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The Signpost: 20 February 2012
- Special report: The plight of the new page patrollers
- News and notes: Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering
- Discussion report: Discussion on copyrighted files from non-US relation states
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Poland
- Featured content: The best of the week
The Bugle: Issue LXXI, February 2012
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The Signpost: 27 February 2012
- News and notes: Finance meeting fallout, Gardner recommendations forthcoming
- Recent research: Gender gap and conflict aversion; collaboration on breaking news; effects of leadership on participation; legacy of Public Policy Initiative
- Discussion report: Focus on admin conduct and editor retention
- WikiProject report: Just don't call it "sci-fi": WikiProject Science Fiction
- Arbitration report: Final decision in TimidGuy ban appeal, one case remains open
- Technology report: 1.19 deployment stress, Meta debates whether to enforce SUL
WikiCup 2012 February newsletter
Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was 
Grapple X (submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was 
Tigerboy1966 (submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were 
Ruby2010 (submissions), 
Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 
Miyagawa (submissions) and 
Casliber (submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from Ruby2010 (submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.
The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.
The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which would otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:53, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
New Page Triage engagement strategy released
Hey guys!
I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the initial documentation about the project and also the engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyes
wikimedia.org.
It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 02:18, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 05 March 2012
- News and notes: Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history
- In the news: Heights reached in search rankings, privacy and mental health info; clouds remain over content policing
- Discussion report: COI and NOTCENSORED: policies under discussion
- WikiProject report: We don't bite: WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles
- Featured content: Best of the week
- Arbitration report: AUSC appointments announced, one case remains open
Writing & Rhetoric II
Hi Buggie, I wanted to leave you a note to say thank you for your help with my class. The students really valued your input and I think the project went really well. I also want to ask you if you'd be willing to serve as online ambassador for a course I'm teaching beginning March 26. This would not involve commenting on drafts as in the last class as I want to try having online ambassadors only available for student questions/emails, rather than require students to submit a draft. In other words, it wouldn't be nearly as involved, but you would be available just in case students needed help. What do you think? Matthewvetter (talk) 15:13, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
- What's the topic? I'm fine with anything in general (I've been absent from wiki for quite osme tiome trying to push my grades up after a crippling illness). I leave for Russia in mid-May so, it would have to end by that time. K? Buggie111 (talk) 17:09, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Introduction to online ambassador for Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/Cognitive Psychology44APSWI109
Hi Buggie111!
As you can probably tell from the subject/headline, I haven't a clue as to what to say. My teacher for Cognitive Psychology wants as part of one of the early assignments for the Wikipedia paper to introduce ourselves to one of the online ambassadors. I went on your user page and saw that you are a New England Patriots fan, so I picked you. I'm sure we suffered similar pain in this past Super Bowl. Anyways, my name is Kim and will most likely have questions about creating an article because I'm new to wikipedia editing. Thanks for reading this!
Kimberlee parrish (talk) 19:41, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
- Glad to help with everything format related (somewhat clueless about the subject). Buggie111 (talk) 17:09, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Greetings from Georgetown
I am a student in the Sports in Society class and our goal is to update and add to some athletic wiki pages. My topic is Student athletes and I was wondering if you could help me out since you are our online ambassador. My first question is how to cite because I wrote out the information with quotes but do not want to put it in my sandbox for fear of copywrite. Also, when I figure that out can you help me with my edits. I don't want them to sound like opinion since it is an encyclopedia. Hope to hear from you soon especially since the draft of my edits are due tomorrow. By the way thank you so much!
smt46 (talk) 18:26, 13 March 2012 (UTC) User:smt46 —Preceding undated comment added 18:26, 13 March 2012 (UTC).
Hello, I am a student in the Sports in Society class as well. I was wondering if you could take a look at My Sandbox and the format of the information I have added on Title IX. I am planning on editing a page called College Athletics bu adding a section on Title IX. I was unsure if I am allowed to cite other Wikipedia pages directly, which I have done already in My Sandbox. I want to make sure I am not break ing any Wikipedia citation or formatting guidelines. Thank you for your time! Carajs94 (talk) 22:16, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am also a student in the Sport and Society class. I was wondering if you could look at My Sandbox and offer any suggestions concerning format, content, and whether or not there are any violations of Wikipedia norms or rules. I am also curious about if I am citing and formatting correctly. Thank you for your help. Rekjlhoya (talk) 03:03, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Buggie! This is a student from Georgetown's sport and society class. I recently made a draft of edits I want to add to the page violence against women. (it can be found in my sandbox!) I am just nervous that I didn't follow wiki norms for citations. Is there any way you could take a quick look? I don't know how to use the same citation over and over. THANKS! Eec34 (talk) 14:13, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Buggie, I am also from the Sports in Society class at Georgetown and I have begun working in my sandbox with possible editions to the student engagement article. I would appreciate if you could look over what I would like to add to the article. Specifically I am hoping you can point out any formatting, citation and content error. I want to make sure I am keeping with all Wikipedia norms. Any and all constructive criticism is welcome. Thanks! TstreetG (talk) 07:12, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey Buggie! Thank you for all of your help so far this semester. I was wondering if you could also give me some guidance as to how I can improve my preliminary article (located in my sandbox). First, I was wondering if my citations and formatting were correct. Secondly, I was also wondering if my article seemed to lack factual data. I am finding it hard to write for an encyclopedia because it is something that I haven't done before. I obviously have a lot more facts and sources to add, but what do you think about it so far? I would really appreciate your suggestions! Thanks Buggie! --Jeterfan252 (talk) 07:21, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Buggie, I have a few questions for my Wikipedia article. I am trying to edit while including insight from my outside research. I copied the URL from the Jstore site which I am citing in my contributions yet it does not look right to me. Also, I have only began to edit the first section of my Recruiting (college athletics). Thus far I have not began to edit the college football, college basketball, or definition sections because I do not have enough information to add to them yet. Please let me know what you think of what I have done so far. Thanks.Texaslady12 (talk) 22:16, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
mfs57 (talk) Hi Buggie, I have just worked on my wikipedia article and was wondering if you could look through it (professional athletes finances), and let me know if the views I gave on the three sections I worked on were acceptable. There is a substantial amount of research that has been covered in the article already, but if you believe that there are areas that definitely need expansion upon first glance, please let me know so I can identify those sections to work on. I also worked on citing my articles, and for now am just using an MLA style format with the author in brackets after I use an authors work in a sentence. I know that Wikipedia seems to use footnotes in their articles, and will have to implement that eventually after I continue to work to improve my article in my sandbox. If you could please give me a guide on where to look for that information so I could get a head start on that I would really appreciate it. Thanks - Michael Sweeney —Preceding undated comment added 13:12, 14 March 2012 (UTC).
Hi Buggie,
I have a few questions for my Wikipedia article. I am trying to edit while including insight from my outside research. I copied the URL from the Jstore site which I am citing in my contributions yet it does not look right to me. Also, I have only began to edit the first section of my Recruiting (college athletics). Thus far I have not began to edit the college football, college basketball, or definition sections because I do not have enough information to add to them yet. Please let me know what you think of what I have done so far. Thanks.
Hi Buggie, I just finished up my wiki article as well..I want to be sure I'm not taking an opinion and that I'm writing a fact-based article. Furthermore, I think the article should cover "Health Issues in Athletics" -- take out the 'youth.' I think 'youth' athletics can be discussed (especially in the injury section, bone development, etc.) but many of the health issues are prevalent in collegiate and pro athletics as well. Perhaps my next step would be to organize the article based on high school vs collegiate vs professional athletic health issues. There's a lot on information on how the NCAA addresses health issues in athletics. I also think the article can be better organized into categories including: eating disorders, overtraining, steroids, injury and end with a treatment section. There's definitely a lot to be said in each of these categories, some may even require categories within their discussion. Let me know what you think Chickey13 (talk) 19:33, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
- Sure! Busy now, but I have spring break. The it's, well ,done. Buggie111 (talk) 17:15, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
GOCE March drive newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update
  Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far. Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk)To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. |
The Signpost: 12 March 2012
- Interview: Liaising with the Education Program
- Women and Wikipedia: Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters
- Arbitration analysis: A look at new arbitrators
- Discussion report: Nothing changes as long discussions continue
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Women's History
- Featured content: Extinct humans, birds, and Birdman
- Arbitration report: Proposed decision in 'Article titles', only one open case
- Education report: Diverse approaches to Wikipedia in Education