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deletion of Boiled In Lead page

I'm disappointed that the Boiled In Lead page has been deleted. I'm the founder of the band, which has been active since 1983 -- I would be pleased to provide any information needed to reinstate the page.

Omnidrew (talk) 23:00, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 January newsletter

The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup 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. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Message from 142.27.148.10

i got blocked and its not fair, i need to do school work — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.27.148.10 (talk) 20:09, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Category:Brazilian science fiction writers

On April 14, 2008, you deleted the page "Category:Brazilian science fiction writers". The page Speculative fiction by writers of color sort of referenced it, although it listed it with reference to a single writer. (Specifically, it listed "Category:Brazilian science fiction writers, Ignacio De Loyola Brandao", which didn't link to anything.) Because of that, I changed that page so it only linked to that one author. OrangeMike complained, saying that the category should exist, and that "Jerônymo Monteiro, André Carneiro, Dinah Silveira de Queiroz and others should have articles here". Well, he knows more spec fic authors than I do, so I accept his word on that. As such, I am creating (or "proposing") the reinstatement of that category article. I included the one author that we currently have an article on (Ignacio de Loyola Brandao), include OrangeMike's comment on other authors that should be there, and reinstated the link from the "Spec Fic by PoC" article. Wikipedia's tools suggest that since you deleted the original page, I should inform you of this. I hereby do so :-) Darrah (talk) 17:44, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 February newsletter

And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:

  1. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
  2. Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
  3. United States WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). 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 equally.

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. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

2605:e000:bc85:2600:3528:c568:ca07:72b1

FYI

[1] —rybec 01:40, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Now thats what i call feel good.jpg

When you removed {{subst:furd}} from this and some other files, you removed a newline too much. Now there is no newline between {{subst:orfud}} and the summary header, so the header doesn't display as a header but as standard text. If you are using a script of some kind, it may be necessary to fix the script. --Stefan2 (talk) 14:37, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Need an Admin to Close a Remaining Photo Deletion Request

I see that you modified a Deletion Tag on a photo that I submitted for an article (link below).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dancehalls_of_Pacific_Street_Facing_West_San_Francisco_1909_SFLibraryCode_AAB-6692_CropA.jpg
However that was just one of 3 photos that had been marked for deletion by User:Stefan2. You can see the discussion on that deletion proposal at the link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2014_March_1#Terrific_Street
Out of those 3 photos, there is still one photo whose Deletion Templates do not reflect the nature of that discussion, and below is that photo’s link,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terrific_Street_Facing_East_1913_San_Francisco_Pacific_Street_A1.jpg
On the basis of that discussion, could you make a determination as to the consensus of that discussion, and possibly close that discussion and make final adjustments to the photo's Deletion Templates for the Terrific_Street_Facing_East photo ? Thanks.James Carroll (talk) 05:31, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

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Magladem96 (talk) 20:32, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

I want to Create a Cannon Trading Wikipedia Page

Hi James; I want to write about the cannon trading company. Cannon trading is a Platform for Futures Trading.

Reason why i want to make Cannon Trading Company Wikipedia Page 1. Cannon Trading's blog is selected as a best blog by Trader-planet Star award http://www.traderplanet.com/star-awards/ in 2013 2. Cannon have 90% of available online platforms available for future trading. 3. Cannon Trading is trusted future trading websites since 25 years in business. 4. Cannon provide a complete range of futures trading services from online trading, systems trading, hedging services and managed accounts

5. Their are similar Types of Page running on Wikipedia .


So Please Allow me to create a Wikipedia Page for Cannon Trading . i have trusted source source to create to Wikipedia Page


Thanks 01:10, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Talk:The Forest (video game)

Hi, I just noticed you G8'd this talk page because I have the article on my watchlist since I'm writing a draft for it, and hadn't noticed there was a talk page. Was just wondering if there was anything meaningful on there? Thanks, Samwalton9 (talk) 17:18, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

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A Barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
This is for all of the hard work you do, especially deleting files here lately! Your work is much appreciated! Corkythehornetfan(talk) 00:40, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi James

You have the worst tidiest and most efficient Talk Pages I've ever seen. Regards.

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03:08, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Alighar Muslim University

The two of us have been simultaneously trying to get the article reestablished, and I think for a while we were crossing each other up, probably do the delay in restoring and deleting an article with so many changes.

It turns out there was very extensive copyvio from their web pages; I'm removing what I can find and writing a skeleton. I could certainly use help with this. , and making sure the links to it get res-established, because one of the bots started removing them before I could stop it. I'm signing off for the night, and will check the remaining parts of the article tomorrow if you haven't gotten to them. DGG ( talk ) 05:50, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Rhodesia Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. 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. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

re: Lois Betteridge article - orphaned images

Hi, James:

I believe I have met the Fair Use criteria for these images to be linked to my article on Lois Betteridge.

Another Wikipedian named Werieth does not agree, and has deleted them. Here are my posts to Werieth's Talk page, where I explained my rationale, and his/her response: [[2]]. You may also go to my talk page, where the links to my image files (and my rationales) are found.

If I understand Werieth correctly, s/he is saying that the images must be mentioned in the body of the article, and cited with an appropriate footnote. I can source the images in two ways: they are published on the subject's website, and have been published in several of the print sources cited for my article. If this is all that's required to make these images acceptable, I can edit the text and add the citations accordingly.

Also, Werieth states that it is never possible to use non-free images of living persons. I looked here [[3]] and here [[4]], but did not see anything that prevents the use of a non-free image -- just that it should not disparage the subject, and it should meet the same fair-use criteria as for the artist's work. A contributor named Peripitus (not sure if an administrator), thought the photo could meet fair-use requirements and offered advice that can be found on my Talk page. However, an administrator named TLSuda agreed with Werieth and permanently deleted the photo. Can you help clarify this for me?

I believe it is important to the encyclopedic function of the article that the subject's work be depicted in both visual as well as textual form. As noted in my post to Werieth, these really are the only photos available -- Lois Betteridge's husband, Keith Betteridge, is the only person who photographs the subject and her work, so these images are it.

I am a new Wikipedian. This is my first article, written for the Art & Feminism Wiki Edit-a-Thon held in various cities in February [[5]]. Can you please tell me what else I need to do to have these images meet the non-free fair use criteria? I appreciate any advice you can offer.

Best regards, Mary K McIntyre (talk) 21:00, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

UPDATE: I found a snapshot that I happened to take 2 summers ago, when Ms. Betteridge and I were each visiting the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Although it is not the best, I have uploaded it. As it is my own photo, I understand that it is OK to be used for the biography of a living person.

I would still appreciate it if you could confirm whether the photos of her work, taken by Keith Betteridge, would be appropriate as non-free fair use, if I were to work into the text references to the pieces depicted, and citations for their previous publication.

Thanks, Mary K McIntyre (talk) 21:04, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

re: Lois Betteridge article - re-loaded images

Hi, James: I have re-loaded the orphaned non-free images to Lois Betteridge. I believe that they now fulfill the requirements of fair use: I have added article text discussing the works portrayed in the images, with appropriate citations. Just to make sure, I have also sourced the images themselves, in the captions. BTW, I have uploaded a new photograph of the subject, a snapshot that I took myself.

As an administrator, can you review and approve these uploads? (Or let me know if I've missed something). Best regards, Mary K McIntyre (talk) 01:26, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

This is original info..

Hi James..

Please verify the data. this is genuine info. this is my birth place also.


Regards, PurnaReddy G — Preceding unsigned comment added by Purnareddyg (talk • contribs) 12:20, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Revision Deletion request

Hello, may I request if you could delete all of the revisions I've done in this article?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_FiOS. I did some mistakes and don't want them to be shown in the history. This means I don't want my name in there. I did 8 revisions and all should be in a row at the latest page. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fornoe (talk • contribs) 18:14, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

this 'jabong'shoping web is virush program web

this 'jabong'shoping web is like virush web why wiki give it place on wikipage plz delet it's page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.237.104.88 (talk) 20:19, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 April newsletter

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's United States ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Rhodesia Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Washington, D.C. Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Canada Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Minas Gerais Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Nepal Czar (submissions) and Indiana Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. 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. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi James,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:X10 Reactor Face.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 9, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-06-09. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:25, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Non-free reduce, already pretty small

Hi James. I'm looking at the category of images needing reduced - Theo's Little Bot seems to be a bit behind at the moment for some reason. I came across File:CD_Málaga.gif which you've tagged for reduce. It's already ~70,000px which, I think, means the bot will ignore it because it meets Wikipedia:Non-free_images#Image_resolution the suggested guideline which the bot works to. I'd like to declare it's already small enough, but you might disagree (or you may have flagged it by mistake), so I thought I'd check first. If you still thing it needs reducing, can give me an idea how small you think it should be and I'll try to sort it out. Cheers.--Otus scops (talk) 11:15, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Sudhir shah

You deleted the page of dr sudhir shah because of alleged copyright infringement. Actually the sudhirneuro.org is the site of dr sudhir shah only, there is no case of copyright infringement at all, both persons are same Italic text — Preceding unsigned comment added by 42.104.13.125 (talk) 16:31, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Scotland Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to Florida 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Bartošovice v Orlických horách Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions).

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. 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. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

tom naughton

you deleted an article for tom naughton due to him not being well known...

I just watched his documentary "Fat Head" and went to check out his Wikipedia article. I would say someone who has produced a documentary with a following as large as "Fat head" warrants a wikipedia page. Can you please restore the content that was deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.2.238.225 (talk) 15:44, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 August newsletter

The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

  1. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
  2. Scotland Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
  3. Nepal Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
  4. Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
  5. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
  6. Florida 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
  7. Colorado Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
  8. Canada Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Herm Matty.007 (submissions), Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions), United States WikiRedactor (submissions), Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), Greece Yellow Evan (submissions), Portugal Prism (submissions) and Bartošovice v Orlických horách Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

AHA

Could you please put the deleted Abolish Human Abortion into Draft space? Thanks. ⇔ ChristTrekker 17:23, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Scotland Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014: The results

The 2014 WikiCup champion is Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Scotland Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.

  • We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
  • In a similar vein, we hope you will all join us in welcoming Jason (Sturmvogel 66) and Christine (Figureskatingfan), who are joining Brian (Miyagawa) to form the 2015 WikiCup judging team. Jason is a WikiCup veteran, having won in 2010 and finishing in fifth this year. Christine has participated in two WikiCups, reaching the semi-finals in both, and is responsible for the GA Cup, which she now co-runs.
  • The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk), The ed17 (talk), Miyagawa (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:54, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

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