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I just came upon this from JacquesNguyen ( talk · contribs), and I was wondering what you thought of it. I was just doing a term paper and was using sources from the article in question when I noticed that that the section headers lined up perfectly to the other article. I did notice something was up a few weeks back, but as some of what is in there is sourced, but most of it isn't, should I look into doing a CCI report, as I suspect that this might also be yet another copyright violation that they got away with until now. Either way, I look forward to hearing back from you, and I hope to be around CCI more once school lets out! Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 18:27, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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submissions) claiming for the high-importance
Portal:Sports and
Portal:Geography (which are the first portals ever awarded bonus points in the WikiCup) and
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions) claiming for a did you know of
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Casliber (
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Sturmvogel_66 (
submissions) both scored over 1000 points; a feat not seen in Round 2 since 2010. This, in part, has been made possible by the change in the bonus points rules, but is also testament to the quality of the competition this year. Pool C and Pool G were most competitive, with three quarters of participants making it to Round 3, while Pool D was the least, with only the top two scorers making it through. The lowest qualifying score was 123, significantly higher than last year's 65, 2011's 41 or even 2010's 100.
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Just wondering why Category:Breakfast beverages does not have a link to the deletion discussion like Category:Breakfast foods ? x Ottawahitech ( talk) 13:55, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hi! Would you mind weighing in at the above GA? The second opinion request has gone unanswered for over a week. -- Rs chen 7754 22:04, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
You left a message invoiting me to apply to become an ADMIN. I have wondered about this for some time. I have not pursued this hitherto because I am not sure that I could devote enough time to this to make it worthwhile. At one stage, I was quite active in creating and editing articles mainly on hisotrical subjects. In recent times, I have not found the time (or perhaps the will) to be writing articles for WP. I regularly monitor CFD and certain classes of AFD and regularly contrinbute to discussions, but I regard that as a variety of light relief. I might be persuadable to become an ADMIN, but you would need to persuade me. I think you would need to suggest that there was some particular area of work that I could usefully do. Peterkingiron ( talk) 10:27, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. For good or ill, I think it should be ready to go if you're happy with it. - Bilby ( talk) 07:18, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
This was one of Darius's articles, a copyvio from the get-go, despite this claim by Inwind ( talk · contribs). Drmies ( talk) 23:12, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hi there, Wizardman, I hope you're doing well! :)
You previously participated in an FAC for Everything Tastes Better with Bacon.
It's subsequently had additional copy-editing through Guild of Copy Editors and a once-over by FA Writer Tim Riley.
I've nominated it for consideration a 2nd time at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Everything Tastes Better with Bacon/archive2.
Your input would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Everything Tastes Better with Bacon/archive2.
Thank you for your time, — Cirt ( talk) 19:17, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for the congratulations, and the nomination. :) It wasn't as hard as I expected, although there were more (and different) questions than I'd have predicted. I'll probably spend the next few weeks finishing off one of the old CCIs, as this should make it a bit easier, and it will be nice to knock one off the list. - Bilby ( talk) 15:48, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Wizardman. You have previously deleted the page about the Faroese football player Heini Vatnsdal, because he had not played for any fully professional league or for any national team. Well, yesterday he played his first match for the Faroe Islands national team against Ireland. Could you please restore the article? Kind regards EileenSanda ( talk) 06:59, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Wizardman--
If you can take care of the first two comments at Talk:Mike Capel, then I think I'll nominate this for featured article status, again, with you as a co-nominator, iff you want. Thank you for your contributions. Albacore ( talk) 21:16, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
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The Wizard Man of Sutton himself, I did not know you were on here! It is indeed an honour.
Seriously, though, do you mind restoring the deleted content to User:Launchballer/S Ramachandran? I had a look at the deletion discussion and it seems the only issue is content - the guy is notable enough - and I'd like to something to work from.-- Laun chba ller 08:28, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
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I'm one of those who posted up to an existing page, after following certain Wiki instruction regarding how best to get in line to be edited. Either I misunderstood the process, or didn't read it carefully enough but I'd like to present my details to those editors who do this. The way I think I understand this, is that certain users actually created the trail of misinformation which led to the creation of the erroneous page/s. [1] Is that correct? If not and there is an actual place to post ones details for potential editing, could you please let me know when you have a free moment. No big rush here, please take your time. I'm pretty new to the code system, and am sure that a lot of what I've done here and elsewhere is probably terrible. Regardless, here is a link to the raw data of the page I'd compiled for consideration by ye wizards of the Wicked Peed Here. (wink) Blue Django - [2] [3] ( Aeyrck ( talk) 23:44, 13 June 2013 (UTC))
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Hi. :) There's some talk at Wikipedia_talk:Copyright_problems#Wikipedia:Suspected_copyright_violations about how to handle the backlog at WP:CP. I've been thinking lately that separating out some of the workflows might help, and your input there would be most welcome. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:02, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey Wizardman, thanks for the assessment of the SHSU baseball page. I'm pretty new to assessments and I really don't know what to look for when editing a page to improve its rating. Will you please push me in the right direction and tell me what I can do to improve Sam Houston State Bearkats baseball? I've also added more information on the page since you last looked at it.
Thanks! AnthonyE ( talk) 00:49, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
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Why did you remove the BIO tag from the Big Brother article? GimliDotNet ( Speak to me, Stuff I've done) 15:20, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
I noticed you doing assessments as they kept popping up on my watchlist. I've been occasionally doing what I can to clear out a couple of unassessed article categories, so I know it can be a very repetitive and thankless task. I just wanted leave a comment letting you know that it wasn't unnoticed and to say thank you for doing them. - Sudo Ghost 16:08, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Why did you remove my requests for articles on "Reconnective Healing" and "The Reconnection" from Alternative Health? Both are valid forms of healing practiced by thousands of people around the world and have been examined and verified in scientific studies. There was no valid reason to remove them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bustemup3 ( talk • contribs) 18:05, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
I just wanted to let you know that I CSD'ed a comment you made on an article subpage from 2006. The article is Talk:Zach Randolph/Comments. Please feel free to remove it if you disagree. Kumioko ( talk) 16:28, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I am attempting to make changes to the article "Kyoryugers" regarding translation of a japanese word via the talk page, but am being opposed by user Ryulong, who I believe will most likely revert any attempts made to change the articles in the way I would like to. I have given logical arguments to make these, as they would improve the article, which have been rebutted by said user with weak arguments that what is there works. Ryulong has no administrative powers, and I believe he is hindering the improvement of the article for the sake of his own opinion, as this user has a history of reverting changes to articles that he has edited. therefore, I request that you please view this page( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kyoryugers) and settle the matter of whether or not the proposed changes should be made.- Torahu ( talk) 23:49, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
I don't know if this is appropriate to contact you or not, so here goes. In 2011, you enacted this ban. As far as we know it was not lifted. The same editor is once again self nominating on DYK — Maile ( talk) 21:54, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello! I would like to learn how to review Good Articles. Please alert me when you see this! buff bills 7701
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Apologies if you don't like these kinds of messages, but I didn't see anything telling me not to, so I'll leave it here just in case. I have reviewed your nomination at GAN and have found only a couple of minor errors. I will be mainly unavailable for the rest of the day today, so I will not be able to reply until tomorrow should you fix my concerns beforehand. Thank you. T C N7JM 17:38, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey, first thanks for doing the re-assessments of Champions Day. Second, a question for you: Why the C-rating? I've done a lot of minor edits for articles, but Champions Day is easily my biggest contribution. I've written by far the majority of the article. So as I'm a relative newbie on writing Wiki articles, I'm looking for what I can do to improve the my efforts. I understand that much of this is a subjective thing and there probably aren't too many specific things that you can point at, but if you can pass along some general tips that would be great. Thanks! RedRamage ( talk) 22:45, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
I just wanted to stop by and thank you for pointing me in the right direction regarding what I should add to the SHSU baseball team. I've begun to team up with the University Archives so I now have much more resources at my disposal. Sam Houston State is a pretty small school, and record keeping (stats after '49 are there, but articles regarding the details events are missing) prior to the 80s was suspect at best. Still, more time spent in the archives room should help me in my quest to at least make this article a B. Thanks again! You've been a great help. :) AnthonyE ( talk) 23:58, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.
Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note.
Figureskatingfan (
submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on
topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition:
Ealdgyth (
submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article
Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article
Battle of Hastings. Good articles
James Chadwick and
Stanislaw Ulam netted
Hawkeye7 (
submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to
Piotrus (
submissions) for each of
Władysław Sikorski and
Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example,
Casliber (
submissions) and
Sasata (
submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on
Boletus luridus.
A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:54, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I have nominated Majura Parkway for GA. I tried to address all the feedback in the failed review at Talk:Majura Parkway/GA1, and double checked to make sure it complied with GA criteria. As I'm a still learning contributor as far as GAs go, and I know you have a lot of experience with GAs/FACs. I was wondering if you could review Majura Parkway. (I have also asked User:TonyTheTiger, User:Nick-D and User:Hawkeye7 if they could review.) I would like to improve my ability to get through GA faster, increase my understanding of the GA criteria, and would appreciate a comprehensive review. -- Nbound ( talk) 11:17, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hi. Just curious as to why you removed the 'review pending' tag from this article. I was communicating with the article's creator and was waiting for him/her to make some of the changes I requested. Regards Taroaldo ✉ 21:59, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
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Are there any CCI's that you need immediate help with for images, as I can help with that. I have a list of ones I could tackle, but I figured I'd as before I went ahead and started working. Thanks! Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 18:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
I've been away from Wikipedia for a few days and noticed that on July 1, the articles Stanley Miarka, Frank Dyall, and Al Dubetts were speedy deleted with a notation that no sources exist. Each of these men, however, has an entry appearing in James Riley's Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Although they apparently played in the Negro leagues briefly, and perhaps as a publicity stunt, I think we have generally retained articles for persons who have been verified to have played in the Negro leagues. At a minimum, if these articles are to be deleted, I'd like to see them go through an AfD discussion to get community discussion of the standards that are being applied. Would it be possible to restore the articles and, if necessary, take them to AfD? BRMo ( talk) 05:22, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello Administrator Wizardman,
I received a couple of complaints over IRC on the following user that you blocked: 108.173.0.144. I have added this to make it clearer that he has been blocked, if you don't mind. Just wanted to inform you. -- JustBerry ( talk) 22:00, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Wizardman, Hersfold was looking to write an article about the Catlin Seaview Survey, after writing about some of our technology (the SVII) but has suggested that you can pick up on this for us. Look forward to working with you - please contact me with any questions once you get onto this project - ben@underwaterearth.org - many thanks.
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I just came upon this from JacquesNguyen ( talk · contribs), and I was wondering what you thought of it. I was just doing a term paper and was using sources from the article in question when I noticed that that the section headers lined up perfectly to the other article. I did notice something was up a few weeks back, but as some of what is in there is sourced, but most of it isn't, should I look into doing a CCI report, as I suspect that this might also be yet another copyright violation that they got away with until now. Either way, I look forward to hearing back from you, and I hope to be around CCI more once school lets out! Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 18:27, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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We are a week into Round 3, but it is off to a flying start, with
Sven Manguard (
submissions) claiming for the high-importance
Portal:Sports and
Portal:Geography (which are the first portals ever awarded bonus points in the WikiCup) and
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions) claiming for a did you know of
sea, the highest scoring individual did you know article ever submitted for the WikiCup. Round 2 saw very impressive scores at close; first place
Casliber (
submissions) and second place
Sturmvogel_66 (
submissions) both scored over 1000 points; a feat not seen in Round 2 since 2010. This, in part, has been made possible by the change in the bonus points rules, but is also testament to the quality of the competition this year. Pool C and Pool G were most competitive, with three quarters of participants making it to Round 3, while Pool D was the least, with only the top two scorers making it through. The lowest qualifying score was 123, significantly higher than last year's 65, 2011's 41 or even 2010's 100.
The next issue of The Signpost is due to include a brief update on the current WikiCup, comparing it to previous years' competitions. This may be of interest to current WikiCup followers, and may help bring some more new faces into the community. We would also like to note that this round includes an extra competitor to the 32 advertised, who has been added to a random pool. This extra inclusion seems to have been the fairest way to deal with a small mistake made before the beginning of this round, but should not affect the competition in a large way. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please feel free to contact one of the judges.
A rules clarification: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on 29/30 April, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 15:47, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Just wondering why Category:Breakfast beverages does not have a link to the deletion discussion like Category:Breakfast foods ? x Ottawahitech ( talk) 13:55, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Wizardman, I noticed you left a user page template at User:(21sayriuo) indicating that that user is a sock, but I saw no evidence for this at SPI. I unblocked the user because the original block reason was inadequate. If you're sure about him being a sock, could you please re-block the user? Thank you! Dcoetzee 23:33, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
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Hi! Would you mind weighing in at the above GA? The second opinion request has gone unanswered for over a week. -- Rs chen 7754 22:04, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
You left a message invoiting me to apply to become an ADMIN. I have wondered about this for some time. I have not pursued this hitherto because I am not sure that I could devote enough time to this to make it worthwhile. At one stage, I was quite active in creating and editing articles mainly on hisotrical subjects. In recent times, I have not found the time (or perhaps the will) to be writing articles for WP. I regularly monitor CFD and certain classes of AFD and regularly contrinbute to discussions, but I regard that as a variety of light relief. I might be persuadable to become an ADMIN, but you would need to persuade me. I think you would need to suggest that there was some particular area of work that I could usefully do. Peterkingiron ( talk) 10:27, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. For good or ill, I think it should be ready to go if you're happy with it. - Bilby ( talk) 07:18, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
This was one of Darius's articles, a copyvio from the get-go, despite this claim by Inwind ( talk · contribs). Drmies ( talk) 23:12, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
AutomaticStrikeout ? 17:17, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, Wizardman, I hope you're doing well! :)
You previously participated in an FAC for Everything Tastes Better with Bacon.
It's subsequently had additional copy-editing through Guild of Copy Editors and a once-over by FA Writer Tim Riley.
I've nominated it for consideration a 2nd time at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Everything Tastes Better with Bacon/archive2.
Your input would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Everything Tastes Better with Bacon/archive2.
Thank you for your time, — Cirt ( talk) 19:17, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for the congratulations, and the nomination. :) It wasn't as hard as I expected, although there were more (and different) questions than I'd have predicted. I'll probably spend the next few weeks finishing off one of the old CCIs, as this should make it a bit easier, and it will be nice to knock one off the list. - Bilby ( talk) 15:48, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Wizardman--
If you can take care of the first two comments at Talk:Mike Capel, then I think I'll nominate this for featured article status, again, with you as a co-nominator, iff you want. Thank you for your contributions. Albacore ( talk) 21:16, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
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The Wizard Man of Sutton himself, I did not know you were on here! It is indeed an honour.
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I'm one of those who posted up to an existing page, after following certain Wiki instruction regarding how best to get in line to be edited. Either I misunderstood the process, or didn't read it carefully enough but I'd like to present my details to those editors who do this. The way I think I understand this, is that certain users actually created the trail of misinformation which led to the creation of the erroneous page/s. [1] Is that correct? If not and there is an actual place to post ones details for potential editing, could you please let me know when you have a free moment. No big rush here, please take your time. I'm pretty new to the code system, and am sure that a lot of what I've done here and elsewhere is probably terrible. Regardless, here is a link to the raw data of the page I'd compiled for consideration by ye wizards of the Wicked Peed Here. (wink) Blue Django - [2] [3] ( Aeyrck ( talk) 23:44, 13 June 2013 (UTC))
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Hi. :) There's some talk at Wikipedia_talk:Copyright_problems#Wikipedia:Suspected_copyright_violations about how to handle the backlog at WP:CP. I've been thinking lately that separating out some of the workflows might help, and your input there would be most welcome. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:02, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey Wizardman, thanks for the assessment of the SHSU baseball page. I'm pretty new to assessments and I really don't know what to look for when editing a page to improve its rating. Will you please push me in the right direction and tell me what I can do to improve Sam Houston State Bearkats baseball? I've also added more information on the page since you last looked at it.
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Why did you remove the BIO tag from the Big Brother article? GimliDotNet ( Speak to me, Stuff I've done) 15:20, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
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I don't know if this is appropriate to contact you or not, so here goes. In 2011, you enacted this ban. As far as we know it was not lifted. The same editor is once again self nominating on DYK — Maile ( talk) 21:54, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
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Apologies if you don't like these kinds of messages, but I didn't see anything telling me not to, so I'll leave it here just in case. I have reviewed your nomination at GAN and have found only a couple of minor errors. I will be mainly unavailable for the rest of the day today, so I will not be able to reply until tomorrow should you fix my concerns beforehand. Thank you. T C N7JM 17:38, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey, first thanks for doing the re-assessments of Champions Day. Second, a question for you: Why the C-rating? I've done a lot of minor edits for articles, but Champions Day is easily my biggest contribution. I've written by far the majority of the article. So as I'm a relative newbie on writing Wiki articles, I'm looking for what I can do to improve the my efforts. I understand that much of this is a subjective thing and there probably aren't too many specific things that you can point at, but if you can pass along some general tips that would be great. Thanks! RedRamage ( talk) 22:45, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
I just wanted to stop by and thank you for pointing me in the right direction regarding what I should add to the SHSU baseball team. I've begun to team up with the University Archives so I now have much more resources at my disposal. Sam Houston State is a pretty small school, and record keeping (stats after '49 are there, but articles regarding the details events are missing) prior to the 80s was suspect at best. Still, more time spent in the archives room should help me in my quest to at least make this article a B. Thanks again! You've been a great help. :) AnthonyE ( talk) 23:58, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.
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Hi. I have nominated Majura Parkway for GA. I tried to address all the feedback in the failed review at Talk:Majura Parkway/GA1, and double checked to make sure it complied with GA criteria. As I'm a still learning contributor as far as GAs go, and I know you have a lot of experience with GAs/FACs. I was wondering if you could review Majura Parkway. (I have also asked User:TonyTheTiger, User:Nick-D and User:Hawkeye7 if they could review.) I would like to improve my ability to get through GA faster, increase my understanding of the GA criteria, and would appreciate a comprehensive review. -- Nbound ( talk) 11:17, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hi. Just curious as to why you removed the 'review pending' tag from this article. I was communicating with the article's creator and was waiting for him/her to make some of the changes I requested. Regards Taroaldo ✉ 21:59, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
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Are there any CCI's that you need immediate help with for images, as I can help with that. I have a list of ones I could tackle, but I figured I'd as before I went ahead and started working. Thanks! Kevin Rutherford ( talk) 18:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
I've been away from Wikipedia for a few days and noticed that on July 1, the articles Stanley Miarka, Frank Dyall, and Al Dubetts were speedy deleted with a notation that no sources exist. Each of these men, however, has an entry appearing in James Riley's Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Although they apparently played in the Negro leagues briefly, and perhaps as a publicity stunt, I think we have generally retained articles for persons who have been verified to have played in the Negro leagues. At a minimum, if these articles are to be deleted, I'd like to see them go through an AfD discussion to get community discussion of the standards that are being applied. Would it be possible to restore the articles and, if necessary, take them to AfD? BRMo ( talk) 05:22, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
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