The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 ( talk), Sturmvogel 66 ( talk), Vanamonde ( talk), Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:51, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).
mustor
shoulduse the articles for creation process.
I see you recently accepted pending changes to April 29 and April 30 that did not include direct sources.
You're probably not aware of this change, but Days of the Year pages are no longer exempt from WP:V and direct sources are required for additions. For details see the edit notices on those pages, the content guideline and/or the WikiProject Days of the Year style guide.
All new additions to the DOY pages without references are now being either reverted on-sight or in some cases where the patroller is especially motivated, immediately sourced. I've gone ahead and backed these edits out.
All the pages in the Days of the Year project have had pending changes protection turned on to prevent vandalism and further addition of entries without direct sources. As a pending changes patroller, it's not required but it sure would be helpful if you didn't accept additions to day of year pages where no direct source has been provided on that day of year page. The burden to provide sources for additions to these pages is on the editor who adds or restores material to these pages.
Thank you and please keep up your good work! Toddst1 ( talk) 18:18, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm wondering why my edit is reverted. The link to the Gulf Oil page is working. I replaced the Gulf Oil LP link with Gulf Oil, because Gulf Oil LP is only the company that owns the rights to the brand in the USA. The McLaren sponsor is Gulf Oil International Ltd, which doesn't have a proper wiki page, but is covered in the Gulf Oil article (see Revival). It owns the rights to the brand in almost all the rest of the world. https://www.mclaren.com/racing/partners/gulf-oil-ltd/gulf-partners-mclaren-announce-multi-year-partnership-covering-f1-and-luxury-super-cars/
Thanks! -- Jonymamilou ( talk) 03:40, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, 5225C!
Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the
Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the
Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
T
v
x1 01:15, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a website promotion for these sponsors. These wikilinks serve no benefit for the page. They must be removed even for the other races. WP:SEAOFBLUE as user @ SSSB: already explained.-- Island92 ( talk) 12:48, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
If you prefer following the 2015-2019 consistency please add wilinks from the Australian race until the Italian Grand Prix.-- Island92 ( talk) 10:10, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Waiting for a response.-- Island92 ( talk) 10:17, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
[[Pirelli]] [[Spanish Grand Prix]]
are a violation of this as it produces this:"
Pirelli
Spanish Grand Prix". It being this way from 2015-2019 article is not a reason we should continue to ignore this guidline. Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.
If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider
.Thanks again, and happy editing!
-- Ahecht ( TALKI never claimed it is techically impossible. My point is that it’s just not necessary. You can simply merge the two. Something I already explained to you months ago. In fact, in the time you spent complaining about me, you could already have easily executed the merge. T v x1 13:22, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi 5225C! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at
Steve Carell that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as
typo corrections or reverting obvious
vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see
Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. —
UncleBubba (
T
@
C ) 12:58, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. It is commonplace for new articles to start out as stubs and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.
If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider
.Thanks again, and happy editing!
T v x1 12:03, 24 September 2020 (UTC)The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 ( talk), Sturmvogel 66 ( talk), Vanamonde ( talk), Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:51, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).
mustor
shoulduse the articles for creation process.
I see you recently accepted pending changes to April 29 and April 30 that did not include direct sources.
You're probably not aware of this change, but Days of the Year pages are no longer exempt from WP:V and direct sources are required for additions. For details see the edit notices on those pages, the content guideline and/or the WikiProject Days of the Year style guide.
All new additions to the DOY pages without references are now being either reverted on-sight or in some cases where the patroller is especially motivated, immediately sourced. I've gone ahead and backed these edits out.
All the pages in the Days of the Year project have had pending changes protection turned on to prevent vandalism and further addition of entries without direct sources. As a pending changes patroller, it's not required but it sure would be helpful if you didn't accept additions to day of year pages where no direct source has been provided on that day of year page. The burden to provide sources for additions to these pages is on the editor who adds or restores material to these pages.
Thank you and please keep up your good work! Toddst1 ( talk) 18:18, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm wondering why my edit is reverted. The link to the Gulf Oil page is working. I replaced the Gulf Oil LP link with Gulf Oil, because Gulf Oil LP is only the company that owns the rights to the brand in the USA. The McLaren sponsor is Gulf Oil International Ltd, which doesn't have a proper wiki page, but is covered in the Gulf Oil article (see Revival). It owns the rights to the brand in almost all the rest of the world. https://www.mclaren.com/racing/partners/gulf-oil-ltd/gulf-partners-mclaren-announce-multi-year-partnership-covering-f1-and-luxury-super-cars/
Thanks! -- Jonymamilou ( talk) 03:40, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, 5225C!
Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the
Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the
Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
T
v
x1 01:15, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
|
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a website promotion for these sponsors. These wikilinks serve no benefit for the page. They must be removed even for the other races. WP:SEAOFBLUE as user @ SSSB: already explained.-- Island92 ( talk) 12:48, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
If you prefer following the 2015-2019 consistency please add wilinks from the Australian race until the Italian Grand Prix.-- Island92 ( talk) 10:10, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
Waiting for a response.-- Island92 ( talk) 10:17, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
[[Pirelli]] [[Spanish Grand Prix]]
are a violation of this as it produces this:"
Pirelli
Spanish Grand Prix". It being this way from 2015-2019 article is not a reason we should continue to ignore this guidline. Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.
If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider
.Thanks again, and happy editing!
-- Ahecht ( TALKI never claimed it is techically impossible. My point is that it’s just not necessary. You can simply merge the two. Something I already explained to you months ago. In fact, in the time you spent complaining about me, you could already have easily executed the merge. T v x1 13:22, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi 5225C! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at
Steve Carell that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as
typo corrections or reverting obvious
vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see
Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. —
UncleBubba (
T
@
C ) 12:58, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. It is commonplace for new articles to start out as stubs and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.
If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider
.Thanks again, and happy editing!
T v x1 12:03, 24 September 2020 (UTC)