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DYK for Filipinos in Belgium

Orlady (talk) 08:22, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

RE Closure reverted

Hey,

just that generally closues are with overwhelming near-unanimous opposition. Consensus was a lot clower so with some more discussion it could have been posted. But discussion was needed. Many discussions go on for quite long (a la Alex Ferguson (which I believe was finally posted)(Lihaas (talk) 06:27, 15 January 2014 (UTC)).

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Heartbroken?

Well, Spencer, Guess what? You blocked me and you broke my heart! Well, um, let me get this straight... So what you're saying is that you, a user who was blocked me for six months and threatening me. Because, ya know, if that's what you're doing, Well... anywho, please don't do this sort of thing, okay. Thank you. (68.170.223.13 (talk) 15:11, 25 January 2014 (UTC)).

WikiCup 2014 January newsletter

The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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Rankin

Hi. Rankin was listed for five and a half days at RD. Was there any reason for removing himnow,before he was bumped? Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 21:27, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

For some reason I mixed up his birth and death dates, thinking he died on January 19th (and thus was super stale). Sorry about that; I've put him back on the template. SpencerT♦C 23:18, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

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86.180.189.43

Please be aware that 86.180.189.43 has resumed his/her vandalism right after the 31 hour block was lifted.

Thx, CapnZapp (talk) 12:46, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 February newsletter

And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:

  1. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
  2. Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
  3. United States WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

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After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Rhodesia Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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Recognising under construction and WIP articles in user namespace.

Retired though I may be, and though it is multiple months after the event, I don't appreciate it when people come along and randomly nominate clearly work-in-progress articles for deletion when they are within user namespace, as you did to me in July last year. Now, since I'm retired and as such am not going to be working on further drafts any time soon, I'm not going to bother restoring the page, but in future please have the decency to attempt to message the editor and explain your concerns about any given sandbox article within userspace before you callously plant spuriously reasoned deletion templates over it. Its not cool. -- Sabre (talk) 00:14, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

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Please adjudicate something for me.

I completed the framework of the Pulitzer prizes 2014 article. I posted an ITN nominee for it, as its of wide interest, and we have the article to support.

2014 Pulitzer Prize

I am getting stonewalled by the room for using a Snowden picture, in the ITN header.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#NSA_Stories_take_Pulitzer_Prize

I am using a Snowden picture because 1 the NSA revelations won the main prize 2 Right now a list of news media leading with Snowdens picture goes - CNN, Fox News, ABC, Al Jazeera, Reuters. Thats 3 of the american big 4 and 2 of the global 3. MSNBC are going "Will papers win Pulitzer for Snowden stories?" and the BBC have the Guardian guy. Article is essentially ready to go.

The room is telling me they hate the sight of Snowden and that there's reasons why his picture cant be used despite the fact almost all other outlets are using it. Seems like irrational consensus.

Please adjudicate, and if Im wrong to use his picture in the ITN thing, then Ill lose it. The article is of course generic and without pictures outside of the prize itself. I have mentioned the main winner, only in short form, before moving on to the list.

Thank you. 77.101.41.108 (talk) 01:28, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

The purpose of admins on ITN/C is to read the consensus and make decisions based on that, not make the decisions on their own. If you have arguments to make about the image, please do that on the WP:ITN/C page, not here. SpencerT♦C 16:45, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 April newsletter

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's United States ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Rhodesia Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Washington, D.C. Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Canada Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Minas Gerais Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Nepal Czar (submissions) and Indiana Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

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Sock

Hi. Could you take a look into [Economist1994 this obvious sock of Sudhir7777 (talk · contribs)? There seems to be a backlog in SPI and this user doesn't seem to stop. There is an SPI open. Thanks, — Abhishek  Talk 17:08, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi @Abhishek191288:, I don't have much prior experience with SPI, so I'm not really confident in my ability to handle this correctly. I will take a look, but no guarantees that I will end up doing anything if I'm not exactly sure how it should be handled. SpencerT♦C 17:12, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

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Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

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99.46.117.133

IP Address 99.46.117.133 vandalized the April O'Neil page[1] and looking at the person's talk page, this is something this user has done many times.TheHeronGuard (talk) 03:15, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

It wasn't right after the end of the block duration, so I gave the user a level 4 warning. I'll try to keep an eye on it, but let me know if vandalism continues. Thanks, SpencerT♦C 05:16, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Well, IP address 99.46.117.133 vandalized the April O'Neil page again[2].TheHeronGuard (talk) 21:45, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Noted, thanks for bringing this to my attention. Best, SpencerT♦C 04:00, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

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