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Deaths in 2024
[edit]- Saleh Deby Itno has not been added to the list of deaths on page 24 December in Deaths in 2024.
- Praouda has not been added to the list of deaths on page 26 December in Deaths in 2024.
WikiCup 2023 September newsletter
[edit]The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.
Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)
Holiday Greetings
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Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, people's rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension. Happy Holidays to you and yours. Always a pleasure to see your work. ―Buster7 ☎
CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 8 § US families disambiguated by state
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A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 8 § US families disambiguated by state on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:32, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Brian Matusz
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On 9 January 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Brian Matusz, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 23:24, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
On 13 January 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Bob Veale, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 00:38, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
Hi Muboshgu, thanks for participating in the WikiCup. You recently submitted Bob Veale for ITN points in the WikiCup, but you do not seem to have been a major contributor to the article. According to XTools, you seem to have added only a few hundred bytes and have only 2.7% authorship. Unfortunately, this is not eligible for points as a result. Epicgenius (talk) 01:11, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah I wasn't sure my contributions to that one were enough. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:34, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
- No worries. As a rule of thumb, for smaller articles like this, 10% is enough to count as a significant contribution, but if the article is already substantial, an addition of even a few thousand bytes might suffice. – Epicgenius (talk) 03:44, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
- I've got 10% authorship on Bob Uecker coming soon. RIP. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:33, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- No worries. As a rule of thumb, for smaller articles like this, 10% is enough to count as a significant contribution, but if the article is already substantial, an addition of even a few thousand bytes might suffice. – Epicgenius (talk) 03:44, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
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Roki Sasaki
[edit]Excuse me, why did you remove my edit on Roki Sasaki? I provided probable sources. Jadezplays1 (talk) 00:32, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- I think its because the team didn't announce it which is dumb. Usually when a player signs with a team the edit on Wikipedia doesn't get made until the team announces it. This is dumb because it's obviously going to happen even though team hasn't announced it. Especially in this case since sasaki announced it himself. I disagree with a lot of Wikipedia policies and this one of them. I have also had problems with this specific editor before. Littleenng (talk) 00:41, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Littleenng Same thing happened with Hye- Seong Kim a new Dodgers player. I did the same thing and it was confirmed. But this same editor deleted it. But yet someone else edited it and used a website that just had specifically MLB rumors on it. Unacceptable! How come mine got deleted. But his did not! Jadezplays1 (talk) 00:45, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- No contract has been signed. This is WP:V, one of the five pillars of Wikipedia. – Muboshgu (talk) 00:50, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yes but Roki announced this on his Instagram. That's himself saying he WILL sign with the team. Jadezplays1 (talk) 01:00, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- Roki isn't the one who completes his physical exam or much of the paperwork. The deal isn't signed and we are not a newspaper. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:06, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- I understand that it is an encyclopedia but but we should at least be able to put that a player has agreed to the contract but note that it is not official. That way people reading it know that he has agreed to the deal but technically not official and in the rare case that the physical fails we can just take it away. Littleenng (talk) 01:12, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Littleenng Thank you for supporting me in this. You are right! I can simply put it has not been made official, will that do? Jadezplays1 (talk) 01:15, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- I understand that it is an encyclopedia but but we should at least be able to put that a player has agreed to the contract but note that it is not official. That way people reading it know that he has agreed to the deal but technically not official and in the rare case that the physical fails we can just take it away. Littleenng (talk) 01:12, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- Roki isn't the one who completes his physical exam or much of the paperwork. The deal isn't signed and we are not a newspaper. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:06, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yes but Roki announced this on his Instagram. That's himself saying he WILL sign with the team. Jadezplays1 (talk) 01:00, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- No contract has been signed. This is WP:V, one of the five pillars of Wikipedia. – Muboshgu (talk) 00:50, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Littleenng Same thing happened with Hye- Seong Kim a new Dodgers player. I did the same thing and it was confirmed. But this same editor deleted it. But yet someone else edited it and used a website that just had specifically MLB rumors on it. Unacceptable! How come mine got deleted. But his did not! Jadezplays1 (talk) 00:45, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
Template:Infobox baseball biography
[edit]Thank you for getting this in the documentation. I would also humbly suggest putting in the "Template Data" documentation in addition to the placement in "Parameter descriptions" as they seemingly have conflicting messages at the moment. GauchoDude (talk) 21:33, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
WaPo Article Text; relevant sections bolded
[edit]As Biden exits the stage, Democrats are uncharacteristically quiet The president’s political allies wrestle with the meaning of his legacy. January 15, 2025
Column by Paul Kane Before a nearly empty chamber, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) paid tribute to a departing federal official whose presence is quietly vanishing from the Capitol: President Joe Biden.
In remarks Tuesday, Durbin praised Biden as a “source of hope and an author of history” and “one of the finest public servants” in American history. When the veteran lawmaker ended his six-minute speech, the Senate adjourned for a lunch break. No one else rose to applaud or back up his praise for Biden, as often happens in farewell tribute speeches.
Democrats are struggling with the meaning of Biden’s legacy. They spent several years touting their shared legislative accomplishments as historic and embraced Biden’s bid for a second term, yet many now blame his unpopularity for locking their party out of power in the new Washington.
Since early December, when tribute speeches poured forth almost daily for retiring senators, just two Democrats have taken to the Senate floor to salute Biden, according to a review of floor speeches.
Democrats on Capitol Hill genuinely liked Biden, having known him either through his 36 years in the Senate or eight years as vice president. Some of the newest lawmakers in Washington, who only got to know him as president, remained his most loyal when his candidacy crumbled in the wake of his June 27 debate performance against Trump.
Ask Democrats about his legacy, and they immediately rattle off some favorite policy success, but then they struggle to answer why voters did not give Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris, once she took the party’s nomination, credit for those victories.
“You might not have predicted that Joe Biden was going to be the most effective president on climate action, but that’s exactly what happened with the Inflation Reduction Act. So, for me, that’s the unsung legacy of this administration,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said Tuesday. Advertisement
“He is the first person to shift from a policy of consumerism that was leading to massive trade deficits and a hollowing-out of manufacturing, to say that we needed to build things in America again. We needed to be a nation of producers again,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) said, citing the bipartisan 2022 legislation that is transforming the tech manufacturing sector. When Biden withdrew from the presidential race July 21, Schatz issued a statement saying he was “the most consequential president of our lifetimes.” Khanna, 48, defended Biden on national TV just hours before he withdrew as someone with a “bold vision” that could still defeat Trump.
Schatz, 52, blamed Biden’s age for simply making it impossible to break through to younger voters despite implementing policies that hit squarely in their wheelhouse.
“I think the messenger matters. And I think it was very hard to make the case to young people that a leader had their back when our leader was many generations removed from them,” he said in an interview Tuesday, citing Biden’s work on labor organizing and consumer rights as achievements. “What they saw was a person that they couldn’t relate to.” Khanna, 48, referenced a favorite liberal lion, the late Mario Cuomo, who spoke about campaigning in poetry and governing in prose. That duality was missing the past four years, Khanna suggested.
“I think we had the prose, but we were missing the poetry. I mean, we had to be out in these communities touting the economic revival,” Khanna said.
The administration’s pitch felt more like something delivered to academics rather than the stuff of Irish poetry that Biden loved to quote, Khanna said. “He needed more Irish poets around him in the White House.”
But blaming Biden’s age and cultural disconnect ignores the reality that Harris, more than two decades his junior, also failed to connect with those voters. She boasted about being “brat” and delivered triumphal speeches before thousands of cheering fans, winning public endorsements from cultural icons like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.
Yet when the network exit polls finished tabulations, Harris, 60, received just 54 percent support from voters aged 18 to 29, down from Biden’s 60 percent in 2020. Trump, 78, got the largest share of the youth vote, 43 percent, for a GOP nominee since 2004. Durbin, 80, chalked up the Democratic defeat to part of a global malaise. “Look across the world: You find incumbent governments of both political stripes losing elections, as we did here in November,” he said in an interview after his speech praising Biden.
“We are dealing with economic forces and social forces that are powerful all across the world. And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris paid a price for that,” he added.
That unknown X factor, to some degree, has left Democrats largely silent or unwilling to heap praise on an administration they consider to be the most successful since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law major civil rights legislation and Medicare.
The Biden legacy leaves an existential question for Democrats: Have voters tuned Washington out, or do they not care about accomplishments such as a massive infrastructure bill and lowering the cost of prescription drugs?
“He never gave up on the promise of our democracy, our nation and this institution in particular. The record of the bipartisan legislation that got passed under his leadership, I think, is striking and will stand the test of time,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware) said in a Dec. 20 speech on the Senate floor.
That was the only other special tribute speech delivered for Biden from the Senate floor. Coons holds Biden’s old Senate seat and is a family friend of the president. He sits in Biden’s old desk on the Senate floor and, in his office, uses the desk Biden had as a senator and vice president. He’s an admittedly biased observer.
Many Democrats have said that Biden should not have run for a second term and should have allowed a full primary to select a nominee, rather than the late baton-passing to Harris.
Durbin, who is not sure that would have made a difference, believes history will show that Biden should not have run. “I believe Joe Biden sincerely felt that he could win reelection, as he had beaten Trump before. But having said that, sometimes we’re our own worst critics. We don’t see the real world. We see our world. And in this situation, he didn’t see clearly what lies ahead,” Durbin said.
Khanna, from the left flank of the party, faulted the Harris campaign for a play-it-safe strategy that did not make big policy promises for another Democratic term in the White House.
“It was too incremental, and it was not sufficiently understanding people’s frustrations,” he said.
Schatz said that it’s pointless to define this administration’s legacy, as previous one-term presidents such as Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush have been treated more favorably by historians than voters.
“We’re too close to know, in time, because I think legacies of presidents get sorted over a matter of decades,” he said.
With such little clarity on what went wrong, rather than soaring farewell tributes to Biden, most Democrats are focused on how to battle a second Trump term — a contrast to how they treated Biden eight years ago when his tenure as vice president concluded. At that time, Coons organized a tribute day in which dozens of senators from both parties came to the floor and listened to speeches praising their old friend. Biden, in his capacity as president of the Senate, sat in the presiding officer chair and grew emotional during the tributes.
On Tuesday, as Durbin took up that role, the only other senator was Rick Scott (R-Florida), presiding over the debate. A few aides who run the Senate floor hovered about. Even Durbin seemed to nod at the fact that the voters of today did not appreciate the outgoing president’s accomplishments. “When future generations hear the name Joe Biden,” he said, “they’ll think of the incredible growth, recovery and progress America has made under his leadership.” JohnAdams1800 (talk) 03:40, 19 January 2025 (UTC)