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Your GA nomination of 2014–15 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
The article 2014–15 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team 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:2014–15 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Harrias -- Harrias (talk) 13:20, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Tony,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos, 2012-10-20, DD 03.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 22, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-11-22. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:48, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2015: The results
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WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.
This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science.
Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.
Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.
A full list of our award winners are:
Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.
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 2016 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.
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Duax
The article that is the subject of this AfD (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Duax) has been enhanced substantially since you weighed in. If you have a moment to take a second look at Robert Duax, that would be appreciated. Cbl62 (talk) 23:45, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
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In the heart of the sea
You took this off the Moby dick Template. The problem is even though the film is not an adaptation of MD, it is still related to the subject as it is based on the incident that the book is based on. That makes it at least relevant to the template, though were exactly it should go is a bit uncertain. It is at least as relevant as those animated "adaptations" set in space for with Tom and Jerry.--Bellerophon5685 (talk) 16:40, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Kipling
Hi. The Kipling short story existed when I plugged it into the template. Must have disappeared in the time between your and mine edits. Fame is fleeting, ole Rudyard used to say (or not). Thanks for finding the quick deletion. Randy Kryn 20:34, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
- It seems to be back on the template along with another short story. Randy Kryn 11:33, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of 2013–14 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
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Lists on templates add to the pages
Hi. You asked a question of why the topic is being discussed. Here is an example. A couple of editors convinced the head of the Zoo project to remove the Zoos template from all the zoo pages, pages which are listed on a "List of zoos" included in the template. The zoo template seems to be at the heart of the discussions taking place, and the issue has been taken out of the hands of the people commenting and the pages, in the words of an editor, have "been cleaned". You love templates, one of the few people that do, and I ask that you take another look at it knowing that the template has now been removed from over 1,000 very relevant articles. Thanks. Randy Kryn 18:27, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
- Randy Kryn, what would you like me to reconsider.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:40, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
- The Wikipedia talk:Categories, lists, and navigation templates#List members are valid exception "List members are valid exceptions" discussion. If this is not passed then I'd assume some editors will be doing mass deletions of thousands of template, which is what has already happened on the Zoo articles at the request of an editor who took biodirectional as not to mean items on lists which are included on the template. A good list will list items which could be on the subject template, but they are put into lists regarding the subject (such as entries on Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy are items which the template {{John F. Kennedy}} fits well. Randy Kryn 12:33, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Barack Obama with artistic gymnastic McKayla Maroney 2.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 10, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-12-10. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:13, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Lists of deaths in hospital articles
Since you participated in a previous RfC on this subject, I'm pointing to a new on, which you can find here. BMK (talk) 05:47, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
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