Regarding that discussion, do you have the full text for The Telegraph? Thanks, TWOrantulaTM ( enter the web) 18:58, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.
The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV ( submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.
Remember that any content promoted after 27 February 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 at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. 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. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
User:Teratix, you have clearly misstated the content of the Heath Irwin article. You have stated that the career section, which is 6 sentences long, is 2 sentences. His uncle is discussed for 3 sentences. I assume you are lieing to pick a fight. Is that your intention. WP:WIAGA is based on whether the subject is presented in a fairly complete manner, not whether it is lengthy. That is a pretty complete summary of his career unless you can point out something that is missing.- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 13:29, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
You have stated that the career section, which is 6 sentences long, is 2 sentences.In fact, this is not what I said. I said "Irwin's entire NFL regular-season career is summed up in two sentences", which was true. Not all of the career section is devoted to his regular season – of the six sentences in the section at the time I reviewed the article, in order, the first was dedicated to his drafting, the second and third were dedicated to his regular-season career, the fourth was dedicated to his post-season performance, the fifth was dedicated to an unsuccessful attempt to continue his career with Denver, and the sixth was dedicated to his teams' play-off performances.
WP:WIAGA is based on whether the subject is presented in a fairly complete manner, not whether it is lengthy.Correct! Irwin's NFL career was not presented in a "fairly complete manner" – his seven-year regular-season career was covered in all of two sentences.
I assume you are lieing to pick a fight. Is that your intention.No, that wasn't my intention. In fact, I didn't lie at all. Hope that helps! – Tera tix ₵ 14:18, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Summarizing 6 sentences in 2 sentences is a reasonable thing to do in a WP:LEAD.Huh? This was in the article body.
Second there is not really more than 6 encyclopedic sentences worth of content for his pro football career.Frankly, I don't believe you. How can a player have more years in professional sport than sentences covering what he did in these years? In my view the most likely scenario is, considering Irwin was active in the Internet's nascent era, the relevant sources only exist offline.
Since I'm also having this same convo on Tony's talk page and just now noticed this one, I asked these same questions and was able to find sources to help beef up the article pretty easily. We have him winning the 1999 training camp guard battle, as well as him signing for four years with Miami, both help the article and took me almost no time to find. Wizardman 15:46, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Similarly, 1000M seems just to need to have a section removed, which I have done. Quickfail is not for easily correctible flaws. I have corrected the flaw.- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:13, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Our current top scorers are as follows:
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges ( Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs), Epicgenius ( talk · contribs), and Frostly ( talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. 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. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:06, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Regarding that discussion, do you have the full text for The Telegraph? Thanks, TWOrantulaTM ( enter the web) 18:58, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.
The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV ( submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.
Remember that any content promoted after 27 February 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 at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. 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. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
User:Teratix, you have clearly misstated the content of the Heath Irwin article. You have stated that the career section, which is 6 sentences long, is 2 sentences. His uncle is discussed for 3 sentences. I assume you are lieing to pick a fight. Is that your intention. WP:WIAGA is based on whether the subject is presented in a fairly complete manner, not whether it is lengthy. That is a pretty complete summary of his career unless you can point out something that is missing.- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 13:29, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
You have stated that the career section, which is 6 sentences long, is 2 sentences.In fact, this is not what I said. I said "Irwin's entire NFL regular-season career is summed up in two sentences", which was true. Not all of the career section is devoted to his regular season – of the six sentences in the section at the time I reviewed the article, in order, the first was dedicated to his drafting, the second and third were dedicated to his regular-season career, the fourth was dedicated to his post-season performance, the fifth was dedicated to an unsuccessful attempt to continue his career with Denver, and the sixth was dedicated to his teams' play-off performances.
WP:WIAGA is based on whether the subject is presented in a fairly complete manner, not whether it is lengthy.Correct! Irwin's NFL career was not presented in a "fairly complete manner" – his seven-year regular-season career was covered in all of two sentences.
I assume you are lieing to pick a fight. Is that your intention.No, that wasn't my intention. In fact, I didn't lie at all. Hope that helps! – Tera tix ₵ 14:18, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Summarizing 6 sentences in 2 sentences is a reasonable thing to do in a WP:LEAD.Huh? This was in the article body.
Second there is not really more than 6 encyclopedic sentences worth of content for his pro football career.Frankly, I don't believe you. How can a player have more years in professional sport than sentences covering what he did in these years? In my view the most likely scenario is, considering Irwin was active in the Internet's nascent era, the relevant sources only exist offline.
Since I'm also having this same convo on Tony's talk page and just now noticed this one, I asked these same questions and was able to find sources to help beef up the article pretty easily. We have him winning the 1999 training camp guard battle, as well as him signing for four years with Miami, both help the article and took me almost no time to find. Wizardman 15:46, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Similarly, 1000M seems just to need to have a section removed, which I have done. Quickfail is not for easily correctible flaws. I have corrected the flaw.- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:13, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Our current top scorers are as follows:
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges ( Cwmhiraeth ( talk · contribs), Epicgenius ( talk · contribs), and Frostly ( talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. 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. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:06, 12 April 2024 (UTC)