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WikiCup 2011 July newsletter

The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:

  • Scotland Casliber (submissions), Pool A's winner. Casliber has the highest total score in the competition, with 1528, the bulk of which is made up of 8 featured articles. He has the highest number of total featured articles (8, 1 of which was eligible for double points) and total did you knows (72) of any finalist. Casliber writes mostly on biology, including ornithology, botany and mycology.
  • Russia PresN (submissions), Pool B's winner and the highest scorer this round. PresN is the only finalist who has scored featured topic points, and he has gathered an impressive 330, but most of his points come from his 4 featured articles, one of which scored double. PresN writes mostly on video games and the Hugo Awards.
  • Zanzibar Hurricanehink (submissions), Pool A's runner-up. Hurricanehink's points are mostly from his 30 good articles, more than any other finalist, and he is also the only finalist to score good topic points. Hurricanehink, as his name suggests, writes mostly on meteorology.
  • Ohio Wizardman (submissions), Pool B's runner-up. Wizardman has completed 86 good article reviews, more than any other finalist, but most of his points come from his 2 featured articles. Wizardman writes mostly on American sport, especially baseball.
  • Principality of Sealand Miyagawa (submissions), the "fastest loser" (Pool A). Miyagawa has written 3 featured lists, one of which was awarded double points, more than any other finalist, but he was awarded points mostly for his 68 did you knows. Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, including dogs, military history and sport.
  • Canada Resolute (submissions), the second "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Resolute's points come from his 9 good articles. He writes mostly on Canadian topics, including ice hockey.
  • Greece Yellow Evan (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool A). Most of Evan's points come from his 10 good articles, and he writes mostly on meteorology.
  • Australia Sp33dyphil (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Phil's points come from his 9 good articles, 4 of which (more than any other finalist) were eligible for double points. He writes mostly on aeronautics.

We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists, Another Believer (submissions), Poland Piotrus (submissions), United Kingdom Grandiose (submissions), Bavaria Stone (submissions), Norway Eisfbnore (submissions), Saskatchewan Canada Hky (submissions) and Wisconsin MuZemike (submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.

In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha (talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.

A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:00, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Request for Move

Hi! I would like to join these discussions about Request for Move: Talk:Natasa Janics, Talk:Christina Vukicevic, Talk:Milos Raonic, Talk:Kristina Mladenovic, Talk:Alex Bogdanovic, Talk:Irena Pavlovic. Greetings and thanks! :) --Aca Srbin (talk) 21:21, 1 September 2011 (CEST)

Thank you for noticing they received wildcard exemptions for U.S. open women's doubles. They were granted a wildcard on Monday, the 30th, after I had put a PROD on the articles. Very good job of spotting that. Bgwhite (talk) 19:40, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Per your !vote here

Please see here Thanks. —Justin (koavf)TCM20:27, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 September 2011

The Signpost: 12 September 2011

In future, kindly respect WP's policies and guidelines, in particular: edit summaries are not for making disparaging remarks; assume good faith. You say “This is your personal point of view; WP:ALBUMS doesn't say anything that it should be removed”; under "Critical reception", it says that such lists “may not be included”. I'm at a loss to comment further. Uniplex (talk) 12:36, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

So, first you proclaim on the guideline without having even read it. Now that you've read it, it appears you fail to understand it (the parenthetical clause exemplifies, not restricts the definition of ‘lists’) but dismiss it anyway because your personal POV is somehow better. If you don't like what's written at the WP:ALBUM, I suggest you take up your grievances there. Uniplex (talk) 19:30, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Before you go off and make your argument there, probably the reason 'best' lists are legislated against is that Rolling Stone's 'best' list is no more authoritative than 'Q' magazines 'best' list etc. and that these lists can be published and republished at any time, and the 'best' criteria can change each time. By all means, the reviews of the albums in each list can be drawn upon for the critical reception section; it's only the fact an album is on someone's list that is seen as having little encyclopedic value. Note, this is not my POV; I have no POV. Uniplex (talk) 20:14, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Validity of WP article content is not determined by whether or not an editor thinks that "it is still important"; it's judged by WP policy. Common ways of working that adhere to WP policy are recorded in guidelines. Guidelines should be followed unless there is consensus that the guideline is not applicable in a specific instance. Here we have a guideline WP:ALBUM that instructs not to use such best/greatest lists and no obvious reason for exemption. As I said above, if you don't like WP:ALBUM, take up your grievances there; alternatively seek exemption on the article talk page. WP:REVTALK is pertinent at this time. Uniplex (talk) 13:10, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Miles Davis, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Miles Davis and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Miles Davis during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫Heyit's meI am dynamite 13:43, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Help

I would ask you to do the necessary changes in the size of the tables on Nightwish discography, because I already tried and failed to hit. Rodrigo18 (talk) 15:59, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 September 2011

Thanks again!

If you feel Valentina Matviyenko is ready for posting, you could mark it [Ready] on WP:ITN/C. GreyHood Talk 15:04, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 September 2011


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