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WikiCup 2024 November newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, BeanieFan11 (submissions), who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, Generalissima (submissions) scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: Sammi Brie (submissions) with 879 points, Hey man im josh (submissions) with 533 points, BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 432 points, Arconning (submissions) with 244 points, and AryKun (submissions) with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 7 FAs, 9 FLs, 94 GAs, 73 FAC reviews, and 79 GAN reviews and peer reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

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Case request statement

Please note that your submission significantly exceeds the word limits at WP:ARC (almost double the 500 words per person) and so I have collapsed your most recent comment in the interests of enforcing the rules evenly. If you wish to further make any comments, please first obtain a word limit extension by emailing clerks-llists.wikimedia.org with 1-2 sentences discussing (a) the total number of words you seek and (b) a brief outline of what you hope to include. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 23:54, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

I wondered when someone would say something about that. No problem; what I said is there in the history as well as under the hat. Yngvadottir (talk) 00:30, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Fastily

Hi Yngvadottir -- Not looked into this (bit gobsmacked tbh to see another petition before all the questions on the process have been resolved) but my read of Fastily's comment is that they either delete or pass (ie let the tag remain). I do the latter a fair amount, as the degree of pushback on declines is wearying to the point where I only have the mental energy to do it occasionally. Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 03:42, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for offering that perspective. The process doesn't allow for the admin to defend themself, so I hope you'll put that in the discussion. I see that Dilettante and Nythar have weighed in under by signature saying they read it as you did. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:12, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

I've commented in the ANI thread. I've been avoiding commenting directly to the recalls so far because it's an implicit endorsement of a process I feel is borked. (For clarity, no objection to a community recall process but this isn't a good one.) Espresso Addict (talk) 04:43, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Arbitration case request declined

Hi Yngvadottir. The Wikipediocracy-related conduct case request has been declined. While the arbitrators were closely divided, there was not an absolute majority to accept the case. For the Arbitration Committee, SilverLocust 💬 06:41, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Orville Peck's bibliography

Dear Yngvadottir : we keep running into the same problem. I want to explain some wikipedia policies: 1) you should discuss the proposed changes on the Article Talk page, pinging the editors who have been involved. 2) you MUST cite a specific wiki-policy, that the article violates, such as WP:COPYVIO. I noticed, that you have not been citing specific policies in your other deletions. 3) as I explained to your earlier, there is NO PREFERRED REFERENCE FORMAT in wikipedia today:Please read this carefully: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources . 4) if you do not like the list of references in the article about Orville Peck, you can suggest splitting the list into a separate bibliographic article. Please take a look at a bibliographic article, that I participated in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer_bibliography . This article is linked to the main article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer . If you want to split a separate bibliographic article about Orville Peck, you should open a request for discussion. 5) I am sorry, that I have to explain you all these policies, that you violated, despite your numerous contributions to Wiki, but I hope, that you will be a more productive editor after your learn the proper procedures. Thank you for understanding and please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions. Respectfully, Walter Tau.

@Walter Tau: The discussion belongs on the article talk page, where I gave a fuller explanation than in my edit summary. (I note you have reverted at the article, but haven't yet edited the talk page section). However, check WP:BRD and WP:ONUS: you have been bold, and been reverted. The onus is on you to discuss, not on me or anyone else who disagrees with your addition to the article. (By the way, you're not signing, so the ping template won't work. Your ping syntax was wrong anyway, but pinging also requires a signature at the time the comment is left.) Yngvadottir (talk) 03:24, 11 November 2024 (UTC)