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This is copied from my talk page. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 19:07, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Hey Cwmhiraeth, this article was promoted to GA on 17 March. It was then nominated for submission on 28 March. If I'm not mistaken, that falls outside the 10 day window to submit. The competitor in question also last updated his submissions page on 18 March (day after GA promotion) but did not add his GA at that time. What do you think? — Bloom6132 ( talk) 03:38, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
"I will remind the editor in question of his need to make his submissions in a timely fashion"– I don't see any such thing on his talk page. All I see is yet another " Get Out of Jail Free card", confirming what I feared all along – that this rule will never be enforced and is simply ceremonial. The rule says nothing about leeways, technicalities, or belief that someone is/is not gaming the system. The scoring rules page simply states:
"In the spirit of fair play, contestants have 10 days to nominate their work after promotion … Work submitted after this time is no longer eligible.Your previous stance was that Cup rules – no matter how harsh they may seem – cannot be changed midway and should be changed/clarified "at the close of the competition" [1]. Why the volte-face in this situation? — Bloom6132 ( talk) 18:28, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
"there's not really anything "unfair" about"this situation, when the fact of the matter is that he's been given preferential treatment that no one else received. I was earlier making a separate point about enforcement of current Cup rules in general (not just the 10 day submission window) and that failing to enforce any of the written rules defeats the purpose of having them in the first place. — Bloom6132 ( talk) 15:58, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
The Judges and people interested in working on portals to try to get them featured for the WikiCup might want to be aware of this RFC on the Village Pump. ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 20:57, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
Are my contributions to Fishman (wrestler) enough to qualify forITN poi ts? The article was already in great shape before the death so I just added the latest news. Not sure if it is enough? MPJ -DK 16:31, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello all. I'd like to withdraw because I haven't really done any editing recently, for various reasons. Thanks. Sn1per ( talk) 22:12, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
An article I worked on & nominated at GAN has passed according to the reviewer, but I've not received the bot notification. I am going to be away, on a boat, for the next 10 days with little or no internet access - should I claim it now. The article was called Blaise Castle but, during the review at Talk:Blaise Castle/GA1, was moved to Blaise Castle Estate. This seems to have confused the bot and only later the review was moved to Talk:Blaise Castle Estate/GA1. There was a request at Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations#Blaise Castle Estate for help and advice, but the suggested page history merge has not yet occurred. Is it appropriate to add this to my submission page for the wikicup at the current time?— Rod talk 16:12, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Corious why is my submission for Plered not given the 5 extra base point by the bot? Its prose size is 5708 bytes (larger than 5k needed for the extra points). Not complaining, just trying to see if there's a gotcha I'm not aware of. HaEr48 ( talk) 05:51, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
People generally do not seem to be taking reviews from the 'needs to be reviewed' column. I reckon if you offered double points for those reviews (8 points instead of 4), people would probably take them up. Some have been sitting for months. Just an idea for next time. Kees08 ( talk) 16:48, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Not that it will make any difference to anyone in this year's competition, since the FPo process has been effectively dead for a long time, but the whole process has been marked {{ historical}} and so is no longer a points option for the WikiCup. Bencherlite Talk 12:50, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
Round 2 finishes today. All claims for this round need to be submitted by 23.59 UTC on 28 April 2017. Do not make any further submissions after that until the pools for Round 3 are posted on 1 May 2017. Any points accruing in the interim can be claimed when the next round starts and will be included in the scores for Round 3. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 13:24, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
The Core Contest is being run from 15th May to 30th June and may suit WikiCup competitors. You need to choose an important topic in your area of interest and work on it during the six week period. You can hopefully get it to GA or even FA standard, then or later, and enter it in the WikiCup if it achieves either. Most suitable topics are on multi-language Wikipedias so you should be able to gain some useful bonus points too, and you may earn yourself some Amazon vouchers in the Core Contest as well. Don't start improving the article you choose before the start date though! Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 18:17, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Please could one of the judges withdraw me from the contest. Whether I would get through to the next round of not I will be able to spend much time on wp for a while - I have just spent the last 3 days in hospital with my youngest daughter who has a spinal injury which is going to take a lot of rehabilitation and wp, let alone the wikicup, is no longer one of my priorities.— Rod talk 21:25, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
I know there's a page for this, but I've gotten little movement there. Could someone consider reviewing some of the following GA noms of mine, some of which date from the beginning of the WikiCup and all from before March?
I'd be especially appreciative because my time is very limited this month, so I'm unable to work on much content. Prelims are a bitch. Thanks! ~ Rob13 Talk 18:58, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
The backlog increases, unfortunately.
Any help reviewing these would again be appreciated. It would be a shame to depart the WikiCup because I have 490 points worth of GAs sitting in the queue! ~ Rob13 Talk 07:07, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello I'd like to withdraw from the competition. I don't think I have a hope of advancing due to the back log of GAN's in the category I edit. I would like to thank everyone for the opportunity to compete. Thanks to this contest I not only got my first GA but ended up with 7 GAs and a Good Topic. :D Wish you all the best good luck! --
Cameron11598
(Talk)
02:06, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
I've put forward 2017 FA Cup Final for DYK points but the bot appears to miss the 5000+ character bonus. By my last count, the page had 5,424 characters and should have been awarded the full 10 points. Is there something up with the bot? The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 08:32, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Judges. The Time in Between appeared on the main page as one of three DYK articles. It received 8 points per bot calculation. However, its 2001 article and should be eligible for more points. Not sure if the bot got confused with the article moves in 2007 and 2009. Can you please confirm? - Vivvt ( Talk) 07:00, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
@ Cwmhiraeth and Jarry1250: Seems the bot won't stop "assessing multiplier due", even though I didn't add new submissions and the submissions being assessed was already assessed before? [3] [4]. HaEr48 ( talk) 04:19, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
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This is copied from my talk page. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 19:07, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Hey Cwmhiraeth, this article was promoted to GA on 17 March. It was then nominated for submission on 28 March. If I'm not mistaken, that falls outside the 10 day window to submit. The competitor in question also last updated his submissions page on 18 March (day after GA promotion) but did not add his GA at that time. What do you think? — Bloom6132 ( talk) 03:38, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
"I will remind the editor in question of his need to make his submissions in a timely fashion"– I don't see any such thing on his talk page. All I see is yet another " Get Out of Jail Free card", confirming what I feared all along – that this rule will never be enforced and is simply ceremonial. The rule says nothing about leeways, technicalities, or belief that someone is/is not gaming the system. The scoring rules page simply states:
"In the spirit of fair play, contestants have 10 days to nominate their work after promotion … Work submitted after this time is no longer eligible.Your previous stance was that Cup rules – no matter how harsh they may seem – cannot be changed midway and should be changed/clarified "at the close of the competition" [1]. Why the volte-face in this situation? — Bloom6132 ( talk) 18:28, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
"there's not really anything "unfair" about"this situation, when the fact of the matter is that he's been given preferential treatment that no one else received. I was earlier making a separate point about enforcement of current Cup rules in general (not just the 10 day submission window) and that failing to enforce any of the written rules defeats the purpose of having them in the first place. — Bloom6132 ( talk) 15:58, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
The Judges and people interested in working on portals to try to get them featured for the WikiCup might want to be aware of this RFC on the Village Pump. ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 20:57, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
Are my contributions to Fishman (wrestler) enough to qualify forITN poi ts? The article was already in great shape before the death so I just added the latest news. Not sure if it is enough? MPJ -DK 16:31, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello all. I'd like to withdraw because I haven't really done any editing recently, for various reasons. Thanks. Sn1per ( talk) 22:12, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
An article I worked on & nominated at GAN has passed according to the reviewer, but I've not received the bot notification. I am going to be away, on a boat, for the next 10 days with little or no internet access - should I claim it now. The article was called Blaise Castle but, during the review at Talk:Blaise Castle/GA1, was moved to Blaise Castle Estate. This seems to have confused the bot and only later the review was moved to Talk:Blaise Castle Estate/GA1. There was a request at Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations#Blaise Castle Estate for help and advice, but the suggested page history merge has not yet occurred. Is it appropriate to add this to my submission page for the wikicup at the current time?— Rod talk 16:12, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Corious why is my submission for Plered not given the 5 extra base point by the bot? Its prose size is 5708 bytes (larger than 5k needed for the extra points). Not complaining, just trying to see if there's a gotcha I'm not aware of. HaEr48 ( talk) 05:51, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
People generally do not seem to be taking reviews from the 'needs to be reviewed' column. I reckon if you offered double points for those reviews (8 points instead of 4), people would probably take them up. Some have been sitting for months. Just an idea for next time. Kees08 ( talk) 16:48, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Not that it will make any difference to anyone in this year's competition, since the FPo process has been effectively dead for a long time, but the whole process has been marked {{ historical}} and so is no longer a points option for the WikiCup. Bencherlite Talk 12:50, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
Round 2 finishes today. All claims for this round need to be submitted by 23.59 UTC on 28 April 2017. Do not make any further submissions after that until the pools for Round 3 are posted on 1 May 2017. Any points accruing in the interim can be claimed when the next round starts and will be included in the scores for Round 3. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 13:24, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
The Core Contest is being run from 15th May to 30th June and may suit WikiCup competitors. You need to choose an important topic in your area of interest and work on it during the six week period. You can hopefully get it to GA or even FA standard, then or later, and enter it in the WikiCup if it achieves either. Most suitable topics are on multi-language Wikipedias so you should be able to gain some useful bonus points too, and you may earn yourself some Amazon vouchers in the Core Contest as well. Don't start improving the article you choose before the start date though! Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 18:17, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
Please could one of the judges withdraw me from the contest. Whether I would get through to the next round of not I will be able to spend much time on wp for a while - I have just spent the last 3 days in hospital with my youngest daughter who has a spinal injury which is going to take a lot of rehabilitation and wp, let alone the wikicup, is no longer one of my priorities.— Rod talk 21:25, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
I know there's a page for this, but I've gotten little movement there. Could someone consider reviewing some of the following GA noms of mine, some of which date from the beginning of the WikiCup and all from before March?
I'd be especially appreciative because my time is very limited this month, so I'm unable to work on much content. Prelims are a bitch. Thanks! ~ Rob13 Talk 18:58, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
The backlog increases, unfortunately.
Any help reviewing these would again be appreciated. It would be a shame to depart the WikiCup because I have 490 points worth of GAs sitting in the queue! ~ Rob13 Talk 07:07, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello I'd like to withdraw from the competition. I don't think I have a hope of advancing due to the back log of GAN's in the category I edit. I would like to thank everyone for the opportunity to compete. Thanks to this contest I not only got my first GA but ended up with 7 GAs and a Good Topic. :D Wish you all the best good luck! --
Cameron11598
(Talk)
02:06, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
I've put forward 2017 FA Cup Final for DYK points but the bot appears to miss the 5000+ character bonus. By my last count, the page had 5,424 characters and should have been awarded the full 10 points. Is there something up with the bot? The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 08:32, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Judges. The Time in Between appeared on the main page as one of three DYK articles. It received 8 points per bot calculation. However, its 2001 article and should be eligible for more points. Not sure if the bot got confused with the article moves in 2007 and 2009. Can you please confirm? - Vivvt ( Talk) 07:00, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
@ Cwmhiraeth and Jarry1250: Seems the bot won't stop "assessing multiplier due", even though I didn't add new submissions and the submissions being assessed was already assessed before? [3] [4]. HaEr48 ( talk) 04:19, 22 June 2017 (UTC)