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Hi, I just wanted to give you a few thoughts about the page for the Tony Award - Featured Actress in a Play. I think there is too much room given to the winners, and the nominees font size is so small you can barely see it, the version I edited it too allowed all the character names to be shown which is something I know people want to see. I'm not sure why you have so many references since with something like awards, you don't need to 'verify' or 'prove' who was nominated or won since it's so well known and concrete (especially by those looking at it, most likely people involved in theatre, like myself). Also, the pictures are not necessary and take up too much space. Thanks Rharrington112 ( talk) 08:51, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Again, I am awaiting your response to my suggestions about this article that I feel is not presented the best way it should be. I noticed that you were online today and did not respond to the above message. If I don't hear from you I will assume you do not care about me changing the page and will revert it back to the way I formatted it. The main issue I have is that the nominees character names are not shown and the font size is too small, and there is no tally of nominees and winners. If you refer to Academy Award for Best Actress (which gets over 2,000 hits a day) this page also uses the same format I am proposing be used here. This format is what is agreed upon as the best way to present acting nominations as you can also see here Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. Also, please notice that no references are needed for these pages besides a link to the organizations page. Thanks Rharrington112 ( talk) 05:54, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's Grapple X ( submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's Casliber ( submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's Muboshgu ( submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.
65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both Matthewedwards ( submissions) and Grandiose ( submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round, Ealdgyth ( submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article, Dana Boomer ( submissions) earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by Stone ( submissions) to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points. Jarry1250 ( submissions) managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.
An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, " Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank Jarry1250 ( submissions) and Stone ( submissions), for continued help behind the scenes. As ever, 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. 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) 23:02, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey Albacore, hope you're well. There's been some activity with regard to your comments at the above FLC. If you could head back there sometime, that'd be dandy. Much appreciated, The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:26, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of the article Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play know that it will be appearing as the main page featured list on June 11, 2012. You can view the TFL blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured list/June 11, 2012. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured list directors The Rambling Man ( talk · contribs), Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs) or Giants2008 ( talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. 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. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 06:33, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year." The award was first presented to Arthur Kennedy at the 3rd Tony Awards in 1949 for his portrayal of Biff Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Its most recent recipient is {2012 winner} (pictured), for the role of {role}, in Play. Frank Langella holds the record for having the most wins in this category, with a total of two; he is the only person to win the award more than once. Characters to win the award more than once include Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross and Phil Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten.
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) 23:21, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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Apologies for the lateness of this letter; our usual bot wasn't working. We are now entering round 4, our semi-finals, and have our final 16. A score of 243 was required to reach this round; significantly more than 2011's 76 points, and only a little behind 2010's 250 points. By comparison, last year, 150 points in round 4 secured a place in the final; in 2010, 430 were needed. Commiserations to Pool A's igordebraga ( submissions), who scored 242 points, missing out on a place in the round by a whisker. However, congratulations to Pool B's Grapple X ( submissions), whose television articles have brought him another round victory. Pool A's Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) came second overall, with an impressive list of biological did you knows, good articles and featured articles. Third overall was Pool D's Muboshgu ( submissions), with a long list of contibutions, mostly relating to baseball. Of course, with the points resetting every round, the playing field has been levelled. The most successful Pool was Pool D, which saw seven into the final round. Pool B saw four, C saw three and Pool A saw only the two round leaders.
A quick note about other competitions taking place on Wikipedia which may be of interest. There are 13 days remaining in the June-July GAN backlog elimination drive, but it is not too late to take part. August will also see the return of The Core Contest- a one month long competition first run in 2007. While the WikiCup awards points for audited content on any subject, The Core Contest about is raw article improvement, focussing heavily on the most important articles on Wikipedia. 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) 10:42, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
If you don't mind can you petrol my new article Thangamani Matriculation Higher Secondary School. Ramesh Ramaiah talk 17:43, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Why you delete it?
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[user:Info1012] I have entered the information as notable information and I also did this article in comparison to others related. One of which was MVM inc. I can try to make work on it a little more, would like reconsideration on deletion. It is very comparable to other articles listed...Any advice on making it better is very welcomed...Thx] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Info1012 ( talk • contribs) 20:14, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Albacore - Would you mind revisiting your comments at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of National Natural Landmarks in Michigan/archive1 to see if you have additional concerns? The FLC has been ongoing for quite a while, so I'd like to push it along a bit, if I may. Thanks, Dana boomer ( talk) 15:38, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
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We're approaching the beginning of 2012's final round. Pool A sees Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) as the leader, with 300 points being awarded for the featured article Bivalvia, and Pool B sees Grapple X ( submissions) in the lead, with 10 good articles, and over 35 articles eligible for good topic points. Pool A sees Muboshgu ( submissions) in second place with a number of articles relating to baseball, while Pool B's Ruby2010 ( submissions) follows Grapple X, with a variety of contributions including the high-scoring, high-importance featured article on the 2010 film Pride & Prejudice. Ruby2010, like Grapple X, also claimed a number of good topic points; despite this, not a single point has been claimed for featured topics in the contest so far. The same is true for featured portals.
Currently, the eighth-place competitor (and so the lowest scorer who would reach the final round right now) has scored 332, more than double the 150 needed to reach the final round last year. In 2010, however, 430 was the lowest qualifying score. In this competition, we have generally seen scores closer to those in 2010 than those in 2011. Let's see what kind of benchmark we can set for future competitions! 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) 22:16, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
I've finished addressing all the points you made on the 30–30 club FLC. Thanks for your feedback! — Bloom6132 ( talk) 18:08, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting all my silly mistakes. They should all be fixed now. — Bloom6132 ( talk) 17:17, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for capping the resolved comments. Just one last thing. Is it possible for you to take a definitive position/stance on the FLC, so as to get the ball rolling? Thanks! — Bloom6132 ( talk) 10:23, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
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I have no problem at all with your having split up the Timberwolves list; my question is just is the use of statistics in the article like that necessarily the best method of providing further information rather than the college/nationality/jersey number system that was in place before? Keeping the statistics updated adds a whole degree of difficulty. Sorry if this has become a policy at WP:NBA or something where I just don't pay attention (which is entirely possibly the case). matt91486 ( talk) 05:56, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
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The final is upon us! We are down to our final 8. A massive 573 was our lowest qualifying score; this is higher than the 150 points needed last year and the 430 needed in 2010. Even in 2009, when points were acquired for mainspace edit count in addition to audited content, 417 points secured a place. That leaves this year's WikiCup, by one measure at least, our most competitive ever. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:
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Hi Albacore. You have comments to be addressed at the above. Many thanks. The Rambling Man ( talk) 07:35, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I just wanted to give you a few thoughts about the page for the Tony Award - Featured Actress in a Play. I think there is too much room given to the winners, and the nominees font size is so small you can barely see it, the version I edited it too allowed all the character names to be shown which is something I know people want to see. I'm not sure why you have so many references since with something like awards, you don't need to 'verify' or 'prove' who was nominated or won since it's so well known and concrete (especially by those looking at it, most likely people involved in theatre, like myself). Also, the pictures are not necessary and take up too much space. Thanks Rharrington112 ( talk) 08:51, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello Again, I am awaiting your response to my suggestions about this article that I feel is not presented the best way it should be. I noticed that you were online today and did not respond to the above message. If I don't hear from you I will assume you do not care about me changing the page and will revert it back to the way I formatted it. The main issue I have is that the nominees character names are not shown and the font size is too small, and there is no tally of nominees and winners. If you refer to Academy Award for Best Actress (which gets over 2,000 hits a day) this page also uses the same format I am proposing be used here. This format is what is agreed upon as the best way to present acting nominations as you can also see here Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. Also, please notice that no references are needed for these pages besides a link to the organizations page. Thanks Rharrington112 ( talk) 05:54, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's Grapple X ( submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's Casliber ( submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's Muboshgu ( submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.
65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both Matthewedwards ( submissions) and Grandiose ( submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round, Ealdgyth ( submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article, Dana Boomer ( submissions) earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by Stone ( submissions) to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points. Jarry1250 ( submissions) managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.
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Hey Albacore, hope you're well. There's been some activity with regard to your comments at the above FLC. If you could head back there sometime, that'd be dandy. Much appreciated, The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:26, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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On 15 May 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Charles Manning Child, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that zoologist Charles Manning Child was described by a National Academy of Sciences biographer as "unmarred by personal ambition or striving for fame and position"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charles Manning Child.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. |
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Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of the article Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play know that it will be appearing as the main page featured list on June 11, 2012. You can view the TFL blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured list/June 11, 2012. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured list directors The Rambling Man ( talk · contribs), Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs) or Giants2008 ( talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. 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. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 06:33, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year." The award was first presented to Arthur Kennedy at the 3rd Tony Awards in 1949 for his portrayal of Biff Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Its most recent recipient is {2012 winner} (pictured), for the role of {role}, in Play. Frank Langella holds the record for having the most wins in this category, with a total of two; he is the only person to win the award more than once. Characters to win the award more than once include Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross and Phil Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten.
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) 23:21, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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On 13 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fred Tenney, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Fred Tenney (pictured) was described as "one of the best defensive first basemen of all time", while Fred Tenney only played six games at the position? 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. |
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On 13 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fred Tenney (outfielder), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Fred Tenney (pictured) was described as "one of the best defensive first basemen of all time", while Fred Tenney only played six games at the position? 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. |
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On 15 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ryan Hanigan, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Ryan Hanigan hit the first Major League Baseball pitch thrown to him for a double? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ryan Hanigan. 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. |
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On 20 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Julie Otsuka, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Julie Otsuka has won an Alex Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and an Asian American Literary Award for her works on Japanese Americans? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Julie Otsuka. 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. |
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On 21 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article When the Emperor was Divine, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that When the Emperor was Divine, a historical fiction novel about Japanese American internment, was described as "a meditation on what it means to be loyal to one's country and to one's self"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/When the Emperor was Divine. 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. |
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Apologies for the lateness of this letter; our usual bot wasn't working. We are now entering round 4, our semi-finals, and have our final 16. A score of 243 was required to reach this round; significantly more than 2011's 76 points, and only a little behind 2010's 250 points. By comparison, last year, 150 points in round 4 secured a place in the final; in 2010, 430 were needed. Commiserations to Pool A's igordebraga ( submissions), who scored 242 points, missing out on a place in the round by a whisker. However, congratulations to Pool B's Grapple X ( submissions), whose television articles have brought him another round victory. Pool A's Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) came second overall, with an impressive list of biological did you knows, good articles and featured articles. Third overall was Pool D's Muboshgu ( submissions), with a long list of contibutions, mostly relating to baseball. Of course, with the points resetting every round, the playing field has been levelled. The most successful Pool was Pool D, which saw seven into the final round. Pool B saw four, C saw three and Pool A saw only the two round leaders.
A quick note about other competitions taking place on Wikipedia which may be of interest. There are 13 days remaining in the June-July GAN backlog elimination drive, but it is not too late to take part. August will also see the return of The Core Contest- a one month long competition first run in 2007. While the WikiCup awards points for audited content on any subject, The Core Contest about is raw article improvement, focussing heavily on the most important articles on Wikipedia. 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) 10:42, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
If you don't mind can you petrol my new article Thangamani Matriculation Higher Secondary School. Ramesh Ramaiah talk 17:43, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
Why you delete it?
Dilek2 ( talk) 22:23, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
[user:Info1012] I have entered the information as notable information and I also did this article in comparison to others related. One of which was MVM inc. I can try to make work on it a little more, would like reconsideration on deletion. It is very comparable to other articles listed...Any advice on making it better is very welcomed...Thx] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Info1012 ( talk • contribs) 20:14, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Albacore - Would you mind revisiting your comments at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of National Natural Landmarks in Michigan/archive1 to see if you have additional concerns? The FLC has been ongoing for quite a while, so I'd like to push it along a bit, if I may. Thanks, Dana boomer ( talk) 15:38, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
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We're approaching the beginning of 2012's final round. Pool A sees Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) as the leader, with 300 points being awarded for the featured article Bivalvia, and Pool B sees Grapple X ( submissions) in the lead, with 10 good articles, and over 35 articles eligible for good topic points. Pool A sees Muboshgu ( submissions) in second place with a number of articles relating to baseball, while Pool B's Ruby2010 ( submissions) follows Grapple X, with a variety of contributions including the high-scoring, high-importance featured article on the 2010 film Pride & Prejudice. Ruby2010, like Grapple X, also claimed a number of good topic points; despite this, not a single point has been claimed for featured topics in the contest so far. The same is true for featured portals.
Currently, the eighth-place competitor (and so the lowest scorer who would reach the final round right now) has scored 332, more than double the 150 needed to reach the final round last year. In 2010, however, 430 was the lowest qualifying score. In this competition, we have generally seen scores closer to those in 2010 than those in 2011. Let's see what kind of benchmark we can set for future competitions! 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) 22:16, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
I've finished addressing all the points you made on the 30–30 club FLC. Thanks for your feedback! — Bloom6132 ( talk) 18:08, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting all my silly mistakes. They should all be fixed now. — Bloom6132 ( talk) 17:17, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for capping the resolved comments. Just one last thing. Is it possible for you to take a definitive position/stance on the FLC, so as to get the ball rolling? Thanks! — Bloom6132 ( talk) 10:23, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
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I have no problem at all with your having split up the Timberwolves list; my question is just is the use of statistics in the article like that necessarily the best method of providing further information rather than the college/nationality/jersey number system that was in place before? Keeping the statistics updated adds a whole degree of difficulty. Sorry if this has become a policy at WP:NBA or something where I just don't pay attention (which is entirely possibly the case). matt91486 ( talk) 05:56, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
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The final is upon us! We are down to our final 8. A massive 573 was our lowest qualifying score; this is higher than the 150 points needed last year and the 430 needed in 2010. Even in 2009, when points were acquired for mainspace edit count in addition to audited content, 417 points secured a place. That leaves this year's WikiCup, by one measure at least, our most competitive ever. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:
However, we must also say goodbye to the eight who did not make the final, having fallen at the last hurdle: GreatOrangePumpkin ( submissions), Ealdgyth ( submissions), Calvin999 ( submissions), Piotrus ( submissions), Toa Nidhiki05 ( submissions), 12george1 ( submissions), The Bushranger ( submissions) and 1111tomica ( submissions). We hope to see you all next year.
On the subject of next year, a discussion has been opened here. Come and have your say about the competition, and how you'd like it to run in the future. This brainstorming will go on for some time before more focused discussions/polls are opened. 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) 00:06, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Albacore. You have comments to be addressed at the above. Many thanks. The Rambling Man ( talk) 07:35, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
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