HazelAB ( talk) 15:20, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader
Freikorp (
submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a
Featured Article on the 2001 film
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as
Godot13 (
submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge,
Sturmvogel_66 (
submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.
In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:
You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!
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. 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. Figureskatingfan ( talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa ( talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email)
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IIRC, you've got access to the NYT archives and I don't so I'd appreciate it if you could do me a small favor whenever you get a chance. I need cites for the voyage of Crown Prince Umberto to South America aboard the Italian armored cruisers San Marcos and San Giorgio in July-Sep 1924 so I can upgrade those articles. Since it's post '23 I can't access it myself, but the NYT seems to be one of the few newspapers that bother to note the voyage at all as I struck out with the Australian and UK newspaper archives.
Also, if you can recommend any sources on the Argentinian Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruisers, that would be great. I need to finish off my good topic on Italian armored cruisers and I can't do it without taking the class article to GA, which, of course, means mini-histories of the foreign ships in the class as well the Italian ones which I've already researched. Thanks in advance for any help that you have time to give.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 01:06, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Ed, Nate and Sturm. A summary of a Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. Does the article need more work? Is there anything I left out of the summary you'd like to see put back in? - Dank ( push to talk) 03:54, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 10, January-February 2015
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 17:41, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Your recent Signpost interview with FergusM1970 leads in with a question saying, "Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia". You don't honestly believe that, do you? I hope that was just a typo (where "a co-founder" would have been most accurate). The current wording is highly offensive to anyone who knows and respects Dr. Larry Sanger, who promoted the idea of a wiki encyclopedia to Jimmy Wales, with Sanger also naming the project "Wikipedia" and issuing the first public call for participation on the project. Wales was hardly "the founder". - Hey hey moi moi ( talk) 23:37, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
Hey, I used to be Ling.Nut. I scrambled the password a long time ago. I'm 99.99% retired. If possible, could you remove Ling.Nut from the MilHist notice list, so things won't be put on User talk:Ling.Nut? Thanks • Serviceable† Villain 02:39, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I'd like to request unprotection from Yamato-class battleship, it currently has pending changes protection for the reason "trial run", which you added in March of 2013. In the last 500 edits, only 4 have been reverted through the pending changes system, which is a pretty fair number for few months of edits. Thanks! Kharkiv07 ( talk) 20:05, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you so much for unblocking me! As promised, my edits on Wikipedia will be productive. Fresh Sullivan ( talk) 13:47, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
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Unblocked me, trusted me, and acknowledged that when I promise something, I promise it. Thank you! You deserve this virtual cookie. Fresh Sullivan ( talk) 14:20, 22 March 2015 (UTC) |
Dear The ed17,i'm not sure so i prefer to ask you before to edit my talkpage,for be sure to don't do something of wrong. You have accepted my unblocking request,so i would ask you if now that my block have been removed,i can cleanup my talk page,removing the block template (not more valid,because as how said before,you have accepted my unblocking request) and also my unblocking request,that have been accepted from you,with related comments below. I will wait for an your reply. Thank you in advance for your time. Fabriziodg91 ( talk) 15:22, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
If you like I'd be open to revisiting the idea with the community to see if they have a different opinion now then they did a few years back. Also, I'd like to visit the idea of renaming the ship articles since Parsecboy recently moved several ships from USS (Name) (classification) to USS (Name) on grounds that they didn't need dab links for a single named ship. How about it? Care to join me in a community discussion over at milhist/ships on the matter? TomStar81 ( Talk) 21:19, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
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There's a Featured Article that seems ideal for you to write about in this week's FC: SMS Dresden (1907). Gamaliel ( talk) 18:36, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
HazelAB ( talk) 15:20, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader
Freikorp (
submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a
Featured Article on the 2001 film
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as
Godot13 (
submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge,
Sturmvogel_66 (
submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.
In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:
You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!
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. 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. Figureskatingfan ( talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa ( talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email)
Thanks for your assistance! Miyagawa ( talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiCup.
( Opt-out Instructions) This message was send by Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 04:55, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
IIRC, you've got access to the NYT archives and I don't so I'd appreciate it if you could do me a small favor whenever you get a chance. I need cites for the voyage of Crown Prince Umberto to South America aboard the Italian armored cruisers San Marcos and San Giorgio in July-Sep 1924 so I can upgrade those articles. Since it's post '23 I can't access it myself, but the NYT seems to be one of the few newspapers that bother to note the voyage at all as I struck out with the Australian and UK newspaper archives.
Also, if you can recommend any sources on the Argentinian Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armored cruisers, that would be great. I need to finish off my good topic on Italian armored cruisers and I can't do it without taking the class article to GA, which, of course, means mini-histories of the foreign ships in the class as well the Italian ones which I've already researched. Thanks in advance for any help that you have time to give.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 01:06, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Ed, Nate and Sturm. A summary of a Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. Does the article need more work? Is there anything I left out of the summary you'd like to see put back in? - Dank ( push to talk) 03:54, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 10, January-February 2015
by
The Interior (
talk ·
contribs),
Ocaasi (
talk ·
contribs),
Sadads (
talk ·
contribs)
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 17:41, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Your recent Signpost interview with FergusM1970 leads in with a question saying, "Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia". You don't honestly believe that, do you? I hope that was just a typo (where "a co-founder" would have been most accurate). The current wording is highly offensive to anyone who knows and respects Dr. Larry Sanger, who promoted the idea of a wiki encyclopedia to Jimmy Wales, with Sanger also naming the project "Wikipedia" and issuing the first public call for participation on the project. Wales was hardly "the founder". - Hey hey moi moi ( talk) 23:37, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
Hey, I used to be Ling.Nut. I scrambled the password a long time ago. I'm 99.99% retired. If possible, could you remove Ling.Nut from the MilHist notice list, so things won't be put on User talk:Ling.Nut? Thanks • Serviceable† Villain 02:39, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello! I'd like to request unprotection from Yamato-class battleship, it currently has pending changes protection for the reason "trial run", which you added in March of 2013. In the last 500 edits, only 4 have been reverted through the pending changes system, which is a pretty fair number for few months of edits. Thanks! Kharkiv07 ( talk) 20:05, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
|
.
Thank you so much for unblocking me! As promised, my edits on Wikipedia will be productive. Fresh Sullivan ( talk) 13:47, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
![]() |
Unblocked me, trusted me, and acknowledged that when I promise something, I promise it. Thank you! You deserve this virtual cookie. Fresh Sullivan ( talk) 14:20, 22 March 2015 (UTC) |
Dear The ed17,i'm not sure so i prefer to ask you before to edit my talkpage,for be sure to don't do something of wrong. You have accepted my unblocking request,so i would ask you if now that my block have been removed,i can cleanup my talk page,removing the block template (not more valid,because as how said before,you have accepted my unblocking request) and also my unblocking request,that have been accepted from you,with related comments below. I will wait for an your reply. Thank you in advance for your time. Fabriziodg91 ( talk) 15:22, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
If you like I'd be open to revisiting the idea with the community to see if they have a different opinion now then they did a few years back. Also, I'd like to visit the idea of renaming the ship articles since Parsecboy recently moved several ships from USS (Name) (classification) to USS (Name) on grounds that they didn't need dab links for a single named ship. How about it? Care to join me in a community discussion over at milhist/ships on the matter? TomStar81 ( Talk) 21:19, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
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Nick-D (
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- NQ (talk) 12:50, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
There's a Featured Article that seems ideal for you to write about in this week's FC: SMS Dresden (1907). Gamaliel ( talk) 18:36, 27 March 2015 (UTC)