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Happy Montanabw's Day!

User:Montanabw has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Montanabw's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Montanabw! Peace, Rlevse 01:39, 13 January 2010 (UTC) A record of your Day will always be kept here.

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Awww, gee! That was really super nice! Thank you! Montanabw^(talk) 04:47, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

'tis the season

Louisa Venable Kyle wrote a children's book on The Witch of Pungo --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:50, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Precious translates to the PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:03, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Ten years ago! - Did you know that few users still have that on their current talk, only the brave ;) - I miss PumpkinSky. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

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Thank you for improving article quality in April! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:29, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

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Women in Green GA Editathon June 2024 - Going Back in Time

Hello Montanabw:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in June 2024!

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DYK for Missoula Children's Theatre

On 17 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Missoula Children's Theatre, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Missoula Children's Theatre works with more than 65,000 children every year? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Missoula Children's Theatre. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Missoula Children's Theatre), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Lovely to see a good DYK by you, like in the old days ;) - I have a singer in the same set. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:20, 17 May 2024 (UTC)