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Again, welcome! Hallward's Ghost (Kevin) (My talkpage) 19:47, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
I am not in a position that I can edit as often as I used to, so I am not sure of its status. Since I was one of its biggest proponents, and the other also slowed down editing, it is probably dormant right now. Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 15:47, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
AfD moved to MfD
AfD is only for articles. Thus, I have moved the AfD you created for User:Lilly milman to MfD at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Lilly milman. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 23:41, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
- Noting that I closed the MfD discussion as speedy keep. There is no reason to delete the userpage. --kelapstick(bainuu) 23:49, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
- Sorry about that! For some reason, I thought that that was an article, not an user page! (Most likely because it was written in the third person.) I'm so sorry!
September 2016
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Thank you. WikiPancake ✉ 📖 05:39, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi there! I see you just edited Hayley Sales' birthday despite the note on the page. I am actually Hayley Sales and you can verify this by checking my Twitter. I posted about Wikipedia yesterday to prove to someone else my identity. My birthday is not cited correctly and I am SIMPLY trying to have it not advertised on WP. The link is faulty and doesn't have any references. Thank you for understanding! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.92.185.63 (talk) 17:07, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
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November 2016
A page you created has been nominated for deletion as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
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Speedy Deletion of Veena Poovu (poem)
FYI that I declined the speedy of this, because A1 would not be appropriate since it is possible to determine what the subject of the article is. Since there is not a speedy deletion criteria for literature at this, PROD or AfD. I've cleaned it up a bit, and the article about the author Kumaran Asan lists it as a prominent piece of his work. More sources/more cleanup is needed, and I don't have the time to look right now, but it appears that it could very well be notable. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:20, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
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Wikicup
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Lisa Smirnova
I removed the Speedy Delete request on the new article Lisa Smirnova - it appears that the subject is notable, but the article needs sourcing to confirm that. And as the article was only added a few minutes ago, I think that requesting a Speedy Delete was a little too hasty. And Adoil Descended (talk) 16:57, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I changed the nomination criteria on In articles can they be more poetically. The criteria you originally chose, WP:G3 didn't make sense so I changed it to WP:A7. By the way, in the future, you may want to give new articles a little more time; tagging an article 60 seconds after creation is a bit bitey and doesn't really assume good faith. This, of course, doesn't apply to things like adverts or attack pages, but generally giving a new user 10+ minutes is a good rule of thumb. That said, thank you for patrolling new pages! If I can be of any assistance, please let me know. --Non-Dropframe talk 21:01, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
- @Non-dropframe: Thanks for letting me know. However, isn't an A7 tag usually used for things that aren't notable, but that still actually exist? I couldn't find any indication of the article subject being real. Joshualouie711talk 21:02, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
- Looks like an autobiography to me. "I" is used over and over. The term "real person" here is really more about the subject being plausibly real versus provably real. If a subject is clearly fictional (i.e. is a character in a novel) or a hoax, A7 wouldn't apply. --Non-Dropframe talk 21:19, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
- Got it. Thanks! Joshualouie711talk 21:23, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
- Looks like an autobiography to me. "I" is used over and over. The term "real person" here is really more about the subject being plausibly real versus provably real. If a subject is clearly fictional (i.e. is a character in a novel) or a hoax, A7 wouldn't apply. --Non-Dropframe talk 21:19, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
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Rollback granted
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March 2017 WikiCup newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:
- Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
- Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
- 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
- Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.
The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.
So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. 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.
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Poor guy
There are serious consequences to failing an RfA. TimothyJosephWood 19:46, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
- Wait, what? --Joshualouie711talk 20:10, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
- Crikey, no-one told me about that. GoldenRing (talk) 16:27, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
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The Nakhtmin on this page is not the same as the individual on Nakhtmin. There were some problems when I was working on finding more information about this person attested on a Stela now in the Zagreb Museum. I am not sure if he is notable enough for his own page after further research. The French page suggested it was, but they seem to be confusing at least 2 or 3 different people of the same name. And the image on the French page is not the individual here, so I deleted it. Just thought I would reach out as you put a speedy deletion on the page. Friendly regards - Anneke --AB (talk) 19:09, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
May 2017 WikiCup newsletter
The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:
- Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
- 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
- Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
- Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.
Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.
So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. 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.
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WikiCup 2017 July newsletter
The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.
Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.
As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).
- The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.
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