) 21:14, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support! Like Tim mentions, UC's reviews are known to be of the very highest quality even to infrequent FAC visitors like me. I do hope to be on the receiving end of one of them in the future, and I think they are more than worthy of this award. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 21:32, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
• +1 The definition of par excellence, or, as a classicist might put it, primus inter pares. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:41, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
• Figured they already got it. Absolutely. Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 15:42, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

+1 theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:25, 3 October 2024 (UTC)