In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom three contestants of the top eight were eliminated on September 30th, while the top five are continued for an additional month. On October 31, a winner will be announced.
Top 4
Sasata (1332)
Durova (1259)
Ottava Rima (1242)
Theleftorium (1041)
Eliminated 3
Candlewicke (534)
Mitchazenia (352)
Juliancolton (314)
Withdrawn
Shoemaker's Holiday (1183)
All scores are accurate as of 20:45, 18 October 2009 (UTC).
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
We have announced the intention to hire another new judge to cover for future judge absences. If you are interested please see the talk page for the WikiCup.
If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list. --EdwardsBot (talk) 23:26, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom three contestants of the top eight were eliminated on September 30th, while the top five are continued for an additional month. On October 31, a winner will be announced.
Top 4
Durova (1546)
Sasata (1477)
Ottava Rima (1254)
Theleftorium (1092)
Eliminated 3
Candlewicke (534)
Mitchazenia (352)
Juliancolton (314)
Withdrawn
Shoemaker's Holiday (1183)
All scores are accurate as of 18:59, 25 October 2009 (UTC).
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
It just came to me that multiple users have worked together on a bunch of content items, which means the newsletter counts are likely off. I'll try to put that all together and figure it out by the end of the round.
The end of the round, and the end of the 2009 WikiCup is this coming Saturday, October 31! To our top four: don't give up yet. Make sure that anything you have left to nominate is nominated today or tomorrow, for the slighted chance of it passing in time. The last day items will be accepted is Saturday, at 23:59 (UTC). It ain't over till the fat lady sings, of course!
GARDEN, iMatthewtalk, J Milburn, and TheHelpfulOne
If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list. --EdwardsBot (talk) 02:41, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Barnstar Reminder
Hi! Just a reminder that we had a deal with the barnstar. Also I changed my username. I'm RuneScape Adventure for reminder. Thanks! RSA23Sign!00:10, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom three contestants of the top eight were eliminated on September 30th, while the top five continued for an additional month. On October 31, the WikiCup ended, and Durova was crowned winner!
Top 4
Durova (1830)
Ottava Rima (1720)
Sasata (1627)
Theleftorium (1149)
Eliminated 3
Candlewicke (586)
Mitchazenia (376)
Juliancolton (349)
Withdrawn
Shoemaker's Holiday (1224)
All scores are accurate as of the end of the WikiCup.
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
Well, it was a long, long ride, with plenty of ups as well as downs (but I'm sure you'll agree, definitely more ups). It's been ten long months since our kick-off in January, and the level of competition has intensified so much so quickly. It's a wonder there was any puff left in our final eight by the end, but they fought to the death and, eventually, Durova pulled through, making her proficiency with FPs count as the contest drew to a close. Special mentions must go to the other members of the last four, Ottava Rima, Sasata and Theleftorium, all of whom put in a astonishing shift in their efforts to peel Durova away from her victory. Congratulations again!
The announcement of the ed17 as the newest judge to the WikiCup panel was made today - I wish him all the best in his new role.
The article for the Signpost overall is now be readable in a Signpost near you!
Remember to sign up for next year if you haven't already!
If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list.
WikiCup Awards
The 2009 WikiCup Participant Award
This WikiCup Award is presented to LAAFan for their participation in the 2009 WikiCup. Your contributions along the way have greatly improved the quality of many articles, pictures, and sounds on the English Wikipedia.
WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of April. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 200. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. Hope we can see you in April.
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).
Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.
When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.
Hello LAAFan. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Guy-Marie Bagnard, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Bishop and writer. Thank you. ϢereSpielChequers06:01, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
MOTD Barnstar
The MOTD Barnstar
This award is given to you for helping out Motto of the day. Thanks to your effort, MOTD has brilliantly and successfully passed the most difficult period of the year. In fact, there are mottoes scheduled until the end of the summer. For this reason MOTD would like to express heartfelt thanks to you for your support. We appreciate your efforts in further helping the project! – delivered by Simply south on behalf of Wikipedia:Motto of the day23:02, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
On July 27, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sandy Ullrich, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
An article that you have been involved in editing, Major League Baseball has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments here . If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Regards Hekerui (talk) 09:54, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have nominated Major League Baseball blackout policy, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Major League Baseball blackout policy. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. NDState 05:26, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Bill Veeck
That sucks, hopefully that's taken care of soon. Here's what I plan to do with the article and the GA review. First, I'm going to mark it as failed, unfortunately, as the result of the users who have sent their comments in as well. They are quite valid, and convince me that this article needs some work yet. Second, I'll work on the GA concerns that Sarastro1 and others had while you're away, and help to build this article up. By the time you come back, hopefully it should be good enough that it can be re-nominated at GAN, or at least close to that mark. WizardmanOperation Big Bear00:43, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'll go through the article again, adding bits of info where I can. I went and saved a few good Sporting News files that feature him that I can use to flesh out the article; then we can re-nom it. WizardmanOperation Big Bear02:29, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I actually don't have much time these days, so I have an idea: if you could send me an e-mail (so I have your address) I can send you the Sporting News pages I have on Veeck that could be useful for expanding. I'll just send the major ones, since passing mentions would easily number in the hundreds. WizardmanOperation Big Bear18:45, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Happy LAAFan's Day!
User:LAAFan has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as LAAFan's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear LAAFan!
Hello LAAFan, Sabrinamagers has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of March. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 50. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. On behalf of my co-coordinator Wizardman, we hope we can see you in March. MuZemike delivered by MuZebot00:14, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Billy Hunter as Manager of Texas Rangers
He was fired with one game to go in the season, not during midseason.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Major League Baseball managers in 2010 until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:52, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Please see my edit here. I also restored the image Williams keeps inadvertently removing. On my talk, I'm trying to clear up his concerns and nudge him towards that article's talk page. CityOfSilver22:23, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
New Page Patrol survey
New page patrol – Survey Invitation
Hello LAAFan! The WMF is currently developing new tools to make new page patrolling much easier. Whether you have patrolled many pages or only a few, we now need to know about your experience. The survey takes only 6 minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist us in analyzing the results of the survey; the WMF will not use the information to identify you.
If this invitation also appears on other accounts you may have, please complete the survey once only.
If this has been sent to you in error and you have never patrolled new pages, please ignore it.
Please click HERE to take part.
Many thanks in advance for providing this essential feedback.
You are receiving this invitation because you have patrolled new pages. For more information, please see NPP Survey
Hello both of you, sorry I was not able to get to you in a timely manner. It appears MOTD is fine for now, but I will make an effort to help keep it up and running. Cheers. --LAAFan22:09, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I used an edit summary! Most of the stuff I removed was unsourced, horribly formatted stuff. This was recently added material, and I have the right to remove it per WP:BURDEN. I was just about to restore the only part of the information that was sourced before you came and reverted me. 216.119.153.205 (talk) 21:14, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
