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We are a week into Round 3, but it is off to a flying start, with
Sven Manguard (
submissions) claiming for the high-importance
Portal:Sports and
Portal:Geography (which are the first portals ever awarded bonus points in the WikiCup) and
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions) claiming for a did you know of
sea, the highest scoring individual did you know article ever submitted for the WikiCup. Round 2 saw very impressive scores at close; first place
Casliber (
submissions) and second place
Sturmvogel_66 (
submissions) both scored over 1000 points; a feat not seen in Round 2 since 2010. This, in part, has been made possible by the change in the bonus points rules, but is also testament to the quality of the competition this year. Pool C and Pool G were most competitive, with three quarters of participants making it to Round 3, while Pool D was the least, with only the top two scorers making it through. The lowest qualifying score was 123, significantly higher than last year's 65, 2011's 41 or even 2010's 100.
The next issue of The Signpost is due to include a brief update on the current WikiCup, comparing it to previous years' competitions. This may be of interest to current WikiCup followers, and may help bring some more new faces into the community. We would also like to note that this round includes an extra competitor to the 32 advertised, who has been added to a random pool. This extra inclusion seems to have been the fairest way to deal with a small mistake made before the beginning of this round, but should not affect the competition in a large way. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please feel free to contact one of the judges.
A rules clarification: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on 29/30 April, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 15:50, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello Dolovis, I took the liberty to add a few sections to your above article, which I hope is relevant to the work you did. I'd really appreciate your feedback on this.
Regards ( MrNiceGuy1113 ( talk) 10:11, 16 May 2013 (UTC))
Hello, Dolovis. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Christiaan Minella, for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:
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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. GregJackP Boomer! 19:58, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hello, Dolovis. Under our guidelines for disambiguation pages, a plain title like Brian Lee should never redirect to the same title with "(disambiguation)" intended. Instead, if there is no WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, you should request that the disambiguation page be moved to the plain title. Before this is done, however, all the existing Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Brian Lee" will need to be fixed. Thanks. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:17, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
I noticed that you claim my AFD's are disruptive simply because I didn't use PROD first. PROD is not an introductor step to AFD and not required to be used prior to an AFD. In particular, PROD wouldn't apply to many of them. Please learn the process before you start making accusations of bad faith. UnrepentantTaco ( talk) 18:52, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
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We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.
Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note.
Figureskatingfan (
submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on
topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition:
Ealdgyth (
submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article
Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article
Battle of Hastings. Good articles
James Chadwick and
Stanislaw Ulam netted
Hawkeye7 (
submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to
Piotrus (
submissions) for each of
Władysław Sikorski and
Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example,
Casliber (
submissions) and
Sasata (
submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on
Boletus luridus.
A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:57, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
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The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the
signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer
Godot13 (
submissions), whose set of
14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.
Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email), The ed17 ( talk • email) and Miyagawa ( talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Hey I have added some to the main article, but be sure to link them to the 86th Academy Awards page. Good luck. (Not all of them I got on but some) Thanks! Wgolf ( talk) 22:56, 3 February 2014 (UTC) Also to add stuff like IMDB references go to external links and put the page (go check another persons page to see what to do-for example here is a page I made for a Oscar nominee from the 1930's: Sid Brod)
Wgolf ( talk) 22:59, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
welcome, well go add the links to the Oscar page now! Have a nice night! Wgolf ( talk) 03:37, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Would you care to weigh in at this discussion genre changes made at Led Zeppelin IV? If not, feel free to ignore this message. Dan56 ( talk) 21:19, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Yep, here are some of my pages I have made as of late if you want to ever add any of the people/films: Broadway Hostess, Mercy Island, Cullen Tate, Holiday Land, The Old Mill Pond, Sherry Shourds, Wonder of Women, The Right to Love (1930 US film, William J. Reiter, Ben Silvey (I have a couple more as well) Good luck Wgolf ( talk) 22:16, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Interesting, thank you for creating this. I presume we have a consensus that Oscar-nominees are always notable, right? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:35, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Might want to also add a IMDB link as well as a info box on them, they look pretty empty otherwise, good luck. Wgolf ( talk) 04:15, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Very true and thanks, I have been looking over some of the earlier nominees and found some that were mentioned as "possibly living" and found the birth/death info. One problem comes with some of the common names sometime might have the wrong IMDB link or something. Wgolf ( talk) 18:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
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And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:
Other competitors of note include:
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Doherty is currently competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. - is he?! I thought, the OG are over... - if you write such texts, you must bring them to an actual point right after all is over. Such articles help nobody. Btw - Doherty is a successfull junior sportsperson - why there's nothing about it in the article? An no - don't ask why I don't do it. You have start the article - so you have responsibility for the article. And my english is not good enough to write articles here. But I can see how bad this "article" is. It says really nothing what's important. Sources are more than enough in the Web [3], [4], [5], [6]. Btw - it was absolutely not clear, that Doherty would compete. So such articles talking in a bad manor about the future. Marcus Cyron ( talk) 15:27, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Yep got nearly every sound editor nomination's page up, along with other cats (You can try to find my pages sometime if you want to see). But I got nearly all the sound editors done, which took a while. Wgolf ( talk) 04:28, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
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A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer
Godot13 (
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Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist
Adam Cuerden (
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Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured
Japanese battleship Nagato.
Cliftonian (
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Ian Smith.
With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email), The ed17 ( talk • email) and Miyagawa ( talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
My goodness, that was one of the most impressive hatchet jobs I've seen in awhile. What on Earth are you trying to do? -- Falcadore ( talk) 14:57, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. I have nominated your article for deletion, here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Aaron -- Y not? 15:19, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
As far as the extra boxes go, I've been asked to remove them when not in use. Talk to User:Gloss if that's incorrect. With respect to the spelling of 'honor' I've been told at various times to use and not use 'u' regardless of where the person originated from. I won't change any more in the future but when I create a category in the future I'll do so sans vowel. If someone wants to change it later I won't worry about it. PensRule11385 ( talk) 03:15, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's
Adam Cuerden (
submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from
Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as
SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's
Godot13 (
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Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's
ChrisGualtieri (
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Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included
Cliftonian (
submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance
Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and
Caponer (
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list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include
narwhal from
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tiger from
Cwmhiraeth (
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The Lion King from
Igordebraga (
submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to
Czar (
submissions) and
Red Phoenix (
submissions) for their work on the
Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.
192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email), The ed17 ( talk • email) and Miyagawa ( talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
I have reverted your move of Danny Sullivan to Danny Sullivan (racing driver), as it was done without discussion, and a recent Requested Move for that very action was met with unanimous opposition. If you believe things have changed since then, you're welcome to open a new RM, although a strong case will be needed as to why an Indianpolis 500 winner isn't the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. - The Bushranger One ping only 20:44, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Dolovis. When you moved Mark Morris to a new title and redirected old title to a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:
It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Mark Morris" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks. R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:49, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
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Please take a look at Soraya Post, Paula Bieler and Kristina Winberg.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 20:39, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Archive57#Clarification -- Parkfly3 ( talk) 23:07, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi just curious why you're editing the page on me. I updated the information filling in the past ten years and then you erased it, why?
Jay McGee — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tinjay77 ( talk • contribs) 00:07, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
I think that I have have now finally completed the arduous task of ensuring that Wikipedia holds an article for each of the 808 hockey players who saw action during the WHA's seven-year run. I have been working towards this goal for over four years (on April 19, 2010 I created an article for Ray Delorenzi who played with the Vancouver Blazers/ Calgary Cowboys; and on June 1, 2014, I created an article for the final player, being Jim Cole who played briefly with the old Winnipeg Jets). Along the way I have learned much about about Wikipedia, and have improved my knowledge of the history of professional hockey. Thank you to Parkfly3 who, through his work in completing and correcting the “list of players” articles for the individual WHA teams, made the task of identifying the missing players a bit easier, and to Scott Surgent whose book "The Complete World Hockey Association" has been an invaluable reference. Although I believe that each WHA player now has an article, I will continue to look through the historical records for any additional players who may yet have been over-looked. Dolovis ( talk) 19:12, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
To put it bluntly, what are you playing at? The "low-level" assertion would be valid if it was supported by one source; it's supported by all seven, which are six more sources than support the equally subjective assertion that Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player of all time. Ravenswing 21:23, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
So let's see some of the other links there, shall we? Here's the Toronto Star article which supports the assertion [9] -- that took me about 45 seconds. Ravenswing 19:21, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
As far as why I didn't refresh the dead links earlier? Come now, we've been over that many a time. Answering a question with a question is something of a stock in trade of yours. For a change, how about answering the original question first ... or at all? Ravenswing 21:43, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
I think that I have have now finally completed the arduous task of ensuring that Wikipedia holds an article for each of the 808 hockey players who saw action during the WHA's seven-year run. I have been working towards this goal for over four years (on April 19, 2010 I created an article for Ray Delorenzi who played with the Vancouver Blazers/ Calgary Cowboys; and on June 1, 2014, I created an article for the final player, being Jim Cole who played briefly with the old Winnipeg Jets). Along the way I have learned much about about Wikipedia, and have improved my knowledge of the history of professional hockey. Thank you to Parkfly3 who, through his work in completing and correcting the “list of players” articles for the individual WHA teams, made the task of identifying the missing players a bit easier, and to Scott Surgent whose book "The Complete World Hockey Association" has been an invaluable reference. Although I believe that each WHA player now has an article, I will continue to look through the historical records for any additional players who may yet have been over-looked. Dolovis ( talk) 19:12, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
I really don't need to have my watchlist flooded with utterly pointless whitespace changes. The only thing you are accomplishing here is to actively hamper any efforts at watching for and catching vandalism. If you must spend your time in this fashion, please slow the edits down to a more reasonable level. Thanks, Reso lute 13:32, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
I just took a look at DJSasso's recent AWB edits (20 linked here with many more to be found in DJSasso's edit history) and I have to laugh at DJSasso's incredible display of hypocrisy.
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Based on DJSasso's recent edit history, it looks like DJSasso has been actively abusing AWB to make a long series “insignificant edits” as defined by the 4th rule DJSasso quoted above. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Sheesh. Dolovis ( talk) 19:38, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
It has been suggested that I follow the advice contained in the essay Wikipedia:Don't take the bait. It is apparent to me that continuing this exchange will serve no useful purpose, so I am now ending this discussion on my talk page, as is my right. Dolovis ( talk) 18:34, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria ( talk) 20:06, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
Not sure so made the entry but Rather did not coach the Oilers for five cups; he did four and John Muckler did one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.88.142 ( talk) 16:15, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
It looks like it might have been a conditional pick that was not converted. Deadman137 ( talk) 20:06, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Dolovis, please respond to the response comment I had for you at Wikipedia:BNA, Sadads ( talk) 15:37, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Dolovis, Apologies for the confusion,
I originally closed it but since it was relisted half hr before - I reverted .... and have now closed it again
- Oh the joys of confusing everyone haha,
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The guy who did Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_ice_hockey_countries keeps putting speedy deletion tags on the page and is adding no-hockey countries while removing references I add. Can you help? 64.4.93.100 ( talk) 18:59, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
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I'm putting the BLP template on articles that need MORE sources and references. I am not doing anything wrong and I'm adhering to the notability guidelines. So what is your issue? WikiPassionate ( talk) 03:00, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hey, no hard feelings. I still think you are wrong about Prince Harry's notability and insult him in comparing him to Disick in any way. There are Wikipedia articles on international royals from the last millenium (see [35]). However, I see you have bigger things to worry about at this juncture. Yours, Quis separabit? 15:42, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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I was hoping someone could help me out with Harry Zolnierczyk's Wikipedia page. There is a section about his personal life that outlines past charges he had against him. These charges were several years ago and are now outdated and irrelevant. I was hoping that the section could be removed from the page. I am admittedly someone personally close to Harry and am very disturbed that these are still listed on his Wikipedia page. Harry's past is something that he has taken care of and should not have to be haunted by this situation anymore. I don't see any disadvantage to taking down the personal life section of his page. I think it would be more than reasonable to move on from this and leave it in the past. I hope you understand. Please help me to remove the personal life section of Harry Zolnierczyk's Wikipedia page. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hockey4000 ( talk • contribs) 02:01, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
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Round one of the 2015 WikiCup has begun! So far we've had around 80 signups, which close on February 5. If you have not already signed up and want to do so, then you can add your name here. There have been changes to to several of the points scores for various categories, and the addition of Peer Reviews for the first time. These will work in the same manner as Good Article Reviews, and all of the changes are summarised here.
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We are a week into Round 3, but it is off to a flying start, with
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Portal:Sports and
Portal:Geography (which are the first portals ever awarded bonus points in the WikiCup) and
Cwmhiraeth (
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sea, the highest scoring individual did you know article ever submitted for the WikiCup. Round 2 saw very impressive scores at close; first place
Casliber (
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Sturmvogel_66 (
submissions) both scored over 1000 points; a feat not seen in Round 2 since 2010. This, in part, has been made possible by the change in the bonus points rules, but is also testament to the quality of the competition this year. Pool C and Pool G were most competitive, with three quarters of participants making it to Round 3, while Pool D was the least, with only the top two scorers making it through. The lowest qualifying score was 123, significantly higher than last year's 65, 2011's 41 or even 2010's 100.
The next issue of The Signpost is due to include a brief update on the current WikiCup, comparing it to previous years' competitions. This may be of interest to current WikiCup followers, and may help bring some more new faces into the community. We would also like to note that this round includes an extra competitor to the 32 advertised, who has been added to a random pool. This extra inclusion seems to have been the fairest way to deal with a small mistake made before the beginning of this round, but should not affect the competition in a large way. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please feel free to contact one of the judges.
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Hello Dolovis, I took the liberty to add a few sections to your above article, which I hope is relevant to the work you did. I'd really appreciate your feedback on this.
Regards ( MrNiceGuy1113 ( talk) 10:11, 16 May 2013 (UTC))
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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. GregJackP Boomer! 19:58, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
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I noticed that you claim my AFD's are disruptive simply because I didn't use PROD first. PROD is not an introductor step to AFD and not required to be used prior to an AFD. In particular, PROD wouldn't apply to many of them. Please learn the process before you start making accusations of bad faith. UnrepentantTaco ( talk) 18:52, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
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We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.
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Figureskatingfan (
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Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article
Battle of Hastings. Good articles
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The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the
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Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.
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Hey I have added some to the main article, but be sure to link them to the 86th Academy Awards page. Good luck. (Not all of them I got on but some) Thanks! Wgolf ( talk) 22:56, 3 February 2014 (UTC) Also to add stuff like IMDB references go to external links and put the page (go check another persons page to see what to do-for example here is a page I made for a Oscar nominee from the 1930's: Sid Brod)
Wgolf ( talk) 22:59, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
welcome, well go add the links to the Oscar page now! Have a nice night! Wgolf ( talk) 03:37, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Would you care to weigh in at this discussion genre changes made at Led Zeppelin IV? If not, feel free to ignore this message. Dan56 ( talk) 21:19, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Yep, here are some of my pages I have made as of late if you want to ever add any of the people/films: Broadway Hostess, Mercy Island, Cullen Tate, Holiday Land, The Old Mill Pond, Sherry Shourds, Wonder of Women, The Right to Love (1930 US film, William J. Reiter, Ben Silvey (I have a couple more as well) Good luck Wgolf ( talk) 22:16, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Interesting, thank you for creating this. I presume we have a consensus that Oscar-nominees are always notable, right? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:35, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Might want to also add a IMDB link as well as a info box on them, they look pretty empty otherwise, good luck. Wgolf ( talk) 04:15, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Very true and thanks, I have been looking over some of the earlier nominees and found some that were mentioned as "possibly living" and found the birth/death info. One problem comes with some of the common names sometime might have the wrong IMDB link or something. Wgolf ( talk) 18:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
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And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:
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Doherty is currently competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. - is he?! I thought, the OG are over... - if you write such texts, you must bring them to an actual point right after all is over. Such articles help nobody. Btw - Doherty is a successfull junior sportsperson - why there's nothing about it in the article? An no - don't ask why I don't do it. You have start the article - so you have responsibility for the article. And my english is not good enough to write articles here. But I can see how bad this "article" is. It says really nothing what's important. Sources are more than enough in the Web [3], [4], [5], [6]. Btw - it was absolutely not clear, that Doherty would compete. So such articles talking in a bad manor about the future. Marcus Cyron ( talk) 15:27, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Yep got nearly every sound editor nomination's page up, along with other cats (You can try to find my pages sometime if you want to see). But I got nearly all the sound editors done, which took a while. Wgolf ( talk) 04:28, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
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A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer
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Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist
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With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email), The ed17 ( talk • email) and Miyagawa ( talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
My goodness, that was one of the most impressive hatchet jobs I've seen in awhile. What on Earth are you trying to do? -- Falcadore ( talk) 14:57, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. I have nominated your article for deletion, here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Aaron -- Y not? 15:19, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
As far as the extra boxes go, I've been asked to remove them when not in use. Talk to User:Gloss if that's incorrect. With respect to the spelling of 'honor' I've been told at various times to use and not use 'u' regardless of where the person originated from. I won't change any more in the future but when I create a category in the future I'll do so sans vowel. If someone wants to change it later I won't worry about it. PensRule11385 ( talk) 03:15, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
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192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email), The ed17 ( talk • email) and Miyagawa ( talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
I have reverted your move of Danny Sullivan to Danny Sullivan (racing driver), as it was done without discussion, and a recent Requested Move for that very action was met with unanimous opposition. If you believe things have changed since then, you're welcome to open a new RM, although a strong case will be needed as to why an Indianpolis 500 winner isn't the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. - The Bushranger One ping only 20:44, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
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Please take a look at Soraya Post, Paula Bieler and Kristina Winberg.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 20:39, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Archive57#Clarification -- Parkfly3 ( talk) 23:07, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi just curious why you're editing the page on me. I updated the information filling in the past ten years and then you erased it, why?
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I think that I have have now finally completed the arduous task of ensuring that Wikipedia holds an article for each of the 808 hockey players who saw action during the WHA's seven-year run. I have been working towards this goal for over four years (on April 19, 2010 I created an article for Ray Delorenzi who played with the Vancouver Blazers/ Calgary Cowboys; and on June 1, 2014, I created an article for the final player, being Jim Cole who played briefly with the old Winnipeg Jets). Along the way I have learned much about about Wikipedia, and have improved my knowledge of the history of professional hockey. Thank you to Parkfly3 who, through his work in completing and correcting the “list of players” articles for the individual WHA teams, made the task of identifying the missing players a bit easier, and to Scott Surgent whose book "The Complete World Hockey Association" has been an invaluable reference. Although I believe that each WHA player now has an article, I will continue to look through the historical records for any additional players who may yet have been over-looked. Dolovis ( talk) 19:12, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
To put it bluntly, what are you playing at? The "low-level" assertion would be valid if it was supported by one source; it's supported by all seven, which are six more sources than support the equally subjective assertion that Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player of all time. Ravenswing 21:23, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
So let's see some of the other links there, shall we? Here's the Toronto Star article which supports the assertion [9] -- that took me about 45 seconds. Ravenswing 19:21, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
As far as why I didn't refresh the dead links earlier? Come now, we've been over that many a time. Answering a question with a question is something of a stock in trade of yours. For a change, how about answering the original question first ... or at all? Ravenswing 21:43, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
I think that I have have now finally completed the arduous task of ensuring that Wikipedia holds an article for each of the 808 hockey players who saw action during the WHA's seven-year run. I have been working towards this goal for over four years (on April 19, 2010 I created an article for Ray Delorenzi who played with the Vancouver Blazers/ Calgary Cowboys; and on June 1, 2014, I created an article for the final player, being Jim Cole who played briefly with the old Winnipeg Jets). Along the way I have learned much about about Wikipedia, and have improved my knowledge of the history of professional hockey. Thank you to Parkfly3 who, through his work in completing and correcting the “list of players” articles for the individual WHA teams, made the task of identifying the missing players a bit easier, and to Scott Surgent whose book "The Complete World Hockey Association" has been an invaluable reference. Although I believe that each WHA player now has an article, I will continue to look through the historical records for any additional players who may yet have been over-looked. Dolovis ( talk) 19:12, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
I really don't need to have my watchlist flooded with utterly pointless whitespace changes. The only thing you are accomplishing here is to actively hamper any efforts at watching for and catching vandalism. If you must spend your time in this fashion, please slow the edits down to a more reasonable level. Thanks, Reso lute 13:32, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
I just took a look at DJSasso's recent AWB edits (20 linked here with many more to be found in DJSasso's edit history) and I have to laugh at DJSasso's incredible display of hypocrisy.
[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34]
Based on DJSasso's recent edit history, it looks like DJSasso has been actively abusing AWB to make a long series “insignificant edits” as defined by the 4th rule DJSasso quoted above. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Sheesh. Dolovis ( talk) 19:38, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
It has been suggested that I follow the advice contained in the essay Wikipedia:Don't take the bait. It is apparent to me that continuing this exchange will serve no useful purpose, so I am now ending this discussion on my talk page, as is my right. Dolovis ( talk) 18:34, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
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Not sure so made the entry but Rather did not coach the Oilers for five cups; he did four and John Muckler did one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.88.142 ( talk) 16:15, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
It looks like it might have been a conditional pick that was not converted. Deadman137 ( talk) 20:06, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Dolovis, please respond to the response comment I had for you at Wikipedia:BNA, Sadads ( talk) 15:37, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's
Godot13 (
submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C,
Casliber (
submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance
Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles
Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and
Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.
The round saw this year's first featured portal, with
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submissions) taking
Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to
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2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on
Maya Angelou's autobiographies from
Figureskatingfan (
submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer
Tomáš Rosický from
Cloudz679 (
submissions) and
a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of
Sven Manguard (
submissions).
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Hi Dolovis, Apologies for the confusion,
I originally closed it but since it was relisted half hr before - I reverted .... and have now closed it again
- Oh the joys of confusing everyone haha,
Regards, –
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The guy who did Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_ice_hockey_countries keeps putting speedy deletion tags on the page and is adding no-hockey countries while removing references I add. Can you help? 64.4.93.100 ( talk) 18:59, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
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I'm putting the BLP template on articles that need MORE sources and references. I am not doing anything wrong and I'm adhering to the notability guidelines. So what is your issue? WikiPassionate ( talk) 03:00, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hey, no hard feelings. I still think you are wrong about Prince Harry's notability and insult him in comparing him to Disick in any way. There are Wikipedia articles on international royals from the last millenium (see [35]). However, I see you have bigger things to worry about at this juncture. Yours, Quis separabit? 15:42, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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Pictor and
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To whom it may concern,
I was hoping someone could help me out with Harry Zolnierczyk's Wikipedia page. There is a section about his personal life that outlines past charges he had against him. These charges were several years ago and are now outdated and irrelevant. I was hoping that the section could be removed from the page. I am admittedly someone personally close to Harry and am very disturbed that these are still listed on his Wikipedia page. Harry's past is something that he has taken care of and should not have to be haunted by this situation anymore. I don't see any disadvantage to taking down the personal life section of his page. I think it would be more than reasonable to move on from this and leave it in the past. I hope you understand. Please help me to remove the personal life section of Harry Zolnierczyk's Wikipedia page. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hockey4000 ( talk • contribs) 02:01, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
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