Thanks for the explanation.  Long-time users sometimes forget us newbies.

Good Idea about adding images. Although I am no big fan of the Visual
Editor, you can get it to do a very effective image search if you just go
to an article and click the "add media" option. I have noticed a number of
articles in this list are lacking images.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women_of_Courage_Award

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:36 PM, WereSpielChequers <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Mainspace is where we keep the articles as opposed to policies, drafts,
> user space files and an amazing amount of other stuff.
>
> Another easy and uncontentious way to make a few edits is a little image
> adding exercise
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/image_adding> I
> wrote. Or just look at the articles in this deletion queue
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BLP_articles_proposed_for_deletion>
> you can remove the deletion tag of anything in that queue if you add a
> reliable source that references something about the subject of the article.
> There are usually a few articles on women in that queue.
>
> On 27 October 2015 at 21:21, Neotarf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Just noticed this voting requirement:
>> "... An editor is *eligible* to vote who:...(i) has registered an
>> account before 28 October 2015"
>>
>> Reading between the lines, I would guess that means before October 27,
>> 23:59 PM UTC (just type "time UTC" into Google).
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2015#Timeline
>>
>> You have until Saturday (Halloween) night to complete the second
>> requirement: "...at least 150 mainspace edits before 1 November 2015".
>> What is a "mainspace edit"?  I never did understand the "space" thing, but
>> if it helps any, WP:MAINSPACE redirects to "WP:What is an article?"  If
>> anyone is looking for a quick way to get in 150 edits, you might try a
>> little gnoming with the Visual Editor--it has some new functionality with
>> repairing and wikifying links.
>>
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