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We are half way through round two of the WikiCup, which will end on 28 April. Of the 64 current contestants, 32 will make it through to the next round; the two highest in each pool, and the 16 next highest scorers. At the time of writing, our current overall leader is
Hurricanehink (
submissions) with 231 points, who leads Pool H.
Piotrus (
submissions) (Pool G) also has over 200 points, while 9 others (three of whom are in Pool D) have over 100 points. Remember that certain content (specifically, articles/portals included in at least 20 Wikipedias as of 31 December 2010 or articles which are considered "
vital") is worth double points if promoted to good or featured status, or if it appears on the main page in the Did You Know column. There were some articles last round which were eligible for double points, but which were not claimed for. For more details, see
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring.
A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round three is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:53, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Per your request, I have deleted User:Buggie111/Dwight B. Heard. I wanted to drop a note here, however, because you tagged it with {{ db-redirtypo}}, the tag for CSD criterion R3. The page was ineligible for deletion under that criterion. Most redirects created as the result of non-vandalism pagemoves are ineligible. As a user-space request, the better tag would have been WP:CSD#U1. Less potential for confusion that way. Nothing to be done in this case but if you could keep it in mind for the next time, it would help us keep the logs cleaner. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 19:30, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Regarding other CSD nominations:
That goes back through November. Is this the level of feedback you were looking for? Rossami (talk) 02:49, 9 April 2011 (UTC) I'd prefer if ouy'd review any large spurts of action, but besides that, I'm fine. Thanks a lot! Buggie111 ( talk) 02:58, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
I'd love to help you out and make that admin move for you, but my RfA doesn't close till the 13th. I'm feeling confident about it, though, and if you can hold off till then, I would love to make it my inagural sysop action. If not, you can find help at WP:Requested moves. bahamut0013 words deeds 18:46, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
I fail! I thought you had the mop. You just got my vote. Buggie111 ( talk) 18:56, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
I would like you to adopt me to help me with what you said on my editor review. Thank you.-- Breawycker ( talk to me!) Review Me! 22:25, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please comment again at History of the United States A-class review? I made some article changes based on your comments which hopefully earns your support. Thanks! Kirk ( talk) 13:49, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
And I'm never going anywhere near Natalie again. Cheers, 99.149.87.151 ( talk) 03:51, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to look at the SS Ranpura. Have a good one! JKBrooks85 ( talk) 09:52, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hello! Your submission of
M2 gas mask at the
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K' there, all you template masters, I've got a question. When I was working on my copy of List of Moscow metro stations, a template problem popped up. I copied and pasted over the exact coding from ru.wiki, leaving the title, and everythign seemed ok, but, when I added the english version of the template, it went really cazy. I then found out that the {{}} version of the template was different than if I had just copied over the text from the template. The two templates can be found at User:Buggie111/TemplateSandbox Any help? Buggie111 ( talk) 21:25, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 26 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Caldera Bay, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the sinking of the Blanco Encalada was the first successful attack on a ship by a torpedo boat? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:04, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Sub Roman Britain talks about Brtian in the 5th and 6th centries, mine is about the proabilaty of a unifidied post roman kingdom, it was about a state, while sub roman Britain was about an era, please put it back up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raydin687 ( talk • contribs) 14:13, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
The article is mostly theory, its meant to be about the possability of what the Roman Arthur's Kingdom may have been like. Thank you if you put the article back up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raydin687 ( talk • contribs) 21:37, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Kign Arthur's round table revealed, Britain AD King Arthur's Britain, Arthurian Legends: King Arthur. These are documentaries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raydin687 ( talk • contribs) 22:41, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
I forgot to add BRitain is a book, http://heritage-key.com/blogs/lyn/king-arthurs-real-round-table-revealed, talks about real round table, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1293657/King-Arthurs-Round-Table--table-Roman-amphitheatre-Chester.html this one talks about chaster being camelot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raydin687 ( talk • contribs) 23:06, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Cheers:) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raydin687 ( talk • contribs) 23:15, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
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Round 2 of the
2011 WikiCup is over, and the new round will begin on 1 May. Note that any points scored in the interim (that is, for content promoted or reviews completed on 29-30 April) can be claimed in the next round, but please do not start updating your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. Fewer than a quarter of our original contestants remain; 32 enter round 3, and, in two months' time, only 16 will progress to our penultimate round.
Casliber (
submissions), who led Pool F, was our round champion, with 411 points, while 7 contestants scored between 200 and 300 points. At the other end of the scale, a score of 41 was high enough to reach round 3; more than five times the score required to reach round 2, and competition will no doubt become tighter now we're approaching the later rounds. Those progressing to round 3 were spread fairly evenly across the pools; 4 progressed from each of pools A, B, E and H, while 3 progressed from both pools C and F. Pools D and G were the most successful; each had 5 contestants advancing.
This round saw our first good topic points this year; congratulations to
Hurricanehink (
submissions) and
Nergaal (
submissions) who also led pool H and pool B respectively. However, there remain content types for which no points have yet been scored;
featured sounds,
featured portals and
featured topics. In addition to prizes for leaderboard positions, the WikiCup awards other prizes; for instance, last year, a prize was awarded to
Candlewicke (
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In The News. For this reason, working on more unusual content could be even more rewarding than usual!
Sorry this newsletter is going out a little earlier than expected- there is a busy weekend coming up! A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 19:10, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
I've replied to your email. Sorry for the long delay. TomStar81 ( Talk) 07:37, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 2 May 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article M2 gas mask, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the M2 gas mask protected the wearer for at least five hours against the common World War I chemical weapon phosgene? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest |
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Hey Buggie. Want to help me finish up the remaining issues that we did not fix in this article's ACR? I fixed everything but the citation issue with the notes and one more thing that I cannot seem to put my finger on...I mentioned this over at Dank's TP. (look at his last archive for it)-- White Shadows Stuck in square one 21:50, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 backlog elimination drive update
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May 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.
![]() So far, 54 people have signed up for the drive, and 33 are actively participating. If you signed up for the drive but have not participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you have not signed up for the drive yet, you can
sign up now. If you have questions about getting started, feel free to
talk to us. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the
Requests page. We currently have 17 articles awaiting edit.
We are making slow progress on achieving our target of reducing the overall backlog by 15%; in order to accomplish this goal we will need to complete about 400 more articles. However, we are making good progress on the 2009 backlog, as we have eliminated over half of the articles from 2009 that were present at the start of the drive. Let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009; leaderboard awards will be handed out for 2009 articles this drive. Thank you for participating in the May 2011 drive. We hope it will be another success! Your drive coordinators – S Masters ( talk), Diannaa ( Talk), Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest |
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Buggie...you need to get on this ASAP. The ACr will close in about 24 hours and there is still much to do!-- White Shadows Stuck in square one 22:02, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
We're half way through round 3 of the
2011 WikiCup. There are currently 32 remaining in the competition, but only 16 will progress to our penultimate round.
Casliber (
submissions), of pool D, is our overall leader with nearly 200 points, while pools A, B and C are led by
Racepacket (
submissions),
Hurricanehink (
submissions) and
Canada Hky (
submissions) respectively. The score required to reach the next round is 35, though this will no doubt go up significantly as the round progresses. We have a good number of high scorers, but also a considerable number who are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. Also, an important note concerning nominations at
featured article candidates: if you are nominating content for which you intend to claim WikiCup points, please make this clear in the nomination statement so that the FAC director and his delegates are aware of the fact.
A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:22, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi mate, looks to me like your two entries haven't advanced this month -- rather than score them zero this month, are you happy for me to just spirit them into next month's table? Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 11:03, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 backlog elimination drive report
Greetings from the
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May 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating!
![]() There were 63 signups for the drive; of these, 45 participated. Although we did not award a bonus for articles from the Requests page this drive, we are not experiencing lengthy delays in getting the articles processed. Many thanks to editors who have been helping out at the Requests page and by copy editing articles from the backlog.
During the month of May we reduced the backlog by approximately 10%, and made remarkable progress on eliminating articles tagged from 2009. There are now only 15 articles left, down from the 415 that were present when the drive started. Since our backlog drives began in May 2010 with 8,323 articles, we have cleared more than 54% of the backlog. A complete list of results and barnstars awarded can be found here. Barnstars will be distributed over the next week. If you enjoyed participating in our event, you may also like to join the Wikification drives, which are held on alternate months to our drives. Their June drive has started.
The six-month term for our first tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the second tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. Please feel free to contact any coordinator if you have any questions or need assistance. Your project coordinators are S Masters ( talk), Diannaa ( Talk), Tea with toast ( Talk), Chaosdruid ( talk), and Torchiest ( talk). |
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We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was
Casliber (
submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by
Wizardman (
submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by
Eisfbnore (
submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by
Hurricanehink (
submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.
No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.
We would again like to thank
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submissions) for invaluable background work, as well as all of those helping to provide reviews for the articles listed on
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please do keep using it, and please do help by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup.
Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here, for those interested, though it appears that neither are completely accurate at this time. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:27, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Greetings from the
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The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting. This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated. We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". |
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Military history reviewers' award | |
By order of the
Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your good work helping with the WikiProject's
Peer and
A-Class reviews for the period April-June 2011, I hereby award you this
Military history WikiProject Reviewers' award.
HJ Mitchell |
Penny for your thoughts?
20:40, 16 July 2011 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste |
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We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are
Adabow (
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PresN (
submissions) (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on
Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (
White-bellied Sea Eagle, from
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Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and
Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from
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submissions)). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!
There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 11:23, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
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Invitation from the
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The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. |
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
Thanks for helping me out with my GAN while I was dealing with Hurricane Irene :) ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 13:15, 29 August 2011 (UTC) |
The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:
We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists,
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submissions),
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submissions),
Stone (
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Eisfbnore (
submissions),
Canada Hky (
submissions) and
MuZemike (
submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.
In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha ( talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.
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The person who removed Jeff Wooten as Ironwood vice principal added him to the Raymond S. Kellis High article. You might want to check if something happened there. Raymie ( t • c) 22:10, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Buggie111!
Ich möchte gerne meinen Beitrag von der deutschen Wikipedia auch in der englischen Wikipedia veröffentlichen. Dazu würde ich Hilfe benötigen. Könnte ich dich bitte über E-Mail kontaktieren, um dir Details bekannt zu geben?
Vielen Dank!
Liebe Grüße -- Bah2011 ( talk) 06:00, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Buggie111!
Thanks for your answer. I would like to publicise my article from the German Wikipedia also in the English Wikipedia. The article is about a company. Would it be possible to contact you by Mail for further details?
Thanks in advance! -- Bah2011 ( talk) 08:47, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
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The "I got there 11 minutes after voting opened" award |
For managing to place your votes at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September 2011 just 11 minutes after the voting opened! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:31, 15 September 2011 (UTC) |
TomStar81 ( Talk) 02:13, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
I understand you don't like swear words, but that does not give you carte blanche to modify other editors' comments. The basic rule – with some specific exceptions – is, that you should not edit or delete the comments of other editors without their permission. Understand? 28bytes ( talk) 02:24, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Buggie please give the Dart monkey page time to become constructed and organized. Thanks, Gatorfan6 ( talk) 23:42, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
How about we both don't take offense? However if you want run to an admin, it is free and available. I'm not interested in controlling anything beyond not having to copy write it endlessly. Secondly the article is getting over long. Thirdly sometimes you really don't have a choice but to go to a website, unfortunately. Fourthly, we have both offered to help this fellow out with a few copy writes to help him out. There have been lots of edits to the Battle of Borodino and for the most part I let them be, just as every editor out here does. That being said there are a few of us that try out best to keep the article on the beam more or less. We have lots of folks that would rewrite this to something that better suites their personal tastes. See all the fun that has been had with the results box for one. Websites have been used to replace cited content from RS sources, usually as a means of changing the results of the battle or rewording the article for the same reason. Now actually I am an American so I don't really care who won except for the glaring fact that we are presenting a history to the public and it is supposed to be the truth, or at least as close as we can get.
This fellow has done nothing wrong besides a fair amount of bad grammar. As for sources, actually in this case it would be better to use a recent history from a main stream author mainly because the farther back you get the more distorted the truth becomes. Chandler was quite the Napoleonic Scholar and managed to blow it several times. Asking a new Editor to sort out the good from the bad is asking a bit much.
Now as for the reason I probably sounded a bit harsh?
I know the rules here, so do you, lets both assume we intend on following the letter and spirit of the intent.
As I told Alex, the problem is that new editors tend to go to the articles where the bar is set very high. They get reverted and frustrated and quit. It grates on my nerves and isn’t my forte but if we don’t help the new Editors out we are never going to get really good new editors. I intend on helping him out. God knows there are precious few that really want to work on the Russian articles as is and I need every one I can get. I hope that explains where I am at. We are both trying to help him and there are lots of articles that any Russian speaker can do and frankly that I can’t. I can’t get decent sources. Tirronan ( talk) 05:34, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
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The awards should probably mention FAC, too. Sorry I didn't catch this before. Thanks! - Dank ( push to talk) 14:16, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Buggie111 for the Military History Reviewers' Award. I enjoy doing research and editing on Wikipedia. I believe the study of military history has tremendous value and importance for posterity. Cmguy777 ( talk) 15:49, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. However, mine doesn't display correctly but I can't identify a succinct fault; this may affect others. Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 16:39, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed this. Please don't refactor others' comments. Thanks. -- John ( talk) 19:35, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Buggie111. Just seen your award. Thanks a lot!! I appreciate it. Cheers,Alex -- Alexandru Demian ( talk) 20:34, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, and your colleagues, so much! What a very nice medal to get! Tim riley ( talk) 19:21, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I was nosing around the MilHist Coords talk, and notice you were trying to develop standard MilHist Awards for those conducting Reviews for the project at
User:Buggie111/milhistcoord toolbox. Not sure if you're familiar with how to create subst: templates similar to
barnstars, so that instead of trying to copy/paste all that code and hope it works, you could just use something like {{subst:WP:MILHIST/Awards/Reviewer/1|Jul|Sept|2011|~~~~}}
which would add the award with the start-end period, year, and the to/from details automatically. Depends if you're familiar with how to create such templates, but if you're not, drop me a message, if you're interested in awards processed like that, as I don't mind helping you set them up. Cheers,
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Hmm, didn't see that tempalte on the awards apge. Thanks.
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Thanks for all of that, I really know I deserve... I mean, well, yeah. Thanks for the subs. Buggie111 ( talk) 00:04, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for the note you left for me (about the article User:Sanjaydasgupta54/VisualLangLab) on Breawycker's talk page.
I had missed your note earlier, but will make the changes/additions suggested, and notify you when done.
Sanjaydasgupta54 ( talk) 15:14, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I've added a short bio to my user page that also mentions the fact that I am the creator of VisualLangLab (the subject matter of the article in question).
I also re-read the article itself, and believe it meets the "good article" requirements. You may sense a sales pitch at some places, but that is inevitable given that the tool's raison d'etre is that it simplifies -- almost trivializes -- what was hitherto a complex process requiring advanced knowledge and skills. For example, to test a parser, you can achieve by clicking a button what other tools (e.g. JavaCC, ANTLR, etc.) can accomplish only after a tedious three-step (generate parser, compile, run parser) manual process.
If you have any other observations I'll be happy to address them.
Thanks for your help.
Sanjaydasgupta54 ( talk) 17:30, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Buggie, please don't self-assess articles that you've worked on for B-class. Please let the people at WP:MHAR do so as they're neutral parties. Personally, I'd say that the Condorcet article is only C-class because it doesn't cover her activities during the war in any significant detail.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 14:27, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
You mentioned collaborating in recreating Portal:Military of Germany...? W i k i C o p t e r 01:27, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
A while ago you offered to help with that at Katyn Massacre FARC. Would you consider looking at Polish–Soviet War, another FARC, which has some Russian references? Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 19:12, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Different users are using this IP. I left the message about the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee on User talk:Parsecboy page. But I did NOT do the DASH thing. That was somebody else using this IP. Oh, well, that other user won't know that they have a message. 209.86.226.61 ( talk) 04:12, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thankyou for participating in my request for adminship. Now I've got lots of extra buttons to try and avoid pressing by mistake... Redrose64 ( talk) 16:15, 14 October 2011 (UTC) |
I think I've addressed everything you wanted done. Please take another look at your earliest convenience. Sven Manguard Wha? 14:24, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Article: Reina Victoria Eugenia class battleship.
There anything I can do to help with the above article? If so just let me know and I'll help. Adamdaley ( talk) 06:02, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Buggie111. I happened to notice in my travels that you have been using {{ sfn}} tags to organise your citations. It's a great tool, isn't it? You might be interested in installing a script: importScript('User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js'); which detects Harvard citation errors, such as templating a reference that does not appear in the bibliography, or including a source in the bibliography that is not actually cited in the article. Not sure where I heard about it, but it's a great tool.
Also, if you like flatlist, you will love its counterpart, {{ ubl}} (unbulleted list). This template can be used in info boxes and other places where lists are required. The advantages are cleaner mark-up, and an easier time parsing the text by screen readers for the vision impaired. Break-tags actually create tiny paragraphs, semantically incorrect. I have done an example at Japanese battleship Tango. Regards, -- Dianna ( talk) 04:26, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Buggie, as a Wikipedia who does not have a lot of knowledge about aviation (I think), can you please have a look at a FAC that is stalling quite badly? The article involved is McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, and the FAC can be found here. Please do not think what I'm doing here is canvassing (!), because Ucucha, one of the FAC delegates, says that I can ask some specific people like you to comment on the article, to get the ball rolling again. Can you do me a favour and either "Support" or "Oppose" the article? The FAC doesn't have any objections at the moment, but I hate to see FACs go down because of a lack of interest instead of the articles being non-FA worthy. Cheers! Sp33dyphil © • © 04:55, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
It was my first. My memory engrams clearly tell me that I corrected the text (you can even see that the number of days and threads were changed from the original), but the lack of proof in the article history suggests that my memory may have been altered to conceal something terribly sinister.
In all seriousness, yeesh, thanks for catching that.--~ T P W 20:36, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I really like your userboxes. Can you tell me how I can get a copy of your Pi userbox? Rskp ( talk) 02:51, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
I've done a bit of work, you should check back again. Cheers, Res Mar 22:55, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
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I've added a little more since the last time you edited, incidentally; you may want to take another look. As always though, thanks for the help :) TomStar81 ( Talk) 06:51, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
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I just wanted to let you know that College and university dating, which you agreed to review for GAN for the educational assignment I run, has been nominated. Thank you for helping out! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 00:13, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
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That group has some troubles, so they may take a while before they are ready. Thanks for checking. In the meantime, I think family honor could use a review :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 05:01, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Buggie, Per your comments at WT:MHCOORD I'm about to move my 'review essay' to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/October 2011/Op-ed which will involve deleting what you've written. In case you haven't got a copy elsewhere, I'll post it below. Cheers, Nick-D ( talk) 07:35, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
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You had time to do this, now get to reviewing! :3 Res Mar 03:24, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
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vital") is worth double points if promoted to good or featured status, or if it appears on the main page in the Did You Know column. There were some articles last round which were eligible for double points, but which were not claimed for. For more details, see
Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring.
A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round three is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:53, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Per your request, I have deleted User:Buggie111/Dwight B. Heard. I wanted to drop a note here, however, because you tagged it with {{ db-redirtypo}}, the tag for CSD criterion R3. The page was ineligible for deletion under that criterion. Most redirects created as the result of non-vandalism pagemoves are ineligible. As a user-space request, the better tag would have been WP:CSD#U1. Less potential for confusion that way. Nothing to be done in this case but if you could keep it in mind for the next time, it would help us keep the logs cleaner. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 19:30, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Regarding other CSD nominations:
That goes back through November. Is this the level of feedback you were looking for? Rossami (talk) 02:49, 9 April 2011 (UTC) I'd prefer if ouy'd review any large spurts of action, but besides that, I'm fine. Thanks a lot! Buggie111 ( talk) 02:58, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
I'd love to help you out and make that admin move for you, but my RfA doesn't close till the 13th. I'm feeling confident about it, though, and if you can hold off till then, I would love to make it my inagural sysop action. If not, you can find help at WP:Requested moves. bahamut0013 words deeds 18:46, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
I fail! I thought you had the mop. You just got my vote. Buggie111 ( talk) 18:56, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
I would like you to adopt me to help me with what you said on my editor review. Thank you.-- Breawycker ( talk to me!) Review Me! 22:25, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please comment again at History of the United States A-class review? I made some article changes based on your comments which hopefully earns your support. Thanks! Kirk ( talk) 13:49, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
And I'm never going anywhere near Natalie again. Cheers, 99.149.87.151 ( talk) 03:51, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to look at the SS Ranpura. Have a good one! JKBrooks85 ( talk) 09:52, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
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Hello! Your submission of
M2 gas mask at the
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K' there, all you template masters, I've got a question. When I was working on my copy of List of Moscow metro stations, a template problem popped up. I copied and pasted over the exact coding from ru.wiki, leaving the title, and everythign seemed ok, but, when I added the english version of the template, it went really cazy. I then found out that the {{}} version of the template was different than if I had just copied over the text from the template. The two templates can be found at User:Buggie111/TemplateSandbox Any help? Buggie111 ( talk) 21:25, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 26 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Caldera Bay, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the sinking of the Blanco Encalada was the first successful attack on a ship by a torpedo boat? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:04, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Sub Roman Britain talks about Brtian in the 5th and 6th centries, mine is about the proabilaty of a unifidied post roman kingdom, it was about a state, while sub roman Britain was about an era, please put it back up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raydin687 ( talk • contribs) 14:13, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
The article is mostly theory, its meant to be about the possability of what the Roman Arthur's Kingdom may have been like. Thank you if you put the article back up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raydin687 ( talk • contribs) 21:37, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Kign Arthur's round table revealed, Britain AD King Arthur's Britain, Arthurian Legends: King Arthur. These are documentaries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raydin687 ( talk • contribs) 22:41, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
I forgot to add BRitain is a book, http://heritage-key.com/blogs/lyn/king-arthurs-real-round-table-revealed, talks about real round table, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1293657/King-Arthurs-Round-Table--table-Roman-amphitheatre-Chester.html this one talks about chaster being camelot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raydin687 ( talk • contribs) 23:06, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Cheers:) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raydin687 ( talk • contribs) 23:15, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
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Round 2 of the
2011 WikiCup is over, and the new round will begin on 1 May. Note that any points scored in the interim (that is, for content promoted or reviews completed on 29-30 April) can be claimed in the next round, but please do not start updating your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. Fewer than a quarter of our original contestants remain; 32 enter round 3, and, in two months' time, only 16 will progress to our penultimate round.
Casliber (
submissions), who led Pool F, was our round champion, with 411 points, while 7 contestants scored between 200 and 300 points. At the other end of the scale, a score of 41 was high enough to reach round 3; more than five times the score required to reach round 2, and competition will no doubt become tighter now we're approaching the later rounds. Those progressing to round 3 were spread fairly evenly across the pools; 4 progressed from each of pools A, B, E and H, while 3 progressed from both pools C and F. Pools D and G were the most successful; each had 5 contestants advancing.
This round saw our first good topic points this year; congratulations to
Hurricanehink (
submissions) and
Nergaal (
submissions) who also led pool H and pool B respectively. However, there remain content types for which no points have yet been scored;
featured sounds,
featured portals and
featured topics. In addition to prizes for leaderboard positions, the WikiCup awards other prizes; for instance, last year, a prize was awarded to
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Sorry this newsletter is going out a little earlier than expected- there is a busy weekend coming up! A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 19:10, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
I've replied to your email. Sorry for the long delay. TomStar81 ( Talk) 07:37, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
![]() | On 2 May 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article M2 gas mask, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the M2 gas mask protected the wearer for at least five hours against the common World War I chemical weapon phosgene? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest |
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Hey Buggie. Want to help me finish up the remaining issues that we did not fix in this article's ACR? I fixed everything but the citation issue with the notes and one more thing that I cannot seem to put my finger on...I mentioned this over at Dank's TP. (look at his last archive for it)-- White Shadows Stuck in square one 21:50, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 backlog elimination drive update
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May 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.
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talk to us. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the
Requests page. We currently have 17 articles awaiting edit.
We are making slow progress on achieving our target of reducing the overall backlog by 15%; in order to accomplish this goal we will need to complete about 400 more articles. However, we are making good progress on the 2009 backlog, as we have eliminated over half of the articles from 2009 that were present at the start of the drive. Let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009; leaderboard awards will be handed out for 2009 articles this drive. Thank you for participating in the May 2011 drive. We hope it will be another success! Your drive coordinators – S Masters ( talk), Diannaa ( Talk), Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest |
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Buggie...you need to get on this ASAP. The ACr will close in about 24 hours and there is still much to do!-- White Shadows Stuck in square one 22:02, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
We're half way through round 3 of the
2011 WikiCup. There are currently 32 remaining in the competition, but only 16 will progress to our penultimate round.
Casliber (
submissions), of pool D, is our overall leader with nearly 200 points, while pools A, B and C are led by
Racepacket (
submissions),
Hurricanehink (
submissions) and
Canada Hky (
submissions) respectively. The score required to reach the next round is 35, though this will no doubt go up significantly as the round progresses. We have a good number of high scorers, but also a considerable number who are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. Also, an important note concerning nominations at
featured article candidates: if you are nominating content for which you intend to claim WikiCup points, please make this clear in the nomination statement so that the FAC director and his delegates are aware of the fact.
A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:22, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi mate, looks to me like your two entries haven't advanced this month -- rather than score them zero this month, are you happy for me to just spirit them into next month's table? Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 11:03, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 backlog elimination drive report
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May 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating!
![]() There were 63 signups for the drive; of these, 45 participated. Although we did not award a bonus for articles from the Requests page this drive, we are not experiencing lengthy delays in getting the articles processed. Many thanks to editors who have been helping out at the Requests page and by copy editing articles from the backlog.
During the month of May we reduced the backlog by approximately 10%, and made remarkable progress on eliminating articles tagged from 2009. There are now only 15 articles left, down from the 415 that were present when the drive started. Since our backlog drives began in May 2010 with 8,323 articles, we have cleared more than 54% of the backlog. A complete list of results and barnstars awarded can be found here. Barnstars will be distributed over the next week. If you enjoyed participating in our event, you may also like to join the Wikification drives, which are held on alternate months to our drives. Their June drive has started.
The six-month term for our first tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the second tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. Please feel free to contact any coordinator if you have any questions or need assistance. Your project coordinators are S Masters ( talk), Diannaa ( Talk), Tea with toast ( Talk), Chaosdruid ( talk), and Torchiest ( talk). |
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We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was
Casliber (
submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by
Wizardman (
submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by
Eisfbnore (
submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by
Hurricanehink (
submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.
No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.
We would again like to thank
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Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here, for those interested, though it appears that neither are completely accurate at this time. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:27, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Greetings from the
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The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting. This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated. We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". |
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Military history reviewers' award | |
By order of the
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Peer and
A-Class reviews for the period April-June 2011, I hereby award you this
Military history WikiProject Reviewers' award.
HJ Mitchell |
Penny for your thoughts?
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We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are
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Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (
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Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and
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The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. |
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Thanks for helping me out with my GAN while I was dealing with Hurricane Irene :) ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 13:15, 29 August 2011 (UTC) |
The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:
We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists,
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Canada Hky (
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MuZemike (
submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.
In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha ( talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.
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Hi Buggie111!
Ich möchte gerne meinen Beitrag von der deutschen Wikipedia auch in der englischen Wikipedia veröffentlichen. Dazu würde ich Hilfe benötigen. Könnte ich dich bitte über E-Mail kontaktieren, um dir Details bekannt zu geben?
Vielen Dank!
Liebe Grüße -- Bah2011 ( talk) 06:00, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Buggie111!
Thanks for your answer. I would like to publicise my article from the German Wikipedia also in the English Wikipedia. The article is about a company. Would it be possible to contact you by Mail for further details?
Thanks in advance! -- Bah2011 ( talk) 08:47, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
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The "I got there 11 minutes after voting opened" award |
For managing to place your votes at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September 2011 just 11 minutes after the voting opened! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:31, 15 September 2011 (UTC) |
TomStar81 ( Talk) 02:13, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
I understand you don't like swear words, but that does not give you carte blanche to modify other editors' comments. The basic rule – with some specific exceptions – is, that you should not edit or delete the comments of other editors without their permission. Understand? 28bytes ( talk) 02:24, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Buggie please give the Dart monkey page time to become constructed and organized. Thanks, Gatorfan6 ( talk) 23:42, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
How about we both don't take offense? However if you want run to an admin, it is free and available. I'm not interested in controlling anything beyond not having to copy write it endlessly. Secondly the article is getting over long. Thirdly sometimes you really don't have a choice but to go to a website, unfortunately. Fourthly, we have both offered to help this fellow out with a few copy writes to help him out. There have been lots of edits to the Battle of Borodino and for the most part I let them be, just as every editor out here does. That being said there are a few of us that try out best to keep the article on the beam more or less. We have lots of folks that would rewrite this to something that better suites their personal tastes. See all the fun that has been had with the results box for one. Websites have been used to replace cited content from RS sources, usually as a means of changing the results of the battle or rewording the article for the same reason. Now actually I am an American so I don't really care who won except for the glaring fact that we are presenting a history to the public and it is supposed to be the truth, or at least as close as we can get.
This fellow has done nothing wrong besides a fair amount of bad grammar. As for sources, actually in this case it would be better to use a recent history from a main stream author mainly because the farther back you get the more distorted the truth becomes. Chandler was quite the Napoleonic Scholar and managed to blow it several times. Asking a new Editor to sort out the good from the bad is asking a bit much.
Now as for the reason I probably sounded a bit harsh?
I know the rules here, so do you, lets both assume we intend on following the letter and spirit of the intent.
As I told Alex, the problem is that new editors tend to go to the articles where the bar is set very high. They get reverted and frustrated and quit. It grates on my nerves and isn’t my forte but if we don’t help the new Editors out we are never going to get really good new editors. I intend on helping him out. God knows there are precious few that really want to work on the Russian articles as is and I need every one I can get. I hope that explains where I am at. We are both trying to help him and there are lots of articles that any Russian speaker can do and frankly that I can’t. I can’t get decent sources. Tirronan ( talk) 05:34, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
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Looks like we've just made it with only 19 votes for Coordinators. Hope to work with you as Coordinator over coming months! AustralianRupert, who I have struck up an online wikipedia friendship gave his support for us and he's very helpful when he can get access Wikipedia. Adamdaley ( talk) 05:11, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you Muchas gracias, merci, vielen Dank and many thanks for your trust and voting me into the team of coordinators.
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Congrats on your election as Coordinator of the Military history Project! In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. Parsecboy ( talk) 22:04, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
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The awards should probably mention FAC, too. Sorry I didn't catch this before. Thanks! - Dank ( push to talk) 14:16, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Buggie111 for the Military History Reviewers' Award. I enjoy doing research and editing on Wikipedia. I believe the study of military history has tremendous value and importance for posterity. Cmguy777 ( talk) 15:49, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. However, mine doesn't display correctly but I can't identify a succinct fault; this may affect others. Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 16:39, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed this. Please don't refactor others' comments. Thanks. -- John ( talk) 19:35, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Buggie111. Just seen your award. Thanks a lot!! I appreciate it. Cheers,Alex -- Alexandru Demian ( talk) 20:34, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you, and your colleagues, so much! What a very nice medal to get! Tim riley ( talk) 19:21, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I was nosing around the MilHist Coords talk, and notice you were trying to develop standard MilHist Awards for those conducting Reviews for the project at
User:Buggie111/milhistcoord toolbox. Not sure if you're familiar with how to create subst: templates similar to
barnstars, so that instead of trying to copy/paste all that code and hope it works, you could just use something like {{subst:WP:MILHIST/Awards/Reviewer/1|Jul|Sept|2011|~~~~}}
which would add the award with the start-end period, year, and the to/from details automatically. Depends if you're familiar with how to create such templates, but if you're not, drop me a message, if you're interested in awards processed like that, as I don't mind helping you set them up. Cheers,
Ma®©usBritish [
Chat •
RFF
21:33, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Hmm, didn't see that tempalte on the awards apge. Thanks.
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By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer, A-Class and Featured article reviews for the period Jan–Mar 2011, the Military history WikiProject Reviewers' award. Ma®©usBritish [ Chat • RFF 00:00, 6 October 2011 (UTC) |
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{{subst:WPMILHIST Reviewer 4|start|end|year|~~~~}}
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Thanks for all of that, I really know I deserve... I mean, well, yeah. Thanks for the subs. Buggie111 ( talk) 00:04, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for the note you left for me (about the article User:Sanjaydasgupta54/VisualLangLab) on Breawycker's talk page.
I had missed your note earlier, but will make the changes/additions suggested, and notify you when done.
Sanjaydasgupta54 ( talk) 15:14, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
I've added a short bio to my user page that also mentions the fact that I am the creator of VisualLangLab (the subject matter of the article in question).
I also re-read the article itself, and believe it meets the "good article" requirements. You may sense a sales pitch at some places, but that is inevitable given that the tool's raison d'etre is that it simplifies -- almost trivializes -- what was hitherto a complex process requiring advanced knowledge and skills. For example, to test a parser, you can achieve by clicking a button what other tools (e.g. JavaCC, ANTLR, etc.) can accomplish only after a tedious three-step (generate parser, compile, run parser) manual process.
If you have any other observations I'll be happy to address them.
Thanks for your help.
Sanjaydasgupta54 ( talk) 17:30, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Buggie, please don't self-assess articles that you've worked on for B-class. Please let the people at WP:MHAR do so as they're neutral parties. Personally, I'd say that the Condorcet article is only C-class because it doesn't cover her activities during the war in any significant detail.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 14:27, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
You mentioned collaborating in recreating Portal:Military of Germany...? W i k i C o p t e r 01:27, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
A while ago you offered to help with that at Katyn Massacre FARC. Would you consider looking at Polish–Soviet War, another FARC, which has some Russian references? Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 19:12, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Different users are using this IP. I left the message about the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee on User talk:Parsecboy page. But I did NOT do the DASH thing. That was somebody else using this IP. Oh, well, that other user won't know that they have a message. 209.86.226.61 ( talk) 04:12, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thankyou for participating in my request for adminship. Now I've got lots of extra buttons to try and avoid pressing by mistake... Redrose64 ( talk) 16:15, 14 October 2011 (UTC) |
I think I've addressed everything you wanted done. Please take another look at your earliest convenience. Sven Manguard Wha? 14:24, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Article: Reina Victoria Eugenia class battleship.
There anything I can do to help with the above article? If so just let me know and I'll help. Adamdaley ( talk) 06:02, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Buggie111. I happened to notice in my travels that you have been using {{ sfn}} tags to organise your citations. It's a great tool, isn't it? You might be interested in installing a script: importScript('User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js'); which detects Harvard citation errors, such as templating a reference that does not appear in the bibliography, or including a source in the bibliography that is not actually cited in the article. Not sure where I heard about it, but it's a great tool.
Also, if you like flatlist, you will love its counterpart, {{ ubl}} (unbulleted list). This template can be used in info boxes and other places where lists are required. The advantages are cleaner mark-up, and an easier time parsing the text by screen readers for the vision impaired. Break-tags actually create tiny paragraphs, semantically incorrect. I have done an example at Japanese battleship Tango. Regards, -- Dianna ( talk) 04:26, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Buggie, as a Wikipedia who does not have a lot of knowledge about aviation (I think), can you please have a look at a FAC that is stalling quite badly? The article involved is McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, and the FAC can be found here. Please do not think what I'm doing here is canvassing (!), because Ucucha, one of the FAC delegates, says that I can ask some specific people like you to comment on the article, to get the ball rolling again. Can you do me a favour and either "Support" or "Oppose" the article? The FAC doesn't have any objections at the moment, but I hate to see FACs go down because of a lack of interest instead of the articles being non-FA worthy. Cheers! Sp33dyphil © • © 04:55, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
It was my first. My memory engrams clearly tell me that I corrected the text (you can even see that the number of days and threads were changed from the original), but the lack of proof in the article history suggests that my memory may have been altered to conceal something terribly sinister.
In all seriousness, yeesh, thanks for catching that.--~ T P W 20:36, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I really like your userboxes. Can you tell me how I can get a copy of your Pi userbox? Rskp ( talk) 02:51, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
I've done a bit of work, you should check back again. Cheers, Res Mar 22:55, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
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I've added a little more since the last time you edited, incidentally; you may want to take another look. As always though, thanks for the help :) TomStar81 ( Talk) 06:51, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
=). Res Mar 22:30, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
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I just wanted to let you know that College and university dating, which you agreed to review for GAN for the educational assignment I run, has been nominated. Thank you for helping out! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 00:13, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
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That group has some troubles, so they may take a while before they are ready. Thanks for checking. In the meantime, I think family honor could use a review :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 05:01, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Buggie, Per your comments at WT:MHCOORD I'm about to move my 'review essay' to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/October 2011/Op-ed which will involve deleting what you've written. In case you haven't got a copy elsewhere, I'll post it below. Cheers, Nick-D ( talk) 07:35, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
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You had time to do this, now get to reviewing! :3 Res Mar 03:24, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
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