User talk:Lee Vilenski/Archives/2019/March
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Your draft article, Draft:Futaba Sakura
Hello, Lee Vilenski. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Futaba Sakura".
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. DannyS712 (talk) 08:25, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
WikiCup 2019 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.
Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
- L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
- Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
- MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
- Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
- Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
- Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!
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. 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 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. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk).
DYK for Robbie Capito
On 2 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Robbie Capito, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that 17-year-old Robbie Capito defeated the pool world number one Eklent Kaçi at the 2018 WPA World 9-Ball Championship? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robbie Capito. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Robbie Capito), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
DYK for 2017 UK Championship
On 3 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2017 UK Championship, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 2017 UK Snooker Championship saw a member of the audience removed for snoring? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2017 UK Championship. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 2017 UK Championship), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Amakuru (talk · contribs) 12:02, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Baby Universe video game.jpg
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Your GA nomination of 2019 Leende Open
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 2019 Leende Open you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 16:01, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of 2019 Leende Open
The article 2019 Leende Open you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:2019 Leende Open for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 18:21, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Wiktor Zieliński
On 6 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wiktor Zieliński, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2017, Polish pool player Wiktor Zieliński became the youngest-ever winner of a Euro Tour event, winning the Treviso Open at age 16? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wiktor Zieliński. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Wiktor Zieliński), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Sorry
Hi, look I'll just get straight to the point. I'm sorry for falsely promising you that I would have been able to review WrestleMania IV: it has been 4 months and I don't really have any excuses. Not being knowledgeable (or interested) in the argument was really a big factor to me continuously pushing the work further and further.
So yeah, sorry again for not being responsible enough to keep my word. Hopefully, next time, I will make sure to keep my end of the bargain. Nehme1499 (talk) 22:19, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Pool articles
Hi, just for your information, the correct link for "pool" is: [[Pool (cue sports)|pool]]. Best, Yoninah (talk) 18:00, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks Yoninah. I'll change my template. I'm not sure why I always think it's the billiards one. I'll be more careful :) Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 18:02, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Beneath Apple Manor.jpg
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DYK for Johan Ruijsink
On 12 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Johan Ruijsink, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that pool manager and coach Johan Ruijsink has won the Mosconi Cup as part of both the European and United States teams? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Johan Ruijsink. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Johan Ruijsink), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Lee. Just a couple of issues to resolve for the DYK nomination. Keep up the good work on snooker articles! Cheers, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 13:56, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:2019 Formula One World Championship
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:2019 Formula One World Championship. Legobot (talk) 04:45, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.17
Hello Lee Vilenski/Archives/2019,
- News
- The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.
- Discussions of interest
- Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
- {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
- A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
- There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.
- Reminders
- NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
- NPP Tools Report
- Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
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Your GA nomination of WrestleMania IV
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article WrestleMania IV you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of RadioKAOS -- RadioKAOS (talk) 02:00, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States
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Please see note on your DYK review. Yoninah (talk) 02:00, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
DYK for 2017 Masters (snooker)
On 21 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2017 Masters (snooker), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ronnie O'Sullivan won the 2017 Masters snooker event, despite breaking his cue tip in his semifinal match? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2017 Masters (snooker). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 2017 Masters (snooker)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)
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Your GA nomination of 2019 Masters (snooker)
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Moving a page
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DYK for Ground billiards
On 26 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ground billiards, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that modern cue sports games such as snooker and nine-ball can be traced back to the game of ground billiards, played with hoops and mallets (illustration shown)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ground billiards. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ground billiards), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Faisalabad
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Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom
It never ceases to amaze me that editors who are apparently not familiar with a subject think they are able to assess its importance. Do you really think that the technology and the country that actually gave rise to the telecommunications industry is not important to telecommunications? The first ever telecommunications company was formed here (the Electric Telegraph Company). That company was the ancestor of the multinational BT Group who, according to their article, "carried out corporate Europe's largest ever rights issue" (£5.9 billion). Another company became "the largest multinational of the nineteenth century" (Eastern Telegraph Company). Do you really think none of that is important, or did you just not read the article before assessing it? SpinningSpark 17:50, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Spinningspark. I simply added the wikiproject tag to the article, as it was untagged beforehand; and gave it a B rating. The Rater script automatically generates a "low" importance to any article that doesn't get changed, and that is why it is marked as such.
- Realistically, I was simply attempting to add the tag, and give the highest rating (as it's GAN). If the article in question needs to be more important, it should be easy to update to "top" or "high".Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 18:11, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 18:23, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for doing that. You don't have to leave a rating to add a Wikiproject template. The template will show a question mark if the field is left blank. If you can't do that through the script you are using, maybe you should consider using a different tool, or doing it manually.
- As a general note, I'm not a great fan of drive-by Wikiproject tagging. The majority of wikiprojects are moribund. Tagging articles just adds more and more pages to projects that will never do anything about them. An alternative to tagging is to request the project itself to assess the article. A project I belong to, Wikiproject Electronics, actually has a sub-page for making such requests, but any active project should at least respond on its talk page. Ones that aren't active really weren't worth assessing in the first place. SpinningSpark 18:42, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
- Done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 18:23, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
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