Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Nominations

This is the place to nominate someone for Editor of the Week recognition: an unsung hero who has been doing great work. To nominate an editor, add a new section to this page with a 100–200 word description of how they meet the criteria for Editor of the Week. Please be specific in describing the tasks and behaviors you are recognizing, so nominees can fully appreciate the positive effects being acknowledged. Please do not use the editor's name in the section heading, link to the editor's user page, or otherwise ping the editor.

Be advised that there may be a considerable "lag time" between your nomination and the actual awarding to the editor.

Please do not link to the nominee's user or talk page in the same edit as you add your signature!
Echo will inform them of their nomination and spoil the surprise. Also, please do not include the editor's name in the section heading because it will appear in watchlist notices.

Just type their name using plain text, or use {{noping}}, and we will replace it with {{User10}} in a way that does not notify the nominee.

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Criteria for Editor of the Week

Sample nomination text:

I nominate Easter Bunny for his persistent efforts in tidying up articles. Often editors will hurriedly introduce new information to an article, without placing a full citation, or with spelling and grammatical errors. Over the past four months, Easter Bunny has been fixing the edits of others, doing the tedious work of completing the citation information, copy editing the prose to resolve errors and to align it with Wikipedia's Manual of Style, and fixing links to other articles. Here are some examples: [1] [2] In addition, Easter Bunny has a great positive attitude in discussions with other editors: he always finds the most promising aspects of the comments of others, and follows up on them in trying to build a genuine consensus. Without willing editors to perform cleanup tasks, Wikipedia could not sustain its level of participation from one-time editors who just want to get in and out with their edits as soon as possible. Easter Bunny is a great example of a Wikipedia editor who improves the community through his excellent work! Example (talk) 03:58, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Nomination

Since 2021, asilvering (talk · contribs · count · logs) has been a champion of the unseen on Wikipedia, whether by providing hundreds of thoughtful responses to newer editors at the Teahouse and their talk page, or helping expand the encyclopedia's coverage of things like the Federated Legion of Women with WikiProject Women in Red. They've put in a lot of work helping to keep the queue of literature-related drafts short at Articles for creation, with a staggering 1835 reviews to their name. Since becoming an administrator, they've been working on unblock requests—a taxing and largely thankless task—helping editors understand why they were blocked, and teaching the nuances of sourcing, copyright, and conduct. The fact that they're now training to be a clerk at sockpuppet investigations is a testament to their patience and tenacity. Wikipedia needs more editors like asilvering, and we hope you'll join us in presenting a small token of appreciation for their work. —House Blaster (talk • he/they) 20:11, 26 July 2025 (UTC) and TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 20:30, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

a wholehearted +1! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:13, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support I know that we cannot nominate users twice, but if I was able to, it'd be asilvering! Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 20:18, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support well deserved! Perfect4th (talk) 20:49, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
+1 QuicoleJR (talk) 20:51, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
+1 Tarlby ^{(t) (c)} 22:09, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's been nothing short of a pleasant and welcoming experience interacting with asilvering! — WeWake (talk) 00:36, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination

I nominate Tim1965 to be Editor of the Week. A veteran editor with almost 20 years under his belt, Tim has worked ceaselessly to improve the project's coverage in a veritable smorgasbord of different topics ranging from classical cinema, to the history of his home town of Cleveland. The leading voice in the promotion of Ben-Hur, Tim has successfully managed to advance 19 additional articles to Good Article status. His historiographical skills are likewise immense. Upon confronted by an overwhelming dearth of compiled biographical material on notable businessman James Corrigan, Tim spent 7 grueling months exhaustively trawling through historical newspaper clippings and journals to sculpt an exhaustive biography of an important, yet previously neglected character. He deserves this award. – ✠Salty magnolia✠ 22:26, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]