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WikiProject Algae was started as a meeting space on Wikipedia for improving the taxonomic representations of the groups of organisms called algae. Please join other editors at the talk page ( Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Algae) to discuss a higher level taxonomy for algae to be used on Wikipedia. -- 68.127.232.132 ( talk) 19:17, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
As you all know, certain situations among which are included my personal health, have led me take a leave of absence from Wikipedia, however I believe that the idea proposed by Angusmclellan is an excellent one. Instead of nominating Puerto Rican related images by the masses, the images which have problems will first be listed in the page which I just created: Wikipedia:WikiProject Puerto Rico/Images with problems. We will be given more then sufficient time as a "team" to find sources and make what ever fixes need be in order to keep them from being deleted. This is a Wiki-community team effort regardless of who uploaded the image. I ask all those who really care about the images related to Puerto Rico to post the link "Wikipedia:WikiProject Puerto Rico/Images with problems" in your "watchlists". Tony the Marine ( talk) 01:33, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to dig up the references. Are you planning on integrating them into the article sometime soon? JPatterson ( talk) 17:16, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
The logging/deforestation/forest management conundrum came out of a GA review I am doing here --> Talk:Illegal logging in Madagascar/GA1 - what do you reckon the best name and scope for this one is? Casliber ( talk · contribs) 22:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Can you shed some light on Erythrina velutina (a leguminous tree)? It's probably going to make a good DYK, but I can't figure out some basic botanical aspects, like its distribution. I asked Cas ( User talk:Casliber#Erythrina velutina), but he said I'd better ask you. Ucucha 20:24, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
I got a bit more and nominated it at DYK. We could get a better hook, though, and the article could use some further expansion. Ucucha 18:07, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Well, no good deed goes unpunished. :) Given your focused/solid comments recently, could I ask for your input on this matter? Its my opinion, that when the NCI workshop findings are given appropriate context the ABC hypothesis article will be near FA quality. - Roy Boy 15:10, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
I filed one if you'd like to comment. Cla68 ( talk) 05:02, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Not that I have any stake in this argument, but NYTimes and Discover are not considered primary sources. We've finally eliminated blogs as sources within the TC project, per wikipedia standards, and I thought the same was now true within the global warming set of articles. A recent event could merit the use of a newspaper/magazine source until some primary source, such as a research paper or book refereed by a university, comes out. It would certainly be better than a blog. And research papers/books can take years to publish. Which article did this involve? Now that I see which article this involves, I see why disputes would come up. Some of her recent research has been divisive within the tropical cyclone community, and involves global warming. Wouldn't that article require that tag people have been recently placing on global warming articles? Nevermind, it has the appropriate probation tagging.
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Does anyone else see the irony of Cla68 filing a WQA for one editor pigeonholing another, given his views toward what he calls the "GWcab"? Short Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 01:54, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I have had a go trying to whittle down the prose but it is heavy going - see para 4 in the History section now, do you think it is heading in the right direction? All help needed on this one as I do think it is a worthy subject matter to write about, just needs doing in the right way. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 02:13, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Guettarda! I meant for so long to respond to this, but I wanted to write a detailed response and so kept putting it off. I have only popped into Wikipedia intermittently, though I still read articles all the time. Thank you for your kind messages. I'm hoping to do some occasional editing and hope to run into you more often. — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:43, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
And thank you, Guettarda, my old friend. Things are very well! — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:16, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I see that you have been very active on the Fred Singer article since SV expanded it. Have you stopped to thank SV for expanding it? I'm going to go do that on her talk page right now and invite you to join me. I think the Singer article now has a chance for FA consideration and future display on the main page. This is a good thing when an article is improved so dramatically, wouldn't you agree? Cla68 ( talk) 15:43, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
We are half way through round 3, with a little under a month to go. The current overall leader is Sasata ( submissions), who has 570 points. He leads pool C. Pools A, B and D are led by Hunter Kahn ( submissions), Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) and White Shadows ( submissions) respectively. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.
Two of last year's final 8, Theleftorium ( submissions) and Scorpion0422 ( submissions), have dropped out of the competition, saying they would rather their place went to someone who will have more time on their hands than them next round. On a related note, a special thank you goes to White Shadows ( submissions) for his help behind the scenes once again. There is currently a problem with the poster, perhaps caused by the new skin- take a look at this discussion and see if you can help. The competition has continued to tick over well with minimal need for judge intervention, so thank you to everyone making that possible. Good luck to all! 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, Fox and The ed17 20:49, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Please see this suggestion. Assuming Slim agrees, are you ok with it? -- Stephan Schulz ( talk) 23:55, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
You previously commented on Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Marknutley/The Gore Effect (2nd nomination). A new version of the article has been created in article space at The Gore Effect and has been nominated for deletion. If you have any views on this, please feel free to comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Gore Effect. -- ChrisO ( talk) 08:11, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, they are, in fact, estimates, in the same way that int num = random.Next(12450.78); is an estimate of the shortest distance in miles from me to any other person on the globe. It's not a very good estimate, but it's an estimate. Hipocrite ( talk) 14:35, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Do you think its ready? And if so would you like to co-nominate? - Roy Boy 03:26, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
[1] Please clearly mark your reverts. And why have you put a BLP tag on an article which is not a blp per talk here [2] and here [3] mark nutley ( talk) 19:56, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
What are you talking about? I politely asked him a question about his history of socking, which he has freely acknowledged. Please retract your bad faith assumption. ATren ( talk) 19:56, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Discuss proposals, not content ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 19:21, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I have requested that your name be added to the list of involved editors in the climate change arbitration case, as you have been a major editor in the topic area. -- JN 466 14:56, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Dunno if it's gone or not. My browser doesn't support that. But Newsbusters supposedly embeds it. They're also "kind" enough to post the lyrics. - Atmoz ( talk) 15:41, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
This Arbitration case is now moving into the Workshop phase. Please read Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration#Workshop to understand the process. Editors should avoid adding to their evidence sections outside of slight tweaks to aid in understanding; large-scale additions should not be made. Many proposals have already been made and there has already been extensive discussion on them, so please keep the Arbitrators' procedures in mind, namely to keep "workshop proposals as concise as reasonably possible." Workshop proposals should be relevant and based on already provided evidence; evidence masquerading as proposals will likely be ignored. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 20:37, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
here [4]. It involved me alleging you committed some misconduct, but I said I didn't see enough of it to make your behavior worth an ArbCom sanction. Others (including ArbCom) may disagree, and you should know it's there in any event. -- JohnWBarber ( talk) 01:04, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
We're half way through 2010, and the end of the WikiCup is in sight! Round 3 is over, and we're down to our final 16. Our pool winners were Ian Rose ( submissions) (A), Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) (B, and the round's overall leader), ThinkBlue ( submissions) (C) Casliber ( submissions) and TonyTheTiger ( submissions) (D, joint), but, with the scores reset, everything is to play for in our last pooled round. The pools will be up before midnight tonight, and have been selected randomly by J Milburn. This will be the toughest round yet, and so, as ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.
Though unaffiliated with the WikiCup, July sees the third Great Wikipedia Dramaout- a project with not dissimilar goals to the WikiCup. Everyone is welcome to take part and do their bit to contribute to the encyclopedia itself.
If you're interested in the scores for the last round of the Cup, please take a look at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Round 3 and Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Full/Round 3. Our thanks go to Stone ( submissions) for compiling these. As was predicted, Group C ended up the "Group of Death", with 670 points required for second place, and, therefore, automatic promotion. This round will probably be even tougher- again, the top two from each of the two groups will make it through, while the twelve remaining participants will compete for four wildcard places- good luck everyone! 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, Fox and The ed17
Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of Testudines families/archive1 needs a few fixes (see The Rambling Man's comments). If you get the chance, can you take a quick peek? Thanks, Dabomb87 ( talk) 20:02, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Guettarda, this is incorrect on multiple counts, as I describe in my reply. I am requesting that you retract it. ATren ( talk) 20:22, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Jonathan Wells (intelligent design advocate), has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonathan Wells (intelligent design advocate). Thank you.
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We are half-way through our penultimate round, and nothing is yet certain. Pool A, currently led by Sasata ( submissions) has ended up the more competitive, with three contestants ( Sasata ( submissions), Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) and TonyTheTiger ( submissions)) scoring over 500 points already. Pool B is led by Casliber ( submissions), who has also scored well over 500. The top two from each pool, as well as the next four highest scorers regardless of pool, will make it through to our final eight. As ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.
Planning has begun for the 2011 WikiCup, with open discussions concerning scoring and flags for next year's competition. Contributions to those discussions would be appreciated, especially concerning the flags, as next year's signups cannot begin until the flag issue has been resolved. Signups will hopefully open at some point in this round, with discussion about possible changing in the scoring/process opening some time afterwards.
Earlier this round, we said goodbye to Hunter Kahn ( submissions), who has bowed out to spend more time on the book he is authoring with his wife. We wish him all the best. In other news, the start of this round also saw some WikiCup awards sent out by Suomi Finland 2009 ( submissions). We appreciate his enthusiasm, and contestants are of course welcome to award each other prizes as they see fit, but rest assured that we will be sending out "official" awards at the end of the competition. 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, Fox and The ed17 22:39, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
...but stay cool. If you know what I mean. Short Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 14:30, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
This humble servant would like to share this speech made before the Commission of the Latino American Museum, with his friends: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=423585291337 Tony the Marine ( talk) 23:48, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
I have a request, can you please delete everything I have in the view history here, here, here and here, and there's quite a lot things. I'm very sorry for that and I do not want that to be there. If you could just delete it or completely erase the view history, I will be very grateful to you. Thank you. Corey.7.11.1992 7:20, August 26, 2010 (UTC)
I have proposed an edit for the mainspace of an important Wikipedia policy, the Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources policy. Essentially, I believe that some sources are so partisan that using them as "reliable sources" invites more problems than they're really worth. You've previously participated in the RfC on this subject, or another related discussion indicating that you are interested in this important policy area. Please indicate here whether you support or oppose the proposed edit. The original discussion is here. Thanks. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 02:03, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda, in case this isn't on your watchlist at present; and in case it hasn't already been reverted by the time you see this...:
I noticed this edit, and wanted to find out from a biologist (I'm not a biologist) who has made at least one edit on it, if it is legit information. As a non-biologist, some of the terminology used looks iffy to me—But what do I know? Please take a look. Thanks, Hamamelis ( talk) 09:26, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
We have our final eight! The best of luck to those who remain. A bumper newsletter this week as we start our home straight.
We say goodbye to the six who fell at the final hurdle. Geschichte ( submissions) only just missed out on a place in the final eight. Resolute ( submissions) was not far behind. Candlewicke ( submissions) was awarded top points for in the news this round. Gary King ( submissions) contributed a variety of did you know articles. Suomi Finland 2009 ( submissions) said "I'm surprised to have survived so far into the competition", but was extactic to see Finland in the semi-finals. Arsenikk ( submissions) did not score this round, but has scored highly in previous rounds. We also say goodbye to Ian Rose ( submissions), who withdrew earlier this month after spending six weeks overseas. Anyone interested in this round's results can see them here and here. Thank you to Stone ( submissions) for these.
Signups for next year's competition are now open. Planning is ongoing, with a key discussion about judges for next year open. Discussion about how next year's scoring will work is ongoing, and thoughts are more than welcome at Wikipedia talk:WikiCup/Scoring. Also, TonyTheTiger is compiling some information and statistics on the finalists here- the final eight are encouraged to add themselves to the list.
Our final eight will play it out for two months, after which we will know 2010's WikiCup winner, and a variety of prizes will be awarded. As ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.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, Fox and The ed17 23:10, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
I would like to work on the common names article without creating World War 3 and would greatly value your input on this page please? Granitethighs 22:17, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Climate change exaggeration was a red link until today. (see history) It should have been deleted as recreation of deleted content: see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Climate change exaggeration. Moving to user space was an option.
I again ask you to delete and salt the redirect and tell the crowd at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Proposed decision#ScienceApologist redirect of new CC article that they can stop arguing. -- Petri Krohn ( talk) 13:28, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda, I got your name from the Editorial Team participant list, and wanted to tell you that we will be testing out assessment metrics in the Wikiproject: United States Public Policy, and I was hoping you would be interested in assessing articles with the Public Policy Initiative. There is more info about assessment on the 9/13/2010 Signpost. If you're interested or just curious you can sign up on the project page or just contact me. Thanks! ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) ( talk) 22:28, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure if that's what you meant to say. I've written and contributed to many scientist bios, and I don't think any of them are coatracks. Take a look at Thomas D. Brock for an example. Viriditas ( talk) 01:34, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
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link)) which is cited am amazing 594 times. Nor is there mention of his work on the discovery of
Filipin (that paper's only cited a modest 61 times).The Shorter Oxford seems to suggest that the main meaning discussed in Webster is considered obsolete in British usage, and that disinterested is "now always" used in the sense of "Unbiased by personal interest." The usage with the sense of "uninterested" used to be marked as "? Obs" (probably obsolete) and the update section of my 1988 reprint of the Shorter Oxford deletes that "? Obs" annotation and indicates that this usage is now considered to be a loose or imprecise usage.
In view of the differing and shifting usages it's as well to use another word. -- TS 12:19, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, nothing has happened at this article for about 6 weeks. Perhaps time to move/merge/delete it? -- Crusio ( talk) 11:02, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Responding to off-topic discussions in any way only encourages them, so it would be helpful to refrain no matter how good your intentions. [5] Short Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 18:08, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
We are half-way through our final round, entering the home straight. TonyTheTiger ( submissions) leads at the time of writing with 1180 points, immediately followed by Sasata ( submissions) with 1175 points. Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) closely follows in third place with 1100 points. For those who are interested, data about the finalists has been compiled at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/finalists, while a list of content submitted by all WikiCup contestants prior to this round has been compiled at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Submissions. As ever, anything contestants worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.
Despite controversy, the WikiCup remains open. Signups for next year's competition are more than welcome, and suggestions for how next year's competition will work are appreciated at Wikipedia talk:WikiCup/Scoring. More general comments and discussions should be directed at the WikiCup talk page. One month remains in the 2010 WikiCup, after which we will know our champion. Good luck everyone! 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, Fox and The ed17 23:04, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Nice! Do you live in Trinidad? I'm living in America, family moved here when I was 6 years old. So I'm more Americanized than Trinidadian (sadly). I want to go back to Trini one day, especially for the food. Its unmatched by any other food I've tasted here...
Are you familiar with the trini YouTube comedian, "Buhwamoder"?
http://www.youtube.com/Buhwamoder
Avindra talk / contribs 03:25, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda -yes, I'm back, though not as active as I used to be (at least, I try not to be!). It's good to know I'm remembered :) I had a bad start to the year and left WP, but was laid up with a broken ankle for a while and came back to relieve a bit of boredom while I was stuck at home. I do need to wean myself off a bit again though. Hope things are fine with you in the Caribbean! Grutness... wha? 18:27, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Yes your right, my bad. There are alot of them. Im not suprised i got one or two mixed up. Many Thanks :) Seddon talk| WikimediaUK 23:17, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I want to congratulate you on your work with ecology, a page where bafflegab needed serious, careful, countermeasures, which you are providing. Thanks! I've backed out one of your changes, though, because "The processes that influence ecological phenomena vary through space and time and are sensitive to the scale at which they are examined." is rather unfortunate wording. It's not the processes themselves that vary, but the perception of the processes that our tragically limited intellects impute. Back to you. Best regards, Nadiatalent ( talk) 14:05, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Please check your e-mail. ScienceApologist ( talk) 17:44, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
There's damned little discussion on the talk page of this article, but you and I and Dave Souza seem to be the only recent commenters who aren't about to be topic banned. Please take a look at my proposed content on climate change, which is very provisional. I've also notified Doc who is providing BLP guidance. -- TS 21:10, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
The way I see it, the topic really isn't that hugely controversial; the on-site dynamics have made it appear much bigger and more hairy than it is. The most difficult articles are the biographies and we can probably clean those up without serious controversy now.
This is less like topics such as Eastern Europe or Palestine where there are endless supplies of partisans with sharply bifurcated views, more like a topic such as dog breeding where a few strong personalities warp space around them until arbcom removes them.
If you look at the headline article on global warming, it's actually very stable and the talk page seldom contains much more than fluff from casual readers who can't fathom why it doesn't read like a blog or doesn't contain the latest item of misreported news. That's what all of the topic should look like in six months time, except that most of the other articles get far less footfall so their talk pages and editing histories should be correspondingly smaller.
I don't think the kind of fractious personality who has been attracted to this topic can thrive well with discretionary sanctions in place. This time next year, if I'm right, we'll all be shrugging in amazement that the editing of these articles was ever considered controversial. Tasty monster (= TS ) 06:58, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
I was well aware of the link to the "cargo cult" article. My opinion differs from yours, I think, in that I see no reason for pessimism (on the contrary I can be quite a little Pollyanna!) I don't think the articles are likely to stagnate.
I also disagree on Monckton, a little bit. His views are coherent in the sense that they all tend to support his overarching conspiracy theory, and also in the sense that they "hang together" with an internal logic.
It's likely that a good critique of the consistency of Monckton's views could be made. After all that's a very important tool in science, showing that some of an opponent's views lead to a contradiction or that he hasn't accounted for universally accepted facts that would tend to invalidate them. However I don't think you simply mean that. Monckton's views appear to be coherent enough to enable him to present them to naive or like-minded lay audiences in a way that impresses and instils severe doubts about climate science. Tasty monster (= TS ) 00:41, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for yr note on GJP, which I've answered on my talk page. Seems to me the whole thing is pretty complicated and messy, and that if people want to deal with it they should deal directly with the big kahunas who run Wikipedia, while small fry like myself can go back editing articles on el trains. ScottyBerg ( talk) 22:31, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on November 3, 2010. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 3, 2010. If you think that it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article director, Raul654 ( talk · contribs). If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch Talk C. 04:34, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Ficus aurea is a tree in the family Moraceae that is native to Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama. The specific epithet aurea was coined by English botanist Thomas Nuttall who described the species in 1846; older names applied to this species have been ruled invalid. Ficus aurea is a strangler fig; seed germination usually takes place in the canopy of a host tree and the seedling lives as an epiphyte until its roots establish contact with the ground. It then enlarges and strangles its host, eventually becoming a freestanding tree in its own right. Individuals may reach 30 m (100 ft) in height. Like all figs, it has an obligate mutualism with fig wasps; figs are only pollinated by fig wasps, and fig wasps can only reproduce in fig flowers. The tree provides habitat, food and shelter for a host of tropical lifeforms including epiphytes in cloud forests and birds, mammals, reptiles and invertebrates. F. aurea is used in traditional medicine, for live fencing, as an ornamental and as a bonsai. ( more...)
Do you still have an interest in this topic? If so, your views might help the discussion now occuring here Slrubenstein | Talk 12:48, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
The 2010 WikiCup is over! It has been a long journey, but what has been achieved is impressive: combined, participants have produced over seventy featured articles, over five hundred good articles, over fifty featured lists, over one thousand one hundred "did you know" entries, in addition to various other pieces of recognised content. A full list (which has yet to be updated to reflect the scores in the final round) can be found here. Perhaps more importantly, we have our winner! The 2010 WikiCup champion is Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions), with an unbelievable 4220 points in the final round. Second place goes to TonyTheTiger ( submissions), with 2260, and third to Casliber ( submissions), with 560. Congratulations to our other four finalists – White Shadows ( submissions), William S. Saturn ( submissions), Staxringold ( submissions) and ThinkBlue ( submissions). Also, congratulations to Sasata ( submissions), who withdrew from the competition with an impressive 2685 points earlier in this round.
Prizes will also be going to those who claimed the most points for different types of content in a single round. It was decided that the prizes would be awarded for those with the highest in a round, rather than overall, so that the finalists did not have an unfair advantage. Winning the featured article prize is Casliber ( submissions), for five featured articles in round 4. Winning the good article prize is Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions), for eighty-one good articles in round 5. Winning the featured list prize is Staxringold ( submissions), for six featured lists in round 1. Winning the picture and sound award is Jujutacular ( submissions), for four featured pictures in round 3. Winning the topic award is Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions), for forty-seven articles in various good topics in round 5. Winning the "did you know" award is TonyTheTiger ( submissions), for over one hundred did you knows is round 5. Finally, winning the in the news award is Candlewicke ( submissions), for nineteen articles in the news in round three.
The WikiCup has faced criticism in the last month – hopefully, we will take something positive from it and create a better contest for next year. Like Wikipedia itself, the Cup is a work in progress, and ideas for how it should work are more than welcome on the WikiCup talk page and on the scoring talk page. Also, people are more than welcome to sign up for next year's competition on the signup page. Well done and thank you to everyone involved – the Cup has been a pleasure to run, and we, as judges, have been proud to be a part of it. We hope that next year, however the Cup is working, and whoever is running it, it will be back, stronger and more popular than ever. Until then, goodbye and happy editing! 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, Fox and The ed17 03:06, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
The WikiCup 2010 Ribbon of Participation | ||
Awarded to Guettarda, for participation in the 2010 WikiCup. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 08:57, 1 November 2010 (UTC) |
Always nice to see a plant article on the main page. Well done! Melburnian ( talk) 07:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Yes, good job. Viriditas ( talk) 07:14, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
See Talk:Bounty_Killer. Cheers! :) BillMasen ( talk) 17:56, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Are you online? If so, can you please delete the Bounty Killer page so I can undo the move made by BillMasen? That is an unacceptably bold and erroneous move. I have CSD'd the redirect page. His comment about what WP policy is in general is a ludacris one and purely subjective. smooth0707 ( talk) 01:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey who ever this may be. You guessed correct. I am a current Napsman in upper 6 at Naparima College as of Sept. 2010. Upon scrolling through some wikipedia pages over that past few weeks I decided to look up Naparima College and lo and behold I was astounded at the information available. Even though it may have been basic information, it was more that I had anticipated. Upon this I have taken it upon myself to use my advantage of being a current student at the school to update the article with the most current information that I have available along with some pictures. I am having difficulty though..at the moment with the names of the different buildings that have been on the school's campus in the past. If you can help me with this section of the article labelled as 'Campus' it would be greatly appreciated. May I assume that you yourself are a past 'Napsman'? KirtZJ ( talk) 05:40, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Happy Thanksgiving Tony the Marine ( talk), 25 November 2010
I'm wishing you a very Merry Christmas. I haven't spoken to you in a while but I hope everything is going well for you. A little Trini-Soca Parang tune for you. Play De Soca Parang -- CaribDigita ( talk) 14:51, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! And Merry Christmas to everyone else who watches this page! Guettarda ( talk) 15:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I realized that I hadn't heard from you in quite some time (ie, saw you on my watchlist), and I began to grow a little concerned whether you were still editing Wikipedia. Lo and behold, what do I find when I take a look at your contributions but you busily working away in the mainspace.
It's "nice" to know that I associated 'activity' on Wikipedia with 'showing up on the usual dramaspots'. Thanks for giving me a bit of a fresh perspective. Best, NW ( Talk) 06:31, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey ... I think the death of the man who oversaw the transition of T&T to a Republic - having been last Gov-Gen and then first President - belongs as an In the News item. I see you did a lot of fixing/cleaning, but I have no fricking clue how to get it on the ITN page .. even the instructions I found are about as clear as a pint of Guiness. ( talk→ BWilkins ←track) 15:59, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello, happy new year and welcome to the 2011 WikiCup! Your submissions' page can be found here and instructions of how to update the page can be found here and on the submissions' page itself. From the submissions' page, a bot will update the main scoresheet. Our rules have been very slightly updated from last year; the full rules can be found here. Please remember that you can only receive points for content on which you have done significant work in 2011; nominations of work from last year and "drive-by" nominations will not be awarded points. Signups are going to remain open through January, so if you know of anyone who would like to take part, please direct them to Wikipedia:WikiCup/2011 signups. The judges can be contacted on the WikiCup talk page, on their respective talk pages, or by email. Other than that, we will be in contact at the end of every month with the newsletter. If you want to stop or start receiving newsletters, please remove your name from or add your name to this list. Good luck! J Milburn and The ed17 12:57, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
It is so good to see you "back in the saddle". I always feel like my back is covered better on articles relating to Trinidad when you are on deck - thanks for that. I send you and yours warmest greetings from a very hot tropical Queensland and wish you all a healthy, productive and joy-filled year. Cheers, John Hill ( talk) 11:42, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
On the climate change alarmism talk page on the climate change denial talk page, you have shut down an ongoing discussion about improving one or both pages, with the comment "not the place to complain about other articles" and a soapboxing notice. On the alarmist page there are statements that could be categorized as complaining about the denial page, but there is also a rationale explaining why this was done. Do you find that rationale lacking in some way, or had you not noticed it? On the denial page, I can not find anything that implies any complaint about any other page.
Is there a Wikipedia policy saying we are not allowed to discuss whether another page on a similar topic handles a controversial issue better than the current page?
I would also be interested in which portion of the no soapboxing policy you believe has been violated and which participants you believe did the violating. If it was me, I would ask you to please follow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution#Discuss_with_the_other_party rather than using administrative tools to block a discussion about improving the page without any prior discussion. If someone who clearly wants to improve the page is, in good faith, in violation of a policy, shouldn't that person be told about the policy and given a chance to voluntarily change his behavior?
I would also ask you (without implying any wrongdoing or making any accusations) to please review whether you might possibly be using administrative tools in a content dispute where you are a party, given your long history of involvement in various content-related issues in the general area of AGW. Again, this request for a self-assessment in no way implies any wrongdoing on your part. Guy Macon 11:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
I've been doing some housekeeping on Wikipedia:WikiProject Creationism, and noticed this archive, created by yourself some 4 1/2 years ago. Given that (i) it's not generally Wikipedia's practice to archive non-talkpages & (ii) most of the information contained in it seems to be largely redundant, I was wondering if I could interest you in {{ db-author}}ing it. Hrafn Talk Stalk( P) 08:43, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
You're seriously edit warring to keep controversial BLP information in an article instead of discussing it first? -- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 19:45, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Happy Birthday, Guettarda, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a nice day! Logan Talk Contributions 00:48, 26 January 2011 (UTC) |
Thank you very much! Guettarda ( talk) 01:11, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through round one of the WikiCup. Signups are now closed, and we have 129 listed competitors, 64 of whom will make it to round two. Congratulations to The Bushranger ( submissions), who, at the time of writing, has a comfortable lead with 228 points, followed by Hurricanehink ( submissions), with 144 points. Four others have over 100 points. Congratulations also go to Yellow Evan ( submissions), who scored the first points in the competition, claiming for Talk:Hurricane King/GA1, Miyagawa ( submissions), who scored the first non-review points in the competition, claiming for Dognapping, and Jarry1250 ( submissions) who was the first in the competition to use our new "multiplier" mechanic ( explanation), claiming for Grigory Potemkin, a subject covered on numerous Wikipedias. Thanks must also go to Jarry1250 for dealing with all bot work- without you, the competition wouldn't be happening!
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 two 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 22:34, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
There has been a issue in WT:CRIC that needs your vote. Thanks -- ashwinikalantri talk 06:42, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda! In case you hadn't seen it much yet, I wanted to let you know about the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, and invite you to apply for the role of Online Ambassador. We're looking for friendly Wikipedians who are good at reviewing articles and giving feedback to serve as mentors for students who are assigned to write for Wikipedia in their classes. I'd think you'd make an excellent mentor.
If that sounds like you and you're interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors during the current term, which started in January and goes through early May. If that's something you want to do, please apply!
You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE.
Cheers-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 17:30, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
FYI, the IP in question based on the comments on the talk page appears to be banned User:Moulton. I've removed his comments on the talk page. It may make sense to block the IP address. JoshuaZ ( talk) 03:01, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to The Bushranger ( submissions) (first, with 487 points) and Hurricanehink ( submissions) (second, with 459), who stormed the first round. Casliber ( submissions) finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to Jarry1250 ( submissions) for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to Stone ( submissions) for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.
Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.
Just a reminder of the rules; if you have done significant work on content this year and it is promoted in this round, you may claim for it. Also, anything that was promoted after the end of round one but before the beginning of round two may be claimed for in round two. Details of the rules can be found on this page. For those interested in statistics, a running total of claims can be seen here, and a very interesting table of that information (along with the highest scorers in each category) 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 23:43, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
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 00:57, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
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 ( submissions) (who has been eliminated) for his work on 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 19:20, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Well pardon me, I thought I was correcting my omission by moving the information to the genus page. Nadiatalent ( talk) 12:06, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Please consider the possibility that I did not see your edit on the talk page. Please consider the possibility that a person might work through their watch list in chronological sequence. Signing off all pages where I see your edit tag. Nadiatalent ( talk) 12:15, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, apology accepted. Nadiatalent ( talk) 20:50, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Feel free to disprove the charge. And no, accusing somebody of having "utter contempt for Wikipedia rules" isn't an example of a self-attack. Sleetman ( talk) 23:31, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Although you voted to delete at this AFD [10], I hope that you will take another look now that I have added references to the article. I.Casaubon ( talk) 22:24, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
This is a very curious AfD for me. I'm usually a bit of a hardliner when it comes to hewing as closely to the guidelines as possible, but I'm getting a general sense from what little I can see on GNews, AfD comments from well-respected editors, and the clear sincerity of the article's author, that it'd be very much to the project's benefit to find some sourcing for this article and see if it can't be kept. To that end, and having just read your last edit to the AfD, do you think this is something worth flagging for the Article Rescue Squadron's attention? I admit to having displayed what an ARS member might typify as "deletionist" tendencies in the past -- a description I disagree with -- so this is...certainly the first time I've considered flagging something for rescue. Do you have an opinion? ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡ bomb 02:50, 31 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 23:28, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for this speedy vandalism revert. -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 18:33, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page, if you're interested. Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 06:04, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
It's a wiki. Anyone is free to undo an edit. But no one has, suggesting my edit was good. |
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Guettarda, in this edit here [11] you have archived an active thread I was participating in with the statement, If you can't produce a source to support your claims, you're just soapboxing, which is an abuse to talk page. While that thread was arguably heading off topic, what is certain is that it is an abuse of talk page guidelines and your role as an administrator involved in the discussion to unilaterally archive a thread and demand discussions terminate on your terms. Would you be so kind as to undo this please? Alex Harvey ( talk) 14:46, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
-- at Talk:Hockey stick controversy is, in my opinion, out of line. This started as an essay with serious suggestions for improving the article. I remarked in the essay that I would suport any suggestions added to the article with RS's. I later remarked that personal problems would seriously restrict my Wiki volunteer time for the foreseeable future. I invite you to remove the hatnote, and further remark that what I see as your (often) aggressive, abrasive editorial style doesn't help matters. -- Pete Tillman ( talk) 16:54, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
Observation: Based on his contribution history"Alex Harvey" appears to be a SPA intent on disrupting the climate change-topic area. He's done little else. Viriditas ( talk) 23:45, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
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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 Jarry1250 ( submissions) and Stone ( 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 23:32, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
This edit [12] changed a redirect around.. I looked through the short edit history and saw your edit summary. The contributor has very little edit history for such a strange change so it drew some flags. Cheers.. - 4twenty42o ( talk) 19:18, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Guettarda, in this edit you accused me of lying [13]. Since I have no idea what you are talking about I invite you to explain. If you can't substantiate this, please strike it. Thanks. Alex Harvey ( talk) 16:15, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Since your only response has been WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT, you are no longer welcome to post here. Guettarda ( talk) 19:18, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on File:GeorgeMaxwellRichards.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a non-free file with a clearly invalid licensing tag; or it otherwise fails some part of the non-free content criteria. If you can find a valid tag that expresses why the file can be used under the fair use guidelines, please replace the current tag with that tag. If no such tag exists, please add the {{ non-free fair use in|article name that the file is used in}} tag, along with a brief explanation of why this constitutes fair use of the file. If the file has been deleted, you can re-upload it, but please ensure you place the correct tag on it.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}
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Regarding your remarks here. I share your suspicions. Miradre's initial entry to this article was an absolute garbage heap of SYNTH built upon the thinnest of pretexts to sources that merely mentioned the book. In answer to earlier charges this is a SPA, the user maintained that he/she is an experienced user who adopted the sock legitimately, for discretion to edit the controversial stuff. (This has been an alibi used with some frequency by more than one obvious sock showing up in the aftermath of the arb comm decision). If so, the user is expediently shifting guises. One moment uncannily proficient and electrically fast with even the tricky stuff like templates, leaving bold edits in article after article faster than I could manage on a basic vandalism watch--and the next, a complete buffoon about core policies like WP:OR, WP:NPOV, and WP:V? It feels like gaming to me. Professor marginalia ( talk) 06:04, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Fllowing the recen [14] our participation in the dicussion about the title and scope of the article will be apreciated. ·ʍaunus· snunɐw· 01:07, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
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 ( submissions) (Pool A, 189 points) and 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 Casliber ( submissions)) and two featured lists ( Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from Another Believer ( 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 11:33, 1 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, Another Believer ( submissions), Piotrus ( submissions), Grandiose ( submissions), Stone ( submissions), 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.
A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, 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 00:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda, I hope you're well. My name is Aaron and I'm one of the Storytellers working on the 2011 fundraiser for the Wikimedia Foundation. For this year's campaign, we're interviewing as many of the very active and productive Wikipedians as we can to broaden the range of appeals we run come November. I very much appreciate the thoughts about Wikipedia and its supporters that you included on your user page, and I would like to know if you would be willing to speak with me further about this, as well as your experiences using and editing Wikipedia? If so, I'll ask you your personal story and I'll ask you some general questions about Wikipedia. Please let me know if you're interesting by emailing amuszalskiwikimedia.org. Thanks! user:Aaron (WMF)
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by Miyagawa ( submissions), Hurricanehink ( submissions) and Sp33dyphil ( submissions), all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles ( 1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.
If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, 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 12:38, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 20:55, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
The 2011 WikiCup is now over, and our new champion is Hurricanehink ( submissions), who joins the exclusive club of the previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009) and Sturmvogel_66 (2010). The final standings were as follows:
Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.
No prize was awarded for featured pictures, sounds or portals, as none were claimed throughout the competition. The awards will be handed out over the next few days. Congratulations to all our participants, and especially our winners; we've all had fun, and Wikipedia has benefitted massively from our content work.
Preparation for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Interested parties are invited to sign up and participate in our straw polls. It's been a pleasure to work with you all this year, and, whoever's taking part in and running the competition in 2012, we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn and The ed17 00:40, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 20:43, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, this is to notify you that I have started a more indept discussion about whether the Evolutionary Biology article should be restored and in what form exactly. Please see Talk:Evolutionary_biology#Restoration_of_Evolutionary_biology for the discussion. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 03:42, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi! As you've previously expressed interest in the competition, I'm just letting you know that the 2012 WikiCup is due to start in less than 24 hours. Signups are open, and will remain so for a few weeks after the beginning of the competition. The competition itself will follow basically the same format as last year, with a few small tweaks to point costs to reflect the opinions of the community. If you're interested in taking part, you're more than welcome, and if you know anyone who might be, please let them know too- the more the merrier! To join, simply add your name to Wikipedia:WikiCup/2012 signups, and we will be in touch. Please feel free to direct any questions to me, or leave a note on the WikiCup talk page. Thanks! You are receiving this note as you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Please feel free to add or remove yourself. J Milburn ( talk) 01:46, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010. Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is Grapple X ( submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at good article candidates. Second place is currently held by Ruby2010 ( submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is Jivesh boodhun ( submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!
The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.
A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.
We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.
A quick rules clarification before the regular notices: If you are concerned that another user is claiming points inappropriately, please contact a judge to take a look at the article. Competitors policing one another can create a bad atmosphere, and may lead to inconsistencies and mistakes. Rest assured that we, the judges, are making an effort to check submissions, but it is possible that we will miss something. On a loosely related note: If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, 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 00:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Creationism and Intelligent Design are inherently religious beliefs and should not be categorized as "denialism" as this violates WP:NPOV. Would you categorize the articles on magic and theism with "denialism"? Placing that category there is basically just a slap in the face.-- The Devil's Advocate ( talk) 18:13, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
The title my IP visitor used hadn't really registered; I've changed it. Thanks for bringing to my attention. Best, Pete Tillman ( talk) 18:51, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
On 28 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pictetia, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that rather than being most closely related to other West Indian legumes, the Greater Antillean endemic genus Pictetia is closest to species found in Africa and Mesoamerica? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pictetia.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) 02:25, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was Grapple X ( submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was Tigerboy1966 ( submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were Ruby2010 ( submissions), Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), Miyagawa ( submissions) and Casliber ( submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from Ruby2010 ( submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.
The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.
The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, 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 would 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 ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Would you take a look at the last edits by Hans schultz (who you reverted at Nebraska man)? Looks like he's trying to make a comment on something here. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 21:42, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
On 16 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Arthur Roy Clapham, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that although ecologist Arthur Tansley devised the ecosystem concept, the term was coined by botanist Arthur Roy Clapham at Tansley's request? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arthur Roy Clapham.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) 16:03, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
On 27 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Arthur Tansley, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that British ecologist Arthur Tansley, founder of the British Ecological Society and the journal New Phytologist, introduced the concept of the ecosystem in 1935? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arthur Tansley.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. |
Thanks from the wiki and me Victuallers ( talk) 17:14, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
On 30 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William Gardner Smith (botanist), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that pioneering ecologist William Gardner Smith only became active in the field after the sudden death of his brother Robert, who had left an unfinished manuscript that William completed? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William Gardner Smith (botanist).You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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. |
Panyd The muffin is not subtle 16:03, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! Grapple X ( submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's Casliber ( submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.
Congratulations to Matthewedwards ( submissions), whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to 12george1 ( submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from Miyagawa ( submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!
It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:18, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Guettarda. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click
HERE to participate. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 11:57, 5 April 2012 (UTC) |
Thank you for the B star.
Re see aso note: creating that page was on the ToDo list. Im afraid i ddidnt get around to creating it then. It still on the ToDo list. it will be created. DrMicro ( talk) 12:03, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
We're halfway through round 3 (or the quarter finals, if you prefer) and things are running smoothly. We're seeing very high scoring; as of the time of writing, the top 16 all have over 90 points. This has already proved to be more competative than this time last year- in 2011, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 was the lowest qualifying score. People have also upped their game slightly from last round, which is to be expected as we approach the end of the competition. Leading Pool A is Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), whose points have mostly come from a large number of did you knows on marine biology. Pool B's leader, Grapple X ( submissions), is for the first time not our highest scorer at the time of newsletter publication, but his good articles on The X-Files and Millenium keep him in second place overall. Miyagawa ( submissions) leads Pool C, our quietest pool, with content in a variety of areas on a variety of topics. Pool D is led by Casliber ( submissions), our current overall leader. Nearly half of Casliber's points come from his triple-scored Western Jackdaw, which is now a featured article.
This round has seen an unusually high number of featured lists, with nearly one in five remaining participants claiming one, and one user, Muboshgu ( submissions), claiming two. Miyagawa's featured list, 1936 Summer Olympics medal table, was even awarded double points. By comparison, good article reviews seem to be playing a smaller part, and featured topics portals remain two content-types still unutilised in this competition. Other than that, there isn't much to say! Things are coming along smoothly. As ever, 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) 23:32, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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WikiProject Algae was started as a meeting space on Wikipedia for improving the taxonomic representations of the groups of organisms called algae. Please join other editors at the talk page ( Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Algae) to discuss a higher level taxonomy for algae to be used on Wikipedia. -- 68.127.232.132 ( talk) 19:17, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
As you all know, certain situations among which are included my personal health, have led me take a leave of absence from Wikipedia, however I believe that the idea proposed by Angusmclellan is an excellent one. Instead of nominating Puerto Rican related images by the masses, the images which have problems will first be listed in the page which I just created: Wikipedia:WikiProject Puerto Rico/Images with problems. We will be given more then sufficient time as a "team" to find sources and make what ever fixes need be in order to keep them from being deleted. This is a Wiki-community team effort regardless of who uploaded the image. I ask all those who really care about the images related to Puerto Rico to post the link "Wikipedia:WikiProject Puerto Rico/Images with problems" in your "watchlists". Tony the Marine ( talk) 01:33, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to dig up the references. Are you planning on integrating them into the article sometime soon? JPatterson ( talk) 17:16, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
The logging/deforestation/forest management conundrum came out of a GA review I am doing here --> Talk:Illegal logging in Madagascar/GA1 - what do you reckon the best name and scope for this one is? Casliber ( talk · contribs) 22:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Can you shed some light on Erythrina velutina (a leguminous tree)? It's probably going to make a good DYK, but I can't figure out some basic botanical aspects, like its distribution. I asked Cas ( User talk:Casliber#Erythrina velutina), but he said I'd better ask you. Ucucha 20:24, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
I got a bit more and nominated it at DYK. We could get a better hook, though, and the article could use some further expansion. Ucucha 18:07, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Well, no good deed goes unpunished. :) Given your focused/solid comments recently, could I ask for your input on this matter? Its my opinion, that when the NCI workshop findings are given appropriate context the ABC hypothesis article will be near FA quality. - Roy Boy 15:10, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
I filed one if you'd like to comment. Cla68 ( talk) 05:02, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Not that I have any stake in this argument, but NYTimes and Discover are not considered primary sources. We've finally eliminated blogs as sources within the TC project, per wikipedia standards, and I thought the same was now true within the global warming set of articles. A recent event could merit the use of a newspaper/magazine source until some primary source, such as a research paper or book refereed by a university, comes out. It would certainly be better than a blog. And research papers/books can take years to publish. Which article did this involve? Now that I see which article this involves, I see why disputes would come up. Some of her recent research has been divisive within the tropical cyclone community, and involves global warming. Wouldn't that article require that tag people have been recently placing on global warming articles? Nevermind, it has the appropriate probation tagging.
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Does anyone else see the irony of Cla68 filing a WQA for one editor pigeonholing another, given his views toward what he calls the "GWcab"? Short Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 01:54, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I have had a go trying to whittle down the prose but it is heavy going - see para 4 in the History section now, do you think it is heading in the right direction? All help needed on this one as I do think it is a worthy subject matter to write about, just needs doing in the right way. Casliber ( talk · contribs) 02:13, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Guettarda! I meant for so long to respond to this, but I wanted to write a detailed response and so kept putting it off. I have only popped into Wikipedia intermittently, though I still read articles all the time. Thank you for your kind messages. I'm hoping to do some occasional editing and hope to run into you more often. — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:43, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
And thank you, Guettarda, my old friend. Things are very well! — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:16, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I see that you have been very active on the Fred Singer article since SV expanded it. Have you stopped to thank SV for expanding it? I'm going to go do that on her talk page right now and invite you to join me. I think the Singer article now has a chance for FA consideration and future display on the main page. This is a good thing when an article is improved so dramatically, wouldn't you agree? Cla68 ( talk) 15:43, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
We are half way through round 3, with a little under a month to go. The current overall leader is Sasata ( submissions), who has 570 points. He leads pool C. Pools A, B and D are led by Hunter Kahn ( submissions), Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) and White Shadows ( submissions) respectively. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.
Two of last year's final 8, Theleftorium ( submissions) and Scorpion0422 ( submissions), have dropped out of the competition, saying they would rather their place went to someone who will have more time on their hands than them next round. On a related note, a special thank you goes to White Shadows ( submissions) for his help behind the scenes once again. There is currently a problem with the poster, perhaps caused by the new skin- take a look at this discussion and see if you can help. The competition has continued to tick over well with minimal need for judge intervention, so thank you to everyone making that possible. Good luck to all! 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, Fox and The ed17 20:49, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Please see this suggestion. Assuming Slim agrees, are you ok with it? -- Stephan Schulz ( talk) 23:55, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
You previously commented on Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Marknutley/The Gore Effect (2nd nomination). A new version of the article has been created in article space at The Gore Effect and has been nominated for deletion. If you have any views on this, please feel free to comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Gore Effect. -- ChrisO ( talk) 08:11, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, they are, in fact, estimates, in the same way that int num = random.Next(12450.78); is an estimate of the shortest distance in miles from me to any other person on the globe. It's not a very good estimate, but it's an estimate. Hipocrite ( talk) 14:35, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Do you think its ready? And if so would you like to co-nominate? - Roy Boy 03:26, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
[1] Please clearly mark your reverts. And why have you put a BLP tag on an article which is not a blp per talk here [2] and here [3] mark nutley ( talk) 19:56, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
What are you talking about? I politely asked him a question about his history of socking, which he has freely acknowledged. Please retract your bad faith assumption. ATren ( talk) 19:56, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Workshop#Discuss proposals, not content ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 19:21, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I have requested that your name be added to the list of involved editors in the climate change arbitration case, as you have been a major editor in the topic area. -- JN 466 14:56, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Dunno if it's gone or not. My browser doesn't support that. But Newsbusters supposedly embeds it. They're also "kind" enough to post the lyrics. - Atmoz ( talk) 15:41, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
This Arbitration case is now moving into the Workshop phase. Please read Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration#Workshop to understand the process. Editors should avoid adding to their evidence sections outside of slight tweaks to aid in understanding; large-scale additions should not be made. Many proposals have already been made and there has already been extensive discussion on them, so please keep the Arbitrators' procedures in mind, namely to keep "workshop proposals as concise as reasonably possible." Workshop proposals should be relevant and based on already provided evidence; evidence masquerading as proposals will likely be ignored. ~ Amory ( u • t • c) 20:37, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
here [4]. It involved me alleging you committed some misconduct, but I said I didn't see enough of it to make your behavior worth an ArbCom sanction. Others (including ArbCom) may disagree, and you should know it's there in any event. -- JohnWBarber ( talk) 01:04, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
We're half way through 2010, and the end of the WikiCup is in sight! Round 3 is over, and we're down to our final 16. Our pool winners were Ian Rose ( submissions) (A), Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) (B, and the round's overall leader), ThinkBlue ( submissions) (C) Casliber ( submissions) and TonyTheTiger ( submissions) (D, joint), but, with the scores reset, everything is to play for in our last pooled round. The pools will be up before midnight tonight, and have been selected randomly by J Milburn. This will be the toughest round yet, and so, as ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.
Though unaffiliated with the WikiCup, July sees the third Great Wikipedia Dramaout- a project with not dissimilar goals to the WikiCup. Everyone is welcome to take part and do their bit to contribute to the encyclopedia itself.
If you're interested in the scores for the last round of the Cup, please take a look at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Round 3 and Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Full/Round 3. Our thanks go to Stone ( submissions) for compiling these. As was predicted, Group C ended up the "Group of Death", with 670 points required for second place, and, therefore, automatic promotion. This round will probably be even tougher- again, the top two from each of the two groups will make it through, while the twelve remaining participants will compete for four wildcard places- good luck everyone! 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, Fox and The ed17
Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of Testudines families/archive1 needs a few fixes (see The Rambling Man's comments). If you get the chance, can you take a quick peek? Thanks, Dabomb87 ( talk) 20:02, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Guettarda, this is incorrect on multiple counts, as I describe in my reply. I am requesting that you retract it. ATren ( talk) 20:22, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Jonathan Wells (intelligent design advocate), has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonathan Wells (intelligent design advocate). Thank you.
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We are half-way through our penultimate round, and nothing is yet certain. Pool A, currently led by Sasata ( submissions) has ended up the more competitive, with three contestants ( Sasata ( submissions), Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) and TonyTheTiger ( submissions)) scoring over 500 points already. Pool B is led by Casliber ( submissions), who has also scored well over 500. The top two from each pool, as well as the next four highest scorers regardless of pool, will make it through to our final eight. As ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.
Planning has begun for the 2011 WikiCup, with open discussions concerning scoring and flags for next year's competition. Contributions to those discussions would be appreciated, especially concerning the flags, as next year's signups cannot begin until the flag issue has been resolved. Signups will hopefully open at some point in this round, with discussion about possible changing in the scoring/process opening some time afterwards.
Earlier this round, we said goodbye to Hunter Kahn ( submissions), who has bowed out to spend more time on the book he is authoring with his wife. We wish him all the best. In other news, the start of this round also saw some WikiCup awards sent out by Suomi Finland 2009 ( submissions). We appreciate his enthusiasm, and contestants are of course welcome to award each other prizes as they see fit, but rest assured that we will be sending out "official" awards at the end of the competition. 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, Fox and The ed17 22:39, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
...but stay cool. If you know what I mean. Short Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 14:30, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
This humble servant would like to share this speech made before the Commission of the Latino American Museum, with his friends: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=423585291337 Tony the Marine ( talk) 23:48, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
I have a request, can you please delete everything I have in the view history here, here, here and here, and there's quite a lot things. I'm very sorry for that and I do not want that to be there. If you could just delete it or completely erase the view history, I will be very grateful to you. Thank you. Corey.7.11.1992 7:20, August 26, 2010 (UTC)
I have proposed an edit for the mainspace of an important Wikipedia policy, the Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources policy. Essentially, I believe that some sources are so partisan that using them as "reliable sources" invites more problems than they're really worth. You've previously participated in the RfC on this subject, or another related discussion indicating that you are interested in this important policy area. Please indicate here whether you support or oppose the proposed edit. The original discussion is here. Thanks. Phoenix and Winslow ( talk) 02:03, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda, in case this isn't on your watchlist at present; and in case it hasn't already been reverted by the time you see this...:
I noticed this edit, and wanted to find out from a biologist (I'm not a biologist) who has made at least one edit on it, if it is legit information. As a non-biologist, some of the terminology used looks iffy to me—But what do I know? Please take a look. Thanks, Hamamelis ( talk) 09:26, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
We have our final eight! The best of luck to those who remain. A bumper newsletter this week as we start our home straight.
We say goodbye to the six who fell at the final hurdle. Geschichte ( submissions) only just missed out on a place in the final eight. Resolute ( submissions) was not far behind. Candlewicke ( submissions) was awarded top points for in the news this round. Gary King ( submissions) contributed a variety of did you know articles. Suomi Finland 2009 ( submissions) said "I'm surprised to have survived so far into the competition", but was extactic to see Finland in the semi-finals. Arsenikk ( submissions) did not score this round, but has scored highly in previous rounds. We also say goodbye to Ian Rose ( submissions), who withdrew earlier this month after spending six weeks overseas. Anyone interested in this round's results can see them here and here. Thank you to Stone ( submissions) for these.
Signups for next year's competition are now open. Planning is ongoing, with a key discussion about judges for next year open. Discussion about how next year's scoring will work is ongoing, and thoughts are more than welcome at Wikipedia talk:WikiCup/Scoring. Also, TonyTheTiger is compiling some information and statistics on the finalists here- the final eight are encouraged to add themselves to the list.
Our final eight will play it out for two months, after which we will know 2010's WikiCup winner, and a variety of prizes will be awarded. As ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.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, Fox and The ed17 23:10, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
I would like to work on the common names article without creating World War 3 and would greatly value your input on this page please? Granitethighs 22:17, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Climate change exaggeration was a red link until today. (see history) It should have been deleted as recreation of deleted content: see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Climate change exaggeration. Moving to user space was an option.
I again ask you to delete and salt the redirect and tell the crowd at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change/Proposed decision#ScienceApologist redirect of new CC article that they can stop arguing. -- Petri Krohn ( talk) 13:28, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda, I got your name from the Editorial Team participant list, and wanted to tell you that we will be testing out assessment metrics in the Wikiproject: United States Public Policy, and I was hoping you would be interested in assessing articles with the Public Policy Initiative. There is more info about assessment on the 9/13/2010 Signpost. If you're interested or just curious you can sign up on the project page or just contact me. Thanks! ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) ( talk) 22:28, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure if that's what you meant to say. I've written and contributed to many scientist bios, and I don't think any of them are coatracks. Take a look at Thomas D. Brock for an example. Viriditas ( talk) 01:34, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
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link)) which is cited am amazing 594 times. Nor is there mention of his work on the discovery of
Filipin (that paper's only cited a modest 61 times).The Shorter Oxford seems to suggest that the main meaning discussed in Webster is considered obsolete in British usage, and that disinterested is "now always" used in the sense of "Unbiased by personal interest." The usage with the sense of "uninterested" used to be marked as "? Obs" (probably obsolete) and the update section of my 1988 reprint of the Shorter Oxford deletes that "? Obs" annotation and indicates that this usage is now considered to be a loose or imprecise usage.
In view of the differing and shifting usages it's as well to use another word. -- TS 12:19, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, nothing has happened at this article for about 6 weeks. Perhaps time to move/merge/delete it? -- Crusio ( talk) 11:02, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Responding to off-topic discussions in any way only encourages them, so it would be helpful to refrain no matter how good your intentions. [5] Short Brigade Harvester Boris ( talk) 18:08, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
We are half-way through our final round, entering the home straight. TonyTheTiger ( submissions) leads at the time of writing with 1180 points, immediately followed by Sasata ( submissions) with 1175 points. Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) closely follows in third place with 1100 points. For those who are interested, data about the finalists has been compiled at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/finalists, while a list of content submitted by all WikiCup contestants prior to this round has been compiled at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Submissions. As ever, anything contestants worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.
Despite controversy, the WikiCup remains open. Signups for next year's competition are more than welcome, and suggestions for how next year's competition will work are appreciated at Wikipedia talk:WikiCup/Scoring. More general comments and discussions should be directed at the WikiCup talk page. One month remains in the 2010 WikiCup, after which we will know our champion. Good luck everyone! 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, Fox and The ed17 23:04, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Nice! Do you live in Trinidad? I'm living in America, family moved here when I was 6 years old. So I'm more Americanized than Trinidadian (sadly). I want to go back to Trini one day, especially for the food. Its unmatched by any other food I've tasted here...
Are you familiar with the trini YouTube comedian, "Buhwamoder"?
http://www.youtube.com/Buhwamoder
Avindra talk / contribs 03:25, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda -yes, I'm back, though not as active as I used to be (at least, I try not to be!). It's good to know I'm remembered :) I had a bad start to the year and left WP, but was laid up with a broken ankle for a while and came back to relieve a bit of boredom while I was stuck at home. I do need to wean myself off a bit again though. Hope things are fine with you in the Caribbean! Grutness... wha? 18:27, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Yes your right, my bad. There are alot of them. Im not suprised i got one or two mixed up. Many Thanks :) Seddon talk| WikimediaUK 23:17, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I want to congratulate you on your work with ecology, a page where bafflegab needed serious, careful, countermeasures, which you are providing. Thanks! I've backed out one of your changes, though, because "The processes that influence ecological phenomena vary through space and time and are sensitive to the scale at which they are examined." is rather unfortunate wording. It's not the processes themselves that vary, but the perception of the processes that our tragically limited intellects impute. Back to you. Best regards, Nadiatalent ( talk) 14:05, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Please check your e-mail. ScienceApologist ( talk) 17:44, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
There's damned little discussion on the talk page of this article, but you and I and Dave Souza seem to be the only recent commenters who aren't about to be topic banned. Please take a look at my proposed content on climate change, which is very provisional. I've also notified Doc who is providing BLP guidance. -- TS 21:10, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
The way I see it, the topic really isn't that hugely controversial; the on-site dynamics have made it appear much bigger and more hairy than it is. The most difficult articles are the biographies and we can probably clean those up without serious controversy now.
This is less like topics such as Eastern Europe or Palestine where there are endless supplies of partisans with sharply bifurcated views, more like a topic such as dog breeding where a few strong personalities warp space around them until arbcom removes them.
If you look at the headline article on global warming, it's actually very stable and the talk page seldom contains much more than fluff from casual readers who can't fathom why it doesn't read like a blog or doesn't contain the latest item of misreported news. That's what all of the topic should look like in six months time, except that most of the other articles get far less footfall so their talk pages and editing histories should be correspondingly smaller.
I don't think the kind of fractious personality who has been attracted to this topic can thrive well with discretionary sanctions in place. This time next year, if I'm right, we'll all be shrugging in amazement that the editing of these articles was ever considered controversial. Tasty monster (= TS ) 06:58, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
I was well aware of the link to the "cargo cult" article. My opinion differs from yours, I think, in that I see no reason for pessimism (on the contrary I can be quite a little Pollyanna!) I don't think the articles are likely to stagnate.
I also disagree on Monckton, a little bit. His views are coherent in the sense that they all tend to support his overarching conspiracy theory, and also in the sense that they "hang together" with an internal logic.
It's likely that a good critique of the consistency of Monckton's views could be made. After all that's a very important tool in science, showing that some of an opponent's views lead to a contradiction or that he hasn't accounted for universally accepted facts that would tend to invalidate them. However I don't think you simply mean that. Monckton's views appear to be coherent enough to enable him to present them to naive or like-minded lay audiences in a way that impresses and instils severe doubts about climate science. Tasty monster (= TS ) 00:41, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for yr note on GJP, which I've answered on my talk page. Seems to me the whole thing is pretty complicated and messy, and that if people want to deal with it they should deal directly with the big kahunas who run Wikipedia, while small fry like myself can go back editing articles on el trains. ScottyBerg ( talk) 22:31, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on November 3, 2010. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 3, 2010. If you think that it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article director, Raul654 ( talk · contribs). If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch Talk C. 04:34, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Ficus aurea is a tree in the family Moraceae that is native to Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama. The specific epithet aurea was coined by English botanist Thomas Nuttall who described the species in 1846; older names applied to this species have been ruled invalid. Ficus aurea is a strangler fig; seed germination usually takes place in the canopy of a host tree and the seedling lives as an epiphyte until its roots establish contact with the ground. It then enlarges and strangles its host, eventually becoming a freestanding tree in its own right. Individuals may reach 30 m (100 ft) in height. Like all figs, it has an obligate mutualism with fig wasps; figs are only pollinated by fig wasps, and fig wasps can only reproduce in fig flowers. The tree provides habitat, food and shelter for a host of tropical lifeforms including epiphytes in cloud forests and birds, mammals, reptiles and invertebrates. F. aurea is used in traditional medicine, for live fencing, as an ornamental and as a bonsai. ( more...)
Do you still have an interest in this topic? If so, your views might help the discussion now occuring here Slrubenstein | Talk 12:48, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
The 2010 WikiCup is over! It has been a long journey, but what has been achieved is impressive: combined, participants have produced over seventy featured articles, over five hundred good articles, over fifty featured lists, over one thousand one hundred "did you know" entries, in addition to various other pieces of recognised content. A full list (which has yet to be updated to reflect the scores in the final round) can be found here. Perhaps more importantly, we have our winner! The 2010 WikiCup champion is Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions), with an unbelievable 4220 points in the final round. Second place goes to TonyTheTiger ( submissions), with 2260, and third to Casliber ( submissions), with 560. Congratulations to our other four finalists – White Shadows ( submissions), William S. Saturn ( submissions), Staxringold ( submissions) and ThinkBlue ( submissions). Also, congratulations to Sasata ( submissions), who withdrew from the competition with an impressive 2685 points earlier in this round.
Prizes will also be going to those who claimed the most points for different types of content in a single round. It was decided that the prizes would be awarded for those with the highest in a round, rather than overall, so that the finalists did not have an unfair advantage. Winning the featured article prize is Casliber ( submissions), for five featured articles in round 4. Winning the good article prize is Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions), for eighty-one good articles in round 5. Winning the featured list prize is Staxringold ( submissions), for six featured lists in round 1. Winning the picture and sound award is Jujutacular ( submissions), for four featured pictures in round 3. Winning the topic award is Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions), for forty-seven articles in various good topics in round 5. Winning the "did you know" award is TonyTheTiger ( submissions), for over one hundred did you knows is round 5. Finally, winning the in the news award is Candlewicke ( submissions), for nineteen articles in the news in round three.
The WikiCup has faced criticism in the last month – hopefully, we will take something positive from it and create a better contest for next year. Like Wikipedia itself, the Cup is a work in progress, and ideas for how it should work are more than welcome on the WikiCup talk page and on the scoring talk page. Also, people are more than welcome to sign up for next year's competition on the signup page. Well done and thank you to everyone involved – the Cup has been a pleasure to run, and we, as judges, have been proud to be a part of it. We hope that next year, however the Cup is working, and whoever is running it, it will be back, stronger and more popular than ever. Until then, goodbye and happy editing! 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, Fox and The ed17 03:06, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
The WikiCup 2010 Ribbon of Participation | ||
Awarded to Guettarda, for participation in the 2010 WikiCup. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 08:57, 1 November 2010 (UTC) |
Always nice to see a plant article on the main page. Well done! Melburnian ( talk) 07:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Yes, good job. Viriditas ( talk) 07:14, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
See Talk:Bounty_Killer. Cheers! :) BillMasen ( talk) 17:56, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Are you online? If so, can you please delete the Bounty Killer page so I can undo the move made by BillMasen? That is an unacceptably bold and erroneous move. I have CSD'd the redirect page. His comment about what WP policy is in general is a ludacris one and purely subjective. smooth0707 ( talk) 01:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey who ever this may be. You guessed correct. I am a current Napsman in upper 6 at Naparima College as of Sept. 2010. Upon scrolling through some wikipedia pages over that past few weeks I decided to look up Naparima College and lo and behold I was astounded at the information available. Even though it may have been basic information, it was more that I had anticipated. Upon this I have taken it upon myself to use my advantage of being a current student at the school to update the article with the most current information that I have available along with some pictures. I am having difficulty though..at the moment with the names of the different buildings that have been on the school's campus in the past. If you can help me with this section of the article labelled as 'Campus' it would be greatly appreciated. May I assume that you yourself are a past 'Napsman'? KirtZJ ( talk) 05:40, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Happy Thanksgiving Tony the Marine ( talk), 25 November 2010
I'm wishing you a very Merry Christmas. I haven't spoken to you in a while but I hope everything is going well for you. A little Trini-Soca Parang tune for you. Play De Soca Parang -- CaribDigita ( talk) 14:51, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! And Merry Christmas to everyone else who watches this page! Guettarda ( talk) 15:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
I realized that I hadn't heard from you in quite some time (ie, saw you on my watchlist), and I began to grow a little concerned whether you were still editing Wikipedia. Lo and behold, what do I find when I take a look at your contributions but you busily working away in the mainspace.
It's "nice" to know that I associated 'activity' on Wikipedia with 'showing up on the usual dramaspots'. Thanks for giving me a bit of a fresh perspective. Best, NW ( Talk) 06:31, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey ... I think the death of the man who oversaw the transition of T&T to a Republic - having been last Gov-Gen and then first President - belongs as an In the News item. I see you did a lot of fixing/cleaning, but I have no fricking clue how to get it on the ITN page .. even the instructions I found are about as clear as a pint of Guiness. ( talk→ BWilkins ←track) 15:59, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello, happy new year and welcome to the 2011 WikiCup! Your submissions' page can be found here and instructions of how to update the page can be found here and on the submissions' page itself. From the submissions' page, a bot will update the main scoresheet. Our rules have been very slightly updated from last year; the full rules can be found here. Please remember that you can only receive points for content on which you have done significant work in 2011; nominations of work from last year and "drive-by" nominations will not be awarded points. Signups are going to remain open through January, so if you know of anyone who would like to take part, please direct them to Wikipedia:WikiCup/2011 signups. The judges can be contacted on the WikiCup talk page, on their respective talk pages, or by email. Other than that, we will be in contact at the end of every month with the newsletter. If you want to stop or start receiving newsletters, please remove your name from or add your name to this list. Good luck! J Milburn and The ed17 12:57, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
It is so good to see you "back in the saddle". I always feel like my back is covered better on articles relating to Trinidad when you are on deck - thanks for that. I send you and yours warmest greetings from a very hot tropical Queensland and wish you all a healthy, productive and joy-filled year. Cheers, John Hill ( talk) 11:42, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
On the climate change alarmism talk page on the climate change denial talk page, you have shut down an ongoing discussion about improving one or both pages, with the comment "not the place to complain about other articles" and a soapboxing notice. On the alarmist page there are statements that could be categorized as complaining about the denial page, but there is also a rationale explaining why this was done. Do you find that rationale lacking in some way, or had you not noticed it? On the denial page, I can not find anything that implies any complaint about any other page.
Is there a Wikipedia policy saying we are not allowed to discuss whether another page on a similar topic handles a controversial issue better than the current page?
I would also be interested in which portion of the no soapboxing policy you believe has been violated and which participants you believe did the violating. If it was me, I would ask you to please follow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution#Discuss_with_the_other_party rather than using administrative tools to block a discussion about improving the page without any prior discussion. If someone who clearly wants to improve the page is, in good faith, in violation of a policy, shouldn't that person be told about the policy and given a chance to voluntarily change his behavior?
I would also ask you (without implying any wrongdoing or making any accusations) to please review whether you might possibly be using administrative tools in a content dispute where you are a party, given your long history of involvement in various content-related issues in the general area of AGW. Again, this request for a self-assessment in no way implies any wrongdoing on your part. Guy Macon 11:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
I've been doing some housekeeping on Wikipedia:WikiProject Creationism, and noticed this archive, created by yourself some 4 1/2 years ago. Given that (i) it's not generally Wikipedia's practice to archive non-talkpages & (ii) most of the information contained in it seems to be largely redundant, I was wondering if I could interest you in {{ db-author}}ing it. Hrafn Talk Stalk( P) 08:43, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
You're seriously edit warring to keep controversial BLP information in an article instead of discussing it first? -- SarekOfVulcan ( talk) 19:45, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Happy Birthday, Guettarda, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a nice day! Logan Talk Contributions 00:48, 26 January 2011 (UTC) |
Thank you very much! Guettarda ( talk) 01:11, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
We are half way through round one of the WikiCup. Signups are now closed, and we have 129 listed competitors, 64 of whom will make it to round two. Congratulations to The Bushranger ( submissions), who, at the time of writing, has a comfortable lead with 228 points, followed by Hurricanehink ( submissions), with 144 points. Four others have over 100 points. Congratulations also go to Yellow Evan ( submissions), who scored the first points in the competition, claiming for Talk:Hurricane King/GA1, Miyagawa ( submissions), who scored the first non-review points in the competition, claiming for Dognapping, and Jarry1250 ( submissions) who was the first in the competition to use our new "multiplier" mechanic ( explanation), claiming for Grigory Potemkin, a subject covered on numerous Wikipedias. Thanks must also go to Jarry1250 for dealing with all bot work- without you, the competition wouldn't be happening!
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 two 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 22:34, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
There has been a issue in WT:CRIC that needs your vote. Thanks -- ashwinikalantri talk 06:42, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda! In case you hadn't seen it much yet, I wanted to let you know about the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, and invite you to apply for the role of Online Ambassador. We're looking for friendly Wikipedians who are good at reviewing articles and giving feedback to serve as mentors for students who are assigned to write for Wikipedia in their classes. I'd think you'd make an excellent mentor.
If that sounds like you and you're interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors during the current term, which started in January and goes through early May. If that's something you want to do, please apply!
You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE.
Cheers-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 17:30, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
FYI, the IP in question based on the comments on the talk page appears to be banned User:Moulton. I've removed his comments on the talk page. It may make sense to block the IP address. JoshuaZ ( talk) 03:01, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to The Bushranger ( submissions) (first, with 487 points) and Hurricanehink ( submissions) (second, with 459), who stormed the first round. Casliber ( submissions) finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to Jarry1250 ( submissions) for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to Stone ( submissions) for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.
Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.
Just a reminder of the rules; if you have done significant work on content this year and it is promoted in this round, you may claim for it. Also, anything that was promoted after the end of round one but before the beginning of round two may be claimed for in round two. Details of the rules can be found on this page. For those interested in statistics, a running total of claims can be seen here, and a very interesting table of that information (along with the highest scorers in each category) 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 23:43, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
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 00:57, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
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 ( submissions) (who has been eliminated) for his work on 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 19:20, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Well pardon me, I thought I was correcting my omission by moving the information to the genus page. Nadiatalent ( talk) 12:06, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Please consider the possibility that I did not see your edit on the talk page. Please consider the possibility that a person might work through their watch list in chronological sequence. Signing off all pages where I see your edit tag. Nadiatalent ( talk) 12:15, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, apology accepted. Nadiatalent ( talk) 20:50, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Feel free to disprove the charge. And no, accusing somebody of having "utter contempt for Wikipedia rules" isn't an example of a self-attack. Sleetman ( talk) 23:31, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Although you voted to delete at this AFD [10], I hope that you will take another look now that I have added references to the article. I.Casaubon ( talk) 22:24, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
This is a very curious AfD for me. I'm usually a bit of a hardliner when it comes to hewing as closely to the guidelines as possible, but I'm getting a general sense from what little I can see on GNews, AfD comments from well-respected editors, and the clear sincerity of the article's author, that it'd be very much to the project's benefit to find some sourcing for this article and see if it can't be kept. To that end, and having just read your last edit to the AfD, do you think this is something worth flagging for the Article Rescue Squadron's attention? I admit to having displayed what an ARS member might typify as "deletionist" tendencies in the past -- a description I disagree with -- so this is...certainly the first time I've considered flagging something for rescue. Do you have an opinion? ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡ bomb 02:50, 31 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 23:28, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for this speedy vandalism revert. -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 18:33, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page, if you're interested. Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 06:04, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
It's a wiki. Anyone is free to undo an edit. But no one has, suggesting my edit was good. |
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Guettarda, in this edit here [11] you have archived an active thread I was participating in with the statement, If you can't produce a source to support your claims, you're just soapboxing, which is an abuse to talk page. While that thread was arguably heading off topic, what is certain is that it is an abuse of talk page guidelines and your role as an administrator involved in the discussion to unilaterally archive a thread and demand discussions terminate on your terms. Would you be so kind as to undo this please? Alex Harvey ( talk) 14:46, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
-- at Talk:Hockey stick controversy is, in my opinion, out of line. This started as an essay with serious suggestions for improving the article. I remarked in the essay that I would suport any suggestions added to the article with RS's. I later remarked that personal problems would seriously restrict my Wiki volunteer time for the foreseeable future. I invite you to remove the hatnote, and further remark that what I see as your (often) aggressive, abrasive editorial style doesn't help matters. -- Pete Tillman ( talk) 16:54, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
Observation: Based on his contribution history"Alex Harvey" appears to be a SPA intent on disrupting the climate change-topic area. He's done little else. Viriditas ( talk) 23:45, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
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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 Jarry1250 ( submissions) and Stone ( 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 23:32, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
This edit [12] changed a redirect around.. I looked through the short edit history and saw your edit summary. The contributor has very little edit history for such a strange change so it drew some flags. Cheers.. - 4twenty42o ( talk) 19:18, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Guettarda, in this edit you accused me of lying [13]. Since I have no idea what you are talking about I invite you to explain. If you can't substantiate this, please strike it. Thanks. Alex Harvey ( talk) 16:15, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Since your only response has been WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT, you are no longer welcome to post here. Guettarda ( talk) 19:18, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
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Regarding your remarks here. I share your suspicions. Miradre's initial entry to this article was an absolute garbage heap of SYNTH built upon the thinnest of pretexts to sources that merely mentioned the book. In answer to earlier charges this is a SPA, the user maintained that he/she is an experienced user who adopted the sock legitimately, for discretion to edit the controversial stuff. (This has been an alibi used with some frequency by more than one obvious sock showing up in the aftermath of the arb comm decision). If so, the user is expediently shifting guises. One moment uncannily proficient and electrically fast with even the tricky stuff like templates, leaving bold edits in article after article faster than I could manage on a basic vandalism watch--and the next, a complete buffoon about core policies like WP:OR, WP:NPOV, and WP:V? It feels like gaming to me. Professor marginalia ( talk) 06:04, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Fllowing the recen [14] our participation in the dicussion about the title and scope of the article will be apreciated. ·ʍaunus· snunɐw· 01:07, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
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 ( submissions) (Pool A, 189 points) and 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 Casliber ( submissions)) and two featured lists ( Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from Another Believer ( 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 11:33, 1 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, Another Believer ( submissions), Piotrus ( submissions), Grandiose ( submissions), Stone ( submissions), 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.
A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, 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 00:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Guettarda, I hope you're well. My name is Aaron and I'm one of the Storytellers working on the 2011 fundraiser for the Wikimedia Foundation. For this year's campaign, we're interviewing as many of the very active and productive Wikipedians as we can to broaden the range of appeals we run come November. I very much appreciate the thoughts about Wikipedia and its supporters that you included on your user page, and I would like to know if you would be willing to speak with me further about this, as well as your experiences using and editing Wikipedia? If so, I'll ask you your personal story and I'll ask you some general questions about Wikipedia. Please let me know if you're interesting by emailing amuszalskiwikimedia.org. Thanks! user:Aaron (WMF)
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by Miyagawa ( submissions), Hurricanehink ( submissions) and Sp33dyphil ( submissions), all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles ( 1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.
If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, 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 12:38, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 20:55, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
The 2011 WikiCup is now over, and our new champion is Hurricanehink ( submissions), who joins the exclusive club of the previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009) and Sturmvogel_66 (2010). The final standings were as follows:
Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.
No prize was awarded for featured pictures, sounds or portals, as none were claimed throughout the competition. The awards will be handed out over the next few days. Congratulations to all our participants, and especially our winners; we've all had fun, and Wikipedia has benefitted massively from our content work.
Preparation for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Interested parties are invited to sign up and participate in our straw polls. It's been a pleasure to work with you all this year, and, whoever's taking part in and running the competition in 2012, we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn and The ed17 00:40, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 20:43, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, this is to notify you that I have started a more indept discussion about whether the Evolutionary Biology article should be restored and in what form exactly. Please see Talk:Evolutionary_biology#Restoration_of_Evolutionary_biology for the discussion. -- Kim van der Linde at venus 03:42, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi! As you've previously expressed interest in the competition, I'm just letting you know that the 2012 WikiCup is due to start in less than 24 hours. Signups are open, and will remain so for a few weeks after the beginning of the competition. The competition itself will follow basically the same format as last year, with a few small tweaks to point costs to reflect the opinions of the community. If you're interested in taking part, you're more than welcome, and if you know anyone who might be, please let them know too- the more the merrier! To join, simply add your name to Wikipedia:WikiCup/2012 signups, and we will be in touch. Please feel free to direct any questions to me, or leave a note on the WikiCup talk page. Thanks! You are receiving this note as you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Please feel free to add or remove yourself. J Milburn ( talk) 01:46, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010. Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is Grapple X ( submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at good article candidates. Second place is currently held by Ruby2010 ( submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is Jivesh boodhun ( submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!
The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.
A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.
We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.
A quick rules clarification before the regular notices: If you are concerned that another user is claiming points inappropriately, please contact a judge to take a look at the article. Competitors policing one another can create a bad atmosphere, and may lead to inconsistencies and mistakes. Rest assured that we, the judges, are making an effort to check submissions, but it is possible that we will miss something. On a loosely related note: If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, 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 00:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Creationism and Intelligent Design are inherently religious beliefs and should not be categorized as "denialism" as this violates WP:NPOV. Would you categorize the articles on magic and theism with "denialism"? Placing that category there is basically just a slap in the face.-- The Devil's Advocate ( talk) 18:13, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
The title my IP visitor used hadn't really registered; I've changed it. Thanks for bringing to my attention. Best, Pete Tillman ( talk) 18:51, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
On 28 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pictetia, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that rather than being most closely related to other West Indian legumes, the Greater Antillean endemic genus Pictetia is closest to species found in Africa and Mesoamerica? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pictetia.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) 02:25, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was Grapple X ( submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was Tigerboy1966 ( submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were Ruby2010 ( submissions), Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), Miyagawa ( submissions) and Casliber ( submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from Ruby2010 ( submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.
The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.
The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, 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 would 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 ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Would you take a look at the last edits by Hans schultz (who you reverted at Nebraska man)? Looks like he's trying to make a comment on something here. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 21:42, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
On 16 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Arthur Roy Clapham, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that although ecologist Arthur Tansley devised the ecosystem concept, the term was coined by botanist Arthur Roy Clapham at Tansley's request? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arthur Roy Clapham.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) 16:03, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
On 27 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Arthur Tansley, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that British ecologist Arthur Tansley, founder of the British Ecological Society and the journal New Phytologist, introduced the concept of the ecosystem in 1935? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arthur Tansley.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. |
Thanks from the wiki and me Victuallers ( talk) 17:14, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
On 30 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William Gardner Smith (botanist), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that pioneering ecologist William Gardner Smith only became active in the field after the sudden death of his brother Robert, who had left an unfinished manuscript that William completed? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William Gardner Smith (botanist).You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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. |
Panyd The muffin is not subtle 16:03, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! Grapple X ( submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's Casliber ( submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.
Congratulations to Matthewedwards ( submissions), whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to 12george1 ( submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from Miyagawa ( submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!
It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:18, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for the B star.
Re see aso note: creating that page was on the ToDo list. Im afraid i ddidnt get around to creating it then. It still on the ToDo list. it will be created. DrMicro ( talk) 12:03, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
We're halfway through round 3 (or the quarter finals, if you prefer) and things are running smoothly. We're seeing very high scoring; as of the time of writing, the top 16 all have over 90 points. This has already proved to be more competative than this time last year- in 2011, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 was the lowest qualifying score. People have also upped their game slightly from last round, which is to be expected as we approach the end of the competition. Leading Pool A is Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), whose points have mostly come from a large number of did you knows on marine biology. Pool B's leader, Grapple X ( submissions), is for the first time not our highest scorer at the time of newsletter publication, but his good articles on The X-Files and Millenium keep him in second place overall. Miyagawa ( submissions) leads Pool C, our quietest pool, with content in a variety of areas on a variety of topics. Pool D is led by Casliber ( submissions), our current overall leader. Nearly half of Casliber's points come from his triple-scored Western Jackdaw, which is now a featured article.
This round has seen an unusually high number of featured lists, with nearly one in five remaining participants claiming one, and one user, Muboshgu ( submissions), claiming two. Miyagawa's featured list, 1936 Summer Olympics medal table, was even awarded double points. By comparison, good article reviews seem to be playing a smaller part, and featured topics portals remain two content-types still unutilised in this competition. Other than that, there isn't much to say! Things are coming along smoothly. As ever, 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) 23:32, 31 May 2012 (UTC)