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We've reached five million!!
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Well, maybe. Eventually. But the encyclopedia would not be as good. Celebrate 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 13:41, 1 November 2015 (UTC) |
WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.
This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is
Godot13 (
submissions) (
FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program.
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science.
Cas Liber (
submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.
Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to
Rationalobserver (
submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.
A full list of our award winners are:
We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! 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 · logs), Miyagawa ( talk · contribs · logs) and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · logs) 18:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but I felt the nonsense has gone on long enough.
A range hopping IP has, since 12 October, been posting on talk pages of French articles(towns, counties, persons, etc) that these towns, counties, or persons were not really in France or French.
Example:
I believe this gives you an idea of the disruption.
When shown what reliable sources state [1], responds in a trollish manner. Resorts to personal attacks [2] when shown information that proves him wrong. Pushes their unsourced POV into articles. After checking the source and sentence in the Noyon article, I realized it had been copied word-for-word and that the source in question was not written by historians. The IP then proceeded to restored the plagiarism even after I had explained it on the Noyon article talk page. [3] [4] [5]
It would appear to me that this IP is not interested in what reliable sources state, not interested in working with other editors, and not here to build an encyclopedia. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 00:53, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Said IP is now edit warring their interpretation of Jean Calvin's ethnicity/place of birth.
[6]
[7]
[8] They have received an edit warring notice, days ago.
I will let you decide what you think is best. --
Kansas Bear (
talk) 16:45, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Ed, I'll get to this one later tonight or early tomorrow. - Dank ( push to talk) 03:43, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Update. Another edit, not by me: see this edit. Do you have any problem with " Almirante Cochrane was converted to an aircraft carrier and finally commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Eagle in 1924."? - Dank ( push to talk) 19:10, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Precious again, your telling "the tortured tale of two Chilean ships ordered during the South American dreadnought arms race of 1907–1914"!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:52, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
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Can you update your User:The ed17/Good articles by wiki text, User:The ed17/Good articles by prose size and similar related lists?-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:46, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
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The "John-Calvin-wasn't-French" IP is back posting the same tired crap on
John Calvin talk page.
[9]
Currently, the IP has not tried to edit this change into the article. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 05:30, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello user:The ed17. Never mind, you can't always be on duty. I've started an SPI here. I think I missed this IP 5.65.142.56 however, which I think might be the original account. Gerard von Hebel ( talk) 00:03, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Ed, I'm aware I haven't followed all the developments on this over the years, but does this edit comply with WP:SHE4SHIPS? - Dank ( push to talk) 16:32, 21 November 2015 (UTC) Another relevant link is WP:S/HE (at WP:MOS). - Dank ( push to talk) 19:02, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
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I actually do have recent edits (e.g. Taylor Swift discography, and I don't see where there is any eligibility requirement to link a voter guide. So I will restore the link to my guide.
I may not have been editing between 2006-2015 but I do read the discussions across Wikipedia such as AfD, AN/I, ArbCom cases, etc. So I do believe I am able to assess the candidates, plus, in my opinion if voter guides are going to be removed without establishing eligibility criteria then that sets a bad precedent.
THEowner of a l l 15:35, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello Ed, I was familiarizing myself with the whole ArbCom election at the English Wikipedia and all the fuss about civility and such in order to cast a well-informed vote in this year's election. I stumbled across this edition of The Signpost which features 10th anniversary of Persian Wikipedia. I got two questions:
Funny that I never heard of this topic, and I've attended a very good school and read many history books... And it doesn't exist on the Spanish Wikipedia either! I'll give it a start soon, thank you for the suggestion. Victão Lopes Fala! 04:06, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, I wasn't thinking about how it might make you feel to have specific edits at TFA pointed out. In part that's because I'm constantly fixing my own mistakes; mostly it's because the lack of a bot to handle the problem has always gotten under my skin. I've submitted a bot request ... keeping my fingers crossed. - Dank ( push to talk) 16:20, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
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We've reached five million!!
The English Wikipedia now has over 5,000,000 articles! Woo-hoo! Feel free to pass this message on! You can never celebrate too much.
|
We couldn't have done it without you | |
Well, maybe. Eventually. But the encyclopedia would not be as good. Celebrate 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 13:41, 1 November 2015 (UTC) |
WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.
This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is
Godot13 (
submissions) (
FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program.
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science.
Cas Liber (
submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.
Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to
Rationalobserver (
submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.
A full list of our award winners are:
We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! 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 · logs), Miyagawa ( talk · contribs · logs) and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · logs) 18:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but I felt the nonsense has gone on long enough.
A range hopping IP has, since 12 October, been posting on talk pages of French articles(towns, counties, persons, etc) that these towns, counties, or persons were not really in France or French.
Example:
I believe this gives you an idea of the disruption.
When shown what reliable sources state [1], responds in a trollish manner. Resorts to personal attacks [2] when shown information that proves him wrong. Pushes their unsourced POV into articles. After checking the source and sentence in the Noyon article, I realized it had been copied word-for-word and that the source in question was not written by historians. The IP then proceeded to restored the plagiarism even after I had explained it on the Noyon article talk page. [3] [4] [5]
It would appear to me that this IP is not interested in what reliable sources state, not interested in working with other editors, and not here to build an encyclopedia. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 00:53, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
Said IP is now edit warring their interpretation of Jean Calvin's ethnicity/place of birth.
[6]
[7]
[8] They have received an edit warring notice, days ago.
I will let you decide what you think is best. --
Kansas Bear (
talk) 16:45, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi Ed, I'll get to this one later tonight or early tomorrow. - Dank ( push to talk) 03:43, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Update. Another edit, not by me: see this edit. Do you have any problem with " Almirante Cochrane was converted to an aircraft carrier and finally commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Eagle in 1924."? - Dank ( push to talk) 19:10, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Precious again, your telling "the tortured tale of two Chilean ships ordered during the South American dreadnought arms race of 1907–1914"!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:52, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
|
Can you update your User:The ed17/Good articles by wiki text, User:The ed17/Good articles by prose size and similar related lists?-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:46, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
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Nick-D (
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The "John-Calvin-wasn't-French" IP is back posting the same tired crap on
John Calvin talk page.
[9]
Currently, the IP has not tried to edit this change into the article. -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 05:30, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello user:The ed17. Never mind, you can't always be on duty. I've started an SPI here. I think I missed this IP 5.65.142.56 however, which I think might be the original account. Gerard von Hebel ( talk) 00:03, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Ed, I'm aware I haven't followed all the developments on this over the years, but does this edit comply with WP:SHE4SHIPS? - Dank ( push to talk) 16:32, 21 November 2015 (UTC) Another relevant link is WP:S/HE (at WP:MOS). - Dank ( push to talk) 19:02, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current
Arbitration Committee election. The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia
arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose
site bans,
topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The
arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to
review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on
the voting page. For the Election committee,
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 13:47, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
I actually do have recent edits (e.g. Taylor Swift discography, and I don't see where there is any eligibility requirement to link a voter guide. So I will restore the link to my guide.
I may not have been editing between 2006-2015 but I do read the discussions across Wikipedia such as AfD, AN/I, ArbCom cases, etc. So I do believe I am able to assess the candidates, plus, in my opinion if voter guides are going to be removed without establishing eligibility criteria then that sets a bad precedent.
THEowner of a l l 15:35, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello Ed, I was familiarizing myself with the whole ArbCom election at the English Wikipedia and all the fuss about civility and such in order to cast a well-informed vote in this year's election. I stumbled across this edition of The Signpost which features 10th anniversary of Persian Wikipedia. I got two questions:
Funny that I never heard of this topic, and I've attended a very good school and read many history books... And it doesn't exist on the Spanish Wikipedia either! I'll give it a start soon, thank you for the suggestion. Victão Lopes Fala! 04:06, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, I wasn't thinking about how it might make you feel to have specific edits at TFA pointed out. In part that's because I'm constantly fixing my own mistakes; mostly it's because the lack of a bot to handle the problem has always gotten under my skin. I've submitted a bot request ... keeping my fingers crossed. - Dank ( push to talk) 16:20, 29 November 2015 (UTC)