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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 11:11, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
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Many thanks for correcting my categorisation error - it is appreciated! Rollo August ( talk) 21:14, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
In October I submitted a draft of an article on the Tasmania-based beauty brand Beauty and the Bees. I haven't heard back (edits, rejection, acceptance, etc.). I made sure everything covered in the article came from a reliable source, and, I think, left out any editorializing. I'd love some feedback. Thank you in advance. Andy M. Smith — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andymsmith ( talk • contribs) 19:38, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
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Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or something else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.
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Thank you for giving me a choice. J.Turner99 ( talk) 20:57, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi ONUnicorn, an editor recently removed the Atlanta Spa shooting blurb from the ITN template stating that it was the "oldest item" from the list, but according to this comment [1], the oldest one was actually the 'Pritzker Architecture Prize' blurb. Could the shooting blurb be added back in, please? Thanks! Some1 ( talk) 04:03, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
You put this page under the Pending Changes protection on March 12, 2021. There is an IP editor who is now complaining that they are unable to save an edit to the page, see Talk:John Magufuli#Semi-protected edit request on 20 March 2021. The protection icon on the page indicates that the page is actually semi-protected. My understanding is that Wikipedia:Pending changes protection should allow unregistered editors to edit the article, although their edits would then need to be reviewed. In this case it would appear that the article has been placed under PC protection and semi-protection simultaneously; at least that's my impression. Could you please check the protection settings there? Thanks, Nsk92 ( talk) 21:09, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi User:ONUnicorn ( talk) thanks for your contribution to Southgate Shopping Centre (Australia). However Grahame ( talk) has made proposed an WP:AFD for that article. Please do a kind gesture and share your thoughts on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southgate Shopping Centre (Australia) whether it should be deleted or kept. - User:BugMenn (talk) 07:44, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
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What do you usually analyze to decide whether or not to entrust rollbacker rights? Dr Salvus 17:58, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
I admit that once I asked for rights just to brag, but I changed my approach. How can I make the whole community understand that I am no longer an Hat Collector? Dr Salvus 11:20, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. I hope I'll be able to prove in a month or two that I'm not a hat collector. Let's change the subject, since I'm not a native speaker, do you mind if I ask you to do some copy-edits in the future? Dr Salvus 20:39, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
I'm glad you accepted.
However, remember that in order to avoid excessively stressing a user I am asking for help from more people by reducing the workload for a single person Dr Salvus 16:43, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Could you copy-edit Mario Noce page? Dr Salvus 20:47, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your copy-edit. Dr Salvus 21:51, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
"Polispostiva Catania 1980" is a name of a football team for children and not a youth league. Thanks anyway for inserting the "clarification needed" template. Dr Salvus 13:25, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
I would like to know if you have given this rating taking into account the failed FL nominations in which there are many indications that I have not understood since English is my third language Dr Salvus 20:44, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Now I understand why you gave me this answer. Dr Salvus 21:14, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
What do you usually take into consideration to assign the right to pending changes reviewer? Dr Salvus 20:01, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
I think I meet these criteria. I can also recognize vandalism in non-soccer topics. But I must to shake off the Hat Collector reputation because I am no longer obsessed with user rights. Dr Salvus 20:40, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
Now I don't ask any more questions, because you have been clear and clear and because I'm not desperate if I'm not a rollbacker (I can use Twinkle).
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Hello! Yesterday, you have commented on my talk page after you gave me rollback rights. However, it seems like that I still don't have them, ( User rights log doesn't show it, nor in the preferences) is this some kind of an error, maybe? Thanks, Vacant0 ( talk) 11:17, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Could you undelete Draft:List of Copa del Rey finals? Dr Salvus 20:40, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for directing me toward the "be bold" page! I have mostly been adding sources and interlinks in my edits, but this makes me feel a lot more comfortable when it comes to potentially making larger changes to pages. I really appreciate the help!
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The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.
Our top scorers in Round 2 were:
Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:27, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
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Reggaetón Lento (Bailemos) has had low amounts of vandalism since the PCR, I think recent changes can handle from hereon out and thus I am requesting unprotection. Thanks in advance! (please ping on reply) Sennecaster ( What now?) 22:14, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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Happy first day of summer, ONUnicorn!! Interstellarity ( talk) 20:15, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello ONUnicorn, I'd like to ask whether you could unprotect Bettina Walter which you protected from creation a couple of years ago. I've reviewed a draft for this person at AfC ( Draft:Bettina Walter) and I believe she is now notable under WP:ANYBIO. Thank you and best, Modussiccandi ( talk) 10:11, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:
In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 09:30, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
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The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
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I am slow getting through the archives, but I thought you might want to correct your response. For some reason you are referring to a question two sections above, when it is actually the next section above.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:41, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello ONUnicorn,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
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Greetings!
The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!
Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.
The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:
Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.-- Jamie Tubers ( talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)
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The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man ( submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:
All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.
If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Greetings,
It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.
Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.
We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
Thank you once again for your valued participation! -- Jamie Tubers ( talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
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A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
ONUnicorn,
I sincerely hope your holiday season goes well this year especially with what we went through last year. I'm optimistic that 2022 will be a better year for all of us: both in real life and on Wikipedia. Wishing you the best from,
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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 14:37, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
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in Phabricator if you have objections.Hey ONU! Just so you know, the user you just blocked is an LTA. If you'd like I can show you the previous times I've reported them. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 14:50, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi @ ONUnicorn:, I personally requested you to delete this page Ahmedabad Titans in 2022. Thank you ! Fade258 ( talk) 16:23, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
My apologies on that. I missed MrsSnoozyTurtle's earlier G11 request. Onel5969 TT me 19:21, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
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And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
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. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 12:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
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. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
yeah Onunicorn... Wikipedia is always a Russian.Ukainian War ... Antonov Airlines again the same ... Since a while about all those Fights in the way of thinking... told myself many times to leave Wiki. But sure was stubborn still trying to do with my vaste knowledge and research to improve the best text, layout and comprehension, updated, essential, the only necessary to the right direct points and easy... however this does not work. Wiki System is so... So there is no and will never be a solution. I sure am weak, because even replacing Ips 1000 million times, escaping the threat Blocks, Bans and other Administrators Tools Imposing Minds ... the hit in knives points do not bring entertainment and hobby anymore. Prefer doing my own way in 'my' Facebooks groups or my art in Artstation and left the Wikipedian destroyed and abandoned.. If still makes you fun, then keep your way. Regards MK-- 188.96.90.63 ( talk) 15:27, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
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T301928)Hello, I want to create this page but the existing draft was created by blocked account that's why I am requesting to delete the existing draft so I can start the new draft for "Mahmoud Refaat". Kindly also brief me that is it good to update the existing draft or its better to create the new one because the existing one was created by block account. Thank You Casiehunter ( talk) 15:20, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
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I just wanted to say thank you for at least being kind to me on ANI and phrasing any criticism in a constructive way. I know there are things that I could do better, but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask to at least be treated as a person with emotions by others on here. I appreciate you giving me the benefit of the doubt instead of blowing me off. Clemkr ( talk) 18:12, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect The DA and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 22#The DA until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 192.76.8.70 ( talk) 12:44, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
I appreciate your kind and balanced judgement concerning that Draft:LH_Research ANI-discussion. Though I do not completely understand the lack of WP:GNG, I improved on the article massively, perhaps even more than would it have been accepted immediately to mainspace. So the very strict rules had a positive impact on me nontheless; and in the end, a better article resulted. Best, Geoman3 ( talk) 22:00, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.
Our top scorers in round 2 were:
The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Just stopping by to thank and introduce myself.
I see a change was made to my first draft article - I am pretty much as new as a new person could be so I don't really know what was amended or how to tell, but whatever it was I'm sure it was to improve the Wikipedia experience, so thank you.
I hope to keep up-to-date on the Teahouse and other resources available to learn as much as possible.
Thanks again - your user page seems quite extensive and a reflection of your experience, so I hope to learn much from admins like you and others.
Cheers! TheRealInternational ( talk) 05:52, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
Update: I found out how to view the changes (improvements) you made. Again, super newbie here, but just the process of 'poking-around' and referring to the helpful resources is incredible. Thanks & Cheers! TheRealInternational ( talk) 11:45, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
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Hi ONUnicorn, I have a DYK nomination for the article fantasy cartography and I don't know where it is or what I must do to find it. I've tried to do another one for the same article but it denies me because the first one is floating somewhere. Would you be able to point me in the right direction?
Also, I'm looking for some help getting it reviewed - I've been doing some serious edits on it in the last month. Any help in that direction would be great!
Kind regards,-- Twomatters ( talk) 22:12, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for all this ONUnicorn!! Twomatters ( talk) 00:35, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
Hello ONUnicorn,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 812 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 861 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 11:11, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
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Many thanks for correcting my categorisation error - it is appreciated! Rollo August ( talk) 21:14, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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In October I submitted a draft of an article on the Tasmania-based beauty brand Beauty and the Bees. I haven't heard back (edits, rejection, acceptance, etc.). I made sure everything covered in the article came from a reliable source, and, I think, left out any editorializing. I'd love some feedback. Thank you in advance. Andy M. Smith — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andymsmith ( talk • contribs) 19:38, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
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Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or something else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.
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Thank you for giving me a choice. J.Turner99 ( talk) 20:57, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi ONUnicorn, an editor recently removed the Atlanta Spa shooting blurb from the ITN template stating that it was the "oldest item" from the list, but according to this comment [1], the oldest one was actually the 'Pritzker Architecture Prize' blurb. Could the shooting blurb be added back in, please? Thanks! Some1 ( talk) 04:03, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
You put this page under the Pending Changes protection on March 12, 2021. There is an IP editor who is now complaining that they are unable to save an edit to the page, see Talk:John Magufuli#Semi-protected edit request on 20 March 2021. The protection icon on the page indicates that the page is actually semi-protected. My understanding is that Wikipedia:Pending changes protection should allow unregistered editors to edit the article, although their edits would then need to be reviewed. In this case it would appear that the article has been placed under PC protection and semi-protection simultaneously; at least that's my impression. Could you please check the protection settings there? Thanks, Nsk92 ( talk) 21:09, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi User:ONUnicorn ( talk) thanks for your contribution to Southgate Shopping Centre (Australia). However Grahame ( talk) has made proposed an WP:AFD for that article. Please do a kind gesture and share your thoughts on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southgate Shopping Centre (Australia) whether it should be deleted or kept. - User:BugMenn (talk) 07:44, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
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What do you usually analyze to decide whether or not to entrust rollbacker rights? Dr Salvus 17:58, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
I admit that once I asked for rights just to brag, but I changed my approach. How can I make the whole community understand that I am no longer an Hat Collector? Dr Salvus 11:20, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. I hope I'll be able to prove in a month or two that I'm not a hat collector. Let's change the subject, since I'm not a native speaker, do you mind if I ask you to do some copy-edits in the future? Dr Salvus 20:39, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
I'm glad you accepted.
However, remember that in order to avoid excessively stressing a user I am asking for help from more people by reducing the workload for a single person Dr Salvus 16:43, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Could you copy-edit Mario Noce page? Dr Salvus 20:47, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your copy-edit. Dr Salvus 21:51, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
"Polispostiva Catania 1980" is a name of a football team for children and not a youth league. Thanks anyway for inserting the "clarification needed" template. Dr Salvus 13:25, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
I would like to know if you have given this rating taking into account the failed FL nominations in which there are many indications that I have not understood since English is my third language Dr Salvus 20:44, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Now I understand why you gave me this answer. Dr Salvus 21:14, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
What do you usually take into consideration to assign the right to pending changes reviewer? Dr Salvus 20:01, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
I think I meet these criteria. I can also recognize vandalism in non-soccer topics. But I must to shake off the Hat Collector reputation because I am no longer obsessed with user rights. Dr Salvus 20:40, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
Now I don't ask any more questions, because you have been clear and clear and because I'm not desperate if I'm not a rollbacker (I can use Twinkle).
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Hello! Yesterday, you have commented on my talk page after you gave me rollback rights. However, it seems like that I still don't have them, ( User rights log doesn't show it, nor in the preferences) is this some kind of an error, maybe? Thanks, Vacant0 ( talk) 11:17, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Could you undelete Draft:List of Copa del Rey finals? Dr Salvus 20:40, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for directing me toward the "be bold" page! I have mostly been adding sources and interlinks in my edits, but this makes me feel a lot more comfortable when it comes to potentially making larger changes to pages. I really appreciate the help!
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The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.
Our top scorers in Round 2 were:
Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:27, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
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Reggaetón Lento (Bailemos) has had low amounts of vandalism since the PCR, I think recent changes can handle from hereon out and thus I am requesting unprotection. Thanks in advance! (please ping on reply) Sennecaster ( What now?) 22:14, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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Happy first day of summer, ONUnicorn!! Interstellarity ( talk) 20:15, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello ONUnicorn, I'd like to ask whether you could unprotect Bettina Walter which you protected from creation a couple of years ago. I've reviewed a draft for this person at AfC ( Draft:Bettina Walter) and I believe she is now notable under WP:ANYBIO. Thank you and best, Modussiccandi ( talk) 10:11, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:
In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 09:30, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
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The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
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I am slow getting through the archives, but I thought you might want to correct your response. For some reason you are referring to a question two sections above, when it is actually the next section above.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:41, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello ONUnicorn,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
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Greetings!
The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!
Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.
The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:
Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.-- Jamie Tubers ( talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)
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The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man ( submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:
All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.
If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Greetings,
It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.
Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.
We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
Thank you once again for your valued participation! -- Jamie Tubers ( talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
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A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
ONUnicorn,
I sincerely hope your holiday season goes well this year especially with what we went through last year. I'm optimistic that 2022 will be a better year for all of us: both in real life and on Wikipedia. Wishing you the best from,
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Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.
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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 14:37, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.Hey ONU! Just so you know, the user you just blocked is an LTA. If you'd like I can show you the previous times I've reported them. ― Blaze Wolf TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 14:50, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi @ ONUnicorn:, I personally requested you to delete this page Ahmedabad Titans in 2022. Thank you ! Fade258 ( talk) 16:23, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
My apologies on that. I missed MrsSnoozyTurtle's earlier G11 request. Onel5969 TT me 19:21, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
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And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
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. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 12:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
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. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
yeah Onunicorn... Wikipedia is always a Russian.Ukainian War ... Antonov Airlines again the same ... Since a while about all those Fights in the way of thinking... told myself many times to leave Wiki. But sure was stubborn still trying to do with my vaste knowledge and research to improve the best text, layout and comprehension, updated, essential, the only necessary to the right direct points and easy... however this does not work. Wiki System is so... So there is no and will never be a solution. I sure am weak, because even replacing Ips 1000 million times, escaping the threat Blocks, Bans and other Administrators Tools Imposing Minds ... the hit in knives points do not bring entertainment and hobby anymore. Prefer doing my own way in 'my' Facebooks groups or my art in Artstation and left the Wikipedian destroyed and abandoned.. If still makes you fun, then keep your way. Regards MK-- 188.96.90.63 ( talk) 15:27, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
deletelogentry
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Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
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T301928)Hello, I want to create this page but the existing draft was created by blocked account that's why I am requesting to delete the existing draft so I can start the new draft for "Mahmoud Refaat". Kindly also brief me that is it good to update the existing draft or its better to create the new one because the existing one was created by block account. Thank You Casiehunter ( talk) 15:20, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
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I just wanted to say thank you for at least being kind to me on ANI and phrasing any criticism in a constructive way. I know there are things that I could do better, but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask to at least be treated as a person with emotions by others on here. I appreciate you giving me the benefit of the doubt instead of blowing me off. Clemkr ( talk) 18:12, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect The DA and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 22#The DA until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 192.76.8.70 ( talk) 12:44, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
I appreciate your kind and balanced judgement concerning that Draft:LH_Research ANI-discussion. Though I do not completely understand the lack of WP:GNG, I improved on the article massively, perhaps even more than would it have been accepted immediately to mainspace. So the very strict rules had a positive impact on me nontheless; and in the end, a better article resulted. Best, Geoman3 ( talk) 22:00, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.
Our top scorers in round 2 were:
The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Just stopping by to thank and introduce myself.
I see a change was made to my first draft article - I am pretty much as new as a new person could be so I don't really know what was amended or how to tell, but whatever it was I'm sure it was to improve the Wikipedia experience, so thank you.
I hope to keep up-to-date on the Teahouse and other resources available to learn as much as possible.
Thanks again - your user page seems quite extensive and a reflection of your experience, so I hope to learn much from admins like you and others.
Cheers! TheRealInternational ( talk) 05:52, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
Update: I found out how to view the changes (improvements) you made. Again, super newbie here, but just the process of 'poking-around' and referring to the helpful resources is incredible. Thanks & Cheers! TheRealInternational ( talk) 11:45, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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Hi ONUnicorn, I have a DYK nomination for the article fantasy cartography and I don't know where it is or what I must do to find it. I've tried to do another one for the same article but it denies me because the first one is floating somewhere. Would you be able to point me in the right direction?
Also, I'm looking for some help getting it reviewed - I've been doing some serious edits on it in the last month. Any help in that direction would be great!
Kind regards,-- Twomatters ( talk) 22:12, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for all this ONUnicorn!! Twomatters ( talk) 00:35, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
Hello ONUnicorn,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 812 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 861 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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