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Reaching a whopping 6 million article milestone is a fabulous extraordinary team effort. It was achieved just eight days after 19th anniversary of the Wikipedia. Congrats to experienced editor Rosie who is also a valuable prominent member of Women in Red campaign for creating milestone article Maria Elise Turner Lauder which is surely the talk of the town. Hope Wikipedia will break more records like this in the future. Abishe (talk) 03:26, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The note about Citizendium reminds me of Churchill's quote about democracy: "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…" for which you can substitute "wikipedia" for "democracy" and "encyclopedia" for "government". Nigej (talk) 08:56, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think some of the words in Rosietep's statment should be blue linked, especially where she refers to "this list". --LukeSurl^{t c} 13:13, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Rosiestep has made a real difference to WP. Tony (talk) 06:20, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

’’Decided by consensus.’’ Well, I guess that is a good deal shorter than ‘’Selected tendentiously out of several possible candidates, since we don’t really know which was the actual six millionth, and want to pick one that checks off all the right boxes’’, but a good deal less honest as well.
A honest representative article, though, might have been about somebody’s favorite Pokemon, so maybe this is the lesser evil. Qwirkle (talk) 05:44, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Rosiestep! This has warmed my encyclopedic heart. ~Kvng (talk) 16:02, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

On behalf of Toofie Lauder, thank you, one and all. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:55, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]