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You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:08, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday! Hi John of Reading! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy this special day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 00:09, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@DaniloDaysOfOurLives: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 07:50, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hungry? Here's a little snack for you on your birthday, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day, John of Reading! --☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk

☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 04:57, 3 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@AlexHammeke: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 10:45, 3 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Have you ever searched in an article page for the word "jump"? No need to do anything about it; I love harmless flaws. Like Word's spellcheck dictionary (they may have fixed it since) contained "noolbenger", a tiny possum only found in one small region of Western Australia, but did not have "emu". Cheers. Doug butler (talk) 13:07, 27 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Doug butler: That is weird - the word "Jump" is there in the HTML sent to the browser, but it is normally invisible. Try this: go to a random article, search for the text "Jump to n", click to a different tab, click back to the article tab - and, at least in Firefox, the text "Jump to navigation" is now visible. No idea! -- John of Reading (talk) 13:17, 27 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This search (and similar ones, like /''', \([0-9]{4}[^)]/) seems to return quite a large proportion of unconventional punctuation (some example fixes). Even where the use of a comma is appropriate, it seems to be misplaced (i.e., set before the parenthesis instead of after). Would you like to have a look? 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:51, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@1234qwer1234qwer4: Yes, I've put this on my "to do" list. -- John of Reading (talk) 14:00, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]